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As the hours crept by everyone grew even more restless. Alex and Chris came home well into the wee hours in the morning unsuccessful in their attempt to locate Aiden.
"Thanks for coming Mollie." Chris said giving Ajay a kiss.
She nodded, feeling it was the least she could do. Alex looked like someone was holding a hot poker on his skin.
"You know, not to bring this up again, but I was okay after mine. I just had some cramps but that was really it." Mollie informed.
"She could go into a coma again when she's put under, and she could have used a fake name. So for all we know she's laying on some table somewhere either scared and alone or in another coma." Alex grated out before leaving the room.
He'd had all he could take and needed some sort of release.
"We don't know if that's true or not. Maybe she's in recovery already. Or maybe she changed her mind altogether." Chris explained when he saw Ajay's eyes go wide.
"I shouldn't have asked her to go get that ultrasound. I pushed her into this." she cried, "It will be my fault again if she goes into another coma."
"No its not. She was going to do it either way. She had already made up her mind. She would have found out that she was having twins eventually, that was inevitable." Mollie comforted.
They spent the rest of the night trying to find something to keep them occupied. Lexie woke up early the next morning crying for Aiden. Ajay and Chris came downstairs around ten to see Alex cradling his daughter who had fallen asleep again.
"Anything from Aiden?" Chris yawned.
Alex shook his head. He looked like hell. He hadn't slept or eaten anything since the day before.
"Did you want some breakfast?" Ajay asked.
He shook his head again kissing Lexie gently.
Mollie woke up around lunchtime and kept Lexie entertained while Chris and Alex went looking for Aiden again. When it started getting dark again Alex was nearly in tears after another search turned up nothing.
"Should I put out a missing persons report?" he frowned.
"I think you should Lex. I'm really scared something has happened to Cookie." Ajay cried.
He picked up the phone and called the police, "This is um…Patrick Martin, and I would like to file a missing persons report. My wife left yesterday afternoon and she hasn't come home yet."
"Sir, you have to wait forty eight hours before you can file a report." the dispatcher dismissed.
"Yeah I know that, but she's pregnant and needs medical attention." he argued.
"Why did she leave Mr. Martin?" she asked.
Alex closed his eyes, "She was upset about being pregnant. I think she went to get an abortion, but I'm not sure. I just really need to find her so I can get her to her doctor."
"Sir, did the two of you have an argument about this matter before she left?" she asked.
"What? No, she made a snap decision before I got home to talk to her. We didn't have a fight, are you kidding me?" he said, his temper flaring.
"Sir, we need to ask these questions to determine if a report is needed."
"So a missing pregnant woman isn't enough for a fucking report?" he shouted.
"Under the circumstances, there is no need to be alarmed yet sir. If you would like to call back tomorrow to file a report after the forty eight hour time limit you can do so then. Until that time, we can't do anything for you. She's not a minor, and I assume she doesn't have a history of going missing, so unfortunately our hands are tied until tomorrow."
"Thanks for nothing." Alex shouted, slamming the phone down, "Fuck!"
Lexie whimpered and hugged Mollie tighter. She picked her up and went upstairs to give Alex the space he needed to vent.
Ajay held Chris' hands trying to keep her emotions in check.
"I don't know how I'm going to get through tonight." he said quietly, tears in his eyes.
By the next afternoon, even Mollie was beginning to worry some. Aiden hadn't called; they couldn't find her car, even after several more searches. Ajay was crying almost constantly now. They had all resorted to counting down the minutes until Alex could call the police back to file a report. Forty five minutes before they could call Aiden surfaced. Nobody moved, they all just stared at her in relief.
Alex finally went to her and pulled her into his arms.
"Are you okay?" he whispered.
She nodded reassuringly.
"Are you in pain baby? Do you need to sit or lay down?" he asked looking into her eyes.
"I couldn't do it. I stayed at a hotel the first night and then checked into the hospital this morning to get the tests done." she said quietly.
"You didn't do it? You're going to keep the babies?" Ajay asked more than a little relieved.
Aiden nodded slowly, "I talked to a few people at the hospital who are going to help me through all of this."
Ajay sent a silent prayer up to her Pops before she went to Aiden and hugged her.
"We'll help you out with anything you need, you know that." Chris promised.
Aiden sat down on the couch and pulled out several more pictures to show Ajay.
"I got these just for you. Since the other one was so rushed." she said handing them to her.
Ajay perused the pictures with tears in her eyes, "They're so tiny and all snuggled up together. Look Chris."
He looked over the pictures too, "I think somebody is happy about being an aunt again."
Aiden frowned, "If you don't mind, can you not tell Adam about the whole twins and not going through with the abortion yet? I want to make sure that Alex, Lexie, and I are comfortable before he's involved in anything."
"Not a word. He's dead to me anyways." Ajay agreed, "And don't go running off like that again. You scared us to death!"
"Alex what's wrong?" Aiden asked, noticing that he and Mollie hadn't said a word.
"I don't think secrets are the way to go, or did you forget how well that went over before Lexie was born. Adam deserves to know that you're having twins or at the very least that you decided to keep the baby." Mollie argued.
"He doesn't deserve shit." Ajay balked.
"Whatever, I'm out of here. Call me if she decides to disappear again." she rolled her eyes.
"Alex? Are you mad that I'm keeping the babies?" Aiden asked.
"No. I'm worried about the consequences." he stopped his brow furrowing; "Lexie and I could lose you because you decided to give birth to another man's kids."
Aiden wiped her eyes some, "You don't know that could definitely happen."
"I know the look on Dr. Thomas' face when he told you that you were pregnant again." he shot back, "You had enough problems with one baby, and you don't want me to worry about you having two?"
He got up and paced the floor, "I'm going to check on Lexie and go to bed. We'll talk about this later."
Aiden sighed to herself, "I was afraid he would be upset."
"You can't blame him for worrying about you though babe." Chris sympathized.
"I know." she sighed again.
The next morning Aiden woke up yawning and looked over at Alex who was already awake as well.
"What?" she asked when he continued to stare at her.
"You're already showing." he said softly.
She looked down at the small protrusion with a smile, "I don't think I'll be able to hide them as well as I did Lexie."
"Nope."
'Honey, Dr. Thomas assured me that he was going to do everything possible to make sure this pregnancy goes a lot smoother. He did all sorts of tests to make sure that I wasn't even showing any signs of being sick and everything like last time." she explained.
"That's good. That should have happened the first time too." he smarted off, "I just know that this is a very stressful situation and I know what happens when you, stress, and being pregnant combine. I almost lose my fucking wife."
"It's not going to be like that this time." she said.
"I know that when Adam gets involved in this again it's not going to be pretty. He's nothing but stress for you. He's got a temper that he can't control, he's overly possessive of you and these babies; he's just bad news. I don't want him near you until after you've had the babies." he growled.
She kissed him while rolling him onto his back, "You're so hot when you get like this."
He turned his head away from her, "I'm serious."
She straddled his waist and took her tank top off, "I can't keep him away forever darling."
He closed his eyes as her lips went to his neck, "Can we keep him away for as long as…mmmmhmm…possible?"
She nodded as she slowly took him into her.
His hands went to her hips to guide her, "This is why I can never argue with you. I can't think straight when you do this to me."
She kissed him again passionately, "We shouldn't be arguing anyways for the babies' sake."
She sat back, stretching backwards to rest on her hands as he rolled his hips into her.
"You're so kinky when you're pregnant." he groaned.
"Kinkier." she corrected.
"Right sorry." he smiled.
FOUR MONTHS LATER
"Bout time you answered the phone. Gran thought you were dead." Jay admonished.
"I feel like I am." Adam grated out.
"What did you think would happen with all of this bro? you had to know there was going to be some kind of fallout." Jay reminded.
"What did you want?" Adam asked angrily.
He wished at least one person could understand why he did what he did.
Jay sounded a little disheartened, "I wish you and Ajay would talk things out because it sucks that I have to be the messenger for both of you."
"Nobody asked you to do that. You just assumed the position." he shot back.
Jay sighed, "Anyways, Ajay found out that she's expecting again. I thought you would want to know."
Adam snorted on the other end of the line, go figure that Ajay would be pregnant after this whole debacle. Nothing like a nice "in your face" to top everything off.
"Good for her. I know she's excited." he said.
"She called last night talking a mile a minute. I had to slow her down twice so I could understand her." Jay said sounding more upbeat, "She she said they were going to go see
Gran in a few days. You know she'll love that."
Adam had stopped listening to Jay's rambling. He couldn't help himself from thinking about Aiden and how this news was affecting her. He tried not to think about her most days because it hurt too much, but he couldn't stop himself from asking this time.
He interrupted Jay's continued rambling, "How's Aiden been with all of this?"
Jay didn't miss a beat, "Oh she's fine, her and the babies are doing really well."
"What did you just say?" Adam yelled after picking up his phone.
Jay cringed; he was in deep shit now. Ajay was going to KILL him for slipping up.
"I said she's doing really well with it all." he recovered.
"No, you said babies, what the fuck did you say babies for? Did she not have the abortion?" Adam asked in near hysterics.
"Okay, first of all calm down." Jay began.
"I can be at your hosue in thirty mintues and beat the truth out of you if would rather me do that." Adam snarled.
"She didn't have the abortion. She found out she's expecting twins." Jay admitted.
"Twins? Like two babies?" Adam stammered.
"Yeah, but listen she's been doing really well. She's only had one complication so far and hasn't been sick at all. So don't go storming up there and stressing her out. I promised I wouldn't tell you until she was ready for you to know." Jay begged.
"She's five months already is she showing." he asked excitedly.
Jay groaned in frustration, "Yeah she's started really showing about two months ago. Did you hear what I said though? You have to promise me you won't go up there or call them or anything. I don't want Aiden to be mad at me or for Ajay to kill me either. Promise me Adam."
"Sure I promise." he replied breezily.
"I don't believe you." Jay said.
"I promise alright? I'm a little in shock right now that she's not having just one baby." he said.
"I gotta go, that's Gran beeping in. Answer the damn phone when she calls so you don't freak her out." Jay admonished.
"Yeah, okay." Adam griped hanging up the phone and dashing upstairs.
He yanked his suitcase from the hall close and hurried to his room while dialing a number from his contacts.
He was stuffing clothes into the bag, "Yeah, I need the first flight out to Detroit."
Adam's such an ass...but a cute one though :)
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