Part Nine: Overdue

Rated: K+

"C'mon Dev," she muttered, almost dying in the first of the summer heat, "you gotta come out at some point." She was nearing three weeks overdue and she was miserable. Her due date had been in the nice cool, last week of spring. Apparently her math had been off and he had been conceived too early.

So now she sat in front of the high powered air conditioner, in a bikini (she knew how bad that looked on her at this point but she couldn't bring herself to care), pigging out on chocolate ice-cream.

"The world isn't that scary you know," she continued to talk, as if trying to convince Devlin to be born that day, "Especially with our family; granted your father had had a rough time of things here but his family was a bunch of monsters, other than your Grandpa Devlin Levin of course. He was a great man, a Plumber like your great Grandpa Max. Max is dying to meet you you know…"

Could you guilt-trip an unborn child?

"So's the rest of the family, especially your dad. He may be a bit…odd at times but he's a good man. No matter what you'll find out about his past always know that he is a good man."

Yes her thoughts were being incredibly random that day.

"Hiya cuz!" Ben came into the room, Kenny in his arms. Ben moved to hug her but she growled, "Try it and you're dead as soon as he's out." This caused Ben to whimper and back up in fear.

"Give her a break Ben," Julie came in as well, "She's miserable and extra body heat is not gonna help; how're you doing, heat aside?"

"Pretty okay."

"How overdue?" Julie sat beside her; Ajit had come to collect Kenny to keep him out of their hair.

"Almost three weeks, short of it by three days; if it doesn't happen soon we're inducing…"

"Well there are ways to induce at home…"

"We've tried literally everything."

A contraction ripped through her but she only sighed and looked at her watch, it was probably just another false start.

They came regularly for about an hour before a miracle happened; her water broke.

"YES!"

With a sad predictably Ben freaked out, picking up Kevin's job, as Julie gathered the bag of clothes and Gwen to get them out to the van. Kenny called the family, happily but calmly telling them that the baby was coming.

Cue massive amounts of unneeded panic, as if such an occasion was unprecedented. Julie and Gwen laughed together about this. Somehow half the family was able to beat them to Cooper's house, but Kevin was not amongst them…