Nearing the end of the story :( Don't be mad at me! Just letting you all know that you can expect at least 2 or three more chapters before I actually finish it.
Enjoy! :)
*I do not own Divergent, Veronica Roth does. She always has, always will.
Chapter 28 – Say 'Hi'
Tobias' POV
Tris went to the infirmary about ten minutes after the kids left for school, and she's been here ever since and started having a lot of pain three hours after they brought her down to the infirmary.
She has been in labor for about 10 hours. She is in a lot of pain, and so is my hand, because whenever a wave of pain hits her, she starts to crush my hand. I knew she was strong but I didn't she was strong enough to crush my hand like she is doing now. The pain in my hand is more intense than when had to squeeze it for when she had Jake and Jenna. Hopefully this will all be over soon, because I hate seeing her in so much pain. And because I hope that we don't have a reoccurrence of the last time she was having a baby.
"Tobias, this is your fault!" she screams at me when the pain hits her again. But this time her face scrunches up more than the other times. I hope that means she will be able to start soon.
The doctor comes in just as that thought leaves my head. She comes over and measures Tris' large, round stomach, caused by the twins, mind you.
"Ok, Tris. It looks like you're going to have the twins soon." My hopes have been answered! I think to myself. After she leaves to get a blue blanket and beanie hat, and a pink blanket and beanie hat, I push Tris' wet hair, caused by sweating from pain, out of her faces and whisper softly, "Did you hear that Tris? You can start to push as soon as the doctor says you can, which is only in a couple minutes." She nods, well, as best she can anyway.
A few minutes later, she comes back with everything needed to clean off the twins. She comes over to us and tells Tris to take deep breaths and to start to push. And when she does start, I think I felt a couple bones in my hand pop or something. But all I have to really think about right now is Tris making it through this.
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10 – 15 minutes later
Tris just had the twins, a beautiful baby girl, and a handsome baby boy. After the nurses took them to get cleaned, weighted and whatever else to make sure they were healthy, her doctor came over to make sure everything was ok with Tris. Tris had passed out after my boy arrived and I'm starting to worry and freak out.
"What's wrong with her? We brought her to Erudite and they said that everything was ok for have kids again-" the doctor cuts me off. "She's fine, just tired from pushing so much. That takes a lot of energy, especially when having two babies at once. So Tris should wake up in about a couple hours or so. But for now, just keep an eye on her and the twins." She says with a smile, and walks out.
One of the nurses brings the kids over to me and gently sets them in my arms. They are sleeping but fidgeting around in their tightly wrapped blankets. I wish I could see their eyes, to see if they have mine or Tris' eye color. Hopefully a mixture of a little bit of both.
When I go to move a little lock of blonde hair away from the girls' eyes, she grabs my finger with her whole hand, and I smile.
We haven't decided on name yet, so I sit here with the two sleeping babies in my arms, waiting for Tris to wake up. As I get up to move them back to their little beds on the other side of Tris' bed, the boy starts to cry a little. I place the girl in her bed, and gently to back to my chair, and rock him back to sleep. After a couple minutes, he's back to sleeping, and I quietly bring him back to his bed, and this time he doesn't cry.
As I turn around, I see Tris stirs in her bed and slowly, her eyes start to open. I go back to sitting in my chair and take her hand. She turns to face me and smiles. "Hey, Tobias." She says while circling her thumb over my hand, and I try to stifle a wince. It doesn't seem that I hid it to well, because Tris instantly pulls her hand back and looks concerned.
"It's nothing Tris. Just, when you were screaming at me, and telling me 'this is all my fault', and I guess a big wave of pain hit you, that you squeezed my hand really hard, that it kind of hurts a little." I tell her and she laughs a little. Looking around the room, her eyes land on the two beds next to hers.
Her hand flies to her mouth and she starts to cry a little. But they aren't sad tears, they are tears of joy. I can tell, because I see her eyes somewhat squint, and her cheeks go up a little because she is smiling under her hand.
"They are beautiful." She says as she turns back to me. "Can I hold them?" she asks. She would, considering that when Jenna was born, she had a little breathing problem so we couldn't hold her until the doctors said it was ok. "Of course. The doctor said that they are perfectly healthy. That means, when you are healed a little more, we can go back home." I tell her before I get up to pick up the twins. I place them in her arms, and she still has tears of happiness slowly coming from her eyes.
Tris's POV
"We need to name them. Any ideas?" I ask him, still looking down at the two little munchkins wrapped in pink and blue blankets. I was thinking of a few names for a while now, but only a few names seem to come to mind. I look back at him to see if he has some names in mind.
"I was thinking," he says, looking back at the twins. "Aria for the girl, and Connor for the boy. What do you think?" he asks me.
Smiling, I look down at them. "Welcome to the family, Aria and Connor Eaton." At that, Tobias leans down and kisses them on their foreheads, and then kisses me full on the lips. It's a slow, sweet and passionate kiss. Soon he pulls back and takes out his cell phone.
"I'm going to send Will and Christina a picture of you, the twins and I." he tells me as he gets up, leans his phone against a wall while it rests on a little tables, puts on the self-timer option and comes back to us. Moving his chair closer to my bed, he puts on hand on my arm, and wraps the other arm around my shoulder. The camera flashes and we are temporarily blinded. Thankfully, the flash didn't wake Connor and Aria.
He stands up to get his phone. He picks it up, and smiles at it and brings it back over. I look at it, and see the twins sleeping, and Tobias and I smiling at the camera lens.
"I think we should put a little caption at the bottom saying, 'Say hello to Aria and Connor.' How does that sound?" I ask him. He nods and clicks on an app on the home screen and starts typing. And as he types, I see that it says, "Say hello to Aria and Connor " I smile at him. "I like the smiley face. It's a nice touch." He smiles back and kisses my forehead.
"Tris, you make me the happiest man alive. You know that?" he tells me and I blush. "And you make me the happiest girl alive." I tell him and he smiles at me.
He sends the picture to Will, and when he does, I see the time on his phones reads 7:00 p.m. and I realize that the Christina, Will, and the kids are probably waiting anxiously to see us, and to know how everything went.
"Will asked me, after we got here and I told him what was going on, to keep him updated on how you were and how everything was going. I texted him, while the nurses were cleaning the twins up, that you were fine and that everything went ok." He tells me, and I start to yawn, and so does he.
His phone goes off, which stops him from falling asleep just yet. Reading the text to me, he says, "I showed the picture to Jake and Jenna and they are really excited. And so is Christina. She says congratulations and wants to know when you would like us to come down." He finishes and looks at me for me, waiting for my answer.
"Tobias, isn't today Friday?" I ask and he nods. "That means the kids get to stay up until 9:30 p.m., right?" he nods again and I continue to explain. "Tell Will that they can come down in about an hour. I'm still really tired, and it looks like you are too." I smile at him and he just lets out a small chuckle, then a yawn. "See, I told you were tired. Get some sleep, and we can see them in an hour." "Ok." He says and he types back to Will, explaining what I told him.
"Come here, my new little monsters." Tobias says quietly, as he takes them out of my arms and places them back in their little beds. He comes back and sits in his chair while taking my hand in his, while rubbing small circles on the back of my hand. "I love you Tris." I smile at him. "I love you too Tobias." And with that, we fall asleep until Tobias' alarm on his phone quietly goes off to wake us up before the others get here.
Again, I'm really sorry for the short chapter. When I'm writing, it seems like a wrote A LOT. But when I finished, Microsoft says that there are less words from what I was expecting to have written. :(
Oh well, what am I to do? Just keep writing ad hope for the best.
I would like to thank those who gave ideas for baby names. The next chapter, I will use one of the girl names that everyone mentioned in the reviews. Which one? You'll have to wait and see. Until then, later! :)
