Hospital

Iris was screaming in pain. She was clutching on to her abdomen. Barry had dropped off Adrian at Joe's house who was awake knowing his baby girl was in pain. Barry was holding Iris' hand, trying to calm her down. The doctor came in with the results. "Mr. Allen, a word."

"Sure. Iris I have to step out-"

"Barry please don't leave me," Iris cried, "I'm scared."

"I know, and it'll all be over soon. I'll be back." Barry and Dr. LaBrant stepped out and close the door. "What's wrong?"

"Iris seems to be suffering from antepartum hemorrhage."

"Come again."

"Bleeding during a pregnancy. She may need an emergency c-section. Iris is in premature labor."

"Doctor, Iris is only 7 months pregnant."

"I understand your concern but the baby has a better chance of surviving if we deliver him than inside the womb. Right now, you can try and calm her down. She's putting the baby in more stress than it needs to be. If we don't deliver the baby now she will have a miscarriage.

"Ok." Barry goes back with Iris. She stopped crying but was still clutching on to her abdomen. "Hey, does it still?"

"A little bit. What did the doctor say?"

"You may have an emergency c-section. If we don't deliver the baby you'll most likely have a miscarriage."

"I don't want to lose the baby Barry."

"You're not going to. I'm right here."

"Ok. Where's my other baby?"

"He's ok. He's with Joe and Wally." Suddenly the doctor came in. "We have to prepare the c-section."

"Ok. I'll come back later for the birth."

"Don't be late. I don't want to deliver our son without you."

"Wouldn't miss it."

West Household

Adrian was crying because he wanted his mom and dad. Joe had to run an errand. Wally was looking after the toddler. "What do you want? Do you want cookies?"

"Daddy!"

"Your daddy isn't here. We can have ice cream."

"Ice cream!"

"Yeah I knew you'd you want some."

STAR Labs

"Close one Barry. Try and be careful next time so you'll be ready when Zoom comes."

"Sorry Cisco. I'll be there in a second." Barry zoomed in. "Anything else?"

"Take break."

"I will, I'm just-" his cell phone rang. "Hello? What? Right now? Ok, I'll be there. Cisco I have to go."

"Something wrong?"

"Iris is about to have the baby."

"Now? It's February. I thought she was due in April."

"Well, last night Iris had contractions. She started bleeding and had bad pains. We went to the hospital and the doctor told us that she had gone into premature labor so she's having an emergency c-section today."

"Well what are to waiting for? Go! Take the rest of the day off."

"Ok."

Hospital

"Iris." Barry says as he walks into the delivery room. "I thought I was gonna have this baby without my boyfriend." she says.

"Of course not."

"Ms. West, let's begin." Barry held Iris' hand through the whole thing. It didn't hurt much. Iris really only felt a tug. After what felt like hours, a baby came out, though he didn't cry. "Why isn't he crying?" Barry asked. The nurses took him and tried to clean his wind pipe and fill his little lungs with oxygen. After a few minutes they heard a cry. Barry and Iris will never forget that cry. They measured him and took his weight, 2 pounds 13 ounces. Afterwards, he was placed in a incubator. "I can't believe he's finally here." Iris said.

"I can," he says, "so we finally decided on a name?"

"Yeah. He will be named after his father. Put I'll probably call him Caleb."

"Why?"

"I don't know. I just like the name I guess."

"Ok. Well, get some rest."

"I'm not tried. I just want to see my baby."

"Well I saw him already."

"Really?" She asked. "How did he look like?"

"He was very small, fragile." The doctor came in with a small bundle of joy. "Here he is," he said, "healthy baby boy. You guys are good to go whenever you're ready." The doctor placed him on top of Iris. He had fair skin like his daddy. Brown eyes like his mommy. Light brown hair like his big brother. He was perfect. Too perfect. Though he was small, he was healthy and that's all that matters. Iris couldn't stop looking at his big beautiful eyes. "I can't wait to bring him home so he can meet his big brother."

"Yeah. Though I don't think he'll be so thrilled at night with his brother crying."

"Yeah I think you're right. But I'm also scared about Zoom."

"Don't worry, I'll protect you and our boys."

"My hero."