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(AN/ FUCKING LOVE ELEANOR AND LOUIS! DON'T HATE THE PLAYA!
(honestly so so sorry that this chapter is a bit 'gappy'. I've been running low on ideas)
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Bamford-Tomlinson
(AN/ December 24th in this story, so we've moved on 3 months again x
As you may have noticed, it's Louis's birthday x
His 21st!
Ness is about 8 3/4 months)

Over in LA, the boys were doing their charity events. Concerts. Venues. Signings. Special Apperances. The boys had been tweeting and texting and phoning Vanessa non-stop because she was getting nearer and nearer her due date. They all felt guilty that they couldn't be there. They all kept their bags and suitcases with them to make it easier for them. They never stayed in one place for more than a day or two.
7:31pm LA time.
Louis thanked all his Twitter followers in Britain for his birthday messages. It was his birthday over there. He only had a couple of hours until his birthday in the US. A text banner popped up. He opened it gladly.
Happy birthday, gay boy!
Twenty One!
OMG!
Miss and love you truckloads xxx
We love you
02:31 am (UK)
That text made his night. It had meant she had stayed up all night just to text him before his boys were warming up their voices with the sounds of the screaming American fangirls pouring into the backstage area. They screamed and shouted to match the crowds. That's how they rolled. Pauly gathered them into a large huddle/cuddle.
"You'll go out there and party your socks off tonight, Boys and man!" He smiled at Louis who was absolutely exstatic. It was his birthday in a few hours and it was Christmas the next day.
"BREAK!" They all bellowed like football and rugby players before their huddle broke. They all done their final adjustments. Toilet checks. Pressups. Food supplies for the intervals. Fixing of bowties etcetera etcetera. Louis was simple. He took the first and latest sonogram pictures from his wallet slot and placed it into the back pocket of black chinos, fastening the button to stop it sliding out whilst he jumped about. He fired up his braces and slipped on his Toms. A final check of his crisp white shirt and he was ready. He shook and shuddered as the stage hand walked them to the stage. They took their positions on the dark stage in the dark arena. Suddenly, the lights beamed on and the girls were lsing their minds already. They cried. Screamed. Hollered at the boys for attention. They held up banners and signs with their phone numbers on it. The boys just looked out at the crowds as the intro for WMYB tuned in.
"Hello, LA!" Zayn shouted into his mike. The boys pointed their mikes out to the crowd to amplify their screams.

The boys jumped around, dancing and singing. The crowds were loving every minute of it. Quickly, it came to Twitter time.
"We're going to answer some Tweets and eMails from you guys now! So if we could rig up the screen to the laptop-" Niall turned to see the boys already sitting on the couch. Louis on the arm, Zayn on the other and Liam and Harry occupying the space inbetween. "This one is for you, Louis!" Niall said.
I'm actually here at the concert!
Oh my God! I love you so so so so so much!
I camped all day and missed my exams to see you!
Might sound a bit perverted but, can we see your little baby?
AND
I just want to know if you could do your thrusting
movement before I collapse into a heap on the floor ?
Lucy, Row 3, Seat DG.

Louis stood up and everybody screamed at the top of their lungs. He handed his mike to Harry and searched around in his back pocket. He took out the pictures and held them up to the camera which magnified it for the crowds. Some 'Aww'ed and other screamed and fangirled. Louis put them back into his pocket carefully and took place, centre stage.
"Count him in!" Liam smiled to the crowds. "ONE!" They cheered.
"TWO!" They screamed again. His phone bleeped loudly and vibrated in his pocket.
"THREE!" On that count, he thrusted as best as he could. You could already see some girls drop to the ground. Zayn sprawled himself out on the floor.
"That was so sexy!" He murmered into his mike. Louis turned and took his phone from his pocket. It was Ness.
"What's it say?" Harry took him to the side as the boys answered other questions and recieved gifts such as knickers and bras.
Very very bad timing,
She just couldn't wait!
Mum took me to hospital
Two centimetres!
I'm having the baby.
We love you
xxxxxxxxx
05:47 am (UK)

Louis nearly fainted on the floor. He leaned on one of the guitarists and he looked at Hazza with a pale face.
"I can't just leave!" Louis sighed. Harry punched his shoulder.
"You can so, go! We have it all covered here!" Harry smiled. Louis started to shake. Harry put a comforting hand onto Lou's shoulder. "Go." He instructed. Louis nodded with a massive smile and walked briskly to the boys, hugging each of them individually.
"NEED TO GO! I'M HAVING A BABY!" Louis said loudly after taking his mike back from Harry. "I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! YOU'VE BEEN SUCH A GREAT CROWD TO ME!" He bellowed. He thrusted the mike into Liams chest and sprinted off stage to collect his belongings and head to the airport.

Back in London. 4 hours later
9:47:am
Vanessa breathed through her contractions.
"We'll just set up the shower for you, sweetheart and then we'll see how along you are" Amy, the midwife smiled at Nessa who lay on the bed, panting and deeply breathing. She held her tired mums hand and squeezed it when she felt the contractions build.
"Good girl, Ness. Good girl" Her mum kissed her hand and rubbed her belly. She squealed quietly and her knuckled were turning white. Her hands ceased and she wiped her forehead.
"I'm going to kill him!" She laughed, out of breath completely. The midwife giggled and moved over to Vanessa.
"Why?" She just shook her head against the pillow.
"This. Her. Pain!" Ness laughed. She rubbed just below her bump and sighed.
"Fun at the time. Fun at the time" Amy giggled again. Vanessa blushed. "I'm just going to examine you now, honey, alright? We'll talk about something to distract you" Amy smiled whilst lifting the sheet.
"It's his birthday today. Twenty One." Susan reasted back in the chair with her eyes getting heavy. Amy nodded with an impressed face. "No parties planned though. He's getting Christmas in LA, what more do you want?" She smiled. Vanessa squirmed at the hands of Amy. The examination finished and Ness was left to her own devices.
"I want to look my best for this, Mum!" Vanessa smiled through closed eyes. She yawned and stretched. "I'll start with a shower. Have some fruit. Walk around and hopefully have her out by dinner time" Ness talked her mum and the midwife through her plans, making them smile and laugh slightly.
"Well, you're only about four now, so we're moving along swimmingly" Amy smiled, "I won't send you home, honey because we're moving so quickly! Just make yourself more at home and I'll run up the epidural for later" Amy washed her hands thoroughly before exiting the room. Vanessas mum rested back into the chair with heavy eyes.
"I'm just going to doze. I'm so tired. You try and stay active. The fruits in the bag. Clean nighty" Her mums voice slurred before she fell asleep. Vanessa looked around the pale pink room which smelled of disinfectant and Pine floor cleaner. She sighed to herself and rubbed her bump with gentle and special care.
"You'll kill me!" She laughed. Ness tried to swing her legs around from the bed, wobbling as she tried balancing on the ground.

Ness tried to pass the time as best as she could. She showered, walked around the ward, ate fruit. It only passed a few hours. Through the contractions which drew closer together, she breathed as best as she could. Begging mentally for Louis to show up or her mum to wake up.
"Good girl. Squeeze my hand" Amy instructed. Vanessa done so and started to cry.
"It hurts so much! It hurts!" She wept. Amy nodded and her mum awoke.
"Sorry, sorry! What'd I miss?" Her mum smiled hazily and blankly. Amy giggled.
"Not much" Ness lied with a cool expression, "I'm six centimetres. Er, James dropped off a baby grow and went shopping for me with Harry" Vanessa chuckled, coming down off of her contraction.
"Well, by my rough estimate, you'll have her before midnight. She's moving along so well. But the expansion of your cervix has stopped for some reason" Amy judged with a confused face, "So, we could let you just breath through it and let it expand naturally or we could give you the injection to help it along. Your choice" Amy smiled. Ness reacted within a split second.
"Naturally. I want to savour this. Wont be doing it again for a while!" Vanessa smiled. Amy nodded and slid away over to the birthing pool. Vanessa twirled her phone in her hand. She hadn't recieved a text from him since she last told him that she was in labour. It worried her. Alot. There suddenly turned out to be alot of commotion out in the hallway. There were heavy, quick footsteps seeming to run down the hall.
"Nessa, da'lin', give him a ring. See how he is!" Her mum tapped the front of Nessas phone. She nodded and quickly tried unlocking it. The door to the room opened quickly with a draught of air coming in. A thumping sound hit the other door and there was panting and coughing. Ness sat up in the bed, fixed her bikini straps and waddled her way over to the open door. She looked out and saw Louis slumped next to his suitcases and a pink face. He was heavily breathing and trying his best to make sentences.
"LA! Why are you here?" Nessa asked. She leaned on his suitcase and watched him.
"Took the Red-eye... to be here! I-I thought... I was going to... Miss this!" He said through breaths and pants. Vanessa smiled and tried her best not to cry as a contraction built up.

Louis caught his breath and Vanessa gripped at his shoulder. He started to wince in pain and he tried to swat her hand away.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" He squealed with a kind smile.
"Sorry, sorry! It's just agony" Vanessa snapped out of his drama queen facade and thought quickly on his feet.
"Right, right, right, right! In and out!" He proclaimed in a royal majestic tone of voice which made Ness smile. "See! Smiles! Happy! good thoughts! Good thoughts, babe!" he snapped his fingers with a big smile. Vanessa nodded and sucked air in through her teeth. Louis panicked, completely lost and not knowing what to do. He started to breathe the same as her. She slapped his shoulder and slowly came back off of her contraction.
"Wooh! That was a big one!" She laughed, taking hold of his suitcase and dragging it into her room. "Make yourself comfy" Nessa popped herself back up onto the bed. Louis was beside himself. He still couldn't believe she was having the baby.
"Happy Birthday, Louis, son!" Susan said from the chair.
"Thanks. What a way to spend a birthday" He laughed. Louis took the seat next to Susan and rubbed his thighs.
"Are you tired?" Vanessa asked. Her mum and Louis nodded in sync. "Why don't you'se go home and rest? I have it all here" Vanessa said nicely to them. Louis firmly shook his head.
"I'm here now. Susan; you go get some sleep. You've been here all night by the looks of it" Louis turned slightly to look at Ness' mum who was in the middle of yawning.
"You wouldn't mind?" She asked quietly and innocently. Vanessa shook her head. "Well, I suppose I could. James has been stuck with Harry all night. He'll need fed... OK, I'll go, but phone me if there's any developments!" Her mum said whilst collecting her belongings. Louis nodded. "Ohh, good luck my little angel!" She kissed the hell out of Vanessas cheeks before leaving.

"You must be Daddy, yes?" Amy said from the running water. Louis nodded. No words could explain his fear for the upcoming hours.
"Yeah" Lou smiled.
"Excited?" Amy asked eagerly. She put the plug into the bottom of the pool whilst Louis replied.
"I don't know if that's the word to be honest. I'm petrified!" Louis shuddered in the chair. Nessa laughed quietly to herself. She rolled up the towel on her legs for after the delivery. A contraction started up again and Vanessa started to weep. Louis was the first to her side. He rubbed her hand and brushed the stray hairs from her face.
"Is it that pushing feeling yet, honey?" Amy asked. Vanessa nodded and she squeezed the crap out of Louis' hand. "Well, we'll need to check you again and see when you can push" Amy slid back over to Nessa and tok a seat on the bed. "You might not want to look, you know" She smiled at Louis. He nodded and buried his face into the spare peice of pillow that Ness had. She laughed her way through the contraction and Amy was quick to inspect her. She was slightly taken aback.
"This little thing just can't wait, can she?" Amy judged again. Amy retracted her hand, "You're about eight now!" She grinned. Vanessa smiled and nudged Louis. "You'll have her before dinner my best guess is" Amy slid all the way back over to the birthing pool. Louis looked back from the pillow with a massive cheesy grin on his face.
"Not long!" He laughed, kissing the side of her cheek, "NOT LONG!" Louis squealed into her shoulder. Vanessa kissed the top of his head and let out a healthy sigh.
An hour or two passed and Vanessa was dozing with Louis at her side.
"Would you like to come over now? It should be nice and toasty for you" Amy gestured from the edge of the pool. Ness nodded and took the towel from the bed. Louis stopped her tiredly and held his hand out.
"Phone..." He smiled. She grunted and pulled it from the top of her bikini. He put it into his pocket and walked around to her side. "Abstinent" Louis told her as he took her hand.
"But, now that you have my phone, you'll need to answer the tweets, texts, phonecalls and Facetime's from the boys" Vanessa instructed whilst slipping into the pool before a contraction started. "Ah!" She squealed, gripping onto the side of the tub.
"Now, they're going to come together quicker, stronger and longer, so you'll have to be ready" Amy said, altering the temperature to a fabulous ninety degrees. Nessa nodded and put her head onto the edge of the tub. She let out cries and short squeals of pain and agony. Louis knelt infront of her and brushed all of her brown hair out of her face. "You're such a good person. Mst of the dads that come in here are crying or turning white in the corner" Amy laughed. Louis grinned, proud of himself.

"If baby keeps going on like this, we'll have you discharged by Christmas morning- 8:30 at the latest!" Amy informed after looking through charts and sheets.
"Know what that means?" Vanessa breathed downwards but speaking mainly at Louis.
"Takeaway for Christmas Dinner?" He eagerly asked. She nodded and looked up.
"And looking at me looking disgusting in old trackies whilst stuffing my face with Chow Mein" Vanessa smiled. She looked so tired and bummed out. She could barely keep her eyes open.
"Do I have to sing? I will sing"Louis laughed quietly. She shook her head and sighed like a tired dog. "Turn around; I'll put your hair up" He said kindly. Ness took the scrunchie from her wrist and handed it to him.
"If you don't mind me asking; how did you two meet?- I mean, you're like the kind of fairytale I dreamed about when I was about five" Amy giggled childishly at the edge of the pool. Vanessa turned for Louis to put her hair up. Ness said nothing so Lou did.
"School and our families are, like, the best of friends. My sisters are mates with her sister. My mum is best mates with her mum. My nan and her nan!" Louis smiled. Amy nodded, eager to hear more. "She checked me out during Drama rehearsals, I done the same and then I went for my audition and it all fell apart" His voice lowered slightly and he tried to tighten the bobble. She offered him a second one.
"Oh! That must've been bad"Amy sighed solemly.
"Then Harry came into the shop with Louis and now here we are, eleven months later" Vanessa sighed and wiped sweat from her face. "Happy times now, happy times" She smiled before screwing her nose up in pain. Louis rubbed her neck gently and Amy went in to see how long was left until she had to push. She flinched and grinned at them both.
"Next contraction- you start to push, honey. I can feel baby's head. Let this one die down then we're on the road!" Amy slid away over to the sink to wash her hands.
"Text mum. Text Liam, Zayn, Niall and Harry" Ness instructed, "And, Louis, thank you for being so good with all of this and the flights and stuff. I'm sorry about this!" She wept, "About all the trouble!" Nessa bubbled into her hands. Louis shook his head and rubbed her neck with one hand as he texted the boys and her mum.
"No. I'm happy about this trouble- Our trouble!" He took his hand from her neck onto the top of the bump. "You have nothing to be sorry for- I should be sorry for not being there at the start" Louis explained. Vanessa shook her head and whimpered again.

"OK, we need you to push now, Nessa!" Amy said after tying her plastic apron. She took Louis hand from the bump and squeezed it as hard as she could, "Keep pushing, honey, keep pushing!" Amy encouraged. Vanessa took Louis other hand and squeezed the other one. It looked like he was hugging her. "And stop, take a breath and wait for the next one!" Amy instructed. Nessa let out a breath and nearly melted into the side of the tub.
"Good job! Well done" Louis kissed just next to her ponytail and then her shoulder.
"You're doing really well, Vanessa" Amy smiled, pouring in some cooler water, "Can you feel the next one?" She asked. Ness paused and then nodded. "And I'll need to to give an extra special push now to get the head out!" Amy said. Vanessa nodded and gripped Louis hands tighter than before.
"Go'on, girl!" Louis laughed, rubbing over her thumb nails with his thumbs. "Go'on!" He encouraged. Her squeezing got tighter on his fingers and they felt numb to him. You could hear the cries buried in Nessas throat, waiting to burst out of her.
"Stop, stop, stop! Head out at 2:15pm on the 24th of December 2012." Amy spoke to the assistant in the corner with the paperwork. "Take a breath or two and push the rest of her out!" Amy done another check and Vanessa heavily sobbed.
"I can't! I can't, Louis!" She cried. Louis nodded.
"You can so! You can! Think of the beautiful baby girl at the end of all of this! Our little girl!" Louis smiled at her, "Think of the Chinese for dinner tomorrow! Think of our lives changing forever" He said. "Look at me" Louis instructed. Vanessa turned to see him. "You can do this!" Lou said before gently kissing her, "You can".
"One big push and we'll get the shoulders out!" Amy said. Vanessa pushed with all the strenth left in her body. All her power went into that push.
"Harry, Liam and Niall just text!" Louis smiled. Vanessa laughed, still pushing. "They wish you the best, painfree and stuff" Louis said.
"Typical boys, eh?" Amy smirked with her hands under the water, "Start panting, Ness" She instructed. Vanessa done as she had said and panted. "I have her shoulders, one more push, girl!" Amy smiled. Vanessa felt like jelly and pushed a final push. The room was filled with babies tears and Vanessa had a lump placed on her chest.

Louis sobbed behind her and tried to be as quiet as he can. "Louis, look!" Ness shivvered with tears and hormones rushing around her body. Louis broke down in tears and hysterically sobbed as he looked at his little girl.
"Well done, Ness! Really well done!" Amy congratulated, cutting the cord and fastening the bellybutton to be. "Do you have a name for her?" Amy asked. Vanessa turned to look at Louis who was in hysterics and so much tears.
"Poppy. Poppy Bamford" He sniffled and sniffed. Nessa shook her head and looked at Amy.
"No. Poppy Bamford-Tomlinson." Vanessa corrected. Louis burst out into more tears. Amy nodded and wrote it down before taking Poppy away from Vanessa.
"We'll let you get your bearings, let you get cleaned up and we'll do the weighing and height and stuff" Amy said. Vanessa grabbed the towel from the side and stood up, wrapping it around her waist.
"Louis, I'll be back in a minute, OK? I'm just going to get changed" Vanessa rubbed the top of his hair before picking up the pyjamma bottoms from her bag and her clean top and maternity bra. "She's only over there. Text the boys and let them know." She kissed the top of his beanie covered head, "Amy, there's a baby grow in my bag that my stepdad brought down" Nessa pointed over at the bag next to the bed. Amy nodded and Vanessa made her way to the ensuite.
She came out about fifteen minutes later to just see Amy. "We've moved you into recovery, it's just down the hall. Louis has your bags and stuff, Poppy's down there too. Come on, I'll walk you down" Amy offered. Vanessa nodded and they walked quietly and Ness walked with heavy eyes.
"I just want to sleep now." She sighed, yawning shortly afterwards. Amy laughed and rubbed Nessas back as they approached the room. Louis was hunched over the cot and he turned with watery eyes.
"She's trending on Twitter!" He sobbed, "She's only half an hour old!" Louis cried into his hands quietly. Vanessa walked over to him and gave him a tight hug. She rubbed his back and he cried into her shoulder.
"I'll leave you be" Amy closed the door over and it was just Ness, Lou and Poppy.
"What did the boys say?" Vanessa asked. Louis sniffed quietly and took his phone out from his back pocket.
"They video'd Harry's reaction" Louis laughed like his normal self. Vanessa scrolled through his phone and opened up the video.
It was a Niall recording. Everything was smooth and exact. He didn't shake when taking videos. He was a firm hand.
"Hey! It's Louis! He's text!" Liam shouted from the breakfast buffet. Niall panned the camera to look at Zayn and Harry. They both gave thumbs up. Harry was still half ran with his plate of food over to the table and got his phone out. "She is gorgeous!" He muttered. Liam passed his phone around and Niall followed.
Zayn let out a squeal and his face screwed up like he had been sucking lemons. "Looks like Him!" He smiled, passing the phone onto Harry who let out a girly scream. You could hear Nialls laugh from behind the camera. Harry started to sob.
"She's too cute! Niall, take the phone! Take it!" Harry thrusted the phone towards Niall who filmed the picture with his own phone.
"Look at her hair! Jesus!" Niall gasped.
"Yeah, look at her lips!" Harry sobbed, "They're a replica of Lou's." Harry covered his eyes.
"Why were you looking at his lips?" Zayn asked. Harry threw him a look.
"Niall, Niall, pan over this way" Liam instructed. The camera moved to Liam who was smiling. "Hi, guys! Keep up the good work" He put his thumbs up, "We'll be seeing her soon! Happy Birthday Louis and baby! Merry Christmas too!" Liam went to wrap up the video before the boys jumped in.
"BYE!" They all shouted before the camera cut to black.

Vanessa laughed and gave Louis his phone back. Poppy gurgled and squirmed in her little pink and blue stripey onesie.
"I love you" He smiled at Poppy. "And you too!" Louis sharply turned to Vanessa and hugged her again. Poppy looked at the both of them with her big blue eyes and dark brown hair.