It was late in the afternoon by the time Sarah and Delphine reached the hospital. After a brief argument with the local nurses, they were being led to Helena's room. Before they could go inside, Sarah collided with the doctor exiting her room. The doctor was surprised to see someone who looked like Helena standing in front of her.
"Tú debe ser ella hermana." The woman spoke.
Sarah didn't speak much Spanish, but she knew hermana. "Yeah, yeah I'm her sister." The woman looked expectantly at Delphine. "She's a friend of the family." Sarah spoke for Delphine. "How is she?"
"Your sister is going to be fine." The doctor explained. "She was dehydrated and starved when she was found and she doesn't speak any language we know so we don't know how she came to be where she was."
"She's Ukranian." Sarah was being curt with the doctor, she was anxious to get to Helena. "Thank you."
"There's one more thing you should know, in case you don't already know." The doctor said before Sarah walked away. "She's pregnant and-"
"Pregnant?" Sarah's shocked expression told the doctor that Sarah had no idea.
"Yes, I take it you didn't know?" The doctor gave her a pitying look.
"No, I didn't-" she cut herself off, thinking back to that night in the tent. "She-she mentioned-" She looked to Delphine who reached out to her, taking her hand and squeezing.
The doctor didn't know what else to do. "The baby is going to be okay and so is your sister." Then she took her leave.
"Helena's pregnant." Sarah stated once the doctor had left. Delphine couldn't quite understand why she was so upset.
"What's wrong, Sarah?" Delphine took Sarah's other hand and stood in front of her, studying her face.
"She mentioned that Johanssen had taken something from her and she asked me if she could have babies. I think that he-," she was sickened by the thought.
Delphine understood then. "In vitro fertilization is what created you in the first place, perhaps he needed her. A child from a clone is a gold mine of genetic material."
Sarah got on the defensive and pulled away from Delphine. "My sister isn't a lab rat, Delphine."
"I know that, Sarah." Delphine moved towards her. "But from a scientific view she would simply be a womb."
Sarah couldn't stop the next words that came out of her mouth. "You're a scientist." She hadn't meant for the words to sound so cruel, but the way Delphine had said it so coldly gave her chills.
Delphine pulled Sarah to her, cradling her face with her hands. "I would never hurt your sister or her child. You know that."
Sarah didn't mention that Delphine used a tooth from Kira without anyone's knowing. She knew she had done it for Cosima and Kira hadn't been harmed. "Yeah, yeah I know."
"Good." Delphine kissed Sarah on the forehead. "Now go see your sister."
Sarah nodded and pulled away from Delphine again. She paused before opening the door. Helena had left her in the first place, what if Helena didn't want to see her now? And Sarah had stabbed her with rebar, shot her, and left her all alone. But Helena needed her now and she needed Helena. She wanted to make up for what she did. She shook her head and opened the door slowly.
Helena was laying on her side in bed, gently rubbing her stomach and singing softly. It sounded like a lullaby. Helena looked at her from the bed, her expression unreadable. "Helena, ho-how are you?" Helena looked away then. Sarah moved towards her, kneeling beside her bed. "Helena?" Still Helena wouldn't look at her. "Helena, please." Sarah sighed and pushed her hair to the side. She stood up and found a pudding cup sitting on a table. Helena finally looked up at her. She pulled a chair to the side of the bed and sat down, offering the food to her sister. "Want this?" Helena nodded. Sarah handed her the pudding.
"Look, Helena." Sarah started now that she had Helena's attention. "I'm sorry." She paused wondering what she should apologize for first. "For everything." "I never wanted to hurt you, but I did and I'm sorry." "I know why you left me in there, you don't need to apologize for that." Helena continued to eat her pudding, staring with rapt attention as Sarah spoke. "What I'm trying to say is, that you're my sister Helena and I love you and I came back for you."
Helena sat up finally and turned to Sarah. She stared intensely at Sarah for a few moments before speaking. "Can I have more pudding?"
Sarah laughed, she knew getting into a deep conversation with Helena would be next to impossible. "Yeah, you can have more pudding." "I'll call the nurse in, yeah? We'll get you more pudding and get you discharged."
"Discharged?" Helena questioned.
"We're going home, Helena. Do you want to come back with me?"
She thought about it for a minute. "Can I see Kira?" She asked softly. She worried Sarah wouldn't let her see Kira after she had left Sarah in that military prison.
"Yeah, of course, she's been asking for you."
"Then yes, I will go with you."
Sarah helped Helena out of bed. Her clothes had been cleaned and were on a table. Sarah helped her get dressed and then they left the room together, Sarah's arm around Helena's waist. Delphine looked up from her phone when they exited the room. "Helena, this is Delphine. She helped me find you."
Delphine stood from her chair and held out her hand for Helena to shake. "Hello Helena." Instead, Helena moved forward and enveloped Delphine in a crushing hug. Delphine hesitantly hugged her back. "Thank you." She said when Helena pulled away.
After getting Helena discharged from the hospital and some extra pudding cups, they got back on the plane. "This is nice plane." Helena said looking around. "Very expensive." She ran her fingers down the back of a chair.
"Yes, there is even a bed if you're tired. Would you like to lay down Helena?" Delphine asked. Sarah gave her a worried looked. "Don't worry I had the sheets changed." She whispered to Sarah.
"I do want to sleep." Helena said.
"Okay, I'll show you the bed." Sarah said. She led Helena to the bed. Sarah helped her into the bed and tucked her in.
She was at the door when Helena spoke. "Sestra?"
Sarah turned around then. "Yeah?"
"Will you stay?" Helena asked, worried that Sarah would leave her again. Sarah nodded and got in the bed next to Helena unsure of what to do. Helena suddenly snuggled close to her, clutching her tightly. Sarah relaxed after a few minutes and put an arm around Helena. After a few minutes Helena spoke again. "I am sorry too, Sarah."
Helena fell asleep after that and Sarah followed not too long after that. Delphine checked on them after that. Sarah's compassion and kindness had surprised her at first. She had seen Sarah talking to Helena through the windows of the hospital room and the door hadn't been shut all the way, so she could hear Sarah talking to her. Sarah always seemed hard and rough, even when they were intimate. She saw Sarah for who she really was then. She wasn't a criminal, she wasn't just a woman she slept with. She was strong and passionate with the heart of a lion and she was beautiful.