Revenge, Part 3--
(Time for a little happy stuff...)
Late on the evening of the fourth day of December, Tracy was getting ready for bed. Joe was already there waiting for her.
Her baby girl was due the following day, and, if she didn't have her baby by the time her 3pm appointment rolled around, she was going to have labor induced.
Tracy had been feeling slight pains for weeks, but was told that was normal. It was the body getting ready to give birth. The pains she was having now were a little more intense, but really not often enough to consider it labor.
"Trace?" Joe called from the bedroom, "You coming to bed soon?"
"Yeah, Joey," Tracy said; "Let me finish brushing my --"
Just then, Tracy's water broke.
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Nik had just put Matty down for the night. Again.
The one year old had a cold, and he was not a happy camper.
"Da-ee," Matty cried; "Want Mama."
"Mama sleeping, Matty," Nik said. "You're stuck with me."
"No, Da-ee! Want Mama!" And Matty began to wail. Nik walked around his son's bedroom, trying to comfort his sick little one, and wasn't getting very far. Matty wanted his Mama.
Trouble was, Mama was on bedrest because she started showing signs of early labor, something she didn't have when expecting her firstborn. KateLynn wasn't supposed to be getting up and running around after her active year old son. Matty had mastered walking, and now, just days past his birthday, he was running, too.
It was a little after midnight, and KateLynn was sleeping. Something that her husband and son weren't doing.
Then Nik heard her screaming in pain and calling for him.
Still holding Matty, he ran down the hall to his bedroom. He saw KateLynn doubled over in pain. "Oh, God!" she cried.
Nik pulled back the covers to see KateLynn covered in a pink-tinged liquid. Her water had broken, and pink was...
Blood! Nik thought. Oh, dear God!
"I'll call the ambulance, KateLynn, just hold on, okay baby?"
All she could do is pant, trying to get the pain to subside.
Nik put Matty in a chair and asked him to stay put. Matty was so upset by seeing his mother like that, that he did as his father asked.
After calling the ambulance, Nik made another call.
"Hello, this better be fucking good, or I'm hanging up," said a very sleepy sounding Julia.
"I'm taking KateLynn to the hospital, Jules."
"She's not due til next month, though," Julia said.
"You mind coming over here and telling Sandrina Kiera that?" Nik said, starting to feel himself panic.
"We'll be right there, Nik," said Julia and hung up.
Julia and Ryan arrived just as the ambulance pulled up, and they ran up the stairs. Ryan took care of Matty, while Julia tried to comfort KateLynn, who was frightened for her unborn daughter's life.
KateLynn was soon put on a gurney and carried out to the waiting ambulance, and Nik promised to call with any updates. Then they were gone.
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"Joey, my water broke," Tracy said; "We need to get to the hospital!"
Joe was up, getting dressed, amazed at himself that he wasn't panicking.
"You having contractions, Trace?" he asked.
"Yes, they're about fifteen minutes apart," Tracy said. "Maybe twenty."
"Then what's the hurry about getting to the hospital?" Joe asked.
"Because bateria could get in there and hurt the baby," Tracy said. "So we should go and let the doctors check me out."
Joe grabbed their coats, and they headed out to the car.
As they pulled up to the hospital, they saw an ambulance at the emergency room entrance. Joe parked the car, and helped Tracy get out. At the entrance, there was a nurse outside. She recognized Joe because she had dated Jeremiah briefly when he was home that summer.
"Wow, Joe," she said. "Big night for your family, huh?"
"What do you mean, Jasmine?"
"You brother, Nik, and his wife just came here in that ambulance," Jasmine said. Another nurse arrived with a wheelchair for Tracy, and she and Joe made their way inside.
Where they ran into Nik.
"What are you doing here, Nik?" Joe said. "Wasn't KateLynn due next month?"
"Apparently, the baby decided she couldn't wait to meet us, so she's coming now," said Nik.
"Maybe the babies will end up with the same birthday," Tracy said.
"KateLynn is being prepped for a C-section," Nik said. "Our baby is in trouble."
Joe gave Nik a hug. "It'll be okay, Nik. She's in good hands."
"I know, Joe, but I'm scared." Nik said.
"I know this sounds trite," Tracy said, "but you have to let God take over. Have faith, Nikolai."
"I do have faith," Nik said to Tracy. "And I'm trying not to panic. That will freak out KateLynn."
A nurse interrupted. "Mr. San Marco, your wife is asking for you."
"I better go," Nik said. "You two have fun, and I can't wait to meet Danica."
"We can't wait to meet Sandrina," Joe said. "She'll be okay."
"I know, brother," Nik said. "And thanks."
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It was a long night for the two couples. KateLynn's surgery was successful and her daughter was healthy, weighing in at just under five pounds.
"The problem was the placenta was separating from the uterine wall," the doctor told Nik; "That caused the pain and the bleeding. I had suspected that and hoped it wouldn't come to this. That's why I put KateLynn on bedrest."
"She's going to be okay, isn't she?" Nik asked.
"She should be," the doctor said; "But if you plan on having any more, she'll probably have to be on bedrest for at least part of her pregnancy, because this sometimes has a tendency to recur."
Nik thanked the doctor and went over to the neo-natal unit to see Sandrina.
He was amazed at how tiny she was. Nik swore Julia had bigger baby dolls as a child than his daughter was.
"Your Auntie Tracy was right," Nik said aloud; "I just had to have faith."
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By early afternoon, Tracy was fully dialated and effaced and ready to push. Joe was a good coach, and Tracy felt lucky to have him by her side.
"Okay, Tracy," the doctor said, "you need to push and hold it to the count of ten."
Tracy pushed and Joe counted to ten.
"I see dark hair," a nurse said. "One more push, that oughta do it."
Again Tracy pushed, and again Joe counted to ten. This was repeated a couple more times, and then, the baby was there, crying.
"It's a little girl," the doctor said, "but you already knew that."
Little Danica was wrapped up and handed to Tracy to hold for the first time. "Wow, you're really tiny, aren't you?" she said.
"We make pretty babies, don't we, Trace," Joe said in amazement seeing his baby girl at last.
"She's beautiful, Joey," Tracy said. "Thank you."
Soon, Danica was wisked off to the nursery to be weighed, bathed, and have tests done. Tracy was exhausted, but happy. Joe was happy. A new chapter in his life had just begun.
And he wasn't even eighteen yet.
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