Kidge summer event 2023

Day 29: Kids

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Keith didn't know what bothered him more: Pidge's death grip on his hand, his mind constantly reminding him to stay calm, Lance's threats about not showing up to the speech of the tenth party in honor of Allura's death and the end of the war, Hunk's texts surely asking what happened and why they were late and missed the speech and if they were coming for dinner anyway, or Shiro's calls making his phone vibrate in his pocket in an annoying way. Of course they hadn't come to the full coalition speech, and they certainly wouldn't have come to the dinner, but they had a good excuse—a very good excuse.

After all, it wasn't Allura's fault for deciding to sacrifice herself in the heat of August ten years ago, but it was Lance's fault for deciding to give a long speech that every ex-paladin had to recite in the cool mid-morning in Altea, but it certainly wasn't Pidge's fault that her waters broke shortly after departing Earth. It didn't make it better that Keith had completely forgotten to text all their friends who should be away, at least the constant vibration in his pocket from his phone and text messages would have taken pity on him.

Pidge squeezed Keith's hand again as another contraction hit her, closing her eyes and pushing. At that moment she should have been at that damn commemoration reciting a speech on the end of the war ten years ago, looking at the statue of Allura and maybe moved thanks to her hormones at the ball, why not? Instead, she was in the delivery room at the Space Hospital pushing a baby out of her body, feeling almost as if she'd been torn in two. She stopped pushing when the contraction ended, resting her head on the pillow and breathing slowly, her forehead clammy and her breathing ragged. Keith brushed damp strands from her forehead, kissing her hand softly stroking it with his thumb.

"You will make it": he smiled sweetly: "You always resist everything, you will overcome this too..."

"Fuck you...": She gritted her teeth as another contraction hit her. She would have found his words very sweet before, but not when she was in so much pain delivering their daughter. This time a small scream of pain escaped from her, hit by a stronger and more decisive contraction.

"I swear I'll kill the person who made me do this!": She exclaimed, sagging back on the hospital bed when she finished pushing, but still squeezing his hand as the pain hadn't gone away yet.

"I'm sorry for you, but Lance will kill me sooner for missing the Allura speech": Keith smiled, taking a deep breath and trying in every way to show that he was as calm as possible.

"Fuck Lance! He can't kill my child's father!": she exclaimed, biting her lip avoiding screaming: "Shit... it hurts..."

Keith looked for a moment at the alien doctor and nurses working...well...there...completely concentrated and passing orders, the alien nurses who at one point had moved from one point to another in the room taking medical and surgical items. He swallowed the lump in his throat when he glimpsed blood in the doctor's gloves.

"Not long now...": he said comfortingly, bowing her head as she nearly broke his hand with a death grip

"You said that three hours ago too!": She exclaimed with a small scream, squeezing his hand even tighter and screaming again. Exhausted, she finally slumped on the bed, feeling the sensation of pain mysteriously diminish; her grip on Keith's hand weakened too and she closed her eyes for a moment catching her breath, almost feeling like a torture was finally over. She smiled weakly as she heard hysterical crying. Pidge had always found baby crying too annoying, but the sound sounded almost like music to her now.

"I told you you made it...": Keith kissed her hand still entwined in his as she watched him with a faint smile, their baby now clean and swaddled being carried to an alien nurse and given to Pidge. She smiled, letting out an exclamation of surprise as the crying newborn was propped against her chest, her little feet and hands fidgeting as she got used to her surroundings.

Keith let out a few tears, resting his cheek on their joined hands, while with the other he gently caressed the cheek of their newborn daughter. She stopped crying after a while, sensing her parents next to her, lazily opening her eyes and showing beautiful honey-colored irises, falling asleep shortly after.

"I told you. She couldn't wait to see you...": Pidge cradled her softly against her chest, holding her close as if she was the most precious thing in the world: "I don't want to call her Jumpiter anymore..."

"No..?": He looked at her confused, raising his eyebrow, his hand still resting on his newborn.

"Today is a special day... And not just because our daughter was born...": she explained, looking at her smiling and stroking her thick, short black hair.

"You're right...": he understood, nodding, giving them both a kiss on the cheek: "You know, maybe Lance won't kill us if we call her that..."

She giggled, shrugging and leaning her head against his shoulder.

"I think it's decided then...": Pidge whispered, positioning the newborn so that Keith could also pick her up at the same time.

"Yeah...": he circled the woman's shoulders, placing a hand on her little girl's back. She looked at him smiling, and then brought his attention back to her daughter.

"Welcome to the world, Allura..."