'That went well,' Skye thought smugly as she carried her precious package back to the hotel where she and Jerry were staying. It had only taken the doctor three days and a lot of money to get the medicine she needed. She was even reasonably sure that he wouldn't call Alcazar for the reward he was offering for information on her whereabouts for at least a couple of days. She had paid him handsomely for his silence. Though she didn't believe that he would keep his silence permanently, she did believe that Jerry had struck enough fear into the bastard that first day to keep him away from the phone until they left town. Skye didn't believe that Jerry would actually kill anyone, but for those few moments that Jerry had held that doctor at gunpoint Jerry even had her convinced that he would track the doctor down if anything bad happened. The doctor and Jerry had quickly come to an arrangement. Her she was, four days later, with all the medication she would need for the duration of the pregnancy.

As Skye let herself into the room, Jerry was hanging up the phone. He smiled as he saw her walk in. "Did you get what you needed?" Jerry asked.

Skye grinned and held up the bag. "I have everything I need plus some to spare."

Jerry looked questioningly at the small bag in her hand. Skye handed it to him and he poured the bottles onto the counter. As he inspected the medication he asked, "Skye, are you sure the guy got this right? Some of these pills don't look anything like what you are taking." He held up a bottle to show her.

"That's because the medication changes at various stages in this pregnancy. It's all there. According to the file, I should be moving on to the next medication in a few weeks."

"When will that be?" Jerry looked worried.

"I'm not exactly sure."

Skye could tell from to look on his face that he didn't like her answer.

"It's not so easy to just pick the date. The file has specifically marked out developmental stages for the medication changes. Unfortunately, these babies aren't on the same schedule. They were conceived almost two weeks apart. It would be logical to assume that they aren't hitting these stages at the same time. Switching medications will be tricky."

"Skye, if you need to be in a hospital, I know a few in Canada. I guarantee that the doctors are loyal to my family."

"Jerry, I'm pregnant, not sick."

"But it sounds to me like you need medical care. Let's face it, I wouldn't trust any of the doctors you have on that list considering who gave it to you."

Skye shook her head. "I never should have told you where I got this list."

"I'm glad you did. What were you thinking?"

"He was a brilliant doctor at one time and they haven't been able to prove anything."

"The only thing that kept that man out of prison was that no one could find the bodies."

Skye walked to the window to avoid looking Jerry in the eye. "The doctors on this list are exactly the kind I need. They are used to dealing with unorthodox procedures."

"You mean illegal procedures," Jerry interrupted.

Skye turned to face Jerry. "Okay, fine, perhaps they are illegal procedures, but do you really thing that what was done to me was approved by any medical board? These doctors are used to thinking outside that narrow box of what is and isn't allowed and what is and isn't possible. I was told a long time ago that I would never carry a child to term." Skye pulled the medical folder from her purse and slapped it down in front of him. "This, whatever it is, made it possible."

"You almost sound grateful to Alcazar."

"Don't get me wrong. I would still like to get the jerk out of my life. Luis never asks. He just does what he wants. There are no limits to how far he will go to get what he wants. You name it. Murder, blackmail, drugs, bribery, there isn't any lengths that he wouldn't stoop to. But that doesn't change the fact that I probably would have miscarried Jax's baby if he hadn't played God."

"So you feel what, grateful?"

"No, not grateful. The last time that I was pregnant, all the doctors told me that attempting to carryout the pregnancy would be extremely high risk. The accident that caused that miscarriage caused even more internal scaring. Luis was responsible for that, just as he was responsible for the first accident that caused the problem in the first place. Luis spiked my drink. I was running from him when I got into that car. It was whatever he slipped into my drink that caused me to hit that tree all those years ago. He and his stupid games cost me my ability to have children. No, I don't feel gratitude. He owed me these children. Now that I have them, I'm going to do whatever I have to, including seeing unethical, yet brilliant, doctors, to keep them. So will you be coming with me or do I have to leave you behind with your brother."

"I'm coming with you of course. But try to keep in mind that if they are as unethical as you believe them to be, they may call Alcazar for the reward."

"Yes, I know."

"And?"

"There isn't any guarantees here. If I go to any hospital, Alcazar will know the second they put my name into there computer system."

"So we can go to someone who is in private practice."

"Jerry, they have computers at home now to."

"We pay in cash and give a false name."

"Jerry, aren't you forgetting something?"

"What?"

Skye held up the medical folder and Jerry started to swear. "It doesn't matter who we go to or what name we use. As soon as they read this file, and they are going to have to read this file in order to know how to treat me, an ethical doctors is going to have to report this. At the very least he will share his medical findings with his fellow doctors."

"The second they do, Alcazar will know where we are. If we go to an ethical doctor, we get reported to the authorities. If we go to an unethical one we run the risk of meeting up with one whom is on Alcazar's payroll. "

"We are pretty much screwed either way. It's kind of depressing to think about."

Jerry looked at Skye. "All these depressing thoughts can't be good for my future nephews."

Skye looked amused. "Nephews? I could be having girls."

"Nonsense, the Jacks family has sons. It's tradition. We rely on the males to bring females into the family."

"Oh please, I know when I'm being feed a load of crap."

"No, it's true. Ask Mom and Dad. They can pull out the family tree to prove it. We Jacks males, only sire boys."

"Just for that, I'm having girls."

"That's what Mom used to say to Dad. Yet she only had boys."

"You really expect me to believe that I'm going to have boys because no Jax male has sired a girl? I'm going to have to take a look at this family tree of yours."

"Fine with me. You will see. I am right."

"Just wait a minute. I distinctly remember Jax telling me about this female cousin of his that you dragged along on one of your misadventures."

"Cousin by marriage, not blood. My uncle married her mother and she went on to have two more boys." Jerry said rather smugly.

Skye looked down and patted her tummy. "Did you here that? This is your mother telling you that we need to put this arrogant man in his place. So, I need you two to cooperate with me and be girls when you come out." Skye looked up to see Jerry laughing at her. "What?"

"Nothing. I just enjoy how you talk to them."

"All the books that I have read swear that they can hear my voice in my womb."

"Yet I doubt they understand the daily history lessons you have been giving them. First there was the town museum, then the roman theatre, then the arena. Where are we going today?"

"To church."

"To church?"

Skye nodded her head.

"It isn't Sunday, is it?"

"Why would it have to be a Sunday? You don't go then anyway."

"Neither do you. Is there some obscure religious holiday that I missed."

"Nope."

"The heat and the winds haven't gotten to you, have they?"

"Jerry, just come on." ---

Skye led Jerry through the narrow streets to an old church. There really wasn't all that much inside. It was a small one room stone church. There was an alter, a few windows, and no pews. In fact, It was so stark that it practically looked abandoned.

Jerry looked at Skye. "So, do you plan to tell my why we are here?"

Skye just smiled and said, "to soak up the atmosphere."

Jerry looked around for a few minutes more. It didn't take very long. The room was rather small. "Well, I think that I have seen everything."

"Good, so we can go down to the next level."

"The next level?"

Jerry watched as Skye walked over to a small dark staircase leading down to an even darker room. Jerry looked at the rough stone walls at the bottom of the stairs. "Skye? Are you sure that we are allowed to go down there? No offense, but it is barely lit and the floor isn't exactly even. If anything were to happen to you, Jax would kill me."

"Jerry, get down here. You are missing an awesome site."

Jerry made it to the bottom of the stairs in time to see Skye disappear through what appeared to be a hole in the wall.

"Skye are you nuts."

"I thought you liked adventures." Skye called out.

"I do like adventures. I would just like this one a lot more if you weren't pregnant."

"Jerry, it is perfectly safe. I have been down here before."

When Jerry walked through the hole in the wall, he forgot every argument he had been about to use to get her to leave.

"How? Who? How far do these tunnels extend?" Jerry said as he looked around the dimly lit tunnels.

Skye smiled. " I told you that it was an awesome site. The Romans dug them. I'm not sure how far they go but I imagine that they are over a good portion of the town. Though this is the only unsealed entrance to them that I know of."

"These are that old? I'm amazed that they are still here."

"Why? The arena was older. It's still there."

"Yes, but they had reason to keep it around. After they stopped using it for fights they filled in the openings and turned it into a fort."

"Yes, well, the tunnels had their uses also."

"Smugglers."

"Yes, that is probably a good bet considering that we are next to a river. During world war on and two the resistance use to hide in these tunnels."

"You know, I would love to explore these tunnels."

"Why do I hear a but coming?"

"Because I'm not going to drag my brother's pregnant ex-wife through tunnels that are what one thousand seven hundred something years old. Besides, It's almost three."

"Ah yes, we can't forget to call Jax."

"I thought that you didn't have a problem with my calls to Jax."

"As long as you can continue to stay one step of Alcazar."

Skye and Jerry started walking back to the hotel room.

"So how is Jax?"

"I thought that you didn't want to know."

Skye glared at Jerry. "You have been slowly wearing me down for days to give your brother another chance. Are you really gong to deny me now that I'm actually asking? And wipe that smug look off of your face."

"I have good reason to be smug. I'm making progress on both ends."

"And what is that supposed to mean?"

"You are beginning to show interest in you husband."

"Ex-husband"

"And my little brother is beginning to show signs that his head is screwed on straight."

"Meaning?"

"Alcazar has been dropping hints all around him that the real Brenda is still alive and out there. He has basically told him to go to hell. I think he has finally gotten her out of his system."

"Bloody Hell!"

"What? I thought that you would be happy about this. Jax has finally gotten his priorities straight. He wants to be with you."

"Yeah right. The last time that Jax decided that I was the one he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Brenda showed up. He ran to her and away from me as fast as his conscience would allow."

"Yes, but he got her out of his system."

"No, it turned out that she wasn't the real thing. Now let's assume for a moment that we do find a way to take out Alcazar. Jax will come rushing back to me and like the white night that he is, he will probably try to remarry me. After all, I'm the girl of the hour. I'm his damsel in distress. I'm the one that needs rescuing from the bad guy."

Jerry looked at Skye in disbelief. "You hardly need rescuing. From what I have seen, you are perfectly capable of getting yourself out of trouble."

"Thank you for at least recognizing that little fact. When this is all over, Jax is going to have some time to start thinking. Probably sooner rather than latter, it is going to start nagging him in the back of his mind that Brenda is still out there. Alcazar is just waiting for him to do it. I'm willing to bet that he would be walking straight into a trap."

"He already faced that devil."

"No he faced an impostor. If I couldn't compete against the memory of Brenda, how the hell am I going to measure up against the real person."

"You're not giving either Jax of yourself enough credit."

"No, I think Jax wouldn't be able to live with himself if he didn't make sure that she was okay. He may be able to ignore it now because he is focused on the danger to me, but eventually he will go after her. I know him Jerry. I know how he thinks. "

"If you're so sure, what do you plan to do about it?"

"Jerry, I think that we should find Brenda and rescue her before Jax gets there."