Oh! I now have a picture of Kylie up on my profile page. Thanks to Fangirl44 who found the picture for me! Thanks again! :D

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Chapter 12

Joanne and Maureen ran into the hospital stopping at the front desk before rushing to the waiting room where they found Collins and Angel sitting with Leah, all of them wearing matching worried faces.

"What happened!?" Joanne was the first to shout, not even noticing the impact of Leah hugging her legs.

Angel stood up, placing a hand on Joanne's shoulder, hoping to calm her down just a little, "She was complaining about a stomach ach. We told her to try and fall asleep and it would go away, but she came out of the room crying in pain. We didn't know what else to do…"

"So we brought her here." Collins finished, wrapping an arm around Maureen's shoulders.

"Well where is she?" Joanne asked with fret, tears threatening to spill from her eyes.

"Surgery." Angel replied, "They're removing her appendix."

"Oh god…" Joanne whispered, running a hand through her hair.

"It's okay, Joanne, she's getting taken care of." Angel assured, pulling her into a hug, "The doctor said he's done this a thousand times, he'll take good care of her."

"Come on, Jo…" Maureen softly said finally speaking for the first time, "Let's sit down, there isn't much else we can do but wait."

Joanne only nodded, sitting next to Maureen, resting her head on her shoulder. Leah climbed on Maureen's lap, cuddling up into her, falling asleep only a few short minutes later.

"I'm sorry." Collins spoke.

"It's not you're fault." Joanne said, "Thank you for getting her here in time."

It wasn't long before the rest of the boho's showed up, even Cora, and they all waited impatiently in the waiting room. After what seemed like a lifetime, just as Joanne was about to drift off the doctor walked out, a successful and almost smug grin on his face.

"Jefferson." He called out.

"Me!" Joanne said quickly standing up, running over to the doctor, "How is she?"

"She's fine. I've got her appendix out in time. She's sleeping now." The doctor said, "You can go see her if you want. She'll probably sleep through the rest of the night though."

"Okay, thank you!" Joanne said, shaking his hand. He smiled one last time and walked away. Joanne walked back to the group, "We can see her now."

Maureen stood up, Leah cradled in her arms. She followed Joanne into Haley's hospital room, her heart breaking at the sight of her daughter lying in bed wearing a hospital gown. Joanne was quickly by her side, kissing Haley's forehead running a hand through her hair.

"Hi baby girl." She smiled, even though she was sleeping, she was just happy Haley was okay.

"Mommy?" Leah whispered opening her eyes. "Is Haley okay?"

"She's fine." Maureen smirked setting Leah on the ground, watching as the little blonde sleepily walked to Haley's bed and climbed on. She kissed Haley's forehead and carefully lay down beside her, falling asleep.

Joanne watched the two for a few moments before looking up at Maureen who was still standing in the same spot not saying a word.

"Honeybear." Joanne called out, walking over to her wrapping her arms around her waist, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine…" Maureen replied, wrapping her arms around Joanne, "I'm shocked…" she answered again, "I was…scared…" she admitted.

"So was I." Joanne replied, kissing Maureen's temple, "But it's okay, Haley is alright now."

"I know." Maureen whispered, relaxing into Joanne, "But I didn't know she was going to be okay. Oh god, we have to keep a better eye on them. If anything every happened to them…" She said, cuddling into Joanne some more just at the thought. "I don't think I could handle it." She said.

"Welcome to the ups and downs of parenthood, honeybear." Joanne smirked,

Maureen pouted, "I don't like it." She said nuzzling her face in the crook of Joanne's neck.

Joanne simply smiled pulling Maureen closer, giving her all the comfort she could.

It took about a week for Haley to fully recover. Joanne and Maureen learned just how strong she was. She would of course try and milk it sometimes to take the attention away from Leah, but other than that, Haley dealt really good with what had happened, and before they knew it she was up and playing with Leah just like nothing had ever happened.

If it wasn't already an eventful week enough, Joanne, Maureen, Leah and Haley took a chance and went house hunting again.

Joanne pulled into a driveway, the girls jumping out of the car before it even came to a stop.

"Here we go again…" Maureen sighed running a hand through her hair, "Mark offered to watch them."

"Calm down we're just going to see two houses today." Joanne assured.

They walked into the house, Joanne's eyes nearly popping out at the sight.

"I already love it." Joanne smiled, "Look at the hardwood floors!"

Maureen rolled her eyes; she never understood Joanne's love for hardwood floors. To her it was just another place for her to walk on.

"That's not the only good thing about this place." A woman said, also known as the retailer. She smiled at the couple, Leah and Haley standing next to her, "Seems the girls already found the pool."

"There's a pool!?" Maureen grinned her ears perking up.

"Yes! We like this house, Mama!" Haley said, "Can we stay here?"

"We didn't even look around yet." Joanne smiled,

"What are we waiting for?" The retailer said, and motioned for the family of four to follow.

After having a tour of the three-story, two car garage house, the family sat in the car, trying to come up with a decision.

"Well?" Joanne asked, "It has a nice backyard and front yard…two car garage, we'll have our own bathroom in our bedroom." She said, turning to face Maureen, "It's not too expensive for us either." She said, "What do you say?"

Maureen sighed, her eyes on the house. It was weird but it did feel like home to her.

"I know you don't want to move out of the city, but…I know it sounds weird but this house feels like home to me."

Maureen couldn't help but smile, Joanne took the words right from her. "Alright." She said, "It seems like a nice neighborhood too, safe for the girls to ride their bikes and stuff."

Joanne's eyes lit up, "So what are you saying…?"

"Yes, Joanne." Maureen grinned, "I want to move in this house."

Joanne excitedly reached over, throwing her arms around Maureen, "Thank you! I'm going to go make an offer! You stay here with the girls?"

"Yes, go." Maureen smiled.

Since Maureen didn't really understand any of the money talk she gladly left that up to Joanne and let the lawyer go put in an offer with out her, while she stayed in the car with the girls.

Joanne came back about twenty minutes later, hopping in the car. "She's going to call us with an answer tonight."

"Okay." Maureen smiled.

"You know…" Joanne said as she pulled out of the driveway, "With that extra bedroom we could adopt a third child."

Maureen's face went blank, biting her bottom lip, "Uh Joanne…let's just worry about getting the house and then we can talk about getting a third child."

Joanne lightly laughed, reaching over to grab Maureen's hand. She looked up in the review mirror her eyes landing on her two beautiful children who were sound asleep, her smile growing.

How couldn't Maureen want another child?

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I seriously dare someone to write some MoJo fluff...lol i know weird, but...we need some more out there. ;)