Double Taad/Father [Aidan Turner]

Chapter 28: What if... Skyla passed away?

William: 7
Kate: 5
Felix: 5
Lillian: 2
Liam: 1

It has been a year and a day now. Liam's birthday was yesterday and so was the day that Skyla was gone for a year. She past away giving birth to Liam, no doctor knew why and how. I do remember it exactly.

It seemed normal, going to the hospital with the cursing Skyla, she was already getting contractions and such. We had done it three times before so I wasn't nervous nor afraid. I knew that there was going to be another member to our family and that it was our last time doing this. I didn't know she was going to die, I knew she didn't want more than five.

It was terrible, when the doctor came to help her give birth there was nothing wrong yet. But after Liam had arrived on the world Skyla wouldn't stop bleeding, she had held her child for only a few seconds before getting ripped away from him because she needed to be taken care of. I had handed Liam to Lee who was also there and I followed Skyla. She was in pain, she was not doing well. One part of me knew she wasn't going to make it but the other part was hoping for a miracle. The doctors were trying anything they could but Skyla knew it wasn't going to help, she was crying and holding my hand very tightly. I remember her last few words so well. 

"Liam. Dean. Lillian. Allison. Felix. Pat. Kate. Eileen. William. Lee. Skyla. Turner. Aidan. Turner. I love you."

At that point I was also crying and hugging her tight, she had her arms around my neck. But that only lasted for a brief second. Her arms slid off, she had passed. I yelled, as hard as possibly could.

The one I loved the most was gone...

I remember everything I did after. I went out of the hospital and went to my parents, not caring about Lee back in the hospital. I had ignored all his calls and texts, I needed my mom, I've never needed my mom more than that day.

Once I was there my father opened the door and saw me in tears, he knew something was very wrong. He just brought me to the living room, not saying a word at all.

"It's Skyla... She's gone, forever." I sighed. My mother immediately stood up from her chair, also crying, and she hugged me. That hug was needed so badly, the arms of a woman are the most comforting things ever to a man.

But that the day... I had become depressed for about half a year, and in that time I still had all the children with me, all five of them.

"Daddy?"

"Kate, don't come in!"

"But daddy?"

"I said no! Now leave!"

"Daddy? What are you doing?"

"Nothing! Leave!"

I looked at the wedding gown that was spread onto my bed. I kinda wanted to throw it away because it always made me sad when I saw it. But it also gave me hope, I knew that she was watching over my shoulder, trying to help me.

"Skyla Anderson Pace Turner. I hope you hear me. I need you back, please just come back. I can't do this on my own, you were the one who got me through this. You were the one who was able to handle all four children, I wasn't. And now there are five, I still can't do it. They must hate me so much, I hardly ever talk to them. How did you do it? And by the way, if you'd ever return... There will never be an other woman in my bed." I cried.

Then I suddenly felt a small jolt and only one sentence went through my mind.

"Family is the key to everything."

Family... Is the key... To everything?

"Daddy? Can we go to the park? We wanna do something fun like we used to do." a girly voice said, my eyes lit up.