Sliding her hand through the hole in the side of the incubator, Amy gently placed the tip of her finger on her baby son's palm. Instantly, the new born baby clasped her finger within her hand. Beaming, Amy turned to Ty and smiled, her eyes filled with tears. "He's amazing…" She whispered, her voice incredibly hoarse.

"You saying hi to your Mom Seth?" Ty, crouching by Amy's wheelchair, smiling.

Seth Jackson Borden had been born approximately three weeks premature, meaning that he was very small and there were concerns regarding his weight and ability to control his own temperature. Therefore the doctor and midwives decided that it would be good for Seth to spend a couple of days in the Special Baby Unit.

Initially, Amy and Ty were very worried that something was seriously wrong with Seth. Both Ty and Amy got to hold Seth before he was taken to the Special Baby Unit. A nurse had allowed Ty and Amy in to see Seth in his incubator just before supper.

Seth had been born with no hair, which suggested that he was going to have blonde hair like Amy. His eyes were the same striking emerald green as Ty's. Seth was definitely a mixture of both Ty and Amy.

As soon as Amy saw her son, she immediately fell in love with him. Especially when the emerald green new born Babygro they had bought Seth was huge on him, making him look even smaller, with his little green hat.

"Hey Seth, here's your Dad again." Slowly Amy retracted her hand through the incubator and let Ty hold Seth's hand.

Turning to Amy, Ty smiled just like had done on their wedding day. His eyes were glittery and screamed pure excitement. Amy was amazed at Ty, he'd been working yesterday and all night, stayed with Amy right through her labour. Not once had he left her side or complained about being tired.

Physically however, Ty was showing his tiredness. His hair was standing up in all different directions, as a result of Ty running his hands through it, in an effort to keep himself awake. Although his eyes glittered, underneath he had dark circles. His clothes were crumpled after he'd shoved them into his backpack on the way out to the hospital.

"I'm sorry but, you're going to have to finish it up here" The nurse whispered. "You can come back tomorrow" she added, smiling reassuringly, patting Amy gently on the shoulder.

Ty studied Amy's hurt face. He knew that the last thing Amy wanted to do was leave Seth, and it was going to hurt like hell leaving him. "Hey, let's go and get something to eat" Ty said, trying to adopt a positive tone.

After taking his finger gently away from Seth's hand, Ty found Amy's hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "We will come and see him tomorrow" he said maintaining the conscious positive tone.

Amy nodded in response and smiled. "Night Seth" she whispered, before sitting back properly in her wheelchair.

As Ty wheeled Amy out of the Special Baby Unit and down a number of corridors, Amy concentrated on her breathing. Concentrating on it meant that Amy could think about something other than her son being laid in a unit for sick babies.

"Here we go…" Ty pushed Amy inside the cafeteria and set her at a little table near a window. Even though it was evening, it was still light outside, indicating the imminent summer.

Amy imagined that back at Heartland, all the horses would be turned out in the paddocks. Usually, the regulars at Heartland, Paint, Pogi, Spartan and Harley, guided the rest of the horses down to the mouth of the river. During the hot days, the horses escaped the heat by going into a shallow part of the river for a paddle or a roll.

Usually, around this time, Jack would go and check on the cattle. He would saddle Paint up and go out just before sunset, catching the best of the sunset from the pastures whilst enjoying a flask of coffee. Then he'd ride back home before the beautiful lighting disappeared.

Lou would be preparing tea. Running around, preparing vegetables, whilst keeping an eye on Katie, who would be doing some sort of activity along the lines of painting, drawing or doing a jigsaw puzzle.

Peter would be either sat with Katie, often doing his own painting or taking as much interest in their jigsaw puzzle, or he'd be on his way back from work. Driving with an aim to be just in time for dinner, otherwise, Lou would be incredibly upset and in a mood with Peter for the rest of the evening, something which would impact the entire household.

Whilst Lou was preparing dinner, Georgie would be out with the horses. After an obligatory hour to work on homework, Georgie would quickly pull on her yard shoes, and run out to the barn. Usually she'd ride Phoenix, jumping him three times a week. On Wednesdays Georgie would go to trick riding but afterwards, she would help Amy with any jobs on the yard until tea.

Whilst sitting in the hospital canteen, imagining that life outside the four walls was still occurring seemed an almost impossible thought.

Prior to Seth, any time that Amy spent away from Heartland, a vast amount of time was spent thinking about Heartland in one way or another. Now, Heartland was an afterthought, Amy was focused on her son.

"I got us some vegetable soup" Ty said coming back over to the table shakily carrying a wooden tray with two bowls. As he placed the bowls down, the soup threatened to overspill the bowls. "There's a bread roll and butter."

Snapping out of her day dream Amy smiled and took a roll from the tray, "thank you."

The pair sat in silence as they ate their soup. Overcame with tiredness and emotion, even talking felt tiring. After eating half her soup and half her bread roll, Amy set down her spoon.

Ty glanced at Amy's left over food and smiled, "I guess we'll eat a big breakfast."

Finishing their food, Amy and Ty made their way back to their room, navigating through the endless cream corridors.

Amy fell into the hospital bed once they got back to the room. She ached all over, tiredness had been hanging over her all day, so when she got into bed, she expected to instantly fall asleep.

However, Amy laid in bed, staring at the clock on the wall, watching the hands rotate around the clock face. Despite feeling so exhausted, Amy couldn't go to sleep.

She just kept thinking and worrying about Seth, Ty and Heartland. Going over everything multiple times made her feel like she was in a state of delirium.

Hours passed when Amy got up out of bed and went for a walk.

She left Ty asleep in the chair beside Amy's beside. He was in a slumped uncomfortable-looking position. His hand held up his head and his feet were kicked out.

Despite it being the early hours of the morning, the hospital was still so busy. Randomly choosing corridors to go down, Amy ended up at a courtyard.

It wasn't much, a little bench and two flower pots either side basically made up the courtyard. Amy pushed open the door and felt the warm air brush her face.

Sitting down on the bench, Amy looked up at the sky. It was so nice to just look at something and think about that. Everything in the hospital was the same, uninteresting layout. Nothing was there to detract from the pain and love felt in the hospital.

Instead, Amy thought about clouds. The thicker the cloud coverage on an evening the warmer a night would be. If the clouds were thinner the night would be cool. When a haze descended over the Alberta landscape, Amy knew that the next day would be stunning. If Jack and Tim had any hay or straw to harvest, then they'd be straight out the next morning if there was a haze hanging around.

"Excuse me? Amy Fleming is it?" The nurse from the Special Baby Unit came out into the courtyard.

Her appearance was comforting. Blonde hair, that just drifted above her shoulders, ice blue eyes and a warm smile. She wore purple scrubs and glasses on her head.

In response to her earlier question, Amy nodded, like a school child that had been caught red handed.

"Marie" the nurse held out her hand and shook Amy's as she sat down next to her on the bench.

Amy didn't know what to say. All the nurses in the hospital had been lovely and wonderful at their jobs, however, they'd moved along to the next patient, and rightfully so.

"I thought you'd be asleep right now, especially after the day you had" Marie said smiling.

Raising her eyebrows, Amy smiled and shrugged. "I can't sleep. I just can't switch off."

"Look," Marie held one of Amy's hands, whilst her tone drifted gradually into a whisper. "Seth's doing really well. He's improving already. He and your partner need you to be on the best form possible. To be blunt, staying awake and adding to your exhaustion isn't going to help him."

Tears filled Amy's eyes. She'd never felt so much pressure and worry fall down on her in such a short period of time. Amy had been scared to show her worry, in case it had a knock on affect with Ty or Seth.

Marie passed Amy a tissue before guiding her up off the bench, "I'll walk you back to your room honey."

Leaving Amy at the entrance of her ward, Marie gave her a big hug, "now go and get some sleep honey."

"Thank you" Amy whispered in reply before walking down the ward and to her room.

Quietly, Amy twisted the handle of the room and stepped inside, ensuring that the door didn't slam shut. Amy stood and looked at the bed, the sheets were twisted and messy from Amy's restless movements earlier.

Instead of climbing back into bed, Amy looked at Ty, who was now stretched out in the chair. Smiling, she gently padded across the room and slid onto Ty's lap.

Waking from his sleep, Ty took a small intake of breath and opened his eyes. "Hey" he said in his gravelly voice, instantly taking Amy into his arms.

"Hey" Amy said in reply, nestling her head into the crook of Ty's neck and shutting her eyes. Momentarily, Amy fell into a deep sleep.