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It's Sunday! So here's an update hope you enjoy!
Ana
It's been a week since Jack Hyde was released from prison. Christian and I are on edge as expected but the kids are being great. None of them have complained about the extra security not even Teddy who I expected to probably argue about it the most.
Today we're spending the day as a family with the extended family coming for a barbeque. I can't wait to have a real bitch with Mia and Kate. They're the only people who let me rant and don't try and make me understand Christian's point of the matter and sometimes that's just what a girl needs.
I dress Amelia and Amaya in hot pink dresses with white polka dots all over and three quarter sleeve denim jackets with butterflies on the pockets and their names in purple, glitter and gems on the back, it will help the rest of the family, specifically my Dad who hasn't even tried to find a way to remember which one is which. I finish off their looks with frilly socks and white sandals with butterflies on the toes. I have to admit to myself that I love having identical twins.
"Mommy can we have da butta-fy headbands?" Amelia asks.
"No Melia!" Amaya yells and I can see world war three breaking out any second. "Braid's with butta-fy 'lastic!"
"Ok, no arguing Amelia you can have the butterfly headband and Amaya you can have the braids."
"But then we won't look da same." Amelia replies pouting just like Christian does when he doesn't get his own way.
"I have headband too." Amaya relents, I guess she wants to look like her sister too.
I'm relieved that this is what they chose, their hair is just up to their shoulders now and they don't sit still enough to get braids done tidily.
"Ana?" Christian calls from outside the door.
"Twins room!" I yell as I comb the headbands into the girls hair and tidy it up a little.
"There are my girls." He beams walking into the room. "Wow don't you all look beautiful?"
"Daddy we got butte-fies!" Amaya yells excitedly, I watch as a grin breaks out on Christian's face at his daughter's joy.
"You've both have lots of butterflies, everywhere." Christian says trying to mock enthusiasm while he looks disgusted towards me. I chuckle and shrug, the girls like all things butterflies and fairies. Their bedroom is decorated in violet, mint and silver mainly but the walls are decorated like a magical forest, with fairies and butterflies everywhere. It's adorable really. "Babies Aunt Mia is here with the boys."
"Yeah!" They both cheer as Christian wraps an arm around them and hoists them up onto each hip as I push myself to standing. Christian takes a moment to drag his eyes over me. I'm wearing a simple strapless, knee high sixties style dress in red with a white long sleeved loose cardigan over it and a pair of white wedge sandals.
"You look amazing." He smiles before kissing me as I go to pass.
"Thanks baby." I reply. "Now let's go see your sister and her family huh?"
Downstairs I see Grace and Carrick have arrived too and are making their way out to the back. They both look relaxed and are dressed all summery which is nice to see, it's not often in the past ten years I remember seeing them both dressed so casual.
"Ana, Christian." Grace smiles up as we walk down the stairs.
"Grandma!" Both girls squeal at the same time making Christian flinch, I can't imagine that noise being nice on the ears.
"Hello girlies!" Grace smiles as Christian deposits them on the floor at the foot of the stairs. "Come give your Grandma a hug."
The two rush over to Grace who kneels down and receives two pairs of arms around her throat. Christian wraps an arm around my shoulders leaving me to just smile, who can worry about Jack Hyde and extra security when you're surrounded with this family and this love?
Christian
I watch Amaya and Amelia go from Mom to my Dad and receive hugs and kisses. I love watching him with the kids, he's so different with them to what he ever was with any of us, even Mia. I think the man has gone soft in his old age. I can feel Ana smiling beside me and it doesn't do anything to relax me. My team has lost track of Hyde and I only found out this morning and in all honesty I wanted to tell Ana straight away but then when I saw her excited to having the family over I couldn't bear to be the one making her sad. I will tell her, just not now.
We all head outside and I'm quickly ambushed by my heavily pregnant sister. Her bump is so big now and I can see she's dropped so I wouldn't be surprised if this Kavanagh-Grey decided to make an early appearance. Oh yes, after three pregnancies and four kids I am an expert on pregnant women!
Ana
As Trish serves drinks I hear Ava running through the house shouting for Phoebe. I guess my sister-in-law and best friend has arrived! Ava and Phoebe are the same age, there's barely a week between them. It was nice being able to be pregnant with Kate. We shared absolutely everything with each other through our pregnancies of course, it was her first whereas it was my second.
"Hey Ana!" Kate beams as she carries a gurgling Charlie on her hip, he's her two year old son and there's Elliot Junior also known as Eli who's five.
"Hey Kate, and hello Charlie." I put on a baby voice as I take my nephew from his mother's arms for a hug. "Are you being a good boy?"
"Yeah!" He giggles as I tickle his belly.
"You wanna go play with Amaya and Amelia?" I ask him, he's just old enough to be running around the meadow with them now and Christian had a temporary fence put up around the water when Teddy was born that we can take down and put up as we please stopping the kids getting anywhere near the water.
"Thomas and Evan too?" He asks referring to Mia's twin boys. Oh yes, there's another set of twins in the Grey family, four year old Thomas and Evan are Mia's two boys and she's now expecting a girl.
"Yeah Thomas and Evan too." I reply just as Phoebe, Teddy and Ava come like a sandstorm out of the house.
I put Charlie down and let him toddle off after his cousins before wrapping Kate up in a hug. She's been away for the past week with Elliot and I'm so happy she's home.
"You and I need a long talk." She says and I nod in agreement.
"Just not now, let the men get grilling and then we'll recruit Mia and talk." I reply and she smiles and hugs me tighter.
"You're ok with this though right?" She asks examining me with her piercing eyes.
"I'm ok." I say nudging her away with a laugh, how can I not be? Jack Hyde has been out a week and so far not a peep. Or so I think.
Christian
It's hard watching the kids play and my family enjoying themselves knowing at some point I'll have to tell them that the threat is more substantial now we have no idea where Hyde is. I've fired three people because of this already and I hope that the men I haven't fired know how to track him down. I hate the uncertainty of all of this and I just need to know that my family is safe.
Amelia and Amaya are playing happily with Thomas, Evan, Eli and Charlie while Teddy, Phoebe and Ava begin pulling out the large blue swimming pool from the box. I did promise I'd put it up but I see Taylor coming at them with the pump and I know he's more than happy to do it.
Sophie walks with Gail, she's so grown up now and is getting ready to go to college. It's hard for me to watch Taylor going through the worries he is about his daughter and I know I'm going to be the same in a few years with mine. There's Teddy who will go in just over eight years, then Phoebe two years later and thankfully I have a few more years with my youngest two before they'll be leaving us too.
"What are you thinking about?" Ana asks wrapping he hands around my waist and resting her hands on my chest.
"About the kids growing up." I reply. "I'm scared to think about them going to college."
"You're thinking about Sophie?" She asks seeing the girl helping her Dad put up the pool with the eldest kids.
"Yeah, I was also thinking maybe we should have more kids." I turn to her and look her in the eye to let her know I'm serious.
"After everything that happened with Amelia and Amaya's birth you want to risk going through that again?" She asks me looking completely bewildered, hey at least she hasn't said no.
Amaya and Amelia's birth was something that can only be described as traumatic. The pregnancy itself hadn't been easy on Ana and she ended up on bed rest at six and a half months. The plan was that she would be induced at week thirty six and give birth via C-section just as she had with Teddy except this time it would be planned however, Amelia and Amaya weren't going to let that happen.
FLASHBACK ANA
"Gail!" I yell from the bedroom in a panic, this is way too soon, this cannot be happening now.
"Ana what is it?" She asks stepping into the bedroom, she's been taking good care of me these past few weeks.
"Is my mother- in-law still here?" I ask, Grace has been coming daily just too check on me too.
"She was just gathering up her things when you called." Gail replies. "Ana what is it?"
"Stop her. My water's broke."
Gail hurries out of the room as I prepare myself mentally for the first contraction. Just as my Mother-in-law enters the room I call out in agony as the first contraction hits and the second quickly follows.
"They're really close together." Grace mutters as she hurries too me. "Ana how do you feel?"
"I feel like the girls aren't waiting around!" I yell as another contraction comes, I know from giving birth naturally to Phoebe that these babies are coming and they're coming now.
"Gail call and ambulance, call Christian and get my kit from downstairs." She says hurriedly. "Ana I want to get you out of these pants and into a night gown ok?"
"Ok." I spit through gritted teeth as another contraction washes over me, holy shit I don't remember them being this close together with Phoebe or Teddy.
"Ok slowly does it." Grace says as she helps me to standing.
Gail comes back in and as Grace gets me into the bathroom to change Gail strips the bed and changes the duvet for one from the guest room. By the time I'm back in the bed I'm exhausted and I can feel that these babies are really coming now.
"Grace if I don't get to hospital what could happen?" I ask in a panic, I'm not supposed to be induced till next week!
"Let's not think about that now Ana, I need to check how dilated you are ok?"
"Ok." I nod and I don't even think twice in parting my legs and allowing my mother-in-law to go investigating.
"Oh shit." She says, I don't think I've ever heard those words come out of Grace's mouth before.
"What is it Grace?" I grunt as I'm hit with another painful wave.
"Ana, the first baby is crowning. Next contraction you need to push. Gail get me blankets, towels, hot water, and a sowing kit."
"Why a sowing kit?" I gasp as another pain hits me, but I don't push, I'm too scared to push right now.
"You're beginning to tear." She explains and I groan, I tore with Phoebe and that hurt like a bitch especially when I had to go potty. "I need you to push Ana, we don't want baby girl number two getting distressed now do we?"
"I need Christian!" I sob as another contraction hits me, but again I don't push.
"I know, he will be with you soon Ana ok? Just push for me darling."
Gail comes back in and I grab at her hand pulling her onto the bed.
"Gail get behind Ana, let her sit in between your legs for me." Grace says. Gail moves quickly and settles against the headboard with me in between her legs, one hand in each of mine. "Ana, next contraction big push for me ok?"
"Ok." I give in, I have to do this.
As the contraction hits I squeeze Gail's hands and give everything I can into it. Grace counts down for me while I spit obscenities out and grunt.
"Good girl Ana, good girl, one more and we should have the head, it seems that twin girls Grey want to meet us sooner rather than later." She smiles up at me and I know she's trying to keep calm.
"Ana!" I hear Christian's voice from somewhere in the house.
"Bedroom!" Grace calls just as another contraction hits and I push, I know I have too and that is the only thing stopping me from calling out for Christian myself. He bursts into the room and hurries to my side. I grab his hand still holding onto Gail with my other. He strokes his hand across my head, through my sweaty hair.
"I'm here now baby, I'm right here." He whispers clutching my hand and kissing it gently.
"Big push Ana on the next contraction."
It hits like a thunderstorm and I scream and squeeze my two birthing partners hand with everything I have. I feel one of my babies slowly edging out of my body and if I wasn't in agony I would take time to try and enjoy it like I did with Phoebe in a hospital with doctors and pain relief.
"Head's out now Ana, she's nearly here." Grace says calmly. "You can do this, next contraction again, big push."
"They're too early." I say to Christian. I am scared, so scared that something is going to go badly wrong.
"Big push Ana!" Grace calls as my next contraction begins to tear through me.
I know the second the baby is free, before I hear a cry, before Grace tells me anything I know my baby is out of me. The wail that covers the room has me relaxing against Gail, she's perfect and I just know it. Gail wipes my forehead with a damp cloth as Christian helps Grace with the first girl, cutting the chord and wrapping her up.
"Ok Ana, there doesn't seem to be any sign of baby girl two right now. I need you to just keep breathing through the contractions. Would you like to meet baby girl one?"
"Yes." I reply breathlessly, I'm exhausted and I can't believe I'm going to have to do that again.
Christian brings our daughter over and places her in my arms. She's just beautiful and it brings tears to my eyes.
"Amelia." I say to Christian and he nods with a smile of his own and tears in his eyes.
"Amelia Faith Grey." He replies, we've had these names chosen out for so long now.
Taylor suddenly coughs by the door and I see he has two first responders with him just as another contraction tears through me.
"I'm Doctor Trevelyan, this is Anastasia Grey, thirty five weeks pregnant with twins, one delivery successful, crowning now with second."
"How do you want to proceed Doctor?" One asks.
"I would like you to check over Amelia Faith Grey and get ready to transport her while I deliver her sister." Grace replies in a 'don't mess with me' tone.
"Yes Ma'am." They both reply and Christian takes Amelia from my arms and passes her over to them with a scowl. They go over to the side of the room and open up their medical kit to begin checking over my daughter while Grace works on me. I know it won't be much longer before her sister arrives this world, I just hope she seems as healthy as Amelia does.
Amaya Hope Grey was born healthy twenty one minutes later.