I would have updated sooner, but the winter storm finally hit my area. Two snow days! But the guy whose wireless internet I'm 'borrowing' without his knowledge is out of power so I couldn't get it up sooner.

Chapter 10

Slowly the black receded. The bed under me creaked and cackled as I shifted. Bleach and other cleaning supplies invaded my senses as I attempted to open my eyes, which at the moment was easier said than done.

I felt something warm touch my hand gently. I hissed in pain, as if someone touched an open wound. The hand withdrew rather quickly, but that little bit of contact awakened all of my dormant nerves. I could feel the pinprick in my right arm and the numbing sensation in my right hand. My throat was scratchy and I could feel tubes in each nostril giving me a dizzying amount of pure oxygen. My eyelids slowly peeled back and I finally understood what people meant when they felt like two little weights were attached to each eyelid. It seemed like a cliché saying but it was accurate. The first thing I saw was the ceiling, the next thing that registered was that the IV taped to the inside of my arm. I stared at it for a few moments, unable to comprehend what it was there for. Shaking my head slowly, trying to clear my head of the fog from the drugs I assumed they were giving me.

"They just gave you another dose. They said that you would be okay in a little bit," A voice told me across the room. My heart rate picked up as I whipped my head around and stared at Adrien. He was sulking in a neon orange chair staring at me with concern, his bottom lip was quivering. He was wearing unfamiliar clothing. Baggy jeans and an orange T-shirt with a black strip across it horizontally. The white sleeves were pushed back to his dimpled elbows, which were incased in white bandages, but even then I could tell that the shirt was too big for him.

"What are you wearing?" I croaked as I struggled to sit up, wincing as the bandages scratched my skin.

"They took away my other clothes, said they were going to clean them. I haven't seen them since," he pouted, "Some fat lady gave me these. I assume they were her sons', who I can only presume was at big as she is."

"Whose they? What lady?" I was trying to asses my surroundings, "And be nice" I added as an afterthought. The room was a soothing blue color and a curtain that had flower patterns on it separated my bed from someone else's, neatly cutting the room in half. I could hear a hacking cough on the other side. The tape from the IV was uncomfortable on my skin and I had the urge to tear it off.

"The Doctors and nurses," he wrinkled his nose in disgust, "They got upset when I said I wanted blood. I don't understand; the other doctors didn't get upset."

"These aren't your regular doctors' sweetheart. Normal people don't drink blood," I told him patiently, he just shook his head as if a world were infant don't drink blood just didn't make sense to him. I guess it did in a way. "Come here." I patted the space next to me on the cheap blanket. He was there in a second, burrowing into my side.

"I was scared," he sobbed, "That you were gonna d-d-die!" I was a little shocked at this display of affection. Adrien was the type of kid that didn't hug you randomly and you didn't expect him too, but here he was grabbing onto my paper hospital gown for dear life.

"Sh," I cooed, "its okay, I'm here. I'm going to be fine," I lifted my bandaged hand and stroked his black hair. I gave him a few seconds to compose himself as his sobs turned to hiccups before I started to question him.

"Adrien how did we get here? All's I remember is walking out of the castle then…" I allowed my voice to trail off silently begging him to fill in the blanks. He sniffled and reluctantly pulled away from my embrace.

"We got out of the building and a man came running up to us. He asked if we were in the fire and I told him we were and then you fainted. The man called over some of his friends and they brought this white bed with them and put you on it," his voice stared to crack, his words rushed together, "I told them I was your son, 'cause I thought they were going to leave me there and I didn't know where any of my people were or my d-d-daddy. A-a-and y-you weren't a-a-a-awake. A-and I w-w-w-was s-s-s-sacred." He wailed; his words muffled at the end as he reburied himself into my side. Despite the fact that Adrien was crying I felt something in my chest, like a balloon was stuck in there.

"Adrien," I said slowly, "Are you telling me that no one at the castle knows where we are?" He nodded his head into my body and I started to laugh and hug him.

"I'm free!" I whispered, "I'm finally fucking free!" I thought of all the things I took for granted before I was kidnapped, all the things I thought I would never be able to do again. I could go out with my friends to the movies, I could reconnect with my older brother, I could thank my mom for doing all the little things she did for me instead of getting embarrassed that she came up to school with a brown paper bag lunch for me when I texted her complaining about how she forgot to fill my lunch account. I could kiss and hug her instead of ripping the bag out of her hands and telling her to stop spending money on stupid shit and start paying things for her kids. I'll be a good girl and visit my dad's grave. Hell I'll buy him some flowers and kiss his headstone, whose death date is one year after my birth date. I'll get things right this time.

Adrien stared up at me and I felt my happiness falter. What was I going to do with Adrien? I couldn't dump him in a foster home and I certainly wouldn't explain why he would be full grown by the age of seven. My happiness returned at full force. I would simply take him home with me and explain the situation to my mom. She was always complaining about how she couldn't have more kids and that adoption was too damn expensive. She'll be happy to have Adrien around. And he'll be happy because there will be no more experiments! He'll have a chance at a normal childhood, at least as normal as it can get.

"Oh Adrien," I sighed as I buried my face into his hair, "This is all going to work out fine," I could feel my eyes closing again and sleep beckoning to me, "It's going to be just find," I slurred as I let the blackness close in again.

I awoke sometime later, Adrien curled next to me using my arm as a blanket. His arm was pulled close to his chest and the other one was dangerous close to his mouth, his thumb sticking out. If it was any other kid I would think they were sucking on their thumb, but seeing as it was Adrien I was doubtful. His cheeks had a healthy flush to them and his red lips were parted.

"He's an adorable kid," a female voice with a thick accent told me. I sat up quickly, invariable upsetting Adrien from his deep slumber. A woman with caramel colored hair was leaning against the far wall; she had olive colored skin and impossible blue eyes that hid behind thin professional looking glasses that were perched on a long and crooked nose. The only hint that she was a doctor was her long white lab coat with the name 'Dr. Kathy Guido' sewn into it with a blue thread that matched her eyes. I could hear Adrien give a low growl. Dr. Guido gave him an amused glance but then turned her gaze to me.

"How are you feeling Amie?" I didn't like the way she said my name, it sounded too intimate, like we were the best of friends.

"Okay," and I did. My hand was a little sore, but otherwise fine. I no longer had a headache and my throat was less scratchy.

"That's good to hear. We'll be able to move you out of the here soon then," she told me as she walked briskly to my bedside and fiddled with a couple of the machines pushing buttons here and there.

"You had minor burns. They looked worse than they really were," she assured me when she saw my face, "Same on your boy, very minor. It was the smoke we were worried about." She continued to rattle off a whole bunch of complicated sounding words and some pain killers that she was putting me on and how often I would need to take them. Adrien crossed his arms when she patted his cheek. I could see him pulling back his lip, exposing his teeth. I quickly clamped my hand over his jaws before he could rip the doctor to shreds. I saw his black eyes flicker to mine and I shook my head and gave him a warning look. He rolled his eyes and shook me off, but did not expose his teeth again.

"Now normally I would give you something else but since you are pregnant-."

Adrien stiffen beside me, it took me a little longer to understand what she was saying. I could literally feel the blood drain from my face and a dull roar filled my ears when her words finally did click. I saw Adrien turn to me with a horrified expression on his face and I could feel my own face muscle mirroring his.

"Wh-what did you just say?" I asked Dr. Guido, my own voice sounded very far away from me, as if I was watching all of this from above, throwing my voice to accommodate a puppet who this was all happening too but not really effecting me in anyway.

"Oh you didn't know?" her voice was poison dripping into my head as she said her next sentence, "You're around two months pregnant with twins, Congratulations"

A/N: Cookies to whoever figured this out last chapter. I found out that Twins run in families, so it makes sense to me for her to have twins. Also to anyone who is confused, Amie isn't really two months pregnant, in reality she is about a week it just looks like two months because of the accelerated aging. So Amie was not getting fat, no she has two little bundles of horror on the way! I personally like the ending to this chapter, leaves you with a sense of dread. So what will happen to poor unhappy Amie now? How will she pay that Hospital bill? When's Alec coming back? Are they going to fall in Love? When will Adrien meet his father? Why am I asking you these questions?

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