"Hi Mom."

"Hi Mommy!"

The girls said as soon as they had found their mother. She was in her bed and looked very tired but very happy. They hugged her.

"Hi my girls." She said, kissing each one of them and cradling her youngest baby in her arms.

"How are you Mom?" Tessa asked.

"Honestly I've been a lot better, but I've been much worse too. I heard you did well on your last assignment. Congratulations."

"Thanks."

"Anyway." She said, holding up the new baby a little bit more. "Tessa, Zoë, this is Sophie."

Sophie was wide a wake and attentive. She was strawberry blonde and blue eyed she looked rather like Andrew.

"Can I hold her?"

"Can I?"

"One at a time girls." She said, handing carefully handing baby Sophie to Tessa.

"Hi. I'm your biggest sister…" She said as she began to walk around the room with the baby.

"Mommy, where's Daddy?" Zoë asked as she sat on the side of her Mother's bed.

"He went home to get me some things that I needed, but he'll be back."

"Okay."

"How are you Zoë?"

"Good. I've missed you."

"You too."

"Here Zoë, it's your turn." Tessa said as she placed Sophie in Zoë's arms.

"Hold her head darling." Zoë nodded.

"I like her name."

"Yes, she's named after a friend of mine." Monica said. She was then interrupted by a knock at the door.

"Hi." Said Sophie.

"Tessa, Zoë. This is my friend Sophie."

"Hi." The girls said.

"Hi, it's great to meet you. You know I've known your mommy for a very long time."

"Really?" Zoë asked as she handed her new sister back to their mother.

"How long?" Tessa inquired.

"Before I even met your Dad."

"Wow! That's a real long time!" Zoë exclaimed. They all laughed.

"Sophie, I'd like you to meet my littlest daughter, Sophie."

"You named her after me? Why…"

"Because you have been my friend for years and, although you didn't sit with me tonight you did call 911 one for me and you helped bring her into the world."

"Thank you Monica." Sophie began to cry, "May I hold her?" Monica nodded as she once again placed her baby in someone's arms.

"How are you?"

"Great." She smiled.

………………..

"So, what's next?" Tessa asked as they drove down the road. Convinced that nothing on earth could match they joy that her family had felt in the past few days.

"We're going on assignment of course." Tess said as she slipped on a pair of sunglasses. Suddenly Tessa found herself on a beautiful tropical road.

"But did I happen to mention, that we are going on assignment in the Caribbean?"

They laughed as they drove into the sunset and a white dove flew above the car.

………………..

In no time at all a month and a half had passed since Sophie was born. By this time everything had pretty much gone back to normal. Zoë was in school and everyone was back doing casework except for Monica of course. Gloria even took the twins, (who were attempting to walk by now), on her assignments with her every once in a while. Zoë had grown tired of her little sister more than once, but by this time she had fallen in love with her.

The baby had gone to bed several hours earlier, and Zoë tiptoed into the room that they shared so she wouldn't wake her. But when walking by she saw that Sophie was already wide a wake.

"Hi Sophie." She whispered. Sophie smiled. Zoë would've picked her up; but she was simply too tired and their mother would be in any minute. She kissed the baby through the bars of her crib. "Goodnight. I love you." She said. And Zoë went to bed, happy to be a big sister.