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Chapter Two
The Coming of the Child
A few days after the gate had broken down, Tai and Sora were out at the movies. They were seeing some war movie with Mel Gibson. Mel's character was having an emotional talk with a dying soldier when it struck Tai. Without pause he bolted out of his chair and started to run for Their house, before he realized he was still in a movie theater he tripped over Sora, he fell face forward, and hit the floor face first.
"Tai, what's wrong?", she said helping him up.
"I've figured it out", he said, "I've figured out how to get back to the digital world.", he almost shouted.
"Tai, be careful what you say, there are too many people in here.", Sora chided after she had drug him out into the hall.
They drove to the house and gathered everyone that was home in the living room to tell them his ides. Davis was grumpier than ever because they had woke him up. Neither Kari nor TK had been sleeping much lately so they had no quarrel about it. Matt was at band practice, and they knew he wouldn't want to stop in the middle of it for something that he could hear in an hour. Izzy and Joe were at work. Mimi was, secret to only Matt, was out planning their wedding. Yolie and Ken were currently occupied, (wink wink), and so they left them to their business. Cody was actually nowhere to be found, for once.
"Guys I think I've figured out a way to get back to the digital world. I'm kicking myself for not realizing this earlier, we can use the original digi- port at the summer camp.", he said quickly.
"You know you're a genius, it's not like the all the digi-ports weren't closed off or anything", Davis said annoyingly with so much sarcasm that if you couldn't pick it up you were almost as stupid as Davis was.
"Uh-", Tai mumbled when he realized the obviousness of the suggestion, he looked down in shame. As he blushed, Sora put a loving hand on his shoulder.
"Davis, do you have to say it like that, you make people feel useless when you talk people down like that, how would you feel?", she said pouting at him.
"Well, I wouldn't know anything about that now would I. It's not like I don't get that every day from a certain group of people.", he said storming out of the room.
Tai went out on to the porch, and Sora quickly followed. Kari taking the first initiative action she had in weeks got up and went after Davis, when TK got up to follow, she stopped him and asked him to wait here. He sat back down and thought about how to tell his parents he had gotten his girlfriend pregnant and married her all in the same month.
*
Upstairs, in Ken's room Yolie kissed him passionately on the lips. They had made some of the most passionate love ever. She was lying on Ken's chest with deep labored breaths, he wanted to know what the commotion was downstairs, but he loved the feeling of her skin on his when she was sleeping, her hair smelled like lavender. He was slowly drifting into the perfect sleep when he heard someone stomp up the stairs. Yolie stirred in his arms, he rolled his eyes and she woke up.
"Who is the hell is that?", she said and rubbed her eyes.
"I'm gonna kill Davis.", he said getting up and putting on his pants, he knew Davis was the only one in the entire house to be that inconsiderate.
Just as Kari reached the top of the stairs, Ken came out of his room in a pair of denim jeans. They both had a seriously annoyed look on their faces. And simultaneously said "Davis!", and nodded in agreement. Ken was the first to reach him, and he grabbed his shoulder and turned him around. He only had time to mumble in confusion before Kari reached out and grabbed his balls. He screamed so loud that Yolie rolled off the bed in shock, it was heard even outside on the porch.
"What the hell is your problem Davis?!", Ken said.
*
Sora sat down on the porch swing next to her husband. Knowing that it wasn't the right moment to say anything, she simply held his hand and put her head on his shoulder and they rocked quietly for a while. When they heard Davis' scream from upstairs, Sora chuckled in Tai's ear since they both know what Kari had done.
After an hour of this bliss of hers, Sora decided it was time to break the serene silence.
"You know you shouldn't listen to him.", she stated simply.
"Yeah, but it just made me feel so stupid. I should have thought it out more before I brought it up.", he said with a heavy sigh.
A few minutes later three of their kids came out onto the porch. Their oldest daughter, Gabrielle, said in an angelic tone that every four year old child has.
"Daddy, why was Uncle Davis screaming?"
"Because, your aunt Kari gave hi a piece of her mind.", he replied in a sheepish grin, "Here, come up here and sit with your Mom and Dad.", he said reaching down and bringer her to his lap, while Matthew climbed in between them and Mari was in Sora's lap.
*
After all the children had been put back to sleep in their downstairs rooms next to their parent's Kari and TK went up to bed. The both knew they wouldn't get much sleep. Kari fell into his arms and they just lay there for a while looking off in their own separate directions, gazing into their own thoughts. Kari fell into a broken sleep full of tears while TK kept a silent watch over her all night.
*
Ken returned to his room shortly after Kari's gut wrenching lecture. He silently slipped back into bed, when he was comfortable he shut his eyes to go to sleep, he felt Yolie's soft lips kiss his chest. He opened his eyes and looked down into hers, she had a sheepish grin on her face that said she knew what she wanted and she was going to get it one way or another. Now Ken, always being the gentlemen he was, gave no objection.
He slowly brought her mouth to his and they kissed for a long time. He rolled over so that he was on top of her. He slowly ran his mouth down her body, stopping in all the right places to make her moan in deep pleasure. He massaged her breast and kissed her stomach soft enough to make it tickle. As she giggled in delight he moved back up to her mouth and it was as if they shared the same tongue. Their motions in perfect sync, they achieved their maximum potential for pleasure. Lying in each other's sweaty bodies as they both drifted into an exhausted rest, they were both in the prime of their lives and completely in love. Neither of them thought they could be happier.
*
In the morning Kari woke up to a missing TK and the smells of a delicious breakfast. As she got dressed in her loose bathrobe she regretted the fact that for all of TK's cooking she knew she wouldn't keep it down for very long, the ever present child growing in her belly had begun to show and was brought new grief to the term morning sickness. She made her way downstairs to find instead Matt cooking up a storm of waffles, eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, and pancakes.
"Morning", she started in a dreary tone, "Where's TK?"
"He had to go out, Cody called and said it was important that he come over right away. He asked me to make breakfast for you, and I said to myself 'hey if your making it for one, why not make it for all'.", he said putting more food on the table.
"Say, would you mind getting someone to go wake everybody up?", he said turning back to the stove.
"No problem", she said turning away.
There was one sure-fire way to get everyone in the house up at one time. She padded quietly into her nieces' room and woke them gently.
"Hey, morning, listen breakfast is ready, Uncle Matt is making everything you can think of for it.", she whispered and their faces lit up, "But we need everyone up before we can eat. Do you know how we can get everyone up?", she said with a playful smile. They both nodded in glee. Two seconds later they were out the door running and screaming.
*
Sora was awakened by her daughters' landing on her. She smiled to them, as if it was a game, and she woke Tai. Actually, she tried to wake Tai, but seeing as how he was a stone, she quickly gave that up and left it to the only two things that could bring him back to consciousness, his favorite daughters.
She got up and put on a bathrobe and slowly made her way out of the room. By the time she was on the other side of the door she heard Tai roar like a bear and her daughters giggle. It was the best thing in the world to have five kids and a husband that was so convincing of one that you barely could tell the difference. A loud thud from upstairs said that her three sons had woken Davis, or at least given him a mild concussion. She walked into the kitchen to find Kari at the table, stuffing her face, and Mimi with her arms wrapped around her fiancé at the stove.
"A little hungry today are we, Kari?", she said picking up a plate and piling the different varieties of food onto her plate.
"Hey, a woman eating for two in her third trimester has a right to eat this much.", she said grinning through a mouthful of food.
"I remember all of my third trimesters, but never being this hungry.", she said raising an eyebrow as Kari shoved three pieces of bacon and half a pancake in her mouth all at the same time. She then proceeded to down an entire glass of orange juice.
*
Across town TK arrived at the address Cody had given him over the phone. It was an apartment complex on the Jersey shore. He knocked on the door. He heard muffled voices inside and then a young woman opened the door in a button down shirt that closely resembled the one Cody had been wearing the day before.
"Oh, hello, you must be TK, I'm Delilah, won't you come in?", she said extending her arm inside.
He walked in and heard a shower somewhere down the main hall. "Is Cody here?", he thought and then told himself he was an idiot when he realized Cody was probably the one in the shower.
"Yeah, he's in the shower, he'll be out in a minute, please have a seat while you wait", she said with a warm smile, "I'm just going to put on something less revealing.", she walked down the hall a ways and turned into her room.
*
Yolie's fits of nausea were steadily getting worse. Of course, she couldn't imagine what Kari was going through, at least she had the guts to eat a lot of food, even though she knew she would throw it up about half an hour later. She thought to herself, 'what the hell'. she dressed and ran downstairs, promptly stuffing her face.
"Hey where's Ken", in broken phrases through her food.
"He went to the grocery store when he heard you thundering down the stairs", Matt said grinning.
Yolie threw a piece of bacon at him. Later, when Ken came through the door carrying two grocery sacks, Yolie almost knocked him down when she barreled into him.
"I missed you.", she said into his chest.
"I've only been gone for half an hour.", he said smiling at the more pleasant half of her mood swings.
"I know, I just can't help it, it's these damn mood swings.", she said releasing him from her vice grip.
They went back to the kitchen and sat down for Yolie's second breakfast. Kari couldn't handle any more and had gone up stairs to wallow in the pain of carrying a child. She was wiping away her mouth. When someone came in downstairs she groped her way back to the bed, and tried to fall back asleep. She woke up a few hours later and found TK laying next to her staring at her.
"Hey.", she said drearily, smiling up at him.
"Hey, yourself. You've been asleep for hours.", he said brushing her hair to the side of her face.
"Heh, I would of thought that my sickness would wake me up.", she said, trying to sit up.
"Here let me help you", he said lifting her up, "it looks like a little morning sickness can't wake you up."
She looked around to find herself naked in her bare sheets.
"Why am I naked?", she said bringing her arms around his neck.
"I had to do something, you might've drown in all of it", he said hugging her tightly.
Her jaw dropped.
"There was that much?", she asked him.
"Yeah, but it was no problem, you don't weigh as much as you think.", he said as he got up and brought her a robe.
"Hey", she said pulling him into a kiss, "I'm going to go take a bath, you wanna come?", she said grinning up furiously at him. She ran down the hall as fast as she could, carrying a child, trying not to be caught naked. TK closed the door behind himself. He turned around to Kari kissing him hard on the mouth. She pulled off his shirt. She broke away to turn on the water. She brought him next to the tub and was unbuttoning his pants when her face went rigid. She grabbed the edge of the bathtub and sat herself down on the toilet.
"Kari, what's wrong?", he said putting his hands on her shoulders.
"I think my water just broke, we have to get to the hospital.", she said trying to stand herself up.
"Wait here I'll get the others and call the hospital to tell them we're coming.", he said sitting her back down on his way out the door.
He ran out of the door and down the stairs screaming. She felt really dizzy and then she saw black.
*
"Tai!! She's not conscious, hurry up.", TK screamed downstairs.
"Shit", he said. He didn't have time to wait for the paramedics. He picked her up and carried her downstairs.
He was at the bottom of the stairs when the paramedics got in the door with a crash cart. He toppled down to the floor after he got her on the stretcher. They rushed her into the ambulance. He was the only one allowed in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
"Is she going to be okay?", he sobbed.
"Her vital signs are normal.", he said holding a stethoscope to her chest.
"Then, why did she pass out?" he said.
"It could be that the umbilical cord is choking the baby, and that can cause the body to develop abnormal stress."
*
(Two Hours Later)
"Dammit, what the hell is taking so long!", Tai yelled in the waiting room.
"Tai, calm down, come sit over here.", Sora said gripping his shoulder.
"I can't sit down, my sister might be dying.", he said pounding his fist into the wall.
They waited another twenty minutes before a doctor came and told them the situation.
"Well your sister suffers from a condition to where her body will always wrap the umbilical cord around any baby she has. Now I know this sounds like a bad thing, but now that we know she has the disorder, the next time she gets pregnant we can monitor the pregnancy and perform a C-section in time so that this doesn't happen again."
"How is she doing?", Sora asked as she took Tai's hand.
"Your sister is going to be fine, she lost consciousness because her body was exerting an extreme amount of energy to keep the baby vital. Her husband said she slept for a long time today, that's because the strain on her body to keep the baby alive put massive pressure on her heart and lungs, causing the body to become exhausted and eventually pass out.", he continued.
"How's the baby?", Tai asked, wiping his eyes.
"The baby suffered some lung damage, but all that is to be expected is that she will have minor breathing disorders her entire life."
"A girl, it's girl?", Mimi asked, tearing up.
The doctor nodded and walked back into the delivery room. About an hour later, Tai and Kari's parent showed up. It took them about five minutes to realize that Tai didn't know what he was saying before they shut him up. It was another hour and a half before they could see her.
"Hey sis.", Tai said trying not to wake up TK, who was out like a light in his chair.
Kari looked up from the little bundle in her hands.
"Hey, how is everyone?", she asked.
"Well, Izzy had to go, Hannah had a ballet show, but he said he would come by later. Matt and Mimi are asleep just outside the door. Joe had to start his shift at work, he wanted to stay but I told him it was okay. Yolie and Ken had a lamaze class, Mom and Dad are here, they said that they wanted me to come in alone first to check on you. Sora is asleep in the waiting room, she really wanted to see the baby as soon as she could. And Cody had to take Davis to his therapist, he went a little off it this afternoon.", he said as he came closer to look at his new niece.
"You, wanna hold her?", she said gently lifting her up.
He smiled as he took the newborn in his hands. He remembered all the times he had held his own children for the first time.
"How's TK doing?", he said rocking her back and forth.
"He's more exhausted then I am, he's really worried. I just hope he doesn't get an ulcer or something.", she said rubbing his back.
They sat in silence for a while before Matt and Mimi came in. Mimi took the child in her arms and just sat in awe at the beauty of it all. Matt woke TK up and took him out into the hall to tell him something. "Hey, I know your worried about them and all and I don't blame you, Kari's a great girl and with you two as her parents I'm sure this kid is gonna turn out even better, but you need to calm down."
"Hey! Don't tell me not to be worried about them, do you remember Jennai's prophecy? Huh, I mean excuse me if I'm a little worried about the well- being of my family!", he said pushing Matt away.
"I didn't mean it like that, it's just that -", he stopped and looked through the window behind TK, he had a look of utter surprise on his face.
TK turned around to see a bright white light emanating from his wife's room. He ran into the room to see his new baby hovering just above Mimi's lap enveloped in light.
"Kari!", he yelled as the entire hospital was taken by the light.
*
I hope all of you just loved that cliffhanger ending. I'll have chapter three up very soon as I already have most of it planned out but just for suspense I'm going to hold out a few days.
^ ^ ~
Chapter Two
The Coming of the Child
A few days after the gate had broken down, Tai and Sora were out at the movies. They were seeing some war movie with Mel Gibson. Mel's character was having an emotional talk with a dying soldier when it struck Tai. Without pause he bolted out of his chair and started to run for Their house, before he realized he was still in a movie theater he tripped over Sora, he fell face forward, and hit the floor face first.
"Tai, what's wrong?", she said helping him up.
"I've figured it out", he said, "I've figured out how to get back to the digital world.", he almost shouted.
"Tai, be careful what you say, there are too many people in here.", Sora chided after she had drug him out into the hall.
They drove to the house and gathered everyone that was home in the living room to tell them his ides. Davis was grumpier than ever because they had woke him up. Neither Kari nor TK had been sleeping much lately so they had no quarrel about it. Matt was at band practice, and they knew he wouldn't want to stop in the middle of it for something that he could hear in an hour. Izzy and Joe were at work. Mimi was, secret to only Matt, was out planning their wedding. Yolie and Ken were currently occupied, (wink wink), and so they left them to their business. Cody was actually nowhere to be found, for once.
"Guys I think I've figured out a way to get back to the digital world. I'm kicking myself for not realizing this earlier, we can use the original digi- port at the summer camp.", he said quickly.
"You know you're a genius, it's not like the all the digi-ports weren't closed off or anything", Davis said annoyingly with so much sarcasm that if you couldn't pick it up you were almost as stupid as Davis was.
"Uh-", Tai mumbled when he realized the obviousness of the suggestion, he looked down in shame. As he blushed, Sora put a loving hand on his shoulder.
"Davis, do you have to say it like that, you make people feel useless when you talk people down like that, how would you feel?", she said pouting at him.
"Well, I wouldn't know anything about that now would I. It's not like I don't get that every day from a certain group of people.", he said storming out of the room.
Tai went out on to the porch, and Sora quickly followed. Kari taking the first initiative action she had in weeks got up and went after Davis, when TK got up to follow, she stopped him and asked him to wait here. He sat back down and thought about how to tell his parents he had gotten his girlfriend pregnant and married her all in the same month.
*
Upstairs, in Ken's room Yolie kissed him passionately on the lips. They had made some of the most passionate love ever. She was lying on Ken's chest with deep labored breaths, he wanted to know what the commotion was downstairs, but he loved the feeling of her skin on his when she was sleeping, her hair smelled like lavender. He was slowly drifting into the perfect sleep when he heard someone stomp up the stairs. Yolie stirred in his arms, he rolled his eyes and she woke up.
"Who is the hell is that?", she said and rubbed her eyes.
"I'm gonna kill Davis.", he said getting up and putting on his pants, he knew Davis was the only one in the entire house to be that inconsiderate.
Just as Kari reached the top of the stairs, Ken came out of his room in a pair of denim jeans. They both had a seriously annoyed look on their faces. And simultaneously said "Davis!", and nodded in agreement. Ken was the first to reach him, and he grabbed his shoulder and turned him around. He only had time to mumble in confusion before Kari reached out and grabbed his balls. He screamed so loud that Yolie rolled off the bed in shock, it was heard even outside on the porch.
"What the hell is your problem Davis?!", Ken said.
*
Sora sat down on the porch swing next to her husband. Knowing that it wasn't the right moment to say anything, she simply held his hand and put her head on his shoulder and they rocked quietly for a while. When they heard Davis' scream from upstairs, Sora chuckled in Tai's ear since they both know what Kari had done.
After an hour of this bliss of hers, Sora decided it was time to break the serene silence.
"You know you shouldn't listen to him.", she stated simply.
"Yeah, but it just made me feel so stupid. I should have thought it out more before I brought it up.", he said with a heavy sigh.
A few minutes later three of their kids came out onto the porch. Their oldest daughter, Gabrielle, said in an angelic tone that every four year old child has.
"Daddy, why was Uncle Davis screaming?"
"Because, your aunt Kari gave hi a piece of her mind.", he replied in a sheepish grin, "Here, come up here and sit with your Mom and Dad.", he said reaching down and bringer her to his lap, while Matthew climbed in between them and Mari was in Sora's lap.
*
After all the children had been put back to sleep in their downstairs rooms next to their parent's Kari and TK went up to bed. The both knew they wouldn't get much sleep. Kari fell into his arms and they just lay there for a while looking off in their own separate directions, gazing into their own thoughts. Kari fell into a broken sleep full of tears while TK kept a silent watch over her all night.
*
Ken returned to his room shortly after Kari's gut wrenching lecture. He silently slipped back into bed, when he was comfortable he shut his eyes to go to sleep, he felt Yolie's soft lips kiss his chest. He opened his eyes and looked down into hers, she had a sheepish grin on her face that said she knew what she wanted and she was going to get it one way or another. Now Ken, always being the gentlemen he was, gave no objection.
He slowly brought her mouth to his and they kissed for a long time. He rolled over so that he was on top of her. He slowly ran his mouth down her body, stopping in all the right places to make her moan in deep pleasure. He massaged her breast and kissed her stomach soft enough to make it tickle. As she giggled in delight he moved back up to her mouth and it was as if they shared the same tongue. Their motions in perfect sync, they achieved their maximum potential for pleasure. Lying in each other's sweaty bodies as they both drifted into an exhausted rest, they were both in the prime of their lives and completely in love. Neither of them thought they could be happier.
*
In the morning Kari woke up to a missing TK and the smells of a delicious breakfast. As she got dressed in her loose bathrobe she regretted the fact that for all of TK's cooking she knew she wouldn't keep it down for very long, the ever present child growing in her belly had begun to show and was brought new grief to the term morning sickness. She made her way downstairs to find instead Matt cooking up a storm of waffles, eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, and pancakes.
"Morning", she started in a dreary tone, "Where's TK?"
"He had to go out, Cody called and said it was important that he come over right away. He asked me to make breakfast for you, and I said to myself 'hey if your making it for one, why not make it for all'.", he said putting more food on the table.
"Say, would you mind getting someone to go wake everybody up?", he said turning back to the stove.
"No problem", she said turning away.
There was one sure-fire way to get everyone in the house up at one time. She padded quietly into her nieces' room and woke them gently.
"Hey, morning, listen breakfast is ready, Uncle Matt is making everything you can think of for it.", she whispered and their faces lit up, "But we need everyone up before we can eat. Do you know how we can get everyone up?", she said with a playful smile. They both nodded in glee. Two seconds later they were out the door running and screaming.
*
Sora was awakened by her daughters' landing on her. She smiled to them, as if it was a game, and she woke Tai. Actually, she tried to wake Tai, but seeing as how he was a stone, she quickly gave that up and left it to the only two things that could bring him back to consciousness, his favorite daughters.
She got up and put on a bathrobe and slowly made her way out of the room. By the time she was on the other side of the door she heard Tai roar like a bear and her daughters giggle. It was the best thing in the world to have five kids and a husband that was so convincing of one that you barely could tell the difference. A loud thud from upstairs said that her three sons had woken Davis, or at least given him a mild concussion. She walked into the kitchen to find Kari at the table, stuffing her face, and Mimi with her arms wrapped around her fiancé at the stove.
"A little hungry today are we, Kari?", she said picking up a plate and piling the different varieties of food onto her plate.
"Hey, a woman eating for two in her third trimester has a right to eat this much.", she said grinning through a mouthful of food.
"I remember all of my third trimesters, but never being this hungry.", she said raising an eyebrow as Kari shoved three pieces of bacon and half a pancake in her mouth all at the same time. She then proceeded to down an entire glass of orange juice.
*
Across town TK arrived at the address Cody had given him over the phone. It was an apartment complex on the Jersey shore. He knocked on the door. He heard muffled voices inside and then a young woman opened the door in a button down shirt that closely resembled the one Cody had been wearing the day before.
"Oh, hello, you must be TK, I'm Delilah, won't you come in?", she said extending her arm inside.
He walked in and heard a shower somewhere down the main hall. "Is Cody here?", he thought and then told himself he was an idiot when he realized Cody was probably the one in the shower.
"Yeah, he's in the shower, he'll be out in a minute, please have a seat while you wait", she said with a warm smile, "I'm just going to put on something less revealing.", she walked down the hall a ways and turned into her room.
*
Yolie's fits of nausea were steadily getting worse. Of course, she couldn't imagine what Kari was going through, at least she had the guts to eat a lot of food, even though she knew she would throw it up about half an hour later. She thought to herself, 'what the hell'. she dressed and ran downstairs, promptly stuffing her face.
"Hey where's Ken", in broken phrases through her food.
"He went to the grocery store when he heard you thundering down the stairs", Matt said grinning.
Yolie threw a piece of bacon at him. Later, when Ken came through the door carrying two grocery sacks, Yolie almost knocked him down when she barreled into him.
"I missed you.", she said into his chest.
"I've only been gone for half an hour.", he said smiling at the more pleasant half of her mood swings.
"I know, I just can't help it, it's these damn mood swings.", she said releasing him from her vice grip.
They went back to the kitchen and sat down for Yolie's second breakfast. Kari couldn't handle any more and had gone up stairs to wallow in the pain of carrying a child. She was wiping away her mouth. When someone came in downstairs she groped her way back to the bed, and tried to fall back asleep. She woke up a few hours later and found TK laying next to her staring at her.
"Hey.", she said drearily, smiling up at him.
"Hey, yourself. You've been asleep for hours.", he said brushing her hair to the side of her face.
"Heh, I would of thought that my sickness would wake me up.", she said, trying to sit up.
"Here let me help you", he said lifting her up, "it looks like a little morning sickness can't wake you up."
She looked around to find herself naked in her bare sheets.
"Why am I naked?", she said bringing her arms around his neck.
"I had to do something, you might've drown in all of it", he said hugging her tightly.
Her jaw dropped.
"There was that much?", she asked him.
"Yeah, but it was no problem, you don't weigh as much as you think.", he said as he got up and brought her a robe.
"Hey", she said pulling him into a kiss, "I'm going to go take a bath, you wanna come?", she said grinning up furiously at him. She ran down the hall as fast as she could, carrying a child, trying not to be caught naked. TK closed the door behind himself. He turned around to Kari kissing him hard on the mouth. She pulled off his shirt. She broke away to turn on the water. She brought him next to the tub and was unbuttoning his pants when her face went rigid. She grabbed the edge of the bathtub and sat herself down on the toilet.
"Kari, what's wrong?", he said putting his hands on her shoulders.
"I think my water just broke, we have to get to the hospital.", she said trying to stand herself up.
"Wait here I'll get the others and call the hospital to tell them we're coming.", he said sitting her back down on his way out the door.
He ran out of the door and down the stairs screaming. She felt really dizzy and then she saw black.
*
"Tai!! She's not conscious, hurry up.", TK screamed downstairs.
"Shit", he said. He didn't have time to wait for the paramedics. He picked her up and carried her downstairs.
He was at the bottom of the stairs when the paramedics got in the door with a crash cart. He toppled down to the floor after he got her on the stretcher. They rushed her into the ambulance. He was the only one allowed in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
"Is she going to be okay?", he sobbed.
"Her vital signs are normal.", he said holding a stethoscope to her chest.
"Then, why did she pass out?" he said.
"It could be that the umbilical cord is choking the baby, and that can cause the body to develop abnormal stress."
*
(Two Hours Later)
"Dammit, what the hell is taking so long!", Tai yelled in the waiting room.
"Tai, calm down, come sit over here.", Sora said gripping his shoulder.
"I can't sit down, my sister might be dying.", he said pounding his fist into the wall.
They waited another twenty minutes before a doctor came and told them the situation.
"Well your sister suffers from a condition to where her body will always wrap the umbilical cord around any baby she has. Now I know this sounds like a bad thing, but now that we know she has the disorder, the next time she gets pregnant we can monitor the pregnancy and perform a C-section in time so that this doesn't happen again."
"How is she doing?", Sora asked as she took Tai's hand.
"Your sister is going to be fine, she lost consciousness because her body was exerting an extreme amount of energy to keep the baby vital. Her husband said she slept for a long time today, that's because the strain on her body to keep the baby alive put massive pressure on her heart and lungs, causing the body to become exhausted and eventually pass out.", he continued.
"How's the baby?", Tai asked, wiping his eyes.
"The baby suffered some lung damage, but all that is to be expected is that she will have minor breathing disorders her entire life."
"A girl, it's girl?", Mimi asked, tearing up.
The doctor nodded and walked back into the delivery room. About an hour later, Tai and Kari's parent showed up. It took them about five minutes to realize that Tai didn't know what he was saying before they shut him up. It was another hour and a half before they could see her.
"Hey sis.", Tai said trying not to wake up TK, who was out like a light in his chair.
Kari looked up from the little bundle in her hands.
"Hey, how is everyone?", she asked.
"Well, Izzy had to go, Hannah had a ballet show, but he said he would come by later. Matt and Mimi are asleep just outside the door. Joe had to start his shift at work, he wanted to stay but I told him it was okay. Yolie and Ken had a lamaze class, Mom and Dad are here, they said that they wanted me to come in alone first to check on you. Sora is asleep in the waiting room, she really wanted to see the baby as soon as she could. And Cody had to take Davis to his therapist, he went a little off it this afternoon.", he said as he came closer to look at his new niece.
"You, wanna hold her?", she said gently lifting her up.
He smiled as he took the newborn in his hands. He remembered all the times he had held his own children for the first time.
"How's TK doing?", he said rocking her back and forth.
"He's more exhausted then I am, he's really worried. I just hope he doesn't get an ulcer or something.", she said rubbing his back.
They sat in silence for a while before Matt and Mimi came in. Mimi took the child in her arms and just sat in awe at the beauty of it all. Matt woke TK up and took him out into the hall to tell him something. "Hey, I know your worried about them and all and I don't blame you, Kari's a great girl and with you two as her parents I'm sure this kid is gonna turn out even better, but you need to calm down."
"Hey! Don't tell me not to be worried about them, do you remember Jennai's prophecy? Huh, I mean excuse me if I'm a little worried about the well- being of my family!", he said pushing Matt away.
"I didn't mean it like that, it's just that -", he stopped and looked through the window behind TK, he had a look of utter surprise on his face.
TK turned around to see a bright white light emanating from his wife's room. He ran into the room to see his new baby hovering just above Mimi's lap enveloped in light.
"Kari!", he yelled as the entire hospital was taken by the light.
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I hope all of you just loved that cliffhanger ending. I'll have chapter three up very soon as I already have most of it planned out but just for suspense I'm going to hold out a few days.
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