From The Ground Up

This life will go by in the blink of a eye but I wouldn't want to spend it without you by my side. Sarah x Connor and all that comes in between.

By my side

"Okay guys, baby number two is out." Sarah heard Dr. Shepard say as a loud cry filled her ears. "Looking good, we're doing great Sarah."

Reese sighed. She had never been that exhausted in her entire life. She watched as Connor cut the cord and wrap the baby up so she could hold him. "Hi you, let's meet that beautiful girl there, she's been screaming for a while to meet you."

Sarah glared at him. "But she's such a trooper."

"Nice save Rhodes..." Sarah smirked tiredly. "Hey buddy.."

Connor smiled and kissed her forehead as the baby stirred in her arms, he opened his blue eyes wide open, another pair of deep blue like ones to get their way.

Another boy. "Is he okay?" Connor asked.

"He'a fine, a little low on weight but that's normal. What's his name?" Dr. Shepard asked. Sarah glanced over at Connor. They talked different baby names, one for each of their unique boys, Like Luke this baby took after Connor more than Sarah.

"Finn." Sarah said. It took her a minute to register what was happening as her body began responding again, she felt a little light headed and Connor noticed her demeanor.

"Reese?" Dr. Shepard called for her. "Roll her over..."

She felt herself quickly falling into a painful series of contractions. "Here, I'll take him." A nurse said as she picked the baby from her arms."No…"

"Babe, stay with me…" Connor's voice seemed like a distant call as Sarah began to feel more and more out of herself, from what she could gather, and must have been bleeding from somewhere. "Sarah…"

"We have to get this baby out Connor, there's risk of loosing them both." Eileen told Connor. "You are the father so you get to make the call."

Sarah came into her senses for a moment to look at Rhodes. He'd aways been so sure of himself, made her believe she could conquer all by his encouragement alone.

"Connor…"

"Do whatever you have to get them both through this." She heard him say. "Please."

"Of course." She assured him. Sarah felt herself being pushed away and the hand Connor had been holding felt empty. "I have to go prep now."

Sarah wanted to scream. She wanted to beg Connor to force them to save their baby, in that moment she didn't care about herself. She felt Connor's lips on her forehead, his lips which were one of her most favorite thing about him.

Her mind drifted back to their first kiss, it wasn't something she'd been expecting after they'd disagreed on a course of treatment.

She was still a Med student and he was a fellow.

She was Sarah Reese and he was Connor Rhodes, the oddest match at Med.

She remembered those lips so well and how when he'd wanted to pull back she hadn't left him.

She took control and he seemed to like it but now this was something that was out of his control specially because he couldn't be in the OR with her as more than a partner.

"Now Connor, I'm breaking the rules by letting you stay here but let me make something clear you are here for Sarah and your son. You are not a doctor in this room, I am. Understood?"

Connor saw Natalie from the corner of his eyes at the other side of the glass. What was she doing there? Who was with his boys?

"Understood Dr. Rhodes?"

"Yes." He sighed.

He'd been in numerous surgeries, in Guadalajara and rural Mexico as well as war stricken country but never in his life had he been scared as much as he was in that moment, holding Sarah's hand and holding on to hope.

Granted, he'd never been much of a believer, specially after the death of his mother but in that moment all he had left to do was pray.

He remembered his friend Marco whom he had stayed at UAG with had been a religious guy, his grandma was as stereotypical as they could get but she did teach him an important thing.

She taught him to believe in something greater than himself, it didn't matter how he called, it didn't matter if he could see it or not but if he could feel it in his heart that it real. He turned to see the monitor, the baby seemed in distress but Sarah seemed to be estable.

And so he prayed, quietly and mostly to himself but he prayed for a miracle and he prayed for his family, his two healthily little boys and his future wife and the one baby who hadn't been so lucky but who was still there, clinging to life.

"Alright." Eileen said softly. "Baby's out." He hadn't even noticed it had happened but he did realize the baby wasn't crying, in fact he was blue, which only meant he was receiving enough oxygen. Connor froze.

"Connor…the baby…" He couldn't possibly leave Sarah, could he?

"It's okay Sarah, they are taking care of him." Connor kissed her forehead.

He'd done that 3 timed today but this one wasn't in relief, not really. "Sarah, we've seemed to have stopped the bleeding but…" the older woman explained.

"My baby…"

"He's picking up color but we just don't know yet, let us focus on you right now, alright?"

"Go with him Connor, please."

"Sarah, I'm not leaving you…"

"Go… He needs you more than I do, please." Sarah smiled glancing over at him, a weak but pleading one. "I love you babe, but I need you to be a parent right now okay? I'm fine."

Connor felt his heart close in his chest. "I love you Sarah."

And so he left her and prayed for a miracle.

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