Reality
Chapter 35: She's born
I wake up to water running down my legs and a contraction that is more painful than any other I have felt in these past few weeks. I cry out, grabbing hold of Tobias' hand and squeezing it harder than I have done before, causing him to wake up too. He moves so he is sitting on the side of my bed, next to me, he rubs my back since I am laying on my left side. Tears stream out of my eyes as I cry out in pain, my spare hand resting on my belly which still shows no sign of a bump even though I am now thirty weeks pregnant.
When the contraction is over I hear Tobias gasp and I look at him in the dim room, scared.
"What?" I ask.
"Someone's cut the tube that was giving you the medicine to slow down labour." In the dim light I see a tear fall down his cheek and the sad look he is giving me. "And the one to help her get better." He adds right before I am struck with another contraction that is more painful than the last and the need to push.
I scream, trying not to push, and Hana rushes into the room, turning on the light, looking at us worried. Then she sees the cut tubes and her eyes widen. She pushes a button on the wall next to the door in a hurry.
"We need nurses in here! Now!" She practically shouts into the device. "Get an incubator ready in the NICU!"
She then rushes over to the machine next to the bed that shows the baby's heartbeat.
"Tris, I need to see how dilated you are, okay?"
I just nod and roll onto my back, breathing heavily through the tears, still holding Tobias' hand.
"I want my mum." I cry.
"I just texted her okay, she's going to be here soon." Tobias tells me. I look at him as Hana checks how far along I am. He looks so scared. I am too. I can tell by the look in his eyes that he is blaming himself for this.
"Tris, on your last contraction did you feel like you needed to push?" Hana asks.
I just nod as my mum rushes into the room looking scared. She runs over to me and sits next to me on the bed, taking my free hand in hers just as about five nurses run in. One of them holds a black towel open in her arms.
"Okay, Tris, I need this to be quick okay. On your next contraction I need you to push really hard for me." It is then that I know that my baby isn't okay. I start sobbing just as my next contraction hits, I scream as I push. Squeezing the hands of Tobias and my mum as hard as I can. "That was good, I can see the head, I need the same thing again on your next contraction, okay." She tells me as I cry.
I push again and again.
But when the pain stops I hear nothing. I open my eyes and watch as Hana cuts the cord and rushes my tiny unmoving baby girl over to the nurse with the blanket. I watch as that nurse wraps my baby up in the towel and rushes her out of the room, followed by the four other nurses.
"Is my baby okay?" I ask as I sob, my throat sore from crying and screaming.
Hana doesn't answer as she injects my belly with something which soon makes me bleed.
"What was that?" Tobias asks.
"Something to dissolve the placenta, it's the less painful way of delivering it."
"Is our baby okay?" I ask again. She looks at me with sad eyes. Sad eyes which could either mean no, or that she doesn't know.
"I'm going to go and get you a pad, you two can help her get dressed, make sure she eats something and stays hydrated." Hana says before leaving the room. She comes back a few minutes later with some sanitary towels in her hands, she puts them on the table closest to the door and leaves again. In a hurry.
I start sobbing harder and my mum takes me in her arms, holding me, stroking my hair, kissing the top of my head.
"Come on, let's go and get you cleaned up." She whispers gently as she undoes the straps from around my sore belly.
Her and Tobias help my sore body out of the bed and they lead me to the en-suite bathroom. My mum runs be a bath as Tobias helps me keep standing, his arms round my waist as I cry into his shirt.
They help me take my gown off and into the warm bath. Tobias kneels next to it, a sad/scared look in his tear-filled eyes. My mum leaves the room to sort me out some clothes and I lean against Tobias' shoulder, still crying but no longer sobbing. We don't say anything; we both just cry as he washes me gently.
My mum comes in with a pile of clothes and a sanitary towel in her arms. She leaves them on the side and then leaves the room again, to give us some time.
When I'm clean Tobias helps me out of the bath. He helps me dry off and get dressed. He helps me back to my bed which I am guessing my mum and a nurse changed since it now has clean bedding on it. But my mum isn't here. We both climb into the bed, on our sides, facing each other, holding each other.
Hoping that our daughter is going to be okay.
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Zeke's POV:
I am on my way to Evelyn's cell to give her some porridge for breakfast.
My phone vibrates in my jean pocket and I look to see that it is my mum calling. I press the answer button and press the phone against my ear, continuing to move as I speak to her.
"Hi, mum. Is everything okay?"
"No. Someone cut the tubes that were giving Tris the medicine to slow down labour and help the baby. She just gave birth but the baby isn't doing well at the moment. I know Tobias said he would deal with Evelyn when the baby is born but I don't know when he's going to feel up to it. So you're going to have to hold her for a while longer."
I have never felt as angry as I am right now, well, except from when I found out Tris was sent into labour by Evelyn.
"Okay, just make sure you do everything you can to make sure their baby is okay. They don't deserve to lose another child."
"I will do everything in my power to keep their baby alive. I promise."
"Speak to you later, mum. I love you."
"Love you, too."
It is then that I turn the corner to the corridor Evelyn's cell is on and find her door open and the two guards outside on the floor with blood leaking out of them. I drop the porridge and run over to the cell to find it empty. I kneel down next to the guards and check for a pulse in both of them, to find none. They're dead.
And Evelyn is gone.
Then I remember what my mum said about someone cutting Tris' medicine wire things.
Was it Evelyn?
It wouldn't surprise me.
I take out my phone and call my mum back as I run out of Candor Headquarters and to my car. She picks up straight away.
"Son, what is it?"
"Evelyn's gone. I don't know how she escaped the cell but the guards are dead and the cell is empty. I need you to check the cameras and see if it was her that cut Tris' medicine tubes. I'm coming back to Dauntless to see if I can find where she is currently so we can get her. But I have a feeling she is the one that did it. No one else would have, unless it was one of her followers."
"Okay, I'll check."
"Thanks. How's the baby?"
"Can't tell you that until I've told her parents."
"Oh, right. See you soon. Call me as soon as you have found out who did it."
"I will."
I hang up and drive to Dauntless as fast as I can.
But right now I just hope my friends' baby is going to be okay.
Hiya, I am so sorry for the wait but I have been super busy with exams, and work experience, and hospital appointments and whatnot that I just haven't had much time. I have also been feeling like crap recently, and have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia as well as the Scoliosis.
But I promise I will update as often as I can. It is now my summer holidays so I have time to update more frequently.
I will update again when I can.
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