April grabbed her stomach as another contraction hit her. She leaned forward and tried to breathe. "Where the hell are the paramedics?" Jackson was pacing back and forth.

"They…they will be here." April said through her breathing. "The snow…" April winced. "Oh wow."

"What?"

"That was a strong one."

"We should just drive to the hospital."

"So you can get into an accident on the way. No. We'll just wait. The contractions are still fifteen minutes apart."

"You had to go into labor during a snow storm?"

"You're blaming me?"

"No of course not. I'm sorry. I'm just freaking out here a little."

"Now is not the time to freak out."

"I don't know how you can still be so calm."

"The contractions make a good distraction."

Jackson rubbed her back and she leaned into him. "How bad are they?"

"About a four." April let out a whimper and grabbed his leg. Jackson took her hand and kept rubbing circles on her back. April was having a hard time breathing through the pain.

"You have to breathe, Babe."

"I'm trying." April said through gritted teeth.

Jackson paced as he talked on the phone with a dispatcher. "I know the snow storm is causing delays but my wife is in labor and the contractions are 5 minutes apart." Jackson shouted. April was sitting on the bed breathing through another contraction. "Yeah. Okay. Fine." Jackson hung up the phone. "Apparently there's more important things then a woman in labor."

"Jackson…" April had a pained look on her face. He went over to her and sat down. "The ambulance is on the way."

"It's not coming fast enough."

"Looks like you might get to deliver the baby after all." April tried to smile. "Just take a deep breath and calm down. If you freak out then I'm going to freak out and I really can't freak out right now."

Jackson took a few breaths. "Okay. I'm good."

"Okay…then I need you to check to see how dilated I am."

"What?"

"You have to check me."

"No. Why? The ambulance will be here any minute."

"Jackson…please."

"Yeah. Okay." Jackson helped her lay back on the bed. "You ready?"

April nodded. "Yeah." Jackson grabbed a glove from his bag and snapped it on.

"I can't believe I'm doing this."

"You kept telling me that if the OB didn't show you wanted to deliver the baby."

"I was joking. I didn't think I would really be doing it." April winced as he checked her. She leaned back against the pillows and closed her eyes. Jackson finished examining her and he took off his glove. "You're about 7 centimeters."

"Okay." April winced and leaned forward as another wave of contractions came. Jackson rubbed her leg and let her take his hand. April started to cry. Jackson kissed her head.

"They getting more intense?"

"Yeah." April whimpered.

"You're doing great." Jackson rubbed her back until the contraction ended.

Jackson held a wet cloth to April's forehead. The contractions were now three minutes apart. The last time Jackson checked her she was almost at nine centimeters. Each contraction was getting stronger. "You're almost there. Not much longer."

"I can't do it anymore." April cried.

"You can't give up now. We're almost at the finish line."

"No I can't." April cried and shook her head.

"Yes you can. The April Kepner I married is strong and never gives up."

"Jackson…" April cried.

"Just think about the baby and how much you want to see it." April took some deep breaths in to try to compose herself. Jackson smiled. "Just like that."

Another contraction came and April leaned forward grabbing her stomach. She let out a cry of pain. Jackson wiped her forehead and neck with the cloth. Sweat was starting to drip down the side of April's face and her hair was wet and matted down to her forehead. "Good. That's good." The contraction ended and April fell back against the pillows. "I'm going to check you again, okay?" April was to busy recovering from the contraction to answer. Jackson put a glove on and checked her again. "You're at 10. You can start pushing on the next contraction."

"I am?"

"Yeah." Jackson smiled. Another contraction came sooner then April would have liked. Jackson helped her sit up. April took a deep breath in and started to push. Jackson helped hold her leg up as she pushed and he counted. When he got to 10, April stopped pushing and laid back again. "Just keep doing it like that. That's really good." Thirty seconds later another contraction came.

"Oh, God." April cried and got back into position to push again.

April had been pushing for over an hour. Jackson kept checking her to see how her progress was going. "I can see the baby's head. It's right there." April cried. "It has your hair coloring." April laughed through her tears. "One more push and the head will be out."

"It hurts."

"I know it does but you can do it. Just one more push." Jackson grabbed some things from his bag to clear out the baby's airway. "April I need you to sit up and push and stop when I tell you to. Okay? Alright?" April pushed. "Good keep going." Jackson helped guide the baby's head out. "Okay. Stop." April let out a cry. Jackson suctioned the baby's mouth and nose with a bulb syringe. "Okay one more time. Nice and easy." April continued to cry as she got back into position again. "Push April." April pushed and Jackson pulled the baby out the rest of the way. April sobbed as the baby let out a cry. "It's a girl!" Jackson had some tears rolling down his cheeks as he looked down at the baby crying in his arms. He clamped off the cord and cut between the two clamps.

"A girl?" April couldn't stop crying.

"She's beautiful." Jackson wiped her off with a towel and wrapped her up.

"Can I see her?" Jackson brought her over to April and laid her on her chest. April wrapped her arm around her. "Oh my..." April said just above a whisper. "Hi Baby." April smiled and kissed her. The baby continued to cry. "Shh it's okay."

"You did it Babe."

"We did it." Jackson kissed her on the lips.

"I love you so much."

"I love you too." April smiled at him. There was a knock on the door and then someone called in.

"Paramedics!"

"In here!" Jackson called. The paramedics came rushing in with their bags and one of them was pushing a gurney.

"Looks like we're a little late."

"It's a good thing I'm a doctor." April snuggled the baby and kissed her. "We need to get her to the hospital." One of the paramedics checked out April.

"Let's get her on the gurney." Jackson took the baby while the paramedics helped April onto the gurney. One of the medics wrapped the baby in a warming blanket. "Ready?"

"Yeah." Jackson gave April back the baby.

"Jackson the baby bag."

"I'll get it and meet you down there." The paramedics pushed April out while Jackson went to get the bag.

To Be Continued...