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Chapter #24 – Fear

Last time on "Searching For Home"...

"My water just broke…" Jasmine whispered barley audible.

"Oh geez, not now. Not yet…" Elizabeth mumbled.

"Shouldn't I be the one saying that? Weird how I can go from sobbing my heart out at my little boys being taken away from me, and yet here my daughters will be coming into the world soon, and I'm not ready for that…" Jasmine said, tears still falling.

"Ah…" Jasmine squeezed Elizabeth's hand tightly as a contraction hit.

"Someone call an ambulance NOW! She's going into labor!" Liz yelled.

"Liz, you're going to be their Godmother and aunt. You already are the boys' Godmother and aunt, Lucky to both is and will be their uncle and Godfather. I just wanted to tell you that incase Nik and I didn't before.

"Thanks so much Jas. That means so much to me." Liz said as she wiped a tear from her eye.

"Liz, please make it stop. I just want to go home…I have to wait for Nik to call…" As Jasmine's pain increased.

"Jasmine, listen to me okay? I'll call his cell as soon as we get you into the delivery room."

"I promised him he wouldn't miss this, and that I could hold on until he got back from Greece."

"Jas, don't worry about that now okay? He'll at least be there to talk to you. We'll get him informed. He'll talk you through it. It's gonna be okay."

"I hope so…ow! Liz it hurts! Everything does!" Jasmine cried as another contraction came.

"I know honey, I know. You're going to be fine. The girls will be fine too." Liz encouraged as the paramedics came and helped Jasmine into the ambulance, which rushed her to the hospital.

Greece –

It was 11pm where they were. It was about 3pm back at home in PC. Nikolas always called his wife at 3pm their time. Sometimes it was weird to Jasmine that he'd call to say goodnight at 3 in the afternoon, but one thing Nikolas always got used to fast was time difference. His body always adjusted quickly.

Today his call went unanswered. True, it was 3 in the afternoon back at home, and his wife and sons could easily not be home. But there was a problem with this. As Nikolas had promised to call his wife every night before he went to bed for as long as he'd be gone, the first night he had called, Jasmine herself promised to be home everyday at 3pm to take his calls.

So when his wife didn't answer, Nik began to worry.

"Lucky, can I talk to you a minute?" Nikolas asked his brother who was watching television, while Luke was in his own room.

"Yeah bro, what's up?" Lucky asked.

"Jasmine's not answering the phone."

"Maybe she's just late getting home?"

"No, she's Jas. She plans everything around this phone call. She would definitely be home." Nik replied using the safer of the two names while in Greece.

"Call back, leave a message and either leave her the number for this room or if you don't feel comfortable doing that, just tell her you'll call her a little later."

"Yeah I think I'll do that."

"Nik, after that, go to bed. Dad says we're confronting Stavros tomorrow. "

"Thanks."

Coming back after leaving a message, Nik went to bid his brother goodnight.

"Oh Nik, can you help me find my cell phone and charger? Dad wants all 3 of our phones charged and ready to go for tomorrow."

"Sure, I was looking for mine myself."

After searching for a half hour, the guys came up with their phones, but the batteries and chargers were gone.

"Did we miss something? Why are the actual batteries to our phones missing and why did our chargers disappear?" Lucky asked.

"And I'm betting that our batteries are missing so they can be drained of it's power and be useless when we get them back, assuming we do." Nik replied.

After a minute of thought, Luke came in looking for the same things, soon all 3 of them concluded one thing.

"This isn't good." They all said in unison.

General Hospital – Delivery Room –

"What do we have here Dr. Webber?" Dr. Meadows asked.

"Jasmine Cassadine 22, 7 months pregnant with twins, water broke about 30 minutes ago, contractions are now about 2 minutes apart."

At Dr. Meadow's questioning look Elizabeth replied "I know, I know. I'm not happy either; we got stuck in traffic on the way here."

"Call Nikolas, Liz. Please?" Jasmine cried in between contractions.

"Bobbie, please call Lucky's cell for me?"

"Lucky? Why Lucky?" Jasmine asked.

"Because Bobbie doesn't know Nik is alive yet." Elizabeth whispered.

"Ah…" Jasmine cried as she tightly squeezed Bobbie's hand while Dr. Meadows and Liz were at the other end, awaiting the arrival of Jasmine's daughters.

"Jasmine, don't push yet, you're doing very well."

"I'm trying not to; I just want this to be over…"

"You have to stay as calm as you can, the stress you're under isn't helping." Dr. Meadows said.

"She just got out of a court case, unfairly I might add. She was completely wronged…that's why she's so stressed."

Bobbie called Lucky's cell, and put it on speaker phone.

"No answer Liz."

"No, no there can't be. He has to pick up! Keep trying!" Jasmine cried.

Bobbie kept trying, but all they got was Lucky's voice mail. Liz had Bobbie try Luke's cell phone, but got the same thing.

"Why aren't they answering? I need them." Jasmine worried.

"Okay Jasmine, I see a head. I want you to push now." Dr. Meadows said.

"I promised him…I promised him…" Jasmine cried as she pushed.

Soon a new arrival made it's presence in the world.

"Congratulations, you have a baby girl." Dr. Meadows said, as the baby was brought to Elizabeth who immediately had suction to clear the baby's mouth, nose and ears, as Dr. Meadows had Jasmine push for the second baby.

"Why isn't she crying! What's wrong with my baby?" Jasmine asked as she was trying to deliver the second baby.

"She's just getting cleaned off, we should hear her cry momentarily. Here's Baby #2...Congratulations, you have a second daughter."

"Dr. Meadows…" Liz called over, as the second baby was brought to her, being cleaned off as her airways were being cleared as well.

"What's wrong with my daughters Elizabeth? What's wrong! Why aren't they crying?" Jasmine said in a panic.

"Start CPR and adjust oxygen levels…on both girls." Elizabeth whispered to Dr. Meadows (who was working on the second baby) and a med student (who was working with her (Liz) on the first baby.)

"Elizabeth PLEASE! Tell me! What's wrong?" Jasmine pleaded.

Elizabeth breathed deep. How could she tell her best friend what was happening?

"Jasmine, the girls are not breathing…" Elizabeth said quietly.

Jasmine became quiet after hearing those horrifying words and closed her eyes.

"Jasmine, Jasmine, stay with me here." Bobbie said.

"We're losing her!" Bobbie called.

"Damn! She's bleeding out! Bobbie! Come here, work on baby girl number 1, and let me work on Jasmine!" Liz called

As Bobbie and Elizabeth switched places, Liz sewed Jasmine up to stop her from bleeding continually.

"She's stable!" Liz called.

"Good." Dr. Meadows said.

Liz and Bobbie switched places once more.

"How's baby number 2 Dr. Meadows?"

"Still not breathing. How about baby number 1?"

"The same…I can't believe we let their mother bleed out…" Elizabeth said sadly and frustrated.

"She's fine now, she's doing well. It might be better that she's still unconscious. She doesn't have to go through this…" Bobbie said referring to her daughters.

"All their lives are in our hands now…Come on baby girls, both of you. You have to come back to us. You have to be alive for your Mommy. Your Mommy has to see you breathing and hear you crying so she's not worried. You have to see your Daddy when he comes home too. Come on girls, come on…" Elizabeth tried to encourage as she worked on her nieces & Goddaughters.

Liz wasn't about to give up now and would do everything in her power to make this right.

Greece –

There was nothing Lucky, Nik or Luke could do about their cell phones. They were all furious that somehow, (how they didn't know,) they got pick pocketed. (Especially Luke.) They were all probably pick pocked by one of Stavros' goons anyway.

As Nik slept, he dreamt happily of his pregnant wife and his sons. He dreamt ofgoing back home to see them waiting for him. (Okay, so it won't be 'home' until they actually buy a house first) but it was home for now.

His dream then took him to a hospital room as he held his wife's hand, and soothed her with loving words of encouragement as she gave birth to their daughters. He smiled, and kissed his wife's forehead as Elizabeth gave his daughters to Emily with the light in her eyes returning as they soon learn of Stavros' death.

Nikolas had a small smile on his face. He couldn't wait to get home.

Fortunately and unfortunately for him, he had no clue of what was happening back in PC, or what would be waiting for him when he returned.

(Author's Notes- Hope you liked that chapter. Please Review! Thanks! –Am)