Chapter 27: The Grand Entrance

July crept up on Mitchie, Alex and Ariana and now everyone was concentrating on the arrival of the new baby. By now Ariana was a little bit more accepting of expecting a baby brother instead of the baby sister everyone knew she dearly wanted but there was still that hope in the child that she would get a little sister. It was in the middle of the night on July 12th that Alex woke up from a sharp pain shooting up her back.

"Mitchie." Alex said as she tried to wake her wife up.

"Mmmppphh." Mitchie mumbled into her pillow.

"Mitchie." Alex repeated with a little more volume and seriousness in her voice.

"Mmmppphh." Mitchie once again mumbled.

"MICHAELA!" Alex screamed her wife's full first name causing her to jump and (since she was laying so close to the edge) fall off the bed and onto the floor with a thud. Alex wanted to laugh but the pain in her abdomen was too much for her to even try to laugh.

"What? What's wrong?" Mitchie asked still half asleep.

"The baby's coming." Alex managed to say through gritted teeth. With that Mitchie jolted to life and turned on the bedroom light so she could grab some actual clothing. As Mitchie threw on a pair of joggers and a t shirt Alex had another contraction.

"Just breathe baby, breathe." Mitchie soothed as the contraction hit Alex. Finally after a few seconds Alex had relaxed and was able to stand up and get out of bed.

"Alright, ok. Let's just get you to the car." Mitchie said taking Alex's hand. They went down the stairs one step at a time, and had to stop every once and a while for Alex to wait for the contraction to pass but eventually they got to the car.

"I'll be right back." Mitchie said as she ran back into the house to wake up their daughter. Stepping into the child's room Mitchie tried to wake her daughter up but the little girl still stayed asleep.

"Ari, you have to wake up baby." Mitchie said as she took the covers off her daughter and picked her up. The little girl mumbled something about still being tired but Mitchie just threw a blanket over the little girl and headed out the door with Alex's hospital bag. With everyone buckled in Mitchie drove as fast as she could over to the hospital where Alex was quickly checked in and given a room. While the doctor checked Alex over Mitchie stood outside the room, Ariana sleeping with her head resting on Mitchie's lap, and called Alison.

"Hello?" Alison answered groggily.

"Hey Ali, its Mitchie." Mitchie said. Mitchie could hear Alison fumbling around to turn on the lamp.

"Mitch are you aware that it's….3:26 in the morning?" Alison asked becoming a bit more alert.

"Yes I am and really, really sorry for calling you so early but Alex just went into labour and Ari's still out cold." Mitchie said. Alison had promised she and Chase would watch Ariana for the night when the baby came so even though it was the middle of the night she told Mitchie she'd be there in about 15 minutes to pick her up. While Mitchie waited for Alison she brought Ariana into the hospital room with Alex until Alison showed up a few minutes later, still in her pyjama bottoms and her hair thrown into a messy ponytail.

" So how's everything going?" Alison asked as the two girls stepped outside the room. All of a sudden both girls could hear Alex screaming and swearing through yet another contraction.

"Aah, that good." Alison said.

"Yeah. Thank you so much for watching her Ali. We'll call you guys later and tell you how everything is going." Mitchie said as Alison took Ariana in her arms and headed out the door. Alison set the little girl in the back seat of the car and headed off back to the house.

"Aunt Ali?" Ariana managed to say as she began to wake up.

"Yeah sweetie?" Alison asked.

"Where's mama and mommy?"

"They're at the hospital honey, the baby's coming." Alison told her. Again Ariana fell back asleep and Alison carried the little girl into the house and since Jaiden's bed was big enough for the both of them set her in there. As Alison put Ariana in the bed the younger child inched herself closer to Jaiden until she was right beside him and didn't move for the next couple hours until she awoke.

"Morning, sleepy head." Alison said to the little girl as she made her way into the kitchen. As Alison gave Ariana her breakfast and set her up at the table the phone rang.

"Hey Mitch, any baby yet?" Alison asked.

"No, Dr. Robbins just checked Alex and she's only 4cm dilated so it might still be a while." Mitchie replied.

"How's Ari?"

"Good, she just woke up and she's eating breakfast right now." Alison reported.

"Wanna talk to her?" With a yes, Alison passed Ariana the phone after she had finished her spoon full of cereal.

"Hi mommy." The little girl said.

"Hi baby, having fun at aunt Ali's?" Mitchie asked.

"Yeah, is the baby here yet?" Ariana asked.

"No, not yet honey. It'll still be a while but I promise I'll call you when he gets here okay?" Mitchie said. On Mitchie's side Alex could be heard in the background again screaming and cussing through another painful contraction, which didn't go un-noticed by Ariana.

"I gotta go but I'll call you in a little bit." Mitchie said as she quickly said goodbye to her daughter and went to be with her wife who had finally stopped screaming.

"Aunt Ali, I think the baby's hurting mama." Ariana said, a look of concern on her face as she handed the phone back to Alison and continued to eat her breakfast.


For the next couple hours the girls waited for everything to progress but the baby seemed to want to take his sweet time before he made his grand entrance into the world. When Alex was given the choice she immediately took the chance at getting the epidural, just wanting to get rid of as much of the pain as possible. The wait seemed like an eternity but finally after 13 hours of labour, 8 and a half months of waiting Dr. Robbins finally told them the news they had been waiting to hear since nearly three thirty that morning.

"Okay Alex it looks like you are fully Dilated" Dr. Robbins said as she checked Alex over for the last time.

"I'll just get everything prepped and we can get started."

Alex nodded as Dr. Robbins left the room.

"This is it" Alex said looking up at Mitchie. Mitchie just held her wife's hand and assured her everything was going to be fine.

*Twenty minutes later*

"1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10"

Alex's head fell back on the pillow for the 6th time.

"Ok Alex we just need a few more pushes and you'll have your baby. Now on the next contraction I really want you to push ok?" Dr. Robbins told her. Alex nodded the best she could then felt another contraction and pushed as hard as she could.

"Michaela Torres I hate you!" Alex screamed as she squeezed her wife's hand tight.

"I'm sorry. I promise you'll never have to do this again if you let my hand stay intact." Mitchie said as she winced at pain shooting up her hand.

You have nothing to complain about! You're not the one squeezing something the size of a watermelon through something the size of a fucking lime!" Alex snapped. Mitchie held in her laugh at the analogy, she loved Alex but right now it seemed like one little miss-saying or step out of line and it would be off with Mitchie's head.

"Okay Alex just one more push." Dr. Robbins told her. Alex groaned and began pushing again, squeezing the life out of Mitchie's hand.

"1…2….3….4….5….6…7…8…9…10" Dr. Robbins counted as Alex's head crashed onto the pillow in exhaustion and a baby's cries filled the room.

"And here's your boy." Dr. Robbins said holding the new born boy for his mothers to see. Mitchie and Alex didn't have much time to celebrate the birth of their newborn son before Alex was suddenly crushing Mitchie's hand again.

"Is-is this supposed to hap-happen?" Alex asked as she felt another contraction hit her.

"It seems you have another one on the way." Dr. Robbins said as both Alex and Mitchie's eyes grew wide in shock.

"Alex I need you to push again." Dr. Robbins said breaking both girls out of their shocked state. After the next contraction hit her, Alex pushed again and after about 5 more minutes of pushing another cry filled the room.

"It's a girl!" Dr. Robbins said as she got Mitchie to cut the cord and then the surprise child was handed off to the nearby nurse to be checked over along with her brother. After both babies had been properly cleaned up, given a clean bill of health and brought to Alex and Mitchie the two mothers took turns trading off both babies every few minutes. As of now Alex was holding their son and Mitchie was holding their surprise little girl.

"So first you're born in a cab, then Ari's born 5 weeks early, now little miss here catches us by surprise." Mitchie said to her wife in disbelief as she held her new daughter.

"You Russo girls and your grand entrance's I tell ya." Alex just giggled and smirked.

"Hey what can I say? The Russo girls like to come in with a bang." Alex said. The room was filled with a comfortable silence for a few minutes until Mitchie spoke up.

"They're gorgeous." Mitchie said as she sat in the chair right beside Alex's bed.

"I know. They get it from you." Alex said, a small grin placed on her lips.

"No way they get it from you. And I won't let you say otherwise." Mitchie told her.

"So we know he has a name but what about her?" Alex asked as she looked at the new born girl in Mitchie's arms.

"We never really came up with any girl names."

For the next hour or so the girls contemplated names for their daughter until everyone arrived at the hospital to see the newest additions to the family (so far no one had been informed that there was two babies now instead of just one, both Mitchie and Alex wanted to keep it a surprise until everyone arrived). The first ones to arrive at the hospital were Chase, Alison and the kids. When they got into the hospital room Alison was the first to notice that both Mitchie and Alex were each holding a baby.

"Uh guys, I thought you ordered one baby, not two." Alison said quite confused at the extra baby.

"So did we." Alex chuckled.

"But clearly she had other plans."

"She? It's a girl?" Ariana asked.

"Yep, you got your sister and a brother." Alex replied causing her daughter to cheer in excitement.

"Honey, you gotta be quieter in the hospital okay? I know you're excited but it's the rules." Alex said.

"So did you guys decide on names?" Chase asked as Mitchie let him hold the baby girl and Alex let Ariana hold her brother.

"Well the baby Ari's holding is Trenton Dayden Cole Russo." Alex replied.

"And the girl we decided to name her Anna Alison Christina Russo." Mitchie finished. Alison was ecstatic that Alex and Mitchie had given their new daughter her name. After thanking the girls Alex and Mitchie asked Chase and Alison to be the god parents, which they of course accepted. As Anna was handed off to Alison, Ariana sat quietly in her chair with baby Trenton in her arms until he let out a loud cry. Mitchie grabbed her son to calm him down and Ariana looked at her mother with a very serious look on her face.

"Mommy, can we just keep Anna? Trenton's too loud."

And there y'all have it =) chapter 27. Hope everyone enjoys this chap and I hope you all have an awesome New Year's Eve.

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