Chapter twenty- two- March 22nd 2030 (14 weeks pregnant)

Chapter twenty- two plot- Jo and Alex find out the genders of their twins. Jo and Steph work together on a case.

"Kids! Hurry up! You are going to be late for school unless you get your bums into gear!" Jo calls out from the kitchen as she assembles Zara and Eloise's school lunches.

"I can't find my shoes!" Eloise calls out.

"Ellie, we talked about this yesterday and the day before that and the day before that! You need to put your shoes away in your cupboard otherwise they'll get lost!" Jo calls back out frustratedly.

"I can't find them though!" She calls back out. "And Zara and Ruby's shoes are gone too! Maybe we have a shoe monster eating them!" Eloise adds.

Argh! Child, you are doing my head in this morning. Is it that hard to put your shoes away every night? No it's not that hard and If you did then we wouldn't have this problem. They're probably buried in the playroom.

Jo sighs and puts her kitchen knife down and walks down to the playroom and begins searching for her shoes. "Kids! You really need to show some responsibly and put your toys away after you use them. If you did maybe I wouldn't have to search through piles of my little ponies, barbie dolls and little people to find missing shoes!" Jo calls out stressfully. "And maybe, just maybe you could put your shoes away too!" Jo adds. Jo turns around and sees Ruby, Eloise and Zara standing in the archway.

"Are you okay mummy? Zara asks.

"Why are you girls not helping me?" She asks. Jo's eyes grow wide as she sees Lily running down the hallway bum naked with a roll of toilet paper that was unraveling behind her. "Wholly Toledo! Girls, you find your shoes, I need to get Lily!" Jo says stressfully before getting up.

What on earth is happening right now? Breathe, just breathe. It's going to work out.

"Lily!" Jo calls out.

Crap! Is that really the time? That can't be the time. Lunch is not fully made. The kids aren't ready for school and daycare. I'm still in my bathrobe, my hair is half out, my teeth are not brushed and I have no makeup on. I look like hobo Jo. I'm to be going to working looking like freaking hobo Jo. This is not good, not good at all. Shit Lily, what are you doing!

"Lily! You're doing a wee all over the floor. We do our wee wee's in the toilet," Jo sighs as she sees Lily peeing all over the floor.

This is the morning from hell... Just breathe, at least it's not a poo. Opps, no spoke too soon, there it is.

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"Wow, Jo, you look like a hot mess," Steph comments as she walks into the attending's lounge and sees Jo digging around in her handbag.

Jo looks up at Steph and gives her a death stare, "hm, you do not even wanna go there with me this morning," Jo warns sternly before continuing to search through her bag. "Where is it? It can't be that hard to find!" Jo says to herself.

"Jo? Why do you look..." Alex begins before Jo shoots him a glare.

"Dude, just leave it. I got in trouble," Steph replies.

"You look beautiful babe," Alex replies back awkwardly.

"Yes! Here it is!" Jo says victoriously as she pulls out her red lipstick from her bag.

"Jo, you've got two minutes to make yourself look professional... Or at least semi professional because we have a consult," Steph says.

"Okay," Jo replies.

"Stressful morning?" Alex asks.

"Like you wouldn't believe. Now, we've got our scan at 3. Are you still good for it?" Jo asks.

"Ah yes, the gender scan. You bet I am," Alex replies.

"Good," Jo smiles before heading over to the bathroom to clean herself up.

In the consult room.

"Welcome back Elizabeth, James and little Jamie," Jo smiles as she and Steph wall I tot he consult room. Jamie was a 1 year old little boy who had been admitted last month with sporadic twitching of left leg and arm.

"It's getting worse," Elizabeth says as she holds Jamie in her arms

"The twitching?" Steph asks curiously.

"It's happening more and more and just two days ago his left side of his mouth begun twitching," James says.

"We didn't know what to do so we brought him here," Elizabeth adds.

"No, no, it's good that you came here. Dr Edwards and I will take a look," Jo smiles.

Steph begins to do a exam in the little boy, checking his reflexes, eyes and motor ability.

"Okay, the next step would be to get a MRI done of Jamie's brain and some blood work. So I'm going to get our nurse to admit him," Steph says gently.

"MRI. That sounds scary," Elizabeth says panicking.

"It's a very simple procedure. All we'd be doing was taking pictures of Jamie's brain to ensure that everything is okay. It's done exactly as a CT would be, except the images we get are far more detailed," Steph replies.

"Okay, okay," Elizabeth replies.

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"Oh my goodness, look at that," Steph says as she points to the scan.

"The right side of his brain is dying," Jo replies sadly.

"Rasmussen's encephalitis. We'll have to operate to prevent the condition from spreading. But Jamie is very young. This shouldn't effect his long term development," Steph replies.

"When was Jamie's last CT scan?" Jo asks curiously.

"Um, one month ago," she says as she pulls up the scans.

"Nothing was there," Jo replies confused.

"His condition developed rapidly. We need to operate right away to stop it from spreading," Steph replies.

"I'll prep Jamie while you inform the parents," Jo replies.

At least we caught this now. Our body's are at its most intelligent when they're younger. She is only one year old, but yet his baby has the ability to re wire his whole brain without any deficits. Now that's amazing.

after the surgery

"Well, that went well," Jo smiles as she and Steph watch Jamie get wheeled out of the OR.

"Yeah, couldn't of gone better," Steph smiles. Jo and Steph walk out of the OR and into the scrub room. "So today is the big day. What do you think you're having?" Steph smiles.

"Girls, I think they're girls. And I've had four girls. My body is extremely good at producing girls," Jo smiles.

"Well, you do have a 100% success rate of producing female offspring," Steph replies. But what does Alex want?" Steph asks.

"He wants one of each. One to be his little princess and one to be his linebacker," Jo replies.

"Well you have a extremely good chance of two girls, given your history," Steph smiles.

"That's true. I don't think my body is about to give up the streak now," Jo laughs.

"I'm running late for the scan. Are you right to talk to the parents?" Jo asks.

"Yes... Yes. Good luck," Steph smiles.

In the exam room

"Jo, Alex, are you ready to find out what you're having?" Arizona asks as she performs an ultrasound on Jo.

"Yes! Just tell us!" Alex asks excitedly.

"Well, Twin 1 is a... girl!" Arizona announces. Jo and Alex look over at Each other and smile. "And Twin two is a... Boy!" She announces.

"No way! I don't believe it!" Jo says shocked.

"I get my linebacker," he grins.

"Well Alex, all I can say is that you must have super sperm to make a male baby with me. My body has a 100% success rate with girls... Well had a 100% success rate," Jo smiles in disbelief.

"Well, what can I say?" Alex grins.

"I just don't believe it," Jo replies back amused.