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Now on with the chapter.

Chapter 16

7 months later

Shane's POV

I don't think that it is possible for my life to get any better than how it is at this moment in time. Claire and I have managed to get back to together and I believe that we are now better and stronger than we were before in our relationship.

I'm glad that we are back together as I can now sleep in peace at night as Claire is wrapped safely in my arms. There are now even times when I never want to move and just go back to sleep, especially when I have dreams like the one that I had last night. It was nothing extravagant just me running around the garden with the children whilst Claire sits on the porch with a smile on her face and our last child wrapped in a white blanket and safely situated in her arms. When I did wake up from the dream I had wished that it did show the future as Claire and I have decided, or rather Claire has decided and I'm just going along with it, to not know what we are going to have.

I don't know why we are doing this but this but as it is something that she wants and I will not be going against anything she says. Especially right now as she can often be in a horrible mood. I know that she doesn't mean what she says, it's just her hormones and the fact that she has been stuck on bed rest and often feels pain in particular in her lower back and can then struggle to find a comfortable position to lie or sit in.

Today was Saturday which will then mean that all of the children will be home today all day as I believe that none of them have any plans with their friends.

As Claire was still asleep I decided that it would be best to let her carry on sleeping and make her some breakfast and hope that today she will not be in too much pain. I also noticed that that the children will likely to be getting up now and wanting some breakfast.

I thankfully managed to get out of bed without disturbing Claire and able to make a start on breakfast.

After breakfast was eaten I allowed the children to watch some TV as we always make the children start on their homework after lunch.

I went back upstairs about an hour later to see if Claire was awake yet but she wasn't just yet so I again let her be and planned o come back again in a few minutes with food as in knew that she would not be asleep much longer. I do just hope that she is feeling okay today.

Claire has been feeling dreadful today that I was very tempted to call the doctor to see if he could make any suggestions as to how I could make Claire feel better and more comfortable in bed.

I especially wished I had when Claire had started to scream for me just as I was trying to make something for us to have for lunch.

I ran upstairs fearing that the worst had happened to her and I was scared as to what it was that I would find there.

Claire's POV

My life feels terrible right now. My doctor has told me that I have to be put on bed rest for the last couple of months of my pregnancy and I hate every moment of it. I hate it as it feels like I have been stuck in this room for ages now. I would just love to be able to go somewhere else so that
I could not have to constantly see only these four walls. The children will come and see me for a bit but they get bored I think and leave.

This morning feels like it has been the worst day ever. I feel more pain today and so no TV or films have been able to work as a distraction from it and make me something other than boredom.

Shane has spent the morning with me and only then leaving to check on the children and then again when he went to get something for lunch.

It was then at this point when I suddenly felt a very sharp pain in my stomach and the sheets had become damp.

"Shane!" I screamed as I was now in a fair bit of pain. I know that I want this child out of me so that I could leave this room but now I wanted it to stay as it is a month too early and from the mount of pain that I am feeling I fear that something is wrong. There is a part of who thinks that there may be nothing to be done to stop it from happening.

I tried to move myself so that I could change into dry clothes but what I then saw scared me. There was blood on the sheets.

I became frightened and scared to move any further and this is how Shane found me.

"I'm going to call for an ambulance. Just try to stay calm okay." Whilst she was calling for an ambulance I then felt a pain that nearly made me scream but I stopped myself for fear that the children would hear me and become sacred. I feel really scared now that something bad is happening now. "An ambulance is on its way now Claire. I'm just going now to speak to Ethan and Abigail to see if they will help distract the younger ones and I'll call Eve and see if she will be willing to come round and look after the children." I'm going to guess that the fear I then felt at him leaving me appeared on my face. "I won't be long Claire. I promise you I will be no more than five minutes if I am any longer you are free to shout at me as much as you like." I then released his hand so he could leave and kept me eyes on the clock and it did help a bit to distract me from the pain but not very well.

When Shane came back into the room I had forgot how long he had been gone for as I had began to feel lightheaded and all my eyes then wanted to do was close.

"Claire, baby, please keep your eyes open for me. The ambulance will be here soon and the children are outside right now playing and have promised that they won't come back inside until Eve arrives. Just try to stay with me please Claire."

I just about managed to succeed at doing so and it was helped by Shane making me try and think of possible names for our child. Then the sound of sirens could be heard. Shane went o open the door and told me that when he came back he wanted for me to have my eyes open and some more possible names.

I tried my best to keep my eyes open and for my brain to keep on think of possible names and therefore of the pain I was feeling and how much I would love to just close my eyes. I just want to sleep right now and then wake up once again when I can have this child held safely in my arms.

Just as my eyes were closing again Shane came back into the room with the paramedics. Shane tried once again for me to keep my eyes open and held onto my hand telling me that whenever I felt any pain to squeeze his hand as hard as I wanted but at this point I think my brain was then starting to shut down or something as I was slowly loosing the fight against my eyes and struggled to keep on getting them to open every time I blinked.

"Claire we need for you to keep your eyes open. Stay with us Claire, please baby, stay with us." But I could no longer. I looked into Shane's eyes and saw that they were filled with tears and they closed and would then not open again.

AN: I know that there will be some of you out there who will now hate me for what has now happened but I would like to point out once again that I only write HEA.

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