At the New Hope Hospital, room 112, sat two parents holding their newborn twin girls. The mother was holding a girl with a small black tuft of hair on top of her head. She also had the prettiest green eyes her mother had ever seen. The father was holding the other girl. She had a tiny amount of hair on her head and dark blue eyes. The mother was feeling sad because she knew that she would have to give them up because times were tough and they couldn't take care of them. The father was overwhelmed with joy because he finally had his two baby girls that he had been waiting for over nine months for.

"Gil," the women said. Gilbert looks over to her. "You know what we have to do"

He stands there for a minute, and then he says, "Right" before he looks down at the girl with tears running down his cheeks.


Four days later, Gilbert and Ruby were sitting at the kitchen table with the social worker, April Summers, looking at possible families for the girls. Two and a half hours later, they had picked the Winchester family for the girls. As they waited for Matt and Jeff to get home, the made up a lie to tell them. They decided to tell them that the babies had died. They both look up as a car pulls into the driveway. A two year old Matt and a came bounding into the house. Gilbert's parents came walking in behind them. They looked worried because they knew that Ruby and Gilbert had to give up the girls to a better life.

Matt looked around, trying to find the babies. When he didn't see them, he walked over to his mother and asked, "Where babies?" Ruby looked at Gilbert and then back at Matt. The grandparents had already left and Jeff was in the living room playing with his stuffed animals. Gilbert got the hint and went to get Jeff from the living room. Once he got back, Ruby looked at the boys and says, "The babies are gone sweetie." Matt looked at her and asked "Where?"

Before she can say anything, Gilbert says, "The babies died at birth." She turns around and gives him the evil eye. When she turned back around, Matt was hugging Jeff and they both had tears in there eyes. When Ruby sees this, she goes to hug and comfort them. Gilbert, feeing guilty, walks out to the porch to think. After about five minutes, Ruby comes out onto the porch after having put the kids to bed. She sits next to Gilbert on the porch swing.

"The boys cried themselves to sleep. You shouldn't have told them right away." Ruby told Gilbert. Gilbert doesn't say anything, he just sat there. For the next twenty minutes, they sat on the porch thinking about how their baby girls were going to grow up with their new family.