"So, I won't sleep if you won't sleep tonight."

[alittletoolegal]

Who: alittletoolegal and jewhawk
What: It's all coming back to me now
Where: Maternity Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital
When: Early ours of the morning following THIS
Rating: Probably swearing

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[jewhawk]

Puck had no idea what was going on. Even with the fact that he and Dani were legally married, he was kept out of the loop, because it wasn't common knowledge, and he wasn't going to claim it right now anyway. It wouldn't be fair to Dani or her family, no matter how much it was freaking him out not knowing what was wrong with her. But she wasn't in love with him, and despite the fact that they'd created an incredible little boy together, they'd only ever have that. No other bond. She'd made that very clear, and no matter how panicked he was, he wouldn't go against her wishes.

When she did actually ask for him, Puck wasn't sure whether to be more worried or relieved. On one hand, at least she was with it enough to be able to ask for him, but on the other, he wasn't really someone she was close to personally as much as she just cared about him in the capacity of his being her son's father. What if she was, god forbid, dying or something, and she was calling him to tell him that it was his turn to take over raising Benny alone? Puck

[alittletoolegal]

Dani's eyes fell closed. She wanted to cry, but she just didn't have the energy for it. She was sure she had never felt like this in her life, and that was saying something, considering what she went through with Benny in the later stages of the pregnancy and his birth. It had been a lot of why she wanted to keep her head buried in the sand of Nick's trial. That, and the fact she knew Nick wouldn't have coped at that point hearing Dani was accidentally pregnant for the second time in her life, and he couldn't conceive at all anymore because of the monster of a husband. But it kept her from stopping and thinking too much on it, which would have inevitably terrified her that it was all going to be the same this time around... and now her worst fears were being confirmed.

She picked up a small leaflet of paper from where it was sitting beside her and handed it to Puck. "That's what's going on," she murmured. "But only just. That's your daughter, Puck."

[jewhawk]

For a moment there, Puck wasn't sure he'd heard right, nor was he sure why there was an ultrasound photo being handed to him. It wasn't that he was thick so much as that none of this made complete sense to him. He and Dani had used protection, or so he thought, back in Vegas. There had been the litter of condom wrappers all over the floor, though if they were wasted enough to get married and not remember it, there was no telling what else they could have failed at remembering

[alittletoolegal]

Dani began to tear up with a shake of her head, but she exhaled heavily and managed not to burst into tears. Her words were shaky when she spoke, though, choked up and clearly difficult to piece together, but she knew she had to and she was going to try her best. It just felt like with the court case, all she had done lately was talk and she was beyond exhausted. "No, s-she's not okay right now. Um..." She had to pause and again take some bracing breaths to try and make it through this conversation, and her hand tightened around Puck's reflexively, just needing to know he was there. "When I had Benny, I had a lot of problems. Right through the pregnancy and with the birth. It was actually a horrible time for me, but when he came, it was all worth it. It just made me want to fight more for him. I had gestational diabetes and really high blood pressure. Everytime I stood up, I kept passing out. I had something called pre-eclampsia. I ended up on bed rest for the last couple of months of the pregnancy, and Benny was premature because