A/N: Sorry for there being another long time gap in between the last update and this one. The holidays came as we all know and I just couldn't find any sort of inspiration to write until now.

Chapter Ten

As soon as the entire Castle family had gotten to the hospital; Alexis had been admitted and whisked off to the nearest labor & delivery suite. Jack was with her as they were brought to the hospital. Now came the waiting for their loved ones. Jack's parents came to the hospital shortly after Alexis and Jack had been brought to the labor & delivery suite. Rick had called his ex-wife; Meredith, to let her know that their daughter was in labor. He knew in the back of his mind that their daughter would like to have her mother along with her step-mother. Rick also knew that Meredith wanted to be there for the birth of her grandchild.

Meredith arrived just a few minutes after Jack's parents had. Lily had offered to go to the hospital café to get coffee or anything to drink for whoever wanted something since they were going to be there for a while. As they waited for the arrival of Baby Castle-McIntyre. No one except the expectant parents had found out the gender of their little one. Alexis and Jack had opted to wait until their baby was born to let their family know whether it was a boy or a girl.

A while into waiting, Kate had called the boys at the precinct to let them know that she wouldn't be returning to precinct.

"How's Alexis doing?" Javi asked.

Kevin had answered the phone when it had rang and put the speaker phone on so that his partner could partake in the phone call. When Kate had called the precinct; Javi had just gotten in from getting lunch for him and Kevin.

"As far as we know everything is going as it should." Kate answered.

"That's good, we'll let Lanie know."

"Thanks."

In the back of the minds of Kate, Rick and their friends was the possibility of there being a complication during the delivery like there had been all those years ago when Jenny was in labor with Nicholas Javier. Everyone was hoping and wishing that the delivery would be a smooth one for the sake of both the baby and Alexis.

About an hour or so after Kate had called the precinct, Jack came out to the waiting area to give an update to his parents and his in-laws. Obviously by then, Lily had returned from her run to the hospital café.

"What's going on, son?" Jack's father asked.

"How's Alexis?" Rick asked.

Jack cleared his throat before he answered the questions of his father and father in law.

"There's been a complication in the delivery." Jack finally answered.

"What happened?" Meredith asked showing concern for her daughter and grandchild.

"There's meconium aspiration in the baby's intestines and the umbilical cord is wrapped around the baby's neck. Before all of this the baby was in a breech position which the doctor was able to fix without a problem. They're doing what they can now to rectify the other things."

Everyone nodded as Jack went back to the suite that they had been brought to hours prior. As everyone worried, hoped and prayed for everything to get better; Kate turned to Rick just as she had when they were waiting with Lanie and Javi when Jenny was giving birth to Nickolas Javier.

"Can you make a wish that everything turns out better for them?" Kate asked.

Rick was having a minor case of déjà vu.

"I already have. One for the baby and one for all three of them." Rick answered.

With that Kate smiled as she buried herself in the warm and comforting embrace of her husband that she had become accustom to over the years.