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CHAPTER 9

"Liz, breath." Max was sitting beside her in the car, trying to coach her through the contractions. Even though he had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

"Ahh…Max, it hurts…ow, ow, ow." Liz was trying to breath, but every time she did another contraction happened, and her breathing turned into yelping.

"I know, I know, but your doing great." Max was trying to stay calm, but he was so scared. What were they going to do at the hospital? What if the baby wasn't normal, what if the doctors knew the baby wasn't normal. What were they supposed to do then?

"How can you say I'm doing great? You don't know if I'm doing great. You think I'm doing great, but guess what I'm not." On the last word Liz had another contraction and so it came out more of a yell then a word.

Max shut his mouth, and looked up at Maria. She was sitting on the other side of Liz trying hard not to laugh. Max raised an eyebrow at her, but she just shook her head, and he could see her shoulders going up and down.

"Wow, someone's moody." Michael said from the driver's seat, looking in his review mirror.

"Fine, I'll trade you places." Liz said through labored breaths. "Come on grandpa, don't you think you can drive a little faster. I want this thing out of me!" Liz was starting to yell, and Maria could feel the car speed up, but Michael didn't say another word.

"Liz, have you picked out a name?" Kyle asked. Hoping that maybe if he took her mind off the pain. She would calm down, but it didn't work.

"No, and honestly it can go by Bob right now. I don't even care." Liz's forehead was all wet, and she was breathing hard.

"What if it is a girl?" Kyle asked in a sarcastic voice. "Bobette?" Kyle couldn't help but laugh at his own joke, Liz on the other hand didn't think it was as funny.

"I swear to God Kyle, if you don't shut-up I will push you out of this car." Michael laughed at Liz's remark,

"Guess she told you huh?" he said looking at a tight mouthed Kyle. Kyle stuck out his tongue and turned to stare out the window, mumbling stuff under his breathe.

"Michael, are we almost there?" Max said anxiously, it felt like Liz was about to break his hand. There was no need to ask though. He felt the car come to a sudden halt, and heard Michael.

"And if you look to your left, you will see the emergency room entrance." He smiled, and looked in his mirror, but Liz had her eyes closed concentrating on breathing, and Max was working on getting out of the car, and helping her.

"I will go in and tell them we are coming." Maria said, before running in. It was only a couple of seconds, before she came out with a nurse, and a wheelchair.

"Hi, looks like you are having a baby." The nurse was talking in a sweet calm voice, and had a nice smile. She had clearly been through this a couple times.

"Naw, I'm just really fat woman, in the middle of a heart attack." Liz snapped, but the woman just kept smiling, and wheeled her in the E.R. Once they got her name and such they went into a delivery room.

Isabel and Jesse came running through the doors. They had driven in Jesse's car, since there was no room for him in the other one. "Is she ok? Has she had the baby yet?" Isabel asked. They were running behind, because they had taken a wrong road.

"No, we just got here ourselves." Michael said, picking up a magazine, and sitting in an uncomfortable looking chair. Isabel crossed her arms, and raised an eyebrow.

"You know you could act more excited." She said, staring at him.

"Why should I be excited? Now we are just going to have a harder time. I mean come in, it's a baby. It will cry and scream, and eat everything we have. Plus they cause an awful mess. I don't see any up's to this situation." He replied, never taking his eyes off of the magazine.

"Oh whatever, he is more excited than he will admit. He is just mad, because Liz snapped on him in the car on the way over here." Maria said, sitting down next to him with a can of pop in her hand. Michael took it gladly and opened it with a loud pop.

Isabel rolled her eyes, and walked over to sit down next to the rest of them. "I can't say I blame him completely thought. I mean, a baby is a lot of work, and we are kind of in hiding. It's hard to tell a newborn to be quiet so the evil alien hunters don't find us."

"I know, I have been thinking the same thing, but I don't think Max could give up another kid. Anyway, he would die before he let anything happen to any of us." Kyle added.

"Yeah, but he is going to be a dad now. His priorities are going to have changed." Maria said.

"So, he had Zan, and he his still a worry wart." Michael said, finally putting down the magazine.

"Do you not remember how protective he was? Because I remember, and I remember a very, very, very protective father." Maria said, knowing she was right. "And he gave Zan away. That took a lot of stress off him. They are going to keep the baby, and he knows people are after the baby."

The group was quiet, thinking about everything, and thinking about how they were going to handle everything in the future. "I have faith in Max, and I have faith in Liz. I know they wouldn't do anything that would put all of our lives in danger. Anyway, I would kill anybody that came for that baby. I don't think dwelling on what hasn't happened yet, is going to get us anywhere though. We just need to take it day by day." Michael was sitting with elbows on his knees, and was looking at everyone.

"Whoa Michael, are you being mature?" Maria answered in a playful voice. He gave her a sarcastic smiled, and took a big drink of pop.

"How long does it take to have a baby?" He looked irritated.

"Oh I don't know Michael, how about you go have one, and tell us." Isabel said, slapping him across the back of the head. He was about to make remark but Max came out holding a little bundle. Everybody stood up and walked the rest of the way.

Max was smiling, he hadn't even had his son for more than 10 minutes, and he could already feel the unconditional love for him. The same way he felt for Zan, even though he could be with him.

"Aww, Max look at my beautiful nephew." Isabel said smiling. Max smiled at her, and kissed the baby on the head.

"Have you guys picked out a name?" Kyle said, pushing his way through the rest of the group to get a closer look. Max nodded his head.

"Yeah, we have decided on Sawyer Alex Evans." Max looked at everyone's goofy smiles, and smiled even bigger. Here he was, he felt like the luckiest guy in the world. He had a beautiful wife, two beautiful sons, even though he couldn't be with one, and all the best friends ever. He looked around, but he noticed something was wrong. "Where's Jesse?"

Liz was lying on the bed, smiling. She felt so lucky, she had a beautiful son, and a kind, caring husband, and a great family. She closed her eyes taking it all in, when she heard her door open and close.

"Liz?" the voice wasn't Max's so she opened her eyes to see, and she saw Jesse standing at the foot of her bed. He had a scared expression in his eyes, and she felt her heart beat faster.

"Hi Jesse, where's Max?" She sat up in her bed.

"He is out with the others." He looked from side to side, almost like he was waiting for someone to pop out from behind the chairs.

"Jesse, are you ok?" Liz asked, she was getting ready to use her power, if she needed too. Jesse shook his head, and looked at the ground.

"Liz, their coming."