What Is Life? - A George Harrison FanFic

Chapter 27

Linda immediately called the producer of the show and then got me down the elevator and out to the car. She drove Heather and I to the hospital and got me inside. People were running in every direction and Dr. Klein was there on standby to bring me to a room.

Once they got me dressed into a hospital gown they did a bunch of tests and had me get ready to have the baby.

I tried with all my might to get them to slow things down so that George could get there. I was praying with all of my heart that he was almost here. It was over a half an hour of immense pain that he finally ran inside the room.

"There you are," he said frantically. He was still wearing the outfit he had on during the performance and so the nurses in the room recognized him and started to get excited.

"I'll get you an autograph or whatever you want," he said to them "but please do not make this experience miserable. This is the happiest day of my life."

They nodded and got serious again and did everything they were supposed to. Soon the hospital was on a sort of lockdown where no one could come down our hallway to the room we were in other than the two nurses with us and the Doctor. There was also a mob of reporters being forced to stay out of the hospital itself and were staged out the front doors waiting for news on the birth of our child like it was a Royal Baby itself.

I tuned everything out other than the sweet words George repeated into my ear of how great I was doing and how much he loved me.

Within the next hour we were pushing and knew our baby would be here shortly.

"One more!" The doctor encouraged and I screamed and did everything I could to meet our child as I squeezed George's hand.

Suddenly I felt a bit of relief as a new little cry rang out.

"You have a boy!" The doctor said happily to us.

I began to cry as he was placed against my chest for a moment so I could see him.

George held me and I knew he was as emotional as I was. We had just decided on his name this morning and although we had thought we were having a little girl, we now knew that this was a sign that the world would be okay with him in it.

He was born in the evening on the last day of the year in 1967. And we held him in our arms as the new year rang in.

We stayed secluded with our little baby in the hospital for a couple days, not ready to be all over the news with whether we had a boy or a girl or what his name was. We wanted to keep this happy time in our life to ourselves.

Linda was at home getting our house ready for us and she was the only one that was able to come in and meet Ollie over the last few days because she still wasn't known to Beatle world and she didn't bring the press with her everywhere she went.


When we finally made it safely out of the hospital we put out a press release with a photo of George and I holding a blue blanket. With the news of his name : "Oliver Harrison."

We got home and everything in our lives felt different and happy.

George was still a part of a band that he felt confined by but the feeling he had being up on a stage again was exhilarating for him and he now felt a push to begin writing and creating his own music.

He was home with Ollie and I each day and would play him music to get him to sleep and he would get into the studio and record demos. He was truly the happiest he had ever been with his profession and with being a husband and father to Ollie and I.

The song he kept playing happily on repeat for us as we went through the motions of our days as a family was a song he was calling "What is Life?"

He would say sweetly

"What is my life, without you're love...

Who am I, without you.... by my side"

End credits: "Play What is Life- George Harrison" in the context of the story's end in order to feel the emotion he might have been feeling toward his wife and child. I've always loved this song and believe it could have been a good song for him to write for his little family as they navigate their new experience.