Soon morning came, at some point they all fell asleep, but Magdalene definitely had the best sleep, and got up the earliest. By the time Brooke and Aurora awoke, she already was dressed and had her pillow back in her bag and her sleeping bag rolled up. She sat on the floor with a spread out napkin in front of her, eating a small box of cereal and drinking orange juice from a small carton. She even had a plastic spoon to eat her cereal with and a straw to drink her juice.
"Magdalene, where did you get that?" Brooke asked her.
"A nurse came in to check on daddy and saw me and asked me if I wanted breakfast and brought me this," Magdalene said, Brooke looking a little relieved at the thought of her actually packing that. Magdalene folded her trash up in the napkin and threw it in the wastebasket. Aurora groggily sat up. Then she immediately ran to the bathroom. "Mama, I've nothing to do, have you any ideas?" Magdalene said at last. Brooke thought of the little car she had last night and about the hallway were the nurses and doctors were walking and had a mischievous grin about her face.
"Well what do you have in those pockets of yours?" Brooke asked, soon she regretted it. Piles of things appeared on the table she sat at, there was the car, travel sized board games, then she threw her key chain on the table. There were so many key chains, you couldn't even find the key. Magdalene help it up, one of her most prized possessions and pointed to different things.
"This one's a whistle, and that's a compass and that a Swiss Army knife, that here is pepper spray. I've got a mirror and a small hairbrush, too," Magdalene pointed to all the different things, Aurora's eyes lit up when she saw it. She recognized a few things on it.
"Mama, look its eye shadow, and there's lip gloss," She named them off as if they were characters of a favorite T.V. show. "Oh, it's blush, Mama, make Magdalene share it," She pouted. Magdalene took one quick look at her sister and in a heartbeat gave them up.
"Mama, fix her face, its horrid and her hair, its disastrous," Magdalene said taking the last of the them off of her key chain. Aurora started pouting and put her hands to her hips, and walked over to Brooke. Brooke looked at the different key chains in her hands and picked one to start with. The Brush, hair first. In no time Aurora's hair was done in two French braids. Then Brooke started with her face, a little repair work from last night, no biggie. "Magdalene, you wanna stay with daddy or go get breakfast in the cafeteria with me and Aurora?" Brooke asked when she was done with Aurora.
"I'll stay here but…" She reached into her bag and pulled out two walkie-talkies and gave one to Brooke, "I'll let you know if there's any change," Magdalene said turning hers on, as Brooke and Aurora left.
About a half hour later Magdalene was playing her game boy when Lucas woke up.
"Hey Magdalene," his voice raspy, looking at her.
"Daddy!" She jumped up and ran over and hugged him, then called Brooke, who immediately came rushing in there, and sent Aurora and Magdalene to the children's center, so they could be alone.