The Perfect Two

23

Five hours past and JJ was still in labour. Spencer had gone to go get ice chips and Karen was was with another patient. JJ attempted to sit up in the bed when suddenly she felt a pool of water flow down her legs. It was clear and outer less but that didn't stop JJ from screaming for help, the nurse followed by Karen ran into the room. "JJ what's wrong?"

"I-I don't know... It's all wet." She sobbed.

Karen stepped closer to JJ lifting the blanket, her eyes widened and she looked over to the nurse. "Get the NICU team down here now." She whispered. "Alright JJ it's going to be time to start pushing soon. Normally we do a test after your water breaks checking for protein but seeing how you had a pretty intense blood flow when you got here, so we ignored that factor and moved straight to delivery."

"Can we wait until Spence gets back?" JJ asked.

Karen couldn't help but look and the young blonde, her make up was smudged, her cheeks were tear stained, her hair nodded, and sweat gleamed all over her. Never in her thirteen years of delivering babies did Karen pray for a parent to change their mind about keeping their baby. "You have to push on your next contraction, so he needs to be here in the next forty seconds."

They set up JJ's legs and covered them with a new blanket. Right as JJ's contraction hit Spencer ran into the room carrying a styrofoam cup full of ice chips. "I'm right here JJ." He said as he took a seat next to her on the bed.

"Sp-Spence I need you to hold me." JJ whispered after the contraction ended. He kneeled in the side of the bed throwing his leg in the other side of JJ so she rested in the V- of his legs. His hand came around to rest in under JJ's knee while the other wrapped around the top of her stomach.

"You're doing great Jayge!" Her husband whispered in her ear as he moved the sweaty hair out of her face. "It'll be over before you know it."

Another contraction hit and JJ fell against Spencer. "S-Spence... I wanna keep her. I wanna keep our baby. Oh my god!"

"R-Really?"

"Yeah, yeah I want to keep her and have a family with you. You didn't call the Callahan's did you?"

"No, no I was going to wait."

"Thank you." JJ whispered before she screamed out bloody murder.

Several contractions later and JJ was told to push once more. Spencer whispered loving words in her ear in hopes to distract her from the pain, JJ screamed in agony praying the pain could be over so she could meet her baby girl. The sound of an infants cries filled the room as JJ collapsed against Spencer and tears of relief fell down her face.

Karen held their baby in her arms and cut the umbilical cord. She quickly rushed the crying baby over to the prenatal nurses and doctor to be examined.

Spencer sighed in relief when he heard his daughter crying, it wasn't as loud as he hoped but it meant she could breath. He felt JJ sit up away from his body and hold her arms out. "Karen" she called. But the midwife ignored her focusing on the new born premature baby.

"JJ lie back down please." Spencer pleaded he realized the moment Karen walked away with the baby that their first concern wasn't JJ but their child's life.

"I want to hold my baby!" She yelled over the noise. "You promised Karen! Let me hold her!"

"JJ please." Spencer cooed running his hand over her hair. "Get some rest you're going to need it."

"I WANT TO SEE HER! KAREN PROMISED SO LET ME HOLD HER!" JJ cried and thrashed around in the hospital bed.

"Sir you need to calm her down or we will have to sedate her." One if the nurses snapped walking up to the bed.

JJ snapped back at the nurse using words that would make a sailor cry. Spencer stroked JJ hair calming her down slowing she melted against her chest and fell asleep.