Title: Ship of Dreams 3: Comedown
Author: Trinity ^^
Rating: PG-13 for language
A/N: This is the last part *sniff sniff* and depending on how I write this, there may be an epilogue... but then again, there may not... heehee Anyways, this has a shocker ending, and you are welcome to take it any way that you want to, Just please don't flame me... I love hearing your opinions but... I honestly don't appreciate my work being looked down upon for opinions. I have my opinions, you have yours... I will write my story the way that I want to, and if there's a problem,
I'm sure you're perfectly capable of writing a story yourself, the way that you want it written.... (Jeez... I'm gonna get flamed for my authors notes, ne? lol.). I don't want to come accross as mean or anything, it's just... people have asked me to rewrite my fics for them, and... *sigh* ohwell.... anyways I'm sure you're just DYING to read this now (not really but anyways) on with the ficcie!!
Dedication: Angel.... She is the GREATEST writer (even if she does write taiora.....) but anyways, she is absolutely awesome.. I'm tellin ya!! her author name is "Angel" of course lol... now go read "Broken Glass, Broken Dreams" ~even you might like this one, Kate!~
Song: Comedown by Bush
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"Come on, Mimi, Push!!!!!!" Tai cried as he held Mimi's hand strongly. "Breathe! C'mon girl, in- out - in - out! I know you can do it!"
"I don't know if I can do it, Tai!" Mimi squeezed her eyes tightly.
"Great, couples! You did very well today! Coaches, remember to watch that video that I reccommended before you come back next week, okay? Class dismissed!" Corrie, the lamaze (A/N: It's "lamaze" I swear! I looked it up!!) coach said.
Mimi and Tai burst out laughing. Tai helped the now very obviously pregnant Mimi up out of her sitting position. She looked down at herself and got a look of disgust on her face.
"Ick... I don't believe how ugly maternity clothes are..." She said, smirking afterwards.
"Now now, Mimi, I thought we gave up the vanity a looong time ago!" Tai smiled coyly at her before leaning over and giving her a hug and a kiss. "Now, we're going out to dinner!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her through the door and to the car.
"Not like this, I'm not!!" Mimi cried in mock pain.
"Yes you are! Our reservations are for..." he looked down at his watch. "Uh.. about 10 minutes ago." He gave the boyish smirk that Mimi loved so
much.
"What in the world am I going to do with you, Taichi Kamiya?" Tai just shrugged and gave her another smile.
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Mimi opened her little white box of Hunan Chicken with white rice. She then opened the little red package of chop sticks and dug in, munching happily on the spicy dish. She was curled up on the old couch, and the two were watching reruns of "Ally McBeal."
"See, this isn't that bad..." Tai said, emphasizing the "that" and popping some more Schezuan Shrimp into his mouth.
"No, THIS isn't that bad, but running into the restaurant only to find that someone had taken our reservations was.." Her voice trailed off, but the smile on her face wasn't gone.
They were curled up on oppositte ends of the couch, and were sharing a blanket, as it was winter and the heat in the small apartment wasn't working too well.
"Just look at it this way.... the baby will be very... uh... Cultured!" Tai winked at her.
"If you call take out Chinese cultural..."
"Hey, I practically live off of this stuff!" Tai said defensively.
"Oh.. so that's why..." Mimi said with a giggle, as if she had made an epiphany.
Tai just threw a pillow at her, spilling some of his lo mein onto his lap. "Woohh... those are some hot noodles..." He said, furiously brushing the
noodles off and getting up to discard them in the trashcan. He sighed. "Well, Mims, while I'm up.. Would you like anything? Some green tea?"
"With honey, please.. And could you please make the caffinated kind? Pleeasse?" She looked up at him with large auburn bambi eyes.
"No, I'm not letting anything happen to that baby." He winked at her, glancing at her swollen abdomen. "Say, it'll be 8 months tomorrow, right?"
"Yep... Thank God... in a month I can get back to my old self. No more swollen ankles, no more large belly..."
"... no more cravings in the middle of the night, no more mood swings..." Tai joked.
It was Mimi's turn to throw the pillow at him.
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Mimi woke up in the middle of the night to a sharp kick in her belly. An involuntary moan escaped her parted lips. She slowly got out of bed, pushing her hair out of her face.
She noticed that she had broken into a cold sweat. Mimi slowly walked out to the kitchen, careful not to wake Tai, who was sleeping on the couch. She pulled a glass out of the cabinet and got the orange juice out of the fridge.
While pouring her juice, a chill ran up her spine, making her fall back against the cabinets on the oppositte side of the kitchen.
The glass fell to the floor with a clink.. clink... clink..... as it bounced. She immediately got the feeling that something was wrong.
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Tai awoke to the sound of a glass dropping. His russet eyes flew open, and he glanced around warily. Seeing Mimi in the kitchen comforted him, but he got the horrible cold feeling in the pit of his stomach. The feeling, no, the knowing that something was wrong.
He shed the blanket quickly and hurried into the kitchen. He saw Mimi clutching her stomach. Her face was twisted in pain, and he knew something was wrong. Not knowing what to do, he got Mimi her glass of OJ and hurried her out to his car.
He flew to the hospital. He glanced at the glowing digits on his clock. They read: 3:45. Oh, how he wished he could somehow turn those glowing numbers off.
They were just too bright. He glanced up at the overview mirror, looking at Mimi, who was curled up in the back seat.
She kept moaning and muttering that "something was very wrong" and clutching her abdomen. He accelerated.
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He pulled into the ER, raced inside the building and got a wheel chair for Mimi.
He wheeled her into the ER quickly. She was now in a delusional state. She kept calling for her mother. He gulped as he ran up to the desk and told them what was going on.
"Sir, you'll have to go to the Maternity ward for this." The bouncy young receptionist said, obviously annoyed.
"You don't understand..." He glanced at her nametag. "Reena..." He pointed at Mimi, who was still moaning incoherently. "Mimi, my.. Well, she's in labor, and she's only 16 years old and... and... I don't know what to do! It's too early...." Tai stammered... He was too nervous to say anything.
Reena looked at the shivering Mimi. Her eyes widened for a second, and then she picked up the P/A phone. "Hello?? We have a code.. er... we have a woman in labor here! I need the OBGYN right now, floor one - waiting area." She looked back at Tai. "They'll be down in a second."
As soon as she had said that, the OBGYNs appeared, as if out of nowhere. Or, at least, to Tai they did. Saviors, coming through the automatic glass doors like angels.
They grabbed Mimi's wheelchair and ran it carefully through some doors and down a few white, sterilized halls, Tai following at their heels the whole time.
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Mimi woke up to Tai's worried, pain filled face. Upon seeing her, his eyes brightened and a smile pulled at the corners of his mouth. She stared up at him, and thought, no.. knew that he was the most beautiful thing one could see in the cold operating room.
She gave his hand a squeeze. God knows how tightly he was holding her hand, and she thought that she would be the one dealing the pain to his fingers.
Poor Tai, this was putting so much stress on him. But, her thoughts of Tai quickly vanished as the first contractions came.
He looked down at her sweat streaked face. Her eyes were squeezed shut in concentration. Her hair was plastered to her flushed face. He reached over and got the dampened washcloth and patted her forehead with it.
She relaxed slightly when the cold compress touched her forehead. Tai thought that she was the most beautiful like this. He held her hand and slowly coached her breathing.
He whispered in her ear, "I know you can do this, Mimi, because I love you..." A faint smile quickly appeared on her lips, and then disappeared as another contraction hit.
"I don't know about this, Lys...Her hips are too narrow..."
"Shut up, Steph , she has to make it, although it doesn't look likely.."
Mimi heard the two OBGYNs conversing about her, as if she wasn't even there. "Hah.. I'll show them... Mimi Tachikawa does NOT give up that easily..."
She forced herself to push harder. An animal-like cry escaped her chapped lips. "Tai.... ice... chips.." She rasped. Tai slipped the chips between her parted lips, and held her head up so she wouldn't choke.
"Wait a minute, ... I think I see the head!! C'mon Mimi, one more BIG push..." Dr. Summers said.
Mimi pushed as if she'd never done before...Then, the release. Her muscles instantaneously and simultaneously relaxed, and she fell into a deep sleep. She didn't hear the cries of, 'It's a boy!'
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Tai looked down at the small spent form that was curled in a ball next to him. Mimi started shivering, so he went to the cabinet and got her another blanket.
Her eyes flitted open, and she smiled up at him. He smiled warmly back at her. He was so proud of her, he couldn't begin to imagine what kind of pain she had been in.
This was the girl... no, woman that he knew he was going to spend the rest of his life with. She would need to be pampered. He smiled again at the thought.
Dr. Summers came in holding the baby in a light blue cloth. She went over and handed the sleeping baby to Tai.
Mimi's eyes brightened when she saw it. She had wanted a boy, not that a girl wouldn't have been perfect too. She must mention more kids to Tai... "Thank you so much, Dr. Summers!" Mimi said sincerely.
"Please, call me Lys.. and be sure to come and visit me with little...." Lys's voice trailed off. She wasn't sure what the young couple was to name their child yet.
Mimi thought for a moment, then gazed up at Tai, who was cradling and rocking the newborn boy. "Taichi..... Taichi Kamiya jr." She smiled at Tai, who had a look of happy shock on his face.
"She's going to name the baby after me....." Tai thought with realization as his broadest smile crossed his lips. He stared down at the little boy. He was... so... frail, so delicate.
"You know, you're very lucky people. Babies born prematurely aren't usually that healthy." Dr. Summers said.
Suddenly, the baby opened it's eyes. Tai looked down at the blinking baby and his eyes widened in shock. His eyes darted over to Mimi, who was looking at him in concern. He handed the baby to her.
She cradled the baby softly. She looked up at the shocked Tai and nodded slightly, hurt in her eyes.
The baby's eyes were a shockingly azure blue.
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Tai looked down at the beautiful baby boy that was snuggled in Mimi's arms, who was wrapped up in his arms. He sighed before smiling and saying, "Mimi, I want to stay like this forever.."
"Me too, Taichi-kun, me too..." Mimi looked up and kissed him. She had never been this happy before.
Suddenly, Taichi jr. reached up with his little chubby fist and grabbed Tai's finger, squeezing it tightly. For a minute or two, Tai's face shown with pride. No matter what anyone said, this was his son.
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'Cause I don't want to come down from this cloud
It's taken me all this time to find out what I've needed...
It's taken me all this all this
all this
time.....
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A/N: Well, dat be da ending ^^... I'm sorry 'bout the ending guys.... *whistles to self* .. You're welcome to take it annnyy way that you want to.... I didn't say it was anyone we know and love!!!!!! *gets down on knees and pleads* please don't flame me!!! Hope ya liked it...Send me .... feedback!!!!!!
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