The nursery was quite, even though the rest of the hospital was bustling with activity.

"Hey Linda B." One of the nursery RNs called when Belinda got of the elevator. "What brings the new chief resident of Emergency up to the 7th floor?" She stood up to help Belinda with anything.

"Hey Cheryl. Um, my nieces are here." She pointed to the two brown bundles swaddled in pink at the end of the last row in the nursery. Belinda was sure someone would see through her lie but she had started and the only way they would let her keep the babies was if they thought they really were her nieces, so she had to keep up the lie.

"I didn't know you had a sister." She walked around the station to open the door to the nursery. She swiped her ID card through the scanner and the glass doors hissed opened. The room smelled of baby powder and fresh laundry. Belinda took a deep breathe in an attempt to cleanse her mind of all that happened since she left the hospital this afternoon. She felt like she was in a trance as she floated down to the last two cradles in the room. The twins were wide awake and staring at everything as if they knew exactly what was going on around them. "So what did your sister want to name them?" Cheryl asked pulling some name tags and a black market out of her pockets on her smock.

"Fatima and Nahja." Belinda said without thinking, pointing to each twin in turn when she announced their names. Fatima was the one who came out screaming and Nahja was the quite one who seemed deep in thought about the whole flurry of activity now centered by her bed. "But my sister died on the way here so I guess they are mine now." She said quietly. Cheryl looked shocked and started to say something but left for the nurses station to leave Belinda to her thoughts. Belinda looked down at the twins, both were wide awake and staring up at Belinda s if they knew her or that she could maybe be their mother. She reached out and ran her finger across Nahja's brow and the little bundle closed her eyes and enjoyed the warm finger on her face. "Well looks like I am going to be a mother." She told both of them, she looked at the clock and it read 3 am and usuallly her body would be begging for a bed but for some reason she felt alive as if she cold stay awake all night.

"I'll be back in the morning before work, ok?" She told Cheryl who gave her a reassuring smile and a wave before returning back to her monitor. She saw Peyton down in Emergency, but she didn't feel like talking to her just yet and Belinda dashed out of the ambulance bay, but her car was still at the bar so she phoned a cab, she would pick up her car later tomorrow.

Her house was an inviting cave when she got home. Normally she turned on every light when she got home, but for some reason she liked the dark, and she was still able to see. She felt like running a marathon not jumping into her bed and sleeping till morning. She wondered into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water, she didnt realize how thirsty she was. She threw her head back and down the entire bottle, but still she was thirsty