The entire room was full of gasps.

"Help me get him up," Susan instructed, grabbing one of Dan's biceps. Felix grabbed Dan's waist as PJ grabbed the other bicep and Troye, Tyler and Chris helped grab his legs. They all picked him up and carried him into the spare bedroom down the hall as Sam went to get some towels.

When Sam entered the bedroom, Susan glanced at her. "Come hold his hand while I get some things," Susan uttered quickly, and Sam took her place as the older woman dashed out of the room.

"It's okay, Dan," Sam said softly. "Just breathe, okay?"

Dan nodded weakly, breathing in and out as sweat rolled down his face.

Susan came back with a few items that Sam couldn't quite see. "How much pain are you in, on a scale of one to ten?" Susan quickly asked Dan.

Dan looked over at her tiredly, holding up six fingers. "I'm pretty good... w-with physical pain..."

"Okay, well, Dan..." Susan began, looking at her son's true love, "I don't have any drugs to numb you, and I have to preform a c-section. Is this okay?"

"D- Do whatever you need to..." Dan murmured, gripping Sam's hand tight.

"M- Mrs. Lester?" Chris asked, face pale. "How are you gonna perform a c-section...? Do you know how...?"

"Of course I do," Susan said, turning to Chris. "I went to medical school."

"Oh," the boy replied, before quickly leaving the room.

"I've never seen Chris like that," Troye commented, staring at the doorway.

"Dan, are you okay?" Sam asked faintly, staring at her best friend's face.

Dan nodded with half-lidded eyes, looking extremely tired.

"Okay," Susan began, getting her knife ready. "This is going to hurt a bit, alright?"

Dan nodded.

-

"I got the baby," Susan said as she lifted the baby from Dan's stomach. "Sam, a towel, please."

Sam handed Susan a towel, the older woman wrapping the baby up in it.

"Sam, take the baby."

Sam took the infant and backed up as Susan began to stitch Dan's stomach up.

Dan bit his lip hard, but thankfully it didn't hurt too bad for him.

Once Dan was all stitched and cleaned up, Susan reached out for the baby.

Sam handed her the baby wrapped in a blanket and stepped back again.

Susan examined the baby's face; closed eyes and long eyelashes, an almost white shade of pale skin, a tiny nose and mouth and light brown hair, like Dan's. She noted the baby was silent, however, gentle breaths proved the baby was alright.

Susan smiled and tears welled up in her eyes; she was a grandmother and that made her so happy.

Dan tiredly looked at Susan holding his child. He was pretty exhausted but he wanted nothing more than to hold the life he'd created in his arms.

Susan saw this and reached out to give the baby to her (hopefully) future son-in-law.

Dan took the small child in his arms, and smiled, tears falling from his eyes.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Sam asked, tilting her head.

Dan peeked under the blanket and smiled at Sam. "It's a sweet little girl."

"What are you going to name her?" Susan inquired, wiping tears from her eyes.

Dan smiled impossibly wider. "Aya for the first name, Libi for the middle, and then either Lester or Howell for the last."

"Hm, what made you chose those?" Chris asked as he stepped back into the room.

Susan nodded. "Yeah, they're beautiful. What made you choose those though?"

"One meaning in Japanese for Aya means 'color'," Dan began, looking at his baby girl. "Libi means 'my heart'. Put them together and you have 'color my heart'."

Susan began crying harder and Sam smiled wider.

"That's so beautiful, Dan," Tyler uttered, wiping his eyes.

"Thank you," Dan said, smiling small. "I think so, too."

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Not the longest update but I finally wrote one!! Ahhhh
AlSO I HIT 1K FOLLOWERS!!! YAYYYY

oh, and I made sure I looked it up before choosing the name c: it really means 'color' (although that's not the first meaning) and 'my heart'. I thought it fit very well c:

Anyways, hope you like this and for those of you reading my other fics, updates will come soon! The majority of Light and Dark is written, and Japan can be whipped up in a few minutes so probably tomorrow I'll try to do those. Ghostwritings will come as soon as i can write it, so yeah c:

I hope you like it! ♡