"Dad!" Eva screamed, making my tired sleeping form alert, as I realize It's Eva I jump out of bed and run down the corridor. "Daddy!" She screamed again. My heart burst with worry, my long greying hair clinging to my sweat covered forehead. "Daddy please help me!" She cried as I ran into the room, she was lying in her bed, the quilt around her ankles and her legs slightly parted as she cried. Her long dark brown hair resembling her mother's spread across the pillow in swirls. From an artist's point of view it was beautiful, but I couldn't focus on that.
"What's wrong what's happened? Is she ok?" I say in one breath, I'm panicking now, terrified of what is happening, I'm really not ready for this. "She's coming!" She yelled her agonizing cry's making my fatherly instinct kick into action. "Ok, where's Henry?" I asked walking over to her and wiping her head with a makeup wipe on the table, there is nothing else to use.
"He's ringing the midwife." She moaned, between contractions. "Ok," I mutter. "Everything's going to be ok Eevee I promise. I'll go give Uncle Morgan and JJ a ring." "No!" She cried breathing in rushed hiccups. "Stay with me, please. Daddy I need you, please don't leave me!" She cried her tear filled dark brown eyes locked with mine and sweat running down from her forehead and on to her small nose.
"Ok," I muttered. "I'll ring them here." She smiles at me as streams of hot tears fun down her cheeks, she cry's in agony again. Three rings and JJ answers. "Reid, what's happening, the baby's coming isn't she?" She asks knowing straight away. "Yes JJ, she's having contractions, you need to get down here I can't do this alone, it's your grandchild too, please help me." I said panic erupting into tiny pulses in my chest.
"Where's Henry?" She asked her voice calm with undertones of panic and excitement. "He's ringing the midwife down stairs I think." "Ok, I'm on my way." She says hanging up. "Honey, JJ is now on her way, don't worry help will be here soon." "Daddy, she's coming now we need to get to a hospital." She said her eyes scrunched together as she concentrates on her breathing.
"Let's wait for the midwife; you wanted a home birth didn't you?" I asked holding her hand as her ragged breaths spurt out of her mouth, then back in. "I don't care anymore, I just need her out. Please daddy, take me to hospital."
As I answer her Henry runs into the room, "The midwife will be here in an hour and a half." Henry says his dark blonde hair covering his eye slightly and his pyjama bottoms covered in water, his shirt is undone showing his smooth body, I look away not really wanting to look at my son in law or thinking about what they did together to have a child, I'm only slightly over protective, but my daughter deffinatly made the right choice, henry is a lovely boy, and also my god son.
"What!" She screamed, anger and fear filling her smooth and sweet voice, "No, please she has to get here now!" She screamed. "Baby, it's snowing like mad out there we can't leave and she's endangering herself trying to get here in the first place. I'm sorry we're just going to have to wait." He muttered his brown eyes looking to the floor, obviously worried about his stunning wife.
"Dad, Daddy, please get her out of me, it hurts, so, so much please help me. Didn't you help that women before, please help me, please, please daddy." She sobbed arching her back and trying to stop the pain.
JJ walked into the room with Will behind her, both of their faces terrified and excited about the birth of their grandchild. "Mom, Mommy please help me." Eva sobbed. Her bond with JJ was beautiful, even before she had gotten together with Henry, even when she was a young child she had looked up to JJ like she was a surrogate mother, as well as the other BAU agents, Morgan constantly begged her to call him Uncle, and she was fascinated by everything Hotch said and did.
She looked up to Dave like he was her grandfather, and she treated Garcia, her chosen godmother like her best friend, telling her things she could never share with me. She was basically part of the team. She even wanted to join up until her 16th birthday when she decided she wanted to work with children. Henry works with us though, those that are left of the old group joke about him being a mini me.
"Ok, honey, I'm here, I'm here." She cooed as she walked over to Eva and wrapped her up in her arms. "Spence." JJ muttered looking over at me. "I've rung Morgan and he is on his way. So is Garcia though she won't be here for the birth." She looked back done at the sobbing Eva kissing the top of her head lightly and then smiling at her frightened son.
"Mommy, she's coming and the midwife won't be here in time. What should I do?" Eva said looking up pleadingly at JJ. JJ looked over at me, "Maybe we should help do it, I mean I'm a women so I don't mind pulling her out, and you know what to do so you can direct me." She said looking up at me with hope in her blue eyes.
I hesitated, taking a good moment to think about it. "Ok." I whispered walking over to Eva and JJ. "Ok, are you ready Eva?" JJ asked looking at her, her face completely serious and waiting for a response. Eva nodded her head, a grateful smile on her bitten lips. JJ tells her to raise her legs, and lifts her skirt.
"Ok I can already see what looks like a head, this should be fairly easy." JJ muttered. Morgan runs into the room, flowers in his arms and tears in his eyes. "Oh my god," He gulps looking over at the girls. "Is she coming?" He asks his breathing heavy and happy tears getting ready to fall. I stare at him shocked, I didn't think he was the type to get emotional, I always thought he was too manly.
I nodded my head my greying hair falling from my sweaty forehead and into my eyes. I push it behind my ears and look back down at Eva. Then Garcia walks in behind him. "Hey I thought you would be late." JJ said smiling. "I got a lift with Derek, this is way too important to miss." She said tears pouring down her checks.
She ran to the other side of Eva, opposite Henry, she gave her a pink nailed hand. "Oh baby, I'm so proud of you." She cried, tears flying all over the bed. "Thanks Garcy, I'm so glad you made it, I was tempted to just sow it up down there." She laughed through painful sobs. I grimaced, not really finding the humour of the joke.
Suddenly, Eva tilted over in pain. Penelope started freaking out, flapping her hands about in panic. "You ok, Oh god is she ok, she's not dying is she." She cried mid-way through a panic attack. "Garcia it's just a painful contraction calm down." JJ muttered supportive but slightly annoyed. "Oh, sorry." Penelope muttered.
"Reid, what do I do know?" She asked looking over at me, a sheen of sweat covering her forehead. "Uh well if the baby's head is out you should start to pull her out, just be careful not to touch the soft part of her head." I said glancing at the baby's head but not looking at anything else. I began to gently stroke Eva's knee, trying to soothe her.
She cried again her head against the pillow, and her eyes screwed shut. "It's ok Eevee, she's coming now, and it will be over soon." I cooed. "Her heads out now and her body is coming." JJ muttered smiling proudly up at Eva.
"Give me a big push please Honey." JJ said over the sound of Eva's painful cries. She moans and screams as she pushes. "Most of her body is out now, I just need one more big push and it's over. "Ok," Eva moans pushing again and crying with release as the baby cries one loud cry.
"Oh baby, its ok, its ok." JJ coos as the bloody baby screams in her arms. My throat becomes tight and I have to fight the urge to cry as I look over at my beautiful grandchild. Tears glisten down JJ's perfectly tan cheeks, and Eva looks at henry both their eyes filled with proud tears. Garcia is in tearful hysterics, and Morgan is sobbing like a child behind me.
Flash backs of my life with Eva flit across my mind. The first day I saw her, the first tear shed from her big brown eyes, the first time she met Henry, the look on her face when I told her that her mother was gone, the way she smiled on her 6th birthday, her first broken bone, her first kiss with henry in my front room, her face when she told me she had got the job, the tears when our dog Mozart died, the day she told me she was pregnant, the day she married Henry, everything.
"Daddy, do you want to hold her first?" Eva said looking over at me and the happy tears slowly rolling off of my chin. I nodded my head watching JJ carry her over to me. I took her into my arms, her big blue eyes smiling up at me and her dark blonde hair short on her little head. "Hello little lady," I mumbled holding her in my arms and rocking her slightly. "I'm you granddaddy." I smiled.
I hold her for a few more moments, then I give her to my beautiful daughter, who cries at the sight of her perfect child. She then let's Henry hold her, he holds her little hand and gently kisses her forehead. "What should we call her?" He asks. "I think maybe by looking at her, we should call her Elina it means shining light.
We all nod our heads agreeing that she is a shining light. After JJ gives the little lady a good clean, we all get a cuddle with her. Garcia, who is Henry's god mother, is chosen to be her godmother too, and Derek is chosen to be god father, they both nod with glistening tears in their elated eyes.
This has been one of the happiest moments of my entire life, I never would have asked for anything different.