Georgie went with Lulu to get a drink while Monica and Nathan stayed with Maxie. Monica smiled.

"You gave all of us a good scare."

Maxie smiled sleepily. "Sorry." She then blinked and her face turned worried. "The baby...? Is the baby okay?"

Monica nodded. "It's a tough one." She lifted Maxie's gown and examined her wound. "You still have a long road to go."

Nathan smiled and held onto Maxie's hand. "Well she won't be alone."

"I have no doubt." She smiled. "I'll be back to check on you in an hour."

Maxie nodded. Elizabeth gave her some medicine and smiled.

"Well you have one hell of a husband. This guy hasn't left your side."

Maxie smiled up at Nathan. "I know i'm lucky."

He chuckled and kissed her. "I'm lucky."

As soon as Elizabeth left the room Nathan smiled.

"You really scared me."

She sighed. "I'm sorry...is Faison...?"

Nathan chose his next words carefully and chose to lie. "He was shot too."

She nodded. "Good."

Georgie walked back in with Lulu. She ran to the bed and smiled.

"Mommy, Uncle Sonny has a big plane and they can cook on it!"

Maxie laughed a little and then winced. "Do they cook better then me and Daddy?"

She nodded. Lulu chuckled.

"Max no offence but Rocco cooks better then you."

Maxie rolled her eyes. Georgie handed Nathan a bottle of water before grinning wickedly at him.

"Your Muther says you need to drink."

The adults laughed at her. He nodded.

"Well you'll have to tell my Muther that I am."

She nodded and looked at Maxie. "Mommy you look sleepy."

Maxie smiled. "Mommy's fine."

Nathan shook his head. "Mommy needs some rest. Go ahead. We'll still be here when you wake up."

Maxie sighed and let her eyes drift closed.

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Nathan had no idea how long he'd been at the hospital until Liesl came into the room with Monica. She looked at her son.

"I know that you are worried but you are no good to her as tired as you are."

He sighed. Maxie blinked and opened her eyes. Monica saw first and smiled.

"Hello Maxie. How are you feeling?"

Maxie smiled a little. "Sore."

She nodded. "Well that is to be expected."

Liesl spoke to her concerned. "How is your pain?"

Maxie shrugged. "Fine."

Liesl read her face and looked at Monica. "Can she have a touch more?"

Monica nodded. "I'll have Elizabeth get it."

Liesl spoke to Maxie. "We were trying to convince Nathan to go home and shower."

Maxie nodded and grabbed his hand. "Go home get some sleep."

He sighed. "I'm fine."

She shook her head. "You need sleep and a shower. Go ahead. I'll be okay here."

He hesitated but eventually gave in. He went home to their apartment. He sorted through the mail and then took a shower. He sat down on the couch just to look through the mail once again and ended up falling asleep.

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Maxie woke up again but this time Nathan was not there. She remembered where he had went and why. Elizabeth walked in and smiled.

"Hey Maxie. I just need to change your dressings."

Maxie nodded and watched as Elizabeth moved aside Maxie's hospital gown and revealed a slightly bloody bandage. She pulled it off to reveal a stitched wound that was starting to ooze. She made a face and hit something on her pager. Soon Griffin walked in. He smiled.

"Hey Maxie. How do you feel?"

Maxie sighed. "Tired and sore."

He nodded and looked at her wound. "Okay well I need to drain some of this fluid so I am going to start a catheter and collect some of it."

Maxie nodded. Soon a needle was being placed into the already painful wound and a catheter was hooked to it. Maxie tried not to look at the bag collecting fluid. After a while Dr. Nero walked in and smiled.

"How are you feeling?"

Maxie rolled her eyes. "I really wish people would stop asking me that."

She nodded. "Well I wanted to take a quick peak at the baby. It's been through a lot."

Maxie nodded. An ultrasound machine was brought in and Dr. Nero started immediately. She looked carefully before turning the screen.

"There it is."

Maxie felt more emotions then she had before. Her baby could have died...that was mind-blowing to her. Dr. Nero looked closer and grinned widely.

"Okay so do you still want me to put a gender in an envelope for you?"

Maxie sat up a little straighter. "You can tell?"

"Yup."

"Yes please. In the envelope."

Dr. Nero grinned and wrote the gender on a piece of paper before putting it in a black envelope that she had in her coat pocket. She handed it to Maxie smiling.

"There we go. It looks good."

She printed her out some pictures before leaving. A few minutes later Carly walked in with Josslyn. She grinned.

"Hey I figured you needed something better then hospital food and Olivia agreed so..." She set some containers on Maxie's hospital tray. "We have pesto pasta, some Italian bread and a mango smoothie for dessert."

Maxie smiled. "That is so sweet of you guys."

Josslyn smiled. "Well hospital food sucks."

She set some brightly colored flowers down and then a pink card with a toddler's scribble on it.

"Avery made this for you."

Maxie smiled. "I love it."

Carly sat down and spotted the envelope. "What is that?"

Maxie grinned. "Our baby's gender. We wanted to have a reveal with everyone but now...I don't know why I wont look..."

Carly smiled. "Well if you want I can set something up for you guys."

"Really?"

"Yeah it will be in and you could use a little fun."

Maxie couldn't argue with that so she handed over the envelope.

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Nathan ran into the room and gave a sigh of relief. Maxie was sitting up sipping on a drink. She smiled a little.

"Carly and Joss brought me some food."

he nodded and kissed her before sitting down. he noticed that she had more color in her face.

"You look a lot better."

She rolled her eyes. "Thanks Babe."

He chuckled. He noticed the new tubing and the bag. "What's that?"

She looked and made a face. "They're draining fluid from the wound."

"When did that happen?"

"A few hours ago. Right before Dr. Nero came in and gave me these."

She handed him the new picture of the baby. He grinned.

"Look at that."

"Well we now will get to find out the gender."

"Really?"

She nodded. "Carly offered to plan something."

He nodded and relaxed with her. When Elizabeth walked in with Griffin Maxie smiled.

"Come to poke me again?"

Griffin laughed. "I just need to check on the wound and redress it."

Elizabeth pulled him over a tray. He put on clean gloves and looked at Nathan.

"You can stay if you want but if you're squeamish..."

Nathan shook his head and grabbed Maxie's hand. "I'm staying."

He nodded and put on a mask. He pulled out the catheter and the needle before looking at the wound.

"It looks better...Okay i'm going to clean the wound again before applying some ointment."

She nodded. Soon she felt a lot of burning and winced. Nathan kissed her forehead and tried to avoid looking at the wound. Soon Griffin was spreading a thick ointment on the wound and covering it with some gauze. He nodded.

"You did great Maxie."

She gave a sigh of relief when he was done. "Thank you."

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Anna walked into Maxie's room and smiled.

"Hi Maxie. Nathan tells me that you're feeling better?"

She nodded. "Yeah. Hopefully they'll let me out of here soon."

Anna nodded and sat down. Jordan Ashford walked in along with Valerie. They smiled. Anna did the majority of the talking.

"So we need to get your statement."

Maxie nodded. "I went to Crimson and when I walked into Nina's office I saw Peter August and he tried to stop me from coming in. I didn't listen...I walked in and I saw Cesar Faison. He held a gun up at me...He tried to talk to me and Peter went for a gun...He shot Peter or I thought that he did...He held a gun to me and dragged me toward the door. I heard the elevator and I saw Nathan. I stepped in front of the gun as Cesar fired. I...I wanted to protect Nathan..."

She was crying hysterically by the time she was done. So much so that her monitors went crazy. Nathan and Elizabeth rushed in and Elizabeth spoke to them.

"You need to leave now."

They did. Anna looked at Nathan.

"We won't need to talk with her again."

he nodded and grabbed Maxie. She cried into his shoulder. She gasped out.

"He was going to kill you..."

Nathan sighed. "I know."

Once Maxie was calmed down Nathan spoke to her.

"So I was thinking that maybe we should start looking for a house. You know one with a big yard..."

Maxie nodded. "That would be nice."

"Well there are some for sale by Lulu and Dante that we can look into. i'm not saying right away but soon."

She grabbed his hand and squeezed. She then looked a little confused.

"There was something...when I was talking to Anna...I think Peter knows Cesar..."

Nathan raised his brows. "What?"

"It seemed like they somehow knew eachother."

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