<Soda's POV>

"One more push Chris!" I inform her as I squeeze her hand.

"Don't tell her that, I don't actually know that for a fact!" Leala yells at me as she examines Chris's progress.

"Shut up and tell me I only have one more push!" Chris yells at us. I widen my eyes in disbelief and shock. I am not used to Chris yelling. Lena rubs Chris's calf.

"One more push," Lena says smirking. Chris smirks back at her between heavy breathing. Then Lena widens her eyes at she looks at Chris's privates. "What is that?" She asks horrified.

"That would be his head," Leala says matter of factly. Lena puffs out her cheeks and takes a deep breath.

"Oh well I think I need a bucket," Lena claims. Miraculously, Ponyboy shows up behind her with a small trash bucket. She pats him on the back takes the bucket and goes in the corner. Lena continues to let out any food she ate that day. Chris closes her eyes.

"Lena that's gross," Chris claims. Lena shakes her head.

"Sorry, I'm a bit light headed now, I can deal with blood, not a head coming out of you, that's just wrong," Lena claims as she takes a few deep breathes and pulls her hair back into a messy bun.

"Alright that's enough fuckery, Chris push, the shoulders are the hardest part," I remind my wife. She nods her head and Lena cocks and eyebrow.

"What textbook did you swallow?" Lena asks as she places the trash bucket down. I squint my eyes at her in response.

"I didn't think you read about any of this," Chris says looking up at me with those big blue eyes. I smile and brush her hair back with my fingers. Before I can say anything Darry steps up next to Lena on the opposite side of the bed.

"Are you kidding me? This boy and the librarian are tight now, he was there all those days you thought he was coming home late from work," Darry informs her. I smile shyly.

"How tight?" Lena asks smirking knowingly. Darry glares at her.

"You studied birth?" Chris asks for confirmation.

"Are you kidding me, I could be a registered nurse. I just wanted to make sure I could help if something went wrong." I know why they are all surprised. I am a drop out and yet I spent countless hours at the library trying to read. It wasn't too hard because Pony would come along as well sometimes to help me while he did his homework.

Chris gives me the biggest most beautiful white smile and closes her eyes lightly, as if she is laughing. She squeezes my hand and sighs. Next thing I know there is a loud cry and Leala is holding a messy little infant. I stand frozen with a smile on my face, hidden by tears. They pour from my eyes and I don't attempt to stop them. My body shakes with the waterfall of tears coming from my eyes as Leala washes off the little boy with a towel. There is a thin layer of dark hair on his head, swirling when the towel swipes over it. Leala wraps the baby in a soft blanket, coddling my new born. She comes over to Chris and I and hands me the baby boy.

My arms hold him tightly, but gently, against my chest. My breathing slows and suddenly the only thing I see in the world is this little boy. I will always be devastated I wasn't there for Josh's birth, and I will be forever grateful that I made it to Wesley's. My tears drop onto his blankets and he finally lays silently. With everyone's eyes watching my every move I bring my lips down to his forehead and leave them there for a good ten seconds, just taking it all in. I am a father of two now. When I pull my lips away from my second baby boy all I can do is stare at his bare and natural face, trying to see if he has my nose, my mouth, and my ears. The anticipation grows to see his eyes open, but for now he shall sleep.

I look to Chris with my watery eyes and see her crying with a giant smile on her face. She half mouths half says, "I'm so proud of you." I nod my head fast and then hand her our baby. She pulls him professionally into her arms and coddles him lovingly. I watch as my perfect wife and beautiful child meet for the first time after nine long months. She whispers quietly into the baby's ear sweet nothings and finally my tears stop and I see my second child with clear eyes.

I walk over to Johnny and thank him for holding Josh. He hands me my first born smiling and I bring Josh up to meet his brother. Josh reaches his hands out to the baby. I wonder if he knows that that is his sibling. "That's your new brother," I whisper to Josh. Josh looks back at me with a wide open mouth and big eyes. I laugh at his response. Finally something has gone right.

Dallas hushes Skyler from the next bed over. I leave my perfect moment and check on the other half of my family. Steve is holding down one of Skyler's shoulders, Dallas pressing down the other, Tibby in Dallas's free arm. "Shh, Skyler Elizabeth, the doctors are almost done," Dallas pleas. Skyler's face is squished together in pain. I look to Steve who has a white face.

"What's wrong?" I ask nervously.

"Her morphine cut out and the next dose isn't kicking in, Skyler can feel everything," Steve explains. I glance to the deep cut on the side of Skyler's enlarged abdomen. If she can feel that, the pain must be unbearable. Skyler lets out a yelp of pain as a doctor reaches into her womb to grasp a baby. Now Skyler screams a high pitched cry. Sweat drips down her face like rain drops. It reminds me of how I felt when that bomb during the war singed my body with fire. I take her hand in mine and squeeze it.

"Squeeze my hand Skyler," I demand. She does as she is told and clenches her teeth together. It's now I realize that Dallas is crying. His body is shaking and his skin is as white as snow. The dark eyelashes around the rim of his dark eyes are drenched in salty tears. He is muttering sweet nothings that I can't quite hear. I look at Skyler in her brilliant silver eyes. "Sky, open your eyes," I tell her calmly, "look at me and do not look away." She manages to look at me with teary eyes, full of pain.

"It hurts," she exclaims. I nod her way.

"Yes it does and it's going to hurt when your kids skin their knees and their going to say the same thing you just told me, and when that happens you are going to want to take their pain. You are willing to do anything to take away their pain. That's true isn't it?" I ask. Skyler cringes and with one final pained scream she yells.

"Yes!" There is the sound of a crying baby. Dallas looks to the infant and covers his mouth, holding back tears. He then looks back at Skyler.

"One more Skyler Elizabeth, I love you," Dallas says looking down at his life partner with dreaming eyes. Skyler looks to me and nods her thanks. Then, her glance turns to Steve. She blushes and rubs her head against the hand he has on her shoulder, smiling weakly as she does it. Skyler then looks to the gang with teary eyes and a grateful smile. With one last effort she looks to Dallas and stretches her hand to his neck. Pulling his face down to hers, she plants a long kiss on his lips. The deep stare of her grey eyes do not leave Dallas's face as the second baby is pulled from her body.

We all smile at her unknowingly and congratulate her. Tibby giggles as two infants are brought over to Dallas and Skyler. Dallas takes one in his free arm, Tibby watching carefully in his other arm. When the nurse goes to hand the other baby to Skyler she stares nervously for one second. I realize why the nurse is shocked. Skyler's face is as white are puffy clouds on a bright day, her chest is barely moving, and her eyes are closed. She appears horrifyingly still, almost as if she is dead. "Mrs. Winston is unconscious, get everyone out of here!" The nurse yells. Doctors begin to swarm and in the midst of the gang being pulled from the room, the newborn boy is ripped from Dallas's arms and taken somewhere unknown.

"Skyler!" He yells as Steve and I pull him from the room. "I love you!" Johnny snatches Tibby from Dallas's arms, just in case Dally gets to out of hand. I leave behind Skyler and her two infants along with my wife and my newborn. I look around and see Pony has taken Josh. Finally we are out of the hiatus of Chris and Skyler's hospital room, leaving fate to take over what we can't control.

A/N This is so highly unedited and sloppy but I really needed to update.

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