A/N: Yay! the baby is coming! Oh and we all know (or have heard) about the crazyness of the delivery room!

Chapter 33

"I'm going to kill him." Gracelin grunted through another contraction.

"You are not going to kill him." Jaina tried to talk to her. "You love Jacen, remember?"

The contraction ended. "I know I don't. I just wish he'd hurry up and get here."

Leia walked in, "I just called Luke and they just pulled in. I called your mom and she's getting a hold of Kristea."

"Thank you." Gracelin sighed.

"Tired?" Leia smiled.

"Just a bit." She replied.

"And you're only in the first hour." Leia smiled. "I'm going to take Maria to get some ice cream."

"Don't give her chocolate! It's not good. She's already hyper enough." Gracelin told Leia.

"Okay." Leia opened the door to leave when her son came running in almost knocking her over.

"Sorry Mom."

Leia thought back to how nervous Han had been. She saw that in her son today. "It's okay."

Jacen went to the other side of the bed and took a hold of Gracelin's hand. He saw her slightly damp hair pulled back and she was tense. "Are you okay?" He asked as he stroked her knuckles.

She shot him an annoyed look at him. "Jacen don't ask me that again."

Jaina burst out laughing until Jacen shot her a look.

"I'm sorry." Another thing to tell Luke. 5) Don't ask if she's okay while in labor.

"I'm going to go." Jaina dismissed herself from them, feeling they should be alone.

"Oh Sith!" Gracelin said.

"What? What?" Jacen asked panicky as Gracelin's grip tightened around his hand.

"Contraction." Gracelin said through her breathing exercise.

"Ouch! Gracey!" Her grip was still tightening on his hand. "Gracey, let go!"

She was too concentrated on getting through the contraction to hear him. As the contraction ended she let go of his hand.

"Damn, Gracey! That hurt!" Oh Sith, I didn't just say that!

Gracelin pushed herself up onto her elbows. "That hurt? That hurt? Try multiplying it by a hundred and that's what a contraction feels like! Just in another location on your body!"

Jacen winced just the thought was painful. "Gracey, calm down, please. I know that it hurts but just remember that when its all over we're going to have a little baby."

Gracelin lay back down and closed her eyes and listened to Jacen talk.

"Our baby. A little bit of you and a bit of me and a bit of its own individuality. Somebody for us to watch grow and learn. Someone we can teach about life." He caressed her cheek and put a stray hair behind her ear.

"I love you." She said as she began to relax.

"I love you too." He leaned forward and kissed her forehead.

"Damn!" Gracelin started her breathing exercises. The contraction ended but no without bringing tears to her eyes. She had been there for ten hours.

"It's going to be okay." Jacen tried to tell her. The healer had said she was almost fully dilated, but that was almost an hour ago. The time however was taking a toll on Gracelin.

"I don't think I can to it, Jacen" She said as the tears continued to go down her face.

"Yes you can Gracey. Don't say stuff like that." He wiped at the tears falling.

Healer Da'Tuva came in. "How you holding up, Gracelin?"

"Alright", she answered unconvincingly.

"It's almost over. I need to go get another assistant and then we can start pushing okay?"

Gracelin just nodded as the healer left the room. She looked over at her husband. "You think we're ready?"

Jacen chuckled at the question. "We don't really have a choice now, Sweetheart."

Gracelin realized how silly the question probably sounded. She started laughing. "I have to tell you something."

"What?"

"You remember the envelope that Healer Da'Tuva gave us? It had all the stuff we told her not to tell us."

"Yeah?"

"I kind of opened it this morning after I realized my water broke."

"You did?" Jacen smiled at her. "What did it say?"

"I win the bet." She smiled. The smile dropped though, "Here comes another one."

Jacen coached her through the contraction. He pried his hand away from Gracelin's grip. "So I lost, huh?" Jacen looked and rubbed his hand.

Gracelin was trying to calm her breathing, "Two times over."

"What!" He directed his attention immediately to her.

She took a hold of his hand and rubbed it for him. "Two…little girls."

He sat down, more like flopped, into the chair beside her bed. At first his expression was on of worry and shock. That was quickly replaced by a big goofy smile.

She smiled at his reaction. "So, I think it should be forty diapers. Twenty for each one." She joked.

"You know that if I would've won, I wouldn't have held you to the bet."

Gracelin played with his hand, "Yeah, I know."

Healer Da'Tuva came in. "So, you two ready?"

Gracelin looked at Jacen then back to the healer. "As ready as we'll ever be."

"You got it Gracey!" Jacen encouraged as the chant of the healer saying "Push, push," was heard.

Gracelin did as she was told and kept pushing. She was sure that if Jacen didn't stop being so positive that she would smack him. He's just going to have to understand this is like going through all seven levels of sith hell and coming back.

"Come on Gracey, breath. Keep pushing; you can do it."

"Jacen, shut up! Please!" He was a little surprised by the outburst but he had been previously waned about being snapped at, by his father.

"Okay, Gracelin I can see one head. I just need a really big push. Okay?"

"Alright," was Gracelin's reply. She gave it all she had.

"Okay, stop!" was hollered to her as she fell back onto her sweat soaked pillow. She closed her eyes but a smile came to her lips when she heard a pair of little lungs screaming.

"Got a name in mind?"

"Padme Isabella Solo," Gracelin answered without hesitation.

Jacen looked at Gracelin. He hadn't heard the name until today. "It's beautiful. You got another name hidden up there somewhere?"

"I might." She smiled weakly, showing just how tire she was getting.

"Gracelin, we only got a few more pushes." Healer Da'Tuva said.

Gracelin pushed herself up on her elbows. "We? We? I'm the only one doing …"

Jacen cut her off. "That's not what she meant. Just keep pushing, Sweetheart." He knew she was tired. Gracelin started pushing again.

"Okay, just another push, Gracelin! We're almost there!" Healer Da'Tuva said.

Gracelin felt she was straining even harder this time.

"Breath, Gracey. You nee to breath or you'll pass out." Jacen told her.

She forced herself to do her breathing exercises. The tears had started again. Tears of joy and pain.

"I can see her head. Ready for the last push?"

"You have no idea," She said through her gritted teeth. She heard another set of lungs screaming for attention.

She instantly fell back onto her pillow. Gracelin's tears were still falling but ones of happiness and relief. She closed her eyes while trying to catch her breath.

Jacen wiped her damp hair out of her face. He leaned in to kiss her. He then touched his forehead to hers. "I love you, so much."

Gracelin opened her eyes when she heard his voice breaking. She saw that he was crying too. She caressed his cheek and wiped a tear away with her thumb. "She still needs a name you know."

He smiled and never let his eyes leave hers, "Stephanie Sabè Solo."

A/N: So were you surprised? lol. I hope you liked this chapter and dont forget to let me know what ya think!