Chapter 10
I woke up to my body convulsing. Instinctively I leaned over a random railing and began heaving my hot chocolate into a well positioned bucket. I gasped for air but didn't get much as another round of vomiting ensued. Tears fell from my eyes at the pain in my throat and the burning in my heart as the acid came up.
I took deep breaths and swallowed the bile left over. I opened my blurry eyes and looked around, finding people standing around me.
"Noemi? You alright?" Octavius asked.
"Of coarse she's not ok, you...you..." Jed shut up, he thought better than to fight around my condition.
"What...what's going on? What time is it?" I asked.
"It's 1am" Larry told me.
I groaned and rolled back over into the small hospital bed. I blinked away the blurriness and looked down at my arms, I was being pumped with two fluid bags into two separate IVs. I went cross-eyed for a moment. I did not like needles...
I looked to my left and found Papa Columbus looking down at me with such sadness it just made me want to cry. Next to him was Teddy who had his hat off and against his chest as he looked at me. I frowned, wondering why he had his hat off like that...
My eyes went wide "Oh god...I had a miscarriage didn't I?" I panicked, which wasn't such a good idea because I flipped back over the railing and heaved.
"N. de Você não teve um Erro, o meu querido." (No...you didn't have a miscarriage, my dear) Papa told me, rubbing my back gently.
I hissed at the touch but I wasn't able to dwell on the pain as I continued to throw whatever I had in my stomach into the bucket.
"We were just worried about you" Jed sniffed and wiped at his eye.
"You looked dead, lying there" Octavius said weakly.
I panted and laid back down gently looking around the room for Amenrah.
"Where's Ahkmenrah?" I asked.
"He's with the doctors, getting all your results from the tests they ran while you were asleep" Teddy told me.
I went cross-eyed again. Needles...I shivered.
Jed walked over to the door and swung it open.
"Hey! Can we get some warm blankets in here? She's freezing!" Jed hollered.
"Jed. Stop making a scene" I coughed, rubbing my chest as it burned.
"How you feeling now?" Octavius asked, softly.
"Like I'm being churned inside out" I said honestly "I was more upset that I might have lost the baby..."
"Babies..." Amenrah's said quietly as he came in with a pile of hot blankets.
I blinked as he walked over to me, placing layer after layer of hot blankets over my shivering body.
"Babies?" I inquired.
"They found two masses in your abdomen when they did the ultrasound" he softly smiled and placed a hand on my stomach "You're going to have twins"
Faint. I felt faint. One baby maybe, but two?
My eyes rolled back into my head and I passed out onto my pillow.
"Não empurre aquela espécie da informação nela assim" (Don't shove that kind of information on her like that) Columbus waved his finger at Amenrah "Ela foi por bastante esta noite, sem falar em necesidad de saber que ela está tendo gêmeos" (She's been through enough tonight, let alone having to know she's having twins)
Everyone looked at Columbus oddly. No one knew how to speak his language except me, let alone understand it. Columbus rolled his eyes and waved his hand to dismiss what he said.
"I am sorry sir" Amenrah apologized "I'm just...excited...I know I shouldn't be because of Noemi's condition, but she's pregnant with twins" he smiled "my children. I don't know if you know what that's like. But I'm so proud to be a father and I'm going to help Noemi through this. I will bend to her every whim"
"That's all fine and dandy Pharaoh" Teddy said "but that all depends on if she wishes to keep them..."
The room was silent. No one wanted to speak about such a thing, it was unthinkable to them.
"She has a right to her body and the decisions of what becomes of it and what happens to that in which is inside of it" he continued.
"It's unspeakable" Octavius spat "Killing an unborn child"
"I have to say, that is pretty uncool with me" Jed nodded "then again, it's probably because I've become quite fond of the thought of little rascals running around the museum"
Everyone broke a smile for a moment, before it fell.
"I hope she doesn't choose that path, either Jedidiah" Teddy agreed.
I groaned and rubbed my eyes before realizing what I had fainted for.
"Twins?" I freaked.
Everyone winced at the sound.
"How on earth are we going to take care of two kids? How on earth are we suppose to keep them quiet in the museum?" I sighed, laying back on the bed and putting a hand on my forehead.
Then the stress kicked into my stomach, making it cramp up. It felt like I was being stabbed in the stomach, just briefly though.
"Ah!" I cried shortly and held my stomach.
Amenrah sat in the doctors chair and rolled towards my hospital bed, laying his hand over the one I held my stomach with.
"I don't think they like it when you're upset" he smiled and softly rubbed my tummy.
My stomach settled down after that and I sighed in relief.
"How am I even suppose to pay for all of this?" I asked.
"Don't worry, it's on me" Larry said with a smile "I had some health insurance I needed to use up, so I guess that came in handy"
"Larry, you shouldn't of. Seriously, what if you get hurt?" I asked.
"I don't think I will for a while, so don't worry" he smiled.
I whimpered. I didn't like getting special treatment, or bumming off of other people.
"The doctors told me you could leave whenever you felt up to it" Amenrah told me "But to check in every two months..."
"Oh yeah. That's really going to work out. 'Huh...you were only two months pregnant and now 7 nights later you're about to give birth...I think you're an alien, lets do some experiments on you'" I said sarcastically, quoting what I think the doctors would say and rolled over, burying my face into the pillow.
"She has a point" Teddy agreed.
"Wait...what about the Smithsonian Institute?" Larry suggested "I'm sure they have a dedication to a doctor for these kinds of things right? We could bring the tablet to the institute, infiltrate, and have them look at her every night to keep her healthy and make sure she delivers ok"
"Brilliant idea Lawrence!" Teddy smiled.
"One thing flawed with your plan Larry" I pointed out, sitting up a little "How exactly are we suppose to keep breaking in every night for them to see me?"
"Well...uhm..." Larry was stuck.
The room was silent and I sighed.
"I don't need a doctor. I'll be fine. End of story" I said and moved the railings, folding them underneath the bed so I could roll my fattening self out of it.
"You shouldn't move, you still don't look so good" Jed said with concern.
"I'll be fine" I told him and sat on the edge before noticing I wasn't in my clothes.
I frowned and growled.
"Where are my clothes?" I roared. Surprised at myself at how angry it sounded.
Everyone jumped at the sudden outburst. Octavius grabbed a bag and handed it to me, a little shaken. I took it and looked at them, whipping my arm and finger towards the exit.
"Out" I barked.
They all scrambled for the door and I was left alone to get dressed.
