Chapter 3
"Derek! What did the doctor ask you to do?" Nicole demanded.
She wasn't in the mood for him to be squeamish. Derek put the phone down on the floor and wiped his hand over his face.
"She told me to check for dilation." He said weakly.
"So what do you have to do?" Nicole asked.
"I, I, I have to measure you um with my….." Derek couldn't finish his sentence. All he could do was hold up his hand.
"Your magic fingers?" Nicole finished his sentence. "Then help me out of my pants and fucking do it!" She ordered.
Rossi cleared everyone away from the elevator area except for Spencer who held tight to his position. Derek looked up to his friend looking for reassurance from him.
"Derek, please just do whatever the doctor tells you to. Right now I'm counting on you to help the woman I love more than anything bring our baby into the world. I know that you can do this. Please." Spencer pleaded.
Derek took in a deep breath and got down on the floor and helped Nicole get her pants out of the way. Swallowing hard he reached down and began to do as the doctor instructed. Once he had what he needed he jerked his hand back and picked up the phone and informed her of what he knew.
"Spencer!" Nicole whimpered.
"I'm right here baby. I'm not going anywhere." He assured her.
"The doctor says it won't be long now." Derek said getting paler than he was before. "She said don't push yet."
"I want my epidural! This is not what I expected! This hurts like hell! Somebody make this fucking pain stop!" Nicole screamed as another contraction hit.
A very long stream of four letter words flowed clearly out of her mouth as she fought the urge to push.
"Why is everyone loitering out here in the lobby? Don't you all have jobs to do?" Strauss' voice shrilled over the commotion.
"Well hello to you too Erin." Rossi said dryly. "The elevator is stuck and Nicole is in there and she is in labor."
"Please just tell me Agent Hotchner isn't in there with her." Erin said under her breath.
"Morgan is in there with her." Rossi said narrowing his eyes to her.
"That makes me feel so much better." She spouted sarcastically. "I'm beginning to think I need to ban that woman from this building. Trouble follows her everywhere she goes."
"Are you planning to hang around to see if she stars in another flick?" Rossi taunted. "Why are you here Erin?"
"I wanted to meet with everyone concerning the budget." She huffed. "I can however see that will be useless with this side show occurring."
"Are you jealous?" Rossi sneered.
"I'll come back once this fiasco is resolved." She gave one last glare to Dave before turning to leave.
Aaron walked out of his office completely oblivious to what was occurring in the lobby and looked down to see an empty bull pen with the exception of Anderson who was still at his desk.
"Where is everyone?" Aaron asked.
Anderson lifted his arm and pointed out to the lobby of the offices and the went back to what he was working on. Seeing the crowd of people in the lobby Aaron quickly made his way out to see what was up.
Emerging through the glass doors he observed his team standing around all looking worried and Spencer sprawled out on the floor looking in through a tiny area of an obviously stuck elevator. Seeing Denise leaning up against the wall chewing on her fingernails Aaron made his way over to her.
"What's going on?"
"Nicole and Derek are stuck in the elevator and she's in labor."
"Well if she just went into labor then they'll be out of there before she delivers."
"I don't think so. Her water broke."
Aaron raised his eyes and then had to put his hand up over his mouth to conceal the smile that threatened to spread across his face. Denise noticed his attempt to hide his emotions.
"Are you trying not to laugh?"
"I'm sorry. I realize that I haven't known Nicole as long as you obviously, but she does always seem to end up in some sort of a predicament."
"Well that's true." Denise scrutinized the look on Aaron's face.
He had a longing in his eyes that she wasn't exactly sure of what it meant. Being the nosey protective older sister she decided that she needed to get to the bottom of it.
"Are you in love with my sister?" She bluntly asked.
Aaron's smile dropped. He knew this probably would come up at some point.
"I thought I was right after everything happened. She's an amazing woman. I had a hard time letting go once she left to go back to New York but, I realized that it was one sided and eventually the feelings faded. Nicole made it very clear to me that she had no intention of ever having a relationship with me. She loves Spencer." Aaron and then looked back to Denise.
"I was just checking. It's my job as the older sister."
"I understand completely."
Denise could tell Aaron was being honest and she admired him for that. She couldn't help but find him interesting.
The paramedics came racing in with the stretcher and medical bags and made their way to the elevator and quickly got down on the floor next to Spencer to assess the situation.
"The medics are here." Derek told the doctor.
He handed the phone up through the hole so Dr Holden could talk to them. Nicole was shifting around obviously in an immense amount of pain.
"Alright people what the hell is going on?" Nicole yelled. "I feel like I should be pushing right now."
The medic hung up the phone. "Hi Nicole. My name is Adam. I'm going to help coach you and Derek through this. Dr Holden told me that you are close to delivering." He pushed some sheets down into the hole. "Derek spread these out under Nicole so the area stays as clean as possible."
Derek got everything arranged as Adam instructed.
"Come on man don't you think you could just squeeze your skinny ass through that hole and do this instead?" Derek begged.
Spencer held his eyes fixed to his wife wanting so badly to be by her side. It almost killed him to see her in so much pain.
"Sorry. I may be skinny but, I'm not that skinny." Adam laughed. "You'll both make it through this just fine."
"Oh yah? Have you ever tried to shove something the size of Mt Rushmore out of a tiny hole?" Nicole hissed. "Just cut the pep talk crap and tell us what to do because I'm seriously considering kicking your ass once I get out of here! "Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Son of a bitch!"
"Derek, we need to see what is going on. Will you position Nicole so we can get a better look?" Adam asked in a calm voice.
Derek helped to position her so the medics could see, gently opening her legs that she had so tightly squeezed together.
"Oh no! What the hell is that?" Derek cringed.
"Nicole the baby is crowning. Next contraction you can push." Adam instructed.
"What the hell does that mean?" Derek asked flabbergasted.
"It means the baby's coming out you dip shit!" Nicole said pushing her back against the wall preparing for the next contraction. "Spencer if you think we're having more kids after this, you can kiss my ass!" Nicole finally let loose on him.
"I love kissing your ass baby." Spencer blushed.
"Ah come on man! I'm already grossed out! I don't need to hear that!" Derek protested.
"You call me baby one more time Spencer Reid and I'm going to castrate you and bury you in the back yard!" She screamed.
Spencer blinked several times stunned at what she had just said to him. He knew his wife was in pain but she never threatened him with bodily harm before.
Adam put his head down trying not to laugh. "It's alright man." He said to Spencer. "She doesn't mean anything she's saying right now."
"I hope not." Spencer replied not at all reassured.
"Here comes another." Nicole said pushing her hands down on the floor.
"Ok Nicole, when it feels natural, push." Adam said. "Derek get down to help guide the baby when it comes out."
Nicole gritted her teeth and pushed with all of her might letting out a groan. Her face was bright red as she kept the pressure on through the contraction. As the pain subsided she sat back and tried to catch her breath.
"This isn't fucking working." She said frustrated. "I need to get my legs up."
Derek thought for a minute then picked up her legs and placed her feet up on the front his shoulders.
"Does that help?" He asked
"Yes that's better. Shit! Here comes another." She gritted her teeth and waited for the pain and then pushed with all of her might. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Derek held his ground as the strength of her legs shoved against him. She growled as she continued to push digging her feet into Derek's shoulders.
"Keep pushing Nicole! The head's coming out." Adam instructed.
Nicole yelled giving one more shove and finally could tell something had moved.
Spencer swallowed hard seeing the tiny head emerge out of her. "You're doing great Nicole. Our baby is almost here."
The next contraction came on quick giving her little time to recover.
"Give me your hands doll face." Derek said.
Nicole laced her fingers though his and began to push. Derek took all the pain she was inflicting as she clenched his fingers tightly in hers and pushed against his shoulders.
"Push back on my legs Derek." She instructed. Taking in one big breath she pushed harder than before. "Oh god Spencerrrrrrrr!" She screamed.
The shoulders popped through and she released her grip on Derek's hands so he could guide the baby.
"The hard part is over Nicole. One more good push should do it." Adam continued. Derek be ready."
Derek braced himself and Nicole ground her teeth and gave one more good shove when the contraction hit. The baby slid out and Derek picked it up and placed it in a clean sheet.
"You have a baby girl Reid!" He gasped. Derek stood up and grabbed the things from Adam and began to clear the baby's airway as he was insturcted and wipe the bloody goop away from her face.
A tiny cry wailed softly up the shaft and everyone began to cheer.
Nicole had tears streaming down her face as she reached out to take her daughter in her arms.
"Oh god Spencer. She's really here. Hello beautiful little girl." Nicole cooed at her daughter.
Spencer began to cry as he watched his family. Nicole was beaming with pride as Derek cut the cord.
"We got the problem fixed!" Charlie yelled coming into the hallway.
Spencer and the two medics stood up and the doors closed and the elevator finally made it to it's destination and the doors opened back up. Adam and his partner hurried in and quickly checked over Nicole and the baby and loaded them onto the stretcher. Spencer was right by his family's side kissing Nicole and his daughter.
"I'm not leaving your sides again." He promised. "I love you so much my beautiful Nicole."
Derek stood up and walked slowly out of the elevator only to have Penelope run to him and throw her arms around him.
"Oh my chocolate Adonis! You're a hero." She said excitedly.
"What can I say?" It was just another day on the job." He boasted.
Penelope let go of him and as everything finally caught up with Derek. His head began to spin violently and all at once darkness took over and he fell straight back passing out and cracking his head on the floor.
"Oh god Derek!" Nicole screamed.
Adam nodded to his partner to go and check on Derek. After checking the vitals, a stick of smelling salts was pulled out of the bag and passed under the knocked out man's nose. The smell made Derek jerk awake.
"Oh god man what the hell's that smell?" He complained. "Oh shit. My head." He moaned reaching his hand up to it.
"You're coming with us dude." The medic said.
Dave went over along with Penelope to help get Derek up on his feet and walk down the hall to another elevator to ride down to the waiting ambulance. As the doors closed around them both Nicole and Derek winced at he idea of being in another elevator.
"Well at least I've already given birth." Nicole smiled looking down at her baby girl. She then turned and looked at Spencer. "We're a family."
"Yes we are." Spencer said kissing his wife again and then his daughter.
"And I'm an idiot who got into an elevator with a pregnant woman." Derek moaned rubbing his head again.
"No you're the man who stepped up to the plate when you needed to. Thank you so much my friend." Spencer said softly. "I don't know how I can ever repay you for this."
"I'm sure I can think of something pretty boy."
Rossi, JJ, and Penelope all hurried to grab their things and get Denise. They wanted to get to that hospital and see the baby.
"Are you coming Aaron?" Denise asked.
"I'm guessing I should stay here. I don't really feel all that welcome in situations like this." He said almost disappointedly.
"I think you should come anyway. If Nicole and Spencer seem upset, I'll take the blame." Denise prodded.
Rossi saw the hesitation in his friend and went to see if he could convince him to change his mind.
"Aaron, I think you're the one who makes yourself feel unwelcome. Come on. Don't you want to see the baby."
"I do." He smiled and followed Dave and Denise to the elevator.
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