A/N: Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in a little while... I've been going through some problems with my significant other, anyway... Thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorites and follows this story... It means so much to me that you all like it. In this chapter I have mixed in flashbacks with the current drama with Trina... I tried to make it funny in some parts but you know, I'm not good at being funny... I always tell the joke wrong... Anyway, I should stop going on... Hope you like this chapter!
Disclaimer: As you all know I do not own Victorious...
Chapter Twelve: The birth of a daughter
Walking through the maternity ward reminds Jade of the first time she was there. Fifteen years ago. Everything looked the same, the walls were the same color as they had been all those years ago, the floor was the same white marble. Even some of the doctors looked the same… of course they were obviously older now. As they walked over to the same wooden reception desk, Jade felt memories of her very first child birth flash through her mind... The pure agony as she waited to be dilated enough... the actual birth part... then when she held her baby for the first time. sometime after that her baby was switched with Tori's and Jade felt a tear fall down her pale features as she cursed herself for not noticing it.
"Jade, calm down!" Thomas her husband at the time had said, trying to soothe her. She gave him the deadliest of glares ever and suddenly forgot the aching pains she was in. She grabbed him by his shirt and crushed him against the beige walls.
"Don't you dare tell me to calm down! Thomas, you have no fucking idea how much pain this is" She warned him. He nodded and she let go off him regaining herself. This was her husband and she was attaching him on what was supposed to be the best day of their lives, the birth of their first child. Was it normal to attach your husband on such an occasion?
"S-sorry... Jade" he mumbled, as he straightened himself out, she relaxed a little and let him put his arms around her. "Ah...Motherfuckinggod!" Jade yelled in agony as she clutched her pregnant self in pain, her knees going weak so much that she all but collapsed right there in the middle of the maternity ward. within seconds a nurse had a wheelchair for her and was rushing her to a room.
The nurse helped her onto a bed and did all the routine hospital things that Jade didn't pay much attention to as she cried in agony.
"Hi, Tori" Beck greeted her when she arrived outside the hospital with the girls and Andre. He was standing with Patrick and he looked kind of down... and distressed. Without thinking she wrapped her old friend in a big hug.
"Wow, Tori" Beck chuckled when she let go. She smiled at him as she stepped back a little. "Want to talk about it?" She asked him, forgetting she had a girlfriend upstairs helping her sister who was in labor, a thirteen year old who was confused and two teenage girls who were in serious trouble and one of them had an extremely swollen ankle and not to mention her long time best friend Andre who had a wife and kids to go home to yet!
Beck smiled at me then turned to the scene before us, he shook his head. "Nah, You've got stuff to do here... and my... uh.. Cindy, she needs me... well she doesn't need me but... I don't want to leave her alone right now" He admits, a little too sadly. I turn to Andre.
"Andre, could you take these lot up to Jade? She'll know what to do with them!" I asked, he nods at me without saying a word. He understands my need to help people, and he cares about Beck just as much as I do.
"Right, Mr. Oliver! They are gone... Spill!" I demand, a little too Jade-like. He laughs a little but it doesn't quite reach his eyes. He looks defeated for some reason.
"Now, who does that remind me of?" He asks me with a wink. I sigh and drag him by his jacket's sleeve to a bench. I sit up both down and he turns to me... his eyes filled with un-shed tears.
"Come on Beck, you can tell me anything!" I remind him. He nods and sniffles a little bit.
"Yeah, I know. I can't believe I'm actually crying!" He admits as he wipes his eyes. "Did Jade tell you that my wife... Cindy was pregnant?" He asks. I shake my head. She hadn't mentioned it.
"No" I tell him softly as I look at him, waiting for him to continue.
"We've been trying for at least two years... In that time she's had two miscarriages and a still birth!" He told me, I gasped. I couldn't even begin to understand what that must be like.
"Oh right... but she's pregnant now... so... there's hope?" I asked, hoping against all hope that there was. He let out a small sigh.
"S-she's been having complications... and... I just feel like I need to be around her all the time, just in case" He admitted, a tear falling down his cheeks.
"Oh Beck!" I said, pulling him into a hug.
"She doesn't see it that way though... she gets annoyed at me for being so... possessive of her... she says I over-crowd her. She was actually a little relived when I offered to help you guys find Jennifer and Alex today" He admits, sadly.
"I understand where she's coming from. She must be dealing with a lot at the moment and everyone needs space to deal with things..." I tell him. He nods.
"Yeah, I know... It's just hard" He admits.
Jade stands out in the hall waiting for the others to arrive. Trina's husband Mike had yet to show up also and it had been torture to Jade's ear-drums staying in the room with a screaming Trina, Worse than her attempts at singing!
Jade had been relieved when the older Vega's mid-wife showed up to do the routine checks, so she could finally leave the room. She looked around desperately for Tori, but was a little appointed when she saw Andre and her children walking up to her... with the exception of Alex who was limping slightly.
"Where's Tori?" Jade asked as they got closer to where she stood.
"No, glad to see you're both okay and Alex... what happened to you?" Alex remarked, bitterly. Jade turned to the teen and the one beside her and gave them a very disappointed look. "I'll deal with you two later!" She told them before turning to Patrick. "Patrick, would you be a dear and take your sisters to the waiting area? Just over there" Jade asked, sweetly as she pointed him in the direction of the waiting area. He nodded and the girls followed him without a second word.
"So, Tori?" Jade asked turning back to Andre.
"She's with Beck, he... seemed down... like extremely" Andre explained, Jade nodded and a flicker of concern was evident in her eyes.
"Yeah... He doesn't seem to get much luck" She sighed, hoping that he and his wife hadn't lost another child.
"What's up with him?" Andre asked, displaying the same kind of concern.
"His wife has had two miscarriages... and one still birth" Jade explained, Andre looked sad for a moment.
"Awe... poor Beck!" He said.
"Yeah... His wife's pregnant again... but I'm hoping that this one's the one... You know" Jade told him sadly. She turned to the side to see a man running up, wearing a suit and looking panicked.
"Are you Jade West?" He asked, desperately. Jade nodded.
"The one and only... You're Mike?" Jade wondered, the man nodded. "She's in there" Jade told him pointing to the door she was currently standing beside. She moved aside and he rushed through the doors.
"Shall we join the kids?" Jade asked. Andre nodded and they headed towards the waiting area.
"Are you going to be okay?" Tori asked as she and Beck walked inside the hospital doors, Beck nodded.
"Yeah, I'll be alright... I'll go to the cafe... Get everyone a drink, wanna go ahead?" He offered, Tori smiled.
"Sure, if you want" She agreed, understanding that he wanted some time alone.
Tori made her way to the elevators and pressed the button to go up, stepping inside the elevator she sighed. Remembering the time she was here last... Alone and in agony with her first and only pregnancy.
Fifteen years ago Tori leaned against the elevator walls clutching her stomach as tears poured out of her eyes. Her parents were on holiday, her sister hadn't answered her phone and the babies father didn't seem to want to know about their unborn child. She was all alone, she had to go through all this by herself. Suddenly she felt like a little girl that needed her mother... She needed her mom. It seemed silly to her as she was currently in her early twenties and pregnant and Tori, felt like she was six years old again and afraid of the dark.
Although this wasn't just the dark. It was the pure fear of there being something wrong with her baby or she tragically dying during labor and her child not only not having a father but not a mother either!
A bunch of scenarios filled her head. Her baby would go to a foster family or be adopted out and never get to know about the love that her birth-mother held for her if Tori was to die during birth. She knew she was probably being ridiculous. She should be positive, everyone get's scared on their first birth, she wasn't alone and medicines and doctors were better nowadays than they had been back in the olden days... before she or even her parents were born but that fear built inside the younger Vega as she crumpled against the elevators floor. It wasn't until the doors opened for her and an old lady held out her hand to help her out that Tori stopped crying.
"Are you okay, dear?" The lady asked as Tori took her hand and helped her help her up. Tori nodded and wiped away her tears.
"Yeah... Just a little scared" Tori admitted, as she walked out of the elevator. The lady smiled.
"I was with my first child... It'll be painful but you'll make it" The lady reassured her as she stepped into the elevator, leaving Tori staring as the doors came to a shut. She slowly made her way to the receptionist and told them who she was.
Back in the present Tori made her way to the waiting area and as soon as she laid eyes on Jade she pulled her into a much needed hug before letting a huge sigh of relief. Jade placed a sweet and much needed kiss on Tori's lips who then returned it more passionately.
"Eww, Get a room!" Jennifer and Alex said in unison. Jade turned to the girls and gave them both a warning look before turning to the woman beside her. She kissed her again and when they were both gasping for air they pulled apart.
"So... Um" Andre cleared his throat.
"Andre thanks for today, you've been a gem!" Tori thanked her best friend as she pulled away from Jade and hugged him. "So... If you want you can go back to your family!" Tori told him. Andre smiled.
"It's cool, the wife's glad for the piece and quiet... but I probably should go" He smiled. Tori nodded in understanding.
"See you Andre" Tori said as he got his things to leave, which was literally a jacket he'd been holding. As soon as Andre had left the room Jade turned to her son;
"Patrick, why don't you go and annoy the receptionist?" She suggested, displaying her signature smirk. Tori rolled her eyes at her girlfriends words. Patrick nodded and ran off to the reception bit.
"Jennifer... Alex" Jade started turning to the girls who were sitting at the edge of their seats staring at the ground. "You frightened us half to death, running off like that! You could have gotten yourselves in danger, and judging from Alex' ankle you nearly did!" Jade continued, turning to Tori for her help. They both needed to be a part of this discussion.
"It was stupid girls... You are old enough to know better! You could have talked to us about how you felt but instead you choose to do a very silly and childish thing by running away" Tori pointed out, crossing her arms.
"And we are going to punish you for it!" Jade told them, turning back to Tori. Knowing that Tori's punishment would be more fair and reasoned than the ones she was thinking of right now.
"As of tomorrow... You both will be grounded for a month. After school you will come straight home, do any homework you have and you will not be allowed out unless with Jade or Myself... Until you can prove to us that you can be grown up enough to deserve the privilege of going out" Tori told them, very seriously.
"But for today..." Jade started. "Today, we'll all stay here as a family to support Trina... and later we'll go out just the five of us and talk things through, got it?" Jade asked, looking over the two shame filled fifteen year olds. The nodded and got up to hug both Tori and jade at the same time.
"Sorry!" They both said.
"Honey, it'll be okay" Thomas cooed, he was standing next to Jade whilst she was nearly ready to push the baby out. He was rubbing her arm in what he thought was a soothing way but it was just getting on her absolute nerves!
"GET OUT!" She demanded, he was finally getting on her last nerve. He looked taken aback for a moment but then he just rushed out of the room and Jade wasn't sure if it had been fear or relief that made him leave so fast.
"Mrs..." The doctor said looking to her. How did he not know her name? He was a doctor after all.
"It's West... I kept my maiden name" She told him through deep breaths. He nodded.
"Well... You're dilated enough now, ready to begin pushing?" He asked, she nodded.
"Here's you're baby" The doctor told her after an insane amount of pushing. It was finally over she was finally a mother! A bunch of emotions surged through her as the doctor handed her, her baby girl.
About three doors down Tori's little girl was born into the world ad when the doctors handed her her first born child, the baby she'd carried for nine months (but of course the girl was stubborn and decided to be early) She smiled as she held her close. When the doctors offered to take her to the baby room, Tori was reluctant at first but knew that she needed to get some rest so handed over the girl.
Little did she know that when that baby would return to her, she'd be fifteen years old.
She didn't notice though a few hours after handing her over that the baby that she was holding belonged to the one and only, Jade West!
Back in the present time a very Happy Mike walked into the waiting room holding a beautiful baby girl. Who already showed some of the Vega aspects with her very little dark hair on her head and her slightly tanned skin.
"Awe, my little niece" Tori exclaimed as she walked over to her brother in law and held out her hands to hold his latest offspring.
"Does she have a name?" beck asked nervously from the seats. He'd come back shortly with a coffee for himself and Jade, a hot chocolate for Jennifer, Alex and Patrick and a herbal tea for Tori.
"Not yet, we haven't decided on one yet" Mike told him, he hadn't met Beck yet but he'd seen him in old pictures of Trina's from high-school. Well of a younger him, anyway.
"How is Trina?" Jade asked.
"She's sleeping" Mike explained.
"Anyone else want to hold my niece?" Tori asked and they all lined up to hold the birthday girl.
A/N: So what did you think of all that. I hope it was long enough for you? Or not too long that you got bored? I don't know, anyway I have never experienced the birth of a child so I basically made it up as I went along so I hope I did an okay job? Let me know, what you think and I'm sorry about Beck... I know I wrote it but I don't know it just happened and I shocked myself. Also if you have any ideas on a name for Trina's baby girl, I am open for suggestions.
So please review as it lets me know what you like and maybe don't like about the story... Thanks for reading! :)