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A/N: Hi! Hope you guys like this chapter! It was quite amusing to write Hailey, I must admit (you'll see why as you read!) Please, please review!

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Chapter Ten: Moving Forward

June 20—11:30 pm

Haylie moaned and grabbed her stomach, as a contraction was obviously taking its toll. After a minute, she let go and and looked at her husband with a frown on her tired face.

"Baby…I've been at this since a little after noon. That's 11 hours. I don't know how much longer I can take this…I…" She squinted and held her stomach again. "I can't do this." She said through gritted teeth. Kyle leaned over and kissed his wife's forehead, despite the beads of sweat rolling down it.

"Haylie, you're doing so well. You can do this, I know you can. The doctor said that the baby will be here soon." He tried to comfort her.

"Yeah well, he said the same thing when I came her eleven freaking hours ago." She snapped. "Now go get me ice chips."

"Jeese, someone's grumpy!" He joked. His eyes widened when his enraged wife grabbed his coller and yanked him up close to her face.

"Listen, bucko." She said in a furious whisper, "If you were trying to push a basket ball through your nostril I don't think you'd be to happy! And you know what? This hurts worse than pushing a basket ball through your nostril! So get over it and make yourself useful! Ice chips! Now!" She loosened her grip on his shirt and he backed up.

"Be right back." He muttered and hurried out of the room. She laughed to herself as much as she could between the painful contractions that were slowly but surely gripping her stomach in closer intervals. Her mother had left a few minutes ago, and for this she was glad. At the moment, she was furious at even the thought of Lucy. Since she had persuaded her daughter not to have pain medication, Haylie hadn't been too happy.

"It's more natural. If I could do it, anyone could." She mimicked her mother in a high pitched voice. She heard laughter from the door and looked up to see her husband coming in.

"Thinking about your mom again?" He asked, holding out a cup of ice chips which she snatched quickly.

"Yeah." She said sounding snippy. Kyle sighed and sat down. He had a feeling that his wife's mood wouldn't be improving soon, in fact, it wouldn't probably still worsen until the birth. Haylie moaned loudly and held her stomach once again. "Go get the nurse now." She demanded, "it must be time by now." As Kyle stood to go get her, she entered the room and he sat back down.

"Hello again." The nurse greeted them warmly. "How are we doing?"

"How are we doing? We? All that fat jerk did was climb on top of me nine months ago! Now he just gets to sit here and look pretty. Well that's nice, but I'm doing terribly! Hurry up and check me. It must be time." The nurse's eye brows raised a bit and she put on plastic gloves.

"Ok, here we go." She said, taking a seat and examining Haylie. After a minute, she sat up and discarded her gloves. "Well sweetie, you're 7 centimeters dialated, which means you still have 3 to go."

"Are you kidding me?" Haylie asked covering her face. "I can't do this! I can't! Do you have any idea how much this hurts?" The nurse smiled at her and nodded.

"Actually I do, I have 9 children." Haylie's jaw dropped.

"You went through this nine times?" She asked in awe. The nurse nodded again.

"Yes I did. The good news is that your first labor is the longest. Now, that's not the best news for you right now, but in the future you'll like it. With my first child, I was in labor for almost 48 hours" she said, then seeing the look on Haylie's face quickly added, "But you won't be, dear, don't worry." She laughed. "With my second It was 24 hours, my third 14 hours, and by the time I had my youngest, I had 4 hours from my water breaking to delivery." She laughed. "Judging on your progress that we've seen so far, it will still be a few hours before you're ready to deliver." Haylie moaned even though she wasn't having a contraction currently. "Don't worry, you'll do fine." The nurse assured her, and left. Haylie looked at Kyle.

"Go away." She instructed. He looked at her, surprised.

"What?" He asked. Her frown deepened.

"Go away. You did this to me, and I currently hate you. So leave. Now. Buh-Bye." He stood.

"Ok, I'll go and get some food…I'll be back soon. Have the nurse call me if you need me ok?"

"Yeah right. Need you. Look what happened last time I thought I needed you." She glanced down at her stomach and then back up at him. He laughed.

"Ok…bye honey." He walked out of the room and down the hall where he picked up a pay phone and dialed Kevin. After telling him about Haylie, Kevin laughed.

"Yeah, I definitely remember when Lucy had Haylie. Let's just say she wasn't the most pleasant person to be around. She broke a picture they had in the hospital room throwing one of her shoes at me." Kyle laughed.

"Wow, good to know that I'm not alone. It's hard because I really want her to feel good, and I want to help, but I know that I can't. And when I try, she gets angry!"

"Yeah, you just need to stay out of her hair, as hard as that is. Don't worry, she won't want you gone for long. Once she has to start pushing, she'll want you there. Trust me." He laughed. "My hand is still recovering from Lucy's five deliveries."

"Wow." Kyle said with a chuckle, "well, I'm going to go and get some food down in the cafeteria, then go back and see my wife. I'll talk to you soon." He said.

"Ok. Call us when we have a granddaughter!" Kevin said cheerfully.

"Of course I will." Kyle said. "Bye." He hung up the phone and made his way to the cafeteria where he quickly grabbed a snack. After finishing, he hurried back into the hospital room where his wife was. She glanced up at him with a scowel.

"Took you long enough." She said angrily. "I'm at 9 centimeters. It's about time anyway." He tried not to laugh.

"Wow 9 centimeters? That's amazing! It was so fast!"

"Tell me about it. Maybe this baby is ready to make her appearance." Despite her efforts, she smiled at her husband. "Well, I may hate you a little for doing this to me…but…honey?" He looked over at her. "…we're having a baby. Soon." He nodded and walked over, kissing her forehead.

"I know." He said quietly. She squinted and grabbed onto her stomach. She sat up and leaned over.

"Kyle…" She looked up at him. "I think…" She stopped as Haylie's doctor came in and put on some gloves.

"All right, Haylie, I'm going to check you one more time, but I think that it's time that you start pushing." he said. After examining Haylie he nodded. "Yep, 10 centimeters. Congratulations." he winked at Haylie. "Now, during your next contraction, I want you to push, ok?" Haylie nodded and soon her next contraction hit her. After 20 minutes of pushing, the doctor announced that the baby was in the right place. "Ok, I want you to hold your breath and push for ten seconds, I'll count for you." Haylie nodded. "Here we go…one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." Haylie let out her breath with a moan.

"Oh my gosh" She held her stomach and began to cry. "Kyle, I can't do this, I…"

"Ok honey, it's time to push again. You're doing great." Haylie looked at her husband as a tear rolled down each of her cheeks and he nodded at her. She held her breath and began to push again, her face turning red. As soon as the doctor said 'ten' she let out her breath and looked at her husband frantically.

"Kyle! I can't do this. Make it stop, please make it stop, I…" She held her stomach.

"Honey, you can do it." He held her hand. "We're having a baby. You're doing so good."

"You are, Haylie." Dr. Cooper said. "All right, time to push again." Haylie nodded and did so as he counted for her. "Ok, here she comes, you're doing great, Haylie, keep pushing." She did her best as her husband continued to hold her hand. It was music to her ears when she heard a baby…her baby…crying loudly. "It's a girl!" The doctor cried and Haylie looked at her husband happily as the nurse took the baby to clean her up. After a few minutes, she approached the young couple holding a tiny pink bundle.

"Here's your daughter." She said, smiling at them. "Congratulations, sweetie." She told Haylie. "I knew you could do it." Haylie smiled at her as she was handed the tiny baby. "Does she have a name?" Haylie and Kyle nodded, smiling from ear to ear.

"Hannah. Hannah Peyton." Kyle said. The nurse smiled at them and scribbled the name down on her clip board.

"Well, congratulations you two. You're parents." She said, smiling, then walking away. Haylie looked over at her husband.

"We are…we're parents. I'm a mommy, and you're a daddy. And this…" She looked down at the baby. "This is our daughter." Kyle kissed his wife then kissed his daughter on the forehead.

"That's right." He said quietly. That was the last thing they said as they looked down at their new baby in awe, and as Kyle looked at his wife, he was absolutely convinced that she was a hero.

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