Moments That Make a Lifetime
Chapter Three
The Baby
A/N- Well friends and followers here we are! We have reached the end! Well I do have some one shot ideas for after this but still. Thank you for sticking with me to the end! This one is for y'all! Let me know what you think!
Killian groaned slightly as he blinked his eyes open to spy the monitor on the bedside table beside him, the lights on it where flashing all the way to the end in sync with the cries. Emma shifted in her sleep beside him; he cast a glance over his shoulder at her, praying she would stay asleep. After a few moments she stilled and settled back into a peaceful sleep.
Killian lifted the covers off of him and swung his legs over the bed to land his bear feet on the wooden floor. He stood up carefully and cursed silently when the bed squeaked slightly as he righted himself but a look towards his wife told him she was still asleep, she must have been more tired than even he could tell. As quietly as he could he padded across the room towards the door. He gripped the cold metal of the handle and depressed it as quickly as he could, knowing that trying to do it slowly would only have made it whine louder and longer.
Finally outside the room he let himself breath, not realising he had practically been holding his breath the entire time. He walked along the short but dark corridor, pasted the dark bathroom and Henrys empty room before reaching the very last room. Walking in he scrubbed a hand over his face which cleared some of the sleep from his eyes and made his way over to the crib at the far end of the room. Resting his hands on the side of it he peered down at the face of his five month old son, Caleb. His crying had subsided now but he was still whimpering slightly so Killian reached down to pick him up and then cradled him against his bear chest.
"Now now lad, what's all this crying about? You'll wake your momma up." Killian said as he placed a kiss to the dark hair on top of the baby's head. Looking around the room he saw the ancient rocking chair that Charming and Snow had given them shortly before Caleb was born. Sitting down in it he picked up a blanket from the pile of fresh laundry beside the chair and wrapped his son in it before settling him back against his chest where Caleb wrapped a tiny hand around his father's necklace.
The pirate had no idea how long they had been sat there but suddenly a song started playing in his head and he began whispering it to his son, they had found out around at around five weeks when their son wouldn't even sleep three hours straight that Killian's voice had a soothing effect on him.
"I hope that days come easy and moments pass slow,
and each road leads you where you want to go,
and if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose,
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.
and if one door opens to another door closed,
I hope you keep on walkin' till you find the window,
if it's cold outside,
show the world the warmth of your smile,
more then anything, more then anything,"
"My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more then you can hold,
and while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish."
As he sang quietly he couldn't help but let his mind wander to the important moments about his son that he had been through. He thought about that wet and windy Saturday morning after he came back from dropping Henry off at Regina's, normally both he and Emma would take him and then head to Granny's for Breakfast but Emma hadn't been well for a week so Killian just left her in bed. Which is why he was surprised to find her waiting in the kitchen for him, fully dressed, even though she still looked a little green she was positively bouncing on her feet as she slid a plastic stick over to him. He was honestly worried that his face was going to split in two when the penny finally dropped.
He would deny it until his dying day but Killian stood slightly behind his wife when it came to telling her parents about the baby. Emma had made sure that her father wasn't armed when they sat them down to break the news but he still went to punch him, Killian had never run faster in his life. Emma just rolled her eyes and sat by her mother and said, 'Really Dad? We are married; did you think this was never gonna happen?' It took Charming a good three weeks to be able to look his son in law in the eye after that.
He remembered telling Henry that he was going to be a big brother to which he had jumped off of his seat, hugged them both while shouting 'Finally!'
When they told Neal and August the pair of them first burst out laughing and then sobered up enough to congratulate them with Neal adding, 'I hope you know how much I charge for babysitting.'
'I hope you never look back, but cha never forget,
all the ones who love you, in the place you left,
I hope you always forgive, and you never regret,
and you help somebody every chance you get,
Oh, you find God's grace, in every mistake,
and you always give more then you take.'
Then he remembered the day that the phone call had come. It was a day in the middle of the hottest summer that anyone could remember. He and Charming had been using the office fans to try and keep a balloon in the air when his cell phone started ringing, glancing at the screen and seeing Emma's name he assumed that his wife was calling to check up on them like she had three times that day alone. Since being forced by her husband and father to go on maternity leave Emma had called no less that eight times a day to remind them to do things that they had already done and to make sure that they hadn't killed each other. Placing the device to his ear he greeted her with his customary 'Hello Beautiful." While straining to catch the balloon with his fan as Charming had sent the opposite way he expected.
"Killian, it's time." Charming later said that he had never seen the colour drain out of someone's face as fast as it did from the pirates. Two minuets later and the two of them were racing down to the loft. Killian had his foot to the floor and Charming was on his own cell phone to Whale and on Killian's cell to Snow, having two conversations at once with a cell pressed to each side of his head.
It took about twenty minuets to get Emma into the car and to the hospital. Snow came barrelling out of nowhere with a wheelchair. Killian didn't want to think about where she got it from or who she might have tipped out of it.
Suddenly he was standing in the delivery room, wrapped head to toe in green scrubs on Emma's right hand side and she had his left hand gripped so tightly in hers he was worried he was going to need his hook again. From the stream of curse words spilling from her mouth there was also phrases along the lines of 'You did this to me!' and 'I swear to God I am going to kill you!' but less than an hour later and he was leaning over his wife and child and for the first time in his life Killian fell in love at first sight. He knew that he would move heaven and earth for this little version of himself and he couldn't help but marvel at the fact that he helped create this little piece of perfect.
Half an hour later when the baby was wrapped in a soft blue blanket with a matching hat the doors of the side room opened and in came Snow, Charming and Henry. Killian could just make out August in the corridor before the doors closed and he made a note to thank Snow for calling Neal and August and getting them to bring Henry over. They all gathered around the bed where Emma lay, exhausted but thrilled and Killian was perched on the end with the bundle in his arms. When they arranged themselves so that they could all see the baby's tiny face Killian looked to his in laws and step son and said,
"We would like you to meet our son, Caleb Joseph Jones."
'but More then anything, Yeah, and more then anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it,
to your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more then you can hold,
and while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish.'
Killian hummed as he finished the song and looked once more at his son who was finally sleeping in his arms, his arm still clutched tightly around the necklace his father wore. He was so distracted with looking over his son he didn't realise there was another person there.
"That was beautiful." Emma said gently from her position leaning against the door frame. Killian looked over to his wife who was staring at the baby in his arms.
"I'm sorry love, did I wake you?" he asked, standing now. Emma came over to stand by them.
"No, I woke up and you weren't there and then I heard you on the monitor." She told him as she lent her head against his arm and gazed down at their son. They stood there a little while longer until they were both about to fall asleep where they stood.
As Killian lent down to place Caleb back in his cot Emma reached between them to prise the baby's hand off of the necklace. Arm in arm they walked back to the door and stopped just inside of the room to look back at their baby before heading back to bed to try get some sleep before the madness that was their life began again.
A/N – well there we are you beautiful people! I hope you all got what you wanted out of this story and once again I say thank you for the amazing support on this! Let me know your thoughts!
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