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you want to see the brief interlude I wrote placed two months in the future.

Chapter 44

Outside Alexis's Hospital Room

Sonny was pushed out of the room as the doctors prepped Alexis for surgery. Sonny came out of her hospital room looking frightened and lost. He stumbled over to the waiting room that had been his habitation for the last couple of months and looked towards his sister-in-law but no words would come out. Zander quickly extracted him from his fiancée arms and ran over to Sonny and pulled him in a hug.

Sonny hung on to him loosely and said, "She's in danger of losing her life and the life of our children. This can't be happening again, I just got her back. We just got married I can't lose her. Not now, not ever."

Kristina stood up in shock at Sonny's news and said, "What happened? Just a couple of moments ago, she was about to give birth now you tell me she's in danger again?"

Sonny and Alexis's Home
They all stood back with a sigh of satisfaction as they reviewed the clean house. Alicia turned to them with a smile, "I'm proud of you guys. This place looks wonderful, your mother will be so proud."

Michael snorted with laughter, "You don't know my mom. My Dad said that Mom would've starved to death had he not come along. She doesn't clean or cook, that's Dad's department."

Alicia looked at Michael in shock and said; "Your dad does all of the cooking and cleaning?"

Morgan piped up with interest "No, Dad does all of the cooking. Mom hires the cleaning lady but she keeps complaining that no one is as good as Graciela who used to clean the penthouse when she lived across the hall from Dad."

Kristina checked her watch as she listened to her brothers tried to explain to Alicia her parent's relationship. She gasped and said, "Oh my god you guys, in the midst of all this commotion, we forgot the most important thing."

Alicia looked at her in confusion "We cleaned the house from top to bottom, what could we have possibly forgotten?"

Kristina looked at her family and said "Damn you guys, where are the babies going to sleep?"

Outside Alexis's Hospital Room

Dr. Meadows came out to see Sonny sitting with his head in his hands crying softly. She had never met a man that could intimidate you with his stare at the same time all the while make you empathize with his pain when you saw how in love he was with his wife. She walked up to him and cleared her throat quietly "Sonny?"

Sonny looked up and cleared his eyes "What happened?"

Dr. Meadows smiled softly, "You have a beautiful son and daughter."

Sonny nodded not grasping on this information as he asked, "Alexis, how's my wife?"

Dr. Meadows exhaled softly and said, "That's a different story. We almost lost her twice on the table but don't worry she's a fighter. She pulled through the surgery just fine. You can't see her at the moment because we just got her out of the ER and she's in ICU now. Once the anesthesia wears off, we will let you see her."

Sonny nodded, too choked up to continue. Zander smiled softly at the doctor "Thank you, Dr. Meadows, for everything. See you guys, bullets and babies nothing can keep Mrs. Corinthos down."

Kristina and Sonny hugged each other crying in relief. Jason came up with balloons, flowers, and teddy bears and looked at the crying family and turned to Zander, "What did I miss?"

Babies-R-Us & The Children

Babies-R-Us© who knew that name could strike such fear into the four youths who just entered the store.

Michael stood in the middle of the store and said, "Okay, we have to pull our resources and purchase whatever we need."

Kristina shook her head, "Don't look at me, I'm almost tapped out. I had to put Mom's wedding dress on my credit card."

Michael looked at her in confusion and said, "But I thought Aunt Kristina was handling the dress."

Alicia started to giggle at the remembrance of the story and said "Let's not go into the Mediterranean Birth Dress story now."

Morgan/Michael looked at the two girls who had lost themselves in giggles in confusion. "We have things to do now but we need to know this story at a later date. It might be good blackmail."

Outside the Hospital Nursery

The nursery was adorned with flowers, candy, and balloons as the four adults hovered over the window to the baby nursery.

Jason smiled softly and said, "So have you guys thought of names for the kids?"

Sonny shrugged his shoulders, "I'm just so glad that they are here and healthy and that Alexis is in the same condition. I don't have any idea what we will call them, Alexis and I will decide that later. I'm just glad that I got my family back."

Kristina smiled as Zander held her in his arms, "Oh they are so beautiful Zander. Sonny, they have the prettiest auras, I have ever seen so clean and pure."

Sonny rolled his eyes in exasperation and turned to Zander, "Translation, please?"

Zander smiled and said, "They are happy and it shows."

Chapter 45

Babies-R-Us & The Children...

Michael called a meeting in the middle of the store. Kristina and Alicia pulled up to the middle of the store with their baskets full.

Kristina started tapping her foot, "We have to hurry up. Dad will be calling us any moment now."

Michael nodded as Morgan came up with his arms full. Kristina started to laugh as she looked at her brother trying to juggle an armload of items, "Morgan, why didn't you get a basket?"

Morgan looked guilty and said, "I didn't think newborns required all that much stuff."

Kristina looked at her brother in disbelief, "Where have you been living the ice age? Well, anyway all the stuff that Alicia and I got was two of everything because we don't know what Mom's having. Two Boys, Two Girls, or One Boy and One Girl we just don't know."

Michael laughed and nodded, "That's why I called this meeting. Uncle Jason called and then Dad called; Mom and the twins are doing great. She had a boy and a girl."

Kristina turned to Alicia and pulled her into a hug, "I'm a big sister can you believe it?"

Morgan looked at her pouting, "I was your first."

Kristina nodded and walked over to her pouting brother and pulled him into her arms "You will always be my first little brother."

Inside Alexis's Hospital Room

Alexis opened her eyes slowly as her hospital room once again became larger, "So how are the twins?"

She looked upon her sister and her fiancée with a smile. Zander came to the foot of her bed with a smile, "They are doing great. The doctor says they are doing excellent and weigh as much as if they had been single births. Everybody here is so proud of you."

Alexis searched the faces in the room and noticed that they were missing about 4 people. "Where are the kids and Alicia?"

Kristina shrugged and said "Alicia pulled your children out of here by the ear and they all disappeared."

Alexis nodded seeming pleased with that answer.

Alexis turned to Jason and said, "You do know that I'm going to have to donate all of these flowers to the hospital. My room is already overflowing with gardenias; you didn't need to buy anything else."

Jason smiled at her softly and said, "Of course I did. The gardenias are for the wedding and were from Sonny; the roses are for the birth of the children and are from Uncle Jason."

Alexis looked around and said "So I take it my husband couldn't pull himself away from his children long enough to come see his bed-ridden wife and is currently commanding all of their attention?"

The door opened slowly and Sonny came in the room pushing two makeshift cribs. "I resent the implication, Counselor. As a matter of fact, I was doing you a favor; I just wanted you to meet our children."

Outside Alexis's Hospital Room

Walking off the elevators, they plopped on the sofa exhausted.

Michael was the first to speak "You do know that Dad is going to kill us right? We were only supposing to be using our credit cards for emergencies. We almost maxed out all three credit cards."

Kristina rolled her eyes at this, "You don't think the birth of our brother, and sister warrants an emergency? Dad will understand and even more so when we tell him the Mediterranean birth dress story and then drop the bomb on him."

Michael leaned forward in question "Okay so tell me, what the infamous Mediterranean birth dress story is?"

Alicia giggled and said "Oh please, let me tell it."

Inside Alexis's Hospital Room

Sonny and Alexis were left alone in the room, holding their children. Alexis held her son in her arms while Sonny held his daughter.

Sonny leaned over and kissed her on the forehead, "I love you. I'm so happy that you are my wife and the mother of my children. I'm even more grateful that you didn't leave my side even when you had a chance."

Alexis leaned back and looked at him in question, "When was that?"

Sonny smiled softly trying to ignore her question and said, "So what are we going to call these two angels?"

Alexis curled up in Sonny's arms and said "I was thinking about that and some other things while I was in a coma. I came to an idea for the names of the children, please let me know if you approve."

Sonny nodded and said, "Whatever you choose to name our children is fine with me. I'm just so full Alexis that I don't know how to act."

Alexis looked at him with a laugh "What are you full of?" Sonny kissed her, "I'm full of love, hope, and happiness. This is a feeling that I haven't felt since I was a child. It's a feeling that only you help generate."

Alexis closed her eyes as the tears welled in her eyes, "I love you so much, sometimes it scares me. When Carly came back…."

Sonny put a finger on her lips to quiet her thoughts but Alexis grabbed his finger and moved it, "When Carly came back, I thought for sure that I was going to lose you again to her. It hurt me so much the first time to watch you go back to her and self-destruct that I knew that I couldn't be around for round 2. I just started to prepare myself to lose you but my heart wouldn't let me. It didn't know how to let go, once I knew what being loved by you and loving you was, I knew that I couldn't follow my mind again and let you go. So I stayed and fought and it worked out better than I could have ever hoped."

Sonny felt the emotion in her voice touch him as he cleared his throat trying to change the subject before he started to sob in front of his wife, "So what are we calling these guys?"

Alexis smiled and said "I've decided to call our daughter & son the names of the people that we loved that are not still with us. Sonny, meet Chloe Adele Corinthos and Stone Cates Corinthos."

Sonny smiled in gratitude of the abundance of his wife's heart and said "Chloe and Stone it is."

Outside Alexis's Hospital Room

The tears wouldn't stop coming. Michael and Morgan tried to stop laughing but they were unable to. Jason came up on the pair and said, "Okay you guys. You disappeared from the hospital for hours, you miss the drama of almost losing your mother and brother and sister and then show up again and now are crying in hysterics at what?"

Michael jumped up and said, "What happened? When Dad called me he told me that everything went fine and that Mom and the twins were okay!"

Jason nodded and said "And they are… now. But before there was a chance that we could've lost them all."

The children started towards the room as Jason called them and said, "So are you going to tell me what the joke was or do I have to read your auras to find out?"

This sent Alicia into hysterics again and she stood up "Sit down Uncle Jason, I'll tell you."

Thanks EP