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Chapter 33: Greet the World for Us
LPOV:
I cradle Clary's head to my chest as Jon massages her feet. Her silver sandals were long forgotten about. Will is speeding like his life depends on it with Jem in the passenger seat. Jace plans on meeting us there after getting the hospital bag for us. Clary grabs my hand squeezing for her dear life and all I do is rub her back and kiss her forehead repeatedly. I can't believe I am this helpless for her.
"We're almost there babe. Just hang in there for me Clare." I whisper in her ear. As I notice Will starts to slow down.
"What the hell are you doing Will?!" Jon voices booms throughout the car.
"It's about to change to red."
"WELL RUN IT! NOW!" Jon yells and Clary buries her head further in my chest.
"It starting to hurt more and more each contraction." Clary whispers to me just as we pull into the emergency entrance of the hospital.
"We're here baby!" I say as Jon rushes out the car and over to my side to open the door. "I'm going to pick you up now baby." I pick Clary up and she grabs my white dress shirt still burying her head into my chest. We speed walk to the reception area as Will parks the car. "My wife is in labor we need to see Dr. Camille Belcourt now please."
"Name?" She asked getting a wheelchair and pushing it in front of me.
"Was Fray but now it's Greymark." The nurse nods her head and picks up the phone pressing buttons.
"Please page Dr. Belcourt and let her know Fray now Greymark is heading up and she's in labor." The nurse hangs up the phone just as Clary grabs Jon's and my hands squeezing it tightly as she doubles over in pain. I reach over with my other hand and rub her back as the nurse comes and starts pushing her towards the elevator. "Hang in there Mrs. Greymark. We are heading up to labor and delivery right now."
CPOV:
Sitting in my hospital bed it took thirty minutes before the doctor finally showed up to tell me I was only two centimeters dilated and had eight more to go. But that was an hour ago and I was slowly finding myself in more and more pain.
"Oh fuck Luke! You better be real fucking happy with these two kids because we are not going to be having anymore!" I mutter through clenched teeth squeezing his hand.
"Clarebear I know you're mad at Luke now but please don't hurt my hand." Jon whispers and I shoot him a death glare. "I mean I can just get a cast no biggie."
"That's what I thought." I murmur letting go of both their hands and leaning back to catch my breath. I have to hand it to Luke, he has yet to complain and he has been by myside this whole time.
"Do you need anything dear wife of mine?" Luke asks me smiling as he says the words wife. I have to admit it brings a smile to my face.
"Just you. Maybe some water my mouth is getting a bit dry please." I feel bad about hurting his hands and squeezing his fingers hard.
"I can-" before Jon could say anything else I cut him off.
"No Luke deserves a break please Jon." He nods his head and Luke kisses me on the forehead.
"I'll get you bottled water from down stairs sweetie." He whispers before jogging out of the room and down the hall.
I wonder briefly if he is having regrets. Turning 29 soon, being married, and having twins all in one day.
"Do you think he is regretting it Jon?" I whisper keeping my eyes trained on the door.
"Regretting what?" I look at him and his face mirrors confusion.
"This" I gesture around the room and at my belly. "Married weeks before his 29th birthday, having twins the day he got married, settled down. What if he is regretting it? All of it? He didn't exactly sign up for this now did he?" I whisper.
"Clare if he wasn't ready for this he wouldn't have said I do. You heard his vows Clary. He adores you and his children and he has yet to see them."
"You're right." I whispered suddenly feeling deeply ashamed.
"It's alright to feel that way. Everything happened so fast but your love was always there remember that." I smile as Luke comes back in the room with the DR.
LPOV:
After three hour Clary is given some medicine to help with labor pains. I think Jon was more relieved than Clary was because he got his hand back. But it's eleven p.m. and she is still only six inches dilated. I heard of cases where with twins it takes twice as long then regular labor but I don't want her to be in pain for long.
"How are you feeling babe?" I say laying in bed with Clary and her body cuddled around mine. It was the only way to get her comfortable. The pain isn't as intense as it was before but she is feeling some discomfort.
"Better than the beginning pain. But I am still in a bit of pain though." I kiss her forehead and stroke her hair. She grunts as Dr. Belcourt comes in.
"How are you doing future mom doing?"
"Could be better." Clary murmurs smiling slightly.
"Well let's have a look shall we?" I ease out of the bed as Clary moves to her back and opens her legs for the doctor.
Dr. Belcourt grabs a pair of gloves and sticks her fingers into Clary's vagina. "Look's like your ready to push." She announces smiling brightly at us. She throws her gloves away and picks up the phone telling the nurses she needs help with delivery. A male nurse transfers her to a delivery chair putting her feet in stirrups and exiting as two female nurses come into view. Dr. Belcourt took off her white jacket and now have a nurse tying a gown on her and the other placing gloves and a face mask on.
I look at Clary and notice tears in her eyes. "Clare, what's wrong?" I whispered holding her hand and wiping her tears away.
"I'm scared, what if something happens?" I kiss her softly on the lips.
"I got you, Jon's got you. Everyone here is standing behind you. Do you want Jon in the room?" She nods her head and I send Jon a text to come in and within seconds he circles to the left of clary and grabs her left hand.
"Are you okay?" He whispers and she just nods her head tears still in her eyes.
"Alright Clary!" Dr. Belcourt says grabbing her attention. "On the count of three you're going to push just like the lady in the video I showed you. Take a deep breath push down with all your might until I say rest. Are you ready?"
"Yes." Clary says nodding her head a few times and the doctor smiles before turning to Jon and I.
"You both are her support systems. Support her and make sure she doesn't strain her neck." She pauses sitting on the stool with a nurse to her left and a nurse to her right. "Alright Clary let's do this on the count of three. One. Two. Three. Push!" Clary takes a deep breath straining her face, and pushing it into her breast. I cup her neck kissing her temple and whispering 'you can do this baby' and 'I love you' over and over again. "Okay rest." Clary takes a deep breath and looks at me smiling softly.
"You're doing so well baby!" I smile brightly. "Our children will be here soon baby." I kiss her forehead once more as Clary starts to push again. Her grip on my hand tightens and by the look on Jon's face she tightens the grip on his hand as well. Clary finally stops for a breath and Dr. Belcourt looks at us. "Baby A is crowning! You are almost there Clary you can do this. Come on give it one big push and baby A will be born. Okay?" Clary nods her head frantically. "Alright let's do this. One. Two. Three. Big push!" Clary pushed down with all her might squeezing my hand as hard as she could. Then suddenly we hear a loud cry and Clary falls back with a huff. I look down and see our beautiful baby girl with her legs wiggling around in protest. Her brown hair filled with gunk but Dr. Belcourt looks at me expectantly handling me the surgical scissors. I cut the umbilical cord and she sits up and place the baby on Clary's chest as the nurse rubs our princess clean.
I am over the moon as I kiss Clary's forehead repeatedly and looking from our baby girl who is now quiet on her mother's chest to my beautiful wife who is laughing and crying at the same time. Her right hand that was once gripping mine was stroking our daughter's cheek and Jon was snapping away a few pictures. All took soon the nurse came back with a pink blanket and hat taking our baby girl and leaving us with unshed tears in our eyes. But we had to come back to reality and deliver our son.
"Alright Clary your birth canal should be open so it won't take nearly as much to get your son here. On the count of three Clary are you ready?" She asks getting back into her position in between my wife's legs. "One. Two. There. Push Clary!" And once again Clary used all her might to try and bring our son into the world. I cradle her neck to her chest and watch as she pushes on. "STOP CLARY!" Dr. Belcourt says suddenly and Clary haughts the pushing. I look down and see our sons head but something is around his neck. I watch as Dr. Belcourt reaches inside of clary, and I figure it out. The umbilical cord is wrapped around our sons head! She unwraps it and tells Clary to push one more time. With all her might she pushes once more and I see the doctor pulls our son out. This time there is no welcome into the world cry. He looks pale, like he isn't breathing.
"What is wrong with him, why isn't he crying!" I shout looking from our son to the DR.
"Is he okay?" Clary ask in just a whisper as the nurse takes our son and in the corner starts working on him.
"The nurses are working on him, but clary we have to deliver the placenta. Are you okay?" Dr. Belcourt ask and I notice Clary's breathing slows down.
"I'm tired. I'm just going to rest my eyes for a little while." I instantly panic! I know that's not good.
"Clary no keep your eyes on me sweetheart!" But it's too late Clary eyes roll into the back of her head and I instantly lose it.
"Clary?" I whisper shaking her just as our son cries fill the room. "Clary! Wake up babe!" I shout louder shaking her a little more roughly.
"Get the babies to Neonatal care now! Luke get out of my way! Call for a crash cart!" I look over at Jon and his eyes are going from the babies to Clary and back again.
"Go with the babies Jon! Make sure nothing happens to them!" I shout and he jogs after them. I turn my attention back to clary as the crash cart comes in and the shove me to the back wall.
"Charge to 200!" Dr. Belcourt says in a calm voice and someone in the room eco's her. "Clear!" they shock her but nothing happens Clary is still down for the count. "Charge to 300! Clear!" Dr. Belcourt shocks clary once more but nothing happens.
I will not lose her this way! No we took vows just yesterday! "Clary! Wake up babe I can't live without you! Please! Our children need their mother!" I shout as they shock Clary once more and suddenly the words that fills my heart with gladness sounds around the room. "We have a heartbeat!" And immediately my body sags with relief. And I hear my wife voice asking what happened. I push my way through the nurses to get to my Clary and I grab her hand as she looks at me confused. "I love you so fucking much." I whisper kissing her forehead over and over again.
"Clary we have to deliver the placenta. It shouldn't be hard you were almost there." Instructing her in how to position herself. Finally after three pushes the placenta was delivered and two nurses were came in to clean clary up.
"Are you okay?" I whispered stroking her cheek with the back of my hand.
"Yeah, I don't remember what happened. Did I black out?"
"You almost died." I whisper trying not to show how much the incident shook me up inside.
"Our son?" Clary chokes out.
"He wasn't breathing so they worked on him in the corner. He started breathing and they rushed him out of the room. Jon went with the kids to make sure everything was fine and I stayed with you."'
"Good ole reliable uncle Jon huh?" I laugh wiping the stray tears from her face with my thumb.
"Yeah. Good ole Uncle Jon."
It took a few hours before Clary and I were able to see our children because she was so weak. They made her take a nap and I stayed by her side since Jon told me he, Will, Jem, and Jace were handling things on their end. Will called everyone to let them know that Clary and the children was just fine. Dr. Belcourt told us while our daughter was making her way out she wrapped our sons cord around his neck accidentally of course. When Clary started pushing the cord was getting tighter and tighter around his next. If Dr. Belcourt didn't stop her when she did our son probably wouldn't have been able to be saved. But thank God that our children and my wife are all fine.
"Now if you're up to it I would like to introduce you to your children Mr. & Mrs. Greymark." I look over to Clary and nod my head smiling brightly at them both.
"I think we both will love that actually." I say and with that the good doc leaves in search of our children as my beautiful wife and I wait patiently.
CPOV:
I sit anxiously waiting for our children. Luke and I agreed that he will name our daughter and I would name our son. My thought's are broke as I watch Jon come in with a blue blanket and I smile brightly our son is coming to greet us.
"He's asleep." Jon whispered walking over and easing my son into my arms. He is so small so beautiful. He has my reddish hair, and my nose. He yawns and open his eyes and I see Luke's hazel eyes staring back at me. I melt a little inside under his wide curious gaze.
"He is beautiful. Our son." I say as tears rim my eyes.
"Baby Greymark B was born five pounds even. He has been silent, cool and collective compared to your daughter. You guys have your hands filled. Will tries to hold her and she instantly cry." I laughed looking briefly at Luke then back down at our son. The door opens once more but this time Jace comes in carrying our baby girl.
"She doesn't like Will too much. But I told her I understand I mean look at him. How could anyone like a face like that." Jace says smirking at Will while cradling our daughter to his chest. He passes her over to Luke and winks at me. "How are you feeling Clare?"
"Like I just pushed out two babies?" I say smiling and laughing.
"Well what a relief. I thought you'd lie and say you're fine." He smiles at me then looks at our daughter. "Well parents Baby Greymark A was born five pounds 4 ounces feisty and screaming her lungs out."
Luke setting beside me on the bed and I look at our beautiful daughter. Her brown shaggy hair that matches her father's. Her emerald green eyes like mine, and small freckles gracing her cheeks she was beautiful like her brother. "They are a combination of us both." I whisper looking at them both in awe. Will cleared his throat bringing us back to reality.
"Well?"
"Well what?" I asked furrowing my brow.
"Your children need names! Start with your son. Go ahead tell them you named him William." I snorted lightly.
"Say hello to Lucas Simon Greymark." I say looking Luke in the eyes as I say it.
"Lucas?" I nod my head still smiling.
"We agreed to no Jr's because we are not cliche' but I wanted his name to be similar to his father. One of the greatest men in his life." I wink at him and he kisses me on the lips.
"Well in that case I don't feel bad about this. Say hello to Adele Joscelyn Greymark. I told you how much I love your middle name it's beautiful."
"I love it." I reach over and kiss his cheek.
"Beautiful names for beautiful children." Jon whispered. I smile thanking him and everyone else in the room for being there for Luke and I.
"Can we do this Luke? Care for two newborns on our own?" I ask still looking between the twins.
"You're not only sis. You have all of us to help you. Me, Jace, Will who will be supervised by Jem, Alec, Magnus, Izzy we are all here."
"I wish Simon and Mom was here." I say and Jon brushes a tear aside.
"They live on in your memories Clare. We are fine as long as we have each others back." I smile because he is right. I have my daughter and my son, my husband, my brother, a group of friends that I've been through hell and back with. I wouldn't change my life for anything in the world.
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