Saved By The Devil Himself

Joseph

After several hours my water still hasn't broken. Aziz and Mallory have been trying to keep me comfortable but the contractions are getting closer and closer.

"How about a hot bath?" Aziz suggested. I nodded keeping my eyes closed while rocking in the rocking chair. Whatever helps with the pain.

Aziz helps me get up from the rocking chair and leads me to the stairs. Halfway up I feel another contraction come. "Fuck," I say throwing my head back and looking at the ceiling. Aziz stayed behind me keeping his hands on my hips saying something, but I'm not paying attention.

"What is all the commotion about?" Stephen says at the top of the stairs. I look at him and just give him a glare telling him to back off.

Mallory walks past us to go start the bath and I just stand there holding the railing. Once the contraction was over once more, I walked up the stairs. Stephen kept asking questions like am I Okay? What's wrong? Do I need anything? But honestly, I'm about to smack him.

"Back the hell away," I say through my teeth at Stephen. He stepped away putting his hands up. I walk into the bathroom and Mallory already has a bath set up for me. Bless.

Aziz POV

I walk out of the bathroom leaving Mallory and Amberley alone.

"Is she okay?" Stephen asks worriedly.

"Yes, Just she's having contractions but her water hasn't broken yet. We're not taking her till it does." I explain to him as we walk downstairs. "She's doing pretty well, well better than I thought would happen," I say laughing.

I pick up Amberley's hospital bag and walk towards the car to put it in so it's ready to go when she is. Walking back into the house I could hear Amberley. "Aziz!!!"

Shit. I run into the house and into the bathroom where Amberley is. "What happened? What's wrong?" My Mom is helping her put on her baggy pajamas and says "her water broke"

After her clothes were fully on, I scooped her up and speed to the car, setting her down lightly. I ran to my side and started the car. Hospital. Now.

I sped off to the hospital and got her inside as quickly as I could. "Get her into a room now!" My voice boomed through the hospital.

A man in a white doctors coat brought a wheelchair up to us. She's having another one now, I can't let her go.

"Just take me to her room," I say and he nods. Once we got to the maturity ward and into her room, nurses and doctors swarmed around her. They put an IV in her hand and colorful bands around her stomach. I sit down next to her as a nurse is checking her blood pressure. After that, she checked how many centimeters she was and found out that she's 7 centimeters out of 10.

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"I hate this! I hate you!" Amberley screams as another contraction hits. She's at 9 centimeters now and has one to go, but the pain is a lot for her.

"You're doing great Angel," I tell her as I kiss her head. "Just think of Joseph, and how you're going to hold him pretty soon" I coo in her ear.

"You're 10 centimeters dilated, now I need you to push," the doctor tells her. She squeezes my hand as she pushes.

Keep going Angel, you're doing great. Just think about Joseph. I tell her in her mind.

After several more pushes and a partial meltdown, Joseph's cry filled the room and Amberley laid back tired from everything. "Does the father want to hold him?" The doctor asks and I quickly got up saying yes.

I held him in my arms. His small frame swaddled up in a blue blanket. "Hi there," I said holding him close to my chest with one hand, and smoothing his thick red hair back with the other. His eyes are closed, almost like he is afraid to open his eyes.

I look over at Amberley and see that she's ready to pass out from exhaustion as the nurses try and clean everything up. "You wanna see your mommy?" I ask Joseph before walking over to Amberley and sitting down next to her.

I hand him over to Amberley and she is just about ready to cry. "My baby" she whispers holding him close.

"Skin to skin contact is good for newborns," a nurse says as she walks over to Amberley. "Even with the fathers. Here" she says as she opens Joseph's blanket and lays him on top of Amberley's chest.

"You can bring your family in if you'd like," the nurse told me and I nod before walking out into the waiting room.

Mom was the first to stand up and walk over to me. "Is she alright? How's the baby?"

"They're both fine. Amberley is exhausted and Joseph is having some type of skin to skin thing with her" I explain.

I wave over Stephen and Ethan and they both scurry over to me. "Is there a baby yet?" They both ask. I couldn't help but chuckle at both of them, they could be twins.

"Yes there is a baby, now come before he is 32," I said before walking back to Amberley's room.

When I opened the door I found the nurses packing up to leave and Amberley sleeping on the hospital bed with Joseph asleep on her chest. My heart melted at this site. I quietly walked over to her and picked up Joseph, pulling up her blanket to cover her, and then walking over to my mom and the destined twins with Joseph.

I handed him over to my mom first since she helped the most during Amberley's pregnancy. She got onto me several times for not doing something right, like when I was about to eat the last of the ice cream, I was warned not to do it cause Amberley will want it, and sure enough, she did.

After he's been passed around several times, Joseph became fussy, so I picked him up and tried to rock him. Not long after, he started to calm down, but I knew he wanted Amberley.