I know I said I would have this story done a while ago, but I also didn’t expect this story to end up so long. But it is also well deserved for all my followers who continue to follow me even though I’ve been MIA a lot lately. Enjoy as always!
Sylvie was throwing her hair in a bun when she heard a knock on the door. Being 8 months pregnant meant that she had little energy to do much with her appearance. She figured as long as she didn’t look a mess, she was okay.
She walked to the door, or more wobbled, and she opened the door. She was surprised to find Burgess on the other side.
They were friends, of course, but the only people who went to her appointment for the baby was Eva, Antonio, or Gabby. Mainly Eva since she wanted her to bond with the baby before she gave birth, however, she had exams this week and knew she couldn’t afford to miss studying.
Besides, she felt like this may be a gross appointment since they probably would prepared Sylvie for birth and knew nobody wanted to hear that gross details about their stepmother.
“Hey,” Sylvie said, surprised. “Let me guess, Antonio sent you?” She guessed.
She nodded her head, “Yeah, I’m sorry I know you would rather it be him,” she shrugged her shoulders. “Obviously,” she said a few seconds later.
“No, no, it’s okay. I knew all about this before I dated a detective so I’ll never hold this against him.” She walked inside to grab her purse, keys, and phone.
As she walked outside, she locked and closed the door behind her. “Is he okay?” She asked, knowing she might not want to know what he was up to, but she was his wife after all. She needed him to be okay.
“Oh yeah, he’s going undercover,” she saw Sylvie’s face and shook her head, “nothing dangerous, I promise. He’ll probably call us before the appointment is even over.”
“Okay, thank you,” she said as she walked over to Burgess’s car. “Not just for letting me know, but for this too. I know this is the last thing you want to do right now.”
“Are you kidding?” Burgess face broke out in a smile, “It’s a baby appointment. It’s way more fun.”
Sylvie laughed and she opened the passenger side. Burgess helped her into the car and she smiled softly at her. As she finally got settled in, she buckled her seatbelt and sent Antonio a quick text.
“Are you ready?” Burgess asked a few seconds later when she got settled inside. Sylvie nodded her head and Burgess pulled away.
“Have you guys thought of any baby’s name yet?” Burgess asked.
She shook her head, “Not really. We’re indecisive right now. But I think once we finally meet the baby, we’ll know for sure.”
“Absolutely. See if the name fits her.”
Sylvie smiled and she nodded her head. They both settled into an comfortable silence. Her thoughts went to Antonio, hoping that he was okay. She couldn’t wait to see him later and tell him about her appointment.
That was her last thought before everything went blank
“That was an awesome bust,” Antonio said as he rejoined his team an hour later. Thankfully he didn’t have to go undercover for long, he really hated he couldn’t make Sylvie’s appointment. But after everything was counted for, he was planning on going home.
“Antonio,” Voight said with a seldom look on his face. Antonio looked at the rest of the team, minus Burgess who he asked for a favor, to drive Sylvie to her appointment, who looked like they all got delivered some bad news.
“It wasn’t a good bust, then?” He asked, assuming that’s what was wrong.
“It’s Sylvie,” Voight said, not being the one to beat around the bushes.
“What’s wrong?” He asked, looking at everyone, “What?”
“She was—in an accident,” Jay confessed.
“Come on, let’s take you to the hospital,” Voight said.
“She’s at the hospital?” Antonio asked.
“Where is she?” No one was answering him and he was growing frustrated. “Where is my wife?!”
“Still at the scene. Come on, I’ll drive you,” he knew Antonio wouldn’t have listened to him to wait at the hospital.
Burgess groaned as she opened her eyes. It was taking forever for her eyes to readjust, to let her know where she was. But as soon as they did, panic set in.
“Sylvie? Sylvie? Oh my god.”
In the distance, she heard the firefighters sirens and ambulance and thought thank god.
She turned to her right and saw that Sylvie was unconscious and her head was bleeding.
Oh god, her own head was killing her. As she raised her hand to her forehead she saw there was a gush on it. But not as big as Sylvie’s. Why was it always the pregnant one who was more injured? She thought.
“Sylvie!” She called out to her. “Hold on! Hold on!”
She tried to push open her car door, but to no avail. She wasn’t giving up on rescuing Sylvie. This was her partner’s wife and baby in her hands, she had to ignore the pain. She leaned down and took her gun from her waist holster and broke the window using her gun.
“Ugh,” she groaned as she slid her body out of the window, trying not to get any glass on her.
She ran to the other side, making sure Sylvie was still breathing. She breathed out a sigh of relief. She tried opening her car door but it was stuck.
“Come on! Come on! Please, come on!” She was so focused on trying to get the door to open that she didn’t notice Severide and the rest of squad coming up.
“Burgess!” Severide called out, trying to get her attention. “Hey, we got it.”
Hearing his voice knocked her back into reality. “Oh thank god. Please save Sylvie!”
“What?” He asked, not realizing she was trying to save Sylvie. He rushed to the passenger side and gasped. He checked her pulse, “Strong and steady.” He looked over at Burgess. “I need you to stand to the side.”
“No!” She said, stubbornly. “Antonio trusted his family’s lives in my hands so I’m not going anywhere.”
Before they could go back and forth and argue, Sylvie groaned, making them snap their heads in her attention.
“Oh god, it hurts!” Sylvie screamed in pain.
“Sylvie!” Severide looked over at Sylvie, “we’ll get you out of there soon, just hold on.”
“My head hurts,” she whimpered.
“Just hold on, okay?” He looked over at Burgess, “we’re going to take off the back window, so you climb in there and keep her calm. The only way we can do this fast is if she stays calm, okay?”
She nodded her head, letting herself move to the side so they can work.
“Tony, Capp, break the back window so Burgess can calm down Sylvie.”
A few minutes later, but what felt like an hour to Burgess, they finally took off the back window and helped Burgess climbed through. She placed her hand on Sylvie’s shoulder.
“Hey, it’ll be okay.” She reassured her.
“Hey, Burgess!” The paramedic called her name to place the neck brace around her neck. “I know this is the last thing you want around your neck but I need to do this, okay?” Burgess said before she placed the neck brace.
“I want Antonio,” she breathed out.
“Just take a few deep breaths, it’ll be okay. You’re in good hands.” Not like Burgess needed to tell her that since she was literally being treated by family. But it was all she knew what to say.
“No, no, it won’t.” Sylvie said as she moaned in pain, “it hurts so bad.”
“Hey, we got this,” Burgess said as she looked down at Sylvie and noticed the blood on her pants. Not wanting to freak out Sylvie, she tried to calm her down. “Hey, I think you’re in labor.” She really hoped so anyway. “We need a medic!” Burgess called out from the inside the car.
A few seconds later, a paramedic came over, “What’s up?” He asked.
“There’s nothing I can do about that until the doors are jarred open. Hold on, she’s going to need fluids.”
“I need drugs!” Sylvie screamed in pain. “This is not how it was supposed to go! It was supposed to be me and Antonio breathing together, getting our baby out together!”
“I know this wasn’t the plan and I am so sorry but we’re in this together, okay? I am not going anywhere until this baby is out.”
She nodded her head, fighting back the tears because of the pain.
The paramedic gave the needle and the bag to Burgess. “What? No, I can’t do this!” She said in a panic whispered. “I became a cop because I can’t this.”
“Yes, you can. She needs fluids otherwise her and the baby will not make it. You can do this,” he reassured Burgess.
Burgess sighed and took the IV needle from him. “Fine.” Burgess took Sylvie’s arm as she heard the paramedics orders. “Find the biggest vein her arm,” Burgess was having trouble since Sylvie was dehydrated, “Just look for a blue vein,” she nodded and found one, “Okay, next take the needle and slide it in parallel to her arm towards you.” She took a deep breath and did as she was told. “Now, when you see a flash of blood, you got it.” How ironic she would have to do this, considering Sylvie was also a paramedic, but she was fighting through consciousness and couldn’t help her. “Okay, okay, I’m in.”
“Okay, now pull out the needle and tape it,” Burgess nodded, that was probably the easiest step. “Hook up the tubing,” she nodded and was relieved when it was done. “All you have to do now is squeeze the bag.” She held the bag to her shoulders and gave it a tight squeeze. She was happy when she saw Sylvie opened her eyes once again.
“I’m almost there,” Kelly said.
“Please hurry,” she whimpered in pain.
“It’s okay, just breathe,” Burgess said, squeezing her shoulder.
“I’m a detective and that’s my wife in the car!” Burgess heard Antonio’s voice and smiled slightly.
“Sylvie, Antonio is here.”
“He is?” She then called out his name. “Antonio?”
“I’m here baby,” he said, standing by the back window. “Severide is going to get you out.”
“Burgess, you need to get out so we can get her out,” Severide said and Burgess nodded her again, getting ready to exit the vehicle.
“No no, Burgess. Don’t leave me.” Sylvie said, grabbing her hand with tears in her eyes.
“I won’t. It’s okay, I’ll be right over here.” She pointed to the back of the car. “We got you.”
As Burgess got out of the back window, Antonio helped her to her feet, “What happened?” He asked with panic in his eyes.
“I don’t really remember,” she said honestly. “All I remember is we were talking about the baby and then we fell into a comfortable silence, you know, I think she was nervous about the appointment. And then I see lights coming out of nowhere and I couldn’t—I couldn’t get out of the way. I’m sorry.”
“Hey, this is not your fault, okay?” He said resting his hands on her shoulders. “I’ll get someone to pull the cameras and to see what happened.”
“I’ll go look for it,” Burgess suggested but they were interrupted by the loud noise.
After a few long minutes, the noise cut and the firefighters were getting ready to placed Sylvie on the backboard.
“No, Burgess, you can’t. You need to go to the hospital and get yourself checked out. You’re hurt, too.” He said, eyeing the cut on her head.
“I’m fine, I’m just worried about Sylvie,” Burgess replied.
“And that may have kept you from passing out,” Antonio fired back.
Before Burgess could say something back, although they both knew he was right, they heard Sylvie calling for Antonio.
“Antonio?” Severide called out this time. He run over and was relieved to see that Sylvie was okay for the most part. She was placed on the stretcher as Kelly told her they’ll be by the hospital later to visit her.
Antonio grabbed his wife’s hand and squeezed it tightly. The paramedics started checking on Sylvie and the baby, she started crying.
“It hurts, Antonio, it hurts,” she whimpered, trying to hold back the tears but it was no use.
“I know, baby. But we’ll be at the hospital soon,” he promised.
The paramedics started running with the stretcher with Antonio running with them. As they loaded Sylvie in the back of the ambulance, Antonio climbed inside and rejoined the hand he was holding previously.
“Shh, it’s okay.” He said, hoping to keep her calm down.
“No, no, it isn’t,” she said, shaking her head. “Our baby is coming.”
Antonio looked at the medic that was hooking Sylvie up to machines. “Let me look,” he instructed.
He gasp a second later, “Yeah, we aren’t going to make it to the hospital. Your baby is coming now.”
“I know!” Sylvie said, scared out of her mind.
“You got this, baby.” He said as he placed a kiss on her forehead.
“No—No. I– I can’t,” Sylvie said, shaking her head. “You gotta keep this baby inside, please. What if—what if something goes wrong? I won’t lose the baby, not after everything we’ve been through today.”
“Hey, no, the baby will be fine, you will be fine. But the baby wants to come out now.”
“No!” Sylvie said, tears streaming down her face. “It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.”
“I know and I wish it could happen the way we planned it, but I know you can do this, baby.”
Sylvie breathed in and out and then nodded her head, “Okay. Okay. I’m ready.”
Antonio moved behind her and pushed her shoulders to lift her up. He bent his knees on the bed to give her more support.
As Sylvie felt her contractions, she started pushing. “Ahh!” She screamed in pain. Between her head and the labor, she was already exhausted but knew she couldn’t give up now.
“You’re doing a great job,” Antonio said, encouraging her before she had to push again.
She breathed in and out before another contraction came and pushed again, this time harder. She just wanted this to be over with and for her baby to be okay.
“Okay, just one more big push,” the medic instructed.
Antonio held onto her shoulders as she pushed again, but this time, the push was enough for the baby to make an entrance. And as soon as she did, she started crying.
“Aww,” Sylvie said smiling and giggling at the same time. “She’s already a Dawson with those loud lungs.”
“Hey,” Antonio said, and then smiled at his baby girl, “You did such a good job, baby.”
As the medic was cleaning up the baby for them, she turned her head to look at Antonio, “Can you call the kids and tell them to meet us at the hospital?”
He nodded his head, “Absolutely.”
A few seconds later, the medic placed the baby on Sylvie’s chest. She was still covered in a little bit of blood but Sylvie didn’t care. She had her baby so she was content.
Antonio leaned down and kissed her forehead and then kissed the baby’s head. His eyes were glued on the baby so he didn’t notice when Sylvie closed her eyes until the machines started going off.
She laid there limp while the baby was on her chest so he grabbed the baby before she fell from her arms. “What’s happening?”
The medic wasn’t saying anything, all he was doing was reaching for an oxygen mask and placed it over her face.
“What is happening to my wife?” The baby sensing Antonio’s fear and was crying against his chest. He took off his jacket and wrapped it around her for warmth.
“Her pressure bottomed out,” he said without saying anything else.
But a few seconds later, the medic screamed to his partner, “You better get us to the hospital in two minutes or we’re going to lose her.”
“No! You’ve gotta save her. Please,” Antonio said, tears welling in his eyes. “Please,” he said this time desperately.
“Please save my wife…” His voice drifted off.
The next few minutes, everything happened so fast. Antonio kept whispering, begging them to save his wife’s life, while also trying to keep his baby girl warm and also calm. Their voices sounded far away when they got to the hospital and got Sylvie out of the ambulance. They were rattled off information about her that he wasn’t sure what it was since it was medical words. He didn’t even remember stepping off the ambo himself, or getting into the hospital. All he remembered was when a nurse tried to grab his daughter from him.
“Huh?” The voices started coming back to him and didn’t sound far away.
“Can we check and make sure she’s okay?” They asked.
“Oh, yeah. Thank you.” He let them take the baby, making sure she was okay.
“She’s beautiful,” the nurse complimented.
He nodded his head and remembered saying a thanks before he rushed off to check in on Sylvie. He saw that Natalie and Will working on her and then the nurse closing the door when he came all the way towards the door.
He felt like he was pacing back and forth towards the room for hours, which only was a few minutes. If he wasn’t just a detective and also a father and husband who witnessed what he did tonight, he was sure they were going to yell at them.
Finally, Natalie stepped out and called out his name, “Antonio?”
He stepped in his tracks and walked closer to the room, “Please tell me she’s okay.”
“She’s okay. Between her injuries and the blood loss during the delivery, her body went through a shock but she’s good now.”
“Thank you. Can I—-can I see her?” He asked.
She nodded her head, “We’re going to transferred her to the maternity floor when a room becomes available. And when the nurses are done with your baby girl, we’ll bring her to you guys.”
“Thank you,” he said and he walked into her room and headed towards her. “Don’t ever scare me like that again.”
Sylvie smiled slightly and nodded her head. “Come here.”
He walked over to her and sat on the chair next to the bed. He set his head down on the bed, collecting his emotions. For the last 4 hours, he thought he was going to lose his wife and baby.
Sylvie ran her hands through his hair and smiled, “We’re going to need a name for our baby girl.”
He nodded his head and lifted his head, “But can we discuss that later?”
She nodded her head, “Of course.” She smiled but then her smiled faded when she looked at the look in his eyes. “Hey, whatever is on your mind, tell me.”
“I thought I lost you,” he shook his head and then he lifted her hand into his. “Thank you for coming back to me.”
“Always,” she said as she stroked her thumb in the side of his hand. “Hey, is Burgess okay?”
He nodded his head, “she should be here somewhere. I told her to come get checked out.”
Before Sylvie could respond, the nurses came in to move Sylvie to the maternity ward.
A few hours later, Sylvie was sitting up in bed and holding their baby girl in her arms.
“I delivered her but she looks nothing like me. She’s all you, which is a wonderful thing.” Sylvie said as she smiled, in awe of her daughter.
“That’s not true. She has your eyes,” he pointed out.
“Isn’t all babies born with blue eyes?”
He shrugged his shoulders, “I’m not sure, but I bet she keeps hers.”
“I love her hair,” Sylvie said as she ran her fingers through her hair. “I just hate that she wasn’t born in a hospital.”
“She just proved to us that she’s like her mother in the best way, she’s a fighter,” he said, smiling at Sylvie.
Before Sylvie could respond, Antonio got a chimed on his phone, “The whole family is in the waiting room.”
“I don’t think I’m ready for all that. My head is pounding, but you can take her down to meet her big family,” she smiled down at her baby girl sleeping in her arms. “I do want to see Burgess though. I need to thank her.”
Antonio wasn’t going to argue with his wife; especially right now. Whatever she wanted, she would get. He nodded his head as he stood up and took the baby out of her arms. “I won’t be long,” he promised, knowing he couldn’t stay far away from Sylvie for too long right now.
Antonio walked into the waiting room with the baby in his arms, but before he let anyone grabbed her, he wanted Burgess to see her first. “I don’t know how I can thank you.”
“That’s what partners are for,” Burgess said, shrugging her shoulders. Her head was bandaged and so were her arm. She didn’t noticed she cut her arm from climbing out of the car but the doctor told her she was lucky she didn’t sustain anymore injuries and discharged her. “How is Sylvie?”
“She’s resting, she sends her love,” he said to Burgess and to the entire waiting room. “Although she isn’t up for a lot of company, she does want to see you,” he said to Burgess.
“Oh, okay,” she said and she walked away, heading towards Sylvie’s room.
“I’m so sorry dad, I should have been there for Sylvie,” Eva said, immediately feeling remorse.
“This is not your fault. I’m glad you weren’t.” Just worrying about Sylvie and their baby was enough worry for him. “Say hi to your baby sister,” Antonio smiled widely as Diego and Eva cooed over their baby sister.
Antonio returned to the room a little while later after everyone had their chance with the baby.
“Is she hungry?” A groggily Sylvie asked.
“I think so,” he said as he handed Sylvie the baby and watched as she cradled the baby against her.
“So, I was thinking of the name Juliette? That way she can be named after your partner but also have a name of her own?” She suggested.
“I like it,” he said, smiling.
“And I don’t think she was hungry,” she said, looking down at her sleeping daughter on her chest.
“She must have been so scared,” Antonio muttered.
“Come here,” Sylvie said as she moved over to let Antonio in the bed with her.
He smiled and he climbed into bed next to her and wrapped his arm around her while his finger stroked his daughter’s cheek. “I love you both so much,” he whispered as his eyes closed.
“We love you too, so much,” she said, her eyes already closed and simply exhausted from the trauma her body experienced today.
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