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Chapter Four: Pregnancy, Again

"Peter!" Megan called down the hall.

Peter ran down the hall into their bedroom. But he didn't see Megan. "Megs? Where are you?"

"In the bathroom."

He sighed. Not this again…

But when he walked in, Megan was bent over the sink, eyes closed, gripping the edge of the counter.

"Megan, are you okay?" Peter stroked her back gently.

She looked up at him. Peter could see that she was holding something in her hand, but couldn't see what it was. "I'm fine. But…"

Megan showed him what she had been holding. Another pregnancy test.

"Oh my god." Peter just stared at it. "You're pregnant?"

She nodded.

He grabbed her around the waist and lifted her into the air, squealing.

"That's great!" he put her down and kissed her, happy in this news.

"Yep." Megan was so nervous that she was visibly shaking. "We're having a baby."

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"It's a girl." The doctor told the couple. The picture on the ultrasound showed the unborn child, who was wonderful and healthy.

Peter put his hand on Megan's shoulder and stared at the picture of his daughter. It was incomprehensible that he had made that little piece of life.

"I'll just give you two a moment while I get pictures printed.

"Thank you." Megan said, as the doctor left the room. She sighed and stared at the screen. Her child. Healthy and perfect.

"We should probably pick a name." Her husband said. She turned to him, startled, as she had been lost in thought.

"What?" She asked.

"A name." Peter repeated, almost stumbling over the words he had never imagined himself saying.

"Right." Megan started thinking.

"Well, how did you give Lacey her name?"

Megan smiled at the memory. "Lacey was actually supposed to be a boy." She chuckled. "So Todd and I were completely unprepared.

"But I held her, and she was so…soft and delicate." Megan paused. "Her name was the only thing Todd and I ever agreed about completely."
"What about her middle name? Julianna?" Peter asked. He was actually kind of interested to know how his stepdaughter had been named.

(A/N: This is a reference to the original story, The Not So Many Romances of Megan Hunt! It might be easier to understand if you read chapter 4 and 6, which regard Lacey's name and birth!)

"Julia." Megan's smile faded. "When I was in high school, I had a friend named Julia. But one day, I had ended up in the hospital, and she came to see me. She gave me this little pink elephant, and we started talking. I said I might give it to my daughter one day – which I did, actually – and she asked if I would name my daughter after her."

Megan's eyes filled with sadness. "I promised I would. She was my best friend. Then, she died in a car crash a few months later." She released an ironic laugh. "She had always been a reckless driver."

Peter stroked his wife's cheek, which had a single tear running down it. "I'm so sorry."

"It's okay. Anyway, that's how I named her." Megan met Peter's eyes for a moment. "I don't know if she'll be that easy." She ran her hand across her enlarged belly, and felt her little girl kick against it. She laughed.

"What?" Peter asked her.

"Baby kicked." She grabbed his hand and held it against her stomach so that he could feel it. The child, in turn, went into a little kickboxing frenzy, causing Megan a bit of pain. "Someone's excited."

Peter's heart got a little warmer at that moment, feeling the life that he had helped create.

"I know what we should name her." He told his wife.

She laughed. "We are not naming her Chuck Norris, if that's what you're thinking!"

He chuckled. "No, no…" Peter smiled. "We should name her after someone we know. Maybe someone at work, even."

Megan considered. "Like who?"

"Well the only girls we work with are Kate and Sam, well, and Ethan, but isn't a very feminine name."

His wife smacked him playfully on the chest. "Not nice!"

"But true." He smiled. "Really, I'm thinking Samantha Kate. It's got some meaning behind it."

She beamed at him. "Samantha Kate Dunlop. I like it. How about you?"

As if in response, the unborn child kicked once again.

"Samantha Kate it is!"

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"So how are you feeling? You know, about getting a sister?" Megan asked her daughter (the one that had been born already).

"Pretty good." Lacey answered, setting her car keys on the counter. "I've gotta say, between getting a little sister, and my license, and a car, life's been pretty sweet on me!" The sixteen year old laughed.

"Remember, any tickets and it's goodbye to driving!" Megan warned.

"I know, Mo-"

"Ahhh!" Her mother keeled over, gripping her swollen stomach. Being over eight months pregnant could do that to a person.

"Mom! Mom, what happened! Is the – " Lacey ran to her mother's side, trying to be of use in some way.

"Lacey, the baby's coming!" She wailed in pain as the pressure on her lower half elevated to such a point that Megan feared she would explode.

"Oh god!" Her eyes widened. "I'll call Peter, ask him to – "

"There's no time, you need to drive me!" Her mother nearly screamed as the pain continued to grow stronger.

"But, but the…and I just…I can't!" Lacey was freaking out. It was like asking a seven year old to file taxes – overrated and nearly impossible.

"Ahh! Lacey, please! It's not like I can hold this baby in!" Megan gripped the kitchen counter and pulled herself to her feet.

"Okay!" Lacey grabbed her mother's keys, not wanting to risk getting birthing liquids all over her new car (who wouldn't, right?) and helped her mother get in, calling her stepfather as she did.

"Peter, you need to get to the hospital now. Mom's gonna have the baby! I'm going to take her, just meet us there!" She hung up and started the ignition, her mother wailing in the background. She sped away – which she had promised herself she wouldn't do – and ended up getting stopped by a police officer for going the wrong way down the street.

But seeing the pregnant woman in the passenger's seat, he turned on his siren and led them to the hospital.

Lacey didn't get any tickets, thank god.

Because then she would lose her license.

Which would be bad.

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"Shit…" Peter ran another red light with the gas pedal floored. He was not going to miss his daughter being born.

There was a blaze of honking and a few dozen people showing him a certain finger.

He turned into the hospital parking lot, parked in the emergency room area and ran into the building.

"I'm looking for Megan Dunlop, she's having a baby – "

"Oh, I know!" The officer who had been standing near the entrance said. "The redhead who came in screaming at me and called me a – "

"That's her. I'm her husband." Peter said.

"Huh." He walked over to the sign in desk and said to a woman who had just ended a call, "Hey, can you get Nurse Burke in here to take Mr. Dunlop to his wife?"

"Sure thing." She nodded, picking up the phone once again. About seven seconds later, the door opened and Peter was led through the hospital. He hated these places. They smelled like sickness and sterilized needles.

"Here we are!" The nurse said, gesturing to a room. Peter thanked her and walked in cautiously.

"Hey, babe I'm here!" He said to his wife, who had definitely looked better.

"It's about time!" She said, groaning as the baby kept trying to push out.

Megan was being instructed by a midwife who was trying to coax Megan along.

It wasn't until minutes later when a child's cry was released into the air that Megan could finally breathe.

"Good job, sweetie." Peter told his wife, who was exhausted.

Megan closed her eyes.

"Megan? Megan what – "

"Oh, no. We need to get her into the ICU, she's bleeding out!" Doctors were scrambling around.

"No, Megan!"

"Sir, you're going to have to leave."

"But – " Peter was nearly pushed out the door with no more than a glance at his newborn baby and his wife, who lay unconscious on the hospital bed.

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