Rage

I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE IN AS much pain as what I’m watching my wife go through right now. As soon as we realized that her water broke, a few of the guys brought over anything they could find to lay her down on. I’m not sure if that’s what we were supposed to do, but she seemed to be in a little less pain right now then when she was standing up or bending over.

We’ve been at the hospital for a few hours and Keegan is doing amazing. She’s trying not to take anything for the pain, but I can see the pain is taking it’s toll on her body and she wants some relief. I’m not going to say a single word if she decides that she needs to take something to help her out.

“Rage, I think we need to rethink this whole medicine thing,” she finally tells me.

“It’s up to you firefly. If you want to have somethin’ you get it. I stand by any decision you make,” I tell her, wiping her forehead with the wet cloth again.

“Can you push the button to get a nurse in here please?” she asks as another contraction hit’s her.

I do as she asks and help her know where she is in her contraction. That seems to help her somehow and I’m going to do anything that I can to help her through this process. We’re going to get through this together, even when she’s yelling at me, telling me she hates me, that she’s going to cut my dick off, everything. At the end of the day, I know that she doesn’t mean any of it and we’re going to be so happy and fall in love when we see our babies.

“What can I do for you?” a nurse asks, walking in the room and checking the monitors.

“I need something for the pain please,” Keegan tells her. “I’m not going to last any longer without something.”

“Let me check you and we’ll see what we can do,” she responds.

While I don’t really want to watch some female stick her finger in my wife, I know that it’s a part of the process. My concern is making sure that my wife and the twins are okay, and we do what we have to do to protect all three of them. After checking Keegan, the nurse tells us that she’s going to have to talk to the doctor before she will be able to do anything.

“What’s goin’ on?” I ask immediately, wanting to know why she can’t just give her something now.

“She’s too close to not being able to give her anything. So, I want to see what Doctor Sanchez wants to do.”

“Please?” Keegan begs. “I can’t do this anymore. I’m so tired and I’m not going to be able to push these babies out.”

“I’ll make sure that she knows. You’ve been doing so good and we’ll do what is best for everyone involved honey,” the nurse says before leaving the room.

Honestly, I think I scare her a little bit. But, I don’t really care. Not when it comes to the safety of my family. And this instance is literally a matter of life and death in my eyes. One wrong move could injure my unborn children. I’m not going to have it.

“It will be okay firefly,” I tell her, trying to make sure that she remains as calm as she can right now.

Before too long, Doctor Sanchez comes in and checks my wife herself. She agrees with the nurse and tells us that we don’t have many options right now. Her main concern is the safety of the twins. So, she tells Keegan that we may have to think about going the route of a cesarean section. Right after she says that, she checks the papers printing out from the monitor. I’m not sure what she’s looking for, but I’m going to go with whatever she says. Hopefully Keegan is on the same page.

“What do you think is going to be the best option?” my girl asks.

“At this point, I think we may want to prep you for the surgery,” she answers honestly. “If you weren’t so tired, I probably wouldn’t be saying that. Rage has talked to me about the lack of sleep you’ve been getting though. The final decision is yours though.”

Keegan looks at me and I can see that she’s already made her mind up. “I want to have it done. Knowing my own body, I know that I’m not going to last much longer. I don’t want to take any chances with our babies.”

“I’ll let everyone know,” the doctor tells us before making her way out of the room.

“Why don’t you go let everyone know what’s going on?” Keegan asks me.

“I don’t want to leave you. I’ll send Grim a message and he can let everyone know,” I tell her, pulling my phone out.

Keegan nods her head and closes her eyes. She’s been trying to rest the best she can in between contractions. They’ve been getting closer together though, so it’s not really working anymore. Hell, before I can even finish typing the message out, another one hit’s her.

I continue to let her know where the contraction is until it’s finally over with. Then I finish the message before putting my phone away again. About the same time, a nurse comes in to let us know that I have to leave her side to get gowned up. This is not going to work for me. Since Skylar has been through this before, she’s knocking on the door.

“I don’t mean to interrupt your time together, I just know that Rage isn’t going to want to leave you alone,” she tells us. “Would it be okay if I sit with her while you get ready?”

“Are you sure?” I ask her.

“Yeah. I’ve been through this a time or two,” she says a smile gracing her face.

“Is that okay with you firefly?”

“Yeah. Get ready so we can meet our son and daughter.”

I give her a kiss and follow the nurse out of the room. Really, I don’t want to be getting ready while she’s in another room, but it’s going to take the least amount of time so I’m doing it. Skylar will know what Keegan needs while I’m not in there. I just hope that it doesn’t take too long to bring her in the operating room our babies will be delivered in.

Keegan

I know that Rage didn’t want to leave me alone, but he did it because he’ll always do what is needed for the safety of his loved ones. There’s no one he loves more than his children and then me. Skylar has been amazing in his absence though. She knows exactly what I need without me saying a word.

“Are you ready to go?” Doctor Sanchez asks.

“I’m more than ready,” I tell her honestly.

The nurses that came in the room with her are busy getting everything ready for me to go. Skylar stays by my side through the entire process. Finally, they’re ready to wheel me to the operating room. She walks with me as far as she can before making her way back to the rest of our family.

Rage is waiting for me and makes his way to my side as soon as he’s allowed to. He takes a seat on the stool by my head as they make the final preparations. He’s holding my hand and telling me how proud of me he is.

“Keegan and Rage, I’m about to make the incision that’s needed to deliver the twins. Once I get it made, it’s not going to be long before they’ll be out. Here we go.”

I don’t feel a thing as Doctor Sanchez does what she has to do. Before too long, I do feel a little bit of pressure though. Right after that, we hear the cries of our first baby.

“It’s a girl!” Doctor Sanchez announces.

With the curtain they have up, I can’t see a thing so I ask Rage to stand up so he can see our baby. He does as I ask, not that I could really stop him if that’s what he wanted to do. I can feel his body trembling and I know it’s from the anticipation of seeing our daughter and having our son born next.

“It’s a boy!” she announces second.

Tears are streaming down my face as our son and daughter are finally here. I can’t wait to lay my eyes on them and see their perfect little faces. Rage is standing by my side watching all of the activity like a hawk. He’s trying to keep his eyes on both babies at one time.

Finally, they bring our daughter over to us and hand her over to her daddy. He’s immediately head over heels in love with her, it’s written all over his face. Next a nurse brings our son over and hands him to Rage. I’ve never seen a better sight in my life. We’re just missin one extremely important person to make this picture complete.

I’m back in my room and trying to rest. I don’t want to close my eyes and miss a second with the babies though. Rage, seeing my dilemma, tells me that if I don’t try to get some rest he’ll have the babies taken to the nursery. I know he doesn’t want them out of our sight. So, I lay back a little more and close my eyes.

I’m not sure how much time has passed, but I wake up to crying. Instantly I look around for my twins. Their daddy is changing one of them so that he can bring them over to be fed. Before he’s done changing one baby, the other one starts crying. So, I try to get out of bed to help him.

“Don’t even think about it,” he tells me without taking his attention off the baby in front of him. “I’m almost done so you can feed him.”

I sit back and take down the front of my gown so that I can nurse our son while he tends to his little princess. Kasey needs to be in here with us. As soon as I’m done feeding them, I’m going to tell Rage we need her in here with us. Everyone else can wait a few minutes, but we need our daughter with us right now.

Our son eats, and I hand him back over to his daddy while he hands me our daughter. Just from looking at them now, I think we both got our wish. Rage wanted a daughter that looked like me and I wanted our son to look like him. They each look like both of us, but she looks like me and he looks like his daddy. The best of both worlds if you ask me.

“Can you bring in Kasey please? I want a few minutes with just us before everyone else descends on us.”

“I was thinkin’ the same thing.”

Rage leaves and is back before I know it with our daughter in his arms. He takes her to the first bassinet and leans her over so she can see her baby sister. Kasey tells us how pretty she is before leaning over to see her brother.

“Daddy, he looks just likes you,” she tells us. “And sissy looks just likes mama!”

“You’re right,” Rage tells her, laughter in his voice.

“Takes me to mama please?” she asks.

He brings her over to me and carefully sets her down on the bed beside me. She leans on my shoulder and wraps one little arm around the back of my neck. I wrap my arms around her and hold her close. If there was any way for her to have been in here with us, I would’ve had her with us. I just don’t think she was ready for this though.

While we’re spending some family time together, she tells us all about what she did while waiting to come in here with us. We’re both laughing at the description of the men pacing back and forth and talking about ‘grown-up stuff.’ Then she tells us that Alice brought lots of games, books, and puzzles for the kids to keep them occupied. I’m surprised they didn’t stay at the clubhouse, but they’re family so I’m glad that everyone is here.

“What are their names mama?” Kasey suddenly asks me.

“Well, your little sister’s name is Lyric Rayne. And your brother’s name is Tyler Jaxon.”

“I likes those names,” she tells us. “Do I gets to tell everyone?”

“Do you want to?” Rage asks her.

“Please?” she begs, giving her dad those puppy dog eyes neither one of can ever turn down.

“Yes. Let me go get them.”

Kasey and I sit together and wait for everyone to get in the room. It doesn’t take long, especially for the women. They’re so impatient to see the newest additions to the family. Bailey is carrying boxes with her and I can bet I know what’s inside them. I’ve heard all about her taking over the giving of the outfits from her mom.

Once everyone is in the room, Kasey wait’s until she has everyone’s attention before letting them know the names of the babies. “My new baby’s names are Lyrics Rayne and Tylers Jaxon.”

The women all ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ over the names while the men all offer congratulations to their brother. Everyone is gathering around the bassinets and I know that it’s killing Rage to have them so close to Tyler and Lyric. He’s doing a great job of hiding his reaction though. I’m so proud of him. I can only imagine how he’s going to be once we get home with all the kids.