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Post by jacobsmommy on Jan 24, 2007 18:38:57 GMT 10
When they arrive at the funeral home, Luka parks the car. He and Tata walk in, and are greated by the director of the funeral home. Director: "Good day gentlemen. How may I help you?" Luka: "I am Luka Kovac, this is my father Josif. We were wondering if you had an Ana Kovac, that was brought to your funeral home?" Director: "Oh yes, you must be the gentleman who lost his wife on your flight from New York to Chicago. My condolances are with your family." Josif: "Hvala vam."(Thank you). Luka and Josif talked to the director about what they wanted for the funeral, and that Ana would be flown back to Croatia for her burial. After they finished, they shook hands with the director, and walked back out to the car. Luka: "Well the arrangements have been made. We will have a small service here with the family, and then I am going to fly back with tata for the burial." Abby: "Ok, how long will you be gone?" Luka: "I should be gone for about two weeks." Josif: "Ja sam gotovs to otiðite na bolnica , vidjeti moj unuka."(I am ready to go to the hospital, to see my grandaughter). Luka: "Alright tata , dozvoljava iæi. Emilija htijenje poveseliti se vidjeti te.(Alright tata, lets go. Emily will be glad to see you). Meanwhile at County General, Emily and Thomas are awaiting the arrrival of Emily's grandparents. Emily: "It will be so good to see grandma and grandpa." Thomas: "How long has it been since you saw your grandmother?" Emily: "I was 10 years old, when mom and dad took me to Croatia to see my grandmother." Thomas: "It has been quite a few years then." Emily: "Yes it has." 30 minutes later Luka, Abby, and Josif walk in the room. Emily notices that something is wrong. Luka's face is red from crying, and Abby is trying to compose herself. Emily: "Mom, dad what is wrong?" Luka: "We have some bad news for you. Your grandmother passed away this morning on her way to Chicago. She died on the plane. Her heart gave out. Emily: "No this is not happening. Grandma was suppose to see the twins, her first great grandbabies." Josif walked over to his granddaughter, and gave her a hug and a kiss. He tells Emily that baka loved her very much. She knew the trip was going to be rough, but she still wanted to come. Emily wiped a tear from her eyes, and gives her djed a hug. Luka: "We are going to have a small service here in Chicago, for the family, and then I am going to fly to Croatia with tata for the burial." Emily: "If you want to mom, you can stay with Thomas and I while dad is gone." Abby: "That would be great, that way I am not left home alone." Thomas: "We are staying with Neela and Ray, until our house is being rebuilt." Emily: "I'm sure that Aunt Neela wouldn't mind." Emily picks up the phone and calls Neela. She explains what is going on. Neela gives her condolances to the family, and tells Abby that there was no problems with her staying with them for a couple of weeks. Abby yells thanks, and Emily then hangs up the phone. After visiting with Emily for two hours, Susan walks in and takes a listen to Emily's chest. Susan: "Sounding good, looks like you can go home tomorrow." Emily: "Oh that is so good, I miss my two boys so bad." Susan: "Boy it is somber mood in this room, she is going home tomorrow. Cheer up everybody." Luka: "Susan, this is my father Josif Kovac. My mother Ana passed away this morning, on her flight from New York to Chicago." Susan: "I had no idea, I am so sorry." Susan walks out the room embarrassed about what she had said. Luka deceides it is time to go home, so tata can rest from his long journey. Each of them give Emily a kiss and walk out the door. Josif is the last one to leave. Josif: "Goodnight , moj malen anðeo. San kvalitetno."(Goodnight my little angle, sleep well). Josif gives Emily a kiss on the forehead, and walks out of the room.
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Post by jacobsmommy on Jan 25, 2007 16:59:25 GMT 10
The next morning Susan comes in to Emily's room. She gives her a once over and signs the discharge papers. Thomas pulls the car around to the front. He loads Emily's stuff in the car. Malik wheels Emily down to the front, he helps her in the car. Thomas thanks Susan and Malik, and they drive off. Thomas turns to Emily and tells her that he has some news for her. Thomas: "Emily, I have some news for you. I have been offered a job in Texas." Emily: "That means we will have to move." Thomas: "I have been offered a management position. It wil pay more than I am making now." Emily: "What I am going to do about my residency? I just started." Thomas: "You could transfer your residency to the hospital in Huston, that is where I got my transfer." Emily: "Yeah I could do that, when would we have to leave?" Thomas: "We would have to leave in two weeks." Emily: "So soon, well we had better go and pick up the twins, and then head over to mom and dads." Thomas: "Then we are moving?" Emily: "Yes."
Emily and Thomas arrive at Neela and Ray's house. They ring the door bell. Olivia answers the door. Emily: "Hello Olivia, how are you?" Olivia: "I am doing good, mommy is with the twins." Olivia invites Emily and Thomas in. She runs down the hallway, and yells for her mother. Olivia: "Mom, Emily and Thomas are here. They come to pick up the babies." Neela: "Ok Olivia you do not need to yell honey." Neela comes to the living room, she is carrying Joseph and Jaden. Emily: "Hey Aunt Neela, how are you doing?" Neela: "You are looking good, I am glad you are out of the hospital." Emily: "We have some news for you and Ray." Neela: "Your not pregnant again are you?" Emily: "No I am not, but we are moving. Thomas got a transfer to Huston Texas, we will be leaving in about two weeks." Neela: "Does your parents know?" Emily: "No they don't, we are heading over there right now to tell them." Neela: "What are going to do about your residency?" Emily: "I am going to get a transfer to one of the hospitals in Huston." I know I said I wanted to do my residency at County General, but things change." Neela: "You do what you have to do." Neela, Thomas, and Emily talk for about a hour. Thomas tells Emily that it was time to go. Neela: "I will let Ray know what is going on." Emily: "Ok, and I will see you tomorrow at the hospital." Emily and Thomas load up the twins in their car seats, put them in the car. They give Neela a hug, and drive off toward Luka and Abby's. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am going to write two more chapters, and then I am going to end this fic. The next chapter will be them telling Luka and Abby about their move, and then the last chapter will be their going away party, and the move. I am glad you all have enjoyed this fic. I have to many fics going right now, so I decided to end this one. I may come back in the future and do a sequel. Please enjoy the other two fics I am writing. Donna
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Post by rorygilmore on Jan 25, 2007 17:43:17 GMT 10
Oh no! Bet Luka and Abby are gonna be sad to see their daughter leaving...and so far from Chicago!
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Post by jacobsmommy on Jan 26, 2007 15:29:42 GMT 10
Emily and Thomas arrive at Abby and Luka's house. When they pull in they notice that there is a strange car sitting in the drive way. Abby is waiting on the porch for them. Thomas parks the car and helps Emily get the twins out of the car. Emily: "Hi mom, who's car is that?" Abby: "Grandma Maggie is here. She got here last night, thought we would suprise you." Emily: "Well that is a suprise. How is she doing, you know with her medication and all?" Abby: "She is doing well, in fact her and Grandpa Josif are in the living room talking. I had to remind her that his wife just passed away on their trip here." Emily: "When is the memorial services going to be?" Abby: " They are going to be tomorrow at the hospital chapel, and then her body will be flown back to Croatia. Your dad and grandpa will be leaving in about two weeks for her burial." Emily: "We need to talk to you and dad about something." Abby: "Sure come on in." As they enter the house, grandma Maggie gets up comes over and gives Emily a hug, and helps Thomas with the twins. Maggie: "Come here you two cuties. Do you remember your great grandma Maggie?" Emily: "It is sure good to see you again." As Emily gives Maggie a hug. Luka comes down from upstairs and gives Emily a hug. He then invites everybody to sit down. Emily: "I am glad everybody is here. We have some news for you." Luka: "What is it?" Emily: "Thomas got a transfer with his job. We will be moving." Abby: "Oh, how far are you moving?" Emily: "He got his transfer to Huston Texas." Abby: "How come so far away, and how about your residency?" Emily: "The job pays more out there, and Iwil transfer my residency to one of the hospitals there in Huston. Thomas is going next week, to find us a place to live, and then I will be going down there with the kids in two weeks." Everybody sits there silently looking at Emily and Thomas. Abby finally gets up and goes into the kitchen. Emily excuses herself, and joins her mother in the kitchen. Emily: "Mom, are you ok?" Abby: "I will be. I know you have to do what is best for your family, but I wish it did not have to be so far away." Emily: "I know, but I will be out to visit whenever I can, and you and dad can come out and visit whenever you want." Abby: "Yeah I know, but it is not going to be easy." Luka slowly opens the kitchen door, he sees that Emily and Abby are hugging one another. He closes the door, and walks back to the living room. A couple of minutes later both Emily and Abby come out of the kitchen. The rest of the evening goes well. Emily and Thomas have dinner with the family. After dinner Emily helps out with the dishes, and then everybody sits around the table and plays a rousing game of Uno. Before they know it, the time has slipped by them it is going on 1:00am. Thomas: "Oh wow, I didn't realize the time. I think we should start getting ready to go home." Luka: "Why don't you just stay the night here tonight, then in the morning we can all go to the hospital together for the memorial." Emily: "Sounds like a good idea, I will run out and bring in the boy's extra pajamas." After helping get the boys into their pajama's and giving them a bottle. Abby sets up the two cribs she and Luka bought for when the twins came over to visit. Everybody gives the twins a kiss and hug, and then everybody is off to bed.
The Next Morning everybody arises out of bed. They have breakfast and prepare to go to Ana's memorial service. The service goes well. It is just a small family service. With everybody saying something about Ana, and what a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother she was to everybody. The service ends with Amazing Grace sung in Croatian. After the services Emily decides to go out to the cemetary. She wants to tell Joseph, Mark, and Sandy what she is going to do. Emily gets in the car and heads out to the cemetary. She gets out of the car, and heads first over to Marks grave site. Emily speaking to Mark. "Hello Uncle Mark, everything is going well. Everybody is doing well. I had twin boys their names are Joseph William and Jaden Luka. I have some news to tell you. Thomas and I are moving to Huston Texas. Thomas got a good job there, and I will do my residency there at one of the hospitals. I will be back to visit. I sure do miss you Uncle Mark. Elizabeth, Ella, and Rachel are all doing well. Well I need to get going, I still need to talk with my brother and to Sandy also. Sending you a big hug Uncle Mark." Emily then walks over to Joseph's grave site. "Hello there little brother. I have some news for you. I won't be able to come and visit you very often anymore. My husband got a job in Texas, we will be moving there in two weeks. I had my twins. I named them Joseph William and Jaden Luka. Yeah I named one of them after you. Also to let you know Grandma Ana passed away, she should be there in heaven with you right now. I know that you two are watching down over us." Emily wipes a tear from her eye, she then gets up gives the gravestone a kiss, and walks over to where Sandy is buried. While she is talking with Sandy she clears away the old flowers that somebody had left long ago. "Well Sandy, I don't get out here very much any more. I am moving on with my life. I am going to be moving to Texas with my husband and twin boys. I will be leaving in two weeks. Henry sure grew to be a handsome young man, I know you would have been very proud of him. Well I have to get going. I have a lot of packing to do." Emily gets back in her car. She puts her head on the steering wheel, and lets the tears flow. After a few minutes she composes herself, and drives away.
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Post by jacobsmommy on Jan 28, 2007 17:40:17 GMT 10
This is it, the final chapter in my story. I hope you enjoyed it. I will come back later and do a sequel to the story.
Two weeks later. Emily looked down at her two boys. She is missing Thomas. He went to Huston Texas two weeks ago to start looking for them a place to live. A week ago he called and said he had found a home for them. Now with the U-Haul packed and ready to go, Emily takes one last look around the empty house. The house that they had only moved into for a brief time because of the fire, in their old house. "Well boys are you ready to go say good bye to everybody." Replies Emily. Emily picks up the two car seats, takes one last look, and walks out the door. She puts the boys into the car. She says good bye to the house, and drives off.
Meanwhile at the hospital..... Everybody is getting ready for Emily's good bye party. Frank and Jerry are blowing up balloons. Sam, Neela, and Morris are putting up the streamers in the staff lounge. Kerry is on the phone to the local bakery, trying to pick out the perfect cake. Susan is in the bathroom with Abby trying to calm her down. Susan: "Abby, listen to me. Emily is a grown woman now. She has her own family and life to live now." Abby: "I know that, but I won't be able to see my grandbabies anymore." Susan: "Don't be ridicoulus, Emily will bring the babies back for a visit, and you and Luka can go there and visit also." Abby: "Yeah, I guess your right, I am being so silly. Let's go and help set up for this party." Abby and Susan walk out of the bathroom, and head for the staff lounge. Sam and Neela have just finished putting up the streamers. They sent Morris to go look for Luka, Josif, and Pratt. 20 minutes later Morris comes back with the three. Morris: " I found them , they were outside talking." Abby: " In the cold?" Luka: "Yeah, I was telling Pratt, that he would be in charge while I was away. Kerry okayed it." Abby: "Ok, sounds good. Remember right after the party, we need to get you and papa to the airport. Your plane is leaving tonight." Luka: "Right, glad we remembered to bring the suitcases." As everybody is talking Morris runs in and yells. "She's Here."
Emily gets the boys out of the car, and walks into the er. Everything seems to quiet. She walks past the admit desk, and begins to wonder where Frank and Jerry are. As she is passing the tramua rooms, there are a couple of patients in the rooms, and they are being attended to by a couple of nurses. Emily begins to wonder where everybody is at. There is no sign of her mom, dad, Kerry,Pratt,Morris,Neela,Susan, Ray, or Sam. She decides to go into the staff lounge, and change the boys. Emily enters the staff room. The lights come on and everybody yells, SUPRISE.
Emily is totally suprised. She stutters and stammers to find the right words. "I don't know what to say?" replies Emily. Neela tells her that she doesn't have to say a thing. Emily does thank everybody for giving her such a beautiful party. Everybody is passing Joseph and Jaden around. They all know this will be the last time for awhile they will get to see the twins. As everybody is having a good time. Haleah comes in the lounge. "We have a motorcyle accident coming in, eta 6 minutes." She tells everybody. Morris, Sam, Ray, Neela, and Pratt all give Emily one last hug, and then they are out of the door, and ready for the tramua coming in.
Abby tells Luka that it is about time to get ready to head to the airport. Emily tells her parents that she is coming to the airport to see her dad and grandpa off, then she is going to take off for Huston, once they are done at the airport. Abby, and Luka each pick up one of the twins, and everybody walks out of the staff lounge. When Abby passes the desk, she tells Jerry " that she will be back later." Jerry tells her, "not to hurry." "Thank you Jerry." Replies Abby. They get in their cars, just as the ambulance is pulling into the ambulance bay. Just as Emily is driving off, a tear rolls down her cheek. She would never forget County General.
At the airport, Luka checks in his and Josif's bags. They still have another hour before their plane departs. They all decide to go and have something to eat. After they eat, everybody walks to the loading area. This is where they have to say good bye to each other. Emily goes and gives her grandfather a big hug. "I will miss you very much djed." Emily tells him. Next she goes up to her dad. "Remember dad, I will always be your little angel. I have never let you down, and I never will." Emily tells her father. Luka looks at his daughter, whom he has seen grown from a baby, to a toddler, to a child, to a teenager, to a college woman, adn now to a married woman with two beautiful babies. He gives Emily a hug, and tells her "That he is very proud of her." Luka wipes a tear from his eyes. "Well it's time to go, we have a plane to catch." Luka gives both Abby and Emily a hug and a kiss. He then gives his two sleeping grandbabies a kiss on the forehead. Luka and Josif turn around and walk toward the gate.
Abby and Emily walk back outside. "Well young lady are you ready to head to Huston?" asks Abby. Emily swallows the lump she is feeling in her throat. "Yeah I guess I am ready to go." She tells her mother. Abby gives the twins one last kiss and a peck on the forehead. She tells the twins to take care of their mother, don't give her to many problems. Emily starts to laugh. Abby then gives her daughter a hug and a kiss goodbye. "You call me when you get to Huston." Abby tells her daughter." "I will mom, I will." replies Emily. Emily gets in the car, waves good bye, and drives down the road with the radio playing I Loved Her First. The End.
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Post by rorygilmore on Jan 30, 2007 15:17:05 GMT 10
AWW! The ending was so touching!I had tears in my eyes when Emily left ...and with the radio playing "I loved her first" when she waved bye-bye...saying goodbye to Emily was so hard to me...lol LuV It!!!!
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