Victory and defeat

Wake up!

Friday 7:20 am
Residence of the Rollins-Amaro
Family

"Daddy?" Zara came into her fathers room. She found him sitting on the lounge chair deep in thought. However his daughters voice snapped him out of it.

"Hi mija. Come here sweet girl" he said pulling her into his lap.

"I don't want to go to school today. I'm sad and I want to see Mama."

"I know Zara but you need to. Come here and I'll do your hair like mama does it. Where's Hope?"

"She's in my room. I already put pig tails in her hair. But she's not getting up. For a one year old she's pretty stubborn."

Nick laughed, braided his daughters hair and then went with her to check on Hope. "Hey baby girl can you come to daddy?" He asked gently when he saw her pouting.

She softened and climbed into his lap. "What's wrong sweet love?"

"Mama" she said sadly.
"I know baby." He said kissing her head. "How about we go see Mama before school. Okay?"

She nodded.

Hospital-
Nick quietly took his 8 and 1 year old daughters in to see their mama. The nurse was watching them and Nick went to see his day old babies.

"Hi babies. Your names are Jojo and Kenzie. Jordyn and Mackenzie Amaro. Daddy loves you and needs you to hang in there." Suddenly the monitor started to beep like crazy above Mackenzies incubator.

"What's going on?" Nick asked scared

The nurses rushed in. "Mackenzies heart is failing. She needs surgery and a transplant."

"Is she gonna be okay? What about Jordyn?"

As they rushed Mackenzie away, Nick collapsed into the chair. Things only got worse when Olivia came in. "Nick...you need to come now"

They rushed down the hallway all the way down to Amanda's room to find her crashing.

"Push one of epi now!" The doctor shouted

After 20 minutes there was no change. Nick felt like his world had just fallen apart. So he sat there next to his dead wife who was still on the bed.

"Amanda..if you can hear me....just move or squeeze or blink or something. Anything to let me know that I didn't just loose you forever. Because I can't live without you. Our girls need a mom. Zara's going to be scarred, Hope won't remember and our babies...they are going to grow up without a mother.."

No movement. No sign. No change. Nick had given up. Until he felt something. He looked up and she moved her finger.

"Oh my god." Nick breathed out.

After 10 minutes she opened her eyes. Nick would never get tired of looking into them. "Hi" she said softly

Nick couldn't help it. He cried. He held his wife in his arms and they cried. "I missed you" she whispered.

He kissed her and then faced her. "I missed you too"

"Nick. Where are our children?. How are our girls?"

"Shhh. Hope and Zara are hanging in there, and our babies...Mackenzie needs heart surgery...they are so little"

"I want to see them" she cried.

"Okay we can go see Jordyn."

NICU-
"Hi baby girl" Amanda cooed to the sleeping 2 pound baby. She watched as her tiny chest moved up and down with the ventilator.

Two hours later Amanda was back in her room sleeping with Nick. She was beyond exhausted and filled with worry for her girls.

The nap was only interrupted when Arizona came in. "We fixed Mackenzie's heart for now. She's going to need surgery again in six months and routine checkups. As for Jordyn she's a fighter. The couple nodded preparing silently for the worst.