Summary: Sophia's gone into labour and she's in a hell of a lot of pain, then the nurse announced that something was up!

The Birth

"What do you mean something's wrong, what's wrong?" Luke cried out, his voice reaching an extremely high pitch. "We just need to get the baby born then we can identify the problem later ok?" Luke nodded his head, to confirm that he understood what the doctor just told him, not like he could do anything anyway by disagreeing.

When the baby was finally born, Sophia passed out instantly and Luke refused to relinquish her hand, even as she lay unconscious on the bed. One of the nurse's took the baby away to ensure it was healthy. Another nurse took some blood from Sophia and Luke felt so useless as he watched his newborn child being taken away from him and his wife laying still and unconscious.

The doctor returned to them a couple of hours later, Sophia still lay unconscious, she had been given pain - relieving drugs. He asked Luke to leave the room while he examined Sophia. He took a smear test and went to get the sample analysed. Luke came back in and sat with Sophia. "I don't know whether you can hear me or not but I just want you to know that I love you and I really mean that, and I don't know what I would do without you, so please Sophia, please be okay," he begged with tears streaming down his face as his voice broke with despair. He sat there holding her hand and a nurse walked in with the baby. He looked up at her and asked her if it would be okay for him to hold the baby. She nodded. "What..?" He started, "A boy" She answered him before the question could be finished, he thanked her as she left the room.

A while later the doctor entered the room and asked Luke to come to his office so that they could talk. Just as they were leaving the room, which held Sophia and the newborn in it, Vivian came in with Matt in tow. "Luke where's Sophia?" Matt asked with worry. "She's in there, she had a boy, but she still hasn't woken up." He was still extremely upset that much was obvious by the tone of his voice. "Where are you going then Luke?" Vivian asked with curiosity. "The doctor wants to see me, maybe you two should come as well," he pointed out. Matt and Vivian both nodded approvingly. They walked into the doctor's office together and Luke introduced Matt and his mother to him. The doctor greeted them warmly and signalled to the chairs in front of his desk and they slowly sat down. "The birth was very complicated for Sophia and when we realised that the baby was coming out legs first we naturally assumed that was the problem but it didn't explain the severity of the pain and Sophia passing out so hard after the birth. We have done a blood test and we found abnormalities in the blood stream, so I performed a smear test to confirm my fears!" He sat there and looked solemnly at them for a moment and the concern magnified in all their eyes, "I'm afraid Sophia has cervical cancer, the effects were very little before the birth, she may of felt some discomfort before the birth and she may of shrugged it off as it being apart of the pregnancy. Mr Cates, did Sophia mention anything to you about discomfort?" Luke sat there in shock and slowly shook his head. "Okay. I have more bad news, the cancerous cells have gotten into her blood stream and it's spreading, which means we can't treat the illness!" The three of them sat there in shock. Luke rose from his seat and asked to be excused, and he left the room.

Luke walked back into the room where Sophia lay and the baby slept. He sat down next to Sophia and stared at her for what seemed to be a very long five minutes and time just seemed to stand still. Then without warning he broke down into a sobbing wreck. "Oh god Sophia, I can't lose you, I just can't lose you!"

Authors Note: Bet ya didn't see that comin did ya. I'm good. Tell what you think and did you have a little sob yourself. Well what do you want to happen, of course you know that I've already made up my mind but I wanna know your thoughts on the story.