Thanks to 'edge15684' for reviewing the last chapter. So here is the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it

Chapter 27: DNA Tests

Gil and Sara had been up since 4:30am with the babies and couldn't get them to settle and go back to sleep so they thought they had may as well get ready to go to the lab to take the test and get the paperwork, and then they were going to go to get their family portrait done and a local photographers. It was 7:30, it was chucking down of rain and the man on the radio was going on about some murder that had taken place down at Henderson.

"How much of that story do you think is either made-up, exaggerated or both" Sara asked.

"I'd say about 99% of it! The 1% being the truth that he is dead" Gil replied. Sara smiled. Gil hadn't seen a genuine smile in what seemed like months.

They arrived at the lab a little before 8am and got 2 dry blankets to put over the carry cots so the babies wouldn't get wet. They made the quick decision to unbuckle the carry cots before they got of the car so they could quickly open the back door, grab the babies and run into the lab without anyone getting too drastically wet. Once they made it inside the building, Wendy signed them in and they took off their wet overalls and checked on the babies. They both completely dry, wrapped up warm and still sleeping. Gil and Sara on the other hand, were not. Sara's hair was stuck to her face and Gil looked like her had been swimming fully clothed.

"Hey Guys" Nick called from down the hall. He walked towards them and gave Sara a quick hug and a peck on the cheek before giving Gil a quick hug, minus the peck on the cheek.

"How are you both doing?" He asked.

"Yeah, we're doing better. Eleazar and Laura help keep our minds of the pain of losing Angel so we are coping." Gil said.

"It doesn't mean we don't still love and care about Angel though!" Sara quickly added.

"I never thought that Sara" nick said. "No one will ever think that"

Just then, Catherine and Greg came around the corner.

"Hey guys" Gil said.

"Hey" they both replied.

"How's my future star football player" Greg said as he bent down to stroke Eleazar's closed hand.

"Sleeping" Gil said.

"And if you wake him up I will kill you" Sara said

Everyone laughed.

"Still not sleeping properly?" Catherine asked

"Nope. The joys of twins, one wakes up and your fine but the second you get it back to sleep the other one wakes up. Then they both wake up. We are knackered" Sara replied.

"It'll get easier when they start sleeping through the night" Catherine said squeezing the top of Sara's arm and smiling. "Anyway, come on Greg I want my DNA results and Nick you still haven't processed the substance found on the Vic's hand" she said shunting them into the lab.

"We'll catch you later" Nick said.

"See you in a bit" Sara said as she bent down the get Laura's carry cot. Gil got Eleazar's.

"Gil before you wander off, you have a package from Desert Palms hospital. The porter said you would know what it is. He dropped it off about 10 minutes ago and told me to put it in the fridge." Wendy said.

"Oh right, yes thank you Wendy" Gil said as they walked through the lab to the staffroom. Warrick was in there on his break as he had been working since 11pm the previous night.

"Hey guys" he said smiling as he finished swallowing the bite on a sandwich.

"Hey Warrick" Gil said. "We were hoping we would find you in here. Would you mind looking after Eleazar and Laura while we run a few errands? I realise it's your break so I grant you an extra hour break time if you could do this for me" Gil asked.

"No problem. And I don't need the extra time" Warrick said.

"Well you're taking the time. And thank you" Gil said as he placed Laura's carry cot down next to Eleazar's.

"We'll be as quick as we can" Sara said.

"Take all the time you need" Warrick said as he covered up Eleazar's exposed hand.

When Gil and Sara entered the DNA lab no-one was in it.

"Didn't Catherine just tell Greg to run some DNA?" Gil asked.

"This is Greg, he will need to be asked at least 5 more times" Sara replied smiling.

"I don't know how he has managed to keep his job this long" Gil said laughing.

Gil walked over to the fridge for the package from the hospital. He opened the package to reveal 3 little specimen tubes with a few drops of blood in each of them. They were each labelled Eleazar, Laura or Angel. Gil looked at Sara.

"Are you sure you want to do this" he asked.

"100%" she replied.

Gil placed the tubes in a test tube rack and took the lids off. He placed a sterile fresh swab into each of the tubes to absorb some blood and then placed it in the DNA analyzer. He then took a swab from his own mouth and placed it into the analyzer. (I'm sorry I can't remember the name for the spinney thing that analyzes the DNA and I have read various sites that say the DNA results can take as little as 3 hours all the way to 5 days to analyse so I'm making some of the time frames up lol).

"Let's go and get the paperwork and we can come back in an hour to get the results" Sara suggested.

They left Greg a note telling him not to touch the DNA analyzer as it was doing an analysis.

An hour later, Gil had got through most of his paperwork and they had returned to a still empty lab.

"Seriously what do we pay Greg to do all day?" Gil said. "He hasn't even read this note!"

Sara just gave a small chuckle, but Gil could hear the nervousness in it.

"It's going to be okay. No matter what happens they are 'our' children and we will love them all the same" Gil said.

Sara nodded.

"Are you ready?" Gil asked.

Sara just nodded again as Gil hit the print button. The printer started printing a few pieces of paper and then stopped.

"I don't want to do this here" Sara said. "Let's go to the photography session and then we can look at these at home"

"That sounds better as we can have more privacy" Gil said. He grabbed an A4 sized envelope from the draw and put the pieces of paper in face down and sealed the envelope. They then went to the staff room to collect the babies and ran back to the car ready for their photo shoot.

At 11am they arrived at the photography studio and they were told to go to the bathroom to dry off a little and change into the clothes they wished to wear. Sara had chosen a purple dress with black stilettos, and Gil had chosen a black suit and a purple tie to match Sara's dress. They dressed Laura in a little pink dress and Eleazar in a little black suit.

"Awwww they look adorable" Sara said as she snapped a picture of them on her camera phone.

"You all do" Gil said kissing Sara's head.

"I wish Angel was here for this"

"She is here. She's here in every one of us" Gil replied.

Sara just smiled.

An hour later they had finished the shoot and were on their way back home.

"Well that could have gone better" Sara said smiling.

"You think" Gil laughed. Eleazar had succeeded in throwing up down his suit and Laura refused to stop crying. She apparently did not like being woken up for the camera.

"At least we got a few nice shots before everything went wrong" Sara said.

"Yeah" Gil said through a smile.

Once they had put the babies down for their afternoon nap Sara and Gil sat facing each other at the kitchen table with the brown envelope in-between them.

"Are you ready" Gil asked.

Sara went back to nodding.

Gil picked up the envelope and pulled the paper out. He walked around the table to sit next to Sara so they could look at the results together.

"These are Laura's results" Gil said as he turned the first page over. Sara couldn't look at it so she just stared at the hand that was holding Gil's. He glanced over the page for a few seconds before revealing the results.

"The DNA results show that Laura's father is..."

Sara braced herself.

"Ecklie" Gil said.

Sara though she would feel dread and hate if she heard that word but she didn't. She looked up at Gil after a few minutes and he looked more scared than she did.

"How do you feel" Gil asked.

"I'm fine. Laura is still our beautiful, bubbly daughter that she has always been. Nothing has changed. She is still your daughter. I don't care what that paper says" Sara said. "But how do you feel?"

"I feel fine. Like you said, she is still my daughter, nothing has changed. I still love her the same as what I have done from the minute she was born. I don't think any less of her. She is our daughter, no-one else's" Gil said squeezing Sara's hand. Sara smiled at his response.

"Let's get this over with" Sara said nodding towards the other pieces of paper. She took back her position of looking at her hand in Gil's as she could hear Gil flicking though the papers to find the next page.

"This one is Eleazar's" Gil informed Sara.

Sara braced herself again.

"The DNA results show that Eleazar is..."

This pause seemed to go on forever.

"Mine" Gil said.

Sara didn't hear any change in his voice from when he had told her that Laura was Ecklie'ss biological daughter. This solved Sara's worries that he would love any of their children more if they were his biologically. Sara looked up at him and smiled.

"What?" Gil asked.

"The way you told me the last two results were the same. You didn't seem happy that Eleazar was yours anymore than you sounded happy that Laura was Ecklie's's! You really do love them the same!" Sara said as she lunged herself and Gil and kissed him. He dropped the papers as he grabbed the table to stop himself being knocked off the chair on to the floor.

"Whoa Sara" Gil said laughing.

"Sorry" Sara said smiling at him. "I love you" Sara said.

"I love you too" Gil said as he kissed her lips once more.

"Now shall we finish the results?" Gil asked.

"Yes" Sara replied the smile still big on her face because she knew that no matter what the results, they would still love her the same.

"The DNA results show that Angel is..."

There was a long pause again

"Oh hang on these are Eleazar's results" Gil said.

"Oh Gil!" Sara said.

"Hey don't blame me you're the one who made me drop them all everywhere" Gil said as he looked over the pieces of paper.

"Ah this is it. Angel's biological father is..."

Sara didn't know how many more long pauses she could take.

"Ecklie's" Gil said.

Sara didn't care. She would have preferred Angel to have been Gil's biologically but to them both, Angel and Laura will always be Gil's. He is the one who was at every ultrasound. He is the one who was at their birth. He is the one who will raise them, teach them and guide them. He is their father!

Sara leaned forward and kissed Gil on the lips. He kissed her back a little shocked from her reaction.

"I love you more than ever" Sara said. "I just realised that you are more of a man than I ever thought possible! You looked after me after everything I accused you of. You took me to all the hospital appointments; you were at the birth of 3 children that you didn't know were yours. You stood by me as one of those children died. You held my hand at her funeral and you have supported me through the last few weeks. And now you have taken on a family. Our lives have changed so much over the past few months that I never thought possible. I cannot show you how much I love you right now!" Sara said as a tear trickled down her cheek.

Gil went to reply but she didn't give him chance, she crushed her lips back to his and kissed him with everything he had. They stayed like that for a few minutes until Gil broke away. "Let's take this upstairs" Gil suggested. Sara smiled and began to kiss him again. She wrapped her legs around his waist as he carried her up the stairs to their bedroom. That is where they stayed all night and where they continued into what looked like a perfect future together.

So that is it guys what do you think? I really had fun with this story and although I actually cried at some parts I thoroughly enjoyed writing it. Thank you to everyone who has stood this story through everything. I want to say a big thanks to edge15684, catgrl, aninom, HasACSIObsession, gsrfan34 and everyone else who has read this story and reviewed from the very beginning (or nearly) Also does anyone want to make a video for this fan fiction? I have quite a lot of Subscribers on YouTube so I will tell anyone who makes the video to 'sub' to your channel. Let me know if you are interested And HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone Love you all xXLauraXx 3