Chapter 82

The room faded away, and suddenly Sarah was in a small shop with a tiny white haired lady. The shop was like nothing she'd ever seen before, and the smell was out of this world. But she knew that she had been there in that very shop before, and she knew that kind little old lady's name was Beatrice. Then from out of nowhere she heard a voice. "Twins, yes, because one of you, is a twin. So you shall have a set of twins, twins, twins..."

"Whenever you're ready, my love. I had no timetable in mind…and don't think I don't know that you sing the Marine Hymn to her every night as a lullaby!"

"Hey! I have to counteract that Anchor's Aweigh crib mobile Harriett and Bud gave us!" she said as she sank into a chair, her legs shaky from the flash of memory she just had.

"Sarah, are you all right? You've suddenly gone pale!" AJ dropped to his knees in front of her, very concerned.

"I just had another flash of memory."

"You did? What was it this time?"

Remembering how odd he had acted the last time this happened and she had told him about it, Mac looked at him, not quite sure that she wanted to tell him this time. She looked deeply into his eyes, and they were so warm and encouraging, not at all like the last time. "Well, it had to do with you mentioning us having another child."

"Darling, if I upset you with that, I'm sorry, there's no rush or if you feel that you don't want to have another baby that's okay too."

"No! It's not that at all!"

"Then what was it?"

"I remembered Ms. Bea telling us that our next child…or children, would be twins, and then she said that there would be one more after that."

"You remember that?" he asked, wondering if she remembered the rest of what Ms Bea had said.

"Yes, was that on our first or second trip to Florida, AJ?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, the first memory I had was of the carriage ride, and I wasn't pregnant. I know that we left Florida as soon as I got out of the hospital, so I would have been pregnant if we had had that ride on this trip, so I just assumed that we had been there before…for our honeymoon?"

"Sarah, as much as I want to answer your questions," he figured that a little white lie would not hurt here, "The doctor has insisted that I let you remember on your own."

"It's all so frustrating!" she sighed.

"I'm sure it is, darling. Would you like to see a counselor about it?"

"Ack! You know how I hate shrinks!" she grumbled.

"I wasn't talking about a shrink, Sarah, but maybe someone that you could talk this frustration over with?" He wished that she would so he could stop lying to her.

"If you think that it would help, then I guess it might not be such a bad idea."

"Good, I'll make some calls tomorrow and set something up for you. Now why don't you take a nice long bath while I get this little one settled?"

"That sounds like a good idea. Will you be coming to bed tonight?" she looked hopeful.

"Not tonight, darling."

She sighed with disappointment and wondered if there might be some way to tempt him to change his mind. Letting him put Angela down again, she went into their bathroom and took a nice long soak. When she heard AJ in the bedroom getting clothes out for the next day, she got out the tub as quietly as she could and went into the room in just a towel.

AJ looked up as she came into the room, and groaned under his breath. She was so beautiful, and it was so tempting to go to her and take her in his arms. He was turning to leave when she called his name.

"AJ," she said. And when he turned she let the towel she was wearing fall to the floor.

To be continued….