Black & Blue

Chapter 17

***Chapter 17 at last... sorry it took a bit to get this up. I am so proud of this book, I call it the best thing I have ever made... after my daughter of course. Please enjoy and I love to get comments...***

IrishEyez

Chapter 17

We raced to the hospital and again a nurse came out with a wheelchair then rolled me into the ER. They hooked me up to monitors and I took solace in the fact that the babies’ heart beats were strong. The doctor came in and by the look on his face; I was not going to like what he had to say.

“We are going to try and stop the labor, but it may not work. I want you to be prepared for the worse, you are only about 22 weeks along and babies born this early generally don’t make it.” He had the nurse administer the meds and I felt my whole body relax.

“I can’t go through this again Nate, I’ve already lost two babies, I can’t stand losing these too.” I said in a sob.

“I know baby, they are going to do everything in their power to keep these babies alive.” He calmly said to me as he brought his forehead to rest on mine.

The meds had a sedative mixed in and I was falling fast asleep, with tears streaming down my cheeks.

“NATE!” I awoke in a panic, looking around an unfamiliar room. Nate quickly jumped up and took my hand.

“Hey now, I’m right here, you’re okay.”

I looked down and saw that I was still hooked up to the monitor and could hear the babies heartbeats. “Were they able to stop it?” I asked Nate with a quivering voice.

He was smiling when he answered me. “Yeah, they were. These babies are determined to be born healthy. The doctor is going to come and do an ultrasound to see how they are getting along and they also gave you some steroids to mature their lungs, just in case.”

“Well giving a werewolf steroids, that was smart.” I snickered. Knowing that the babies wee okay lightened my mood instantly.

Nate started laughing. “Please don’t go all hulk-wolf on me, okay?”

“I can’t make any promises.”

There was a soft knock at the door and Helen came in. “Hi Blue, Nate. Good to see you are awake. How are you feeling?”

“Better now that I know that they have a chance.” I remarked with a smile.

“Okay, well there is someone here that wants to talk to you.” I knew instantly who it was before she said anything, as I could smell Jennie’s awful perfume. I growled and didn’t care who heard it. She walked in with a sad look on her face.

“Hi Blue, I know I’m not who you want to see right now, but I just wanted to say that I’m sorry.”

I was completely taken aback by her. The cold and evil Jenny that I met was replaced by this nice and groveling woman.

“As you should be Jenny.” I blatantly stated.

“Jenny, you did a lot of damage in a short amount of time and I’m not sure if Blue or I would be able to forgive you for this, not yet anyway.” Nate exclaimed.

She looked down to her feet and back up again. “And I would not expect you to. Mother told me some of what happened to you and I feel ashamed for my behavior. Had I known Blue, I wouldn’t have been so brash. It’s just that Nate is my only sibling and I only want what is best for him.” There were actually tears forming in her cold eyes.

“She is what’s best for me sis. Her and these babies are my world and just how much did mom tell you?” I was curious myself as to what Helen told her.