Gwen sat in Blake's lap waiting for them to bring Lena back. The couple was not their usual bubbly selves. The seriousness of the situation this little girl is in weighs on them.
They hear a knock before someone opens the door and looks at the couple.
"Excuse me we are having a hard time getting the little girl to calm down. She is pretty hysterical. So we were wondering if one of you would come back and see if you could get her to calm down and be still."
Gwen immediately jumps up "of course I'll come. Be right back babe."
Gwen follows the technician down the hallway to a room that says X-RAY in big bold letters. She can hear Lena on the other side of the door crying just like she had been when they found her. Gwen's heart breaks hearing Lena that upset so she pushes the door open walking straight to Lena. The second that Lena lays eyes on Gwen she reaches out to her doing her best to get out of the woman's arm that is currently holding her. Gwen gets to her and takes her in her arms. She rocks Lena back a forth rubbing her back and whispering calming sounds in her ear. She finally calms and the tears stop. They instruct Gwen as to how they need her help for each picture until they have taken all the pictures needed. Gwen is escorted back to the room to wait for the results. When the door opens Gwen's sees Blake pacing the room. He is clearly stressing until his eyes land on the two girls. They walk to him and he wraps them up in a hug. All three take a relaxing deep breath. The three then settle on the hospital bed. Lena is on Gwen and Blake is next to them with his arm around Gwen. With Lena asleep on Gwen, Blake brings up the inevitable.
"Gwen if they find what we think they will find, what are we gonna do? We said we were gonna wait but...."
"We do whatever we have to do to take her home with us forever."
"I love you baby. I feel like this might be a sign, like she is supposed to be ours ya know."
"I could never walk away from her. She already feels like ours but what if they won't let us?"
"We find a way. If we are sure she is what we want then we fight for her."
"Some of the best things in life have been fought for." Gwen smiles
Blake thinks back to the two days he had fought to not let Gwen leave him. Her statement couldn't be more true. Gwen was easily the best thing in his life that he couldn't live with out, and now he thinks he has found one more thing in life he can't live without.
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They had been sitting on the bed with a sleeping Lena when the knock at the door came. "Come in" Blake says loud enough for the person on the other side to hear but not loud enough to startle awake the sleeping princess in his wife's arms.
"Hi Mr. & Mrs. Shelton. We got the little girls X-rays back and I would like to show you what we found. I'm warning you it's not easy to look at so if you don't want to see I completely understand." Dr. Mickelson says
Blake looks to Gwen who nods her head before turning back to the doctor. "We want to see. We want to know what she has been through."
"Very well." He pulls the first film out and holds it up to the light in front of them. "If you notice right here" he says pointing to a section of the lower arm bones "the bone is not straight and there is a large amount of calcification. This shows us that her arm had been broken quite a while back and was not treated. If it had been treated the bone would have been set and straightened."
Gwen feels like she could throw up. This beautiful baby had been squeezed or hit hard enough in the arm to break it. Then to make it worse she was left there probably in pain while it healed rather than being taken somewhere to get it treated. Blake is boiling inside at the same time he is breaking. He looks at Lena peacefully asleep on Gwen's chest and he wonders how someone could be so cruel. His instinct leads him to hug his girls closer to him.
