A Different Type of Family

Big Family

Lexi Adams Foster put on her police uniform and sighed. She never thought she would have this life she was in and 12 kids. She gave birth to twins Pablo and Paolo Adams Foster when she was 23 and they are now  4 years old. They adopted a set of twins that turned out to be Quads and Joseph, Joshua, Julian and Justin are now 2 months old. They even got two different ladies to be surrogates. One girl had Callie's bio babies, the other had Lexi's bio babies and they are a week old. Deep down, Lexi is scared since Callie is missing after going on a conference for Anchor Beach and the plane went down. No body was recovered and she is presumed dead. Callie has yet to meet the quads or the two sets of triplets. Lexi's are all boys' and are named, Frankie, Jeffrey and Samuel. Callie's were all girls' and named Lenara, Natalie and Josephine. What they wanted.

She left to work as she eyed the nurses' who would watch the babies. The twins came to see her as she left. "Bye mommy," they added. She knelt down and kissed and hugged them both and eyed them. "Be good. And have fun in preschool."

"We will," they added. "Where mama?"

"On a plane," Lexi lied. They nodded as she left. A week before Callie left, her and Lexi did an experimental IVF. This baby will be Callie's eggs also infused with Lexi's DNA as well as the twins and both sets of triplets donor dad.

Lexi remembered the procedure and hoped it worked. To have a baby that was a piece of them. She wiped her tears as they drove the station. She loved all her kids, but this baby was their own and it hurt to wonder it worked.

Three months later, a patient wakes up in a hospital bed and with a huge stomach and it was almost the end of November. The alert got the attention of the nurse and she got the Doctor who smiled. She had been there since March.

"Hi. Can you tell me your name?" he asked.

"Callie Elizabeth Adams Foster," she added as she eyed her stomach. "I was on an air plane."

"Some people found you near a crash site," he added. "And you are pregnant."

Tears sprang to her eyes. "It worked. A baby with my love," she told herself as she eyed her swollen stomach with her child. 

"Yes I can see," she added. "Why Am I so big?" she asked.

"Triplets. Would you like to know the sex?"

"Yes please," she added happy, shocked and sad. Her family probably think she is dead. 

"Two boys and one girl," he added. Callie right away knew what she was going to name them as she smiled. Two weeks later, on November 30, and much screaming and pushing from Callie. Ellington Manuel, Lexington Gabriel and Michaela Stephanie were born. She was happy and excited, but sad. Lexi wasn't here.

A week later, Lexi got the shock of her life from a Doctor in Italy that her wife was alive and well. She cried as she hung up and was scared after finding out that she was in a coma. "Is she alright?" Lexi asked scared and worried. 

"She is and she is here," he added. "We are a hospital that works directly with the U.S. Embassy."

"My mother-in-laws and I will be at the airport," Lexi added. 

In Mission Bay, Caleb Leonard Adams Foster picked up the cell and he eyed it. The number was different and out of the country. "Hello?" he asked.

"Hi big brother," Callie added somewhat tired as she nursed her baby girl.

"Callie?" he asked shocked as the tears spilled. "You are alive?"

"Yeah and I woke up from a coma a few weeks ago. Listen I need a favor and the Doctor here called Lexi and she told mom's that I'm alive."