Chapter 6- Survive

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3 Weeks later…

Aria jumped up and blindly searched the night table for the device making the awfully obnoxious sound that had frighten her from her sleep. Still unable to find the culprit she sighed and opened her eyes to look around finding the phone on the ground by the bed. She took it up and answered before she missed the call.

"Hello?" She answers groggily

"ARIA! HANNA WOKE UP!" Spencer screamed into the phone. She was on call and would normally spend the night with either Hanna or Caleb when she was, with Ashley and on occasion Aria staying with the other.

"AHHHHHHHH!" Aria screamed frightening Ezra from his sleep.

"What…What's wrong Aria" Ezra jumped up and asked.

"Hanna just woke up!" She screamed again. Moments later crying could be heard over the baby monitor coming from both Jackson and Emily.

"Oh my God Aria that is great." Ezra tells her as he got up to go see about the babies.

"Look Spence I'll call you back, I think I woke the babies" Aria laughed

"Ok bye, talk to you in a bit" Spencer told her and hung up.

"I got Emily, you take Jax" Aria informs Ezra after she hung up the phone. They entered the nursery to find Jackson standing and shaking the railing of his crib whilst screaming at the top of his lungs, whilst Emily had pulled herself up and held tightly to the railing of her crib. The moment she saw Aria she let go and fell on her butt stretching her arms in the air with her tear stained face. "Hey there baby girl, your mom is awake." She says picking up the now 7 month old. "You've gotten so big since the last time your mommy saw you."

She changed her before taking her downstairs and put her in her high chair. "I think banana for breakfast, what do you think?" She was met by a toothless grin. "So I'm going to assume you like that idea."

Just then the big kids came down the stairs followed by Ezra and Jax.

"Good morning Auntie Aria, good morning Emily, good morning mommy" The chorus came

"Good morning girls, what do you think about banana pancakes and soysages for breakfast?" She was met with frantic nodding. "Oh Callie and Rylie your mom woke up this morning"

The moment the words left her lips the girls screamed so loud it frightened Emily and Jackson who both started crying. Aria rushed to Emily while Ezra attempted to soothe Jax. "Its ok buddy, they are just happy" Ezra soothes while rubbing the toddler's back.

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Breakfast was fast and unlike everyday Aria nor Ezra had to tell the girls to stop playing with their food, to put away their plates or to stop fighting over who was going to have a bath first. While Ezra took the task of giving the babies their baths, Aria was left with the girls. By 10:30 they were on their way to the hospital.

When they got to Hanna's hospital room there was a doctor in with her along with Ashley and Spencer. Hanna who still had several machines hooked up to her but was now propped up by a pillow and her bed was now upright so she was in a sitting position. She seemed to have been trying to follow whatever the doctor was saying but looked to be a little lost and Spencer and Ashley both had worried looks.

Aria entered the room with Emily on her hip leaving Ezra out in the hall with the other kids.

"…so she may have some memory loss, it may be permanent, but it could also be temporary, just her brain's way of coping with the accident." Dr Francis finished as Aria walked in. "Good morning Mrs Fitz I was just informing them of Hanna's current state."

"Ok, so you are saying she has memory loss?" Aria asked

"Yes but we don't know for sure how significant." She answers

"Why not? Hasn't she been awake for hours?" Aria asked angrily and both Ashley and Spencer rushed to her, rubbing circles in her back.

"Well actually no. After I called you she went back under. This is the longest she's been awake since she first woke up this morning and she's only been awake for 5 minutes" Spencer informs her.

"Oh ok." Aria says calmly this time.

"So I'm going to evaluate her now." Dr Francis told them and they nodded. "Hi there I'm Dr Francis do you know your name?"

Hanna nodded and hoarsely says her name. "Hanna Marin-Rivers"

"That's good" Dr Francis told her and wrote something on her chart. "Do you know where you are?"

Hanna nods "In a hospital"

"Do you remember what happened to you?"

She looked down at the bandages on her hand and the cast on her left arm and felt the several other bandages on her abdomen, shoulder, head and legs. She shook her head and started to cry "No I don't remember"

Ashley rushed to her side to comfort her. It's ok Hanna baby. "You were in an accident, with Caleb and Emily."

"Where is Caleb and Emily? Are they ok?" She asks still crying.

Aria who herself was now crying stepped into her view. "Emily is fine sweetie she's right here…"

Before she could finish Hanna interrupted her "Where is she? Em?" She called

"She's right here Hanna" Aria says holding up the baby.

"I don't see her. Aria who's baby is that?" She asks

"The baby is Emily Hanna, she's your baby. Don't you remember her?" Ashley asks. Dr Francis was now standing silently to the side observing the situation.

"I had a baby? But I didn't know I was pregnant. How long have I been asleep and where is Em?" Hanna asks looking confused and everyone turned to look at Dr Francis.

"I guess she has suffered some memory loss after all" the doctor replied

Aria walked over to the bed and sat in the chair next it. "Hanna what is the last thing you remember?"

She took a minute raking through her brain to try and find her most recent memory. "I ah don't know. Caleb and I dropped the twins off with Spencer and Toby so we could have date night."

Aria turned to Spencer "Do you remember when that was?"

"I don't know. They haven't really left the girls with us in months, but I think the last time they did was sometime around when they found out they were pregnant again." Spencer answered

"So that puts her last memory at least a year ago." Aria says.

"That sounds about right." Spencer agrees. Then they all looked to Dr Francis.

"Ok by the looks of things she seems to maybe have only damaged a small portion of her brain that has to do with memory, by what I have seen so far it is still not clear if this amnesia is temporary or permanent, only time will tell. All I can tell you to do now is to just work with her, show her pictures, tell her stories, anything from the last year that may jog her memory" He tells them. "I'll be back to check on her later. Just don't overload her with too much information at once."

"Ok" They all answered.

After Dr Francis left they all took turns in attempting to jog Hanna's lost memory of the past year. They tried to avoid telling her about Caleb but she kept on bringing it up and so they had to tell her. After a while they brought the girls in and they also took turns in telling their mom what she could not remember.

After spending hours at the hospital with Hanna she became tired and so they all decided it was time to leave and promised her that they will be back to see her the following day.

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"Morning Hanna how are you feeling today?" Aria asked as she and the kids entered the room.

"Morning, I feel like an invalid" Hanna answers "I can barely lift my arms and legs"

"Well Dr Francis says that is to be expected. Because you've been unconscious for so long and to add to that the crack in your spine that made it hard for them to move your legs too much. So your muscles have atrophied due to being immobile for months. You are going to need physical therapy." Aria informed her.

"Oh ok. Can you take me to see Caleb now?" Hanna asked as she has been asking since she woke up the day before.

"I told you yesterday Hanna, as soon as Dr Francis says it's ok to move you I'll take you to him." By this time the girls had taken their usual spots on the bed next to Hanna and Jax was struggling to join them. Aria lift him and place him in the chair next to the bed and she made her way around to the other side to sit in that chair. "Girls why don't you tell your mom about your trip to the zoo."

"You guys went to the zoo?" Hanna asked them "I see what you are doing but I'm going to let you get away with it this time." She tells Aria and then turned back to the kids. Aria smiled and listened as the girls rambled on about all the animals and even Jax added to the conversation.

After a while Hanna got tired and the girls wanted to see their dad, so Aria left a sleeping Jax and Emily to take the girls to Caleb. She asked a nurse to keep an eye on the babies as she left.

Caleb was not showing any sign of getting better, however the good thing about it was he was no longer showing signs of getting worse either. While the girls talked to him Aria went and spoke to his doctor to see if there was anything new since she had last spoken to him.

"Hello Mrs Fitz how are you today, I'm Dr Drake I've taken over Mr Rivers' case. How may I help you?"

Aria shook Dr Drake's outstretched hand "Hello Dr Drake, I was just wondering if there was any changes in Caleb's condition today."

"Well the new medication and dialysis seems to be working but he will still need a kidney transplant. His name is on the list however due to the state of his condition he is not high on the list. We will keep him on it however, his best chance at this moment would be a direct donation. That is someone volunteering their kidney directly to him, it's the only way to bypass the list."

Aria took in all the new doctor had told her before she went back to join the girls in the room. When she entered she saw that Rylie and Callie were crying and Syd and Kennedy were trying desperately and unsuccessfully to console them. "Hey girls, what's wrong?"

"We were telling Uncle Caleb that Aunty Hanna was awake and she wanted to see him when they started to cry." Kennedy answered.

"I think they want him to wake up too" Sydney added "That's why they crying"

"Oh girls, you don't need to be crying. Your dad is going to wake up soon just like your mom, you'll see." Aria tries to soothe them. "Come here girls" She takes a seat in the chair next to the bag and takes both girls into her lap and they rest their heads against her chest. "Everything is going to be fine ok? If you believe that then it will be true." She assures them while wiping the tears that were now falling from her face.

She then got a text from Ezra: In the parking lot. Are you guys ready yet?

Aria: Will be ready soon. Come up to Hanna's room need some help with the kids.

Ezra: Ok I'll just find a parking spot and come up.

She got up lifting the girls who were still crying in her arms "Come on girls, your dad is here." She tells Sydney and Kennedy.

When she got back to the room Hanna was awake and so was Jax.

"Hey what's wrong with the twins?" Hanna asks

"Oh they just miss their dad" Aria tells her as she place them on the bed. They immediately snuggled up to their mom.

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I thought due to the nature of this chapter it would have been easy to write, but it think it is by far the hardest chapter I've had to write for this story. I hope you guys liked it. Please Review. I have decided that since you guys like the story so much, and I've gotten 2 suggestions which I happen to like, I was thinking you could put suggestions for things you'd like to see happen in the story (Apart from Caleb waking up because I'm still not sure about that part. I'm having an internal struggle with the idea because I love both Tyler and Caleb so much). So feel free to make your suggestions. They actually inspire me a whole lot.

-Cavine