Blinding Pain

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Prompt: you wake up in pain and ring Sorscha and Clodagh, you are 21 and been working at the nursery for 2 years.

You wake up, the pain in your stomach was getting worse, it is been there all day but you thought it was period cramps, but now you knew it wasn't period cramps this was something different, the pain was coming in waves and you lived alone, you didn't have any family except for the people you worked with. You tried to go back to sleep but the pain got worse; you sit up and grab you phone and go to your contacts and press the one person you could trust.

"hello" you hear a groggy Irish accent answer "Sorscha, I'm sorry its late but I need help" you explain you look at the clock and see its 2 in the morning "Y/N what going on are you okay" Sorscha asks whilst sitting up quickly that it wakes up Clodagh "the pains in my stomach have got worse I don't know what going on" you say down the phone close to tears, you scream down the phone when a wave of pain hits you "Y/N/N we are on the way, keep on the phone with us okay" both Sorscha and Clodagh get up and rush to the car, you only lived 10-minutes away from them so you know that they wouldn't be long.

You put the phone on speaker and get up of the bed when you noticed a wet patch on the bed, you don't pay to much attention when the pain comes back and makes you double over in pain; "Y/N we are pulling up are you able to open the door or have you got a spare key that we can use" Clodagh asks over the phone, she was getting concerned that the pain was getting worse for you "there is a spare key under the door mat" you say before screaming in pain again. You knelt near the bottom of your bed and hope the pain disappears anytime soon, you hear your front door open and multiple footsteps coming up the stairs "Y/N where are you" you hear them call out "bedroom" is all you get out before the pain consumes you.

Clodagh and Sorscha come into your room and rush to your side when they see you in pain doubled over, Clodagh grabs your phone and hangs up the call between you and Sorscha, they help you up of the floor and walk you down the stairs and out to their car, Sorscha gets in the front and you and Clodagh get in the back, you whimper out in pain. Sorscha sets off "where we going" you whimper out "the hospital sweetie you need help" Clodagh whispers to you whilst brushing your hair out of your face. "Clo, something is happening I-I feel something" you get out in between pain "what do you mean sweetie" she asks, you don't respond you just start to pull you pyjamas bottoms down, "sweetie what you doing" Clodagh asks when she sees you pulling at your bottoms she gets and idea and helps you, "Sorscha how much longer to hospital" Clodagh asks her wife "about 10 mins why" Sorscha asks "just keep driving okay" her wife tells her and Sorscha listens and carries on driving.

Clodagh turns her attention back to you and helps move you so she can see what going on "sweetie is there anyway your pregnant" she asks you and you just look at her shocked but you don't answer before your overcome with an urge to push, you just listen to your body and give into the urge. Clodagh looks between your legs and sees the top of something and she realises that it's a baby but she was confused because you didn't look pregnant and you never said anything about it "that's its sweetie keep going" she coaches you and locks eyes with you and smiles that everything is going to be okay, you get another pain and push again when the urge is there, Clodagh places her hands under the baby's head and you push one more time and she catches the baby, she clears the airways and then a loud wail can be heard. She places the baby on your chest and you just look at her in shock "how did I not know" you ask her, the car comes to the stop and Sorscha looks behind her and her eyes goes wide when she sees you with a baby on your chest and her wife hands bloody.

She gets out the car and runs inside "help please my daughter just gave birth in the car and she didn't know she was pregnant" she shouts, a nurse runs over and grabs a wheelchair and brings it outside, the nurse gets a doctor to assist. They walk run back to the car and come round to your side and open the door, "who wants to cut the cord the doctor asks" you look at Clodagh and whisper "Mama you do it" you don't know if its because the shock of everything but it seems right to call her that, the doctor shows Clodagh where to cut and soon you and your baby are separated, the nurse reaches for the baby but you don't let her grab the tiny infant "can you pass them to my mammy please" you ask the nurse and point to Sorscha who is stood behind the nurse, the nurse reaches for the baby again and this time she wraps her up and passes the baby to Sorscha.

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