Driving through the streets of Manhattan, Miranda had Louise in her arms, holding her securely as the little girl laughed and played with the woman's white locks.

Andrea smiled and discreetly snapped a couple of photos of Miranda with Louise, making sure to send a couple of the best shots to the woman's personal cell phone so that she would have them as well.

Miranda smiled brightly at the little girl and kissed the top of her head before tickling her lightly to make her giggle more than she always was.

Louise happily played with the stray curl that had fallen from Miranda's head and hung down in front of her forehead.

It did not take them long to get from the Elias-Clarke offices to the Children's hospital where Louise's heart specialist worked from.

Roy pulled the car up at the curbside and quickly made his way around the side of the car to open up the car door for them all, "Would you like the pushchair with you? Or would you rather I keep it in the trunk for later?"

"We'll take it with us please, Roy," Andrea answered as she slid out of the car behind Miranda who had got out a little more gracefully, even with the little girl in her arms.

Louise was bouncing slightly in Miranda's arms and happily gurgling away to herself in a way that made it look as if she was talking to the Editor-in-Chief, not that the woman could understand very much of what the little girl was apparently telling her.

Roy got the pushchair out of the trunk of the car and unfolded it, setting it up ready for the infant to go in it although knowing that it was rather unlikely at that point that Miranda would willingly put the little girl into the pushchair as she did not seem that willing to part with her. He could not help but smile at the sight of his boss' bright smile as it was not often that he was privileged to see such as sight, in fact, it was very rare for anyone to see that. The only things that usually made her smile like that were her two daughters and he had seen, at times, Andrea make her smile in that way. Not that she did it when people were looking of course as that would be terrible for her 'image' and devil persona.

"Thank you, Roy," Andrea said as she took the pushchair from him.

As the two women entered the large children's hospital, Miranda found herself looking around her environment and studying her surroundings as she had never been there before so it was all new to her.

Louise, however, was not fazed having spent quite a lot of time in the hospital already so she simply continued babbling at Miranda and touching her hair and face. She was clearly rather taken with the usually fierce woman that was carrying her.

"How often does Louise have to come here?" Miranda asked her assistant as they approached the elevator. She had no idea where she was going so she simply followed her assistant's lead and went where she was going.

Andrea sighed softly, "She has check-ups every month here and she spent the first three months of her life in this hospital," she revealed as she pressed the button to call the elevator to their floor.

"That must be tough for her and for you," Miranda commented quietly as they stepped into the elevator as soon as the doors had opened revealing the empty elevator car.

Andrea nodded, "They're really good with her and the unit she was in at the beginning was great, they were like a little family so I take her back now and then to see all of the nurses that took care of her and they are always so happy to see her."

Miranda smiled in response but held the little one a little closer to her and kissed the top of her head gently, "What is the appointment for today?"

The dark-haired assistant leaned forward and pressed the button for the seventh floor which was labelled as the cardiology unit with a picture of a heart beside it. "Today, we will be getting her results from the tests that she had done last week," Andrea explained to her boss as she kept her eyes on her daughter, "They were testing how well her heart is functioning to see whether she…" Andrea paused for a moment to take a breath as she found it hard to say no matter how many times she said it, "To see whether or not she needs a heart transplant yet."

"A transplant?" Miranda questioned.

Andrea simply nodded before adding, "I've known since she was born that there was a strong likeliness that she would need a transplant before she goes to kindergarten."

Miranda looked down at the little girl in her arms and smiled at her laughter, "You are such a brave little girl, aren't you?"

Louise babbled in response and giggled a little.

It did not take them long for the elevator to arrive on the seventh floor and for the shiny metal doors to open on the floor of the cardiology ward. They both stepped out of the metal box and made their way along the corridor before stopping at a set of brightly painted double doors. The doors were painted with a colourful mural of hearts and rainbows with children playing in the image.

Andrea stepped to the right of the doors to press a button on the intercom that was attached to the wall. It buzzed and then rang before a voice spoke through the speaker, "Hello, Andrea, I'll let you straight in."

The doors buzzed and clicked then Andrea pushed them open.

"How did she know it was you?" Miranda questioned.

"There's a camera in the intercom box and I've been here quite a bit with Louise so the receptionist knows my name… she knows a lot of the regular patients' names and their parents," Andrea revealed.

Once Andrea had checked Louise in to see the specialist at the reception desk, the two women took Louise over to the play area for a while so that she could play before they were called into the appointment.

That morning, Miranda had never expected that she would spend part of her afternoon on the floor of the children's hospital in designer clothing playing with colourful wooden bricks. Building up a tower so that a little girl could knock them down and screech with laughter.