This all starts our pretty sad, I'm sorry, I promise it will get happier just bear with me. Also, huge thanks to my amazing beta Anna!
The last thing she remembered was pain and blood. Oh, there was so much blood. Should there be that much? No. Something was terribly wrong.
Her eyes opened, bright light nearly blinding her. She allowed her eyes to adjust before she looked around, trying to figure out where she was.
She was definitely in the hospital, the pale blue of the room and the bed gave it away.
Logan was in the chair just a few feet away, his eyes closed. She could see how exhausted he looked; he had dark circles under his eyes and was sporting what seemed to be a five o'clock shadow. It made her wonder how long she'd been here.
Or why she was even here.
She moved her hand over her stomach, expecting to feel a hard bump. Her fingers no longer touched the growth that had been there for the last few months, instead their touch over her stomach made her wince.
What?
"Logan?" she whispered, stealing a glance in his direction.
Before another word left her mouth, he was there, holding her hand, the one that no longer felt the growing bump.
She looked into his dark eyes as they tried to avoid hers and saw a world of pain. She knew something was wrong the minute he couldn't hold her gaze.
It all felt like a dream.
"Logan, where's our baby?" she asked, panicking. She'd never been one to panic so easily, but this was different.
"Ver-"
"No, don't sugar coat it Logan. What happened?!" she demanded, "Why isn't my baby - our baby! - inside of me?"
Tears were welling up in both her and Logan's eyes as he took a deep breath.
"What's the last thing you remember?"
Veronica thought back a few minutes, trying to unscramble the various moments racing through her head.
Her heart sank the second she remembered and she whispered, "Blood. And pain. I was at the house and then the rest is a blur." she took another moment to concentrate on her memories, "Then I heard your voice. You were calling my name. That's it."
Pressing his forehead against her hand, a tear slipped down Logan's cheek.
"I found you," he whispered, his voice shaking uncontrollably, "I went to the store because you told me we needed more newborn diapers. You were going through the whole 'end of the pregnancy nesting' phase and wanted everything to be perfect when we brought the baby home."
He swallowed hard, gripping Veronica's hand like it was the only thing from keeping an anchor from pulling him under.
"When I got back home, I called your name and you didn't answer. I called it again and again and again until I saw you...just lying there."
"There was blood everywhere and my whole world stopped. I don't even remember calling 9-1-1, I know I did but it seemed like they just showed up. Like they knew my family was in trouble."
Tears flowed rapidly down Logan's face, the terror of nearly losing her in his eyes.
"The doctor immediately took you into surgery. He said you had a medical condition and that they needed to get the baby out as quickly as possible. The rest was a blur until I heard the scream. The most amazing scream I've ever heard in my whole life. The nurse was holding her and she-"
"Wait, she?!" Veronica cried in surprise. She'd never pictured herself raising a little girl, that is until the moment she heard she and Logan had a little girl.
"Yeah," Logan whispered softly, "She cried so loudly, I was sure she was fine. She was perfect. How could our daughter not be?"
"You were sure she was fine?" Veronica asked, trying to hide her fear. Not that she didn't love Logan Echolls, one of the toughest men she knew, gushing over the baby they made, but she needed to know what was happening to her daughter.
"I don't know," He continued, "One minute she was fine and crying and perfect and the next they were rushing her out of there so fast I didn't know what hit me."
Veronica felt her heart shatter into an infinite amount of pieces as Logan's head dropped. He let out a sob, squeezing her hand even tighter.
"What seemed like an eternity later they were telling me she was gone."
Logan watched Veronica closely, searching for a reaction.
She couldn't move or say anything. Her whole world, what she and Logan had been preparing for the past 9 months, was gone. It had completely fallen out from under her.
Silent tears flowed down her face as she reached for Logan, allowing him to pull her into his arms. The monsoon of tears rolled onto his shirt as she sobbed, whispering over and over again, "I want my baby."