DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING RESCUE RELATED OR THE CHARACTERS, THEY ARE OWNED BY CHANNEL 9 AUSTRALIA
A/N italics are their thoughts
CHAPTER 11
8 MONTHS LATER
Heidi was lying down on the couch watching a movie on the television in front of her. She still had another three weeks until she was due to give birth, and since Vince wouldn't allow her to be at the station anymore she had to settle down and stay home for the last month. Staying at home bored all day made Heidi grumpy and when Jordan came home he better had brought her favourite ice cream she would always crave for otherwise he'd be sleeping on the couch. She heard a loud knock at the door and hopped up, slowly opening the door she saw Chase standing their smiling.
"Hey" He smiled
"Hey…What are you doing here?" Heidi asked
"Well, I was sitting at home all alone because I have the day off anyway, I was really bored so I decided I'd come and drive to your apartment and keep you company…So can I come in?" he asked looking into the apartment
"Of course" Heidi said moving into the apartment, leaving Chase to close the door behind him
"So how have you and the babies been?" Chase asked grabbing a seat beside Heidi on the couch. Heidi lifted her legs up and placed them onto Chase's lap
"Good. I'm really tired and I do nothing all day" Heidi laughed
"You hungry babe?" Chase asked his best girl mate
Heidi shook her head "Yeah, I'm starving" she smiled at Chase who lifted her legs up and got off the couch, he placed her legs back onto the couch.
"Well, I'll make you and the babies some sandwiches then" Chase said as he walked to the kitchen. Heidi got up and followed him "Uh-uh" Chase shook his head "You lie down, I'll bring it to you"
"I'm fine Cha-.." Heidi said before she doubled over in pain groaning, making Chase turn his attention to Heidi immediently
"Heidi!" Chase shouted running over to her. "Heid…Heidi. What's wrong?" he asked starting to panic
"I'm… going into… labor…My water… broke" Heidi struggled to say the words between her short breaths in pain. Chase slowly walked Heidi back to the couch and lied her down
"I'm calling the ambulance" Chase said fumbling for his phone in his pocket, he pulled it out and asked for an ambulance. He quickly got off the phone and returned his attention to Heidi. "You're doing great Heidi" Chase said as he rubbed Heidi's forehead.
"My contraction has finished…Chase, I need you to grab me some stuff please" Heidi asked as sweat poured off her face
"Ofcourse Heidi. I'll call Jordan aswell" Chase quickly ran to her room and got everything that was listed on the small piece of paper on the bedside table. When he came back out the ambulance had just pulled up and Heidi had started having contractions again. "In here!" Chase shouted
"How many minutes apart are her contractions?" The paramedic asked bending beside Heidi
"There about ten minutes apart" Chase said holding onto Heidi's hand, who was gripping so tight, he thought that his hand would surely break off
"Ch…Chase?" Heidi said breathless
"Yeah Heid" Chase said as they loaded her up onto the trolley
"Please…Please stay with me" Heidi pleaded as tears fell down her cheek
"I'm not going anywhere okay, I'll be right here. I'm going to call Jordan though" Chase said still holding onto her hand as they wheeled her out of the apartments. The paramedics loaded Heidi into the van and Chase took the small sit beside her. Once her contractions had finished Chase started to call Jordan
"Hey Chase" Jordan said into his phone
"Jordan, get to the hospital, Heidi's in labor!" Chase shouted over the phone loud enough for everyone else to hear
"Is she okay, where is she?" Jordan asked panicking
"It's okay she's with me, where in the ambulance a few minutes away from the hospital" Chase explained to Jordan trying to calm him down
"I'll meet you there" Jordan said picking up his eyes of his computer desk and running down the stairs
"Heidi's in labor. I'm going to be a Dad!" He shouted from down the bottom of the stairs, making the whole team cheer for joy and not stop smiling.
"Jordan will be here soon" Chase said as they wheeled her through the emergency department
"Where going to take her straight up to the maternity ward" The paramedic told Chase as they entered the lift.
"How is she?" Jordan said out of breath as he ran into Heidi's room
"She's doing well. Her contractions are still too far apart for anything yet. Will give her an epidural in the next couple of hours" The O.B said as she scribbled down on her chart before returning it to the hook on the end of the bed
"Hey beautiful" Jordan said taking a seat next to Heidi who was lying down
"Hey" She responded
"Our babies are going to be perfect" Jordan smiled with big grin on his face
"They will be. I can't wait to find out whether were going to have a boy and girl or two girls or two boys" Heidi said excited before another contraction started again. Both Chase and Jordan where at either sides of the bed holding onto Heidi's hand as she went through the contraction, trying to hide their pain as their hands were nearly broken off.
FOUR HOURS LATER
"Just one more push Heidi and will find out whether your little girl will be having a brother or sister" The O.B said
Heidi groaned and gave one last push that she had left in her, Chase was wiping a wet face washer over her head to try and cool her down. The O.B's face dropped as she grabbed the young boy, Heidi was the first to see her face "Why…Why isn't he crying?" Heidi asked as tears started to fill her eyes. Chase looked to see the nurses huddling around the tiny baby, he tried to keep as calm for Heidi as he could. Jordan's eyes welled up with tears as well as he rubbed Heidi's arm re-assuringly.
"I'm very sorry -." The nurse was saying before she was cut off by Heidi
"NO!...NO!" Heidi shouted as she knew exactly what the nurse was going to say. Chase tried to hold back the tears in his eyes as well, but as hard as he tried he couldn't stop the tear that fell down his cheek
"I'm very sorry. There was nothing we could do…The umbilical cord got wrapped around his neck. There was nothing to indicate distress until he was out. I'm very sorry" The nurse said as calmly as she could as she watched Heidi break down. Jordan slid into the bed with Heidi and wrapped his arms around her body, her head fell into his chest as she cried out loud. He tried to keep it together the best he could for Heidi aswell.
Chase bent over and gave Heidi a kiss on her forehead, he knew that he had to leave them alone so that they could grieve together. He walked out of the room and sat just outside it leaning against the wall with his head down trying not to show anyone he was crying. Michelle, Vince, Lachie, Dean and Lara had all drove to the hospital and saw Chase sitting against the wall with his head buried into his hands, they immediately knew that something was wrong.
"Chase?" Lara asked quietly as they came closer to Chase
"Chase, what's wrong?" Dean asked concerned. Chase wiped his eyes and stood up facing the small group
He took a deep shaky breath in and out "Heidi…she….she lost one of the twins…He died"
"Oh-my-god" The team silently said as they stood their shocked at what had just happened
"Where is she?" Vince asked while he held onto Michelle who was silently sobbing into his chest
"She's in with Jordan…I don't think they would want anyone in there with them at the moment" Chase said as he sat back down against the wall
Lachie went and sat beside Chase "You alright mate?" he asked concerned
Chase shook his head "I'm more worried about Heidi and Jordan"
"I know Chase. It will take time and their going to need their friends here. So will wait and when their ready will be right here waiting" Lachie explained to his brother. Dean was holding onto Lara who was crying into his jacket, they each shed a tear as they knew that Heidi and Jordan had wanted these babies for ages and the little babies were part of the rescue family.
After a few hours Jordan came storming out of the room, they all got up.
"Jordan. Are you okay?" Lara asked concerned. Jordan just ran straight by all of them they could tell he was crying
"Jordan!" Chase shouted, he tried several times but Jordan would turn around, Chase started to run to try and follow Jordan and see where he was going.
"Chase. Just leave him. He won't want to speak to anyone but Heidi right now" Lachie said catching up to Chase
"Look, his my best mate. I need to make sure he's okay…Just let go off me" Chase said glaring at his older Brother. Lachie let go of his grip that was held tightly around Chase's arm. Chase finally caught up to Jordan, he found him in the men's bathroom, smashing and kicking cubicle doors.
"Jordan, stop" Chase said running into the toilets and trying to pull him away from breaking something, though Chase tried with all his strength he just couldn't pull Jordan away.
"Piss of Chase!" Jordan shouted pushing Chase out of the way
"Jordan" Chase tried to reason with him
"I said piss off Chase!" Jordan shouted, he pushed Chase into cold tiled wall and held him against his will
"Jordan…I know this is going to be ha-.." Chase was trying to explain before Jordan interrupted him agitated
"You don't know what it's like Chase! You have no idea!" Jordan continued shouting, and gave Chase one final push, smashing his back into the wall he punched him in the face before he realised what he was doing to his best mate.
Jordan let go of Chase and sunk down leaning against the wall he buried his head into his hands and took deep breaths. Chase went and sat beside him waiting for Jordan to talk first.
"I'm sorry. It's not your fault, I never should have hit you or took me anger out in you" Jordan said
"It's alright Jordan" Chase said patting Jordan's back "Heidi….She wants to see you" Jordan got up with the help of Chase when he saw a bruise starting to form under Chase's eye
"Shit man…I didn't mean to do that" Jordan said feeling guilty for what previously happened
"It's okay Jordan. Seriously, its fine" Chase said. They both walked out and down the corridor to Heidi's room, where the team were waiting outside Heidi's room. As Chase walked by Lachie, he tried to hide the dark bruise from Lachie's eyes, but Lachie saw it and grabbed Chase and pulled him towards him.
"What the hell happened, who did that?" Lachie knew what the answer was and knew that would happen as soon as Chase went following Jordan
"Just leave it Lachie" Chase said getting out of his Brothers grip. Chase walked into the room and found Heidi lying in a ball on the bed, her face was pale and her eyes were puffy and red from all the crying. Chase went and sat beside Heidi and pulled her up to his chest and started to rub her forehead as Heidi wrapped her arms around Chase's body.
"I don't want to see anyone else Chase. Please not tonight. Can you tell Lara I'm really sorry" Heidi said looking up at Chase as the tears fell down her cheeks. "But I want you to stay with me…Only you and Jordan"
"Yeah, of course" Chase said hugging Heidi before he got out and left the room. "Hey uh…Heidi doesn't feel up to seeing anyone tonight. She feels really bad that she couldn't, but she just can't deal with it tonight"
The team understood and Chase pulled Lara to one side "Hey, she wanted me to tell you that she's really, really sorry"
"Tell her I understand and if she wants to call me I'm here. I'm guessing that you're staying with her tonight?" Lara said
"Yeah, she wants me to stay" Chase said.
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