Sam looked at Sonny and tried to find the same feeling she had months ago but she couldn't. All she saw was the man that was asking her to risk her child's life for the sake of his. She knew that Sonny was her baby's father as well but right now, she couldn't view him that way. Her first instinct was to turn to Jason and ask him what she should do but she couldn't keep putting him in between her and Sonny. It wasn't fair to him. "There is a 10% risk to our child if I agree to induce labor, right?" She asked with tears in her eyes.
She watched him nod his head and say "But there is a 100% chance that she could save Kristina's life."
Sam's anger rose at his words. He was blatantly choosing to save Kristina's life at the possible expense of her daughter. Sam wiped the tears that were flowing down her face as she looked up "And this is Kristina's only option?"
"Yes." Sonny said.
Before anything else could be said, the door to the chapel opened and Alexis and Ric walked in. by the look on their faces, Sam knew that they knew what Sonny was going to ask her. Hell, it was probably Alexis's idea. Sam glared at the woman that not 24 hours ago she felt bad for. Alexis stepped forward and said "I know that what we are asking you is unimaginable, but…"
"You have no idea what you are asking me. You have kept Kristina away from her father for her entire life because you didn't want to put her in danger and now you are standing here asking me to put mine in danger." Sam said in a tense voice. "Don't you dare stand here and try to say otherwise." She finished.
"Sam, Kristina s going to die. The is no hope other that you baby. You have to do this. There isn't any other option for my baby. Your will be fine. Yours will live no matter what but you will kill mine if you don't do this." Alexis said.
"Sam, this is Kristina's only hope. Do you really want to be responsible for a child's death when you know you could have helped?" She heard Sonny say.
"Sonny…" Sam heard Jason start to say "No, Jason." Sam interrupted him "Let Sonny say what he has to say." Sam turned to look at her baby's father.
"That baby is healthy, Sam. There is nothing wrong with her, but Kristina could die at any moment." Sonny said with a pleading look. Sam took notice that not once had Sonny referred to her daughter as his. "Kristina need these cells to live. I just found out she is my daughter, please help me keep her."
Sam shook her head and wiped the remaining tears away. "Ok, I will induce labor." The little girl's parents all exhaled as Sonny smiled at her "Thank you so much, Sam." He made a move toward her but Sam held up her hand "Save it. Because I have a few conditions." Sam turned to Alexis and said "This will not concern you so get out and go tell the doctor that Kristina will get the stem cells." She glared at the other woman.
"Sam, thank you…"
"Don't! I am not doing this for you. I am doing it for my daughter's sister. And you will both stay the hell away from me from now on." Sam didn't give them another look before she turned back to Sonny. She heard the doors open and close and sent a hilling look to the man she foolishly thought she loved.
"You have made it more that clear which daughter you value and love the most and it is not the one inside of me. You have put on a really good show the past few months pretending that you care about her when in reality, all she is to you is a possession. And not a very valuable on at that. So you will never be allowed near her without me present." Sam said to him.
The cold look that came into his eyes didn't scare Sam. All it did was add fuel to her anger. "You will not keep me from my daughter, Sam. We already discussed this and you said that you would never keep me from her."
Sam shook her head and said "That was before I realized just how little she means to you. After all of this is said and done, and if nothing happens to my baby then you will have very limited access to her. You will not be allowed in the delivery room and you will not be allowed near me. You will not be allowed to see her before me, you will not be allowed to see her at all if I see fit. I will make sure the chief of staff, Alan Quartermaine, is aware of that before anything happens. And I swear to God Sonny, as I stand her in this chapel, if anything happens to my daughter then you will pay for it with your life. If I lose my daughter, then you lose every last one of your kids. I don't care what you, Carly of Jason says, you will pay so I would pray to the God you love so much that nothing happens to her. Now, go back to your daughter and you leave me and mine the hell alone." Sam told him fiercely.
Sonny made a step toward her but was pulled back pretty forcefully by a very angry Jason "Did you not hear her?"
Sonny was in complete shock. "Jason, what the hell are you doing?"
"Something I should have don't a long time ago. You have pushed this way too far, Sonny. You just guilt tripped a mother into risking her unborn child's life for your own gain. You just proved that you don't love this baby. You just proved she means nothing to you but she means everything to me." Jason said. "I let myself believe that you would be a good father to this baby because you are one to Michael and Morgan but I was wrong. She isn't even born yet and you have already failed as her father completely."
"That is my daughter, Jason…" Sonny said in an angry voice.
"No, Sonny, she is my daughter. I am the one that was at all of her doctor's appointments and at the sonograms. I was the one that talked to her every day. I was the one there the first time that she kicked. I was the one that reassured Sam about her fears of being a mother. You don't even know your own daughter's name." Jason said as he stepped closer to the man he had once admired above all others "I will be her father and if you want Sam to induce labor then you will sigh away your rights to her. I will not let Sam do this until you do that."
Sam gasped, she couldn't believe what Jason just said. Her entire pregnancy, Jason had made a point of telling her what a good father Sonny is and will be to her baby. But the entire time, Sam knew, she just knew that Jason would be more of a father than Sonny. And no he knew it too. "You are blackmailing me?" Sonny asked.
"I will do whatever I have to do to keep my family safe and you being around Sam and the baby is not safe. You don't care about them at all so just do us all a favor and stop looking at this baby as a thing and realize that she is a human being. One that you know you don't want." Jason glared at him. Sonny looked at his best friend and then to Sam and saw the hope in her eyes. She wanted him out of his daughter's life. A part of him wanted nothing more than to fight with them, but Kristina need those stem cells and if this was the only way to get them then so be it. He would deal with them later.
"Fine." Sonny said. Sam let out the breath she had been holding. "Call Justice and get the paper work started ASAP. My daughter's life depends on it." Sony pushed past Jason and left the room.
Jason got his hone out and called his cousin. Justice promised to have the papers down within the hour. Sam walked over to the candles and stared at the picture above them that everyone prayed to so much. She felt Jason put her hands on her shoulders as he came up behind her "Sam, you don't have to do this."
Sam shook her head "They will never leave me alone, Jason. If I said no, they would keep at me until I went into labor for real just from all the stress." She looked into the eyes of the man on the stained glass "I just need to have faith. That everything will work out the way it should."
Jason stared into the room where Sam was being set up in. Dr. Meadows had reassured Sam that there only a 10% risk involved and that her and the baby's chances of making it through this was more than a sure one. It seemed to calm Sam down some but Jason could see that she was still on edge. "Jason?" he turned and saw his mother sticking her head out of the room. Sam had wanted her and Emily there. While it started off kind of rough considering the lie, Monica and Sam had bonded a little and Emily loved Sam like a sister already. "They are ready to give her the Pitocin." Monica told him.
Jason made his way into the room and saw Sam laying on the bed and she was real still and quiet. He walked next to her beside and sat down on the bed next to her hip. He picked up her hand and Sam gave him a nervous smile. "Justice gave Sonny the papers and he sighed them." Jason told her and watched her smile turn genuine.
But it fell as she said "Jason, I am so sorry that you are in the middle of all of this…" Jason shook his head and said "I'm the one who's sorry. This is the way it should have been all along. I should have paid more attention to the way Sonny was acting. But I promise that he will not hurt you again."
"Jason, you really need to stop making all these promises to me" she said teary eyed "you're going to make me think you care about me." She joked.
Jason knew she said it to try and make him laugh but he just brought her hand up to his lips and kissed the back of it and said "I do." Sam's breath caught as she looked into his eyes and saw the truth. He pulled his lips from her hand and leaned his forehead to hers. Sam closed her eyes and allowed the tears to flow down her cheeks.
Monica and Emily looked on as Jason finally admitted it aloud. Monica could not be happier. She had never seen her son so happy then when he was with Sam. She made him smile and laugh. She was the best thing that had ever happened to him. And she was glad that he was finally allowing himself to feel it. Emily smiled as her brother took hold of his happiness. She had worried for so long that he would not let anyone in. she knew he had married Courtney but she knew he wasn't really happy. Courtney didn't accept all of him. Not like Sam did. Sam never made Jason feel guilty about his work or judged him for it. She made him incandescently happy.
Sam held on to Jason's hand as her doctor inserted the drug into her IV. "This will take a while for most women but the contractions could start within a few hours. Once they start you should start dilating. We will go from there. But for now, just try and relax and rest. Pretty soon you will be holding this beautiful baby girl." Dr. Meadows smiled at her.
Sam nodded her head and she took a deep breath. She looked at Jason and he gave her a reassuring look "Do you need anything? Are you thirsty?" he asked her.
She shook her head "I know…I know that you said that you didn't feel comfortable being here in the delivery room…" "I'm not going anywhere, Sam." He said in a firm voice. He watched the relief wash over her and saw her start to relax.
Jason stayed by her side at all times. A few hours after the induction, Alan and Edward stopped by to see Sam. She was a little surprised by this considering the Quartermaine men had not made any qualms about not being fond of her. Alan came over to her and asked "How are you doing?"
Sam gave him a smile and said "So far so good. The contractions haven started yet. How is Kristina doing?"
"She is staying strong. I hate to do this now but we will need your signed consent to use the baby's stem cells for her." He said in a sad voice.
Sam shook her head and said "I would rather do it now. Where do I sign?" He gave her the clipboard and she sighed the paperwork.
"Justice has informed us that you are now the baby's legal father." Edward addressed Jason.
Sam smiled as Jason nodded his head "Yes, I am but it just a formality. Lila has always been mine." He said.
"Lila?" Edward asked.
"I asked Jason if it would be ok if we named her after Lila. I'm sorry, I should have asked you…" Sam started to say but Edward stopped her "No, no my dear. My Lila would have been so honored."
Sam smiled and felt her tears well up. "I um… I also had an idea for her middle name." Sam spoke up. Jason looked at her and asked "What is it?"
"I was hoping to name her after her godmother, that is if you will agree to it?" Sam looked to Emily.
Emily stood still and her eyes got big "Me?" she asked.
Sam nodded her head "You have been there for me a lot and even came to a few of the doctor's appointments. And I really like how Lila Emily Morgan sounds." Sam smiled.
Emily's eyes welled with tears as she came over to Sam and hugged the woman that had come to mean a lot to her. "I would be honored." She said through her tears. Jason smiled at the sight of his sister and Sam.
He felt his grandfather pat him on the back and say "You finally found it, my boy."
Jason looked at him and asked "Found what?"
"Your Lila." He smiled at his grandson. Alan and Edward left the room as Alan went to go and file the papers and Edward looked back into the room. He turned his eyes up and asked "Look after them, my love. Help them hold on to this happiness they have found in each other."
Sam's hand squeezed Jason's in hers as her contraction subsided. She fell back to the bed and panted as the pain went away. She had officially been in labor for 4 hours and so far, she was 6 centimeters dilated. Jason had been her rock through it all. His mom and sister had come in and out knowing the two of them would want to be alone some. The baby's heart was going strong and while it hurt like hell so was Sam.
Dr. Meadows came in and said "Let's see where you are now."
Jason brushed some of her hair out of her face. Sam's tired expression made him feel helpless and he hated it. There was nothing he could do for her and it was killing him. "Well, mommy and daddy, it looks like it's time." Dr. Meadows smiled.
"What?" Sam said on a pant.
"You're 10 centimeters dilated, it's time to push."
Sam smiled and Jason looked at her. "We are going to get you moved to delivery." Dr. Meadows left the room and a few nurses came in and wheeled Sam to the delivery room.
"Jason, you are going to need to put a gown on before you go in." Monica said to him. He looked to Sam and said "I will be right behind you."
She nodded and they took her into the room. Monica suited Jason up and he walked into the room. Dr. Meadows was settling Sam into birthing position and Jason made his way over to Sam and took her hand back into his. He leaned forward and kissed her head and looked down at her "You are doing so great, Sam. Pretty soon she's gonna be here." He smiled.
Sam nodded and said "Thank you for staying with me. I love your sister but I don't think I could have done this without you." The look that she had in her eyes wrapped around his heart and squeezed. He leaned forward and pressed his lips to hers in a soft kiss. He pulled bac and rested his forehead to hers "There is no place I'd rather be."
Dr. Meadows put her mask on and turned to look at her patient. She saw the embrace that they were in and hated to interrupt it. She knew that Jason Morgan was not the child biological father but he was the only one that this little girl would know love from. And that was all that mattered. "Ok Sam, on your next contraction I want you to push as hard as you can." She told her. Sam nodded her head and could feel it start to build. "Push, Sam" the doctor said. Sam held onto Jason's hand and did as told. It hurt so bad that she did think she would survive. "Ok, I see her head. You need to push really hard Sam. She is almost here." Dr. Meadows said.
"I can't." Sam sobbed.
"Yes you can, Sam. You can. She needs you to, ok?" Jason said to her. "She needs to be ere with us and the only way for her to be is if you do this. You can do it." Sam looked into his eyes and found her focus. She nodded her head.
"Push, Sam" Dr. Meadows told her. Sam sucked in a breath and pushed as hard as she could through her pain. "Her head is out. Come on, Sam you can do it. Keep pushing. Here come her shoulders." Sam pushed one last time before she heard the beautiful sound of her daughter's cry.
She looked down and saw Dr. Meadows hold her up for her to see. "Here she is, mommy." She said.
Sam smiled through her tears as she looked at her baby girl. "Would you like to cut the cord, dad?" the doctor asked Jason.
With a look of wonderment on his face, Jason nodded his head and walked over and took the scissors and cut his daughter's cord. Jason watched as they took her over to the table and cleaned her off. They wrapped her up and put a little hat on her head. The nurse came over to him and handed her to him "Would you like to be the one to hand her to her mother?" Jason nodded his head and took her.
Dr. Webber came in and gave Jason a smile and said "Congratulations." Jason nodded his head to the other man and watched him take the baby's stem cells and leave the room. He turned back to Sam and saw the tired look on her face and her droopy eyes "Lila, I want you to meet the best this that could ever happen to you. This is your mommy." He said as he leaned down and placed Lila on Sam's chest.
Sam slowly lifted her hand and placed it on her daughter's head and smiled "Hi, baby girl." She smiled down at her. Jason took notice of Sam's weakness and looked to Dr. Meadows how had a worried look on her face "Sam?" she asked. Jason looked back to her as her hand fell back to the bed and Sam go limp. Her monitors started going off "Sam?" he said, getting panicked.
A nurse came over and took the baby from him and said "We need to get her to the nursery and you need to step outside."
"No, tell me what is going on. What is wrong with Sam?"
Dr. Meadows looked to him and said "We will once we find out but you are in the way of that and we need to focus on Sam. You need to step out."
Jason was pushed out of the room as the doctor and nurses surrounded Sam. "Jason!"
He looked over and saw his mother and father coming toward him "What is happening?" his father asked.
He shook his head and said "She had the baby and then something happened. She passed out and they don't know what is wrong."
The parents noticed the scared look in their son's eyes and walked to him in support. "Jason, she is going to be ok. Everything is going to be ok." his mother told him.
Jason looked back to the room as a nurse came out and said "She has some bleeding that isn't stopping. They are going to prep her for surgery to try and get it to stop."
"Try?" Jason asked "You don't try anything, you save her!" he yelled.
"Jason…" Alan tried to calm him
"No!" Jason shouted. He gave the nurse a cold look and said "You save her." The nurse just nodded her head and went back into the room. He walked over to the window and saw then all around Sam and he closed his eyes and prayed.
