"How is she?" Harry asked as Louis came out of the room where Jacey was at giving birth. They had spent nine months on the run and had only found the house they were staying in last night. It was just on the outskirts of a place called Woodbury. Jacey had wanted to try to go there but Isaac had shot it down, saying there was no way she could make the trip, not with her labor progressing as fast as it was and so now, here they were in a house which he sort of hoped they could stay in for awhile. It seemed safe, maybe it was safe.
Louis just shrugged, "Still pushing," he said as he ran a hand through his hair. "I don't even see why Nikki needs me in there with her to help. I don't know much."
"But you know enough," Harry reassured him, knowing that Louis had to have learned some stuff. His mother had been a baby nurse and Louis had talked about the stuff she had tried to teach him, though he always claimed he had never paid attention but Harry doubted that, from the way Louis was around Monroe and how he seemed to dote on Jacey in these last months Harry was certain Louis loved kids and probably listened and paid attention.
Shaking his head Louis sighed, "She may not make it Harry," he admitted as he looked down. "She seems to be losing a lot of blood."
Harry too looked down at Louis' words. He knew they couldn't afford to lose her because even during her pregnancy she had been their leader, even refusing Isaac's help making decisions sometimes. "We can't lose anyone else," he whispered not sure they would make it if they lost her, heck Meredith was barely hanging on and it had been so long since she lost Luna.
"We aren't going to lose anyone," Nikki spoke as she stepped out of the room briefly. "Louis I am gonna need you to get me some more towels and find some water somewhere to put in something. I can see the baby's head. It's almost here."
Louis nodded and turned to leave, going to find what Nikki had asked him to get.
After Louis left Nikki eyed Harry, "We aren't going to lose her," she reassured him before going back into the room.
Harry just sighed, wanting to believe they wouldn't lose her but if she was losing a lot of blood then Jacey dying was indeed a possibility.
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Nikki sighed loudly as she paced back and forth in the room, holding a crying baby boy in her arms. He was perfectly healthy but Jacey wasn't doing so good and she was doubting her words to Harry from earlier. "Your mommy has to be okay," she sighed as she kept walking with the boy. "She just has too because she hasn't seen you yet and once she sees you she is going to realize how precious you are and how lucky she is to be alive."
"She's also a fighter," Isaac smiled as he came into the room where Nikki was and he handed her the bottle he had made from the formula she had made him get on their last run. She had told him she wanted to be prepared for whenever Jacey's baby came. "She made it through Miller dying and I know child birth is nothing like that but she'll make it."
Nodding at her husband's words Nikki took the bottle from him and began to feed the baby, "I have Harry on Jacey watch duty," she confessed. "In case she starts bleeding more or in case....well you know," she said unable to even say out loud in case Jacey turned. "I would've asked Louis but I think he is exhausted from helping me with the delivery."
Isaac smiled more and walked closer to Nikki looking down at the baby in her arms, "You could have let Meredith help you today too."
"She's still in a bad place," Nikki said knowing Meredith was still in a bad way over losing Luna. "She's always so withdrawn lately. I'm afraid if she stays like that it's going to get her killed."
"She seems okay right now," Isaac mused. "She even offered to watch Monroe after I gave him a bath. They are in the living room playing a game of cards by candle light."
Hearing him Nikki went silent as she continued to feed the baby who had finally stopped crying, "Feels like years since we had one this small."
"Three years since Monroe was that small," Isaac commented as he thought back to Monroe being a baby and then Everett as well. He knew Nikki had moved on from Everett's death but sometimes Isaac still had moments of grief, moments that he usually kept hidden from his wife.
"We could have another one," Nikki joked as she saw Isaac give her a look. "I wouldn't really bring one into this world though but I guess I don't blame the women who do. Even in really shitty times we have to continue doing what we were meant to do so that maybe one day we can rebuild."
Isaac chewed his lip as Nikki spoke and once she was done he looked down, "Kate would have had her baby by now if they hadn't died at the CDC," he said as he felt tears stinging his eyes at the thought of his family who he missed just as much as he missed Everett.
"She would have," Nikki acknowledged having figured out herself that Jacey was either a week or two ahead of Kate or behind Kate in her pregnancy. "I miss them sometimes, sometimes I think we're still with them for a nano second and then I remember. I remember they are gone and we're with other people."
"Maybe we should have went with them," Isaac mused as he felt a few tears escape but he brushed them away.
Nikki shook her head, "If we went we'd be dead too. I don't think we were meant to go."
Isaac who was about to reply to that though, turned his head when he heard footsteps and he saw Harry standing in the door way.
"Jacey is awake," Harry said once both Nikki and Isaac were looking at him. "She's awake and groggy but asking for the baby," he nodded as he chewed his lip though he couldn't help the smile forming on his lips because if Jacey was awake that could mean she'd be okay in the end.
Nodding at Harry's words Nikki left the room and headed to where Jacey was.
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Meredith giggled as she looked down at Monroe, the three year old who she had been playing or well trying to play cards with, "Everyone thinks I'm crazy," she frowned as she reached out and pulled Monroe into her lap. "I'm not I just still miss Luna," she said as she held Monroe closer. "I remember when she was your age. Always into everything and so wild and happy."
It was at the word happy that Meredith frowned more because she wasn't sure that Monroe would get that, that he'd ever have a happy childhood. He was growing up in a world with the dead walking and death roaming at every turn. "I hope you get that Monroe," she whispered as she kissed the top of the boy's head.
When the boy turned around and gave her a smile, Meredith couldn't help but return it even if it hurt to smile at times now.
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"He's so beautiful," Jacey muttered as she held the baby in her arms. Her baby, her son who was healthy and okay and very much alive. "Just beautiful," she said as she felt a lump form in her throat as she thought of Miller and how he should be here but instead he had sacrificed himself for her and their baby.
"That he is," Harry spoke as he sat down on the bed beside Nikki and both of them just watched in awe as Jacey held her son. "I kind of hope he gets Miller's red hair."
Jacey couldn't help but laugh at that though it was a sad one, "Miller would've hated it. He always hated his own red hair."
"I had a nephew with red hair," Nikki smiled as she thought of Ezra. "I think red hair is adorable so I hope he gets it too."
"Do you have a name picked out?" Harry asked curiously as he raised an eyebrow.
Jacey nodded her head, "I've been going over names for the last month now and just decided I'd pick one when I saw him and I knew the moment I saw him he is a Leo. Little baby Leo. Leonardo Dean," she smiled choosing Dean as a way to honor the brother she had lost.
"A cute name for a cute baby," Nikki smiled knowing she approved of the baby's name.
Smiling herself Jacey just went back to looking at her soon, trying to figure out if he looked more like her or more like the father he'd never know. To be honest she almost though he just looked like a potato.
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Louis groaned as he felt the bed shift and he opened his eyes, turning to see Harry slipping in beside him, "Jacey okay now?" he asked curiously as he chewed on his lip.
Harry nodded his head as he moved closer to Louis, "Yep her and baby Leo are sleeping at the moment so Nikki said that I could come to bed and she'd stay up in case Jacey needed anything."
"Leo?" Louis asked as he smiled at the name Harry had said.
"Leonardo Dean but Jacey calls him Leo," Harry smiled as he yawned softly and closed his eyes. "Guess we can never use that name now when we have children."
Louis just chuckled as he closed his eyes, "Babe we're never going to be able to have children."
"You never know Louis," Harry mused. "I mean I never thought I'd see the dead walking, did you?"
"Just shush and sleep," Louis muttered as he tried not to think of he or Harry becoming pregnant. Though maybe they could find a helpless abandoned child one day. That would be okay.
Louis just shrugged, "Still pushing," he said as he ran a hand through his hair. "I don't even see why Nikki needs me in there with her to help. I don't know much."
"But you know enough," Harry reassured him, knowing that Louis had to have learned some stuff. His mother had been a baby nurse and Louis had talked about the stuff she had tried to teach him, though he always claimed he had never paid attention but Harry doubted that, from the way Louis was around Monroe and how he seemed to dote on Jacey in these last months Harry was certain Louis loved kids and probably listened and paid attention.
Shaking his head Louis sighed, "She may not make it Harry," he admitted as he looked down. "She seems to be losing a lot of blood."
Harry too looked down at Louis' words. He knew they couldn't afford to lose her because even during her pregnancy she had been their leader, even refusing Isaac's help making decisions sometimes. "We can't lose anyone else," he whispered not sure they would make it if they lost her, heck Meredith was barely hanging on and it had been so long since she lost Luna.
"We aren't going to lose anyone," Nikki spoke as she stepped out of the room briefly. "Louis I am gonna need you to get me some more towels and find some water somewhere to put in something. I can see the baby's head. It's almost here."
Louis nodded and turned to leave, going to find what Nikki had asked him to get.
After Louis left Nikki eyed Harry, "We aren't going to lose her," she reassured him before going back into the room.
Harry just sighed, wanting to believe they wouldn't lose her but if she was losing a lot of blood then Jacey dying was indeed a possibility.
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Nikki sighed loudly as she paced back and forth in the room, holding a crying baby boy in her arms. He was perfectly healthy but Jacey wasn't doing so good and she was doubting her words to Harry from earlier. "Your mommy has to be okay," she sighed as she kept walking with the boy. "She just has too because she hasn't seen you yet and once she sees you she is going to realize how precious you are and how lucky she is to be alive."
"She's also a fighter," Isaac smiled as he came into the room where Nikki was and he handed her the bottle he had made from the formula she had made him get on their last run. She had told him she wanted to be prepared for whenever Jacey's baby came. "She made it through Miller dying and I know child birth is nothing like that but she'll make it."
Nodding at her husband's words Nikki took the bottle from him and began to feed the baby, "I have Harry on Jacey watch duty," she confessed. "In case she starts bleeding more or in case....well you know," she said unable to even say out loud in case Jacey turned. "I would've asked Louis but I think he is exhausted from helping me with the delivery."
Isaac smiled more and walked closer to Nikki looking down at the baby in her arms, "You could have let Meredith help you today too."
"She's still in a bad place," Nikki said knowing Meredith was still in a bad way over losing Luna. "She's always so withdrawn lately. I'm afraid if she stays like that it's going to get her killed."
"She seems okay right now," Isaac mused. "She even offered to watch Monroe after I gave him a bath. They are in the living room playing a game of cards by candle light."
Hearing him Nikki went silent as she continued to feed the baby who had finally stopped crying, "Feels like years since we had one this small."
"Three years since Monroe was that small," Isaac commented as he thought back to Monroe being a baby and then Everett as well. He knew Nikki had moved on from Everett's death but sometimes Isaac still had moments of grief, moments that he usually kept hidden from his wife.
"We could have another one," Nikki joked as she saw Isaac give her a look. "I wouldn't really bring one into this world though but I guess I don't blame the women who do. Even in really shitty times we have to continue doing what we were meant to do so that maybe one day we can rebuild."
Isaac chewed his lip as Nikki spoke and once she was done he looked down, "Kate would have had her baby by now if they hadn't died at the CDC," he said as he felt tears stinging his eyes at the thought of his family who he missed just as much as he missed Everett.
"She would have," Nikki acknowledged having figured out herself that Jacey was either a week or two ahead of Kate or behind Kate in her pregnancy. "I miss them sometimes, sometimes I think we're still with them for a nano second and then I remember. I remember they are gone and we're with other people."
"Maybe we should have went with them," Isaac mused as he felt a few tears escape but he brushed them away.
Nikki shook her head, "If we went we'd be dead too. I don't think we were meant to go."
Isaac who was about to reply to that though, turned his head when he heard footsteps and he saw Harry standing in the door way.
"Jacey is awake," Harry said once both Nikki and Isaac were looking at him. "She's awake and groggy but asking for the baby," he nodded as he chewed his lip though he couldn't help the smile forming on his lips because if Jacey was awake that could mean she'd be okay in the end.
Nodding at Harry's words Nikki left the room and headed to where Jacey was.
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Meredith giggled as she looked down at Monroe, the three year old who she had been playing or well trying to play cards with, "Everyone thinks I'm crazy," she frowned as she reached out and pulled Monroe into her lap. "I'm not I just still miss Luna," she said as she held Monroe closer. "I remember when she was your age. Always into everything and so wild and happy."
It was at the word happy that Meredith frowned more because she wasn't sure that Monroe would get that, that he'd ever have a happy childhood. He was growing up in a world with the dead walking and death roaming at every turn. "I hope you get that Monroe," she whispered as she kissed the top of the boy's head.
When the boy turned around and gave her a smile, Meredith couldn't help but return it even if it hurt to smile at times now.
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"He's so beautiful," Jacey muttered as she held the baby in her arms. Her baby, her son who was healthy and okay and very much alive. "Just beautiful," she said as she felt a lump form in her throat as she thought of Miller and how he should be here but instead he had sacrificed himself for her and their baby.
"That he is," Harry spoke as he sat down on the bed beside Nikki and both of them just watched in awe as Jacey held her son. "I kind of hope he gets Miller's red hair."
Jacey couldn't help but laugh at that though it was a sad one, "Miller would've hated it. He always hated his own red hair."
"I had a nephew with red hair," Nikki smiled as she thought of Ezra. "I think red hair is adorable so I hope he gets it too."
"Do you have a name picked out?" Harry asked curiously as he raised an eyebrow.
Jacey nodded her head, "I've been going over names for the last month now and just decided I'd pick one when I saw him and I knew the moment I saw him he is a Leo. Little baby Leo. Leonardo Dean," she smiled choosing Dean as a way to honor the brother she had lost.
"A cute name for a cute baby," Nikki smiled knowing she approved of the baby's name.
Smiling herself Jacey just went back to looking at her soon, trying to figure out if he looked more like her or more like the father he'd never know. To be honest she almost though he just looked like a potato.
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Louis groaned as he felt the bed shift and he opened his eyes, turning to see Harry slipping in beside him, "Jacey okay now?" he asked curiously as he chewed on his lip.
Harry nodded his head as he moved closer to Louis, "Yep her and baby Leo are sleeping at the moment so Nikki said that I could come to bed and she'd stay up in case Jacey needed anything."
"Leo?" Louis asked as he smiled at the name Harry had said.
"Leonardo Dean but Jacey calls him Leo," Harry smiled as he yawned softly and closed his eyes. "Guess we can never use that name now when we have children."
Louis just chuckled as he closed his eyes, "Babe we're never going to be able to have children."
"You never know Louis," Harry mused. "I mean I never thought I'd see the dead walking, did you?"
"Just shush and sleep," Louis muttered as he tried not to think of he or Harry becoming pregnant. Though maybe they could find a helpless abandoned child one day. That would be okay.