Clary POV
I sit in the hospital waiting room, Jace on my one side, my mom on my other. I look around and look at all the different people in there. There are women who are heavily pregnant, their husbands rubbing the protruding stomach. There's a lady with a young baby cradled in her arms whist her wife looks on watching the way they interact. There is a young couple, probably about 21 maybe slightly older, sat in the corner who look like they are arguing about what to do, the girl has her hands wrapped around her stomach and the guy is using his hands to push leaflets at her. They look like adoption and abortion leaflets.
They are fighting over what to do with their child. I feel for them. It makes me so glad that Jace and I didn't fight over what to do with our little one. We know what we want, even if we didn't know we were doing at the time we made him.
"I'm so glad we're not like that." Jace whispers in my ear pulling me as close as he can whilst were sat in these hospital chairs.
"You two are more level headed than they are. Maybe you could speak to them?" My mother suggests. Before I can speak up my name is called.
"Clarissa Fray." A nurse calls from a door a little too my left. At the sound of my name both my mother and Jace jump up. I slowly raise as well. The nurse smiles at all three of us then using her arm she gestures us to follow her. We follow her down the ever ending white hallway until we reach a room labelled 'Doctor Williams Midwife'. "Go right in. Doctor Williams is expecting you." The nurse says and pushes the door slightly.
We thank her and make our way into the doctor's office. The walls are blinding white. Everywhere I look is white. The cupboards are white, the furniture is white, the clothes the doctor has on are white and the machines are white. Even the doctor's hair is white. The lack of colour makes me blink several times.
"You must be Clarissa Fray?" The doctor says holding out her hand to me. I smile, nod and shake her hand. "And you must be Ms Fray." She asks holding her hand out to my mother.
"Actually I'm Mrs Garroway but you can call me Jocelyn." My mother replies. "And this is Jace, the father."
"Lovely to meet you all. I'm Doctor Williams. Okay, can we have Clarissa up on the bed?" She points towards the bed. I walk towards the bed, Jace walking behind me. I try and get up and hear Jace laugh behind me.
"Up you go!" Jace whisper shouts in my ear and pulls me up onto the bed. I hear my mother chuckle behind us and feel my cheeks glow with embarrassment.
"Okay first of all we're going to have to draw some blood, to check you HCG levels. Then of course we'll start talking about all the things that have been happening so far in the pregnancy and what else you may expect. Then when your blood gets back we will see if the HCG level is high enough to get a clear photo of your little one." She walks about the room whilst doing this opening cupboards and pulling out gloves and things.
She grabs a needle kit and a few vials to fill up with blood. She walks back over to me and asks for my arm. She ties a band around my arm then using the needle she draws three vails of blood. She leaves us for a few minutes then comes back in.
"Okay Clarissa." I cut her off.
"Please call me Clary." I smile to her.
"Okay then Clary, what sort of symptoms have you had so far in the pregnancy? Any morning sickness or headaches?" She questions looking between me and Jace.
"She had a fainting spell earlier in school. Could that be a symptom?" My mother butts in before I can speak. She looks nervously from between me and the midwife.
"Normally fainting isn't a symptom in pregnancy sometimes it can be linked to pre-eclampsia but this early on it couldn't be to do with that. What were you doing at the time of the fainting spell Clary?" She asks looking at me. I get nervous at first when she mentions pre-eclampsia. I don't know a lot about pregnancy but I know that having that can cause harm to both me and my baby. It takes me a second to realise she asked me a question.
"Umm, I was arguing with one of the teachers from my school. Who also happens to me my long lost father that I don't want to know. He was telling me and Jace off for me standing between his legs whilst we waited for him and when he noticed it was me he started shouting and I just got dizzy, I started seeing black spots and then all I remember is a few of my friends calling my name and someone catching me. I don't know who it was but my guess is it was Jace." I say to her, smiling up at Jace when I needed to. He smiles back down at me.
"Agh it just seems that it is just a case of too much stress on your already stressed body. Making a tiny human is very tiring work and although you may not notice it also stresses out your body. You should try and do things to relax after school and allow all your stress to leave you. I would suggest a nice relaxing bath, maybe have your boyfriend cook you food and give you a back rub. Anything to reduce any stress that you may have. Now other than that do you have any other pregnancy symptoms like sickness?" Get Jace to treat me like a princess? I can work with that. I smile a little and answer her question.
"I've had a bit of morning sickness. That is how I actually found out about him." I rub my stomach and smile up to Jace who's smiling down at me as well.
"I know there are other symptoms that you can have like sore breasts, tiredness, an increased need to pee, different cravings and reactions to different smells as well as increased sex drive. You don't need to say yes and no to all these different symptoms but just know that they are some of the other symptoms that can happen to you during the course of the pregnancy."
"Okay." I say and smile towards her whilst Jace is trying to smother his laughter behind his hand. I send a glare his way knowing why he's laughing. Yes we both know of my increased sex drive, my mother doesn't need to know! I fume in my head.
"What are you planning to do with this pregnancy Clary?" Dr Williams asks. Instinctively my hand quickly makes my way down to my barely there baby bump.
"We're keeping him." Jace cuts in before I can, his laughter long forgotten. "We couldn't do anything else. We love each other so much and I know we will both love this little miracle which is half her and half me more than anything else in the whole world."
I smile up to Jace and he looks down and wipes a tear from my cheek. I look back at my mother and the doctor who also both have smiles on their faces.
"It is so lovely to see two people as young as your selves so committed to each other and in it for the long hall as well. I can see you both being married and back her in a few years having more beautiful babies." She smiles at us again and then a beeping goes off on her watch. "Agh good your blood work is done. We have an excellent lab here, every blood work is normally done within fifteen minutes of it been given in. Let me just log in and I'll have your results." She walks towards her computer and turns it on. Whilst she's signing in I take in her appearance.
She has white hair, cut in a sort of pixie look on top of her head. Her face, what I can see of it, looks loving and like a young granny. She looks to be in her mid to late fifties. She has on her white lab coat but a lilac colour pair of bottoms. Her coat is done up so I can't see her t-shirt but if I had to guess it would be similar to her trousers. On her feet she has a small but comfortable looking pair of trainers, again in white. How does she keep everything so clean? The artist inside me wants to be unleashed in this room and make it as bright and colourful as I can. My inner monologue of what I could do to make this room brighter is interrupted by Dr Williams starting to speak.
"Okay your HCG levels are 1,575,670 which should work out that you are about 7-8 weeks. Is that the same amount of time that you are thinking?" At our nod she continues. "Good, this should mean that we should be able to get a clear photo with the outside scanner. If not we can always try the internal to see is we can get a clear picture."
She uses her wheelie chair and pushes herself over towards me and the big machine that is too my right. I look at the machine that looks kind of like a really old computer with two want like things coming out of the side of it. She reaches to the opposite side that I can't see as clear due to the screen being in my way and grabs a bottle in her hand. She rolls it around between her palms.
"This is a gel substance that I will put on your stomach to help the probe move across your skin smoothly and make it so it doesn't pull against you and hurt you. I have tried my best to warm it up but unfortunately it will still be cold. Could you please lift up your top and show me your stomach. Ideally if you can tuck your t-shirt under your bra, it allows me more room to move." I do as she asks and she puts the cold blue gel onto my stomach.
"Oh!" I say as the coldness hits my stomach. Jace laughs at the side of me and I send a small glare his way. He holds his hands up and stops his laughing, which causes my mother to laugh.
"Okay Clary are you ready for me to do this?" She asks and I nod. She smiles at me and puts the wand to my stomach. I look at the screen and all I see is a mess of white and black. Then suddenly I see something happen on the screen. I'm not sure what it is but suddenly it's not a mass of just black and white static.
"Hmm, I'm not sure." Dr Williams seems to mumble to herself.
"What, what are you not sure of? Is something wrong? Is he ok?" I question trying to get a clearer look at the screen.
"Oh its nothing bad it's just…." She bites her lip and freezes the screen.
"It's what?" Jace asks, his grip on my hand becoming even tighter as the doctor stays silent.
"I'm not sure if I am seeing two babies or one." She says and looks towards us.
"What?" Jace, my mom and I all seem to say at the same time.
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Okay I know! My updating was a bit up in the air but I have a good excuse! We'll not a good excuse but an excuse all the same! Has anyone moved out from their parents? If not I'd advice you to stay! I hate moving!
ANYWAY! QUESTION TIME! Do we have one baby or two? I'm wondering if we want twins or if we want just one baby? I'm up for either? I'll let you decide.
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