Hey guys! So I decided to make these one shots. This is based before the magic moment chapter! I will try to update as often as I can. Thank you for reading and let me know what you think!
Moment
Evie and Doug were fighting over if she should go to the tourney game. She hadn't seen Jay or watched Jay play in a long time. She didn't feel like she had to miss it just because she was pregnant. The high school band was playing and since Doug was band director he had to be there. Her back had been hurting all day even though she wasn't due for two more weeks. She had convinced Carlos and Jay to pick her up. Evie grinned when she saw Jay. Jay chuckled as she threw her arms around him.
"Hey Evie, you look great! " Jay gentle pulled out of the death grip she had him in.
She wore a sweater dress she made to look like Aurodon band uniform. Her dark blue hair was pulled up into a pony tail because honestly she didn't want want to deal with it but she hoped it would make her look younger.
"Thanks I tried. I can't wait to see everyone tonight. It's going to be like old times! " Evie gushed gently rubbing her back.
"Yeah except everyone is married and has jobs." Carlos shrugged.
"You don't have a job." Jay teasingly ruffled Carlos's hair.
"Dr. Adams made me his assistant and your not married. " Carlos batted Jay's hand away.
"Evie are you alright?" Carlos frowned at Evie's pained look as she rubbed her back again.
"I've just been having back pain today I'm fine. I think it's just those false labor Braxton things. You sound like Doug." She grumbled the last part.
Carlos held up his hands surrendering he wasn't going to fight with Evie.
"Come on guys we need to head to the game. I need to warm up." Jay bounced on his heels.
Jay was excited to be playing on the field where his love for tourney began. Every home coming the old team would try to get together to play but Jay was never able to get home because he was playing professional tourney. Which he loved but nothing beat playing with his old team. This year his coach let him have a week off to come home. Aurodon was his home now. Evie grabbed her purse and shooed them out the door. Carlos helped Evie into the back seat of his car while Jay hoped into the passenger seat. They had only been riding about ten minutes when Evie let out a moan and began to breathe heavily.
"I'm sorry my back just really hurts." Evie whimpered.
"Its alright E." Carlos soothed.
"We are five minutes from the school I'm going to drop Jay off so he can go grab Doug and we can head up to the hospital. I've been watching you in the mirror you have had two pains since you've been in the car. It could be braxton hicks or you could be having back labor lets get it checkout. " Carlos pleaded looking at Evie in the mirror.
"All right but no hospital I'll go home with Doug. I'm to pregnant to fight." Evie sighed.
They just pulled up to the field when a blackout happened.
The blackouts had been happening for three years now. Not only did the electricity go out everywhere but the sun or moon would be covered too. No one could figure out who was causing it. They could tell it was dark magic but when Ben had people go to the Isles they couldn't find that any magic was coming from there. Every time a blackout happened someone would disappear. No one had answers and it scared people but they managed to go on with their lives.
"Shit! " the two guys cussed.
Carlos cut on the interior lights.
"Hopefully this one want last long. " Carlos tried to sound cheerful knowing the blackouts were lasting longer and longer.
"Here let's get you unbuckled and more comfortable E." Jay gracefully climbed into the back seat as she began panting again.
He carefully unhooked her belt and she tried to turn her back toward the door to lean back on. It only seemed to make her back hurt worse . She turned head so Jay wouldn't see her cry.
"Please don't cry Evie lean on me and I'll rub your back or hold your hand. " Jay soothed as he wiped her tears with his thumb.
Jay leaned back against the door and helped Evie lean back so she was resting against his chest. She grabbed his hand as another pain came.
"Deep breaths Evie. " Carlos coached.
Suddenly a phone started ringing.
"That's Doug. " Evie grunted through the pain. Carlos reached down and grabbed Evie's pruse from the floor.
"Hello? "
"Carlos? Where is Evie? " Doug sounded worried.
"We are sitting in the car at the tourney field just waiting for the black out to end. " Carlos tried to sound up beat and not worried.
"We never made it to the feild. I'm still in the band room is Evie ok? Can I talk to her? "
"Doug wants to talk to you. " Carlos streached the phone towards Evie.
Evie took the phone.
"Hey baby! "
"Evie are you ok? You sound upset. "
"No!" she moaned as a pain hit her, they were getting closer. She almost dropped the phone but Jay caught her hand.
"Evie!" Doug's loud worried voice came from the phone.
"Doug I'm having contractions. I thought it was just false labor but there getting closer and I'm scared. " Evie brust into tears.
"It's ok baby! It's going to be fine you remember what the doctor and lamaze coach said that labor could take hours. You remember your breathing. " Doug was pacing.
"Yes but blackouts could last hours. " Evie reminded, Doug.
"We are not going to think about that. I'm sure in an hour we are going to be in a hosptial room waiting for our little one to arrive. " Doug soothed.
"I really would love that. " she smiled, gripped Jay's hand and began her lamaze as the contraction started. Doug helped her breathe over the phone.
Carlos got out of the car.
"Where are you going? " Jay whispered loudly trying not to disrupt Evie and Doug's breathing.
Carlos didn't answer he just used his phone light to go to the car trunk and grabbed a small cooler and some other things before closing the trunk and getting back in the car.
"Do you want some water E?" Carlos pulled out a bottle of water from the cooler.
"Yes please. " Evie smiled.
"Jane always puts the staws... " Carlos opened the water as he thought out loud.
"In the glove box! " he grinned when he found the straws. He opened a straw, stuck it in the bottle, and handed it to Evie.
" Thank you! " she took a sip.
"I know you want to gulp it but try to take small sips or you might get sick. " Carlos warned.
Evie nodded. Carlos ripped a towel into strips and dipped them in to the cooler water. He handed Jay a strip to put on Evie's head. Her contractions we're getting stronger but Evie was doing OK with Doug breathing on the phone with her. A couple hours had passed when Jay was wippping the sweat off Evie's head when she let out a scream.
"What happened? " Doug as concerned.
"My water broke. " she whimpered.
All three guys cussed that time.
"It's going to be OK baby the black out can't last much longer. I'm going to find your car we're not that far from the field." Doug soothed but he was panicking on the inside.
"No Doug please you know it is not safe even with flashlight people disappear. I'm OK with Jay and Carlos your right it can't be that much longer" she tried to hide her fear.
"I know you are safe with Jay and Carlos I just wish I was with you. " he sighed.
"Me too. " she grunted as a other contraction came.
Another hour and a half passed and the blackout was still happening it was the longest one yet.
"I can't! " she groaned after an extremely hard contraction.
" Of course you can you're doing so well, Evie. " Doug soothed.
"No I want to go to the hospital I can't have my baby here please it hurts! " fresh tears fell down her face.
Jay and Carlos looked at each other helplessly. Besides the water, cold rags and letting her squeeze the life out of their hands. They couldn't help with the pain. She couldn't even get out of the car to walk because of the black out. To make things worse Doug's phone was dying and nobody had a portable charger. Doug's phone beeped again and Evie knew it wasn't going to last to the next contraction.
" I love you. " she soothed
" I love you too! I promise I'll find someone with a charger and call you right back. " he promised.
"My phone is dying too. " Evie whimpered as the contraction started.
Doug's phone died as the pain ended. Carlos became her Lamaze coach and Jay whispered encouraging words through each contraction. They where getting closer together.
"Slow your breathing E. Deep breaths. " Carlos encouraged.
"I don't want to breath. I need to push!" She wailed her body coming forward.
"Not yet! " Carlos said firmly.
"I need to PUSH!" Evie growled ripping the towel from Jay's hand and throwing it at Carlos.
Carlos got out of the car and opened the back door where he was at Evie's legs, He had a medical bag with him.
"All right Evie I'm going to check to see if your ready to push. So don't until I tell you to! " Carlos instructed while he pushed her dress up and pulled down her underwear down.
"Hurry I feel like I'm ripping in half! " she screamed.
Jay cringed.
"Do you know what to do? " Jay wondered how the vet tech knew how to deliver a human baby.
"I assisted with Moxie's birth and have been assisting Dr. Adams for almost two years now. " Carlos cleaned his hands with sanitizer then slipped on gloves he pulled from his bag.
"When did you switch from vet tech? " Jay was confused.
"Can we talk about when you lost touch with everyone after I have this baby! " Evie snapped.
"Push E. " Carlos hid his grin.
Jay helped her sit up to push and she crushed his hand harder. He wiped her head after the push.
"Again. " Carlos said.
A squealing deflating noise came from her as she pushed again.
"Good girl I see the head. Push again. " Carlos encouraged.
Evie screamed as she pushed.
"No more. " Evie panted.
"You can't give up after all this. " Jay said softly in her ear.
He helped her sit up more as she pushed again.
" Stop pushing Evie! " Carlos instructed firmly.
"Something's wrong I feel it. " Evie whimpered as she fell back into Jay.
" I'm sorry I yelled just don't push yet the cord is wrapped around the baby's neck. I'm going to unwrap the cord and you can push when I tell you. " Carlos soothed.
Evie nodded.
"All right E push and you'll have your baby. " Carlos grinned up at her.
Evie pushed hard and felt the baby slip from her body. She fell against Jay sobbing she realized her baby wasn't crying. It felt like forever before the baby began screaming.
"Good girl Evie meet your son. " Carlos gently put the baby on Evie's chest. He put a blanket over the baby.
"My son" Evie cooed as the baby opened his blurry blue eyes for a minute before closing them back.
"You did amazing E. " Jay gently touch the baby's head.
"Is he alright the cord didn't hurt him did it" Evie gently looked at the baby's neck.
"We need to get you guys to the hospital but I cleared his airways and he has great color so I think he is great. " Carlos grinned.
"Thank you both so much ." Evie smiled.
"Of course ." Jay kissed her on the head.
"I think this calls for favorite uncles status. " Carlos laughed.
"I think we can do that. " Evie winked.
It had been twenty minutes after Evie gave birth.
"Now the black out ends." Carlos sighed as the field's lights came on along with other lights in the school.
A red faced Doug was at the car five minutes later.
"Is she OK? Fairy Godmother called for an ambulance. " Doug met Carlos at the end of the car.
"They are both fine. " Carlos grinned.
Doug looked into the open car. Evie was sitting up in the seat holding a tiny bundle in her arms grinning. Doug almost colasped.
"You want to hold your son? " Evie asked tearfully.
Doug dropped to his kness at the door.
"My son! " he whispered reaching for the bundle. Doug brust into tears as he looked at his son. Evie stroked Doug's hair.
"He's perfect. " he held one the baby's hands with his finger. "You're amazing! " he added kissing Evie.
"The ambulance is here! " Fairy Godmother came out to the car. She gasped when Doug stood up holding the baby.
"Kind of late now but Evie needs to be checked out. " Doug grinned.
"They both do! " Fairy Godmother walked over to see the baby better.
"How are you feeling ?" Fairy Godmother looked at the elated Evie.
" Tired but very happy. " Evie smiled.
"You get some rest and we will see you later. Congratulations !" Fairy Godmother smiled warmly.
"Thank you! " they both said.
Doug rode with Evie to the hospital.
They decided to change the game to the next night. Which Jay was happy about because his hands we're killing him but he knew Evie's pain was thousand times worse so he wasn't saying a word. He was sitting in Carlos and Jane's apartment waiting until it was time to go visit Evie in the Hospital.
"Let me look at your hand. It looks swollen Evie really squeezed it good" Carlos chuckled at the nail imprints in Jay's palm.
"Well she squeezed a human out of her so I figured it was all I could do." Jay hissed when Carlos bent one of his fingers wrong.
"I think it's just sore but if the swelling doesn't go down or it hurts worse in a couple of days get it x-rayed." Carlos instructed as he cleaned and wrapped Jay's hand.
"Thanks Doc! "
"I'm in my last year of my training program then I will be a Doctor's Assistant. I'm just staying with Dr. Adams, we get a long well and he asked. I swore I told you two years ago when Moxie was born. " Carlos shrugged.
"Moxie is two now? How did that happen? " Jay rubbed his face it had been a hard two years.
Carlos jumped when Jane opened the door.
"Do you want to go see Evie and the baby? They are ready for visitors! "
"Yeah. " Jay stood up and went out the door before Carlos could say anything.
Jay felt ashamed. He had missed so much in friends lives. Not because he played Tourney but because they were happy and he was bitter and lonely. Audrey and him had broke up and everyone was marrying and having kids. He was so stupid instead of being happy for his friends he pushed them away. Everyone was in the waiting room when Jay, Carlos and Jane walked in.
"Jay! " Mal greeted with a purple hair blue eyed toddler on her hip.
"Hey! I know this isn't Moxie! " Jay smiled as the toddler burried her head in Mal's shoulder.
"This is my Moxie! " Mal shook her head.
"She is just playing because Moxie is not shy! " Carlos tickled Moxie. Moxie squealed and launched herself into Carlos's arms.
Jay just wanted to run. Moxie had no idea who he was and it was his own fault. He began to breathe heavily,his chest was tight and the room was spinning.
"Breathe! Jay sit down! " Ben had Jay's arm leading him to a chair.
Jay plopped down in the chair and covered his face. Fairy Godmother pushed Jane out of the room. Carlos handed Moxie back to Mal and kneeled in front of Jay and checked his pulse. Mal gave Moxie to Ben and sat down beside Jay.
"What's wrong Jay? " Mal asked softly as she put her hand on his back.
"I'm stupid because I lost two years with my friends because I was jealous. " Jay admitted quietly.
"You are stupid! " Mal stated as she took her arm off him. Jay looked at her a little hurt.
"You didn't lose your friends! "Mal grinned nudging him. Jay let out a shakey breathe.
"Man you have had a rough two years. Tourney, injuries, false pregnancy, breaking up with Audrey all while going to school. We knew things were hard but we hoped you would come to us. Life just gets in the way sometimes but you should know you could never lose us. " Carlos patted Jay's arm.
"Moxie this is your uncle Jay. He missed you can you give him a hug? " Ben asked putting the little girl down.
Moxie stared at the long haired man in front of her before grinning and held up her arms to Jay. Jay picked her up and she wrapped her tiny arms around his neck. Jay gently hugged the tiny girl.
"My sweet girl! " Mal cooed.
"Let's go meet your little cousin. " Ben said as Moxie reached for him.
Evie smiled when her four best friends walked into the room. Fairy Godmother was holding the baby.
"I haven't held a little baby in a while. He is so handsome! " Fairy Godmother gushed as she gently passed the baby to Jane.
"He is so small! " Jane smiled as Carlos wrapped his arms around her waist and tucked his head on her shoulder to look at the baby.
Jay sat in a chair in the corner, he had already held the baby.
"How much did he weigh? " Carlos asked as he ran a finger down the baby's cheek.
"Eight pounds even and twenty-two inches long" Doug proudly stated.
"Baby! " Moxie grinned.
"Moxie girl come see me! " Evie held her arms out.
Ben carefully put Moxie in the bed with Evie.
You're getting so big. I love your outfit whoever got that for you must be a great person! " Evie grinned at the purple shirt that had a blue writing that said "my Aunt is Great" on it. Paired with a blue Tutu.
"Whatever! " Mal rolled he eyes as she took the baby from Jane.
"So what is the little guys name? " Jay asked impatiently.
"Maxwell Douglas! " Evie beamed.
"Nice to meet you Maxwell! " Ben grinned as Mal put Maxwell in his arms.
"Daddy baby! " Moxie demanded from the bed.
"Let Aunt Evie help you since Max is so little. " Evie put a pillow on Moxie's lap.
"No! " Moxie threw the pillow off.
"Yes! "Mal and Ben said firmly.
Moxie's bottom lip came out and her hands went up to her eyes as she began to cry.
"This is new! " Evie looked shocked.
"She hit two and her life just fell apart. Everything is tearful and dramatic. " Mal shook her head.
"I don't miss that stage at all! " Fairy Godmother chuckled.
"Thanks mom! " Jane huffed.
"It is just a phase all little ones go though. Moxie will get though it too. Hang in there mom and dad! " Fairy Godmother smiled as she patted Mal on the back.
"BABY! " Moxie screamed. Tired of being ignored.
The scream made Ben jump causing Max to cry.
"Now it is time for a time out! " Ben said as he handed Max to Doug and then grabbed Moxie off the bed and took her out of the room still screaming.
"I'm sorry guys I thought she would behave. She love E to death and she had a good nap" Mal shook her head as she walked to the door.
"It's OK M we still love Moxie. We'll try again later. " Evie blew a kiss to Mal.
"We'll see you guys later." Mal waved as she left.
"We are going to be in trouble when you turn two aren't we? " Doug asked as he gently bounced Max.
"Most likely. " Evie reached for Max.
Doug handed her Max.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in! " Doug called.
"Hey guys you want more visitors? " Lonnie stuck her head in grinning.
"Of course! " Evie grinned. Chad followed Lonnie in.
"Oh he is so sweet! " Lonnie cooed at the baby in Evie's arms.
"Thank you! Do you want to hold him? " Evie offered.
"Yes please! " Lonnie gently took the baby.
"I can't believe Doug is a dad! " Chad hugged Doug.
Chad had changed a lot since high school.
"Little bit of a surprise myself. " Doug grinned.
Lonnie was cooing over Max when Evie saw something sparkling on Lonnie's finger.
"Lon let me see your hand! " Evie demanded.
Lonnie adjusted the baby before showing Evie the sparkly engagement ring on her hand.
"When did this happen? " Evie tried to keep her voice down so not to wake Max.
"Last week. We were going to show everyone tonight but this little one wouldn't wait! " Lonnie smiled.
"I'm so glad he came I was done being pregnant. " Evie sighed.
"So he came in the car? " Chad asked as Lonnie put the baby in I arms.
"Yup I'm so glad Carlos and Jay were there. I couldn't have done it myself. " Evie said thankfully.
The baby began to cry.
"I bet he is hungry. " Evie said.
I'm starving why don't we get something to eat and let them have some privacy . Then we can come back up. " Carlos suggested.