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Chapter 2
Jodi took a while to adjust to life on the road, but so did Dean to being a committed partner and soon to be father. John and the boys would go on hunts, while Jodi stayed back in a motel, working on her homework from their latest school. When Sam was home, he and Jodi even quizzed each other, Jodi's intellect easily matched Sam's, but only now that she was free of her father, and finally reaching her full potential was her intelligence realized.
As she came out of shell, Dean only fell more in love with her, she got confidence, a sparkling personality, along with her recently discovered intellect.
Dean even took to calling the baby by its nickname as given to it by Jodi, Jellybean.
But you know what they say about good things, they always come to an end.
Jodi was in her thirty-third week of pregnancy, couldn't see her feet, and claimed the she was a whale.
Dean was out of town with John and Sam on a hunt, they were only away overnight, but the fact that he wasn't there for Jodi would cause him regret for years to come.
It was late afternoon, and Jodi was standing at the stove, cooking some soup for dinner, when she felt a sudden gush of fluid, she looked down to find blood streaked fluid covering her pants and the floor.
"Oh god," Jodi whispered in horror, she knew that her waters had just broken, and it was too early. She tried Dean's phone, then John's, then Sam's, all were out of range. Panicking as she felt her abdomen contracting, she called 911.
Waiting for the paramedics to arrive was one of the most terrifying moments of Jodi's life, but once they were there, while they did acknowledge that she was in pre-term labour and needed to be taken to the hospital, they also worked to calm her down.
Getting her to breathe, reminding her that being panicked would only make the situation worse.
Through it all, Jodi kept trying to reach Dean, right up until she was in the delivery suite, and the doctor was telling her to push.
An obstetrics nurse, Tammy was holding her hand, encouraging her, but Jodi was so scared. "I can't do this, I can't!"
"You're doing great, Jodi. Just push, you're almost there," The doctor encouraged her as he worked.
Another nurse patted Jodi's brow with a damp cloth, while Tammy spoke to her soothingly, "Have you chosen a name?"
"Not yet. Why isn't he answering his phone?!"
"You said that your boyfriend was on a camping trip, his phone might not get reception. Everything's fine, I'm sure he'll be back as soon as he can be. What's your boyfriend's name, Jodi?"
"Dean. God it hurts."
"I know it does honey, best thing you can do is to really focus, and push this baby out," Tammy told Jodi calmly, after getting a nod from the doctor, she told Jodi, "Alright, here comes another contraction. Now I want you to take a breath and hold it, use it to help you push the baby out."
Jodi did as instructed, and didn't stop until the contraction ended ten excruciating seconds later.
"Good work mom, head's nearly out, on the next contraction another big push."
Jodi pushed again, but stopped early in exhaustion. "I can't…"
"You can, you are," Tammy encouraged her, she knew that they needed to get the baby out now, or its life could be at risk. "I've seen grown women who can't hold on as well as you, now push."
And she did, and a moment later an infant's screaming cry resounded around the room.
"Congratulations, Jodi, it's a boy."
"Is he okay?" The doctor placed the newborn on Jodi's chest.
"We'll take him to the NICU, let them check him out, but he seems alright."
"Can I go with him?" Jodi asked as one of the nurses took her newborn son over to a portable baby warmer, an infant bed, and hurried out of the room with him.
"Not right now, we'll take you back to your room, clean you up, let you get some rest first."
Dean nearly crashed the Impala when he checked his messages. "Holy," He muttered as he pulled the car to the side of the road.
"Dean, what's wrong dude?"
"Jodi, there's a bunch of messages, the last one. She had the baby, a boy, he's doing well."
John stretched over, and embraced his son, congratulating him, "Congratulations, kiddo."
They enjoyed the moment, but then Dean wanted to keep going, to get back to his girlfriend and their baby. John took over driving to give Dean a break, and let him rest, not that Dean was going to sleep, he had a son, he, Dean Winchester had a son.
Dean was ecstatic, he couldn't wipe the grin off his face. He may have been young, and facing the trials that came with being a young parent, but he had a son and a beautiful loving girlfriend, and he would make it work.
No matter what he had to do, he would make it work.
And then in an instant everything changed, Dean got a call from a nurse at the hospital, the baby had been rushed into surgery and Jodi was beside herself.
The baby, who had seemed perfect at birth wasn't alright. Just hours after his birth, the newborn developed hydrocephalus, a buildup of cerebral spinal fluid within the ventricles of his brain, a complication of his prematurity.
Jodi had been sitting in the special care nursery, rocking her son gently, he had been crying, but now he was quiet, then she noticed that she couldn't rouse him, frightened, she had called over a nurse, who after briefly examining him, scooped the baby out of Jodi's arms, and swiftly put him back in the warmer, she called out to the neonatologist, who came straight over, and before they even explained what was happening, they placed a breathing tube down his throat, and rushed the baby away for tests. He had fallen into a coma.
Jodi was distraught, the nurses attempted to comfort her, but all Jodi wanted to do, and did do after hearing that her son had been taken in for emergency surgery, was go back to her room and cry.
She was still tired and sore from the delivery, and every sob sent pain through her exhausted body. But she couldn't stop, her son was barely six hours old and he was having surgery on his brain, because he was born too early, because she had given birth too early.
The nurses tried to comfort her, but she was inconsolable.
Nurse Tammy was going off shift when she heard that the Matthew's baby had been taken into surgery. Jodi was young, and Tammy knew that the pregnancy was hard on her, let alone the pre-term birth, and now emergency surgery.
Tammy signed out, and went over to the postpartum ward to check on Jodi, it came as no surprise to find the sixteen year old in tears.
She knocked lightly on the door as she entered. "Jodi, it's just me, Tammy. Can I do anything?"
Jodi just kept crying, Tammy made her way over to the bed, and sat down beside Jodi, she just sat there stroking Jodi's hair comforting the frightened girl, for hours, before Jodi finally settled.
"I want Dean," That was all she said as she continued to cry softly, she just repeated the words, "I want Dean."
Needless to say Tammy immediately picked up Jodi's phone from the beside, found Dean's number, and called.
Dean answered on the first ring, "Jodi? Are you okay? What's happening?"
"Dean, my name's Tammy, I'm a nurse here, and I have been taking care of Jodi today. There has been a complication with the baby."
"What?! Is he okay?! What happened?! Is Jodi okay?!" Dean instantly panicked.
"Jodi is fine. Try not to panic, but the baby has been taken into surgery. He has a condition known as hydrocephalus, it's a blockage of one of the ventricles in his brain, it causes the cerebral spinal fluid to back up. But we have great doctors here, and they will look after him. It would just be better for everyone if you could be here, I understand that you have been away, but," Tammy was stopped midsentence; she could hear a car's engine revving hard.
"I'll be there in an hour," Dean said as he adjusted to the faster speed of the car, John never obeyed the speed limits, but this time was a record speed, he wanted his son to be able to be where he was needed, with his girlfriend and their baby, and even John wanted to be there to help Jodi, and of course be there for the baby.
Tammy stayed there with Jodi, getting her updates on the baby as often as she could, until Dean arrived nearly two hours after she had called him. They shouldn't have left Jodi so far from them, they all knew that, and wouldn't forgive themselves any time soon.
TBC...
