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Chapter 38

Liz's eyes fluttered as she slowly opened them. Jason and Kelly were both standing there when the room came into focus. "What's wrong?" They were both clearly concerned. Liz's hand went to her stomach and she went from confusion to panic. "Where are the babies?!" She still had a swollen abdomen, but it was a lot smaller now.

"It's okay." Jason said running his hand over her hair. "It's okay." He repeated kissing her temple. He had been worried at how long it was taking his wife to wake up.

"The babies are in the NICU." Kelly said also relieved that her friend was up. "You suffered an abruption due to your blood pressure spiking." The doctor began explaining. "You passed out and starting hemorrhaging, so we had to rush you into surgery."

"The babies are okay?" Liz looked at Jason begging him with her eyes to tell her that their children were alive.

"Look." Jason said taking out his phone and showing her the pictures. "One boy and two girls." He said smiling. "They are beautiful."

"You went to see them." Liz said touching the screen as her eyes welled with tears.

"I went to the NICU while Kelly was working on you." Jason told her.

Liz could hear the guilt in his voice at the choice he had made. "Good." She said letting him know that was what she would have said if she could. "When can I go see them?"

"In the morning." Kelly repeated what she said earlier, she sat on the side of the bed. "Liz there were some complications during the surgery." The doctor had already told this to Jason, and had learned something surprising. However Kelly was still worried about her friend's reaction.

Liz lifted her eyes from the screen and looked at her husband before looking at her friend. "You performed a hysterectomy?" The former nurse guessed. Her medical training let her know what the side effects of an abruption were.

Kelly nodded. "A partial hysterectomy. I removed your uterus but not your cervix, ovaries, or fallopian tubes. I'm so sorry Liz, I couldn't stop the bleeding any other way. It was that or lose you. As it was you lost a good amount of blood so you're going to have a longer than normal recovery."

"Jason has a vasectomy scheduled in a few weeks." Liz told her friend. "Which he can now cancel." Liz said looking at her husband. "We had already decided that we weren't having any more children."

"He told me, but that was a choice you two made together. Vasectomies can be reversed if the two of you changed your minds. This can't be." Kelly explained the difference.

"You saved my life." Liz wasn't trying to be a Pollyanna. She got that this was something that she had to deal with, but the decision meant she was waking up. That she was alive to be with her family, so Kelly had done the right thing. "Am I going to start menopause now?"

"No." Kelly got this question a lot when she talked to patients about this surgery. "You still have your ovaries so your hormone levels aren't going to change, just no more menstrual cycle. Your sex life should still be good as well." She couldn't help adding. "Because I'm assuming it was good to start with."

"Kelly!" Liz said swatting her friend. Jason was turning pink.

"There won't be any sex for eight weeks though." Kelly let them know. She was still going to be keeping an eye on her friend. Just in case in the coming weeks depression started creeping in. Although the three babies she just gave birth to might push the partial hysterectomy to the side for a while.

"Do I really have to wait until tomorrow to see my children?" Liz got back to what was important.

"Yes." Kelly told her friend. "You need to spend tonight resting. If you don't allow your body to heal you can't take care of your family. In the morning Jason can push you down the hall in a wheelchair after I poke and prod you. Tomorrow afternoon we are going to get you up on your feet for some very limited movement."

Liz nodded. Over the next few days she would gradually increase the amount of time she spent walking around. However she would be facing a limited activity decree due to the blood loss. One Jason would make sure she observed. "I'm going to behave."

"You don't really have a choice. Your hubby over there doesn't strike me as the type to let you break my rules." Kelly said smiling. Liz was going to be well cared for. "I'm going to go so that the two of you can come up with names for those adorable babies. Page me if you need me." Kelly said walking out of her friend's room. She needed to go find her residents and tell them that she wanted a close eye kept on this patient.

"Want to see the babies again?" Jason asked holding out his phone. While they were waiting for Elizabeth to wake up, Kelly had given him a crash course on hysterectomies. His girl had the least invasive of all the options, but it had saved her life so he was grateful that the choice was made. Still he would be checking in to make sure she was okay with what had happened.

"Of course I do." Liz said taking the phone. She scrolled through the images and wiped away tears. "Look at them. Tell me what Maggie told you."

Jason's photographic memory came in handy, because he was able to repeat what the doctor said word for word. His girl was sobbing by the time he was done, and he knew that they were happy tears. "Our babies still need names." He said moving so he could sit on the bed and hold her in his arms.

"Let's start with our son." Liz said placing her ear over her husband's heart. "How is Cameron?" She asked looking up.

"He's okay." Jason said rubbing her back. "After I talked with Kelly, I went to my mom's office where Cameron was playing." He explained. "He doesn't know anything went wrong. He misses you." Jason said kissing the top of her head. "Kelly said that he can come visit you tomorrow."

"Good. Now back to our other son." Liz said settling in again. "What do you want his first name to be?"

"I get to pick?" Jason asked grinning. "Are you sure?"

"I want to pick his middle name, so you can choose his first name." Liz thought that was fair because she wasn't going to compromise on her choice.

"Jacob. Jake for short." Jason really liked that name, the connection to their life was just a coincidence. "What is his middle name going to be?"

"Edward." Liz said with a small smile. "Jacob Edward Morgan." She said the full name.

"I like that." Jason knew that Lila was going to cry when she heard it. "What about our little girls?"

"I have a feeling this won't be as easy." Liz said lifting up the phone and scrolling to the pictures of their oldest daughter. She studied the image, and trying to decide what name would fit. "Gabrielle Lila Morgan. What do you think?"

"That's perfect." Jason said smiling. "I can call her Belle."

"Your daughters are going to be spoiled." Liz said shifting to get more comfortable.

Jason shifted as well so that his wife was between his legs and could lean back against him. "That just leaves our littlest one. You pick her first name."

"Let me guess, you want to pick her middle name?" Liz asked smiling as she stopped on a picture of their youngest child. She was curious what name he had in mind because they had used Lila for their oldest daughter. "Kaitlyn. I've always loved that name."

"Kaitlyn Elizabeth Morgan." Jason said looking down at his wife. "I want my girls to be named after the strongest women I know."

"You want to name her after me?" Liz hadn't even considered that. "That seems a bit egotistical." She told him.

"Sons are named after their fathers all the time. I see no reason that our daughter shouldn't be named after her mother." Jason wasn't going to change his mind. "You said I could pick." He reminded her.

Elizabeth couldn't even say anything. She tried to blink back the tears, but it just didn't work. "I'm telling everyone it was your idea." She finally managed to get out.

"I think everyone will know." Jason said kissing the side of her neck. "I was so scared this afternoon." He said softly. "I thought I was going to lose all of you."

"I'm sorry you had to go through that." Liz said softly. "I love you, I'll always fight my hardest to stay with you. I was laughing with Em and then nothing." She told him.

"Em was amazing, calm under pressure and she got you the help you needed." Jason was grateful his girl wasn't alone when the emergency happened.

"She's going to demand to be named the godmother to all three for her heroism." Liz said rubbing his arm, Jason was trembling which let her know just how scared he had been.

"I have no problem with that." Jason said giving his girl a gentle squeeze. He needed to be mindful of her incision. "She can have whatever she wants. I'll get her an island of her own for her next birthday." He just let Elizabeth's closeness calm him.

"I don't think that's necessary." Liz chuckled. "A Swiss chalet is more her style. That goes better with the tiara we gave her for her birthday."

"Done." Jason said kissing the soft skin behind her ear. A knock on the door interrupted their snuggling.

"Hey." Steven said smiling at his sister. It had been hard to stand in the gallery and watch Kelly save his sister's life. He wanted to be down there helping. "I got a call that you were up."

"Sorry, I should have let you know myself." Liz held out her hand so that he would come closer.

"You were busy." Steven kissed his sister's forehead and then sat down. "I love you Lizzie."

"I love you too." She said smiling at her big brother. "Have you seen your newest nephew and nieces?"

"No." Steven said pulling his chair closer. "I can't go into the NICU to visit them."

"Why not?" Jason asked his brother in law.

"Only approved visitors are permitted around the babies." Steven said with a smile. "And only the staff who work in the NICU are on the ward. Even the Chief of Staff must bow down before Dr. Maggie Smith."

"Do you need me to call over?" Liz hadn't known that. When she worked at the hospital she rarely spent any time working with children, so she didn't know the rules of the NICU or the nursery.

"Are you going over tonight?" Steven wanted to know. "You can just tell the nurses then."

"Jason is going over." Liz said just a bit sad. "Kelly said I can't go until tomorrow morning."

"I'll put everyone's name on the list so you guys can go in." Jason figured Emily was probably crawling up the wall. He leaned back and pulled out his phone. "I'm sending out a text letting Monica and Emily know you are up. We need to call the rest of the family too."

"I can handle that while you are with the kids." Liz would need something to keep herself from crying over the fact that she couldn't see her babies just yet. "I'm sure that folks will head over." The visitors would be nice. "Take some video for Lila."

"Hi." Emily was breathing hard and smiling when she walked into the room. She had run up the steps to come back to the room. "You scared me." No point in holding back.

"Sorry." Liz got a hug from her best friend, who then hugged Jason. "Thank you, your fast action saved us."

"I'll remind you of that on my birthday and at Christmas." Emily said taking a deep breath to keep from crying. "So when can I see the babies? Which are?"

"Two girls and a boy." Liz said smiling wide.

"Two girls?" Emily said before laughing. "This is going to be so much fun. Jason will be totally gray before they start walking."

"Especially if they were like Lizzie when she was growing up. Hopefully they won't smoke though." Steven said with a smirk.

"You smoked?" Jason said surprised. That was not something he knew about her.

"Yes, it was a very short lived phase." Liz shot her brother a glare. "I was trying to come off as tougher than I was because I felt neglected."

"You were neglected." Steven said being honest. "By all of us."

"It's better now and that's what is important." Liz didn't want him to feel guilty. They had talked about those years and she had let it go. Steven was the only member of her family she was close with but she did talk to everyone else several times a year.

"Your babies are going to have a lot of love." Emily couldn't wait to go over and see them. "So that is not something you need to worry about. They are also going to have plenty of playmates. Although your son is seriously outnumbered by the girls.

"I'm sure Cameron and Spencer will have his back." Jason said laughing.

"Names?" Emily wanted to know.

"Jacob, Gabrielle, and Kaitlyn." Jason said smiling. "That's the order they were born in."

"I'm going to go shopping for baby clothes. I'm sure Skye and Chloe will come with me." Emily was so excited.

"Newborn would be best for now, and don't go crazy." Liz advised. "Babies this age don't really need anything but sleepers."

"I'll try to contain myself, but I make no promises. Cameron is sleeping over at my place tonight." Emily said getting up. Liz looked tired. Major blood loss took time to recover from, not to mention the C-Section. "So call there to say goodnight. Skye came to get him from Monica, so all the kids are at the Corelli compound at the moment. I think Johnny and Chloe are there too."

"Good, then I only need to make one call." Liz said starting to fade. It was hard to keep her eyes open, and Jason was so comfy to lean against.

"After nap." Jason said softly as his wife drifted off.

"Call me when you go over to visit. I'll sit with Liz so she won't be lonely. Olivia is sending dinner later." Steven said covering his sister's hand. "I'm going to try and pretend that I'm being productive."

"I'll going to head out as well." Emily said to Steven as she carefully got off the bed. "You should nap too Jason, it's been a stressful afternoon." She wanted her brother to know they were there for him too.

"I will." He promised. At the moment he just wanted to enjoy having his wife in his arms.

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