This is the final chapter, and I wont be writing a second installment. This story has not been edited, simply because I wan't this story to be done with, and I have been though so much these past months, I didn't/don't have the time. I learned a very valuable lesson these past few weeks. Family is everything, and sometimes we chose bad people to be friends with. I hope you understand, that at this moment I'm not really thinking about my stories, but of my family, and more importantly my own well-being.
Tony silently watched his wife sleep as he tugged at the tie around his neck. She was curled up on her side a body pillow tucked between her knees and pulled tightly into her chest as she cuddled the large mass.
There was no emotion on Tony's face as he thought about the recent turn of events at the party he had crashed. There were too many emotions for him to handle at once, so he slowly thought of an idea. He knew this idea included taking his newly painted suite and helping the innocent town that was under fire from his weapons.
Chloe was going to be angry when she found out, but she would understand. It was for Yinsen, to save the only thing that remained of him, his home. Tossing the tie on the floor he slid himself across the bed and over to his sleeping wife. He ran his warm hand along the large lump of her stomach, and pulled himself closer to Chloe's stomach.
The child inside was almost completely still, and rarely moved as she prepared herself for birth. His lips found their way to a bit of exposed skin of Chloe's body. The image of his tiny daughter in his arms danced around in his head.
"I promise I'll come home." He told her daughter and wife as he sat in comfortable silence. When he was finished he inhaled Chloe's sent deeply, as if to keep the sent with him on his journey. Ready for his dangerous adventure he slid out of the bed and made his way down stairs to prepare himself for a long journey.
Chloe had woken up with a dull ache in her back, she groaned in displeasure as she pushed herself from the bed. Scooting over to the edge of the bed she flinched as her feet met the cold floor. Tired she rubbed her eyes studding the tie on the floor, Tony had been in the room recently, because the tie hadn't been there before.
She shrugged her shoulders, pushing off from the bed as she made her way to the bathroom to pee quickly. She was unsure how long she slept, but she was sure it was very late at night. When she was finished she was ready to make her way down stairs to see Tony, she could hear the soft riming of Tony's phone before a loud shrill echoed though the top level of the house. Her legs suddenly gave out underneath and she came crashing down onto the ground.
She had no idea what was happening but when she was unable to move she panicked. She could feel the buildup of saliva in the back of her throat as lay on her back at the top of the stairs. The sound of one person talking could barely be heard over the waterfall.
She couldn't recognize the voices, but she was sure what was going on wasn't good.
The commotion down stairs scared her, and she could only hope that Tony would find her soon. It seemed like hours had passed when she suddenly started to get some movement back in her body. Whoever had been talking down stairs had left, and after that she had heard someone use the elevator to go to the garage. It was then silent for a few minutes before another person ran through the house calling out what she assumed was Tony.
With a groan she rolled over onto her side, and tried to pull herself, still partially stunned. It was at this moment a sharp pain, and a rush of liquid sloshed out from between her legs. She cried out in pain.
"TONY!" Chloe yelled when she heard the sounds of footsteps pounding up the stairs. She had started to regain more movement when the person behind her ran towards her.
"Jesus Chloe!" Rhodey muttered slowly helping her up, Chloe looked at him confused for a moment, wondering why he had ran up the stairs, and as to why he was even there to begin with.
"Where is …. Tony." She cried when a contraction hit her, she quickly ran her hand along the bottom of her stomach as if she were soothing the pains. It was at that moment that Rhodey noticed that Chloe had gone into labour. He also knew if he told her what was going on that she would be unbelievably stressed.
At the moment she needed to work on being calm, and she couldn't do that if she knew Tony had almost died when she was lying on the floor, and that Tony had ordered him to make sure she was okay before he saved Pepper from Obadiah.
"Come on, we have to get you to the hospital. We will call Tony when we get there." He said helping her off the ground. She struggled standing up, slipping a little in the fluid on the floor.
After four hours of lying on her side holding Rhodey's hand Chloe clued in something was wrong. Her contractions were getting closer together and Tony hadn't showed up. She let out a cry of pain felling the pressure tare at her lower abdomen.
Rhodey quickly squeezed her hand in response as she tried to calm down from the pain. She panted for a few seconds before rolling her eyes over to look at a pale Rhodey.
"Where is he?" She demanded watching Rhodey's brown eyes drift over to her. He had never sat in the hospital with a woman giving birth before, and watching the nursing staff run in and out of the room to check how dilated she was, was a shock to him. He could only imagine what would happen next, and he didn't want to be anywhere near the room when blood and gushing of tiny humans from between his best friend's wife's legs.
Rhodey stirred when she spoke, his mind wheeling with ideas. He didn't know what to tell her, and he didn't want her stressed out. The amount of stress she was under throughout the pregnancy was enormous, so he didn't want her being stressed and giving birth.
"I don't know, he should be here soon!" Rhodey lied, as he watched a nurse walk back in the room a check how dilated Chloe was for the hundredth time. Chloe at this point didn't seem to care that a dozen people had looked at her most private parts, but when the nurse loudly announced she was ready to start pushing she started screaming, and not from pain.
"I can't start pushing, Tony isn't here yet!" She started hollering, as the nurse ignored her to go get the doctor. Rhodey wanted to agree with Chloe, Tony should have been there and not him.
"James-James, I can't do it without Tony! Tony will flip out if he doesn't see this!" She cried in pain when the nurse returned with the doctor. The doctor was slipping on a pair of gloves as he walked into the room smiling.
"YOU! Get away from me!" Chloe yelled when the doctor lifted up the blanket on the opposite end, of her. Rhodey felt a little faint as he realized what was coming.
Chloe's body seemed to ignore her, because when the doctor told her to push she started pushing, cursing at the medical staff as she did so.
"I see a head." The doctor said softly over Chloe's muffled cried about Tony and the pain about fifteen minutes later. Instantly more tears ran down Chloe's face.
"Tony is going to miss it!" She cried taking a break in-between pushing, she was now ignoring the staff that was telling her to continue to push. It was at this moment the door was slammed open and a very broken Tony came rushing in.
Rhodey instantly let go of Chloe's hand and ran out of the room, no longer being able to handle the situation. Tony quickly took Rhodey's place bringing what little of his wife he could into his arms, and muttering apologies.
"You have a broken arm you ass hole!" Chloe murmured through her tears and pain, Tony chucked kissing her temple.
"You are going to have to repaint the room, and buy new clothes" Chloe yawned tiredly watching Tony hold his new son his broken arms. Tony laughed looking up at his wife for a split second.
"Or we could leave it, paint another room and have another one." Tony hinted looking back at their son. Chloe sighed, after giving birth only hours ago, she didn't want to give birth anytime soon.
"Is that so? Are you going to give birth to this child Mr. Stark?" Chloe tiredly laughed, a huge smile spread across Tony's face, she could only imagine what was going through his mind at the moment.
"No, Id mess it up, and you have already done such a great job the first time around, I wouldn't want to ruin future children by accident." He laughed; Chloe could feel the warm tug on her heart when he finished talking. Only her husband would say such a thing.
"Well then, you better start painting a bunch of rooms, we have a full house of empty rooms." Chloe smiled.
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