Wow, wasn't expecting this chapter to be so easy to write. I wasn't expecting this story to be easy to write, actually, but it is. I am really appreciating all of the reviews I am getting for this story!

Chapter 4

Taylor needed Kirsten, plain and simple. Kirsten had been there for Taylor since she found out she was pregnant, telling her that this was going to the most amazing experience of her life. It had been Kirsten who changed her mind about the pregnancy.

She had promised Taylor she would be there throughout the whole thing, even in the delivery room when she gave birth. Now, Taylor was scared. She didn't want this, especially since things were now getting more complicated. That's when she started screaming for her dead mother-in-law.

Her husband wasn't sure what to do. The doctors wouldn't let him in the room. They made him go into the waiting room to sit and wait. Summer Cohen sat next to him shaking her leg up and down. "She was calling for Kirsten…" She whispered to her scared brother-in-law. "She said that she didn't want anyone in the delivery room if Kirsten couldn't be there…she said all this on the way to the hospital. Ryan, I can't lose Taylor." She looked up into his eyes.

"What's going on? Is she okay?" Kaitlin Cooper burst into the waiting room to see everyone sitting around. She didn't like the looks on their faces. Ryan didn't say a word to her. He only walked over to his little sister and picked her up. He didn't care that she was getting too old to be carried but he needed to get her out of there. "Where are you going?" Kaitlin asked him.

"Want to take a walk with us?" He asked her. She nodded. "I can't stay in here any longer…" He whispered to her.

Ryan, Sophie and Kaitlin all made their way out of the hospital doors. "How's my munchkin doing?" Kaitlin rubbed Sophie's back. She dug her face deeper into Ryan's neck not wanting Kaitlin to touch her. She didn't want anyone to touch her besides her big brother.

Sophie Cohen was scared. She missed her parents and she didn't want to have to miss Taylor, too. She adored the auburn haired woman.

"She can't leave me…" Ryan said just above a whisper to the two girls he considered sisters. Kaitlin had become his step-sister only a year ago when Julie had decided to finally marry his father after six years of him chasing after her and her going back and forth from him to Bullit.

"She won't. Taylor is a fighter and she's going to be okay, Ryan. Not everyone leaves."

"Don't say that…because everyone does leave." He knew he shouldn't say that with Sophie listening to him but it had just come out of his mouth without thinking correctly first. "I'm sorry…" He exhaled the breath he didn't know he had been holding. This walk wasn't helping him like he wanted it to.

He needed Sandy Cohen to tell him what he should do to get through this. He needed the man to tell him he could do this. He could do anything if Sandy believed in him. Sandy had been the one to convince him that he really did love Taylor. That he was only himself when she was around. He had been the one that convinced Ryan to go after her and not let her stay in France. He knew he loved Taylor with everything in him but that little encouragement from his foster-father had always helped.

"Taylor isn't going to leave us, Ryan." Sophie whispered to him. Somehow that had made Ryan fell better to hear those words coming from the small blond child. "Mommy and Daddy wouldn't let that happen. Seth told me they are in Heaven watching down on us and making sure we're okay." She explained to her brother.

"Seth told you that?" Ryan was a bit shocked that his brother told the girl all of that. He wondered if Sandy and Kirsten maybe picked the wrong person for the job of taking care of Sophie, but only for a second. He didn't want to doubt their decision.

"Yeah…" She said getting shy once again.

"Well, for once Seth is right." Ryan put his hand on her back and rubbed circles soothing her as she kept crying.

"I agree." Kaitlin spoke up. Ryan looked at her and realized she was now crying, too. He hated seeing girls cry, especially when he cared so much about them as he had his sisters. The three of them sat down on a bench.

They all looked up when they heard the heels of Julie Cooper-Atwood approaching them. "Is she okay?" Ryan looked up and realized she had been crying too. He hated all of these tears but he knew that there was no way he could stop them from happening.

"The doctor's wouldn't say. They made me leave the room…" Ryan told her.

"She's going to be fine. She has to be fine." Julie said confidently. She hadn't been doing well at all since she found out about Sandy and Kirsten's death. Especially since they had died the same way her first daughter had died. That's what made all of this a little worse than it already was.

"She will be." It was Sophie who told her this. Julie smiled and reached out for her. She was after all her God mother. "I love you, Aunt Julie." Sophie snuggled into the woman. It warmed Julie's heart every time Sophie hugged her or told her she loved her.

Ryan smiled slightly through all of the pain at the two of them. This was too much for their family. He knew that none of them would get through any of this without each other.

Suddenly all four of them looked up to see Summer running towards them with a large smile on her face. "They are okay!" She gushed.

Summer had just seen her nephew for the first, she swore he was the cutest baby she had ever seen since laying eyes on her daughter two years ago.

Ryan looked at them before hugging Summer tightly and running for the hospital doors.

"She's okay." Julie grinned taking both Sophie and Kaitlin's hand's leading them both towards the hospital to see Taylor.

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"Caden Cohen Atwood." Ryan whispered running a finger over the little boy's facial features.

"She was there. She helped me through this." Taylor whispered out of the silence of the room. The doctor's were able to stop the bleeding to get the baby out of Taylor as quickly as possible to ensure he was okay. "I couldn't have done this without her."

Ryan looked over at his wife confused. He had no idea what she was talking about.

"Kirsten…she…was there." Taylor told him confidently. "I know I sound crazy, Ryan but I swear I saw her there…" Ryan gave her a smile before kissing her forehead.

"She wouldn't have missed this for the world." He whispered to her.

"Okay, now enough hogging of my baby. I want to hold him." Taylor had finally realized she couldn't see the rest of her life without the little boy in it. She started imaging his future and how she would get to watch the little boy grow up.

If only Sandy and Kirsten could watch their first grandson grow up like they had wanted to.