Thirty minutes into his run Cam's cell went off, Britney Spears Toxic, clueing him in to who was calling.
"Cameron, I'm bleeding, there's blood all over. I had to go to the bathroom, when I got there I was bleeding. Not like last time, not spotting, it's…it just keeps coming. The toilet's full of it, and I'm terrified, I didn't want to-"
"Call Carolyn. I'm going to cut through the neighbor's yards to get there faster. Get in the car, I'll be home in three. When I hang up, call Carolyn immediately, tell her everything you just told me. Understand?" Cam barked. Vala was beginning to panic, he could hear it in her voice.
"Do I need to take anything with me?" She asked fearfully.
"No. I'll come back later if you have to stay overnight. Just get in the car. I can see the house. Hang up now, call Carolyn." Cameron ordered. He vaulted the last fence, darted through the hedge and up the driveway, hitting the garage remote as he did. Rolling under the slowly rising door, he made it to his feet in under a second and yanked open the drivers side door on his Mustang, Vala sitting in the passenger's side on the cell with Carolyn. "She said we need to leave right now." she murmured, tears making their way down her cheeks. Mitchell cursed under his breath, hating Daniel for making her cry. "Take a breath darlin'. The baby and you are both going to be fine." He said louder when she hung up.
"Did you close the garage door?" She asked softly. Mitchell nodded once, intent on the road as he weaved in and out of traffic. Reaching the mountain twenty minutes later, he scrambled around to Vala's side of the car and yanked her door open, gently sliding his arms under and around her and lifting her out of the car. With a backwards kick, he slammed the door and began a headlong rush for the mountain. Carolyn met them at the entrance with a gurney, worry lining her brow. "You said you would be here ten minutes ago." she snapped, taking Vala's pulse while hurrying beside the gurney. "Cargo elevator, comes out right by the infirmary." She continued, pushing the SF's faster toward the already open cargo doors.
"Is Daniel down there?" Vala asked, her voice cracking with fear. Carolyn looked up to find Mitchell with her eyes, silently asking for help.
"I shall have him removed." Teal'c rumbled, appearing silent as a shadow at Vala's side, one hand grasping hers reassuringly.
"No, please, I want him there, please, get him, he needs to know, I can't do this without him, please!" Vala begged, twisting in sudden pain. "Outta' the way! Comin' through, make a hole!" Mitchell shouted when the cargo doors opened. SF's darted out of the way, flattening against the wall as the gurney rolled past them. Mitchell looked down to see Vala's fingers whiten against Teal'c's when her grip on his hand turned desperate. "Don't let them take my baby, please," She pleaded softly when the gurney came to a halt.
"Teal'c, Mitchell, I need you two out." Carolyn ordered, already prepping Vala for an exam.
"Get Daniel!" Vala called as Mitchell left.
Two hours after the excitement, Carolyn came out of the examination room, her normally pretty features drawn and worried.
"Vala?" Mitchell asked quietly.
"She's lost a lot of blood, but she's out of danger. The baby too. Has she been listening to my instructions on taking care of herself?" Carolyn asked, pinning the flyboy with a dark stare that boded no good for him.
"As far as I know, yeah. I've made her stay in bed all day, she's taken the meds you've prescribed, she's eaten anything and everything I put in front of her, I keep her hydrated, get her chocolate when she asks, I give her anything and everything she needs, if she loses her baby it's from nothing I've done. I swear." He quickly complied with the silent order she gave to tell her everything.
"Don't worry Colonel, Vala already told me she'd been putting in time on the treadmill when you were on your run every day. Evidently, she thinks that if you can do some action, so can she. I pulled her fingernails out 'til she promised to stay in bed until I tell her she's capable of walking. From now on, my suggestion is you tie her down when you need time to run." Carolyn sighed.
"I'll do better than that. I'll grab Jackson's credit cards and let her shop her way through Victoria's Secret, if she promises to stay in bed." He replied with a relieved grin. "May we be allowed to see her?" He added. Carolyn nodded and led the way to Vala's private exam room where she was resting quietly.
Vala was pale, her eyes swollen and lined with red, curled around her unborn baby, both hands resting on the bump.
"Hey, heard you and baby were going to be okay." Cam smiled, going for comforting. Tears sprouted from her eyes again at his words, almost impossibly she clenched tighter around her belly.
"I almost lost him, Cameron." she wept against him when he scooped her up, sheet and all.
"You'll be staying overnight to see if you start bleeding again, everything's going to be fine. Now you know why you can't move around, you could lose him. It's a bad time for you to be doing that, he needs a little more time to grow before he can make it on his own out here. I'll grab the rest of Jackson's credit cards if you'll just take it easy with your pregnancy for now. Baby Boy needs you strong, you want him to be okay when he comes, don't you?" Mitchell asked gently. Vala nodded, aware for the first time in her life of her own limitations. "You want me to stay with you tonight? I can order Chinese, we'll look those baby books you haven't once cracked open?" He offered then. She pulled away and wiped her eyes, nodding once.
"But I want Italian. Not Chinese." she replied somewhat calmly.
"Italian it is." Cam chuckled.