Chapter 12

When Jeff woke up he was in the hospital. Nick was in the chair next to his bed sleeping. He had tear tracks running down his face. Jeff tried to sit up, but was stopped by a sharp pain shooting through his stomach.

"Nicky." he croaked.

Nick stirred in his sleep. His eyes fluttered opened.

"Hey, Jeffy." he smiled sadly at his boyfriend. Nick's eyes filled with tears. He started sobbing.

"Nicky, what's wrong?" Jeff asked, starting to panic. Did he lose the babies?

"Jeffy," Nick said, between his tears, "I...I don't know...I don't know how to tell you this, but...but we lost one of the babies." Jeff felt his heart shatter. One of his babies was gone. He started sobbing.

"No! Nicky, no! Wake me up, please Nicky. Wake me up." Jeff said.

"I can't baby, I'm so sorry." Nick said crying. He sat on the bed next to Jeff, and held him as the sobbed.

"Do you want to see her?" Nick asked after a while.

"Her?" Jeff said.

"It was a little girl. 10.19 inches, and 10.58 ounces, so about average for where she should've been." Nick said.

"Little Braelynn." Jeff said, sniffling.

"Braelynn Micheal Sterling-Duval." Nick said. "And Blair Dalton Sterling-Duval is still in daddy's tummy."

"Both girls?" Jeff asked. Nick nodded. Jeff smiled sadly.

"I want to see her." he said. Nick nodded. He kissed Jeff's forehead, and went to go find a nurse. He came back a couple minutes later with a nurse, and a wheelchair. They helped Jeff into the wheelchair, and he and Nick started down the hall.

When the reached the NICU, Nick paused.

"Are you sure you wanna do this now, baby?"

"I need to do this Nicky." Jeff said quietly. Nick nodded, and they continued through the NICU. When they reached the crib that said Sterling-Duval, Jeff felt his heart shatter all over again. She was so tiny.

"They said we could bury her. I already called about a coffin. I knew you'd want to do it properly." Nick said. Jeff just stared at the tiny, slightly blue baby in the crib. So many things he would never get to experience with her. All the little things, like, her asking him to play with her, or her falling asleep as he sang, or her giving him a kiss after she ate pancakes so he could taste the maple syrup on his lips after she ran away to play with her sister. All the random little things he would never get to see her do.

Nick and Jeff spent the rest of the day in the NCIU, talking and crying. Eventually Jeff fell asleep in his wheelchair. Nick wheeled him back to his hospital room, and helped the nurses get him in bed. He sat next to Jeff and tried to sleep. But Nick found he felt to uneasy to sleep. He felt like something was going to happen, and little did he know...he was right.

So what do you think is gonna happen? Is Karofsky going to do something else? Or maybe somebody new? Or is one of our boys going to hurt themselves or each other? Leave me a review of what you think. ~Blackbird