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Previously on The New Girl:

Erin's POV:

After a couple seconds, realization hits me and I push Jack away from me as hard as I can.

"Why would you do that!?" I yelled, slapping him across the face before I could stop myself. I can't help it I was just so boiling mad and confused. I didn't know what to do.

"What the crap!?" Jack yelled holding his cheek. I put my hand over my mouth.

"I'm so sorry, I...I mean I don't, I-Why did you kiss me!?" I cut myself off.

"Don't worry, I won't do it again." he said pushing past me. I sighed as I watched his angry figure retreating. Maybe I handled that wrong.

"What's wrong with him?" Kim asked as she entered the dojo. Jack had pushed past her, not even muttering a word as she said hello to him.

"Don't ask." I sighed.

Jack's POV:

I can't believe her! I mean, yes I kissed her and we're broken up but still.

Well...now I kind of see it. But that still doesn't mean she had to slap me.

Erin just makes me so sick and frustrated and my heart and head hurts...everything hurts actually. Urg, I don't know what to do.

Sighing, I turn around and walk back into the dojo.

"I forgot my bag." I say as I walk past Erin.

When I grab my bag and push past Erin, I realize I dropped something when Erin crouches down carefully to pick it up.

"I can't believe you kept this." She says standing up, tears glistening in her eyes as she looks at the disc that has her baby's sonogram from five months ago on it.

"Of course I did." I whisper.

"Why?" Erin asks and I sigh.

"Because, no matter how much we can't stand to be in the same room together without finding something to argue about, I'm always going to look out for you and your baby." I say.

When Erin opens her mouth to speak, I cut her off.

"Oh, I remember. You don't need me." I say looking down.

"Jack…" Erin starts.

"No Erin. Let me go.*" I say and start to walk off.

"Jack, wait." Erin begs and I turn around.

Erin walks up to me and hands me the disc.

"Keep it." She whispers and I nod.

And to my surprise, Erin looks up at me with tears in her eyes and stands up on her toes to kiss my cheek.

"To remember me. In a good way." She says softly and leaves the dojo with Kim following closely behind.

Just then I saw a side of Erin no one sees.

Weakness.

Chapter 26: Miracle Faith

Erin's POV:

Well, I'm nine months pregnant now, finally, and I have to say…I'm miserable. I want this baby out of me!

I'm not saying I don't love being pregnant and having this little girl inside of me, but third trimester is by far the most uncomfortable, especially by nine months. Really, I'm just ready for my precious baby to be born so I can meet her.

"Erin, have you still not picked out a name?" Kim asked me. We were at the dojo again, and I was just lying on the side mats because that's really all I can do anymore. I eat, I sleep, I go to the bathroom, and I rest constantly. Goodness do I miss being able to dance and do karate and just be active. I could do all that while pregnant, but not this late into term. It's too much.

"Nope" I sighed. I have barely even thought about names these past few weeks. It'd be a miracle if my child isn't just called 'Baby girl' her whole life.

Not that'd I'd do that to my child. I'm just making a point of I have no names planned.

"Er, you'd better get on it" Kim said shaking her head.

"Yeah" Jack said appearing from behind a punching dummy. "That little girl of yours needs a name. What about Peanut? That's what she looked like last I saw."

I rolled my eyes as Jack grinned at me. Things have still been awkward between the two of us, but we're at least civil now.

"Shut up Brewer, I don't need your input" I joked, but the look on his face told me that was the wrong thing to say. Crap.

"I guess you never did" he shrugged, walking away. He was no longer smiling. I sighed.

"Why do I screw everything up?" I asked. This was a rhetorical question of course, but my best friend/sister just had to answer it.

"You don't screw everything up….just things involving guys. I think you just need a crash course on guys and then-"

"Kimmy" I groaned. "I didn't want an answer."

"Oh" she said quietly. "Well, I'm gonna go down to cheerleading practice. You okay here, or do you wanna come with? I can give you a ride or something."

"No, I'm good here" I said getting comfortable-ish on these mats. "I'll just get Uncle Rudy to drive me home whenever he gets back."

"He might be gone for a while" Kim said in a concerned tone. "Are you sure you should be here alone?"

I shrugged. "I'm practically an adult, Kim. I mean, I am pregnant after all."

"That's why I'm worried. You could fall and have a miscarriage or you could hit your head and both of you die or-"

"Kim, don't be ridiculous" Jack said rolling his eyes as he walked back in the room. "Leave, she'll be fine. I'm here, and the guys should be here soon. Plus, Rudy said he'd be the one driving the guys today, so I'm assuming he'll be here soon too. Go flirt with the football players."

Kim rolled her eyes but walked over and hugged me. "What did you see in him?" she mumbled. I giggled.

"Bye Kimmy"

"Bye"

I turned around and was about to thank Jack for that, but he walked into the back to take a shower I supposed.

I sighed. This is a lonely life. I gave up the man I love, all because I can't trust anymore. But what if Jack turns out to be like Jonah? I mean, Jonah was really sweet at the beginning of our relationship, and he always told me he loved me.

Yeah, maybe I ended things with Jack right in the nick of time.

Besides, now I have a baby to think about. Single parents should not be thinking of dating, especially before their children are even born. I mean, my little girl could grow as attached to Jack as I have, and she'd be so young she wouldn't know how to handle it.

Heck, I don't even know how to handle it.

Suddenly a pain shot through my stomach. I gasped, but quickly tried to calm myself down. It's my ninth month. I'm sure it's just my little girl kicking me in a new position or something.

Another pain came, though, not even a minute or so later. That one was worse than the first, and made me sit up. Huh. I haven't been able to sit up on my own for a while. This might actually be serious…

"Uh, Jack…" I said in a worried tone. He didn't answer, and I could hear the water running in the back room.

I sighed again. My doctor warned me about Braxton Hicks Contractions, but I don't quite think this is that. is feels real.

"Jack…" I said in a slightly louder tone.

"Hmm?" he muttered from the showers.

"C-Can you come here please?" I asked, biting my lip. The pain was increasing, and it was coming at a faster rate than before. I didn't think contractions would come on so fast. In the movies, they say it takes a while between each one.

Maybe mine are just different?

"Can you wait a sec? I'm kind of busy here" he yelled.

I took a deep breath but decided I could wait a little. I'm probably over thinking this. I doubt I'm in labor.

I didn't answer him, I just sat there for a while, waiting to see if that pain came again. I sighed in relief after five minutes. There hadn't been any more pain yet, so I think I'm good.

But then it came again. Hard. It was a lot worse than the first couple, and it caused me to cry out loud in pain: something I'd been trying to avoid.

"Er? You okay in there?" I heard Jack call. He probably couldn't tell how bad I was hurting.

"Y-Y-Yeah, I was just-Uhg, Jack!" I screamed, just as another pain hit. Dang this hurts.

I heard the water shut off immediately and Jack ran in holding the knot on a towel wrapped around his waist. "What happened?" he gasped out.

"I-I-I think I'm in l-labor" I stuttered. The pain was getting worse.

Jack's eyes were the size of Jupiter. "WHAT!? We need to call an ambulance or something!"

"I don't wanna go alone" I said shaking my head in fear as Jack hurriedly fumbled around his gym bag for his phone.

Jack turned towards me, seeming panicked himself, but also trying to look calm.

Wasn't working, I could see straight through him.

"Don't worry Er, I'm gonna call the guys and Kim to come up to the hospital and-"

"Jack, please. The hospital is so far away from here and no ambulance could get here in time and take me back" I whined. I don't mean to sound like a little kid, it just really hurts.

"Um, are-are you sure you can't make it to the hospital Erin? I mean, it really isn't that far a drive when you think about it-"

"JACK!" I screamed, holding onto my stomach. "I know you hate me for everything I've done to you, but please help me! If not for me, please, do it for the baby" I begged. "She doesn't deserve this."

"I don't hate you."

He looked hurt. I looked away, and another contraction hit. "OH MY GOSH I'M GONNA KILL JONAH!"

"Not before I do" I thought I heard Jack mumbled.

"Okay" he said sighing. "Come on baby, I'll help you to the car."

I tried to ignore the whole 'baby' thing as he helped me to my feet. As soon as I was on the ground, I bent over because it really, really hurt.

"Oh gosh Er, okay, it's okay" Jack said grabbing my arm and wrapping it around his shoulder so I could be supported. "We'll get through this."

"You can use it in the plural tense when you have a little head pushing out of you-"

"Okay Erin, I'm gonna stop you right there, okay. I'm sorry" he said as he helped me sit in the car. He laid my chair back for me and even helped me buckle my seatbelt. Yeah, okay he's nothing like Jonah….

But I already knew that.

"Jack, please hurry" I begged, tears building up in my eyes.

"Okay, okay, don't cry" he said rushing to the drivers' seat. I really hope this goes okay.

Jack's POV:

I'm freaking out. Literally freaking out, which is not really a good thing when you're behind the wheel of a car with a pregnant girl in your passenger seat, who's in labor nonetheless.

"Come on Erin, it'll be okay" I said reaching my right hand over and rubbing her arm. She was turned over on her side, away from me, but I could still hear her whimpers.

She sniffed. "Jack, I'm scared."

"Don't you worry about a thing" I sighed.

Yeah, let me do all the worrying here. I just hope I can get us to the hospital.

"Y-You're in the wrong l-lane" Erin stuttered.

I quickly reverted my gaze back onto the road and swerved into the right lane once more. Luckily nothing was coming our way.

"Thanks" I mumbled.

About five more minutes into the drive, Erin started crying. "Jack, please, please hurry!"

"We'll be there in about seven more minutes" I told her.

"Jack" she whined.

"It'd be fifteen if I wasn't already driving way over the speed limit" I pointed out.

"Is there a way we can bring Eve bad from the dead and smack her?" Erin whimpered. I glanced over at her, and my heart nearly broke. I've never seen her like this. The poor girl was in so much pain.

"Let's just get you two to the hospital before we tackle reincarnation" I said patting her arm. She swatted at my hand.

"Just drive!"

I waited a few minutes before speaking again. Or at least trying to.

"So Er, are you-"

"Am I going to take a machine gun to Jonah's man parts? You better believe I am. But that doesn't help me now, does it?"

I blinked, and went for a different subject. The subject I was originally going for.

"So are you excited to meet your little girl?"

"As soon as we skip ahead of this part. If life was a movie, I'd fast forward this part every single time."

I groaned. This is going to be a really long drive.

Third person POV:

"Jack, please hurry" Erin begged from where she sat in the passenger seat. She hated this feeling of pain and vulnerability, but she was so excited as well. All she wanted was her baby to be okay.

Jack, however, had two people to worry about. For some reason even he didn't understand, he was so concerned over that little unborn baby Erin was carrying. Maybe it was the Christian inside him. Probably. But Jack felt it was something more as well. He felt a pull of sincerity in his heart when he thought of the way the poor child was conceived.

Sure, he knew Erin would be an incredible mom. But that was another thing that worried him. What would happen to them? Erin would become a single mother. Yes, she had Kim and Rudy but at some point she'd want to live on her own right?

Right. Erin was an independent girl who was determined not to ask for help unless absolutely necessary-like now, for instance. She obviously didn't want to ask Jack for help getting to the hospital, but she knew her baby's life could depend on it.

"Are-are we almost there?" Erin asked, holding her stomach now. Jack glanced over at her momentarily and found himself wishing to be any place else. He couldn't take seeing her in such pain, but he also knew he wouldn't want to trust her in anyone else's care. Which is what he was about to have to do.

"We'll be there at this next exit Er. I'm sorry, there's been a lot of traffic for some reason" Jack mumbled.

A few minutes later he was finally pulling into an empty parking space in the emergency section of the hospital; braking, parking and hopping out of the car all at once. Erin wasn't sure if Jack had put his seatbelt on at all, or if he was just that fast with getting everything done at once. Did he rip straight through it?

"Come on Erin" Jack said. He was now at her door, trying to coax her out. Erin let out a cry as she tried to haul herself up.

"J-Jack….I c-can't" she sniffed.

"Come on sweetie, I got you" Jack said. After a few more failed attempts, he simply sighed and wrapped his arms around Erin's back and the back of her legs.

"What are you doing?" Erin asked in a strained voice as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and laid her head on his chest.

Jack, however, didn't say a word. He just lifted her with a few grunts (she was nine months pregnant, after all) and kicked the door shut as he walked towards the hospital entrance as fast as he could whist carrying Erin.

It was a painful process for the both of them.

They finally got through the doors after a long struggle getting Erin to the parking lot. "Somebody help please, she's in labor" Jack
yelled as they staggered through the door. A few nurses rushed over to them, hovering around her.

"How far along are you sweetie?"

"How old are you?"

"Are you the father?"

"How far apart are your contractions?"

"On a scale of one to ten, how much does it hurt?"

The nurses kept flooding Erin (and Jack occasionally) questions so quick she couldn't even answer them.

"I'm in pain here! Someone just deliver my baby before I sue!" Erin screamed. Jack ducked his head, trying not to let the nurses see him laughing.

"Sorry" he apologized, not sorry at all though. "She's pregnant, okay. We know she's in labor. She's nine months along, seventeen years old, and her contractions are pretty close together, I'd say. Right Erin?"

"You could say that" she said through gritted teeth.

"Okay" said one of the older nurses who had been trying to quiet down the younger ones and the interns. "Let's get you a room, sweetie, and see how dilated you are."

"All the way! Just get this baby out of me!" Erin screamed. Jack's heart ached for her. He wanted to take away all her pain, though he knew that was impossible.

"It's okay, Er, you'll be okay" Jack assured her, though he wasn't quite sure himself. He just felt the need to make her feel better in any way possible.

"Is this the father?" the nurse asked.

"No" Erin gasped out.

"Do we need to c-"

"The father is no longer in the picture, ma'am" Jack cut her off.

"Okay, so let's get you in a room."

"I'll be in the waiting room" Jack said, turning away so he didn't have to watch her any longer. It was killing him.

"Jack, wait!" Erin called. Jack turned back to her, confused.

"What?"

"Please stay with me" she begged. Her voice was so frail and full of vulnerability.

Jack shook his head at the thought and crossed his arms. "I thought you didn't need me anymore. You don't need my input, remember?"

Erin shook her head, the pain almost unbearable as the nurses tried to rush her away, but she wouldn't let them. Not now.

"I-I always needed you Jack" Erin gulped. "I think I always will. ease stay with m-me."

What happened next was a blur to Jack. He could remember nodding his head, even though his head was screaming at him in refusal, begging him not to go on the road of being heartbroken again. But he didn't listen to his head this time. His heart was with Erin, always, and he'd never leave her when she needed him.

"Come on Erin, push!" the doctor, who'd shown up moments after Jack had decided to stay with Erin, yelled. They were now in the delivery room, and it'd only taken a little under an hour for them to decide she was ready to push.

"I'm pushing, can't you see!" Erin screamed back. Jack was holding her hand, trying his best to concentrate on her face only.

However, that wasn't helping much considering her face was masked in the most pain he'd ever seen her in, and it was tearing his heart apart bit by bit

"It's okay Erin, you can do this" Jack said, pushing her hair out of her face with his free hand for probably the hundredth time.

"I can't" she squeaked out, shaking her head.

"Yes you can" Jack said. Erin continued shaking her head, so he said, "Look at me."

"W-What?" she stuttered, looking at him with wide, fearful eyes. For a moment, he'd even forgotten they weren't together anymore.

"You can do this. Do you know how I know?" he asked.

"How?"

"Miss. Wilkes, you really should be pushing again" said the impatient doctor.

They ignored her.

"You're the strongest girl I know" Jack said pushing her hair back again. "You're the most amazing, sweet, caring, and considerate woman I've ever met. Even in your weakest, most vulnerable state, you come out a fighter. And I know you'd do anything for your baby. Just a few more moments in pain is all you need. Do you think you can do that?"

Erin nodded, wordlessly.

"Okay Erin, push just a few more times for me."

Three more pushes and they heard the most miraculous cry.

"Oh thank God" Erin whispered, making Jack smiled. He remembered when she didn't want to have anything to do with the Lord. She'd come a long way.

"Congratulations, Miss. Wilkes. Here is your healthy baby girl" the doctor smiled.

"I wanna hold her" Erin breathed up.

The doctor smiled at the young girl she'd watched mature tremendously throughout her pregnancy and handed her the baby girl, now wrapped in a tiny pink blanket.

Jack watched as Erin held onto her baby for the first time. He'd never seen her smile so big.

"She's so beautiful" Erin whispered, looking up at Jack.

"She's our little miracle" Jack agreed, completely unaware of what he'd just said.

Erin heard him, but chose to ignore the little slip-up as a thought hit her. "Miracle! That's it!" she gasped.

"Miracle?" Jack asked, unsure what she meant. Had the drugs gotten to her….?

"Miracle Faith, that's her name" Erin grinned. "You wanna hold her?"

"Uh, I guess" he said carefully taking the adorable baby out of her arms.

"So, why Miracle Faith?" Jack asked.

"She's a miracle, like you said. A wonderful miracle that came from something terrible" Erin said as she touched her baby's head as Jack held her. She smiled at her sweet baby. "And throughout this whole experience, we had to have to upmost faith that God would let everything work out. Thank you for that, by the way."

"No problem" Jack smiled.

"Miracle Faith" Erin said again. "It just…makes sense."

"Then I love it, Er" Jack said as he smiled at the precious little angel in his arms.

As he looked back at Erin, she was already looking at him. He glanced down at her lips, and started leaning in without knowing it. Erin was leaning up too, so he didn't stop.

"Guys!" a voice broke them apart. Erin offered a fake smile as Kim rushed through the door.

"We got the call" Rudy said, walking in right behind his niece, out of breath. "Sorry sweetie, there was so much traffic due to a wreck."

"That's okay." Erin laughed. "Wanna meet your niece?"

"You know it." Kim said rushing over to Jack, meaning to snatch the baby up out of his arms, but Jack turned away.

"Watch it Kim, you gotta be careful in handling her." he said as he carefully placed the baby in her arms. Erin watched as they fussed at each other over how to hold the baby.

"You feeling okay sweetie?" Rudy asked, kissing the top of Erin's head.

Erin turned back and looked at her sister and Jack with her precious, new born little girl and smiled.

"Yeah, I'm perfectly fine" she smiled. And she knew it was true this time. Everything was fine.

She met Jack's gaze seconds later and her breath caught.

Except that. She knew she never should've let him go. That was the only thing wrong now.

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