An Unforseen Fate

Chapter 8: The Arrival

The birth hadn't gone the way Obi-Wan was expecting. During every appointment the doctors always gave {Y/N} a clean bill of health. Nothing unusual was ever picked up on any of the scans or in any of the tests. {Y/N} had a completely normal pregnancy so he couldn't understand why this birth complication had come up.

When he asked one of the nurses about it she said that it could have happened to anyone, no matter how smoothly their pregnancy was and that it was entirely unpredictable. That provided him with little comfort but she did say that they were able to treat it by removing the baby surgically. The surgery shouldn't take too long and they would be done before he knew it. Now all that Obi-Wan could do was wait for it to be over with but every second that passed was torture. He wasn't given any updates on how his beloved {Y/N} was doing or their baby and that frightened him.

As he paced around the waiting room he heard footsteps and when he looked up he saw a nurse running down the hall. He recognised this nurse as one of the nurses who was assisting in {Y/N}'s birth. He couldn't wait any longer. He needed answers.

"Nurse, wait a moment!" She stopped when he called out to her but she looked like she was in a hurry. "What is going on? How is {Y/N} and the baby? I haven't received any news since they went in for surgery. Is everything alright? What can you tell me?"

"Well..." the nurse began. She looked unsure and it seemed as if she was going to leave without a word but the look on Obi-Wan's face forced her to speak. He was worried and wanted answers. The nurse felt as if she had no choice but to tell him. "Your wife... She had a second hemorrhage..."

Obi-Wan's eyes widened upon hearing the news. "Excuse me?"

"They successfully removed the child and she is in perfect health."

"She?"

"Yes. Mr. Kenobi, you have a daughter."

"That's wonderful news! But what about {Y/N}? How is she doing?"

"I... I can't say..." The nurse looked away and began to back up. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get some blood for a transfusion. Your wife's life depends on it."

"Oh. Right. I'm sorry. I won't keep you any longer. Please do whatever you can to save her."

"We will," and with that, the nurse was gone. She rushed to the blood bank and gathered a few bags of blood that matched {Y/N}'s type then rushed back to the operating theatre.

Meanwhile, Obi-Wan fell onto a chair in the waiting room and rested his head in his hands. He was full of mixed emotions. He was thrilled to hear that his baby was born and that it was a healthy baby girl but at the same time he was worried for {Y/N}. The nurse didn't tell him what her status was and that frightened him. If she couldn't say then it meant that she wasn't out of the woods yet and she needed more blood. That wasn't a good sign. All he knew was that she was still in surgery but he didn't know how she was doing. The nurse didn't even tell him what her chances were. For all he knew, she could be dying...

Obi-Wan couldn't help it. He tried so hard but he couldn't hold himself back any longer. He broke down and cried. He hadn't cried like this before in his entire life. The Jedi Order had prohibited attachments so he had never had this strong of a bond with another person before. He had never felt love like this towards another person in his entire life.

After beginning his exile on Tatooine, life had begun looking somewhat miserable to Obi-Wan but that all changed when he met {Y/N}. She had changed him in ways that he couldn't have imagined. She was his light in the darkness. After all that had happened with Anakin... Obi-Wan feared that he could never love again but {Y/N} proved him wrong. He could love again and he did. There was still room left in his heart for love but if she left him he wasn't sure what he was going to do. Sure, he still had his daughter but he didn't want to raise her alone. He would if he had to but that wasn't the life he wanted. He wanted to raise the little girl with his darling {Y/N}. That was the plan. That was what they were meant to do, right?