A.N. OKAY! My last and final chapter of Phoenix. I have to say it was a interesting run. I've had lots of haters, but mostly people lovin it. I love yall for stickin by me because truthfully this story really wasn't one I loved, unlike You've Got Mail. :( Anyway. I hope ya like the ending. It wont be long, but it will tie all together and there will be nothing in the end. If I get even one person emailing me saying there needs to be a sequel I'll just shut down all together because it bugged me at the end of A New Start when I decided against the sequel. Anywho. Enjoy.
P.S. I have a restaurant in her I don't own it, it just happens to be my fave that I discovered in college. Also, this is a teen rated story, so I wont put any gruesome details on anything considering I've been there to see some of these details and almost went through it myself I don't want to subject yall to that.
Chapter ?: The End
-*One Year Later*-
"Kagome don't worry," Sango chided her as they sat in the clinic, "James will be happy no matter what happens."
"I know," she said with a sad smile, looking to the floor as if it had all the answers, "but I'm terrified. What if..."
"Kagome," came the voice of the nurse, the person who would deliver the news. Kagome was terrified.
It was sterile in there. All white on white and very impersonal. It depressed her. It reminds me of what will happen in the afterlife almost, if things don't work out the way they are supposed to.
"Okay Mrs. Wolfe," the tech said with a smile, "this will be a little cold. But once it glides over the skin it will be fine." Kagome nodded, not wanting to look at the machine but did anyway. She shivered lightly as the goo was spread, but still stared at the screen. "Ok. There's the head, and you can see feet now, and a hand... or four?" Kagome's attention was automatically pushed to her stomach as the doctor pushed the reader to the other side of her distended belly, where when it reached its destination showed a perfect little body much like the first. Only this one had a extra... part the other didn't. "Well Kagome. We have made a bit of a mistake when we said you were having one little girl. You're having twins! From the looks of it a girl and a boy!"
Kagome nodded, "I... I... it explains... oh my god!"
"Kagome!" Sango said with a smile, "your having twins!"
She nodded, still staring at her belly, "oh man. I don't have that kind of room in the apartment!"
Sango laughed at her friend, watching as her eyes grew large and she started to sweat a bit, "it's fine. besides, you're moving everything back in with James soon anyway."
Kagome smiled, "your right! He can fix it. It's his fault!"
Sango laughed and helped her friend sit up and wipe the goo from her belly before she got dressed.
As they left the clinic Kagome decided she was hungry and wanted pizza. But when they got to the pizza shop she decided she wanted something else and they left again. Finally settling on a Mexican restaurant, Chipotle, and getting a meal of three barbacoa tacos and some juice for Kagome, they decided whether they should start buying baby stuff or not.
"You're going to get heartburn," Sango said with a smile as Kagome demolished her second taco.
"I know," Kagome replied with a toothy grin, "but they're SOOOOO good."
"So, baby stuff or no baby stuff," Sango asked quietly.
"I think we should go see James after lunch," she replied, "it'd work out better."
Sango nodded and got up to help Kagome when she was done with her tacos, and they went to the car.
-*Later That Afternoon*-
"So you went to the doctor today?" James said as he walked into Kagome's apartment, first acknowledging the belly before his wife, "what's the damage? Hey Sango!"
"Hey!" she called from Kagome's room, coming out with Miroku and their daughter who was now almost a year old, "can you explain why two people who are married and love each other would live in different houses?"
"Shut up Sango. James, we need to sit down," Kagome said quietly, grabbing his hand, "because it will shake you."
"What's wrong?" he asked, touching her face lightly.
"I'm as you can tell pregnant," she replied quietly, "and it's obviously your fault. But the big news is, we're having twins."
"What?" he asked, looking at her belly, "but... it doesn't make sense... boom"
"Wow he's loud when he falls," Miroku commented as he pulled James off the floor and onto the couch.
"I knew he would have that reaction," Kagome mumbled getting up and heading into the kitchen, "but what can we do?"
*-Two and a Half Months Later-*
"Kagome stop trying to break my hand!" James exclaimed as his wife clenched her hand around his in a vain attempt to relieve the pain.
"YOU WANNA GO THROUGH THIS?" she growled.
"No," he said meekly.
"Then shut up! And if you don't want me trying to break your hand then let me hold the guard rails like I wanted."
James nodded and sat back, Kagome had decided she didn't want any pain medicine because she wanted to be able to feel her legs later and she wanted to be fully alert when it was time to see her children for the first time.
"Ooooh damn it!" she squealed as she leaned forward, another contraction wracking her body.
"Just breath honey," the attending said as she checked how far along Kagome was before she could really start hard labor, "you're not far now. Just a couple of centimeters and we can get ya all set up! You're doing great, and coming along fast!"
Kagome smiled as she relaxed a little, the contraction over she could finally rest for a few minutes. The pain wasn't what bothered her, she could deal with that. It'd be over in a few hours anyway. It was the strange feeling she got as she got the pain. The doctors said that it happened a lot, and that there was no reasons for them to worry, so she tried to put it out of her head.
-*A hour later*-
"And here is your daughter!" The doctor said triumphantly as the baby came, instantly wrapping her up and clamping the cord so James could cut it.
"She's just like you," James said with a smile as the doctor handed Kagome the baby for one minute before the nurse took her for her stats.
"You mean squished and red with blood?" Kagome asked with a grin.
"Beautiful," her husband replied with a grin as he kissed Kagome's forehead.
"Okay Mrs. Wolfe," the doctor announced, "just one more push and the little guy will be here."
Kagome nodded and braced herself, remembering the pain she just went through, grit her teeth and did what she had to, "GOD DAMN HE'S GOT A BIG HEAD!" she exclaimed as the baby came free. The doctor didn't say anything as the baby came free, quickly clamping the cord and having James cut it, he handed the boy to the nurse, who immediately left the room.
"What's wrong," Kagome asked, staring at the doctor as he instantly started cleaning the mess, "why wasn't he crying. What's going on?"
"I hate to say it," the doctor said quietly, "your son is extremely small. while multiples tend to be early and these two were a good deal earlier than anticipated birth was simple for you. But your daughter seemed to have taken the more nutrients than your son. Now we have a good staff here, and things will be fine. But we had to get him into a incubator quickly because he needed oxygen and nutrients. Once we get you and him all fixed up we'll take you to see him, but for now just rest. All will be well." Kagome nodded, grasping James's hand as he placed it on the bed next to her, she tried not to cry.
"It'll be okay Kags," he said softly, kissing her temple then her lips, "it will all be okay."
"I want it all right now," she said softly, refusing to let the tears drop, "I want them both to be perfectly healthy right now."
"He'll be better soon love," James said softly, when there was a knock on the door, Sango and Miroku came in both looking a little pale.
"What's the news?" Sango asked, pulling a ice pack off the back of her head.
"Right after you passed out and James took you to Miroku, I had the twins," Kagome explained sadly.
"What's wrong?" Sango asked. She freaked out seeing her best friend go into labor, although she herself had done it, she didn't see it up close, and when she had. It grossed her out enough that she passed out.
"He's too small," Kagome said, "she was the stronger of the two having better nutrients. He just didn't grow right I guess."
"Good news," the nurse said with a smile, "your daughter is in perfect health, here you go Mrs. Wolfe, and your son just needs to gain a pound and you all can go home. Just a couple of days."
Kagome smiled and looked down at her daughter, "oh you are just gorgeous!"
"When can we go see him?" James asked the nurse, tearing his eyes away from his wife and daughter long enough to look at the nurse.
"In a little bit," the nurse said with a smile, "they just want to do a quick couple of vitals and then make sure he's still getting enough oxygen."
James nodded and looked back down at Kagome who seemed happy enough to have her daughter in her arms, but he knew she wouldn't be completely happy until she held their son.
"What's her name," Miroku asked, "and his."
"Well we're not sure what to name him," Kagome said with a small smile, "because there are so many great guys in his life. And we cant name him after his grandfather..."
"That kid would be doomed!" Miroku exclaimed, "because then he'd stalk my little Kagome like the first!"
"HEY!" James said, "I'M RELATED TO THAT GUY!"
"You didn't know him," Kagome and Sango said at the same time.
"But anyway," Kagome said with a smile, "we're naming this little beauty Sango. Just like her godmother." Sango and Miroku laughed, before each being passed the baby so they could get a better look at her.
"She really does look just like you!" Sango said with a grin as the baby turned her head in Kagome's direction, immediately letting out a cry, "sounds like you too."
Kagome laughed softly and took her daughter, "it would be perfect if they would bring me my son. I didn't even get a chance to see him."
"What did the doctors say?" Miroku asked, not sure why they took the little boy away.
"Sango took a lot of the nutrients while in the womb," James said looking down at Kagome who was already playing with the baby girl who was asleep, "she was a little stronger and he was just a little less strong."
Sango and Miroku nodded, watching their friend and hoping everything would be alright. She never spent time with her family, even with them there things were difficult for her. They hoped things would be okay now that she had her children and a husband who loved her.
-Two Months Later-
"...And we ask that you take this child into your arms. That you take care of him and guide him. Let your wings be his, for he now has you and only you when he is in time's of need."
Kagome sniffed, her little boy was finally out of the hospital. She baptized him Christian as was his sister, Sango and Miroku agreed to be her godparent's so InuYasha and Ally were his godparent's.
"Kagome get a grip," James said putting a arm around his wife, "it's a baptismal."
"I know," she sniffed, "but I was terrified we'd never see this day."
"I didn't either," he admitted, "but we're here. Jr is safe, healthy, and bigger than his sister. We truly have everything at this point."
"Yes we do," she said as they poured some water over the baby's head, 'anointing' him as a child of god.
"That was so nice," Sango was gushing as she sat with 'Gome and Sango, Kagome's little girl, after the baptismal.
"I always thought it would be different," Kagome said, almost disappointed.
"I liked it," Sango said.
"Yes," Miroku said, "and so far none of us will have to go through this again for a while right?"
"Nope," everyone said at once. Kagome was looking at Ally, who agreed with everyone but didn't look convinced. She said nothing and was happy that things were the way they were supposed to be.
-That Night-
"We can officially be parents to two babies," Kagome said to James with a smile as they put the babies to bed in their respective cribs.
"Yes," he said with a grin, hugging her to him from behind, "both our children are home with us. And you're home with me. It's not good for a little girl to be away from her mother for too long."
"I know," she said sadly, "and I'm surprised they let me keep her up with me as long as they did being visitor's are normally to be 14 years and younger."
"The twin thing," James said as they walked to their room, "she and Roki have a connection. Even small they have one. The doctors knew deep down she was helping him get better."
Kagome nodded, "she was. In so many way's she helped him get better, without knowing it."
"It's not your fault Kagome," he said holding her close to his body. "There was no way for you to know Sango was the stronger."
"I should've felt it," she sobbed. "And I didn't. It is my fault. And it'll always be my fault because he's more susceptible to illness now."
"He'll be fine," James said. "Roki is a fighter. His odds were so low. And look at him. Perfect health, no breathing problems, no hearing or vision impairments."
"Yes," she said, "but that doesn't mean something can't come up later."
"It wont," James replied. "Let's go to sleep."
Kagome nodded, wrapping a arm around her husbands waist instantly falling into the realm of dreams.
Her life was just as it was meant to be. Kouga was right, they were meant to be together. Just not in his lifetime, in her's as he had hoped. Kagome had all that was meant for her. A husband who loved her above all. Two children, Sango and Roki, amazing friends and everything built around to complete her world.
A.N. What better way to end a story? I love it. It's lame, but it works for me. Yes Roki is the baby's name. It's not short for Miroku. I've named him Roki because I got bored. The ending is rushed but I have way to many projects on my hands. Sorry but this is the end to this story. Check soon on the other's for possible updates.
