Life in Dauntless
Chapter 26: Let go, kicks and gender
Aaron's POV
I don't know how long I have been locked up in here. I've still been trying to escape but I can't. I'm too weak. I've lost too much blood. I know I'm dying.
But I can't die. I need to see Hope, and our baby. I need to be there for them. I need to be there to hold her hand as she gives birth to our child. Our little boy or girl. I need to be there to hold her and tell her that everything is going to be okay. I need to be a father to our son or daughter.
I need to be there for them.
I really need to be there.
The door smacks open and in walks Eric.
"You're free to go. Hope still thinks you're dead and you're as good as dead anyways. I will drive you to somewhere and you can go wherever you want from there." Eric drags me out of the building and throws me into the back of the truck.
I don't know how long we have been driving for but not before long we have stopped and Eric throws me to the ground and drives away.
I look around and see the buildings in Amity not far from here.
I stand and slowly make my way to the building that reads 'Infirmary' on it.
As soon as I get in there I collapse to the ground and darkness surrounds me.
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Hope's POV
Weeks pass by and the war is still going on. I am eighteen weeks pregnant and still getting bigger.
My mum, my grandma and I are sitting on my bunk talking about things to do with the baby mostly. My dad is out fighting with some other Dauntless at the moment. My hands rest on my larger bump and my legs are crossed so my mum and grandma can both sit on the small bunk with me. The teddy bear is in my lap.
I am wearing one of Aaron's shirts and some maternity leggings. Both of which are black.
I feel a light pressure in my stomach and gasp, placing one hand over where it was. They both look at me, worried. I have to admit I'm scared too.
"Hope, what's wrong?" Mum asks.
"I don't know."
"What happened? What did you feel?" Grandma.
"I felt a pressure in my belly. It didn't hurt or anything."
"Oh my god. The baby kicked." Mum says, excited.
I smile.
My baby kicked for the first time.
Aaron should be here for this.
I feel tears in my eyes and I let them fall.
"Honey, what's wrong?" Mum.
"Aaron should be here for this. Our baby just kicked for the first time." I start crying even more and they hug me.
"It's okay, Hope. We're here for you. We're not leaving." Grandma.
I just cry.
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Aaron's POV
I wake up in a hospital bed in Amity. A doctor is next to me.
"Good, you're awake. How are you feeling?"
"A bit sore but I'm fine. When can I go?"
"In a week. You lost a lot of blood and you've been asleep for a week already."
"No, I have to get back to my pregnant girlfriend who thinks I'm dead. I need to find her and be there for her." I ask him how long it's been since the day I 'died', I tell him the date of it obviously.
It has been ten weeks, meaning she would be twenty weeks pregnant with our child. That means she can find out the gender soon.
"She's twenty weeks pregnant. I need to find her. Please let me go."
"You're too weak to go now. You've been asleep for a week and you still need some blood from the transfusion. How about you give it a few days then go?"
"I need to know if her and our child are okay."
"Look, I would like nothing more for you to get back to her and your unborn child. But right now leaving here in this state won't get you anywhere. Do you really want her to see you this weak?
"No, but right now I really don't care. I just need to see her so she knows I'm not dead."
"Three days, then you can go."
"Fine." I groan.
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Hope's POV
Today is the day I find out the gender of my baby. Aaron should be here for this. But instead my parents and grandma are going to come with me. The baby has been kicking quite a lot since the first time he or she did two weeks ago.
The war is still going on. I don't know why it's lasting as long as it is but I really hope it ends soon. I want to go home.
I am on the same bed I lay on whenever Marlene gives me a check-up. Marlene lifts my top up so she can see my larger bump and squirts the gel on it. She moves the wand thing around and soon I see my baby on the screen.
I smile when I see him or her, tears fill my eyes.
"Do you want to know the gender?" Marlene asks me.
I nod because I'm too happy to speak right now. My dad is holding my hand.
"Looks like you're having a little boy." She smiles at me and I smile back before looking back at the screen. At my son. My little boy.
A tear slides down my cheek as I continue to look at him on the screen.
Marlene prints out a picture of the scan and gives it to me after wiping the gel off my belly. I pull my top back down and go back to my bunk with my family. Grandma holds the teddy bear because I didn't want to leave it on my bunk.
I sit on the bed and look at the picture of my little boy.
Aaron should have been here for this.
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