Twenty Four
"Someone paged OB?" John asks as he comes down to the ER, we have three new patients. Two teenagers who won't stop screaming at one another and a pregnant college student.
"Hey babe" smiling up at him
"That" my pregnant patient asks. She has brown skin, very curly hair and brown eyes "is your husband? Hot"
Smiling at her "Thank you, babe this is Aniyah Akintola-did I pronounce it right?" She nods her head "twenty, she's a little over seven months pregnant with twins. She was also in the other car when the screaming sisters drove"
"Hello Miss Akintola" John smiles to her grabbing the gel "if you don't mind I'm going to give you an ultrasound to make sure the babies are healthy" the screaming intensifies.
"So Aniyah?" I ask "Do you want me to call the father? Your parents?"
Shaking her head no "It's just me" she says "the father tried to pay for an abortion and my parents disowned me a long time ago-I don't have anyone...well there is my older half sister Laurel, she's studying to become a lawyer. She's my emergency contact"
"One part's not true" she looks at me "you have your babies, unconditional love right there. Do you want us to call Laurel? What baby names were you thinking of?"
"Laurel is on her way. For boys" she says "Jordan and Cristopher, for girls I was thinking of Naya and Amara"
"Beautiful names" John tells her
"Im sorry but I'm shutting that yelling up" getting up I move the curtain so that Aniyah doesn't see what is about to happen but focus on herself and the baby. Going between both sisters I yell "Enough!" They flinch looking at me as Callie works on one of them as the new trauma surgeon Own Hunt works on the other one "this is a hospital and I'm certain people recovering in their rooms can hear you two screaming at one another. You" looking at the one driving "you shouldn't have been texting and driving especially if your underage" looking at the other one who is smirking "don't go smirking other one, if you knew your sister was underage you were just as stupid to get into a car with her. Now one of you give us both your names and your parents numbers right this instant so we can call them because they are most likely sick with worry and wondering if you both are dead and have to get two caskets for you both" they stare at me as I have my arms crossed "names and numbers!" They flinch when I snap "now!"
"My name is Holly Anderson" she says
I grab my pen and check her eyes "Alex take her up to get a head CT, now!" He mutters curses seeing what could be a potential head problem that Sadie Harris should have caught. Pulling away I look at the other one "what's your name and parents number?"
"My name is Emma" handing me her phone to call her parents "my dad is on speed dial"
I wait as that new trauma surgeon is next to me praising "Nicely done"
"Thank you" mouthing as the father starts yelling "Emma Anderson! Where are you and your sister?"
"Hello Mr. Anderson" I answer "my name is Dr. Morningstar-Shepherd, your daughters Holly and Emma were admitted into Seattle Grace about twenty minutes ago"
"Oh god" he gasps "are my girls okay?"
"Tom? What's going on?" A woman asks worried
"The girls are in the hospital" another gasp
"Your daughter Holly is currently getting a head CT" I say "and your daughter Emma is right next to me, do you wish to speak to her right?"
"Yes" both parents exclaim
Handing the phone to Emma, she takes it and starts to speak while I go back to John and Aniyah "Do you have kids of your own?" Aniyah asks. Shaking my head no "If you ever do have kids you'll be a great mom"
John smiles at me as I blush before her eyes darken and my smile falls "How long have her eyes been like this?" I demand from Sadie who was checking my patient first before I came over.
"I...I" she stutters "I don't know"
"Let's get her up to head CT" John orders "you" ordering Sadie "get an OR booked just in case or can you not do that?" He knows what happened and can't look at that intern with respect.
After a head CT Amiyah had blood running down her nose, Derek is working on her right now as I'm next to John as he is ready to cut open Amiyah to save the babies "John I can ave her" Derek snaps when the babies are in distress now.
"The babies are in distress!" John snaps at his brother "they need to come out now" not listening to Derek who is yelling at him to stop, John and I deliver the babies who are both girls.
They are taken up to the NICU while we hear Amiyah's heart essentially stop beating, second person who died from the crash. Holly? She's currently brain dead in another room while two newborn are without their mother.
"Luna?" Looking over to see Amiyah look down at her daughters with my aunt next to her "their perfect, absolutely perfect..." Amiyah cries "my father isn't a good man" looking up at me "tell Laurel that my last wish is for someone to adopt them, someone who can't be controlled or fears my father. I want my children to be happy and they won't with my father"
"Qui voyez-vous ?" Who do you see? John asks me in French
"Leur mère, elle ne veut pas que ces deux-là connaissent leur grand-père" Their mother, she doesn't want these two to know their grandfather he nods his head as we look down at the two girls "let's adopt them"
"What?" John asks me
"The twins" I say "let's adopt them, these two"
"Are you sure?" The girls both have brown skin like their mother but a tad shade lighter with already a head of black hair, because their eyes are closed I don't know what their eye color looks like.
"Yeah" nodding my head "Amiyah didn't want just anyone adopting her girls, she wants someone who won't fear her father and I don't-you can't tell me that you don't feel some sort of special connection to the girls"
John looks down at the girls smiling "I always imagined adopting one child not two...but the more the merrier right?"
"Dr. Shepherds" Murray is before us with a woman with normal skin, dark hair and dark eyes "this is Miss Akintola's sister, Lauren Castillo" Castillo? Where have I heard that name?
"Hello" she offers us a smile "my sister? No one will tell me what happened"
"I'm sorry" John says "your sister had a brain bleed that caused her to go brain dead, when the babies became in distress I needed to operate resulting in major blood loss" her sister starts to cry "you have two nieces"
She walks over to the babies looking down at them "Miss Castillo?" She looks at us or more like me "your sister told me before she died that she didn't want your father to be apart of their lives"
Nodding her head "My sister put in her will that if anything happened the babies would go to me"
"Miss Castillo" she looks at me "this might not be the best time but my husband and I are looking to adopt"
"My father won't let anyone adopt his grandchildren" she says "with Amiyah gone"
"She told me" Laurel stares at me "that your father is a powerful man who makes most fear him, I'm not so easily feared"
"It's true" John nods his head "we'll give you some time, also their names are Naya and Amara. Your sister named them before she died" we leave Laurel with her nieces then.
~Time Skip~
"Dr, Shepherds?" Laurel Castillo is before me and John as we go over charts, it's been a few days since her nieces were out into the NICU "I've thought it over and...I can't be a mother, I can be an aunt but not a mother. I also did background checks and...your the type of people that my sister would want her children to be raised by"
"Are you saying" John asks
I notice the woman behind her, the woman from the adoption agency. She had brown skin, very curly hair and brown eyes. She's also thin, not like many of the other adoption agency reps who have more meat on their bones. We met before when she was going a home check, we explained to her how we are building a home and that once the home is built and furnished will we move out "Hello, nice to see you again" oh god what is her name? Janice? Jasmine? Joan? Fuck! I don't know
"Hello Janet" John says, Janet! That's her name "nice to see you again"
"Miss Castillo here" Janet says "she chose you both to becoming new parents to Naya and Amara Akinton"
"Thank you" I say to her "would you like your numbers? So that you can call us and check in with the twins?"
Nodding her head "I'd like to be apart of their life as the cool aunt"
"Congratulations" Janet tells us "Dr. Shepherds"
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