A Different Way To Finding Each Other

Emergency

"Hi Ben and Tristan I'm Nicole Rollins. Nice to meet you two," she replied.

"Hi," they added. "Thank you for fostering us. Is this your first time?"

"Does it show. If it does it is my first time and I'm just an emergency foster parent."

"What does that mean?" Ben asked.

"A month tops," she replied. "But I'm a cop too."

"Oh," the boys replied. They wanted her to be a full time foster parent and it sucked and hoped over  time her foster parent status would change as they eyed her and took them to their shared room.

"How long gone?" Mike asked.

"A month and don't worry I asked Pop if I could bring them over for dinners and he said yes."

"Good," Mike replied. "I will miss you."

"And after this I will end my foster care license," she replied. He nodded.

"Where are you off too?" he asked.

"To see Ian and Isabella for a few hours."

Nicole walked into their shared playroom and spied her two babies from another mother and smiled wide. "Hi babies."

"MOMMY!" they both cried out as they ran toward her as she hugged them hard and tight.

"Where have you been?" Ian asked. "I miss you."

"I miss you two very much," she replied. "And how is my baby doll?"

"Sad you aren't here," Isabella replied. "When are you coming back home mommy?"

"In a few weeks," she replied. "But I will be here for dinners and with two guests."

"Can you play with us?" they asked as she nodded.

"Of course," she added as they made a castle out of blocks as Ian knocked them down."

"IAN!" Isabella cried out. "Why did you knock them down?"

"I'm a truck!" he cried out. "See!" as he said VROOM. Isabella rolled her eyes.

Nicole smiled wide at her two babies she could no longer adopt. She could not blame Ana at all and it sucked. She didn't have her kids wishes at heart. If she were in Ana's shoes she could not give up her babies.

At the Adams Foster home, "Nicole is fostering Ben and Tristan," Jack replied.

"It's temporary Jack!" the big twins replied.

"Are you two jealous?" he asked in a joke. "Mike will be a great dad."

"Bud. Nicole is fostering at her apartment and it is temporary," Lena replied.

"But why at her place?" Jack asked.

"The house doesn't belong to my dad. It belongs to his grandfather who lives there," Brandon said. "And once her fostering license is done that's it."

"Done?" Jack asked confused.

"She is an emergency foster parent and emergency foster parents don't adopt," Bradley replied.

"Jack you haven't told them she is going to adopt right?" Lena asked as the family ate.

"Um no," he lied.

"You don't lie well," Stef added. "She can't adopt baby."

"She might have a change of heart?" he asked.

"And Uncle Mike can't be a foster parent," Callie replied. "His um poor choices."

Jack nodded and held hope. "Jack don't bring up Nicole to the twins," Lena reminded him.