Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own any of them except the baby and Bling's sister.
Author's Notes: Sorry this took so long to get out. School sucks. I hope you enjoy. Please send feedback!!!!
Logan, Max, and Baby Makes Three-The Arrival
Max laid awake thinking. She looked at the clock it read 3:30 am. She had woken up hours earlier and realized she was in labor. She had decided to wait for a little while to wake Logan up because she knew he would freak out as soon as he found out that she was in labor. At least that is what she was telling herself. The truth of the matter was she was scared, and she knew that Logan would see the fear in her eyes. She wasn't ready to deal with the questions yet. The pain hadn't gotten to bad, and her water hadn't broken, so she assumed that she still had a while.
She had spent the past nine months trying to convince herself that everything would be okay. Zack and Brin's little girl Eva had been fine, but still she couldn't help but worry that something would go wrong. Both Zack and Brin had been Manticore prototypes. She and Logan were a different story. What if her animal genes conflicted badly with all of his humans genes?
Up until she met Logan, Max had never been truly happy, and she was afraid that all of her happiness would come crumbling down at her feet. She had never had someone love her for her, and she was afraid that she was living on borrowed time.
"These contractions are getting pretty close together. I wonder if I should wake up Logan so that he can call Bling," she thought. Bling's sister was a midwife, and she had offered to deliver the baby in case there were any complications.
"I'll wait a couple of more minutes," she told herself as she felt a gush of water in between her legs.
"Damn." Max yelled, which woke Logan up.
"What's wrong Max?" Logan asked with concern in his eyes as he shot up out of bed.
"Nothing. My water just broke." Max said nonchalantly trying to hide the fear in her eyes.
"Your water just broke?" Logan asked, a little confused in his sleepy state it took him a minute to figure out what was going on.
"Oh." Logan said finally catching on.
"Yeah."
"I better call Bling." With that he jumped out of bed and ran into the computer room, where he had left his phone.
Max could overhear Logan's conversation with Bling, and despite her current situation she couldn't help but laugh at her husband, who was running around the apartment in a frenzy.
"Bling. Max's water just broke. I don't know how long she's been in labor. She just woke me up. I don't care what time it is. Get over here now. I'm calm. No, Bling. I will not count to ten. I'll breath if I want to. I'm hanging up now. Just get over here." Logan said into his cell phone.
Max could only imagine what Bling had said to Logan. She had gotten her giggles under control when Logan finally returned to the bedroom.
"You know I love you." Logan said when he walked into the room.
"I do. I love you too." She patted the bed next to her in a silent invitation for Logan to come and sit down next to her.
"How you doing? Are you in a lot of pain?" Logan asked his initial freaked out attitude now replaced with one of concern.
"I'm okay." Max informed him as she felt her earlier scared feelings creeping back.
"What's wrong Max? Besides the obvious. I know that look."
"Just a little freaked out. It's not big dealio." Max told him as she said a silent prayer. She already had enough going on. She didn't want to have to tell Logan all of her fears; he had enough of his own.
"Not buying it. What's really wrong?"
"Logan, I am about to shove something the size of a watermelon out something the size of a lemon. That's all."
"Still not buying it. How about this time you tell me what is really bothering you." Logan told her using his secret weapon his smile.
"I hate it when you do that." Max told him. She hated it when he smiled at her like that because she couldn't resist him when he did.
"I'll stop if you tell me what is really bothering you."
"I'm scared. What if there is something wrong with our baby? What if it has a barcode on its forehead? What if it is half-human and half whatever animal they used to make me? What if..." Max said in between sobs. After keeping all of her fears bottled up inside her for the past nine months, she couldn't stop herself once she finally let them out.
"What is he or she is perfect?" Logan said cutting Max off.
"What is he or she isn't?" Max said still unable to stop crying.
"We'll love the baby just the same." Logan told his wife as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to his chest.
"All babies need is love, and if there is something wrong with the baby we will deal with it." He continued.
"Logan, I just don't think I could handle it if I knew that my baby was going to have to go through life like I did. Never quite fitting in. Never quite feeling human." Max said as she snuggled in close to Logan.
"You wouldn't have to. We would deal with it. We are a team Max, and there is nothing that our baby could pop out with that could possibly cause me not to love him or her." Logan said as he gave Max a reassuring squeeze that let her know that he meant everything he just said.
"You promise?" Max asked as she finally got her sobs under control.
"I promise." Logan said with a smile on his face.
"Max how long have you been keeping this bottled up?"
"To long." Max told him with a smile on her face. All of her life she had kept her feelings bottled up. She never felt like she could trust anyone with her fears and weaknesses, but she was slowly learning that she didn't have to bottle up her emotions with Logan. When she told him that she was scared, he never used it against her. Instead he always seemed to make her feel better.
"Feel better now?"
"I'm not scared anymore, but the rest of my body hurts like a bitch." Max told him with a frown on her face.
"What can I do?" Logan asked. He had almost forgotten that Max was in labor.
"Don't leave me."
"I'll never leave you Max." Logan replied as he leaned in and kissed the soon to be mother of his child.
"Will you rub my back?"
"Sure." With that Logan repositioned himself so that he was sitting behind Max, and she was leaning up against him.
"When are Bling and Nadia going to be here?" Max asked. Her contractions were getting pretty close together.
"Bling wasn't sure. He had to track down Nadia, and then he said they would be right over. By the way I am supposed to ask you why you couldn't have waited until the morning to have the baby."
"I'm sorry if being in labor is an inconvenience for Bling. I thought for sure he would have been bouncing all over his apartment with excitement when he found out I was in labor." Max said a little pissed.
"He was. He just wasn't excited at the prospect of trying to get past the sector police at 2:00 in the morning."
"Well I'm not excited about the pain I'm in, but I'm dealing. Remind me to kick Bling's ass later. Ouch!!" Max said just as she felt another strong contraction coming on. Max was dealing with the pain as best she could. This is one pain Manticore had not made her immune to, and since she wasn't used to being in pain, she was having a hard time coping.
"You okay. What can I do?" Logan said in a panic. He wasn't used to Max being in pain either, and he didn't like seeing his wife screaming in agony at all.
"I'm okay. The contractions seem like they keeping getting worse. When they started a couple of hours ago, they weren't that bad, but now they are almost unbearable." Max said after the contraction subsided.
"You've been in labor for a couple of hours. Why didn't you wake me up?" Logan asked his feelings a little hurt that Max didn't wake him.
"I wasn't sure if I was in labor or not, and you looked so peaceful. I know that you haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately in your frenzy to get ready for the baby."
"Oh..." Logan was about to reply when Max cut him of with another scream as another contraction set in.
"Where the hell is Bling?" Logan yelled. Max's contractions were getting close together, and he was pretty sure that it was about time for her to push.
"Here." Bling yelled back as he walked in the door with his sister in tow.
"Hi Max. How are you feeling?" Nadia asked when she walked into the bedroom.
"Like hell." Max said with gritted teeth.
"Let's have a look and see how far along you are." Nadia told Max.
"It looks like we got here just in time. You fully dilated and ready to push. I'm just going to go wash my hands, and we'll be ready to have a baby." Nadia informed them after she examined Max.
"Don't you mean I'll be ready to have a baby, and you guys will be ready to clap and tell me what a good job I'm doing." Max said sarcastically. She was really getting sick of being in pain.
Nadia just gave her a weird look, and Logan motioned for her to ignore Max.
"So have to you decided on a name yet?" Bling asked. Max and Logan had been fighting over names non-stop for the past month. He was worried that they would never agree.
"As a matter of fact we have. Hannah Elizabeth Cale for a girl. Hannah after the woman who found Max when she escaped, and Elizabeth after my mother. For a boy, William Zachariah Cale." Logan said happy that he and Max had finally agreed on a name.
"William? Where did that come from?" Bling asked.
"It was the name Logan proposed to me with." Max told Bling.
"Huh?" Bling asked. Logan was about to explain when Nadia returned and informed them all that Max was going to push on the next contraction.
"Max, on the next contraction, I want you to take a deep breath, stick you chin on you chest, and push. Logan, I want you to count to ten." Nadia told them.
"What do you want me to do?" Bling asked.
"Hold her other leg."
"Hold my leg?" Max asked. She wasn't sure how she felt about Bling witnessing her giving birth.
"Trust me Max. It will make this whole thing easier if you have something to press up against when you are pushing." Nadia replied
"Fine, but Bling if I catch you peaking, I'm gonna have to kill you." Max told Bling.
"Deal." Bling said with a laugh. He'd never pictured Max as being the modest type.
"Ahh..." Max yelled as she began to push.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six..." Logan counted and held Max's hand.
"Good job keep pushing." Nadia said encouraging Max.
"What the hell do you think I'm doing?" Max yelled, while still pushing.
A lot of pushing and screaming later...
"Congratulations you two. It's a girl." A proud Nadia said as she held up the screaming infant for Max and Logan to see.
"Max, we have a Hannah Elizabeth." The proud father said with tears streaming down his face. Though he would never admit it to anyone, he had been secretly hoping for a daughter.
"Is she okay? Let me hold her." Max said in a panic. All she could think about was all of the things she prayed weren't wrong with her daughter.
"Her you go." Nadia said after she cleaned Hannah off and wrapped her in a blanket.
Max quickly unwrapped her and scrutinized every inch of her.
"Logan, she's perfect. No barcodes, ten fingers, ten toes, two eyes." Max said with tears of joy falling from her eyes.
"I told you she would be. She's beautiful Max." Logan said still crying.
"Do you want to hold your daughter?" Max asked.
"There isn't anything in the world I would rather do."
When Max handed Logan his new daughter, he couldn't help but grin. Max recognized that grin. It was the same one he had plastered on his face for weeks after he found out he was going to be a daddy.
"Max, can you believe it? We have a beautiful, perfect daughter." Logan said. He was sitting next to Max on the bed with Hannah fast asleep in his arms.
"No, but I don't think I've ever been happier."
"Me neither."
"We love you Hannah." Logan said after he kissed the precious little girl in his arms.
"I've got to hand it to you too," Bling said, "you two sure do make a pretty baby."
"You're dying to hold her aren't you?" Max asked Bling. She knew he was trying to be patient, but she could tell that he couldn't wait to get his hands on his new goddaughter.
"Yeah." Bling said smiling.
Logan handed Bling the sleeping baby, and as soon as he had her in his arms he too had a goofy grin on his face.
"Hey, baby girl. I'm your godfather Bling. I've been waiting a long time for your parents to finally admit that they loved each other and have you. Some day when you're older I will tell you all about your mommy and daddy." Bling informed the infant in his arms.
Max and Logan just smiled at each other. They both knew that Bling was right. They had waited a long time for this perfect moment.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of them except the baby and Bling's sister.
Author's Notes: Sorry this took so long to get out. School sucks. I hope you enjoy. Please send feedback!!!!
Logan, Max, and Baby Makes Three-The Arrival
Max laid awake thinking. She looked at the clock it read 3:30 am. She had woken up hours earlier and realized she was in labor. She had decided to wait for a little while to wake Logan up because she knew he would freak out as soon as he found out that she was in labor. At least that is what she was telling herself. The truth of the matter was she was scared, and she knew that Logan would see the fear in her eyes. She wasn't ready to deal with the questions yet. The pain hadn't gotten to bad, and her water hadn't broken, so she assumed that she still had a while.
She had spent the past nine months trying to convince herself that everything would be okay. Zack and Brin's little girl Eva had been fine, but still she couldn't help but worry that something would go wrong. Both Zack and Brin had been Manticore prototypes. She and Logan were a different story. What if her animal genes conflicted badly with all of his humans genes?
Up until she met Logan, Max had never been truly happy, and she was afraid that all of her happiness would come crumbling down at her feet. She had never had someone love her for her, and she was afraid that she was living on borrowed time.
"These contractions are getting pretty close together. I wonder if I should wake up Logan so that he can call Bling," she thought. Bling's sister was a midwife, and she had offered to deliver the baby in case there were any complications.
"I'll wait a couple of more minutes," she told herself as she felt a gush of water in between her legs.
"Damn." Max yelled, which woke Logan up.
"What's wrong Max?" Logan asked with concern in his eyes as he shot up out of bed.
"Nothing. My water just broke." Max said nonchalantly trying to hide the fear in her eyes.
"Your water just broke?" Logan asked, a little confused in his sleepy state it took him a minute to figure out what was going on.
"Oh." Logan said finally catching on.
"Yeah."
"I better call Bling." With that he jumped out of bed and ran into the computer room, where he had left his phone.
Max could overhear Logan's conversation with Bling, and despite her current situation she couldn't help but laugh at her husband, who was running around the apartment in a frenzy.
"Bling. Max's water just broke. I don't know how long she's been in labor. She just woke me up. I don't care what time it is. Get over here now. I'm calm. No, Bling. I will not count to ten. I'll breath if I want to. I'm hanging up now. Just get over here." Logan said into his cell phone.
Max could only imagine what Bling had said to Logan. She had gotten her giggles under control when Logan finally returned to the bedroom.
"You know I love you." Logan said when he walked into the room.
"I do. I love you too." She patted the bed next to her in a silent invitation for Logan to come and sit down next to her.
"How you doing? Are you in a lot of pain?" Logan asked his initial freaked out attitude now replaced with one of concern.
"I'm okay." Max informed him as she felt her earlier scared feelings creeping back.
"What's wrong Max? Besides the obvious. I know that look."
"Just a little freaked out. It's not big dealio." Max told him as she said a silent prayer. She already had enough going on. She didn't want to have to tell Logan all of her fears; he had enough of his own.
"Not buying it. What's really wrong?"
"Logan, I am about to shove something the size of a watermelon out something the size of a lemon. That's all."
"Still not buying it. How about this time you tell me what is really bothering you." Logan told her using his secret weapon his smile.
"I hate it when you do that." Max told him. She hated it when he smiled at her like that because she couldn't resist him when he did.
"I'll stop if you tell me what is really bothering you."
"I'm scared. What if there is something wrong with our baby? What if it has a barcode on its forehead? What if it is half-human and half whatever animal they used to make me? What if..." Max said in between sobs. After keeping all of her fears bottled up inside her for the past nine months, she couldn't stop herself once she finally let them out.
"What is he or she is perfect?" Logan said cutting Max off.
"What is he or she isn't?" Max said still unable to stop crying.
"We'll love the baby just the same." Logan told his wife as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to his chest.
"All babies need is love, and if there is something wrong with the baby we will deal with it." He continued.
"Logan, I just don't think I could handle it if I knew that my baby was going to have to go through life like I did. Never quite fitting in. Never quite feeling human." Max said as she snuggled in close to Logan.
"You wouldn't have to. We would deal with it. We are a team Max, and there is nothing that our baby could pop out with that could possibly cause me not to love him or her." Logan said as he gave Max a reassuring squeeze that let her know that he meant everything he just said.
"You promise?" Max asked as she finally got her sobs under control.
"I promise." Logan said with a smile on his face.
"Max how long have you been keeping this bottled up?"
"To long." Max told him with a smile on her face. All of her life she had kept her feelings bottled up. She never felt like she could trust anyone with her fears and weaknesses, but she was slowly learning that she didn't have to bottle up her emotions with Logan. When she told him that she was scared, he never used it against her. Instead he always seemed to make her feel better.
"Feel better now?"
"I'm not scared anymore, but the rest of my body hurts like a bitch." Max told him with a frown on her face.
"What can I do?" Logan asked. He had almost forgotten that Max was in labor.
"Don't leave me."
"I'll never leave you Max." Logan replied as he leaned in and kissed the soon to be mother of his child.
"Will you rub my back?"
"Sure." With that Logan repositioned himself so that he was sitting behind Max, and she was leaning up against him.
"When are Bling and Nadia going to be here?" Max asked. Her contractions were getting pretty close together.
"Bling wasn't sure. He had to track down Nadia, and then he said they would be right over. By the way I am supposed to ask you why you couldn't have waited until the morning to have the baby."
"I'm sorry if being in labor is an inconvenience for Bling. I thought for sure he would have been bouncing all over his apartment with excitement when he found out I was in labor." Max said a little pissed.
"He was. He just wasn't excited at the prospect of trying to get past the sector police at 2:00 in the morning."
"Well I'm not excited about the pain I'm in, but I'm dealing. Remind me to kick Bling's ass later. Ouch!!" Max said just as she felt another strong contraction coming on. Max was dealing with the pain as best she could. This is one pain Manticore had not made her immune to, and since she wasn't used to being in pain, she was having a hard time coping.
"You okay. What can I do?" Logan said in a panic. He wasn't used to Max being in pain either, and he didn't like seeing his wife screaming in agony at all.
"I'm okay. The contractions seem like they keeping getting worse. When they started a couple of hours ago, they weren't that bad, but now they are almost unbearable." Max said after the contraction subsided.
"You've been in labor for a couple of hours. Why didn't you wake me up?" Logan asked his feelings a little hurt that Max didn't wake him.
"I wasn't sure if I was in labor or not, and you looked so peaceful. I know that you haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately in your frenzy to get ready for the baby."
"Oh..." Logan was about to reply when Max cut him of with another scream as another contraction set in.
"Where the hell is Bling?" Logan yelled. Max's contractions were getting close together, and he was pretty sure that it was about time for her to push.
"Here." Bling yelled back as he walked in the door with his sister in tow.
"Hi Max. How are you feeling?" Nadia asked when she walked into the bedroom.
"Like hell." Max said with gritted teeth.
"Let's have a look and see how far along you are." Nadia told Max.
"It looks like we got here just in time. You fully dilated and ready to push. I'm just going to go wash my hands, and we'll be ready to have a baby." Nadia informed them after she examined Max.
"Don't you mean I'll be ready to have a baby, and you guys will be ready to clap and tell me what a good job I'm doing." Max said sarcastically. She was really getting sick of being in pain.
Nadia just gave her a weird look, and Logan motioned for her to ignore Max.
"So have to you decided on a name yet?" Bling asked. Max and Logan had been fighting over names non-stop for the past month. He was worried that they would never agree.
"As a matter of fact we have. Hannah Elizabeth Cale for a girl. Hannah after the woman who found Max when she escaped, and Elizabeth after my mother. For a boy, William Zachariah Cale." Logan said happy that he and Max had finally agreed on a name.
"William? Where did that come from?" Bling asked.
"It was the name Logan proposed to me with." Max told Bling.
"Huh?" Bling asked. Logan was about to explain when Nadia returned and informed them all that Max was going to push on the next contraction.
"Max, on the next contraction, I want you to take a deep breath, stick you chin on you chest, and push. Logan, I want you to count to ten." Nadia told them.
"What do you want me to do?" Bling asked.
"Hold her other leg."
"Hold my leg?" Max asked. She wasn't sure how she felt about Bling witnessing her giving birth.
"Trust me Max. It will make this whole thing easier if you have something to press up against when you are pushing." Nadia replied
"Fine, but Bling if I catch you peaking, I'm gonna have to kill you." Max told Bling.
"Deal." Bling said with a laugh. He'd never pictured Max as being the modest type.
"Ahh..." Max yelled as she began to push.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six..." Logan counted and held Max's hand.
"Good job keep pushing." Nadia said encouraging Max.
"What the hell do you think I'm doing?" Max yelled, while still pushing.
A lot of pushing and screaming later...
"Congratulations you two. It's a girl." A proud Nadia said as she held up the screaming infant for Max and Logan to see.
"Max, we have a Hannah Elizabeth." The proud father said with tears streaming down his face. Though he would never admit it to anyone, he had been secretly hoping for a daughter.
"Is she okay? Let me hold her." Max said in a panic. All she could think about was all of the things she prayed weren't wrong with her daughter.
"Her you go." Nadia said after she cleaned Hannah off and wrapped her in a blanket.
Max quickly unwrapped her and scrutinized every inch of her.
"Logan, she's perfect. No barcodes, ten fingers, ten toes, two eyes." Max said with tears of joy falling from her eyes.
"I told you she would be. She's beautiful Max." Logan said still crying.
"Do you want to hold your daughter?" Max asked.
"There isn't anything in the world I would rather do."
When Max handed Logan his new daughter, he couldn't help but grin. Max recognized that grin. It was the same one he had plastered on his face for weeks after he found out he was going to be a daddy.
"Max, can you believe it? We have a beautiful, perfect daughter." Logan said. He was sitting next to Max on the bed with Hannah fast asleep in his arms.
"No, but I don't think I've ever been happier."
"Me neither."
"We love you Hannah." Logan said after he kissed the precious little girl in his arms.
"I've got to hand it to you too," Bling said, "you two sure do make a pretty baby."
"You're dying to hold her aren't you?" Max asked Bling. She knew he was trying to be patient, but she could tell that he couldn't wait to get his hands on his new goddaughter.
"Yeah." Bling said smiling.
Logan handed Bling the sleeping baby, and as soon as he had her in his arms he too had a goofy grin on his face.
"Hey, baby girl. I'm your godfather Bling. I've been waiting a long time for your parents to finally admit that they loved each other and have you. Some day when you're older I will tell you all about your mommy and daddy." Bling informed the infant in his arms.
Max and Logan just smiled at each other. They both knew that Bling was right. They had waited a long time for this perfect moment.