(A/N) Last One!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POTC!
"She's still breathing." Gabriel said.
"Alright." Eve then grabbed the medicine bottle and started crushing the medicine and placed it into a glass of water. "Let her drink…" The water flowed down Colette's throat.
"Come on…" Eve's fists were clenched, and slowly but surely, Colette's chest was rising and falling with more of a rhythm. "She's fine now…" Eve said as she dropped her head in her hands.
Gabriel gathered Eve in his arms and held her tightly. His wife was physically and emotionally drained. "When we get back to Paris…we take the children to the country estate, no stops, nothing, and we don't tell anyone."
"What?" Eve said as she pulled from his shirt.
"We will not tell a soul. Everyone just assume we disappear."
"We can't do that. If you are as good of a shot as I know you are…Margaret is dead, and George is going to come after us…and we will have to be ready…" Eve then closed her eyes and leaned into Gabriel.
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Jack for the first time in his life, felt like he was missing something, and that, he knew, was the laughter that Eve's children brought him, that Eve herself brought. Jack was drinking himself silly, when he heard her cry…he stumbled down the corridor and saw Eve slumped down on the floor, sobbing uncontrollably. Jack knew he was the last person she wanted to see…
"Eve?" She looked up at him, and wiped her eyes quickly.
"What do you want?" Jack slumped down next to her.
"Where's Gabriel?"
"Sleeping. I couldn't sleep…" Eve then looked at him, he was drunk she could smell it on his breath. "Jack, you've been drinking."
"I don't care." He took another swig of rum.
"Fine, drink yourself to bloody death!" Eve got up and walked back into the cabin she was sitting outside of.
"Will do…" Jack muttered to himself.
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Eve was in the cabin, Gabriel was sleeping soundly next to his daughter. Eve stood next to the bed and felt Colette's forehead, the fever hadn't returned. Eve sighed in relief and then noticed herself in the mirror. She looked rugged, her hair was a mess, her clothes, dirty, and her skin was pale. As she got a side view of herself she saw the small bump underneath the camisole, and she smiled…for the first time in a long time.
"What are you doing?" Gabriel asked, a small smile touching his lips.
"Nothing." Gabriel then stood up behind her and placed his arms over her shoulders, caressing her small bump.
"That's not nothing." He kissed the top of her head.
"No, it's not. It's another baby…" Eve smiled. "A little sister for Colette." Eve glanced at her daughter.
"A sister? What makes you think we are having a girl?" Gabriel said.
"Because, I cannot take one more boy, besides, Colette wants a sister." Eve then turned around, Gabriel's arms still around her. "I love you so much."
"I love you…" He kissed her lightly on the lips.
"Mommy?" Both Eve and Gabriel whirled around so quickly they nearly fell. Colette was sitting up in bed.
"I'm right here." Eve was beside her quickly. "So is daddy…"
Colette looked up at Gabriel and smiled and reached her arms up. Gabriel picked her up and held her in his lap. "How are you feeling?" Gabriel asked as he kissed the top of her head, and closing his eyes in relief.
"I'm tired…"
"I know, but you will be better I promise…" Colette closed her eyes.
"I heard you mommy…I heard your going to have a sister for me…that's why I woke up, I want one really badly." Colette slowly drifted off back to sleep. Eve sighed in relief.
"Okay sweetie, we're going to put you back to bed." Gabriel then placed Colette, back into bed and pulled the covers to her chin, and kissed her forehead. "I love you…" He whispered. Colette murmured something. Eve then kissed her as well, and Colette murmured once again.
"We should check on the boys…" Eve suggested and Gabriel nodded in agreement and they both went down the corridor. Eve noticed Jack was gone, and truly, she didn't care. They walked into the boys room, and saw they were sound asleep. The dawn was breaking and soon they would be up, it had been a very long night for them all, but a good one, Colette, was going to be just fine.
"Mommy?" Joshua sat up in bed.
"Did you sleep well?" Eve asked with a smile as she took a seat on his bed.
"Yes…but I slept enough…" He rubbed his eyes. "Where is Colette?"
"She's sleeping. She will sleep for a while. She's better though." Eve said. She noticed Gabriel standing at the doorway, smiling.
"Can I see her?" Joshua asked, his eyes grew wide, knowing his mother could never refuse those eyes.
"Sure." Eve then took his hand and they started walking down the corridor, Gabriel stayed behind, because both Jack, and Gabe were waking, and would no doubt want to see their sister.
"There she is…" Eve said as she opened the door. "See, she's fine…"
"She looks pretty mommy…like an angel I see in the books…" Eve smiled at her inquisitive little boy.
"She is pretty. Do you see what I mean when I say you all have to take care of each other?" Eve said as she knelt in front of her son. Beyond Joshua, Gabriel had brought in Jack and Gabe. "I want you all to take care of each other…"
"Mother, we will always take care of us." Jack said.
"Yes, we are the oldest, we will keep our eyes open." Gabe added to his brother's statement.
"Good, because you are going to have another brother or sister to look after…" Eve said quietly.
"Really?" Jack asked.
"Really. In a few months, you have another brother or sister, to look after…to love, to play with…"
"That's good…we could use another to play with." Gabe said. "Playing some games is no fun with just three…"
"Yes, four would be better." Jack added.
"What about Colette? She is number four." Eve asked.
"It's not that we don't play with her because she's a girl…we don't play with her because she is sick…and we know you worry." Jack said nervously.
"You can play with her…you know her limits. I don't want you ever to hold back with your sister, just because she isn't well…" Eve smiled at her boys and enveloped them all in a hug. "I love you all so much."
"We love you to mum." They said.
(A/N) Sweet little Chappie…Here's the deal, I am on vacation the week of the fourth of July, so therefore this story will be posted by then, and just because I am a rotten wench, I will post a few chappies from my next fic. I haven't started my novel yet, but I do have the main names, and some are from suggestion from you all and my friends and family. I want to write during my vacation as I am lounging about on the beautiful beaches of Cape Cod…
Till Next Time…which I swear won't be as long…
