Fic - Mpreg; What if the End Was Now? (2/?)
Title: What if the End Was Now (2/?)
Characters: Jared/Chris
Rating: G (for now?)
Warning: Mpreg
Word Count: 3,070 (this part)
Beta: None for this! Sorry!!
Summary: Jared feels some pain in his stomach... Rushed to the hospital all he can think about is that seven months pregnant is too soon.
A/N: Is kinda a sequel to this, but can be read without it!
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7
Dr Slade returned jut over 10 hours later, interrupting the four men from their chatter, Steve arriving not long after Jensen did and immediately embracing both men in careful hugs. Jared had relaxed somewhat over the hours, but the pain would return at regular intervals, conversation pausing as Jared gripped Chris’ hand tightly while he breathed through the pain.
“Hey Doc, what’s going on? I thought you said we had to wait 24 hours until we really knew anything?” Chris asked rubbing Jared’s stomach.
“True, Jared how have you been?” She asked smiling towards the pair, Chris still sitting behind Jared.
“Okay, still getting the contractions though...” Jared trailed off.
“It’s alright Jared, we’re going to keep you on the medication for the remainder of the time, but we’re also going to start you on an antenatal steroid to help your baby’s lungs to grow faster in case we can’t stop the birth from happening. Do you understand?” she asked, her voice gentle and almost soothing.
Jared looked around his group of friends before his eyes finally landed on Chris’. A slight nod from the man above him and Jared spoke; “I understand, do it,” He nods, blinking away the tears that gathered in the corners of his eyes.
“Sure Jared,” she says placing a hand on his arm and rubbing it soothingly, “It will be an injection every hour until we decide to deliver the baby, if we can stop the contractions then you’ll be taking a pill everyday for your baby’s lungs,” she explained uncapping a needle and quickly injecting the steroids.
Jared winced in discomfort at the jab of the needle while Chris rested his head atop of Jared’s, the long brown hair tickling his nose. “How you doing Jay?” Chris asked once the doctor left again.
“I’m just so tired, all my muscles ache and I kinda just want this all to be over, I want to be back home, with the dogs, resting, waiting until I’m nine months along and ready to have this baby properly,” he moaned as another contraction took over his body.
“Shh Jay, it’s okay, this will all be over soon, we’re either gonna go home with our little one, or we’ll go home and you’ll rest for a couple more months, and then we’ll have our baby, I’m so sorry you’re going through all this Jay... I really am,” Chris whispered pulling Jared impossibly closer to him, bodies pressed up tight against one another.
“It’s okay Chris, we both wanted this... I’m just so tired,” Jared continued as his body sunk into Chris’.
“You should get some rest Jared, maybe we should go?” Jensen said indicating Steve and himself.
“No!” Jared said quickly, “No, please... just don’t go. Not yet. Not until we know what’s going on,” Jared all but begged.
“Alright Jay, we ain’t going anywhere,” Steve reassured, tucking a stay piece of hair behind Jared’s ear. Jared had always been the tactile one of the group, but ever since his first trimester ended everyone around the pregnant man had started indulging him with more touches, as while it meant nothing to them, they could all see that it screamed acceptance to Jared.
While male pregnancies weren’t exactly uncommon, there were still many people who saw it as an evil act, the homophobic just had another reason to hate them to hate their “butt babies” as it had been labelled. Both Chris and Jared had been tested to see if they could be carriers, but only Jared was deemed as one. And while the technology was still only just advancing for males, there was very little doubt in their minds that Jared would be the only one able to conceive.
“But you should still at least try and get some rest,” Chris urged, smiling slightly when Jared tucked his head into the crook of his neck.
“M’kay, but keep talking guys,” he asked around a yawn, his eyes slowly drifting shut.
Steve and Jensen shot Chris a confused look, Chris just smiled warmly down at Jared, leaning in to give his lover a kiss before smiling towards his friends. “He just wants to know that ya’ll are still around,” he said, knowing it was that simple.
Jared lets the voices wash over him as he sinks into Chris’ arms. He knows Chris must be starting to feel numb now, but he really can’t bring himself to worry about that, Chris isn’t moving and he won’t let him. He can feel the vibrations of Chris talking through his bones and lets it lull him into a light doze, his eyes sliding shut as his body greedily takes the much needed sleep offered.
Jared opens his eyes and looks down. He can feel the grains of sand slipping and sliding between his toes, he can smell summer in the air, taste the salt on his lips, hears children’s laughter in the background and looks up to see the sun kissing the sparkling ocean water. Jared reaches up and scratches his head, he’s dressed in just his board shorts, three towels are laid out underneath a stripped beach umbrella and a cooler is resting innocently by his side.
“Jared!” comes a call off in the distance somewhere.
Jared looks around squinting against the light. He looks out over the water and sees a dripping wet Chris walk out of the waves. His hands push the long wet hair back off his face and then he shakes the water out of his stunning blue eyes. The drops of water run down his glistening skin over the dips and curves of Chris’ toned and muscled body.
“Chris?” Jared asked, confusion lacing his voice.
“Are you coming in?” Chris asks indicating the water behind him with a thumb pointing over his shoulder.
“Uhh...”
“Come on Babe! The kids wanna play!” Chris laughed, diving right back into the water without waiting for Jared’s reply.
‘Kids?’ He thought to himself suddenly hearing laughter floating through the air again. Jared whips his head around and now sees a child basking in the sun on one of the previously vacant beach towels. Turning back to Chris he sees his lover playing with three other kids, and over to the side some more are another bunch playing in the sand. doing a quick count in his head and he realises that he is surrounded by eight kids.
“Dad!” one of them calls out from the water exaggerating the ‘a’ sound. “Come play with us! Come play!” it continues.
All of them start screeching for his attention, all of them of different ages, four boys and four girls, some barely able to walk, some looking like they’ve lived a lifetime already. All of them start running towards him, Chris following in their wake, and surround Jared in a tight circle.
“Dad! Come on! Let’s play!” they beg, tugging at Jared to get his attention.
Jared smiles at the children surrounding him, he looks up and seeks out his lover amongst the crowd, “Chris?” Jared asks.
“You gotta get up Jay, get up and let’s go play with our babies,” Chris replies. The kids start moving, running and mucking around, playing without a care in the world, the laughter echoing again in his ear, a sense of joy spreading through him to the core before everything suddenly changes.
They’re standing alone now, the sun gone and the water still. Chris’ arms come up to encircle Jared in a fierce hug, leaning towards one another their lips meet under the moonlight, a gentle press to start, but as Chris’ tongue begs for entrance Jared moans his acceptance, his mouth opening allowing Chris access to the wet and warn cavern. They break apart when the need for air becomes too much, but they don’t move far, Chris’ forehead rests against Jared’s as their breaths mingle and brush against their cool skin.
“Jared, we’re gonna be okay, you just gotta know that,” Chris smiled before stepping back, his hands falling to his sides.
“What do you mean Chris?” Jared asked as he tried to reach out for Chris but failing, his body feeling like it weighed a tonne leaving him unable to move.
“With our little one... everything’s gonna be alright,” he nodded before everything around Jared went black.
Jared blinks away the strange dream, looking up to see Chris smiling back down at him. Chris’ fingers were running through his hair, carefully massaging his skull, the motion removing the slight headache he didn’t realise he had. Jared reached up and grabbed at Chris’ hand, gripping it tightly as another wave of pain took over. Chris held on tightly, helping Jared through the obvious pain, mumbling reassuring words all the while.
“How are you feeling Babe?” Chris asks once Jared’s grip loosens.
“Been better, I guess the contractions are still coming. How long was I out for?” Jared questions, absently rubbing his swollen stomach.
“A few hours, you slept through the nurse coming in and poking at you, but you were definitely restless, were you dreaming or something?” Chris asked going back to stroking Jared’s hair.
“It was weird... hey, where’d Jen and Steve go?” Jared said, he would have bolted upright if his swollen stomach would have let him.
“They just went to get us all something to eat and drink Jay, they should be back in a few,” Chris explained calming Jared down again.
“Kay...” Jared yawned.
“Wanna tell me about the dream? You had all of us a bit worried there when you started mumbling and tossing around in your sleep,” Chris commented.
“It wasn’t anything bad... It was just weird. We were at the beach, just you and me, and then there were all these kids, like god ten of them or something! Then... then it was just you and me again, and you told me... you told me everything was gonna be okay. Chris? Everything is gonna be okay right?” Jared said all in one breath.
“No matter what Jay, we’ll be okay,” Chris said trying to reassure the younger man without making any promises he wasn’t sure he could keep.
“Yeah... Yeah it will be... its gotta be,” Jared nodded.
A knock at the door brought both men out of their thoughts, thinking it was Jensen and Steve, Jared immediately called back allowing whoever it was in. The nurse from the previous night poked her head through the door, looking hesitant before stepping all the way through.
“Come in, come in,” Chris urged, patting Jared on the shoulder.
“Uh, sorry, yeah, I’ve been asked by Dr Slade to start.. Umm... to start prepping you for surgery...” she said watching as the men’s faces in front of her fell. “I realise that Dr Slade hasn’t been in to talk with either of you, but your contractions are still regular and basically it means that the medications aren’t working,” she sighed.
“What... but...” Jared sputtered.
“Sir, we’ll be continuing with the steroid treatments, but from this point on you won’t be able to eat or drink anything, but I’m going to give you another IV bag of fluids and nutrients for both you and the baby. I’ll also need to take a blood and urine sample to make sure that you’ll respond to treatment without any complications,” the nurse explained carefully.
“No offence or anything, but can’t we talk to the doctor or something first?” Chris asked holding Jared carefully against his body.
“I know you must be scared and confused, and Dr Slade will be in as soon as she can, but if we don’t get the preparations started as soon as we can there could be some serious complications. Please, just let me start the preparations, then we can get everything else sorted out,” the nurse urged.
“Just... just do it,” Jared sighed, vision clouded by the tears welling up in his eyes.
The petite nurse simply nodded before going about her business, she hooked up another pouch of fluids to his IV line, quickly withdrew three vials of blood and handed Jared a plastic cup, “do you need me to help you make your way to the bathroom? Or would you like to try to do it lying down?” she asked holding up the cup.
“Uh...” Jared started.
“In a few hours a catheter will be inserted, I can probably wait until then to do it, but maybe you’d prefer to do it without the tube this time,” she suggested smiling slightly.
“Uh, great,” Jared sighed, “Chris? Can you help me to the bathroom?” Jared asked turning his puppy dog eyes towards Chris.
“Sure Babe, come on, up we get,” Chris said carefully extracting himself from Jared’s body and waiting as his blood made its way back around his body.
Chris grabbed a hold of one of Jared’s hands while the nurse helped Jared to swing his legs over the bed, taking their time, Jared slowly lifted himself off the standard hospital bed and the made his way to the small bathroom. The nurse stopped at the door, allowing the two men some privacy as Jared urinated. The door opened not long later, and the nurse assisted Jared back into the bed, Chris taking the time to quickly relieve himself too.
Once done Chris settled himself back behind Jared, drawing the smaller man up against his chest while Jared breathed through another contraction. Chris started kneading Jared’s muscles, trying to help the younger man relax while tending to the stiff muscles. Jensen and Steve entered the room while the nurse was injecting the steroids.
“Hey what’s going on?” Jensen asked coming to stand just behind the nurse.
“Sorry we left Jay, we wanted to get you something to eat...” Steve explained holding up the food.
“It’s too bad he won’t be able to eat it,” the nurse commented before removing her plastic gloves and packing up her equipment.
“What do you mean? What’s going on?” Jensen asked urgently moving around so that he could stand by Jared’s side.
“The meds aren’t working, most likely, tomorrow we’ll have a kid with us... they’re prepping me for surgery now,” Jared explained grabbing Jensen's hand both to comfort and for reassurance.
“Okay, well a doctor should be in with you soon, you’ll be talking to Dr Slade again who will tell you exactly what’s going on while an anaesthesiologist will come in and talk about some options with you,” the nurse smiled before leaving the room.
“Jared? Are you okay?” Chris asked hugging the pregnant man.
“I’m just... yeah... this is all so overwhelming...” Jared sighed, this time unable to hold back the tears. “I... I... we were so excited about all of this, why does this all have to be so hard? Why couldn’t everything just be normal?” Jared sobs, big tears falling down his cheeks.
“Shh...” Chris whispered has he wrapped his arms around the man that he loved. Chris pressed his lips to Jared’s hair as they rocked back and forth together. “This will all be over soon, we’re gonna be fine, we’ll get through this,” Chris said, continuing to whisper random reassurances.
The anaesthesiologist came in not long after, Jared still awake but dozing, and spoke to the men about the different types of anaesthesia they could use. Ultimately Jared and Chris agreed on a regional anaesthetic in the spine, that way Jared would be awake for the operation however from the chest down he’d be numb.
Dr Slade returned not long later, sensing the fear between the four men she quickly set to work in calming everyone down and explaining everything. “Jared, let me talk to you right now okay, I know you’re tired, hungry and frustrated, but we are doing everything we can to make sure you and your baby come out of this surgery as good as can be. I’ll be putting these nodes on your abdomen and chest to monitor your heart rate and frequency of contractions from this point up until it’s time to deliver the baby.
The monitors will be removed once we are ready to start the operation, and a neonatal doctor will be present to look after your baby while I continue to look after you,” she said, explaining everything they needed to know.
“So when is all this happening?” Chris asked rubbing soothing circles along the side of Jared’s swollen stomach.
“We’ll book you in for early morning tomorrow, Christian, if you want you can also come into the theatre, although you’d have to scrub up...”
“Yeah, yes of course I want to be there with him,” Chris said without a moment’s hesitation.
“Okay, a nurse will be in later to continue the steroids for your little one, and then to insert the catheter, unless there is anything else, I suggest you get some rest now,” she said looking at the two other men in the room.
“Can... can they please stay? I swear I’ll rest, but... but please...” Jared begged.
Dr Slade sighed looking between the four men before nodding her head slightly, “Fine, but if anyone asks I knew nothing about this,” she smiled.
“Thank you,” Jared sighed slumping against Chris’ broad chest.
The lights were dimmed and the door closed behind the doctor as she walked out, leaving the men alone. Chris continued to massage Jared’s body, helping the younger man relax while Steve and Jensen spoke in hushed tones, debating whether or not to eat something in front of Jared.
“Guys, just eat whatever you got already,” Jared laughed.
“Jay, close your eyes and rest,” Chris whispered as the sound of wrappers being opened filled the room.
“Sing to me?” Jared asked looking up at Chris with pleading eyes.
Chris thought for a bit before catching the other men’s eyes through the darkness. He hummed out a tune before allowing the words to flow;
“I don't know why heaven above
Blessed me with your sweet love
Though I never tell you what you're worth
It's more than I deserve
It's just your style to wear a smile
Oh baby you wear it well
If I had my way, I'd dress you in nothin' else
So come on here and lay down, a little while...”
Steve and Jensen joined in backing up Chris’ vocals, each man drifting off when they realised Jared had fallen asleep, knowing how busy a day tomorrow was going to be.
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Continued here...
Comments would be love! The more I get the faster I write!
Characters: Jared/Chris
Rating: G (for now?)
Warning: Mpreg
Word Count: 3,070 (this part)
Beta: None for this! Sorry!!
Summary: Jared feels some pain in his stomach... Rushed to the hospital all he can think about is that seven months pregnant is too soon.
A/N: Is kinda a sequel to this, but can be read without it!
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7
Dr Slade returned jut over 10 hours later, interrupting the four men from their chatter, Steve arriving not long after Jensen did and immediately embracing both men in careful hugs. Jared had relaxed somewhat over the hours, but the pain would return at regular intervals, conversation pausing as Jared gripped Chris’ hand tightly while he breathed through the pain.
“Hey Doc, what’s going on? I thought you said we had to wait 24 hours until we really knew anything?” Chris asked rubbing Jared’s stomach.
“True, Jared how have you been?” She asked smiling towards the pair, Chris still sitting behind Jared.
“Okay, still getting the contractions though...” Jared trailed off.
“It’s alright Jared, we’re going to keep you on the medication for the remainder of the time, but we’re also going to start you on an antenatal steroid to help your baby’s lungs to grow faster in case we can’t stop the birth from happening. Do you understand?” she asked, her voice gentle and almost soothing.
Jared looked around his group of friends before his eyes finally landed on Chris’. A slight nod from the man above him and Jared spoke; “I understand, do it,” He nods, blinking away the tears that gathered in the corners of his eyes.
“Sure Jared,” she says placing a hand on his arm and rubbing it soothingly, “It will be an injection every hour until we decide to deliver the baby, if we can stop the contractions then you’ll be taking a pill everyday for your baby’s lungs,” she explained uncapping a needle and quickly injecting the steroids.
Jared winced in discomfort at the jab of the needle while Chris rested his head atop of Jared’s, the long brown hair tickling his nose. “How you doing Jay?” Chris asked once the doctor left again.
“I’m just so tired, all my muscles ache and I kinda just want this all to be over, I want to be back home, with the dogs, resting, waiting until I’m nine months along and ready to have this baby properly,” he moaned as another contraction took over his body.
“Shh Jay, it’s okay, this will all be over soon, we’re either gonna go home with our little one, or we’ll go home and you’ll rest for a couple more months, and then we’ll have our baby, I’m so sorry you’re going through all this Jay... I really am,” Chris whispered pulling Jared impossibly closer to him, bodies pressed up tight against one another.
“It’s okay Chris, we both wanted this... I’m just so tired,” Jared continued as his body sunk into Chris’.
“You should get some rest Jared, maybe we should go?” Jensen said indicating Steve and himself.
“No!” Jared said quickly, “No, please... just don’t go. Not yet. Not until we know what’s going on,” Jared all but begged.
“Alright Jay, we ain’t going anywhere,” Steve reassured, tucking a stay piece of hair behind Jared’s ear. Jared had always been the tactile one of the group, but ever since his first trimester ended everyone around the pregnant man had started indulging him with more touches, as while it meant nothing to them, they could all see that it screamed acceptance to Jared.
While male pregnancies weren’t exactly uncommon, there were still many people who saw it as an evil act, the homophobic just had another reason to hate them to hate their “butt babies” as it had been labelled. Both Chris and Jared had been tested to see if they could be carriers, but only Jared was deemed as one. And while the technology was still only just advancing for males, there was very little doubt in their minds that Jared would be the only one able to conceive.
“But you should still at least try and get some rest,” Chris urged, smiling slightly when Jared tucked his head into the crook of his neck.
“M’kay, but keep talking guys,” he asked around a yawn, his eyes slowly drifting shut.
Steve and Jensen shot Chris a confused look, Chris just smiled warmly down at Jared, leaning in to give his lover a kiss before smiling towards his friends. “He just wants to know that ya’ll are still around,” he said, knowing it was that simple.
Jared lets the voices wash over him as he sinks into Chris’ arms. He knows Chris must be starting to feel numb now, but he really can’t bring himself to worry about that, Chris isn’t moving and he won’t let him. He can feel the vibrations of Chris talking through his bones and lets it lull him into a light doze, his eyes sliding shut as his body greedily takes the much needed sleep offered.
Jared opens his eyes and looks down. He can feel the grains of sand slipping and sliding between his toes, he can smell summer in the air, taste the salt on his lips, hears children’s laughter in the background and looks up to see the sun kissing the sparkling ocean water. Jared reaches up and scratches his head, he’s dressed in just his board shorts, three towels are laid out underneath a stripped beach umbrella and a cooler is resting innocently by his side.
“Jared!” comes a call off in the distance somewhere.
Jared looks around squinting against the light. He looks out over the water and sees a dripping wet Chris walk out of the waves. His hands push the long wet hair back off his face and then he shakes the water out of his stunning blue eyes. The drops of water run down his glistening skin over the dips and curves of Chris’ toned and muscled body.
“Chris?” Jared asked, confusion lacing his voice.
“Are you coming in?” Chris asks indicating the water behind him with a thumb pointing over his shoulder.
“Uhh...”
“Come on Babe! The kids wanna play!” Chris laughed, diving right back into the water without waiting for Jared’s reply.
‘Kids?’ He thought to himself suddenly hearing laughter floating through the air again. Jared whips his head around and now sees a child basking in the sun on one of the previously vacant beach towels. Turning back to Chris he sees his lover playing with three other kids, and over to the side some more are another bunch playing in the sand. doing a quick count in his head and he realises that he is surrounded by eight kids.
“Dad!” one of them calls out from the water exaggerating the ‘a’ sound. “Come play with us! Come play!” it continues.
All of them start screeching for his attention, all of them of different ages, four boys and four girls, some barely able to walk, some looking like they’ve lived a lifetime already. All of them start running towards him, Chris following in their wake, and surround Jared in a tight circle.
“Dad! Come on! Let’s play!” they beg, tugging at Jared to get his attention.
Jared smiles at the children surrounding him, he looks up and seeks out his lover amongst the crowd, “Chris?” Jared asks.
“You gotta get up Jay, get up and let’s go play with our babies,” Chris replies. The kids start moving, running and mucking around, playing without a care in the world, the laughter echoing again in his ear, a sense of joy spreading through him to the core before everything suddenly changes.
They’re standing alone now, the sun gone and the water still. Chris’ arms come up to encircle Jared in a fierce hug, leaning towards one another their lips meet under the moonlight, a gentle press to start, but as Chris’ tongue begs for entrance Jared moans his acceptance, his mouth opening allowing Chris access to the wet and warn cavern. They break apart when the need for air becomes too much, but they don’t move far, Chris’ forehead rests against Jared’s as their breaths mingle and brush against their cool skin.
“Jared, we’re gonna be okay, you just gotta know that,” Chris smiled before stepping back, his hands falling to his sides.
“What do you mean Chris?” Jared asked as he tried to reach out for Chris but failing, his body feeling like it weighed a tonne leaving him unable to move.
“With our little one... everything’s gonna be alright,” he nodded before everything around Jared went black.
Jared blinks away the strange dream, looking up to see Chris smiling back down at him. Chris’ fingers were running through his hair, carefully massaging his skull, the motion removing the slight headache he didn’t realise he had. Jared reached up and grabbed at Chris’ hand, gripping it tightly as another wave of pain took over. Chris held on tightly, helping Jared through the obvious pain, mumbling reassuring words all the while.
“How are you feeling Babe?” Chris asks once Jared’s grip loosens.
“Been better, I guess the contractions are still coming. How long was I out for?” Jared questions, absently rubbing his swollen stomach.
“A few hours, you slept through the nurse coming in and poking at you, but you were definitely restless, were you dreaming or something?” Chris asked going back to stroking Jared’s hair.
“It was weird... hey, where’d Jen and Steve go?” Jared said, he would have bolted upright if his swollen stomach would have let him.
“They just went to get us all something to eat and drink Jay, they should be back in a few,” Chris explained calming Jared down again.
“Kay...” Jared yawned.
“Wanna tell me about the dream? You had all of us a bit worried there when you started mumbling and tossing around in your sleep,” Chris commented.
“It wasn’t anything bad... It was just weird. We were at the beach, just you and me, and then there were all these kids, like god ten of them or something! Then... then it was just you and me again, and you told me... you told me everything was gonna be okay. Chris? Everything is gonna be okay right?” Jared said all in one breath.
“No matter what Jay, we’ll be okay,” Chris said trying to reassure the younger man without making any promises he wasn’t sure he could keep.
“Yeah... Yeah it will be... its gotta be,” Jared nodded.
A knock at the door brought both men out of their thoughts, thinking it was Jensen and Steve, Jared immediately called back allowing whoever it was in. The nurse from the previous night poked her head through the door, looking hesitant before stepping all the way through.
“Come in, come in,” Chris urged, patting Jared on the shoulder.
“Uh, sorry, yeah, I’ve been asked by Dr Slade to start.. Umm... to start prepping you for surgery...” she said watching as the men’s faces in front of her fell. “I realise that Dr Slade hasn’t been in to talk with either of you, but your contractions are still regular and basically it means that the medications aren’t working,” she sighed.
“What... but...” Jared sputtered.
“Sir, we’ll be continuing with the steroid treatments, but from this point on you won’t be able to eat or drink anything, but I’m going to give you another IV bag of fluids and nutrients for both you and the baby. I’ll also need to take a blood and urine sample to make sure that you’ll respond to treatment without any complications,” the nurse explained carefully.
“No offence or anything, but can’t we talk to the doctor or something first?” Chris asked holding Jared carefully against his body.
“I know you must be scared and confused, and Dr Slade will be in as soon as she can, but if we don’t get the preparations started as soon as we can there could be some serious complications. Please, just let me start the preparations, then we can get everything else sorted out,” the nurse urged.
“Just... just do it,” Jared sighed, vision clouded by the tears welling up in his eyes.
The petite nurse simply nodded before going about her business, she hooked up another pouch of fluids to his IV line, quickly withdrew three vials of blood and handed Jared a plastic cup, “do you need me to help you make your way to the bathroom? Or would you like to try to do it lying down?” she asked holding up the cup.
“Uh...” Jared started.
“In a few hours a catheter will be inserted, I can probably wait until then to do it, but maybe you’d prefer to do it without the tube this time,” she suggested smiling slightly.
“Uh, great,” Jared sighed, “Chris? Can you help me to the bathroom?” Jared asked turning his puppy dog eyes towards Chris.
“Sure Babe, come on, up we get,” Chris said carefully extracting himself from Jared’s body and waiting as his blood made its way back around his body.
Chris grabbed a hold of one of Jared’s hands while the nurse helped Jared to swing his legs over the bed, taking their time, Jared slowly lifted himself off the standard hospital bed and the made his way to the small bathroom. The nurse stopped at the door, allowing the two men some privacy as Jared urinated. The door opened not long later, and the nurse assisted Jared back into the bed, Chris taking the time to quickly relieve himself too.
Once done Chris settled himself back behind Jared, drawing the smaller man up against his chest while Jared breathed through another contraction. Chris started kneading Jared’s muscles, trying to help the younger man relax while tending to the stiff muscles. Jensen and Steve entered the room while the nurse was injecting the steroids.
“Hey what’s going on?” Jensen asked coming to stand just behind the nurse.
“Sorry we left Jay, we wanted to get you something to eat...” Steve explained holding up the food.
“It’s too bad he won’t be able to eat it,” the nurse commented before removing her plastic gloves and packing up her equipment.
“What do you mean? What’s going on?” Jensen asked urgently moving around so that he could stand by Jared’s side.
“The meds aren’t working, most likely, tomorrow we’ll have a kid with us... they’re prepping me for surgery now,” Jared explained grabbing Jensen's hand both to comfort and for reassurance.
“Okay, well a doctor should be in with you soon, you’ll be talking to Dr Slade again who will tell you exactly what’s going on while an anaesthesiologist will come in and talk about some options with you,” the nurse smiled before leaving the room.
“Jared? Are you okay?” Chris asked hugging the pregnant man.
“I’m just... yeah... this is all so overwhelming...” Jared sighed, this time unable to hold back the tears. “I... I... we were so excited about all of this, why does this all have to be so hard? Why couldn’t everything just be normal?” Jared sobs, big tears falling down his cheeks.
“Shh...” Chris whispered has he wrapped his arms around the man that he loved. Chris pressed his lips to Jared’s hair as they rocked back and forth together. “This will all be over soon, we’re gonna be fine, we’ll get through this,” Chris said, continuing to whisper random reassurances.
The anaesthesiologist came in not long after, Jared still awake but dozing, and spoke to the men about the different types of anaesthesia they could use. Ultimately Jared and Chris agreed on a regional anaesthetic in the spine, that way Jared would be awake for the operation however from the chest down he’d be numb.
Dr Slade returned not long later, sensing the fear between the four men she quickly set to work in calming everyone down and explaining everything. “Jared, let me talk to you right now okay, I know you’re tired, hungry and frustrated, but we are doing everything we can to make sure you and your baby come out of this surgery as good as can be. I’ll be putting these nodes on your abdomen and chest to monitor your heart rate and frequency of contractions from this point up until it’s time to deliver the baby.
The monitors will be removed once we are ready to start the operation, and a neonatal doctor will be present to look after your baby while I continue to look after you,” she said, explaining everything they needed to know.
“So when is all this happening?” Chris asked rubbing soothing circles along the side of Jared’s swollen stomach.
“We’ll book you in for early morning tomorrow, Christian, if you want you can also come into the theatre, although you’d have to scrub up...”
“Yeah, yes of course I want to be there with him,” Chris said without a moment’s hesitation.
“Okay, a nurse will be in later to continue the steroids for your little one, and then to insert the catheter, unless there is anything else, I suggest you get some rest now,” she said looking at the two other men in the room.
“Can... can they please stay? I swear I’ll rest, but... but please...” Jared begged.
Dr Slade sighed looking between the four men before nodding her head slightly, “Fine, but if anyone asks I knew nothing about this,” she smiled.
“Thank you,” Jared sighed slumping against Chris’ broad chest.
The lights were dimmed and the door closed behind the doctor as she walked out, leaving the men alone. Chris continued to massage Jared’s body, helping the younger man relax while Steve and Jensen spoke in hushed tones, debating whether or not to eat something in front of Jared.
“Guys, just eat whatever you got already,” Jared laughed.
“Jay, close your eyes and rest,” Chris whispered as the sound of wrappers being opened filled the room.
“Sing to me?” Jared asked looking up at Chris with pleading eyes.
Chris thought for a bit before catching the other men’s eyes through the darkness. He hummed out a tune before allowing the words to flow;
“I don't know why heaven above
Blessed me with your sweet love
Though I never tell you what you're worth
It's more than I deserve
It's just your style to wear a smile
Oh baby you wear it well
If I had my way, I'd dress you in nothin' else
So come on here and lay down, a little while...”
Steve and Jensen joined in backing up Chris’ vocals, each man drifting off when they realised Jared had fallen asleep, knowing how busy a day tomorrow was going to be.
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