A/N: I'm back from Europe now; it was awesome and I want to go back. I still don't own Miracle. Thank you to all my reviewers who I can no longer comment to in my chapters but I still love all of you.

Jack's POV

The day finally came when I could play again, and that day just so happened to be the day of the Soviet game. Craig told me while Doc was looking me over. As soon as I heard the news, I wanted to go tell Ellie, but I couldn't; she was in the locker room talking to Mac about something. So, I quietly headed into the locker room and suited up with the rest of the team.

Ellie wasn't in the locker room when I came in. "She's with my dad," Mac told me. She needed to talk to him about something; there's something up with him. He keeps having private conversations with Ellie."

"I wouldn't worry about it," I replied casually. "He's probably just being the concerned father of the newly engaged young woman."

"I guess I'm just being paranoid right now," Mac confessed. "I mean I'm dealing with the Olympics, a baby due two months, and a wedding in seven months; I'm a busy man and it's starting to get to me."

"That's it," I told him. "Think positive."

"I just hope you're right," he said. "I don't know what I'd do if another detail of my life changed. Everything around me is changing and I need something stable in my life."

"Hey, my relationship with your sister is pretty stable," I pointed out. "That's not likely to change any time soon."

Mac smiled. "I sure hope you're right about that. You and my sister have something amazing going on."

I nodded. "You've got an amazing sister; you don't know what you've got."

We beat the Soviets. Everyone knows the story; I don't need to rehash it. The young college kids who didn't know anything defeated the world powerhouse. Yeah, everyone has heard that story at least twenty times in their life. But what few people know is the story of what happened after the game.

Ellie was in the locker room when I got back there and the first thing I did was pick her up; then I swung her around in a circle while kissing her. When I set her down, she smiled at me. "Jack O'Callahan, you reek of sweat and guy," she said. "Go take a shower."

"Okay," I replied before picking her up and walking into the shower room with her in my arms.

"Hey, put me down," she protested.

"Nope, you said I reek of guy and I've been holding you so that means you must reek like a guy too. Therefore, you need a shower as much as I do."

She squirmed and screamed; she hit me but nothing worked. I had her and I wasn't going to put her down. "Buzzy, turn on the water," I yelled walking into the shower.

"Buzzy, don't do it!" Ellie screamed.

"Too late," I said as Buzzy turned the shower on.

"William Schneider, I'm going to tell Gayle," Ellie threatened.

He shrugged. "Jack told me to do it and he's big and scary."

"And so both Jack and I get to shower in our clothes?"

"That is a weird idea," Buzzy replied. "Maybe you two could do this someplace else. After all, Ellie is wearing a white blouse."

I looked at my fiancée and realized that her blouse was quickly becoming see-through. "Well, this was lovely but we should get going," I told Buzzy as I set Ellie down.

"I'm going back to my room," she told me firmly. "I need to take a shower and get dressed."

Two hours later, the entire team plus significant others and families was gathered in a large banquet hall in the Athletes' Village. Ellie was balancing Heidi on her hip while talking to Silk's mom and watching me out of the corner of her eye. After Mrs. Silk left Ellie, I came up behind her and whispered in her ear, "I noticed you noticing me and I would like to notify you that I noticed you too."

She laughed and turned around. "Hey, Jack, I noticed you."

I took Heidi out of her arms and kissed the baby's cheek. "Heidi, my darling, I also noticed you. You're almost as beautiful as your mother."

The baby smiled at me as did Ellie. "You're forgiven for the shower you gave me," Ellie told me. "I've decided that it's not worth fighting with you over stupid things like that. Besides, you just handed the Soviet Union their first defeat in twenty years, so I'll allow you a little celebratory craziness."

I kissed her cheek. "Thank you for your generosity, kind lady."

"It's only because I love you," she replied.

"Well, I love you too," I told her as I shifted Heidi to my hip. "And I love this little princess. You two are my world."

She smiled at me. "You're my everything, Jack; you know that."

I nodded and smiled.

A few minutes later, Rob came over with Emily. Rob gave Ellie a quick hug and she kissed his cheek. "I'm so proud of you," she told him.

"Don't rush the praise yet," he told her. "We still have to play Finland."

"Robbie, after the Soviets, Finland will be a breeze," his twin replied confidently. "Besides, I have faith in you."

Rob smiled at his sister. "You're crazy. You have faith in me even when no one else does. I'm not sure what you see in me."

"Ah, I'm your sister," Ellie told him. "I know that somewhere underneath all that charm and those good looks of yours is hidden a decent person."

Rob stuck out his tongue at his sister. "I think Emily loves me more than you do so I'm going away now. I don't like you anymore; you keep secrets from me."

"What secrets am I keeping from you?" she asked.

"I don't know but you keep having private meetings with Dad and nobody knows what you two talk about so it looks like you're keeping secrets for him."

I knew from the look on Ellie's face that Rob was skating on thin ice with that statement and I think Rob knew it too. All Ellie said was, "What Dad and I are discussing is private and if you want to know about it, go ask him. It's his business, not mine."

"He's made it your business by telling you about it," Rob retorted.

"But it's still about him first and foremost," she replied firmly. "And if you want to know anything about it, ask him."

"Fine, I will," he told her. "I'll talk to him after the game tomorrow."

"That's your business," she said. "I'm not your mother."

"I should hope you're not," Rob said. "So stop trying to explain things you know nothing about." And thusly I knew that yet another fight between the McClanahan twins had begun. I also knew that this one was not going to be easily overcome either. Rob was mad about something that had nothing to do with his sister and he was taking it out on her. My guess was that he was mad at Emily for some reason and so he was making Ellie bear the full brunt of it.

My guess was proved correct but not until after we beat Finland the next day. That's another story everyone knows. Here's something most people don't know. After the team celebration party, Mr. McClanahan announced to his son and younger daughters that he had filed for divorce from their mother. Ellie had known about this for a while now and I felt awful for her. She had spent the past two weeks know that her parents' marriage was over and couldn't talk to anyone about it.

But Rob didn't feel sorry for her; instead, he blew up at her. "How come you never told any of us?" he yelled. "You should have talked to me. I'm your twin."

"Dad swore me to secrecy," she whispered.

"I don't care what Dad swore you to," he bellowed back. "I'm you're twin and you should tell me when things like this happen. I do have a right to know about these kind of things."

"I was trying to respect Dad's wishes," Ellie said. "The last time I checked the fifth commandment was 'honor thy father and thy mother' and I try to obey that as best I can."

"Even when it means keeping secrets from your twin brother?" Rob demanded.

"When that's what my father asks of me, yes, I will do that," she told him. "Part of respecting Dad is obeying him when he makes a reasonable request. He didn't want you to be stressed out about the divorce during the Games."

"Why would I believe that?" he asked.

"Because Ellie is your sister and she loves you," I told him. "Rob, Ellie would never intentionally do something to hurt you. She was just trying to help you."

"Oh, and I suppose you knew about my parents' divorce before I did too," my fiancée's twin said, turning coldly on me.

"No, he didn't," Ellie told her brother firmly. "I didn't tell anyone about the divorce. The only person I talked to about it was Dad; I didn't even tell Heidi about it. Rob, you've got to have some faith in me. I do love you."

"Yeah, sure, you're just saying that," he said harshly. "I'm out of here; apparently, my family doesn't love me. I'm going to find Emily. At least, she would tell me if she had known about Mom and Dad's divorce."

As Rob started to leave, his father spoke up. "Robert, Emily did know about the divorce. I told her parents and they told her. She, like your sister, agreed to keep it a secret until I was ready to tell you."

Rob stared at Mr. McClanahan. "What? Emily was keeping this a secret from me? You have got to be kidding; Emily would never do a thing like that."

"She did do it," Mr. McClanahan told his son. "She did it because she thought that was best for you. She was doing it for your own good."

"Well, she hurt me. Did any of you think you weren't doing this for my own good? Did any of you think that I might have preferred to have known about this earlier instead of later? No, I don't think you did. Apparently, my family doesn't care about me." With that, he left the room and Ellie looked like she was going to cry.

Late-March, 1980

Ellie's POV

We hadn't seen Rob since the Olympics ended. He wasn't speaking to Emily or my dad or my sisters or any of his former teammates or me. It was like he just didn't want to see us or hear from us. Emily said he was being stupid and she hated him; she was also saying she never wanted to see him or hear from him again. She was due in a matter of weeks and she was looking at a future of being a single mother.

Jack was in Boston and I missed him. We talked on the phone nightly and we wrote letters daily. But we were both moving to Chicago in three months and then we'd see each other.

Emily was living with me and life was just absolutely insane. She wasn't working anymore, which meant she could help out with Heidi and that was great. But at the same time, she couldn't do that much because she was eight and a half months pregnant. I was traveling to Chicago about once every two weeks for job interviews. Chicago County General was very interested in me and had offered me a job working as a pediatric physical therapist, but Emily had demanded that I not leave St. Paul until after she had her baby.

"I've decided that the baby's last name is going to be Sibley," she told me one night when we were sitting around talking. "I love your family, but I hate your brother. He dropped out of my life when I needed him most. I lost my job and my apartment, so what does your brother do? He picks a fight with you and your dad and then he leaves. Rob is an ass and I can't believe I ever loved him. He just left me when I hit rock bottom. Ellie, I was seven months pregnant, unemployed, and homeless, so what does he do? He bails on me."

I sighed; I'd heard this story many times before. Two days before she left for the Olympics, Emily's boss had been forced to lay her off due to budget cuts. That meant she wouldn't be able to afford to pay her rent. So, she ended up moving in with me when we got home. That meant that all her baby furniture and clothes had also been moved into my apartment; let's just say that things were very crowded. And I had no clue what Emily was going to do when I moved to Chicago. My dad had said something once about taking care of Emily and her baby and I hoped he would follow through with it. Actually, I wanted my brother to resurface and explain himself, but my dad's idea was a second best.

On the evening of March 30, I was resting on the couch when someone knocked on the door. I opened the door and found four familiar faces there, the faces of four beautiful Boston boys. "Hey, Ellie," my fiancée said. "We thought we'd come out and see if we could be of any use right now."

"Jack!" I squealed, jumping into the arms of the most beautiful man alive. I kissed him and I swear I almost broke down crying.

"Hey, honey, I missed you too," he replied carrying me into the apartment. Jimmy, Rizzo, and Silky followed us. I vaguely noticed that they didn't have any luggage with them, but I figured they would explain that later.

Jack set me down on the couch and then sat down next to me. The other guys settled themselves in various places around the room. "So, what brings you guys to Minnesota?" I asked.

"Buzzy called us," Jimmy answered. "He said that Mac has been AWOL since right after the Olympics and someone needed to find him. He told us he thinks he knows where Mac is but he needs our help to find him."

"So, we all drove out here and we're staying with various guys on the team," Rizzo added. "Jack's staying with Buzzy and Gayle, Jimmy's staying with Rammer's family, Silky and I are stuck with Jannie."

"Stuck?" I asked.

"He snores, so Silky and I have to sleep in the living room. The couch is lumpy and the floor is hard, so neither one of us will be getting a good night's rest while we're in town."

"Jimmy's lucky because Rammer's mom has a spare, empty bed for him to sleep in," Silky added bitterly. "And Jack gets to sleep on Buzzy and Gayle's pull-out couch. Some people have all the luck."

"Silky," I told him. "If you guys can find Mac, I'll let you sleep in my bed while I'm at the hospital with Emily when she goes into labor."

"Are you serious?" Silky asked. "If you are, I will bow down and worship you for the rest of my natural life."

I laughed. "Yes, I'm serious."

Silky jumped up on the couch and started kissing me before Jack bellowed, "David Silk, I'm going to kill you if you kiss my fiancée one more time!"

I started laughing as Silky leapt away from me and settled himself back in a chair. Then I snuggled up against my fiancée and his warm body. Jack smiled down at me and wrapped his arm around me. "Some days, I wonder how you put up with some of my friends."

"Oh, you know I lived with my family for all those years; I got used to dealing with psychos."

He laughed and kissed me. "You're absolutely amazing."

"Okay, Jack, just because you have a girl and some of us don't doesn't mean that you have to rub that in our faces when we're here to help her," Jimmy teased.

Jack ignored Jimmy and instead turned to me asking, "So, how's Emily doing?"

"Oh, you know," I said. "She's due in two weeks and she thinks she's fat. She's unemployed and homeless; her fiancée abandoned her. How do you think she's doing?"

"Pretty miserable?" he asked.

I nodded. "She's sleeping in her room right now, but she spends most of her time eating ice cream, watching television, and moping. She just eats, sleeps, and mopes."

"And what do you do all day?" Jimmy asked me.

"Oh, you know, peel grapes and eat bon-bons," I replied. "No, I've been offered a job in Chicago, and until I move there in April, I'm working at a rehab facility here in St. Paul."

"Who watches Heidi all day?" Rizzo inquired.

"My old nanny from my childhood," I told him. "My dad is paying for it, which is amazing. Emily refuses to do any babysitting."

Jack pulled me closer as Jimmy said, "You poor thing. Do you ever get any rest?"

I smiled and replied, "Right now. I have the man I love with me and Heidi's asleep."

"And what about us?" Rizzo asked. "Do we get any credit for this period of rest you're having right now?"

I laughed. "Sure, Rizzo, you, Jimmy, and Silky are very relaxing people."

He beamed at me and I laughed. "Jack is the star of my life though."

Rizzo made a puppy face at me and sighed; I laughed again. The boys left soon afterwards because I was tired.

The next morning, I woke up to Emily screaming that she was in labor.

A/N: Okay, so the baby will come in the next chapter. And maybe Rob will come back.