The Cinderella Promise (Adult Rucas AU)

Epilogue - Six and a Half-Months Later

Riley was angry, the baby was two weeks late and she felt huge as she watched her best friend walk around with her small waist.

"I don't like you right now," she said to Maya.

"Riley, you know what I said to you," Lucas scolded her.

"But she's so skinny and I feel like a cow, and all I want is for the baby to come out, Lucas why won't the baby come out?"

"The doctor said the baby was okay, stop worrying."

"Yeah Riles stop worrying," Maya said trying to defuse the situation but Josh just looked worried at what was going to happen next.

"Maya don't antagonize the pregnant woman," he said to his wife. "I ate something earlier and she hit me with the broom because it was hers."

Lucas looked at Riley like she had gone off the deep end, "My wife is crazy, I'm pretty sure she gets it from her mother."

"Lucas," Riley said shocked at what he was saying. "You know what forget it, I need to go pee."

Riley got up and made it half way to the bathroom before she felt a slight pressure on her back, the pain had been coming on and off for over two hours and it was irritating her. All of a sudden her legs were soaked and there was liquid on the floor.

"Oh god," she said out loud.

Lucas rushed over to see if she was okay only to slip on the floor and land on his butt.

"Lucas my water just broke," she said in disbelief because she still had to pee, and now she wanted a shower.

"Okay I got this," he said before jumping into his baby incoming mode. He rushed towards the closet and grabbed her go bag, and then rushed and grabbed his keys Josh not that far behind as he called her parents. The two men walked out of the penthouse without her and she was the one having the baby.

"They left," Maya said in disbelief. "How could they do that?"

"Don't worry about them and come help me get upstairs, I need a shower and a change of clothes," Riley answered. "They'll come back in a few minutes when they remember they forgot the pregnant woman."

"Okay," Maya said helping her up the stairs. "Riles why are you so calm?"

"Well Lucas, has been running drills through his head since the doctor put me on bed rest, I've been watching him, but he never took me with him on any of these drills, so I figured that by the time he gets to the hospital and back my legs will be clean."

"You two are so adorable you know that."

"Yes I do."

Riley got into the shower rubbing her belly every time a contraction came trying to soothe the baby, but also trying to soothe herself. When she got out Maya was waiting with a dress and a pair of flip flops ready. When they got back to the living room Riley sat down and waited as Maya grabbed them some snacks. Riley looked at her phone and saw that it had been twenty minutes.

"In 5. 4. 3. 2. 1," she counted before the door swung open revealing a distraught Lucas. "What took you so long to realize I wasn't there?"

"The habit of doing this on my own, I guess I wasn't thinking come on let's go," he said slowly leading her out the door.

The labor lasted another six hours, the baby had had enough of Mommy time and rushed out to meet the world. Little Charlotte Abigail was born just before midnight, to a tired Riley and an excited Lucas. Their family and friends around them, the couple couldn't help but smile at the little angel that had brought them together.

Her parents looked at their grandchild smiling, "I never thought I could love someone so much," her father said.

"What?" her mother said looking between her kids and her husband.

"Don't worry mom, it's just his thing, he attaches himself to the first baby he sees, it's normal," Auggie said looking at his baby niece. "She's cute though, so we can babysit some days... what am I saying she's adorable, look at those green eyes."

Her mother laughed but Riley loved the fact they accepted her and Lucas' child so quickly. Her father was still screaming bloody murder during her labor, they had to kick him out of the delivery room.

"Lucas, take good care of her, or so help me I'll kick your..."

"Daddy, language," Riley said stopping him.

"Sorry Riley," he said looking down.

Lucas watched them smiling the whole time, "Family time is so much fun," he said.

"Whatever happens next it's not my fault," she told him.

"No it's not because I wouldn't have it any other way," he said.

"Family forever," Riley said to Lucas.

"Forever and ever," he said kissing his wife.

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