So I'm really sorry about my hiatus. There has been so much going on and other stories that I wanted to focus on. I know enough with the excuses. But I am sorry. But here is the next chapter… it will get more action-y a little later but for now its going to be kind of boring. Sorry. Thanks for the reviews and please continue to review! Much love.
I woke up as the ambulance came to a stop.
"We're here." John said quietly, Sam was still asleep on the gurney. He got out of the ambulance and walked to the back of the ambulance.
"Here let me- what the hell?" I said as I got out of the ambulance and looked down. John was next to me in seconds.
"What is it? Oh wow." John said as he looked down at my stomach. I had a small baby bump, it sure as hell wasn't there earlier today.
"Do you think-" I asked looking up at John holding my stomach.
"What's going on?" Sam asked groggily from the gurney.
"Maddie looks like she's 4 months pregnant." John said.
"That's impossible." Sam said as she struggled to the front.
"Do you think it's the C-24?" I asked. "I mean it makes sense." Sam had made it to the from passenger seat as she looked down and squinted with the little light that was available.
"It is a possibility. I mean Chromosome 24 heals fast, it would only make sense- Maddie are you ok?" Sam asked as she faded from my sight. I felt arms encompass me as darkness surrounded me.
I woke up to the blinding sun light coming through the window. I looked around feeling slightly panicked by not recognizing my surroundings. I sat up and the shock from the night before took over me again. I looked like I was at least 4 months pregnant. I put a hand on my stomach in disbelief. I felt the baby move. I took my hand away in shock. I looked around the room it was a small cabin like bedroom but big enough for two people.
For John and I.
John.
I got up and walked out of the room and looked around the place as I walked down the hall. I saw Sam in the kitchen balancing on her good leg with the wheel chair right behind her.
"Hey Sam." I said as I walked over to her and grabbed a glass that was sitting on the counter and filled it with water under the sink.
"Good, you're up. I want to do an ultrasound and see if your baby is really growing this fast. Or if there is something wrong. Or if it's even human." She said. I stopped drinking the cool water and looked at her.
"You don't think what I'm carrying is human?" I asked threatened.
"I don't know. We don't know what C24 will do in a week from now let alone to a growing fetus." Sam said. I placed my glass on the counter and looked at her. Before I could say anything John walked into the house with his arms full of fire wood.
"Maddie." He said as he walked over to me putting my face in his hands as if to inspect for injuries.
"Sam wants to do an ultrasound to see if the baby really is this far along or if something is wrong." I stated looking at Sam then back to John. He nodded his head and walked back into the room he was in to clear off a chair for me. I glared at Sam as I walked past her into the room John was in.
I sat on the chair and kicked up the legs so I was laying down. I had started to feel pregnant. Like I was bloated and carrying around a ball on my stomach. John wheeled in the machine as Sam wheeled herself over to the machine. She plugged it in and started it up. I lifted my shirt up and looked over at John. He looked exhausted and worried. I wondered if Sam and him had a similar conversation to the one Sam and I just had.
"And here it goes." Sam said as she squirted the ultrasound goop on my stomach. It was cold and not warm like it would've been at an actual doctor's office.
"Alright." She said as she moved the almost pen like thing across my stomach. The black and white image showed up on the monitor. It was surprising to think that technology was so evolved that we could use something like a pen to see the inside of the stomach but it was still in black and white.
"Oh my god." John said looking at the screen; he wrapped his hand around mine.
"What?" I asked looking at the screen everything Sam said running through my mind.
"Twins." Sam said with her mouth open. "Two perfectly healthy twins." I looked up at John. His mouth was hanging open in shock but his eyes were telling me he was amazed.
"Are they really 4 months along?" I asked. Sam looked at the screen.
"It looks like about 4 ½ months." She said. "It's gotta be the C24."
"That means there's a heartbeat, right?" I asked.
"Let's see." She said as she clicked something on the computer.
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud
The two heartbeats sounded perfect and healthy, tears fell down my eyes as I looked up at John. He was mesmerized by the monitor, then he looked down at me. His eyes were watering but they were happy eyes. I smiled up at him as he smiled down at me and kissed my forehead.
"So based off of this ultra sound and how far you are now compared to yesterday. Your going to have these babies in 3 days." Sam said ruining the moment.
"3 days?" I repeated.
"A 6 day pregnancy?" John asked.
"It looks like it. We will know more tomorrow." Sam said, turning off the monitor and wiping everything off with a towel. "What it does mean is we're going to have to figure out a lot of things between today and tomorrow. We have 9 months of preparation to do in the next 3 days in a house that hasn't been lived in for years." She threw me the towel and moved the machine to the wall. I wiped off all the goop.
"I guess we should get started by cleaning." I said standing up, John aided me.
"I'll do some more research on this, and how to properly deliver a baby." Sam said as she wheeled into what I assumed was her room.
"I'll clean up front here today and work my way back to the room I was in when I woke up." I said to John.
"Sounds like a plan. Tomorrow we will go out and get a crib and all the other stuff we'll need." He said. I couldn't help but laugh. "What?"
"You, John "the Reaper" Grimm, you're going to be a father. And I'm going to be a mom. Who would've ever thought?" I said as he wrapped an arm around my waist.
"Like I said before, we've got this. We'll figure it out." He said with a smile. He squeezed my slowly growing body and we got to work on cleaning the house.
