-"I love you Charlie"
The blonde's hand had moved on the bed and her mouth had opened slightly, her eyebrows had furrowed slightly before relaxing. Her eyes had begun to open.
- "Maya?!" Carina said as she straightened up. In a voice stuck in her throat.
-"Mommyyyyy!" Said Jordan as she freed herself from her mamma's embrace and climbed up her body to throw herself at her neck, making her open wide and wince in pain.
- "dio mio bambina" said the Italian, who had risen to her feet in turn, had come to run her hands over Maya's cheeks and had come to kiss her. She was in tears. She hadn't let go of her cheeks and rested her forehead against hers.
"Ti amo, ti amo, ti amo amore mio. Ti amo tantissimo." Carina had come to kiss her wife again.
Jordan was really hurting Maya, but in a way she felt alive.
The heart monitor had gone haywire, however, and a nurse had entered.
-"Welcome back Captain... I'm sorry, but the little one needs to be removed."
Carina had turned her head and frowned «Carina DeLuca»-style at the nurse.
"Her monitor went haywire from the pain I guess. May I remind you of the recent operations?"
- "oh my god! Dispiace Bambina!!!" Said Carina, who couldn't believe she hadn't thought about her injuries. She had quickly grabbed Jordan to pull her away from Maya, and the little girl began to cry as she called out to her bedridden mother.
-"It's... Okay," Maya replied in a hoarse, weak voice, gesturing to the nurse.
-"I'll call the doctor right away". The nurse had left and Maya had looked at Carina.
-"I presume we know each other ?" she asked in the same voice.
Her face had changed completely and her eyes had filled with tears of sorrow.
"Excuse me, excuse me, it's a stupid joke." Maya added, coughing and extending her right arm towards the brunette.
-"It's not funny!" Carina replied, pushing her hand away from her.
- "I missed you Carina DeLuca-Bishop, the woman of my life... The mother of... Our? Children."
The Italian's eyes filled with tears, she smiled and nodded. Maya's eyes filled with tears and she exhaled in relief. She had started coughing and Carina had leaned over her worried.
-"Okay. Okay. It's okay... Can I have my daughter back?"
- "she's going to hurt you bambina"
- "put her... There... On my right side"
Carina had placed Jordan between Maya and the bed's safety rail.
- "Ascolta Zita, la mommy sta soffrendo molto, quindi puoi farle le coccole, ma così. Non salire sulla mommy, capito" [listen Zita, mommy's in a lot of pain, so you can give her a cuddle, but like this. No climbing on mommy, understand?] She had said this very slowly, looking at Jordan and holding her arm so she wouldn't put it anywhere on Maya.
- "sì"
Carina had raised her little arm and moved it in front of the captain's neck. Jordan raised her hand to the side of Maya's face and she kissed her on the cheek before speaking into her ear.
- "no s'eepy mommy, 'k?" she whispered in a pleading little voice.
- "promise Zita, no more long sleeping for me"
-"t'amo" added the little girl before resting her head on Maya's pillow and stroking her cheek with the hand that encircled her head.
-"ti amo per sempre" replied Maya. She then looked at Carina and mimed with her lips: "you too ti amo per sempre".
