Chapter 36

McKenna was sitting by her husbands bedside in the private hospital room that he had been admitted to. The oxygen mask on his face was helping him get the air he needed and she was glad he didn't need the tube down his throat that he originally had, had to begin with after his surgery. McKenna knew that the girls were still terrified and they wouldn't feel better about anything until they were all home together, safe and sound and McKenna couldn't blame them at all for that feeling. Sighing she looked over to where the two girls were fast asleep on the two cots that had been brought into the room for them. McKenna wasn't leaving her husband, and she wasn't allowing the girls out of her sight either.

"Baby, all three of us are here and your brother, Matt, is on his way." McKenna murmured as she laid her head near his head and let her lips get close to his ear to whisper the words, making sure that she didn't wake their girls up. "Please wake up soon, I don't think I can do all of this on my own. I won't leave you here, if we have to head home I will make sure you get transferred back home, to a hospital near us." McKenna knew she was babbling and she was probably not making too much sense but she was tired and afraid to sleep, she was afraid that if she fell asleep something bad would happen to Jeff or someone would come and take the girls away from them again.

McKenna opened her eyes the next morning and winced. She couldn't believe she had actually fallen asleep. Panic set in as she realized she had been sleeping and she looked towards the cots and was relieved to see her daughters still fast asleep, their faces relaxed and smiles there, almost like they had been having amazing happy dreams and they felt safe and content, something that made her feel somewhat better at least. Sighing she turned her attention to the monitors that showed her Jeff's vital signs, happy to see a normal heart beat and that his oxygen levels were finally normal. She finally turned her attention to her husband himself and nearly screamed out as she saw that he had been staring at her.

"You're awake?" She said as she tears starting falling from her eyes. The relief that shot through her body had her finally collapsing down, her head dropping as she started sobbing. She just finally let everything hit her hard and she knew, she knew how close she had come to losing the only man she had ever truly loved, the man she couldn't imagine living her life without, no matter what she had ever said before.

"Shh… baby, it's all right, I'm all right." Jeff said, panic filling his voice. He raised his head and lightly threaded his fingers through her hair, lightly rubbing her scalp.

"Daddy?" Dana smiled as she and Danielle walked over and they both climbed up on the other side of the bed, being extra careful not to hurt their father.

"Hey, there are my two princesses." Jeff said as he held up his other arm, being careful of the wires that were all over him, allowing the two girls to carefully lay their heads on his shoulder and stomach, not going near the bullet wounds in his chest area.

"We were so scared we were gonna lose you daddy. Mommy was so pale and scared that we thought she was going to pass out or something." Danielle said as she tried to stop from crying but she still had a few tears that leaked out of her eyes anyway.

"Hey, everything is going to be all right. I am just fine, you can see that for yourself. I love you girls so much, and I was never going to leave the three of you, especially since I finally have us together as a real family and we are going to be adding another addition to the family." Jeff said, wincing because he was wearing himself out by talking to much at the moment.

"Baby, you need to rest." McKenna said as she pulled his hand from in her hair, gripping it in her own and lifting her head to stare at the man she had thought she had lost.

"I'm all right." Jeff said softly. He knew he was tired but he also knew his girls, including his wife, needed him to reassure them right now. "What happened to the guys that broke into the room, and that little…" Jeff stopped for a second and looked at the twins before continuing, "witch?"

McKenna knew what he really had wanted to call the woman who had stolen their daughters and hurt them. Both Jeff and herself had been aware, even before they had gotten their daughters back, that when they were back home the twins would need to see a therapist to deal with everything that had happened to them and now that they had seen their father shot, and that they had watched as he nearly bled to death and had been in such a bad situation for so long, McKenna knew even more that they were going to need to go and see someone when they got home. McKenna also knew that they were going to need to be extra careful who they sent the two girls to. "She escaped." McKenna admitted with a wince, something she hadn't wanted to say in front of the girls but she hadn't had a choice at all.

Jeff could tell it had hurt his wife to utter those words and admit that the woman who had made their lives miserable and kidnapped their girls, torturing them and emotionally and mentally hurting them so much. Jeff could feel the fear that their girls were feeling as well, the two girls had shot straight up, making him moan and groan in pain, and he could tell the girls felt guilty for doing that and causing him to feel any more pain at all.

"It's all right, girls. Look we are going to keep you safe, you don't need to be scared at all girls, not at all." Jeff said and he could tell it was what their girls needed to hear, they seemed to calm down a little bit.

She was pissed off as she realized her plan had backfired completely. She was not going to let them be happy, she wasn't going to let them be a family. Jeff wasn't going to be able to wrestle for a while, and neither was McKenna, so she wouldn't have to contend with dealing with them at WWE events or anything, and with Jeff weakened from getting shot and McKenna weakened from being pregnant, she had a real shot at finally getting them taken out of her way. She wasn't going to let Jeff be happy with anyone else, only with her. McKenna was going to pay for stealing Jeff Hardy away from her, and she wasn't the only one who was going to pay, she didn't want to be a stepmother to those girls anyway, she wanted Dana and Danielle taken out of the picture for daring to defy her. They should have been thrilled with how she had treated them, but instead they had betrayed her by escaping and everything, so there would be no mercy.

"Soon, my love, soon it will be us together forever." She said with a smirk on her face.