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Here's baby time part two, or horrible hospitals, as I've called it. Beware of all the names that will come flying by today, if anything is confusing, please IM me or something. Trust me when I say I don't mind, I've been confusing myself a lot while writing this chapter. Don't take this chapter to serious, it's not meant like that, but I'm not sure it's coming across as funny, so I thought I'd let you know in advance. Enjoy and don't give up!!!
Horrible hospitals
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POV: Embry
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Call everybody, call everybody, that's what Tom said, ugh, I shouldn't have come with them, I should have stayed in LaPush. Real manly of you Embry, as if Tom could have driven in his state at the time, I'm sure he won't calm down until he's sure they're all happy and healthy.
Such a simple task, compared to what Leah was going through, I'll tell ya, I'm not looking for seeing Nadira like that. Ok, focus Embry, how are you going to solve this one, I groaned mentally, when I hurt my head by thinking too hard.
What am I whining about you say, well I'll tell you, have you ever met the wolfgirls, no you haven't, that's why you don't understand. You see, we wolves need a strong partner, one that can handle everything going on with the pack, vampires and all the drama.
So the women we imprint on, are not just any women, they're downright scary, yeah you heard me, scary. You think that because we are big strong wolves we can handle it right, but we can't, they handle us, without a doubt and in return, we worship the very ground they walk on.
It's quite when you're dealing with your own imprint, but when it comes to one of the other's, that's when it becomes tricky. Knowing that they their imprinted ones (ahum, read servants) will back them up no matter what, all the while being perfectly aware that none of us actually wants to fight one of the others, gives them a certain advantage, one they know how to use very well.
Don't get me wrong I love the women in my family, they are like sisters to me, and most of the time they are earning the love and respect we have for them. But this was a delicate situation, new baby's, new family members, they would all want to be the one closest to the little newborns.
My dilemma now was, who to call first, one of Leah's friends Camille, Tamar or Sarah, or Emily uber wolfgirl, married to the pack Alpha, or Rachel she was the scariest of them all, she needs to be, since she's married to Paul!
Then a light bulb flicked on over my head, I was gonna call Jake, he could inform the pack, they could each tell their own wives. Yes, I know, it's brilliant right, that's all part of the package babe! Ok Embry, you do realize you're talking to yourself in your mind right. Hmm, oh right, no I forgot, I'll call Jake now, before I really lose it.
"Hey Jake, it's Embry" a rustling sound came from the other side of the line.
"Shit Em, it's not even seven yet!" he yelled.
"Yeah, I know, but Leah has gone into labor, we're at the hospital in Port Angeles now"
"Wow, how is she, everything is ok right?" he was concerned about Leah of course.
"Yeah, she's ok, she's in a lot of pain, but no more than the usual amount I suppose"
"Ok, so who have you called so far?" Jake wanted that job no more than I did.
"Just you, I figured, since you're the Alpha now, you'd wanna do it yourself" trying my best to keep in my laughter.
"Oh right, that's what you figured huh! I thought you were supposed to be smart, guess we were both wrong!" I laughed loudly at his response.
"Well, at least you can phase and contact the wolves. If you howl, you the one you use when you call a meeting, they'll just step outside to phase, to see what's going on, they can tell their own imprints" still quite satisfied with my solution.
"Right and how do we reach the wolves that don't phase anymore?" oh, damn, I knew this was too good to be true.
"Ok ok, I'll call Emily and you tell the pack, that way we only have Rachel to worry about" I said.
"You say that, like it's no big deal, I'll be getting there as late as I can, just so you know" with those words he hung up the phone. Maybe I could Rachel right after, she probably wouldn't take it that bad, especially if I reminded her of the fact that Emily was not only the pack mommy but also Leah's cousin, she would accept it…right?
Here goes nothing, I called Emily and right after I hung up, I called Rachel, hoping praying that it wouldn't come up during the conversation, I can't say I wasn't relieved when it didn't.
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Amazing how fast people come running when there is something going on, dying to be right in the middle of the action, in this case I can at least be sure that the wolfgirls were here for two different reasons, they actually wanted the babies that were expected, as were they genuinely concerned for one of the two actual wolf-girls that were part of the pack.
So when within 15 minutes the first of them arrived I wasn't surprised, it was nice actually, now I wouldn't be pacing the waiting room by myself. Waiting like this was horrible, I had a clear view of Leah's door, but that didn't help much since there was absolutely nothing moving.
By the time half an hour had passed, everybody except for Seth, Sue and Charlie, were there, they were away for the weekend, I had called them earlier and they would get here as soon as possible. As the waiting area filled, chaos erupted, I'm not kidding, you have never seen this many people in one waiting room. There was the small group of mothers, all reminiscing about their own pregnancy's and deliveries of course, I steered clear of that corner.
Then there was the area where all the kids were, yeah that's right, all the kids, the oldest ones were watching the younger ones. Leaving the wolf girls that had no other option than to theorize what it would be like to become a mother, it was the safest area, or so we thought.
That is where the wolfs had gathered, remaining fairly quiet, we stood there huddled in a corner, waiting for the waiting to be over. But it was only getting started, because Tamar grabbed Collin and stepped forward, while Collin kept urging her to wait. We were wondering what he wanted her to wait with, we didn't have to wonder long, because Tamar was getting to make an announcement.
"Everybody, Collin and I have some news!" she said, Collin obviously didn't agree with what she was doing.
"We're having a baby!" she exclaimed, looking around the area, waiting for a response. Her news caused the chaos as a wave of reactions swept across the room. Ok, it was inappropriate, but it was still good news, so most of the girls congratulated her eventually.
But not Sarah, she seemed to be having a mental breakdown, which was weird, because they were each other's best friends, she was almost yelling at Brady, looking extremely mad.
"Ok quiet please!" Sarah yelled as loud as she could, which caused a few nurses to raise their eyebrows at us.
"We didn't think it was the right time to announce it, but evidently it is" when she said the last words she was looking at Tamar "Brady and I are having a baby too!" she said smiling.
"What!?" Tamar yelled "you can't do that Sarah, you can't steel my thunder like that!" wait, what was she talking about, thunder, what thunder.
"Oh right, because you weren't steeling Leah's thunder earlier?!" Sarah was the one yelling now, then Camille joined in, looking extremely agitated.
"Both of you were wrong to tell your news now, you should have waited at least until after Leah's twins were born" she said glaring at them.
"Oh Camille, don't even try, if you were pregnant, you would have beat us to it, which means you aren't, so you're just jealous!" Tamar huffed.
"Oh no I'm not, how can you accuse me of such a horrible thing, I'm just looking out for my best friend!" she screamed back at Tamar. The three of them kept on yelling at each other, while their husbands tried to calm them down, a hopeless struggle.
Feeling a tap on my shoulder mad me turn around, fuck! Right in front of me stood two angry wolf girls, Emily and Rachel, I knew it could not have been that easy.
"Who'd you call first Embry?!" they asked in unison, behind them Kim sat next to Jared, glaring at me, great Embry, another one, well done, what now?
"Uh.. well… uhmmm" my mind was running over possible answers, but none of them were any good.
"Embry!" never had been so happy to hear her voice, my angel had come to save me.
"Sorry ladies, duty calls" I said with a big smile, hurrying over to Nadira "thank you baby, your timing is impeccable" placing a small kiss on her lips.
"Any time baby, any time" she said smiling, she cleared her throat and stood on a table.
"Everybody listen up, 20 minutes ago, Leah gave birth to a healthy boy and girl, their names are Brandon and Kaylee, the three of them are doing very good" she paused to catch her breath "as soon as they are ready for visitors someone will come and get you" she stepped down and grabbed my hand pulling me out of the waiting area.
"Where are you two going" Rachel had followed us "does he get to go in know?" she asked Nadira.
"Yes Rachel, he does" Nadira was a lot more edgy than I was used to "he is part of our family, because he is a part of me" she added fiercely, while grabbing my wais protectively, wow, go Nady!
"Well, that may be, but Embry, I'm warning you, if you hold either of those babies before I do, you will regret it!" her tone gave me goose bumps.
"Sure Rachel" Nadira said dismissively, then she pulled me with her to Leah's room. When I saw the itty bitty babies in Leah's arms I got scared, they were so fragile, what if I hurt them?
"Congratulations, the both of you" I said looking at Tom and Leah.
"Don't mind him, Rachel jut threatened him and he took it to heart" Rachel, what had she said again, oh right, I wasn't supposed to hold either of them.
"Do you want to hold one of them?" Tom asked me, I shook my head.
"Oh come on you wuss!" Nadira scolded "she wasn't serious!" she laughed.
"That's not it, I know she was kidding, but I'm afraid I'll… uhm… hurt them" they would think I had gone crazy, but I was a wolf, they had stopped phasing, it was different.
"Sit down in the chair Em, I'll show you how to hold her" I shook my head again.
"Embry, are you gonna be scared to hold our children?" our children? As in Nadira's and mine? Was that what she meant? We had never discussed this.
"You wanna have kids with me?" my legs refused to carry me, so I let myself fall into the closest chair..
"Of course I do, well not now obviously, but someday yes" she said smiling at me "so you need to get as much practice as you can" she really wanted to have my kids, with that realization my fear was pushed to the background.
"Here hold out your arms like mine are and remember to support her head" then she placed her sister in my arms, I loved down at her, she almost disappeared in my hands, that's how tiny she was.
"Meet your future sister in law, Kaylee Nadira" Tom said, they had named her after Nadira? I looked at Nady who had now taken a seat next to Leah, her eyes closed, that's when I noticed how tired she looked.
Tom followed my gaze and took Kaylee from my arms, when he whispered to me, asking me if I could take Nadira home. Something was up, why was she so exhausted, I mean tired sure, we all were, but she looked like she hadn't slept in three days.
I looked at Tom for an explanation, he just shook his head, nodding at Nady, great he wasn't going to tell me, but his actions were obvious enough to confirm that there was something weird going on, I'd find out later.
"When do you get to go home?" I asked them "if everything stays like this, we can probably go home at the end of the day"
"We'll get a ride with Jake and Nessie, so you can use the car, we'll see you at home" I told him.
"Thanks Em, for everything" he said when I lifted Nadira up into my arms, she didn't even wake up. Now that she was this close, I saw how bad she really looked, what the hell had happened to her!
I took Nadira to the waiting room, Tom came with me and told the others that the first few visitors could go in, it was not my concern how he was going to handle this, my attention was focused on the unconscious Nadira.
While everybody got close to Tom, hoping to be one of the first to get to see the twins, this was so terrible whenever everybody was huddled up together in a hospital for another birth. I promise you though, as soon as they leave it's back to being best palls again, as if nothing had ever happened.
"What is wrong with her Embry?" Nessie ignored the baby frenzy that was going on behind her and sat down next to me, she brushed a few stray hair out of Nadira's face, instantly noticing something was in fact wrong with her.
"I don't know Nessie, something happened, but I have no idea what" I looked down at her beautiful face in my arms "Nessie, can you and Jake drop us off when you leave?" I asked.
"Sure Embry, we'll leave now, I'll tell Jake" she got up and walked over to him, whispering in his ear. When both of them stood in front of me, I looked up.
"Don't you want to see the twins first?" I asked "we can wait here, she's asleep anyway" hoping that they would refuse the offer.
"Embry, we can see the babies later, when they get home later, I'm sure they'll look the same as they do now" Nessie said.
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Three hours, three fucking hours! This is not normal, all the way home I was afraid she might wake up with every bump in the road, but we had been at her house for three hours now and she was still asleep.
Nessie and Jake had stayed with me, neither of us knew what was causing her inability to wake up, believe me we had tried at least a dozen times, but she wouldn't open her eyes. Nessie and Jake initially thought that I overreacted a bit, but were now very concerned as well, then the phone rang.
"Hello?" it wasn't exactly how one answered someone else's phone, but I could care less at the moment.
"Embry?" it was Tom.
"Yeah, it's me" I replied.
"How is Nadira doing?" see, they knew what was going on, his wife had just delivered twins a few hours ago and he was calling home to see how his 'tired' daughter was doing.
"Not good Tom, she won't wake up, are you gonna tell me what happened, or do I have to guess?!" Jake and Nessie both looked up at the mentioning of Nadira, Nessie grabbed the phone from the kitchen so she and Jake could listen too.
"It's worse than I thought" Tom sighed deeply.
"What's worse Tom, could you be a bit more specific!" I yelled into the phone.
"Embry listen, we don't understand it exactly ourselves, but during the delivery it seemed like Nadira was transferring pain from Leah to herself. You should have seen her face, she made herself share the pain with Leah, she was in so much pain" Tom's voice broke.
"If she suffered through that amount of pain, it's no wonder she's out cold" i mused out loud.
"No, it isn't, Leah is asleep now too, the difference between them, is that Leah stayed awake for a while because of the amount of adrenaline running through her veins, Nadira collapsed within half an hour after the birth" Tom explained.
"Ok Tom, at least now I understand, we'll let you know if she wakes up, otherwise we'll see you when you get home"
"Talk to you later Embry" with that he hung up. Nessie and Jake walked back into the living room, none of us saying anything.
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"Hello?" the moment I heard Nadira's voice coming from her room, I jumped up for my chair and ran upstairs.
"Nady, you're back" I breathed when I stepped foot in her room.
"I'm back, from where?" she asked me smiling. Oh that smile, how I'd missed that smile, my Nady was ok, I wrapped my arms around her, never wanting to let go.
"You have been out cold for the last five hours, you scared me baby " unable to hide the sadness in my voice.
"Five hours?" her face took on a shocked expression "why was I asleep for that long?"
"You tell me baby" Tom and Leah said something about transferring pain" I pulled away, raising my eyebrows waiting for her explanation.
"Oh that, I had forgotten about that for a moment" she sighed deep, then there was a knock on the door, Nessie and Jake entered the room, Nessie flew at Nadira seizing her in a big hug.
"Oh Nady, I'm so relieved that you're ok!" she exclaimed.
"Nessie, what are you doing here, you're supposed to be mad at me!" Nady grabbed Nessie and the two of them stayed like that for a minute, then Nadira started rambling.
"Nessie, I'm so sorry for what I said yesterday, I'm a horrible friend! I am so happy for you guys, you deserve it, congratulations, it really is great that you two are getting married!" Nady said while holding on to her friend.
"Don't worry about it Nady, I get how it's different for you than it is for me, you don't have to say that for me, even though it's very sweet of you to try" Nessie replied.
"No you're right, it is different for you that it is for me, that's exactly why I am genuinely happy for you" no they were both crying into each other's arms. I was happy that they had made up, but I have to admit, Nadira's words stung, Jake saw my pain and squeezed my shoulder.
Then we all turned to Nadira, as her stomach started complaining loudly, she clutched her belly, giving us an apologizing look. We all laughed and quickly decided to go downstairs to get something to eat, Nadira had a taste for garlic chicken, so she decided to make enough for all of us.
We were still in the kitchen, when Tom and Leah came home, Seth was with them. Tom was carrying two car chairs, Leah following while holding on to Seth for support. A moment later Leah sat down on the couch looking at the twins who were still sleeping.
Nessie and Nadira quickly pushed Seth back into the hallway, probably overflowing him with advice about how to reach the heart of his imprint and every detail of how to date, Seth left the house not a minute later.
"What did you say to him?" I whispered into Nadira's ear when she sat down on my lap.
"Nothing, he's just overreacting!" she huffed, which made me laugh.
Nessie was now holding Brandon, she walked over to Jake, so he could get a better look at him. They stood so close together, looking like a perfect little family, I felt a pang of jealousy at the thought that they were getting married soon.
"Nadira, are you going to talk about what happened this morning?" Leah's question was very sudden.
"You're all here so I might as well" Nadira said, she breathed in slowly and then it finally came out.
"Leah was in so much pain and I felt terrible about it, so I figured why not try. I knew it wasn't something I could heal, I mean, the babies had to be born, so I placed my hand on her head and wished that her pain would go away. At the same time I saw that is was working I felt the pain course through my body, so I had a choice, let her suffer alone or take part of her pain and suffer with her"
"Oh baby, you shouldn't have done that, it's not fair for you to go through that amount of pain!" Leah almost started crying.
"Will you promise never to do that again!" Tom said sternly.
Nadira shook her head "that's something I can't do, I'm sorry" she closed her eyes before speaking again "I don't regret doing it for Leah, so I can't promise never to do it again, cause that would mean lying to you and that's something I don't want to do" she looked at Tom and Leah, hoping that they understood.
A little while later Jake and Nessie left and Tom and Leah went to bed, for now they would keep the baby cribs in their room, as soon as they would sleep through the night, they would move into their own room.
Nady and I lied in her bed, her confession from earlier fresh in her mind, I understood what she was talking about, if I could do something like that for her, I'd do it without a second thought. I loved her so much, she had already fallen asleep her head on my chest, this felt so good having her close, I stroked her curls all the way down her back until I fell asleep.
AN: About the hospital part, I have no idea how procedure is in the U.S.A. so it is very possible that it's all wrong, maybe you could overlook that? :)