Hello my friends! I am going to write another chapter and hopefully you guys like it! I posted a lot yesterday! I know these are short, but a lot of them have an extremely short plat line that I can't do much with. So anyway, without further ado, the birth of Riley!

Eddie and Natalie: Age 27

(EDDIE POV)

"How are you doing?" I asked Nat, who looked like she would do anything to get the baby out of her. She was supposed to give birth a week ago, but little Riley didn't want to come out.

"I want your child out of me." she grunted.

"It's your child too." I said, smiling. She glared at me and I stopped smiling.

"Don't argue with-" she took a sharp breath.

"Nat?" I asked, panicking slightly.

"Eddie. My water broke." I looked at her in shock. "Eddie!" she said. I snapped out of it and helped her up, taking her downstairs.

"Her water broke." I said urgently to one of the nurses, who took her from me and into the delivery room. I stood there in shock for a little bit before shaking myself and following the nurse.

"AGHH!" she yelled in agony, things starting to spin around the room.

"Nat, please calm down. You'll mess them up." I said, squeezing her hand.

"Turn on the inhibitor then." she gritted out.

One of the nurses did that and the objects moved back to their normal places. "It'll be over soon." I said.

"Edward Coulson. Shut up." She said. I winced and let her cut off the circulation in my hand as another contraction came.

"Almost there. A few more pushes." The doctor said after a few more hours of this.

"That's what you said last time." Nat gritted out.

"C'mon Nat. Just a little more." I said encouragingly.

After a little while we could sigh in relief. Riley Laurel Coulson was here. Nat and I knew her name was going to be Riley, but her middle name was Agent X and Aunt Skye's sister who died when her parents put her through terrigenesis.

Nat was holding Riley and looking at her with such adoration. It was honestly adorable. Riley has my eyes, a grayish green color, and her dark brown ringlets.

Nat looked at me. "So do you want to hold her or not?" She asked. Oh. She had asked me something.

"Sorry. I kind of zoned out." I said, nervously moving to pick up our daughter in my arms. I don't want to mess up.

I picked her up and all my fears melted away, as cheesy as it sounds. Her tiny fingers curled in the air and she was looking at me knowingly.

"She's beautiful." I whispered quietly, in awe.

"She really is." Nat said, watching us as her eyes started to droop shut, she struggled to keep them open.

"Go to sleep Nat. You must be exhausted. I'll take care of her and if anything all of our family is outside and they know what to do. Don't worry." I said. She sighed and nodded, knocking out in a few minutes.

I smiled and my mom walked up next to me. "Aww Eddie she's gorgeous." She said quietly. I smiled.

"Isn't she?" I said, still slightly in awe that she is my daughter. It just never really sunk in until now.

And it's the strangest thing. You feel so much love for this child you don't even know yet. This urge to protect them from anything and everything. Right then I swore to myself never to let anything hurt Riley. Ever.

Agent X came up next to me. "What's her middle name?" She asked me.

"Laurel." I said softly. She looked at me in surprise.

"Natalie- she told you?" She asked. I nodded.

"Yeah. She wanted to name her after your sister." I said quietly.

"May I hold her?" She asked. I nodded and gave Riley over to her grandmother, who was also pregnant.

All of her grandparents took turns holding her and then Jason and Jade walked in.

They looked at her, Jason's face lit up in excitement and joy, and Jade's Face impassive, with only a slight upturn to the corner of her mouth.

"Would you like to hold her?" I asked. Jason nodded and carefully took his niece into his arms. He smiled down at Riley, who had curled her tiny fist around his finger.

Jade smiled but didn't move from where she stood a few feet away. "Jade? Would you like to hold her?" I asked. She but her lip nervously and shook her head.

"Are you sure? Don't be nervous." Nat said. I didn't notice she was awake.

"I don't want to." She said shortly, walking out.

I looked at Jason who sighed and handed back Riley, going outside to follow her.

(JADE POV)

I shouldn't have come. I'll just be a bad influence. Nobody needs a messed up person like me tainting her innocence.

I left because I don't want to hurt her. I don't want her to ever become like me. Never. So I'll stay away. And being a parent in two years? Forget it. I'm not going to put my own kids at risk. Not happening. Nada. Never.

Jason came up behind me. "What's wrong?" He asked me.

I turned around and sighed. "I don't want to hurt her or influence her in any way. Nobody needs a messed up person like me I their lives. Especially not an innocent baby." I said quietly.

"You aren't messed up. Don't ever say that, ever." He said, almost angrily.

"It's the truth Jase. I know it, you know it, everybody else knows it." I told him, my head lowered slightly. Right now I just want to leave this place. Alone. So I don't hurt anybody else. I don't tell him this anymore, but I still blame myself that he got kidnapped.

"It wasn't your fault. Red, you couldn't do anything about it. Don't feel guilty. Please." He said. Sometimes I wonder which of us is the mind reader here.

"It really is my fault. They wouldn't have tortured you if it wasn't for me." I said.

He gave me the look that says that for once I'm not going to win this argument.

"Don't. Don't go down that road. You won't hurt Riley. I promise nothing bad will happen, just try please." He said.

I nodded mutely and nervously, playing with my sleeves.

(EDDIE POV)

Jade looked scared. I'm guessing it's fear of hurting her but we trust Jade. I handed Riley over to her and she inhaled sharply when she was holding the baby alone.

Slowly though, she started smiling, more and more until she was beaming. Riley smiled up at her and made little gurgling noises and Jade nuzzled Riley's nose with hers.

Nat was silently crying tears of joy. "That's adorable." She whispered.

I nodded, smiling widely myself. Jade was playing lightly with Riley and cooing to her lightly. I looked over to Jason who was smiling happily.

Jade handed Riley back to me and she was still smiling. They walked out as more people walked in. Everyone took turns holding her and eventually everyone left and I looked at Nat who was asleep with Riley also asleep in her arms. I smiled.

This is just perfect. I have my fiancé, my best friend, and my daughter. It's just perfect.