Hiya, hope you like this chapter. I got bored I posted. Please R&R and I will...give you a cheese burger!

Still 2006. Enjoy.

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'...So, Alex, your mom is having the babies today, now. Don't be worried. I know it's early but we have two NICU beds waiting.' Abby half-smiles. 'I saw worse on my rotation Al. I saw babies born 3 months early; these two are being born 1 month early.'

'Still too early.'

'It is early but not too early. Twins are usually born slightly early and they're always fine.' Abby hugs me gently. 'Come on; cry a bit more then I'll take you to see your mom.' She says softly, stroking my hair. Luka has long since disappeared to OB and Chloe is curled up on a chair, asleep. It's been a tiring day for her, plus she misses mom. I sniff and wipe my eyes. Boys don't cry. Abby smiles again and then picks Chloe up.

'Let's go see your mom then.' She leads the way into the lift and we step out into another world. A world of rushing nurses, babies crying and lots of screaming. I am so glad I'm a boy.

'Here we are, your mom's in there.' Abby nods towards a door. 'I'll take Chloe and let her sleep in the lounge in the ER. Come down if you need anything. I think you may be sleeping at our house tonight, both of you so I'll see you later.' Abby winks and walks back to the lift while I walk towards the door.

'Mom?' I almost whisper it as I push open the door.

'Alex? Oh, there you are.' Mom looks tired but otherwise normal.

'Are you having the babies?' I'm confused. Isn't she meant to be screaming in agony?

'Yeah, the contractions are quite weak but I'm 10cm dilated. They're coming, just very slowly.' She smiles and rubs her bump. Dad looks relieved.

'Oh, okay. So I'm not gonna see them just yet?'

They both shake their heads. After all that worry, I was starting to look forward to seeing them.

'We're just gonna have to wait this out.'

'How long can it take?'

'A long time. I was in labour with you for 16 hours.' I feel my jaw hit the floor. 'Of course, I wasn't actually pushing for that long. It was kinda like this- dull pain.' I nod and yawn.

'Come here.' Mom says and I walk over to her. She moves over on the bed and climb in. I know I'm 12 and if any of my friends could see me now, I would just die but there's nothing better than being hugged by your mom.

'Alex.' Someone shakes me. 'You're gonna have to wake up now. Your mom's waters just broke.'

My feet are wet.

Ew!

I practically jump out the bed and skid across the floor. Ew! Ew! Ew! Baby juice!

'Oh, that doesn't feel good.' Mom grimaces and I close my eyes. I don't wanna see the pain etched in her face. Her voice isn't more than a whisper and even that sounds in pain.

Slowly I half walk, half crawl to the corner, away from the doctors and nurses rushing around. I can't see mom anymore but I can still hear her panting. It sounds so weird. One of the doctors pulls on some gloves.

'Okay Ms Taggart, I want you to push for me.' Mom kinda cries, 'Good, now again.' I can hear a weird sucking sound and I nearly throw up. 'One more, it's nearly out.' There's a loud squelch and a tiny cry. The baby! It's out.

'You have a baby boy. He's fine.' The doctor holds up a tiny little pink thing and I see my brother. He's so small.

'Right, now the next one is on its way.' Mom mumbles something but I can't hear her.

'Come on Sam, push.' Dad speaks softly to mom, and she cries again.

'Keep going.' The doctor says. There's no sound now. 'And again.' I can hear her panting, it sounds painful. I wanna stop it hurting. 'Once more.' Mom screams but this time there's no cry. No sound except mom breathing hard.

'It's a girl. She's having trouble breathing but the team can give her O2.' The doctor seems so calm. My sister! She's not breathing.

Mom starts crying but the nurse hands her my little brother. She carries on crying but she smiles too. This is so weird.

The doctor peels off the gloves and stands up. There's no sound but slowly a little cry starts. My sister. She's crying, she's breathing!

Without meaning to, I crawl out from the corner. Dad looks up and sees me, and he starts to smile.

'Alex. Why were you there?'

'It happened so fast. I didn't want to go, but I was in the way. I heard them crying. Are they okay?' I stand up and peer at the bundles in mom's arms.

'They're fine. No, they're perfect.' Dad opens his arms and I go to hug him. Mom holds the twins and we all just look at them. They are perfect.

'What are they called?' I whisper.

'I don't know. We decided you could give them their middle names but me and dad want to decide on their first names.'

'Michael.'

'Jack.'

'Randy.'

'Tom.'

'Jacob.' Dad says. We all look at each other and realise its perfect.

'Jacob Thomas.' I say, and mom and dad nod. It sounds so right.

'Miranda.'

'Kadey.'

'Natasha.'

'Kerry.' We frown.

'Abby.'

'Keira.' Mom says suddenly. I smile widely and dad whispers it.

'Keira Abigail.' We grin. The babies have names, my brother and sister, Jacob and Keira.

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