Lunar's Eclipse || Wattys 2019

Twenty Four: Away

"We're almost there." He is saying and I clutch the car seat.

"Nathan...I'm scared. I'm so scared." I cry, letting the tears come with waves of pain and sadness and fear.

Nathan hastily parks the car and rounds it to my side.

Then he opens it and carries me out and into the hospital.

"Please, please help. My girlfriend....our baby..." He is saying and I clutch him, crying as I feel his heart beat racing.

The sound of running feet approaches and suddenly Nathan lays me down on a stretcher.

"No, Nathan...." I cry.

"You'll be fine, Lu. I'm right here. I promise I'm right here." He says following the nurses, holding my hand and looking right at me.

The noise of people yelling instructions blurs into one another and I can only see Nathan.

"You're gonna be fine, I promise you." He says says, his voice sounding shaky for the first time ever.

"The baby...." I say just as they wheel me into a room and suddenly there is no Nathan holding my hand.

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NATHAN'S P.O.V

I watch helplessly as they wheel Lunar away and a nurse stops me.

"I'm sorry sir, you're gonna have to wait here until the doctor requests your presence." She says and I look at her.

"She needs me." I say, not recognising my own voice. It was shaky and low.

"I know that but you have to let us do our work to make her better."

"But our baby. She's pregnant." I say and the lady nods.

"We'll try our best." She says and jogs off.

Standing there, alone, I can't do anything but pace.

I wish I was there.

What will happen?

What will happen to the baby? Will they be okay?

Will she be okay?

She has to. They have to save them.

For twenty minutes I walk around the waiting hall restlessly, getting coffee from a vending machine that I couldn't even drink.

I need news.

The nurse walks out now.

"The doctor will see you now, sir." She says and I hurry inside the room.

Lunar is lying on a bed wearing hospital robes and I rush to her.

"Are you okay?" I ask, holding her hand and sitting next to her and she turns to me with tears in her eyes.

"They won't tell me anything. My baby bump is gone." She says and a doctor walks in, holding a file.

"Miss Kensington, Mr Jackson. I thought it would be better to speak to the both of you at once." She says, closing her file and looking at us.

Her look says it all.

Before she can say another word, I know what the news is.

And I feel a great wave of sadness consume me.

"Our baby...is our baby okay?" Lunar asks still, sitting up and the doctor sighs.

"I'm so sorry miss Kensington. I'm afraid you had a miscarriage and lost the baby. There was nothing we could do by the time you came. The fetus had lost all signs of life." She says and Lunar is already shaking her head.