The Name Game
So here it is, the ultimate chapter, the one we've all been waiting for. Last chapter left it very open and insane but that'll get settled here, trust me.
And to address something that someone pointed out...I never really thought of what Jacey's age would be but I figured she'd probably be around Sam's age, maybe a little older but not by much.
"You shouldn't have done that." Sam pointed out.
"Shut it." Dean grumbled.
"Just saying, don't go telling a doctor what they should be doing." Sam muttered, watching his brother pace the room. "Good way to get yourself kicked out."
Dean had been able to stay with Jacey throughout the ambulance ride and into the room but at that point he had gotten in the way. He had also ended up snapping at the doctor when he didn't think anything was getting done fast enough. At which point, he had been promptly removed from the room to wait with everyone else. That was almost two hours ago and they had yet to hear anything.
It was safe to say all this waiting was getting Dean more and more tightly wound. Everyone was beginning to worry that he was going to snap at any minute if they didn't hear something soon.
"Gabriel's catching the next flight over." Castiel informed the group, returning to the waiting room after placing the call to his brother.
"Dean, honey, maybe you should sit down." Mary offered, worrying over her oldest.
"I don't want to sit, I want to know what the hell is going on!" Dean snapped. He ran a hand over his face and sighed. "You would think they'd tell us right? They'd tell me?"
"I'm sure nothing is wrong." John tried to assure his son with little success.
"You need to calm down, Dean." Castiel pointed out. "This is what got you kicked out of the room."
"I'm sorry, am I the only one who's actually worried here because it sure as hell seems that way!" Dean shot back.
"Don't you dare insinuate that I'm not caring about my sister." Castiel ground out, narrowing his eyes. "She was my sister long before you knocked her up!"
"Guys!" Sam cut in, jumping up and getting between the two friends. "This isn't helping any situations." Castiel and Dean just glared at each other now.
"Excuse me." All eyes shot to the nurse who had suddenly joined their group. "Miss Morgan's fiancee?"
"Yeah?" Dean asked, moving over to the nurse quickly. He got a little pale, noticing the spots of blood on her clothes.
"The baby had gotten the umbilical cord wrapped around it's neck." The nurse explained. Everyone else had gotten to their feet and surrounded the nurse and she looked warily at them all. "The pain Miss Morgan was feeling today likely had to do with the baby thrashing around to release itself. We think it happened just before you assumed to come in which was good judgement on your part. We had to perform an emergency Cesarian."
"So is the baby okay?" Dean asked.
"She's a little sore and probably cranky but she's perfectly fine." The nurse replied, smiling.
"She? It's a girl?" Castiel asked. The nurse nodded.
"And Jacey?" Dean finally asked. The nurse looked at all of them before returning her eyes to Dean.
"She just woke up." The answer was met with sighs of relief. "We can only have one of you in right now."
"Go see her." Sam decided for everyone, pushing Dean slightly.
"Tell her we say congratulations." Castiel added in. Dean looked at him then grinned and nodded, their minor argument forgotten.
The nurse led the new father down the hallway to a room where she stepped aside to allow him in alone. Dean slowly walked in and glanced around at the white surroundings before his eyes drifted over to the red headed occupant of at the other end of the room. Her eyes moved over to him and a tired smile crossed her face before she looked at the little bassinet next to her.
"You okay?" Dean asked softly, moving over to the bed.
"Now I am." Jacey muttered. "All this fuss, and look." Dean's eyes drifted to the bassinet and he moved the blanket to show a sleeping little baby. "Silly girl, the nurse tell you what she did?"
"Cord around the neck." Dean replied. Jacey smiled and nodded. "Looks small."
"She's pretty long actually." Jacey laughed. "The doctor told me when the nurse was getting you that she's the longest baby they've had this year."
"Poor baby." Dean muttered. He brushed his hand down the baby's face then leaned over Jacey and kissed her cheek.
"How's everyone?" Jacey asked.
"They were all tense but since the nurse said everything was fine, I'm guessing they're feeling better." Dean explained. "Cas called Gabe and apparently he's on the next flight over."
"Wow." Jacey muttered. She pushed herself up to sit a little better, wincing slightly as she did. "Just need to think of a name now."
"You don't have that planned out already?" Dean asked. Jacey gave him a look and he knew he wasn't safe from the mood swings just yet. "We'll come up with something." The woman nodded and looked over at the little baby . "The doctors say how long before you're healed up or those stitches can come out?"
"Few weeks if I'm careful." Jacey explained softly. Dean watched her eyelids starting to drift shut and smiled slightly. He slid between the bed and the bassinet then sat down on the bed. Jacey knew what he was doing without needing to be told and moved over to give him enough room. He helped her ease back down into lying and soon enough both of them were asleep.
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"Come to Uncle Gabe! I'm going to be your favourite!" Gabriel exclaimed, cuddling the newborn close to his chest and making faces at her while she just stared at him.
"Hey, why do you get to be the favourite?" Sam asked.
"Because Sammy, I'll be giving her all the cool gifts." Gabriel shot back.
"You're not joining in that argument?" Jacey asked, looking at Castiel who was sitting next to her bed, holding her hand.
"Nah, I know how to get in good with the little one without having to resort to flashy presents." Castiel remarked. Jacey laughed and squeezed his hand.
"What do you think?" Dean asked, showing Jacey a paper with a list of names on it. "Got everyone's opinions and even called up Ellen to get her ideas."
"Guess that explains why Jo is on that list." Jacey muttered, smiling. "Oh wait, I like that one." She pointed to a name and looked up at Dean.
"No way." Dean argued.
"Why not?" Jacey asked.
"I don't like that one." Dean pointed out.
"Then why did you write it down?" Jacey countered.
"I didn't." Dean remarked. Jacey paused and looked around, wondering which person in the room wrote the name. She shrugged and looked at the list again, head tilted. "Oh wait, what about that one?" Dean touched the paper, his finger under one of the names.
"Hmm." Jacey mused, tilting her head the other way before lifting her eyes to look over at the small baby who seemed thoroughly perplexed by the people around her. "I think it fits."
"Really?" Dean asked. Jacey smiled and nodded her approval. "I think Bobby suggested that one."
"He does have a flair for names." Jacey laughed. "Hey guys...can I have my baby back?"
"But you got to hold her for all this time." Gabriel whined. Jacey just stared at him, as did everyone else in the room.
"That was...a very...very strange thing for a man to say." John muttered. Mary just grinned and shook her head. Gabriel handed the tiny person back to it's mother and Jacey smiled happily "So...did you two decide on a name?"
"Yep." Dean replied, looking at his girls with a smile.
"I wanna do it." Jacey cut him off. Dean gestured for her to go on and the bright happy smile was back on the red head's face. "Everybody, this little lady here...is going to be Emma Winchester."
"It's a good name." Mary approved, smiling. She reached out her hand and brushed it across her granddaughter's head. "Welcome to the family sweetie."
"Good luck." Sam remarked, making everyone laugh.
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"Careful...careful...CAREFUL!" Jacey snapped quietly, slapping her hands to her mouth as she stared at the events happening before her.
"Relax Jace!" Dean whispered as he backed up the stairs, holding one end of the stroller as Sam lifted the other end. "We wouldn't be going through this if you weren't afraid of the elevator now."
"Hey, that thing is dangerous!" Jacey argued. Dean just sighed, keeping quiet once more as they made it to the top of the stairs. Emma remained sleeping, despite the echoing argument that had gone on around her.
"This kid sure can sleep." Sam remarked.
"Don't jinx it!" Jacey sighed, following the boys to the apartment. Sam had all the baby bags while Dean pushed the stroller."Sleeping is good...I like the sleeping, means she's not crying."
"You guys good from here?" Sam asked once they were in the apartment and all the bags were in the nursery.
"Yeah I think so, thanks man." Dean replied.
"It's what I'm here for." Sam reminded him, smiling. "But uh...not right now, I got a date."
"Oh, have fun." Jacey instructed, grinning. Sam gave her thumbs up and headed out. "Okay...I'm going to shower because I'm pretty sure I'm smelly after being a hospital for a few days."
"Okay and I will...uh...put stuff away and get little missy into the crib to finish her...nap." Dean decided, looking at his daughter and wondering just how much sleeping she was going to do.
"Sounds good to me." Jacey agreed.
It took exactly two minutes and twenty seven seconds from the time that the bathroom door closed to the time that Emma woke up and started screaming.
Okay so I think I'm just going to do one more chapter for this story, get some aging for little Emma lol. In case you're wondering, the name came from the Splice Girls episode lol.