Kara knew that she was in labor now. But she was early and she just broke her damn phone. How was she suppose to call Barry? Her sister? Her foster mom? But another wave of pain overcame her, the contraction was horrible, and Kara screamed. "Ah!"
"Mom, what do we do!?" Adam shouted over Kara's yelling.
Cat stayed pretty calm. "Adam, go downstairs and bring the car up. Kira?" She turned to Kara. "What hospital are you going to?"
"Home! Home! Home!" Kara shouted as the pain continued.
"Kira, for God's sake, your just water broke and you are at least a week early. By the time the hospital staff or you get to your place, your baby will be eighteen years old." Cat said. "Adam, call St. Beverly's hospital and tell them we're on the way. We should be there in twenty minutes, thirty max."
Adam nodded and ran out as he pulled out his cellphone.
"Okay Kira," Cat turned back to her assistant. "Just take deep breathes, remember your lamaze."
"I never took one." Kara said. Cat looked at her oddly. "What?"
"Kira, every women has to take a lamaze class."
"It's just a bunch of stupid breathing." Kara explained.
"Just take deep breathes," Cat instructed her. Kara took them. "Good, keep breathing."
Kara did as she was told and soon the contraction was over. "Ouch." She said.
Cat stood up first. "Take my hand," Cat said. Kara shook it. "Kira, I appreciate that you want CatCo Media to be the place where your child will be born, but the one who runs CatCo Media doesn't want to be known as the one who allows babies to be born here. Take my hand."
Kara did not want to take Cat's hand. What if another contraction came? The only ones who were capable of her strength were her cousin, J'onn and Barry. Okay, the latter two would be in pain, but heal quickly in some amount of time. But she had to try and get Cat to bring her home.
"Can I go home?"
"Sure. Home." Cat said.
Kara slowly took Cat's hand and prayed to Rao that she didn't hurt Cat. The older blonde helped the younger blonde stand up and once Kara was on her feet, she felt a bit better. Sort of. Kara felt super hot after that. "Why is it so hot in here?"
"You're not hot, it's just the labor." Cat directed. "Let's just get to the car."
The seven minutes it took Kara to get from the near top of the building to the bottom was brutal for her. She had two more contractions; one of the elevator ride down and one halfway out of the building to the car where Adam was parked. She refused to hold Cat's hand, even though the mother of two children kept trying to take hold of the new mother-to-be's hand. Kara just held her fists together and clenched her mouth together.
Finally able to get in the car, Adam took the wheel like Cat helped Kara breathe and keep calm during the labor. "Keep breathing. Adam, drive through the red lights!"
"I don't want a ticket."
"It'll be made out in my name, just drive to St. Beverly's." Cat said. "Kira, where's your phone?"
"Broken."
"Who do you want us to call? Your parents? A sibling?"
Another contraction came. "Hmmm, my foster mom Eliza Danvers or sister, Alex...Ouch, ouch, ouch! This KILLS!" She shouted.
The arrived at the hospital no more than fifteen minutes later. Adam parked the car and ran inside to get a wheelchair for Kara while Cat helped Kara exist the car. They stood there until Adam came running out with a chair. He helped Kara into the wheelchair and rolled her in with Cat behind him.
"Hmm! Another one!" Kara shouted.
"Here," Adam held his hand out. Kara shook her head.
Cat walked up to the woman front desk. "Excuse me?" She said in her usual professional tone. "I called in some time ago. We're here delivering a baby."
"Name?"
"She never registered here. She wanted a home birth, but she's going to birth the child at any second." Cat said.
"I'm sorry without a—"
"Look," Cat's voice spoke up loudly. "You are either going to give us a room and a doctor or I'm going to tell whomever is in charge here the five reasons why a monkey with half a brain can do a better job than you."
The woman at the front desk looked a bit scared of Cat. The woman turned to two nurses walking by the front desk. "Charlie? Jessica? Can you please bring the patient up to the maternity ward and set her up?"
The two nurses took the handles of the wheelchair and took Kara away, leaving Cat and Adam alone. "What now?" Adam asked.
"Well you heard her. Call Ella and Lexy." Cat replied as she pulled out her phone. "I'll call Ella."
"Eliza."
"Adam, there is a baby on the way, we don't have time for name corrections."
Kara rested on a hospital bed clad in a hospital gown now, walking a tiny bit to reduce the pain. The doctors checked on her and told her she was only two centimeters dilated. She had eight more to go until she could start pushing and she had already been in labor for an hour. Good Rao!
"Ugh! Baby, please come out." Kara whined. "I've got an X-Box in mind for you. Or a horse."
Nope. Nothing helped her. She sat on the hospital bed again and let another stupid contraction flow through her again. "Where is someone?"
As if Rao had heard her himself, the door flew open and Eliza came running inside, throwing her bag on a chair. "Kara!"
"Eliza!" Kara cried out.
The duo hugged. "Oh Kara, how are you doing?"
"It hurts." She answered. "I hate this."
"Did they give you anything?" Eliza asked. Kara shook her head, explaining she didn't want to use drugs. "Okay honey."
"Where's Alex?"
"Trying to get in contact with Barry." Eliza explained.
Outside the hospital, Alex was on her phone explaining to a fellow DEO how to make a chip similar to the ones that were in Kara and Barry's phone. "Now connect the wire to the black dot and we've got a phone." She said. "Good, now there's a file in my computer that lists phone numbers. Just find Barry's and copy what the screen has on then connect him to my phone." Alex said. "Thanks."
Alex hung up just as a cab pulled up and both James and Winn jumped out. "Hey, I was just about to call you guys." Alex said.
"Cat called us." James answered. "She said something about wanting us to be here."
"Yeah, plus we want to see the little one." Winn added. "But shouldn't Kara be home or the DEO?"
"That's a problem." Alex said.
"How so?"
"Well we tried to reason with the doctors here to let Kara go home or somewhere else, since Kara is worried that the baby will show powers within seconds of being born." Alex sighed. "But because her water broke and she's already here at a hospital, she has to stay."
"Can she push yet?"
"No, not even three centimeters yet. But because her water broke, she has to stay here. J'onn tried to reason with the doctors but the hospital isn't letting it happen."
"Did he go, you know, alien on them?" James asked.
"No, but I doubt they'd still listen to him." Alex laughed.
"Barry here yet?"
"Soon." Alex said. "All I know is that Kara's three centimeters dilated. She has eight more to go." She smiled. "We're going to be here all night."
So, thanks to Cat not listening to Kara, Kara is now stuck giving birth in a hospital. I heard from my mother that once your water breaks, you can not leave the hospital, and since Kara is still in early stages of labor with a broken water, she's stuck there.
Who's excited to see Baby Allen?
Take you guesses on the gender! (And names if you want, even though I have it planned already).
:)
