Chapter 20
Li gets upstairs and hears Sakura's cries echo through the halls. He runs to her room and smiles as she glares at him.
"Contractions hurt like a fucking bitch." Grumbles Sakura as she watches Li walk into the room to her side.
"I wouldn't know. I called Xander and he is glad to hear about the labor, I have to call him back when it's over. He also gave me permission to call Eli, Madison and Meilin back home. I was only talking to Eli and he was happy to hear the news as well." Says Li as he takes hold of Sakura's hand and sits down in a chair next to the bed.
"That's great." Says Sakura before she screams with another contraction. She grips Li's hand tightly causing him to wince in pain.
"You know this really hurts." Groans Li as he watches her heart monitor.
"You wanna take my place?" groans Sakura as the contraction passes.
"Didn't they give you any drugs?"
"I refused to have them. I want a natural birth."
"Nice Alex, it's just making it harder on you." Says Li as he sees the doctor come into the room.
The doctor smiles at Li and looks at Sakura, "We could hear you down the hall you know."
"You want me to yell louder?" asks Sakura.
"No that's ok Alex. Now I'm going to check and see if you are crowning." Says the doc. As she lifts Sakura's legs into a bent position and she checks Sakura. "Wonderful you are crowning. Is this your first birth?"
Sakura just nods as she feels another contraction coming.
"Don't push Alex. Don't push unless I say so ok?"
Sakura groans loudly.
The doctor leaves the room and comes back a moment later with a few nurses and they prep for delivery. As Sakura begins to deliver she grips Li's hand tightly causing him to groan in pain but he doesn't pull away.
"Push Alex." Says the doctor.
Sakura groans loudly and pushes as best she can.
"Ok Alex stop, count to ten and then start pushing again."
Sakura stops and breathes deeply while counting to ten and watching Li. Once she reaches ten she starts to push again.
"Great Alex, just a little more ok." Says the doctor as the baby comes out.
Sakura and Li both sigh as they hear the baby start to cry loudly.
"It's a girl." Says a nurse as she clamps the umbilical cord.
"Would you like to cut the cord?" asks another nurse as she holds out a pair of scissors to Li.
Sakura let's go of Li's hand and Li takes the scissors. He cuts the cord and the baby is wrapped in a blanket and shown to Sakura. Sakura starts to cry as she sees the little baby crying its eyes out. The nurse takes the baby to get cleaned up and Sakura finishes with the labor. Another nurse also looks at Li's hand and sees that his index finger is broken she takes some tape and tapes the index finger and the middle finger together and lets him go back to Sakura.
"You broke my trigger finger." Says Li as he smiles at Sakura.
"You wanna try giving birth?" asks Sakura as the doctors clean her up.
"Eight pounds nine ounces. A healthy baby girl." Says a nurse as she walks over and hands the baby to Sakura.
"What are you going to call her?" asks the doctor as she smiles as Sakura.
Sakura looks at Li; "Can I name her?"
"Think I'm gonna say no?" says Li as he takes his good hand and rubs his daughters hand.
"Sora Syaoran." Says Sakura with a bright smile.
"Ok, well you relax and I'm sure you have family that you need to call. If you need anything just use the buzzer." Says the doctor with a smile as she and the nurses leave the room.
Li looks down at his new daughter Sora and smiles seeing that she is sleeping. He caresses Sakura's face and kisses her forehead, "I'm not going to forget you broke my finger you know."
Sakura chuckles, "I should call Tia and Kale. I'm sure they would love to hear the news."
"Can I hold her?" asks Li like a little boy.
Sakura nods and gently holds Sora out for Li. Li takes her carefully into his arms and he smiles, "She's going to be a great fighter."
Sakura laughs and watches Li as he walks over to a rocking chair and sits down. Sakura grabs the phone and decides to call Kale first.
"Hello?" comes Kale's voice over the phone a moment later.
"Hey Kale it's Alex."
"Alex me and Tia were trying to get a hold of you. She's sorry if she upset you last night. Where are you?"
"I'm fine. I'm in the hospital. I just gave birth to a baby girl."
"Alex that's wonderful, can we come visit?"
"Sure I am too happy to sleep anyway."
"Great, Tia is going to be so excited when she finds out."
Sakura can hear Tia in the background; "I'll be excited when I find out what?"
"Kale she's there with you?"
"Yeah she is."
Sakura can hear Kale tell Tia and then she hears Tia shriek.
"We will be over in a little bit ok. You relax." Says Kale.
"I will." Says Sakura before she hangs up the phone.