'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' is owned by Joss Whedon and I don't have any rights to it.
A/N1 I don't believe that Willow's date of birth, Xander's date of birth and Amy Madison's date of birth were ever established. In 'Restless' Buffy did tell Xander, "I'm way ahead of you, big brother.' So from that I'm going to say that Xander is older than Buffy. As for Willow or Amy, I don't believe it was ever established if Willow or Amy was older than Buffy or Buffy was older than either of those two. So for the purpose of this story, Xander's date of birth will be July 30, 1980; Willow's date of birth will be August 15, 1980 and Amy's date of birth will be on October 10, 1980 (Which in my story puts Xander, Willow and Amy three to five months older than Buffy)
A/N2 The only medical knowledge that I know is from the evening sitcoms like 'Grey's Anatomy', 'House' and a few others, so forgive me if I sound as though I don't know what I'm medically talking about… because I might not be.
On August 13, 1979, in Los Angeles, Richard Wilkins was having a meeting with Phillip Warwick, the current CEO of Wolfram & Hart, in Phillip's office.
After Richard told Phillip what he wanted, Phillip sighed before saying, "You should've come to me before now, Richard. Finding a hundred young women to become surrogate mothers to a hundred Setula babies won't be easy."
"Can you do it though?" Richard hopefully asked. "Can you help me to find a hundred volunteers?"
"Well, I seriously doubt that I can get a hundred women to volunteer to get pregnant by Setula demons around this time next year," Phillip began. "But if the women believe that they are part of a fertility trial in order to get pregnant, I think I can find you your hundred women."
"These women have to be fertile otherwise my tribute will be worthless," Richard said.
"These women who join the fertility trial just have to believe that they can't get pregnant without help," Phillip said.
"These women will have to go to the Letutus Hell dimension too," Richard pointed out.
"I know a few wizards who can shift this good city of Los Angeles and its bordering counties into a different dimension," Phillip began. "Shifting the Sunnydale hospital to a different dimension would be a walk-in-the-park and as long as these women aren't next to any windows, they wouldn't have a clue of their dimensional shift."
"With all the demonic activity in Sunnydale, Sunnydale hospital remains busy," Richard pointed out.
"I'm sure you have enough clout over the demonic community to persuade the demons of that region to take a day off on that day," Phillip said. "As for the patients who are there, have them ushered into a quarantine area away from windows on the pretense that there's an outbreak of small pox or something equally as dangerous. You can block the in coming patents with the same excuse."
"That could work, but since Setula women can no longer get pregnant, any pregnant woman inside the hospital during the time we're in the Letutus Hell dimension would be a slap in the face to the Setula demons," Richard began. "So how would I keep the pregnant women away from the hospital on that day?"
Phillip thought for a moment before uttering, "Midwives."
"Midwives?" Richard questioned.
"Invent some reason to where all the pregnant women in Sunnydale would have to use midwives during that time," Phillip suggested. "In fact, for an incentive for them to use midwives, you can give them financial breaks during their medical checkups."
"Okay, but to control the outcome better, we'll need to re-staff the hospital with handpicked doctors and nurses," Richards said.
"I know exactly who you need to get as the head doctor," Phillip said before he retrieved his daily news paper from the waste basket. "His name is Dr. Edward Coolidge. As for his staff, he could pick his own members." Phillip held out the paper for Richard to take. "The story is on the second page of the news section."
Richard took the paper and flipped to the story. After reading the first two paragraphs he said, "I caught a small section of the news last night about this guy. I didn't catch his name though. He begins his trial this coming Monday for his unethical and unsanctioned experiments on people."
"What better doctor to lead your mission?" Phillip questioned.
"Yeah, well, according to the news last night, the authorities have enough evidence on this guy to keep him locked up for two hundred years," Richard pointed out.
"Did you forget that you're speaking with the CEO of Wolfram & Hart?" Phillip said. Richard gave him a curious look. "By this time tomorrow, there won't be enough evidence to prove that he was even born; let alone have enough evidence against him to lock him up. All I need is the go-a-head from you."
Richard thought for moment before asking, "Do you think that Dr. Coolidge will agree to help?"
"He'll either help or he'll remain in prison," Phillip said. "So I'm certain that he'll accept the position without hesitation."
"Okay, you officially have my go-a-head," Richard said. "Now, as far as the women to be selected, they should be between the ages of twenty and thirty; they should be healthy and if all possible more capable at getting pregnant than the average woman."
"My seers will find these women," Phillip began. "We'll slip them birth control without their knowledge to make them believe that they can't get pregnant without medical help and we'll make sure that they get the knowledge of the fertility trial. With any luck, you'll have plenty of candidates to choose from."
"Excellent," Richard said before letting out a delightful laugh. "Gosh darn, I feel like a kid in a toy store."
"Yes, well, Richard, next time come to me sooner when you need help with something of this magnitude," Phillip said.
"You have more important things to deal with around here," Richard said while gesturing around him.
"You took me in, Richard, when I was nine," Phillip began. "You're family… an uncle who doesn't age." Richard grinned. "You made me into the leader that I am today and so what's important to you is important to me. Therefore, if you need help with the tribute after this one, let me know now so we can work on it now instead of later."
"The next tribute after this one is just a simple ritual feeding," Richard said. "There won't be any need for your help."
"Okay," Phillip said. "Now on a different note, when are you planning to become Mayor of Sunnydale again?"
"In ten years or so I'll move back into the Sunnydale's city limits as Richard Wilkins the third; the son of the late Mayor Wilkins, Richard Wilkins the second," Richard began. "And after I make my presence known, I'll run for mayor in the following election."
"I'll do what I can to help seal that election for you," Phillip said.
"I appreciate it," Richard said.
Phillip looked at his watch before asking, "So what about lunch?"
"I thought you never ask," Richard said before the two stood.
Two hours later, Phillip's star lawyer Holland Manners and Richard Wilkins visited Edward Coolidge. Once the three were seated in the lawyer/client room, Holland offered Dr. Coolidge Wolfram & Hart's pro bono services on the condition that he would join Richard Wilkins' staff. Dr. Coolidge was skeptical to what he was hearing, but when he saw proof, he agreed to lead Richard Wilkins's project.
The following day, Dr. Coolidge's record was mystically wiped clean from any wrong doing and was released from prison with an apology.
During the passing days, Richard and Phillip put their plan into motion. Wolfram & Hart's seers identified the most likely female candidates and from a mystical spell by Wolfram & Hart's wizards those women were rendered incapable at getting pregnant until after a certain date.
Within a month, Dr. Coolidge was hired as the top doctor in the maternity ward for the Sunnydale hospital. To help minimize the transition into the Letutus Hell dimension when the time would come, the security staff members were replaced by vampires
On June 16, 1980 Dr. Coolidge had set in motion for the women who are scheduled to give birth between August 1 and September 1 to use midwives. The reason given was that the maternity ward had failed inspections and was undergoing major renovations. Any pregnant woman who didn't want to participate in the midwife program was to go to Los Angeles.
Sheila Rosenberg due date was on August 17 and her assigned midwife was Nurse Theresa Kendall. Theresa was new to Sunnydale and didn't know the town's after-dark reputation.
After sunset, on August 14, Theresa had left the Rosenberg's home from after checking up on Sheila, and before driving directly to her home, she stopped off at a grocery store.
Luke and Darla were out hunting food for the Master and came upon Theresa in the grocery store's parking lot as Theresa was walking back to her car.
Darla approached Theresa while in her human face and led Theresa to the back of the store on the pretense that Darla had found a litter of abandoned kittens that she didn't know what to do with.
Once Darla and Theresa were at the dark side of the store, Luke stepped out.
Before Theresa was able to scream, Darla, now in her demon face, had her hand covering Theresa's mouth while saying, "Shshsh. You will come with me and behave. No screaming out."
Theresa looked at Darla with fear in her eyes and nodded. Once Darla took her hand off of Theresa's mouth, Theresa begged, "Please don't hurt me."
Darla glanced at Luke with a satisfying smile before saying, "True, I will hurt you if you try to escape or scream out, but I'm not the one that will… well, I better not spoil the surprise. Master doesn't like it when I tell the ending to the story."
"Please let me go?" Theresa begged with tears running down her face as she stared at Luke.
"Oh, I'm not the Master," Luke said before gesturing into the direction of a sewer opening. "The Master is this way. So come."
When Theresa was scared to move, Darla dragged her along by the collar of her shirt. Darla dragged her for a short distance before reaching the sewer opening. When Theresa refused to go into the sewer, Darla forced her in.
1:45 P.M., Friday, August 15, Sheila Rosenberg began experiencing what she thought was labor pains every seven minute, and after feeling the contractions for more than thirty minutes she paged Theresa. Her husband Ira was out of town on a business trip and after Sheila had paged Theresa, she called Ira's hotel and left a message. .
Sheila stood patiently near the phone, but it never rang. Once she felt the fourth contraction within twenty minutes, she picked up the phone and dialed it, but in her frenzy she dialed the wrong number.
When a woman answered the phone, Sheila slightly groaned before questioning, "Who's this?"
"Are you okay, Ma'am?" the woman asked.
"I'm pregnant and I can't reach my midwife," Sheila rattled off.
"Midwife?" the woman questioned. "You're in Sunnydale?"
"I am," Sheila said before groaning again. "Look, I… I obviously dialed the wrong number…"
"It's fine," the woman assured her. "I'm in Sunnydale too; in fact I just gave birth to my son sixteen days ago. My name's Jessica and if you give me the address to your house, my son Alexander and I will be right over."
"Thanks, Jessica, for the offer, but as soon as I hang up from you I'm calling for an ambulance," Sheila said.
"Tell me your name and number and I'll check up on you in a couple of days," Jessica said.
Sheila slightly hesitated before telling Jessica her name and phone number. Once Sheila hung up, she called for an ambulance.
Within a short time, Jessica noticed an ambulance going passed her house. She quickly picked up Alexander and stepped outside before the ambulance was able disappear around the corner a couple of blocks up.
Several people were at the corner where the ambulance's driver had made his turn and when Jessica noticed those people acting as if they were being spectators to a horrible event, Jessica carried Alexander to the corner as well. Jessica got to the corner in time to see Sheila being escorted from her house by the paramedics.
Minutes later, once Sheila got to the hospital, the staff put her in an examination room in the emergency area. The first year resident Dr. Sarah McBride and Nurse Maxine Kurtz were immediately paged from the maternity ward and assigned to her.
Sarah was Catherine Madison's estrange sister. She was twenty-eight years old and was the older sister by five years.
Like Catherine, Sarah was also a powerful witch and learning anything had always come easy for Sarah, especially magic and that was what had caused the bitterness that Catherine had for Sarah. And what will later add insult to injury in Catherine's mind was the fact that her unborn daughter, soon to be known as Amy, will grow to look more like Sarah than herself.
When Sarah graduated high school at seventeen, she didn't entered college right away. She practiced magic more than what she should and within six month after graduating high school she accidently killed one her good friends with her magic, an act that she will never forgive herself for. This led her into admitting that she had a problem with the magic and she sought help in Mexico City from a powerful witch to regain control of it.
The witch she sought out was also a seer. It took Sarah three years to find the witch/seer and once she did the witch/seer told Sarah that her destiny lies as a doctor in Sunnydale California.
Sarah and Catherine were originally from Los Angeles and their parents moved them to Sunnydale when Sarah was eleven. This was never mentioned to the witch/seer, but somehow the witch/seer knew this already. Also becoming a doctor had been Sarah's dream since she was a small child and she was on the road of letting that dream die, but once the witch/seer told her, her destiny, her dream of becoming a doctor was rejuvenated with even stronger passion.
On the advice of the witch/seer, Sarah immediately moved back to California and entered college. Also on the advice of the witch/seer, she kept her mind off of witchcraft by studying hard on her assignments and she breezed through each course with high marks until she was an intern as the witch/seer had also predicted.
Sarah's interest had always been in pediatrics or to be an OBGYN. She wanted to work in the field where life began or was in its early stages and after accidentally killing her friend with her magic her medical interest at becoming an OBGYN was reinforced.
Sarah's medical classes and internship were done in San Francisco, and when she passed her internship she applied for one of the doctor positions in Sunnydale that were available.
Richard Wilkins and Dr. Coolidge were the ones who interviewed Sarah for the doctor's position and her total lack of fear towards meeting her first vampire during her interview was the deciding factor for her getting the position.
Present day, after Sarah and Nurse Kurtz got to the examination room where Sheila was in, they immediately began a routine examination and during the examination, Sheila's contractions ended.
"I was sure I was in labor," Sheila told Sarah and Nurse Kurtz. "It must be obvious to you, Dr. McBride, that this is my first child and the first time experiencing false labor."
Sarah grinned before saying, "You're fine, Mrs. Rosenberg. Most mothers get deceived by those dreaded false labor pains whether it be their first pregnancy or… or tenth."
"Being this close to the due date, it could very well have been the real deal," Nurse Kurtz added. "So you were right to come here."
"I wish it had been the real deal," Sheila said. "I'm very ready to be not pregnant right now."
Nurse Kurtz smiled before saying, "Taking long walks and walking up and down steps is always a good way to speed up the real deal."
"I heard that before," Sheila said. "Of course that never entered my mind… until you mentioned it."
"Okay, Mrs. Rosenberg, I'm releasing you," Sarah said. "The nurse at the front desk can help you find another midwife and call you a cab to get home."
"Okay; thanks, Doctor," Sheila said as she went to stand up.
Sheila followed Sarah to the nurse's desk and once Sarah gave instruction to the nurse, she went back to her previous duties in the maternity ward.
The nurse gave Sheila a list of midwives and then called her a cab. Sheila waited for the cab near the front entrance, but before the cab had a chance to come Sheila decided to take Nurse Kurtz's advice and exercise by walking the stairs. She left the entrance just before the cab showed up and entered the hospital's stairwell.
At 3:35 P.M., Dr. Coolidge declared a quarantined lockdown of the Sunnydale hospital. Patients, visitors and the staff members who weren't involved were ushered into quarantine areas.
The clinic nearest to the maternity ward was taken over by four doctors and eight nurses assigned to extracted the semen from the Setula demons. Each of the clinic rooms was divided off into fours in order to make four smaller rooms out of one room.
By 3:45 P.M., Sunnydale police department had set up roadblocks to keep people away.
At 3:55 P.M., all the clocks in the hospital were reset to 2:55 P.M. Five minutes later, the wizards shifted the hospital to the Letutus Hell dimension. The lights throughout the building went out.
When the stairwell went black, Sheila uttered out in a panic, "Oh shit!" She then felt another painful contraction that made her sit down on the steps. "Oh shit!!" The back-up generator kicked on and when Sheila went to stand up, her water broke. "Oh my god!"
On the floor below, two orderlies, Anthony and James entered the stairwell, as Anthony was saying, "Yeah, well, I'm not chancing the elevators until we're back were we belong and…" Anthony stopped talking when he and James saw dripping amniotic fluid.
James indicated to the dripping amniotic fluid while uttering, "Where's this water…"
"Someone there?" Sheila's voice echoed throughout the stairwell. "I need a doctor." Sheila heard two sets of footsteps racing up the steps.
When the two made it to Sheila, Anthony uttered, "Ooh, you're pregnant!"
"What gave it away?" Sheila sarcastically asked. "My big tummy? Or my water breaking all over the steps."
Anthony nervously laughed before telling James, "You should go inform Dr. Coolidge of our situation."
"On it," James said before continuing up the steps.
"Find out what we are to do… with her," Anthony said before James was able to get too far.
"Alright," James said.
"My name is Sheila Rosenberg," she said calmly.
"Yeah, well…" Anthony got out before sighing. "Nice to meet you, Mrs. Rosenberg."
In the maternity ward, Dr. Coolidge was coordinating the activity of seven doctors, twelve nurses, ten orderlies and the hundred and thirty young couples when James entered the ward.
Once James found Dr. Coolidge within the mix he uttered, "Dr. Coolidge, we have a major problem."
Nurse Kurtz was standing nearby and heard Dr. Coolidge asking, "What's the problem?"
"There's a pregnant woman who was walking the stairwell, and… and her water broke," James said. "Anthony is with her now and is assisting her here."
"Mrs. Rosenberg was the only pregnant woman who came through here today; the others were assigned midwifes," Nurse Kurtz said as she stepped up to join the conversation.
"This is not good at all," Dr. Coolidge began. "The female Setula demons are born sterile and for them to know that there's a pregnant woman in this hospital during this tribute will be an insult to them. Our tribute won't be enough if they learn that Mrs. Rosenberg is in this hospital."
"Doctor, what are we going to do with, Mrs. Rosenberg?" Nurse Kurtz quickly asked. "She can't be here when the Setulas get here."
Dr. Coolidge turned towards James and said, "Go stop Anthony in bringing Mrs. Rosenberg up here."
"Where should they go," James asked.
Dr. Coolidge thought for a moment before saying, "To the morgue. In fact grabbed three more orderlies and hide the dead bodies from Mrs. Rosenberg along with anything that makes that look like a morgue. Mrs. Rosenberg must think that she's in a delivery room."
"I'm on it," James said.
Dr. Coolidge looked over his ward for a moment and when he saw Sarah, he went over to her.
When Sarah saw Dr. Coolidge stepping up with a slight concern expression across his face she asked, "Isn't everything going as planned?"
"There's a pregnant woman in the hospital and her water broke," Dr. Coolidge began. "She's on her way to the morgue and I need you to get down there; deliver her baby and above all, keep her out of sight from the Setulas."
"Yes, Doctor," Sarah said. "Doctor, who's the woman?"
"Nurse Kurtz believes that she might be Mrs. Rosenberg," Dr. Coolidge said.
Sarah nodded before saying, "I examined and released her earlier."
"Okay, well, apparently she didn't leave," Dr. Coolidge said. "So get down there and deliver her baby."
"Yes, Dr. Coolidge," Sarah said before walking away.
Sara went and grabbed a baby bed and a few other supplies that she needed to deliver a baby before heading down towards the morgue.
Anthony and Sheila were walking towards the maternity ward, when James and three other orderlies stepped into the hallway. James motioned for Anthony to stop and when everyone came together in the hall, James whispered to Anthony, "We have to turn the morgue into a make-shift delivery room." Anthony gave him a curious look. "Give us a few minutes and then bring her there."
Anthony continued to give James a curious look before whispering back, "Weird place to be delivering a baby, but alright."
"Let's go," James told the other orderlies before hurrying away. The three orderlies quickly followed.
Once James and his group got to morgue they immediately went to work and hid all remnants of the room being a morgue. They were just finishing up when Sarah, Anthony and Sheila were walking in. Sarah was pushing a baby bed with supplies thrown into it and a hospital gown for Sheila to put on.
While Sarah was getting Sheila back into the gown one of the orderlies went out into the hall to stand guard.
After Sheila took off her remaining clothes, Sarah and Anthony helped her into a bed.