"Can I get some help in here please?!" Blossom cried as a woman in ER began to spasm. Blossom Held her down and tried to calm her.
"Just sit back, ok?" she cried. "Can I have some help PLEASE!"
Another nurse and a doctor came running in and began to help her. Within a few minutes the woman was unconscious and breathing nicely.
"Thanks." Blossom said.
"That's fine. Well done for not panicking though." The nurse said with a wink.
Blossom blushed. "Heh, sorry."
"Go take your lunch break Blossom, you've been here since 7am and haven't eaten a thing. Go on." She said.
Blossom sighed and nodded. "K, but if you need me, let me know, I'll stick around. And if you need an extra person for paramedic duty then, I'm your gal!"
"I'll keep it in mind."
Blossom smiled and headed for the cafeteria, stopping off in the locker room to check her phone and collect her paramedic uniform, in the hopes that she'll be needed for duty today.
She turned on her phone and checked her texts. One from Buttercup.
'Need 2 talk 2 u ring me wen u can. Its quite urgent :( luv BC xox'
Blossom frowned. It was 6 months on since her sister and brother in law had been trying for children. They still hadn't got anything. It was still the same problem. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with Buttercups reproductive organs, but Butch's sperm couldn't get through to Buttercup egg. It was a rare problem, but still an occurrence.
Blossom clicked in a text back to Buttercup: 'R u in the hospital?'
She sat down on the bench in the dressing room, waiting for a reply. It came from Butch's phone.
'Eya bbe, BC is at the maternity wing. Things r rle rle not looking gd. She needs u. go c her if u at work still. Cheers hun xxx'
Blossom switched her phone off and shoved it in her pocket. The plan was, she would head for the cafeteria, grab a sandwich and then go see Buttercup.
The maternity wing…
Buttercup sat in the hard hospital bed. Her face was tear stained, and Butch had his arms round her.
"Buttercup, babe it'll be ok, I mean it. We'll be alright. There are soo many more possibilities." Butch reassured her.
"I don't care about any of that. I'm useless. What good am I now?" Buttercup cried, wailing more into Butch's shoulder.
He gathered her face in his hands. "Buttercup, you're not useless. We're gonna get through this ok? Blossom's on her way up, ok?"
Buttercup sniffled and nodded.
She'll know what to say to cheer her up. She always knows…Butch thought.
Then the door opened, and Blossom, clad in her little white nurse uniform and hair in a high ponytail, entered.
"Blossom…" Butch said breathlessly.
"Hey guys," Blossom said, smiling. "how you both doing?" she said, the smile fading from her face when she saw her sisters tear stained face and Butch's tired and upset expression.
"Blossom. Theres something you need to know." Buttercup said, sniffing.
"What? Whats wrong, tell me?!"
"I'm infertile."
The silence in the room could cut glass.
"Wha, what? What? You're…what?" Blossom stammered, blinking.
Butch closed his eyes, dreading what was to come. I thought she would help…
"Its been 6 months. 6, long, heartbreaking months. But, I can't have kids. Not with Butch. And Butch can't be a father, not with me." Buttercup explained.
"Oh my, ohmygod…sweetie, come here." Blossom clogged over and gave her a big hug.
A few minutes passed, and Blossom gave Butch a hug. He held on tightly, sighing, trying to keep his feelings inside him. It hurt him to know he couldn't give his girlfriend the one thing she wanted so badly.
"So, what do you plan on doing? There are soo many options. You could adopt!" Blossom said, trying to cheer them up.
Buttercup shook her head and looked into her lap. "Its just not the same. Its hopeless."
"No, its not hopeless. Nothing is ever hopeless." Blossom reassured.
"This is." Buttercup said. "We're not adopting, I can't do that, I just can't. It wouldn't be ours. I know adoption is great and all, I just can't. I'm sorry. That leaves nothing."
"No it doesn't."
Buttercup and Blossom looked to Butch.
"There is one thing, that we haven't considered." He said, leaning against the wall, looking at Blossom uneasily.
She notices his gaze and feels uneasy herself.
"Whats that?" she almost stutters.
"Surrogacy." Butch said.
"What?" Buttercup asked.
"We could ask someone to be a surrogate mother. You know, when they put your embryos into another woman and she has our kids for us."
Blossom felt her stomach do a flip.
"I actually never thought of that…" Buttercup said, looking at Butch, then to Blossom.
Both greens were looking at Blossom with pleading eyes.
"Would you do that for us, Blossom?" Buttercup asked bravely.
Blossom felt all feeling go from her legs. She knew how much they had wanted kids. She knew how decent it would be to do this for them.
"I, I, I –" Blossom stammered.
"You need to think about it."
Blossom nodded. The silence was broken by Blossom's pager going off, she was wanted for paramedic duty.
"Guys, I, I gotta go. I'll speak to you tonight. And if you see Brick tell him I'm working till late tonight seeing as I'm on paramedic duty tonight. Make sure you tell him I'm sorry. Love you both, see ya."
Then she left.
"Were we asking too much of her?" Butch asked Buttercup.
She shook her head unsurely. "I dunno."
R&R!!