Author's Note: Okay so I'm back guys and thank you so much for your understanding and nice comments. So I have a good bit of ideas for future chapters of this story, it's just a matter of deciding what I want to do first and such. But some of the ideas I have probably won't be lengthy so maybe expect some to be shorter than others. This one is longish. And don't worry I have every intention of continuing The Beach Trip; I am so glad everyone is liking those chapters. That will most likely be the next chapter, and if anyone has any ideas for what else they can do at the beach, let me know in the reviews! Thanks a bunch!
Lydia woke up in somewhat of a daze. The kind where you have no idea where you are or what's going on in the slightest. She rubbed her eyes and opened them groggily, trying to figure out where exactly she was. She was definitely in some sort of hospital room. Had she just been bitten by the Alpha?
"Stiles." She said turning to see his face, she could smell that he was freshly showered and he was in clean clothes. It was definitely him, but he looked different, older, and more mature then maybe what she remembered.
"Hey Lyd, how are you feeling?" He said putting a magazine he was reading down and walking over to her and placing his hand on her head and kissing her lips softly. She realized now she wasn't in the hospital because of the bite, she had just given birth. Officially the weirdest déjà vu she had ever experienced.
"Alright I think, what time is it?" She asked through a yawn.
"It's about one thirty." He said as he looked down at his watch, still stroking her hair lightly with his other hand.
"Holy cow, I slept a long time."
"I know, but its okay, you needed it."
"Where's my mom?"
"She went back to our house; she's going to come back in a bit with my dad and Cassidy." He said smiling.
"How is the baby, have you seen him yet?"
"I went up once; he seemed to be doing well."
"When can I see him?"
"Whenever you want to."
"Can we go now?" She asked politely.
"Sure, I'll go get a nurse, to make sure it's okay and everything." She shook her head and he left the room and came back a few moments later with a nurse who was pushing a wheelchair.
"I think I can walk."
"Well we're going to take you up in the wheelchair, just to be sure." The nurse smiled and Lydia rolled her eyes. The nurse looked her over and gave her the okay she and Stiles helped Lydia into the wheelchair. He wheeled her up, while she held the IV stand along with her, stopping first to wash their hands before entering the NICU.
"Nice, to see you again." An older woman dressed in scrubs greeted Stiles "I see you brought your wife with you this time." She smiled warmly down at Lydia.
"How is he?" Lydia asked.
"He's doing really great, better than most. You've got a little fighter over there. You might even get to hold him pretty soon. No promises though." She smiled, in turn making Lydia do the same. "Are you ready to see him?"
"Yes!" She practically yelled in excitement.
"Follow me." The nurse told the couple and he wheeled her past all of the cradles. "You know he needs a name right?" She joked.
"I know I want to meet him first, to be sure." She told her, remembering all of the name combinations they had argued about, from the moment they both knew she was pregnant.
"Well here he is." The nurse said, stopping at the baby cradle with the card on the outside that read "Stilinski". Stiles walked around the front of the wheelchair and helped her out of it.
"Oh my god, he's so tiny." Lydia said covering her mouth in shock. "Can I touch him?" She asked looking up at the nurse.
"Of course, just be gentle, and put your hands through the holes here on the side here."
"Like this?" She asked as she stuck her hand into the incubator, not quite touching him and looking up at Stiles, who had an arm around her lower back to keep her steady.
"Yeah just like that." He nodded.
"Hi." She cooed at her son as she touched his small hand. "Hi baby, I'm your Mommy. I love you so much and can't wait to hold you." A few tears slid down her cheeks, she was sad that she couldn't hold him but at least she could finally see him. "Stiles he looks just like you." She told her husband as she observed his already darkened hair and facial features. "Like just like you, baby." She said kissing his cheek.
"Yeah but he had your eyes though, I saw them this morning when he was awake." He smiled. "Oh and he screams loud like you too." She rolled her eyes and elbowed him lightly with her free hand.
"I don't like seeing him hooked up to all of these machines." She sighed, wiping a tear from her cheek. "I love you so much, you're my little baby. And you look just like Daddy, don't you?" She said rubbing her fingers over his tiny ones.
"When do you think we will be able to hold him?" Stiles asked the nurse who was still lingering around, checking on the other babies.
"Well with any luck, possibly tonight. Not for long and that's only a maybe, not definite. But he is doing super well." Lydia smiled, but tried not to get her hopes up to high.
"Um, when can the rest of the family come and see him?" Lydia asked, she couldn't wait for his grandparents to come see him, and for his sister to see him as well.
"Well you might have to send them up a few at a time, definitely not all at once. And maybe later today at the earliest, just like I said not all at once." The couple nodded as the nurse went back to work checking on the other babies as the two of them shared about a half an hour with their son, taking pictures, talking to him, holding his hand and little feet.
They stopped by the front desk of the ward on their way back to the room to get their baby an official, legal name.
"So what is his full name?" The nurse asked, filling out the only empty space left on the birth certificate.
"Noah Martin Stilinski." Lydia said smiling up at her husband, happy to finally get to the naming of their little baby. He finally had a really, legitimate name. "Right?" She asked her husband making sure that was still what they had agreed on.
"Right, babe." He smiled back at her, he loved seeing her this excited.
After returning back to the room Lydia decided to get a shower to get the previous day's filth off of her body and Stiles decided to take a short nap. She washed her body carefully, to avoid any sensitive areas. It felt so good to brush her clean hair and put on her own, comfortable, pale blue, soft pajamas. When she was finished she climbed back into the hospital bed carefully, her husband woke up, and they turned on the TV as they waited for everyone to come and visit. Suddenly there was a faint knock at the door and Stiles got up to go answer it.
"Daddy!" A little red-head said as soon as he opened the door. Lydia smiled, instantly recognizing her three year old daughter and her father-in-law and her mother behind the girl.
"Cassidy." He smiled and picked her up, enveloping her a long, sincere hug. "I love you so much." He said kissing her cheek.
"I missed you Daddy."
"I know I missed you a lot too. Did you have lots of fun with grandpa?"
"Uh-huh." She said nuzzling her face into his neck, he smiled and rubbed her back affectionately, it felt good to have at least one of his kids in his arms.
"Hey dad." Stiles said, giving his dad a hug even with his daughter in his arms.
"Hey son, how are you?" He asked.
"I'm good, we're doing well. How was she?"
"Perfect, she missed you and Lydia though. Had a tough time getting her into bed, other than that she was perfect, like I said." He smiled; glad things seemed to be okay with his son.
"Sorry, she's a bit attached to us I think." He said smiling weakly, sorry to inconvenience his father or anyone who had to watch her.
"Oh don't worry about it, she was fine." He smiled and walked over to Lydia, giving her a hug. "How are you and the baby?"
"I'm doing alright. The baby, he's doing better, I got to see him today." She smiled, remembering touching his little fingers.
"Oh that's great Lydia."
"I know, and they said you can probably go up and see him today if you want. It's family only so you should feel special." She said smiling up at her father-in-law, she couldn't think of anyone who would be a better fit to that role. He loved his son, despite the hell her put him though during his teenage years, Lydia, and now his two grandchildren.
"Well I definitely want to go and meet him."
"Mommy!" Cassidy shouted, she must have been too distracted by seeing her father that she had just noticed Lydia sitting there. Stiles put her down and she bounded over to where her mother was.
"Be careful." Stiles told her as she tried to climb the bed, but it went in ear and out the other because she was half his hyperactive self.
"Hi Cassie, how are you? I missed you so much." Lydia said helping her daughter up onto the bed and giving her a long hug.
"I'm good Mommy, I missed you too." She said quietly as she locked her arms around her mother's neck. "Why did you go away? Are you coming back home?"
"Yeah sweetie Daddy and I will be back home in a day or so. And we had to leave because I had my baby yesterday."
"But your baby is in your belly." She stated, clearly confused.
"He was, now he's out here with us."
"Oh. Who is he?"
"He's your little brother."
"Where is he Mommy?"
"Well he's here just in another room." She tried to explain as best she could to her adorable little three year old.
"Can I see him?"
"In a little bit okay?"
"So what did you decide to name him?" Lydia's mother asked.
"Noah Martin Stilinski." Stiles said and Lydia smiled at her choice to put her maiden name into her son's middle name.
"Oh that was very clever, I like it." Her mother smiled.
"That's a great name; it's got a nice ring to it. Better than Stiles." John Stilinski joked.
"Ha-ha very funny, let's not even talk about my given name." Stiles shot back jokingly as well, knowing his mother had given him that name, but it was better if he made it a joke instead of something to be sad about. After a few minutes they all decided to go and see baby Noah before eating an early dinner. Lydia went in with her mother first, followed by her, Stiles and his dad. Finally they brought in Cassidy after getting her hands washed.
"Cassidy, this is your brother, baby Noah." Lydia told her daughter who Stiles had picked up to have her get a good view.
"He looks scary."
"Oh no he's not scary, he's just a little sick so those machines are helping him get better."
"Are you sure he's okay?"
"I promise." She kissed Cassidy's cheek and then put her arm in the hole to touch Noah's hand again. "Hi Noah, it's Mommy again. And we have your big sister Cassidy with us." She smiled at the baby who fidgeted a little bit.
"Say hi buddy" Stiles encouraged as Lydia took Stiles' phone out of his pocket and snapped a couple of pictures.
"Hi buddy." She giggled and waved at her brother. "He's kind of cute." She said, looking at Stiles.
"Mhm." Stiles said kissing her cheek and admiring the youngest two Stilinskis. Lydia smiled at her expanded new family and couldn't wait until she could hold the newest member in her arms.