Blood Money - The Sequel

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I breath heavily as Tom is on one side, squeezing my hand, and Ezra is on the other side squeezing my other hand.
"Hey guys" Daniel smiles as he walks into the room.
"Yeah just invite the whole fucking mob Tom!" I yell and his eyes go wide.
"Daniel is your best friend I thought you'd want him here!" He defends himself.
"Where is my fucking boyfriend!" I groan as the pain worsens.
My water broke, and now my contractions are close to intolerable. I won't get the epidural, I can't. It's too freaky. Who the fuck wants to be numb when giving birth?!
"Petra's not answering" Ezra says, pulling the phone from his ear.
"I'm sure he'll be here soon, just calm down okay? Everything's going to be fine." Tom tries to comfort me, failing epically.
"Alright, lets check you out." My doctors assistant says, walking into the room. "Which one of you is the father?"
"We don't know, could be any one of us." Ezra says, thinking he's real fucking funny.
"He's just joking, it's not funny." I say sternly to them, causing their laughing to come to an abrupt end.
"Please leave the room for a few minuets while I examine her, thank you." The doctors assistant says, sending the guys out.
She lifts the blanket up, staring to examine me.
"You've got quite the support group here" she laughs slightly.
"Oh yeah, they're definitely keeping me distracted" I giggle.
"You're seven centimeters dilated now, doing very well" she smiles, pulling the blanket back over me.
"Thank you." I nod and she opens the door, letting the guys come back in.
"Still nothing?" I ask.
"I'm sorry.." Tom frowns. "Still no call."
I rest my head back on the pillow, almost crying. I can't do this without Haz.. I can't.
It shouldn't take this long.. There's no way it's taking this long, unless something is wrong.
"We're here!" Harry yells, busting through the doors with Sam.
"Jesus Christ why is everyone here except my boyfriend!" I yell.
"Mum and dad are out in the waiting room with Phil" Sam tells me.
"I just want Haz" I cry, burying my face in my hands.
"I know" Tom sighs, rubbing my back.
Another contraction hits and now I'm crying from the pain and from needing my boy.
"I can't do this." I shake my head in tears. Tom waves everyone out, and they move quickly, shutting the door behind them.
"Aria" he says, sitting on my bedside and making me look at him. "You have done way worse shit, you've almost died numerous times, you have gone to hell and back. You. Can. Do. This."
"I can't.. I can't without him.." I cry.
The doors bust open and I look up, wiping the tears away to clear my vision.
"I'm here. It's okay I'm here." My blue eyed boy says, walking over to my bedside.
"Thank god" I cry, now happy tears.
He wraps his arms around my shoulders, hugging me tightly and kissing my head.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't here.." he says.
Tom leaves the room quietly, giving us our space.
"It's okay" I shake my head. "You're here now. That's all that matters."
"How close are we to getting our little boy?" He asks.
"I'm seven centimeters" I answer. "So soon."
A contraction hits, making me cry out in pain.
"Woah what's going on?!" Haz panics.
"It's just- a contraction" I manage to get out, breathing my way through.
I squeeze his hand tightly, way too tightly, and he takes it like a champ.
The paid reduces and I loosen the grip on his hand.
"Noah can really inflict some pain.. maybe he would be good in the mob" he laughs and I roll my eyes.
"Now is not the time for jokes Harrison." I groan.
He rubs my back soothingly and I try to relax.
"I'm scared.. this is a little human, that we're responsible for.." I say honestly.
"Love, you are going to be an amazing mother." He says matter of factly. "And I'm going to be a damn good dad. We're going to get through this, one day at a time."
I rest my head against his. We can do this.
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Twelve hours.
Twelve fucking hours.
The last three centimeters just don't want to happen, and I'm done. That's it, I'm done and I'm ready to go home.
The pain is unbearable at this point, it's been too long I can't take it anymore.
It's ten pm and I tried to send everyone home but a few of them still stayed, wanting to be here when the baby comes.
"Hazzy?" I say to my boyfriend who's sitting on my bed, laying his head on my chest and playing with my hair.
"Hmm?" He hums tiredly.
"Were having a summer baby, I always wanted a summer baby.." I smile. "He can have pool parties with barbecued food and water balloons"
Haz smiles, running his hand up and down my arm.
"Your perfect family." He mumbles.
The door opens and my doctor walks in with a smile.
"Lets do another check, shall we?" She says.
Haz gets out of her way and she pulls my blanket up.
"Your contractions are getting to be only about three minutes apart, and you are officially ten centimeters." She smiles and my eyes widen.
"Fucking finally" I mutter to myself.
"Let's get you to the birthing room" she says.
Haz wakes up instantly, his eyes open wide and a nervous but excited smile on his face.
"Do you want anyone else in the room?" He asks me as she rolls me to the birthing room.
"No, just us." I say, a painful contraction coming on.
She gets to the room and everything is set up, her assistant coming in to help with the birth.
"Alright Aria, this could take a while so I need you to be strong okay?" She says.
Haz stands at my side, holding my hand tightly, and kissing my head.
"You've got this, baby." He says.
"Okay Aria, go ahead and push for us."
I push, and push, and push. The pain of childbirth is like no other, the strain on my body right now is unbelievable, I can't believe I'm doing this without an epidural. Haz helps me through it, encouraging each push to be a little harder and stronger.
"No one fucking told me this took hours!" I breath out, running out of energy. This feels impossible..
"Honey you can do this, I know you can. Just keep going." Haz says.
"Cmon Aria, a few more pushes" the doctor says.
"I can't" I shake my head. "I'm sorry.. I can't do it.."
"Baby look at me" Haz says, holding my face in his hands and I look up into his eyes.
"A few more big pushes and we will have our whole world in our hands." He says. "Do it for Noah, I know you can."
"I can see his head Aria, you're so close." The assistant says.
I give them six more big pushes, feeling the baby leave my body and hearing loud squeaky cries.
"You did it baby" Haz breaths out, kissing my lips.
"Oh my god.." I say, seeing as they hold my sweet little Noah up, his little legs wiggling.
"Would dad like to cut the cord?" The assistant asks.
"I'd love to" Haz smiles.
She hands him the clippers, and he cuts the cord proudly.
The doctor wraps him in a blanket, and hands him to me, his warm little body snuggling into mine. His sweet cries fill my ears. I look down at his face, seeing his pouty bottom lip quiver, his eyes scrunched shut.
"Hi Noah" I say softly.
"We're your mommy and daddy" Haz says, lifting Noah's little fist with his finger. "He's so small..."
"I already love you so much." I smile.
Noah's face scrunches up, and his eyes squeeze before opening a little, looking at us for the first time.
"He has your eyes, Haz."

A/N: I'm soft rn dad Haz has my whole heart.