“Where is she?” said the now mimicking twins in Shane’s room, tossing hot and cold looks at one another, both of them scrambling around for their clothes, juggling cell phones and slipping into jeans and shirts. 

            “County General,” said Jo and Bette at the same time, Bette laughing that they said the same thing at the same time.  “Jinx,” they both added, giggling harder now.

            “What are you laughing at?” asked Carmen and Shane.  “Who are you talking too?” they asked one another pointing at one another.

            “Huh?” said Jo and Bette both with perplexed looks on their faces, then a soft grin spread over Jo’s face and she understood.

            “No one!” said Carmen and Shane.  “I’ll be there in a second,” they both added.  Snapping closed their phones, giving each other a wicked look. 

            “Tina got beat up,” said Shane to Carmen.

            “Sam got shot,” answered Carmen.  “Isn’t it odd that they are both in the same hospital, at the same time?”

            “Sam got shot,” said Shane with a worried look on her face, the scorching feeling in her belly doubling.  If she hadn’t run off to be with Carmen that morning, Sam wouldn’t have gotten hurt.  She’d have been in bed with her, instead of out, wherever, getting a bullet drilled into her. 

            “And Tina got…  Shane, do you think they were together?” asked Carmen brightly.  “I can see Tina with Sam,” she added, slipping her socks on, seeing that Shane was just standing there, her pants on, but her shirt hung by her fingertips.

            “Henry is dead,” added Shane.  “Why am I getting this mental image of Sam playing hero?”

            “Because that is Sam, always the hero, come on, are you coming?” asked Carmen.

            “Yeah,” said Shane nodding her head, trying to clear the loud ramblings in her mind about Sam being hurt, Tina being hurt, but Angelica was ok, at least there was that, and Henry was dead.  How had he died?  Had Tina killed him?  Who had shot Sam?  All those questions would have to wait until they got to the hospital.

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            “That was weird,” laughed Bette.  “They were saying the same thing, at the same time?”

            “They were in the same room,” said Jo as they walked down the hallway of the hospital, now going to see Sam.

            “Carmen and Shane?” asked Bette, thinking that they were on a merry go round of sex and no sex, from friends to lovers, would Shane ever learn?

            “Uh huh,” said Jo her eyes still fading from their amber hue, but her powers were still cruising on high. 

            “In the same bed?” asked Bette out of sheer curiosity as to how far her powers could venture out. 

            “Are you getting voyeuristic on me, Bette Porter?” asked Jo playfully, stopping and pulling Bette close, kissing her lips lightly, grazing the full soft lips with her own.

            “Hmmm, no.  I wanted to know just how powerful you were,” admitted Bette kissing Jo again, letting her hands wander down Jo’s back, her finger tips teasing the hard muscles there.

            “I could have told you what they were wearing, or weren’t wearing, if I’d had been so inclined.  I didn’t, so I cannot tell you, but I can tell you one thing,” said Jo with an alluding voice.

            “What’s that?”

            “I love you,” smiled Jo leading Bette into Tina’s room, both of them hoping that thing would settle down, sometime in the near future.