Chapter 2

Suddenly that tweaking turned into pain.

"Ahh!" I groaned. Jace looked at me with a worried expression.

"Clary what's wrong?" I shook my head and clutched my stomach. "Clary you're worrying me."

He stopped the movie and kneeled in front of me. "By the Angel. Clary you're bleeding."

"Jace. Please take me to the hospital." I breathed out before going light headed.

"Clary. Hold onto me I'm going to pick you up and take you to my car. Okay." All I could do was nod.

He carried me to the car and placed me gently in the passenger seat and buckled me in. Jace ran to his side and started the car.

When he stopped at the hospital I decided to tell him. "Jace hold on for a second. Don't yell or leave me or anything like that."

"What is it Clary."

I took a deep breath. "I'm pregnant."

"What. Whose is it?" I looked at his face and regretted my actions. His expression was of pure shock, sadness, horror and jealousy.

"I'm 18 weeks Jace. You're the father." I felt another twinge. "Please help me inside."

He carried me bridle style to the front desk silently. A young lady greeted us. "Hi there how can we help you?"

"We need a doctor. My girlfriend is pregnant and has been in pain and there is bleeding." Jace said to the woman.

"Okay. I'll get someone to take you to get checked out." She left for a moment and came back with someone very familiar.

"Dad?!" I said loudly. Did I forget to mention that Luke is a doctor at the hospital and he doesn't know about the baby?

"By the Angel Clary!" He motioned Jace to follow him. "What happened?" They took me to a private room.

Jace carefully lay me down on the bed. "Luke I'm sorry I didn't tell you before. I'm pregnant. And today I was having these tiny tweaks in my lower abdomen and then tonight on our date the tweaks turned painful and there was blood." I felt tears slipping down my face. "Oh and this is Jace."

The men shook hands. Then a couple of nurses came through the door with the ultrasound machine and my gynaecologist Dr Penhallow.

"Hello Clary. I heard you were here. I'm just going to do a check-up and see what the problem is." She slaps her gloves on and looks at the men in the room. "Hey Lucian. And who's this?"

"I'm Jace the father." Dr Penhallow nodded and turned on the ultrasound machine.

"Now Clary this is going to be cold for a moment." She squirted a blob of gel on my stomach. I hissed at the cold. She moved the wand around and looked at the screen. "Well it seems that your baby is doing fine. Except, what has happened is your placenta has slid down and is partially covering your cervix. You were fine last month. I'm going to keep you here overnight for observation. Now I have the perfect position to see the sex would you like to know?"

I glanced at Jace to see him nod. "Yes we'd like to know."

Dr Penhallow squeezes my hand. "Congratulations you're having a little girl." With that she packed up the machine and left the room.

Luke came up and hugged me. "Congratulations Clare-bear. Now get some rest. I'll come and check on you when my shift ends."

Once he left the room Jace came up to me and hugged me. "By the Angel Clary. You had me worried. Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

I shrugged. "I don't know. You lived in LA and all I knew about you was your name. And then last night when I saw you I thought I had been given a second chance and I didn't want to screw it up."

I started crying. "God, Jace I thought I was having a miscarriage."

Jace was shushing me while he lay down with me. "Don't cry Clary. It's alright. Our baby is going to be fine."

With Jace calming me down I fell in a dreamless sleep.

I woke the next morning to find my head snuggled into Jace's chest. When I moved for some air I woke Jace up.

"Good morning Clary." He sighed.

"Yes good morning Clary." I heard Isabelle say from the chair besides us.

"Hey Iz." I gently sit up.

Izzy walked up to the bed. "Don't 'Hey Iz' me. I got a call last night from Luke, saying that you were in the hospital and that I should wait until morning to visit. Nothing else. I've been worried sick."

She pulled me into a hug.

"Morning Jace." She said.

"Hey. Do you two want anything to eat or drink? I'm going to run over to Taki's." He questioned.

"No thanks. I already ate." Isabelle said.

I shrugged. "Can you get me a smoothie?" Jace nodded, kissed me and left the room.

"What happened to you?"

"I have Placenta Previa Iz, it's when my placenta is lower than it should be. Oh and I'm having a girl."

Izzy squealed. "Yay! I'm going to be an auntie to a little girl!" She lifted up a bag and plonked it on my feet. "So Luke said you'd be staying for a few days to rest up, so I brought an overnight bag with your pjs, clothes and some other things."

Suddenly the door opened and Jace and Doctor Penhallow entered. "Good morning Clary. How do you feel today?"

I smiled at her. "Alright, thanks." She walks up and takes my clipboard out. "So Clary. About your condition. There are some risk factors involved with Placenta Previa. Now I've already talked with Jace about this."

I looked at Jace and his expression was mixed with worry, sadness and guilt. "Go on."

"You need to stay on bed rest for the rest of your pregnancy, which means no physical activities, standing around too long. I don't recommend you going on a plane. And it would be best if you have someone with you in case anything happens. Now if this gets worse, hospitalisation would be required. Because your placenta is much lower than usual you most likely would need a caesarean section, but in the unlikely event that your placenta rises closer to normal it wouldn't matter either way." I nodded at her taking all the information. "The major risk is if this gets much worse we might lose you and your little baby girl. I'm just going to go and sign your discharge papers and you're free to go home. It may take a while so just hang in there."

After Doctor Penhallow left, Jace sat down on the bed next to Isabelle and handed me my drink. "Wow Clare, that's scary."

Hey guys!

I want to say thanks for the reviews, keep them coming.

I have never experienced placenta previa, this is only from research. If i got anything wrong, don't hesitate to tell me. i'll try my best to fix it.

Lastly I figured it would be best just to shoot straight into the problem and not prolong it.

Next update would be in a few days. Please review!

Love Jess