”I really hope she heard that,” Tina said softly.

Alice stood up wiping away a stray tear from her eye. ”I’ll leave you alone to speak with her. I’ll go see the boys and then I’ll go to Angie so Kit and Tasha can come.”

Tina nodded and said, ”thanks Alice.”

As Alice left the room, Tina sat down on the bed beside Bette and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

”I love you Bette,” Tina said, ”with everything that I am. I never thought I could love someone like I love you. That’s why you can’t leave me. I need you and so does Angie and our boys.

”Please wake up my baby. Please I beg of you, come back to me. Wake up! Just open those eyes.” Tina wiped her tears then continued. ”The boys are doing really well, Dr. Jensen says they’ll be out of that incubator in no time and you have to be awake by then.

”I gave them names. I chose Nicholas, the name you wanted for the smallest of the three. He has that same mole that you have on your back and I swear he has your face too. They’re identical but he’s the one who looks the most like you.”

Tina caressed Bette’s cheek and said, ”the biggest of the three I gave him the name I chose, Phillip. I know you don’t like it but it’s a name I’ve always wanted for a son. I couldn’t decide on the name for the middle son because we agreed to choose it together once he was born.”

Tina broke into sobs unable to continue speaking. It took her a while to compose herself to speak again. ”I took the liberty of asking Kit to chose the name and she suggested that he take the male version of Angie’s name, Angel. I liked it especially because he likes to sleep with his hands over his chest as if he were praying. A true Angel if you ask me.

”I hope you like it. We can change it if you don’t. We’ll talk about it when you wake up.” Tina laid on Bette’s chest and started crying. ”You will wake up my baby. You have to. You just have to.”

TBC