A/N: Hello everyone! As I was writing this chapter to be the last chapter of this story, I realized that it was getting very long. So, I decided to split it in two which means that we have one more chapter to go.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except from the idea and Anthony.
"Andy!", Sharon sighed relieved when she saw him entering the room.
"Sharon!", he went quickly to her side and took hold of her hand while the other started rubbing soothing circles on her lower back to help her.
"Ahhhhhhh…", she screamed when the contraction came. "I can't do it.", she was getting tired and worried.
"Yes, you can. You can do it, sweetheart.", Andy told her with a smile.
"Ahhhhh…", she screamed again and held his hand tightly.
"Okay, Sharon. You can start pushing when the next contraction comes.", the doctor told her and took again his place.
"Oh my God!", this contraction was more painful than the others.
"Sharon, push.", the doctor told her.
Sharon took a deep breath and pushed. She was holding Andy's hand so tightly that she thought it will break soon. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…", she screamed while she pushed again. "I can't do it.", she was feeling so very tired.
"Yes, you can. Sharon, you are only minutes away from holding your baby in your arms.", the doctor told her as he tried to calm her and give her strength to continue.
"Okay. Okay.", she was taking deep breaths to calm down. "Ahhhhhhh…", she pushed again.
"Alright. The head is out now. With the next contraction push with all your strength, so we can get this baby here.", the doctor told her.
"Andy!", Sharon turned her head to look at him.
"I am right here, darling. You are doing great. In a few minutes we will be holding our baby.", he kissed her on the lips and smiled at her to give her strength.
"Now, Sharon. Push with all your strength.", they heard the doctor say.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh…", she pushed with all her strength. She sighed relieved when she felt the baby coming out of her and crying.
"Congratulations! You have a daughter.", the doctor told them as he handed the baby to the nurses to clean it a little before giving her to her parents.
"We did it, Sharon.", Andy was so very happy that he had a healthy daughter.
"We did it!", she said in a whisper as she lost consciousness.
"Sharon?", Andy shook her lightly. "Sharon, open your eyes.", he was getting worried now. "Sharon, open your eyes.", he didn't want to lose her. He got a healthy daughter just to lose his wife?
"Please, Mr. Flynn.", a nurse pushed him lightly out of the room as they had to do their jobs.
"What happened?", Ricky asked once he saw Andy coming out. "Andy?", he was worried now.
"I don't know.", Andy sat down in one of the chairs that found in front of him and didn't say anything else. "One moment she was awake and then she just lost consciousness.", he sat down and placed his hands on his face.
It had been a couple of weeks since they learnt that Sharon was pregnant. They were waiting the results from some tests the doctor had done. The waiting was driving them crazy with anxiety and worry. They were so happy that they were going to have a child made from their love and that would totally complete their happiness. Andy already loved the baby and was thinking that it was a second chance to raise a child without doing the same mistakes that he had done in the past.
It was a nice and quiet evening. They had closed their case and thankfully they hadn't caught a new one. Rusty had gone out with some friends to watch a movie and then they would go to a club for a drink. Andy and Sharon decided to stay at the condo and order something to eat while watching a movie. Andy was very surprised when Sharon told him that she wanted hamburgers for dinner. He was sure that he had never watched Sharon eating a hamburger.
They had enjoyed their hamburgers, cleaned up and then they got settled to watch the movie. They were watching a movie about a couple that had gotten together, married and expecting a child. Sharon's one hand was resting on her small baby bump while the other was in Andy's hand.
"Andy, we have to talk about something.", Sharon said when the movie ended.
"What? Did you get the results?", he was a little worried now that something was wrong with the baby.
"No!", she took hold of his hands. "Andy, we need to think about the possibility of something going wrong. Let's face it. I am fifty-two years old and pregnant. This pregnancy is going to be difficult and I know it.", she took a deep breath to calm down. "If something happens and you have to make a choice between me and our baby, I want you to choose our baby.", she told him finally.
"What?", he was quite shocked now. "First of all, nothing is going to happen to you or the baby. Everything will go well and we will hold our baby in our arms.", he took a deep breath to calm down from the shock. "Second, if I have to make a choice it will be you. Sharon, I love you and I don't want to lose you now that we found each other. I won't be able to raise a child without you, Sharon.", he was a little upset now.
"Honey, I know that it will be difficult but I want you to save our baby. I want you to have your chance in raising a child without making the mistakes you did in the past. It's your chance, Andy.", she told him while trying to hold back her tears.
"No, it's our chance. I can't raise our baby without you, Sharon.", he took a deep breath. "Think of Emily… of Ricky… of Rusty… They can't lose their mother, Sharon. You promised them four months ago when you got shot that you were going to be here for many years. Rusty can't lose another mother.", he sighed heavily. "I can't lose you, Sharon. I will die if I lose you.", he stood up and went to their bedroom without saying anything else.
Sharon sighed heavily and hugged a pillow. She knew that they both needed a few minutes alone to gather their thoughts and control themselves. Suddenly, she felt something inside her. Something she hadn't felt for years, since she was pregnant with Ricky. "Hello, my darling.", she placed her hand on her small bump and rubbed it softly. "You are going to have a wonderful father.", she said as she kept rubbing her stomach.
Slowly she stood up from the couch. It would get more difficult to get up from the couch in the future. She smiled while she kept her hand on her baby. She opened their bedroom door and found Andy on the bed. She closed the door and slowly she approached the bed and sat down. She was sorry for upsetting him but they would have to finish that talk at some point.
"Andy?", she placed her hand on his arm.
"Sharon, I don't want to continue our talk. Please, it's so painful.", he told her and took hold of her other hand to make sure that she was indeed sitting next to him. "I will make that choice then but only if I have to.", he sat up and took her in his arms.
"I love you, Andy.", she told him as she let her tears escaper freely.
"I love you too, Sharon.", he said while rocking her back and forth.
Half an hour later the doctor came out looking tired. Andy stood up quickly while the others stood beside and behind him.
"How is Sharon?", he asked him concerned.
"She is going to be fine. She fainted from exhaustion and some blood loss but she is going to be fine.", he smiled reassuringly at him.
"The baby?", he suddenly remembered about the baby.
"She is perfectly fine. She was born a little early but she is perfectly fine.", the doctor said with a wide smile. "I will send a nurse in a while to take you to your wife.", he told Andy and left.
"Congratulations, Flynn!", Louie told him with a wide smile and turned to Ricky who was still sitting down.
"Ricky?", Louie shook him lightly and brought him back to the reality.
"Yes?", he looked up at the older man. "I am sorry. I was just thinking about something. What happened?", he asked them tiredly.
"Congratulations, kid.", Andy smiled at him. "You have a healthy baby sister and your mother is doing just fine.", he told him and was glad to see him smiling again.
"Oh my God! Emily is going to be so happy when she hears it.", he said and quickly stood up to go tell his sister that they got a new baby sister.
Emily was just sitting there and holding Rusty's hand. She was so sad to see her usually so strong brother laying in a bed and looking small and fragile. She knew very well that he wouldn't want a big fuss around him as he didn't like to be the center of the attention.
"Mom is giving birth to our new baby sister.", she chuckled a little. "I know that you and Ricky want a brother but I would like so much to have a sister. You will think I am a little paranoid that I want a sister but you don't know something very sad about our past, Rusty.", she was just speaking at him because somehow she wanted to talk about it. "The first time Jack left was when I was seven years old and Ricky was almost six years old. We thought that we would never see him again but he came back two years later. Ricky and I thought that our dad had come back to stay but this only lasted for five months.", she took a deep breath to calm down as a few tears escaped from her eyes. "Two months later mom starting feeling unwell. I thought that she had something serious but we got so excited when she told us that she was pregnant. We were going to have a baby brother or sister. There were some times that Ricky and I fought about the baby's sex. Mom used to watch us and smile. She was seven months pregnant when one day Ricky and I found her laying unconscious on the floor of her bedroom. I knew that something had happened with Jack because he had come home a couple of days earlier. He thought… he thought that mom had slept with another man and she got herself pregnant.", she took another deep breath while more tears fell freely. "It was the first time he hit her and caused the death of our sister.", she started crying and soon felt two arms hugging her from behind. "Ricky!", she knew it was her brother.
He had come to tell her about their baby sister when he heard her talking to their brother about their mother's previous pregnancy and the death of their sister. He knew that it was very painful for her to speak about it but she needed to speak to someone, even though that someone was laying on a bed in a comma. He just hugged her tightly and let her cry. He couldn't do anything else at the moment than hold her and show her his love.
"Is everything alright? How is mom?", she asked her brother a few minutes later when she stopped crying.
"Well, we had a scare because she fainted right after giving birth to our baby sister but she is going to be fine.", he told her and moved to the other side of the bed to sit down.
"Oh, thank God!", she turned her attention to Rusty but something Ricky said finally caught her. "Wait. Our baby sister?", she turned to look at her brother and noticed that he was smiling at her. "We have a baby sister?", she asked him with hope.
"Yeah… We have a baby sister, Em.", he told her and was so glad to see his sister smiling.
"Ohhh… a baby sister!", she let a few tears to fall freely. She was so excited that they had a healthy baby sister and their mother was alright. "Rusty… Did you hear? We have a baby sister.", she started talking to her brother while holding his hand. "You have to wake up, Rusty. Mom is going to need us all to help her with the baby. Our sister is going to need us to teach us a lot of things, especially about our parents.", she wiped her eyes and looked at her older brother.
Ricky just smiled at her and turned to look at his brother. He missed him so much. They had become so close as brothers and he really missed his brother. He really hoped that by the time their mother and sister could go home, he would be awake and joking. "Yeah… Our sister has to learn a lot of things about our parents and from now.", he looked at his sister again and smiled. They couldn't deny it anymore. Sharon and Andy were their parents.
"Oh…", Emily gasped and looked at Ricky with wide eyes.
"What happened? Are you alright, Em?", he got worried that something happened to her this time.
"He squeezed my hand. He just squeezed my hand.", she told him and smiled widely. "Rusty, if you can hear us squeeze my hand.", she told Rusty and a moment later she felt him squeeze her hand again. "I think that he is waking up. Go get a nurse or a doctor.", she ordered her older brother and kept her attention to her younger brother. "Mom is going to be so happy when she learns about it.", she was hoping that her brother will wake up very soon.
Sorry to leave it here. I will try to finish the next chapter as soon as I can. Please leave a review. Thank you.
To Be Continued…