Bugheads Baby

Our little Bear

Bettys pov
"Jug, you need to get the two hospital bags under the bed and meet me in the car." "Which car do we take?" "Yours has the baby's car seat," I tell him, "I'll meet you in the car ok." "Ok," he runs upstairs to get the bags and I start going down to the car when I get my first contraction. I get in the car as does Jughead. I tell him to time my contractions, they have moved from 8 minutes apart to 3 minutes. "Most women call birth one of the most rewarding days of their life. Those women are liars and stupid. I would say it resembles something more like doing the splits on a river of lava." "Yes I know baby," he says. "No you don't, so stop patronising me." I can tell he is trying so hard not to laugh. "Stop it Jughead." "Ok you right," he says and gives my hand a gentle squeeze and a kiss.

We arrive at the hospital and are taken to the maternity ward. I lie down on the bed and I get an epidural. Then the nurse tells me that I am 7cm dilated and that I'll have to wait for another hour or so until I can give birth. I look over at Jughead and tell him, "You can sleep if you want." "I can't," he says, "I'm too excited." "Ok then, we can choose the name. What are we down to?" I ask him. "Natalie, Tess, Hannah, Emily or Maya." "Wow," I say, "we haven't even chosen our top 2." "I know," he says, "What are yours?" "I don't know Jug." "Ok, mine would probably be Emily or Maya, but I love them all and you will make the right call." He comes over and kisses me on my forehead. "I'm about to push a human being out of me and that is how you thank me." He leans back down and passionately kisses me. I pull back a little and say, "Emily, that's going to be the name of our baby." "I love it," he tells me.

3 hours later and after much discomfort, our little bay came into the world. "She's so beautiful. She has your eyes Jug." "And your smile Betts." He's sitting on the bed next to me and I give her to him. I shut my eyes and fall asleep on his chest.

Jugheads pov
Betty has fallen asleep on me and I hold my little baby girl. A nurse comes in and gestures to the baby. "We need to run a hearing test" she whispers. I go to get up to hand her the baby, but she puts her hand out and whispers, "It's best that you don't wake up the mother." I hand her Emily and off she goes. About 45 minutes later she brings her back and gives me a thumbs-up, indicated that all the tests showed positive results. 'Thank you' I mouth. She smiles and walks away.

Betty starts to stir and I look at her with so much love. "Where's my baby," she asks. I look over to the crib, "she's asleep and so should you be." She smiles at me and then lies back down. A doctor comes in and asks for the name on the birth certificate. "Emily Gladys Jones," Betty says to the doctor. "Ok," he says and walks away. "Betty? You named our daughter after my mom?" she nods and I take her into a hug. "I love you so much," I tell her. "Me too," she says.

After two days in the hospital, we can take our little girl home. Betty carries her in the baby holder and I take all the bags and paperwork. On the drive back, Betty keeps looking into the backseat at the baby. I love that about her, and that kindness is what makes her such an excellent mom. We arrive home and I get Emily out of her car seat. "Hey, there bear." "Jug I'm going to go make a sandwich, you want one?" "It's ok Betts, I'll make you one." "It's ok, I'm completely capable of making my own sandwich." I smile, "I would love one, thanks." We walk up from the garage and to the ground floor. Betty and I have placed cots and playpens all around the house, I put bear in the cot near the kitchen and walk around the  bench to betty. I snake my arms around her waist and place little kisses on her neck.

She turns around and kisses me. I place my hands just above her ass and lift her onto the kitchen counter. She giggles and continues to kiss me and pull on my hair. I take off my shirt and how toss it aside, then I reach for hers and take it off. "Jug," betty moans, "we can't. Not in front of bear, and definitely not for another six weeks." "But that doesn't mean there isn't a whole bunch of other stuff that we can't do," I say.

1-hour latter Betty grabs bear from her crib and we walk upstairs to our room, betty changes into one of my 'S' T-shirts and starts breastfeeding Emily. "Umm, sure, go ahead and use my shirt," I say in a playful sarcastic way. "Thank you, I will, I don't want to ruin any of mine," she says laughing.

Bettys pov
I start wincing and moving a bit in bed, Jug rolls over and asks, "what's wrong baby." "My breasts are sore from the feeding." I sit up and go into the bathroom, I see Juggy get up and start to follow me, just as I enter the bathroom I close the door and lock him out. "Betts, come on, let me in." "Jug I just need a minute to myself... it hurts." "What huts baby?" "Everywhere." I sink onto the ground and start crying. "Betty, please let me in. I know that you want to protect me and not hurt me by seeing you in pain, but it hurts more to be apart." I unlock the door and he comes in swiftly, wraps his arms around me and carries me to bed. I roll over and he spoons me until I fall asleep.

I look at the clock, it's 1:30 in the morning and Emily starts crying. I get up and walk into her room. I sit down on the rocking chair and nurse her back to sleep. Jughead comes in and picks Emily up from me and places her back into her cot. He picks me up but I say, "No, I want to stay in here with her." He sits down and places me on his lap. I lie into his chest and fall back to sleep.

I wake up at 6 in the morning still on Jug, his arms are encapsulated around me, and I feel loved in his hold. Emily is really good a sleeping, and usually only wakes up once a night. But I guess it's too early to tell for sure. I look over to the clock on the wall. "Juggy," I whisper, "you have to get going to work." "Mmm, no. I want to stay here with you." "Jug, I appreciate that, but you have to go to work, Juggy." "Ahhh. Your right," he says, "but call me if you need me or anything." I get off his lap but he pulls me straight back down by the waist and kisses me. "I remember when we went right here on this floor," he says. "Exactly, we have so much more ground to cover... In six weeks, when we can safely start back up" I tell him. "Start back up?" he laughs, "how romantic of you to phrase it like that." "Shut up," I tell him. We get up and walk into our room, he goes into the closet and I follow. "Come to enjoy the show?" he asks. "Mhmm," I tell him blankly.

"Wave to daddy," I tell Emily. Jug speeds of on his motorcycle and I take Emily back inside. I call Veronica and ask if she wants to come over today. She says sure and will be here in an hour. I clean up a bit, then go and get changed. Just around 11 Veronica shows up and I embrace her in a hug. "V. I have missed you so much." "Me too B. Where's my little niece?!" I point to the playmat where Emily lies on her back. Veronica walks over and picks her up. "B, she is so cute. Hi, there little Emily," Veronica coo's. "Wanna see a tour of the house?" "Yes please!" V says and she walks around holding Emily. Finally, we sit downstairs in the living room and we talk about her and Archie, me and Jughead, her clothing line, and we were in the middle of talking about her baby shower when my phone rings. "Hold on one sec V." "Sure." I go over to the kitchen bench where I left it and look at the caller ID. "Hey Jug." "Hey, baby. Just seeing how you and bear are doing." "Great, Veronica's over and it's nearly bear's feeding time." "Ok," he laughs, "I get it, your busy with girl time." "Yeah, something like that. Is there a reason why you called?" "I was going to push for phone sex," he says jokingly, "but you have company, so don't worry about it. Love you." "Bye jug."

"That is so cute," V says, "I totally ship it." "Hahaha, me too," I say.