CW: Pregnancy, labour, delivery, NICU, sickness, multiple pregnancies and pregnancies with multiples, surprise delivery, failed vasectomies.
A/N: Yeah sorry it's a lot of stuff about babies - you can blame @marvelousbuchanan for that :'D no, in all seriousness though, I couldn't have done this without her constant support and reassurance. This has been a year and a half of work in between health scares, medication changes, life changes - it's been a RIDE and she's been my rock and my anchor. Thank you so much, girl - ILYSM <3 Anyway, here goes - the FINAL FINAL part of Drown!
When Mia and Oli got the call in mid August that Lisa had gone into labour, they worried that it was too early again. She wasn't meant to be due until early October but Josh didn't seem worried at all. Josh dropped James off with his friends and they strapped him into his car seat once Josh called to say they were ready for visitors.
Josh greeted them at the hospital with the biggest smile on his face, taking James' carrier from Oli and leading them towards the NICU. They hadn't found out the sex again but had told Oli and Mia they had a few names picked out. Mia secretly and selfishly hoped they had a girl this time as they'd planned to give her the middle name "Grace" after her, but they had said they couldn't choose which girl's name they preferred - Helena Grace or Tilly Elissa. If it was a boy, he'd be called Matteo Alphonse.
As they stood at the window before the NICU, Josh turned to them, pointing at Lisa sitting in a wheelchair with her hand pressed up against an incubator on the far side of the room.
"She's been a star," he gushed. "I can't believe how fucking amazing she is to have done that."
"So, what did you have?!" Mia bounced, almost bursting with excitement.
"Let's go and you can see for yourself!" Josh replied, his eyes twinkling as he opened the door.
Lisa's face lit up when she saw Josh with James and their friends, beckoning them over to the group of incubators she sat near. Most of them were spaced fairly far apart, but there were three lined up next to Lisa and Mia excitedly peered at the little pink name card on the one closest to Lisa: "Helena Grace Franceschi".
Mia swiped a tear away from her eye as she gazed on the tiny baby, wearing only a pink hat and a nappy. She had a few tubes and wires attached to her, but wasn't nearly as small as Mia had expected her to be for being so early.
"Awww another boy!" Oli cooed, making Mia look at him in confusion as he peered into the incubator directly next to Mia.
"That's not their baby, Oli," Mia scolded in a whisper. "This one is!"
"Huh? But this one says Matteo Alphonse Franceschi," Oli replied, confused as he looked into the first incubator. "How many Franceschi's have had babies today?"
"Just us," Josh smiled, making his way to the third incubator and resting his hand on top of it. "This is Tilly Elissa Franceschi."
Mia and Oli looked from Josh, back to Lisa, and back at one another again, pacing back and forth between the three incubators in shock and confusion.
"They... all of them?!" Oli spluttered. "THREE?!"
Josh slipped his arm around Lisa's shoulders proudly and nodded at his friends. "Surprise!" He chuckled.
"Triplets..." Mia whispered in awe, flicking her gaze across all three incubators. "You had triplets?! But, why didn't you say anything?"
"Well, because of the scares we had with Jamie, it just felt safer," Josh explained. "It was a much higher risk pregnancy, and they're still so small. They're going to need a little bit more help before they can come home, but we wanted you guys to be the first to meet them."
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Drown (Doomed sequel) - Oli Sykes fanfiction
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