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23. Misty
They lay pressed together, her back against his front as she sat in the v of his legs, her bump emerging from the surface of the water where their hands had come to rest.
Steam rose from the water and their bodies, condensing on the mirror making it misty. If he hadn't been in the tub with her he'd have scrawled a message, an "I love you" with a small heart at the bottom, like he usually did when she was in the shower. But, he was beside her, had been for the majority of the day.
She was two days away from her due date and he was determined that this final birth was going to go smoothly. She'd agreed, after a lot of begging from him, to give birth at the hospital, mostly just to put his mind at rest after Henry had been born at home and she'd been rushed into hospital afterwards as a result of extensive blood loss.
Like previously, her pregnancy had gone by in a blur, it barely felt like a month since she'd traced the words "I'm pregnant" onto his hand, and he was treasuring the final days of seeing his wife pregnant.
When the water grew cold he pushed himself up, wrapping a towel around his waist before helping her stand and carefully climb from the tub. He dried her, helped her into pyjamas, then pulled on his own before he led her to bed, already knowing that she wouldn't get a lot of sleep.
She did eventually fall asleep, and he followed willingly, only to be woken several hours later with the revelation that she was having contractions and their third child was on the way.