Jennifer's Rabbit part 2
Title: Jennifer's Rabbit
Author: LaoTse4
Rating: M/15
Length: 5230/15 494
Spoilers: None
Summary: The fifth part in a series of long one shots that I've written.
You kind find the other parts here.
1. When you tell the world that you are mine 2. You've got a friend 3. I give you the morning 4. Can you feel the love tonight?
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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Jennifer's Rabbit
A month had passed and it was time for both set of parents to come and visit the couple in New York, both of them had driven up to the airport to meet up with their parents, they had gotten a call letting them know that Leroy would be coming with a later flight, and that he would take a cab back to the apartment, Sam had seen Rachel let out a small sigh of relief when he had told them that, Sam had just laughed and told Rachel that he could have picked their parents up by himself but Rachel had looked at him like he was crazy.
“You can take it easy,” Sam said as he saw Rachel sitting down at the red plastic benches that were placed around the waiting area at the airport, Sam saw how Rachel’s leg were bouncing up and down and she was crossing her legs, “they won’t be here for at least ten minutes if you need to go to the bathroom, you have the time,” Sam smiled at Rachel, he had noticed that her visits to the bathroom had come more often than before the pregnancy.
“Don’t,” Rachel said as she glared at Sam, “I don’t need to use the facilities,” Sam wanted to laugh, but he had learned his lesson about a week earlier, Rachel’s hormones were playing with them, and Sam knew better than say anything that would upset Rachel.
Rachel was dressed in loose fitting clothes; neither Rachel nor Sam wanted to give away the fact that she was pregnant on the airport, the reactions from Sam’s mother and Rachel’s father would lead to that everyone on the airport would know what was going on.
“I going to the bathroom,” Rachel said and she stood up and walked passed Sam almost glaring at him when she saw the amused look on his face, “and don’t say anything,” she hit him on the back of his head, “and if they come here before I’m back don’t say a word.”
“I won’t say anything,” Sam said and made a motion with his hand over his lips as he was closing a zipper and that he was locking it and throwing the key away, “see.”
“Samuel Josef Evans,” Rachel said glaring at him, “just asked them how they are doing if I’m not back.”
“I can do that,” Sam said and smiled at her, “go to the bathroom and you should be back before they are here.”
Rachel walked back from the bathroom, and she saw that her father and both of Sam’s parents stood where Sam was standing and the four of them were talking. She plastered a smile on her face as she walked up to them. “Hello,” Rachel said and she was pulled in for a hug by her father who smiled at her, “I hope you had a pleasant flight.”
“We did,” Hiram said and he let go of Rachel and she was pulled in for a hug by Sam’s mother.
“It was great,” Tammy said and she put her hands around Rachel’s face as she looked at the younger girl, there is something different with you,” Rachel saw the look on Sam’s mother’s face and she looked over at the blonde boy, waiting for him to say something.
“I don’t think so,” Rachel said and she smiled at her soon to be mother in-law, “I think that we should be heading back to the apartment,” Rachel walked up to Sam and slapped the back of his head when neither of their parents was looking at them.
“What did I do?” Sam asked and he looked at Rachel with a confused look on his face as he took Rachel’s hand.
“You could have helped me out with your mother back there,” Rachel hissed between her teeth as he she shook her head.
“I’m sorry,” Sam said as he leaned down and placed a kiss on her cheek, “I’ll talk to her.”
“Don’t,” Rachel said and she leaned her head against his shoulder as they continued to walk, “if you say something now she will know that something is up and that is not what we want.”
“Okay,” Sam said and they walked up to their parents, “the car is over here,” Sam told them as he and Rachel took a left turn.
“You can wait here if you want,” Rachel said with a smile on her face.
“That’s nonsense,” Hiram said as he took his hag, and Sam let out a laugh, he knew that both Rachel’s fathers was a lot like Rachel and he loved it, “but if you don’t mind I would love it if you would drop me off at the hotel first.”
“Of course dad,” Rachel said and she opened the trunk for him, “What about you?” she asked as he looked over at Joe and Tammy, “are you staying at the same hotel?”
“Sam didn’t tell you?” Tammy asked and Rachel saw the surprised look on the older woman’s face, and both of them turned to Sam.
“Sam,” Rachel said and walked up to him, “is there something that you have forgotten to tell me?”
“Mom and dad are staying with us,” Sam said and he looked down at his feet as soon as he had said those words, “I thought that I told you that.”
“It’s okay,” Rachel said and she let out a small sigh and she looked over at both Mr. and Mrs. Evans, “of course you are welcome to stay but it might be a bit crowded.”
///
Rachel was sitting at the table, Sam was passing around the food, she was looking at her glass her father had poured her some wine, and she hadn’t had the heart to tell him that she wasn’t going to have any, Rachel looked over at Sam, she reached for his hand, “Could you get me some water,” she smiled at him, as he got up from the seat, Sam placed a kiss on the top of her head.
“Is there anything else you want?” Sam had learned that Rachel could have some cravings that neither of them understood; Rachel shook her head, “Is there anyone else that would want something?” Sam was met with four heads shaking their heads; Leroy had taken a cab directly from the airport to Sam’s and Rachel’s apartment.
“Why haven’t you had any of your wine?” Leroy asked and he looked at the still full glass that was seated in front of Rachel, “you know that this is an amazing sort, you would love it.”
“I had a migraine attack a couple of days ago,” Rachel said with a small smile, “I don’t want to risk anything,” she wasn’t lying, she did have migraine a couple of days ago but that wasn’t the reason behind her not drinking wine.
“Here,” Sam said as he put down the bottle of water on the table, he brushed his hand against Rachel’s back and he let his fingers rest on her stomach, he smiled at her, “everything okay?” Rachel nodded her head.
Rachel leaned closer to him, whispering, “I think we need to tell them,” she blew some hot air against the shell of his air, Sam swallowed some air, and he nodded his head.
“Everything all right over there?” Hiram asked and he looked at over the couple, Sam nodded his head, he knew that this was payback from Rachel; he knew that she was teasing him; she wasn’t going to sleep with him with his parents in the house.
“Yeah, everything is fine,” Sam said and he wetted his lips, smiling at the, “actually,” he wasn’t sure on how you were going to tell your own parents and your girlfriends parents that they were about to be grandparents, “we have something that we would like to share with you.”
“I knew it,” Tammy said and she looked at Rachel, the younger of the two nodded her head.
“Don’t tell them,” Rachel said and she smiled at Tammy.
“What are you two talking about?” Leroy asked and he looked from Rachel to Tammy, waiting for either one of them to reply.
“You should have seen her at the airport,” Tammy said and she smiled, Rachel was really thankful for that it seemed like Sam’s mother was taking it so well, “she could have lit the whole thing up, she was glowing so much.”
“No,” both Hiram and Leroy said and both of them lifted their hands and put them over their mouths, “you aren’t, are you?”
“Sam,” Rachel said and looked at him, “maybe you should tell them even if I think all of them already know.”
“Okay,” Sam said and he sat down, he had stood up just before he was going to announce what he wanted to tell them, “Rachel and I are…”
“We’re pregnant,” Rachel said before Sam had a chance to complete the sentence.
“Are you sure?” Leroy asked and looked at Rachel; the young girl nodded her head.
“Yes, we are sure,” Rachel said and both Sam and Rachel stood up, Sam moved so that he was standing behind Rachel, he smiled at their parents as he wrapped his arms around Rachel’s waist, he linked his hands together as they rested on Rachel’s stomach, “I’m about ten weeks along.”
“That is why you have talked to me instead of Sam,” Tammy said, and she pointed at them, Rachel let her head fall a little before she looked up at the woman.
“Yes,” Rachel said and she smiled at her, “but I didn’t want to tell you over the phone and I knew that my dads were going to be here this weekend so we thought we should tell the four of you together, that way no one would feel left out.”
“This needs a celebration,” Hiram said and smiled at them, “I’m so happy for the two of you, but why didn’t you tell us that you wanted to start a family?”
“We weren’t really planning to start a family,” Rachel said and she leaned back in to Sam, who placed a kiss on her cheek, and he was moving his thumbs over her stomach, “but we couldn’t be happier.”
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It hadn’t been a problem telling their parents about the pregnancy and Rachel’s morning sickness got a bit better after they had told them about the pregnancy, but if there was one thing that got worse, it was her cravings.
Sam wasn’t sure on how many times Rachel had woken him up in the middle of the night because she needed a tofu-burger, right now, and with right now most of the times it meant that it should have been there half an hour ago.
“Baby,” Sam said as he walked back in to their bedroom, holding the brown paper bag, with Rachel’s burger in it, there was fries and a soda too, Sam had learned his lesson in the last few days, there was a big chance that Rachel would want fries too even if she didn’t say anything.
Rachel snatched the bag from Sam’s hand before he had a chance to give it to her. Sam let out a small laugh when he saw Rachel rally dig in on the burger, he shook his head, he was still waiting for the day that Rachel would tell him to get out and get her a burger, and not one of these tofu-burgers, a real one.
“Thank you,” Rachel said as she put the bag on the bedside table and she reached for Sam’s hand, he linked their fingers together and he laid down behind her, pulling her close, Sam placed a kiss on her cheek and he let his hands rest on her stomach.
Rachel had started to show, it wasn’t much, but if you knew that she was pregnant you could tell, if you didn’t know you would believe that she just had put on some weight.
“You are welcome,” Sam said as he snuggled closer to her, he nuzzled his nose against her next, nipping a little on her skin, before he closed his eyes, “and now get some sleep, I need some rest.”
///
Two more months passed and Rachel was about half way through her pregnancy, and it was time for them to go for another meeting with her OB/GYN, Rachel had been going to a couple of her appointments alone, this time the doctor had promised them that if they would want to know the sex of their baby, they would get a chance to know.
“So have you decided?” the doctor asked and she looked at the couple, she let out a laugh when they answered,
“No.”
“Yes.”
“So have you decided on if you want to know the sex?” she asked and looked at Rachel at first and then over at Sam.
“We have decided that we don’t want to know the sex,” Rachel said and smiled at her OB/GYN, and Rachel could see Sam shaking his head next to her.
“We haven’t decided on that,” Sam said and looked at the doctor, “Rachel doesn’t want to know the sex so I’m going to respect that even if I know that we will be having a beautiful baby girl.” Sam looked at their doctor trying to see if he would be able to read what she was thinking and f he was right but he couldn’t tell.
“Sam,” she said and looked at him, “I have met a lot of soon to be parents and you aren’t the first to try that,” Sam nodded his head and smiled at her.
“You can’t blame me for trying,” Sam said and he took Rachel’s hand in his own, he lifted it and placed a kiss on it, “but I don’t care as long as she is healthy.”
“Everything is as it should,” the doctor said and smiled at them, “Rachel,” she turned to the girl a Rachel was smiling, “your boyfriend is persistent but I would say that you have a keeper in him.”
“I know,” Rachel said and she closed her eyes, “he is amazing, we have been together since High School.”
///
It was about two weeks before Rachel’s due date when she felt a pain in her lower back, as she woke up after a nap, she didn’t really care about it, Rachel knew that there was probably some Braxton Hicks, it was too early for her to go in to labor. She wobbled to the living room and she laid down on the couch, Rachel grabbed the remote control, and started to flip through the channels, she stopped when she came across a marathon of Myth Busters, it had been something that both Rachel and Sam had realized that they loved one evening about six months in to her pregnancy when Rachel hadn’t been up to going out for a movie as they had planned.
“Sweetie,” Rachel was waken up, a couple of hours later by Sam, who had come home from work, he had seen her laying on the couch, with a small sheen of sweet covering her forehead, “are you okay?” he asked as he pulled some of her hair away from her face.
“Yeah,” Rachel said and she tried to sit up, and she felt the pain again in her back, she had felt it a few times before she fell asleep, “I think that it’s just some Braxton Hicks,” Rachel said and she let out a breath, and she winced when she felt the same pain again, it was closer and closer between the contractions.
Sam saw Rachel’s face contradicted what she was telling him, “We are going to the hospital,” Sam said and he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead, “you just wait here,” Sam got up from his kneeling position and he walked over to their bedroom, “babe, where is your bag?”
Rachel was about to let out a sigh, and she braced herself as she felt another contraction hit, and know she even knew that it wasn’t Braxton Hicks contraction, it was the real deal, “it’s on the top shelf in the closet,” Rachel replied, and she leaned back against the couch, she tried to slow down her breathing and find a steady rhythm as she breathed, but with each new contraction, they weren’t really close, maybe ten minutes a part or something like that, or at least that was what Rachel was thinking. She used the couch as help as she got up and she waddled over to the bedroom where she stopped in the door way, “did you find my bag?”
Sam turned around and nodded his head, and he walked over to her, he placed an arm around her waist as he held on to the bag with his other hand, “I’ve got the car down the street but we will get down and you will wait outside and I’ll be back with the car.” Rachel nodded her head; she didn’t know what else she could do.
Sam left Rachel outside their apartment building and he began to run down the street where he had parked the car, he had no idea on what he was doing, all he knew was that Rachel was in labor and that they needed to get to the hospital and that as soon as possible.
He stopped the car just outside the building where Rachel was standing, Sam saw how she held one of her hands against her back, almost holding herself up with it, he jumped out from the car closed his own door, and he ran up to her, he placed one of his own hands on her back, and he helped guiding her to the car, Sam opened the door to the passenger’s side and help Rachel in to the car. The brunette let out a small cry, as a contraction hit her again.
“Why didn’t you call me?” Sam asked as he started the car and began the drive to the nearest hospital, he knew that there wasn’t any time for them to actually get to the hospital that their OB/GYN worked.
“I told you,” Rachel gritted out between her teeth as she looked over at Sam, “I thought it was Braxton Hicks,” Rachel looked out the window, “You might want to speed up a little.”
“You want me to break the speeding limit,” Sam said and glanced over at Rachel as he shifted gears, “you never want me to break it.”
“I want to get to the hospital,” Rachel almost screamed at him, “I don’t want our baby to be born in the car.”
“Baby,” Sam said in a sweat voice, he wanted to look at her but he knew better than that, he knew that Rachel would be screaming at him if he took his eyes of the road right now.
“Don’t baby me,” Rachel snapped as she glared at him, “just make sure that we are at the hospital now.”
Sam managed to get them to the closets hospital, he parked the car, more like dropped the car just outside the entrance to the hospital, and he ran inside to grab a wheelchair.
Rachel opened the door to the car, she put her hand on the side of the car as she did her best to get out from the car, she shook her head, she loved her blonde haired boyfriend, well fiancée but at times he did act like a real blonde, and this was a time like that, he could have helped her out from the car before running in to the hospital to grab a wheelchair for her. Rachel had managed to get out of the car; she leaned against the car for what felt like minutes but was maybe half a minute. Rachel began to walk towards the hospital entrance, when she saw Sam running with a wheelchair in front of him.
“What are you doing?” Sam almost yelled when he saw that Rachel was walking towards him, he saw how Rachel looked up at him, glaring, “sorry?”
“Just help me get in,” she gritted between her teeth as Sam had made his way over to her, Sam nodded his head and he helped her sit down in the chair, and he pushed her through the doors to the hospital, his panic was getting more and more to him, he looked around, he didn’t know what he was supposed to do.
“Calm down,” Rachel said and placed one of her hands over his hands he had on the handlebars to the wheelchair, “just let them know why we are here and they will help us,” Rachel had no idea on why she was as calm as she was.
“Okay,” Sam said and he nodded his head, Sam looked around and he saw a nurse and he grabbed he by her shoulder, “she is having a baby,” Sam said and he pointed at Rachel, she raised her hand and waved a little, as she did Sam saw the look on her face and he knew that another contraction hit her, “and it’s coming now,” Sam was panicking, “you need to help her.”
“Sir,” the nurse said and looked at Sam, he looked at the nurse, “you should listen to her and calm down, we will take her to a delivery room and I’ll page a doctor.”
“Thank you,” Sam said and he moved over to Rachel, and he reached for one of her hands, “it will be okay,” Rachel nodded her head.
“We need to leave,” the nurse said and she took the chair and pushed it forward.
///
Sam was pacing back and forth in the room, Rachel laid on the bed following him with her eyes, “Can you please stop,” Sam stopped for a second and walked back to the chair that was placed next to Rachel’s bed, he took Rachel’s hand in his own, and he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead, “you are making me nauseous.”
“Sorry,” Sam said and he ran his free hand over his hair, he knew that it would probably take some time before Rachel was actually going to be giving birth to the baby, “I just don’t know what I can do.”
“Why don’t you go out and call my dads and your parents,” Rachel said and she looked up at him, with a smile on her face, “I think they would want to know that they will be grandparents soon,” Sam nodded his head.
“How are we doing?” the nurse asked as she walked through the door to their room, and she smiled at Rachel.
“I’m doing fine,” Rachel said and let out a laugh, Rachel had wanted to give a natural birth but as soon as she had been asked if she wanted an epidural she had agreed to it, “much better after the drugs,” the nurse let out a laugh.
“Most of the soon to be mothers feel the same,” the nurse said and she checked Rachel’s blood pressure, “the doctor will be in her in a couple of minutes to see how far you are dilated,” Rachel nodded her head.
When Sam walked out the room and as he did he passed the doctor, and Sam stopped for a second and walked back in to the room.
“Okay,” the doctor said and she examined, Rachel, “okay you are fully dilated, so when I tell you to push you will push,” Rachel nodded her head, “and dad, you should stand beside her, she will need you.”
“Okay,” Sam said and his eyes widen a bit when he walked back to the spot where he had been sitting before, he took one of Rachel’s hands in his own, “just squeeze my hand when you want to,” he said as he stood beside Rachel.
“Rachel,” the doctor said and looked up at brunette, “push, when you feel the next contraction come.”
“Okay,” Rachel said, she wasn’t really sure what she was doing or what she was agreeing to all.
“You are doing great,” Sam said and he held on to Rachel’s hand, he wanted to scream when he felt Rachel squeeze his hand, he couldn’t believe that she was this strong, he had known that she was strong but this was really hurting, “I’m sure that it will be over soon.”
Rachel just glared at the young man, “You don’t know what you are talking about,” she said between contractions.
“Rachel, push,” the doctor said and looked up at Rachel, “and push until I tell you to stop.” Rachel pushed as hard as she could.
She turned to Sam, “I hate you so much,” Rachel yelled and Sam’s eyes grew a bit when he heard her he couldn’t believe what Rachel was saying, “you know,” she continued and Rachel turned her head towards Sam for a second, “you suck so much right now.”
“Don’t take it personally,” the doctor said and gave Sam a small smile, “Rachel, you can stop until the next contraction.”
Rachel loosened her grip around Sam’s hand a little, Sam gave her a weak smile, “You are doing amazing, and I love you so much.”
“Rachel, one more push, I can see the head,” the doctor said and smiled at them, “you are going to be parents soon.”
Rachel collected all of the powers that she had left in her body for one final push, and after that it would be over, as Rachel pushed she screamed and she let go of Sam’s hand and she took ahold of the sidebars on the bed to get some leverage as she pushed.
And tears began to fall down Rachel’s face as she heard a faint cry in the room, Sam looked at Rachel, he smiled at her, before the two of them turned to the doctor, who was holding a small baby in her arms.
“Congratulations, you are now parents to a baby girl,” the doctor said and she placed the small baby on Rachel’s chest, Rachel closed her eyes, all she wanted to do was to sleep, one of her hands were resting on the baby’s back, and Sam had pulled the chair next to the bed and sat down on it, he placed his hand over Rachel’s, “do you have any name?”
Sam looked from Rachel to the doctor and then back at Rachel, and she nodded her head, “yeah,” Sam said and he ran a couple of fingers over the baby’s head, there was a small dark patch of hair on the top of her head, “Jennifer,” Sam said and he leaned down and placed a kiss on the top of Rachel’s head, “you were amazing and I love you.”
Rachel murmured something in response to Sam, and he smiled at her, Sam took the baby form Rachel and placed her in the bassinet that was in the room, Sam was running her finger up and down his daughter’s cheek and he just looked at her, he was a father to a small baby girl, Jennifer, and he couldn’t be any prouder.
Sam fished his phone out from his pocket of his pants and he snapped a quick picture of their daughter and typed up a short message to their parents and he attached the photo and sent it.
///
They stayed at the hospital for a couple of days and both set of grandparents had made an appearance, and Jennifer’s first gift from them had been a stuffed rabbit, and it had been placed at the end of the bassinet.
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The first couple of weeks after they had gotten home from the hospital had been pretty hard on the couple, Jennifer didn’t sleep through the nights and most of the time it was Rachel who had to go up and get their baby girl but Sam did what he could but there was one thing that he couldn’t do and that was feeding her.
Sam walked out from their bedroom, he walked over to the living room area and he picked up his guitar he hadn’t played in many years but there was something that had made him want to take it up again and play, as he walked back into the bedroom, he could see Rachel sitting on the bed, with her back resting against the headboard of their bed, with Jennifer in her arms, breastfeeding her.
He smiled at the picture in front of him, and Sam saw how the rabbit was left in Jennifer’s crib, it was still white, he smiled a little and he knew that this was something that would follow their daughter through her life, he took the rabbit in his free hand and he walked to their bed and he sat down on the foot of the bed, smiling up at them, “You don’t know how much I love you,” Sam said and he squeezed Rachel’s leg, and Sam smiled at her when Rachel looked up from their daughter smiling at him. Sam handed Rachel the rabbit, and their fingers brushed against each other.
“I haven’t heard you sing or play in...” Rachel said and she saw the smile on Sam’s face, “…actually I don’t know how long it has been since I heard you sing.”
“I have missed it,” Sam confessed and he placed the guitar over his leg, “but these last few weeks have given me some inspiration back,” he said as he leaned over and ran his a couple of his fingers over Jennifer’s head, she had gotten a bit more hair on her head, it was still dark, and Sam knew that their daughter would have Rachel’s dark hair but he wasn’t sure yet on what color her eyes would be.
“I found this lullaby,” Sam said as he began to strum the guitar a little, “do you remember the song I sang to you after our first time?” Rachel nodded her head and Sam smiled, I think there is this song that would fit really well to the situation that we are in right now.”
“So why don’t you play the lullaby and sing it for our daughter,” Rachel said and she stood up and walked over to the crib and she put Jennifer down, “she is supposed to get some sleep anyway,” Sam let out a small laugh as he looked over at Rachel, “and I want to hear you sing again.”
“Jennifer slept in her little bed,” Sam sang as he was strumming on his guitar and he looked up at Rachel, how had moved back to the bed and she had curled up next to Sam, “With dreams of rabbits in her little head.”
“Sam,” Rachel said as she listened to his voice, and his guitar playing, “I think she has fallen asleep, and I’m about to fall asleep, so please put down the guitar,” Rachel had a hand placed on Sam’s hand and he nodded his head.
“Okay, I can’t wait to snuggle up with you,” Sam said and he leaned the guitar against the bedside table before he wrapped his arms around Rachel and pulled her closer, letting Rachel rest her head on his shoulder, he placed a kiss on the top of her head before the two of them drifted off to sleep.
Author: LaoTse4
Rating: M/15
Length: 5230/15 494
Spoilers: None
Summary: The fifth part in a series of long one shots that I've written.
You kind find the other parts here.
1. When you tell the world that you are mine 2. You've got a friend 3. I give you the morning 4. Can you feel the love tonight?
Fanmix Fanart
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Jennifer's Rabbit
A month had passed and it was time for both set of parents to come and visit the couple in New York, both of them had driven up to the airport to meet up with their parents, they had gotten a call letting them know that Leroy would be coming with a later flight, and that he would take a cab back to the apartment, Sam had seen Rachel let out a small sigh of relief when he had told them that, Sam had just laughed and told Rachel that he could have picked their parents up by himself but Rachel had looked at him like he was crazy.
“You can take it easy,” Sam said as he saw Rachel sitting down at the red plastic benches that were placed around the waiting area at the airport, Sam saw how Rachel’s leg were bouncing up and down and she was crossing her legs, “they won’t be here for at least ten minutes if you need to go to the bathroom, you have the time,” Sam smiled at Rachel, he had noticed that her visits to the bathroom had come more often than before the pregnancy.
“Don’t,” Rachel said as she glared at Sam, “I don’t need to use the facilities,” Sam wanted to laugh, but he had learned his lesson about a week earlier, Rachel’s hormones were playing with them, and Sam knew better than say anything that would upset Rachel.
Rachel was dressed in loose fitting clothes; neither Rachel nor Sam wanted to give away the fact that she was pregnant on the airport, the reactions from Sam’s mother and Rachel’s father would lead to that everyone on the airport would know what was going on.
“I going to the bathroom,” Rachel said and she stood up and walked passed Sam almost glaring at him when she saw the amused look on his face, “and don’t say anything,” she hit him on the back of his head, “and if they come here before I’m back don’t say a word.”
“I won’t say anything,” Sam said and made a motion with his hand over his lips as he was closing a zipper and that he was locking it and throwing the key away, “see.”
“Samuel Josef Evans,” Rachel said glaring at him, “just asked them how they are doing if I’m not back.”
“I can do that,” Sam said and smiled at her, “go to the bathroom and you should be back before they are here.”
Rachel walked back from the bathroom, and she saw that her father and both of Sam’s parents stood where Sam was standing and the four of them were talking. She plastered a smile on her face as she walked up to them. “Hello,” Rachel said and she was pulled in for a hug by her father who smiled at her, “I hope you had a pleasant flight.”
“We did,” Hiram said and he let go of Rachel and she was pulled in for a hug by Sam’s mother.
“It was great,” Tammy said and she put her hands around Rachel’s face as she looked at the younger girl, there is something different with you,” Rachel saw the look on Sam’s mother’s face and she looked over at the blonde boy, waiting for him to say something.
“I don’t think so,” Rachel said and she smiled at her soon to be mother in-law, “I think that we should be heading back to the apartment,” Rachel walked up to Sam and slapped the back of his head when neither of their parents was looking at them.
“What did I do?” Sam asked and he looked at Rachel with a confused look on his face as he took Rachel’s hand.
“You could have helped me out with your mother back there,” Rachel hissed between her teeth as he she shook her head.
“I’m sorry,” Sam said as he leaned down and placed a kiss on her cheek, “I’ll talk to her.”
“Don’t,” Rachel said and she leaned her head against his shoulder as they continued to walk, “if you say something now she will know that something is up and that is not what we want.”
“Okay,” Sam said and they walked up to their parents, “the car is over here,” Sam told them as he and Rachel took a left turn.
“You can wait here if you want,” Rachel said with a smile on her face.
“That’s nonsense,” Hiram said as he took his hag, and Sam let out a laugh, he knew that both Rachel’s fathers was a lot like Rachel and he loved it, “but if you don’t mind I would love it if you would drop me off at the hotel first.”
“Of course dad,” Rachel said and she opened the trunk for him, “What about you?” she asked as he looked over at Joe and Tammy, “are you staying at the same hotel?”
“Sam didn’t tell you?” Tammy asked and Rachel saw the surprised look on the older woman’s face, and both of them turned to Sam.
“Sam,” Rachel said and walked up to him, “is there something that you have forgotten to tell me?”
“Mom and dad are staying with us,” Sam said and he looked down at his feet as soon as he had said those words, “I thought that I told you that.”
“It’s okay,” Rachel said and she let out a small sigh and she looked over at both Mr. and Mrs. Evans, “of course you are welcome to stay but it might be a bit crowded.”
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Rachel was sitting at the table, Sam was passing around the food, she was looking at her glass her father had poured her some wine, and she hadn’t had the heart to tell him that she wasn’t going to have any, Rachel looked over at Sam, she reached for his hand, “Could you get me some water,” she smiled at him, as he got up from the seat, Sam placed a kiss on the top of her head.
“Is there anything else you want?” Sam had learned that Rachel could have some cravings that neither of them understood; Rachel shook her head, “Is there anyone else that would want something?” Sam was met with four heads shaking their heads; Leroy had taken a cab directly from the airport to Sam’s and Rachel’s apartment.
“Why haven’t you had any of your wine?” Leroy asked and he looked at the still full glass that was seated in front of Rachel, “you know that this is an amazing sort, you would love it.”
“I had a migraine attack a couple of days ago,” Rachel said with a small smile, “I don’t want to risk anything,” she wasn’t lying, she did have migraine a couple of days ago but that wasn’t the reason behind her not drinking wine.
“Here,” Sam said as he put down the bottle of water on the table, he brushed his hand against Rachel’s back and he let his fingers rest on her stomach, he smiled at her, “everything okay?” Rachel nodded her head.
Rachel leaned closer to him, whispering, “I think we need to tell them,” she blew some hot air against the shell of his air, Sam swallowed some air, and he nodded his head.
“Everything all right over there?” Hiram asked and he looked at over the couple, Sam nodded his head, he knew that this was payback from Rachel; he knew that she was teasing him; she wasn’t going to sleep with him with his parents in the house.
“Yeah, everything is fine,” Sam said and he wetted his lips, smiling at the, “actually,” he wasn’t sure on how you were going to tell your own parents and your girlfriends parents that they were about to be grandparents, “we have something that we would like to share with you.”
“I knew it,” Tammy said and she looked at Rachel, the younger of the two nodded her head.
“Don’t tell them,” Rachel said and she smiled at Tammy.
“What are you two talking about?” Leroy asked and he looked from Rachel to Tammy, waiting for either one of them to reply.
“You should have seen her at the airport,” Tammy said and she smiled, Rachel was really thankful for that it seemed like Sam’s mother was taking it so well, “she could have lit the whole thing up, she was glowing so much.”
“No,” both Hiram and Leroy said and both of them lifted their hands and put them over their mouths, “you aren’t, are you?”
“Sam,” Rachel said and looked at him, “maybe you should tell them even if I think all of them already know.”
“Okay,” Sam said and he sat down, he had stood up just before he was going to announce what he wanted to tell them, “Rachel and I are…”
“We’re pregnant,” Rachel said before Sam had a chance to complete the sentence.
“Are you sure?” Leroy asked and looked at Rachel; the young girl nodded her head.
“Yes, we are sure,” Rachel said and both Sam and Rachel stood up, Sam moved so that he was standing behind Rachel, he smiled at their parents as he wrapped his arms around Rachel’s waist, he linked his hands together as they rested on Rachel’s stomach, “I’m about ten weeks along.”
“That is why you have talked to me instead of Sam,” Tammy said, and she pointed at them, Rachel let her head fall a little before she looked up at the woman.
“Yes,” Rachel said and she smiled at her, “but I didn’t want to tell you over the phone and I knew that my dads were going to be here this weekend so we thought we should tell the four of you together, that way no one would feel left out.”
“This needs a celebration,” Hiram said and smiled at them, “I’m so happy for the two of you, but why didn’t you tell us that you wanted to start a family?”
“We weren’t really planning to start a family,” Rachel said and she leaned back in to Sam, who placed a kiss on her cheek, and he was moving his thumbs over her stomach, “but we couldn’t be happier.”
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It hadn’t been a problem telling their parents about the pregnancy and Rachel’s morning sickness got a bit better after they had told them about the pregnancy, but if there was one thing that got worse, it was her cravings.
Sam wasn’t sure on how many times Rachel had woken him up in the middle of the night because she needed a tofu-burger, right now, and with right now most of the times it meant that it should have been there half an hour ago.
“Baby,” Sam said as he walked back in to their bedroom, holding the brown paper bag, with Rachel’s burger in it, there was fries and a soda too, Sam had learned his lesson in the last few days, there was a big chance that Rachel would want fries too even if she didn’t say anything.
Rachel snatched the bag from Sam’s hand before he had a chance to give it to her. Sam let out a small laugh when he saw Rachel rally dig in on the burger, he shook his head, he was still waiting for the day that Rachel would tell him to get out and get her a burger, and not one of these tofu-burgers, a real one.
“Thank you,” Rachel said as she put the bag on the bedside table and she reached for Sam’s hand, he linked their fingers together and he laid down behind her, pulling her close, Sam placed a kiss on her cheek and he let his hands rest on her stomach.
Rachel had started to show, it wasn’t much, but if you knew that she was pregnant you could tell, if you didn’t know you would believe that she just had put on some weight.
“You are welcome,” Sam said as he snuggled closer to her, he nuzzled his nose against her next, nipping a little on her skin, before he closed his eyes, “and now get some sleep, I need some rest.”
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Two more months passed and Rachel was about half way through her pregnancy, and it was time for them to go for another meeting with her OB/GYN, Rachel had been going to a couple of her appointments alone, this time the doctor had promised them that if they would want to know the sex of their baby, they would get a chance to know.
“So have you decided?” the doctor asked and she looked at the couple, she let out a laugh when they answered,
“No.”
“Yes.”
“So have you decided on if you want to know the sex?” she asked and looked at Rachel at first and then over at Sam.
“We have decided that we don’t want to know the sex,” Rachel said and smiled at her OB/GYN, and Rachel could see Sam shaking his head next to her.
“We haven’t decided on that,” Sam said and looked at the doctor, “Rachel doesn’t want to know the sex so I’m going to respect that even if I know that we will be having a beautiful baby girl.” Sam looked at their doctor trying to see if he would be able to read what she was thinking and f he was right but he couldn’t tell.
“Sam,” she said and looked at him, “I have met a lot of soon to be parents and you aren’t the first to try that,” Sam nodded his head and smiled at her.
“You can’t blame me for trying,” Sam said and he took Rachel’s hand in his own, he lifted it and placed a kiss on it, “but I don’t care as long as she is healthy.”
“Everything is as it should,” the doctor said and smiled at them, “Rachel,” she turned to the girl a Rachel was smiling, “your boyfriend is persistent but I would say that you have a keeper in him.”
“I know,” Rachel said and she closed her eyes, “he is amazing, we have been together since High School.”
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It was about two weeks before Rachel’s due date when she felt a pain in her lower back, as she woke up after a nap, she didn’t really care about it, Rachel knew that there was probably some Braxton Hicks, it was too early for her to go in to labor. She wobbled to the living room and she laid down on the couch, Rachel grabbed the remote control, and started to flip through the channels, she stopped when she came across a marathon of Myth Busters, it had been something that both Rachel and Sam had realized that they loved one evening about six months in to her pregnancy when Rachel hadn’t been up to going out for a movie as they had planned.
“Sweetie,” Rachel was waken up, a couple of hours later by Sam, who had come home from work, he had seen her laying on the couch, with a small sheen of sweet covering her forehead, “are you okay?” he asked as he pulled some of her hair away from her face.
“Yeah,” Rachel said and she tried to sit up, and she felt the pain again in her back, she had felt it a few times before she fell asleep, “I think that it’s just some Braxton Hicks,” Rachel said and she let out a breath, and she winced when she felt the same pain again, it was closer and closer between the contractions.
Sam saw Rachel’s face contradicted what she was telling him, “We are going to the hospital,” Sam said and he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead, “you just wait here,” Sam got up from his kneeling position and he walked over to their bedroom, “babe, where is your bag?”
Rachel was about to let out a sigh, and she braced herself as she felt another contraction hit, and know she even knew that it wasn’t Braxton Hicks contraction, it was the real deal, “it’s on the top shelf in the closet,” Rachel replied, and she leaned back against the couch, she tried to slow down her breathing and find a steady rhythm as she breathed, but with each new contraction, they weren’t really close, maybe ten minutes a part or something like that, or at least that was what Rachel was thinking. She used the couch as help as she got up and she waddled over to the bedroom where she stopped in the door way, “did you find my bag?”
Sam turned around and nodded his head, and he walked over to her, he placed an arm around her waist as he held on to the bag with his other hand, “I’ve got the car down the street but we will get down and you will wait outside and I’ll be back with the car.” Rachel nodded her head; she didn’t know what else she could do.
Sam left Rachel outside their apartment building and he began to run down the street where he had parked the car, he had no idea on what he was doing, all he knew was that Rachel was in labor and that they needed to get to the hospital and that as soon as possible.
He stopped the car just outside the building where Rachel was standing, Sam saw how she held one of her hands against her back, almost holding herself up with it, he jumped out from the car closed his own door, and he ran up to her, he placed one of his own hands on her back, and he helped guiding her to the car, Sam opened the door to the passenger’s side and help Rachel in to the car. The brunette let out a small cry, as a contraction hit her again.
“Why didn’t you call me?” Sam asked as he started the car and began the drive to the nearest hospital, he knew that there wasn’t any time for them to actually get to the hospital that their OB/GYN worked.
“I told you,” Rachel gritted out between her teeth as she looked over at Sam, “I thought it was Braxton Hicks,” Rachel looked out the window, “You might want to speed up a little.”
“You want me to break the speeding limit,” Sam said and glanced over at Rachel as he shifted gears, “you never want me to break it.”
“I want to get to the hospital,” Rachel almost screamed at him, “I don’t want our baby to be born in the car.”
“Baby,” Sam said in a sweat voice, he wanted to look at her but he knew better than that, he knew that Rachel would be screaming at him if he took his eyes of the road right now.
“Don’t baby me,” Rachel snapped as she glared at him, “just make sure that we are at the hospital now.”
Sam managed to get them to the closets hospital, he parked the car, more like dropped the car just outside the entrance to the hospital, and he ran inside to grab a wheelchair.
Rachel opened the door to the car, she put her hand on the side of the car as she did her best to get out from the car, she shook her head, she loved her blonde haired boyfriend, well fiancée but at times he did act like a real blonde, and this was a time like that, he could have helped her out from the car before running in to the hospital to grab a wheelchair for her. Rachel had managed to get out of the car; she leaned against the car for what felt like minutes but was maybe half a minute. Rachel began to walk towards the hospital entrance, when she saw Sam running with a wheelchair in front of him.
“What are you doing?” Sam almost yelled when he saw that Rachel was walking towards him, he saw how Rachel looked up at him, glaring, “sorry?”
“Just help me get in,” she gritted between her teeth as Sam had made his way over to her, Sam nodded his head and he helped her sit down in the chair, and he pushed her through the doors to the hospital, his panic was getting more and more to him, he looked around, he didn’t know what he was supposed to do.
“Calm down,” Rachel said and placed one of her hands over his hands he had on the handlebars to the wheelchair, “just let them know why we are here and they will help us,” Rachel had no idea on why she was as calm as she was.
“Okay,” Sam said and he nodded his head, Sam looked around and he saw a nurse and he grabbed he by her shoulder, “she is having a baby,” Sam said and he pointed at Rachel, she raised her hand and waved a little, as she did Sam saw the look on her face and he knew that another contraction hit her, “and it’s coming now,” Sam was panicking, “you need to help her.”
“Sir,” the nurse said and looked at Sam, he looked at the nurse, “you should listen to her and calm down, we will take her to a delivery room and I’ll page a doctor.”
“Thank you,” Sam said and he moved over to Rachel, and he reached for one of her hands, “it will be okay,” Rachel nodded her head.
“We need to leave,” the nurse said and she took the chair and pushed it forward.
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Sam was pacing back and forth in the room, Rachel laid on the bed following him with her eyes, “Can you please stop,” Sam stopped for a second and walked back to the chair that was placed next to Rachel’s bed, he took Rachel’s hand in his own, and he leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead, “you are making me nauseous.”
“Sorry,” Sam said and he ran his free hand over his hair, he knew that it would probably take some time before Rachel was actually going to be giving birth to the baby, “I just don’t know what I can do.”
“Why don’t you go out and call my dads and your parents,” Rachel said and she looked up at him, with a smile on her face, “I think they would want to know that they will be grandparents soon,” Sam nodded his head.
“How are we doing?” the nurse asked as she walked through the door to their room, and she smiled at Rachel.
“I’m doing fine,” Rachel said and let out a laugh, Rachel had wanted to give a natural birth but as soon as she had been asked if she wanted an epidural she had agreed to it, “much better after the drugs,” the nurse let out a laugh.
“Most of the soon to be mothers feel the same,” the nurse said and she checked Rachel’s blood pressure, “the doctor will be in her in a couple of minutes to see how far you are dilated,” Rachel nodded her head.
When Sam walked out the room and as he did he passed the doctor, and Sam stopped for a second and walked back in to the room.
“Okay,” the doctor said and she examined, Rachel, “okay you are fully dilated, so when I tell you to push you will push,” Rachel nodded her head, “and dad, you should stand beside her, she will need you.”
“Okay,” Sam said and his eyes widen a bit when he walked back to the spot where he had been sitting before, he took one of Rachel’s hands in his own, “just squeeze my hand when you want to,” he said as he stood beside Rachel.
“Rachel,” the doctor said and looked up at brunette, “push, when you feel the next contraction come.”
“Okay,” Rachel said, she wasn’t really sure what she was doing or what she was agreeing to all.
“You are doing great,” Sam said and he held on to Rachel’s hand, he wanted to scream when he felt Rachel squeeze his hand, he couldn’t believe that she was this strong, he had known that she was strong but this was really hurting, “I’m sure that it will be over soon.”
Rachel just glared at the young man, “You don’t know what you are talking about,” she said between contractions.
“Rachel, push,” the doctor said and looked up at Rachel, “and push until I tell you to stop.” Rachel pushed as hard as she could.
She turned to Sam, “I hate you so much,” Rachel yelled and Sam’s eyes grew a bit when he heard her he couldn’t believe what Rachel was saying, “you know,” she continued and Rachel turned her head towards Sam for a second, “you suck so much right now.”
“Don’t take it personally,” the doctor said and gave Sam a small smile, “Rachel, you can stop until the next contraction.”
Rachel loosened her grip around Sam’s hand a little, Sam gave her a weak smile, “You are doing amazing, and I love you so much.”
“Rachel, one more push, I can see the head,” the doctor said and smiled at them, “you are going to be parents soon.”
Rachel collected all of the powers that she had left in her body for one final push, and after that it would be over, as Rachel pushed she screamed and she let go of Sam’s hand and she took ahold of the sidebars on the bed to get some leverage as she pushed.
And tears began to fall down Rachel’s face as she heard a faint cry in the room, Sam looked at Rachel, he smiled at her, before the two of them turned to the doctor, who was holding a small baby in her arms.
“Congratulations, you are now parents to a baby girl,” the doctor said and she placed the small baby on Rachel’s chest, Rachel closed her eyes, all she wanted to do was to sleep, one of her hands were resting on the baby’s back, and Sam had pulled the chair next to the bed and sat down on it, he placed his hand over Rachel’s, “do you have any name?”
Sam looked from Rachel to the doctor and then back at Rachel, and she nodded her head, “yeah,” Sam said and he ran a couple of fingers over the baby’s head, there was a small dark patch of hair on the top of her head, “Jennifer,” Sam said and he leaned down and placed a kiss on the top of Rachel’s head, “you were amazing and I love you.”
Rachel murmured something in response to Sam, and he smiled at her, Sam took the baby form Rachel and placed her in the bassinet that was in the room, Sam was running her finger up and down his daughter’s cheek and he just looked at her, he was a father to a small baby girl, Jennifer, and he couldn’t be any prouder.
Sam fished his phone out from his pocket of his pants and he snapped a quick picture of their daughter and typed up a short message to their parents and he attached the photo and sent it.
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They stayed at the hospital for a couple of days and both set of grandparents had made an appearance, and Jennifer’s first gift from them had been a stuffed rabbit, and it had been placed at the end of the bassinet.
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The first couple of weeks after they had gotten home from the hospital had been pretty hard on the couple, Jennifer didn’t sleep through the nights and most of the time it was Rachel who had to go up and get their baby girl but Sam did what he could but there was one thing that he couldn’t do and that was feeding her.
Sam walked out from their bedroom, he walked over to the living room area and he picked up his guitar he hadn’t played in many years but there was something that had made him want to take it up again and play, as he walked back into the bedroom, he could see Rachel sitting on the bed, with her back resting against the headboard of their bed, with Jennifer in her arms, breastfeeding her.
He smiled at the picture in front of him, and Sam saw how the rabbit was left in Jennifer’s crib, it was still white, he smiled a little and he knew that this was something that would follow their daughter through her life, he took the rabbit in his free hand and he walked to their bed and he sat down on the foot of the bed, smiling up at them, “You don’t know how much I love you,” Sam said and he squeezed Rachel’s leg, and Sam smiled at her when Rachel looked up from their daughter smiling at him. Sam handed Rachel the rabbit, and their fingers brushed against each other.
“I haven’t heard you sing or play in...” Rachel said and she saw the smile on Sam’s face, “…actually I don’t know how long it has been since I heard you sing.”
“I have missed it,” Sam confessed and he placed the guitar over his leg, “but these last few weeks have given me some inspiration back,” he said as he leaned over and ran his a couple of his fingers over Jennifer’s head, she had gotten a bit more hair on her head, it was still dark, and Sam knew that their daughter would have Rachel’s dark hair but he wasn’t sure yet on what color her eyes would be.
“I found this lullaby,” Sam said as he began to strum the guitar a little, “do you remember the song I sang to you after our first time?” Rachel nodded her head and Sam smiled, I think there is this song that would fit really well to the situation that we are in right now.”
“So why don’t you play the lullaby and sing it for our daughter,” Rachel said and she stood up and walked over to the crib and she put Jennifer down, “she is supposed to get some sleep anyway,” Sam let out a small laugh as he looked over at Rachel, “and I want to hear you sing again.”
“Jennifer slept in her little bed,” Sam sang as he was strumming on his guitar and he looked up at Rachel, how had moved back to the bed and she had curled up next to Sam, “With dreams of rabbits in her little head.”
“Sam,” Rachel said as she listened to his voice, and his guitar playing, “I think she has fallen asleep, and I’m about to fall asleep, so please put down the guitar,” Rachel had a hand placed on Sam’s hand and he nodded his head.
“Okay, I can’t wait to snuggle up with you,” Sam said and he leaned the guitar against the bedside table before he wrapped his arms around Rachel and pulled her closer, letting Rachel rest her head on his shoulder, he placed a kiss on the top of her head before the two of them drifted off to sleep.