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Chapter Twenty-One

"Fu-"

"Language!"

"I am in pain! I can cuss all I want!"

JJ groaned and bit her pillow as Emma helped her get adjusted in bed. Nurses milled around, setting up the four fetal heart monitors, her IV and monitor, and other things that needed to be set up.

"Okay," Emma said, stepping back, "I'm gonna go call Steve and get him down here right now-"

"Y-You can't reach him. He..." JJ groaned. "They're undercover. You will have to reach them through Kono or Lou or Chin." JJ let out a cry and cursed some language that Emma wished she could wash her ears out with soap. The nurses seemed unfazed and Emma got the feeling that they've heard a lot worse. Emma stepped out before JJ decided to break her hand, pulling out her phone and dialing Kono's number.

"Ugh, of all the times for Steve to save the island..." Kono answered a few rings later.

"Emma? What's wrong?" Her voice was quiet and strained. She sounded tired and scared. A sinking feeling settled in her gut.

"Um, JJ went into labor, like, forty minutes ago." There was a long stretch of silence before she heard something come over from Kono's line that sounded like an announcement.

A hospital announcement.

Emma narrowed her eyes, walking further down the hall so she was out of earshot.

"Kono, what's going on? Are you at a hospital?"

"Yes."

Kono explained what happened.

Steve and Danny were undercover as drug pilots when their plane was shot at. Steve was hit in the liver, and since it was too damaged to repair, Danny offered his liver. So both of them were in surgery right now, and Emma was ready to punch something.

"Any update?"

"Not yet."

"Who's there with you?"

"Pretty much everyone." Kono sighed.

"Stay there with him. I'll call Finn and the others and they can be here with us." Emma groaned. "Great, this is just what JJ needs."

"If you tell her, her labor could get worse. When Renee was in labor, the doctor warned me not to stress her out because if she's stressed her blood pressure could skyrocket, and she could be in danger, as well as the baby. You can't tell her, Emma."

A shout came from JJ's room, and Emma sighed.

"Fine, I won't tell her. Just... Update me, please?"

"We will."

Emma hung up, then saw Dr. Pan heading for her. She stopped her quickly.

"Is everything okay?" Dr. Pan asked, seeing the worry on her face.

"Steve's not coming."

"What?" Emma quickly summarized everything that Kono told her, making Dr. Pan sigh and cover her face.

"Oh, dear..."

"What should we do?"

JJ was in labor for maybe two hours before Dr. Pan came in to check on her.

Emma absolutely hated seeing her friend like this.

Having no family to look out for her, she was the closest thing that JJ had to a sister. When she told Emma that she was joining the Navy, Emma blew up on her, telling her how absolutely stupid it sounded and it was too dangerous and everything. After that, they lost contact for two years before she was contacted and told that when they were transporting a prisoner, they were fired at and had to take cover in a nearby village. JJ had been wounded, shot in the arm, shoulder and leg, and was in serious condition. She was transported to a San Francisco hospital once she was stable enough, and Emma refused to leave her side. Seeing her in pain like so was horrifying and Emma never wanted to leave her again.

Seeing her like this was absolutely awful.

Emma ran her fingers over JJ's knuckles, running her fingers through her freshly cut short and sweaty hair. JJ gripped her hand with crazy strength.

"Emma."

"Yeah?"

"I'm so going to kick Steve's ass once I'm healed." Emma managed a laugh, pressing their foreheads together.

"I'll help you." JJ winced as Dr. Pan pulled away from checking her dilation, a frown on her face.

"What? What's with that face?" JJ asked.

"One of the four is breeched. We need to get you into the OR right away."

Finn and the others arrived just as Emma was going to go in to wash up. She had to scrub and be gowned, but perked up as she saw them running toward her. A nurse tried to stop them, but once Finn hurriedly told her why they were there, she let them through.

"Is she okay?"

"Where's Steve?"

"What's going on?"

"Are we too late?"

Emma waved them down, and thankfully they shut up long enough for her to fill them in about her situation as well as Steve's.

"I'll go down there to be with them." Ivan offered. "I want updates." And took off down the hallway. Finn scrubbed at his face in irritation.

"God, he's an idiot." Finn mumbled.

"When did you figure that out?" Emma asked. Finn grunted and nodded in agreement.

"She's getting prepped now, right?" Yasmine asked. "Does this mean we'll have to wait outside?" Emma nodded.

"JJ told me she wants people with the quads just in case nothing goes as plan. I'm going to go scrub and then I'll ask a nurse to tell you what's going on." They nodded, and Emma pushed open the doors to go scrub.

JJ looked like she was seriously freaking out, but was trying to remain calm. Her eyes searched the OR, panicked and scared.

Emma walked up to her, taking her hand and laying her hand on her forehead. JJ looked at her, a tear falling from her eye. Nurses prepared four baby gurneys, surgical trays and prepped her belly for the C-section.

"I got the alert." Emma froze and looked down at JJ, who looked panicked as hell.

"What?" She flicked her blue eyes to meet her brown.

"Steve had Jerry be the one to let me know if something like this happened while he went undercover this time. When you went out to call Kono, I got the alert that the plane was shot down and Steve was shot. Do... Do you know what's going on?"

"All I know is that Danny offered to donate half his liver because Steve's wasn't salvageable. The last time I heard from them was when they were taking out the fragments from Steve's liver and that was it." Her BP begin to raise before she breathed in and out slowly, and it lowered. The anesthesiologist looked at her surprised, then continued to monitor it closely.

"Steve's gonna be okay." JJ whispered. "I know it."

"He better be okay or else I'm going to kill him." JJ managed a choked laugh before another tear fell, her hand giving Emma's a squeeze.

"I'm scared." She whimpered. Emma tried everything she could to soothe her.

"I know. I am too."

It took about ten minutes until they announced they were delivering the first baby. Emma stood up from her stool, peaking over the curtain to watch. JJ gripped her hand tightly, her eyes squeezed shut.

A baby cry filled the air and Emma let out a happy squeal.

"Baby number one is a boy!" Dr. Pan announced and JJ let out a slight sob. Emma watched the nurses take the boy, her heart filling with pride as the baby cried so perfectly and healthy.

"That's a perfect cry, JJ." Emma said, looking down at her friend. JJ was looking past her legs, watching the nurses clean him up and check his heart, lungs and clean his nose. Then they wrapped him up and settled him in Emma's arms. She sat down carefully, holding him up to JJ for her to see. JJ lifted her hand and laid it on his stomach, her eyes filling with tears.

"He's absolutely beautiful..." The boy let out a slight cough before yawning, looking around with a squint. It's not like newborns could see, but they could see bright lights.

"Alright, baby number two is coming shortly, JJ. Get ready." Alyx nodded, but her attention was still on the boy. Emma loved her face. It was filled with awe and wonder, probably wondering how the heck did a human grow inside her.

Sadly, the nurses had to take him so they could set him up in the nursery for monitoring. Emma was going to follow when JJ grabbed her hand.

"Is Finn here?" Her voice was hoarse and choked. She'd been holding back sobs.

"Yeah. So is Ray and Yasmine."

"I want them with the babies. Send Finn with the oldest, then Yasmine with the second, Ray with the third and I want you to go with the fourth. Please." Emma nodded, told the pediatrician that they had set up with and he nodded, taking in her advice as they wheeled the boy out.

"Okay, JJ. Baby number two is coming." Emma quickly returned to her spot, watching as they prepared to deliver the second. Emma's heart jumped for joy as the second was pulled out, also crying just like the boy.

"We got a girl!" Emma announced. JJ managed a giggle, watching as they cleaned her up as well. They repeated what they did with the girl, Emma being able to hold her close to JJ while JJ got acquainted with the tiny baby, before she too was taken, following her brother.

"Number three is on its way." JJ squeezed her hand.

"Talk. About anything." Emma searched for anything to talk about before something random popped into her head.

"Uh, Lance decided to tryout for cheerleading." JJ smiled proudly.

"Really?"

"Yeah. He's really good at it, not to mention his looks."

"He's gonna have girls and guys drooling all over him. He's got good springs, too." Emma nodded in agreement.

"Number three is coming out." Emma peaked over the sheet just in time to see Dr. Pan pulling out the third baby.

"We have another boy!" Dr. Pan announced. JJ gave a startled laugh.

"Oh god, I really hope I don't have three boys." She said, causing a chain of chuckles throughout the OR. Once again, the nurses brought the boy over, who was squirming and whimpering until he was laid in Emma's arms.

"Oh, look at his tiny little nose..." JJ cooed. "He gets that from Mary, I'm sure of it." Emma grinned.

"We're getting ready to deliver number four, JJ. Ready?"

"So ready." Baby number four took a bit longer than they expected, causing JJ's anxiety to rise again, but miraculously, her BP stayed steady and even.

"Okay." Dr. Pan finally said. "Ready to meet your last child?"

"Yes." JJ's voice was uneven and shaky, Emma giving her a gentle stroke of the head before watching as Dr. Pan pulled out a-

"A girl!" JJ laid her head back, before lifting it when she realized the girl wasn't crying.

"Emma, why isn't she crying?" Emma let go of her head to try and see. "Emma, what's wrong?" Her monitor was suddenly going out of wack, and Dr. Pan and a couple of other surgeons were trying to find something. Emma turned around just in time to see JJ's terrified look before a mask was placed on her face, and a second later she was out.

"W-What's going on?" Emma asked, clearly panicking.

"There's a rupture. You need to leave. Now."