Northern Districts Hospital
"Don't pull a stunt like that again, okay? It could have been really serious if something had happened and you weren't around anyone." Nate says, happy with Kyle's vitals as he checked through them now he was back at the hospital.
"I was around someone, I got a taxi from here straight to Heath's house." Kyle says as Lucas walks back through the door, having arrived not long before but went to get a drink.
"That's not the point." Brax huffs. "Don't even think about it again or you'll be back in a coma."
"We both know you wouldn't do anything to me after all of the protective stuff you say." Kyle says. "Now can everyone stop giving me lectures because I already know it was the wrong thing to do."
"Nope. You were stupid and need to be reminded of that until you really understand it." Lucas says. "You could have been really hurt."
"Lucas, I've already said I'm fine and Nate said I was as well!" Kyle moans. "And blame Heath, not me, he's the reason I left in the first place."
"Yeah, why was that?" Brax asks, not having had a chance to ask on the drive back to the hospital as he was too busy complaining about needing to find out from everyone else what was going on.
"I'll leave you to it." Nate says, knowing Brax would want to talk to Kyle more about why he left.
"I kind of went off on him this morning after how badly my physio session went and felt bad, so went to apologise." Kyle says as Nate leaves.
"And you couldn't do that over the phone?" Brax asks.
"In my defence, Heath didn't call or text me for a while, or even visit, so I didn't think doing it over the phone would work." Kyle says. "Plus I wanted to check out my new car because he threw the keys at me before he left."
"He got you a car?" Lucas asks, not having known about it.
"Yeah, for my birthday." Kyle says, pointing to the car keys on the side table next to his phone.
"That was really nice of him." Lucas smiles, not bothered about it because he knew nothing mattered now Kyle was awake, that was enough for him.
"You didn't want a car as well did you?" Brax asks, not having the energy to have another go at Kyle about doing a runner from the hospital.
"Nope, I quite like walking around Summer Bay. And I guess I've got someone else to give me lifts now so I wouldn't have to get the bus anywhere." Lucas smiles.
"Well as it's already been made clear a lot of times, I won't be driving myself for a long time." Kyle says. "I guess I could let you drive me around in the meantime, as long as you don't scratch it."
"I'm a very good driver, you wouldn't have to worry about that." Lucas smiles. "Is it okay if me and Tyler were to hold a family meeting?"
"Sure, what for?" Brax asks, frowning as Lucas quickly stands up.
"You'll find out soon." Lucas grins as he rushes out.
Northern Districts Hospital
"What's the emergency?" Heath frowns as he walks into Kyle's room with Bianca.
"Nothing." Kyle says, them being the last to arrive.
"Then what's the family meeting for? We only saw you this morning." Heath says as Bianca sits down in the chair.
"We've got something to ask you all, and we wanted it to be sooner rather than later." Tyler says, glancing at Lucas who looked like he was about to burst, which Blake tried calming him down over.
"Get on with it then." Heath says as he leans against the wall next to Casey and Denny.
"We want to become one of you properly, to change from Moore to Braxton, if you'll let us." Lucas says.
"You want to change your surnames?" Heath asks.
"Well everyone calls us Braxton's, and sees us as a Braxton, so why not?" Tyler says.
"We don't have to if you don't want us to." Lucas says, not knowing how they'd take it.
"Do it." Kyle smiles, enough for everyone else to agree.
"That's been decided then, we'll get it sorted for you." Brax says.
"What hold do you have over them?" Tyler laughs.
"Must be my near death experience. I get whatever I want now." Kyle grins.
"If you didn't have a bad head injury, you would be whacked over the head for that comment." Brax jokingly warns.
"Would I though?" Kyle innocently asks. "You wouldn't hurt me, not anymore."
"I could have killed you for making us wait weeks, nearly turning your life support off, before you decided to give signs of waking up." Brax firmly says. "I had to put up with your chick being superstitious over things just to occupy herself."
"Hey! I don't think it was superstition when it was basically proven that Kyle needed you around. How else would you explain his blood pressure being all over the place when you weren't around for those few days?" Emily says.
"Yeah, it was really weird how it stopped once you came back." Casey says.
"It's called the doctors giving him meds or whatever to sort it." Brax says.
"You keep believing that." Lucas smiles. "So we can really become Braxton's?"
"Yeah, course you can." Heath smiles. "Just means you are stuck with us for good now."
"I don't mind." Lucas says.
"Nah, no complaints here. Just don't expect no more life saving acts, I haven't got another kidney to give away." Tyler smirks.
"Well at least I still have one, and so does Brax." Lucas says.
"I wonder why me and Heath weren't a match." Casey says.
"Maybe we are for each other considering those four want to hog each other's organs." Heath jokes.
"We're triplets, what's Brax's excuse." Kyle smirks.
"I'm the boss." Brax shrugs as Nate walks back to the door.
"Brax, could I have a word?" Nate asks, Brax nodding as he walks out.
"No guess for who that's about." Kyle mutters as he rolls his eyes.
"It's your own fault for leaving here without anyone knowing." Blake says.
"I don't need your input." Kyle moans, not wanting his best mate to side with his brothers and give him lectures as well.
"Oi, leave my boyfriend alone." Lucas says.
"Boyfriend?" Blake asks.
"Oh, that just came out…" Lucas mutters.
"I kinda like it." Blake smiles, leaning in to kiss him.
"Aw, you two are so cute." Bianca beams, making them both blush. "Ah!" She groans, clutching her stomach.
"Babe, you okay?" Heath asks, instantly rushing to her side.
"Yeah, just got a footballer inside of me." Bianca faintly smiles. "Perks of being pregnant I guess."
"You sure that's it?" Heath asks.
"Yes, he's calmed down now. Plus I've still got about two weeks until the due date." Bianca says.
"Have you thought of any names yet?" Emily asks.
"We've got a couple in mind, but we haven't made a decision yet." Heath says. "With everything going on, we haven't even had time to talk about it more. Redecorating the house has taken longer than I thought with no one willing to help out." He says, glancing at three of his brothers.
"Brax has been helping you, and I've helped with bits." Casey says.
"I helped you move some things out until Brax found out, so I wasn't allowed to help any more." Tyler says. "And Lucas has been too busy boning Blake."
"Tyler!" Lucas shouts, going red.
"What? We all know it happens now you two are so loved up." Tyler says.
"That's not the point!" Lucas glares.
"Least you won't ever get a lecture from Brax about unplanned pregnancy at our age." Casey rolls his eyes.
"Nope, no problem for that." Blake laughs. "Kids aren't something we want for a few years yet."
"So you have spoken about it?" Kyle asks, knowing they would both be great parents one day.
"Not serious conversations, but yes we have." Lucas says. "We both agreed adoption would be the way we'd go."
"I think it would be good for you both." Emily smiles.
"When's your baby going to announce itself?" Lucas grins at them both.
"Brax would kill me himself if we found out Emily was pregnant." Kyle says.
"He'd have to wait in line after my parents and brothers." Emily smirks at Kyle. "We don't want kids yet either, we want to live a little first, especially after all of this." She says as Brax walks back in with Nate.
"Can I be discharged now?" Kyle asks, Brax shaking his head. "But that's what you were talking about?" Kyle asks.
"Yeah it was, but we're not telling you anything about it." Brax smiles as Bianca stands up. "Are you okay?" He frowns, noticing she had a look of pain on her face.
"Yeah, just in a bit of pain." Bianca says, about to take a step forward when water gushes onto the floor.
"Tell me that's not what I think it is." Heath mutters, going pale.
"I think my waters just broke." Bianca exclaims.