A\N: I was going to post this chapter on Friday but the site wasn't letting me upload any documents or even copy and paste them. Now its letting me copy and paste its just taking a bit longer. Anyways that's my rant. I want to thank all of my friends on Twitter for helping me through my frustrations of not being able to post and to my two best readers for editing this chapter for me. I hope you like the chapter and remember reviews make me very happy.

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Chapter 8

Taking her Aunt's hand, Violet looked up at her, a sense of fear in her green eyes. Today was going to be the first time she had seen Annabelle since she had been hospitalized and she didn't know what she was going to do. Annabelle had been told, as much as a six year old could be that is, what had happened to her best friend and why she had been in the hospital; that still didn't make Violet any less nervous about the encounter.

"You'll be fine sweetie, nothing will go wrong and Diego's with you so it won't be just you and Annabelle."

Today was originally supposed to be a play date between Annabelle and Violet at Matt and Gabby's house but then Laura went into labour and Matt and Gabby had been watching their children on and off for the past three days. Originally calling to reschedule the play date Gabby had briefly explained the current situation and without hesitation Susan had said she'd watch Violet, Diego, Eva, Javier and Rafael for the day. After talking to Matt and Antonio they had decided having her watch all of the children on her own was way too much. Gabby and Matt appreciated the offer to watch the twins but they decided they could stay with Gabby for the day, Eva was going to go and help out but one of her younger sisters wasn't eating and she was determined to solve that problem first.

After calling the apartment on the intercom the group was buzzed up and Gabby opted to take the stairs instead of the elevator and she smiled, as Diego and Violet appeared to develop a game of who could be the first one to the landing.

"Okay you two," Gabby and Eva, who were carrying Rafael and Javier met them at the fifth floor landing, "You walk nicely to Annabelle's apartment. No running."

Both children nodded and Diego opened the door and proudly held it open for everyone, when Gabby walked through he looked up at her and said, "Daddy says real men hold doors open for women."

Gabby had to bite back a smile at Diego reciting something her brother said, "He's right Diego always remember that."

Thinking he was on a roll Diego also added, "He said Eva needs to date a real man."

"Diego!" Eva glared at her younger brother, "That's rude."

"Enough you two," Gabby looked between them, "Okay Violet go ahead and knock," She told her niece as they all reached the apartment door.

Violet knocked and soon Annabelle's excited sequel of 'they're here!' could be heard and the door opened and Annabelle and her grandmother greeted them.

"Come in, come in," Susan stepped aside, "My apologizes for the mess.

"Oh don't worry about it," Gabby waved off the concern, "Our house is much worse."

Susan chuckled and watched as Annabelle approached Violet, "Can I hug you?" She nervously asked.

"Yeah," Violet responded and Annabelle hugged her and looked at her, "I miss you at school."

"Well don't you worry about that," Gabby spoke up, "In January Violet will be back at school."

"Uh-huh and we can play together all day today," Violet added happily and together they skipped off leaving Diego all by himself.

"Hey," Diego walked after them, "Can I play?"

"Ma!" Rafael placed a kissed on Gabby's cheek and looked up at her.

"Hi baby," She kissed his dark brown hair, "I know Mommy's talking right now."

"Oh they're getting so big," Susan looked at the eight month old twins, "And you must be Eva," She looked at the fourteen year old, "I've heard a lot about you."

"Oh," She nervously laughed.

"Oh its all good when I told Annabelle you might be coming all she could talk about was how you were in high-school and was so cool. I was thinking maybe you could be my new babysitter."

"Oh- yeah sure," Eva was a little caught off guard, "Sure."

"Great," She walked away and came back carrying a piece of paper and a pen and handed both items to Eva, "Can you write your phone number on there for me."

Eva wrote the information down and then after saying goodbye to Violet and Diego she and Gabby walked back down the hallway.

Eva sat in the nursery holding her sister and a bottle, "Come on just one little drink?" She'd been trying for nearly half an hour to get the baby to drink more then a drop of milk, "Please?" She tilted the bottle towards her.

The infant shrieked loudly and she didn't stop until a nurse came and took her away, "I know you want to help sweetheart," The nurse told Eva as she soothed the baby, "But maybe let us do this alright?"

"Yeah okay," Eva sighed and left NICU. As she left she felt tears sting her eyes but tried her best not to let them fall. She was trying her best to act, as grown-up as possible but it seemed like no one was letting her. She hadn't been allowed to stay home and watch Diego and she wasn't allowed to spend a lot of time with her sister's. The only good thing that had happened so far was that she was asked to baby-sit Annabelle.

Not wanting to go back to her mother's room she began to pace the hallways of the maternity ward. She stopped as she saw Kelly Severide walking down the hallway carrying Javier and a baby bag.

"Hi,' She semi-smiled as he approached her, "I'm Eva Dawson, Gabby's niece."

"Right, right I remember. You here to see your sisters?"

"Yeah but they're not doing so well," She looked at the floor, "Why are you here?

He chuckled slightly, "Trying to get your cousin to fall asleep."

"Ah," She looked up at the baby who didn't even look tired, "And walking helps?"

"Yeah that or driving," He responded thinking something else was bothering the young teen, 'Why don't you come along with us."

He was suggesting it but Eva was pretty sure it was more of an order\suggestion then an offer so she nodded her head and began walking in-line with him. As she had suspected the questions started coming soon after.

"So tell me about your sister's? How come they aren't doing so well?"

"One's okay, but the other hasn't been drinking a lot. She'll only take a few little sips. I'm there most of the time and I'm trying to help but it doesn't feel like I am."

Severide had heard of the teens sudden urge to be grown-up, "It's good you're holing them and getting to know them."

"It's not doing anything. Besides nobody's treating me like an adult."

That was where he wanted to explode at her, was she really that self-absorbed. Knowing it wasn't his place to scold her he motioned to the nearest set of chairs "Lets sit down and talk for awhile."

"Sure."

"Okay," He shifted Javier into a half lying down position after he sat down. Giving the boy his soother he hoped he'd fall asleep soon, "Look you're thirteen," He began, "I know a lot's happened for you in the last few months, staring high-school everything with Violet and now you have two infant sisters. I know your parents think its great you want to help out more but I have news for you kiddo life doesn't revolve around you. Being an adult means more then saying you want to be treated like one. I'm sure you'd heard you know respect is one of the hardest things to get and one of the easier things to loose."

"Yeah."

"Well this situation is kind of like that; you need to understand that your parents are going through an awful lot right now. On top of that your Aunt Gabby and Uncle Matt are as well. That has to have an impact on the family and it is. You're parents aren't talking about how no one helps them out and you don't see Gabby and Matt saying they're upset because now your parents are getting more sympathy."

"No."

"That's because part of being an adult is realizing that sometimes you just need to step back and do things without being noticed. Do you understand?"

"Kind of. But what does that have to so with my sisters?"

"It's good you want to help with them but I wouldn't suggest telling your father or anyone else you're upset because you feel like you're not being treated like an adult. That's a very childlike thing to do? Do you get that?"

"Yeah so like how little kids whine when they don't get what they want but when you get older you realize sometimes you can't always get what you want."

"Yeah like that; it's all about growing up. Just try to remember that."

"Okay," She saw that her cousin was almost asleep and said to Severide, "Are you going back to my Mom's hospital room?"

"No, your Aunt and Uncle were just about to take the twins home when he started to scream. I'm going to meet them in the lobby."

"Okay I'm going to go and see my Mom," She stood.

"Remember what I told you."

"Yeah," She nodded and walked away. It didn't take her long to arrive at her mother's room and when she did she walked slowly in.

"Eva," Laura, still in major pain smiled weakly, "Hi.

"Hi Mom," Eva grew concerned as she saw the IV was back in despite the fact she knew they had been removed earlier in the day, "Did something happen?"

"Oh no," Laura tried her best to reassure her, "They just found a small infection under my stiches. They just need to do a small operation to fix it that's all.

She was downplaying the issue, in reality the truth was that the infection was caused by nick they had made when they had removed her uterus, the nick had caused internal bleeding and no they had to go into to repair the damage. It didn't sound serious but they were afraid the infection had already spread to other parts of her body.

"Oh okay," She chewed on her fingernails, something she did hen she was upset, "Where's Dad?"

"He went to go check on your sisters," She winced in pain as she moved slightly.

"Oh Mom," She cried and rushed over to sit by her, "I'll go and get a nurse."

"No, no sweetheart. They should be here soon to take me to surgery then hopefully I'll be able to see the girls."

"You haven't seen them yet?" She just assumed her mother had seen them as they had been born but realized she had to be put under, "Sorry I forgot," She sheepishly replied,

"No, no don't be sorry," She reached out to touch her hand.

"Okay Mrs. Dawson," Two orderlies came in wheeling a cart, "Lets gets you ready for surgery."

Antonio took a minute to look at both of his daughters in their respective incubators. Once hearing about how Laura needed more surgery he had needed to get out of the room, after kissing her and telling her he'd be there when she woke up, he went to the NICU I hopes that holding his daughters would make him feel better.

The two babies, who still didn't have confirmed names, were absolutely gorgeous and Antonio thought they looked like Laura although at such a young age it was really hard to tell.

With a bottle in his hands he reached in a scooped one of them into his arms and gently rocked her, "You have to eat so you can get better," He walked over to a chair and carefully sat down, upon offering the small baby the bottle she moved her mouth away.

"Come on baby girl," He cooed taking two fingers and carefully moving her face towards the nipple of the bottle, "Eat for Daddy?"

The baby's dark brown eyes met her father's and she touched her mouth to the nipple.

"That's my girl," He held her and carefully tilted the bottle so she got as much milk as she could. Careful not to give her too much at once he made sure he finished the bottle. "There now doesn't that feel better? All this milk is going to make you big and strong." He gently held her against his chest patting her back until he heard her burp. Upon carefully lying her back in his arms he smiled as she closed her eyes and grabbed onto his finger as she went to sleep.

Kissing her forehead gently he inhaled her baby scent and continued to hold her in silence until one of the NICU charge nurses approached him.

"Mr. Dawson can I ask if you were able to get your daughter to drink a bottle of milk?"

"I was."

"Good," She smiled happily as she had grown a liking to the two little girls who unlike the rest of the babies in the NICU weren't all that sick. "I have the papers here for you to sign to transfer them to the regular nursery until they're able to go home."

Antonio took the papers and read them carefully before signing them and handing them back. He had been very grateful to how accommodating the staff in all wards of the hospital had been to hos family. Currently, he was grateful for the hospital seeing to his request that the babies stay in hospital until Laura was able to go home; that way she could spend as much time as possible with them.

An hour later Antonio made it back to the surgery ward to join Eva and Laura's parents in the waiting room. He didn't have to wait very long for a doctor to come out to them.

"Family of Laura Dawson?"

"I'm her husband," Antonio stood and stepped forward.

"Well Mr. Dawson we were able stich up the infected area and clean up the wound. Luckily we caught it in time that it did not spread to any other parts of her body. She'll recover normally and despite another week for the stiches to heel no other recovery restrictions were caused.

He breathed a sigh of relief, "Can I see her?"

"Yes, she's being moved back to her room and should be awake in an hour or two."

"Thank you doctor," Antonio smiled and knew what would make Laura waking up way better then just seeing him.

An hour and a half later:

Her body aching and the room slightly spinning Laura slowly opened her eyes, blinking slightly to adjust to the light and then to the images she thought she saw, "Antonio," She croaked out looking at her husband.

Turing his attention away from his daughter Antonio looked at his wife, "Hey babe," He stood and kissed her, "They're doing better and they're being moved to the regular nursery. Thought you might like to see them first," He handed her the small baby, their daughter.

Looking at the baby in her arms she cried, "Hi," She kissed the infant's forehead and recognizing her smell the baby instantly settled in her embrace and went back to sleep, "She's beautiful," She breathed through her tears.

"Here," Gabby handed Antonio the other baby and stood, motioning for Eva to follow her, "I think I'll go and call Susan see how Violet and Diego are doing," And she left the room with Eva.

"They're both so beautiful," Laura looked at the baby her husband was holding and the one in her arms, "I'm just so happy."

"Yeah, me too," He moved to sit on the bed beside her, "They don't have officially names yet."

She looked at him puzzled, "I told you yesterday I liked the names Isobel and Nevaeh."

"I know but I wanted you wait until you could hold them."

She leaned over and kissed him, "Thanks babe."

"So lets hear they're officially names?" He asked as if he didn't already know them.

This one can be Nevaeh Grace Dawson and the one you're holding can be Isobel Alia Dawson."

"Welcome to the family Nevaeh and Isobel," Antonio kissed each of their foreheads and then kissed Laura on the lips.

TBC

A\N: So what did you think? Will Eva listen to the advice Severide gave her? Next chapter jumps to early January when Violet's custody hearing starts, lots of drama, suspense and even some twists, turns and an unexpected event are coming up.