Erm, well, here's chapter seven! I hope you like this, but it's so so short! Eek, I'm disgusted with how short it is, really, but I believe I've said everything in it that I intended.

I suppose...Disclaimer: You all know the drill.

Chapter Seven: What's the matter with me?

Oliver and Daniel came running, their eyes big in their faces, wide with fright.

"Mummy! Mum!" they cried, jumping into her arms. "Daddy, where's daddy?" they asked, and she had to force her tears back.

"Oh, oh," she moaned, clutching at her heart. They said no more and snuggled into her arms.

"Where's Velvet?" Murdoc asked. Velvet had been forgotten in all of the chaos, and Noodle looked at him blankly. "Velvet, the girl 2D saved."

"How the hell should I know?" Noodle demanded violently, causing two young, frightened stares. She ignored her sons and sighed. "It's been so...so insane. I'm--Oh God, tell him I'm sorry, Murdoc, tell him his sons love him, they need him--is he alive? Is he--okay? I'm so sorry," her jaw dropped and her eyes squeezed shut.

Murdoc opened up 2D's mobile, staring at the screen. "He always has this with 'im--maybe 'e--" Murdoc read a text out loud to himself. "This is it--The end. So sick of everything, s'been too long in misery. Bye, Mum, I'll say 'ello to Dad for ya," he read, and Noodle's eyes opened in shock.

"No," she moaned. "You're only teasing, please, Murdoc, no," she begged. He handed her the phone and she read the harsh reality. "2D? No! Why? Oh, God, why?"

"You." Murdoc stated simply, bluntly. She shook her head sadly.

"Is he--he's not dead? Is he?"

"He might as well be. It's bad, Noodle. He worse off than he would have been had he died. The doctors, well, they're optimistic, but they've told me the truth of the situation. He's knocking on Death's door, is basically what they've told us, but if we give him the right care--he could make a full recovery."

"Ohhh, no," Noodle moaned. "Why!?" she asked no one in particular. Murdoc only shook his head and left, taking Velvet with him. Noodle was left with her sons, and she brought them to her bed, holding them tightly for comfort, sobbing brokenly.

Their wails matched hers, and their faces all shone with moisture.

"Noo," Noodle moaned. "Oh, oh, why!" she scrubbed at her eyes and hid her face within a pillow. Her boys clung to her, sobbing as one, seeming to know the reason for their mother's distress.

"Mum, mummy," they whimpered, but she was heedless to their emotion.

She gave her sons a once over, dressed them quickly, washed her face, and grabbed keys to her car. She drove to the hospital she guessed 2D to be in, the nearest one she knew of.

The twins had calmed down considerably, and Ollie slept peacefully in his car seat. Noodle pulled into a parking space near the entrance of the emergency room, quickly getting her sons out and running to the front desk.

"Excuse me, do you have a Stuart Pot here?" she asked the lady behind the desk. She scanned her records and frowned.

"It doesn't appear that we do..."

"Oh, he may be in here under a different name--for low profile--anyway, has a blue haired man come through here? Is there--"

A nurse walked over, staring at Noodle. "A blue-haired man with no eyes? Yes, he has. Why do you ask?"

"I'd much like to see him--these are his sons, and I'm their mother." she told the nurse, and she nodded in understanding.

"If you're sure you can handle it--it's pretty gruesome, I cried--like I haven't cried since I began working here." she told Noodle.

"I think I'll be fine." Noodle told her confidently. "But is there a daycare facility for my--our sons? They could be scarred--"

"Of course. Lindy--" she called to another nurse who rushed over. "Could you take these two boys--erm, their names, ma'am?"

"Oliver and Daniel," Noodle informed.

"Oliver and Daniel to daycare, Lindy?"

"Of course, Rhea." Lindy replied and carried the boys away.

"All right, ma'am, like I said before, it is not a pretty sight--the fall did a lot of damage--" she continued talking, but Noodle tuned her voice out until they were standing before the door to 2D's room.

"Are you sure you want to go in?" the nurse asked again. Noodle nodded in determination.

"I must see him," she said resolutely, hand on the door knob. She pulled the door open, her eyes fluttering in shock.

Eeek! Cliffhanger!

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