Caroline is woken by a loud crash coming from downstairs. She looks at the time on her phone 6:15am she sighs and wonders if it was all a dream; losing Kate. She shuffles out of bed and sits on the edge, wiping the sleep from her eyes and trying to work out who was making all the noise down stairs. She takes her robe off the hook on the back of the door, and she sees Kate's next to it. She stuffs her phone in the pocket and walks down the hallway to Lawrence's room, where he is still fast asleep. She turns around and heads to the stairs, as she wanders down the stairs, there is another bang. She yells out "Who is making that god-damn noise?"
John appears around the corner with a frying pan in his hand. Caroline thinks that there is something else she'll rather do with that frying pan, which involves his head. Just as she was about to yell at him her phone rings. "Yes, Hello" she forgot to check on who was ringing. "Caroline, hi, when are you coming in to see us?" It's Kate. The dream she had saw very vivid she'd almost believed that it was real, that Kate had died, she was buried, and that Gillian had married Robbie. Caroline walks into the lounge room, shuts the door. She doesn't really want John to hear the conversation. "Kate, I'll be in to see the two of you in about an hour"
She pours herself a cup of coffee, and slumps down on the stool; "do you, Uhh, want anything to eat?" John asks. Caroline shakes her head "I'll finish this and go and have a shower, then head off to the hospital to see Kate and the baby, they may send the baby home today" She says with a little smile on her face, she wants both of her girls at home with her, but for now she is happy just having one home.
She walks through the hospital doors, down a hallway and then into the maternity ward. "Dr Dawson-McKenzie, how are you?" she smiles at the nurse "fine thank you, and how is my little girl?" the nurse gestures to the single room where the baby is "how about we go and check on her" The baby is sleeping when Caroline walks it, she picks the baby up and kisses her on the forehead. "Have you been to see Kate yet?" Caroline shakes her head, "I wanted to check in here first and let Kate know how she is going" she kisses the baby again, whispers "I love you and I'll be back soon" she places the baby back down, and walks out with the nurse. "You'll let me know when the doctor comes in?" the nurse nods, and Caroline walks away.
She walks into the room, Kate is sitting up eating breakfast, and Caroline has a big smile on her face as she looks at her wife propped up in bed. She walks over to the bed, leans down and kisses Kate on the head "hello you" Kate looks up to her "hi" Caroline sits on the edge of the bed, watching as her wife slowly but shakily raised the spoon of cereal to her mouth. Kate is still struggling to eat properly after the accident, after 3 broken ribs, a broken wrist, and a broken collarbone, who blames her? "How is the baby?" Kate asks between mouthfuls, "Oh, yeah, she is fine, they'll let me know when the doctor is there to see her" Kate smiles. God knows how the baby survived uninjured after the accident, but she was fine.
A nurse walks in to the room "the doctor is with the baby" Caroline kisses Kate on the head, "I'll be back, with hopefully good news" Kate smiles and Caroline walks out. "Doctor Dawson" he holds out his hand "please call me Caroline, how is she?" the doctor scans his notes, looks at Caroline "well she is perfectly fine to go home today" Caroline smiles, she hugs the doctor and thanks him for looking after the little girl. The doctor excuses himself, and Caroline pulls out her phone, looking at the nurse "I've got a couple of calls to make" the nurse nods and walks out of the room. Caroline sits on a chair, the phone in one hand, the baby in the other, she pulls up her mother's name on the phone, and calls her.
"Mum, hi, its me, yep, both are good, actually I can take the baby home today" "Oh, that's great dear" there was a muffled sound "Alan is happy too, do you have everything with you to bring her home? Or do we need to bring some things up to you?" Caroline replies "Uhh, no, I've got everything in the jeep, actually I've had the stuff in the car for a while" she chuckles. Next she calls William, although he was back at university, he wanted to be kept up with the news on his little sister and stepmother. Caroline gets voicemail "William, its mum, good news the baby is coming home today, no word on Kate though, I'll call you later and tell you more, love you" and she hangs up.
The nurse walks back in, Caroline stands up with the baby, "I've got the baby capsule and other things in the car that I need to get, but I want to take her up to Kate before we go home" The nurse nods, and takes the baby off Caroline "I'll called the ward and let them know that you'll be bringing the baby up soon, but I'll also stay here with her while you go and get the things out of your car" Caroline kisses the baby and whisks out of the room.
Caroline soon returns with the items, she packs up the room, and then places the little girl in her capsule. Caroline carries her little girl into the room; the nurse places the bags down and leaves. "Somebody is here to see her mummy" Kate squeals with delight, and Caroline places the baby on her chest, keeping her hand on the child's back. "We really should name her" Kate smiles with tears running down her face.