WARNING, too much sweetness can give you heartfailure ^^
There, Ally, I warned you ;)) Now read with care ^^

Chapter 13
A family of seven

About an hour and a half later, there was a knock on the door before it opened, and Kelly, Kris and Tommy smiled as Jenny walked in with Sarah and Ella, all three of them smiling excited. Ella ran up to the bed and stopped by her mother's side. Kelly was sitting in a chair, her front towards the bed, now holding Jessica, Kris was nursing Jacob. Ella stood by Kelly, and put her hands on her arm that held the little one.

"Aaw! Hi sister!" Ella smiled widely.

"See! Me see!" Sarah said as she jumped up and down, trying to see something, but Ella was in the way. Jenny grabbed Sarah and put her between Kris and Kelly at the edge of the bed.

"They are beautiful guys." Jenny smiled at Kris and Tommy, sitting down next to Sarah, holding onto her sweater as she was leaning forward to see the girl better.

"Thank you Jenny." Kris smiled as she lifted up Jacob who had finished eating. Kris covered herself up and then put Jacob towards her shoulder. This made Ella look up and her eyes grew twice their size.

"Who is that baby?"

"This is your brother Ella." Kris smiled, and began giggling when Ella's mouth dropped.

"I have got a brother AND a sister?"

Kris nodded.

"If I had known I would have told you, I promise, but I didn't know." Kris smiled, still annoyed that her midwife hadn't been able to realize that she was carrying two babies. How could she have missed that? She had done sonograms, and they had listened to the heartbeats so many times. Sure they had said that the heartbeats were a little fast from time to time, but nothing to worry about. Kris sighed. Who cares? It had all worked out in the end, and she had gotten two beautiful creatures. Now they just needed to go shopping. They just had one out of everything.

"That is so cool!" Ella exclaimed happily, clapping her hands. Sarah immediately joined in and clapped her hands too.

"Do you want to hold him?" Kris asked, looking at Ella who nodded widely. She then climbed up into the bed, sitting between Kris and Sarah, and Kris sat up further in the bed, then she put down Jacob into Ella's lap.

"This is Jacob, Ella."

"Hi Jacob." Ella said quietly, and the little boy moved around slightly before he splayed his fingers, and then grabbed onto Ella's thumb with one of his hands.

"He likes me already." Ella said, looking up at Kris who was leaning her cheek towards Ella's head.

"Of course he does." Kris smiled, and then looked up at Kelly, who met her eyes. They smiled at each other. Who would have know this the first time they met? That within a few years they would be a family of seven?

The door opened and Zeke looked inside. Kris and Tommy motioned for them to come in and join them, and the entire gang came in. They had been finishing off the paperwork and making sure the bad guys got sent away, and the kids got taken care off before they headed here, but Tommy had called to update them on Kris several times.

"Hi Kris, how are you doing?"

"I'm okay, just tired." Kris smiled.

"That's understandable." Mica smiled, which made Kris smile back.

"I guess I owe you an apology." Zeke said, turning to Kelly.

"It's alright sir, I know you only were concerned about my health." Kelly said gently.

"Yes, I was. How are you doing now?"

"I'm fine. Maybe could use a change of clothes. This isn't really my color." Kelly smiled, looking down at the green hospital scrubs that she was still wearing.

"I'm glad to hear. Anyway, I'm sorry for trying to force you to stay and thank you for not listening to a word I said." Zeke smiled. He was so relieved that Kelly had gotten to Kris in time. And he had been so upset with himself for not watching the backside. That's a probie mistake. He was embarrassed, but so happy that Kelly had thought of it.

"It's okay, I'm glad I didn't listen too." Kelly smiled.

"Have you checked on your coworker yet?"

"My other two girls are there, I'll go and check on her in a little while. Her parents are probably with her too. From what I've heard she's doing a lot better, but she's not awake yet." Kelly smiled, relieved.

"What happened?" Kris asked worried, still sitting behind Ella, leaning her cheek towards Ella's head.

"Melissa was shot the other day when we were searching for you."

"Oh gosh. She'll be okay?"

"She still getting help breathing, but the doctor is hopeful. She should be waking up when they take her off the drugs." Kelly smiled.

About half an hour later, at a different part of the hospital, Sandra and Janet were as Kelly thought, sitting in Melissa's room. Her parents had stepped outside to get some coffee, and Melissa's doctor had been in about an hour ago checking her over, and he told them that she was breathing well of her own, and he was taking her off the drugs, so she should be waking up soon. He did want to keep the ventilator in for a while, her lung had a lot of catching up to do. Now Sandra and Janet looked up when they felt Melissa squeeze their hands, and Sandra gently smoothed her hair, in the same time as Clara and John came into the room, and hurried to the bed when they noticed Melissa stir.

"That's right Mel, open your eyes." Sandra said, leaning closer to her friend.

Janet rose from her chair and let Melissa's parents sit closer to their daughter, and Janet walked outside to find the doctor. In the same time as the door closed behind her, Melissa's eyes fluttered open. She blinked several times, then closed her eyes hard.

"Don't worry hon, Janet's getting your doctor, he'll help with the pain."

Melissa opened her eyes and turned her head to Sandra. Sandra smiled and smothered her hair again.

"You'll be okay, just stay calm and hang on."

Melissa closed her eyes for a second and turned her head when she felt someone take her other hand. She looked at her parents, and they both smiled at her, then began signing. Melissa was too weak to answer, but she nodded and shook her head when they asked questions. The doctor suddenly appeared in the room together with a nurse, and Sandra and the parents moved away to give them some room.

"Hello there Melissa, I'm Dr Harris. You've been shot and we took you into surgery and managed to get the bullet out. Your right lung was badly injured so we need to keep you on the ventilator for a few more hours just to be safe, okay?"

Melissa nodded slightly.

"Are you in pain?"

Melissa nodded again, the tube coming out of her chest hurt like nothing else. The nurse fingered a little on the machine that gave her morphine through the IV all the time, and gave her a higher dose.

The doctor listened to her lungs and heart, and then smiled pleased.

"It sounds good. Let's just give it a few more hours and we'll hook you off the machine. In the meantime, try to get some rest."

Melissa nodded again as the nurse and doctor left the room. Kelly met them in the door and immediately got worried, so she hurried inside the room, and then smiled happily when she noticed the foursome sitting around a pale angel with her eyes open. Kelly stood next to Janet by Melissa's feet.

"Hi there. Welcome back."

Melissa lifted her hand a few inches over the bed and signed a hallo. And you don't need to be able to read sign language to understand what that means.

Melissa slowly lifted her hand and signed a few letters. Sandra immediately caught up.

"Kris is fine, Kelly, Janet and I helped her deliver twins. Can you believe it, she had twins! But they are all okay, they are here at the hospital too, right Kelly?"

Kelly laughed at Sandra's enthusiasm, then nodded as she turned to Melissa.

"Yes, I just came from her, she's alright. She had a son and a daughter, they just got named Jacob and Jessica."

"How beautiful." Sandra smiled, and the others, even Clara and John, agreed happily.

Back at Kris' room, Zeke put a hand on Jenny's shoulder.

"Ms Craig, can I have a word with you?"

"Absolutely." Jenny answered, nervously. Why did the FBI boss want to speak to her, alone? What had she done now? They excused themselves, and Tommy took Jenny's place next to Sarah and Ella in the bed, the other teammates surrounded them. Jenny and Zeke walked out into the hall and found an empty corner.

"I just want to say that it was nice working with you." Zeke said, shaking her hand.

"Thank you, it's an honor to be working with the FBI."

"You enjoyed it?"

"Very much sir."

"What do you do for a living right now?"

"Freelancer. Mostly do research for different magazines."

"Ever considered changing?"

Jenny looked at him with big eyes, she began to understand where this was going.

"I've never been given an opportunity of changing, sir."

"Well, if I asked you to join our team, would you accept?"

"Without a doubt, sir."

"I will do a personal background on you, and you will have to go through some tests, but if you're really interested, I have a spot for you. Why don't I'll give you a card when the background checks are back?"

"Sounds great sir." Jenny smiled.

"You don't have to call me sir." Zeke smiled.

"Okay. Ma'm." Jenny said with an evil grin in her face, and Zeke laughed out loud.

"Okay. Go with sir."

Jenny giggled, happy that he took it well.

"I'm going to head back to the office. Can you pass my best wishes and congrats to Kris and Tommy, and I'll see them later?"

"Of course." Jenny smiled, pointing that she left out the "sir". Zeke smiled and turned around, heading for the elevators. Jenny was left alone in the hallway, and she leaned towards the wall, happy to finally get to do some action. Being a researcher had involved a lot of traveling and a free schedule, but working with FBI, she knew she was going to love this. Kino would probably not like it, but she spend almost the entire year abroad, he wouldn't be home enough to complain anyway. Jenny smiled happily to herself. An FBI agent. That is just so cool.