Once I was able to actually see into the kitchen I could I could have
fainted. I have no idea who I thought would be in there, but it definitely
wasn't who was there. Elizabeth or Lita I could have believed, maybe even
one of the other scouts. **Hold on for a moment, Serena. Do remember them
'all' leaving last night or just most of them? ** Ok I was starting to talk
to myself. But come to think of it, I don't remember them all leaving.
Maybe that was why I had slept so well. Heck I don't know. ** I've got to
stay calm, not act surprised. Even though you are. Hey don't argue with me,
I know what I am doing. You hope. Ok that's it hush now. Or what? Umm. I'll
back up stairs. What are you chicken now? **I had to stop arguing with my
self before it went any farther. I was starting to think that I was going
crazy.
Before I lost the courage I took a deep breath and walked into the room like everything was fine. "Good morning." It must have startled him because he dropped the pan that he was holding; luckily there was nothing in it. He turned around wearing a sheepish look on his face. I couldn't help it I laughed; he looked like a little boy who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar before dinner.
"Oh.umm.I thought that.umm.I would cook breakfast for you." He stuttered, which I thought was cute.
"That was sweet of you. Thank you." It didn't surprise me that he had gotten into my house; he had always found a way when we were younger. I walked over to the table and sat down. "So what are we having?"
He smiled, man he had a gorgeous smile. "Grits, bacon, scrambled eggs, toast and jelly and orange juice. Anything special you would like?"
"No, it sounds wonderful." With that he brought over two plates and sat them down on the table then took the seat opposite me. We sat down to have a quiet breakfast, if it would have actually happened like it was planned who knows where it might have led. We had just started to eat when my phone rang; I excused my self and ran to answer it. It was Elizabeth and she was scared and crying. I ran back into the room apologized to Darien for having to leave right then, and quickly explained what was wrong. He wouldn't let me go by myself. We arrived at Elizabeth's house in about five minutes. I left the car running as I went in. I found Elizabeth in the study crying her eyes out.
"Oh Elizabeth what's the matter?" I said as I hugged her and rubbed her trying to calm her down. I don't think I have ever seen my sister so upset.
"Eric.he was in.a.plane crash last night. I.I don't know how.he is." She managed between sobs. I was at a lost for words. There was nothing I could say that would make it better.
"Oh Elizabeth.I'll stay as long as you need me and longer." Eric and I had never gotten along that is true, but I had never ever wished such a thing on him or my sister. Just then my sister's grip on me tightened. "Elizabeth, are you ok?"
"Sere, I think I need to get to the hospital." She managed.
** Oh God, please not now. She doesn't need this now. ** "Ok, I'll get you there. Can you stand?" I hadn't noticed that Darien had come followed me into the house until he moved me out of the way and picked her up.
"Go to the car Sere, you're going to have to get her there." He said as he strode from the room towards the front door. I was numb I didn't know what to do so I followed him out to the car. I was glad that the hospitals where in the same place so I knew how to get there. We pulled up to the emergency room door and Darien got her out, they went on in as I parked the car. I was so worried.
I ran into the hospital and didn't see them anywhere. I rushed up to the desk and the lady their told me where to go. When I reached the room that they had put her in Darien was outside and stopped me from going in. "Wait a few minutes. The doctors are in there with her. You can go in in a minute." Always the voce of reason, I listened to him and didn't have to wait long.
"Are you her sister?" Asked a nurse coming out of the room. All I could do was no. "She's asking for you. You and your husband can go in."
**Did she just call him my husband? No I didn't hear her right that's all. ** With that I went in to the room to see Elizabeth lying on the bed, she had stopped crying but she was still upset. "What did the doctor say?"
"He said that I'll have the little one by this time tomorrow. I was worried that it was to early for him or her to be born, but he said it wasn't. And if I hadn't got so upset about Eric I still would have went into labor within the next 24 hours."
"That's good to I guess. Why don't you try to get some rest now."
"I can try. Serena, will you stay with me?"
I knew what she was asking and I couldn't refuse her. "Yes, I'll stay. I'm going to go a make quick phone call and I'll be right back." With that I gave her a small smile and walked out into the hall and promptly bumped into someone.
"Is she going to be ok?"
** God I had forgotten that he was here. ** "Yeah the doctor said that she would have went into labor with in the next 24 hours anyway. But because she was upset about Eric it just made it progress faster. I'm going to stay with her; you can take my car and leave if you want. But right now I've to go call Ray to let her know where I am so that she can tell the others that out picnic is off."
"I'll tell you what you stay with her and I'll meet them at your house and explain them what has happened. That way if anything does happen you'll be here with her."
"You would do that?"
"Yes, I'll be back later. Do I need to bring you anything back?"
I shook my head. "No I don't think that I'll need anything."
He kissed my cheek as he walked off. Saying that he would be back soon. ** I will stay here as long as I'm needed; I'm going to have to call the school though. But that can wait until this is over. ** I walked back into her room and found her dozing, so I sat down in a chair by the bed. I soon found myself praying that Eric was fine and would come running through the door at any minute. I might not always like him, but this is my sister's husband. Hello! You can't wish something like that even on a stranger. About that time Elizabeth let a cry and I jumped up. ** Umm aren't they supposed to breathe when they are going into labor? ** "It's ok Elizabeth, just got to breathe. Jut think about what you get once this is all over. Think of the little one waiting for you." I had no idea what I was saying I was just talking and trying to keep her calm. Trying not to let my fear show through to her. At the time I didn't know what I was afraid of. I would find out soon enough.
That pain subsided pretty quickly. Elizabeth was starting to get tired, for some reason I found that weird. A nurse had come into the room during the contraction. She left fairly quickly. I noticed the look on her face was one of concern. The next thing I knew the doctor on duty was in there. "Elizabeth, how are you feeling?" He was soft spoken and spoke of nothing to fear, but I knew that there was something there.
"I've felt better. Is anything wrong?" Apparently she could sense something too.
He sighed and glanced at his charts before saying anything. "The contractions are becoming too strong. I've been trying to get a hold of your doctor to see what she says, but so far I have been unable too. This could be nothing, and I would rather be safe than sorry. So I am going to have you taken down to the birthing room and prepared for giving birth." As he walked out of the door I told Elizabeth that I would be right back and went after him.
"Doctor." I called to get his attention. Never say Doctor in a hospital when there is more than one doctor around. Well I finally got the doctor's attention that I wanted and pulled him over to the side. "I'm Elizabeth's sister, Serena. "I briefly introduced myself.
"Yes what can I help you with Serena?"
"My sister. What's the matter?"
"Oh. Like I said the contractions are stronger than they should be and that could be dangerous to the baby, Elizabeth or both of them. I haven't been able to reach her doctor yet, so I don't really know how the pregnancy was going. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but it's my fear that we could lose one or both of them."
"Oh god no." Was all I managed to get out. "Thank you for not telling her."
He nodded in response and continued on to wherever he was headed. I watched his retreating form be for I went back to Elizabeth I couldn't let her know what the problem was. I couldn't do that. But would I be able to be strong enough to be strong? I had to do something to get her mind off of what was going on. So I pushed all thought of it away to the back of my mind as I went in. The nurses had left and she was waiting for them to come and get her to go the birthing room. I faked a smile, which I hoped looked real. "If it's a girl what are you going to call her?"
"Umm.we hadn't decided on a name yet. I guess I'll call her whatever comes into my head."
"Ok, then if it's a boy?"
"Well.why are you getting so nosey all of a sudden?"
"Hey! I'm going to be an aunt in a short time. I have a right to know what my future niece or nephew will be called don't I?" I put on my best-hurt voice.
"OK, ok you win." She finally gave in. " If it is a boy his name will be Adam. And if it is a girl then her name will be Adriana. Happy now?"
"Oh pretty names. I like them. Yes I'm happy now. Thanks for telling me." I grinned happily. "I won't tell anyone that you told me. It'll be our secret." About that time the nurses came in and where about to ask me to leave when Elizabeth made it clear that I would be staying since her husband was not there. I don't know if that was a blessing or a curse. The nurses agreed hesitantly. And we went to the room.
I remember going into the room and the next thing I remember is sitting outside in the hall my knees drawn up to my chest and me crying like a baby. Then there were a pair of strong arms around my shoulders offering comfort, which was not helping in the least. ** I lost them. I have lost all of them. My parents. My sister. My niece. My nephew. What do I have left to love for? ** These thoughts where running through my mind as I cried. I looked up, having no more tears to cry, as the doctor came out. He looked awful but there was something wrong. Apparently he saw me as I saw him and came to me as fast as he could. He didn't offer any words of comfort or say I'm sorry. But asked for me to follow him. I tried to stand but was unable to and fell back down. I guess it was then that I actually realized that Darien was there. He picked me up and followed the doctor to the room that Elizabeth was in.
"I really don't know how to tell you this. But there is no other family and there is a problem. If you don't want to I can find someone else." I didn't let him get the rest out of his mouth before I said anything.
"She is my family and I take care of my own. I will take care of her burial and the twins." I said it calmer than I was feeling.
"But you don't understand. The twins.they are.well why don't you look." He motioned to the two little beds that were in the room.
I was about to tell him to put me down but before I could he had strode over to them and I started crying again. This time it was tears of joy mixed together with tears of grief. My sister's beautiful twins where lying on their backs sleeping. ** I didn't lose everything. Oh thank you for not taking everything from me. **
"You are the only living relative that they have. Will you take them?" He asked quietly as if he feared the answer.
"Yes I'll take them. They are my only family. They will stay with me."
"Don't you want to talk to your husband about it first?"
"Huh? Husband? I'm not married." At this the doctor looked at me strangely. " Oh.umm.this is a really close friend of mine." I wondered why Darien hadn't said a word to anything yet. Turning my head I could tell why, he was embarrassed. He was redder than a tomato his mouth moved but no words were forth coming. I wanted to laugh.
"Oh. Ok, well then I'll get eh necessary paperwork for you. And please don't think that I'm rushing this. I know what you have been through. I lost my wife during childbirth also. I just don't want the babies to go to the state. What will their names be?"
"Are they boys or girls?"
"One of each."
I couldn't help but smile a sad smile at this. I was really glad no that I had gotten Elizabeth to tell me what they had planned to name them. "The Boy will be Adam Dylan. And the girl will be Adrian Michelle."
"I'll take care of it." With that the doctor had the two nurses that where left in the room, take the twins to the nursery and followed behind them. By this time Darien had found his voice.
"I'll take you home. You could use some sleep." His voice was gentle. I agreed silently. "I told the girls what was going on. But I didn't know everything. They said that they would stop by later to see how everything was going." He didn't say anything after that.
I didn't know what to say about anything. To this day I think he was planning something that day, but he won't admit to anything. He drove me back to my house. And called a cab to pick him up after he made sure that I would be ok. He left the hotel's number and his room number by my phone. I lay down as if I was going to go to sleep, anything to get him out of the house basically. I wanted to be alone. I had things I had to take care of. I knew that if he was there I wouldn't be able to get any of it done.
I hated being the one that had to do all of this. But I now knew how Elizabeth felt when our parents died. And then there was the matter about Eric I still didn't know if he was alive or dead. I didn't know what to hope for. But until I knew that he was dead for sure I wouldn't worry about he arrangements for his funeral. This might sound mean but I was glad that I only had to make arrangements for one instead of three. I managed to get all the arrangements made before Ray and them showed up. I was on my way to lie down.
They wanted to know how she was, but none of them asked. I guess my red, puffy eyes and tear streaked face was enough of a giveaway. We talked about the past for a little while, before we ordered pizza. We all had the same question. I didn't want to bring it up being as I didn't know the answer. But I knew that it would be brought up before the night was over. I was right.
We had just finished off the pizza and were settling down to talk some more when Ami asked quietly "Do you know if we will get our powers back?" Everyone stopped what they were doing when she asked this. I just sat there not knowing what to say.
Finally I had to say something. " I don't know. We all know that after that fight, we lost everything but the world in some way gained a force field type shield and so far nothing has been able to get through. Now we might if something was able to get through. But I have no idea." No one did. WE all felt the loss heavily. ** But at least we can lead a somewhat normal life now. I mean they are all married or will be shortly. Ray has Missy, and she probably won't be the last. And I have.what do I have? Adam and Adriana that's who I have. **
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Should I continue with the story and then publish the sequel or should I let Skie have it to do whatever he does with the rejects? Let me know what you think. Thanks!
~Silvra
Before I lost the courage I took a deep breath and walked into the room like everything was fine. "Good morning." It must have startled him because he dropped the pan that he was holding; luckily there was nothing in it. He turned around wearing a sheepish look on his face. I couldn't help it I laughed; he looked like a little boy who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar before dinner.
"Oh.umm.I thought that.umm.I would cook breakfast for you." He stuttered, which I thought was cute.
"That was sweet of you. Thank you." It didn't surprise me that he had gotten into my house; he had always found a way when we were younger. I walked over to the table and sat down. "So what are we having?"
He smiled, man he had a gorgeous smile. "Grits, bacon, scrambled eggs, toast and jelly and orange juice. Anything special you would like?"
"No, it sounds wonderful." With that he brought over two plates and sat them down on the table then took the seat opposite me. We sat down to have a quiet breakfast, if it would have actually happened like it was planned who knows where it might have led. We had just started to eat when my phone rang; I excused my self and ran to answer it. It was Elizabeth and she was scared and crying. I ran back into the room apologized to Darien for having to leave right then, and quickly explained what was wrong. He wouldn't let me go by myself. We arrived at Elizabeth's house in about five minutes. I left the car running as I went in. I found Elizabeth in the study crying her eyes out.
"Oh Elizabeth what's the matter?" I said as I hugged her and rubbed her trying to calm her down. I don't think I have ever seen my sister so upset.
"Eric.he was in.a.plane crash last night. I.I don't know how.he is." She managed between sobs. I was at a lost for words. There was nothing I could say that would make it better.
"Oh Elizabeth.I'll stay as long as you need me and longer." Eric and I had never gotten along that is true, but I had never ever wished such a thing on him or my sister. Just then my sister's grip on me tightened. "Elizabeth, are you ok?"
"Sere, I think I need to get to the hospital." She managed.
** Oh God, please not now. She doesn't need this now. ** "Ok, I'll get you there. Can you stand?" I hadn't noticed that Darien had come followed me into the house until he moved me out of the way and picked her up.
"Go to the car Sere, you're going to have to get her there." He said as he strode from the room towards the front door. I was numb I didn't know what to do so I followed him out to the car. I was glad that the hospitals where in the same place so I knew how to get there. We pulled up to the emergency room door and Darien got her out, they went on in as I parked the car. I was so worried.
I ran into the hospital and didn't see them anywhere. I rushed up to the desk and the lady their told me where to go. When I reached the room that they had put her in Darien was outside and stopped me from going in. "Wait a few minutes. The doctors are in there with her. You can go in in a minute." Always the voce of reason, I listened to him and didn't have to wait long.
"Are you her sister?" Asked a nurse coming out of the room. All I could do was no. "She's asking for you. You and your husband can go in."
**Did she just call him my husband? No I didn't hear her right that's all. ** With that I went in to the room to see Elizabeth lying on the bed, she had stopped crying but she was still upset. "What did the doctor say?"
"He said that I'll have the little one by this time tomorrow. I was worried that it was to early for him or her to be born, but he said it wasn't. And if I hadn't got so upset about Eric I still would have went into labor within the next 24 hours."
"That's good to I guess. Why don't you try to get some rest now."
"I can try. Serena, will you stay with me?"
I knew what she was asking and I couldn't refuse her. "Yes, I'll stay. I'm going to go a make quick phone call and I'll be right back." With that I gave her a small smile and walked out into the hall and promptly bumped into someone.
"Is she going to be ok?"
** God I had forgotten that he was here. ** "Yeah the doctor said that she would have went into labor with in the next 24 hours anyway. But because she was upset about Eric it just made it progress faster. I'm going to stay with her; you can take my car and leave if you want. But right now I've to go call Ray to let her know where I am so that she can tell the others that out picnic is off."
"I'll tell you what you stay with her and I'll meet them at your house and explain them what has happened. That way if anything does happen you'll be here with her."
"You would do that?"
"Yes, I'll be back later. Do I need to bring you anything back?"
I shook my head. "No I don't think that I'll need anything."
He kissed my cheek as he walked off. Saying that he would be back soon. ** I will stay here as long as I'm needed; I'm going to have to call the school though. But that can wait until this is over. ** I walked back into her room and found her dozing, so I sat down in a chair by the bed. I soon found myself praying that Eric was fine and would come running through the door at any minute. I might not always like him, but this is my sister's husband. Hello! You can't wish something like that even on a stranger. About that time Elizabeth let a cry and I jumped up. ** Umm aren't they supposed to breathe when they are going into labor? ** "It's ok Elizabeth, just got to breathe. Jut think about what you get once this is all over. Think of the little one waiting for you." I had no idea what I was saying I was just talking and trying to keep her calm. Trying not to let my fear show through to her. At the time I didn't know what I was afraid of. I would find out soon enough.
That pain subsided pretty quickly. Elizabeth was starting to get tired, for some reason I found that weird. A nurse had come into the room during the contraction. She left fairly quickly. I noticed the look on her face was one of concern. The next thing I knew the doctor on duty was in there. "Elizabeth, how are you feeling?" He was soft spoken and spoke of nothing to fear, but I knew that there was something there.
"I've felt better. Is anything wrong?" Apparently she could sense something too.
He sighed and glanced at his charts before saying anything. "The contractions are becoming too strong. I've been trying to get a hold of your doctor to see what she says, but so far I have been unable too. This could be nothing, and I would rather be safe than sorry. So I am going to have you taken down to the birthing room and prepared for giving birth." As he walked out of the door I told Elizabeth that I would be right back and went after him.
"Doctor." I called to get his attention. Never say Doctor in a hospital when there is more than one doctor around. Well I finally got the doctor's attention that I wanted and pulled him over to the side. "I'm Elizabeth's sister, Serena. "I briefly introduced myself.
"Yes what can I help you with Serena?"
"My sister. What's the matter?"
"Oh. Like I said the contractions are stronger than they should be and that could be dangerous to the baby, Elizabeth or both of them. I haven't been able to reach her doctor yet, so I don't really know how the pregnancy was going. Maybe I shouldn't tell you this, but it's my fear that we could lose one or both of them."
"Oh god no." Was all I managed to get out. "Thank you for not telling her."
He nodded in response and continued on to wherever he was headed. I watched his retreating form be for I went back to Elizabeth I couldn't let her know what the problem was. I couldn't do that. But would I be able to be strong enough to be strong? I had to do something to get her mind off of what was going on. So I pushed all thought of it away to the back of my mind as I went in. The nurses had left and she was waiting for them to come and get her to go the birthing room. I faked a smile, which I hoped looked real. "If it's a girl what are you going to call her?"
"Umm.we hadn't decided on a name yet. I guess I'll call her whatever comes into my head."
"Ok, then if it's a boy?"
"Well.why are you getting so nosey all of a sudden?"
"Hey! I'm going to be an aunt in a short time. I have a right to know what my future niece or nephew will be called don't I?" I put on my best-hurt voice.
"OK, ok you win." She finally gave in. " If it is a boy his name will be Adam. And if it is a girl then her name will be Adriana. Happy now?"
"Oh pretty names. I like them. Yes I'm happy now. Thanks for telling me." I grinned happily. "I won't tell anyone that you told me. It'll be our secret." About that time the nurses came in and where about to ask me to leave when Elizabeth made it clear that I would be staying since her husband was not there. I don't know if that was a blessing or a curse. The nurses agreed hesitantly. And we went to the room.
I remember going into the room and the next thing I remember is sitting outside in the hall my knees drawn up to my chest and me crying like a baby. Then there were a pair of strong arms around my shoulders offering comfort, which was not helping in the least. ** I lost them. I have lost all of them. My parents. My sister. My niece. My nephew. What do I have left to love for? ** These thoughts where running through my mind as I cried. I looked up, having no more tears to cry, as the doctor came out. He looked awful but there was something wrong. Apparently he saw me as I saw him and came to me as fast as he could. He didn't offer any words of comfort or say I'm sorry. But asked for me to follow him. I tried to stand but was unable to and fell back down. I guess it was then that I actually realized that Darien was there. He picked me up and followed the doctor to the room that Elizabeth was in.
"I really don't know how to tell you this. But there is no other family and there is a problem. If you don't want to I can find someone else." I didn't let him get the rest out of his mouth before I said anything.
"She is my family and I take care of my own. I will take care of her burial and the twins." I said it calmer than I was feeling.
"But you don't understand. The twins.they are.well why don't you look." He motioned to the two little beds that were in the room.
I was about to tell him to put me down but before I could he had strode over to them and I started crying again. This time it was tears of joy mixed together with tears of grief. My sister's beautiful twins where lying on their backs sleeping. ** I didn't lose everything. Oh thank you for not taking everything from me. **
"You are the only living relative that they have. Will you take them?" He asked quietly as if he feared the answer.
"Yes I'll take them. They are my only family. They will stay with me."
"Don't you want to talk to your husband about it first?"
"Huh? Husband? I'm not married." At this the doctor looked at me strangely. " Oh.umm.this is a really close friend of mine." I wondered why Darien hadn't said a word to anything yet. Turning my head I could tell why, he was embarrassed. He was redder than a tomato his mouth moved but no words were forth coming. I wanted to laugh.
"Oh. Ok, well then I'll get eh necessary paperwork for you. And please don't think that I'm rushing this. I know what you have been through. I lost my wife during childbirth also. I just don't want the babies to go to the state. What will their names be?"
"Are they boys or girls?"
"One of each."
I couldn't help but smile a sad smile at this. I was really glad no that I had gotten Elizabeth to tell me what they had planned to name them. "The Boy will be Adam Dylan. And the girl will be Adrian Michelle."
"I'll take care of it." With that the doctor had the two nurses that where left in the room, take the twins to the nursery and followed behind them. By this time Darien had found his voice.
"I'll take you home. You could use some sleep." His voice was gentle. I agreed silently. "I told the girls what was going on. But I didn't know everything. They said that they would stop by later to see how everything was going." He didn't say anything after that.
I didn't know what to say about anything. To this day I think he was planning something that day, but he won't admit to anything. He drove me back to my house. And called a cab to pick him up after he made sure that I would be ok. He left the hotel's number and his room number by my phone. I lay down as if I was going to go to sleep, anything to get him out of the house basically. I wanted to be alone. I had things I had to take care of. I knew that if he was there I wouldn't be able to get any of it done.
I hated being the one that had to do all of this. But I now knew how Elizabeth felt when our parents died. And then there was the matter about Eric I still didn't know if he was alive or dead. I didn't know what to hope for. But until I knew that he was dead for sure I wouldn't worry about he arrangements for his funeral. This might sound mean but I was glad that I only had to make arrangements for one instead of three. I managed to get all the arrangements made before Ray and them showed up. I was on my way to lie down.
They wanted to know how she was, but none of them asked. I guess my red, puffy eyes and tear streaked face was enough of a giveaway. We talked about the past for a little while, before we ordered pizza. We all had the same question. I didn't want to bring it up being as I didn't know the answer. But I knew that it would be brought up before the night was over. I was right.
We had just finished off the pizza and were settling down to talk some more when Ami asked quietly "Do you know if we will get our powers back?" Everyone stopped what they were doing when she asked this. I just sat there not knowing what to say.
Finally I had to say something. " I don't know. We all know that after that fight, we lost everything but the world in some way gained a force field type shield and so far nothing has been able to get through. Now we might if something was able to get through. But I have no idea." No one did. WE all felt the loss heavily. ** But at least we can lead a somewhat normal life now. I mean they are all married or will be shortly. Ray has Missy, and she probably won't be the last. And I have.what do I have? Adam and Adriana that's who I have. **
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Should I continue with the story and then publish the sequel or should I let Skie have it to do whatever he does with the rejects? Let me know what you think. Thanks!
~Silvra