Hey guys! Here is chapter 3 I hope you love it as much as I do! I wrote part of this chapter to music and have indicated down below where to start and stop the music. here is a link to the song i listen to. watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ unfortunately you have to copy and paste the link and please note that i had written this part of the story a few years ago so while the song is the same the people sining it are not. i also do not own the song or the charters just the idea of the story. any mistakes made are mine. Enjoy! (the song is Hallelujah sung by the Pentatonix. incase the link gets messed up)
They had made it all the way to the cafeteria before Henry asked the question Emma knew he was dying to ask.
"Did you guys know?" He asked with a hurt look on his face.
Stopping to look him in the face, Emma said, "Henry, no we didn't know; And if we did know, this is something we would have told you about. Besides, we don't even know how this happened."
"Promise?" he said with a small pout on his face.
"I promise kid." They continued walking through a line grabbing an apple, and two turkey sandwiches. Once they got their food, they stood in a small line of people waiting to pay.
"I have another question," Henry said shyly.
"What do you want to know?"
Taking a big breath and letting it out slowly, he asked, "Ok, so it's more like two. The first one is why where you kissing my mom and how is a baby born?"
"Wow, um…" Emma paused, taking the time it took to pay for their food and walk to a table to think of how to answer Henry's first question because she honestly didn't know why she has been kissing Regina all day. She can't say that something is not there because there is, she just does not know what. So with a calming breath of her own, she answers. "Well, for your first question … I honestly don't know why I kissed your mom there's just something here and it would have to be further explored after the baby is born. And for the second one, if you stay in the room you would see how a baby is born. So is there a more specific question you had about it?"
"Do you think you and mom are going to get together? And I guess I just want to know that I won't be in the way or anything. I'm kind of scared. I have never seen mom in pain like that before. Is it really going to hurt her that much?"
"Look Kid, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know how your mom feels about me or if we are going to end up together or not. It's something we need to talk about and once the baby is born and things cool down, we can do that. Ok?"
"I just want you guys to be happy." He said looking down and taking a bit of his sandwich.
"I know you do kid." Emma said smiling at him. "Now as for the whole baby thing, you're not going to be in the way you will probably be standing up by your mom's head and as long as the epidural she got lasts long enough for her to give birth, it shouldn't hurt her as bad. Don't get me wrong it's going to hurt either way because child birth is painful and in the end, once she gets that baby in her arms she will forget she was ever in that much pain to start with."
"Will I be able to see the baby coming out?"
"Is that something you want to see?"
"Honestly, no. I want to be there to support mom and everything but I don't think I'm ready to see something like that.
"That is completely fine kid. We just want you to be comfortable with what's going on."
"Can….." Henry started to ask but was interrupted by the ringing of Emma's cell phone. Holding up a finger for him to hold on a second, she answered the phone.
"Hello."
"Emma, where are you?"
"Oh my god! Snow, I totally forgot about our breakfast plans!" Emma exclaimed, slapping her hand to her forehead. "I had to take Regina to the hospital, I'm so sorry I forgot to tell you."
"Gosh, is she ok? Who has Henry? Is he alright?"
"Mary Margret, she is fine. She is just going to have to stay here for a few nights but then they will let her go. I can't really say more than that. You know her, she doesn't like her business all over town. And Henry is with me and he is fine. I should probably get going. We have been away from Regina for a while and I promised I wouldn't be gone too long. So as soon as I can, I'll call you and let you know what's up, ok?"
"Oh yeah, of course. Go do what you need to. I love you sweetheart." Snow said hurriedly.
"Love you too bye mom." Emma hung up the phone then dialed Zelina's number. "Hey Zelina, can you get Henry?"
"Yeah of course. I would have thought he would be glued to Regina's side."
"He would be if he could but she still has a lot of test that the doctors want to do and Henry said he feels uncomfortable with it all and I don't want him sitting in the waiting room alone, especially because I don't know how long it's all going to take so if you're willing to just take him back to your place I'll come and get him once she's all settled and stuff."
"Oh okay, yeah I can do that. I'll be there in like a half an hour."
Okay sounds great. See you then. Bye." And with that, hung up, turned to Henry and asked, "You ready to go up to see your mom?"
"I was just about to ask that." Henry laughed.
When they got back to Regina room they found her still napping with a protective hand on her belly. Emma, not being able to resist, pulled out her phone and took a picture of the brunette.
"You better not have just taken a picture of me." Regina said with one eye cracked open and a smirk on her face to show she really didn't mind.
"Hey," Emma said softly as she walked over to Regina and captured her lips in a tender kiss.
"Hmm," Regina hummed as the two women pulled apart. "I should have a baby more often if you're going to kiss me like that every time you see me," she continued while smiling at Emma.
"Mom?"
"Yes, Henry?" Regina answered turning her head to look at her son who was smiling at her so she smiled back.
"I don't want to be in here when the baby is born." At hearing this, the smile on Regina's face fell a little but she understands where he is coming from. She held her arms out to signal for him to give her a hug and this time without hesitation but still gently he got on the bed and let himself be engulfed by his mom's arms.
"I'm so glad you made a decision. I'm not going to lie I'm a little sad that you won't be here but I understand that it would get uncomfortable for you." Regina said giving Henry an extra squeeze to show she was not mad.
A few minutes later, Regina's room door opened to show Mel with a smile on her face.
"How's everyone doing? This must be your son you were talking about, very handsome," she said winking at no one in particular. "So how's mommy doing?"
"Mommy is doing so much better now that the epidural has kicked in."
"That's good. I'm here to see if you have progressed any so I'm going to need you to hop off the bed for a minute, ok?" she said to henry, who got off the bed and went to stand next to Emma who was by Regina's head softly running her fingers through the brunettes hair. "You ready?" Mel asked Regina.
"Can we wait until this contraction is over please? It started when you walked in."
"Of course, no problem. Just let me know when you're ready and I'll check you."
"They're getting stronger," Regina said as she let out a little moan. Emma seeing Regina struggling with the pain pressed her lips against the brunette's temple as a silent encouragement that she could do it. "I think it's over." She said a minute later.
"Ok then, you know the drill by now I think." Mel said as she lifted the blanket so she could see how far along Regina was. "So, you feel to be about 7½ cm. This baby is going to be here soon!" Mel exclaimed while putting the blanket back down. Mel quickly left after that.
"You stopped rubbing." The brunette pouted at Emma while nudging Emma's hand with her head.
"Sorry," Emma laughed and continued her petting.
"So, what are you going to name the baby?" Henry asked his mothers. They looked at each other and both shook their heads.
"I have no idea kid. Baby names have been the furthest thing from my mind." Emma replied.
"Funny thing about names. I actually picked out your name." Regina said looking at Emma.
"How?" Emma asked confused, tilting her head to the side.
"I had a pregnancy scare back when I was first with the king and in the time we were waiting to see if I was pregnant or not, Snow got to me and made me start thinking about names and all the things I wanted to do and what kind of mom I wanted to be. Anyway, when I found out I was not having a baby, regardless if it was the kings or not, I was very disappointed. Snow found me crying under my apple tree and she managed to pry the names I had picked out of me. Henry, for a boy as we know, and Emma Lynn for a girl. I heard the name once when I was in the market with my parents and I loved it ever since. And because I never had children of my own, I guess Snow took it upon herself to take the name and use it for herself. I should have known I would never get to use the name when she told me how much she loved it. So I guess you're welcome for the awesome name." Regina chuckled. She looked down to her belly and rubbed it. "I just wish I knew what I was going to name this child." She whispered.
"Well thank you," Emma chuckled back. "We will figure out names, don't worry and I promise I won't let my mother steal any of them." Emma continued leaning down and kissing Regina on the lips.
An hour and a half later… (henry has left with Zelina by this point)( start music)
"Well you have not progressed since the last time I checked you, so I'm going to have you roll on one of your sides and see if that helps you progress. If not, then we will try Pitocin and if that does not work, I'm sorry hun, but we will have to stop the epidural and try the Pitocin again." Mel said.
"Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that." Regina said as she rolled over onto her left side so she could face Emma.
"I will be back to check on you in a little bit." With that, Mel nodded and left the room.
"I'm sorry but the Pitocin is not working, so we are going to have to stop the epidural and try the Pitocin again. But we are not going to do this until the doctor gets here because chances are once we do this things are going to move fast. Dr. Hall should be here shortly. She is the other on call dr. today." Mel said and left. As soon as the door clicked shut, Regina burst into tears.
"Hey now, none of that. It's going to be ok." Emma whispered, taking Regina's face into her hands and kissed her forehead. Regina sucks in a shuddering breath and nodded.
"Oh god! It hurts so bad." Regina cried. Needing to get a hold of something, she grabs the IV pole next to her and squeezed until her knuckles turned white.
"Here, take my hand and look at me," Emma said. Between contractions that's what Regina did; she grabbed Emma's hand for dear life and looked her in the eye and just as the next contraction hit…
"Emma, I think I need to push." Nodding her head, she leaned over Regina and hit the call button on her bed.
"Just hang on until the doctor gets here, then you can push all you want ok?" Emma said smiling down at Regina.
"I don't think I can wait. I really need to push right now, right fucking now." She cried. A minute later, a nurse came running into the room with Dr. Hall.
"So are you ready to have this baby?" the doctor asked.
"I want to push so bad, please can I push now?" she cried.
"Soon, very soon." Turning to Emma she said, "Don't let her push yet, help her breathe through the urge." Emma nodded, turned to Regina took her face in her hands and told her to breathe with her. While Emma did that, a nurse got Regina ready to push by bringing her knees out and up towards her chest. "Ok Regina, on the next contraction you can push." Regina nodded and took hold of Emma's hand once more. And on the next contraction, she pushed and when she did she screamed, surprised at how much it hurt and gripped Emma's hand hard enough to break it.
an hour of pushing later…
"You're doing so good, Regina, just a little longer." The doctor encouraged.
"I can't do this," Regina cried. "I can't push anymore. It hurts too much," she continued to cry. Emma, seeing that they were losing Regina, acted fast and went to the corner of the room where a mirror had been wheeled in and brought it to sit in front of Regina. A nurse seeing what she was doing took over positioning it so that Regina could see what's going on. While the nurse did that, Emma went back to Regina who was still crying and saying she couldn't push anymore. Emma gently moved Regina's bed so she could fit behind her and once she could, she climbed onto the bed behind Regina, who leaned into Emma immediately. Emma taking advantage of this, brushed Regina's sweat soaked hair out of her face and whispered in her ear.
"You need to push Regina, that baby needs you to push."
"I can't Emma, it hurts so much," Regina sobbed.
"Hey! Yes, you can. I'm right here with you. You are not alone, you can do this. Take my hands and use me to help you push, ok? I'm right here for you. I'm not going to leave you, I promise."
Regina took Emma's hands and when she did she had a little more energy and the urge to push again, so she did. "Ahhhhh! God! I can feel everything!" she yelled as she held onto Emma's hand tighter.
"Hey look in the mirror. Look at what you're doing."
When she looked in the mirror, she gasped "I can see the top of their hair!" she exclaimed with tears rolling down her face.
"You're doing so good, baby, just a few more pushes and we can see our baby." Emma whispered to Regina kissing her temple with her own tears in her eyes.
"Ok Regina, one more big push and the head should be out," the doctor said.
"Just keep watching our baby, you got this, just a few more pushes, you can do it," Emma murmured in Regina's ear. With her eyes on the mirror, she cried out again as she gave a big push and saw the head appear, causing her to let a softer cry out. With a shaky hand, Regina reached down and caresses her baby's head.
"That's our baby, Regina. They have so much hair." Emma whispered into her ear, then kissed her temple again.
"Ok Regina, hardest part, one more great big push to get the shoulders out and your baby will be here."
With eyes still focused on the mirror and ears open to Emma's encouraging mummers, Regina re-gripped Emma's left hand tighter. "Ahhhh!" Regina yelled as she pushed. Watching the whole time as her baby's shoulders came free of her body soon followed by the rest of the body. Everyone barely noticing the flickering lights or the magic surging between Emma and Regina as the baby came into the world.
"It's a girl!" Dr. Hall exclaimed as she quickly sucked the fluid from the baby's nose and mouth. Once the baby's air way was clear, she started to cry. "Here's your baby girl, Regina." Dr. Hall said as she set the baby on Regina's chest.
Regina let go of Emma hand so she could hold her baby. "Hi little one. It's so nice to meet you." She whispered and she kissed the baby's head.
Emma, who is still behind Regina, reached around and laid her hand on top of the baby's head and caressed it softly. "We make cute babies," Emma whispered to Regina, who was still crying but with tears of joy now. "You did awesome, babe. I'm so proud of you," Regina looked away from her baby long enough to give Emma a warty smile and a kiss on the lips.
"Who wants to cut the cord?" Dr. Hall asked.
Regina and Emma turned to each other and had a quick silent conversation. "Emma is going to cut the cord."
The doctor handed Emma the scissors and told her to cut between the two clamps and while she did someone who had a camera took a picture. Once she was done, she handed the scissors back.
"We need to take the baby now and make sure everything is okay and the baby is one hundred percent healthy." One of the nurses said to Regina who reluctantly handed over her baby.
Once the baby was out of the room, Regina leaned heavily back on Emma who just wrapped her arm around her and said, "You were so amazing. I'm so, so, so proud of you."
"You keep saying that." Regina lightly chuckled back.
"Well, I didn't have anyone to say it to me so you're going to be hearing it a lot. So get used to it."
…..(end music)…..
"6 pounds 8 oz is the weight and the length is.." the nurse paused to take the measurement, "19.61 inches long." Handing the baby back to Regina, the nurse continued and said, "Your baby's tests have all come back negative meaning your baby is happy and healthy. Now I understand you want Miss Swan to take a paternity test? Is this correct?"
"Yes," both Emma and Regina answered.
"Ok we can get that done today if you like."
"Sounds good," Emma replied.
"Now if I can get you, Regina to pull the top part of your gown down, we like to do 45 minutes of skin to skin bonding. It helps further establish the mommy-baby bond." Regina nodded and started to take the top part of her gown off while Emma unwrapped the baby who was not pleased about being cold. Once Regina was ready, Emma set the crying baby on her chest and draped a blank over Regina and the baby so they wouldn't be cold.
"Shhh, it's ok darling, we'll get you all nice and warm again, don't you worry." Regina cooed at the baby.
"The baby is going to need to feed soon. Now we usually want the mothers to at least try breast feeding for the first feeding because the mother's milk has a lot of nutrients that help the baby's immune system and things like that. So if you want, I can get a lactation counselor to help you through the process, if you'd like."
"That will be fine," Regina said not even hearing what the nurse had said, only having eyes for her beautiful baby girl.
The nurse nodded and left the new family to coo over their newest member.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I love to hear what you guys think the name is going to be and what your predictions might be!. As always I look forward to your reviews! until next time! -Sam :)