Heir: Epilogue

Mar 06, 2014 18:46

Author: Mickey9928
Title: Heir Epilogue
Rating: G, nothing but fluff
Characters/Pairings: Luke/Reid, Sophie/Jacob, Evan/Trevor, Eric/Hayley, Casey/Maddie, several original characters
Warnings: None
Summary: New Beginnings
A/N: We have finally come to the end.  It is bitter sweet because this is my baby, the first fic I ever wrote.  Thank you for hanging with me through the journey.  I know I haven't updated very often but unfortunately RL gets in the way.  I hope you have enjoyed the story and can't tell you what you comments and feedback mean to me.  :)

Epilogue

The phone rang in the middle of the night, and Reid grabbed it, recognizing the ring tone he’d assigned to Sophie. He went from asleep to wide awake in an instant.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

"Reid?  It's Jacob."

"Jacob?  Why are you using Sophie's phone?  Is she okay?"

"She's fine or she will be."

"What do mean 'she will be'" Reid asked in a panic.

"We were on our way home from Chicago when she started having labor pains. We thought they were Braxton Hicks again but then they started getting closer together.  She wanted me to keep going, insisting we could get to Oakdale but I refused and pulled into the Cozy Inn and got a room.  I figured it be better for her to give birth in a motel room than in a car on the side of a dark road."

"Good thinking.  Has her water broke yet?"

"Not yet."

"How far apart are the contractions?"

"About a minute."

"Okay.  Try and keep her as comfortable as possible.  Luke and I will be there as soon as possible."

As soon as Jacob had said that Sophie was in labor Reid had sprung into action and by the time he hung up he and Luke were walking out the door.

"Shouldn't we be calling 911?"  Luke asked as Reid backed out of the garage.

"You really think they'd get there in time?  You remember when the twins were born?"

"True, but."

"If it will make you feel better, go ahead and call, but I'm willing to bet I will be delivering our grandchild."

They made the drive in silence.  A half an hour later they pulled off the highway and into the parking lot of the Cozy Inn.

"Wow, this brings back memories," Reid said as he pulled into a parking spot right outside room #8.

Leaping from the car, the men knocked on the motel room door.

"Gracie, baby, Papa and Dad are here."

The door flung open to reveal a very frantic looking Jacob.

"Her water just broke and she wants to push."

"Papa!  Oh god it hurts." Sophie gritted out as another contraction hit.

Luke ran over to the bed and picked up her hand and brushed the damp hair off her forehead.

"Oh baby," Luke exclaimed.

"Jacob, I need you to grab the towels from the bathroom.  Gracie, I'm going to need to examine you to see how far along things are."

Reid immediately went into doctor mode in an effort to not think about what he was about to do.  Right now he was Dr. Oliver, not Sophie's father.

"Okay, you are fully dilated and I'm pretty sure it will only take a couple of pushes before the baby is out.  Gracie, you ready to do this?"

Sophie nodded her head.

"Okay, so when the next contraction hits I want you to bear down and push."

"Oh god," Sophie gritted out as a contraction hit almost immediately.

"Okay, push.  That's it.  You're going great.  Keep pushing.  And relax."

Sophie flopped back on the bed while Luke and Jacob fussed over her until the next contraction, which hit only moments later.  After pushing for only five minutes a cry was heard.

"It's a girl," a choked up Reid announced.

"A girl?" Jacob exclaimed  as he leaned down and kissed his exhausted wife.

"It's a girl!" Reid confirmed.

After helping Jacob cut the cord, Reid cleaned his granddaughter up, wrapped her in one of the towels and presented her to her parents.

"Say hello to your daughter."

While an emotional Sophie and Jacob fawned over their daughter, Reid stood next to Luke, an arm around his waist and enjoyed the scene.  Both men had tears in their eyes.

"Do you have a named picked out?"

"Say hello to Olivia Emma Snyder."

Both men were visually touched by the name.

"Daddy, you want to hold her?"

Luke had just cradled Olivia in his arms when there was a pounding on the door.

"Does somebody in there need medical attention?"

Reid escorted the EMT's in and explained the situation.  They examined both mother and daughter before loading them into the ambulance.

"Thank you so much for everything," a choked up Jacob said to his father-in-laws before he jumped into the ambulance with his wife and daughter.

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"Dad?  Papa?"

Luke and Reid were walking through the maternity ward when a voice called out to them.  Turning they were surprised to see their son.

"Evan?  What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing."

"Just then Trevor popped his head out of a room.

"Honey, Hannah's asking for you again.  Oh hey Luke, Reid. "

"Hannah's here?  Is she?  Are you?"

"Take a deep breath dad.  Yes, Hannah is here and is in the early stages of labor.  While the doctor's were hoping she would go longer they are confident that everything will be fine with the twins.  Now why are you here?"

While Luke calmed down, Reid filled his son in on the the night's events.

"Well you won't believe this but your sister is here.  She gave birth at the Cozy Inn a couple of hours ago.  I had to deliver the baby."

"Oh my gosh you're kidding me.  Is everybody okay?"

"Your sister is a real trooper and both she and your niece are fine.  You better get back in to Hannah.  We're going to go check on Sophie and Olivia and then we'll come back and see you guys."

Evan hugged both his fathers before disappearing into the hospital room.

“What do you say we go see that granddaughter of ours? Reid asked

Quietly pushing the door to Sophie’s room opened, the men found everybody sound asleep.  Sophie was snoring quietly, her daughter cradled in her arms.  Jacob was in a chair next the bed, his upper body slumped on the bed and his hand resting protectively on Olivia’s back.  Not wanting to disturb the sleeping family, the men both left kisses on Sophie’s forehead before slipping out and heading back to where their son and his husband were waiting the birth of their twins.

Reid knocked on the door frame as the men entered Hannah’s room.

“Hey, how’s the ..

The words died on Reid’s tongue as he realized the room was empty and the bed was gone. Turning around he almost ran over Luke.

“Hey, what’s going on? Where are you going?”

“To find my family.  The room is empty.”

Reid barged out to the nurses station.

“Hey, you.  You look semi-competent.  Can you tell me what happened to the patient in room 428?  They were there less than a half an hour ago and now the room is empty, including the bed.”

“Um, I don’t know.  I don’t see any notes.”

“What do you mean you don’t know.  How do you just lose a woman who is 9-months pregnant with twins?!?!?  Are you an idiot?”

The nurse started crying and Reid rolled his eyes.

“Oh great, now you’re leaking.”

“I’m ssssorry.  I jjjjust ssstarted my ssshift.  The pppprevious nnnurse dddin’t lllleave aaany nnnnotes.”

“Is there anybody around here that would know then?  Somebody competent enough to leave notes for their replacement?”

“Luke?  Reid?  Why are you berating Kelly?”

“Gretchen do you know what happened to Hannah?  She was in early labor but now she isn’t in her room and nobody seems to know where she is.”

“Yeah, they just took her down to surgery.  Apparently one of the babies is breech and won’t turn around on it’s own so they decided it was best if they went in and delivered via c-section.”

Reid took off as soon as he heard Gretchen say ‘breech’ but Luke stayed long enough to thank her for the information before taking off after his husband.  He found Reid pacing in the waiting room outside the surgical wing, his left hand tapping away on his thigh.

“Hey, everythings going to be fine,” Luke said as he pulled his husband into an embrace in an effort to calm him.

Reid buried his nose in Luke’s blonde locks and inhaled his husband’s unique scent while the younger man rubbed soothing circles on his back. Eventually the men separated and Luke took Reid’s hand and gently guided him over to one of the couches.  Reid sat hunched over with his elbows on his knees as he held his head in his hands.  Luke continued to rub his husband’s back. While they waited, Eric and Hayley showed up.  Luke had called his son and daughter-in-law to let them know what was going on.

Reid was going crazy and was about to use his rank at the hospital to get some information when the door to the surgical wing swung open and Evan and Trevor walked out, huge smiles on their faces.

“They’re here!” they exclaimed, tears running down their cheeks.

The waiting room erupted in cheers.  Luke and Reid both jumped up and enveloped their son and son-in-law in a big hug.

“Hannah is being settled into her room and the twins are being checked out but so far the doctors say they are both healthy,” Evan said.

“Sooo,” Reid said. “Are you going to tell us what you had?”

“Um, babies,” Trevor joked.

“You know what I mean.”

“Come with us and you can see for yourselves.”

“Hey, what about us?”

They turned to see Casey and Maddie standing in the doorway.

“Mom, Dad, you made it!,” Trevor said as he ran over and hugged his parents.

“Once you called and said Hannah was in labor we jumped in the car and drove all night.  We weren’t about to miss seeing our first grandbabies,” Maddie said as she reached up and gently wiped the tears off her son’s face.

“This is sweet and all but I’d like to meet my grandchildren.”

“Reid!” Luke hissed as he elbowed his husband.

“What?!? Reid replied as the group finally headed to see the twins.

They were almost to Hannah’s room when Gretchen intercepted them.

“Hey guys, Hannah’s not in that room anymore.  We moved her to a different one.  I’ll take you there.”

Gretchen lead them towards the new maternity wing.  Reid was confused  The wing was finished but had not yet open.  She led them to one of the new family suites.  They walked inside and were surprised to see not only Hannah and the twins but Sophie, Jacob and baby Olivia.  The room was large enough to accommodate the two beds and three bassinets.

“Did you arrange for this?” Reid asked.

“When I realized that Sophie was here too I decided to see what kind of strings I could pull to get you into one of these rooms.”

“Thank you.”

“You’re more than welcome.”

Evan and Trevor each walked over to a bassinet and picked up a baby.

“Everybody, we’d like you to meet Robert Matthew Oliver-Hughes and Landon Holden Oliver-Hughes.”

Bobby, Landon and Olivia were all passed around while everybody fussed over them until eventually the parents all needed to get some sleep. Eric and Hayley were getting ready to leave when Eric spoke up

“Before we take off we have an announcement.”

As he spoke, Eric wrapped his arms around his wife’s waist, his hands resting on her stomach.  Hayley rested her hands on top of his.

“We’re expecting!  In six months we’ll have our own little bundle of joy.”

The room erupted in cheers at the news with everybody congratulating the pair.  After things settled down, Jacob squeezed onto the bed with Sophie while Evan and Trevor crashed on the pullout couch/bed.  Hannah of course had her own bed. While the parents slept, Maddie volunteered to go on a food run and left the men to fawn over the babies

“Well Doctor O, we’re officially grandparents,” Casey said quietly as he rocked Landon.

Reid looked down at a sleeping Bobby in his arms as he spoke.

“Casey why do you insist on calling me Doctor O?  We’ve known each other for almost 30 years, our children are married to each other and now we share two grandchildren, yet you almost never call me Reid.”

“I guess it’s a respect thing.  You earned that title,” Casey said with a shrug.

Reid wasn’t sure what to say to that.

“Wow, you’re at a loss for words?  That rarely happens,” Luke said with a quiet chuckle as he shifted a fussy Olivia in his arms.

“Here let me take her.  Maybe I can get her to settle down,” Reid said

The men managed to switch babies without waking up Bobby or upsetting Olivia further. Reid rocked his granddaughter and sang some quiet Justin Timberlake while rubbing soothing circles on her back much like he used to do for her mother.   It wasn't long before Olivia quieted down and snuggled into her grand-papa’s chest.
Reid looked around the room at his family.  Two of his three children were now parents with the third to join them in a few short months.  And all three had married wonderful people.  His gazed stopped for a moment on Casey, who over the years had become more than just Luke’s best friend. He was also one of Reid’s best friends and he couldn’t have been happier when their children married and they became family. He couldn’t help but linger on the sight of his husband snoring lightly in a rocking chair with a sound asleep Bobby on his chest.  Despite being in his early 50’s, Luke still looked like he was in his 30’s and was as gorgeous as the day he first laid eyes on him. He watched his husband a while longer before his gaze landed back on his granddaughter. He had always had a special bond with Sophie and looking at the little girl who was the splitting image of her mother, he had a feeling they too would share a unique connection.

fic, mickey9928

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