The Truest Love

Chapter 40: What is it?

PART1: {Emma's POV}
Emma grabbed Killian's arm as he stood frozen. He looked at her with terror in his eyes.

"Killian when I say 'I think my water broke' I mean it's time..." Starting to catch her drift, Killian stood straight up still in shock.

"Right... uh I'll get everything. What do I need? A car seat, a bottle, a blanket..." he started to run everywhere getting everything they could possibly need for the baby.

"Killian, it can wait..." she stated as he ignored her. "That's it I'm going to the hospital," Emma said grabbing her coat. She paused and grabbed her huge stomach in pain. Her first contraction.

"Pan!" Hook shouted across the room at the boy witnessing it all happen.

"Yes, yes I'll get the baby things and call her parents and whatnot just go." He said waving them out. Killian dropped everything he had in his hands and sprinted over to meet Emma.

"Let's go have a baby," he said smiling slightly and kissing Emma's forehead. Killian grabbed his leather jacket and walked Emma quickly to the yellow bug. As they rushed to the hospital, Emma couldn't breathe. Maybe not as much as Killian, but she was still tremendously nervous. Henry would soon have a sister... or a brother. They had decided they wanted an element of surprise to wait and find out the sex of the baby. As the young couple pulled into the hospital parking lot, Killian almost forgot to put the car in park. They rushed into the front door as her second contraction began, and were instantaneously swarmed by doctors, nurses and... her parents?

"How did you get here so quickly?" Killian asked rubbing Emma's back frantically.

"There's no need to deal with traffic when you own a cop car." David said grabbing Emma's other hand and leading her to a wheelchair. The nurses took over and eventually wheeled her off with Killian and David still clinging to a different hand. Mary Margaret was so close to the nurse wheeling Emma to a room, that she stepped on her heels more than a few times.

"Okay!" The nurse said stopping in front of the room. "I know this is exciting, but only the father can be in the room when this is happening. Otherwise, people get in the way of the doctor, and since he's delivering the baby, I assume none of you want that." After protesting with the nurse, David and Mary Margaret finally gave up and kissed Emma's head before they started pacing outside the room.

Hook rushed into the room with her. When he touched her arm, she could feel him shaking. Or was that her? He immediately helped Emma to her feet to change into one of the ghastly hospital gowns with the open back. Getting into the bed was the problem as her body managed to whip up a contraction at the moment. Perfect timing. She stood for three more minutes waiting for the surreal pain to pass. Killian squeezed her hand tightly as he helped her into the creaky bed.

"You'll be alright, Love," he said not knowing what else to say. Although he had never done this before, he was more relaxed than she was. He had calmed immensely in order to help her conquer the task at hand.

"I don't think I can do this." Holding his hand so tight turning it purple, Emma began to sweat and tremble. This hurt worse than Henry ever had. She hadn't even noticed the two doctors prepping her for the delivery.

"What do you mean you can't do this? Emma there is a miracle about to happen. We're gonna have a BABY... together," he said soothingly brushing her hair out of her eyes. "I've known you for five years and one thing I've learned from you: you're the toughest, most brave, stubborn woman I know. I KNOW you can do this." He flashed his white teeth smiling at her. "And I know that you know you can do this. We get to go home with a baby... that's something to fight for." Squeezing her hand once more, she looked at Whale.