With All My Spark → Transformers

Long Process

*I don't own Transformers or anything affiliated with Transformers. I only own my original characters and plots. All rights go to Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.*

Hospital beds were comfortable, but they weren't all that comfortable when you were pregnant. I had been laying here for at least thirteen hours and my contractions only got worse as the hours dragged on. My lower half burned intensely, but that wasn't the only pain the contractions had given me. My legs were sore as hell from all the cramping, my back ached greatly, and my rectal area felt almost as if it were being ripped apart with a paper shredder. I hated this so much; I had received my epidural only about five minutes ago and was more than ready for it to kick in. I was also about seven centimeters dilated which meant I had about three more centimeters until Kaelyn decided to make an appearance.

Most of my friends were here with me. Carly and Mikaela had went back to Carly's apartment to retrieve Sam and Leo after Adalyn left the house with me. Sam called his parents and Simmons, while Adalyn called Monique. There was still no way to get ahold of my dad and the Autobots while they were overseas, so that was a little upsetting for me, but at the moment I had everyone here that I needed.

Currently, I was in my room with Adalyn, Mikaela, Sam, Carly, and Leo while everyone else thought that it'd be best to wait out in the waiting room so they wouldn't overcrowd my room. It was rather nice of them to do that though and I respected it. Just having these five in here with me was kind of suffocating, but I wasn't going to tell them that. I didn't want to be left alone in this and having them with me made me feel a sense of comfort save for the suffocation.

We were all focused on watching a movie on TV. Well, they were anyways. I was more focused on my body being ripped apart from the inside out. It was rather aggravating if you asked me. Aside from Ironhide and my dad being here, I wished that I could go to sleep, but my daughter spastically moving around inside me prevented me from doing so. I hadn't slept at all in the past thirteen hours and it was nine o'clock in the damn morning, a big difference from when I left at eight o'clock last night. I was just ready to get this little sucker out of my body and go to sleep for the rest of my natural life; hopefully Kaelyn wouldn't mind her mom taking a little fifty year cat nap.

"I hate this so much," I groaned.

"Hasn't your epidural kicked in yet?" Sam asked. Stupid boy asking stupid questions. There's no surprise there. .

"No, Sam. It's only been freaking five minutes," I grumbled.

He scoffed. "Well, someone's grumpy tonight."

My contractions had also made me exceptionally grumpy. Dealing with all of this pain really just made me angry as shit and the fact that this whole birthing process was taking so unnecessarily long also heightened that anger. I just wanted this to freaking be over.

"No shit, Sherlock. There's a human trying to come out of my body. Grumpy is quite the understatement at this point," I retorted.

"I swear if this is how all women act when they're pregnant, we're not having kids," he said to Carly. She laughed and I just gave him a look and shook my head before closing my eyes.

When I actually thought about it, I was kind of glad that Hide wasn't here. I didn't want him to see me like this and I knew that I would wind up snapping at him over the smallest thing, just like I had done with Sam. I was already feeling bad about my remark to Sam, but I would've felt overly guilty about even the smallest of remarks toward Hide. If he showed up after Kaelyn was born I'd be perfectly okay with that, probably because I wouldn't be awake to snap at him.

The door to my hospital room opened and my eyes flickered open. I turned my head to see my doctor for the night, Doctor May Sheffield, walking in. Like normal, she had a smile on her face and she approached me, laying her hand down on my arm.

"How are you feeling? They did give you your epidural didn't they?" she asked me.

I nodded. The medicine was actually beginning to take effect and the pain was becoming less. The only thing I could really feel was an incredible amount of pressure in my lower half. "I feel much better than I did two minutes ago. Can we just hurry up and get her out, please?"

Doctor Sheffield chuckled and walked towards the end of my bed to check on my lower region. It was kind of awkward having a woman look at that area, but I know I would've felt even more awkward if it were a man, so I didn't further complain about it. She had been doing this for years so she probably didn't think nothing of it anymore.

"You're about nine centimeters dilated now. I'm going to head out and get the nurses. I'd say your little girl is going to be ready to come out in about a half hour or so," she informed me.

I mentally sighed. Thank the good Lord above this is about to be over.

"Okay. Thank you so much, Doctor Sheffield," I breathed out. She smiled at me before exiting the room and I turned my head to face the groups of five beside me. "Sam, you need to wake Leo up and both of you need to leave," I told him.

"Why?" he asked me.

And my patience continues to grow thinner. . .

"Because I don't want you two in here while my child is escaping my vaginal area. Is that a good enough reason for you to leave?" I inquired. A look of pure disgust crossed his features and he groaned before getting up and heading over to Leo. He shook the boy by the collar in an attempt to wake him up before literally dragging him out of the room.

I chuckled and shook my head before turning back to the girls. "Thank you guys for being here with me. It means so much more to me than you'll ever know," I said to them, nothing but absolute sincerity in my tone.

Adalyn gave me a tired smile. Just like me, they had been up all night as well. They didn't want to leave me up by myself so they bought a bunch of energy drinks and sweets to help keep them up. Leo was the only one of us that actually wound up falling asleep. He ate too much sugar, had a rush, and crashed right in the floor, but all is well that ends well. He should wake up in a couple of hours or so.

"You're welcome, Lea. I'm glad we get to be here with you," Adalyn told me with a yawn.

I laughed. "If you want to go to sleep, if any of you want to go to sleep, it's okay. You can. I'm not stopping you."

"No. I will not close my eyes until I see that precious little girl of yours. I've come too far to quit now," Carly exclaimed.

"I promise you'll get to see her. The three of you look exhausted though. It's not going to hurt you to sleep," I retorted.

"Sleep is not going to happen, Lea. Stop trying to make it happen," Mikaela replied with a giggle, her tone mocking that of the movie Mean Girls. She definitely needed all the sleep she could get.

I didn't get the chance to respond before the door burst open again. About seven nurses and Doctor Sheffield and piling into the room at once, most all of them rushing over to me, including Doctor Sheffield. I had no clue what they were doing specifically, but from what I could make out of their actions, they were readying the area for Kaelyn to be born and that just sent an immense amount of relief into my system.

Doctor Sheffield examined me just like she had about ten minutes ago and she looked up at me, a smile on her face. "Are you ready to have a baby, Lea?" she inquired.

I let out a loud sigh, slightly scared to answer her.

It's now or never, Lea. You can do this. In minutes you'll be holding your beautiful daughter in your hands, I thought to myself.

This was all the assurance I needed. I smiled at Doctor Sheffield and nodded quickly. She gave me her famous comforting smile and before long she and the nurses, and of course myself, were working to bring Kaelyn Olivia into the world.

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