A/N: alright all you Sam lovers, I realize that I have pretty much neglected Sam from the whole story so here is a little bit on him.
This night had definitely not made Sam Braddock's top ten nights. His partner, no she was way more than that to him, his best friend was down again. He sat in the waiting room helpless. He tried everything to pass the time; he went over the scene in his head, trying desperately to figure out what went wrong. Why had the subject escalated so quickly and without warning? Why wasn't the team there to have Jules' back? Why did the night have to go like this? But the one question that gave him an aching headache he thought about it so hard was why did Sarge let Jules negotiate? Didn't Greg see that Jules was already tired even before they went on the call? Didn't Greg see that a female was not the right gender for this specific call? The man was mad at his wife! Why on this green earth would the man want to talk to another woman? Why didn't Greg see that for crying out loud!
Sam could feel the other's eyes on him all night. He figured they were probably wondering why he didn't appear to be as worried as they were, and why he has hardly spoken the whole night. What they didn't know was that Sam was more worried than all of them combined. He was scared and upset and mad. He didn't want this to happen to her again. Why couldn't it have been him that got shot? Why did it have to be Jules?
Sam stood there with empty eyes. His team and Steve gathered around the nurse that was giving them nothing but bad news. He thought he had heard the worst of it: not a clean hit, wrecked her arteries, she'll be out of work for a while. But there was something the nurse hadn't mentioned, something that both Steve and Greg had picked up on.
"What are you not telling us?" Steve asked, his voice low and shaky.
"Well, there is one more thing." The nurse paused.
What on earth is she waiting for! Sam thought to himself. "Well what is it!"
"I, uh, I'm not too sure if, uh, I should…" The nurse trailed off.
"Nurse McNally," A doctor in a long white coat came up behind the nurse. "Thank you but I'll take it from here." He smiled gently and sent the young nurse on her way.
Steve studied the doctor and recognised him from his work. "Dr. Edwards, what the hell is going on here? Where is Jules!"
The doctor looked at the group and seemed a bit surprised at the number of people just like the nurse had been. "Alright, so I'm assuming that nurse McNally told you that she was out of surgery right? And that she is recovering?"
"Yeah, yeah, she said that but she also said that there was something else that she didn't get the chance to mention." Spike said.
The doctor sighed and gave a disapproving look to the nurse who was long gone. "What did she say?"
"That there was something else!" spike said, rolling his eyes.
"Okay, well, there was a slight complication that we discovered during surgery, we wanted to talk to her family or Steve before we said anything to anyone else." What he wanted to say was "she was under strict orders to keep her mouth shut" but he is a doctor, so of course he didn't say that.
The team shared worried looks. What was wrong with their teammate?
"Steve, if you would come with me, we have a bit to discuss." Steve nodded absent minded and followed the doctor down the all-too-familiar hospital hallways.
Team one stood frozen. They weren't able to move from the spots where the doctor had left them. They didn't say anything or look at anything. They hardly even breathed. They could feel the worry slowly starting to seep its way into their veins like poison.
*******Outside of Jules' hospital room********
Steve was breathing hard. If the doctor didn't tell Steve what was wrong with Jules soon, he thought he was going to have a heart attack.
"Come on, Doc. What's wrong with her?" Steve pleaded.
"Well Steve, I guess I should start off by asking if you noticed anything strange about Julianna lately."
Steve racked his brain, thinking of every single time that Jules had mentioned that she wasn't feeling right. "Umm, nothing too recent other than the normal cold of course."
"Think hard Steve, think back a few months." The doctor urged him on.
"uh," Steve thought back to around two months ago, just like the doctor had told him to. "It was a few months ago, she wasn't feeling well at all in the mornings. We thought it was just some type of bug."
"And you never thought to get a-'' Beep, Beep, Beep! Before the doctor could finish his sentence, his pager went off. "Sorry Steve, it's a 911, gotta go!" and with that the doctor took off leaving Steve standing in front of his wounded girlfriends room.
Looking around to make sure that there were no doctors or nurses around, he quickly opened the hospital room door and stepped inside. He quietly closed the door behind him, and stopped in his tracks. He was looking at his beautiful little Julianna lying in the slim, white hospital bed. Only, that wasn't his Jules, this was a stranger. A stranger that was all hooked up to tubes and heart monitors and bruises from where the doctors had bumped her during surgery. She looked so weak and smaller than normal.
Steve's heart sank to his feet as he slowly walked over to her bed and sat on the edge. With one hand, he held hers, and with the other he stroked her hair.
"It's gonna be okay baby. We'll be okay. Whatever this is, we are gonna get through it together." Steve whispered to her as silent tears fell down his cheeks.
"It'll be okay sweetheart. I love you so, so much."
*******Nurses in the staff lounge*********
"What a drag for the Steve guy, huh? I mean, his girlfriend gets shot in the chest, and then they get the shocking news! Do you think Dr. Edwards told them yet?" Nurse Murphy asked McNally as she made her early morning coffee.
"Probably. How could he not tell them?" McNally answered back. The two young women took a break from the chatter and got lost in their own thoughts. It was Nurse McNally that brought them back to the real world.
"What would you do?"
"What do you mean?"
"If it was you lying in that bed. What would you do if you were the one that got shot and then found out that you are pregnant with twins?"
A/N- Review please! :)
