Chapter 4 – Sweet Silver-lining

Sorry for the long wait guys, I've been ill for a few weeks now. Anyway thanks for reviewing.

2 weeks later….

"Hey Ezra could you go to the store for me please? We need diapers." Aria asks when she entered his office with Emily on her hip.

"Sure give me 5 minutes to finish up this report and I'll be on my way."

"Ok thanks honey." Aria then leaves to begin dinner. They would be eating early so they can go to the hospital before visiting hours ended. A couple minutes later Ezra emerged from his office and grabbed his keys.

"I'm heading to the store now. What size diapers should I get?"

"Pampers Swaddlers size 2 for Emily and Huggies little movers size 3 for Jax. Also we need formula…Ah just hand me the IPad and I'll make a list because I just remember we also need wipes and milk." Aria made the list on the tablet and handed it to him. "Just buy the jumbo size for the wipes and diapers."

Ezra takes the list and looks it over before kissing her on the cheek. "Hey Syd, Ellie, Callie, Rylie I'm going to the store, do you guys want to come with me?" He called into the living room. Only Callie and Sydney wanted to go, so he helped them into their shoes and they all left.

….

"Hey Ashley how is she doing?" Aria greeted as she entered Hanna's room that evening with the kids.

"Hi grandma….Hi Mrs Marin" The girls greeted when they entered the room.

"Hi Aria, hi girls." Ashley greeted them before turning her attention to Aria and get up from her spot in the chair next to Hanna's bed. "They took her off the meds that kept her sedated and her doctors said she should wake up sometime the next couple of hours or maybe even days."

"So they've taken her off the meds. Does that mean when she wakes up she won't be in a world of pain?" Aria asks

"They say she'll still be in a lot of pain but that it won't be so much as to put her body in shock." Ashley answers.

"That is so good to hear. Girls please be careful."

"We will" Callie and Rylie answers as they take their usual spot on the bed telling Hanna all about what they have been doing and showing her the pictures they have drawn.

"Have you been to see Caleb yet?" Aria asks Ashley

"Yes I went to check on him after I spoke to Hanna's doctors. Aria I have to say he is not looking so good. They say his brain swelling has gone down and they were able to replace his skull cap but he still isn't breathing on his own and his kidneys are starting to fail. If they continue he'll be needing a kidney transplant soon."

"That is not good. Do you think I should let the girls see him since he's in such a bad state? I don't want to worry them more than they already are." But before Ashley could answer Rylie interrupted her.

"Aunty Aria can you take us to see my Daddy now?" She looked up at her with pleading eyes.

Aria looked to Ashley who nodded and mouthed why not before answering the small child. "Sure sweetie get your sister and I'll take you guys right now." She ran back inside to get Callie. Sydney and Kennedy wanted to see him too so they also came along. Aria excused herself from Ashley when the girls returned and started pulling her by the hand in the direction of the elevators.

They spent a couple more hours at the hospital mostly in Hanna's room waiting on her to wake up and when she didn't Aria told the girls it was time to go and they packed up and left Ashley alone with her daughter.

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"How is Hanna and Caleb doing?" Ezra the minute they walked into the house.

"Hey girls why don't you take Jax and go on outside and play." She instructed the girls and proceeded to inform Ezra of their present condition while laying her head on his lap and he strokes her hair. After he was fully up to date they made their way outside to join the kids.

Couple minutes later after Aria had been running after Jackson and Sydney, she was exhausted and sat on the patio watching fondly as Ezra and the kids ran around playing. In that moment she realized how resilient kids can be because if you didn't know it, you definitely wouldn't have guessed that their parents were seriously injured and could possible die. She was happy though that they were happy if only for a little while.

A few minutes later Callie came running over to her, she was winded and sounded a little like she was wheezing so Aria went inside and got Callie and Sydney's asthma pumps just in case she started wheezing. When she returned Callie immediately came and sat on her lap and rest her head on her aunt's shoulder. Aria had her take a puff off the pump and try to steady her breathing. A few minutes later they all came running over including Ezra.

"So, it's take out night, what do you guys want for dinner?" Aria asked and got a resounding "PIZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAA" She shook her head and got up to go inside and get her phone. Moments later she came back to the door. "What do you want on your pizza guys?" She asked Callie and Rylie.

"Pepperoni please" They both replied. Ezra laughed, he loved when they spoke in unison, he thought it was very cute. Just then they heard crying over the monitor and Ezra got up to go get Emily.

When he left Aria used her phone to go on Pizza hut's website and put her order in for one medium pizza that was half pepperoni and half cheese only, a medium vegetarian pizza and an order of cinnamon sticks. "45 minutes guys" She informed them and they all sighed.

"Soooooo long? I'm going to starbe by then" Sydney cried making Aria laugh

"You mean starve?" She asked the child who looked at her a little confused and then nodded when she realised her mom must have been correcting her. "And you won't" She then pulled the small child in for a hug.

A couple minutes later Ezra returned with a very wide awake Emily who the minute she saw Aria her arms were outstretched for her. She took her from Ezra and he went to go fix her a bottle.

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"Mommy can I have a sleep over after my birthday party?" Kennedy asked Aria a couple days later while she was changing Emily's diaper.

"Well sure you can sweetie, but remember because your birthday is the week before the twin's we are just going to wait and have one big party."

"Why do I have to share my party with them? Why can't they have their own party" She asked

"Well sweetie, it's just easier that way. You don't want to share your party with them?"

"I don't want to share my presents and my cake." Ellie pouted

Aria smiled "You will all get your own presents and cake sweetie."

"Oh, then we can have one big party." She smiled

"That's good to know" Aria ruffled her hair and lift baby Emily off the changing table. "Let's go see what the others and your father are up to."

Later than night Aria and Ezra were in bed and she turned to him "I totally forgot the girls' birthdays was coming so soon."

"Oh yeah Ellie's is next Friday and Callie and Rylie's is what the other week Wednesday?" Ezra asked looking on his phone.

"Yea the 15th and the 20th. If Hanna or Caleb don't wake up by then they are going to miss the girls' birthday." She replied starting to cry. "And what about Emmi? Will she even remember them?" She cried even harder. "They are missing so much in her life already, she looks about ready to start crawling."

Ezra's heart broke seeing his wife like this. She loved her friends and she is really suffering a lot more than she appeared to be. "It's ok Aria, they are going to wake up soon. We are going to video everything so they don't miss it."

"But they will miss it" She sobbed

"Aria look at me." He held her face and kissed her lips. "We'll make sure whatever they miss they'll be able to see it. I need you to stop worrying so much, they are going to wake up before you know it"

She still cried but not as hard as before "ok. About the girls' birthdays though, I told Ellie we will be having just one big party after the twin's birthday, but I was thinking instead of her having to wait so long for her presents, what I would do is buy her presents for her birthday and she would be able to open them on the day and then she would have the presents from her friends to open at the party and we could do that for the twins as well."

"That's a great idea. Did Hanna tell you what she was planning on getting them?"

"Yea, she was going to get them each one of those handheld games. You know the one Ellie wants." Aria answers.

"Oh right what's it called… oh right a Nintendo DS." Ezra replied

"Yea, the last I checked they are available at Game City at the mall. So we could get the console for Ellie from us and then a couple games from Hanna and Caleb and then do it the other way around for the twins."

"That is a perfect."

"Now that we have that sorted out, I'm going to have you take them to the bakery tomorrow and order the cakes. Hanna always got separate cakes for the twins so that will be 3 cakes. And I'll go and get the gifts with Syd, Jax and Emmi"

"Ok no problem." He kissed her forehead and she laid on his chest and they went to sleep.

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Day of the party

Aria: "Hey Spencer how are they doing?"

Spencer: "Hanna is the same, but they had to take Caleb into surgery a couple hours ago."

Aria: "What, why?"

Spencer: "He threw a clot and his heart stopped."

Aria: "So how is he now?"

Spencer: "Yes he's stable for now."

Aria: "Ok good because I don't know how I'd be able to tell the girls their father died on the day we are supposed to be celebrating their birthday."

Spencer: "Yea. I'm not off until 4 so Toby will be coming to help and bring the boys around 2."

Aria: "Ok thanks Spence"

Spencer: "Yea no problem honey. See you later"

Aria: "Ok see you later"

After she hung up the phone Aria picked up Emily and Jackson and went outside to Ezra who was hanging up decorations. "I'm going to go get the cakes and I'm taking Emi and Jax with me so they won't get in the way."

"Ok thanks" Ezra says coming over to kiss her cheeks, then Jax and Emi on their forehead.

When she returned she found Toby had just arrived and was taking the boys out of the car. "Hey Aria, do you want some help?"

"Yea thanks. The cakes are in the front. I'll take Nickie." She says and takes his hand leading the 3 boys into the house while she carried Emi. She held the door open for them.

By the time they were finished decorating parents started dropping kids off, a few also stayed. Aria greeted everyone at the door before leading them into the backyard where the party was. The kids ran around playing the various games, got their face painted. Callie got a butterfly on her cheek, Rylie got a cat face, Ellie a pink, black and white butterfly face and Syd a princess face.

"Hey guys it's time to sing happy birthday to the girls" Aria shouts to get everyone's attention. They then started singing while Toby, Ezra and Mike brought out the cakes with the lit candles and placed them in front of Callie, Rylie and Kennedy.

After the party was over the girls wanted to go see their parents and so Aria took them While Ezra stayed with the rest of the kids. They thanked them for their presents and told them how much they missed them and wished they were at the party. It broke Aria's heart and she even had to hide and wipe the tears that had begun to fall. After the girls were finished talking to their dad Aria told him he needed to hurry and wake up because the girls needed him, she also did the same with Hanna.

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I know it was a horrible chapter, and a very hard one to write as well but very necessary. Don't worry though everything is happening for a reason. Again I say I only know the medicine you can get from watching 10 seasons of Grey's Anatomy, 6 Seasons of Private practice and 7 seasons of House. Thanks for reading and please remember to leave a review. Tell me what you like, complain about what you don't like, make predictions, it doesn't matter as long as you review.

-Cavine