she looks so angelic when she's sleeping, Hellboy thought to himself as he watched the sleeping form of the woman he loved and would give anything and everything in the world to protect. How in the world did I get such a wonderful woman like Liz, he thought looking at her, her beautiful raven dark hair cascading around her shoulders, beautiful rosey lips, beautiful long slender arms, small delicate hands, there was nothing about her that he didn't love he thought as she rolled from her back on to her side kicking the last of the blankets off of her, her hand draped across her large belly, he smiles remembering that day
"Red, I want you to listen to something" Liz said pulling him to a desk with a lap top on it and opened a sound file - tump-tump-tump-tump- was what he heard and on further inspection of the file saw the title, "baby-10 weeks"
"baby?" he whispered looking down at her "you're-" he started to say when she smiled
Now almost seven months later she lay there at his side weeks possibly even days away from having the baby, and except for shivering slightly, she was sleeping soundly Hellboy pulls the blankets back on to the bed and covers her back up
"Red ..." Liz murmers
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you Liz" Hellboy whispers kissing her gently on the cheek and draping his left arm carfully about her waist
"Red ..." Liz murmeres again sitting up slowly
"is it ..." he asks looking into her face and seeing the answer in those big beautiful dark eyes he loved so much, that were now glazed over with tears "sshhh, it's all right come on, can you get up?" he asks
"yeah, I think ..." she starts to say when she gets to her feet her legs give way
"whoa!, I gotcha, come on let's get you to the med wing" Hellboy says scooping her up into his arms and going out the large metal door which he opened then shut again with his tail
"I can't just sit here Clay, she's in there by herself and no one will let me see her and I don't know if she's scared, in pain or anything" Hellboy fumes pacing back and forth tail lashing
"does it normally take this long Clay"
"the time varies some births can take only 7 or 8 hours from labor to delivery and some can even last 2 sometimes even 3 days" Clay answers
"Red I know you're worried we all know what you're going through" Myers says watching his friend pace
"and you have how many kids Myers?" Hellboy asks sarcasticly "you know jack shit about what I'm going through Myers" Hellboy growls back at him
"she'll be ok Red she's a tough one" Clay starts to say as a scream cuts through the air
"Liz!!" Hellboy runs to the medical wing, he goes into a room and runs to the small form and pulls her into his arms " -SOMEONE GET IN HERE NOW!!- sshhh, I'm here Lizzy, I'm here"
"Red - " Liz sighs
"I'm here, everything's gonna be fine" he whispers " -WILL SOMEONE GET IN HERE AND HELP US!!-"
"Red - it hurts!" Liz cries
"I know it hurts sparkie, come on deep breathes, that's it come on" Hellboy coos rocking Liz gently in his arms
"I'm frightened Red" Liz whimpers
"me too, sparkie, me too" Hellboy croons, as a team of docters and nurses run in
"how long has she been in active labor" a docter asks pressing a stethascope to the bottom of Liz's large belly
"I've been kept away from her since she started having the pains so I don't know" Hellboy says a hint of fear rising in his voice
"almost - 9 - hours" Liz gasps gripping Hellboy's hand as Abe rushes in clad in his dry land gear
"well let's see why this little one is makeing such a fuss" Abe says placing a webbed hand at the base of her back and the other at the very bottom of her belly he feels Liz's muscles tighten and relax then he senses it the rapid and panicked movements of Liz's child
"prepare a room in the Emergency Care Unit we need to moniter both her and the child" Abe says as some of the nurses transfer Liz from where she was on the bed cradled in Hellboy's arms to a gerny and quickly rush out Abe is about to follow when Hellboy grabs his arm
"what is it Blue what's wrong" Hellboy asks sheer terror in every word he spoke to his friend
"Fetal Distress" Abe says calmly "the child is panicking"
"that's bad isn't it" Hellboy says his voice wavering
"Liz's body is responding to the child's distress by putting more pressure on the child to move it down and it's causing Liz to have abnormaly close contractions, before she's at the 10 Centimeter mark" Abe says gravely
"will Liz and the baby be all right, Blue" Hellboy asks a tear rolling down his cheek
"we'll do everything we can Red, to make sure Liz and the baby are safe and healthy during and after the birth" Abe said reassureing him
2 hours later outside Emergency Care Unit Liz's agonized cries are heard from down the hall Hellboy is slumped down on the floor his rosery clutched in his left hand
"all right push down, come on Liz, come on push, push that's it" Abe coaxes, as the top of the baby's head starts coming out Liz stops to breathe
"don't stop Liz keep pushing, come on, keep pushing, that's it, you almost got the head out, come on push the head out Liz, that's it, that's it there we go" Abe says as the head slides out "good job Liz you're doing great come on deep breath and push, push down come on , come on that's it, Liz, just one more push, ok, one more big push" Abe urges, Liz gives a loud wail, baby slides out into Abe's hands, baby begins wailing as he cuts her cord
"you've given birth to a daughter Ms.Sherman a beautiful raven haired little beauty just like her mother" a nurse says putting the baby into her arms
Half an hour later Abe goes out to the hall towards the hunched over form that was his friend "Red, you can come in now"
"are Liz and the baby all right" Hellboy asks getting up and following him into the room
"they're both fine" Abe says leading Hellboy into the room and watches as he rushes over to her
"this is our little girl Red" Liz sighs happily, holding the baby up for Hellboy to hold, he hesitates a worried look on his face
"Red, w - what's wrong" Liz says in an unsure voice worry in her soft dark eyes
"what if I hurt her" he asks softly motioning to his stone right hand
"come sit down Red" Liz says he sits down next to her, dispite her sore and achy body she pulls herself into a sitting position and carefully starts to lower the baby into his arms
"cradle her head against your left arm then put your right arm under her body like that, there see Red you didn't hurt her did you" Liz says draping an arm on his shoulder and leaning her head on his arm
"now that we have her, what should we name her" Hellboy asks "I think Kimmy is a great name"
"I like that," Liz says stroaking the baby's tiny hand "Kimmy, that's a beautiful name for a beautiful little baby