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- *[ The sterile, fluorescent light of the hospital room seemed to soften, becoming a quiet halo around the bed where Lena lay, spent and triumphant, her newborn son Leo a perfect, sleeping weight in her arms. Just beyond the door, in the hushed waiting area, Nina and Evan sat in a suspended silence, the air thick with a hopeful tension that finally snapped when a nurse's voice called them forward. ]* - - - - - - *[ Evan launched himself from the plastic chair, his heart hammering against his ribs, and broke into a run down the short corridor, driven by a single, overwhelming need: to see them. ]*