Author's notes: Guess who's coming - woo hoo! About time, right?
Well, here you go. Enjoy the meeting.
And, please! Remember to review. Means the world to me.
Love,
Emy
Kendall rushed into the scrubs a nurse had brought him. He almost ran into the delivery prep room, right by Jo's side.
"Hi, baby." He cooed taking her clammy hand in his. "How are you feeling?"
"Like crap, you asshole!" Jo snapped at him.
Kendall nodded. He knew it was the pain talking. He ran to the door and yelled out for a nurse. When someone finally showed up he snapped at her.
"Can't you give my wife an epidural or something?" He gestured to Jo who was now doubling over and screaming in pain as another contraction shook her to the core.
"Emmm, no sir..." The nurse said apologetically.
"WHY NOT?!" Kendall belted out, his eye twitching in anger.
"She's not fully dilated yet. If we administer the epidural now it won't last when she actually has to deliver the child and..."
"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT JUST TAKE MY WIFE'S PAIN AWAY!" Kendall spat in the nurse's face.
Jo screamed in pain again and Kendall instantly forgot the nurse even ever existed. He rushed to Jo's side and took her hand again. Jo squeezed the life out of his fingers, but he could not have cared less. He caressed Jo's sweaty locks.
"It's gonna be ok, baby, it will soon be over." He cooed in Jo's ear.
"OK MY ASS! YOU BASTARD! YOU DID THIS TO ME! IT'S THE LAST TIME! I AM NEVER GOING THROUGH THIS AGAIN!" Jo yelled.
"Just breathe, honey. Breathe." Kendall spoke softly in spite of the pain in his hand currently shooting all the way up to his shoulder.
"FUCK YOU AND YOUR BREATHING!" Jo belted out grabbing Kendall by the collar of his scrubs. "IF YOU FUCKING WANT ANOTHER CHILD YOU'RE FUCKING DELIVERING IT!"
"Yes, baby, I will, I will, just breathe, ok? Breathe." Kendall chanted in Jo's ear, gently prying his wife's fingers away.
Jo finally listened to her husband and began breathing deeply as her pain subsided slowly to a level where she could bare it.
The cycle repeated a lot over the next five hours.
Jo was more than exhausted by the time the doctor deemed her dilated enough to receive her epidural. When she finally got the shot she felt like being high – or in Heaven – whichever came first. The contractions were still there, of course, but the pain they brought felt diluted somehow, like thick mist covering a well known, far away landscape – you know it's there, you just can't see it. She could finally realize the fact that in a short time she would be able to actually see her new beautiful baby boy.
"I hope he has your eyes." She whispered to Kendall as she was being rolled into the O.R.
Kendall smiled as he held her hand and sat down on a small stool by her side.
"What will we name him?" Kendall asked when he felt Jo go through yet another contraction trying to get her mind of the pain. Jo squinted her eyes, but didn't double over like she'd done before. God bless whomever invented epidural, Kendall thought.
"Kyle." Jo simply said in between contractions.
"Kyle." Kendall let the name roll off the tip of his tongue. "Yeah... I like Kyle. It's perfect." Kendall smiled down brushing a stray hair out of Jo's eyes.
"Jo..." The doctor's voice came from some place between Jo's legs. "Please start pushing with the next contraction, ok?"
Jo nodded tiredly and did as she was told – Kendall holding her hand, breathing by her side. She pushed until she felt she had no more strength and then pushed some more.
Two hours in a nurse decided the birth process had taken too long and shoved both of her elbows into the top of Jo's stomach, trying to help push the baby down. Kendall watched frozen in place how his wife screamed out her pain and literally sat up with the speed of an attacking viper and bit the nurse on the ass until she drew blood. The nurse screamed out in pain and jumped away, thus taking the pain away and Jo fell back on the bed.
That very second a loud, strong cry pierced Kendall's ears. Jo smiled tiredly again just as the doctor's head popped up from in between her legs yelling out a "what the hell just happened?"
"She bit my ass, doctor!" The nurse yelled out.
"You stupid woman!" The doctor retorted at the crazy nurse as she frowned then turned to Kendall. "Would you like to cut the cord?"
Kendall swallowed back a wave of nausea at the sight of blood, but his son's cry made him get over it. He looked down at Jo's small, tired smile and let out a shaky "yeah" before getting up from his stool and did as he was asked.
He felt mesmerized with his son's beauty, seeing both his own features and Jo's in him. But he didn't get more than three, maybe four whole seconds before the nurse took Kyle away to clean him up before giving him to his mother.
A few moments later the nurse was placing a clean Kyle in Jo's arms for the very first time and Kendall's vision was getting a little clouded up through the tears of happiness prickling at the corners of his eyes watching his very tired wife cradle their new child's head carefully. Kyle cooed up at his mother, his large eyes opening to reveal Kendall's own green eyes mirrored in his son.
They only shared a few precious seconds before Kyle was taken to neonatology and Jo to the recovery room, leaving Kendall to tend to his friends, his family. To give them all the good news.
He walked slowly to the waiting room where he knew he'd find his family. He took the time to remember his son's face and the sight of Jo holding him. He smiled a little bit wider with every step. By the time he reached the waiting room Kendall's face was already hurting from the size of his grin. He opened the door quietly.
Jake spotted him firstly. "Daddy!" He yelled running from his spot in the corner of the room. "Where's mommy?" The utter worry in Jake's voice melted Kendall's heart away without a chance of recovery.
"Mommy's fine, Jake. She's resting. Your brother is here and mommy is a bit tired now." Kendall answered as he lowered himself on his haunches to be at Jake's level.
"Your son...?" Logan asked quietly, doctor's worry in his voice.
"Kyle." Kendall answered with a grin.
"He's...?" Logan went on.
"Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Even has my eyes. Like Jo wanted." Kendall answered quickly.
Katie, Camille and Becky cooed as if on cue as Kendall stood holding his oldest son in his arms. His brothers clapped him on the shoulders, a light mood filled with happiness taking over the room.
Author's notes (part 2): I just wanted to share with y'all that the thing about the nurse jumping with her elbows on Jo's belly - that's how I was born. chihihi. I obviously don't remember it, but mom does and I just had to use it. Had. To. Cause it makes me laugh. Hopefully it made you laugh as well.
Love,
Emy
