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"Push, Lydia! Good job! You're doing great! Keep pushing!" The obstetrician/Gynaecologist encouraged, "Alright. This contraction's over. Take a break. They're crowning really well. Good job!"
Lydia panted and gasped to catch her breath as Kurt rubbed her shoulder gently, and the doctor watched the monitors and prepared for the next contraction.
"Alright, chin on your chest, hold your breath, and push again!" he instructed.
The first baby's head slipped out, followed by her shoulders, body, and legs. The doctor caught her gently, and put her on her mothers stomach. She started wailing for someone to swaddle her as the nurses cut her umbilical cord.
Kurt covered his mouth with his hand, his lip quivered and his eyes welled up, "screaming, wrinkled, and covered in vagina goo… she's still the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." He and Blaine had chosen to wait until the birth to know the genders, so he was not only overcome with joy that she was born, but also with knowing the gender.
The nurses took the baby to be swaddled as the doctor helped Lydia in delivering the other baby.
The second baby was born just minutes after the first, he was a boy. Blaine was also crying, taking pictures and video's of his beautiful new babies, watching their every move, and listening to every beautiful sound. They were fraternal, meaning two different sperm fertilized two different egg cells…meaning both Kurt and Blaine could each be the father of one of the two babies, but they hadn't realized that fact yet.
"Would you like to meet your daughter?" the nurse asked, holding the swaddled, happy, beautiful baby girl.
Kurt nodded and took his baby gently, "Hi beautiful," he spoke softly, his eyes glazed with tears. Blaine took a few pictures of Kurt and their baby girls first moments together.
When the baby boy was all swaddled, the nurse came and let Blaine hold him.
"Hey handsome!" Blaine smiled down at his child. After a few moments the baby opened his eyes, and Blaine gaped, amazed, "Honey look at his eyes!" he said to Kurt. The baby's eyes were a piercing pale blue-grey. "They're gorgeous."
Kurt looked and his eyes widened, "Wow, that's incredible! … Wow… I wonder if…" He stroked the baby girls cheek gently, trying to get her to look at him, but she was too sleepy, who could blame her? Being born is tough. "c'mon sweetheart, let me see your beautiful eyes" he smiled and chuckled, "No? Awe okay. Maybe later." he looked up from the baby at Blaine, with a silly sideways smile.
Blaine chuckled, "You're adorable."
Kurt giggled and sat down. Lydia was recovering, taking instructions from the doctor about postpartum care and such. Rachel and Talia were asked to leave the room for the birth, but a nurse was bringing them back from the waiting area.
"They're so beautiful," Rachel said, holding the baby girl. "Did you guys come to a conclusion on their names yet?"
Kurt and Blaine looked at each other and nodded "Evelyn and Rhys."
Rachel smiled, "Hi Evelyn!" she spoke softly, but enthusiastically.
Natalia was holding little Rhys, now beaming at her little nephew, "Damn Kurt. Your babies must be on something. Some kind of adorableness drug. God damn…" she looked down at the infant in her arms, "I'm sorry you have to have those two clowns as your parents. If you want, you can run away and live with your favourite Auntie Talia…you know, when you learn to run…"
"Oh, Tal…" Kurt rolled his eyes.
"What?" Natalia acted innocent.
Kurt just giggled and watched her with her nephew. He had texted a few more friends that the babies had arrived, and they started arriving. Most of their glee club friends were not living in New York, but they had made new ones since they'd moved. Declan Britton walked into the room, followed by Kieran Miller.
"Gimme a baby!" Declan demanded playfully as soon as he strode into the space.
"Dec you don't just ask to hold a baby like that…" Kieran sighed, aggravated, following Declan closely.
"Why not? I wanna hold a baby!"
Kieran sighed, "Hi everyone. Declan had like four cans of Dr. Pepper today…"
"It was free, Kier. It would be rude not to take something when it's offered to you."
"Yes, but its also rude to take all of them. What if someone else wanted Dr. Pepper too, but they had to watch you drink all four remaining cans because you took all of them?"
"Whatever… Can we hold some babies?"
"Hi Kieran, hey Declan." Blaine chuckled.
Kurt laughed, "You guys are ridiculous."
Declan ran over to Rachel and cooed at Evelyn, "Kurt this child is adorable. Rachie can I please, please hold her?" he pouted playfully, with big eyes.
Rachel hesitated a moment, looking to Kurt for assurance. Kurt gave a little nod, and Rachel looked back at Declan, "oh alright." she passed the sleeping baby girl to the boy, who took her gently.
Declan had a crazy personality, but being the oldest of six children in his family, he was incredible with babies. He cooed and rocked her gently. Kieran was talking to Blaine, and watching Declan and Natalia with the babies.
"Would you like to hold one?" Blaine asked Kieran. "Natalia could probably give up Rhys for a little while."
"No I couldn't," she said, matter-of-factly.
Blaine shot her a look that made her shift uncomfortably in her chair and shut up, as Kieran spoke, "No, I'm not really good with them… He looks comfortable with her…" he said uncomfortably.
"You sure?" Blaine asked again.
"Yeah, I'm sure… Letting me hold them is probably not the best idea…"
"You could sit in a chair, so you don't drop them." Blaine suggested.
"Maybe in a little while, not yet." Kieran replied.
"Alright. If you say so." Blaine said.
"Have you heard from Lenny and Ben?' Declan asked
"I heard from Bentley, but not Lennox yet. Ben's coming." Kurt answered.
"Did he say anything about Len?"
"Nothing, just that he was coming."
"Ask him if he's bringing Lennox, and tell Lennox to bring me my blue scarf he borrowed. I need it for a meeting on Thursday."
Kurt pulled out his phone. "M'kay… Blue scarf?"
"Yup"
Kurt took a few moments before sliding his phone back into his pocket, "done."
Declan smiled and rocked Evelyn slowly. "Kier, what's your problem? Hold a baby!" he shifted Evelyn in his arms, "do you want this one?"
"No thanks, Declan. They're gorgeous, but I think I'll just admire them without touching."
"You're making them sad."
"They're fine. They're not fussing."
Declan pouted, "Do it for me?"
"Dec I cant."
"Why the fuck not?"
"Because…"
"Tell me"
"No."
"Please?"
"No!"
"Pretty please?" Declan pouted his lip out farther, and gave big eyes.
"Declan it's personal."
"I can help you." He approached Kieran, who backed up at the uncomfortable closeness. "I'll hold her like this…" he held the baby out, one hand supporting her head, neck and shoulders, and the other holding her bottom, "…and you can just have your arms around her. It's really not hard to hold a baby, at this age they don't squirm all that much." he looked directly into Kieran's deep blue eyes.
Kieran looked at the baby longingly, he wanted to hold her, but he was… afraid. "Declan I really can't. I want to, I really do… but I cant bring myself to do it…"
Declan's expression changed to concern, "Kier what's wrong?"
"They're so perfect, and beautiful, and… delicate. Very delicate." he said softly.
Meanwhile, Kurt and Blaine were talking to the nurses about caring for the babies, while Lydia and Natalia were chatting about what they thought about various TV shows.
Declan's eyes became more and more concerned, "Kieran it's something deeper than that. I can tell. Tell me."
Kieran's lip quivered, and he bit it, "I… Declan the last time I tried holding a newborn baby-"
"Yes?" he interrupted.
"I… I dropped her." He stared into the other boys dark eyes.
"W-What happened, Kier?" he asked hesitantly, but ever more concerned, regretting pushing him.
Kieran's eyes welled up, and he ran out of the room, embarrassed.
"Kieran!" Declan called after him.
Kurt looked up, "where's Kier going?"
"I-.. I don't know, I'll find him." Declan passed Evelyn to her father, and Kurt took her gently.
"Kieran? What's wrong? I'm sorry." he found the other boy and hugged him tightly.
Kieran's eyes were full of tears and his breath was fast and very shaky. "I dropped a newborn baby, Declan, onto a tile floor… she had her whole life ahead of her, gymnastics, dancing, cheerleading, running around with her friends, climbing trees, playing sports… but she hasn't and wont ever have that because of me… she was paralyzed from the chest down… she cant even have children… I took the whole purpose of her life away… she cant do anything…"
Declan took the other boy in his arms, "Shhhh, Kier, don't be so hard on yourself…it's alright." he stroked Kieran's back comfortingly, tightening his embrace.
Kieran shook and buried his face in Declan's chest, "But it's not… I destroyed a little girls life, she cant and wont ever do any of the things everyone else takes for granted… and the way she screamed when it happened… I will never, ever forget that…"
Declan cooed and ran his fingers through Kieran's soft, dusty blonde hair "awe, Kieran…"
"…And the part that breaks my heart the most is that she doesn't even hate me for it, she's the happiest girl in the world… her smile never goes away… she decorated her chair with stickers and called it her chariot when she was little… she isn't angry that I made her that way… it breaks my heart that such a beautiful little girl cant live her life out completely, and do everything she wants… she knows with complete clarity how much she's missing, but she only focuses on what she can do…she's almost 13 now…"
"It happened when you were ten, Kier?"
"Uh huh. It did…"
"Kieran, you were just a kid, you didn't know better."
"They shouldn't have let me… I'm afraid it'll happen again…"
"It wont. I wont let it. You don't have to hold them Kier, but come back with me?"
Kieran nodded, and pushed Declan away, realizing how close they were.
"C'mon," Declan smiled and extended his hand, at which Kieran smiled back, but politely rejected to hold his hand.
"Lennox Mason Bouchard, stand still so I can get a picture!" Bentley instructed playfully.
"Oh, bringing out full names now, are we? You're on, Bentley Mitchell Henderson!" Lennox giggled back, posing with Rhys, who was happily situated in his arms.
"Oh hush, you." Bentley took a few pictures of the tall blue-eyed brunette with the baby.
Lennox and Bentley had arrived just as Declan and Kieran left, and Lennox had given Declan his precious blue scarf back. Lennox had lost his phone is his disaster of an apartment, but Bentley had picked him up.
"Blaine, I'm going to steal your children. Just for your information, if they disappear." Lennox informed Blaine.
"Are you, now?"
"Yeah, I'm going to come in the dark of night and just take them."
"Well good luck with that, Lennox"
"Thank you."
"I'll just come and get them back from that dump of yours."
"I'll throw Lego's on the floor."
"Thanks for telling me, I'll wear big boots."
"Sounds like a plan."
"Sure does." Blaine rolled his eyes, smirking.
Kurt yawned, and settled into the cot the nurses had helped to set up. He, Blaine, Lydia and the twins had to spend the night at the hospital, for Lydia and the twins to be under monitoring for postpartum issues. Everyone had left, and he was the last one awake. The next day, two more tiny little lives would be living in his apartment with Blaine, and he couldn't wait. He watched his babies, asleep in their hospital cots, before yawning again and drifting to sleep himself.
