Look to the Sky

One-Shot

At 7 months pregnant, Addison was going through the normal symptoms. Swollen feet, lack of sleep, anxiousness about the house being clean enough while 'nesting.' Zed did his best to help her when he could. Not letting her lift anything heavy, helping with dishes or house chores where needed, giving foot rubs every night. It seemed as though everything was going by the book, until...

"Zed! Zed! Wake up!" She shook him awake.

"W-what? What's wrong?!" He asked groggily, trying to wipe the sleep from his eyes as he sat up beside his wife, turning on his bedside lamp. She has the cover pulled back and blood is soaking the sheets between her legs.

His heart stops. She was staring, stunned. It hit him. He needed to get her help. For the baby's sake. He leapt out of the bed and ran for the phone. After calling the hospital and them telling him to get her there, like now, he rushed back into the room. Addison hadn't moved an inch, staring at the blood.

He ran to her side and skidded on his knees across the floor till he hit the bed lightly.

"Addy, Baby, we gotta go!" He was trying to stay calm but failing as his panicked voice cracked. Addison slowly looked at him with terrified eyes. She was clearly in shock.

He gently grabbed her arm and helped her off the bed. Ignoring the fact that neither of them had shoes or the fact that they were still in pajamas. He couldn't care less. He made sure she was in her seat and quickly threw her seatbelt over her before clumsily sprinting around the car to the driver's side.

"Ok, you ready?" He asks turning to look at her for a second. She has her hand on her swollen stomach just staring down at the floor. "Addy!" He said a little louder, he gently grabbed her shoulders and shook her lightly. "You gotta tell me you're ok!" She blinked a few times before actually looking him in the eyes with tears brimming the edges.

"Zed." She said before breaking down sobbing. "I don't feel him moving. What if he's not ok! Oh god!" She sobbed. Zed quickly hugged her as best as he could in the car then sat her back to turn on the car and threw it into gear as he sped them to the hospital.

"Everything's going to be fine baby! We'll be at the hospital in a few minutes and they will take care of you and little man!" He assured her, even though he was being eaten up with worry on the inside.

Addison had called her parents on the way there, not able to say much that was coherent through her crying. But they understood something was very wrong and headed to meet them at the hospital.

Zed whipped the car into the drop-off area of the ER and ran as fast as he could to yell inside for help, returning to Addison's side moments later to start helping her out of the car. A handful of nurses came to their aid. Putting Addy in a wheelchair to prevent her from walking too much, checking pulse for her, listening with a stethoscope to the baby.

They swiftly rolled her off and Zed was left staring since he had to move his car. After snapping out of his daze again, he moved the car to a parking spot before running back into the building as fast as he could. He urgently asked the lady at the desk where she was and the lady told him the directions and he took off sprinting down the halls to get to her side.

He got to the room they were prepping her in, they were going to do an emergency C-section to get the baby out. Someone said he wasn't getting any oxygen and might die if to don't do something now. His heart sank to his feet. Addison wasn't hysterical anymore, they had given her something to calm her down. She locked eyes with him and reached a shaky hand his ways. He didn't hesitate to take it into his own and kiss her knuckles.

"Zed." She said, tears spilling over the edge of her lids again.

"I know baby." He just replied, hugging her head to his chest and kissing the top of her head. They only had a moment together like that before a nurse took Zed to get scrubbed in and suited up from head to toe in the sterile scrubs.