A/N- thank you so much for all of the reviews! It's people like you that make me keep writing.
"Oh my god! No one told you? I'm so sorry dear! Is there anyone I can get for you?"
Jules wasn't listening to the nurse anymore; she was trying to clear her head. This wasn't right, the nurse had it wrong! There was no way she was pregnant. She's been too busy at work lately. And Steve hasn't been around as much. No, this just wasn't right! The nurse probably has her chart mixed up with someone else's.
"Miss Callaghan?" McNally was starting to get worried that she'd caused one of her patients to go into shock. "Say something constable!"
Jules slowly lifter her head to look up at the nurse. "Umm, I don't think you have the right chart."
The nurse knew already that she was 100% sure that she had the right chart but just to satisfy Jules, she double checked.
"Well, you're the cop right? Julianna Callaghan?"
"Yeah." Her voice was no more than a whisper.
"This is your chart sweetie." She confirmed.
"How do you... Ya know….. Know that I'm pregnant?"
"The doctors had to operate on your bullet wound and they were in the middle of taking your blood when they realized. It came up in the blood tests."
Jules knew that she should be worried about a lot of things right now: How far along? Work, Money. Hell, she was even worried about who the father was. But she put that question out of her head as quick as it came in. But the one thing that she could not stop thinking about was if the baby would be okay. She was absolutely terrified that she had hurt the little baby in her stomach. How could she have been so stupid! How did she not realize that she had created a life inside of her? How could she have put her baby in danger? Sure, she didn't even know that the baby was there but still.
"Will my baby be okay?"
The nurse smiled and flipped through her clipboard, looking for something.
"Yes dear, your baby is just fine! When we found out we did an ultrasound immediately." She found what she was looking for and handed Jules a picture. "Here, this is the first picture of your babies!"
Jules took the picture, not noticing that the nurse had said babies instead of baby.
"Oh my god." She whispered as she took the picture, hand flying to her mouth. Something inside Jules was welling up. It was a new kind of love that she had never felt before; it was a kind of love that she never thought that she would get to experience. But there it was, on a little piece of paper, the only proof that she was going to be a mother.
"This is the heart beat," The nurse said as she pointed to a small, fuzzy black spot in the middle of the paper. "For baby "A" and this is the heart beat for baby "B"."
Silence.
"I'm sorry; did you just show me two heart beats?" Jules' head flung up to look at the nurse.
McNally chuckled. "Yes dear, you're having twins!"
Jules just sat there, mouth hanging wide open. Not talking, not moving, and hardly even breathing.
"T-twins?"
"Yep, that's right constable, two babies!"
Jules looked from the nurse, to the paper and back to the nurse again.
"Does anyone know?"
"umm, I think I'll let you figure that one out." The nurse said as she smiled evilly and left Jules' hospital room.
"Wait! What the heck does that mean?" But it was too late, the nurse had left.
Nurse McNally left the room and went out into the waiting room where she knew Jules' family was waiting. She walked to the far corner and found five men sitting in the chairs, all asleep except for one. Sam Braddock.
Sam stood as he saw the nurse approaching.
"Doctor," Sam begun but was cut off by the nurse blushing.
"It's nurse actually." She said blushing a deep red.
Well that's a bit disturbing. Sam thought. She's like twice my age…. Pushing the thought out of his mind, he focused his attention to her.
"How is she?" he asked.
"She's doing well! And she's finally awake so you can go see her whenever you want."
"Thank you." Sam turned back to facing the chairs. He was going to wake up her family and Steve.
"Ugh constable, I'd let them sleep. This is the first time since they got here."
"Okay." Sam gave one last look at them, knowing full well that they would be pissed at him later. But he didn't care if it meant that he could see Jules alone.
"Do you need me to show you to her room?" She asked, hopping that his answer would be 'yes'.
"No thank you, I know my way around." Sam gave her a friendly smile and left for Jules' room.
He knocked on the door lightly before entering.
Jules sat awake in her bed, trying to get a hold on everything that she had just learned. Shot. Pregnant. Twins. Dad? As much as she hated the idea, she wasn't 100% sure who the father really was yet. The nurse had told her that she was a little bit under two months along. And what scared her more than anything was the memory of that one night in August. Two months ago.
It had been a close call at work for her and Sam. They were out getting the morning coffee for the team, and a man rushed in yelling at everyone to get on the floor. He grabbed Jules, her being the closest to him, and threatened to shoot her if he didn't get what he wanted. Sam stepped in right away, trying to talk him down. But this man wanted his money and he had no plans on leaving without it.
To make a long story short, a woman that was in the washroom at the time heard the commotion and called 911. Team 3 was sent and the subject was taken down when the sent in flash grenades and hit him with rubber bullets.
Sam and Jules were taken back to H.Q and were given the rest of the day off. Jules gave her partner a ride home, and had somehow managed to end up in his bed at the end of the night….
"Hey Jules, how ya feeling?"
Jules looked up to see Sam standing in the door frame. "Hey Sam, come in!"
Sam walked into the small room and took a seat in the plastic chair. They both stared at each other, it wasn't completely awkward but it definitely wasn't the most comfortable time of their lives. They didn't say anything. Neither one of them knowing if the other knew about the babies.
"So," Jules began. "Umm, did you hear?"
Sam looked down at his hands. "About the baby?"
"Well, actually, it's babies."
Sam gasped. "Twins! You're having twins Jules?"
Jules nodded her head yes.
"That's great! That's double the cuteness!"
"Sam did you really just say 'cuteness'?"
Sam had too big a smile on his face to care about his choice of vocabulary. "Oh my gosh Jules! That's great!"
"Don't you think that's great?" Sam asked when he noticed Jules expression. "Hey Jules, if you're worried about being a mom, you'll be a great one!"
Jules sighed. If only Sam knew what she was really worried about.
"So does everyone know already?"
"Yeah, that nutty nurse out there let it slip." He said trying to lighten the mood.
"God, I was the only one that didn't know that I was pregnant? How stupid could I be?"
"Jules, you're not stupid. And it's not your fault."
Jules couldn't stand it any longer. The thought that these babies could possibly be Sam's was eating her alive.
"Sam, the doctor said I was around two months." She said simply.
"Two months! Really? Wow, you must be so happy!"
"Sam!"
"What?"
"Two months." And that's all it took. Two simple words and Sam's smile disappeared off his face.
"Oh." Was all he could say.
"I know."
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