Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Monday rolled around and as soon as Dr. Browns office opened Emily called and told the receptionist that she had taken a home pregnancy test and it was positive. The receptionist took her name and made an appointment for her to come on Wednesday at 2pm to get blood work done and probably an ultrasound to make sure the embryo or embryos had implanted correctly. When Emily got off the phone she tried to sit at her desk and work but it was just too hard. She found herself searching the internet for information on pregnancy and babies and even what its like to have multiples. For some reason her mind kept wandering to the idea of having more than one baby. After reading one persons story of having twins from IVF her heart and mind raced. She thought about the house they had, yeah its 3 bedrooms but one has to be used for an office the other room is just way too small for more than one baby. They would have to move and find something bigger. On Caleb's salary she didn't think they could do it. The house would be so cramped. She worked from home which was good because she would be home with the babies at all times but then again would she be able to work at all with 2 babies screaming and always needing to be fed or changed? She finally got to the point where she couldnt stand it anymore. She left the room and sat on the couch to flip through tv channels. After finding nothing good on she laid on the couch and grabbed the romance novel she was half way into. After 2 chapters she found herself growing tired and the next thing she knew Caleb was giving her a kiss on the check to wake her up.


On Wednesday Emily found herself at the doctors alone this time. Caleb wanted to be there so bad but he got called to go to a conference in Boston and was going to be gone 2 weeks. He hated to leave but he didn't have a choice. I told him I would be fine alone and that he had to go. She waited in the waiting room for a while with a few other ladies a few pregnant, most of them not, at least not visibly. When Emily's time came to see Dr. Brown she found herself nervous and trembling. She sat down on the table, which was better than the chair she had to be in last time. It felt more like a check up and not something so serious. She looked around the room at the pictures and diagrams on the walls. A lot of them were medical related and a few of them were for decoration. The room on a whole was a lot more friendlier than the last. Finally after about 10 minutes Dr. Brown made his way in and gave me a quick hug. "Well I hear congratulations are in order." He stated. He was by far the friendliest doctor she had ever seen. "Well thats only for after your more accurate tests confirm it doctor. We both know those home pregnancy tests can be faulty." She said trying to joke around a bit. "Well they are actually pretty accurate especially the digital ones like the one you took but we will get some blood work on you really quick in a second and then we will do an ultrasound to make sure that baby is where it should be and rule out anything abnormal." He said. He took her vitals and told her that a nurse would be in momentarily to draw the blood. He was right and within 5 minutes he was back in the room with the ultrasound machine. He explained to her that this would be a vaginal ultrasound and that he was going to put a wand of sorts up there to see the baby closer than the normal on the belly ultrasound. As he was moving the wand around inside her she watched the expression on his face go from serious to a smile. "Well Emily I can say that you look to be about 3 weeks pregnant with ONE baby growing right where it should." He said looking at her. Tears streamed down her face and replaced any words she could have said. "Let me just print out a picture for you and we will get you home." He said. He handed her the picture of this tiny little dot that he labeled BABY. She looked up at him and choked out the words "Thank you doctor." He smiled and said "You are very welcome my dear." He walked out of the room and let her get dressed.


She walked to the front desk and payed her co-pay to the receptionist. "The doctor wants to see you back here in 4 weeks and we will call you later today when we get the blood test back from the lab. Just so you can know your beta levels and such." She said. They made an appointment and Emily was on her way home. She wasn't one hundred percent sure how she made it home because the whole way there she was on cloud nine watching happy families on the streets much like she had the day they were driving home on the day her little baby got implanted inside her. Todays drive was on such more of a happy note. She was beaming the whole time. When she got home she didn't really feel like doing much so she went into the spare room and sat on the floor. She grabbed the teddy bear and held it to her chest like a small baby. She talked to her belly that wasn't even showing any signs of a baby there yet for a few minutes before falling asleep clutching the bear.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Emily's days seemed to go by so slowly while Caleb was gone. She did what work she had as fast as she could so she could get online and look at baby things. She found a forum called Simply Babies that she had joined and had made a few friends who were also pregnant by IVF. It was really cool to meet someone who is going through the same things she is. Emily found herself on that computer all day long. It would be almost 2 am before she would retire to bed some nights. She loved talking to others about it and she hated that Caleb was not there to share everything going on with her. She seemed to be changing so rapidly and even now only a week after her ultrasound she thought she could see a little bump forming low in her abdomen. She would stand in front of the mirror looking at it for hours if she wasn't so nauseous and light headed all the time.


On the day that Caleb was due home from Boston she decided to go shopping to make him a nice romantic dinner. They had so much to talk about and she couldnt wait to tell him about the baby and what he or she was doing to her body. It didn't seem like normal dinner table talk but after all the years of trying she found talk of those sort of things to be so normal for her. She got everything she needed to make his favorite, Chicken and Broccoli on white rice. She picked up a nice bottle of sparkling red grape juice instead of wine for this meal. She thought that even though all the girls on the computer say that a sip or 2 of wine is ok it wasn't worth the risk. She checked out and drove home. Caleb's flight would be in around 6pm which meant she only had 2 hours to get things ready at home before he got there. She got home and was really tired but forced herself to stay awake so she could get dinner done.

It was while she was cutting up the chicken to put in the skillet that she noticed a gush of fluid. She thought to herself that something didn't feel right. She walked to the bathroom to inspect what the fluid was. With everything that pregnancy had done to her body she wouldn't be surprised if it was something totally normal that she was freaking out about. As she looked down she saw that her undies were filled with bright red blood. In between sobs she tried to run to the phone to call Dr. Brown. She had his home number for emergencies and this seemed like quite the emergency. She hadn't even picked up the phone when her head got dizzy and she felt herself hit the floor. After that everything went black.


25 minutes later Caleb pulled into the garage and took his suitcase out of the trunk. He could see the light on in the kitchen when he pulled up to the house so he knew that Emily would be inside probably with dinner waiting. As he walked in the front door he called to her. "Emily hunny I'm home." He stood there for a moment and waited for a response. He thought maybe that she was in the other room down the hall and she couldnt hear him. So he walked down the hall to set his suitcase in their bedroom and to look for her. "Emily are you in here?" He asked going into their bedroom. When she didn't answer he began to panic. It wasn't like her not to come running to him after he had been away for so long. He ran back to the living room and then heard the sound of spattering in the kitchen. He walked in and saw a pan on the stove then looked over to the far wall and saw Emily on the ground. He rushed over to her and shook her trying to wake her up. Then he noticed the blood stain that had seeped through her pants. He turned off the stove and took the hot oil off the burner to cool down and not start a fire. Then he picked Emily up and took her to the car. He drove as fast as he could to the local hospital.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

When Caleb got to the hospital Emily was still unconscious. He pulled up to the emergency bay and ran in to get someone. They rushed out with a gurney and put her on it and ran back inside while he parked the car. Once inside Caleb learned that the doctors were in with her and they needed to know any medical information. So he told them about the PCOS and the IVF and that was all that was wrong with her. The nurse smiled and told him to take a seat in the waiting room and they would let him know when he could be with her. He sat there and twiddled his thumbs for what felt like decades before a doctor finally came to see him. He took a seat next to him and told him the news. "I'm sorry to have to tell you this Mr. Harrison but your wife has had a miscarriage." He said. Caleb was in shock. He didn't really know what to say so he just lowered his head in his hands. The doctor continued. "These things happen for a reason. The baby was probably not developing correctly and her body rejected it and took care of it naturally. She is still unconscious but if you want you may sit with her until she wakens." Caleb looked at the doctor and said thank you before standing up and walking down the hall to room 145 where his wife was.


When he walked in the room he saw that she was hooked up to the IV and a monitor to watch her pulse and such. Everything just looked like it came out of a movie or a dream and this really wasn't happening. Caleb tried to pinch himself a few times but everything stayed the same and thats when he know this was no dream. This was really happening to them. He sat in the chair next to Emily and grabbed her hand. He looked at her again and burst into tears. How was he going to tell her that the baby that had come into their lives, the baby that they both wanted so bad, was gone just as quickly as it had come. He cried for 5 minutes before she felt her hand move and her whole body turned restlessly towards him. Oh no she is waking up, he thought to himself. Now I have to tell her. Emily made a groaning noise and opened her eyes and looked around. Her eyes locked on Caleb when she saw him. "Caleb what happened?" She asked "Is everything ok?" Her voice sounded more panicked as the events of the night returned to her head. "Oh Emily hunny I'm so so sorry this has happened." He said. "What happened?" She begged in tears. "Is the baby ok?" She asked trembling. "Oh hunny no the baby is gone. The doctor says you had something called a miscarriage." He said tears running down his face again. Emily looked up at the ceiling and then broke down in tears. She tried to talk in between sobs but Caleb couldnt make anything out. He just sat there and tried to help her but nothing he did seemed to help.


They spent 5 hours in the ER before the doctors sent them home. They told Emily to follow up with Dr. Brown the next day so he knew what had happened. They also said that in about 4 weeks they could probably get set up for another round of the IVF. Another round, Caleb thought to himself. How are we going to afford another round of that thing. We couldnt even afford the first one. Emily didn't say much at all. She was still in shock of it all. When they arrived home it was 1am and they were both very tired. Caleb helped Emily into her pajamas and then into bed where she feel asleep almost immediately. Caleb went back downstairs to clean up what had been left out from dinner. "Wow she was doing all of this for me." He said out loud as he threw away the already spoiled chicken. After cleaning up he was going to go to bed when he saw that there was light coming from the office. He went inside and saw the screen was pulled up to the forum that Emily talked on. He sat down in the chair and took a moment to browse around. He saw a post labeled "WARNING: Fake doctor could be in your area" Caleb was curious as the post time was right before he had arrived home and he didn't think Emily had seen it. He clicked on the post and it opened up on the screen. As he read on the poster had said she was from the Great Lakes area and had been seeing a doctor by the name of John Jones who also was known by a few other aliases one of which was Dr. John Brown. Caleb couldnt believe his eyes. Brown was a common name but could this just be the same Dr. Brown they had been seeing. The post went on to say that he had told this couple that within the first few months of his treatment they would become pregnant and sure enough they did conceive with his help. Only to find out after their twins were a year old that this doctor had used his own sperm instead of the womans husbands to save money and rip people off. Caleb scrolled down and included was a picture of the doctor holding this womans twin boys and sure enough this was the very same doctor that Emily and him had been seeing.


Caleb was so disturbed and enraged he turned off the computer without even fully shutting it down. He had half a mind to call this man up right now and give him a piece of his mind. Instead he thought better to go and fall asleep next to his wife who he had missed dearly for the past 2 weeks. He vowed that he would not tell Emily of his discovery and he would hope and pray that she wouldn't look at the post on the message board. He would just have to keep her busy these next few days so she didn't see it. It was nothing she needed to concern herself with right away. He also vowed that he would take time in the morning to call the local sheriffs department and tell them what was going on and that this man was at large again and scamming innocent people such as himself and Emily.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

The next day seemed to drag on for Caleb and Emily. Emily stayed in bed most of the day sleeping on and off. A few times Caleb went to check on her and she seemed to be just staring off into space. He wasn't really sure what the process was after having a miscarriage but he figured she just needed time to get over this. He tried to sit down and talk to her but she just pushed him away. If anything he was just happy she didn't want to get out of bed and jump on the computer. Caleb thought about blocking the site and maybe password protecting it but he thought twice after realizing that it would seem like she was in prison or something of that nature. If she ever found out she wouldn't be happy with him and it was a fight he wanted to avoid.


Caleb took the rest of the week off from work to stay home and make sure Emily was alright. He also wanted to make sure he had the time to take care of this Dr. Brown thing. He had half a mind to give the guy a call and ask him what the heck did he think he was doing using poor innocent women like that just to make a buck. He knew better than that though and he figured if he just called up the local police and see what they had to say about it. So he didnt waste any time. He made sure Emily was asleep before taking his cell phone outside to make the call. Emily was smart and right now he didn't want any record of there phone conversation. Not that it was anything bad he just wanted to wait until the time was right to tell her about everything. "Hello Greenville police, how may I direct your call?" Asked a woman on the other line. "Yes Id like to speak to someone who can help me with a possible fraud issue." Caleb said. "Ill transfer you to a detective. One moment please." Caleb waited on the line for 5 minutes listening to that horrible elevator music before someone finally answered. "Hello, Detective Stevens speaking." The man said. "Hi my name is Caleb Harrison. My wife Emily and I have been seeing a man by the name of Dr. Brown at the IVF institute about an hour away from here and I have recently come to some interesting information about him. Such as he is going by an alias and that he has been impregnating women with his own sperm and making money off of it." Caleb explained. "Oh wow Mr. Harrison, can you tell me how you came across this information?" The detective asked. "To be honest I was doing some reading on a message board online where it showed of a lady who found out her twins were in fact not her husbands biological children. I know the internet can say a lot of things that are not true but this seemed very legit. If you would like I can give you the web site to the exact URL link so you can see the post yourself?" Caleb asked. "Thank you very much Mr. Harrison I would appreciate that. We take this sort of thing very seriously and we want to make sure that this man is behind bars if what you say is true." Said detective Stevens. Caleb and the detective spoke a few more words before they ended the conversation. Caleb sat on the front porch for a while thinking. He didn't know what he was going to do now. Emily wanted a baby so badly and he wanted to give her one no matter what. He made a vow right there and then to work as many hours as he could so in a months time they could find another fertility specialist and start the IVF process all over again.


Caleb was so busy thinking to himself he didn't hear Emily come out onto the porch until she was sitting next to him. "Hunny what are you doing out of bed?" He asked. "Oh I couldnt sleep anymore and I'm starting to get a little hungry." Caleb looked at his watch and noticed that it was almost 5pm. "well I guess we could order a pizza or something, I know you don't feel up to cooking." He said grabbing her hand and giving it a kiss. "Sure I guess that sounds good." She said in a tired voice. Caleb could see that she was really forcing a smile. "Caleb?" She asked. "Yes dear?" "Do you want to try the IVF again?" She asked. He took a second to think about it. He hoped that she wouldn't push to go back to Dr. Brown. "Yes Emily, I do want to give it another shot and I think we will be able to find the money to do it." He said. She gave him a smile and he could tell for the first time all day that she was starting to feel happy again.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Life went on as normally as It could for Caleb and Emily. Caleb went back to the hospital for work and Emily continued to stay home. She took a little medical leave from her work so she could recover from loosing the baby. As far as Dr. Brown went Caleb didn't think that Emily had any idea what was going on until one day when Caleb forgot his cell phone at home. Emily had just gotten out of the shower when she heard his phone ring. She walked over to the night stand and looked at the caller ID. It was a local number so she answered it.

"Hello." She said

"Hello this is detective Stevens with the Michigan police department, Is Caleb Harrison available?" The man asked.

"Um no he is at work, he forgot his phone, can I take a message for him?" Emily asked.

"Sure can you just please tell him to give me a call back, this is regarding the Dr. Brown case." Mr. Stevens said.

"Ok, Um I'm not sure if I know whats going on but what do my husband and doctor have to do with a case your working on?" Emily asked getting rather upset that there was something going on behind her back.

"I'm sorry ma'am I'm unable to tell you thank information. All I can tell you is that Dr. Brown is being investigated by us and by a few other police departments in the U.S for fraud.

"Wow, um ok well I will have Caleb give you a call as soon as he gets home." Emily said hanging up the phone.



She sat down on the bed turning the phone over and over in her hands. How on earth did Caleb have anything to do with this whole thing, and how could that nice man who helped her conceive their child be mixed up in a fraud investigation. She thought about going down to the hospital and demanding some answers out of Caleb. She looked at the time. 10:47am, Caleb would be going on lunch in a few hours so she thought she would pick up some food on the way there and have a nice talk with her husband.

"Emily what are you doing here?" Caleb asked as he was just coming out of surgery.

"I thought we could have lunch together." She said holding up the Mc Donald's bags.

They went down the hall to the cafeteria and sat down. They started eating their food and didn't really say much to each other until Emily finally got the nerve to bring up her phone conversation with detective Stevens.

"So do you mind telling me what is going on, and why you have detectives calling your phone about some fraud case with Dr. Brown?" She asked trying to not sound mad.

"Oh Emily I don't want to have to talk about his here, cant it wait until I get home?" He asked

"No it cant wait Caleb, I want to know what is going on and why you have kept whatever this is a secret from me?" She said loud enough to make a few heads turn and look at them.

"Shhhh, hun please don't make a scene here, I will tell you ok?" He pleaded

"Ok." She said in a more quieter tone.

"The night we came home from the hospital I got online to look into other ways for us to have a baby because the IVF is just so expensive. So as I was looking I opened up the forum that you have been on lately and found a post saying that there may be a fake doctor in our area. I was curious so I opened up the thread and read what it had to say. A woman just a state over from us gave birth to twins and when they started looking less and less like them she had them DNA tested and found out that her husband was not the father of her children." He paused for a minute and Emily stared at him blankly so he continued

"So I kept reading and at the bottom of the post there was a picture and a few other names that this so called doctor was going by and sure enough there was Dr. Brown staring me in the face. I didn't want to tell you right away, after loosing the baby I didn't want to upset you any more. I'm sorry for you finding out like this but I just wanted to make sure the time was right to tell you." Caleb said.

Emily still looked at him and didn't say a word. She was trying with all her might to hold back the tears. Caleb grabbed her hands and gave them a kiss.

"Hunny are you going to be ok?" He asked

"Yeah Ill be fine, this is just all a lot to take in. She said. "So do you think that he did that to us?"

Caleb put his head in his hands and took a deep sigh.

"He very well could have, thats why I'm trying to work with detective Stevens to put him behind bars so he cant ever do this to anyone again. In the mean time I talked to a few colleagues today and got the number of a new doctor for us to go see. That is if you still want to continue this IVF thing?" He asked

"Yeah of course, well unless you don't want to?"

"Oh you know I do hun. So how about we finish lunch up here, Ill get you those numbers and you can give them a call whenever you are ready to. He said.



They finished up lunch and Caleb kissed her goodbye before grabbing some charts and walking down the hall. She looked at the little piece of paper and read the names and numbers to herself. She stood there looking around the hospital for a few moments before walking outside. Once she was out of the hospital she took her cell out of her purse and dialed a number on the piece of paper Caleb gave her. A receptionist picked up "Hello yes my name is Emily Harrison and Id like to set up an appointment please."

My oh so reliable Stormy!!! Oh how I love to see your comments :D lol yep, its a good thing but a bad thing.

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

As much as Emily loves her husband she didn't want Caleb to know she made the appointment to see the new doctor. She wasn't sure why she didn't want him to know right away she just didn't feel like Caleb really wanted to try again for another baby. At least not as soon as she wanted to. There was something telling her he wasn't ok with it. So the day of her appointment almost a month later she let Caleb go off to work as usual without a care in the world. 9am rolled around and Emily got herself dressed and ready to go. As far as she knew this was just going to be a check up to make sure she was ok after the miscarriage to start another round of IVF. She got to the office and looked around. She couldnt believe how beautiful it looked. It was by far a lot nicer than Dr. Browns office. It gave her kind of a homey feeling rather than a harsh hospital feeling. After sitting in the waiting room watching some episode of Dr. Phil for some time Emily was called back to a room. After checking her weight and vitals the nurse said that the doctor would be in with her shortly. Emily looked around the room and thoughts of her miscarriage and her first IVF treatment ran through her head. She felt sick to her stomach and thought about running out of the office and never looking back. That thought was interrupted when the door opened and an older woman walked into the room.
"Hello Emily, I'm Dr. Hayes." She said shaking Emily's hand.
For some reason seeing that this doctor was a woman every fear in her mind went way.
"Hello." Emily said. "Ok well lets get started here, now it says here you just suffered from a miscarriage." The doctor said.
"Yes, that was our first try at the IVF." Emily said.
"Well its good that there was no d&c required and that your body took care of it naturally. Now it says here you have PCOS and with that I'm assuming you don't ovulate?" Dr. Hayes asked.
"Yes thats true." Emily said.
"Ok well then we will get you set up with a round of Clomid and see you and your husband back here in about 2 weeks for the egg retrieval." The doctor said.
She wrote out Emily a prescription and told her how and when to take it. After about 15 minutes of questions and answers and getting to know each other a bit she told Emily to go to the front desk and make her appointment for the egg retrieval.


On her way home from the doctors Emily drove by Dr. Browns office. She knew it was coming up and she knew she could take a different way home but she felt pulled to drive by. The next thing she knew she was sitting in the parking lot staring at the door. She didn't know why but she wanted to walk in there and tell every woman she could to get the heck out of there for their own good. Instead she sat there with tears running down her face. She put the car in drive and got out of there as fast as she could. She had an idea in her head and she didn't want to loose it.


As soon as Emily got home she threw her purse on the kitchen table and went straight to her computer. She did all the research she could on the so called "Dr. Brown". She was amazed to see that he was wanted in 9 different states across the U.S. She also found a few different websites in Michigan where there were recommending him as one of the best fertility specialists around. She sent them all an email telling them about her findings and giving them detective Stevens number if they had any other information about him that might be incriminating. She was going to do all she could to stop this man. She got on her forum as well and put up a post: "Attention anyone in the Great Lakes area: My name is Emily Harrison and I have been very hurt by a man I thought was a great doctor. He goes by the name of Dr. John Brown here but he has been known to have a few different aliases. He is also wanted in 9 different states in the U.S. I want to do all I can to put this man away for good and stop him from hurting anyone else. First of all I want to start some sort of petition or way of letting ladies know not to go to his office. Please pass this along to any woman you know. The more people who know about this man the better chance we have stopping him from hurting someone else." She posted it and almost instantly had her first reply. It was from the lady who posted the first post about him that Caleb had found. She told Emily that she was also working on a petition in her area and wanted Emily's name to be on it. She also wanted to meet with Emily to discuss other options of getting people away from his office. They set up a time for Molly to fly to Michigan and spend a week there. She wanted to come as soon as possible so she asked Emily if the following week would be ok and Emily agreed. After talking back and forth online for most of the day Caleb came home and Emily said goodbye to Molly.


Caleb and Emily cooked dinner together and sat down to eat. Emily decided to come clean to Caleb about what she had done that day.
"I had an appointment with one of the doctors you found for me." Emily said
"Oh really, why didn't you tell me I could have taken the day off." Caleb said not sounding upset at all
"It wasn't anything important just got to met Dr. Hayes and she gave me another prescription for the Clomid and then in 2 weeks we will go back for the egg retrieval and then on to another few weeks of playing the waiting game." She said pushing some food around on her plate. Caleb could tell she was thinking about something.
"Are you ok Emily? You don't seem to be in a very good mood today." He said
"Yeah I'm fine I just... well... on the way home I drove by Dr. Browns office." Caleb looked at her like he was about to blow up and she continued. "I didn't go in or anything I just sat there looking at the door wanting to go tell every woman that was in his office to get out and to never go back there." She said
"Oh Emily don't worry in time they will arrest him. I talked to the detective today and he said they are very close to narrowing in on getting him there are just a few more details they have to get first." Caleb said.
"Well thats great, but umm I wanted to let you know I talked to someone online today from that forum, the lady who posted the thread that you read about him. Her name is Molly and she is very nice and she wants to work with us in getting him put away so she is going to fly up here next week and we are going to work on the petition I started today and possibly some other ideas to put him in jail faster, or maybe just ways to get the word out." She said.
"Well I guess that might be a good idea but are you sure you are up for this? Do you really want to take the chance of something happening to you? Because I don't. I want to make sure you are safe Emily. Especially in a few weeks, you never know you could be carrying our baby." Caleb said.
Emily could tell he was upset but she didn't care. He didn't understand what had happened to her. She wanted to make sure nothing happened to anyone else. They ate the rest of their meal in silence.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

The next week seemed to drag on for Emily. She worked every day and did what she needed to do so she could get on her forum and see if anyone else had any new news about Dr. Brown. Of course there was nothing other than the random post that someone would pass on the information to everyone they knew. Finally it was Friday and that was the day that Molly was flying in to meet with Emily. Emily woke up and saw Caleb off to work before getting herself all dressed up to go pick Molly up from the airport. During the drive over there Emily was a mess. She didn’t really know what to make of meeting this woman. Yes they had talked over the phone about twenty times during the past week but meeting her in person was going to be totally different. Emily got to the airport before Molly's flight got in so she looked through the gift shop for something nice to give her. She found a cute teddy bear and bought it for her. She sat down in some chairs and waited for what seemed like an eternity before she saw people coming in through the long corridor. Finally a tall woman with red hair and freckles walked up to her. "Hi I’m Molly." She said. "Hi Molly." Emily said pulling her in for a hug. She handed her the teddy bear. "For you, for going through all the trouble to come all the way out here." She said. They chit chatted for a few minutes before going to collect Molly’s bags.


"So where do you want to go?" Emily asked. "There are a few fun things to do in this town, some nice shops and deli’s if your hungry."
"Well first things first, I need to make some hotel arrangements." Molly said.
"Oh there’s no need for that you can stay with us, we have an extra bedroom that’s pretty much empty." Emily said
"Are you sure? I don’t want to put you and your husband out or anything." She said.
"Of course not, we would be more than happy to have you for the week." Emily smiled.
"Well then you talked me into it. Let’s go see your house." Molly Smiled back.
Emily Really liked her. The whole way home they talked about all kinds of things. What they did for a living.


When they got to Emily’s house she helped Molly with her bags and took her to show her the spare room where she would be staying. A few days before Emily made Caleb run out and buy an extra bed for the room and some things to really make it feel like home for Molly. Emily let Molly settle in and get situated while she went to the kitchen to make them some lunch. Molly appeared in the kitchen about 10 minutes later.
“I love your house Emily. Its beautiful and the room is more than perfect.” Molly said.
“Thanks, Caleb and I took great pride in making this house a home. Ready for some lunch?” Emily asked.
They sat down and ate their lunch talking about this and that and really trying to get to know each other.
While they were eating the phone rang and Emily excused herself to answer it.


“Mrs. Harrison this is detective Stevens I wanted to let you know that we have the information needed to arrest Dr. Brown.” The man said.
“Oh that’s great, when do you think you are going to go get him?” She asked.
“I will be leaving here shortly, I just thought that I would let you and your husband know so you didn’t feel like you have to worry about him anymore. He will be going away for a very long time.”
He said.
They hung up the phone and Emily walked back into the kitchen.
“How do you feel about taking another drive really quick?” She asked Molly.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

When Emily and Molly pulled into the parking lot of Dr. Brown’s office they were surprised to see a picket line of people outside the office with signs and posters doing anything they could to draw attention to the office. There were police cars with lights flashing and cops running around frantically trying to make some sort of order with everything going on. Emily wished she wouldn’t have come here, she wished she would have just stayed home and enjoyed the time she had with Molly even if they didn’t need to do anything to get Dr. Brown arrested.

Emily and Molly got out of the car and walked over to the group of people crowding around the door. They pushed their way to the front just in time to watch detective Stevens and 2 other officers escorting Dr. Brown and his office workers to the police cars. Emily noticed when Dr. Brown looked up and their eyes met. She knew he blamed her for this. It wasn’t until that moment that she felt scared. Not only for herself but for Caleb and Molly, and any possible children either one of them would ever have.


The whole way home neither of them spoke a word. Molly knew how Emily was feeling and she felt the same way.

When they got home Emily was surprised to see that Caleb was home from work already.
“Where were you?” He asked barely giving her 2 minutes to walk through the door. He blushed when he saw Molly follow behind her. He had forgotten that she was coming this week.
“I got a call from detective Stevens today, they arrested Dr. Brown I went to be there at the office when they arrested him, and I don’t want to hear you get upset about it either, I needed to be there Caleb.” She said not looking him in the eyes. She loved him very much but she knew that he wouldn’t understand why she had to do it. To her surprise he didn’t fight with her but wrapped his arms around her for a big hug. She felt safe in his arms.


The week went by fast for Emily and Molly and soon it was Saturday night and they were saying goodbye at the airport. They promised to keep in touch by phone and email and Emily watched Molly’s figure become nothing as she walked into the terminal to board her plane. She walked back over to Caleb who was reading a magazine trying to give them some privacy. He wasn’t the type to complain but a whole week with 2 women was more than enough for him and he was happy that they were going to get the chance to be alone again.

Before Emily knew it 2 months had passed and Dr. Brown and everything that had happened seemed to be a huge blur to Caleb and Emily. Before they knew it they found themselves in Dr. Hayes office one more time but this visit was not what they expected.

They were not escorted to an exam room but back to Dr. Hayes office where they sat down in some chairs facing her desk. They waited as the nurse brought in Emily’s files and then she began to speak.
“Caleb, Emily…. Well before we were to start this next round of treatment for Emily we always run a full blood panel.” She said.
Emily looked at Caleb scared. She just knew there was going to be bad news. Something didn’t feel right in her body she knew something was wrong. Dr Hayes could see the fear in Emily’s eyes so she continued.
“Emily your HCG levels came back very high. Emily you’re pregnant.” Dr. Hayes said.
Emily couldn’t believe her ears. She was surprised because she had gotten a negative pregnancy test at home and didn’t really think she was pregnant. Caleb hugged her tighter than he had in a long time.
“Congratulations you two, now let’s get at time set up for your next appointment and I will write you a prescription for some prenatal vitamins and then we will go over into the next room and get a look at that baby.” Dr. Hayes said.


Emily was so excited and in shock she didn’t remember much of the rest of the appointment until the ultrasound when she saw something happen to Dr. Hayes eyes as she re-scanned a spot more than once. Emily was starting to worry and Caleb couldn’t see the screen where he was sitting. Finally after a lot of careful concentration Dr. Hayes turned to them with a huge smile on her face.
“Emily do you remember me telling you the risk of multiples with IVF?”
Emily nodded her head, she couldn’t believe it. They were having TWINS!!
“Well Emily…. Caleb….” She said turning the screen towards them. She used her finger as she pointed to the screen and counted out loud to them.
“One, two, three and four.” She said. “You’re having quadruplets.”

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

With the news of how many babies that were on the way Caleb and Emily decided they had a lot of work to do and they didn’t want to waste any time doing it. On the way home from the doctors they decided to stop at Babies R Us and get working on a registry and get the furniture and things they wanted for the nursery on layaway. Emily was scared that they would loose the babies again so she didn’t want to bring anything home just yet. They walked around the store for hours scanning things onto their registry and deciding what would be the very best for their babies. Emily wasn’t going to settle for just anything, for them everything had to be special and perfect. They had decided right away they didn’t want to know the sex of the babies, this was a very special surprise and they didn’t want to ruin that feeling by knowing if the babies were boys or girls. After searching for hours Emily finally found the nursery set she loved and had to have, regardless of price. They put 4 of everything on layaway. Emily was sad to leave the store empty handed so Caleb said they had one more stop to make. When they pulled into the home improvement store Emily looked at Caleb confused.
“What are we going here for?” she asked.
He just smiled and told her that she would see. They walked straight over to the paint and wallpaper section of the store and Caleb saw Emily’s face light up. She knew what they were here for. Emily and Caleb looked at paint chip after paint chip until finally deciding on the perfect color for their babies room. This time they got to leave the store with everything in hand to get working on the nursery. Caleb promised Emily that he would get working on it right away but only on one condition. When they got home Emily was not allowed to see the room until he said so. He had picked something up while she was in the restroom of the store and he wanted to surprise her. After arguing the whole way home about it she finally gave in and decided to read a good book while he worked.


Time flew by fast and in no time Emily noticed how tight her pants and shirts were starting to look on her. She couldn’t even fit into her favorite outfit anymore and was just about forced to wear sweats all day long. One weekend Emily got a surprise visit from someone special. Molly flew in for the weekend and decided that they needed to do some major maternity clothes shopping. Morning sickness was affecting Emily horribly even though she was only 11 weeks pregnant. Molly suggested picking up some Preggie Pops for her to suck on when she was feeling sick. They spent about 2 hours in Motherhood Maternity picking out everything Emily would need for a long winter of being pregnant. 4 pairs of pants, 8 shirts, 2 pj sets, some bra’s and panties later their shopping trip was complete. After a quick stop at Subway and Blockbuster they were on their way home to spend the night watching a few sappy romance movies and eating popcorn all night.


4 weeks later at only 15 weeks pregnant Emily felt HUGE. Even though her belly felt swollen beyond belief she was relieved to actually have that belly. She was reading all the books about pregnancy and multiples that she could. She read that she was going to be showing a lot earlier than she would if she was only having a singleton and all of the hormones and pregnancy symptoms would be worse for her because she was having quads. She also read that because she was having so many babies at once that her body wouldn’t be able to handle it as well if she was only having one baby. There were all sorts of risks and she could even go into premature labor. Emily wasn’t going to let that happen. Even if she had to stay in bed all day long she was going to keep these babies inside her as long as she could.