His Forever Flame

61. Baby Jayson

It'd been almost five weeks since Jay's birthday and Lauren was growing increasingly uncomfortable. She felt as big as a house and keeping up with the twins was exhausting. Luckily Mouse was still around helping, but she knew he was ready to get back to work. She couldn't blame him. The twins could be a lot to handle even though she knew he loved them.

It was four thirty in the afternoon and she'd been in pain all day. She knew her water hadn't broken, but she was almost positive she was contracting. She did not want a repeat of the twins birth, so she tried calling Jay. When he didn't answer, she called Kelly to come get her and asked Mouse to stay with the kids. He readily agreed and promised to find Jay for her.

Jay had been at work, wrapping up a case with the final interview. He'd never heard his phone ring. When Tony sent them home for the day, he pulled out his phone seeing one missed call from Lauren and six missed calls from Mouse. As he was fixing to call him back, Mouse called again.

"Hey man what's up?" Jay answered.

"Where the hell have you been?" Mouse asked frantically. It'd been a little over an hour since Lauren had tried calling him.

"At work buddy. Now take a deep breath and breathe. What's wrong?" Jay asked sliding into his car.

"Lauren.... Shit. I'm with the babies. Kelly took her."

"Took her where?" Jay asked trying not to panic.

"Hospital," Mouse said as Jay hung up throwing the car in drive and speeding off to Med.

He parked and raced in as fast as he could.

Will just happened to see him and grabbed his arm. "Calm down little brother. She's fine. She's just in labor."

"How long? Where?" he asked breaking free of Will's hold to find her.

Will laughed and grabbed his arm dragging him to the elevator. They got on and Jay paced. "She's only been here an hour so relax."

"How is she? She ok? In a lot of pain? Scared? Freaking out?"

"No that's just you," Will laughed as they got off on the maternity floor. "She's fine brother I promise," he said leading him to her room.

As soon as he pushed the door open he raced to her side. He cradled her face and kissed her. "I'm here baby. I'm so sorry I wasn't earlier."

"It's ok. We're ok I promise," she smiled rubbing her hands over her protruding belly. Kelly had gone back to work waiting until the baby was here to get off so she was alone. Jay hated it but at least Will had been around and she was ok.

Jay laid his hands on her belly and rubbed softly. "He's really coming huh?"

"Yea he is," she smiled.

Jay kissed her hard. He watched the monitors and saw everything was stable and she was just barely contracting.

"How far to go?" he asked her.

"I'm at four," she said rubbing his cheek. "My water still hasn't broken," she sighed.

"If you want to speed it along I can offer suggestions," Will chuckled from the doorway.

"What?" Jay asked him rubbing her belly.

"Well... they say walking helps, the exercise ball, or..... there's always sex," he laughed.

Lauren's face turned red and Jay threw a cup at his brother. "You're ridiculous get outta here," Jay laughed.

He could hear Will laughing heading down the hall. He turned back to his wife and softly rubbed her cheek. "I mean.... We could always try those," he shrugged.