Kiss Your Crϋe Goodbye (A Kiss & Mӧtley tale)

Chapter 68: The Alien's Mate Awakens Part 2

Tears, Oceans and Oceans of them now...tears of relief, of joy, of emotion you name it.... I'd been asleep for so long, still need more sleep...recovery, recovery wont be easy but NONE of that matters right now....

Carefully, slowly...so slowly time stops and then starts again as Mick helps support me and helps me manage to hold all three of my newborns and now, I am lost.... lost in the best of ways unable to believe they are real, that I am ALIVE, AWAKE....AND SO IN LOVE.

River, Stormy, and John are fussing, waving their little fists in the air and I am laughing and crying both.

"Talk to them Eric, its ok.... they love you, God do they love you." Mick murmurs and I meet his gaze, his eyes like mine full of tears.

"It twue Mommy, dey missy you and wuv you, me too." The words of my sweet little Martian Princess...

I turn back to our youngest children and admire them before I am being emotional, very much so take a breath and speak to my youngest for the first time outside of the womb they spent 8 months in. "I can't believe the three of you are here..." Immediately to my surprise though maybe I shouldn't be, the triplets immediately calm hearing my voice and then they open their little eyes as choked up I continue, "—You and I, and your older sister wouldn't be HERE without daddy, this.... this right here, I'd do for no one else but HIM my beloved alien. Its worth it, more than worth it.... he saves my life every day, every day and now so do the three of you and your older sister...all of you are my world, my absolute world. I FELT you, all of you...and I heard you...each of you. I dreamed about you, but this. THIS is even better than dreams because its REAL." Delicately I kiss each of their little foreheads and all three of them look up at me, and to me their eyes are wide....and never do they leave mine. And something occurs to me....and of course, my beloved alien KNOWS...

"Sapphire..." God how good it FEELS to hear that!!, "—I'll call and let the family know, we've all really missed you; I want you to know how very loved you are."

"Thank you, Micky...wow...I mean I feel...." Suddenly overcome.

"I know Eric I know babe."

I do something I haven't done in what feels like forever, I start singing....and not just any song, a song that is very special to my husband and I, as well as my oldest daughter, 'When Love Walks In' and with tears streaming down my face, down everyone's face....such a powerful moment and I never want to let my babies go...any of them but by songs end they are asleep and even though I just woke up, I STILL feel SO very exhausted....Gently Mick takes John, River and Stormy from me and places them lovingly together in a bassinet, covering them with their little baby blanket, he is such an amazing father...and partner, I love him more with every breath I take...

Mick wheels the bassinet to my bedside, where I can see the triplets and he kisses me again and again before saying voice tinged with fear making my heart clinch. "Eric.... you look exhausted, your body is still healing and I..." I reach my hand, which feels so heavy, and Mick gently takes it and places it on his face.

"Micky...." My voice trembles, "I know it hurts my alien, God...do I know. I wouldn't willingly leave you EVER and Mick, I just want you...no need you to know, when I close my eyes and the whole time, I was asleep, I HEARD you, SAW you, it was always YOU. I will see you my love in my dreams....and I love you more with each breath I take and everything I've been thru it's the least I could do for the man I love beyond all word and reason." At this point I am a sobbing mess; Mick is in much the same state.

"ERIC...." He whispers. "I love you."

"Love you too."

"Mommy?" Erica pipes up.

"Y-Yes princess?"

"Can I cuddle some more? Pease? I be carefee."

"I would love that." I tell her and I don't even have to say the words as Mick carefully places her in bed with me, her with her head buried in my chest as I run my fingers through her hair.

"Eric? I'll call and let them know, they will be so happy....so very happy." Mick smiles, albeit tearfully.

"Ok Micky Ok." Mick's tearful smile at these words widens and his eyes filled with such emotion as he calls our family to at last tell them good news and breaks down, I make sure he will be ok.... he nods, squeezing my free hand as I turn my attention back to my eldest daughter. "We've got a lot of cuddling to make up for Princess....and I've missed this SO much." I feel the onset of tears once more. I really have missed this and now with the triplets, I know that they will and do need lots of attention, but I am overly worrying that I would neglect Erica......

"Me miss two mommies...." And here her little gaze grows serious, her little expression reminding me so much of Mick. "---Mommy? Me know babies need wots attention...and ew wove me wots and wots, always there."

"You're just like daddy, you just KNOW things." She gently squeezes me into a hug.

"I Martian pwincess dat why!" She declares, making me chuckle....and well she's not wrong. I yawn hugely, the pain and exhaustion coming back on me, after all I am still recovering or need to recover. "Sweep Mommy."

"Erica...you and daddy and your siblings need me..."

Mick, whom it seems is done telling our family the news that I have at last awoken turns to me, taking one of my hands in his. "Eric.... You still need sleep. And as much as it scares me, I know you are still healing, and I feel now..."

I interrupted him tearfully, "I will I promise you to come back to you Mick, I will and while I sleep, I will see you in my dreams. I love you and Erica, John, Stormy, and River.... every day you save me, never forget that."

"NEVER." Fiercely, quietly...my alien's away, Mick kisses me whispering to me how much he loves me, and I find myself drifting off to sleep....

If you're wondering it wasn't the deep, almost or no unnatural really sleep I had been in, a healing sleep and when I awoke once more that day I came out of my coma, I'd awake to the most beautiful sights and sounds, my triplets....my little princess and my husband, my beloved, and I do mean beloved alien and too it would be time for another feeding for my precious newborns and on the heels of that I would at last be reunited with our family...our whole family....laughter and tears, always the laughter and tears and they'd without asking because it was their way would bring stuff, flowers...gifts you name it, it was or it became a celebration.

A/N: At last Part 2 is done!! And next up is part 3, where Eric will reunite with the rest of the family and more precious moments with Mick and his children as well.