Sleeping Beauty

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My body felt heavier than lead even opening my eyes was like lifting loads of rocks off them.

Numbness encompassed my body yet pain was drowning me, not even a hair on my head felt painless.

The world spun around me, a blur of blue and white.

'Zofia are you with us?' A voice wavered in the air like an out of tune radio playing from a car down the street.

I wanted to grasp onto something or someone, hold them so they could tug me back to wherever I was meant to be.

Where was I meant to be? What was I meant to be doing?

Then the colours faded and I sunk back into darkness.

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A faint beep rang through my ears, quiet voices and my own heartbeat was all I could hear. Focusing on the voices was impossible, too muffled to comprehend.

I spared all my effort into my eyelids, finally willing them to flutter open, I barely caught sight of anything just colours of blue and white again.

I forced my eyes to open again but longer this time. I was in a small room, a pink balloon bobbed in the corner, the scent of fresh flowers flooded my nose from the vase of sunflowers next to me. I was in hospital, all the memories came back like hitting a brick wall.

I had a baby to give birth too, I was going to be a mother. The pain inside of my womb wasn't as before, it didn't fluctuate it was a constant thrumming ache, I dragged a hand up to where my baby was waiting and felt fabric. Urgently I looked down my gown seeing dressing covering my body.

I'd had an operation? My baby? Panicked I pulled myself up too quickly to sit up. Nurses came running in to lay me back down.

'Where's my baby?!' I yelled not relaxing under their hands.

'She's with your husband.' A nurse answered calmly. 'Congratulations.'

I had a baby girl.

Lucas and Xander came into the room finally, Lucas with a tiny pink blanket in his arms with my baby inside.

I cried with joy, I cried with sadness that I'd not been their to see her come into this world.

'Are you ready to say hello?' Lucas smiled down at me rocking my baby slightly.

'Yes. Please.' I begged reaching towards her.

Lucas carefully brought her down into my arms, as if she would break if touched. She was so beautiful, so fragile and precious. She had the cutest rosy nose, squint blue sparkling eyes.

'Any names yet?' The nurses asked.

I shook my head it letting my eyes leave the person I had just made, I was the lucky mother of this wonderful being.

'What about Harriet?' Lucas offered his eyes not leaving my perfect baby.

'She doesn't look like a Harriet, what about Lucy?' Xander quipped standing the other side of my bed eyes also locked on my daughter... My daughter.

My beautiful baby lay quietly in my arms, sleepily opening and closing her blue eyes. If I hadn't have had that advice from that nurse Gywenth perhaps this angel wouldn't be here.

'Gywenth.' I said smiling.

'That's unusual.' A nurse said dreamily looking down at my baby.

'That's her name. Baby Gywenth Hope Rodriguez.' And I never ever wanted to let her go.

'Beautiful.' Lucas sighed.

'Sorry to be pushy, but would you be comfortable trying to breastfeed Gywenth now? She's probably starving, and we need to make sure she can latch on.' A nurse interrupted my fixation.

I blinked a few times, looked at Lucas and Xander who also blinked a few times then left me in the room alone with the nurses.

Getting my boobs out was the hardest part wiggling my way out of the gown, I cupped Gywenths head in my hand and guided her to my nipple. It was strange doing something with my nipples hat wasn't sexual and I doubt it ever could be again after it being the food source for my child.

She suckled very lightly once her mouth had found my teat, the nurses nodded then left me alone.

'It's you and me kid.' I grinned resting back and letting Gywenth take her fill.

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Lucas's POV:
I am a father... I can't believe it. Well I might be the father... It doesn't matter either way, that child will always have a place in my heart, I could tell the second I set my eyes on her dazzling blue ones.
'Can I get you something to eat?' Xander asked Zofia for the millionth time, she was so captivated by Gywenth that she hadn't put her down since she'd first held her.
'I'm okay thank you.' She replied in her dreamy haze. 'I wish I was awake to see her come into this world.' She sighed.
Neither me nor Xander had been allowed in the theatre when the C-section was taking place, the operation had been so fragile that they couldn't have had me or Xander getting in the way.
'It doesn't matter how she got here sweetie, all that matters is she's safe and here now.' I whispered careful not to frighten Gywenth as I sat down on the edge of the bed.
'I'm the luckiest woman in the world.' She smiled.
I stroked a finger against Gywenths soft cheek then placed it in her palm, she was such a tiny delicate rose.
'Did you want me to call your mum?' I offered.
'She doesn't deserve this.' Zofia looked up at me and Xander. 'You two have come through everything with me, for me, you are the best two men in the world and I haven't been treating you right. I've been a whore, I've been a sex crazed bitch and I'm sorry, I care for you both and I've needed you more than you can imagine, so thank you.'
'I wouldn't take back a single moment.' Xander laughed sitting down on the other side of the bed.
We were family now we didn't have much choice but make the most of there being three of us instead of two of us.
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Xander's POV-
I have a daughter... I have a daughter... Maybe... I laughed out loud at how silly that sounded.
She is the most adorable thing I've ever seen yet I was more frightened than excited.
Thank god Zofia finally decided she wanted something even just a hot chocolate gave me the time to walk and think.
Not long ago this child was a bump in the girl I loves tummy now it was reality, the responsibilities were stacking up, I'd seen how much Taylor struggled with my nephew and she had a stable relationship.
Maybe that was the answer... A stable relationship, I needed to marry Zofia Rodriguez.

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Authors notes:
So what you've all been waiting for The Birth! Hope you guys liked, don't forget to vote or comment it doesn't happen very often and the notification make it worthwhile. Thank you for coming this far through the story with me. It won't be long until we find out who's the daddy ;)

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