Redhawk Caldera hold onto your heart.

Sorry, I wrote that wrong.

And her heart slowly came to a stop... for like, a minute, and then it was fine.

Eljay couldn't have known, of course, considering his distress at that moment of realization that his mother was gone. And really, she had been. Or so she would later come to think, for there was some clear difference between what happened to her then and simply blacking out or falling asleep. She hadn't seen any white lights - No long lost loved ones trying to beckon her on while one stood and told her to go back. But there had been a significant emptiness that no dream, sense or thought could penetrate.

We have to take care of the babies...

The sound came to her as though on the other side of a thick wall. It was only then that thought returned and along with it, the first thin webs of consciousness. She stirred only mildly, becoming suddenly aware of the pressure of someone lying on her back and the soft nudges of little faces upon her belly and feeling the need to respond. But she was still too exhausted to move, and even this would be only a brief glimpse before she was passed out again.

But before Finley allowed sleep to take her, she found a voice somewhere in the hollows of her self and murmured quietly without even lifting her eyelids, "They okay?"

And then she was out once again, finally completing her greatest Lauren to date on her beloved viewers.