Fic: Plentiful Bounty, (5/5), J2, Mpreg, Bigbang
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Please see part one for warnings and notes.
1 week post partum / 34 weeks
“Go rest Jared, I will take care of them while you get some sleep, that’s what Donna and I are here for,” Sherry insisted as she shooed Jared towards the bedroom. Lucy’s insistent cries increased in pitch as her brother’s cries suddenly echoed her own.
“You get Lucy and I’ll get Mikey,” Jensen said as he moved past both of them, shuffling awkwardly to get around them in the hallway with his huge belly.
“Jensen, you are supposed to be resting too!” Sherry remarked with a heavy sigh, “look at you, you’re just about ready to drop, now go and rest with your husband. Your Mother and I will take care of the little ones for the afternoon,” Sherry demanded as she pointed sternly towards the master bedroom.
Jensen looked ready to protest but his husband’s frantic quit it motions over Sherry’s shoulder had Jensen sighing as he squeezed his way past her again to stand meekly with Jared.
“Can you bring them into us once they’ve calmed down a little and we can snuggle with them on the bed?” Jensen asked with a sheepish smile.
Sherry cooed at him and promised to bring them in for a cuddle once they were settled.
“You are so adorable, Jensen. I can see why my son loves you so much,” Sherry smiled wistfully as she moved away to tend to her grandchildren.
Jensen turned to a grinning Jared.
“What?”
“You are pretty damn adorable, you know?” Jared teased as he leaned in over Jensen’s huge belly to kiss him gently on the lips.
Jensen blushed a little.
“What? Just because I want to spend some time with my babies?” Jensen pouted as he started to shepherd Jared back to their bedroom, his enormous belly pushing into Jared’s back as they walked up the hall way.
“You’ve hardly let them out of your sight since we brought them home. I swear you have spent more time with them than I have,” Jared mused as he turned into their bedroom and moved to the bed.
“You’re recovering from the birth, you need to rest. it’s only natural that I’ve been with them a tiny bit more. That’s a good thing. It means you are getting the rest you should be,” Jensen replied as he helped Jared to ease down onto the bed, trying to avoid him pulling his stitches.
Jared hissed out a groan as he lay down and rolled to face Jensen’s side of the bed.
“You okay? Do you need me to get you some ice or painkillers?” Jensen asked, checking his watch for the time. “You can probably have some more of the good stuff if you need it. Do you want me to go get you some?” Jensen asked as he moved back towards the door.
“No, Jen wait. Come and lay with me, that’s what I want the most. Just rest with me for a while. You are supposed to be on bedrest, remember? Not jumping around for me and the babies, that why our Mom’s are here remember?” Jared gently scolded him as he patted the bed in front of him.
Jensen frowned and rolled his eyes, but moved to the bed and settled down awkwardly. The task of getting on and off the bed was getting harder every day as his belly seemed to just grow exponentially over the last weeks of his pregnancy. Grunting and groaning, he shuffled around trying to get comfortable. Jensen finally settled, facing Jared. His belly just touching Jared’s, it spread most of the way across the bed. Jared smiled as he saw the lines of tension that were marring Jensen’s face throughout the day slowly ease as he relaxed into the soft mattress. Jared gently caressed Jensen’s belly, chuckling slightly when one of the babies presented him with the smooth round lump of their bottom. He couldn’t help but laugh when the distinct shape of a foot push up beside it.
“They’re fighting again. These three are going to be a handful and a half when they’re born,” Jared grinned as he kissed the little foot with a soft smile.
Jensen groaned and shifted slightly on the bed.
“You’re telling me. They’re not to careful about collateral damage either. I swear my kidney’s are constantly bruised from them punching and kicking into them as they squirm around in there,” Jensen replied as he rubbed the side of his belly with a grimace.
“Well there can’t be much room left in there. Misha said they’re all a good size for multiples, even a little ahead of where Lucy and Mikey were when they were the same age,” Jared remarked, a slow smile creeping across his face before he winked at Jensen with a smirk.
“It must be my super sperm producing such healthy babies,” Jared teased as he patted Jensen’s huge belly proudly.
Jensen rolled his eyes at him, but smiled indulgently.
“Yeah must be, stud.”
“Damn straight. Look at you, if that doesn’t prove I’m a virile male, then nothing does,” Jared replied indignantly.
“Calm down there stud, wouldn’t want you to bust any of your stitches now would we?” Jensen teased as he affectionately patted Jared’s pouting face.
Jared huffed indignantly. “Didn’t hear you making any complaints when we were making them.”
Jensen grinned. ”No, definitely have never had any complaints about your performance, so I guess your stud status is truly earned then,” Jensen finished with a mischievous wink.
“If I weren’t sore and sorry for myself and you weren’t ready to pop, I would so show you just how much I own that status,” Jared replied with a rueful look.
Jensen laughed heartily, only stopping when he couldn’t catch his breath from laughing too hard.
“Yeah, babe, I think it will be a while before we’re testing out that particular claim again,” Jensen finally managed to reply through his panting laughter.
“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. When I’m healed up and you’re still sore, I’m so going to tease the hell out of you,” Jared threatened with a grin.
Jensen choked out at sputtering laugh.
“With five newborns in the house? We’ll be lucky if we managed to have sex before they’re a year old.”
Jared looked thoughtful for a minute, then his face dropped as he truly thought about what Jensen had said.
“Man, now I’m just depressed, thanks for that. Like I need any help being emotional at the moment,” Jared replied with a frown.
Jensen smiled at him gently. “Don’t worry babe, we’ll work it out. It will take time, but we’ll get there. I promise.”
Jared smiled reluctantly. “Yeah, I guess. Just seems a little insurmountable right now though.”
Jensen sighed heavily as he rubbed a hand over his constantly moving belly. “Tell me about it. But I figure we’ll have our parents to help us ease into it and we’ve always got each other. We’ve been through some pretty hard times and we got through it. I know we can do this too.”
Jared looked at him with suddenly teary eyes, his voice raw with the tears.
“How did you get so amazing? And how the hell did I get to have you all to myself?”
Jensen smiled at him affectionately, his own eyes a little teary as he stretched forward and kissed him tenderly.
“You’re pretty damn amazing yourself, so how about we just put it down to fate?” Jensen murmured quietly.
“Love you, so damn much,” Jared said as he draped his arm over Jensen’s belly and stroked at the curve of Jensen’s back.
“Ditto,” Jensen replied with a loving smile as he cupped Jared’s cheek in his palm, stroking his thumb over his cheekbone.
The gentle knock at the open door way had them grinning at each other like teenagers caught fooling around.
“Is it safe to bring these dear hearts in to rest with you two?” Donna teased affectionately as she stepped into the room with Mikey safely nestled in her arms.
“Of course, not like either of us are in any condition to get up to anything even remotely strenuous,” Jared replied with a grin, enjoying the horrified look on his husband’s face.
“Jared!” Jensen chided as he swatted his hand over the top of Jared’s head.
“What? Your Mom knows we have sex, or at least had, look at you?” Jared teased with a wink over his shoulder to Donna who was rolling her eyes at their antics.
Jensen’s flushed scarlet. “You don’t have to be so blatant about it though. You have no shame.”
“Oh shush, Jensen. I’m not a naive school girl about these things, you know. I did have three babies of my own, after all,” Donna admonished with a wink of her own at an amused Jared.
“Mum!” Jensen cried as his buried his face into his hands in his embarrassment.
“How about you two make some room for this precious little man, so you can all snuggle together, hmmm?” Donna urged as she came around the bed and gently placed a sleepy Mikey into Jared’s waiting arms before smiling at the three of them and moving from the room quietly.
Mikey opened sleepy eyes for a second before he snuffled quietly and nuzzled into Jared’s chest, his little cheek pressed up against Jared’s chest and his little bow lips slipping open as he relaxed into Jared’s arm.
Jared stroked at his sleeping son’s downy cheek, chuckling lightly when Mikey shivered and sighed heavily at the touch.
“He’s just as sensitive to touch as you are babe,” Jared teased with a smile at Jensen.
Jensen grinned back happily, his eyes slightly glassy with tears.
“He’s beautiful, Jared, so beautiful,” Jensen sighed as he pressed a soft kiss to Mikey’s sleeper clad shoulder.
Jared beamed at him happily.
“I did pretty good didn’t I?”
Jensen chuckled lightly as Sherry entered the room, cooing at the scene in front of her to deposit a sleeping Lucy into Jensen’s waiting arms next to Mikey.
“Yeah babe, you did really good.”
~o0o~
3 weeks post partum / 36 weeks
Jensen arched his aching back as best he could, wincing as he felt another band of pain starting low in his back and wrapping around his belly like a clenching belt. Suddenly, the painful squeezing increased until he was breathing heavily and doubled over, trying to get his composure back and not freak out. A violent movement in his belly coinciding with a distinct popping sound gave him a tiny warning that his waters were breaking before his sweats were saturated and he couldn’t help but moan unwittingly while he fell to his hands and knees in agonizing pain as an incredible pressure clamped down on his pelvis.
It was at least a good minute and a half before the pain started to ease and he could contemplate how he was going to get off his hands and knees. Before he could come up with a way that didn’t involve a crane or a forklift, he heard a startled yell behind him and he suddenly had his father’s firm but gentle hands helping him to rise off the floor to shuffle awkwardly over to collapse in a panting heap on the couch.
“Jared, need Jared...now,” Jensen barked out as another painful contraction gripped his belly and he got the frighteningly familiar urge to push. As his father ran back out of the room, he slipped off the couch back onto all fours as he panted most of his way through the contraction. He desperately fought the urge to push, until the urge was just too much and his body took over, pushing involuntarily regardless of how hard he tried not to. It was as the contraction started to ease and he started to gain control of his breathing once more that he heard Jared’s anxious voice coming down the hallway ahead of him.
“No, no, no, don’t you dare push, Jensen. You can’t have the babies here, you hear me. No pushing,” Jared pleaded as he slid down in front of him with a wince, grabbed Jensen’s face between his giant palms, and looked at him with anxious, panic stricken eyes.
Jensen couldn’t help the whimper that escaped him as he pleaded with Jared, “I can’t stop it....too much...hurts too much...body won’t let me stop.”
“Shh...it’s ok Jen, I’m not mad at you. I just want you and the babies to be safe. Now come on, we’re gonna get you in the car and meet the ambulance on route okay?”
Jensen could only nod as he felt another contraction building in his belly. He cried out as he felt Jared and his father shifting him until he was sitting with his back leaned against Jared’s chest and his father had his arms braced along his thighs that were splayed around his grossly protruding belly. He sucked in a shuddering breath, clenching his eyes tightly shut as the contraction gripped him like a vice around his suddenly rock hard belly.
“Arrrggghhhh, Jared...can’t...stop...uuuggggghhh,” Jensen cried as his body took over again and bore down, his belly becoming misshapen over the lumps of the babies bodies inside him.
“Aww, hell. It’s okay, Jen, we got you babe,” Jared cooed into his ear as he felt Jared’s broad palm caress his cramping belly through his shirt with soothing circles against the rock hard stomach.
“Uuuurrrggggghhhhh...JARED!” Jensen screamed as the contraction continued on seemingly forever. When it finally eased, Jensen was left sweating and panting in distress, slumped in Jared’s arms.
Jared kissed his temple and soothed him with a tremulous whisper in his ear, “you’re alright babe. I promise it will all be okay, just breathe, nice and slow.”
“Jared, please..” Jensen cried as he tried to bury his face into Jared’s shoulder, not really sure what he was asking of him, but desperate to have Jared make it all better.
“Shhh, Jen, I’m here. We’re going to get you all to the hospital now, alright?” Jared comforted as he re-adjusted his arms under Jensen’s.
“Jared, no son, you can’t lift him, you’ve barely recovered from giving birth yourself. Let me help him to the car. You go get the bags,” Alan urged as he moved from Jensen’s legs to take Jared’s place behind him.
“NO, Jare, don’t leave me, please...oh god...hurts... aaaaaaarrrrggghhhh!” Jensen sobbed as the next contraction overwhelmed him.
“Shhh, baby, shhh, I won’t leave you, I promise. Just breathe, we’ll wait here for the ambulance okay?” Jared soothed as he wiped the sweat from Jensen’s brow as his lover writhed and screamed in pain as he struggled to birth their children.
“Alan, just get his sweats off. We’ll just have to wait for the ambulance, things are moving too fast to move him now. Here, Jen, let’s get you up on all fours, hey? That might make it a little less painful for you.” Jared instructed as he helped maneuver Jensen back onto his hands and knees, his grossly distended belly dragging on the floor under him as his father removed his fluid and slightly blood stained sweats.
A raw, guttural scream ripped from Jensen’s throat as the next contraction took hold and his legs collapsed under him so he was kneeling on the floor, his rock hard belly splayed between his spread knees, his hands clawing into the floor as his body bore down with incredible, agonizing force.
Silent tears slipped down Jared’s face as he pulled Jensen into his arms, bracing his upper body with his own as Jensen continued to howl his way through the contraction. Sniffing back his own tears, Jared looked over Jensen’s straining shoulder to his father-in-law behind them.
“How’s it looking? Will the ambulance make it in time?” Jared’s voice cracked slightly with his emotion.
Alan’s wide panicked eyes were enough of an answer, but his response was enough to send panic rippling through Jared’s suddenly frozen limbs.
“I think the first baby is beginning to crown. If they don’t get here in the next few minutes, they’re going to miss the first one completely,” Alan’s panicked tone raising it a register.
Jared refocused on his husband as the pitch of his screams changed to shrill and panicked.
“Burns, oh god, make it stop...uuuuuuggghhhhhhh,” his cries broke off into whimpering grunts as Alan lunged forward, pushing Jensen’s hips up a little as the first baby’s head started to emerge.
“Oh my, the head’s nearly out. Well done, Jensen, just hang in there, son, won’t be long now. Just do what your body tells you to,” Alan coached as he used his shoulder to help prop Jensen’s hip up so he had better access to the emerging baby.
Jared kissed Jensen’s flushed and sweat drenched cheeks as he whimpered and panted his way through the tail end of the intense contraction.
“Wow, babe, you’re a pro at this. You are putting me to shame,” Jared teased as he stroked soothing circles into the side of Jensen’s straining belly.
“Jare...arrrrrggghhhh,” Jensen sobbed as another contraction pulled through him.
“That’s it, Jen, I got you,” Jared soothed him as he wiped the sweat dripping down Jensen’s straining face as he screamed his way through the last of the contraction. Jensen’s scream, hiccupped into a happy sob as the mewling cry of a newborn filled the room.
“It’s a girl! Oh son, she’s so beautiful,” Alan called out over the cries of his new granddaughter.
Jared’s face spilt into a beaming grin as their newborn proved her lungs were well and truly developed despite her early arrival. Alan smiled through his tears at him over Jensen’s heaving shoulders as he cradled their newest addition to his chest.
“You hear that Jensen, she’s just fine,” Jared smiled as he gently kissed his sweating husband’s flushed face and smiled tiredly at him.
“Can I see her?” Jensen panted as he tried to crane around to see his still screaming newborn.
“Shit, yeah, of course babe, here let me help you,” Jared answered as he gently helped Jensen move to lie on his side and pulled him up so he was lying with his head across Jared’s lap.
“That okay?” Jared asked as he shifted a little beneath Jensen to get himself a little more comfortable so that he wasn’t pulling so much on his still tender stomach muscles.
Jensen’s liquid green eyes looked up into his with a happy smile as his father gently placed their squalling daughter into the cradle of his arm resting on the floor.
Jared couldn’t help the tears that slipped down his cheek as Jensen leaned over and kissed their daughter’s forehead and murmured into her skin, “love you, baby girl.”
The peacefulness of the moment was broken as the wail of sirens drowned out the cries of their baby and all three men sighed with relief almost simultaneously.
Immediately, the room was filled with noise and movement as the paramedics took in the scene and launched into action, one checking over their little girl the other checking on Jensen, who was once again starting to feel contractions slowly build in intensity.
“We need to get him loaded ASAP Jeff, he’s not far off delivering the second twin,” the paramedic called out to his partner who had finished looking over the baby and had handed her over to a startled Alan.
“Uh, triplet, he’s having triplets,” Jared butted in, startling the paramedic, a quick meaningful glance passing between the two medics.
“Okay, well either way we want to get you to the hospital before the next one arrives,” the paramedic spoke directly to Jensen as he and his partner moved Jared out of the way and started preparing to move Jensen to the waiting stretcher they had brought in with them.
“Jared, no please, let Jared stay with me,” Jensen cried as Jared shuffled out the way with a wince, his hand dropping from its hold on Jensen’s.
“Hey, it’s okay, I'm not going anywhere. I’m right here, baby...” Jared’s declaration was cut short with the horrified cry from the doorway.
“Oh my God, Jensen!” Jensen mother and mother-in-law called out in unison at the sight that met them as they walked back into the house with their two grandchildren in their arms.
Alan immediate moved over to his distraught wife and friend and reassured them that everything was well in hand and presented them Jensen’s and Jared’s newest edition.
Jensen started to moan in distress as the contractions started to come hard and fast once more. His hand instantly sought out Jared’s as he felt the second baby move down ready for birth.
“Uggh, Jared, need to push,” Jensen cried as the overwhelming urge to bear down overtook everything else.
“Jensen? Hey buddy, I need you to puff for me, like you are blowing out a candle okay? No pushing just yet,” the paramedic urged as he hurried to finish strapping Jensen to the gurney.
“Jared, right?” the paramedic Jeff asked as he finished helping his partner with the straps of the gurney. “I need you to keep Jensen calm, okay? We need to try to stop him from pushing until we get to the hospital and the Docs can check him and your new bub out. Can you do that for me while holding your new bundle of joy?” Jeff grinned at him as Jared nodded frantically with a huge grin splitting his face at the mention of their baby.
“Mum, Alan, Donna, can you mind the twins while we take Jensen and the baby in,” Jared asked as he scrambled up with a wince to take his newest addition out of his father in law’s arms.
“Careful Jared, you are still healing yourself,” his mother scolded as she looked on worriedly at her distressed son-in-law panting with another contraction on the stretcher.
“Of course we can watch them, you take care of Jensen and we’ll look after Lucy and Mikey. We’ll meet you up at the hospital as soon as we can,” Sherry assured as she moved over to press a quick kiss to Jared’s forehead as he gently stroked Lucy’s cheek with his free hand. Jared quickly stepped over and kissed Mikey before turning back to Jensen who was moaning in his efforts to not push.
“Jare....aaaauurrggghh....need...to...push,” Jensen cried out as the contraction reached its peak and he couldn’t resist the urge any longer.
“No, no, no...come on Jen, you can do it, huff, like you helped me do,” Jared urged as he raced over to walk alongside the gurney with Jensen, their little girl wailing her distress at all the movement, as the paramedics quickly pushed it out to the waiting ambulance.
Jensen’s bloodshot eyes locked with Jared’s and he managed to huff his way through the rest of the contraction as the gurney was loaded into the ambulance and Jared and the paramedic scrambled into the back with him.
“Shush, honey, it’s okay, you’re alright, Papa’s here,” Jared cooed as he gently rocked his little girl in his arms, trying to calm her frantic screams.
“Here, she’s cold. Wrap her up as best you can, then nestle her into your chest so she can hear your heartbeat, that will help soothe her a little,” Jeff instructed with a kind smile as he handed Jared a large waffle blanket before turning back to tend to a restless Jensen.
“Can I hold her, please?” Jensen pleaded as he shifted to get a better view of his little girl in Jared’s arms.
“Not just yet, I need to check how you are progressing on the next baby. If you aren’t as close to delivery as I think you are then you can hold her, okay?” Jeff advised as the ambulance lurched beneath them and moved off at high speed.
“‘Kay,” Jensen agreed as he pressed his head back into the gurney and clench his eyes shut in preparation for the exam.
“Alright, just relax for me Jensen. I’ll be as quick as I can,” the paramedic promised as he gently spread Jensen knees and bent to his task.
Jensen grunted an assent and stretched his hand out in search of Jared’s.
“I’m here, babe,” Jared reassured him as he gently moved his quietly whimpering daughter to hold her with one arm to his chest as he squeezed Jensen hand tightly with his free hand.
“Ugggh...’nother one, stop...,” Jensen cried out as he curled up over his huge belly, his hands gripping the side of his taut distended flesh.
“Alright, keep huffing for me Jensen. You are really close to delivering the next baby, but I really want you to try and hold on until we get the hospital, okay?” Jeff instructed as he moved to the side to allow Jared better access to Jensen’s side for support.
“Can’t...need to...puuuuussshh...uuuugggghhh,” Jensen cried out as he started to push with the contraction.
“Yes you can, this is what’s best for your baby, Jensen, I know you can do it,” Jeff urged as he placed his hand on Jensen’s shoulder, urging him to lay back and stop pushing.
Jared squeezed Jensen’s hand again.
“Please babe, breath with me,” Jared urged as he started huffing just as Jensen had coached him to do just three weeks prior.
Jared’s heart ached as Jensen started to sob with each huff of breath and tears fell unchecked down his flushed and sweaty cheeks.
“Aww babe, not long now, I promise,” Jared coaxed as he fought his own tears at the pain his husband was going through.
Jensen’s teary gaze met his, the pleading in his eyes almost breaking Jared’s resolved to the point that he had to clamp his mouth shut before telling Jensen to just go ahead and push. Just when Jared thought both he and Jensen were going to break, the contraction started to wane, and Jensen was able to slump back in a panting heap on the gurney.
“Well done, Jensen, just hang on a little longer and you and your little one will be safe and sound in the hospital,” Jeff praised him as he moved back around to get a better view of what was happening with the baby.
The almost silent curse he uttered after he checked under the sheet that was draped over Jensen knees did nothing to ease Jared’s anxiety at seeing his husband so distraught and in pain.
“What? What’s wrong?” Jared asked, his voice rising with his anxiety.
“Nothing, just that Jensen’s body is doing this perfectly well without his help. I don’t think we’re quite going to make it to hospital before this one’s born. He’s starting to crown already,” Jeff told him calmly, his eyes remaining on Jensen the whole time, his hand laying low on Jensen’s belly.
“What? No, how do we stop it? We need to get to the hospital,” Jared argued, his panic making his chest tight as he tried to get a full breath.
“Hey, hey, calm down Jared, he’s alright and the baby will be too if we do have to deliver here. I would prefer they be delivered at the hospital with full range of equipment available just in case, but I promise you,” Jeff said as he turned to lock his gaze with Jensen’s frantic one, “both of you…I will look after them.”
Jared swallow down his rising panic and nodded, his gaze darting to Jensen, who was sobbing quietly.
“Hey, come on Jen, none of that, this a happy day. We’re going to see our babies and they will all be just fine,” Jared soothed him as he brushed Jensen’s tears from his cheek. Their little girl took that moment to huff out a heavy sigh of contentment as she nuzzled further into the warm blanket and Jared’s chest.
“See, even bub agrees,” Jeff smiled over at them, giving Jared a brief wink acknowledging his thanks for keeping Jensen calm.
“‘Kay,” Jensen managed before his face scrunch up in pain and he cried out in distress as the next contraction pull hard on his belly.
“That’s it Jensen, huffing breaths for me, that’s it,” Jeff urged as he flipped the sheet completely out the way and moved up onto the end of the gurney between Jensen splayed thighs.
“Arrggghhh, burns...uuuuugggghhh, not...pushing,” Jensen cried as he did his best to huff and puff against the overwhelming urge to push with the burning pain as the baby crowned fully.
“It’s okay Jensen, you can stop fighting it, nothing is going stop this little one,” Jeff sighed as he readied himself to catch their newest addition.
Jensen let go of a harsh scream as he finally gave in to the urge to push and the second baby slipped from him in a gush of blood and fluids with the contraction. The echoing cries of both newborns brought a smile to the faces of all three men in the back of the ambulance.
“You hear that Jensen, another one with a perfect set of lungs. You did good, baby,” Jared told him excitedly he as he grinned through the tears of joy flowing down his face onto his screaming daughter’s red face.
Just as Jeff finished clamping and cutting the cord, the ambulance pulled to a quick but smooth stop before reversing. Jeff hastily covered Jensen’s lower half with the thrown aside sheet as they heard the slam of the front door, followed by running footsteps before the back door pulled open to show the entry bay doors of the hospital.
“We’re here guys, let’s get you inside before you manage to deliver the third one in here too,” the other paramedic joked.
“Not even remotely funny Ric,” Jeff scowled at him as he gently wrapped the squalling baby in his arm and passed her over to a waiting Jensen.
“Here’s your other little girl, Jensen,” Jeff smiled as he helped Jensen tuck her into his side, making sure the blanket wasn’t covering her face.
Jensen looked up at him with tear filled eyes.
“Thank you so much,” Jensen said as he pressed Jared’s hand to include him in the thanks.
Jeff shook his head.
“You’re the one that did all the hard work, Jensen, I just had to catch,” Jeff laughed as the two new fathers grinned their pleasure.
“Okay, come on, let’s motor before the next contraction hits, hey?” Ric urged them as he prepared the gurney for transport and pulled it from the back of the ambulance. “I don’t know about you lot, but I think birthing inside the hospital is way more appealing than outside it in the parking lot,” Ric remarked with a smirk.
Jared and Jensen looked at each other nervously before chuckling lightly, the ordeal of the last three quarters of an hour was not something that either them wanted to repeat.
“Don’t worry boys, we’ll give you the express ride. Just keep those legs crossed Jensen and we’ll be all good,” Ric joked with a wink as he started to push the gurney into the hospital entrance at a quick jog, Jared and Jeff pacing him easily with their longer legs at a walk beside the gurney.
~o0o~
The delivery of the third triplet was completely uneventful compared to his other two siblings. As he was a fraternal triplet, it was another half an hour before Jensen’s contractions were intense again and his delivery was slow and controlled, in complete contrast to his sisters’ deliveries. The birth was sedate enough that Misha managed to arrive just in time to catch him and hand him over to two sets of grinning Grandparents who had all managed to arrive with the twins in time for the final birth.
Misha check all three infants over and gave them a glowing bill of health. All three babies’ lungs were well developed and Misha was pleased to be able to tell the anxiously waiting family members that none of them would need to spend time in the special care unit. He did stipulate that given their early arrival he would prefer that Jensen and the infants stayed in the hospital for another 24 hours at least to be certain that they were indeed doing well, but really there was no medical reason for them to stay, other than as precaution.
After Jensen was cleaned up and settled and all the Grandparents had finished oohing and ahhing over the newest additions and gone home, Jared climbed up onto the bed behind Jensen and pulled him back to rest against his chest. He kissed Jensen on the temple and gently started to massage his fingers over Jensen’s scalp and down his neck. Jensen sighed happily and relaxed back against him.
“Happy?” Jared whispered into Jensen’s ear with a smile curling his lips.
Jensen turned into him and pressed a dry kiss to his lips. “Extremely,” Jensen whispered back as he looked over to the three bassinets in the room where all five of their children rested peacefully.
“I think we better enjoy this. I don’t know that we are going to get many more of these moments were all five of them are asleep at once, do you?” Jensen whispered with a quirk of his eyebrows.
Jared chuckled quietly, “yeah, think you’re right there. Good thing our Mums are staying for a while. I think this is going to take a bit of getting used to,” Jared sighed as he shifted slightly so that Jensen could rest his head on his shoulder better.
“How about we both take advantage of the moment like good parents and have a nap ourselves,” Jensen suggested, his face pale and drawn with exhaustion.
Jared smiled and kissed him briefly on the lips.
“Sounds like a plan, babe. I think I’m finally coming down from the Adrenalin rush,” Jared finished with a wide yawn.
Jensen smiled sleepily and closed his eyes. Jared looked over his family. He and Jensen were going to be in for a hard couple of years, but looking at his babies sleeping and his exhausted but content husband resting in his arms, he couldn’t help but think it was also going to be the best time of his life.
~End~
Please see part one for warnings and notes.
1 week post partum / 34 weeks
“Go rest Jared, I will take care of them while you get some sleep, that’s what Donna and I are here for,” Sherry insisted as she shooed Jared towards the bedroom. Lucy’s insistent cries increased in pitch as her brother’s cries suddenly echoed her own.
“You get Lucy and I’ll get Mikey,” Jensen said as he moved past both of them, shuffling awkwardly to get around them in the hallway with his huge belly.
“Jensen, you are supposed to be resting too!” Sherry remarked with a heavy sigh, “look at you, you’re just about ready to drop, now go and rest with your husband. Your Mother and I will take care of the little ones for the afternoon,” Sherry demanded as she pointed sternly towards the master bedroom.
Jensen looked ready to protest but his husband’s frantic quit it motions over Sherry’s shoulder had Jensen sighing as he squeezed his way past her again to stand meekly with Jared.
“Can you bring them into us once they’ve calmed down a little and we can snuggle with them on the bed?” Jensen asked with a sheepish smile.
Sherry cooed at him and promised to bring them in for a cuddle once they were settled.
“You are so adorable, Jensen. I can see why my son loves you so much,” Sherry smiled wistfully as she moved away to tend to her grandchildren.
Jensen turned to a grinning Jared.
“What?”
“You are pretty damn adorable, you know?” Jared teased as he leaned in over Jensen’s huge belly to kiss him gently on the lips.
Jensen blushed a little.
“What? Just because I want to spend some time with my babies?” Jensen pouted as he started to shepherd Jared back to their bedroom, his enormous belly pushing into Jared’s back as they walked up the hall way.
“You’ve hardly let them out of your sight since we brought them home. I swear you have spent more time with them than I have,” Jared mused as he turned into their bedroom and moved to the bed.
“You’re recovering from the birth, you need to rest. it’s only natural that I’ve been with them a tiny bit more. That’s a good thing. It means you are getting the rest you should be,” Jensen replied as he helped Jared to ease down onto the bed, trying to avoid him pulling his stitches.
Jared hissed out a groan as he lay down and rolled to face Jensen’s side of the bed.
“You okay? Do you need me to get you some ice or painkillers?” Jensen asked, checking his watch for the time. “You can probably have some more of the good stuff if you need it. Do you want me to go get you some?” Jensen asked as he moved back towards the door.
“No, Jen wait. Come and lay with me, that’s what I want the most. Just rest with me for a while. You are supposed to be on bedrest, remember? Not jumping around for me and the babies, that why our Mom’s are here remember?” Jared gently scolded him as he patted the bed in front of him.
Jensen frowned and rolled his eyes, but moved to the bed and settled down awkwardly. The task of getting on and off the bed was getting harder every day as his belly seemed to just grow exponentially over the last weeks of his pregnancy. Grunting and groaning, he shuffled around trying to get comfortable. Jensen finally settled, facing Jared. His belly just touching Jared’s, it spread most of the way across the bed. Jared smiled as he saw the lines of tension that were marring Jensen’s face throughout the day slowly ease as he relaxed into the soft mattress. Jared gently caressed Jensen’s belly, chuckling slightly when one of the babies presented him with the smooth round lump of their bottom. He couldn’t help but laugh when the distinct shape of a foot push up beside it.
“They’re fighting again. These three are going to be a handful and a half when they’re born,” Jared grinned as he kissed the little foot with a soft smile.
Jensen groaned and shifted slightly on the bed.
“You’re telling me. They’re not to careful about collateral damage either. I swear my kidney’s are constantly bruised from them punching and kicking into them as they squirm around in there,” Jensen replied as he rubbed the side of his belly with a grimace.
“Well there can’t be much room left in there. Misha said they’re all a good size for multiples, even a little ahead of where Lucy and Mikey were when they were the same age,” Jared remarked, a slow smile creeping across his face before he winked at Jensen with a smirk.
“It must be my super sperm producing such healthy babies,” Jared teased as he patted Jensen’s huge belly proudly.
Jensen rolled his eyes at him, but smiled indulgently.
“Yeah must be, stud.”
“Damn straight. Look at you, if that doesn’t prove I’m a virile male, then nothing does,” Jared replied indignantly.
“Calm down there stud, wouldn’t want you to bust any of your stitches now would we?” Jensen teased as he affectionately patted Jared’s pouting face.
Jared huffed indignantly. “Didn’t hear you making any complaints when we were making them.”
Jensen grinned. ”No, definitely have never had any complaints about your performance, so I guess your stud status is truly earned then,” Jensen finished with a mischievous wink.
“If I weren’t sore and sorry for myself and you weren’t ready to pop, I would so show you just how much I own that status,” Jared replied with a rueful look.
Jensen laughed heartily, only stopping when he couldn’t catch his breath from laughing too hard.
“Yeah, babe, I think it will be a while before we’re testing out that particular claim again,” Jensen finally managed to reply through his panting laughter.
“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. When I’m healed up and you’re still sore, I’m so going to tease the hell out of you,” Jared threatened with a grin.
Jensen choked out at sputtering laugh.
“With five newborns in the house? We’ll be lucky if we managed to have sex before they’re a year old.”
Jared looked thoughtful for a minute, then his face dropped as he truly thought about what Jensen had said.
“Man, now I’m just depressed, thanks for that. Like I need any help being emotional at the moment,” Jared replied with a frown.
Jensen smiled at him gently. “Don’t worry babe, we’ll work it out. It will take time, but we’ll get there. I promise.”
Jared smiled reluctantly. “Yeah, I guess. Just seems a little insurmountable right now though.”
Jensen sighed heavily as he rubbed a hand over his constantly moving belly. “Tell me about it. But I figure we’ll have our parents to help us ease into it and we’ve always got each other. We’ve been through some pretty hard times and we got through it. I know we can do this too.”
Jared looked at him with suddenly teary eyes, his voice raw with the tears.
“How did you get so amazing? And how the hell did I get to have you all to myself?”
Jensen smiled at him affectionately, his own eyes a little teary as he stretched forward and kissed him tenderly.
“You’re pretty damn amazing yourself, so how about we just put it down to fate?” Jensen murmured quietly.
“Love you, so damn much,” Jared said as he draped his arm over Jensen’s belly and stroked at the curve of Jensen’s back.
“Ditto,” Jensen replied with a loving smile as he cupped Jared’s cheek in his palm, stroking his thumb over his cheekbone.
The gentle knock at the open door way had them grinning at each other like teenagers caught fooling around.
“Is it safe to bring these dear hearts in to rest with you two?” Donna teased affectionately as she stepped into the room with Mikey safely nestled in her arms.
“Of course, not like either of us are in any condition to get up to anything even remotely strenuous,” Jared replied with a grin, enjoying the horrified look on his husband’s face.
“Jared!” Jensen chided as he swatted his hand over the top of Jared’s head.
“What? Your Mom knows we have sex, or at least had, look at you?” Jared teased with a wink over his shoulder to Donna who was rolling her eyes at their antics.
Jensen’s flushed scarlet. “You don’t have to be so blatant about it though. You have no shame.”
“Oh shush, Jensen. I’m not a naive school girl about these things, you know. I did have three babies of my own, after all,” Donna admonished with a wink of her own at an amused Jared.
“Mum!” Jensen cried as his buried his face into his hands in his embarrassment.
“How about you two make some room for this precious little man, so you can all snuggle together, hmmm?” Donna urged as she came around the bed and gently placed a sleepy Mikey into Jared’s waiting arms before smiling at the three of them and moving from the room quietly.
Mikey opened sleepy eyes for a second before he snuffled quietly and nuzzled into Jared’s chest, his little cheek pressed up against Jared’s chest and his little bow lips slipping open as he relaxed into Jared’s arm.
Jared stroked at his sleeping son’s downy cheek, chuckling lightly when Mikey shivered and sighed heavily at the touch.
“He’s just as sensitive to touch as you are babe,” Jared teased with a smile at Jensen.
Jensen grinned back happily, his eyes slightly glassy with tears.
“He’s beautiful, Jared, so beautiful,” Jensen sighed as he pressed a soft kiss to Mikey’s sleeper clad shoulder.
Jared beamed at him happily.
“I did pretty good didn’t I?”
Jensen chuckled lightly as Sherry entered the room, cooing at the scene in front of her to deposit a sleeping Lucy into Jensen’s waiting arms next to Mikey.
“Yeah babe, you did really good.”
~o0o~
3 weeks post partum / 36 weeks
Jensen arched his aching back as best he could, wincing as he felt another band of pain starting low in his back and wrapping around his belly like a clenching belt. Suddenly, the painful squeezing increased until he was breathing heavily and doubled over, trying to get his composure back and not freak out. A violent movement in his belly coinciding with a distinct popping sound gave him a tiny warning that his waters were breaking before his sweats were saturated and he couldn’t help but moan unwittingly while he fell to his hands and knees in agonizing pain as an incredible pressure clamped down on his pelvis.
It was at least a good minute and a half before the pain started to ease and he could contemplate how he was going to get off his hands and knees. Before he could come up with a way that didn’t involve a crane or a forklift, he heard a startled yell behind him and he suddenly had his father’s firm but gentle hands helping him to rise off the floor to shuffle awkwardly over to collapse in a panting heap on the couch.
“Jared, need Jared...now,” Jensen barked out as another painful contraction gripped his belly and he got the frighteningly familiar urge to push. As his father ran back out of the room, he slipped off the couch back onto all fours as he panted most of his way through the contraction. He desperately fought the urge to push, until the urge was just too much and his body took over, pushing involuntarily regardless of how hard he tried not to. It was as the contraction started to ease and he started to gain control of his breathing once more that he heard Jared’s anxious voice coming down the hallway ahead of him.
“No, no, no, don’t you dare push, Jensen. You can’t have the babies here, you hear me. No pushing,” Jared pleaded as he slid down in front of him with a wince, grabbed Jensen’s face between his giant palms, and looked at him with anxious, panic stricken eyes.
Jensen couldn’t help the whimper that escaped him as he pleaded with Jared, “I can’t stop it....too much...hurts too much...body won’t let me stop.”
“Shh...it’s ok Jen, I’m not mad at you. I just want you and the babies to be safe. Now come on, we’re gonna get you in the car and meet the ambulance on route okay?”
Jensen could only nod as he felt another contraction building in his belly. He cried out as he felt Jared and his father shifting him until he was sitting with his back leaned against Jared’s chest and his father had his arms braced along his thighs that were splayed around his grossly protruding belly. He sucked in a shuddering breath, clenching his eyes tightly shut as the contraction gripped him like a vice around his suddenly rock hard belly.
“Arrrggghhhh, Jared...can’t...stop...uuuggggghhh,” Jensen cried as his body took over again and bore down, his belly becoming misshapen over the lumps of the babies bodies inside him.
“Aww, hell. It’s okay, Jen, we got you babe,” Jared cooed into his ear as he felt Jared’s broad palm caress his cramping belly through his shirt with soothing circles against the rock hard stomach.
“Uuuurrrggggghhhhh...JARED!” Jensen screamed as the contraction continued on seemingly forever. When it finally eased, Jensen was left sweating and panting in distress, slumped in Jared’s arms.
Jared kissed his temple and soothed him with a tremulous whisper in his ear, “you’re alright babe. I promise it will all be okay, just breathe, nice and slow.”
“Jared, please..” Jensen cried as he tried to bury his face into Jared’s shoulder, not really sure what he was asking of him, but desperate to have Jared make it all better.
“Shhh, Jen, I’m here. We’re going to get you all to the hospital now, alright?” Jared comforted as he re-adjusted his arms under Jensen’s.
“Jared, no son, you can’t lift him, you’ve barely recovered from giving birth yourself. Let me help him to the car. You go get the bags,” Alan urged as he moved from Jensen’s legs to take Jared’s place behind him.
“NO, Jare, don’t leave me, please...oh god...hurts... aaaaaaarrrrggghhhh!” Jensen sobbed as the next contraction overwhelmed him.
“Shhh, baby, shhh, I won’t leave you, I promise. Just breathe, we’ll wait here for the ambulance okay?” Jared soothed as he wiped the sweat from Jensen’s brow as his lover writhed and screamed in pain as he struggled to birth their children.
“Alan, just get his sweats off. We’ll just have to wait for the ambulance, things are moving too fast to move him now. Here, Jen, let’s get you up on all fours, hey? That might make it a little less painful for you.” Jared instructed as he helped maneuver Jensen back onto his hands and knees, his grossly distended belly dragging on the floor under him as his father removed his fluid and slightly blood stained sweats.
A raw, guttural scream ripped from Jensen’s throat as the next contraction took hold and his legs collapsed under him so he was kneeling on the floor, his rock hard belly splayed between his spread knees, his hands clawing into the floor as his body bore down with incredible, agonizing force.
Silent tears slipped down Jared’s face as he pulled Jensen into his arms, bracing his upper body with his own as Jensen continued to howl his way through the contraction. Sniffing back his own tears, Jared looked over Jensen’s straining shoulder to his father-in-law behind them.
“How’s it looking? Will the ambulance make it in time?” Jared’s voice cracked slightly with his emotion.
Alan’s wide panicked eyes were enough of an answer, but his response was enough to send panic rippling through Jared’s suddenly frozen limbs.
“I think the first baby is beginning to crown. If they don’t get here in the next few minutes, they’re going to miss the first one completely,” Alan’s panicked tone raising it a register.
Jared refocused on his husband as the pitch of his screams changed to shrill and panicked.
“Burns, oh god, make it stop...uuuuuuggghhhhhhh,” his cries broke off into whimpering grunts as Alan lunged forward, pushing Jensen’s hips up a little as the first baby’s head started to emerge.
“Oh my, the head’s nearly out. Well done, Jensen, just hang in there, son, won’t be long now. Just do what your body tells you to,” Alan coached as he used his shoulder to help prop Jensen’s hip up so he had better access to the emerging baby.
Jared kissed Jensen’s flushed and sweat drenched cheeks as he whimpered and panted his way through the tail end of the intense contraction.
“Wow, babe, you’re a pro at this. You are putting me to shame,” Jared teased as he stroked soothing circles into the side of Jensen’s straining belly.
“Jare...arrrrrggghhhh,” Jensen sobbed as another contraction pulled through him.
“That’s it, Jen, I got you,” Jared soothed him as he wiped the sweat dripping down Jensen’s straining face as he screamed his way through the last of the contraction. Jensen’s scream, hiccupped into a happy sob as the mewling cry of a newborn filled the room.
“It’s a girl! Oh son, she’s so beautiful,” Alan called out over the cries of his new granddaughter.
Jared’s face spilt into a beaming grin as their newborn proved her lungs were well and truly developed despite her early arrival. Alan smiled through his tears at him over Jensen’s heaving shoulders as he cradled their newest addition to his chest.
“You hear that Jensen, she’s just fine,” Jared smiled as he gently kissed his sweating husband’s flushed face and smiled tiredly at him.
“Can I see her?” Jensen panted as he tried to crane around to see his still screaming newborn.
“Shit, yeah, of course babe, here let me help you,” Jared answered as he gently helped Jensen move to lie on his side and pulled him up so he was lying with his head across Jared’s lap.
“That okay?” Jared asked as he shifted a little beneath Jensen to get himself a little more comfortable so that he wasn’t pulling so much on his still tender stomach muscles.
Jensen’s liquid green eyes looked up into his with a happy smile as his father gently placed their squalling daughter into the cradle of his arm resting on the floor.
Jared couldn’t help the tears that slipped down his cheek as Jensen leaned over and kissed their daughter’s forehead and murmured into her skin, “love you, baby girl.”
The peacefulness of the moment was broken as the wail of sirens drowned out the cries of their baby and all three men sighed with relief almost simultaneously.
Immediately, the room was filled with noise and movement as the paramedics took in the scene and launched into action, one checking over their little girl the other checking on Jensen, who was once again starting to feel contractions slowly build in intensity.
“We need to get him loaded ASAP Jeff, he’s not far off delivering the second twin,” the paramedic called out to his partner who had finished looking over the baby and had handed her over to a startled Alan.
“Uh, triplet, he’s having triplets,” Jared butted in, startling the paramedic, a quick meaningful glance passing between the two medics.
“Okay, well either way we want to get you to the hospital before the next one arrives,” the paramedic spoke directly to Jensen as he and his partner moved Jared out of the way and started preparing to move Jensen to the waiting stretcher they had brought in with them.
“Jared, no please, let Jared stay with me,” Jensen cried as Jared shuffled out the way with a wince, his hand dropping from its hold on Jensen’s.
“Hey, it’s okay, I'm not going anywhere. I’m right here, baby...” Jared’s declaration was cut short with the horrified cry from the doorway.
“Oh my God, Jensen!” Jensen mother and mother-in-law called out in unison at the sight that met them as they walked back into the house with their two grandchildren in their arms.
Alan immediate moved over to his distraught wife and friend and reassured them that everything was well in hand and presented them Jensen’s and Jared’s newest edition.
Jensen started to moan in distress as the contractions started to come hard and fast once more. His hand instantly sought out Jared’s as he felt the second baby move down ready for birth.
“Uggh, Jared, need to push,” Jensen cried as the overwhelming urge to bear down overtook everything else.
“Jensen? Hey buddy, I need you to puff for me, like you are blowing out a candle okay? No pushing just yet,” the paramedic urged as he hurried to finish strapping Jensen to the gurney.
“Jared, right?” the paramedic Jeff asked as he finished helping his partner with the straps of the gurney. “I need you to keep Jensen calm, okay? We need to try to stop him from pushing until we get to the hospital and the Docs can check him and your new bub out. Can you do that for me while holding your new bundle of joy?” Jeff grinned at him as Jared nodded frantically with a huge grin splitting his face at the mention of their baby.
“Mum, Alan, Donna, can you mind the twins while we take Jensen and the baby in,” Jared asked as he scrambled up with a wince to take his newest addition out of his father in law’s arms.
“Careful Jared, you are still healing yourself,” his mother scolded as she looked on worriedly at her distressed son-in-law panting with another contraction on the stretcher.
“Of course we can watch them, you take care of Jensen and we’ll look after Lucy and Mikey. We’ll meet you up at the hospital as soon as we can,” Sherry assured as she moved over to press a quick kiss to Jared’s forehead as he gently stroked Lucy’s cheek with his free hand. Jared quickly stepped over and kissed Mikey before turning back to Jensen who was moaning in his efforts to not push.
“Jare....aaaauurrggghh....need...to...push,” Jensen cried out as the contraction reached its peak and he couldn’t resist the urge any longer.
“No, no, no...come on Jen, you can do it, huff, like you helped me do,” Jared urged as he raced over to walk alongside the gurney with Jensen, their little girl wailing her distress at all the movement, as the paramedics quickly pushed it out to the waiting ambulance.
Jensen’s bloodshot eyes locked with Jared’s and he managed to huff his way through the rest of the contraction as the gurney was loaded into the ambulance and Jared and the paramedic scrambled into the back with him.
“Shush, honey, it’s okay, you’re alright, Papa’s here,” Jared cooed as he gently rocked his little girl in his arms, trying to calm her frantic screams.
“Here, she’s cold. Wrap her up as best you can, then nestle her into your chest so she can hear your heartbeat, that will help soothe her a little,” Jeff instructed with a kind smile as he handed Jared a large waffle blanket before turning back to tend to a restless Jensen.
“Can I hold her, please?” Jensen pleaded as he shifted to get a better view of his little girl in Jared’s arms.
“Not just yet, I need to check how you are progressing on the next baby. If you aren’t as close to delivery as I think you are then you can hold her, okay?” Jeff advised as the ambulance lurched beneath them and moved off at high speed.
“‘Kay,” Jensen agreed as he pressed his head back into the gurney and clench his eyes shut in preparation for the exam.
“Alright, just relax for me Jensen. I’ll be as quick as I can,” the paramedic promised as he gently spread Jensen knees and bent to his task.
Jensen grunted an assent and stretched his hand out in search of Jared’s.
“I’m here, babe,” Jared reassured him as he gently moved his quietly whimpering daughter to hold her with one arm to his chest as he squeezed Jensen hand tightly with his free hand.
“Ugggh...’nother one, stop...,” Jensen cried out as he curled up over his huge belly, his hands gripping the side of his taut distended flesh.
“Alright, keep huffing for me Jensen. You are really close to delivering the next baby, but I really want you to try and hold on until we get the hospital, okay?” Jeff instructed as he moved to the side to allow Jared better access to Jensen’s side for support.
“Can’t...need to...puuuuussshh...uuuugggghhh,” Jensen cried out as he started to push with the contraction.
“Yes you can, this is what’s best for your baby, Jensen, I know you can do it,” Jeff urged as he placed his hand on Jensen’s shoulder, urging him to lay back and stop pushing.
Jared squeezed Jensen’s hand again.
“Please babe, breath with me,” Jared urged as he started huffing just as Jensen had coached him to do just three weeks prior.
Jared’s heart ached as Jensen started to sob with each huff of breath and tears fell unchecked down his flushed and sweaty cheeks.
“Aww babe, not long now, I promise,” Jared coaxed as he fought his own tears at the pain his husband was going through.
Jensen’s teary gaze met his, the pleading in his eyes almost breaking Jared’s resolved to the point that he had to clamp his mouth shut before telling Jensen to just go ahead and push. Just when Jared thought both he and Jensen were going to break, the contraction started to wane, and Jensen was able to slump back in a panting heap on the gurney.
“Well done, Jensen, just hang on a little longer and you and your little one will be safe and sound in the hospital,” Jeff praised him as he moved back around to get a better view of what was happening with the baby.
The almost silent curse he uttered after he checked under the sheet that was draped over Jensen knees did nothing to ease Jared’s anxiety at seeing his husband so distraught and in pain.
“What? What’s wrong?” Jared asked, his voice rising with his anxiety.
“Nothing, just that Jensen’s body is doing this perfectly well without his help. I don’t think we’re quite going to make it to hospital before this one’s born. He’s starting to crown already,” Jeff told him calmly, his eyes remaining on Jensen the whole time, his hand laying low on Jensen’s belly.
“What? No, how do we stop it? We need to get to the hospital,” Jared argued, his panic making his chest tight as he tried to get a full breath.
“Hey, hey, calm down Jared, he’s alright and the baby will be too if we do have to deliver here. I would prefer they be delivered at the hospital with full range of equipment available just in case, but I promise you,” Jeff said as he turned to lock his gaze with Jensen’s frantic one, “both of you…I will look after them.”
Jared swallow down his rising panic and nodded, his gaze darting to Jensen, who was sobbing quietly.
“Hey, come on Jen, none of that, this a happy day. We’re going to see our babies and they will all be just fine,” Jared soothed him as he brushed Jensen’s tears from his cheek. Their little girl took that moment to huff out a heavy sigh of contentment as she nuzzled further into the warm blanket and Jared’s chest.
“See, even bub agrees,” Jeff smiled over at them, giving Jared a brief wink acknowledging his thanks for keeping Jensen calm.
“‘Kay,” Jensen managed before his face scrunch up in pain and he cried out in distress as the next contraction pull hard on his belly.
“That’s it Jensen, huffing breaths for me, that’s it,” Jeff urged as he flipped the sheet completely out the way and moved up onto the end of the gurney between Jensen splayed thighs.
“Arrggghhh, burns...uuuuugggghhh, not...pushing,” Jensen cried as he did his best to huff and puff against the overwhelming urge to push with the burning pain as the baby crowned fully.
“It’s okay Jensen, you can stop fighting it, nothing is going stop this little one,” Jeff sighed as he readied himself to catch their newest addition.
Jensen let go of a harsh scream as he finally gave in to the urge to push and the second baby slipped from him in a gush of blood and fluids with the contraction. The echoing cries of both newborns brought a smile to the faces of all three men in the back of the ambulance.
“You hear that Jensen, another one with a perfect set of lungs. You did good, baby,” Jared told him excitedly he as he grinned through the tears of joy flowing down his face onto his screaming daughter’s red face.
Just as Jeff finished clamping and cutting the cord, the ambulance pulled to a quick but smooth stop before reversing. Jeff hastily covered Jensen’s lower half with the thrown aside sheet as they heard the slam of the front door, followed by running footsteps before the back door pulled open to show the entry bay doors of the hospital.
“We’re here guys, let’s get you inside before you manage to deliver the third one in here too,” the other paramedic joked.
“Not even remotely funny Ric,” Jeff scowled at him as he gently wrapped the squalling baby in his arm and passed her over to a waiting Jensen.
“Here’s your other little girl, Jensen,” Jeff smiled as he helped Jensen tuck her into his side, making sure the blanket wasn’t covering her face.
Jensen looked up at him with tear filled eyes.
“Thank you so much,” Jensen said as he pressed Jared’s hand to include him in the thanks.
Jeff shook his head.
“You’re the one that did all the hard work, Jensen, I just had to catch,” Jeff laughed as the two new fathers grinned their pleasure.
“Okay, come on, let’s motor before the next contraction hits, hey?” Ric urged them as he prepared the gurney for transport and pulled it from the back of the ambulance. “I don’t know about you lot, but I think birthing inside the hospital is way more appealing than outside it in the parking lot,” Ric remarked with a smirk.
Jared and Jensen looked at each other nervously before chuckling lightly, the ordeal of the last three quarters of an hour was not something that either them wanted to repeat.
“Don’t worry boys, we’ll give you the express ride. Just keep those legs crossed Jensen and we’ll be all good,” Ric joked with a wink as he started to push the gurney into the hospital entrance at a quick jog, Jared and Jeff pacing him easily with their longer legs at a walk beside the gurney.
~o0o~
The delivery of the third triplet was completely uneventful compared to his other two siblings. As he was a fraternal triplet, it was another half an hour before Jensen’s contractions were intense again and his delivery was slow and controlled, in complete contrast to his sisters’ deliveries. The birth was sedate enough that Misha managed to arrive just in time to catch him and hand him over to two sets of grinning Grandparents who had all managed to arrive with the twins in time for the final birth.
Misha check all three infants over and gave them a glowing bill of health. All three babies’ lungs were well developed and Misha was pleased to be able to tell the anxiously waiting family members that none of them would need to spend time in the special care unit. He did stipulate that given their early arrival he would prefer that Jensen and the infants stayed in the hospital for another 24 hours at least to be certain that they were indeed doing well, but really there was no medical reason for them to stay, other than as precaution.
After Jensen was cleaned up and settled and all the Grandparents had finished oohing and ahhing over the newest additions and gone home, Jared climbed up onto the bed behind Jensen and pulled him back to rest against his chest. He kissed Jensen on the temple and gently started to massage his fingers over Jensen’s scalp and down his neck. Jensen sighed happily and relaxed back against him.
“Happy?” Jared whispered into Jensen’s ear with a smile curling his lips.
Jensen turned into him and pressed a dry kiss to his lips. “Extremely,” Jensen whispered back as he looked over to the three bassinets in the room where all five of their children rested peacefully.
“I think we better enjoy this. I don’t know that we are going to get many more of these moments were all five of them are asleep at once, do you?” Jensen whispered with a quirk of his eyebrows.
Jared chuckled quietly, “yeah, think you’re right there. Good thing our Mums are staying for a while. I think this is going to take a bit of getting used to,” Jared sighed as he shifted slightly so that Jensen could rest his head on his shoulder better.
“How about we both take advantage of the moment like good parents and have a nap ourselves,” Jensen suggested, his face pale and drawn with exhaustion.
Jared smiled and kissed him briefly on the lips.
“Sounds like a plan, babe. I think I’m finally coming down from the Adrenalin rush,” Jared finished with a wide yawn.
Jensen smiled sleepily and closed his eyes. Jared looked over his family. He and Jensen were going to be in for a hard couple of years, but looking at his babies sleeping and his exhausted but content husband resting in his arms, he couldn’t help but think it was also going to be the best time of his life.
~End~