The pain was overwhelming, her muscles had all refused to co-operate and now she was being dragged into the painful abyss, where she saw nothing, her eyes had closed shut tight to help escape the pain but her senses stopped her from becoming numb.

"Push! Push Kaori! You can do it!" The nurse encouraged her and Kaori only did what instinct told her to do, get rid of the pain!

Mac's hand was holding hers tightly while she gasped and groaned in pain.

"You can do it Kaori! Push!" The nurse told her again.

"Kaori, I love you, do it for our baby, do it for me." Mac softly said and she became a little more relaxed, Mac's voice always calmed her down.

"I have a head!" The doctor called and Kaori felt a huge amount of pain and screamed in efforts to make it stop.

Mac was smiling so much and he felt Kaori's grip on his hand become tighter.

"Kaori, relax, it's okay, I'm here. Our new baby is nearly here, just push it out." Mac said as softly as he had before.

"I have it!" the doctor called and pulled out a beautiful baby, crying and whimpering but Mac saw a beautiful baby,

"Congratulations, you have a baby girl." The doctor cleaned her up and handed her to Kaori.

Kaori saw her daughters face and something inside her became attached to her.

She turned to Mac and smiled greatly, Mac kissed her and then he lightly kissed his daughter on the forehead.

"Have you thought of a name for your beautiful daughter?" the nurse asked.

Kaori nodded, "We decided on this name about a month ago, her name is Chloe. Chloe Fraser." Kaori said.

The nurse wrote it down on a file and picked up Chloe and weighed her.

"She is at perfect weight, in fact she has nothing wrong with her at all, congratulations, your baby is perfectly healthy." The nurse said and she handed Chloe to Mac,

"Hold your daughter,"

Mac held her tiny form in his arms and he saw her open her eyes, her hazel eyes were laid upon her father and she smiled.

"Hey, she's smiling." Mac said and let Kaori witness.

Kaori smiled and closed her eyes; she had to let herself recover from the pain.

"She's so gorgeous," Mac smiled and Chloe closed her eyes and started to sleep.

Mac turned to Kaori and saw she was asleep as well.

He sat down the chair beside her and cradled Chloe in his arms while his wife and daughter slept.

He sat there awhile and then he carried Chloe outside to the waiting room where he was greeted by Gabriella and Sid, Elise, Allegra and most of the SSX guys except for Psymon, cos he still wasn't interested in a baby, especially his rival's baby.

Gabriella had been going out with Sid for 3 months now and was in love as you would call it. Sid couldn't keep his hands off her.

Gabriella was the first to stand up and run over to Mac,

"Oh my god, it's beautiful!" She exclaimed.

"Say hello to Chloe Fraser." Mac smiled,

"Hello Chloe, oh my, she's so tiny." Gabriella said everything in a high pitched voice as if she was on helium.

"How's Kaori?" Sid asked as he came up to meet them.

Mac was too occupied with Chloe to bother with Sid, and after 9 months there really wasn't a reason to hold a grudge anymore, since he had been with Gabriella, he seemed to be a more stable man.

Little Chloe reached out her arm from underneath the blanket and tugged on Mac's shirt.

Elise and Allegra were watching and talking about how cute she was.

"So are you going to get her on skis or snowboards?" Allegra asked.

"I don't know, I hope she would be able to snowboard but when she grows up, she will decide." Mac smiled while grabbing Chloe's little hand and pushing it softy back in.

Chloe started to squirm and Mac knew she wanted to be fed; it was an instinct that he must have obtained being the father.

He waved good bye to the crowd and she went back to the room and found Kaori, sitting there.

"Hello, mommy." Mac smiled and Kaori reached out her hands and Mac handed her baby over to her.

"She absolutely beautiful." Kaori smiled and then lifted up her shirt letting Chloe get a drink.

Mac didn't pay much attention, he was a little worried that Sandwich might crush her, he was massive, he knew that Pepsi wouldn't be much of a worry, she spent most of the day sleeping and grooming, hardly paying attention to anything around her.

"Mac, what are you thinking?" Kaori asked.

"Just wondering how Sandwich and Pepsi would react to Chloe." Mac said.

"I think Sandwich would be curious but he's a good husky, he wouldn't bite her or anything, he's too busy irritating Pepsi most of the time." Kaori laughed.

Mac smiled and knew she was probably right.

But around two days later, when Kaori was signed off to return home, she let Chloe sit on the stairs, Sandwich came around the corner and found the baby and curiously sniffed her, little Chloe just laughed and stroked his fur.

Kaori and Mac were happy that there were no problems from the pets.

"I think everything will be just fine." Mac said as he kissed his wife on the cheek.

Pepsi walked out like royalty and noticed Sandwich wasn't bugging her, what was up?

She finally knew it was the newest family member that had that stupid dog all wound up.

Like a Queen bee she butted in and greeted little Chloe.

The happy parents sat down on the couch with Chloe on her mothers lap and Sandwich curled up on the floor by the father's feet, and Pepsi, a little annoyed that her place had been taken over by a human baby but nevertheless she curled herself on the father's lap. It might have been the best family portrait, too bad there was no one to take the picture.

Around 12 months later, little Chloe had grown a lot, she had gotten chubby and Mac was wondering if his wife had been sneakily feeding her.

He was sitting in the dining area table, the very large glass table and was counting all the bills that had piled themselves in the letterbox.

Kaori came in holding Chloe in her arms, Chloe's growth was really fast, she already had her light brown hair that bother her parents had and her hazel eyes were the same shade of bronze that her mother had swirling around in her iris.

"Hey, Kaori, did you know we had so many bills that we haven't paid yet?" Mac asked.

"You said when we brought this house we'll be in debt that rest of our lives, this only proves your theory." Kaori said.

"I hate it when I'm right." Mac sighed and slumped his head into his shoulders.

Chloe started squirming and moaning.

"What is it Chloe?" Kaori asked and Chloe pointed to Mac.

"Hello, darling." Mac reached out and ruffed up her hair.

She only laughed.

"Mahca." She said.

"Oh my god her first word!" Kaori said and Mac smiled as he ruffed her hair up again.

"Who's your daddy?" He teased.

"Mahca." She repeated.

"She's saying your name. Mahca." Kaori laughed.

"Chloe, say M-a-c. Mac." Mac smiled.

"Mack." Chloe giggled and reached out her arms to hug her father.

"Wow, that's a girl Chloe, you said Mac! Your daddy, his name is Mac." Kaori encouraged.

Chloe let go of Mac and went back to her mother.

"Well, we're gonna have to go to the bank and pay off all these dreadful bills, it's a good thing I won the nationals but too bad I didn't get the championship, I would have got tons more and probably enough to pay off this house and pay for Chloe to go to college." Mac joked.

Kaori gave him the nod of approval and then placed Chloe in the child seat.

Mac sighed and hopped in the car, he waited until both his girls were safely in before he started the engine.

Before they could start to enjoy the cruise they were already parked by the bank.

The building was hardly presentable, looking as if it had survived through a million hurricanes and hundreds of gang members had obliged to sign their name in spray paint on the side, but the interior was a different matter. Mac wondered why they bothered only redoing the inside when it was the outside that got peoples attention, it didn't make much sense.

Standing in the queue really sucked considering that it was starting to hurt Mac's feet; he never liked standing in one place for so long.

He saw Kaori and Chloe walk off to the tables were they could fill out some cheques, but Kaori just wanted Chloe to practice writing in general.

They were happily writing and Mac suddenly felt that something was wrong, he started to get uneasy and suddenly.

BANG!

Everyone was instantly on the floor and screaming was blocking the noise of cries from Kaori and Chloe.

Mac fearfully looked around for his wife but he saw his daughter and wife curled under the table where they previously were.

He tried to run over but he saw the barrel staring at him with its metal eyes.

The man behind the gun growled and commanded Mac to get on the ground, Mac obediently got on the ground, trying to summon the courage to get to his loved ones.

"This is a stick up! Put the money in the bag!" The man growled and the cashiers did that but did it really slowly for the police to get here on time.

Mac stared at his girls and Chloe was whimpering and Kaori drilled her fear filled eyes deep into his own. He could plainly see she was scared for him and her daughter, Mac started to crawl towards them but he felt the cold metallic gun press against his back,

"Where do you think you are going?" The man asked.

Mac wished he could see the guys face but a basic balaclava covered it, the gun pressed harder.

"I suggest you just stay there and I might spare your life."

Mac knew then it was no longer a game, his life was on the line and he knew Kaori and Chloe would suffer without him.

He sighed and stayed flat on the floor.

The gun left his body and shot up in the air.

Mac flinched as the sound radiated across the room, the high pitched voice of the bullet scratching against the ceiling.

"PUT THE MONEY IN THE BAG ALREADY!" the man screamed and the people hurried in fear for their lives.

Mac felt like fighting back but he knew there was no point in it; it would only result in death.

Far away the sirens were alarming and the robber scowled and shot at someone but it missed them by a thread and then the police aimed at him with their guns.

"Put the weapon down!" one of them yelled through a megaphone.

The robber was stubborn and shot at them but only hitting the glass shattering it into a thousand pieces!

Kaori held Chloe as tightly as she could, the glass fell lightly on them but Kaori still guarded herself from it.

"PUT THE WEAPON DOWN! DON"T MAKE US SHOT!" the officer threatened.

The robber shot again at the glass and he attacked the windscreen of the cop car, it was plain to see the robber had no intention of killing. Maybe he was in debt and he was stealing the money to repay it?
The cops began firing but the robber retreated and then pulled out a dark green gadget and pulled the trigger and threw it to the cops.

It landed by the cops and they started to run when they saw the grenade about to burst, Kaori had turned around at the last second but at the worst second of all, millions of shattered glass came flying at her and one piece struck her, causing her to fall to the floor and Chloe cried loudly when she knew that something was wrong with Kaori when she wouldn't get up!

Mac watched in horror when he saw his wife fall over and not get back up!

"KAORI!" He called but she still wouldn't move.

Flames were raging by where the explosion had boomed.

The cops had the robber in handcuffs and everyone was phoning loved ones and making sure they were alright, Mac ran over to his wife and found that the glass had struck her in the head…no she couldn't be!

He heard the ambulance sirens approach and he was relived but still dreadfully panicked.

Lying there on the hospital bed, with the bandages covering her eyes, Kaori's ears had increased in sense.

She heard Mac's heart beating beside her and the little tiny heart of her baby Chloe

The third heart was stable and not the least bit worried, she figured it was the nurse.

The fear started to creep up on her like the waves of the ocean.

Why couldn't she open her eyes?

"We were able to seal the bleeding in the head, but about her sight…" The nurse sighed.

"NO!" Mac leaned over to her.

"She can't be blind!"