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A/N: Here's the next chappy for you all! Hope you like it, I studied up on multiple births to get a lot of the facts right, so you can understand it all. But I ain't no doctor still, so don't quote me. Also, once again, I wrote this story before I realized that Sophie and Peter had a whole separate home away from Horizon, don't forget that! Enjoy!
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Shelby and Scott stayed for 5 days at their honeymoon getaway before coming home..GLOWING as ever! They got back into a routine again of check- ups, eating right, school, and working. Secretly from Shelby, everyone slowly began work on a new place for Shelby and Scott in an old break room off to the side of one of the hallways, not far from the kitchen and just down the hall and around a bend from Sophie and Peter's room. Shelby had no idea this was going on, only the guys (big or small) did, and some of the girls, who helped with decoration tips. There was already a bathroom hooked to it, just needed the shower and bath added and to make it look all home like and inviting. Everyone on campus just made sure to constantly redirect Shelby or lead her away from the hallway.
Three weeks later, at her 19 week, practically emergency check-up, Shelby went in because of high blood pressure.
"I recommend bed rest as much as possible at home, see how she does. Let us check these babies out. Moving much?" Dr. Sanso asked getting the sonogram machine ready.
"Yeah, as much as they can." Shelby said with an out-of-breath voice. They were now pushing on her lungs. She looked like someone who was having twins..THAT day.
"Look at that! The fifth one's moved! I can see the sex now." Dr. Sanso announced happily.
"Really?! Boy or girl?" Scott asked excitedly.
"It's a girl! You've got a boy, a girl, identical boys, and another girl!" Dr. Sanso said as he went through Baby A-E.
"Cool! 2 girls and 3 boys!!" Shelby said, all red faced.
"How about we put you on those meds now, they won't harm the babies, but help out with that blood pressure. Might not do a whole lot, but with that and the promised bed rest, you might make it a couple more weeks before we run into some more complications. It'll lessen the chances too." Dr. Sanso informed. So Shelby went on moderate bed rest at home through the end of October. No costume party for Shelby. She happily watched an old and sort of new Halloween movie marathon with Scott. She made everyone else go.
By the time the first week of November came around, Shelby was having more problems. She went to the hospital less than one week after Halloween and was admitted to outpatient bed rest. Outpatient bed rest was during the week, the busiest for anybody; she was in the hospital being monitored. And she was allowed to go home on the weekends. (Fri., Sat, & Sun.) But Shelby didn't learn this until the Thursday before she went back home. She had already been there for over a week since Halloween had fallen on a Thursday and the hospital had skipped her first weekend there.
"Mrs. Scarbrow-Barringer? How's spending the weekend at HOME sound?" the nurse asked, smiling.
"Really? Are you sure?" Shelby said hopefully. Scott was in and out mostly, but still had school, work, and Horizon stuff keeping him away. That and Shelby insistence to go home. Sophie stayed almost every night, but Shelby told her to give it up since she'd be there for a long time coming.
"Yeah, it's a new study we've done. Moms-to-be who are hospitalized on bed rest tend to get depressed, which worsens their case. It shows that sending them home on the quietest days increases their health a lot. You've been kinda blue lately." She explained nicely.
"Yeah.you can't BELIEVE how much I miss Horizon! My roommates would think I was nuts! But there..it's the only safe place I've ever known that's 'home' to me. I have never been away from everyone for this long before. Well..except the one time I was sent back to my house..but that was HELL compared to here, believe me!" Shelby said.
"Ok, we'll get you home first thing tomorrow. But you will be hooked to a Blood Pressure monitor. It's pretty small; you hook it to your belt. That's what's the problem here, the babies are fine." The nurse pointed out. Shelby nodded, eyeing the babies' monitors. She had 3 wires hooked to one machine on one side, and 2 wires hooked to another machine on the other side. Also her BP monitor and I.V of fluids and stuff.
That night, she got a surprise.
"Daddy!" Shelby exclaimed happily as Peter came in. Boy she missed everyone.
"Heard they're springing you from this joint soon. Wanna be my date to an adorable girls Birthday Party tomorrow?" he teased nicely, sitting on the edge of her bed.
"Why, kind sir, I would love to!" she giggled, playing along. "How's the little ones?" he asked then, eyeballing all the equipment nervously.
"Relax captain, they're all okay. Apparently it's MY blood pressure that got me here. Just too much squishing on my organs in there." She said, lifting up her gown to show him her HUGE belly with all the monitors and straps. He'd never seen her belly exposed before.
"Wow, hun! Check out your belly button!..sheesh..that looks..painful!" he said, touching her belly button and some of the monitors.
"Not really..just weird. Now my BACK..that's different!" she said eyes wide.
"Got something for ya'!" Peter said, teasingly. Shelby's eyes got big with curiosity as she put her gown down. He smiled devilishly and went out the door for a moment. He came back with a plain paper bag. He handed it to her.
"Oooh..it's REALLY cold!" she exclaimed, then gasped. She snapped her head up at him with a question look. He just nodded, grinning.
"Yes!! My ice cream! With?.."she asked looking up hopefully.
"Reese's pieces sprinkled on top. Your favorite crave." He said, nodding again. Shelby nearly fainted. She'd had to suffer through hospital food for SO long!
"You're the best!! Thanks!" she said, opening it and chowing down. Peter slept in the guest bed next to her, lulled to sleep by the monitors.
At 9:00am, Shelby was sent home for 3 days.
"Okay, she's in class..just our luck, it's the closest to us now, ..and not far from your room." Peter said, saying the last part to himself. Shelby had Happy Birthday balloons and a gift bag with a single white rose with a pink tip in her hands. Peter escorted her to the classroom and when Shelby stepped through the door, she started singing 'You Are My Sunshine' her and Jess's special song since they were little, then 'Happy Birthday' where everyone joined in. Jess sat shocked. Then she got up and hugged Shelby tearfully.
"What're you doing here?" Jess asked as Shelby sat on a chair and gave Jess all her gifts.
"It's my little sis's birthday. An army couldn't stop me from being here with her." Shelby responded. Jess just eyed Shelby tearfully. Her birthday was tough for her and Shelby was the only one who knew why. It was the night Walt first broke Shelby's promise he made at her.
"Love you Jessica Marie Scarbrow." Shelby said softly. Just then the class rang and the class let out leaving them alone. Peter had gone to get Scott a moment ago. Jess held her rose and balloon in one hand, and Shelby's hand in the other.
"Now, you're gift?! Is VERY, VERY special! You can't let ANYONE else see it! Only Scott and I have seen it. He doesn't even know I'm giving it to you..but I HAVE to let someone else see them. You'll understand when you see it. There's also another gift, a gift anybody can see if you want. I can't believe you're 12! Before I know it you'll be a teenager, driving me crazy!" Shelby said, shaking her head and laughing. Just then Scott came in.
"Hey beautiful! You're out! Is everyone okay?" he asked, kissing her on the lips sweetly.
"Yes. And they say it's better. I won't get so depressed and make it all worse." Shelby explained, shrugging.
"Uh.sis?..You've got like 10 ears to talk to!" Jess said pointing to her belly.
"Yeah, but they don't talk back..yet!" Shelby joked.
"But she's SUPPOSED to be resting..in a BED. She's still hooked up to monitors." Peter said fatherly.
"Yeah..see!? It's like a pager hooked to some leads to my wrist, for my BP. Now we both have one." Shelby said, referring to Scott's Baby Alert. Peter, Sophie, Jess, and Daisy all had one. They fixed it so that whoever had one would always be around the ones who didn't. She then got escorted to..
"Well, we're here!" Danny said proudly.
"A..DOOR. That's GREAT..to..what? A janitor closet?" Shelby said sarcastically, lost.
"Open it." Jess said excitedly.
"It's YOUR birthday Jess! You're the one getting gifts! Not me!" Shelby said, hating that they gave her..a janitor closet..on her little sis's birthday.
"It is a gift for me! To see your face! Now open the freakin' door!" Jess quipped out. Shelby eyeballed her then everyone around her and proceeded to open the door.
She couldn't believe her eyes.
The whole break room was now a split bedroom. In the middle of the room was a wall that went about halfway to the middle of the room. On one side was a four-post bed with light to dark turquoise colored bedding. On the other side were 5 bassinets and 2 changing tables, 2 rockers, and 2 medium sized dressers with all the accessories matching to the theme. The theme? Soft, pale bears. A boy bear playing football and a girl doing ballet. 3 bassinets were light blue, green, and yellow. 2 were light pink and purple. The boys had mini football and helmet mobiles; the girls, ballet slippers and music notes. Through out the room was more furniture for a master bedroom/ sitting room and the nursery. The bathroom theme, off of the master bedroom, was moons and suns, done by Jules herself.
"W..how..whe..wow!" Shelby breathed, as she touched each bassinet and then a bedpost as she went around the rooms slowly.
"How 'bout you test that there bed out, little missy? Like..'till Sunday." Scott said in a goofy voice. He helped her on the bed and get all comfy.
"We're having my party in HERE. Hope you don't mind, I'm staying for GOOD!" Jess said as she climbed next to Shelby.
"Sure! Bring them on! I NEED the company! So, how..who DID all of this?" Shelby said in awe. Scott just grinned at Sophie and Peter and Jules.
"We ALL did. Peter, Soph, and Scott provided all of the furniture stuff. You got some VERY popular kids in there. The state is excited as well as the town of Agnes. A bunch was donated. And Jules herself did the whole bathroom for you. She won't tell us how she got her family to let go of her assets." Daisy said proudly. Jules just beamed. Shelby looked at everyone and got all teary eyed.
"Thank you." She whispered shyly. Yes, Shelby got shy just then. The hormones were running crazy. So, after classes were over for everyone, they had a little party for Jess with cake and ice cream and gifts. Jess did as told and didn't open Shelby's gift till she was alone that night. The letter with the gift read:
Jess, Here I give to you something that NO one else gets the privilege of knowing. I give this to you because you are my baby sister and my closest family member. Jess, I give to you the names we will be naming the quints, before anyone will ever know. Plus, I'm dying to tell SOMEone! I haven't even let Daisy in on this. Only Scott and I know. Took us a while to get these perfect. We're really happy with them. Please keep this hidden till the day the babies come. You'll be the one to show the group the names once they're said. Enjoy them! Love you forever, your big sis Shellie.
Jess had tears in her eyes as she read the names and connected where they all came from. She loved them all. She then stuck it under her mattress since no one was there to see. She had her rose and her 'We LOVE Our AUNTY!' frame with the sonogram picture, for now, in it. It had children's blocks A-E spread around the frame. Shelby went back to the hospital on Sunday late afternoon/ night. She was able to do this outpatient bed rest until her 24th week. Then she was permanently put into the hospital due to the stress to her organs and spine. She was only allowed up to go to the bathroom. She'd had a therapist in keeping her muscles from atrophying for the past month that now came in now that she was permanently on bed rest. They monitored each baby cautiously, crossing their fingers, hoping for the best.
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A/N: That's it for now, I need to break it somewhere or it'll be FOREVER long!! The next chappy is the arrival of the quints!! Please review and tell me what you think of all this!! Or if you have any questions!! Please no cruel flaming, I don't like those! But constructive criticism is alright. And I already have the names picked out, but you can give me your ideas for some good quint names, I'd love to hear what you all like!! Don't forget to review!! Thanx!
A/N: Here's the next chappy for you all! Hope you like it, I studied up on multiple births to get a lot of the facts right, so you can understand it all. But I ain't no doctor still, so don't quote me. Also, once again, I wrote this story before I realized that Sophie and Peter had a whole separate home away from Horizon, don't forget that! Enjoy!
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Shelby and Scott stayed for 5 days at their honeymoon getaway before coming home..GLOWING as ever! They got back into a routine again of check- ups, eating right, school, and working. Secretly from Shelby, everyone slowly began work on a new place for Shelby and Scott in an old break room off to the side of one of the hallways, not far from the kitchen and just down the hall and around a bend from Sophie and Peter's room. Shelby had no idea this was going on, only the guys (big or small) did, and some of the girls, who helped with decoration tips. There was already a bathroom hooked to it, just needed the shower and bath added and to make it look all home like and inviting. Everyone on campus just made sure to constantly redirect Shelby or lead her away from the hallway.
Three weeks later, at her 19 week, practically emergency check-up, Shelby went in because of high blood pressure.
"I recommend bed rest as much as possible at home, see how she does. Let us check these babies out. Moving much?" Dr. Sanso asked getting the sonogram machine ready.
"Yeah, as much as they can." Shelby said with an out-of-breath voice. They were now pushing on her lungs. She looked like someone who was having twins..THAT day.
"Look at that! The fifth one's moved! I can see the sex now." Dr. Sanso announced happily.
"Really?! Boy or girl?" Scott asked excitedly.
"It's a girl! You've got a boy, a girl, identical boys, and another girl!" Dr. Sanso said as he went through Baby A-E.
"Cool! 2 girls and 3 boys!!" Shelby said, all red faced.
"How about we put you on those meds now, they won't harm the babies, but help out with that blood pressure. Might not do a whole lot, but with that and the promised bed rest, you might make it a couple more weeks before we run into some more complications. It'll lessen the chances too." Dr. Sanso informed. So Shelby went on moderate bed rest at home through the end of October. No costume party for Shelby. She happily watched an old and sort of new Halloween movie marathon with Scott. She made everyone else go.
By the time the first week of November came around, Shelby was having more problems. She went to the hospital less than one week after Halloween and was admitted to outpatient bed rest. Outpatient bed rest was during the week, the busiest for anybody; she was in the hospital being monitored. And she was allowed to go home on the weekends. (Fri., Sat, & Sun.) But Shelby didn't learn this until the Thursday before she went back home. She had already been there for over a week since Halloween had fallen on a Thursday and the hospital had skipped her first weekend there.
"Mrs. Scarbrow-Barringer? How's spending the weekend at HOME sound?" the nurse asked, smiling.
"Really? Are you sure?" Shelby said hopefully. Scott was in and out mostly, but still had school, work, and Horizon stuff keeping him away. That and Shelby insistence to go home. Sophie stayed almost every night, but Shelby told her to give it up since she'd be there for a long time coming.
"Yeah, it's a new study we've done. Moms-to-be who are hospitalized on bed rest tend to get depressed, which worsens their case. It shows that sending them home on the quietest days increases their health a lot. You've been kinda blue lately." She explained nicely.
"Yeah.you can't BELIEVE how much I miss Horizon! My roommates would think I was nuts! But there..it's the only safe place I've ever known that's 'home' to me. I have never been away from everyone for this long before. Well..except the one time I was sent back to my house..but that was HELL compared to here, believe me!" Shelby said.
"Ok, we'll get you home first thing tomorrow. But you will be hooked to a Blood Pressure monitor. It's pretty small; you hook it to your belt. That's what's the problem here, the babies are fine." The nurse pointed out. Shelby nodded, eyeing the babies' monitors. She had 3 wires hooked to one machine on one side, and 2 wires hooked to another machine on the other side. Also her BP monitor and I.V of fluids and stuff.
That night, she got a surprise.
"Daddy!" Shelby exclaimed happily as Peter came in. Boy she missed everyone.
"Heard they're springing you from this joint soon. Wanna be my date to an adorable girls Birthday Party tomorrow?" he teased nicely, sitting on the edge of her bed.
"Why, kind sir, I would love to!" she giggled, playing along. "How's the little ones?" he asked then, eyeballing all the equipment nervously.
"Relax captain, they're all okay. Apparently it's MY blood pressure that got me here. Just too much squishing on my organs in there." She said, lifting up her gown to show him her HUGE belly with all the monitors and straps. He'd never seen her belly exposed before.
"Wow, hun! Check out your belly button!..sheesh..that looks..painful!" he said, touching her belly button and some of the monitors.
"Not really..just weird. Now my BACK..that's different!" she said eyes wide.
"Got something for ya'!" Peter said, teasingly. Shelby's eyes got big with curiosity as she put her gown down. He smiled devilishly and went out the door for a moment. He came back with a plain paper bag. He handed it to her.
"Oooh..it's REALLY cold!" she exclaimed, then gasped. She snapped her head up at him with a question look. He just nodded, grinning.
"Yes!! My ice cream! With?.."she asked looking up hopefully.
"Reese's pieces sprinkled on top. Your favorite crave." He said, nodding again. Shelby nearly fainted. She'd had to suffer through hospital food for SO long!
"You're the best!! Thanks!" she said, opening it and chowing down. Peter slept in the guest bed next to her, lulled to sleep by the monitors.
At 9:00am, Shelby was sent home for 3 days.
"Okay, she's in class..just our luck, it's the closest to us now, ..and not far from your room." Peter said, saying the last part to himself. Shelby had Happy Birthday balloons and a gift bag with a single white rose with a pink tip in her hands. Peter escorted her to the classroom and when Shelby stepped through the door, she started singing 'You Are My Sunshine' her and Jess's special song since they were little, then 'Happy Birthday' where everyone joined in. Jess sat shocked. Then she got up and hugged Shelby tearfully.
"What're you doing here?" Jess asked as Shelby sat on a chair and gave Jess all her gifts.
"It's my little sis's birthday. An army couldn't stop me from being here with her." Shelby responded. Jess just eyed Shelby tearfully. Her birthday was tough for her and Shelby was the only one who knew why. It was the night Walt first broke Shelby's promise he made at her.
"Love you Jessica Marie Scarbrow." Shelby said softly. Just then the class rang and the class let out leaving them alone. Peter had gone to get Scott a moment ago. Jess held her rose and balloon in one hand, and Shelby's hand in the other.
"Now, you're gift?! Is VERY, VERY special! You can't let ANYONE else see it! Only Scott and I have seen it. He doesn't even know I'm giving it to you..but I HAVE to let someone else see them. You'll understand when you see it. There's also another gift, a gift anybody can see if you want. I can't believe you're 12! Before I know it you'll be a teenager, driving me crazy!" Shelby said, shaking her head and laughing. Just then Scott came in.
"Hey beautiful! You're out! Is everyone okay?" he asked, kissing her on the lips sweetly.
"Yes. And they say it's better. I won't get so depressed and make it all worse." Shelby explained, shrugging.
"Uh.sis?..You've got like 10 ears to talk to!" Jess said pointing to her belly.
"Yeah, but they don't talk back..yet!" Shelby joked.
"But she's SUPPOSED to be resting..in a BED. She's still hooked up to monitors." Peter said fatherly.
"Yeah..see!? It's like a pager hooked to some leads to my wrist, for my BP. Now we both have one." Shelby said, referring to Scott's Baby Alert. Peter, Sophie, Jess, and Daisy all had one. They fixed it so that whoever had one would always be around the ones who didn't. She then got escorted to..
"Well, we're here!" Danny said proudly.
"A..DOOR. That's GREAT..to..what? A janitor closet?" Shelby said sarcastically, lost.
"Open it." Jess said excitedly.
"It's YOUR birthday Jess! You're the one getting gifts! Not me!" Shelby said, hating that they gave her..a janitor closet..on her little sis's birthday.
"It is a gift for me! To see your face! Now open the freakin' door!" Jess quipped out. Shelby eyeballed her then everyone around her and proceeded to open the door.
She couldn't believe her eyes.
The whole break room was now a split bedroom. In the middle of the room was a wall that went about halfway to the middle of the room. On one side was a four-post bed with light to dark turquoise colored bedding. On the other side were 5 bassinets and 2 changing tables, 2 rockers, and 2 medium sized dressers with all the accessories matching to the theme. The theme? Soft, pale bears. A boy bear playing football and a girl doing ballet. 3 bassinets were light blue, green, and yellow. 2 were light pink and purple. The boys had mini football and helmet mobiles; the girls, ballet slippers and music notes. Through out the room was more furniture for a master bedroom/ sitting room and the nursery. The bathroom theme, off of the master bedroom, was moons and suns, done by Jules herself.
"W..how..whe..wow!" Shelby breathed, as she touched each bassinet and then a bedpost as she went around the rooms slowly.
"How 'bout you test that there bed out, little missy? Like..'till Sunday." Scott said in a goofy voice. He helped her on the bed and get all comfy.
"We're having my party in HERE. Hope you don't mind, I'm staying for GOOD!" Jess said as she climbed next to Shelby.
"Sure! Bring them on! I NEED the company! So, how..who DID all of this?" Shelby said in awe. Scott just grinned at Sophie and Peter and Jules.
"We ALL did. Peter, Soph, and Scott provided all of the furniture stuff. You got some VERY popular kids in there. The state is excited as well as the town of Agnes. A bunch was donated. And Jules herself did the whole bathroom for you. She won't tell us how she got her family to let go of her assets." Daisy said proudly. Jules just beamed. Shelby looked at everyone and got all teary eyed.
"Thank you." She whispered shyly. Yes, Shelby got shy just then. The hormones were running crazy. So, after classes were over for everyone, they had a little party for Jess with cake and ice cream and gifts. Jess did as told and didn't open Shelby's gift till she was alone that night. The letter with the gift read:
Jess, Here I give to you something that NO one else gets the privilege of knowing. I give this to you because you are my baby sister and my closest family member. Jess, I give to you the names we will be naming the quints, before anyone will ever know. Plus, I'm dying to tell SOMEone! I haven't even let Daisy in on this. Only Scott and I know. Took us a while to get these perfect. We're really happy with them. Please keep this hidden till the day the babies come. You'll be the one to show the group the names once they're said. Enjoy them! Love you forever, your big sis Shellie.
Jess had tears in her eyes as she read the names and connected where they all came from. She loved them all. She then stuck it under her mattress since no one was there to see. She had her rose and her 'We LOVE Our AUNTY!' frame with the sonogram picture, for now, in it. It had children's blocks A-E spread around the frame. Shelby went back to the hospital on Sunday late afternoon/ night. She was able to do this outpatient bed rest until her 24th week. Then she was permanently put into the hospital due to the stress to her organs and spine. She was only allowed up to go to the bathroom. She'd had a therapist in keeping her muscles from atrophying for the past month that now came in now that she was permanently on bed rest. They monitored each baby cautiously, crossing their fingers, hoping for the best.
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A/N: That's it for now, I need to break it somewhere or it'll be FOREVER long!! The next chappy is the arrival of the quints!! Please review and tell me what you think of all this!! Or if you have any questions!! Please no cruel flaming, I don't like those! But constructive criticism is alright. And I already have the names picked out, but you can give me your ideas for some good quint names, I'd love to hear what you all like!! Don't forget to review!! Thanx!