Baby Daddy Chapter 9

A/N: Do you guys prefer shorter (1,500-2,000) or longer chapters (3,000+)? I know there's no smut in this chapter but gotta get this mushy stuff outta the way before we can dig into the romance story. Robin…Emma…Grumpy? Who will it be?!

Disclaimer: I don't own OUaT. This is just for entertainment.

One More Time

Almost everybody in the room had stopped moving, in fact if Whale wasn't there he would've sworn they had been frozen in place by magic. Instead he heard Regina growl out, "What?!" before crying out in more pain, as another contraction ripped through her.

Whale looked over his shoulder at Emma and Henry, "Unless you want to see a new side to the, uh mayor," he said winking at Emma, "Then I'll have to ask you to pop out for another minute!"

Emma scowled at him, but reluctantly grabbed Henry's shoulders and pushed him out of the room.

Glancing up and down the hall Henry turned to Emma, "How did they miss a baby?"

"Uh um," Emma just said the first thing she could think of, "Sometimes a baby can hide behind another, so they're not visible on the ultrasound."

"Wow," Henry exclaimed. "Imagine how squished they were in there, three babies!"

"Yeah kid, three, three babies," Emma said wistfully, staring at the door to Regina's room, although Henry seemed to miss it.

Back inside the room, Regina was entering full Evil Queen mode.

"You listen here Whale. You get this baby out of me right now or I swear to all the Gods, I'll kill you. And then when I'm done, I'm going to kill the father!" she all but screamed out.

David was still holding her, and her hands were squeezing both of his in a ridiculously strong grasp. He figured he should just consider himself fortunate that she hadn't actually used magic on him yet.

Trying not to chuckle at her remark though, instead he tried to calm her down, "Regina, you're almost done, just one more. That's one more person that's gonna love you forever, one more person to share your heart, you can do this!"

Regina heard him, just barely through the pain and tears, but nodded nevertheless.

Whale got to work again, and together him and David got Regina to push again when the time was right. "Head, shoulders, knees and…. toes!" Whale said happily, holding up another baby boy.

Regina and David were both crying happily. The nurse came over and quickly cleaned the baby, allowing Regina to cut the cord on this last one, before pricking it's finger too for testing.

Whale, with the help of other nurses delivered Regina's placenta and cleaned her up to the best of their ability, however she would heal much faster if she did it herself after she rested for a bit.

"Why do you think you couldn't feel him?" David stage whispered.

"He isn't showing any signs of magic. I only felt two sets of magic, so I just assumed there were only two," Regina said smiling as a nurse brought over a long pillow.

A couple other nurses brought over each baby until all three were set up on the pillow facing Regina.

"Wow," was all David could say, cradling Regina and the babies. "He looks like the perfect mix of the other two." And he did, he had dark brown hair like his sister, but a cute button nose and plump lips. All three stared back at Regina with three sets of bright blue eyes.

"Or a perfect mix of me and their father," Regina thought out loud.

David just hummed in agreement as he lightly brushed a single finger against one of the boy's head. He didn't know why but he didn't like that thought, and he could see Robin in the blond haired boy. They all may have his eyes too if he was their father. He had thought about trying to get Robin to the hospital, once they realized Regina was in labour, if he was the father, he deserved to be there, but something kept him from suggesting it at the time.

"I should've tried to get Robin here, Snow could've picked him up, and brought him here," David said.

"Why-"

But before Regina could finish David continued "You know, if he might be the father.." he said, his statement drifting off towards the end.

Regina just furrowed her eyebrows. She hadn't once even thought about Robin since she realized she was in labour this morning, she felt bad that he and Roland would wake up alone in the house wondering where she was. "I never even gave him a second thought to be honest, an-and I think the people I needed here, and who clearly the babies wanted here, were in fact here."

"Is that the Queen's way of saying thank you?" David smirked at her.

"Hmmmm" she smirked right back, as someone knocked on the door, and Emma and Henry came back in.

"Well?" Emma asked.

"Another boy!" Regina smiled at them.

The three adults and Henry were all staring down at the three little bundles. They were small for babies, but all over 5.5lbs, Whale had said was good for triplets.

Henry interrupted the silence. "If Miss Mills is the mayor, why is she in a room that has so many cracks in the walls, and ceiling?" he inquired.

The two adults in the bed just laughed as Whale came back into the room after giving them a few minutes alone, "Budget cuts," Regina replied smiling at Henry.

Regina moved slightly against David to try to get a bit more comfortable and was just going to suggest he could move from the bed when he winced rather loudly, grabbing the attention of Whale.

Making sure the babies were secure before looking at David, Whale caught a glimpse of a couple swollen purple fingers. "Jesus Regina! What'd you do to the poor guy!"

Whale grabbed David's forearm and held it up to see it better, while everyone else in the room grimaced at the obviously broken digits.

"I'm fine!" David winced.

"Uh hey kid, how bout you grab us something to drink from that vending machine we saw in the hall, we might be here a bit longer," Emma said to Henry, giving him some money.

Henry shrugged "Sure, can I get something to eat too?"

"Go wild," Emma replied. She turned back to look at Regina glaring at her, and once the door clicked shut again she said "I promise I'll shove an apple down his throat later."

"I need to X-ray these David," Whale said, interrupting their standoff.

"Can't you just heal them?" Emma asked Regina.

Regina hummed, "Yes but it'd be even easier to see exactly what I'm healing."

With that statement, David carefully let go of Regina and got off the bed. Whale took him right away, with instructions to Regina to try to rest before the babies would want to try to eat. The more rest she could get, the easier it'd be for her to heal herself and David. They also wanted to keep the IV running to boost her fluids and electrolytes after the loss of such things from delivering three babies. Whale looked at Emma on the way out, "Seriously make sure she sleeps, the babies are all right beside her, all healthy, she needs to rest while they're somewhat settled."

Emma nodded as he left. "Will you really be able to heal David?"

"I'll get it done. I am the reason he's broken after all."

"You didn't do it on purpose then," she said with a wink as she approached Regina's shoulder.

"No, this time I was not purposely trying to hurt your idiot father. Figures I can manage to hurt him when I'm not even trying."

She was finding it hard to take her eyes off of the three wrapped bundles in containers beside her bed, but her eyes started drooping against her will. "You'll watch them until I wa-"

Regina couldn't even finish her sentence before Emma cut her off saying "Of course, sleep."

So she did.

An hour later found David back, and Regina awake. Emma took Henry out into the hall again, claiming they needed to get Regina some food.

Sitting beside her bed, Regina gently grabbed ahold of his bruised and swollen hand, after studying the X-ray. She was still tired, but slowly stroking his hand and fingers, let her magic flow into it, healing it.

David had never felt anything like that. Goosebumps ran up his arm, through the rest of his body. There was a pleasant warm feeling in his hand that sent tingles racing through the rest of his body, unfortunately including his groin. His eyes rolled into the back of his head and he just couldn't help the moan that escaped his mouth.

Regina chuckled, looking up at his face when she heard the moan. "Yes, it can feel quite good my dear, don't get use to it."

"Hmmmmmm," was his only reply as he closed his eyes. It felt beyond good. He understood it now. If this is what it felt like to wield magic, he completely understood how and why Gold and Regina and perhaps even Emma, became seduced by it.

Regina stopped and stroked his long fingers a couple more times before lifting his hand as if to examine it.

He flexed it, and made a fist, pain free. He smiled at her "All better! Thank you."

"My apologies for breaking it in the first place. I didn't realize shepherds were so fragile," she teased.

"I never realized Queens were so strong," he smirked back.

Snow had called him while he was getting his test done to inform him that she took it upon herself to go over to Regina's mansion and update Robin. He passed the message on to Regina so she had one less thing to worry about.

Regina cocked an eyebrow. She actually wasn't sure if that made her feel better or not, it being Snow White after all. Who knows what that woman will do or even worse say to Robin. She rolled her eyes but said "I suppose that's for the best. Once you mentioned him earlier, I felt terrible that he and Roland would wake up alone and confused this morning."

"Ah yes, you're nothing if not a very good, gracious host, your Majesty," David teased, hoping she wasn't upset about not seeing Robin.

Regina just smiled as the babies were starting to make more noise, on cue a nurse came in too. "I think it's time we try feeding them. Now there's three so no pressure. Some may latch on easier than another. Or they may all struggle."

The nurse moved to help get Regina situated, as Regina had stated previously she'd like to try to breastfeed. When the nurse gave Regina a pillow, and then moved to untie her gown, David finally realized what was about to happen. He quickly spun around before he saw anything he shouldn't. Although almost every part of him had wanted to see what was under that gown, these weren't the circumstances how. As soon as he had this thought, he blinked in confusion. Since when did he want to see Regina naked?

He crossed his arms across his chest. He could admit he'd always noticed how strikingly beautiful she was, every conscious man and most women could admit that, but he'd never had active, waking thoughts of wanting to strip her naked. Admittedly he had had a few sex dreams, featuring stripping her of a few mayoral suits, and the odd one before in the Enchanted Forest, ridding her of some sexy corsets, while she was rough and dominated him. Those dreams at the time had disturbed him greatly, but his thoughts just now, just confused him.

The nurse and Regina talking pulled him out of his thoughts as she was apparently trying to feed baby A, he heard her ask the nurse, "Do you think my nipple is too big for his little mouth?"

Dear Gods. He looked to the cracked ceiling and put his hands behind his neck. "Uh so I'm gonna go, find Emma and Henry…" he trailed off, feeling like he could barely speak properly. His voice he knew was several tones lower than normal, and gravely.

Regina looked up from the first born baby, at the odd sound of David's voice. Suddenly realizing how awkward this situation was, she merely said "Thank you for some privacy dear." She smiled at David's back.

As soon as David left the room he ran into Emma and Henry almost literally, about to head into the room themselves with food for Regina.

"I wouldn't go in there right now if I were you."

"What, why?" Emma asked curiously. She couldn't think of any reason not to be around Regina after all.

David looked at Henry before turning his attention back to Emma, he squirmed, and swallowed loudly before choking out "She's trying to breastfeed the babies. I think maybe she'd like a bit of privacy too."

Henry and Emma quickly agreed so the three grabbed some seats outside in the hallway, and dug into the food they had gotten.

Regina was happy. Not only had all three babies successfully fed from her a bit, but she was able to heal her, nether regions, about half way, she determined. At least she wasn't in horrible pain anymore. The babies had been fed, changed, and were now resting in their pods again, when David, Emma and Henry came back in.

They had just approached her bed when a nurse came in the room right after. "Madam Mayor, if you have a moment, we need to fill out these birth certificates." The nurse seemed a bit nervous before she continued "I know the father's side will remain blank for now…" she muttered towards the end of her statement and looked down at the floor. "But, we need names for the babies and yours obviously," she finished strongly.

Regina nodded, she had been thinking about names in the past couple hours. She glanced at Henry. Naming him had been so easy. Just the two most important names to her, at the time. Now she needed six, but she felt ready, she supposed she could always change them in the future, while the babies were still young.

Just then Henry interrupted her thoughts, "Can I hold someone? I've never really held a baby, I've always wanted to be a big brother," he said, giving Emma a slight glare.

Hearing this nearly broke Regina. He was a big brother now. With tears clouding her vision, she nodded at him and cleared her throat, "Why don't you hold baby C, the brunette boy?" She figured with him not having magic, it might be the safest.

The nurse helped Henry, first to sit in a chair, before handing over the baby to him and instructing him how to hold him. The baby continued to sleep peacefully. Once they were situated the sight nearly broke and healed her heart at the same time. She looked at Emma who was standing beside her, and caught her eyes. Once she did, she pointed towards Emma's phone, and then nodded her head towards Henry, hoping she'd pick up on what she was saying. She waited and waited as Emma's eyebrows scrunched together, but finally saw the lightbulb go off in her head as she smiled. Emma patted her on the shoulder and walked over to Henry to take pictures of him with his, unknowingly, baby brother.

The nurse brought a table over to Regina to fill out the paperwork. "Let's go in order of birth then, baby A?"

Regina looked at her blond haired, blue eyed baby boy, also wondering if he had any of her genes, before saying "Theodore Damien Mills, Theo for short."

Everyone in the room smiled as the nurse filled out the certificate. "Baby B?"

Ah yes, her mini me, which looked like there was no father involved aside from those big blue eyes. "Rian Rose Mills." She secretly loved the normally boys name, for her baby girl, but wanted it to have a female twist to it. She knew through her various studies Rian or Ryan also meant royal. She'd do more digging when she had the time, and her purple magic reminded Regina of the colour of certain roses. As far as Regina was concerned she was a royal rose.

Again everyone in the room smiled and looked at one another. "Well lastly that leaves this young lad, baby C," indicating the baby Henry was cradling carefully, looking very happy with a wide grin across his young face.

Regina looked at her prefect little mix. Maybe it was because he bridged the gap between Theo and Rian, in their looks, or maybe it was because he was even more of a surprise, or maybe because he didn't have magic, but Regina felt a special kinship with him because he was different. "Derek Azure Mills."

The nurse hummed "Beautiful your Majesty." The nurse quickly finished the paperwork, wrapped name tags on each baby, and Regina, then left the room.

"Hey there little Derek!" Henry said, stroking the baby's dark brown wavy hair.

"They're beautiful names Regina," David smiled at her, and patted her hand.

"Yeah, you did real good on such short notice," Emma winked at her.

Regina just sighed happily. She was so tired, but had never felt love in this size before. It had always just been her and Henry. Just two. Now there were five of them. And she couldn't be happier Henry was there to experience it with her, even if he didn't know in what capacity that truly was yet.

Up Next: A bit of a time jump, aka the babies and Regina go home. It will be another couple chapters before the "Daddy" reveal. Romance stories will start before the "Daddy" reveal.