"What do you mean we can't see her!"

The hospital desk attendant looked scornfully at the motley group in front of him. They were a group of high school age boys and girls, with a smothering amount of balloons and a huge card the size of the hospital side tables. One also had a pile of school books.

"Well," He said with a sneer, "We first have to check with the patient that it's alright for you to come in. You never know what…riffraff could come in and try to harm our patients. And at the moment she is rather busy with police Captain Maloney, so I cannot contact her. If you would care to wait in the lobby, I will send a nurse when you are able to be admitted. Thank you."

"Why you son of-!"

"Danni! Come on..." Becky turned back to the desk attendant with a fake smile, "Thank you sir!" and then dragged Danni back into the lobby. The rest followed. They all sat down around the coffee table in the foyer. Becky leaned back in her seat and looked at everyone around her. Danni, immediately to her left, was fuming and seemed to be trying to make the coffee cup in front of her burst into flame by telekinesis. Missy was looking worried about both Danni, and Andy, because she was switching between sending harried looks at the former, and staring blankly out the window. The majority of the boys were doing their best to look indifferent, but two were exceptions.

Chris was sitting with his eyes fixed on the depths of his cup of orange juice, and as Becky watched, she saw a tear fall unnoticed into the cup. Sushi was pacing back and forth, tripping on the same part of the carpet every time he passed it, showing his distraction. And then there was everyone else, who just looked worried. And then there was her…who was basically terrified. All they had heard was what they put on the news, that a local girl had been found lying in a pool of blood on her and her fiancé's apartment floor, and was currently in stable condition. But nobody had said anything about the babies…

After a half hour, a stern looking nurse came into the lobby with eighteen visitor badges.

"You can come in now"

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Andy looked up from the word search she was attempting to do with her left hand and groaned weakly.

"Holy shit. I'm going to die from helium exposure"

Everyone just gave her identical grins and shoved the balloons in a corner. Then they quibbled over chairs to put around the bed, pushing Adam out of his spot on her right side, where he was massaging her hand. Missy took the forcefully dropped hand, Danni took the other side, and Becky won a catfight with Heidi for the last chair and a spot at the foot of the bed. The boys stood against the wall with a disgruntled Adam.

"So, what happened?"

"I brought your homework and a tutoring form"

"Shut up, she's tired, you guys!"

"NO! I want to know what happened! Adam, tell Andy to tell me what happened!"

"Adam, can you give this form to her dad?"

"Adam! You have to tell them to leave her alone!"

Adam just stared at them with flat eyes and went to stare out the window. Andy just gave his retreating back a sad smile. "This has been really hard on him…for a little while the doctors thought the babies weren't going to make it, because I lost too much blood. They're fine now! I'm fine! Just healing!" She smiled weakly at every one around her. It was hard to believe sometimes that she was still in high school for another month, but it was times like this that she felt just like a kid again. Suddenly she felt Missy shift to the side, and she saw Chris in her peripheral vision. He leaned over and put a hand on her stomach.

"They're kicking. I could see it from across the room" Andy looked into his eyes, so unlike Adam's, and a bolt of understanding flitted between them before he pulled away so the girls could take his hand's place on her stomach.

"Oooooh! He's right!"

As Chris walked back across to his spot on the wall, Andy grinned at him, and then winced as someone shifted her shoulder.

"Hey, be careful! A penknife in the shoulder seven times hurts like hell!"

A chorus of 'sorry' came from the people around her, but Andy hardly paid attention because she was watching Chris walk over to Adam with a slightly nervous eye.

"Hey, dude, congratulations. I never got a chance to tell you that."

"Oh…thanks, K."

"I'm also proud of you. I never would have been able to do what you did. You're a great guy."

Adam turned to Chris with the first smile he had given anyone in the past three days. He shook Chris's hand and the both turned back to a beaming Andy, who was swamped in estrogen.

"Hey, menfolk? help?"