Chapter 6: Help
"Ah...Yeah we have...If there is nothing more anyone can do, we want the machines turned off." Luke said in a soft but hearable voice.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, we're sure."
"Alright, I will just need you to sign some paper work."
An hour after Heather died; Luke and Brooke took a Taxi to the Hotel. When they got to the room Luke went over to Hannah who was sleeping on a bed. "Hannah sweetie, wake up." The little girl woke at the sound of her father's voice. "Sweetie, daddy needs to tell you some thing very important, okay?" Luke said with Brooke, Nathan, and Haley now behind him.
"Otay."
"Your mommy...ah...your mommy has gone to heaven...She went to be with God and all the angles." Luke said with tires falling down his checks."
"Will she come back?"
"No, honey, I sorry but mommy can't come back." Luke posed to wipe his tires. "She went to Heaven so she wouldn't be in any more pain."
"So Mommy is better now?" Hannah said softly as she started to cry.
"Yeah, Mommy fells better now." Luke posed again but this time he turn and grabbed Brooke's hand and pulled her close to him and then faced Hannah "I know that she can't replace your Mommy Hannah, but if it's okay with you Brooke would like to be your new Mommy, is that okay?"
Hannah looked up at Brooke still crying and stood up on the bed and hugged her. "I want me Mommy." Brooke gasped in surprise. "I know baby, I know, but I'm here for you, okay." Brooke answered sadly keeping up Hannah as best as she could and placing her on her hip so that her belly wasn't squished, as Hannah started to cry harder.
A haft in hour later Brooke had finally gotten Hannah to fall asleep in her arms. "Help" Brooke said to Luke she was tired, holding Hannah and the baby weight was getting to her. Luke walked over and took Hannah letting her head rest on his shoulders and carried her to the taxi down stairs followed by every one else. They were going home.
An hour later Luke, Brooke, a still sleeping Hannah, Nathan, and Haley were on a plane back to California. Luke had arranged for Heather's body to be flown back to California on a later flight, and then to be buried at a local cemetery.
Hannah didn't wake up until they arrived in Kansas City to change planes. She started crying right away. "Mommy...Mommy." She ran to Brooke and grabbed her leg. Brooke had to hold the rest on the way home.