Chapter 35

A little while later…

Dr. Bernard finishes his examination of Michaela. He cleans up as Michaela lies there waiting for him to speak. He continues to be silent but Michaela cannot take it anymore.

"Is everything okay, Dr. Bernard?"

Dr. Bernard dries his hands on a towel as her turns around and faces her with a sad look on his face.

"I'm afraid not, Dr. Quinn."

Michaela looks away as she gets tears in her eyes.

"I lost the baby, didn't I?"

"Yes, you did."

Michaela's puts her hands over her eyes and begins to cry hard.

Dr. Bernard sits down on the bed next to her and puts his hand on her shoulder.

"I do have some good news, though."

Michaela looks takes her hands off her eyes and looks up at Dr. Bernard, her eyes wet with tears.

"Good news, Dr. Bernard? I lost my baby; there is nothing good that can come from that."

"You are still pregnant."

"Excuse me?"

"You are still pregnant."
Michaela gives Dr. Bernard a confused look.

"How is that possible? I lost my baby."
"Yes, you lost a baby but you are still pregnant."

"Dr. Bernard what are you trying to tell me?"
"You were carrying twins, Dr. Quinn. You were carrying two babies but you lost one. You still have a baby growing inside you."

Michaela just sits there for a minute with a look of disbelief on her face.

"Dr. Quinn?"

Dr. Bernard brings Michaela back to reality. She looks at him.

"I was carrying twins and I lost one?"

"Yes."

"Is that even medically possible? I have been delivering babies for a long time and I don't recall ever having dealt with it before."

"It's medically possible, Dr. Quinn. I have been reading up on them in my medical books, although there have not been any known cases as of yet. It looks like you might be the first known person to have dealt with this."

Michaela places her hand on her stomach.

"I have to tell Sully, he would want to know."

"You're right, I will go get him. You stay here."

Dr. Bernard leaves to go get Sully who is still with Katie.

Michaela begins to rub her stomach as she talks to her unborn baby.

"I'm sorry little one; it's all my fault that you lost your brother or sister. I should have been taking better care of myself. I wasn't thinking about you two, only your sister Katie. I love you and am going to take extra special care of you, I promise from now on. I can't wait to see you and hold you in my arms."

"Michaela."

Michaela stops what she is doing and looks up at her husband.

"Sully."

Michaela holds her arms out to him; he approaches her and wraps her in a hug. She wraps her arms tightly around him and cries on his shoulder.

"I'm so sorry, Sully. I lost one of our babies. It's all my fault."

Sully grabs her shoulders and has her look at him.

"You lost one of our babies? What do you mean one?"

"I was carrying twins, Sully and I lost one."

"You were carrying twins?"
Michaela nods.

"Yes."

Sully pulls her back into a hug again.

"I'm so sorry, Sully."
"We will get through this together, Michaela. We have to remember that we still have our daughter and a baby on the way. We won't ever forget the baby we lost, I promise you that."

"I love you, Sully."

"I love you, too."

"I'll leave you two alone. I am going to go check on Katie and finish putting on her cast."

Sully and Michaela stop hugging and look at Dr. Bernard. They both nod.

Meanwhile…

"Come on, Uncle Brian! I wanna see Aunt Katie!" Angela says as she pulls on Brian's arm as they walk toward the clinic.

Brian is trying to hold hands with Maggie while carrying Aimie.

"We're coming, Angela! Katie isn't going anywhere. She knows we're coming."

Once they get into the clinic, Angela runs upstairs yelling.

"Aunt Katie? Gramma? Grampa? Are you here?"

"We're upstairs!" Sully yells to his granddaughter.

Angela heads towards Katie's room first and sees Dr. Bernard putting the finishing touches of the cast on Katie's leg.

"Hi Aunt Katie! Where's gramma?"

"Angela! She is in the other room with grandpa."

"Oh, I'll be back."

Angela leaves the room and runs to the other room where Sully and Michaela are.

"Hi, gramma and grampa."

"Angela, where is your sister, your Uncle Brian and Maggie?" Sully asks.

"They're comin' grampa. What are you and gramma doing in here?"

"Grandma wasn't feelin'too well, so she came in here to lie down."

Angela approaches the bed and looks at her grandmother.

"You don't feel good, gramma?"

Michaela smiles at her granddaughter.

"Now that you're here, I am feeling much better. Just seeing your face brightens my day Angela."

Angela grins as she climbs on the bed and gives her grandmother a hug. Michaela gives her a hug as the tears start flowing again.

"There you are, Angela. Katie told us that you were in here. Why didn't you wait for us?" Brian admonishes his niece.

Angela pulls out of the hug and looks at Brian.

"Sorry, Uncle Brian."

Brian sees that Michaela has been crying.

"Ma are you okay?"

Michaela looks up at her son.

"I will be fine, Brian. I will tell you about it later."

Brian nods as he sets Aimie down on the floor. Immediately she runs to the bed and joins her sister. She gives her grandparents big hugs. Michaela watches her granddaughters and begins to think about the baby she just lost, if the baby would have lived, this is exactly what her twins would have been like together.

She begins to cry again. Sully takes her in his arms and holds her.

The twins notice.

"Gramma are you okay?" Angela asks.

Michaela just shakes her head and continues to cry as Sully holds her.

"Aimie, Angela lets leave them alone and go visit Aunt Katie for awhile, okay?"
"Okay, Uncle Brian. Let's go, Aimie." Angela says as she grabs her twin sister's hand. They both run towards Katie's room. Brian stands there and looks at his mother for a minute. Maggie just watches him, wondering what is going on. Finally, he grabs Maggie's hand as they join the twins in Katie's room.

Brian really wants to know what is going on with his mother. That is going to happen sooner than he realizes and he will be just as shocked and sad as everyone else when he finds out.

Chapter 36 coming soon…