Butterfly Effect

34: Pleasure and Pain

Maya's Pov

The whole car ride to the hospital, I was in a daze, not really thinking about anything at all, but once I parked the car in Carina's parking spot at the hospital, I grabbed her hand and I started to feel more focused than ever.
We entered through those usual glass doors and the first person that I saw was one of my wife's closest friends.
"Amelia!" I called her "Page Jo. Carina's in labor".
After that moment, everything became a foggy blur, but I remembered that Carina was brought into a room, attached to machines and to an IV, while Lia and Manon waited together in a waiting room down the hallway.
I was holding Carina's hand as if my life depended on it, and in a weird and complicated way, that was actually the truth. Carina, Lia and my son were my reasons to live. My whole damn life...
"Hi Carina, it's okay if I check you out?" Jo asked as she walked in the small hospital room. Carina simply nodded, giving me a strange look.
Jo started to examine her while I tried to eliminate every distraction from my head so I could be present for Carina at this moment.
"Are you... Are you okay?" Carina asked "About Mason? About-about everything?".
"My love, you are literally giving birth to our son right now, and you are asking me if I'm okay?" I responded with shock in my voice and she smiled at me with love.
That was something that only Carina Deluca was able to do...
"Yes..." she answered like it was the most obvious thing in the entire universe and then she stopped because of a contraction, squeezing my hand so tightly that it actually hurt, but if that's what she needed, I would have taken everything that was coming for me without uttering a single word.
"Yes, because I love you and I know that his words affected you more than what you are showing right now... So, even if I'm giving birth to your son right now, I am asking you how you are feeling".
I kissed her quickly, feeling how dry her lips were against mine, so I grabbed her a glass of water and I carefully gave it to her.
"I'm trying not to think about him and my dad... About his words... I know that he's wrong, but it's hard not to compare myself with Lane and what he has done" I explained as she drank the water in a gulp and she turned her face in my direction.
"I'm sorry to interrupt the moment, but I just wanted to say that you are five centimeters dilated, and you probably have a few more hours to go... So, I'll be back in a while" Jo said swiftly and she walked quickly out of the room, leaving us alone.
"You said 'Your son'..." I winked teasingly "While you were ranting about why you asked me how I was feeling, you said 'Your son'".
"He is your son right now because he is tearing apart my body, so I'm kinda blaming you..." she said with a dead glare and I giggled at her cuteness in that instant.
"You convinced me to have children, blame yourself...".
"yes, I did! But you agreed with me, so it's your fault right now..." she said with an adorable pout on her face.
I couldn't resist that beautiful expression, so I bent down and I kissed her again. Softly and for a longer period of time.
"God, this is helping..." she moaned close to my face "Do it again".
I obeyed immediately, without thinking twice about it.
"You know... To speed up this process that it's so long and painful, we could use my study. It would be amazing with the pain that I'm feeling..." she begged, looking at me with those enchanting hazel eyes.
"Carina we are in a hospital room, you are in labor and Jo could come back at any given moment..." I tried to argue as I blushed so hard that my face looked like I had a terrible sunburn.
"Jo won't be back in a while because the floor is packed today. Secondly, the fact that I'm in labor doesn't mean a thing because I studied it for years and I perfectly know that our son will be completely fine. And lastly, who cares that we are in a fucking hospital? I am in pain, people already call me Doctor Orgasm for a reason, and don't even let me start on what happens in the on-call rooms..." she reasoned with me.
"But..." I tried to say.
"I will never force you to do it, Maya. But I'm begging you..." she exclaimed and after a couple of seconds I nodded, still unsure about all of this. I didn't want to hurt them...
"Okay..." she said "Now come here and fuck me, Captain Deluca-Bishop".
"Yes Ma'am" I responded with another deep kiss.

Carina's Pov

One hour later, Jo came back to check on me exactly in the same instant that Maya came back with ice chips for me, and as her embarrassed self, she blushed hard when she saw my friend, conscious about the fact that Jo knew that we used my own study to speed up this process.
"Did you two enjoy your alone time?" my friend asked as a joke and Maya stared at me with fear in her eyes, looking like a kid with his hands in a cookie jar.
"Very much, thank you..." I answered in a whisper, already exhausted by the contractions.
"Carina!" Maya exclaimed embarrassed as Jo started to chuckle slightly at my wife's reaction. It was literally priceless...
"What? She studied my research. And also, being my Ob, she knew that I wanted to use it when I was going to be in labor..." I explained and she looked down at the floor, walking slowly to my side and taking my hand in hers.
She didn't say anything else...
Jo started to examine me again, but all my focus was on my beautiful wife and her flushed face.
"I hate you..." she mumbled with a soft smile on her face.
"Yeah..." I answered "Ti amo anche io, Bella (I love you too, Bella)".
"Okay Carina, you are now 9 centimeters, so it's almost time. You are gonna meet your son in a bit" Jo explained and a contraction made me scream out in pain. God, I couldn't even explain how much I wanted Maya to use her talented fingers to make my pain more bearable for a little while longer...
Maya swallowed her fears and she let me crush her hand, just to show me all of her support. In that moment, I loved her more than anything else in this world.
"Okay Carina, now it's time to push... Your son is ready and can't wait to meet his mothers and his big sister, okay?" Jo tried to encourage me, but I was too exhausted and too scared to do anything.
Something about that moment brought me back to that day in July, when my mother was at work and my brother was away with some school friends, leaving me completely alone and terrified of everything.
"I can't Jo... I can't do this again... I'm scared. I'm exhausted. I feel alone..." I cried out, noticing immediately how hurt my wife was by my statement.
"Maya, can you sit behind her? Hold her tightly, wrapping your arms around her. I think she's thinking back to Hailee's birth and she's dissociating right now... I need you to bring her back into this moment" Jo instructed and Maya sat behind me, pressing her chest against my back. That contact was enough to ground me again.
"M-m-maya?" I whispered "Are you really here?".
"I am. You are not doing it alone. I'm here with you and I love you so much because you decided to do this... You are the strongest person I know, and I can't do anything else than hoping that our son, our little Rowan, will be as strong and as wonderful as his mamma. Once you told me to shine my light... So now I'm telling you to do the same thing. Do it for our son, Carina. I promise I'll be here the entire time. For the rest of our lives, my love" Maya said in my ear and those words were enough to remind me that I wasn't a scared twenty two years old girl anymore. I was a wife and a mother... I wasn't alone anymore. I had a wonderful family that was always with me...
"Are you ready to push, Carina? Your son seems as stubborn as your wife. He wants to meet you right now and he doesn't want to wait any longer" Jo said but my focus was only on my Maya.
"Yeah... I'm-I'm ready" I answered with a hoarse voice.
"Okay, so at the next contraction I want you to push...".

A.N. We finally have a date (March 14th 2024 is already on my calendar)! To celebrate, today's chapter is something that will hopefully happen very soon to our favorite wifes. As always, let me know if you liked it.
See you on Wednesday.