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<<we can do this here and work out the kinks
then post it on the game if that's okay?>>
<<Note to gamers, we're just doing some
catching up. Kristin's back and wants to jump in with the rest of us
nuts!>>
Julia could only shake her head at Alex and that
camcorder, even as she mock threatened her not to point the thing in her
direction. She knew she looked a mess but...
She looked at the baby in her arms and a smile
spread over her features.
Wow.
She looked back up and saw that Alex had pulled
someone else in, a certain someone that surprised, but pleasantly "Kristin -
when did you get back?"
Kristin grinned sheepishly. "Actually, I
never quite made it back to the house yet. I was on my way but some overly
chatty nurses," she couldn't help but roll her eyes slightly at the memory of
the 'double-mint twins', "happened to be talking about a certain Mrs. Rayne
upstairs in delivery, so..." Shrugging her shoulders she moved closer to
the bed so she could peek in at the baby.
"Congratulations are in order" Kristin smiled
warmly at the new parents.
Julia chuckled, shaking her head "No telling what
they were saying... something along the lines of woman and child refusing to
budge until Pappa showed up?"
Kristin grinned wryly. "Ah...yeah, something
along those lines." Although she was fairly certain Julia would get a good
chuckle out of what the nurses had really been saying, it was much more pleasant
to focus on the newest arrival. She gave Derek a teasing wink but looked back at
Kristin, eyeing her to see if the other woman was well enough to be up and
around "Are you okay though?"
Waving her hand slightly, she brushed Julia's
concern away. "Of course I am. The Warden would never have allowed
me to escape if I wasn't." Her lack of fondness for her attending doctor
was evident in the way Kristin drawled the nickname she'd given
him.
Peering into the blanket bundle Julia was cradling,
she felt herself grin again. "She's absolutely beautiful!"
Julia couldn't help but trace Amelia's small
fingers with her index, even as she joked "Yeah, I finally get to see the little
tyke that's been practicing soccer on my bladder."
She regarded Kristin again "You're going to go home
and rest or have other plans?"
Chuckling softly Kristin looked back to
Julia. "Oh come on, you loved every second of it." She reconsidered,
"Okay, maybe not the million trips to the ladies' room, but..."
She regarded Kristin again, even as she smiled and
agreed with what her friend said - she wouldn't have missed this
for anything "You're going to go home and rest or have other
plans?"
"I think I've had all the rest I'll need for the
next month or so thanx to Dr. Bedside manner. I swear that his patients
stay in comas just so that they can avoid him." Making a face, Kristin
pulled lightly at the end of her shirt.
"Shower. The longest, hottest shower you can
imagine. That's my plans." She grinned again. "I hope Amelia
will eventually forgive me for making her smell me right now, but there was no
way I could miss this."
Once Kristin had uttered the word 'shower' that's
all she could think of. That, and seeing Philip; the last time she'd seen
him...well, she could do without thinking about that.
Julia smiled, having been there a few times herself
in regards to wishing for nothing more than home and a shower.
"I doubt Amelia notices much with everything else
going on." she chuckled a little, glancing at Alex who was still taping and the
others that were talking amongst themselves and to Derek and the
baby.
"Do you have a car or...?" She was thinking
Kristin could either hitch home with Alex if she didn't have a car or just do
her own thing. As it was the nurse was standing near the door and looked
ready to shoo everyone out.
Kristin frowned slightly and shook her head, then
smiled somewhat apologetically. "No car...actually, I think I was going to
either call a cab or call the house but for the life of me, I ran up here so
fast that I can't remember if I managed to put a call through or
not."
Glancing at the smiling Alex who was in her element
taping all the events, her grin widened. "Perhaps Alex will have pity on
'poor scatter-brained Kristin'."
Just then and having paused enough to answer Kat's
question about holding Amelia and glancing at the two as Kat then climbed into
the bed to sit between Derek and herself to hold Amelia, the nurse made her
move.
It was shoo-out time.
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