Heyy guyzzz :) So I decided to make this the last official chp, but ill put up an epilogue pretty soon cuz I wanna go into the future teenage lives of the twins :P For some reason it fascinates me and I really want to write on what I think they should be like :)
So here's the next chp…hope you guys like!!
Disclaimer: once this story line hasn't happened you know I don't own it…
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"What do you think the girls did today?"
"Probably went to the spa or something," Eric answered.
"Really? Calleigh doesn't seem like the spa kinda girl," Ryan shrugged.
"Trust me, Calleigh never resists an opportunity to be pampered," Eric said as he pulled into the driveway.
Eric got out of the car and opened the backseat. He lifted his sleeping son out of the car seat and walked down the path to his house, Ryan in tow with the bag of baseball paraphernalia. He unlocked the door and motioned for Ryan to place the stuff in the twins' toy room while he put Derek down to sleep.
As he walked back down he found Ryan in the living room with his cell phone to his ear, eyes wide. His phone fell from his hands, landing with an audible thud on the carpeted floor. He watched as Ryan fell forward, moving to catch him before he hit the floor. He held him up and positioned him to sit on the recliner in the room.
He went into the kitchen and filled a glass with water and returned to the room, Ryan still in the chair, not having moved an inch. He offered Ryan the glass, which he took almost robotically, lifting it to his lips and emptying the glass in a matter of seconds. Eric took the glass from him and placed it on the floor. He turned back to look at Ryan, worried.
"Who called?" he asked.
"The hospital."
Eric's eyes widened and how bluntly Ryan had replied. "What's wrong? Is Natalia okay?"
Ryan shook his head, his hands covering his eyes as he tried to form his next sentence. Unfortunately only scattered words came out.
"Accident…surgery…babies…Calleigh and Lizzie…"
Eric's breath hitched and became hollowed with each word that Ryan uttered. He fell back onto the floor, brain trying to comprehend the news just relayed to him. The only word that remained in his head, though, the loudest and most obvious word was: go. Go to the hospital. Go to his wife and child. Go to the side of one of his closest friends. Just go.
He pushed himself up and sprinted up the stairs, returning with Derek in his arms. He moved to Ryan's side, "Come on, Ryan. Let's go!"
Ryan, still in shock, could not process anything at that moment in time. Eric, however, would not take his shock for much longer, "You better get your ass up Wolfe, or I'm going to carry you to the car!"
That certainly shook Ryan out of his trance, as he blinked a couple of times and stood up, following Eric out of the house and into the car.
Eric drove like a madman. It was a shame he didn't have the siren on him, then he would actually have the permission to speed through the streets and red lights like a maniac. He pulled into the hospital parking lot and parked haphazardly before scrambling out of the car and getting Derek, rushing a sleeping toddler and Ryan into the building. He approached the front desk with increasing speed, nearly bumping into it in the process.
"I'm here to see my wife and daughter, they were in a car accident with my friend, his wife," he pointed to Ryan.
"Name?" she receptionist asked emotionlessly.
"Calleigh and Elizabeth Delko and Natalia Wolfe."
Just as Eric spoke their names, a doctor spoke up, "Are you mister Delko?"
Eric turned on his heels to look at the woman and nodded.
"And you're mister Wolfe?"
Eric nodded once again, "Do you know anything about our wives and my daughter?"
She nodded and motioned for them to take a seat in the waiting room. Eric and Ryan followed her, sitting adjacent to her in the waiting room. She wasted no time in updating them, "Missus Delko sustained injuries to her right leg and arm, and has few lacerations on her face, she lost quite a bit of blood, but she and her baby should be fine. Elizabeth fractured her left arm but should be fine as well."
Eric let out a breath, he opened his mouth to ask to see them, but remembered the man next to him, still very much in a trance.
"What about Natalia?" Eric asked, speaking up for Ryan.
The doctor let out a breath and began, "Due to the trauma of the event, missus Wolfe went into labour in the ambulance."
Ryan closed his eyes and his head sank into his hands, propped up on his knees. With his free hand, Eric placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"Is she okay?" he asked, almost tentatively.
"She was unconscious at the time and suffered a pretty large laceration to her left side, so we had to prep her for a C-section, which is where she is now. She is in the capable hands of the best neo-natal surgeon in Florida, she is in good hands."
Eric nodded, but felt numb. He was torn between offering much needed comfort to his friend and checking up on his wife and child. He knew he should be with Calleigh and Lizzie, but Ryan was really fragile at the moment…
"Can he go and see Calleigh and Lizzie?" Ryan's voice broke the silence.
Eric wanted to turn toward him to argue, but his head turned to the doctor who looked at him, "Yes he can, they are both in the same room in recovery. I can take you there if you want?"
Eric did not answer quickly, but as he was about to speak, Ryan cut in once again, "Go and see them Eric, I'll be fine."
Eric nodded and looked at his friend empathetically, "Thanks, man. Call me if you find out anything, okay?"
Ryan nodded, "Go, tell Calleigh I'm glad she's okay, and give Lizzie a kiss for me."
Eric smiled and turned to walk off with the doctor, glad that his family was okay, but also praying for Natalia and her babies. He watched as the doctor, he was yet to know her name, stopped in front of a pink door, looking at the chart on the front of the door in a little pocket. She then turned to look at him.
"This is it," she said with a small smile.
"Thank you," he said truthfully, "for everything."
She smiled bigger and shrugged before walking off, "It's my job."
Eric shifted a still sleeping Derek on his hip and opened the door. He felt a sense of déjà vu as he entered the room to see Calleigh lying there with her eyes closed. Her chest moving up and down steadily allowed him to release a breath he held in. His eyes then drifted to the bed next to hers, where his little girl lay. She, too, was asleep, her hand in a small pink cast. He smiled, knowing that she probably picked that out herself.
He placed Derek down on the bed next to Lizzie, loving how the two looked as they slept next to each other. Despite their different hair and eye colour, Lizzie and Derek were very much twins. Their facial structures were almost completely identical, their noses just like Calleigh's. Derek got Eric's smile, big and warm, while Lizzie got Calleigh's smile and her stubborn attitude. Eric had to smile every time he saw the two of them together, they were inseparable. Every time they were together, playing or watching a TV show, or even during their evening naps, they refused to be separated. Today was one of those rare days when they were apart, but they much preferred being together.
His gaze then drifted to his wife, still asleep. His eyes raked over her form, taking in her injuries. Her right leg was up in a sling that hung from the bar attached to the bed, her right arm in a pink cast, identical to Lizzie's, her forehead and cheek bandaged with surgical tape and gauze.
He ran his hand down her uninjured cheek, brushing her cheek gently with the pad of his thumb. He then sat in the chair next to the bed and took her left hand in his, kissing the knuckles before setting it back down on the bed. He rested his head on the bed, his hand covering his mouth, tears stinging his eyes. Soon, he let the tears flow down his face, letting all of his emotions overwhelm him for just a moment. The fear, the anxiety, all flowing out of him with the tears, quickly replaced by gratitude and joy that his family was alive.
He then felt a small hand on the back of his head. Lifting his head up, his eyes met those familiar green ones gazing back at him. He smiled slightly, "Cal."
"Hey."
He stood up and leaned over her to give her as much of a hug that her position would allow, burying his face into the crook of her neck.
"I was so worried," he mumbled against her skin, pressing a soft kiss there.
"I know," she replied, putting her hand behind his head once again, "I'm sorry."
"For what? This wasn't your fault," he replied, pulling away from her, but keeping his gaze locked with hers.
She sucked in her bottom lip and broke the gaze, tears filling her eyes, "It is my fault, Eric. I was driving, not Natalia. And now she's in surgery and-"
"Cal," he interrupted her, "you had a moment where you didn't pay attention, that happens to everyone."
He placed his hand under her chin, turning her head to face him, "I am so glad that you're not the one in surgery. No matter how selfish that sounds, it's how I feel. I hope and pray with everything that I have that Natalia and the triplets will be okay, but, for now, you're okay…you and Lizzie are okay. And that's all that matters."
He rested his forehead against hers as tears poured down her cheeks. His hand held the back of her neck and he closed his eyes, trying his hardest to console his hurting wife.
"Mamí?"
Calleigh turned her head to see her little girl waking up. She smiled, grateful that she was awake.
"I'm over here, Lizzie."
Lizzie sat up in the bed and looked at her parents, a look of confusion adorning her small face.
"Mamí, you okay?"
Calleigh smiled through her tears and nodded, "I am now, sweetheart."
Lizzie removed her covers carefully, trying not to wake her brother, and climbed down. She walked around the bed to Eric, who lifted her onto his lap, pressing a kiss to her curly locks.
She then pulled away from him and held up her injured arm, "I got a pink cast papí! The lady said it's 'cuz I'm a big girl."
"That's right, mija, you are a big girl."
Lizzie then cautiously leaned onto Calleigh's bed to press a butterfly kiss to the side of her head.
"Better now, mamí?"
Calleigh chuckled at the innocence of her little girl. If only it were that easy, she thought, but, instead, she replied, "Yeah, sweetie, all better. Thank you."
Lizzie grinned, "De nada."
Both parents chuckled at that, Lizzie then yawned and leaned back into Eric's chest. "I'm tired, papí."
"That's because you had a long day, mija. Come, let's put you back to bed."
He placed her under the covers and kissed her forehead gently, "Sweet dreams, cariña."
Before he could return to his seat, his cell vibrated in his pocket. It was a text from Ryan saying that Natalia was okay and to meet them in the room down the hall.
"Ryan just texted me. Natalia is fine, but-"
"Go," Calleigh instructed him, "Go, come back and tell me how they are."
Eric smiled and kissed her lips, "Get some rest, querida, you must be exhausted."
"Mhmm."
Eric exited the room after taking a second glance at his family, all asleep. He walked down the hall to see an attractive redhead in a lab coat, exiting a room.
"Excuse me?"
She looked up from the chart she held in her hands and flicked her short hair out of her face, her piercing blue eyes meeting his.
"Do you know which room Natalia Wolfe is in?"
She smiled, "Yeah, this one. I just finished her first post-op check up."
"So she's okay?" he asked, almost tentatively.
She nodded, "She and the babies will be just fine."
Eric breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you so much, doctor…"
"Montgomery, Addison Montgomery."
"Thank you, doctor Montgomery."
She smiled and walked off, leaving Eric to himself in the small corridor. He was so unbelievably grateful that everyone was okay. So happy that everyone was alive. He silently thanked God for the obvious miracle he just performed and opened the door, feeling incredibly lucky and blessed.
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And that is the not so official end to Little Bit Of Love! :) Sooo sad that it's finished already, but 20 chps seemed long enough. I'm going to miss writing this fic so much…especially the twins. Cuz I can write Eric and Calleigh fluff all the time but the twins were special…sighh. I have an idea for them…but you wont see anything on that for another little while. At least not until my exams are done :D
Hope you guys enjoyed this fic…the epilogue should be up by tomorrow afternoon, I'm almost finished with it…want it to be absolutely perfect :)
Ooh and I don't own Addison Forbes-Montgomery, unfortunately those lucky bastards at ABC do…
Please review!!! Love you guyzzz!!!