Rachel is the first to wake up in the morning, but not of her own accord. She wakes up and jumps out of bed, nearly knocking Quinn to the ground.
Quinn wakes up with a start, realizing what's happening and follows Rachel and to the waste basket by the door so she can hold her hair back. 'We probably should have moved this by the bed last night' she thinks. Rachel bumps into the chair Santana is sleeping in on her way.
"Uuugghh just 5 more minutes babe" mumbles Santana, as soon as she hears the unmistakable vomiting sounds she's out of the chair preparing a cold compress for Rachel she asks "Guess that anti-nausea medicine has worn off huh baby?" Rachel can only nod her response. She hates throwing up more than anything in the world. 'These next two months are going to be a living hell' she thinks. Quinn is still holding her hair with one hand and rubbing her lower back with the other.
After removing the hair tie from her own head and doing Rachel's into a quick bun she tells them she's going to go ask the nurse to give Rachel some more medicine and turns for the door.
"Hey Q, see if they have some saltines and ginger ale or something too." Santana says
Quinn nods and makes her way to the nurses' station.
Quinn returns a few minutes later with a sleeve of crackers and two cans of ginger ale.
"She said she had to place the request for more meds in the chart, but that it shouldn't take long and would bring them to the room when she has them. She also is bringing a cup and a pitcher of ice since she apparently just put theses in the fridge." She says and holds up the cans of soda. "Oh and I also grabbed this from the cup on her desk" She walks over to the bed where the brunettes are both sitting and hands her the lollipop. "I remember when Sue was pregnant she said that they helped her with the nausea".
Rachel takes the sucker from Quinn and says thanks with a weak smile.
Santana is rubbing Rachel's back while trying not to vomit herself from the smell coming from the trash can. "How are you feeling now baby girl?" she asks Rachel while brushing her bangs out of her face.
"Like I just chugged a bottle of acid. I hate throwing up! It's the absolute worst!" she huffs and flings herself back on the bed dramatically.
Santana shakes her head gets up sits the trash can on the other side of the door in the hallway gagging the entire time and then grabs Rachel's toothbrush, toothpaste and mouthwash from the luggage.
"Here Rach, why don't you brush your teeth and use some of the mouthwash. I bet it'll make your throat feel better. Might sting like a bitch at first but the end results should pay off" Santana says handing Rachel her toothbrush and toothpaste.
Rachel reluctantly gets out of bed and makes her way over to the sink in the corner of the room knowing what Santana said makes perfect since, but all she wants to do is go back to sleep.
The nurse brings in the medicine and bucket of ice about ten minutes later. After Rachel eats a few crackers and drinks one of the cans of ginger ale. They all settle back in to there previous sleeping arrangements, trying to get a couple more hours of sleep before the doctor arrives since its only four in the morning.
Quinn is the first one to wake up this time. She maneuvers herself out from under Rachel being careful not to wake her. She gets up stretches and grabs her phone to check her work emails and to see if Stacy or Tyler had responded to hers with any important matters that needed to be handled by her directly. Just as she's about to get back in the bed happy to just lie there and hold Rachel there's a knock at the door. Santana and Rachel are both disturbed by the sound and try to drown in out with their pillows.
Quinn laughs softly at their antics and tells the person to come in. It's a lady they haven't seen before.
"Hi, I'm Doctor Montgomery" she whispers not wanting to disturb the other two girls who have yet to wake up and reaches her hand out towards Quinn who is standing at the end of the bed. Quinn shakes her hand politely, her upbringing not allowing anything less.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Quinn and these two sleepy heads are Rachel and Santana" she gestures to them
"Well I just wanted to come introduce myself before we began." Dr. Montgomery says
Quinn gives her a 'I don't know what to tell you' look then says "Yeah sorry about those two Rachel woke up early with morning sickness a few hours ago. And this one can sleep for a whole week if we'd let her" she says while pointing at Santana and shaking her head in disbelief.
"No worries. Morning sickness is a good sign believe it or not. We'll just do the introductions when I return. Rachel is the first in rounds today so I should be back in about 20 minutes or so" Dr Montgomery explained.
Quinn nods and tells her she will make sure they are both awake for when she returns.
"Thank you Quinn. Oh there's usually coffee at the nurses' station in the mornings. That might aid in your task. Although make it a decaf for Ms Berry" She smiles and leaves the room.
Quinn soon follows knowing that coffee will be a major help in waking them up.
Quinn manages to wake them both up with very little coaxing. Rachel is feeling better now that the medicine has kicked in and she's had some coffee. Even if it was decaf and she made a face with every sip she took. She knows she's going to have to get use to it, at least for the nest foreseeable future.
They are all moving about cleaning up and putting their night things away when there's a knock at the door.
"Come in" the all say in unison.
Dr. Montgomery walks in the room pushing a different sonogram machine than what was used the night before. "Good morning ladies. I see Quinn was successful in waking the both of you up" Santana and Rachel just laugh and introduce themselves.
"Alright well now that that's out of the way, Rachel I hear you gave Leslie a run for her money last night. Is that right?" Dr. Montgomery asked
Rachel chuckles and says "I guess you could say that... Something about me having two uteruses"
"Yep that's what I was told. It's fairly uncommon but it does happen, it's called 'uterus didelphys' or 'double uterus' in layman's terms. Believe it or not you will not be my first case. So I will be able to tell you for certain fairly quickly"
"You have no idea how refreshing that is to hear Dr. Montgomery" Quinn says feeling lightly more relieved.
"Yeah, we've been here going on 18 hours and we still haven't been given the complete picture" says Santana.
"Well let's get started so I can give you the final pieces of the puzzle, shall we?" She begins setting up and prepping up the machine.
"Alright Rachel if you could please lift your shirt up" Dr. Montgomery says
Rachel lifts her shirt and mentally prepares for the cold jelly she knows is coming "Oh that's warm" she startled by the contrast in temperature from the last time. Quinn smiles down at Rachel knowingly.
Dr. Montgomery brings the transducer to Rachel's stomach and moves it around until she has a few different angled pictures. All three girls anxiously waiting. "All rights girls it seems Leslie's suspicions were correct you do in fact have two uteruses" She pulls up a few of the saved images and shows the girls the outlines that define each one. "Now I don't know if any of you are aware of this but with this condition it is possible the dates of conception would differ" the girls look at each other all hopeful that the unspoken question they have all had since they found out there were two babies is about to be answered, but will of course all equally love their precious gifts unconditionally.
Rachel turns back to Dr Montgomery who is pulling up a side by side image of the two "And as I suspected when Quinn mentioned you had some morning sickness earlier, one of the fetuses is right around the six week mark" she types some notes in the the machine. The tension in the room could be cut with a knife.
"And the other one?" Santana asks impatiently.
The doctor laughs softly "Sorry I just had to make a couple notes for the chart... Let's see it's still a little early but I would say the other is a little over two weeks".
Gasps fill the room. All three of them had been doing the math in their head and have reach the same answer. Rachel is the first to speak up "Do you guys realize what this means?" She looks between Quinn and Santana who are holding hands with tears tracks down their cheeks that show no signs of stopping any time soon.
Doctor Montgomery is diligently notating the chart, attempting to give the trio a semblance of privacy for this obvious intimate moment.
Santana is the first to acknowledge Rachel's question "I went to visit my mom for a week a month and a half ago" Rachel nods to Santana and then looks to Quinn. She smiles and says "And I've been away on business for the past three weeks" Rachel smiles the biggest smile she ever has in her entire life "I am pregnant with both of your babies!" she squeals and jumps off the bed to hug the duo, petroleum jelly be damned.
:) Soooo, many of you guys guessed it. The babies were conceived on two separate dates and both Quinn and Santana got Rachel pregnant.
The main reason it took me so long to do this chapter and the reason for the two filler chapters before was because I couldn't figure out how to do the math. I finally just said fuck it and stopped overthinking it. I know you can't see anything on a sonogram before 6 weeks but I didn't want to make Rachel too far along... her not knowing she was pregnant especially with twins wouldn't seem right to me if she was anymore than 6 weeks. So please do not over analyze any of the medical situations in this chapter. All my knowledge comes from watching Greys Anatomy/Private practice, hence Dr Montgomery ;)
Hope you enjoyed. Please don't forget to review. See you tomorrow.
Ps: They will be heading home tomorrow, I know theres 10 chapters but its only really been like 24 hours lol.