Ana had gone into labor around seven that morning.

Nicole had found her fifteenth minuets later on her living room floor bleeding out. She screamed for the others and they carried her to the nurses station.

Kenneth had been reading up on what he and the others would have to do the day the babies came. He all ready had a brief background of first aid from training in the force...and Ana had tried her best to explain to him what to except.

Something was wrong...he knew it.

Ana's bleeding wasn't stopping and the color of it seemed to dark and heavy.

Nicole propped Ana up on the medical table in the back room and put a sheet over her from the waist down.

Kenneth got every thing ready in a fast steady pace with Nicole and tried his best not to let her see the deep creeping fear that was building behind his dark eyes.

He could still remember that day on the dock...how he saw the ugly bleeding bite on Michael's arm.

He had been infected...the minute the zombie sunk it's teeth into his skin he was label to spread it to anyone else.

That's the reason he wanted to stay behind...that's the reason he wanted to die before it changed him forever.

Ana and him were soul mates and from some strange way faith brought them together and showed how much love to pure good people could give off...

But then it tore them apart showing that the world wouldn't let anyone be happy...it caused this hell and was making sure everyone stayed it in.

Just then the sound of thunder rumbled through the sky and snapped him out of his thoughts.

A storm was starting and all ready the hard clicks of rain drops were starting to fall on the glass windows.

Terry had gone out to shut over all the storm shutters and make sure the boats were still tied to the docks.

Nicole didn't leave Ana's side for a second...she kept checking her pulse and making sure she wasn't bleeding has heavy as before.

Ana woke about twenty minuets into it. She at first seemed daze and seemed half asleep.

She spoke out a little...almost as if she dreaming.

She said something about not leaving...and then they two of them heard Michael's name as she groaned and then her eyes snapped wide open.

Nicole took her hand and in the most calm voice Kenneth had heard in months she said that she was going to be okay and that she was in the nurse's station.

She told Ana her water had broke and she was now in labor...also if she felt any contractions yet.

Ana still seemed a little out of it, her face was drained of color and her breathing was slow.

Before Ana could reply she shut her eyes tight and held Nicole's hand tighter. Her face got it's color again and she cried out and so bore down.

It was over before it even started and Nicole told her to just keep breathing...Ana's chest kept jumping up and down and then other one came.

Ana cried out and gritted her teeth as she went through this one...Kenneth took her other hand and held it as tight as she wanted...he could see the pain rushing through her.

"Your doing great Ana...just keep breathing okay honey?" Nicole sounded ten times her age and seemed to have a handle on this...she was Ana's guard though this pain and tried her best to let her know she wasn't alone in this.

Nicole then told Kenneth to check if Ana was far along or not...he really couldn't understand what she meant but he checked her over and knew it was gonna happen soon.

The contractions then started to throw out one after another...each one seemed worst then the last, Ana's eyes then started to fill with tears and her cried became louder.

Then things seemed to settle down in the first hour...them started to space apart and she got control of her breathing.

Nicole told Kenneth he could take a quick break, since things seemed to be going good at the time...Kenneth told her he wouldn't go any further then outside the nurses station.

Before leaving he took Ana's hand and brushed back her matted hair.

Both locked eyes and he smiled.

"Your doing great...I bet Michael would have been proud."

Ana then nodded and turned towards Nicole as she patted her face down with a damp cloth.

He could tell this was the hardest thing she ever had to do...and even if they were all around helping her...she was all alone.

As Kenneth reached outside he stood under the porch and watched the dark beach as rain poured from the black skies. It was night all ready...it seemed like the time had been stolen away within a blink of an eye.

He watched the dark palm trees dance back and forth from the heavy breeze and watched as rain water ran down the sides of the porch.

He took a deep breath and knew they were all in for a long night...he just wanted Ana and the babies to be okay...she had been through enough all ready.

Just then Terry came running over, His clothes were soaked and he looked like he had been running around the island all day.

He asked how Ana was doing and Kenneth gave his report, Then Terry said he was going to see if Nicole needed anything and hurried back inside.

Kenneth then took one last glance around the dark island and tried his best to remember Michael and Ana back together at Cross roads.

It was hard since they all had spent such a short time together...but he could remember that Michael was a leader...a smart caring guy who loved Ana and would have done anything to see his son or daughter be born into this world.

He then sighed and went back inside to help the others.

Ana's contractions had started up again and they seemed like this was going to be the down hill before the big blow.

Terry was just as good as Nicole and speeded around checking things and bringing what she needed.

Nicole had surprised them all with her fine calm skill of taking charge for once...she really seemed to care for Ana...and wanted this babies to be born healthy and alive.

Nicole said Terry and her would take care of most of the big stuff while Kenneth stayed towards Ana and gave her support.

Kenneth held her hand and tried to soothe her as the pain became worse and worse.

Ana's face was covered in sweat and she gasped for air after a contraction had just finished...each time it was going on she cried and bore down and then fell back crying even more.

At one point Nicole said there were gonna be only a few more big ones and then she could start pushing.

Those were the worst.

Ana screamed even harder and then threw herself back...Kenneth could feel her heart racing as she cried for Michael.

Nicole and Terry didn't seem bothered by this and kept running around. But Kenneth stopped when Ana seemed so hopeless and cried out for Michael as broken up as she could...he knew she wanted him and that might of been the only person to take most of this killing pain away from her.

Michael had been married three times before and had two children, He must have known the pain they went through and must have been there during it all.

But Ana wasn't as lucky...she cried out for him, but as loud as she got the more hopeless it sounded.

Then Nicole went down to Ana with Terry and both told Kenneth to help her sit up a little.

Kenneth let Ana lean on her as she cried out again and sat up.

Nicole then told Ana whenever she said she was going to have to push as hard as she could...then when she told her to stop...breath as deep as she could.

Ana was crying again but understood. Then Nicole told her to push.

Ana's face became red and she seemed to scream out slowly as it happened.

Kenneth helped her as best as she could as she pushed down and moved forward.

Nicole then told her to stop and Ana tried her best to breath...but she cried about how bad it hurt and how she couldn't take it.

Nicole told her she was doing a great job and how she wanted her to push again.

This time Ana bore down harder and then Nicole shouted her to stop since she saw the head.

Kenneth saw blood was getting everywhere...it was up to her elbows.

"Okay Ana...just one more push and your first baby will be out...ready?"

She screamed for her to push and she tried again...she shut her eyes tight and tried her very best and then their was an odd noise.

Ana then cried out pushed once more and then they all heard the crying.

The cry seemed to be like music to everyone's ears. Kenneth couldn't see anything for a minute but saw the look of amazement on Terry and Nicole's faces.

Both laughed with joy as Terry held the baby in his arms and brought it into view as Ana fell back onto Kenneth.

It was a boy...a beautiful baby boy.

It cried in Terry's hands as he brought it closer for Ana to see. It seemed to perfect as it kept crying it's lungs out.

Kenneth then saw the look of heaven on Ana's face...a look he had never seen before, but mixed with the look he used to see spread across her face whenever she was watching or talking to Michael.

She was breathless.

She opened her mouth but no words came out...her baby was right there...right in front of her eyes, Michael's baby was right there...their baby.

She blinked and look at him again and couldn't believe that only nine months ago her baby had just came to be in a moment of passion.

Tears then started to gush out her eyes...she cried out in joy and everyone smiled.

Ana reached out with a shaken hand and touched her baby's soft skin...he was perfect in every way.

She then turned towards Kenneth...he felt himself crying to. Everyone looked at Ana and couldn't believe her son had just been taken out of her and now was crying right there.

"Oh he's beautiful Ana..."

Ana then laughed again as Terry carried the baby over to the table to get covered up.

Everyone was caught in the moment of pure happiness and felt hope all around them.

Ana was in the middle of crying and laughing when she shut her eyes again and gave a soft moan.

Everyone other then Terry who was taking care of the baby snapped back and knew their was another on it's way.

"Okay Ana...lets see another beautiful baby."

Ana started to breath hard and then Nicole told her to push as hard as she could...harder then she even did before.

Ana pushed...and stopped...pushed and stopped and then took Kenneth's hand as tight as it would go and screamed out.

The same noise filled the air and then nothing.

Kenneth waited for the fresh cry of another baby filling the air...but this time it was different.

A queer look came over Nicole's face and she just looked down at whatever it was.

Ana fell back onto Kenneth like before and gasped for air.

Ana didn't seem to notice just then while she was getting her breath.

Nicole kept looking down...and no cry came from whatever it was.

Kenneth's heart then jumped...he knew it was to good to be true, something was wrong.

Nicole seemed to be lost in her own world as she looked down and lipid "Oh...my God."

Kenneth then leaned forward.

"Nicole? What is it?"

Terry then turned, Ana's son now wrapped up in a huge blanket in his arms. He seemed to see whatever it was and stopped dead.

Kenneth was scared out of his mind.

"What is it?" He repeated.

Nicole then slowly looked up, fear showing in her face.

Ana then saw the look in her face to.

"What is it? What's wrong with my baby?"

Nicole then shut her eyes and put her bloody hands over her face. Terry's eyes grew just as wide behind her.

Ana then panicked and she almost jumped up...blood splashed against everyone.

"WHAT'S WRONG? WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY BABY?"

Ana fought in Kenneth's arms and must have caught sight of it because her eyes rolled back into her head and past out cold on the table.

Kenneth looked over an Ana and saw she had past out...he then bent his head further and saw what it really was.

Ana's biggest fear was that her babies might end up like Lude's...since Michael who fathered the them was infected...what if they came back...what if they were dead before even being born?

These were Ana's biggest fears...and were they true?