Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated in a while but this is the sequel to Past Life, hope you all like it, Just to let you all know I am switching to third person instead of first person and the story is picking up right where the other one left off. I also intend of putting more than 10 chapters into the fanfics.

Chapter 1: Reality Check

Amy sat in the hospital bed completely overwhelmed, it had been almost an hour since she had given birth and she still hadn't been able to hold her baby. Ty had gone to get her some water and her eyelids felt extremely heavy, after almost six hours of labour she wanted to get some sleep.

Ty came back and saw Amy give him a look that he had never seen before, she looked so defeated and so weak, the doctors had told the two parents that the baby was lucky to survive the gunshot but all the stress that Amy had been having for the last few months had sent her into premature labour.

"I'm Sorry Amy", Ty told her as he grabbed her hand, she looked at him in confusion.

"What for?" Amy questioned as she sipped her water.

"Everything", Ty answered as he bent over and gently pressed his lips to hers, Amy blushed slightly and realised that her legs were still in the stirrups, she had been too tired, distraught and preoccupied to be bothered to take them out but she did now.

"Ty, none of this is your fault, we have a daughter", Amy smiled as best as she could when she realised how much pain she was still in, for about the last hour Amy didn't notice the pain as she was still in a dream-like state but everything started coming to her now, "Ty can you please get a nurse everything hurts like hell!"

"Yeah sure", Ty replied as he got up from his seat and saw the look of discomfort on Amy's face.

As Ty left the room Jack and Lou came in with looks of worry yet also happiness on their faces.

"How are you going?" Lou asked as she sat on the bed next to Amy.

"Everything still hurts but Ty's gone to get a nurse for some pain medication", Amy replied pointedly.

Just as Amy said that a small woman in her late twenties or early thirties walked in with Ty. She wore deep red lipstick and her green eyes contrasted with her black hair which had been securely tied back into a bun.

"Okay, I'm going to put some medication into your IV drip and You will be pleased to hear that we have evaluated your daughter's health, both you and your daughter can be released within a week", the nurse replied with a somewhat serious tone in her voice as she injected the medication into the drip, Amy nodded her head and gave a weak smile.

"So, she's going to be okay?" Amy asked tentatively.

"Yes, but remember that you do have to give her a name", The nurse replied as she glanced at her clipboard.

"Lou and I are going to leave now so you two can give her a name", Jack said as both he and Lou left the room, Amy looked at Ty with tired eyes, realising that they hadn't chosen a name yet.

"Leda", Ty suggested.

"Summer."

"Emily."

"Lucy."

"Gretchen."

"You honestly want to name your daughter Gretchen?" Amy asked as they kept on dishing out names.

"Robin."

"Eleanor."

"Matilda."

"Kassidy."

"Maria."

"Melanie."

"Bronte."

"Willow."

"Okay, can we think of a name tomorrow, I can barely keep my eyes open", Amy told Ty with a pleading look on her face.

"Sure", he said as he went over and pressed his lips to her forehead.

Mallory jiggled Katherine who had fallen asleep just a moment ago, she had gone back to Heartland once she found out that everything was okay. She went into the nursery and gently put her into the crib.

"Mallory, is she asleep?" Lou asked as she walked into the house.

"Yeah, I just put her in the crib, How's Amy?" Mallory queried as she grabbed a glass of water.

"Tired", Lou replied, Mallory took a sip of her water, "Is Blair still here?"

"No, she went home with her mum", Mallory answered, "She said she'd come back for Penelope and the foal in a week or two."

"Cool", Mallory replied as she went outside.

"Caleb, I came back because I love you! I don't want to divorce you! Don't you get it!", Ashley yelled in frustration.

"I love you too Ashley, I just didn't think that you would be coming back, I thought you were going to divorce me", Caleb replied nervously.

"So what? You go and date other girls! Obviously our marriage didn't mean that much in the first place!" Ashley said, tears forming in her eyes.

"Ashley, It does and did and, well, you get the point, I love you okay?" Caleb tried to comfort her, she didn't seem to be herself.

"Well, you know, for what it's worth I'm pregnant", Ashley announced before she left the caravan.

"Ashley, Wait!" Caleb called out in desperation but his efforts were fruitless.

"Muum!" Amy screamed, everywhere she looked there was darkness, she couldn't see what was going on, distant screams from a horse but couldn't identify where they were coming from.

Amy shot up from her bed and looked around, the room was dark and she couldn't see Ty anywhere, she shot her head to the side when she heard a baby whimpering. It took her a moment to realise that the baby belonged to her.

She pressed the button to call the nurse over, still feeling a little overwhelmed from the dream she just had, she realised she had been sweating when the nurse came through the door.

"Hello, How can I help you?" The nurse said, this time it was a different one, she had short brown hair and seemed a lot nicer than the previous one.

"She's crying, how do I make her stop?" Amy said flatly still feeling exhausted.

"She's probably hungry", The nurse replied, "I'll go retrieve the lactation nurse."

The lactation nurse was in shortly and showed Amy how to feed her baby, she cradled the young girl to her chest and allowed her to suckle so the nurse shortly left as Ty came in to see Amy breast feeding.

"Is this a bad time?" Ty asked nervously.

"Ty, honestly, we slept with each other remember? So I don't think it should be too weird if you saw me breastfeeding", Amy replied with a somewhat serious tone to her voice.

"True", Ty agreed as he went down to sit beside her, "When did she come out of nicu?"

"Not quite sure, she was here when I woke up about ten, maybe fifteen minutes ago", Amy replied when her daughter started to cry again, "Child, please stop crying."

Amy put the baby up to her shoulder and bounced her as best she could from her sitting position on the bed, praying that she wouldn't vomit down her back, until she finally burped and settled again, Amy sighed, she knew the next few weeks would be hellish.

"I don't understand why I can't go in and see my daughter and my granddaughter", Tim complained to the nurse at the registrar.

"I'm sorry sir but visiting hours are closed, you can come back tomorrow to see her", The nurse replied as Tim folded his arms and gave a very annoyed look, Shane looked down at his feet hoping that his father wouldn't embarrass him.

"It's okay dad, we can just come in and see them tomorrow", Shane assured him.

"Fine, I'll be back tomorrow", Tim told the nurse giving her a quick glare, the nurse just brushed it aside, things like that were all too common for her.

"I Don't know Peter", Lou looked around the empty lot, "Maybe we should put the nursery here."

"Hey, whatever you want honey", Peter told her as he wrapped his arms around her from behind.

"Do you really think that you and Caleb will be able to pull this off?" Lou queried as she looked up at him with nervous eyes.

"Yeah, all we need is a bit of grit, spit and duct tape and this house will be together in no time", Peter replied with a smirk.

"I honestly hope you intend to use real wood and nails to build this house", Lou said, holding back a smile.

"But that's no fun", Peter pouted.

"It's not supposed to be fun", Lou explained.

"Jack, you know, you should really wear sunscreen when you go out to work, statistics show people over the age of fifty have increased chance of getting sun cancer", Mallory said with her hands on her hips while Jack shifted hay bales.

"Mallory, if I was gonna get skin cancer I would've got it by now", Jack told her as he continued with his work.

"okay jack but don't come crying to me when you have a huge hospital bill", Mallory said, hands still on hips, "Just trying to look out for your health."