Chapter 12: Cade
MEGAN'S POV
It had come so unexpected that I had been unprepared. I had been at home watching a movie when an intense pain cut through me like a knife. When I looked down I was shocked to see that my pants were soaked.
"Oh my freaking god."
Picking up the phone, I called my mom who was at the neighbors house visiting because the neighbor was sick.
"Yes dear?" she asked.
"Mom, my water broke," I said, my hands shaking.
I heard the phone drop to the floor and my mom ran through the front door, second later.
"Let's get you to the hospital!" she yelled and helped me get to the car.
It was going to be a very long night……..
……………………TWENTY HOURS LATER………………
I had never been in so much pain my entire life… and I had been stabbed one or two times while in the Feudal Era!
I lay in the hospital bed, sweat drenching my forehead as I breathed deeply.
A nurse walked in with a small blue bundle in her arms.
She smiled at me and handed the thing to me.
"Congratulations Miss," she said, "you are now the mother of a healthy baby boy!"
When she handed me my child my heart swelled so big that I thought I was going to explode.
The little thing in my arms slept soundly. A few curls or dark curly hair sprouted off his head.
Tears formed in my eyes.
How was this possible?
I had just met this beautiful creature. How could I already love him so much?
I leaned down and kissed his forehead.
He whimpered and opened his small eyes slowly.
What I saw made me cry even harder.
Staring up at me were a pair of golden eyes that matched his father's exactly. The small child raised a pudgy arm and touched my nose.
I smiled down at him, "Hello little baby boy. Aren't you the most beautiful thing I have ever seen…"
Just then my mom and Bob walked in and rushed to my side.
"Megan!" mom said, "he's so beautiful!"
"Isn't he?" I smiled wider then I ever have my entire life.
"His eyes are very interesting," Bob said beside me, smiling as well.
"Just like his daddy's," I said softly.
They didn't hear me.
"Have you thought of a name yet?" my mom asked.
I thought for a while.
A name…
A name…
I wanted him to have a name that would stand out. Something that would be as unique as my baby was. Sesshomaru would want him to have a name that meant something…
I thought of Sesshomaru, but that didn't seem like it would suit anyone but my lover alone…
"His name…" I paused, "His name is Cade."
"Cade?" Bob asked, "Why Cade?"
I smiled. "It means pure."
My parents look at one another and then smiled back at me.
"It's a beautiful name dear," my mom said, tears were falling from her eyes.
"Mom? Why are you crying?" I asked.
"Oh Megan! Its just that, I'm a grandma now!" she bawled.
I smiled.
……………THREE WEEKS LATER…………
Cade had been born very healthy and very strong. The doctors sad that he was strangly alert then most babies were at such a young age. I smiled. He was half demon after all, he must have inherited some of his father's powers. Though I suspected that I wouldn't see any more of them until he was a lot older.
They released me and Cade from the hospital after only a week after he was born.
Walking into the nursery that Bob constructed right beside my own room, I cradled Cade close to me.
The walls were white and there was a window that had been draped with blue curtains with crescent moons on them. I had seen them in the store and I just had to have them. They reminded me of the crescent moon on Sesshomaru's head. There was a beautiful hand crafted crib for Cade that Bob had lovingly made himself. I remember I had cried when he gave it to me, it was so beautiful. My grandmother had made the baby blankets that went inside it and there was a blue one and a yellow one.
My sister had locked herself in the nursery before she left, telling me that she was making a surprise for the baby. When she had finally shown me, I had been awestruck. On one of the walls she had painted a mural. It was a mural of the mountains, and it reminded me so much of the Feudal Era that I had sat in front of it for hours.
There were baby toys everywhere. Most of them were gifts from friends and family. I myself had insisted on buying something for Cade, so I had gone out and bought most of his clothes.
There was also a changing table and a small dresser in the room.
"Honey?" my mom rested her hand on my shoulder, "Is the baby asleep?"
I looked down at Cade, and sure enough he was fast asleep in my arms. I placed him softly in his crib and kissed his forehead.
When we were back in my room my mom sat down beside me on the bed.
"How are you feeling?" she asked.
I smiled, "Great."
My mom nodded, "Are you sure that you don't want to get some more things for the baby's room?"
I shook my head, "No mom. I can't stay here forever. I plan on finding my own place when Cade is a bit older, maybe in a year or something."
Mom sighed, "You can stay as long as you like."
I nodded.
There was a long pause and I knew my mom was trying to say something.
"Just say it mom."
She smiled uncomfortably, "Have you thought of finding Cade's father to tell him?"
I sighed.
That would be impossible…
I wanted nothing more then to tell Sesshomaru about his son, but how could I? Unless time came for me again, there was no way for me to get to him.
"I don't know how to find him," I said softly.
I had given up trying to convince them that I had been in the past. It just wasn't worth it…
My mom nodded, "Do you know who it is?"
I nodded, "I already told you who the father was mom, but you never believed me!"
"Honey how can you expect me to believe that his father is a demon from the past? It's impossible!"
I shook my head, "I wish I could prove it to you somehow."
There was another long pause.
"It's strange though…" my mom trailed off.
"What is?" I asked.
"Cade, he doesn't cry. Not once has he cried," she said, "I remember when you were a baby, you cried all of the time."
I smiled, "He's a special baby."
My mom smiled, kissed my cheek and then left.
I was lying down on my bed when I heard a gurgling noise form Cade's room. I got up and went into the nursery to find him lying there, smiling up at me.
He reached his pudgy arms up towards me and I picked him up.
She was right…he never cried…
"What are you doing up Cade?" I whispered, "It's late baby, you should be dreaming."
He just looked at me with those big golden eyes of his and I melted. Eh was just so beautiful.
I started singing "Only Hope" by Mandy Moore to him and he settled into my arms.
As I sang softly to him I couldn't help but think…
Here I was…almost nineteen and with a baby. It was going to be a difficult life ahead, I knew that…
But I didn't care.
I had friends and family who would always be there for me, and I had Cade to keep me going.
But I needed Sesshomaru…
What would happen when Cade was older? I was positive that the wouldn't look exactly like the other kids. For one, his eyes were so bright and unique, but maybe he would have some other demon qualities to him…
When I finished the song Cade was asleep again and so I placed him back in his crib an turned on the baby monitor.
Going back to my room, I rested my head on my pillow and let darkness take me.
…………….ONE YEAR LATER……………
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Cade… happy birthday to you!" the family sang to him one year later.
My baby boy was now one year old, and he was growing quickly. Already he had a bit more curly brown hair on his head and his bright eyes followed me wherever I went. He could already crawl very well and he could walk as long as he had something to hold onto.
He was my pride an joy.
My nineteenth birthday had past last month.
Suddenly the front door opened and my sister burst in, carrying gifts and with a new tan.
"Kayla!" my mom cried and hugged her, "I thought you weren't going to be back until next week?"
"I wanted to see my nephew on his birthday!" she smiled.
I hugged her and then she kissed Cade's forehead.
"Wow, look at his eyes, they are beautiful!" she said.
Cade looked up at her with big eyes, confused at this new person.
"He's beautiful Megan," she hugged me again.
I nodded, "He is."
After opening gifts, which were mostly clothes for Cade, we all went into the living room.
"So tell us about Australia Kayla," I said.
She smiled, "It was amazing! Wow, I learned so much and the country is so beautiful! They said that I did such a good job that they are going to give me a job there!"
"Wow that's great. That was your dream!" I said.
She nodded.
"Australia?" My mom gasped, "Honey that's so far away!"
"Come on mom! I'm nineteen! I have to move out some day," Kayla said.
Holding Cade's arms so he could stand I looked back at Kayla, "So how was your flight back?"
She rolled her eyes, "Long. Oh my god it was like, forever! We stopped in London and this one guy got on the flight, Megan you would have laughed at him. He was really hot."
"Why would I have laughed at that?" I smiled.
"It was obviously his first time in a plane because he was gripping the seat so hard that he had torn the elbow rest clean off! He sat a few rows ahead of me. Whenever we began to descend he would always grab at his hip for some reason."
I smiled again, "He must have had a hip problem."
"He didn't look that old, maybe twenty two or something like that. Very serious looking guy, barley saw any emotion at all. He needed a haircut to, his hair must have been down to his waist!"
Pulling Cade up into my lap I froze.
Hair down to his waist…
Grabbing at his hip…
Almost as if he was reaching for something that would have normally been there…
I could feel my heart speed up.
"What color was his hair?" I asked, my eyes big.
"What's wrong with you? You look like you've seen a ghost," mom om said.
"What color was his hair?" I asked again.
"Silver, almost white, why?" Kayla said.
Oh my god…
Sesshomaru?