Lona could barely restrain herself from sobbing as she tried to
look somewhere, anywhere but at Elmer. This wasn't his fault and she knew
that all she was doing was making him think he had done something to blow
things with her again but it just hurt so much to look at him and know that
their baby.... Suddenly a pain seized her and she moaned, a tear s that the baby... The
pain was back though, and she felt herself moaning once more, reaching out
and snagging Elmer's hand and digging her fingers in as the pain gripped
her. How long would this go on when the baby.... Suddenly she felt
something, something different about this pain. She opened her eyes,
confusion plain as she tried to figure out what had changed. The pains hadn't eased in intensity, that was for sure but there was something different and... Just then she felt a fluttering inside that rapidly increased in motion as the pain reached its peak and started to ease slightly. Her free hand moved down, resting on her stomach next to Mona's almost unable to believe what she was feeling. The baby... She felt more tearback though, and she felt herself moaning once more, reaching out and snagging Elmer's hand and digging her fingers in as the pain gripped her. How long would this go on when the baby.... Suddenly she felt something, something different about this pain. She opened her eyes,
confusion plain as she tried to figure out what had changed. The pains hadn't eased in intensity, that was for sure but there was something different and... Just then she felt a fluttering inside that rapidly increased in motion as the pain reached its peak and started to ease slightly. Her free hand moved down, resting on her stomach next to Mona's almost unable to believe what she was feeling. The baby... She felt more tears slipping down her cheeks, tears of relief this time. The baby was okay! She hadn't lost it like she had feared.
"Lona?" Elmer whispered, not sure of what to do to help her but at the same time sure that the reason she was crying was his fault. He reached out, trying to wipe her tears away as best he could. This was all his fault somehow, he was sure of it. Why had he even gone after Lona and put her in this danger? It was him. It had to be. He was cursed or something and... Their baby had never even had a chance, had... He felt himself starting to hyperventilate once more at the thought of the baby.
He hadn't known about it for long, of course, but even though it was unspoken, he had wanted that baby.
"Elmer, it's okay." Lona felt herself smiling even as another pain gripped her. She reached up and moved his hand down onto her stomach, now tensed from the pain, but with almost visible baby movements as well. She laughed inwardly at the expression on Elmer's face when he felt the baby.
True, he could definitely be childish but still....
"Mary?" Michael moved towards his sister with a questioning look.
"I think she'll be okay," Mary said as she eased off of the table without Lona or Elmer even noticing. "Being here fixed things somehow."
She glanced toward the doorway leading into the first room of the morgue and then into the rest of the Old Kingdom. "We don't have much more time though."
"Okay," Hook said as he came over, trying not to glance at Elmer and Lona. That situation might be a bit odd even for Kingdom Hospital.
"What do we need to do to stop this?"
"We need to free the children," Sally said as she joined them as well. The very thought of all of those innocent children trapped here,
being forced to relive their deaths over and over for so long tugged at her heart. Of all of the evil things in the world, was there anything worse than the torture of innocents?
"And we need the second bell too, I think." Mary added slowly.
She had always known in some way that her bell was important but the significance of the bells together still wasn't quite clear to her.
Michael thought for a moment before motioning for Susan to come over. "Go with them." He told his student. "You should be able to detect Gottreich or that delinquent boy if they try to stop you. The rest of us will see about freeing the children." Michael barely remembered the details of the mill fire that weren't connected to his sister but one thing that was clear in his mind was the number of children who had perished. If the were going to save them, they were going to need all of the help they could get. "There's a chance that Jesse will decide to call his aunt and arrange for some sort of rescue attempt but the odds of that...."
"I wouldn't put money on it," Susan said with a shake of her head as she reached out and snagged Mary and Mona's hands. "About our only chance of getting any sort of help is if Ms. Stevens comes by to give us a ride and figures out something's wrong." At least that had more of a chance of occurring than did their chances of Dr. James getting a clue but still... The heavy, foreboding feeling that permeated this place was increasing rapidly. "Let's go girls." She just wanted to do what they had to to fix this quickly so they could get out of there. They headed for the door followed by Peter and Sally.
"Elmer?" Hook called as he looked back at the younger doctor.
"Time to go."
"What?" What was Hook talking about, telling him to go somewhere?
Okay, he had agreed to help them if they would do something to help Lona and the baby but... Surely helping didn't involve leaving Lona alone in the middle of labor! Because if he did, well, they were just asking too much. Their baby was okay and there was no way that he was going to do anything to jeopardize that now!
"Elmer." Hook moved away from the door and headed toward Elmer.
They didn't have time to argue about this.
"Listen, I helped already." Elmer said with a shake of his head.
He wasn't giving in this time, no way! "And there is no way that I'm going to go off and leave Lona now! And you can't make me!"
"Wait a minute," Lona said as she started to ease herself towards the edge of the table. Now that the fact that the baby was really okay had had time to sink in, the realization that they were back in the morgue where the baby had been conceived was hitting her. She took another glance around the room. Now why couldn't Elmer have brought them to the first morgue instead of this one? She didn't exactly want morgue listed on the baby's birth certificate but at least the first morgue they had been in was nicer! She swung her legs over the edge of the table and started to experimentally try to stand. She was feeling stronger now, not as drained.
Maybe...
"Lona!" Elmer caught her before she could fall as another pain hit. His eyes widened slightly in fear that the movement could have somehow harmed the baby but it felt the worry fade a bit a moment later when he could still feel the steady movements.
"I might be able to do something to help if you can carry her,"
Michael said as he came over. "With that boy roaming loose down here, it wouldn't be a good idea to leave her here."
"Fine," Elmer said after a moment. He still wasn't sure that trying to move Lona was the greatest idea in her condition but he definitely knew that he wasn't going to be separated from her no matter what.
"That's worked out," Antubis said as he turned and started towards the door with his fluffy tail swishing. "Now if none of the rest of you have any problems or desires to maybe take a break to do naughty things...."
"Could you please not mention any naughty things?" Elmer called as he gathered Lona into his arms, He just hoped whatever they needed to do,
they could do it quickly.
confusion plain as she tried to figure out what had changed. The pains hadn't eased in intensity, that was for sure but there was something different and... Just then she felt a fluttering inside that rapidly increased in motion as the pain reached its peak and started to ease slightly. Her free hand moved down, resting on her stomach next to Mona's almost unable to believe what she was feeling. The baby... She felt more tearback though, and she felt herself moaning once more, reaching out and snagging Elmer's hand and digging her fingers in as the pain gripped her. How long would this go on when the baby.... Suddenly she felt something, something different about this pain. She opened her eyes,
confusion plain as she tried to figure out what had changed. The pains hadn't eased in intensity, that was for sure but there was something different and... Just then she felt a fluttering inside that rapidly increased in motion as the pain reached its peak and started to ease slightly. Her free hand moved down, resting on her stomach next to Mona's almost unable to believe what she was feeling. The baby... She felt more tears slipping down her cheeks, tears of relief this time. The baby was okay! She hadn't lost it like she had feared.
"Lona?" Elmer whispered, not sure of what to do to help her but at the same time sure that the reason she was crying was his fault. He reached out, trying to wipe her tears away as best he could. This was all his fault somehow, he was sure of it. Why had he even gone after Lona and put her in this danger? It was him. It had to be. He was cursed or something and... Their baby had never even had a chance, had... He felt himself starting to hyperventilate once more at the thought of the baby.
He hadn't known about it for long, of course, but even though it was unspoken, he had wanted that baby.
"Elmer, it's okay." Lona felt herself smiling even as another pain gripped her. She reached up and moved his hand down onto her stomach, now tensed from the pain, but with almost visible baby movements as well. She laughed inwardly at the expression on Elmer's face when he felt the baby.
True, he could definitely be childish but still....
"Mary?" Michael moved towards his sister with a questioning look.
"I think she'll be okay," Mary said as she eased off of the table without Lona or Elmer even noticing. "Being here fixed things somehow."
She glanced toward the doorway leading into the first room of the morgue and then into the rest of the Old Kingdom. "We don't have much more time though."
"Okay," Hook said as he came over, trying not to glance at Elmer and Lona. That situation might be a bit odd even for Kingdom Hospital.
"What do we need to do to stop this?"
"We need to free the children," Sally said as she joined them as well. The very thought of all of those innocent children trapped here,
being forced to relive their deaths over and over for so long tugged at her heart. Of all of the evil things in the world, was there anything worse than the torture of innocents?
"And we need the second bell too, I think." Mary added slowly.
She had always known in some way that her bell was important but the significance of the bells together still wasn't quite clear to her.
Michael thought for a moment before motioning for Susan to come over. "Go with them." He told his student. "You should be able to detect Gottreich or that delinquent boy if they try to stop you. The rest of us will see about freeing the children." Michael barely remembered the details of the mill fire that weren't connected to his sister but one thing that was clear in his mind was the number of children who had perished. If the were going to save them, they were going to need all of the help they could get. "There's a chance that Jesse will decide to call his aunt and arrange for some sort of rescue attempt but the odds of that...."
"I wouldn't put money on it," Susan said with a shake of her head as she reached out and snagged Mary and Mona's hands. "About our only chance of getting any sort of help is if Ms. Stevens comes by to give us a ride and figures out something's wrong." At least that had more of a chance of occurring than did their chances of Dr. James getting a clue but still... The heavy, foreboding feeling that permeated this place was increasing rapidly. "Let's go girls." She just wanted to do what they had to to fix this quickly so they could get out of there. They headed for the door followed by Peter and Sally.
"Elmer?" Hook called as he looked back at the younger doctor.
"Time to go."
"What?" What was Hook talking about, telling him to go somewhere?
Okay, he had agreed to help them if they would do something to help Lona and the baby but... Surely helping didn't involve leaving Lona alone in the middle of labor! Because if he did, well, they were just asking too much. Their baby was okay and there was no way that he was going to do anything to jeopardize that now!
"Elmer." Hook moved away from the door and headed toward Elmer.
They didn't have time to argue about this.
"Listen, I helped already." Elmer said with a shake of his head.
He wasn't giving in this time, no way! "And there is no way that I'm going to go off and leave Lona now! And you can't make me!"
"Wait a minute," Lona said as she started to ease herself towards the edge of the table. Now that the fact that the baby was really okay had had time to sink in, the realization that they were back in the morgue where the baby had been conceived was hitting her. She took another glance around the room. Now why couldn't Elmer have brought them to the first morgue instead of this one? She didn't exactly want morgue listed on the baby's birth certificate but at least the first morgue they had been in was nicer! She swung her legs over the edge of the table and started to experimentally try to stand. She was feeling stronger now, not as drained.
Maybe...
"Lona!" Elmer caught her before she could fall as another pain hit. His eyes widened slightly in fear that the movement could have somehow harmed the baby but it felt the worry fade a bit a moment later when he could still feel the steady movements.
"I might be able to do something to help if you can carry her,"
Michael said as he came over. "With that boy roaming loose down here, it wouldn't be a good idea to leave her here."
"Fine," Elmer said after a moment. He still wasn't sure that trying to move Lona was the greatest idea in her condition but he definitely knew that he wasn't going to be separated from her no matter what.
"That's worked out," Antubis said as he turned and started towards the door with his fluffy tail swishing. "Now if none of the rest of you have any problems or desires to maybe take a break to do naughty things...."
"Could you please not mention any naughty things?" Elmer called as he gathered Lona into his arms, He just hoped whatever they needed to do,
they could do it quickly.