Midday, Sunday
Jac and Jonny were just coming down their road, and Emma had been sitting on the windowsill waiting for them for over an hour. As soon as Emma saw the corner of their car on the driveway, she ran for the door and swung it open, nearly taking it off of it's hinges.
Mo came out and saw as soon as Jac got out if the car, she knelt down and Emma nearly barged her over as she tightly hugged her.
"Gently." Jonny said sternly as he saw the force Emma used.
"Daddy!" Emma shrieked as she let go of Jac and ran towards Jonny. He bent down a little so Emma jumped and wrapped her arms and legs around Jonny as he lifted her into the air.
After a long, tight hug, Jonny put Emma down and he began to carry the two small suitcases into the house.
"Have you been a good girl?" Jonny asked, he saw Jac lie down on the sofa.
"Yes, I tidied my bedroom this morning." Emma stated as she beamed and looked up at Jonny.
"Really? Good girl." Jonny said as he patted her on the back.
"I need a wee." Emma said as she headed for the toilet.
"Jesus Christ Jonny, what did you do to her?" Mo joked as she looked at Jac who was fast asleep on the sofa. She had her hands protectively on her bump. Jonny smirked and brushed a stray bit of hair out of her face.
"Did you have a good time?"
"Yeah, it was a really nice hotel and the spa was brilliant." Jonny whispered so that he didn't wake Jac.
A/N Just so you know the NHS's maternity leaves says that pregnant women can work up to the Sunday before their due date however, if their due date is a Sunday, they can work on their due date :)
Friday 30th October, 7:30am
It was two days before Jac's due date and she had planned to work up until her due date, and so far she had managed it. Luckily her due date was on a Sunday so she could work up to and including her due date. However, that morning, Jac merely slapped her alarm to turn it off, and buried herself back under the duvet. Jonny had already gotten up and got changed when he knelt down besides Jac and her 9 month bump.
"Do you want me to book today and tomorrow off as holiday for you?" Jonny asked quietly. Jac just about managed to nod as she fell back asleep again. He smirked, got up and went downstairs to make breakfast for his daughter. Emma was in her own clothes as they had a mufti day because they were breaking up for half term. Jonny opened the cupboard to get some cereals for Emma but he found that there was only a few sachets of porridge and some cornflakes left. He then decided to make her toast and luckily, there was two slices left for her.
Once Jonny gave Emma her toast, he looked in the cupboards, fridge and freezer to find them all with odd bits and pieces in them, but nothing substantial. He had only gone shopping last weekend and he had bought a full trolley full of food to prepare for when Jac went into labour. Now there was nothing left. He wondered how everything had gone so quickly... Then he remembered; he had a pregnant. Jac Maconie in the house.
Ten minutes later, he and Emma left the house for work.
5:20pm
Jonny and Emma had returned from work and school at 3:30pm, nearly two hours ago and Jonny had checked on Jac to find that she was still in bed, fast asleep.
Jac awake to the enticing smell of food. She heaved herself out of bed and padded down the stairs in her pyjamas.
"Oh, nice of you to join us!" Jonny joked as he and Emma were writing a list. "Let me guess, you smelt dinner." Jonny stated and Jac couldn't help but smile.
"What've we got for dinner?" Jac asked as she rubbed her eyes.
"Bits and pieces left over from the freezer including a few chicken nuggets, pizza, chips and a corn on the cob. Mainly because someone's been eating all the food." Jonny explained. "Me and Emma are going shopping after dinner to stock up. Again. And you're coming with us."
"No I'm not." Jac said sternly.
"You've been in bed all day, if you come shopping, I'll let you have some more pot noodles." Jonny said suggestively. He had stopped buying them after Jac had began consuming them for breakfast lunch and dinner.
"Fine." Jac huffed.
8pm
Jac, Jonny and Emma had just got back from shopping and they'd bought nearly two trolley fulls worth of food. Jac didn't even consider helping to carry a few light bags in, she just waited for Jonny to unlock the front door and then she headed for the bedroom and crashed out on the bed.
9pm
After packing away the shopping and putting Emma to bed, Jonny headed to his bedroom. When he entered he found Jac, still in her clothes, fast asleep in the middle of the bed, on her side, hugging a pillow. Jonny stripped his clothes off except his boxers, and slipped into bed next to Jac.
Jonny gently pulled the pillow that Jac was hugging which made Jac put her arms out subconsciously to find something to hold on to. Jonny shuffled forwards and she wrapped her arms around him. Jac had her bump pressed up against his torso as she entwined her legs with his bare legs and snuggled her face into Jonny's chest. He smiled, flicked the lamp off and wrapped his arms around Jac's back.
31st October, 8am
"Jonny, I know you said no but... Just take Emma trick or treating. She really wants to go and you won't be far away if anything happens." Jac explained sleepily. The baby was officially due tomorrow, though they knew it could come anytime now. Jonny had just got out of the shower but Jac was adamant that she was having a lay in.
"I just don't want to leave you by yourself. What if something happens? I mean, Mo can't come round because she's going to a party-"
"What about Sacha? I'm sure he's not busy, Sacha can come round here and you can take Emma." Jac suggested. This was the first year that Jac had agreed to let Emma go trick or treating, and she really didn't want to let her down like Paula Burrows had done to her.
"Alright, I'll ring Sacha. But only of he comes around okay?" Jac groaned and buried her face under the covers.
"Real mature, it's like we're already got a baby in the house."
"Whatever. Go and make me some pot noodles please." Jac said from under the covers.
"Jac it's 8 o'clock in the morning!"
"Exactly which means I'm running late in the food department. My stomachs rumbling."
"How about I make you a fruit salad?" Jonny suggested.
"Jonnnnnnyyyyyy." Jac moaned childishly.
"Fine, pot noodles it is."
Jonny plodded down the stairs to make Jac her noodles where he found Emma watching spongebob squarepants. Jonny flicked the switch on the kettle and while he was waiting, he picked up the phone and rang Sacha.
"Jonny, is it time?" Sacha asked. He had kept his phone with him constantly for the last week incase Jac went into labour.
"No no. I was just wondering if you're doing anything tonight?"
"I was just going to watch a scary movie with a bowl of popcorn. Why?"
"Would you mind doing that round ours only I need to take Emma trick or treating and I don't want to leave Jac by herself."
"So you're asking me, to baby sit Jac Naylor?"
"Yes or No Sacha? I've got Jac waiting for her pot noodles."
"For breakfast?"
"Yes Sacha. Please just yes or no."
"Yes of course I can. I'll be round yours about 7."
"Thanks. Bye."
Jonny quickly got a pot noodle out of the cupboard which was filled with only chicken flavour. He ripped the lid off and pouring boiling water off of it.
"Jonny! Where's my noodles?" Jac shouted from the bedroom.
"Coming darling." Jonny shouted as he stabbed a fork into the pot. Jonny walked past the living room.
"Emma, just come upstairs for a minute please." Jonny said quickly as he ran upstairs. Slightly out of breath, Jonny gave Jac her noodles. She was already sat up in bed leaning against the headboard. Jac put a pillow on top of her massive bump and rested the noodles on it. She then tucked in to them.
Jonny sat at the end of the bed by Jac's feet and Emma came and sat cross legged on the bed next to Jac.
"Mummy's got something to tell you." Jonny said as he smiled at Emma.
"I have?" Jac said confusedly with a mouth full of noodles. "Oh right yeah. You're allowed to go trick or treating, as long as you agree that we're only going to people's houses that we know. Agreed?" Jac said as she shovelled more noodles into her mouth.
"But I hardly know anyone around here. I'll only get a few sweets." Emma moaned.
"Alright then, when we get back, I'll hide some sweets around the house and you'll have to find them." Jonny said as he put his hand on Jac's foot which she then kicked off.
"But you have to share your sweets with mummy." Jac stated.
"No you dont, I'll get mummy her own sweets. We've got to go shopping and get a costume for you haven't we!"
"Can we go now?"
"Yep, go on, go and get changed." Jonny said smiling. Emma jumped off of the bed and headed for her bedroom.
"Hang on, so you'll leave me alone so that you two can go shopping, but you wont leave me alone to go trick or treating. How does that add up?" Jac asked.
"Because Jac, you know what people are like on halloween. If they put firecrackers through the letterbox, you would crap yourself." Jonny said seriously as he stood up and put his shoes on. Jac shrugged and continued to eat her pot noodles.
7pm
"Right, these sweets are for trick or treaters okay?" Jonny said patronisingly to Jac, he knew that she would tuck into them. "And there's sweets and cakes on the table in the living room for you and Sacha." He added as he slipped his coat on. Then the doorbell rang.
A minute later, Sacha joined Jac on the sofa in front of the TV watching monsters inc, and Emma and Jonny left for trick or treating. It was already pretty dark outside and Jac was tucked under a blanket, helping herself to many of the cakes on the table. Which Jac claimed were 'one bites'.
"So, your due date's tomorrow." Sacha stated as he put his hand around Jac's shoulders. Anyone else, maybe even Jonny, she would have shrugged off at that moment but not sacha.
"I just want him out now." Jac moaned sleepily as she fidgeted and got comfortable next to Sacha, leaning on his body under the blanket.
"Don't say that, we don't want anything happening whilst Jonny's not here." Sacha joked softly, "and besides, once he's out, you'll want him back in again."
"No, I won't." Jac said as she focused on the blue and purple furry monster in the film. Sacha smirked and remained silent because he recognised that tone in her voice that meant 'Shut up.'
Minutes later, there was a brief bang that came from the window. It was rather loud becaude the two were sitting in silence with the TV volume on low. Jac shot up like a bullet and clung on to Sacha.
"What was that?" Jac whispered. Then it came several times again with some men shouting. All Jac could hear was banging, cracking and smashing. It seemed like forever but realistically it only lasted thirty seconds.
During that time, Sacha tried to get off to shoe the troublemakers off but Jac clung on to him for her and her baby's life and he didn't have the heart to leave her.
"It's alright, it's just some teens being idiots. You're safe." Sacha whispered to Jac who was slightly trembling.
Sacha pulled the blanket, which had fallen down when she reached for Sacha, up to her chin and made sure the blanket covered her properly, including her nine month bump, because he knew that being under cover would give her some kind of reassurance. After ten minutes, Jac had calmed down and she had fallen asleep in Sacha's arms.
At 7:45pm, Jonny and Emma were just approaching their house with a pumpkin shaped bucket full of sweets when Jonny noticed the eggs splattered on the house and the toilet roll that had been thrown over the car and roof. Holding Emma's hand, Jonny quickly ran to the house, unlocked it and ran into the living room to find Jac fast asleep in Sacha's arms. Anyone else's arms and Jonny would probably slap them for touching his pregnant wife, however he knew that Jac could be comforted and calmed by Sacha so he could trust him.
"Was she alright? I saw the eggs and loo roll." Jonny whispered to Sacha as he pulled his coat off and Emma headed upstairs to get changed.
"She panicked a bit, but she's fine now. Though I may need a pair of pliers to remove Jac's nails from my arm." Sacha joked quietly. Jonny smirked and put Emma's sweets out of the reach and sight of both Emma and Jac.
"Right I um, think she's alright now but I should be getting home. Make sure you let me know if anything happens." Sacha said as he carefully slipped out of Jac's arms and Jonny took his place.
"Yep will do. Thanks for coming over."
"No worries, bye." Sacha said as he closed the door quietly behind him.
A few minutes later Emma came down in her pyjamas.
"Hey." Jonny whispered as he picked Emma up and put her on his lap. Jonny was now sitting on the sofa with his daughter curled up in a ball on his lap and his pregnant wife leaning on him.
"When mummy gives birth, can I not be there? because I don't want to see all the yucky stuff." Emma asked sleepily.
"That's fine. I'll see if Elliot can look after you cause I think Mo'll want to be there. Is that okay?" Emma nodded into Jonny's chest and soon she and Jonny fell asleep.
Midday, Sunday 1st November, Jac's due date
Jac was sitting at the dining table tapping her fingernails on the table whilst Jonny had taken Emma to the park. Getting impatient, Jac picked up her phone and rung Mr T.
"Jac, what can I do for you?"
"Can you induce me today?"
"What?! It's your due date today isn't it?"
"Well yeah but-"
"Jac, I can't induce you I'm not allowed. You might still have another week or two but look I'll book you an appointment for next Sunday and because of your age, I'd suggest that I do a cervical sweep to-"
"You are not giving me a sweep." Jac stated firmly.
"Right well, I've got a spare slot next Sunday at 9:30am where we can discuss the next step, is that okay for you?"
"Yes fine." Jac sighed as she hung up on him.
Soon Jonny returned with Emma.
"Auntie Mo's sleeping round tonight!" Emma said happily as she took off her coat and Jonny hung it up for her.
"Is she now?" Jac asked angrily as she looked at Jonny.
"Emma, do you want to go and watch some TV?" Jonny suggested and Emma awkwardly walked into the living room wondering what her parents were up to. Jonny shut the door behind her.
"Look, I know your hormonal but could you take it easy on Emma because she didn't deserve that." Jonny said calmly.
"Deserve what?"
"Snapping at me because of what she said." Jonny stated. Jac then realised what a moody cow she was being that morning.
"Fine... I'm sorry." Jac mumbled as tears built up in her eyes.
"Oh god, i didn't know you were that hormonal!" Jonny joked as Jac stood up, hugged Jonny and buried her face in his chest.
"Can you give me a sweep?" Jac mumbled.
"What?" Jonny asked as he pulled away and looked at Jac's face, she had managed to not let any tears fall.
"I want him out now. We're ready for a new baby and I'm fed up of feeling like a 90 year old with insomnia. Please, I just called Mr T and he said he recommends a sweep to get labour going." Jac lied.
"What now?" Jonny asked.
"Yeah, because of my age. Please Jonny I just don't want him to do it." Jac pleaded.
"I... You want me to give you a sweep?" Jonny asked and Jac nodded. "Fine. Mo's coming round about 5 so I'll ask her to entertain Emma for a while." Jonny said.
"Why is Mo coming round?" Jac asked as she stood up and made her self yet another cup of hot chocolate.
"Well I need to keep an eye on you so Mo offered to keep an eye on Emma until the baby comes. And she offered to cook us all dinner."
"Why do you need to keep an eye on me?" Jac asked.
"Well it's more I need to look after you." Jonny stated.
"What do you mean look after me?" Jac shrieked.
"I mean, if I don't make food you don't eat anything other than pot noodles, that and the fact that I had to help you get out of the bath this morning, and I had to put your socks on and pick out a set of clothes for you. If it wasn't for me, you'd still be in your pyjamas." Jonny explained.
"What's wrong with having a pyjama day?"
"Nothing. It's when you have a pyjama week that it becomes wrong!" Jonny joked.
"I need a wee." Jac stated as she held her hands out for Jonny to help her. Jonny pulled her up but he also pulled her into a hug which she tried to squirm out of.
"Do you want me to pee on you?" Jac asked as she struggled to escape his grasp.
"Wouldn't be the first time." Jonny stated as he remembered his jelly fish sting then he let Jac go. She rolled her eyes and headed for the toilet.
5pm
"Right, you two out of the kitchen it's Chef Emma and Chef Mo in charge of food tonight." Mo ordered as she entered the kitchen with two shopping bags.
"How longs dinner going to be?" Jonny asked.
"About an hour." Mo replied.
"Perfect." Jonny muttered as he grabbed Jac's hand and dragged her upstairs leaving Emma and Mo to make a mess of the kitchen.
Jonny shut the bedroom door behind the two of them.
"Right, how about instead of a sweep, we have sex?" Jonny suggested. "Ejaculation of semen is supposed to ripen the cervix which-"
"Hasn't been proven by science." Jac interrupted.
"Oh come on, you know you want to. I'm in the mood for an amazing sexual fireworks display." Jonny said as his hand slipped from the top of her bump to underneath it.
"Give me a sweep now and we'll have an 'NHS meeting' after dinner." Jac ordered.
"I might not be in the mood after dinner." Jonny said childishly. "And we both know if the man isn't in the mood, then ejaculation isn't possible which would make the point of having sex to bring on labour pointless." Jonny explained cleverly whilst Jac laid a towel out on the bed.
"Well I'll get you in the mood later. Here." Jac said as she chucked Jonny a small first aid kit and she laid on the bed.
"What's this for?"
"Use the gloves." Jac ordered. "And make sure you take your ring off." She said sternly as she slipped her leggings and knickers down and propped her legs up.
"What if Emma walks in now?" Jonny joked as he positioned himself in front of Jac.
"Jac, I don't even know what to do, it's not like I've ever done one before." Jonny said. Jac put her legs down and grabbed her ipad. After a few minutes, Jac gave Jonny the ipad.
"Follow the instructions." Jac said as she propped her legs up again and grabbed one of Jonny's pillows and held it over her face so that he wouldn't see the discomfort she was about to be in. Jonny slipped on the white latex gloves. And read through the instructions that were on the royal midwifery university website.
"Right, you ready?" Jonny asked quietly.
"Yes." Jac mumbled from under the pillow.
"have you emptied your bladder?"
"Yes." Jac said, and Jonny could tell there was a slight tone of anger in her voice.
A few minutes later...
"Jesus! Don't squeeze your muscles down there that feels horrible." Jonny squealed as he slowly slipped his fingers out. "Right, it's says if the sweep works you'll go into labour within 48 hours so now we wait." Jonny said as he threw his gloves in the bin in the ensuite toilet and Jac reluctantly took the pillow off her face. She pulled her knickers and leggings up.
"It also says you might have a show or a little bit of bleeding so you should probably put a pad on. I'll leave you to it but if you have any bleeding, even if it's only a little bit, you'll tell me yeah?" Jonny said as he headed for the closed door. Jac nodded so he opened the door, exited and left her to relax for a while.
8pm
After dinner, Mo and Emma were downstairs watching TV whilst Jonny and Jac headed upstairs.
"I told you I wouldn't be in the mood later." Jonny lied seductivley as he laid flat out on the bed. "So I suppose you'll have to get me in the mood." He whispered. Jac turned the light off and pulled the curtains.
She climbed on top of him and began kissing him passionately. After a while, she undone his belt which was just below her bump, whilst still kissing, pulled his jeans and boxers down slightly and she wrapped her hand around his shaft. She slowly moved her hand up and down then she let go and wrapped her hands around his neck, leaving him wanting more.
Still fully clothed, Jac began motioning her body back and forth on his lap whilst kissing to tease him. She threw her shirt off, then his and pressed her bump on his stomach. Jonny reached his hand around her back and undone her bra, letting it fly somewhere in the room.
He attempted to pull her leggings down but she stopped him.
"Not yet." Jac whispered between kisses.
"Why?" Jonny said, slightly out of breath.
"I thought you weren't in the mood." Jac stated as Jonny placed his hands on her breasts.
"Well I think a certain part of my body says otherwise." Jonny stated as he nodded downwards. Jac rolled her eyes and pulled her leggings and knickers off. Whilst she did, Jonny pulled his jeans and boxers off completely.
Jonny rolled over so that he was on top of Jac and he slid into Jac. "Don't forget the whole purpose of this is to ejaculate." Jac stated.
"I know. I think you'll agree that I'm rather good at that." Jonny smirked before he began kissing Jac once again.
"I think you'll agree that was rather successful." Jonny joked as the two of them laid in each other's arms, naked, under the duvet. Jac mumbled something and then snuggled into Jonny's bare chest even more. Jonny snaked his hands onto Jac's bump and slowly rubbed it.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door and it opened.
"Woah sorry!" Mo laughed. The duvet was up to Jac's chin and up to Jonny's shoulders but she could tell they were naked.
"No worries." Jonny smirked. "What's up?"
"Um where's the paracetamol? because there's none in the cupboard downstairs." Mo asked. Jonny looked down at Jac because he had no idea.
"Why? Is it Emma?" Jac asked worriedly as she sat up but she carefully kept the duvet covering her chest.
"Nah, I've got a headache." Mo said quietly.
"Oh um, I bought some more the other day. Here." Jac croaked as she chucked Mo a box of paracetamol from her bedside table.
"Cheers. Do you want me to put Emma to bed in a while? I wouldn't want her to interrupt you." Mo said as she smiled.
"This was purely to bring on Jac's labour." Jonny stated as Jac snuggled into Jonny's chest under the covers again.
"Yeah, course it was!" Mo joked as she shut the door and headed downstairs.
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