We made our way to the Pediatric Unit and asked the counter there.
"Ah yes, hello," The woman greeted us as we asked about Ember. "You're her mother, yes?" The woman addressed Rose as mother. 
"Yeah, how did you know?" Rose asked, confused as she had never seen this woman before.
"Ember looks just like you." She said, leading us to the room. 
                          
The room she took us to was so different to the ICU one, which was just full of babies in incubators attached to machines. This was something else. The walls were painted with the brightest colours, the scene of a zoo of some kind was painted on every wall, different animals everywhere. The carpeted floor had soft toys scattered all over it, and against the back wall were 3 cots, with whiteboards on the end and the according baby's name written on it. Rose crossed the room to the one that had Ember's name, and lent over the edge, her hand dropping down to where Ember must have been laying.
"Lia look at her, she's so beautiful." Rose covered her hand to her mouth, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"It makes such a difference when the last of the tubes are taken off, you can see her properly. Don't tell the others, but she's the best looking one." The woman chuckled. "I'll leave you alone with her." She left the room. I approached the cot and also lent over the edge slightly. 
"Oh Rose she's gorgeous, look how healthy she looks." Ember half asleep under a fluffy pink blanket. 
"Look she's waking up!" Rose whisper shouted. Ember started to wiggle her arms and legs around, kicking up her blanket. She was wearing a pink and white hat, with a white bow on it. 
"Where did that hat come from?" I asked Rose as Ember woke up.
"Saph's mom knitted it for her." She told me. Ember was now awake, staring up at Rose and I just peering over at her. She had the biggest eyes, a dark blue color, a little round nose and her tongue poking out of her mouth a little (A/N: pic on the side). There was a knock on the door, and the same woman came back in, with paper attached to a clip board.
"These are her discharge forms. We just need a few signatures, and you're free to take your daughter home." Rose was crying by this point, picking up her daughter and cradling her in her arms, the tears falling down her cheeks. 
                          
*****
                          
I finally got home after dropping Rose home, leaving her to let Jackson meet his daughter well and truly. I pushed the door open and kicked off my shoes, not giving a second thought to leaving them laying there, until Demi's voice echoed through the empty house.
"Are you just gonna leave them there?" Her voice rung through my ears. I sighed, hanging my bag on the stand and bending down to collect my mess. I stacked them on the shoe rack and picked my bag back up, simply walking past Demi and heading upstairs.
                          
I sat on the bathroom floor, the hot water running full power, filling up the bath tub. I sat with a bottle of bubble bath tilted to the side, a constant stream of the creamy soap falling into the bath, the water foaming up as it fell from the tap and hit the surface. I started to undress myself, taking off my socks before I stood up to take my jeans off. I slipped my tshirt over my head and looked at my body in the mirror above the sink. My whole body had grown fuller in the last year. It had almost been a year since I met Demi, give or take a month or two. I studied the shape of myself, my stomach less concave, my legs just touching at the thick of my thighs, my upper arms fuller, face fuller. I felt sick. I turned away and slid my underwear down my legs, kicking it off at my feet, then unclasping my bra behind my back. I stepped into the scolding water, ignoring the burning feeling and the possible blisters developing from the hot water, and let myself slide down so my whole body was submerged, except for my eyes, and my nose. The bubbles covered my body, and the water covered most of my senses. I was numb to touch, hearing, I couldn't talk, not that I wanted to, I could barely breathe, but it didn't matter. I was growing numb. And for the first time in a long time, I desired that feeling.  
                          
Demi's POV
                          
I watched Lia walk past me, her whole person kept calm and collected, even though I yet again snapped at her. It's not like I meant to, I didn't even know why I continued to let myself do it. Filter, I always forget the filter. I sighed and flopped down on the couch, listening to nothing but silence, and the sound of water running upstairs. I don't know how long I'd been sitting here, motionless, silent, but I felt it had been long enough. I forced myself to get up and I lugged myself up the stairs, into Lia's room. She wasn't in there, but the bathroom door was shut. The sound of water had stopped by this  point, and there was no noise coming from behind the door. None. I quietly pushed the door open, and looked towards the bath tub, seeing it almost overflowing with bubbles, but again, no Lia. My heart began to race. I launched myself to the bath tub and pushed the bubbles away, seeing Lia's body under the water, her skin red and her face still calm. I pulled her up from under the water, burning my hands in the process, and sat her upright. She coughed a little, but kept her eyes closed. 
"Lia? Babe talk to me can you hear me?" I asked several times. Nothing. 
"Lia, you're freaking me out can you just answer me?" I asked again. Nothing. I went to speak again and she opened her mouth. 
"I'm trying to have a bath. Can you leave please?" She spoke. My mouth kind of dropped open, and my clutch on her body loosened. I laid her back against the bath tub and sat back on my knees, pushing myself up and nodding. 
"Yeah, sure. Sorry. I'll go." I whispered, half expecting a response, but not being surprise when I didn't receive one. I shut the bathroom door behind me and lent back on it, letting myself collapse at the bottom, and the flood gates open. Soon enough, I was a sobbing puddle of emotion.
                          
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