February - 19 March 1954
I stopped working at the clinic on Valentine's Day. I had intended to stay on till March 8, but as the twins were expected any time after the eighth month, we weren't taking chances.
Hawkeye and Margaret were still together and although Margaret still lived in Portland, she often spent nights in the Cove and had become very much part of the family. She and I loved look after the two men, and they loved being looked after.
The babies were very real to me now, kicking and turning. Hawkeye even remarked that it was a good thing they weren't claustrophobic, because it must've been a very tight fit in there. Although he and Margaret were very passionately involved Hawkeye was besotted by his unborn children and loved to talk to BB and BJ, as we'd dubbed the twins. BB was still Baby Bump, and BJ was Benjamin Jack as I was sure I was having a boy.
We'd figured that I was having identical twins, as the chances of fraternal twins, especially in my semi-complete condition were minimal, and we were discussing other boy's names that we liked. So far we'd done nothing but squabble during our lunch breaks.
I woke Valentine's Day morning to find Daniel watching me sleep again. He'd told me he enjoyed watching me sleep, and I often woke to find him smiling as he watched me sleep. I didn't mind as it was nice to wake up to a smile every morning.
"Morning beautiful, ready for your last day at work?"
"Yep I guess so." I stood up and stretched. Wrapping my arms around my belly I headed into the kitchen. Hawkeye was already awake much to my surprise and was cooking breakfast. I heard Margaret calling to me from their bedroom and before I had much of a chance to think about Hawkeye I turned and waddled out.
"Yeah?" I went in, Margaret still curled sleepily in the bed, she smiled at me with the innocence of a little girl.
"Annie, do you have any of my old uniforms? Normally I have an extra one with me but last night . . ."
"Sure, somewhere in here." I opened Daniel's wardrobe and got nothing. I went into Katharine's old things and came out successful. Margaret usually had a spare outfit with her, as she never knew when she would be staying the night with Hawkeye.
"Thanks Annie. Now come on, I want to see what Hawkeye's doing for us today!" She got out of bed and pulled on her robe. The dark blue satin looked great on her with her still-sleepy eyes and slightly flushed cheeks.
"Happy Valentine's Day!" Hawkeye swooped on Margaret, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her the minute we got out into the kitchen. After a short but heated kiss, he let her go.
"Happy Valentine's Day Annie girl." He kissed me on the cheek warmly and I returned it.
"Come on, before we have breakfast, I've got something for my two beautiful girls!" He took a hand each and led us out to the living room. My bed was still set up, sloppy and unmade. He sat us down on the edge of the bed and disappeared out into the hall. He returned wrestling with an armful of pink, white and red roses.
"Here, for Margaret and for you Annie." He kissed both of us as he presented us with a big bunch of roses each.
"Hawkeye they're beautiful! Thankyou so much!" We both kissed him. There were six red, six pink, and six white in each bunch.
"Hawkeye, you didn't have to." I protested.
"I did, you never got the Valentines you deserved in Korea, if I remember, we spent them both in OR. And, you're still a very important woman in my life." He was right, both Valentine's days had been spent working out butts off, and although Hawkeye and I had made up later in Supply, I'd never once received flowers or any other gift.
"Thankyou Hawk." I smiled, Margaret and I found somewhere to put our roses. After that we went to breakfast, Hawkeye, and then Daniel waiting on us hand and foot.
"See you tonight!" Margaret left and ran into town to catch her bus. She and Hawkeye were going dancing that evening, and Hawkeye had set in on Daniel, trying to get him to take me too.
"Okay! Son, will you let me shave in peace if I go?" Daniel asked in exasperation. I guessed Hawkeye had agreed, because I heard Daniel's voice again. "Okay, I will take her if she wants to go!"
"Thankyou! Annie, guess who's going to dinner and dancing tonight?" He ran into his room, where I was dressing.
"Who?" I asked innocently, even though I had heard every word.
"You are, that is if you want to, Dad will take you."
"Well, I might just, celebrate my last day at work." I smiled. "Help!" Hawkeye helped me wrestle the sweater over the bulge as I got stuck, laughing all the while.
My last day at work was memorable, people came in to give me gifts and wish me luck. After school half the junior school stopped by to give me Valentine's Cards.
"Will you be my Valentine Nurse Anne?" Teddy Williams, a 6-year-old asked shyly.
"Nuh-uh, she's MY Valentine!" Cassie O'Hara bit back.
"I'll be all of your Valentines!" I replied diplomatically, hugging and kissing them all in turn, and giving them a sweetheart candy.
"Annie!" Alice, Matt and Lily had come by to visit me. I hugged them all at once. It had been a while since I'd seen them last. They had to go, as we had patients waiting and I let them out.
"Mrs Fernshaw, if you'd come through now." I showed her into Daniel's office and went through to Hawkeye's where a nine-year-old girl was refusing a needle.
"Hello Judi!" I sang as I came into the room, "What's Dr Hawkeye doing with you today?"
"He's trying to give me a needle!" She sobbed.
"Listen, I just happen to need a needle too, and I was hoping you'd hold my hand, because I'm kind of scared." I needed iron supplements because I had mild anaemia. Hawkeye caught the meaning and rolled up my sweater, sleeve, preparing to give me the injection I needed.
"Does it hurt much Judi?" I asked nervously, faking a slight lower-lip tremble. Judi stopped crying and slid off the table she came and stood next to me, holding my hand.
"It's okay Nurse Anne, it doesn't hurt, and Dr Hawkeye's not a liar. Don't be scared, I'll hold your hand while he gives it to you." She held my right hand, while Hawkeye rubbed my left arm with an alcohol swab.
"I'm not so sure that Dr Hawkeye isn't a li . . ." I began teasingly and the jumped as Hawkeye stabbed the needle into my arm harder than necessary. "He wouldn't lie. It didn't hurt a bit." I fibbed, as my arm throbbed.
"Thankyou for holding my hand Judi. It wasn't so scary after all." In the meanwhile, Hawkeye had given Judi her injection, which she hadn't even noticed. Hawkeye gave Judi a jellybean and sent her out.
"Let's see your arm, that was a lot harder than I should have." He rolled up the sweater sleeve again, there was no serious damage aside from slight swelling and bruising, and a small dribble of blood that ran down my arm.
"Yeah whatever happened to a subtle pinch or kick in the shin?" He wiped away the blood and gave me a jellybean. "I know I was about to make fool out of you but still, that was a bit overdone."
"Sorry bout that," He said sheepishly. "And when have I lied to you?"
"Let's see the time just then when 'it wouldn't hurt a bit' and that hurt like hell! Then the other time way back in Korea when 'it wouldn't hurt a bit' and did." I added as a tease, my tone and eyes telling him what I meant.
"Annie, you were a virgin! I was careful, but it was going to hurt a bit." Hawkeye defended himself, missing the tease in my words. "And you told me it didn't hurt that bad. And I remember in the end you had a good time."
"Ahem children, now is not the time to discuss your sex lives!" Daniel came in just before I was about to turn serious on him.
"There is a wall between this room and mine, Hawkeye doesn't have the quietest voice, just be grateful my office was empty, as was the waiting room." Daniel was almost disapproving.
"Sorry Dad."
"Sorry Daniel."
"Never mind kids, now come on, we're going out to dinner tonight." We locked up, and I left, feeling a little sad that it was the last day I'd be working there, ever really, as I didn't plan to work after BB and BJ were born. We walked back home and began the process of getting of ready. One bathroom, and three people always got messy. It was worse when Margaret was in.
"I'm out, all yours Daniel!" I left the bathroom, wearing a silky black slip and went through to Hawkeye's room. He was tying his shoes and looked up as I came in.
"Can I talk to you?" He asked.
"Sure, just help here." He got me into the dress.
"Mind if I watch you do your face?"
"No, not if you want to talk before we go, what is it?"
"About what you said in the clinic today about me lying to you about that night in Supply."
"Hawkeye, I meant it as a joke, I knew it probably wouldn't be perfect. I was teasing you, you just missed it."
"That's alright, I was just kinda worried when you said I'd lied." I paused to talk before I put some lipstick on.
"Honey, oh Hawkeye, I don't know what to say. It was a fabulous night, I really loved it even if it did hurt a little. Honestly, there's no one else I would've rather been there with."
"Not even Trapper?"
"Not even Trapper, besides I have the feeling he wouldn't have been half as careful as you were. Always struck me as the 'in and out I'm done' type. " Hawkeye laughed at the description.
"Glad you realised before you did anything you'd regret, now there are no regrets about it and I didn't lie?"
"No, of course not, want to do my hair?" Hawkeye's hands had a magical way of braiding and twisting my long hair into a beautiful 'do' and I loved having other people do my hair.
"Hawkeye," He grunted, as his mouth was full of bobby pins. "Look, thankyou for our first night," He pulled my hair back and didn't reply until he'd finished and his mouth was empty.
"You're welcome my sexy little Captain." He turned me around and studied my face and hair. Carefully he unpinned one lock and let it fall down the side of my face. "Beautiful. Shall we?" He took my elbow and escorted me out of the room.
"I believe that's my date." Daniel laughed, Hawkeye relinquished me good- naturedly and we got in the car to go pick up Margaret.
We had the most fabulous night, dancing and dining with many other couples. Daniel was the perfect gentleman, waltzing me around the floor, and kissing my hand at the end. I had a dance with Hawkeye, which we cut short when we felt a little too close.
I had to drive everyone home as I was the only person who hadn't touched a drop of alcohol all night. Hawkeye and Margaret disappeared down the beach as soon as we got back, and Daniel and I went in for coffee.
"Thanks for a lovely night Daniel, it was a lot of fun, honestly."
"I really enjoyed a night out, thanks for going." Daniel helped me unpin my hair and after struggling into my nightgown, I went to bed. I stirred a little when I heard Hawkeye and Margaret returned but decided to ignore anything else that followed.
We woke late the next morning as it was a Saturday and Margaret only worked afternoons, so we enjoyed a day of lazing around, talking about the previous night and just having fun.
I was bored at home, when Daniel and Hawkeye went to work, and I often walked down just to visit them anyway. BB and BJ were due almost any day as it was now the 19th of March and I had carried them to term. I'd been confined to the house, but there was one visit I had to make that day, to the cemetery and after lunch, I headed out.
I met my family there, and we went and visited Jack. It had been two years since he'd gone, and the first year I'd visited him. Once my family had left I sat a while with him, just talking to him, and letting him know that he was going to be an uncle almost any day. After having a talk, I had a pretty long cry.
"Annie, it's time to come home." Hawkeye's voice was gentle. I'd spent the entire afternoon there talking and crying to Jack without even realising it.
"Yeah I suppose so, thanks Hawkeye." He gave me a hand up and then held me for a couple of minutes while I regained my composure.
"Let's go home Annie, you shouldn't have come out anyway, you're liable to drop the babies almost any day now." We walked back, Daniel was slightly agitated about where I had been and told me off for not leaving a note.
I went to bed that night, but was kept up by the twins kicking and shifting. I was a very tired and grumpy person the next morning, and in a very out-of-character way, I went back to bed. I woke at about 2, and Hawkeye had already come back to keep me company.
"Hello Sleeping Beauty, waiting for your prince to wake you with a kiss?" He laughed sitting down on the edge of the bed.
"I wish." I yawned. "Oh, how much longer are you little guys going to be in there for? Mummy's dying to hold you," I addressed my belly. "Actually I'm really pining for a good night's sleep!"
"Keeping you up are they?" At about 11 pm every night the twins decided they were going to stage a wrestling match, and although it was magical to feel and see them move in the cramped environment, it was annoying trying to sleep.
I got up, and grabbed something to eat before returning to the sofa. Hawkeye had folded my bed away so we could sit down.
"Want a sandwich?" I offered him one and he took it. We ate in silence for a minute until I gasped, holding my stomach, my face creased at the odd sensation.
"Annie, what's up? Oh!" Hawkeye turned to me. There was a rapidly growing wet stain on my front. "Well, we know what this means." He said. "But I think we can wait until dad comes home. I know it's your first time, but you got through all your other first times okay. Didn't you?" I smiled at him.
"Yeah, we can wait. Hawkeye! I'm going to be a mummy!" He hugged and kissed me, as excited as I was. We rang Margaret who left work and came up as quickly as possible to be a midwife, and called everyone else that we knew. The Potters, BJ and Radar all made us promise to call them as soon as the babies had made their way into the world, whatever hour of the day or night.
Daniel came back early, it seemed that word had gotten out, and like the 4077, it didn't take long before everyone in Crabapple Cove knew that Nurse Anne was in labour.
"Alright, we're not doing this on the sofa, let's get Annie into my bed, make her comfortable." Daniel began giving me a hand up. I didn't want to go to the hospital as they wouldn't allow Hawkeye or Margaret in the room, and I wanted my friends nearby.
Daniel gave me full check up once we were in there and I was settled comfortably on his bed with plenty of clean sheets and towels.
"You're going to be a while, you're hardly dilated, and though you've had a show and your waters broke, you're no where near having these babies. Just get comfortable and wait." Daniel was right, it was a very long night.
I stopped working at the clinic on Valentine's Day. I had intended to stay on till March 8, but as the twins were expected any time after the eighth month, we weren't taking chances.
Hawkeye and Margaret were still together and although Margaret still lived in Portland, she often spent nights in the Cove and had become very much part of the family. She and I loved look after the two men, and they loved being looked after.
The babies were very real to me now, kicking and turning. Hawkeye even remarked that it was a good thing they weren't claustrophobic, because it must've been a very tight fit in there. Although he and Margaret were very passionately involved Hawkeye was besotted by his unborn children and loved to talk to BB and BJ, as we'd dubbed the twins. BB was still Baby Bump, and BJ was Benjamin Jack as I was sure I was having a boy.
We'd figured that I was having identical twins, as the chances of fraternal twins, especially in my semi-complete condition were minimal, and we were discussing other boy's names that we liked. So far we'd done nothing but squabble during our lunch breaks.
I woke Valentine's Day morning to find Daniel watching me sleep again. He'd told me he enjoyed watching me sleep, and I often woke to find him smiling as he watched me sleep. I didn't mind as it was nice to wake up to a smile every morning.
"Morning beautiful, ready for your last day at work?"
"Yep I guess so." I stood up and stretched. Wrapping my arms around my belly I headed into the kitchen. Hawkeye was already awake much to my surprise and was cooking breakfast. I heard Margaret calling to me from their bedroom and before I had much of a chance to think about Hawkeye I turned and waddled out.
"Yeah?" I went in, Margaret still curled sleepily in the bed, she smiled at me with the innocence of a little girl.
"Annie, do you have any of my old uniforms? Normally I have an extra one with me but last night . . ."
"Sure, somewhere in here." I opened Daniel's wardrobe and got nothing. I went into Katharine's old things and came out successful. Margaret usually had a spare outfit with her, as she never knew when she would be staying the night with Hawkeye.
"Thanks Annie. Now come on, I want to see what Hawkeye's doing for us today!" She got out of bed and pulled on her robe. The dark blue satin looked great on her with her still-sleepy eyes and slightly flushed cheeks.
"Happy Valentine's Day!" Hawkeye swooped on Margaret, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her the minute we got out into the kitchen. After a short but heated kiss, he let her go.
"Happy Valentine's Day Annie girl." He kissed me on the cheek warmly and I returned it.
"Come on, before we have breakfast, I've got something for my two beautiful girls!" He took a hand each and led us out to the living room. My bed was still set up, sloppy and unmade. He sat us down on the edge of the bed and disappeared out into the hall. He returned wrestling with an armful of pink, white and red roses.
"Here, for Margaret and for you Annie." He kissed both of us as he presented us with a big bunch of roses each.
"Hawkeye they're beautiful! Thankyou so much!" We both kissed him. There were six red, six pink, and six white in each bunch.
"Hawkeye, you didn't have to." I protested.
"I did, you never got the Valentines you deserved in Korea, if I remember, we spent them both in OR. And, you're still a very important woman in my life." He was right, both Valentine's days had been spent working out butts off, and although Hawkeye and I had made up later in Supply, I'd never once received flowers or any other gift.
"Thankyou Hawk." I smiled, Margaret and I found somewhere to put our roses. After that we went to breakfast, Hawkeye, and then Daniel waiting on us hand and foot.
"See you tonight!" Margaret left and ran into town to catch her bus. She and Hawkeye were going dancing that evening, and Hawkeye had set in on Daniel, trying to get him to take me too.
"Okay! Son, will you let me shave in peace if I go?" Daniel asked in exasperation. I guessed Hawkeye had agreed, because I heard Daniel's voice again. "Okay, I will take her if she wants to go!"
"Thankyou! Annie, guess who's going to dinner and dancing tonight?" He ran into his room, where I was dressing.
"Who?" I asked innocently, even though I had heard every word.
"You are, that is if you want to, Dad will take you."
"Well, I might just, celebrate my last day at work." I smiled. "Help!" Hawkeye helped me wrestle the sweater over the bulge as I got stuck, laughing all the while.
My last day at work was memorable, people came in to give me gifts and wish me luck. After school half the junior school stopped by to give me Valentine's Cards.
"Will you be my Valentine Nurse Anne?" Teddy Williams, a 6-year-old asked shyly.
"Nuh-uh, she's MY Valentine!" Cassie O'Hara bit back.
"I'll be all of your Valentines!" I replied diplomatically, hugging and kissing them all in turn, and giving them a sweetheart candy.
"Annie!" Alice, Matt and Lily had come by to visit me. I hugged them all at once. It had been a while since I'd seen them last. They had to go, as we had patients waiting and I let them out.
"Mrs Fernshaw, if you'd come through now." I showed her into Daniel's office and went through to Hawkeye's where a nine-year-old girl was refusing a needle.
"Hello Judi!" I sang as I came into the room, "What's Dr Hawkeye doing with you today?"
"He's trying to give me a needle!" She sobbed.
"Listen, I just happen to need a needle too, and I was hoping you'd hold my hand, because I'm kind of scared." I needed iron supplements because I had mild anaemia. Hawkeye caught the meaning and rolled up my sweater, sleeve, preparing to give me the injection I needed.
"Does it hurt much Judi?" I asked nervously, faking a slight lower-lip tremble. Judi stopped crying and slid off the table she came and stood next to me, holding my hand.
"It's okay Nurse Anne, it doesn't hurt, and Dr Hawkeye's not a liar. Don't be scared, I'll hold your hand while he gives it to you." She held my right hand, while Hawkeye rubbed my left arm with an alcohol swab.
"I'm not so sure that Dr Hawkeye isn't a li . . ." I began teasingly and the jumped as Hawkeye stabbed the needle into my arm harder than necessary. "He wouldn't lie. It didn't hurt a bit." I fibbed, as my arm throbbed.
"Thankyou for holding my hand Judi. It wasn't so scary after all." In the meanwhile, Hawkeye had given Judi her injection, which she hadn't even noticed. Hawkeye gave Judi a jellybean and sent her out.
"Let's see your arm, that was a lot harder than I should have." He rolled up the sweater sleeve again, there was no serious damage aside from slight swelling and bruising, and a small dribble of blood that ran down my arm.
"Yeah whatever happened to a subtle pinch or kick in the shin?" He wiped away the blood and gave me a jellybean. "I know I was about to make fool out of you but still, that was a bit overdone."
"Sorry bout that," He said sheepishly. "And when have I lied to you?"
"Let's see the time just then when 'it wouldn't hurt a bit' and that hurt like hell! Then the other time way back in Korea when 'it wouldn't hurt a bit' and did." I added as a tease, my tone and eyes telling him what I meant.
"Annie, you were a virgin! I was careful, but it was going to hurt a bit." Hawkeye defended himself, missing the tease in my words. "And you told me it didn't hurt that bad. And I remember in the end you had a good time."
"Ahem children, now is not the time to discuss your sex lives!" Daniel came in just before I was about to turn serious on him.
"There is a wall between this room and mine, Hawkeye doesn't have the quietest voice, just be grateful my office was empty, as was the waiting room." Daniel was almost disapproving.
"Sorry Dad."
"Sorry Daniel."
"Never mind kids, now come on, we're going out to dinner tonight." We locked up, and I left, feeling a little sad that it was the last day I'd be working there, ever really, as I didn't plan to work after BB and BJ were born. We walked back home and began the process of getting of ready. One bathroom, and three people always got messy. It was worse when Margaret was in.
"I'm out, all yours Daniel!" I left the bathroom, wearing a silky black slip and went through to Hawkeye's room. He was tying his shoes and looked up as I came in.
"Can I talk to you?" He asked.
"Sure, just help here." He got me into the dress.
"Mind if I watch you do your face?"
"No, not if you want to talk before we go, what is it?"
"About what you said in the clinic today about me lying to you about that night in Supply."
"Hawkeye, I meant it as a joke, I knew it probably wouldn't be perfect. I was teasing you, you just missed it."
"That's alright, I was just kinda worried when you said I'd lied." I paused to talk before I put some lipstick on.
"Honey, oh Hawkeye, I don't know what to say. It was a fabulous night, I really loved it even if it did hurt a little. Honestly, there's no one else I would've rather been there with."
"Not even Trapper?"
"Not even Trapper, besides I have the feeling he wouldn't have been half as careful as you were. Always struck me as the 'in and out I'm done' type. " Hawkeye laughed at the description.
"Glad you realised before you did anything you'd regret, now there are no regrets about it and I didn't lie?"
"No, of course not, want to do my hair?" Hawkeye's hands had a magical way of braiding and twisting my long hair into a beautiful 'do' and I loved having other people do my hair.
"Hawkeye," He grunted, as his mouth was full of bobby pins. "Look, thankyou for our first night," He pulled my hair back and didn't reply until he'd finished and his mouth was empty.
"You're welcome my sexy little Captain." He turned me around and studied my face and hair. Carefully he unpinned one lock and let it fall down the side of my face. "Beautiful. Shall we?" He took my elbow and escorted me out of the room.
"I believe that's my date." Daniel laughed, Hawkeye relinquished me good- naturedly and we got in the car to go pick up Margaret.
We had the most fabulous night, dancing and dining with many other couples. Daniel was the perfect gentleman, waltzing me around the floor, and kissing my hand at the end. I had a dance with Hawkeye, which we cut short when we felt a little too close.
I had to drive everyone home as I was the only person who hadn't touched a drop of alcohol all night. Hawkeye and Margaret disappeared down the beach as soon as we got back, and Daniel and I went in for coffee.
"Thanks for a lovely night Daniel, it was a lot of fun, honestly."
"I really enjoyed a night out, thanks for going." Daniel helped me unpin my hair and after struggling into my nightgown, I went to bed. I stirred a little when I heard Hawkeye and Margaret returned but decided to ignore anything else that followed.
We woke late the next morning as it was a Saturday and Margaret only worked afternoons, so we enjoyed a day of lazing around, talking about the previous night and just having fun.
I was bored at home, when Daniel and Hawkeye went to work, and I often walked down just to visit them anyway. BB and BJ were due almost any day as it was now the 19th of March and I had carried them to term. I'd been confined to the house, but there was one visit I had to make that day, to the cemetery and after lunch, I headed out.
I met my family there, and we went and visited Jack. It had been two years since he'd gone, and the first year I'd visited him. Once my family had left I sat a while with him, just talking to him, and letting him know that he was going to be an uncle almost any day. After having a talk, I had a pretty long cry.
"Annie, it's time to come home." Hawkeye's voice was gentle. I'd spent the entire afternoon there talking and crying to Jack without even realising it.
"Yeah I suppose so, thanks Hawkeye." He gave me a hand up and then held me for a couple of minutes while I regained my composure.
"Let's go home Annie, you shouldn't have come out anyway, you're liable to drop the babies almost any day now." We walked back, Daniel was slightly agitated about where I had been and told me off for not leaving a note.
I went to bed that night, but was kept up by the twins kicking and shifting. I was a very tired and grumpy person the next morning, and in a very out-of-character way, I went back to bed. I woke at about 2, and Hawkeye had already come back to keep me company.
"Hello Sleeping Beauty, waiting for your prince to wake you with a kiss?" He laughed sitting down on the edge of the bed.
"I wish." I yawned. "Oh, how much longer are you little guys going to be in there for? Mummy's dying to hold you," I addressed my belly. "Actually I'm really pining for a good night's sleep!"
"Keeping you up are they?" At about 11 pm every night the twins decided they were going to stage a wrestling match, and although it was magical to feel and see them move in the cramped environment, it was annoying trying to sleep.
I got up, and grabbed something to eat before returning to the sofa. Hawkeye had folded my bed away so we could sit down.
"Want a sandwich?" I offered him one and he took it. We ate in silence for a minute until I gasped, holding my stomach, my face creased at the odd sensation.
"Annie, what's up? Oh!" Hawkeye turned to me. There was a rapidly growing wet stain on my front. "Well, we know what this means." He said. "But I think we can wait until dad comes home. I know it's your first time, but you got through all your other first times okay. Didn't you?" I smiled at him.
"Yeah, we can wait. Hawkeye! I'm going to be a mummy!" He hugged and kissed me, as excited as I was. We rang Margaret who left work and came up as quickly as possible to be a midwife, and called everyone else that we knew. The Potters, BJ and Radar all made us promise to call them as soon as the babies had made their way into the world, whatever hour of the day or night.
Daniel came back early, it seemed that word had gotten out, and like the 4077, it didn't take long before everyone in Crabapple Cove knew that Nurse Anne was in labour.
"Alright, we're not doing this on the sofa, let's get Annie into my bed, make her comfortable." Daniel began giving me a hand up. I didn't want to go to the hospital as they wouldn't allow Hawkeye or Margaret in the room, and I wanted my friends nearby.
Daniel gave me full check up once we were in there and I was settled comfortably on his bed with plenty of clean sheets and towels.
"You're going to be a while, you're hardly dilated, and though you've had a show and your waters broke, you're no where near having these babies. Just get comfortable and wait." Daniel was right, it was a very long night.