As per usual the actual birth is skipped, there is a bit more angst in this chapter...
Chapter 3
They made it to the hospital in record time, Chuuya didn't want to think of how many red lights he'd run, although they'd luckily managed to miss the 3pm school rush. Dazai had been sick twice on the drive, and had Chuuya's hand in a vice like grip as the contractions hit (Chuuya was incredibly grateful their family car was an automatic.)
Chuuya parked in front of the maternity ward of the hospital – it was the same hospital for ability users they had had all of their children in. He helped Dazai out of the car before he grabbed their hospital bag out of the boot.
They quickly entered the maternity ward – there was a large waiting area and welcome desk, and two locked doors on either side – the one on the right led to the Beta and Alpha ward, the one on the left led to the Omega ward. The nurse at the Welcome desk took their names and called through to the Omega ward for a nurse to come and meet them. Dazai was practically clinging to Chuuya's side, as Chuuya stroked the side of his bump,
"Not long now Dazai, the nurses will be able to help," he murmured
Dazai answered by being sick in the nearest bin, Chuuya holding his hair back,
"Owwww" Dazai groaned, not moving from his position over the bin
"Contraction?"
He nodded, as the nurse from the Omega ward unlocked the doors,
"Dazai?" she called out.
"Here" Chuuya replied, as Dazai collapsed on the floor, "Fuck,"
"Can you pick him up? It'll be better if we can get him into a bed,"
Chuuya nodded as he scooped Dazai up, taking care not to hurt him,
"This way, how has he been in the last few hours?" she asked as they walked,
"Sick, a lot, really high temperature, I don't think he's kept anything down in well over twenty-four hours. Our quadruplets went down with high temperatures and a sick bug, two days ago? Sick all through the night, so Dazai's barely slept. The kids were better by lunchtime yesterday though and the twins didn't get it at all. It's hit Dazai really badly, I wanted to bring him in sooner but he insisted he was fine."
"Chuuuuuyaaaa" Dazai had come back round, "I'm too hot," he whined, trying to pull his clothes off despite Chuuya's tight grip on him,
"Shh, shh it's fine, just a little bit longer okay?"
"What about signs of labour?" the nurse asked
"Oh, yeah his waters broken a bit, about half hour, forty minutes ago? And he's had a few contractions. I'm not sure how far apart, the amount he's been sick was panicking me more than keeping track, sorry."
"It's fine," they made it to a room, it was a larger room at the end of the ward, a doctor and another nurse were waiting "place him on the bed and we'll take a look,"
The doctor fussed about, checking Dazai's temperature and how the babies were doing,
"Firstly, the babies are fine," the doctor began, "you are in labour and we can't give you any medication to treat the fever and vomiting until you've given birth. Hopefully it should be a quick labour,"
Dazai and Chuuya laughed,
"Sorry, our kids have always liked to take their time and torture Dazai,"
"Well hopefully it's third time lucky for a quick birth then," the Doctor smiled, "there's no other omegas treated at this hospital due this month, so we will stay with you, as I'm a bit concerned as Dazai's already collapsed once."
38 hours later and their last two children were born, a boy at 3:16am and a girl at 3:18am. Their first children to actually be born on their due date, albeit very early on it. Dazai had collapsed as soon as they were born, he had spent his entire labour alternating between being sick, collapsing and his fever getting higher and higher. They same doctor had stayed the entire time, with the nurses changing when their shifts ended (although it was the same four nurses)
The nurses worked quickly to hook Dazai up to an ECG monitor and an IV drip full of medication that would help to bring the fever down, whilst the doctor checked over the babies – making sure Dazai's illness hadn't harmed them.
"The babies are fine," he told Chuuya, "and hopefully when Dazai wakes up again in a few hours the fever and sickness should have abated. A nurse will pop back in every half hour or so to check on Dazai and the babies,"
"Great, thank you," Chuuya collapsed onto a chair, taking a quick picture of the babies to update Ane-san, before he fell asleep.
He woke up two hours later, the babies and Dazai were still fast asleep, the nurse had just entered the room to check up on them as Chuuya's stomach grumbled.
"Do you want me to make you something to eat?" the nurse asked,
"It's fine, I'm sure I've got some snack bars in the bag, I don't want to pull you away from any other patients,"
"It's really no problem, you're the only ones on this ward and there's nothing your husband or babies need from me at the moment," she smiled, "I'll be back shortly,"
She was gone before Chuuya could finish protesting, she came back with a ham sandwich, yogurt, smoothie and some chocolate chip cookies, for Chuuya and herself.
"I'm due my lunch break so I thought we could eat together, I knew you'd still be here and wouldn't want to leave them, so I packed extra for you,"
"That's so thoughtful, thank you so much," Chuuya smiled.
A few hours later and Dazai still hadn't woken up, Chuuya was getting concerned, Dazai had always woken up early after birth and the babies were starting to wake up and fuss. He had the girl in his arms, trying to shush her back to sleep when the nurse came in,
"I think they're hungry, I can't feed them and Dazai's still out," he couldn't help how frustrated he sounded,
"I thought this may happen, I've found some bottles and a breast pump, it shouldn't take too long to get enough milk from Dazai to feed them. He should wake soon otherwise I'd suggest formula, but this won't do any harm to him,"
It didn't take long for their to be enough milk to feed both babies – like Eulalia and Fabian they demanded to be fed together, so Chuuya had one baby whilst the nurse had another, a second nurse had come in to help if needed, so Chuuya asked her to take some pictures and video's, he wanted Dazai to be able to see their first meal.
Three days later and Dazai still hadn't woken up, the doctor was concerned and had suggested moving him to another hospital, one that specialised in Omega care where they had better resources to treat him, if he didn't wake up in the next twenty-four hours.
Chuuya was scared, he didn't want to face the possibility of raising eight kids alone, especially without the only man he had ever loved. After the doctor left Chuuya and a nurse fed the still unnamed babies (Dazai was going to wake up and he and Chuuya were going to continue their tradition of naming them whilst Dazai fed them)
"We may have to switch to formula for the next feed, I'm not sure if they let you and the babies stay with Dazai at the next hospital,"
"No, he's going to wake up, we're going to go home together," he started crying, he hadn't been sleeping well and the stress and emotions were starting to get the better of him.
"Your other children need to meet their siblings, and they need their Dad home with them," the nurse gently reminded him. Chuuya had banned Ane-san from letting them visit, they didn't need to see him or Dazai in this state, instead placating them with many, many pictures and videos of the babies.
"I know, I really miss them, but I can't leave Dazai when he's vulnerable like this,"
"We've still got all day and all night for Dazai to wake up, hopefully your optimism will work," she smiled. They finished feeding the babies, and Chuuya changed their nappies, the nurse grabbing a spare outfit for him when they realised there had been a slight err explosion. Both of their backs were to Dazai, so they didn't notice his fidgeting.
Dazai slowly woke up, he could feel ECG wires on his bare chest, and a needle in his arm, he hadn't tried to kill himself again had he? He quickly shook the fear off, those thoughts hadn't plagued him for many years now. Oh, he remembered, he was pregnant, his hands moved to where his bump should be, and found a flat stomach, he hadn't losttheir babies, had he? No, he would know, wouldn't he? His memory was really fuzzy, he'd remembered picking Eulalia and Fabian up from school after they'd been hurt, and his mind was a confused mess of heat, disorientation and pain when he tried to remember past that. He opened his eyes, Chuuya was at the end of the bed, his back to him.
"Ch-" he whispered, he cleared his throat and tried again, "Chuuya?" he croaked a little louder. He turned around, a small bundle in his arms, Dazai relaxed a bit, one of his babies had survived, where was the other one?
"Dazai?"
He placed the baby in its crib before flinging his arms around Dazai, not bothering to avoid the wires, "Oh thank god," he kissed Dazai and cwtched him tight, as if he might disappear if he let go.
"Chuuya can you let go of him so I can check him please?" the nurse asked
Chuuya let go, he took the other baby from the nurse and placed it in its crib. Returning to perch on the edge of Dazai's bed, and taking his hand.
"How do you feel Dazai?" the nurse asked
"Thirsty,"
"Any pain?"
"No"
"Do you feel sick or too hot?"
"No, I feel a bit disorientated though, I don't even remember giving birth to my two babies," he started to cry, "I'm a great mother, I don't even know when my babies were born"
"Shh, shh it's okay Dazai" Chuuya tried to comfort him, "they were born on their due date, our little boy at three sixteen in the morning, our little girl at three eighteen, you were in labour for well over thirty hours, they're three days old now,"
"Three days?!"
"You were really unwell when you were in labour, that fever hit you hard and there was nothing we could do until the babies were born," the nurse told him
"I got the nurses to take lots of pictures and videos for you though, we can watch them through when you're ready," Chuuya smiled
"Okay," Dazai tried to smile, "what about the kids, is Ane-san still with them?"
"Yes, they're having great fun with her and golden demon, I think they're going to be absolute terrors when we go home but they're happy and spoilt." He paused, "I wouldn't let her bring them to visit until you were awake, I didn't want them to associate you being unconscious with their new siblings."
"Thank you, have you named them yet?"
"No, I was waiting for you," Chuuya smiled, "they've just gone back to sleep, but they'll be awake again in about two hours for more food"
The doctor came in to check Dazai over and to ask some more in depth questions. He was happy with how Dazai was,
"I'll be back in a few hours to check your still doing fine, the drip can come out once you've eaten something, and when the nurse is happy you can shower and change into comfy clothes if you wish. I'd like to keep you in over night for observation, but I can't see any problem in your children coming to visit – five days without them must be hard on both of you."
It was now early evening, Dazai was feeling and looking much better, Chuuya constantly at his side to make sure he was still alright. The babies started grumbling for dinner and Chuuya brought them both over to Dazai, despite being bottle fed for three days, they had no problem with the switch to feeding from Dazai.
"This reminds me of Eulalia and Fabian," Dazai smiled, "the two of them, so little and doing everything together,"
"I'd forgotten how cute our babies are," Chuuya smiled, taking another picture of Dazai with them. There was a knock on the door, and the nurse entered, Ane-san, and all six kids trailing in behind her,
"Mama! Dada!" they yelled, before jumping onto Dazai's bed. It was lucky Chuuya was so close to Dazai that he managed to steady his hold on the babies,
"Careful, the babies are feeding,"
"We drew you a picture Mama!" Eulalia thrust a piece of paper at Dazai, it was stick figures of Dazai, Chuuya and all eight children,
"It's beautiful," Dazai smiled as Chuuya took the drawing from them, "it can go straight on the fridge when we get home,"
"When are you coming home?" Fabian asked
"Hopefully tomorrow,"
"Yay!"
"Have you picked a name?" Ane-san asked, she was sat in a chair at the end of Dazai's bed,
"Yep, we used the name you guys picked" Dazai told their children,
"Your little brother is Leo Ozaki and your little sister is Jemima Kouyou. We picked their middle names for you Ane-san" Chuuya smiled.
"You're the closest to family we've ever had, and as these are our last children it seemed a fitting way to honour you," Dazai added.
"Thank you," Ane-san managed through the tears, she sniffled, "look you even managed to make me cry," she laughed.
They stayed for an hour, only leaving because the younger kids were starting to yawn and nearly fall asleep on Dazai's bed.
"They seem happy," Dazai said to Chuuya who was cwtched into the bed next to him.
"Told you they would be. I'm so glad you're alright Dazai, the doctor was going to move you to a different hospital tomorrow, if you hadn't woken up. I've never felt more scared"
Dazai pulled him for a kiss,
"You know I'm harder to get rid of than that Chibi. I promise I'm never going to leave you."
"Good."
"Thank you for all the pictures and video's, it makes me feel less sad that I missed all that time with them. I love you so so much," he kissed him again.
"I thought you'd like it, I love you even if you annoy me most of the time," he smiled, pulling Dazai in for another kiss.