Redemption Chapter Sixteen
The Baby’s Arrive
On the way to the car, Sam insisted that the baby was too early as Dawn let him know they she understood that. She knew, better than he did that something could be wrong even though she felt this was real labor. Dawn’s Doctor was the one on call that night so he came over as soon as he was paged. He checked her out and confirmed it was regular labor and the baby was developed enough but there seemed to be a problem. When they tried to send Sam out in the hallway Dawn panicked.
“No, he has to stay for every minute,” she said to her Doctor who wasn’t used to that type of request.
He agreed as long as Sam stayed out of the way. Sam held Dawn’s hand as he watched the proceedings. Then the worse sound possible rang into their ears. The baby was in distress and the monitor began to beep while Dawn looked warily at Sam. The Doctor once again asked Sam to leave but he refused.
“Okay here is the deal; we have to get the baby out now the cord is tangled and we are afraid it will get wrapped around its neck, so we are going to do an emergency C-section.”
“Okay so get my husband ready because he has to be there,” Dawn insisted knowing what she did about her family.
The Doctor nodded as Sam followed him out of the room so he could be prepared to be in the room while they performed the surgery.
It seemed like only moments to Dawn when Sam came into the operating room to hold her hand again. They sedated her but he stayed by her side as he alternately watched them bring out their baby. He wasn’t moved by all the blood but he almost fainted when he saw it was a girl. Once the surgery was complete, they took the newborn to the nursery and despite being born early; she was perfect so she did not require the use of the incubator.
“You had perfect timing young lady, any later and this could have been….well you did well,” the Doctor told Dawn once she was settled in the room.
“Thank you very much, now you are sure everything is fine?”
“She is perfect despite the cord incident, no brain damage her heart and other organs are excellent. I admit she doesn’t look early its possible your timing was off. I mean she is almost eight pounds, a healthy size.”
Dawn smiled at Sam who had just come in the room after talking to Dean.
“We were told we were having a boy,” Sam said.
“Well with two Winchester mother’s in the same hospital it was probably easy to get mixed up,” Dawn said in the Doctor’s defense.
“We are sorry about that, hey, here is the little one you can feed her I will see you in the morning,” the Doctor said on his way out.
The nurse handed the infant to Dawn who held her daughter close to her chest for a moment as she looked at Sam.
“Thank you,” she said as tears formed in her eyes before she handed the baby to him.
The little one seemed to look right at Sam and smile as he held her though he knew she was too young to focus or see at a distance. Sam felt clumsy as he held his little girl; before he realized it, his eyes were full of tears too.
“I love you and we created her together, you can’t thank me for this when I am the one who had longed for this day most of my life. If there is a God he will watch over her in every way that I can’t.”
Dawn smiled as she took the baby to feed. The little one was a beauty at almost twenty-two inches long with dark brown hair, dark eyes and her dad’s small lips.
The next morning while Dean waited outside the room he heard the Doctor when he exited the room on his cell phone.
“Yes, the Winchester baby is perfect just like I promised,” the Doctor whispered as he left the room Then he said something else Dean couldn’t hear before he put his cell phone away and headed in the other direction from where Dean sat as he waited for Vangie to come out of the ladies room. He shook his head as he pondered who the Doctor could have been discussing his family with.
Sam felt bad that he hadn’t told Dean and Vangie it was a girl but had let them assume otherwise. Something inside him wanted them to be surprised but he knew it would be a good one for Dean who wanted a little boy but hadn’t been able to tell Vangie in so many words. Dawn was feeding the baby her morning meal when the door opened.
“Hey,” Vangie said to her cousin as she went around the bed to kiss her and the baby.
“Congrats Sammy,” Dean said as he teased his younger brother.
The couple smiled and looked at the baby only a moment before Dean noticed the pink ribbon on the little girls head full of dark hair.
“Uh, do they put pink on the boys head too?”
Sam smiled, “No Dean, we had a girl. You two are having a boy; the charts got mixed up,” Sam said as Dean’s face lit up.
Vangie laughed, she knew Dean wanted a boy in a bad way but he had been good about not being disappointed but she had to give him a hard time anyway.
“So you didn’t want a girl?” Vangie pouted.
“Uh, no it didn’t matter I just want a healthy baby it doesn’t matter if it’s a girl or a boy,” he said as he rubbed Vangie’s back.
She turned to pull him in for a kiss.
“It’s okay baby you can be happy I don’t mind,” Vangie said at Dean’s grin.
Since Dawn had surgery, her and Sam set up the guestroom downstairs for them to stay in for a while. Dawn hated moving around slowly but she knew it was part of the healing process. It was good Sam was there to help her with the baby especially the early morning feedings when their hungry little Victoria Alexis used her lungs to their full capacity. Sam smiled as he picked up his daughter and she stopped crying to stare at him on the way to her meal.
“You are okay little Torie, your mama has what you need right here.”
Dawn laughed, “I have heard breast feeding is great for bonding, we will see if when she is a teenager we will look back to these days and get past that stage quickly.”
“I don’t think the bonding lasts that long,” Sam teased as he passed the little girl to Dawn on his way to get his wife some saltines and water.
***
Dean and Vangie’s baby was as stubborn about coming into the world as Sam and Dawn’s had been ready. Not only was the baby late but its parents had begun to get on one another’s nerves.
“You hadn’t expected to get pregnant you probably counted the days wrong,” Dean said at Vangie’s look of frustration.
“I know I am sorry I said you didn’t know what you were doing.”
He pulled her into his arms as he spooned up behind her before he leaned up to kiss her forehead. One thing he knew was how to make love to his wife, of course in this case where all her desire was “out the window” things were not the same. He knew she was frustrated since sex hadn’t brought on her contractions as they had hoped and she was almost two weeks late.
However, it was almost two hours later when Vangie woke Dean up.
“Something is happening,” she said nervously as she bit her lip.
“Well let’s get to the hospital to find out what is going on, okay,” he said as he nodded and helped her off the bed.
When they stood face to face he kissed her quickly, “It will be okay.”
“You don’t know that,” she said to his back.
“Yeah, I do,” he insisted as he turned around to take a moment to hold her as close as possible for a moment.
Vangie’s bag was at the back door so she waited impatiently while Dean stopped to let Dawn and Sam know they were on the way to the hospital.
“Call us, okay,” A sleepy Sam said.
“We will.”
Once again the Winchester couple refused to be separated and the Doctor didn’t want the mother to be upset so he agreed. Dean sat at Vangie’s bedside as he held her hand and tried to keep her mind occupied between contractions.
{Flashback-a year ago}
Dean and Vangie sat nervously outside the Doctor’s office. Dean held her hand as he tried to help her relax.
“Think of it this way, all of our lovemaking may have a productive side now. Besides all the pleasure we get out if,” he whispered to her as she blushed.
“Dean,” she said as she bit her lip and tried not to laugh as the women closest to them smiled.
She poked Dean in the ribs for good measure but he only kissed her nose just before they called them into the office. The Doctor let them know she was a good candidate for restorative surgery but he emphasized that though the damage wasn’t extensive he still could not guarantee she would be able to conceive.
“Okay, but there is no chance without the surgery, right?” Vangie asked.
“No, there is not,” the doctor insisted.
Dawn looked at Dean as she squeezed his hand.
“What do you want to do?”
“It’s your decision, Sweetie, it’s your body,” Dean said.
Vangie swallowed as she looked at Dean and forgot all about the Doctor’s presence. She wanted to give him a baby, it seemed only right.
“Oh, I want the chance to have a child with my husband, very much,” she said as she smiled at Dean.
Dean was excited he wanted one with her also but he couldn’t pressure her, he didn’t feel it was right. The Doctor nodded as he set up an appointment for the surgery.
{End Flashback}
Six hours later,
“I bet you are having second thoughts about wanting a baby right now,” Dean said as he dabbed her forehead with a wet cloth after an especially painful contraction.
“No, I’m not I wanted this for both of us,” she smiled just before another contraction over took her.
A few minutes later they moved everyone to the birthing room since Vangie was still on track to have the baby naturally. For once Dean felt all the gory things he had dealt with in his life would come to good use. Not that he thought childbirth was gory but he had seen the process several times recently and it wasn’t particularly pretty. Vangie was caught up in her breathing through the pain but he saw the baby’s head when it appeared and tears formed in his eyes before he realized it but he quickly wiped them away. He had never though the day would come when he would have a child, let alone a son. Vangie squeezed his hand and let out a scream as the rest of the body appeared. Then she released his hand and was out.
“Doctor?” Dean said as he pointed to his wife.
“Put the ice chips to her lips and over her face.”
Dean did as he was told and she began to come around.
“You scared me, are you okay?” he said to Vangie who seemed overly tired.
“I guess it was a reaction, I feel so dry and drained.
He feed her a clean piece of ice as they watched them clean up the little boy before they handed him to Dean.
The baby had dark hair like Vangie, and was close to twenty-one inches long with dark green eyes and his father’s heart shaped lips. Dean’s heart was full of thanks to the powers in charge though he still wasn’t convinced of who they were he felt he owed them now. He was still frightened because of their situation if any one at the hospital knew that the baby’s life was in danger he would be taken from them. However, he realized that the Winchesters were the only ones that were qualified to defend his child as well as his brothers. Dean smiled at his son as he moved his lips in anticipation of the coming meal. Vangie smiled too just before they separated the family long enough to get them all back into her room.
Dean was about to phone Sammy when he noticed Vangie’s Doctor on a cell phone in the hallway. He got close enough to listen since the man’s back was to him.
“Yes, the baby is fine the mother is great, everything went perfectly. Now when do I get my money?”
Dean hesitated only a moment before he grabbed the phone from the Doctor.
“Who is this?” he asked into the phone as the Doctor only glared at him.
“Who is this?”
“Dean Winchester, why are you so concerned about my family?”
“This is Ronnie, Vangie’s brother, I am sorry I haven’t had a chance to meet you yet I have been over seas in the military.”
“But what is going on with you and the Doctors?” he asked as the Doctor reached for the phone and Dean turned around.
“I will tell you soon, you should probably go in with Vangie I don’t want her alone.”
Dean agreed as he handed the phone back to the Doctor.
Dean could only shake his head as he headed to the room. Vangie’s family had more secrets than his own. On the other hand, if they were trying to guarantee her safety he wasn’t going to fight it.
He walked in to find Vangie feeding their little one.
“Did you phone Sam?”
Dean explained what happened in the hallway to Vangie and she didn’t seem surprised at all.
“I told you they always tried to watch over me and Dawn. What happened with Aaron was a delayed reaction to them not knowing what I was going through. I put up a good front but they were so busy with their own lives they were devastated when they finally found out the truth.”
“I applaud their determination but I will let them all know I am your hero now. We need to think about the good that we have in our lives and how we plan to keep safe,” Dean said with a smile and kiss for Vangie.
“Yes, I know, so what are we naming this new little Winchester heir?”
Dean laughed, “I was thinking we could use the name Dawn and Sam didn’t use.”
“Sean Alexander?”
“Uh huh.”
“I like it, it is a name fit for a king,” she grinned as she changed sides so the baby could continue his meal.
Dean looked on, beside himself with happiness but uncertain of the future.
TBC
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On the way to the car, Sam insisted that the baby was too early as Dawn let him know they she understood that. She knew, better than he did that something could be wrong even though she felt this was real labor. Dawn’s Doctor was the one on call that night so he came over as soon as he was paged. He checked her out and confirmed it was regular labor and the baby was developed enough but there seemed to be a problem. When they tried to send Sam out in the hallway Dawn panicked.
“No, he has to stay for every minute,” she said to her Doctor who wasn’t used to that type of request.
He agreed as long as Sam stayed out of the way. Sam held Dawn’s hand as he watched the proceedings. Then the worse sound possible rang into their ears. The baby was in distress and the monitor began to beep while Dawn looked warily at Sam. The Doctor once again asked Sam to leave but he refused.
“Okay here is the deal; we have to get the baby out now the cord is tangled and we are afraid it will get wrapped around its neck, so we are going to do an emergency C-section.”
“Okay so get my husband ready because he has to be there,” Dawn insisted knowing what she did about her family.
The Doctor nodded as Sam followed him out of the room so he could be prepared to be in the room while they performed the surgery.
It seemed like only moments to Dawn when Sam came into the operating room to hold her hand again. They sedated her but he stayed by her side as he alternately watched them bring out their baby. He wasn’t moved by all the blood but he almost fainted when he saw it was a girl. Once the surgery was complete, they took the newborn to the nursery and despite being born early; she was perfect so she did not require the use of the incubator.
“You had perfect timing young lady, any later and this could have been….well you did well,” the Doctor told Dawn once she was settled in the room.
“Thank you very much, now you are sure everything is fine?”
“She is perfect despite the cord incident, no brain damage her heart and other organs are excellent. I admit she doesn’t look early its possible your timing was off. I mean she is almost eight pounds, a healthy size.”
Dawn smiled at Sam who had just come in the room after talking to Dean.
“We were told we were having a boy,” Sam said.
“Well with two Winchester mother’s in the same hospital it was probably easy to get mixed up,” Dawn said in the Doctor’s defense.
“We are sorry about that, hey, here is the little one you can feed her I will see you in the morning,” the Doctor said on his way out.
The nurse handed the infant to Dawn who held her daughter close to her chest for a moment as she looked at Sam.
“Thank you,” she said as tears formed in her eyes before she handed the baby to him.
The little one seemed to look right at Sam and smile as he held her though he knew she was too young to focus or see at a distance. Sam felt clumsy as he held his little girl; before he realized it, his eyes were full of tears too.
“I love you and we created her together, you can’t thank me for this when I am the one who had longed for this day most of my life. If there is a God he will watch over her in every way that I can’t.”
Dawn smiled as she took the baby to feed. The little one was a beauty at almost twenty-two inches long with dark brown hair, dark eyes and her dad’s small lips.
The next morning while Dean waited outside the room he heard the Doctor when he exited the room on his cell phone.
“Yes, the Winchester baby is perfect just like I promised,” the Doctor whispered as he left the room Then he said something else Dean couldn’t hear before he put his cell phone away and headed in the other direction from where Dean sat as he waited for Vangie to come out of the ladies room. He shook his head as he pondered who the Doctor could have been discussing his family with.
Sam felt bad that he hadn’t told Dean and Vangie it was a girl but had let them assume otherwise. Something inside him wanted them to be surprised but he knew it would be a good one for Dean who wanted a little boy but hadn’t been able to tell Vangie in so many words. Dawn was feeding the baby her morning meal when the door opened.
“Hey,” Vangie said to her cousin as she went around the bed to kiss her and the baby.
“Congrats Sammy,” Dean said as he teased his younger brother.
The couple smiled and looked at the baby only a moment before Dean noticed the pink ribbon on the little girls head full of dark hair.
“Uh, do they put pink on the boys head too?”
Sam smiled, “No Dean, we had a girl. You two are having a boy; the charts got mixed up,” Sam said as Dean’s face lit up.
Vangie laughed, she knew Dean wanted a boy in a bad way but he had been good about not being disappointed but she had to give him a hard time anyway.
“So you didn’t want a girl?” Vangie pouted.
“Uh, no it didn’t matter I just want a healthy baby it doesn’t matter if it’s a girl or a boy,” he said as he rubbed Vangie’s back.
She turned to pull him in for a kiss.
“It’s okay baby you can be happy I don’t mind,” Vangie said at Dean’s grin.
Since Dawn had surgery, her and Sam set up the guestroom downstairs for them to stay in for a while. Dawn hated moving around slowly but she knew it was part of the healing process. It was good Sam was there to help her with the baby especially the early morning feedings when their hungry little Victoria Alexis used her lungs to their full capacity. Sam smiled as he picked up his daughter and she stopped crying to stare at him on the way to her meal.
“You are okay little Torie, your mama has what you need right here.”
Dawn laughed, “I have heard breast feeding is great for bonding, we will see if when she is a teenager we will look back to these days and get past that stage quickly.”
“I don’t think the bonding lasts that long,” Sam teased as he passed the little girl to Dawn on his way to get his wife some saltines and water.
***
Dean and Vangie’s baby was as stubborn about coming into the world as Sam and Dawn’s had been ready. Not only was the baby late but its parents had begun to get on one another’s nerves.
“You hadn’t expected to get pregnant you probably counted the days wrong,” Dean said at Vangie’s look of frustration.
“I know I am sorry I said you didn’t know what you were doing.”
He pulled her into his arms as he spooned up behind her before he leaned up to kiss her forehead. One thing he knew was how to make love to his wife, of course in this case where all her desire was “out the window” things were not the same. He knew she was frustrated since sex hadn’t brought on her contractions as they had hoped and she was almost two weeks late.
However, it was almost two hours later when Vangie woke Dean up.
“Something is happening,” she said nervously as she bit her lip.
“Well let’s get to the hospital to find out what is going on, okay,” he said as he nodded and helped her off the bed.
When they stood face to face he kissed her quickly, “It will be okay.”
“You don’t know that,” she said to his back.
“Yeah, I do,” he insisted as he turned around to take a moment to hold her as close as possible for a moment.
Vangie’s bag was at the back door so she waited impatiently while Dean stopped to let Dawn and Sam know they were on the way to the hospital.
“Call us, okay,” A sleepy Sam said.
“We will.”
Once again the Winchester couple refused to be separated and the Doctor didn’t want the mother to be upset so he agreed. Dean sat at Vangie’s bedside as he held her hand and tried to keep her mind occupied between contractions.
{Flashback-a year ago}
Dean and Vangie sat nervously outside the Doctor’s office. Dean held her hand as he tried to help her relax.
“Think of it this way, all of our lovemaking may have a productive side now. Besides all the pleasure we get out if,” he whispered to her as she blushed.
“Dean,” she said as she bit her lip and tried not to laugh as the women closest to them smiled.
She poked Dean in the ribs for good measure but he only kissed her nose just before they called them into the office. The Doctor let them know she was a good candidate for restorative surgery but he emphasized that though the damage wasn’t extensive he still could not guarantee she would be able to conceive.
“Okay, but there is no chance without the surgery, right?” Vangie asked.
“No, there is not,” the doctor insisted.
Dawn looked at Dean as she squeezed his hand.
“What do you want to do?”
“It’s your decision, Sweetie, it’s your body,” Dean said.
Vangie swallowed as she looked at Dean and forgot all about the Doctor’s presence. She wanted to give him a baby, it seemed only right.
“Oh, I want the chance to have a child with my husband, very much,” she said as she smiled at Dean.
Dean was excited he wanted one with her also but he couldn’t pressure her, he didn’t feel it was right. The Doctor nodded as he set up an appointment for the surgery.
{End Flashback}
Six hours later,
“I bet you are having second thoughts about wanting a baby right now,” Dean said as he dabbed her forehead with a wet cloth after an especially painful contraction.
“No, I’m not I wanted this for both of us,” she smiled just before another contraction over took her.
A few minutes later they moved everyone to the birthing room since Vangie was still on track to have the baby naturally. For once Dean felt all the gory things he had dealt with in his life would come to good use. Not that he thought childbirth was gory but he had seen the process several times recently and it wasn’t particularly pretty. Vangie was caught up in her breathing through the pain but he saw the baby’s head when it appeared and tears formed in his eyes before he realized it but he quickly wiped them away. He had never though the day would come when he would have a child, let alone a son. Vangie squeezed his hand and let out a scream as the rest of the body appeared. Then she released his hand and was out.
“Doctor?” Dean said as he pointed to his wife.
“Put the ice chips to her lips and over her face.”
Dean did as he was told and she began to come around.
“You scared me, are you okay?” he said to Vangie who seemed overly tired.
“I guess it was a reaction, I feel so dry and drained.
He feed her a clean piece of ice as they watched them clean up the little boy before they handed him to Dean.
The baby had dark hair like Vangie, and was close to twenty-one inches long with dark green eyes and his father’s heart shaped lips. Dean’s heart was full of thanks to the powers in charge though he still wasn’t convinced of who they were he felt he owed them now. He was still frightened because of their situation if any one at the hospital knew that the baby’s life was in danger he would be taken from them. However, he realized that the Winchesters were the only ones that were qualified to defend his child as well as his brothers. Dean smiled at his son as he moved his lips in anticipation of the coming meal. Vangie smiled too just before they separated the family long enough to get them all back into her room.
Dean was about to phone Sammy when he noticed Vangie’s Doctor on a cell phone in the hallway. He got close enough to listen since the man’s back was to him.
“Yes, the baby is fine the mother is great, everything went perfectly. Now when do I get my money?”
Dean hesitated only a moment before he grabbed the phone from the Doctor.
“Who is this?” he asked into the phone as the Doctor only glared at him.
“Who is this?”
“Dean Winchester, why are you so concerned about my family?”
“This is Ronnie, Vangie’s brother, I am sorry I haven’t had a chance to meet you yet I have been over seas in the military.”
“But what is going on with you and the Doctors?” he asked as the Doctor reached for the phone and Dean turned around.
“I will tell you soon, you should probably go in with Vangie I don’t want her alone.”
Dean agreed as he handed the phone back to the Doctor.
Dean could only shake his head as he headed to the room. Vangie’s family had more secrets than his own. On the other hand, if they were trying to guarantee her safety he wasn’t going to fight it.
He walked in to find Vangie feeding their little one.
“Did you phone Sam?”
Dean explained what happened in the hallway to Vangie and she didn’t seem surprised at all.
“I told you they always tried to watch over me and Dawn. What happened with Aaron was a delayed reaction to them not knowing what I was going through. I put up a good front but they were so busy with their own lives they were devastated when they finally found out the truth.”
“I applaud their determination but I will let them all know I am your hero now. We need to think about the good that we have in our lives and how we plan to keep safe,” Dean said with a smile and kiss for Vangie.
“Yes, I know, so what are we naming this new little Winchester heir?”
Dean laughed, “I was thinking we could use the name Dawn and Sam didn’t use.”
“Sean Alexander?”
“Uh huh.”
“I like it, it is a name fit for a king,” she grinned as she changed sides so the baby could continue his meal.
Dean looked on, beside himself with happiness but uncertain of the future.
TBC
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