Chapter 16- Introducing…
"Emma, you have to go now!"
The blonde, in return, just grit her teeth and squeezed Manny's hand again.
"Alright, I know you're like in a lot of pain…but at the moment so am I!" she squeaked out.
"Honey, you can't wait any longer. We'll send Jay in when he gets here," Spike said as she attempted to have her daughter let go of her friends hand.
"Someone is coming into that room with me," Emma said with a pained breath.
"I'll go, now let go of Manny," Spike said as she disentangled the two of them.
Manny ran over to a nurse, cradling her hand. "Hi, you wouldn't have anything to like…make me feel my hand again would you? Anyone? Alrighty then…hope it doesn't FALL OFF," she said loudly hoping that someone would at least answer her then but all the nurses did was rush around and not give a second look at her.
"Is it really that bad? She's like what 110 pounds now that she's having kid," JT joked from a corner.
Manny turned and gave him an evil glare. "Oh you wanna go have your hand squeezed by the 110 pound pregnant lady? Be my guest bucko."
"When the father gets here is there a way we can switch me and him out?" Spike asked a nurse that was readying Emma for delivery.
The nurse made a face. "Well we generally frown on switching partners once someone is in the room…"
"He's coming in right now from California…it's the fastest he could get here," Spike continued.
The man just rolled his eyes. "Well as long as he finds someone to escort him to the room so we can switch people…I don't see a problem with it."
"Thank you so much!" Emma managed to get out.
"Any last words?" the nurse asked as he started to wheel mother and daughter and soon to be grand daughter to the OR.
"Why…she's not gonna die is she?" JT asked smartly.
Manny smacked him upside the head and rolled her eyes. "We'll be here waiting for you hun. Go have that kid!"
Emma smiled and then was rolled out.
"Jay! Can't you at least wait 'til I stop the car!" Ellie called out as she slowed down and Jay opened the door and started at a run to the hospital. The only thing Jay was concerned with at the moment however, was getting to Emma in enough time.
"Sir! Can I help you?" a nurse called out as he burst through the door.
"My girlfriend….she's in labor…" he gasped for breath.
"What's her name?"
"Emma Nelson," he replied as he leaned against the wall to catch his breath.
"Okay, floor 3 room 11," he said with a smile.
Jay nodded his thanks as Ellie came in through the door.
"God you can't like I don't know…wait until I stop the car to get out can you?" she asked as she slapped him on the arm.
He rolled his eyes as he started for the elevators.
"And I'm assuming you know where you're going," she called out after him.
"311!" was all he hollered back.
"Well what do you know Tin Man, he does have a brain," Ellie muttered under her breath.
Jay turned and gave her a dirty look and she feigned innocence. "What? I didn't say anything…"
"Where is she?" Jay asked automatically as he got to the room.
"Hello to you too," JT said sarcastically.
Jay cut his sharp blue eyes to the boy and opened his mouth to say something but Manny beat him to it.
"She's in the OR already. Find a nurse and you and Spike can switch."
Jay just nodded and started to head out of the room.
"Glad you could be here for at least something that involves your child," JT whispered.
"Hey! Penis pump boy! She's my girlfriend, my daughter. Not yours. Get the fuck over yourself because last time I checked…didn't she slap you when you kissed her?" Jay crossed his arms.
"I never kissed her," JT spat out.
Jay just laughed. "Oh okay. So Emma lied…right."
"You kissed her?" Ellie asked looking at JT like he was a dumb ass.
"Jay got her pregnant!"
The two girls shared a look and hit him over the head together.
"What? He did!"
"Where is he?" Emma yelled out as another contraction hit.
"I'm sure he'll be here soon," Spike said again for the fifth time in a hour.
"Alright ladies, I believe the father to be arrived so we can switch your two out," a nurse said as he approached Spike.
"Oh thank God," Emma said in relief. "No offense Mom…"
Spike just smiled and kissed her daughter. "We'll all be waiting."
She passed Jay on the way in and just laid a hand on his arm and smiled at him and he nodded back, an understanding had finally come between them.
"Jay!" Emma yelled when she saw him.
"Hey baby," he said as he took her hand. "Christ! Emma…when the hell did you get strong?" he yelped.
"Two more centimeters and she'll be ready!" a nurse called out.
Emma looked up at Jay, her eyes shining. "We're having a baby," she whispered.
He just looked at her and nodded, a smile crossing his face. "Yeah…we are."
"CAN I GET THIS OUT OF ME NOW!" she suddenly screamed out.
Jay jumped back at that and just stared at her and then at the doctor as he came in the room.
"Is that normal?" Jay asked.
The doctor just chuckled. "Oh if you could hear the things that get screamed out during labor. And some of the folks have been married for years."
"Great…" Jay muttered.
The doctor made his way over to Emma and looked at her for a couple of seconds. "Alright Emma? You look ready to have your daughter; are you ready?"
A frightened look came over her face and she reached out in the air for Jay for comfort.
"You'll be fine. All you have to do is push when I say ok?"
"Jay!"
"Em…I'm right here," he spoke up.
"Where were you?"
He gave her a weird look. "I was right here. You were just squeezing my hand so hard that it probably turned to liquid so you couldn't feel it."
"I'm scared," she said softly.
"Nothing's gonna happen to you. You're gonna have this child and we'll all be together ok? All you have to do is push."
The doctor looked up at Jay. "Have you done this before?"
Jay just gave an awkward shrug. "Once or twice."
Emma's eyes popped at that and she stared at him. "If you plan on telling me about your other children…it would be a fucking fantastic time to do so!" she yelled at him.
"Emma! Before I even knew you I had other girls that were friends!" he said a little exasperated.
"And what? You fathered their children as well!"
"NO! Do we have to do this right now?" he asked. "In case you haven't noticed, you're giving to birth to my only child!"
"Yes we do have to do this right now! Because it's my only child…but apparently you've been down this road before!" she screamed at him.
He let out a sigh and looked up at the ceiling. "Fine! I had other friends that were girls before I met you that were older and their boyfriends were scumbags so I was the one that they trusted and wanted in the room with them because their boyfriends were off doing too many god damn drugs! Happy!"
She grew quiet. "Oh…"
"Yeah…oh," he mimicked her more than a little frustrated. "You really think I have other kids out there?"
"Alright Emma…I need you to push…now!"
"What?" she asked confused over the switch in conversation.
"PUSH!" the doctor yelled.
She gritted her teeth and pushed as she squeezed Jay's hand incredibly hard.
"Good, good. And again."
"HOW MANY MORE GOD DAMN TIMES DO I HAVE TO DO THIS?" she screamed out as she pushed again.
"You're doing good baby," he said attempting to switch out hands so he could gain the feeling back in his other one.
"Alright two more…"
Emma let out a pain laced scream and then collapsed back on the bed. "Is she out yet?"
"One more….NOW!"
She shook her head and looked up at Jay. "I can't do this…"
"Come on Emma, I need you to push once more for me..."
She closed her eyes and screamed the loudest of all but five seconds later a little cry was heard and she collapsed on the bed.
"How's she look?" she asked Jay.
"She's beautiful," he said softly.
"Dad, would you like to cut the cord?"
"Uhh…no I'm good," he said shaking his head.
The doctor just nodded understandably as he cut it himself. "Alright folks, let's just get this little girl here washed up and then you can hold your daughter."
"I can't believe I'm a dad…" Jay whispered.
"You'll be great. After all the stuff you went through with your dad…I know you'll be great," she smiled weakly.
Jay ran his hand through his hair. "I'm gonna stay here. I'm not going back to California. I wanna be here for you and…and for Sam," he said nodding.
Emma just nodded wordlessly. "I love you Jay," she whispered a couple of seconds later.
"I love you too," he said equally as soft.
"So….." Ellie jumped up as Jay came walking out into the waiting room.
He grinned. "I'm a dad!"
Ellie grinned and jumped on him giving him a hug, which he reciprocated quite awkwardly until Ellie got off him. "Sorry…" She turned red and walked away.
"Forget that! I'm so glad you were able to be here for this Jay," Manny said softly as she walked up next to him.
"Yeah me too. And I'm staying."
"Good. Because I'd have to kick your ass you know. I know some scary people."
Jay just gave her a look. "Oh shit…you know them too. Well god damn it," she sighed as Jay just laughed.
He looked at Spike. "Would you like to hold your grand daughter?"
She raised her tear stained face to him and nodded. He turned around and walked back into the room to wait for Sam with Spike on his heels.
"And here she is. Dad, would you like to hold her?"
Jay took his daughter wordlessly and stared at her, staying silent for once.
"Jay?" Spike touched his arm.
"I…I actually don't know what to say…" he said softly and Spike just laughed.
"It's amazing isn't it? To hold your first child and think that you actually helped create it…" she said with a far away look in her eye. He looked at Spike and smiled and then turned to Emma.
"Hey, you wanna go to see your Mommy?" he asked softly to the little girl who fussing slightly.
Emma opened her eyes slightly and saw them. "She's gorgeous…" she said softly.
"Em…are you feeling ok?" her mom asked noticing how the girl looked tired and weak.
"I'm just so tired…" she said as she closed her eyes.
"Emma?" Jay sat gently on the side of her bed while giving Sam to Spike. "Are you ok?" he shook her arm. "She's probably just tired right? I mean she gave birth, that could be exhausting…." He said looking at Spike.
The woman hesitated and then answered after a beat. "Yeah…I'm sure that's what it is."
Jay just sighed and looked back at Emma and stroked her hair. Somehow he got the uncomfortable feeling that she wasn't just sleeping.
A/N: alright so i took Jay OOC in the chapter...so sue me. laughs in my head i always think that baby's change people...especially guys that think they're hardasses. they take one look at a baby, esp thiers, and they melt. and jay's melting. so ha!
AND COOKIES GO TO BlackRoseOnFire BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT CAUGHT MY DANE REFERENCE. D so that makes them doubly awesome b/c they love the dane as much as i do.
sadly however, i believe the next chapter will be the last one...either that or it's going to be the second of the last.
