Hello! This might seem a bit abruptly ended but this one had a word limit…sorry! Hope you enjoy it. Thanks to everyone who has been reading and reviewing…I've neglected saying that but I really do appreciate it. RL is sucking out my soul and I'm almost always posting these late at night while fighting off sleep haha.

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Penname: Jburdick

Original or Derivative (fanfiction): Derivative

Rating/Warning(s)/Note(s): M

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Prompt: Binding Blurb: Write a blurb or a short entry, no more than 500 words on the following topic: Labor

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I can do this.

I can do this.

I took deep breaths, shaking my hands at my sides as I made my way down the long hallway in the hospital.

I do this everyday.

I can do this.

I was the top OBGYN in this hospital. I have delivered hundreds, hell thousands of babies. But the thought of watching Bella give birth to mine…had me feeling a bit nauseous.

I was just a few doors down from Bella's room when I heard her. At least I think I was her…it was either her or a fucking ogre. Yikes.

"WHERE THE FUCKING HELL IS HE?" Bella screamed.

"He's on his way baby, don't worry." Charlie, Bella's dad cooed to her, obviously trying to comfort her.

I would have been there from the beginning but Bella went into labor while I was on shift. So I was late, and she was pissed.

"He should have been here….from the beginning." Bella gasped, followed by another string of curses and a scream.

I ran the rest of the way to the room and went straight to her side. "I'm here, baby. Sorry I'm late." I pressed several kisses to her face. She gripped my scrub shirt in her fists and pulled my face to hers, kissing me hard on the lips. "If you EVER do that to me again I will end you, buster!" She growled between her teeth.

I swallowed thickly and nodded. "Okay, baby."

Bella gripped my hand with one hand and the side bar of the bed with her other and screamed, loud. I think it might have been the loudest scream I ever heard out of a woman in labor. And to be honest, it kind of scared the shit out of me.

"Is she okay? Oh my god, Edward…can't you do something? You're the fucking Doctor!" Alice, Bella's cousin, yelled at me from across the room. "I'm not her Doctor Alice! And she's doing fine. How far apart are her contractions?" I asked, rubbing a moist cloth across Bella's forehead.

"A couple minutes, I guess." Alice shrugged. I rolled my eyes and was just about to pull my cell out when the Doctor ran in.

He got to work immediately, and within five minutes everyone but me and Bella's mom had been ushered out and the show was on the road.

Bella was a trooper, sure she was screaming like a banshee, but she had stopped threatening my manhood, literally, and was trying to focus on her breathing.

Which, apparently, I should have been doing. Bella was nearing her final push and I was nearly hyperventilating.

"Come on Bella, one more." The doctor encouraged. I watched closely as the doctor leaned back with a screaming, bloody bundle of joy. And then nothing.

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"Pretty baby…such a pretty girl." I heard a sweet, far away voice. Bella. I opened my eyes and everything was blurry. I rubbed them and tried again. Damn. She really was a pretty baby.

"Welcome back, dude." Emmett, my brother, laughed, slapping my back. I was laying in the bed with Bella, who was holding the most perfect baby girl I had ever seen.

Bella smiled at me, her sweaty hair sticking to her forehead. "Say 'Hi' Daddy."

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