Sam grabbed a hold of Jenna’s hand as she walked past, pulling her behind her towards their bedroom. Jenna suddenly planted her feet and pulled her arm, spinning Sam back towards her. She wrapped her arms around Sam’s neck and leaned up on her tip toes, stopping just short of her mouth. “Have I mentioned that your ass looks so hot in those tight shorts?” She leaned closer and trailed her tongue slowly across Sam’s lower lip. She brought her hands down to Sam’s waist, pulling her closer.
Before Jenna realized what Sam was doing, Sam squatted slightly, hooking her arms together underneath Jenna’s ass and stood up. Jenna’s eyes opened wide. “Jesus, She-Ra, I can’t believe you can pick me up that easily!”
Sam took a few steps forward with her, which meant that Jenna’s back was now up against the opposite wall in the hallway. “It’s all about leverage baby, and now I have it.” She bit Jenna’s lower lip and then kissed her hard. “Let’s take this show on the road and finish it in the shower.” She turned and carried Jenna down the hall, walking like she was a cowboy.
An hour later, they were dressed and packed in the car, headed to do some shopping. In the morning, a new chapter would start for them and both hoped it would be an easy read.
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Two weeks later Jenna, Shawn and Rebecca were all three on duty at the same time. It didn’t usually happen, but another nurse had called out so Jenna agreed to pick up the extra shift. They had just finished a quick check on their patients and were standing at the nurse’s station when they were notified that there was an inbound emergency via a life-flight that would be arriving in approximately ten minutes. Everyone turned to head to the delivery room. Normally, babies were now delivered in suites where there was privacy for the family. Emergency deliveries and C-sections still took place in the actual delivery room.
A doctor appeared on the run from the elevator. Rebecca recognized him immediately as the surgeon and knew it wasn’t a good sign. As the surgeon reached them, he was short and to the point. “We have a pedestrian versus motor vehicle inbound. Mother was the pedestrian and is twenty four weeks. Her vital signs are all over the place and the fetus’ are also. Let’s prep to get the baby out and hope that we can stabilize both of them separately.”
Rebecca’s hands went to her stomach unconsciously; her babies were just a few weeks further than the one on the way in. She glanced up and found Shawn’s eyes on her as she worked setting up the trays. Shawn glanced quickly from side to side, noticing that no one else was paying them any attention and then mouthed “I love you”. Rebecca just nodded and went to work finishing her set up.
Four hours later, everyone in the unit was stressed and exhausted. The surgeon had skillfully delivered the baby and handed it off to the Neonatal team, who whisked it away. He had then spent the next three hours working with the trauma surgeon to find and repair the damage to the mother. She was now in recovery and her prognosis was not looking very good. The car had caused massive internal bleeding, a ruptured spleen, a severely damaged kidney and a collapsed lung. She also had a compound fracture of her right femur, which the orthopedic surgeon had joined them to repair before they brought her out.
As they clocked out for the day, all three walked to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to check on the baby since they hadn’t heard anything. One of the nurses pointed out the baby and they stood around the incubator watching the tiny guy.
“God he’s so small, I bet my ring would fit over his arm. You’re a fighter little guy, you can do it.” Jenna said she reached through the opening to gently touch his tiny head. “Has his family been notified?” She turned to his nurse.
“From what we’ve heard so far, there doesn’t appear to be any. The life flight nurse said he called a doctor that was in her contact list in her phone. The office said that she has no one listed as an emergency contact and no father listed either.”
They were all quiet as they headed to the parking garage. As they stood in the elevator waiting for the doors to close, the charge nurse stepped in. “Ladies, I think we could all use a good night’s rest. I just talked to the surgeon. He said the mom didn’t make it out of recovery.” She shook her head.
Rebecca tuned her face towards the wall as she tried to keep the tears from escaping. Shawn quietly grabbed her hand and squeezed. Jenna reached out and took Rebecca’s other hand. It was too close to home for all of them. Jenna couldn’t help but think about the tiny little boy upstairs who was now all alone.
Rebecca and Shawn sat snuggled on the oversized chair watching TV later that night; neither had felt much like talking. Rebecca was sitting in front of Shawn, leaning back against her. Shawn had her hands resting on Rebecca’s stomach. She turned her head slightly and kissed the side of Rebecca’s head. “Becca are you sure you’re ok? Today was tough.”
“I’m okay honey. I just feel like life can be so cruel sometimes. I keep thinking about the mom; she had no one except that little baby and now he has no one. I am so grateful that I have you. I know we started out rough but I love you so much and I can’t imagine being here now without you.” Rebecca said, pulling Shawn’s arms tight around her.
“I know baby. I can’t get my mind off it either. What is going to happen to that little boy now? He doesn’t even
