The New Girl Part II
By Jinxd n Cursed
Chapter Fourteen
Birth
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"Uh," Rianna said, kicking off her pumps and putting her swollen, tired feet up on the desk. "If the little one doesn't come out soon, I'm going in for a C-section."
"I know how you feel," Dana sympathized. "How late are you?"
"Two and a half weeks," Rianna said glumly. "Weren't you due last week?"
Dana nodded. "I feel like an elephant but you look like you're giving birth to a two year old."
"Gee thanks," Rianna replied.
Monica smiled as she walked in. "Hey girls. How's it going?"
She received a few groans a one of Rianna's shoes flying at her as a response. "That bad?" she asked.
"Be glad you and John haven't decided on kids yet," Dana said.
Monica blushed. After a whirlwind romance, the two had gotten married the previous week by a justice of peace in Vegas during a vacation they took together.
"We're still newlyweds," Monica reminded them.
Rianna rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I just want this kid to get out of me or start paying rent," she said.
Dana laughed. "Agree—ooh!"
"What is it?" Rianna asked.
"Contraction," Scully said.
"Rianna, did you spill your drink?" Monica asked.
"No, why?" Rianna questioned.
"You mean you didn't notice the puddle of water on the floor?" she questioned.
Rianna looked down at her wet skirt and the puddle on the floor and smiled. "I didn't even notice. Well Dana, I believe we need to get to the hospital as it appears we're both having our babies today."
"We'll grab the guys on the way up," Monica said, reaching for her keys. "Let's go."
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Rianna huffed and puffed from her place on the hospital bed while a strong contraction rippled through her body. David wasn't there yet and the doctors told her she was fully dilated and they couldn't wait much longer.
Nurse Smith came in. "Dr. Heart?" she asked.
"Yeah?" Rianna puffed.
"Dr. Douglass wants to put you on oxygen and do and ultrasound to check on your baby. Its heart rate is dropping," she told her.
Rianna nodded as the nurse carefully placed the oxygen prongs in her nose and her OB came in with the portable ultrasound machine.
Scully in the next bed with Mulder holding her hand looked over. "Is something wrong?" she asked.
Dr. Douglass frowned. "I don't know yet," she said, pushing up Rianna's hospital gown and rubbing the gel over her abdomen. Then she began looking at the monitor before smiling. "Well this explains a lot."
"What?" Rianna asked. "There are two in there. It explains why you're so big and we've been picking up two heartbeats. We thought it was just picking up yours too."
"Seriously?" Rianna asked.
Dr. Douglass nodded. "But it appears one of them is breached. I'm sorry, we can't wait any longer. You've got to have a Cesarean Section before they enter the birth canal."
"What about my husband?" Rianna asked.
"I'm sorry," Dr. Douglass said, raising the rails on the bed. "But we've got to get you into the operating room."
Rianna looked over at Mulder and Scully. "When David gets here, tell him where I am, okay?" she said.
Scully nodded as the nurse and doctor wheeled Rianna out of the room. In the hall however, they met David and Skinner.
"David!" Rianna said. "Twins! C-section! Both of you scrub up! I want you in the operating room!"
The nurse threw the two confused men caps, gowns, and gloves that they put on while rushing down the hall to the OR.
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Scully groaned through another contraction.
"You're doing great honey. You can do this," Mulder told her, mopping her sweaty forehead.
"Shut up!" she said. "You're having the next one!"
He smiled before kissing her left hand, just above her gold wedding band. "Anything for you," he said, with a smile.
Scully whimpered in pain.
"You know, you could have an epidural," nurse Smith suggested.
"I'd like that," Scully said.
"I'll call one of the OBs. Dr. Douglass is in surgery with Rianna," she told her.
"How's Rianna doing?" Mulder asked.
"From what I hear, they found her husband in the hall and that bald man went into the operating room with them," she said. "I'll be back in a minute or two. Hang in there."
Mulder kissed her forehead. "I love you."
"I love you too," Scully said.
Three minutes later, Nurse Smith and Doctor Andrews, the male OB, appeared.
"Hey Dana," Dr. Andrews said. "I'm going to check it out down there while nurse Smith puts in the epidural. If things are how I think they are, as soon as that epi is working, you're going into delivery."
Dana nodded while the nurse set up the line and she spread her legs for the doctor to take a look.
"Hmm… Fully dilated," he said. "I'll be back in five minutes and then you're off to delivery."
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Rianna couldn't see or feel anything going on with her babies. However, she could see the looks on the faces of the doctors, her husband, and her boss.
"What's going on down there?" she asked.
"Almost got the first one out," Dr. Douglass said.
Thirty seconds later, the screams of her first baby filled the air.
Rianna smiled as the nurses carefully cleaned the baby off, stamped her feet for the birth certificate, swaddled her in a blanket, and handed her to Rianna before David cut the cord. At the very same time, more screams filled the air as the process was repeated.
"Congratulations," Dr. Douglass told her. "Two healthy little girls. They're as big as singletons. No wonder you were so big."
Rianna, smiling blissfully at her two children, hardly noticed as Dr. Douglass began stitching her up.
"What're we going to name them?" David asked.
"I'm thinking Liv Amanda and Sarah Ruth," Rianna said. "You like?"
"Very much," he said.
"Wow, David. We're a family," Rianna said.
"Yes we are, sweetheart," he said.
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"God damnit! Get this kid out of me!" Scully said.
"I know it hurts," Dr. Andrews said. "But you need to push. Give it three more nice big pushes and it's all over."
"Damnit! I need drugs!" she said.
"We're increasing your epi, Dana," one of the nurses said.
"ARRGGHHHH!" Dana screamed as she pushed as hard as she possibly could. Even with all the drugs, it felt like she was being turned inside out.
"You can do it!" her personal cheering section of Mulder, Skinner, Monica, and John shouted.
Two pushes later and the screams of an infant filled the air.
"It's a girl!" Dr. Andrews announced, swaddling the infant in a blanket before placing her in her mother's arms.
Dana smiled at her little girl, all the pain suddenly disappearing and not mattering as soon as she saw that little face smiling up at her. "Welcome to the world Marie Danielle Mulder."
Mulder cut the cord before the doctors took the baby from her arms to clean her off and stamp the birth certificate.
David walked in.
"How's Rianna doing?" Mulder asked.
"Two little girls," he said with a massive grin on his. "Liv Amanda and Sarah Ruth. And who is this here?"
"Marie Danielle Mulder," Scully told him.
"Congratulations," David said.
"Same to you," Mulder said.
"Wow, John. Hard to believe we'll be in the same place in nine months," Monica said.
All the eyes in the room turned to one Monica Reyes who smiled and nodded. "I'm pregnant."
Congratulations rang out through the hospital room. At that moment Rianna's gurney was rolled in, her cheering for John and Monica as she had heard the whole thing.
"Life can't get much better than this, can it?" she asked.
"No, Rianna, it can't."
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There's an epilogue. I was so happy with all the reviews I got on the last chapter, I decided to post this today. If tomorrow is anything like today (SNOWDAY!!! WOO HOO!!), I'll post the epilogue.
