Note: Sorry for the huge time jump, but I accidentally deleted what I wrote as I was saving it lol. I know I'm a dork. Enjoy this just the same. The time change doesn't really effect anything. Lol.

April 29th, 2003

Jing-Mei sighed as she got into the car. She just needed a break. The triplets were being needy beyond belief. She knew that's what babies, but having it time three was hard sometimes. The triplets started going to the day care at the hospital since now John and Jing-Mei worked more. JT and Josie loved it, but Joss hated it. Every time they would leave her there, she would get hysterical.

"Oh well." Jing-Mei said to herself. She reached over and flipped the radio on. Jing-Mei loved just going for a ride with no screaming babies next to her and no chauffeur asking her questions. It was just she and the open road. Her hands tapped on the steering wheel.

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to. You would cry to if it happened to you." Jing-Mei sang. If only it was warm out. Last night they had got a freeze and some frost over everything. She couldn't wait until summer. "Play all my records, keep dancing all night, something something. Just then they walked through the door, like a king with his queen. Why was she holding his hand when he's supposed to be mine." Jing-Mei shook her head.

"Okay, I totally don't know the words." She chuckled to herself. The car in front of her swerved slightly. "Shit. Learn to drive ass." Jing-Mei sped up to pass him when her tires hit a patch of ice. She suddenly lost control of the car, "Oh god!"

Her reflexes told her to fight the way the car was spinning, but she knew she shouldn't. Jing-Mei hit the rakes, but they seemed not to work. She was panicking as saw a tree right in front of her.

"Oh shit!!" She cried as she sprang forward and the sound of metal crushing echoed throughout the area. Jing-Mei hit the steering wheel hard as her airbag finally inflated. Glass shattered all around her, as the front of her car seemed to melt like butter against the tree. Jing-Mei lost conscience.

* * *

Annabelle Blake stopped her car as she saw the wreck. Her heart stopped. She always feared finding an accident. She jumped out of the car and ran to the wreckage. The smell of gasoline already made her head hurt.

"Shit." Annabelle saw Jing-Mei, "Ma'am, can you hear me? Ma'am?" Annabelle pulled the door open and unbuckled Jing-Mei. "I need to get you out of here and to the hospital." Annabelle tugged Jing-Mei out and dragged her to her own car. "I'm sorry."

Once Jing-Mei was loaded into the car, Annabelle drove towards Mercy Hospital where her husband worked. Her heart was racing. The woman in her backseat was someone's wife. She saw a wedding ring. She could be a mother. Her kids could be sitting around the dinner table waiting and wondering where she was. Annabelle came to a screeching stop in the ambulance bay area of Mercy. She ran inside, running into her husband.

"Phillip! There's a woman in my back seat. She was in a car accident." Annabelle panted.

"Is she awake?" Phillip asked. Annabelle shook her head.

"She hasn't responded." She said, "She has a weak pulse." Phillip grabbed a gurney and ran to the car.

"She's bad. Tanya, get some blood in trauma one now!" Phillip said as he put a neck brace on Jing-Mei. "No purse or wallet."

"I didn't think to look for a purse." Annabelle whispered watching, Phillip push Jing-Mei into the trauma room.

"We need to get a chest x-ray and a head CT on her." Phillip said.

"Dr. Blake, she looks familiar." Tanya said hooking up a pint of blood, jus tin case.

"I want to get an ultrasound of her belly." He said, "How familiar?"

"Very. She was in the newspaper for marrying someone famous, I think?" Tanya shrugged. "She's stable."

"Someone famous." Phillip chuckled as he listened to Jing-Mei's chest.

"She works at County." Another nurse said, "I've seen her."

"County. Oh! Yes!" Tanya said, "She married Millicent Carter's Grandson."

"Carter…Yes, I've heard that name before from County." Phillip said, "Call county and ask around about her."

* * *

John looked at the clock. It was now nine thirty. Jing-Mei went out for a ride at four. He took in a deep breath and started to pace. Something was wrong. Something had to be wrong. She never would have gone somewhere and not called if she were going to be late. He jumped a mile when the phone rang.

"Hello? Carter residence." John said.

"Hello. Is John Carter there?" Phillip asked.

"This is he." John said, "May I help you?"

"This Dr. Blake from Mercy Hospital." He said, "We have your wife in the ER." The colour drained from John's face. His lip trembled slightly.

"Wh-What happened?"

"Your wife was in a car accident. We have her stabilized and we can't find any internal damage, but she is still unconscious."

"Oh god." John whispered, "Her v-vitals are okay?"

"They're stable, Dr. Carter, but we're keeping her here until she's awake and we feel that she's safe to go home."

"D-Did she get a Head CT?" John whispered.

"Yes. It was clear." Phillip said.

"Okay. I'll be there in twenty minutes. T-Tell Jing-Mei I'll be there. Tell her to hang on." John said before he hung up. "April, watch the babies. Deb is in the hospital. I need to go." John's heart was racing. He couldn't loose Jing-Mei. He had just lost Gamma. He couldn't loose someone else that he loved.

* * *

John raced into the ER, to the admit desk.

"My wife. You have my wife. Jing-Mei Carter. Where is my wife??" He asked.

"Room four, sir." The receptionist said. John raced to room four. He walked in. Jing-Mei was hooked up to a few machines. John's lip trembled walking to her bedside.

"Deb, it's me, John." He whispered. She looked so pale. She had stitches on her head. She must have hit her head on the steering wheel before the airbag inflated, john thought. He picked up her chart and looked through it. He was happy to see there was no visible internal damage.

"Deb, you need to wake up okay? The babies are home, but they want you to wake up. You know Josslyn cries whenever you leave. What if you d-didn't come back?" He asked, "Just wake up. Do you understand?"

John sat there, holding her hand tightly. He wanted to feel the slightest movement of her hand. Any thing. He wanted her awake. He whispered a small prayer to Millicent. He needed her. He needed her to protect Jing-Mei. It felt like three hours, but it was probably only an hour when Jing-Mei finally started to move.

"Deb?" He looked at his wife as she slowly started to open her eyes. She groaned slightly, "It's all right. It's all right. You're okay!" He was grinning brightly.

"John…" She mumbled.

"You were in a car accident. You hit a tree and was knocked unconscious." John said, "You're at Mercy Hospital."

"Mercy…" Jing-Mei grunted.

"I know, not the best hospital in the world, but you're alive and that's all that matters." John smiled. He breathed out a big sigh of relief. "You need to stay here for awhile so they can make sure everything is all right with you."

"Jays…" She said.

"April is with the babies. They were sound asleep when I left." John said, "I'm just so happy you're awake." He kissed her forehead.

"So tired." She mumbled lifting up her hand. John nodded.

"I know, Baby. I know." Tears of happiness streamed down John's face. Jing-Mei was awake.