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Seddie
Cassie, Lily and Liam
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When I woke up it was dark. The room was dark except for a small light in the corner by the twins. I looked at the clock. It was 10:03 at night and Sam was passed out. Lily was crying so I got up and walked over to her.
"What's wrong Lily?" I picked her up and she quieted down, "oh you just want attention. Just like your mommy." She started crying again and I sighed. This is when it started. Sam stirred but never woke up. Janet walked into the room.
"Hey," she said quietly. I laughed. I had no idea how we were going to do this outside of the hospital, especially since it was like Janet was extra sensitive to the twins crying. She always appeared.
"How do I know what she wants?" I asked her. She smiled.
"Trial and error. It's how you'll learn their cries. Here, she's hungry," She grabbed a bottle and handed it to me, "do you remember what I told you earlier?"
"Yeah."
"Well come on, daddy, Lily's waiting." She joked. I put Lily in her incubator and made her bottle. Janet watched me and then laughed.
"Nice job for a newbie."
"Hey, you haven't been married to Sam." I took Lily out of her incubator and brought her across the room and sat down with her. She was a happy baby now that she was being fed. Janet smiled.
"You know, from the day I met you and Sam I knew you two would be amazing parents. Even though you two bicker at each other the love is so obvious. I'm very happy that you guys have two healthy babies now. Small, but healthy. It's unusual, but I got so attached to you guys. You two have never stopped amazing me. I felt so guilty after I found out Cassie had died. It didn't make sense. I spent weeks researching and going through all the results of the tests but I couldn't find anything to give you guys."
"You've been more helpful than you think. You've been almost like a mother figure to Sam. Her mom sucks and we're the only people in our group of friends who have kids. At least by your calmness and jokes she feels comfortable."
"Well you two are doing great so far. Hit the nurse button if you need anything."
"Don't you ever go home?"
"Sometimes. Actually my husband is in the hospital. He had his appendix taken out so I'm here with him. Just thought I'd come check on you guys."
"Thanks. We're all good. I'll be doing this all night so Sam can sleep. Soon enough she'll be responsible for both of them when I go back to work."
"Well you have a good night, Freddie."
"Thanks. You too." I looked back down at Lily and she was asleep. I pulled the bottle away and she woke up and gave me the same exact pout Sam gave me when she didn't get her way. It was going to interesting watching the twins grow up if they were anything like Sam. I put the bottle back in her mouth and she fell asleep again.
"Oh, Lily. You are exactly like your mother."
"Good, at least she won't be a nub then," Sam said sleepily. She sat up and yawned, "bring her here." I shook my head.
"She's sleeping, just leave her alone."
"Bring her here. Now. I'm not messing around."
"I know you're not messing around but she's sleeping so just leave her be. There's no reason to wake her up again."
"I'm her mommy,"
"Yeah, I get that. I was standing there when you gave birth to her remember?"
"You're a jerk."
"No I'm not. Just stop. You're going to wake her up. Then you can deal with her screaming."
"Gladly. Now give me my baby."
"Sam—"
"Come on, I just want to hold her." I sighed, realizing there was no point arguing with her because eventually I would just give her Lily so she'd shut up. I stood up and handed Lily off to Sam.
"By the way, Jack called. I told him you were sleeping. He told me to tell you to call him when you woke up. Said he'd be up late." Sam was looking down at Lily.
"Fantastic," I mumbled, picking up my phone, "I'll be right back." I went in the hallway and dialed Jack's number.
"Benson, about time you wake up."
"Yeah, just trying to get sleep while I can."
"I hear you. Congrats on the twins. Hey, I really only called to tell you I have a job for you," I rolled my eyes. Anytime Jack said he had a job for someone it ended up being something really stupid.
"What's that, Jack?"
"Well, there's this report coming up for the news show next week about new studies popping up about twins and since you just had twins I figured you and Sam could bring them in to be on the show."
"I don't know, Jack. They're small. I don't even know how much time we're going to spend in here, let alone them. And I don't know if we're ready to be putting our twin's faces on everyone's television set."
"It would be interesting. Besides, everyone wants to meet them. Carly went on and on to Michael about them I guess. She's crazy, Benson. Why'd you let me hire her?"
"Because she's good in front of a camera?"
"Oh, that's right. Anyway, I'm going to bed. See you whenever."
"What do you mean see you whenever?"
"Well, I certainly don't expect you to rush back here when Sam and/or the twins are in the hospital."
"Why are you suddenly being so nice to me, Jack?"
"Because you've done great things at our show and you remind me of myself. These few days won't affect you at all. You'll still be more successful than anyone ever thought you would be.
"Wow. Thanks?" I heard more crying, "I gotta go. I think Liam's awake."
"Good luck," I barely heard him finish before I hung up the phone. I walked into the room and Sam was already on it.
"Get some rest, babe. I can do this." I told her. She shook her head.
"No. I know you're excited about the twins but I need to help take care of them and learn them. Besides, I like doing this. It gives me time to get to know their personalities." She smiled at Liam and then Lily before turning back to the bottle warmer.
"Shouldn't be hard. Lily's exactly like you."
"Let's hope not because this mama does not want any sneaky nubs stealing her heart,"
"Sneaky nubs? That's new."
"Hey. You came out of nowhere, Benson. Like all the sudden you're less nerdy and more…hot. I think you called it puberty."
"Oh yeah." I winked at her and she laughed.
"Go back to bed," she said while shaking her head. I kissed her cheek.
"Fine, but you have to let me help you sometimes, Sam. This isn't a one person job yet. When I go back to work you'll have plenty of screaming baby to go around."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
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"Freddie, wake up." Sam was shaking me and when I opened my eyes the sun was barely rising.
"What's up?"
"I can't figure out what's wrong and they're both screaming," I couldn't believe I didn't hear them before. I looked at the clock. 5:10 A.M. I walked over to the twins.
"What's wrong, kiddos?"
"They can't talk, Freddie." She snapped. She must have been up for a while. I picked Lily up.
"Um, Sam? Maybe you should call the nurses in here."
"Why?"
"Did you even pick them up? They smell horrible." I set Lily back in her incubator and Sam pressed the nurse button. We should have known Janet would walk in, but I guess we were just too tired.
"Hey guys. Ready for another lesson?"
"How do you just KNOW what they want?" Sam asked. She was in a bad mood now. I put my arm around her.
"You should have woken me up sooner, babe."
"You looked so peaceful, I didn't want to wake you up."
"Okay guys, pick up the babies and let's bring them over to the changing tables." I picked Lily up again and Sam picked Liam up and we followed Janet across the room.
"Okay, the first baby poop happens within 24 hours after the baby is born. It's called meconium. It's usually greenish-black. Kind of tar like. It's basically what your babies have been holding inside their little bodies while in the womb." Sam looked disgusted and I couldn't imagine even having to look at that stuff.
"Wait, they don't poop in there?" Sam was staring at Janet and Janet laughed.
"No. If they did they could inhale it and then they could get sick. So, just lay them down and we'll go through this." Lily, who had stopped fussing a bit while being held, started screaming again as soon as I set her down.
"She's such a daddy's girl." Sam complained. I chuckled.
"Okay, so you don't have to take their clothes off completely. Just unsnap the bottom part and pull it up far enough where you can see the tabs on the diapers."
"These are ridiculously small clothes," I mumbled. Janet nodded.
"Well, the twins are small. They wear premie clothes."
"What does premie mean?" Sam asked her. She was smiling at Liam.
"It means they were born before full term. Anything 37 weeks and up is considered full term. Before that it's usually premie or miscarriage and sometimes stillborn. Although, stillborn can be at any point in a pregnancy. Anyway, so I'm assuming you guys know how to take a diaper off and put one on."
"This is horrible, I do NOT want to see what this child can produce." Sam muttered. Janet laughed again. She was right. It looked like tar and I wondered how the hell you got this off of them.
"Oh my God. What the hell could possibly produce this?"
"Remember they were in there for 34 weeks. Whatever Sam consumed so did they. It's also old blood and skin cells. Anything that could get into their stomach while Sam was pregnant."
"This is disgusting. This is just the first one right? Not all of them?" Sam was looking away from Liam and it almost made me laugh.
"Well, it will take a little while to clear out of their systems but it's not forever." Janet answered.
"When can we start potty training them?" I knew Sam wasn't serious, she was just out of it.
"Alright, well let's just change them so they stop screaming, Sam. Then we can worry about everything else, like, two years from now."
"Alright, so you'll take the baby wipe and wipe down. Don't wipe up, especially on Lily. She could get an infection." Sam shook her head and kept looking away from Liam.
"This is beyond normal. So beyond."
"Oh, just relax, Sam. It's just a baby."
"Bite me,"
"When and where baby girl?" I smirked. Sam laughed and shook her head.
"Alright, so before you move the dirty diaper you want to have another one ready just in case." She handed Sam a clean diaper and then me. Once Lily was all changed and dressed again she stopped crying. I picked her up.
"You don't cry very loud Lily." I laughed. She looked at me and then closed her eyes and went back to sleep. Liam was wide awake now and he was crying again.
"Your son," I laughed. Sam rolled her eyes and shook her head before walking back to the bottles. I threw the dirty diapers away.
Sam fed Liam and he fell right back asleep.
X *two days later*
Hey, I'm here. Brought Michael. Hope that's okay.
Carly had come to the hospital every day. She always came after work and stayed until 11:00 at night. Then she'd go home and sleep and do it all over again. I rolled my eyes. I didn't want work people here.
"Carly's here and she brought Michael." I told Sam. The smile she had on her face from playing with Lily faded quickly.
"Why'd she bring her stupid boyfriend?" she spoke roughly like it was my fault.
"I don't know. She's Carly."
"Whatever." Sam looked back down at Lily and started playing with her again. I was feeding Liam and he was just looking around. Both twins were wide awake now and we loved it. There was a knock on the door and Carly walked in with Michael right behind her.
"Hey, oh my God they're both awake." She walked over to Lily and Sam stared at her.
"What did you bring your thing for?" she motioned towards Michael.
"Sam!" I warned. She ignored me.
"What? It's not like everyone in the world needs to meet the twins just because they work with you or they're dating Carly or Spencer or Gibby or whoever. Jeez. We haven't even left the—"
"Sam, my car broke down and Michael had to come and get me for work and then since I always come to the hospital to see my best friends and my Godchildren he offered to bring me here. Okay with you or do you want me to leave?"
"No. I want him to leave."
"Well are you planning on driving me home, Sam?" Janet walked into the room and we looked up.
"Hey Carly, who's your friend?"
"My boyfriend. Michael."
"Hi Michael. I'm Janet. Nice to meet you." Michael looked nervously at her. I rolled my eyes.
"How are the twins today?"
"Wide awake and happy." Sam smiled at Lily again.
"Alright, Sam. Tomorrow you and Liam will be discharged."
"What about Lily?" she looked at Janet.
"Lily will have to stay here a little longer. She's not gaining weight as well as Liam is. We just want to watch her a bit."
"So we have to leave her?" she looked back down at Lily. Janet gave a sad smile.
"Just for a little bit. We want to make sure she's doing good enough to go home."
"Well, can't we just stay in here until she can go home?"
"Sorry, Sam. You and Liam are ready. The hospital won't let us keep you two."
"But she's my baby. How do they expect me to just leave her here?"
"It's only for a few days I'm sure. You can still come up and hang out with her. You aren't banned from the hospital. You're just discharged." Janet looked between me and Sam and then left. I handed Liam to Carly and walked over to Sam. She was staring at Lily.
"Honey—"
"Who just makes parents leave their kids in a hospital?"
"It's just for her safety. Just relax."
"I don't want to leave without her," she picked Lily up off the bed and held her closer to her.
"She'll be home before we know it."
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Liam was all dressed up and packed away to leave. Sam was sitting on the bed with Lily. She had cried all night last night but now she was just staring at her.
"Sam, we have to go." I whispered. Janet said we should take tonight to get Liam adjusted at home and promised she'd be here all night checking on Lily. They were moving her to a different room.
"I can't leave her here."
"Come on, sweetheart. Janet will be watching her and we can come up here as soon as we wake up tomorrow morning." I watched her kiss Lily's forehead and then she whispered something to her. She stood up and put Lily in her incubator and walked out of the room, not even bothering to wait or look back. I grabbed her bag, the diaper bag and Liam and followed her. Janet was in the hallway with Sam.
"She'll be fine. I'll be checking on her every hour and if anything happens, not that it will, I will call you. Just focus on Liam tonight. Get him adjusted and when you come back up in the morning I will give you an update on Lily." Janet looked at me and smiled, then leaned over Liam.
"Bye Liam." She said. I laughed. She really was the only person who could get it through to Sam. Sam never argued with her. Sam took her bag and the diaper bag and we walked out of the hospital. She played with Liam in the backseat on the way back to the apartment. Not that she wasn't in love with Liam, but she was just trying to distract herself. Every few minutes she'd glance out the back window. I pulled up to the apartment and Sam sighed. We were home.
"Come on, Liam." She climbed out of the car and walked to the other side. She unhooked the carseat and pulled Liam out of the car. I followed her upstairs with her bag and the diaper bag and unlocked the door. She set the carseat on the floor in front of the couch and took Liam out of it.
"We're home, Liam." She was smiling and walking around with him. She looked so natural. I smiled and she looked at me.
"What?"
"Nothing." She smiled, rolling her eyes and walked into the nursery with Liam. I looked around the apartment. Once the twins were both here everything would be different. I followed Sam into the nursery and she was sitting in the rocking chair with him and he was falling asleep.
"We got this." I laughed. She nodded.
"We got this."
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