Chapter 10: It's Time
A/N: Sorry on the delay, I've had a very severe case of writer's block. Huge surprise at the end of this chapter!
It had been a couple months. Olivia was nearly in her seventh month now. Everything had been going fine. The doctors had warned her that she may deliver prematurely, many twins were delivered premature. She had been having cramps lately, but she was sure it was nothing.
One day at work Cragen suggested that it was time she stopped coming in. She had been told that the babies could literally come any day now, so it was best that she get her rest.
"Oh come on, if I'm not here, where would I be?" Olivia protested. She had nothing better to do. He couldn't possibly to this to her.
"Come on, Liv, the old man's right for once, you should get your rest, taking care of twins will be a lot of work, trust me I know from experience," Elliot reassured her.
Cragen gave him a look, "Old man?"
Elliot smiled weakly. That was the wrong thing to say in front of your boss.
"Okay, maybe you're right," sighed Olivia. She got up and started to leave. Then Elliot stopped her.
"Hey, is it okay if I come over to your apartment tonight?" Elliot asked her.
"Sure, we can watch re-runs of I Love Lucy," Olivia said.
"Sounds fun," Elliot said.
When Olivia got home she was just exhausted. The first thing she did was go to bed. She hadn't realized how tired she actually was. When she was at work she didn't think about how tired she was. She was sure, however, that this wasn't tired; tired was going to be the first year of her babies' lives.
She woke up a couple hours later. When she looked at the lock it was about six o'clock. Elliot would get off work at six-thirty, presuming everything went well. Hopefully he didn't get stuck on a case. She was really looking forward to his company.
Olivia got out of bed and went and turned on the television. Perhaps there was something good on. When she started flipping channels she got a huge cramp in her stomach. "Oh my God!" she shouted. Was this what they considered a contraction? She'd never actually been in labor, so she wouldn't know. She looked at the clock. It was now six-thirty. Should she contact Elliot? "Yes, that's exactly what I'll do," she said aloud.
She picked up her phone and dialed Elliot.
"Hello?" he answered.
"El, is that you?" she huffed.
"Hey, Liv, I just got off work I'm heading over to your apartment right now," Elliot told her. "Wait, is something wrong? You don't sound that good."
"Elliot, I think I'm in labor!" exclaimed Olivia.
"What! You're only eight months!" exclaimed Elliot.
"Well you know what the doc said about twins being delivered prematurely," Olivia said.
"How far apart are the contractions? Has your water broken?" Elliot asked impatiently.
"Well, I've only had one contraction…" Olivia admitted.
"Well, if you get another one by the time I'm there I'll take you to the hospital," said Elliot. "I remember when Kathy was pregnant she always had contractions in like the seventh and eighth months, but she always delivered in the ninth."
Just as he was speaking she had another contraction. "El, I just had another contraction!" she shouted out of pain.
"Okay, hold on, I'm on my way," Elliot said.
He was there in about ten minutes. Luckily her water hadn't broken yet. "You ready?" he asked.
"Yep," Olivia said hustling out the door. Gosh, I hope we don't get stuck in traffic was what was going through Olivia's mind at the time.
They arrived at the hospital in approximately twenty minutes. Dr. Matthews was there when they walked in. Olivia hadn't even thought to call the hospital, she was too apprehensive of what was going to happen.
"What seems to be the problem, Olivia?" Dr. Matthews asked her.
"I think I'm in labor!" exclaimed Olivia.
"Already?" she asked. "Well, let's go see, it could just be a false alarm."
Dr. Matthews took her into a room and they checked her out. "You are not only in labor, but you are not having two babies!" exclaimed Dr. Matthews.
"What the heck do you mean?" Olivia asked.
"You are having three babies, commonly known as triplets," said Dr. Matthews.
"What the heck do you mean?" Olivia repeated.
"Well, it appears in our previous ultrasounds one of the babies has been hiding behind the other, it will be very tiny I will warn you that," Dr. Matthew said. "I'm estimating its weight at about two pounds maybe."
"That is tiny," Olivia agreed. Her heart was racing. She still hadn't figured out how she was going to take care of two babies, how was she going to handle three? "What do you estimate the other two?"
"Well, baby one is about four pounds and baby two is about five and a half pounds, she will be a big one," Dr. Matthews told her.
"Do you know the sex of the third baby?" Olivia asked.
"I do, but would you like to leave that for a surprise?" Dr. Matthews asked.
Olivia thought for a second. "Yeah, why not?" she asked.
"We are going to go get you a room set up and these babies should be delivered in no time, you will be having a C-section," Dr. Matthews said.