Life is Strange 2: Secrets
Chapter 22 of my Life is Strange 2 story, nearing the end now, enjoy.
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Chapter 22
Cassidy let out a soft sigh as she looked around. Shortly after being released from hospital, while initially fearful of having nowhere to so, she found herself accepting Sean's invitation and while they sought out a place of their own, she stayed at the Diaz house for a while. Despite her initial protests, she had found herself sleeping in Sean's room while he opted to sleep on the sofa, ensuring she had a proper bed so as not to cause problems for her pregnancy.
They soon managed to find an apartment with Esteban's help, not too far from the Diaz home, and had been there for a week now. Cassidy smiled as she ran a hand over her swollen stomach, it was almost time, she was due any day now. Of course taking note that turned out to be the cue for her labour pains to start.
"Oh God, fuck..." She cried out.
Sean came rushing to her immediately. "Cass, is it…?"
She nodded. "Y-yeah...we..."
"I got this, don't worry." He replied although it was clear to see he was fighting blind panic himself.
Yet doing his best to stay in control, he quickly got her to the car and soon they were driving off quickly to the hospital.
Before long they arrived and Cassidy was rushed through to the maternity ward. Sean quickly called his family and Finn before hurrying through to join her.
"Sean, I…" She choked out through the pain.
He took her hand. "It's alright Cass, I'm here, you can do this."
She nodded, groaning in pain as a contraction hit. Sean's resolve was wavering too, he was trying to be strong for her, but was on the verge of falling to pieces. Sean winced, letting Cassidy practically crush his hand as she went through the contractions. Before long Esteban and Daniel arrived, followed shortly afterwards by Finn, surprising Sean was the fact that Jamie, Lyla, Jenn and Kyle also showed up.
"Thought you could go through this without us Sean." Lyla remarked. "Good job Finn was over talking to us when you called."
Sean managed a small smile. "Yeah, sorry Lyla, I just.
She just laughed and nodded.
Esteban smiled gently. "You two have done well, this is it, one more big hurdle and your parents."
"Great…" Cassidy groaned.
The others gathered around; while he remained by Cassidy's side; Sean was no longer alone in coaching her, the others offered what support they could and spoke to her, but in the end they had to wait outside so the midwife could work. Time passed by in a haze for Sean, he was panicking, trying to focus, while sympathetic, he knew he couldn't begin to understand Cassidy's pain. He just wished there was something more he could to do help.
It felt so sudden, yet at the same time, so long, when the midwife announced they were ready to move Cassidy through to the delivery room. Sean jumped up, managing an awkward smile.
"This is it Cass, you're nearly there." He said as reassuringly as he could.
She looked up at him, also managing a smile. "Yeah, this is…This is it, we'll be parents soon."
They hurried through to the delivery room.
However it was while they were there, that things began to go wrong. No matter how much Cassidy tried, the baby wouldn't come, she was clearly in pain, her face drenched with sweat, she screamed and screamed, Sean didn't want to think what the others outside were thinking. He meanwhile felt like he was going into a fit.
"Cass, Cass…" He managed to say.
She didn't respond; he turned to the doctors. "Can't you do something?"
The doctors looked grim however. "If...If this goes on much longer, we may have to perform a C-section."
"What?!" Sean cried.
"I'm sorry Mr. Diaz, but at this rate..."
They were cut off however as Cassidy let out another scream and as they turned to her they realized.
"Almost, almost..." Cassidy gasped.
Immediately they hurried back and began coaching her through as she reached the final stretch.
"That's it Cass, that's it, I can see the head." Sean cried suddenly.
"Great, urgh God!"
Sean grimaced and tightened his grip on her hand, doing his best to console her as finally, after a long time, the baby was born.
"It's a girl." The doctor announced.
They both grinned and as the baby was cleaned, wrapped up and placed in Cassidy's arms.
"She's beautiful." Cassidy whispered.
Sean grinned as they both noticed something, the little girl had a tuft of dark brown hair and her skin complexion matched Sean's perfectly. Cassidy smiled up at him with a soft laugh, it looked like they found out just who the father was.
Shortly afterwards the others entered, all grinning and asking questions until Esteban asked the most important one.
"So, what's her name?"
Sean smiled lightly and looked to Cassidy who nodded and then replied.
"Sean and I talked and well, we decided on a name." She explained.
"Ariana, Ariana Diaz."
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.