Surrogate in Love - Richard Madden

Chapter 17: Waking up

*Richards p.o.v*

It had been three days and she still hadn't woken up. She suffered a hemorrhage and passed out and hadn't woken up since. I hadn't left her side other than to shower. Filming had been halted since 2 of the main characters spent most of our time at the hospital. I stayed nearly 24/7 but the others took shifts. Tom and Jess stayed for the first day but since the twins were able to go home they have only been for an hour each day.

I was sat as always on the seat next to her thinking over the last conversations we had. How she never told me if she loved me too. I held onto her hand like I always did but this time she squeezed back. It shocked me at first but I didn't hold my breath on it being her walking up. She had done this a few times over the last three days but it was just a nerve. But this time she did it again and moved her head.

"Ris, Ris is that you" she groaned slightly and then tried to open her eyes. They opened slightly and then shut again tightly. I called for the nurse and was then pulled out of the room. I had to wait an hour before a doctor came back into the waiting room. At that time I called jess and put a message in the group chat to tell everyone. Within the hour Taron, Harrison sam, and harry made their way to the hospital. We sat in silence waiting for some news. We weren't sure how she would be when she woke up so it was nerve-racking waiting. Finally, after the hour was up a nurse in blue scrubs came out and asked

"Which one of you is with Iris?" we all nodded and I stood up to show that I was waiting to hear the news.

"she's awake. There were some pain managing problems but we have put her on morphine and she is recovering well. All the stitches are healing nicely. We want to keep her in for observations but I think she should be able to go home in a few days" I was relieved to hear that she was going to be okay. I had been so worried about her it was insane. I never thought I could love someone so quickly but with her, I did feel like it was love at first sight.

"Can we see her?" Taron asked before I could get the sentence out.

"yes but take it steady maybe one first so she can get her bearings and then the rest of you can go in. Whos going first?" just as the doctor asked that Jess and Tom walked through the door with the Twins in tow.

"it should be me. I'm the one who did this to her. She's my best friend" Jess said. She must have been on the phone when the conversation was being had.

"No Jess it shouldn't be you " Taron replied. She looked at him with horror on her face. It was clear now that I was looking at her she was exhausted and I didn't want to fight with her but Jess could be harsh and full of herself at times when it wasn't needed and this was one of those times. If she went in there now she would ruin her entire relationship with one wrong word.

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"excuse me. She's my best friend. She's known me the longest she needs me" I couldn't agree with her and it was clear nobody else could either. The person who responded to her shocked me. in the entire time I had been working with Jess Tom never once spoke against her but here he was doing exactly that. He knew she wasn't what his friend needed.

"no Jess. She needs Richard right now" I didn't respond to him, not really. I nodded my head and then went over to the nurse.

"ill go" the doctor just nodded her head and lead me back to the room that I had spent the last few days in. I could hear Jess behind me arguing with everyone about how unfair this is but I didn't care I was about to finally see my Ris and I wasn't going to let her ruin this.

There she was. More sat up than she was before but less pale. The light was shining in her eyes again. Those beautiful blue eyes that I loved so much. And her hair was still in the plait that I had done when she was in labor.

"considering you almost died I don't think it's fair that you look better than me" she laughed at me and the laugh brought the light back into my heart. Even up to the moment I felt her squeeze my hand I was scared I would lose her.

"shut up I look terrible. You look like a Scottish god, however." I had to laugh at her. The drugs had kicked in and the pain she was feeling was gone.

"what happened. I don't remember anything past finding out the second baby was a boy" I walked over to her and sat on the edge of the bed, took her hand, and then started to speak.

"the baby was born and then you hemorrhaged, flat-lined, and everything but then after about an hour of trying to fix the damage that had been caused by the hemorrhage. They managed to save you but you didn't wake up. They said you probably just needed time to wake so they gave you a few days being monitored and then you woke up and that's everything that you missed. I stayed as much as possible and everyone else visited as much as they could" I couldn't help myself I had to pull her into a hug. I was so happy to have her back.

"I'm sorry I put you all through the stress of that" I couldn't believe that she thought she needed to apologize. I had to let her go so that I could look her in the eyes.

"do not ever apologize. You were strong enough to get through all of this. I'm proud of you" she smiled and looked me directly in the eyes.

"you told me that whilst I was in labor. You got me through it. Did you mean the other thing?" I couldn't believe that she remembered that. I thought amongst all of what was going on that she wouldn't have remembered.

"I meant every word. I love you with all of my heart" she pulled me into a hug and took a deep breath before she replied.

"I love you too. Thank you for everything" we held each other for what felt like forever until there was a knock on the door. In came the rest of the gang including the two new editions. There were hugs and kisses from everyone and then Jess after she told Ris what happened outside got the first twin out of his carrier.

"This is Finley Dominic Holland" Jess passed baby Finley to Ris and she cooed and held him until he fell asleep and she passed him to Tom. Jess then got Twin 2 from his carrier and passed him to her. The second little boy cooed and mumbled as he rested in her arms.

"This is Bentley Ris Holland" I saw the light shine in her eyes when she realised that they had named one of the babies after her.

"you named him after me?" Jess looked at her dumbfounded like it wasn't obvious that she would do it.

"of course! You carried them all this time. You looked after them and you nearly died for them. The least we can do is name one of them after you" Ris started to tear up so Tom took Bentley out of her hands and Jess proceeded to hold her best friend in the biggest hug. The conversations then started up again everyone telling Iris what was going on and what she had missed. The twins were passed around until I ended up holding who I think was Finley since he had a little green onesie on and that's the color they had assigned to him when he was born. Everyone was in the middle of their conversations between them but I noticed that Ris had her eyes on me so I made my way back over to her.

"like what you see?" I said jokingly to her. We had talked about the idea of children and both agreed we weren't in the right place to even think about it for the next few years at least.

"you with a baby I will gladly look at all day every day as long as it doesn't belong to us" I had to laugh at her reply but I also nodded my head in agreement. Seeing Ris with a baby in her arms was a sight I could never bore of but we weren't ready yet. Our story was just starting.

A/N: Part 1 of the story is finished. I didn't want to make the whole story about the pregnancy because I want to share more of their story and build Richard and Iris' relationship. The next part of the story will be building their relationship and how Iris deals with giving birth but not having children.

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