Candice knew it takes 7-12 days to recover from the surgery, and the swelling may take 3-5 weeks to disappear. So when did this all happen? What kind ...f mother was she not to have noticed? As soon as completed her paperwork, (funny that they still referred to it as paperwork, it was all done on PCs now), she left and went straight home. She hoped to find April home and they could discuss the whole thing. She forgot that she needed to stop at the market until she was pulling into the driveway,. She looked at him, puzzled. Her laughter stopped the instant he touched her. Her side ached.“I need to take you down to Med,” he didn’t give her a choice.The Auto-Doc found stressors and gave her fluids to counter dehydration. Everything else seemed fine.Including the baby.Jabin and Atarah looked at one another.After several minutes of shock, where the Auto-Doc gave her a mild sedative, she spoke.“Jabin ... not possible...”Jabin was the first to recover. He ordered a full workup of Atarah;. "Dude, this fight is over!" Istruggled vainly against all the octopus arms wrapped around me andthrough my tears saw Little Josh helping Mike to his feet. I shookeveryone off and stood there panting and sobbing.Mike was doubled up on his knees, clutching his stomach, dead grass inhis hair. I wiped my face and saw a smear of red the back of my hand.Little Josh was trying to say something, his face pale. Then I realizedhow badly I had to pee and felt pretty scared I was going to go in mypants. " Are you sure, Tony, I mean, you haven't been out from behind that desk in a while." Gabe ducked the hand that reached out to slap him."I was carrying a gun when you were still sucking on your momma's tit." The captain slipped his off duty weapon out of its holster and then pushed it back in, snapping it securely."I'll take bad movie lines for two hundred dollars, Alex." He grinned at his boss."Just shut up and let's go check out those addresses." Good girl, Michelle," David said without.