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Jade looked exhausted as she put Faith on her play mat on the floor, handing her a colouring book and some crayons. As she turned away to get herself a drink Faith called after her 'mummy, mummy!'.

She turned back to her daughter with a sleepy smile 'yes honey, mummy will only be in the kitchen'.

Faith looked happy with this answer and continued to colour as best inside the lines as she could physically manage, though this still wasn't brilliant.

She had been constantly exhausted over the last few weeks, everyone putting it down to the stress of the lawyers gearing up for the trial and she had been forced to tell over and over what had happened with her, Ana, Elena, Lincoln and Jack.

Finding out they were also expecting a son this time around had offered a slight reprieve to Jade's gloomy state, but she was under so much stress it was impossible to think of anything else.

The stress was getting to her, Ana had tried to talk to her in the last two weeks about their pregnancies and anything to get Jade's mind off the trial and what had happened.

Of course it didn't work, Ana was nearly five months pregnant and Jade was seven months.

Jade had made the excuse that as she hadn't really known about her first pregnancy, she had nothing to offer to Ana in the way of experience and knowledge.

Everyone knew that was bullshit of course, and they all knew why.

Lexa had been the only one to not treat Jade with kid gloves during her moody phase; she'd made a reference to the trial and then moved on. She had been the only one to really acknowledge that Jade had killed Lincoln James, but didn't dwell on it.

Luke had spent the day at Escala and out with Ana wherever she had been, trailing her as security.

Jade had been at home all day, feeling sick, tired and lethargic, her muscles tight and uncomfortable.

On top of it all, the newspapers had yet another article on Lincoln James's death that morning, and Faith was being needy and clingy, wanting to follow Jade around the apartment all day.

Three hours later, Christian and Luke came into the apartment, talking about Mia's developing relationship with Ethan, which was clearly slightly annoying to Kate and Elliot.

Christian had come over to see Faith in between a meeting and a lunch meeting with Elliot about the new house he and Ana had brought just outside the City.

He had about an hour to spare and Luke and Jade's apartment was only a few blocks away from the restaurant.

As Luke closed the door Christian patted him on the back 'You can have the rest of the day off, spend it with Jade, she's been under so much stress recently I think she needs some time to put her feet up'.

Luke nodded, looking grateful

'Thanks, you're right though. She's had to re-live what happened with Lincoln and Jack over and over to lawyers recently, I think it's just getting to her'.

They both looked up as they heard the sound of feet on the wooden floor. It was Faith.

She smiled when she saw who it was 'Daddy, Grampy!'. Christian smiled and picked her up, looking a hundred times happier just to see her.

Luke kissed his daughters forehead quickly and put his keys down on a wooden table 'where's your mummy then?'.

Faith frowned, looking upset 'Mummy is sicky'. Luke looked up sharply and looked at Christian quickly 'keep her here'.

Luke hurried into the main living room area and saw immediately that something was wrong.

Jade was sitting on one of the sofas, her skin deathly pale and she was covered in sweat, shaking and looking like she was going to pass out and vomit at the same time.

Luke jumped over a set of child's toys and ran to his wife, crouched down in front of her.

'Honey, honey what's wrong?'.

It was only at this point that he realised she was holding the bottom left hand side of her stomach by her thighs, the other hand tightly gripping the arm of the leather sofa.

'Jade, Jade look at me, what's wrong?'.

Her voice was so quiet he would have missed what she said if he wasn't listening so intently 'I think the baby is coming'.

Luke's eyes widened and he instinctively pulled away Jade's hand which was on the inside of her thigh now, and saw that there was blood on her hand.

He touched the black jeans and felt the wetness of blood, seeing it on his own hands before shouting loudly back through the apartment.

'Christian! Get an ambulance NOW!'.

Jade groaned in pain, clutching her stomach as she looked at Luke with evident fear 'I can't- I can't, it's too early'.

Luke knew that it was very early and that Jade was in serious medical danger and so was their son, but tried to tell her otherwise, praying that the ambulances were on their way.

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