It was the next day at the palace and both Hunter and Bret were at Brian's bed side checking on his progress. All of the brain swelling had went down and the brain was back to its original size but Brian still hadn't woken up.

Bret had the pictures of the hands in his hands, ready to go. When Bret told Hunter about the pictures, Hunter wanted to start a search immediately but Bret told him to hold off until tomorrow. He wanted to make whoever did this safe and comfortable so tomorrow when they did the line check the person would be nervous. Also, both men were running off of a few hours of sleep and they would both need to be well rested in order to do this check. If they were both tired, their eyes could play tricks on them and everyone's hands would end up looking the same. Bret made Hunter take two sleeping pills and he took two as well. Now, they were well rested and ready to fine the son of a bitch who pushed Brian down the stairs.

"Don't worry baby." Hunter said in Brian's ear. "I'm going to find this person and make him pay." Hunter kissed Brian on the forehead and the looked at Bret.

"You ready?"

"Let's go do this."

Bret and Hunter walk out of the hospital and meet Jack in the hall.

"Majesty, General." Jack greets.

"Is everything ready?" Bret asks.

"Yes, everyone is lined up in the ballroom." Jack answers.

"Let's start then."


Shawn sat down on the comfortable couch and picked up the ultrasound picture on the table. He spent the rest of the yesterday's afternoon looking at the picture and he would probably spend most of the day just looking at his baby. Shawn started to feel a little sick to his stomach. He patted his stomach and looked down.

"Hey, don't you start. We've been doing good." Shawn says as he hasn't thrown up this morning and hopes the morning sickness is done. "I feed us good food, why would you want me to throw it up?"

Shawn heard keys rattling outside his door and rolled his eyes. He smiled as he looked down at his stomach. "So this is why you wanted to throw up, don't worry she'll be here in a minute." Shawn said and patted his belly. He didn't like to throw up but he would throw up on Sunny in a heartbeat.

"Shawn." Sunny called out as she entered the house and closed the door behind herself. Shawn didn't say anything. He just put the picture down on the coffee table and took a few deep breaths.

"Shawn." Shawn heard Sunny's foot steps getting closer as he tried to prepare himself for this little visit.

"There you are." Sunny said as she walked into the living room. She sat down next to Shawn. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"I was meditating." Shawn lies and Sunny smiles and believes him. Sunny looks down at the coffee table and sees the ultrasound picture. She picks it up and looks at it.

"Drew has been over here?" Sunny questions as she looks at the small picture of the baby growing inside of Shawn. She couldn't help but to feel the jealousy grown inside of her.

"Yeah, I thought you sent him."

"No." Sunny said as she stared a hole into the picture. "Wow. I can't believe this is inside of you…I know it's only the size of an olive right now but." Sunny looked at Shawn. "It's just wow." Sunny put the picture down and placed her hands on Shawn's stomach and started talking to the baby.

"Hey baby, this is aunt Sunny and I'm going to be here through out it all and I'm going to have your little half brothers and sisters."

At that comment, Shawn's stomach started doing somersaults and back flips. "Oh, I'm going to be sick." Shawn said and put his hand over his mouth. Sunny immediately jumped back and off of the couch. She would not be thrown up on again.

As soon as Sunny's hands were gone from Shawn's stomach, it settled down and the feeling of throwing up was gone. Shawn looked down and smirked. The baby knew all of what Sunny was saying was bullshit too. His baby was so smart.

Shawn looked up and smiled. "False alarm."


Hunter, Bret, and Jack had all of the palace security line up first and have their hands check one by one by the three men. After all of them had been cleared, the palace chefs were next and like before none of their hands matched.

All of the servants were next.

Jack made Dolph be first as he new Dolph didn't have anything to do with this because they were together at the time of the accident because the two were a couple.

Wade and Justin were next in line. Bret looked them up and down. The couple seemed to be nervous even though their hands didn't match the hands on the piece of paper. Their hands were even close. Bret would keep this moment in his memory bank, those two were definitely were up to no good.

The trio kept going down the line and kept ending up empty handed. They were starting to lose hope as they came to the last person in the line. If this person wasn't a match, then they didn't know what they would do.

"Hold out your hands please." Jack said and the server complied. Jack put the picture up to his hands. He then looked at Bret and Hunter. "Hold you hands like how they are in this picture." The man cupped his hands as if he was holding on to someone's shoulders.

Bret looked up at the man. He was avoiding eye contact and he was swallowing hard and he was sweating. He was nervous.

Jack looked at the picture and then back at the man's hands. They were a match. Jack placed his hand on the man's shoulders.

"You're going to need to come with us."


Sunny had finally left and Shawn was glad of that. There was only some much Sunny one person could take. Shawn opened the back door and went outside. He hadn't been outside to enjoy the nice weather in some time. He walked over to the edge of the stream and sat down, just enjoying the weather and the peace and quiet of not having to hear Sunny's voice.

Shawn watched as a piece of trash went down the stream and out of his sight. Shawn gasped. He had an idea. Shawn got up and ran back into the house. He grabbed a small piece of paper and wrote a note on it. He looked around until he found a plastic soda bottle. He unscrewed the cap and poured the liquid into another glass. He put the note into the bottle and screwed the cap back on. Shawn went back outside by the stream and dropped to his knees and prayed over the bottle. Shawn threw the bottle into the river and watched it as it flowed down stream. He didn't know if anyone would be around but he prayed that someone cleaned this stream.


"His blood pressure is near perfect." Josh says to Randy as he checks Brian's vitals.

"Good." Randy said as he brought out the ultrasound machine. "I'm going to check the baby." Randy turned everything on and then put the gel on the Doppler before rolling it around on Brian's stomach.

"Is everything fine?" Josh asks as he feels for any abnormalities in Brian's neck and upper chest.

"Everything is perfect…the baby is still developing like it should be." Randy says as he looks at the screen. "Do you want some?"

"Some of what?" Josh questioned as he finished his exam.

"Babies." Randy answered, still looking at the screen.

"Of course."

"You never told me that." Randy said to his husband.

"You never asked." Josh said and looked down at Brian. "Randy."

"Huh?"

"I think he's waking up."

Randy turned around and saw Brian's eyes fluttering. He quickly turned off the machine and pushed it away. "I think so too."

Brian finally managed to keep his eyes opened and looked up at Randy and Josh.

"Welcome back."

Brian tried to reach up with his left hand but couldn't move it. He looked down and saw it was in a cast. He lifted his right hand and too off the oxygen mask.

"Brian-." Josh tried to stop him.

"Baby?" Brian questioned.

"It's fine."

Brian nodded. "Good. Where are Hunter and Bret? I think I know where Shawn is."


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