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WILL AND NATALIE

Will smiled as he walked up to the front desk of the ER, pausing to say hello to Maggie before he went on his break. He felt his phone buzz and unlocked it to see that he had nine new messages, six missed calls, and two voicemails; three messages, four calls and one voicemail from Natalie, the others from Jay and Brett. His face paled and he felt a lump build up in his throat. He read through the first text.

Received 8:42am: Hey, I know you're on shift, and that you are probably with a patient right now, but I'm having contractions. They are twenty-five minutes apart, so I'm okay right now. I'll call you when they get worse.

He didn't have time to read the next text message before an alarm sounded. Will rounded on Maggie and she gave him a look.

"Maggie, I have to go." He pleaded and she shook her head.

"Thirty-two year old woman, thirty-seven weeks, five-centimeters dilated. Will, it's Natalie. Brett and Chilli are three minutes out, get ready." Will felt his heart drop to his stomach, he was too busy dealing with a kid who had broken his arm on a trampoline to check his phone. Natalie had been put on strict bedrest at the beginning of her eight-month due to early contractions and Will had offered to go on paternity leave then as well (regardless of the baby actually being his or not) but Natalie had told him no. Will wished that he had defied his girlfriend's wishes because now both her and the baby might be in trouble.

He looked at Maggie, with the worry evident in his eyes. Maggie gave him a sympathetic look before speaking.

"She is okay, it's childbirth Will, it's something that woman go through every single day."

"I know, but it's different, she had complications and-" Maggie cut him off.

"It's different because you love her. And this is her first child, and even if the baby is not yours biologically, she is your baby girl, you don't want anything to happen to either of them."

"Maggie, I'm scared, I don't know what to do." He whispered and she laughed.

"Neither does Nat, both of you will have to figure it out together as you go along." She patted his back just as Brett and Chilli pushed in a stretcher with his girlfriend partially sitting up on it, holding her stomach as she breathed through a contraction. Will was immediately at her side and she gave him a small smile.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't think to check my phone and now this has happened and-" Natalie pulled him down to her level, kissing him to get him to shut up.

"I'm only five centimeters Will, I haven't even gone into the transitional stage yet." Brett nodded before telling the midwife and the obstetrician what was going on. Natalie slid off of the stretcher, Will supporting her as she leaned against him.

"She's five centimeters, contractions are three minutes apart," Brett said, before patting Natalie on the back and wishing her good luck.

"Okay, lets get you to a room." Dr. Lassati smiled before leading the way to the OBG/YN ward. Will walked slowly with Natalie, his hand on her lower back and his thumb rubbing soft circles against the sliver of exposed skin.

"Oh god," she groaned and doubled over as a powerful contraction hit.

"Natalie, are you okay?" He asked and she rolled her eyes. He knew that he had seen women in labour before, he's delivered kids before, but this was Natalie and he hated seeing her in pain. She didn't answer as she breathed through the contraction, but she nodded her head. Just as she was about to speak again, another one hit her stronger than the last. Will's eyes widened as she silently cried out, her legs buckling out underneath her, Will just having enough time to catch her as she fell.