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They were sitting in the waiting room when Lily who was sitting on her father's lap asked who that lady was that looked like mommy? Fitz leaned down and asked what Lily was looking at.

"The lady over in that chair. She looks like Mommy. She is smiling at me and she said to tell you that she would be in the room with Sam, and she would not let him leave. She said to tell Mommy that she loves her and will protect Sam."

Fitz and Olivia are stunned into silence. There was no one in a chair that Lily was looking at, but they both knew that in their hour of need she had come again. In a way they were comforted by her presence.

"Is she still there Lily?" Olivia asked.

"No, she just smiled at me, blew me a kiss and she got up and left."

Lily went back to what she was doing before as if nothing had happened. Fitz leaned over and pulled Olivia in, kissed her on the side of her head. Olivia let silent tear run down her face, but for the first time in a month, she had hope.

Abby managed to arrive a few hours after Gray got to the hospital. Gray had already been taken to his room. She went in to see him. He was in a bit of pain, but he was so glad to see his pregnant wife and her little baby bump. He wanted to know if they had heard anything about Sam yet. She said no, she came straight to his room first. He kissed him lightly and told him she would go and check in with Fitz and Liv.

When she got down to the isolation unit she saw the family in the waiting room. Liv and Fitz were in the room with Sam as they were administering the first round of stem cell replacement. They connected a cell-separator machine, blood was removed through a vein in one arm and passed through a filtering machine to separate the stem cells from other blood cells. It's then returned to the body through a vein in the other arm. The procedure usually requires about two sessions lasting two to three hours on successive days. After about an hour after Abby got to the isolation unit, Liv and Fitz came out to give everyone an update.

"Dr. Rice said that Gray made it just in time. She's very hopeful that Sam will make a full recovery. It's going to take at least a year before he gets the all clear, but she likes his chances." Fitz said.

Everyone in the room jumped up and started to hug everyone.

"We're not out of the woods yet, but we have it on good authority that someone is watching out for the little guy. Isn't that right Lily."

Lily just smiled and asked if she could see Sam.

"Baby, it's going to be about a week before you can be near Sam. He can't catch any cold or bugs now in his state. So you can only see him through a window. Fitzgerald you can't see him especially since you go to school with other kids. You might be carrying a bug around with you from school."

"That's ok Dad, I read about the procedure and how Sam will have to stay away from us for a while. I'm cool with it, as long as he gets better."

Fitz went up and squeezed Fitzgerald to him. "That's my boy."

"Hey, I don't get a hug? I'm your special girl Daddy!"

"That you are Lily pad." He picked her up kissed her and tickled her tummy as she squealed.

For now they felt like they might just make it.

A month later

After all they had been through Sam finally came home. He had lost his hair and a lot of weight, but he was home. Olivia noticed a little change in him. Sam had always seemed like an introspective kid, but he seemed somewhat quieter than usual. He let Lily gab on, but he rarely put his two cents in anymore. He just either sat there or laid down and listen to her drown on about things. Fitzgerald tried to occupy him by reading to him and carrying him around until he got his strength back. He would always tell him to take him to his tree in the pasture. Olivia asked Fitzgerald if he talked to him at the tree. He said no, all he did was just sit and listen and look. Fitzgerald would sit with him as long as he wanted until he would tell him to take him back to the house. So one night Olivia was putting Sam to bed, she laid down with him and asked him why he wanted to sit out at the tree.

"GG Candy and Grandma Maya always comes to talk to me there. They always have."

Olivia starts to tear up at her son's admission. He turns and looks at his mother and puts his arm around her neck and kisses her.

"Don't cry Mommy, GG Candy tells me things about what is going to happen next and Grandma Maya tells me about Talia."

Olivia looks at Sam with questioning eyes, "who's Talia?"

"My baby sister."

Olivia sits up and pulls Sam into her arms and plants kisses all over his face and rocks her little boy as she cries from joy.

"Did I tell you something sad Mommy?"

"No baby, you told Mommy something really happy.

Olivia and Fitz had been so worried out of their minds with Sam that they had forgotten their plans to add another Grant to the pot. That same night Liv told Fitz what Sam said. Fitz just looked at his wife as they laid in bed smiled, scooted over and gave her a sweet kiss on the lips.

He pulled back and laid his head on his pillow and said, "you know you've been off the pill now for three months. How about we make Talia?" As he wiggled his eyebrows.

"Tommy I've been so scared out of my wits that I completely forgot about our little pack."

Fitz loved when Olivia called him Tommy. It's was a sweet reminder of how they fell in love and how it had grown. His love for her was carried in the eyes of his children and he couldn't wait to add to that love. This baby though would be extra special after all they had been through with Sam. It had shaken them to the core of who they are. Fitz felt that he needed some time off to be with his family more.

"Liv, what would you say if I said that I want to take the year off as soon as the baby is born? I want us to do something unique in that year. I want to travel to every national park in this country and I want to do it in our air stream. It's not about the parks, it's about the journey I think this family needs to go on. We nearly lost Sam and I want us to bond even more than we are now. Fitzgerald is growing up so fast. Lily...well Lily is Lily, she will always be ok, but Sam has always been a Mama's boy, and I feel like I've never had the time to really get to know him the way you have. If he had died, I would have blamed myself for the rest of my life for not taking that opportunity to know my son. I think you are the luckiest person in the world to spend so much time with our children. I want more time than four hours when I get home and the weekend. I'm going to talk to Grandpa and Michael to see if they will fill in for me while I'm away."

Liv let him finish, "Tommy I would love for you to take the time off, and your right you need to get to know your children a little better. If were going to do this soon, then you need to get busy tonight. We have a baby to deliver."

She smiled and kissed her husband tenderly. Fitz jumped up on the bed and started to jump up and down until he landed on top of Olivia as she squealed with excitement. The spent the entire night making love to each other. In her heart Olivia knew she got pregnant that night and she didn't have to wait long for her answer.