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He was here, I finally brought my beautiful little boy into the world. His loud wail was like music to my ears, Bubbles was on my right beaming and wearing a huge smile while on my left Brick had his hands laced with mine. He looked absolutely amazed at the tiny life the doctor was holding that we had created, I looked back at saw a head of matted red hair and his eyes where tightly shut; he was positively beautiful.
"Wow" I breathed, I held Brick's hand tighter never wanting to let go and remember this moment for the rest of my life. That was until I felt a tight pain in my lower body that I only could describe as the feeling of someone splitting me open, but before I could ask anything I felt myself being sucked into darkness, sound became distorted and Brick's frantic red eyes the last thing I see.
Then everything went silent and where my body should be it felt incredibly light and empty, but the lighter my body got the brighter things seemed to get. I was glad for the brightness finally something was happening the darkness too unsettling. Things then began getting brighter and brighter then too bright.
A blinding bright.
So bright it began to hurt, I suddenly didn't want the light anymore and I wanted to fall back into the cool darkness I wanted to see my baby I wanted to see Brick and my friends. The light was stunning now as I tried my hardest to push myself back to feel my body. I tried to bring images into my head to distract myself from the light, Bubbles kind smile, Boomer's band playing, Butch's pranks and jokes, Buttercup's fiery personality... Brick's hot red eyes.
Nothing. I couldn't pull one single memory of my friends up to help me, I needed something anything to get me through this. I remembered my baby his red hair and oval face that was screaming out for me, suddenly the sound of my son's crying filled me and that was the only thing I could here. It sounded desperate as if he was calling for me to go to him to make him safe, he sounded upset and scared and every fibre of my being was screaming for me to get to him. I put all of my concentration into listening to that crying and slowly the light began to dim. The crying became fainter and I strained to listen to it, but the more concentration I put into listening to the wailing the less bright the light got.
Before I knew it I was back in the cool darkness and I could no longer hear my baby's crying, but I still felt incredibly light like an empty shell. It felt like hours that I stayed in this state before something else started happening, my body started getting heavier once again bit by bit I could feel my limbs as if I was being fed strength. I knew I could twitch my fingers and toes and move my mouth but I felt if I did I would loose all the strength I had building up.
I have no idea how long it was but as soon I could hear my own heart beating I began to hear people talking.
"Should I tell them they can come in" A female voice asked.
"Just the father, we might need to act quickly again" A male replied, I heard footsteps and the sound of a door opening the muffled talking. There where more footsteps this time and someone walked right over to the side of me, I felt them stroke my cheek then take my hand in their own.
"Would you like to see him?" Someone asked, the voice that replied was from the person stood next to me.
"Not yet I want her to see him first" The man said at the side of me. As soon as I heard his rough rich voice come out of his mouth I instantly clicked voice to face. Brick. Thank goodness he was still here something familiar and safe out of everything. I wanted to see him so badly so I tried to open my eyes but it seemed some unknown force was holding them shut.
"She's just fluttered her eyes" Brick called to the doctor, I tired again and to no avail, I heard more footsteps which was no doubt the doctor coming over to me. I was getting pretty sick and tired of not knowing what was going on so with one final try I snapped my eyes open and right into blazing red ones.
"Blossom" He whispered, I breathed a laugh as he leaned in to kiss me. It was sweet and passionate and everything you read about in romance novels. When we pulled apart something extremely important flooded my confused mind.
"Where is he?" I asked, Brick looked momentarily confused before realisation dawned on him.
"He's asleep in the nursery and don't worry he's completely one-hundred percent healthy and safe, actually it's a good thing you woke up when you did the little dude will be getting hungry" Brick said grinning I smiled thinking about my son. I shifted uncomfortably my limbs feeling stiff.
"What happened to me?" I asked, eyeing up the IV drip stuck in my arm, Brick's eyes wandered warily and he sat down in the chair at the side of me.
"Well what do you remember?" He asked.
"Well I remember the baby and seeing him but then it became very painful... you know... down there" I said motioning with my arms, Brick shuddered slightly and nodded his head. "Then everything went very dark and silent, then there was a bright light then I heard our baby crying and everything went dark again and then I woke up" I explain, I decided to leave out the part of the light empty feeling, he looked in deep thought and he was still holding my hand.
"Brick?" I said snapping him out of this thoughts. "What happened?"
He took a deep breath and looked into my eyes. "Well after you gave birth, you lost a lot of blood and trust me when I say a lot. Then you just passed out and we where kicked out of the room then some nurse came out-" He stopped and kissed my hand I have never seen him like this, he looked as if I was about to disappear into thin air in a matter of seconds and every thing I did was precious to him. Now Brick is a very independent, head strong, tough man and I've only seen his true emotions twice the first when his grandmother died and he locked himself in his office and I went over to comfort him. And the second time when we saw our baby for the first time all them months ago.
"Hey are you okay?" I asked softly, I was beginning to get really worried as Brick continued.
"Bloss your heart stopped beating for 6 minutes" Brick said, my eyes widened in shock and my head started pounding.
"For 6 minutes I thought you where dead and that you had left me and our baby and I couldn't handle it. But before my mind could actually make sense of what had happened and before I could even fathom on what to do the doctor came out and told me they had saved you" He explained, I was speechless I felt horribly guilty for putting Brick through that I can't imagine how he must have felt.
"I'm so sorry" I whispered, Brick looked at my confused. "Why?"
"For putting you through that" I said, he shook his head and smiled.
"All that matters to me is that you came back to us and good thing too I thought Bubbles was going to drown on her own tears" He joked, I laughed at him and noticed two white tubs at the end of my bed.
"What are those?" I asked Brick looked at them then back to me.
"Well when I said you lost a lot of blood it was so much that you had to have a blood transfusion, so what was in them tubs is what they used" He explain. Ah! It all made sense now, the light empty feeling then slowing regaining strength. It was hard to wrap my head around it all so I was thankful for the interruption.
"Hi there I'm nurse Jane, your son is ready for a feed think you'll be up to it?" The nurse asked, nerves flooded my stomach and I felt a smile creep onto my face. The nurse smiled in reply and in a couple of minutes she was bringing in my baby. She put him in my arms and I stared at him marvelled. He had light red hair that covered his tiny head, he had my nose and Bricks face with just the right amount of baby fat to make him look adorable. But his most striking featured had to be his big eyes, they where a pale brown almost a light pink but I swear they had Bricks flecks of red tint in there making them look a dark maroon. I held him close and watched him as he looked up at me the same amazement in his face as mine.
"Your so beautiful" I whispered kissing his small forehead.
"Yeah he is" Brick said form the side of me, I looked at him and he had the same amount of devotion in his eyes as I did for our son. Wow, our son the words where forging in my mind but they felt comfortable.
"Have you held him yet?" I asked Brick, he shook his head and I began to pass him over Brick who looked damn right terrified. "Don't worry Brick this is your son, you won't do anything wrong" I sooth Brick smiles timidly and relaxes slightly, I pass him over and Brick cradles him awkwardly in his arms. The baby begins to stir and whine and Brick's eye widen in horror.
"What's wrong with him?"
The nurse chuckles at the side of me and I smile at him.
"Sooth him, let him know your his daddy and he's safe" I tell him, Brick looks down at him.
"Hey little man, don't cry" He says rocking him gently, the baby quietens down and looks up at Brick with his big brown-ish red eyes. Brick looks at me grinning. "It worked!"
Brick hands him back to me and the nurses teaches me how to feed him. Once he was finished he fell asleep in my arms the nurse left us for some time alone and said she would be back in a few hours.
"Shall I let the other's come in?" Brick asks his head resting on his arms at the side of my bed.
"There still here?" I ask shocked.
"Of course they are, so shall I?" Brick asked stand up.
"Sure" I said smiling, Brick kissed our baby on his head before leaving and as soon as he left the room Bubbles shot in.
"Oh Blossom he's beautiful!" She squeals clasping her hands together, everyone else files in behind her more quietly and stand around my bed.
"He is one cute little dude" Boomer smiles putting his arms around Bubbles who is holding the baby.
"What's he called?" Buttercup asks, I look at Brick questionably. "Well we did decide on Jake a few weeks back" Brick reminded me, I sigh.
"I know but he doesn't feel like a Jake" I say as he's passed onto Boomer, I sit looking at him trying to picture what name would best suit him, then it hits me.
"How about Brandon?" I say looking at Brick. "Why?" He asks.
"Your grandfather was called Brandon" I explain smiling at him, Brick looks taken back and a small smile slides onto his mouth.
"I think it's perfect" He says as he kisses me, everyone around us is smiling and my eyes land on Butch who... has a tear in his eye?
"Butch?" I say shocked, he looks at me quickly and grunts rubbing his face.
"I think there's something in the water in this place" He mutters.
"Aw dude!" Boomer jokes Butch looks at him before his stern face drops.
"Well how can you not? Look at him!" He says pointing to Brandon I giggle as he's passed back to me, I look at him with all the love him my heart.
"Brandon..." I whisper, just then he looks at me and I almost fall out of my bed in shock because resting on my childs lips at mear hours old is his father's cheeky smirk.
"Well your going to fit right in"
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