Hi here is the latest instalment of this story-there are four more chapters left and then this one is all wrapped up!

Trigger Warnings-Pregnancy Complications-I am not a medical expert however so any inaccuracies then I apologise.

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Next Chapter-Anastasia successfully gives birth to the baby-Matthew is jealous of all the attention. Prompted by a Guest.

A Collection Of Stars

Chapter 21-Complications

When Anastasia finds out she is pregnant she and Will are happy that their little family of three are about to become four, until Ana kicks Will awake one night and realises that she's bleeding…Will needs to get her to the hospital…now…

The second time she was more prepared. She knew the signs, throwing up, and tender whenever Will touched her, a hatred of coffee and pancakes and a deep love of Blueberry Muffins and then there was the weight gain that happened slowly but increasingly as time carried on.

She was pregnant.

Will had been happy, hell Will had been thrilled to hell and back hugging her, kissing her stomach, letting Matt stare at it for hours as if he could see his baby brother or sister growing day by day inside of her belly. To Will this was another member of his family, the horrors of Wonderland fading, Cyrus and Alice were in Storybrooke and therefore were settled into something that could only be described as near normality with their daughter in the apartment block across the street and the rest of Storybrooke were enjoying what could only be described as a break for more than two months with no monsters, dragons, deranged ex Evil Queens, Dark Ones, Dark Swans or revenge fuelled Pirates.

The whole town was starting to breathe easy believing that for once that they were safe, and the Red Queen and Knave of Hearts were among the rest of the residents who believed that with the arrival of their latest addition they could finally but the mess that was their past behind them along with what was left of the land that Jafar had ravaged to hell and back.

And then naturally it had all fallen to shit.

Anastasia had been around four months pregnant just showing, her breasts growing and her stomach swollen gently when something felt wrong and she sat up in bed. Will was breathing heavily next to her, Matthew down the hall in his room the four year old sleeping his black dragon teddy bear curled up next to him. With all her family around her safe and sound she should be happy, she should be able to sleep at night but she couldn't…

And then she felt it. Something wet and sticky clinging to the inside of her thighs, she peered down blinking in the dark when she noticed that the dark grey sheets of their beds were stained with something dark.

Blood.

"Will" she said her voice choking in her throat pushing Will's shoulder her hands shaking. Will started awake sitting up his dark hair sticking up-if it was any situation other than this Ana would have thought that he was very cute.

"Baby" she said pointing down, Will flicked the lights on and stared. The blood was covering the skin of her legs and the sheets her shorts soaked, Will stared for half a second his skin pale before he looked up at her his smile gentle.

"I'm gonna ring Cyrus and get him to come and spend the night with Matt, then I'm gonna ring Whale and get him to get us an ambulance ok?" he reached out to cup her face with his hand and Ana couldn't stop the numbness spreading through her calming down the bone deep panic that was sweeping through her system.

"Anastasia" Will said his voice not betraying any of the panic that was sweeping through her system "Look at me" she followed his instructions wincing as she felt another wave of blood sticking to her sheets. Will grabbed her face forcing her eyes to focus on nothing but the dark brown of his eyes.

"Just stay with me baby" he said finally turning to grab the phone even as Ana felt her heart spike and dark spots bloom all over her vision. She heard a shout before she finally succumbed to the dark pulling her in and she fell over head hitting the pillow blackening out.

The next few hours would have probably been hell if she hadn't.

It took her a long time before she managed to come to. Her head was throbbing, her body cold and when she opened her groggy eyes it was to the sight of her husband who was watching her with those brown eyes that were still calm even if he had the look of a man who had gone through hell in a short space of time.

"What the?" she asked trailing off as her throat seemed to choke and go dry. "Matt?" she asked finally and Will smiled linking their fingers so their wedding rings clicked against each other. "Cyrus and Alice have him at their house and they changed the sheets so…"

She nodded letting Will rub his thumb against her hand "Baby?" she asked finally and Will sighed, "Alive" he said finally "The placenta detached and he or she was panicking and kicked a blood vessel loose and then all hell happened, Whale managed to stabilise the bleeding and save the baby, but it's in distress and a whole lot of other medical shit that he's gonna explain to us later but…the baby is fine" he repeated as if he had memorized the sentence by heart.

"What does Whale want to do?" she asked. It was one of those rare moments where the calm poise she had possessed as the Red Queen kept her exploding-her baby was alive and that was all that mattered. There was time to panic another day, another hour later on, right now wasn't an option for her and she knew it.

"He wants to keep you here in the hospital on bed rest for the next six months and then give you a C-Section" he sighed rubbing his hand down the side of his face "Or I think that that was the gist of it past the point that you and the baby were both alive I wasn't listening much past that point." He sighed reaching out to link his hand with hers brining her own hand to his face breathing in the scent of her skin, her lips brushing against the cool metal of the band he put on nearly a year ago.

There would be time to agonise over what had happened last night, there was no time to cry or worry Ana was just past the point of exhaustion-so when her eyes slid shut again it was with the image of her husband's soft, pained smile burning the back of her eyelids.

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