Lauren's POV

"Momma do you have to go?" whimpers Morgan sadly. I just reminded her that Jrue and I have a flight tomorrow morning since their training starts back in the afternoon.

"Yes baby I do." I say softly leaning down to kiss her forehead. "Daddy has work."

"But why can't you stay?" she questions tilting her head to the side and letting her bottom lip poke out.

"Because I've got to fly back with him baby girl." I explain giving her a small smile and rubbing her cheek with my thumb. "You knew we'd have to leave eventually sweet thing."

"I don't want you to leave." she says letting her eyes become cloudy with tears.

"Awe baby don't cry." I tell her trying myself not to. "You're going to make me cry."

"Momma," she chokes sitting up and wrapping her arms tightly around my neck, "please stay. I don't want you to go home. I'll miss you and-and Toby will m-miss you and A-A-A-rod will miss you and-and-and-"

"Shh." I soothe hugging her back. "Breathe MoMo. Calm down sweetheart. Shh. Shh. Shh." After a few minutes of my rocking her and hushing her she finally calms down enough to sit up and look at me with her cute, but tear stained face.

"Can't Daddy go back to work by himself? Then you can stay with me." she says with a desperate look. "Momma please don't go. I don't feel good. You can't leave me while I'm sick."

"Baby I don't want to leave you while you're sick, but I've got to." I explain gently while looking her in the eyes. "I have to go home with Daddy, I can't change that, but I can change where you go after camp. How bout you come to NOLA for little bit? We'd love to see our baby Moe." I suggest making her brighten up just a pinch. "We can go to the zoo and the aquarium. We can go watch Daddy's team play. We can get beignets at that place you like to go to. We'll have lots of fun!"

"I still don't want you to go." she states looking down at her comforter. I sigh. I knew this would be tough, but I was hoping she wouldn't be too too sad about it. I mean she knew we'd be leaving tomorrow when we got here. I didn't keep it a secret or anything.

"Tobin and Aunt Amy are still going to be with you." I inform her with a smile. "You get to be with my bestest friends in the whole wide world while I'm at home with just Jrue." She forms a small grin on her lips and I tickle her causing her to burst into giggles. "There's my happy MoMo!"

"I love you Momma!" she laughs before beginning to cough. I quickly stop my tickle attack and pat her on the back. "Yuck!"

"Yeah 'yuck' indeed!" I agree reaching for her cup. "I think it's time someone gets some more medicine." She pouts at the mention of it but I roll my eyes and hand her two pills to take. "They'll make you feel better. Now drink." She takes her meds and then lays back on her bed sleepily. "Why don't you take a nap munchkin? JJ and Hope already are over there." I point at their sleeping figures making her chuckle and reach for my hand.

"Will you stay with me?" she asks sheepishly blushing.

"Of course." I nod climbing over her and getting settled. "I love you Moe. Now get some rest."

"Love you too Momma." she leans up and kisses my cheek before closing her eyes. I wish I didn't have to leave her.

Carli's POV

"So JJ and Moe are both sick and Moe has a broken finger?" sighs Dawn. Jill rubs her face with her hand and groans.

"What's wrong with them?" she asks leaning back against the conference room's table.

"They've got fever, a cough, sinus issues, I'm pretty sure Morgan's stomach hurts..." I trail off looking out the window not wanting to see their reactions.

"How did Morgan break her finger, Carli?" questions Dawn with annoyance in her voice.

"They went bowling yesterday and her hand got stuck or-"

"Who's 'they'?" interrupts Jill.

"Um Tobin and-"

"Jackson," snaps Coach cutting me off again, "get Tobin down here." He nods and quickly leaves to go find her. He's one of our equipment guys and he's pretty much scared of everyone here, or maybe he's just scared of me. "Is anybody up there with the girls?"

"Hope is." I tell her looking back over from the window. She thinks for a second before exchanging a glance with Dawn.  Dawn just shakes her head making her sigh and put her face in her hands.

"I was going to ask you to go tell whoever it was to stay away so no one else gets sick, but she won't listen. There's no use in trying. She'll just give you that- what's that looked called?" she looks to Dawn for help.

"Bitch face?"

"Yeah that!" nods Jill turning back to me. "Make sure she doesn't get too close please? We need her next week."

"Yes Coach." I reply. "May I go now?"

"Yeah go ahead. If you see Tobin tell her to hurry up please." I nod and quickly leave not wanting to be in there when Tobin gets down here. There's no telling how much trouble they're in. I take the stairs up to the eighth floor which is where we're staying and go to the girls' room. We put the door stopper down so we can all funnel in and out easier. A small smile makes its way onto my lips at the sight on JJ's bed. Her and Hope are fast asleep all cuddled up together. Julie's hair is swept back off her face and Hope has her arms around her waist holding her close. I carefully sit down on the edge of the bed and feel our kid's forehead. She's still warm and she's breathing through her mouth so I'm guessing she's still congested.

"How is she?" I almost jump out of my skin at Lauren voice. I didn't realise she was in here.

"She has a little fever still. How's Morgan doing?"

"About the same." she sighs combing her fingers through Moe's brown hair. "She's not too happy with me at the moment, but she's not as upset as she's gotten in the past. At least I got her to nap. " I nod understandingly. You'd have to be silly to not think Morgan would be at least a little mad that Jrue and Cheney are going back home. "When was the last time Julie had some medicine? I just gave Morgan a second dose before she dozed off."

I think for a moment before saying, "I really don't know. Hope's been the one with her all day." Just as I finish talking she starts to cough effectively waking her up. "Hey princess." I coo softly smiling down at her. "Did you have a nice nap baby girl?"

"Hey Mama." she yawns snuggling further into Hope's side. "I don't feel good."

"I know you don't kiddo. When was the last time Mommy gave you some meds?" I ask rubbing her arm.

"I don't know. Mama my head hurts." she whines closing her eyes tightly like she always does when she has a bad headache. "Can I have some Tylenol?" I nod and get the bottle off the nightstand.

"This is sinus stuff, bug. I think it'll work better." I explain handing her the pill and her cup of Gatorade. I watch as she pops the pill back and help her hold her drink to her lips. "Do you want to sit up for a bit or do you want to go back to sleep?"

"Can I go see Pressy?" she asks with the cutest little pout on her face. I hate to tell her no but Jill wants to keep people away from them. Sending Julie down to CP's room pretty much does the opposite.

"Not right now love. Maybe later though, okay?" I tell her softly. She nods understanding but looks down sadly. "What if you and me go on a walk instead? We'll just go around the hotel if you want or we can go get some fresh air at the park."

"But I'm still grounded Mama."

I raise one of my eyebrows, "And you asked if you could go to Christen's room?" She blushes and looks away from me sheepishly.

"Sorry Mama. Please don't be mad."

"Why would she be mad JB?" yawns Hope waking up.

"Cause I- um I-" Julie starts to tear up nervously. It breaks my heart how much it kills her when she thinks she's disappointing her. She worries herself sick.

"Nothing Hoppers." I say stoping Jay's rambling. "I'm not upset baby girl." I lean forward and plant a kiss on our little defenders head. I love this girl so much, if only she'd love me back instead of push me away.

-Next Day-

Hope's POV

Poor Morgan's a mess. Cheney and Jrue left for the airport about an hour ago and Tobin and went to see them off  so I offered to stay with Moe since Julie's in here anyways. Moe wasn't allowed to go because she's still running a fever and let me tell you she is not at all happy that she had to stay back. "Mom where's the cupcakes Crystal bought us?"

"Uh uh. You haven't even had lunch yet." I say shaking my head and picking up a pile of her laundry. She groans loudly making me look up and eye her. "Julie Beth you best cut that out. I'm not in the mood for that today." My head has been pounding since I got up this morning and my allergies have been through the roof.

"I'm going on a walk." mumbles Morgan putting on her flip flops.

"Excuse me?" I question. "No you're not. Lay down Morgan Paige. You've still got a temperature."

"But Hope!" she whines stomping her foot. I glare at her making her huff and flop back down on her bed. "Fine I'll just stay here and be boring with you."

"Yeah Mom!" adds Julie crossing her arms at me. "You're boring!" I turn around and face her. I put my hands on my hips and raise my eyebrows not amused by her sass.

"You're not going to talk to me like that young lady." I scold causing her to lose some of her confidence and sit back on her bed. "If you talk to me like that again you're going to be writing sentences. Understand me?"

"Uh huh." she whispers looking down. I clear my throat letting her know she needs to correct herself. "Yes ma'am."

"You know Mama would kill you if she caught you saying 'uh huh' instead of 'yes ma'am'. So you might want to get that under control before she comes back here." I tell her knowing Carli doesn't play about manners. I go to say something else but instead I sneeze...about three times. Damn my allergies are terrible!

"Hey babe." smiles Carli walking in the room and making a beeline for Jules. "How does my love bug feel today?"

"Better Mama!" exclaims Julie with a big grin. "Can I go to practice today?"

"Now you know you have to be fever free for twenty four hours before you're allowed back out." states Car feeling her head. " And you've still got a fever."

"Mama please? I promise I'll take it easy." begs Jay using her puppy dog face.

"Yeah you'll be taking it real easy," smiles Carli pecking her forehead, "because you'll be laying here in bed." Julie pouts but doesn't argue. She knows better than to try with Carli. Carli has threatened to spank her before and just the thought of that makes Julie behave. I would never let her actually do that, but if the threat makes JJ's whining stop I'm not going to tell her other wise. "I came to bring you and Moe your lunch." she pauses and holds up the bag she brought with her. "It's some soup Dawn got. She said you girls should like it. Oh Hope it's time for us to go too."

"Alright." I sigh wiping my nose with a tissue. "You two behave okay?" The girls chorus back yes and I get up to leave with Carli.

"Dawn or someone is going to come up to check on y'all and to see about your finger Moe. JJ they're going to take a look at your stitches too. Don't fight with them about it or you're in trouble."

"Yes Mama, I know." sighs Julie reaching for the TV remote. I still haven't given her her phone or laptop back and I don't think I'm going to for a while. Car and I leave and head downstairs to the bus. I feel nauseous. I take a water bottle from my bag and drink it greedily. Maybe I'm just dehydrated. We pull up to the training field and I help with taking some equipment down. We start our warm up and I fall to the back of our jogging group which is weird for me because normally I'm toward the front. We get around to the fifty and I get a weird feeling in my stomach. I shake it off and keep up until I get to the goal line. I go to turn the corner behind Alyssa but instead I throw up all over the corner flag post. Shit.