A/N: Hey sorry guys for the wait but my Olake feels haven't been being stimulated a lot lately lol. This is the new chapter and sorry if it looks weird, my format got mucked in transition and I'm not sure how well I fixed it. And sorry if I go into too much detail around the birth, I used to work on an L&D ward.
Thirty long minutes later, which if you asked Olivia she would swear it was closer to three hours, Dr. Allen announced and confirmed that the little girl had officially entered the world.
They placed the baby on Olivia's chest and her mouth fell open as she stared wide eyed at the crying newborn. It seemed as if time stopped as she took in the site before her. She barely noticed anyone else in the room and only faintly heard Anna's, "Oh shit you guys. That's a baby." She took in the site of the chalk covered tiny being, two tiny little fists flailing aimlessly. She tentatively reached out a hand to touch one of them and couldn't help the smile that came across her face at finally making contact. She was here. Her little girl was here. Her other hand reached up to pick the baby up, but she was quickly whisked away to the small bed on the other side of the room.
Her mouth opened again to ask the nurse why they were taking her, but Dr. Allen answered her question before she could voice it. "Don't worry. She's fine. They just have to take her temperature, weigh her and all that good stuff and give her a look over to make sure she as perfect as she seems.
She looked back towards the incubator and saw Jake slowly making his way over to the bed, Anna snapping pictures and squealing at realizing the child had "her dimples". She wanted to get up and go over there too, but suddenly it hit her how tired she was and how weak she felt. Her head fell back a little as she rested against the back of the bed.
Oh, Liv she's beautiful," Anna told her clearly able to get a better view of her baby than she could from her place on the bed.
Her eyes fluttered open and the first thing she registered was the soft sounds of a television. She was in a dimly lit room, a marginally comfortable bed, and she could see the artificial light outside of her window. She blinked a few times and tried to move, but decided against it as she still didn't have all of her strength back yet and she was still a little sore.
She heard an antsy noise followed by a soft shushing and her eyes flickered over towards the corner of the hospital room to find Jake sitting in the lounge chair with a bundle of blankets nestled in his arms as he looked down musing at the contents.
She had stayed awake long enough to feed the baby and to drop her off at the nursery for the pediatrician to examine her more thoroughly before she was wheeled to her new room on the post partum ward. Then she had fallen asleep immediately after climbing into the new bed. She had slept, she didn't know how long, but she figured it to be a while since the sky was actually starting to look a little brighter, or darker. She was honestly so exhausted and had been in such a deep sleep she didn't know if they were coming upon the next day or if she had slept completely through it and they were going into the next night.
She tried to adjust herself again and gave an involuntary groan causing Jake to notice that she was awake.
"Hey," he smiled at her, taking his feet off of the ottoman as he sat up adjusting the baby in his arms. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I got hit by a car," she told him stretching her limbs a little. "What day is it?"
He laughed. "Wow, you were really out of it," he told her before telling her it was the seventeenth. She was happy to hear she hadn't slept through the entire next day.
She looked at the chair on the other side of the bed and saw Anna fast asleep. She looked at the clock and saw that it read 5:42am. She actually hadn't been asleep that long, a little under three hours.
"Everyone else went home," he told her. "They wanted to give you a chance to rest. Abby called a few minutes ago and said that she was on her way over. Quinn said she would be by a little later, she's going to help Huck follow up on something before she heads over."
The baby started to fuss again. "I think she's hungry," he told her. "We've been trying to hold her off for a little bit now. The nurse said it was okay to let you sleep a little longer."
He got up and walked over to the bed and handed her the baby. He then hit the call button on the bed calling for the nurse. Olivia again, became enthralled by the baby, as she again began to unwrap her to get a better look at her. She was still amazed at how tiny and a perfect she was. She hadn't even noticed the nurse walk into the room until she touched her to help her adjust the baby in her arms.
He went to set back in the chair giving the nurse her space to work. After Olivia had fallen asleep and the nurse had brought the baby back to the room like Olivia had requested before falling unconscious, he and Anna had spent the time passing the baby back and forth between them. They had received several warnings from the older nurse that they were going to spoil the child but he didn't care. This was the first and possibly only child he would ever have, and he had planned on spoiling her from the moment he found out about her. Luckily for him, Anna had fallen asleep soon after and he no longer had to trade off with her every fifteen minutes as that was the rule she had set up, so that had left him the next hour with the little sweetheart all to himself. He had spent the time just staring at her taking in everything about her. She was tiny, even though the nurses had pointed out she was a fairly decent sized baby at almost eight pounds, and she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. To him, she looked like Olivia. Well she didn't really look like anyone, but he had been able to see some of Olivia's features such as her eyes and lips. Everyone else had insisted she looked like him, even the random strangers at the nursery window. He didn't see it though. And even though she would only open one eye at a time, they seemed to have a hint of gray mingling in their somewhere and he wondered if she would have the same steel blue eyes as his mother and sister. He watched as she fed the baby, now with only minimal assistance from the nurse. He had never seen her this happy, not even on the island. The smile on her face grew wider as she placed a finger in the baby's tiny little hand and she instinctively closed her fingers around it. She was happy, they were happy. This was perfect, but he couldn't get caught up in it. They would have to leave the hospital soon and go back into the real world, but he would enjoy it until then. He would not let the thoughts of the things that were to come, destroy his happiness in the present.
"God, this child is perfect," he heard Olivia say as she gave the baby another once over.
"Yeah," Anna grumbled, before turning over preparing to go back to sleep. Olivia and Jakes head snapped towards her. They didn't even know she was awake. They would have thought that she was talking in her sleep if it weren't for her next statement. "She sort of looks like me."
They both laughed and Anna smiled, before pulling the blanket over her head.
Olivia continued to evaluate the baby, pulling the covers off of her little feet as she felt something heavy at the end of the blanket. "What's this?" she asked examining the silver linked chained more closely.
Jake, who by now had pulled out his computer, glanced over at the object she was referring to before turning back to the glowing screen. "A charm bracelet," he told her. "I put it around her ankle and forgot to take it off. My sister had one of those things and she was obsessed with it," he continued seemingly talking to himself. "You can hold on to it. I'm going to lose it if I keep it any longer."
She continued looking at him waiting for him to explain why he had felt it so important to give their new born daughter a charm bracelet, but he didn't. Her eyes turned back to the baby who had drifted off to sleep again before travelling down to the bracelet that was doubly wrapped but still hung loosely from the infant's right leg. She then noticed that there was one single charm attached to it. She turned the bracelet slightly to get a better look at it. It was a silver heart. Well three hearts, a large one intertwined at each side with a smaller one, all of them bleeding into each other. The largest heart in the middle simply read Adeline in cursive font with the date October 17, 2015 written beneath it. She then looked at the heart to the right of it and saw the letters OCP, immediately recognizing it as her initials. The heart on the left read JAB which she recognized as Jakes initial. She smiled to herself as she rubbed the plated pendant in her hand, and found that there was an indention on the back. She turned it over to see what was on the other side. In simple font, different from the fonts on the front were the words "A Promise". She was almost brought to tears as she remembered the last night she and Jake had spent at her apartment. After they had had sex, they had lay next to each other again going through and adding to the list of things that they had learned to do and not do from their parents and their lives when raising their daughter. It had been a light hearted conversation as they were mainly sharing stories causing them to laugh at one another. Jake had then said that the little girl was not allowed to go into any branch of government or be involved in a job that required her to directly act with any of the major branches of government including the military, to which Olivia had responded he couldn't dictate the child's life. He then responded by bringing his head down to her stomach and placing a kiss there before telling the little girl that she had to promise to stay away from all branches of government. He had then proceeded to make a whole bunch of promises to the child in her stomach the last of which Olivia vividly remembered because it made her cry and set a part of her at ease that she hadn't even known was restless, well not in that type of way anyways. He had promised the little girl that no matter what or who happened that he would always be there for her and mother.
She smiled again and wiped away a couple of stray tears that had fallen unnoticed by anyone else in the room. She then tucked the bracelet back inside of the blankets that were covering her daughter's feet. Those tiny little perfect feet.
"Give me a second Adeline," she mumbled to herself as she finished up in the bathroom. The child had been crying for the last minute or so, but she was moving a little slower than normal as she was still sore. Abby, Jake, Quinn, and Anna had gone down to the little café across the street from the hospital to pick up breakfast, all of them refusing to eat the hospital food, including her. She didn't know how the food in the cafeteria looked but after they saw the tray that had been delivered to her room this morning they had all declined on exploring the food there any further. She dried her face after splashing some water on it and made her way out of the bathroom. She was stopped in her tracks when she realized that the reason her daughter had stopped crying was because someone was holding her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, becoming more infuriated by the second that he had the audacity to come waltz into the hospital and touch her child without her permission.
"Well I know you didn't think that I was going to not come and see my granddaughter just because her mother's a spoiled brat did you?" he didn't even look up at her as he continued to slightly rock the baby in his arms, a smile on his face. She didn't know that his face could still do that while he wasn't threatening someone, though to be fair, she did feel threatened
Olivia saw red as she stared at her father. "How did you get in here?"
He didn't answer her as he continued to coo at that baby telling her how beautiful she was. When the words "I'm your grandpa," passed his lips, she had had enough.
She stalked over to him, as menacingly as she could and began prying the baby out of his arms. He didn't put up much of a fight, and she figured it was due to the fact that he didn't want to bring harm to the baby.
"You know she looks just like you when you when you were a baby," he told her, ignoring her clear anger at him being there.
"You need to leave," she spat at him, cuddling the child to her chest who was beginning to fuss a little."I remember that like it was yesterday," he ignored her, a distant look on his face as he reminisced. "When your mother and I took you home from the hospital. Who would have thought that we'd end up here?"
She just glared at him, repulsed by the fact that he had even dared to say that out loud when he had been the one to make the choice of starting a family and bringing a child into his life when he knew he was a part of B6-13. At least Huck had had the decency to leave so his son could have a chance at a normal life.
"You know I made her a promise too," he stated, finally taking his eyes from the child and looking at Olivia. "I meant what I said. I will not let you drag this precious child down this repugnant path that you have chosen for yourself. Do you understand me Olivia?" he asked leaning in closer to her. "I will not allow it."
They stared each other down a few more seconds and soon the baby started to cry, the emotional tension in the room finally getting to her. With that he turned on his heals and left, just as quietly as he had come.
"She finally let out a breath that she had been holding as she began trying to console the baby in her arms. "Shh, it's okay," she whispered as the tears started to fall from her eyes. "It's okay, Mommy's here."
She looked back at the door as the child started to settle down some. Wondering if the alarm system she had had Huck place on the windows of the nursery would be enough. Something told her it was all for nil either way. But if her father ever tried to take her child, it would be over her dead body, and a few others' too.
A/N: hope you like. Reviews are welcomed.
Sigh... I was supposed to post this hours ago. But I'm still awake, smh.
