THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 5--VII (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 5--VII
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
VII
"Anthony Dear?" A.J. hears his wife Stella's voice approaching him as he sat alone at a picnic table in the twilight atop Newark Hospital roof chain-smoking red-pack cigarettes shortly after dusk.
"A.J.--Franny is going to be OK!--She just came out of the ER operation room & is stablized & Resting peacefully in Post Op now."
Stella quietly informed her husband by setting a fresh hot cup of black coffee in front of him. (Thank you Wife.)
"You are welcome Husband."Stella answered as she silently stood behind him w/both hands resting on each of his tired drooping shoulders.
She could feel his body heat radiating through his sweaty dress-jacket & the steam from around his tight-buttoned shirt collar. After sitting outside on the roof-top that entire time waiting to hear a good word which she delivered.
Stella had never seen A.J. so deeply troubled & disturbed over anything like this in the entire time of their relatively short relationship & marriage. She knew that he carried the burdens of many others.
But Stella could see that her husband chose to bare his own burdens without expecting any help from others. Not even from Vito or herself except now she was his wife & it was her Duty to be by his side.
"That's the Best News of my Life! Except when you said "Yes." to marry me after I proposed. (Ahhh A.J.--You say such loving things to me.)
"Because I love you Stella Brewster Soprano & I couldn't be a happier or prouder Husband then I am."
"Stop It A.J.!--You are going to make me start crying next!" Stella pleads slapping his back & messing up his stringy hair.
"You Stop!" A.J. laughs & turns to suck her up in his strong arms & hugs her around the waist. While she pretended to preen his disheveled head of hair.
"OK.--Let's go down & check in on our Frail Bird!" A.J. stood up & grabbed the hot cup of coffee to kiss her.
"They had to remove her uterus to save her life.--She won't be able to ever have children." Stella said as they walked towards the elevator together holding hands.
"I don't care about that. I care about my father's daughter & my little sister's welfare & life." A.J. ended the discussion as the elevator door opened.
Nurse Rhonda was standing inside the elevator w/a cigarette hanging from her lip & a lighter in her hand. Finding A.J. & Stella kissing atop the hospital roof while waiting for the elevator to go downstairs & check on Franny.
"You sure don't waste any time do you Soprano?!" Rhonda scuffs as she steps off the elevator lighting the cigarette to chain-smoke during her break-time.
"What do you mean Rhonda?!" A.J. chuckles.
"You know very well what I'm talking about A.J.! You're so Unscrupulous!" Rhonda rolls her eyes as she exhales a cloud of smoke over her head.
"Allow me to formally introduce you Two!" A.J. suggested while smiling at Stella.
"I know who she is: Detective Brewster has been up all of the hospital staff's Asses all week w/ her armed police standing guard outside our patients' rooms!"
"Where did you find this one Husband?!--She's a Real Piece of Work?!" Stella slights saying to A.J. while glaring at Nurse Rhonda puffing away at her burning cigarette. (HUSBAND?!--PLEASE!)
Stella steps up into Rhonda's face to inform her: "That's Right Missy!--I am Mrs. Anthony John Soprano Jr!"
Stella snears as she pokes Rhonda in the chest hard enough to make her take a step backwards. (YOU'RE "STING?!") A.J. smiles knodding his head to confirm his wife's claim.
"I AM."
"If that's Right?--Why are you still using you maiden-name instead of your Soprano surname?!" Rhonda attempts to stand up to Stella.
"THATS A GOOD QUESTION!--HOW ABOUT I ASK YOU THE SAME THING?!" Stella counters. (What do you Mean?!)
"As you told my Husband: "You know very goddamn well what I'm talking about Rhonda!
Your little Blonde Bimbo here Husband has a criminal record as long as it is from NYC back to Dallas Tx.
She has been arrested numerous times for shop-lifting as well as prostitution & drug trafficing." (How do You Know All That?!)
"I also know there's still am outstanding warrant for your arrest in Dallas on manslaughter charges! Apparently her Pip-Husband was found dead & she went missing!"
"You don't Know what the fuck you are talking about!--Don't listen to her A.J.! She has my identity confused w/ someone else's!" Rhonda half-paniced denied.
"I know it's True--Rhonda "Ferguson" Rhodes--It's all fucking True!
You see Sweetheart I'm a Detective!--It's What I do. I'm an Investigater. That's my Job--To know such things about "White-Trash" like you!!--Just like you do your job! Wiping Dirty Asses & Emptying Bed-Pans!"
Stella reaches blindly to take A.J.'s hand to walk straight through Rhonda causing her to step aside on their way aboarding the elevator.
Then Stella wraps her arms around Anthony to kiss him as the elevator doors closed behind them purposely for Rhonda to see.
Reaching Franny's ICU Floor then met w/the others. A.J. informed them that he didn't want Francesca to spend 1 minute without one of them there for her.
"Either Vito & I will share the duty sitting here 12 hours a day? Or you can assist us Meadow & we will only have to be here 8 hours apiece?" Meadow knods her head "Yes." (GOOD!)
"I will stay tonight. Meadow will relieve me at 8AM. Then Vito will relieve her at 4PM. & I will be back at midnight to start it all over." The three siblings all agreed.
"I want Stella to drive Meadow & Alle home. & Vito how about you follow them back to the condo driving Meadow's car to spend the night there instead of going back home to Fleet St. You can just return w/Meadow in the morning to get your car & take me to mine." Again all parties involved agreed.
Then Stella realizes she had left her cellphone behind on the rooftop picnic table. So she excuses herself to go retrieve it. Telling the girls she would meet them at her car in the parking lot.
The following morning Stella awakes before the alarm clock at 4:58AM; She laid naked beside Vito as she slipped out of bed without disturbing him. So she could go for her morning training jog around the golf coarse beside their Upper Bay condo before dawn. Stella went for her run alone since Franny was in the hospital & she left Alle asleep when she left.
Stella completed her 5 mile run in drenched dripping mess after she pushed the pace running alone without the girls.
Entering the condo to shower everyone was still asleep. But when she finished & emerged from the bathroom everyone had left. Vito drove Meadow & Alle back to the hospital to relieve A.J. who spent the night at Franny's bedside.
Stella dressed inside her walk-in closet when her Scanner went off. She was On-Call over the weekend & was required to respond.
There had been an overnight "Roof-Top Jumper" who wasn't discovered until that morning laying dead on the blood-soaken side-walk outside behind the hospital in between the guest & employee parking lots during the weekend shift-change.
. . .
(To Be Continued)
REFERENCE:
THE YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 3--XXXIV
(Concerning Vito & Stella)
Vito was pulled over by a police car's flashing lights before he could leave NYC to Jersey City
A female police officer approached Vito's curbed car's driver door shining a bright blinding flashlight in his face asking for his ID & Vehicle Registration
https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-young-sopranos-part-3-xxxiv.html?m=1
From:
THE YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4--XXXI
(Waking in Strange Beds & Places)
Meadow & Francesca w/Alle arrived back over in NYC at the Dumbo Hotel at the same time. Entering the hotel lobby together they run into Vito coming downstairs on the elevator.
"What are you doing here Vito?!" Franny asked her older brother who hugged & kissed both of his sisters & Alle.
https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-young-sopranos-erotica-part-4-xxxi.html?m=1
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