After the presentation I found myself on autopilot and now just as I'm on my way to the hospital to be there for the birth of my first child does what I saw finally start to sink in.
"This world is fucked!"
"Sir?" Jake asks me but I wave him off.
"Jake, take the rest of the night off." I tell my private security/chauffeur.
"Sir…" Jake goes to start to refuse but shut up when our eyes meet.
"Is there anything you need us to handle, Sir? Anything you need to keep your hands clean of?" Jake asks me but I shake my head no.
"No Jake, but thank you…I've just been read-in on some things pertaining to things that would see us both executed for treason if I reveal anything more…"
"Enough said Sir, we have your back no matter what…you gave us back our lives…purpose, there's not one of us that wouldn't die for you or your's." Jake says while looking at me a little too passionately in the rearview mirror, 'I think I might have made some fanatics…oh well.'
"You are my people Jake, you and the others, any of you guys dying is not an option I'm comfortable with." I say to him and I can see it in his eyes he'll die for me, he'll kill for me…it's the same look I've seen in the other ACU personnel…especially Sarah and Trent.
"We know Sir." He says to me but goes silent as I sigh and look out the rear window.
We arrive at the hospital the smell of antiseptic and harsh chemicals make my nostrils burn, I put up with it as I head to the delivery unit, Alexis rushes over to me and slams into me like a missile, kissing me, before pushing herself off of me, "Hurry Mom's dilating and they're inducing labor." She tells me in a rush, Tim comes over and hugs me too, though we haven't been as close since he found out I was with his mom and his sister.
"Hey Tim, don't worry your mom and the baby will be okay." I reassure the kid who looks up at me with a hopeful disbelief filled expression but stiffens his lip and lets me out of his hug.
A nurse comes over to us, "Are you the father of the child?" She asks me and I can tell that she's judging both Lisa and I, "I am, please take me to where Lisa is in labor."
"The rack right there has boxes of smocks, masks and gloves. Please put them on for both the mother and child's safety." She tells me and I walk over and do just that, and then follow her into the delivery room.
Seeing Lisa sprawled out on that table with her legs up in the air but a divider screen blocking my view I can't help but worry for, only made worse by her sudden cry of pain.
I move over to her side quickly taking her sweaty palm in mine, "Hey beautiful, how's it going?" My question is soft and light as Lisa clenches my hand hard enough to make her knuckles turn white.
"Your wife is dilated…" A doctor mostly hidden by scrubs says to me and I kinda blink out, and the only word I really understand is breach.
"Do whatever is necessary to save our child." Lisa manages to speak clearly and without pause, I lean in close to Lisa's right ear, "I'm not losing you Lisa or our baby, even if it means exposing my abilities." I murmur in her ear and feel her hand holding mine tighten it's grip.
"Doc-Haa-tor, I'd like nghh-call in my private physician." Lisa suddenly says through pained cries.
"That isn't advisable Miss Hammond, we can't wait much longer or the danger you and your child are in will only increase." I walk over the phone on the wall and dial Star 811 like it says to call out and call Jake the man immediately picks up the car phone.
"Sir?" "Jake I need you to get Jessica Harding here now, no expense is too great use whatever resources are necessary!" I say to the man who I'm sure is still waiting loyally outside and not on his way home for a good night's sleep.
"On it boss!" He replies to me and the line clicks off, returning to Lisa's side taking her hand looking into her eyes. I can see the pain she is in is a lot worse than what she is trying to let on.
"Just hold on a little longer baby, Jessica is coming then we'll get you and the baby straightened out I murmur comfortingly and Lisa gives me a pained smile.
"Whatever happens I know our baby, you and my kids will be fine together as you'll have each other." Lisa gasps out already given up on making it through this pregnancy, I should have known better than to knock up a 36 year old mother of two…but I just couldn't keep denying my own instincts…my kink.
Five minutes later Jessica bursts through the door to the delivery/operating theater, and both the doctors and nurses are kicked out of the gallery.
I close my eyes and concentrate on keeping both the baby and Lisa healthy and alive while Jessica sets to her grizzly task.
Lisa's screams make me wish I had gotten an ability to influence the pain and pleasure centers of the body to make this easier on her alongside my Healer's Touch, soon the baby's cries ring out into the delivery room and I pump as much of my healing power into Lisa as I possibly can.
Lisa lets out a breath of relief as the baby's cries fill the room, and so do I, Jessica let out an awe sound of pure love and adoration, at the little new born.
I reluctantly release Lisa's hand and call the doctors and nurses back in, to look over our daughter and she gets a clean bill of health. As a nurse starts to take care of Lisa, she looks up at me and I can feel the suspicion on me.
"Nurse Maybelle, is there something wrong?" A doctor asks the nurse, "No doctor Rossum, everything is as it should be."
We get taken to a private room close to the delivery room, "I think we should fill out mine and the baby's discharge paperwork and leave, I don't like the way that nurse was looking at you." Lisa murmurs as a yawn explodes out of her.
"You need to rest, and the baby needs to be cared for." I murmur back to her while taking a wash cloth and patting her sweaty forehead dry.