“No it’s too early.” Amelia said sitting up in the hospital bed.
“We tried the Terbutaline, and it didn’t work. It’s going to be fine though, your 34 weeks almost 35. We’ve got this.” Carina reassuringly told the scared neurosurgeon. “We’re going to take you up for a c-section in a couple of minutes.”
“It’s going to be okay, Mia.” Link kissed his girlfriends sweaty forehead.
“Call Maggie or Meredith or someone, see if someone wouldn’t mind taking Scout.” Amelia asked her boyfriend on the verge of tears.
“Already taken care of, my parents are with him.”
“When did they get here?”
“This afternoon they were coming in to have dinner with us. They’re gonna stay with Scout for a little bit cause it seems like we’re going to be in the NICU with the baby.”
“Oh god.” Amelia groaned anxiously, she just wanted her baby to be fine.
“Amelia, look at me.” Link gently moved her chin with his hand so she was looking at him. “Our baby’s going to be perfectly fine.”
“Are we ready?” Carina asked coming back into the room ready to take them up to the OR.
“No.” A nervous Amelia responded.
“It’s going to be just fine.” Carina said, wheeling the bed out of the room.
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“Grandma!” Scout happily exclaimed running towards her.
“Hey.” She reciprocated the hug the little boy was giving her. “How are you?”
“Good.” Scout happily responded as his grandmother sighed him out of daycare.
“Good, I’m going to take you home. I think grandpa is making dinner. And maybe we’ll get some ice cream afterwards.” Maureen told her grandson whilst picking him up to take him back to his house.
“Yay!” The boy exclaimed. “Want to play dinosaurs when we get home?”
“Sure. We can do that.” The walk back to the house was non eventful, Scout told his grandmother all the dinosaur facts he could list off the top of his head.
“Just in time dinners ready.” Eric announced once the pair walked into the kitchen.
“Good, I’m sure your hungry. Right Scout?” Maureen asked the small boy.
“Yep.” Scout happily replied jumping up onto his usually chair. He was quite content, especially that no one was talking about the supposed new baby coming soon.
“So are you excited for the new baby? They’ll be here tonight probably.” Eric told his grandson. Scout stopped the fork from going into his mouth and slammed it down onto the plate.
“No, baby still has to be in mommy’s belly. Daddy said a couple of more Mondays.” Scout announced crossing his arms.
“Well that was what was supposed to happen, but the baby wanted to come early. You’ll love it.” Eric tried to explain.
“Well, how about we finish our meal.” Maureen tried to change the subject.
“You need to eat bud, you barely ate.”
“Okay.” Scout replied back bitterly. He did not want a new baby, he thought he still had enough time to convince his parents to give the baby away.
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“You like what you see?” Amelia sarcastically asked her boyfriend in reference to her open abdomen.
“Always.” Her boyfriend smirked kissing her temple. He watched as Carina took the baby out and clamped the umbilical cord. Passing the baby over to Hayes quietly, attentively trying to repair excessive bleeding.
“Why aren’t they crying?”
“Why is she bleeding so much?”
Amelia and Link asked at the same time.
“Well, Amelia it looks like your placenta has ruptured.” Carina responded trying to stay focused, she’d never lost a patient and she wasn’t going to start with a good friend.
“I’m going to take your baby up to the NICU. Everything is as expected we’ll put her on a breathing tube and go from there. Congratulations.” Hayes told the scared couple as he wheeled the baby out of the OR.
“Ha, it’s a girl.” Amelia said through tears. “Go, go, go. Go be with her.”
“No, I’m staying right here.” Link affirmed, he was starting to get more and more nervous when he realized Carina was having difficultly stopping the bleeding. Which his girlfriend seemed to be totally oblivious too.
“I’ll be just fine, go be with her.” Amelia told her boyfriend drowsily as she started to skip in to unconsciousness.
“Carina? What’s the issue? Stop the freaking bleeding!” Link yelled starting to panic.
“Out of my OR Link.” Carina bit back, starting to get stressed. She didn’t need a terrified parent watching her every move, nonetheless a surgeon.
“Nooo way, I’m staying.” Link affirmed, until a scrub nurse directed him out of the OR. “I love you Mia!”
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The scrub nurse directed him off the OR floor. He didn’t want to go up to the NICU, he wanted them to meet their baby together. So he found himself in the plant room. Their room, where it seemed all their most important and intimate moments happened. It took him a minute to realize his phone was ringing before picking it up.
“Hey mom.” A monotone Link answered.
“Everything okay?” Maureen asked getting concerned with her sons tone.
“No Amelia’s still in the OR probably bleeding to death. And the baby’s in the NICU, I don’t even know what’s happening.”
“Do you want me to come up there and sit with you? Or maybe it’ll help if you go see the baby.”
“No, it’s fine. How’s Scout?”
“Oh, he’s good. A little bit of a fight with dinner but he ate.”
“He ate something other than Dino nuggets?” Link chuckled into the phone.
“Yeah he did.” Maureen chuckled along with her son. “A little upset that you two aren’t here, but he’s content at the moment playing dinosaurs with your father.”
“Good. When you put him to bed make sure he has the night light on and the sound machine. He won’t be able to sleep so he’ll just turn on the lights and start playing.”
“Will do. I don’t mean to pry but are you going to tell me anything about my new grand baby?”
“I don’t really know anything, I can’t go see her without Amelia. I just can’t do this without Amelia mom. What if something happens and I’m alone with two kids?”
“Link, Amelia’s a fighter. And of worst comes to worst you’ve got us but that’s not going.m to happen.” Link just hummed in response until Maureen broke the silence. “So it’s a girl?”
“Oh yeah, I haven’t really seen her yet. I already know she’s a little carbon copy of Mia though.”
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“Baby.” Amelia groggily said.
“Hey your up.” Link smiled closing the magazine he was reading and coming to her side.
“Good, good. Mer is upstairs with her. We can go see her in a little bit when your less groggy. She’s on the vent, but apparently she’s looking pretty good. She’s going to be just fine.” Link smiled leaning down to kiss his girlfriend.
“Apparently? You mean you haven’t seen her?” Amelia asked her boyfriend confused.
“Yeah, I wanted to meet her with you.”
“She’s been alone for hours?” Amelia asked accusingly starting to get upset.
“Mer and Maggie have been with her. She not alone.”
“Yeah and she probably thinks they’re her mothers. God Link! I told you to go be with her!” The neurosurgeon was starting to get herself into a state, deeply upset with her boyfriend.
“Amelia, I’m sorry I just couldn’t. Not without you.”
“Your an idiot. An absolute idiot.” Amelia huffed tears stinging in her eyes. “How’s Scout?”
“He’s good, hopefully in bed by now.”
“Take me to go see her.” Amelia sat up in the hospital bed cautious of her major abdominal injury.
“Amelia, that’s not a a great idea.” Link told his girlfriend, only to be given a death glare. “I’ll go find a wheelchair.”
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A couple days had passed, and the pair was doing much better, Amelia’s injury healing as it should, and their unnamed daughter was getting stronger by the day.
“Look who came to see his baby sister.” Link happily whispers shouted with their son in his arms, squiring a dollop of hand sanitizer into their hands.
“Hey my little guy.” Amelia smiled taking her hands from inside the incubator and reaching them out for her son. Showering him in kisses. “I missed you sooo much.”
“Me too.” Scout responded snuggling deeper into his mothers embrace, that had been the longest they’d ever been apart.
“There’s your baby sister.” Amelia pointed into the clear incubator.
“She’s tiny.” Scout noted, observing all the wires coming from her. “She a robot?”
“No bud, she just needs those to help her out a bit and feel better.” Link answered after laughing at his sons prediction.
“What’s her name?” The small boy asked intrigued by the small baby.
“We don’t know yet. We have a couple of ideas what do you like? We’ve got Charlotte, Eleanor, Arabella, Addison, Sawyer.” Amelia listed off to her son.
“Addie.” Scout immediately said. “Starts with A , like mommy’s name and daddy’s name and my first name.”
“Huh, I never realized that.” Link noted. “Amelia, Atticus, Augustus, and Addison. I kinda like it.”
“Addison it is.” Amelia smiled to herself, thinking about how excited her old friend would react to hearing they’d name their daughter after her.
“And that S name for a middle name. She can be just like me. Since my name is Augustus Scout. she can be Addison...” Scout waited for someone to fill in the missing word.
“Sawyer.” His mother finished for him.
“Addison Sawyer.” Scout tried out, intently looking at the little baby. “Okay, not sad anymore.”
“Good I’m glad.” Amelia let out a sigh of relief kissing her sons forehead. Knowing her son was probably acting so nice while he was caught up in the moment and once the baby was up crying all night and stealing his toys it’d be a different story. “
Family of four.” Link smiled, leaning down to kiss his girlfriend and place a kiss on his sons forehead.
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