Heartless (Random Updates)

Chapter 66

"There you are, Child," Mabel smiled as Jennifer blinked in confusion then relief flooded her as her vision cleared. "You slept long enough that the birds have already been singing their songs for a while now."

"Maymee," Jennifer whispered, then winced. "Real?"

"Well of course I'm real, Child. What kind of nonsense is that?" Mabel scoffed as she shook her head and fussed with the blanket. "Have your brothers been messing with you again? You just tell me what those boys have been up to."

"Momma," Elijah and Isaiah replied in unison while rolling their eyes.

"Hush now," she said without even turning to look at her sons. "Now, come on Child, time to sit up and tell me about these fine husbands of yours."

A whimper left Jennifer's lip as Mabel gently pulled her up into a sitting position. Erica rushed around and lifted the bed so it was upright before Mabel had her sitting on her own. Jennifer's eyes widened as she took in all the men filling the room.

"Hey Poppy," Elijah and Isaiah said in unison, making a faint smile form in the corner of her lips for a second before it disappeared again.

"Poppy?" Multiple men asked curiously, although she thought she heard a faint trace of anger and perhaps even jealousy mixed it. But that didn't make any sense to her so she had to have imagined it.

"Her favorite flower is the purple poppy," Isaiah explained.

Elijah barely nodded, "She had Momma plant them all around the house and drew them on the walls so they would never die."

"Maymee," she whispered as her fingers barely clutched the older woman's hand. Mabel looked down at her as Jennifer's eyes misted over. This woman was more of a mother to her than her own. Sure she looked like the woman from Touched By An Angel and spoke like her to, but she really was an angel to Jennifer. She was the one who showed her what love and family was. "Home."

"Yes, Sweetheart," Sean nodded as he walked over to them. "Maymee–"

"Miss Mabel," Elijah and Isaiah grumbled, "Poppy is the only one to call Momma that."

"I apologize," Sean chuckled, "Miss Mabel and your brothers will be coming home with us."

"Maymee," she whimpered. "Home." There was a plea in her tone that made the men wince before quickly covering it up.

"Do you not want to go home with your husbands, P?" Elijah asked protectively.

"Not real," she murmured. "Home."

"Is there something we need to know?" Elijah asked as he turned to face the men.

"It's all a big misunderstanding," Gabe said as he ran his fingers through his hair. "Those assholes messed with her brain and got her thinking we didn't care about her. We do. We fucking love her! She's our wife and will be for all fucking eternity and every fucking realm there is. It's fucking real, Trouble," he pleaded as he dropped to his knees beside the hospital bed. "We're real, you and us, we're real."

"No," she pouted. "Maymee?"

"I'm not sure, Child," Mabel said as she gently patted her hand. "But I do know they were the ones to find you and save you. They were the ones to find us and bring us to you. That must mean something."

"If they didn't care for you, P, they wouldn't have do any of that," Isaiah nodded.

"Hey, P," Elijah said as he nudged Gabe out of the way. "How about we not focus on that right now and just let your doctor get you better?"

"No mine," She tried to shake her head then groaned.

"Okay, Jennifer," Sean said as he blinked back tears. He knew she was confused right now so he tried not to let it affect him but it did. "Can I run some tests and see how your brain is healing?"

"We'll be right here the entire time," Isaiah reassured her. "Let him do it, P."

"Mind your manners, Child," Mabel nodded. "Let the good doctor fix you all up."

"Yes Maymee," she whispered as her fingers curled into Mabel and Elijah's hold even more.

Sean ran through the concussion test then drew some blood and sent it off with Erica. "I know that this might be hard to believe, Sweetheart," he said as he hooked up a new IV bag full of fluids, "but I am telling you the truth, we are your husbands. We love you and we never stopped looking for you. Whatever your father and Nowak told you were lies."

North came up to her, lifted her chin slowly and carefully until her eyes landed on his dark ones, "We'll do whatever it takes to prove ourselves to you, Baby Girl, swear it."