Labor Begins

KIERAN POV The contractions started at two in the morning.Not the practice ones he'd been having for the last two weeks, the ones Dr. Chen had told him to ignore unless they got regular. These were different. They had a different quality to them, something purposeful underneath the pain, like his body had finally decided it was done waiting and was going to do what it came here to do whether Kieran was ready or not.He lay in the dark and timed them on his phone and told himself it was fine. He'd been managing pain for nine months. He could manage this.By three he woke Elliot.He didn't say anything dramatic. He just said: "I think it's starting." Elliot was sitting up before he finished the sentence, fully awake in the way he got when something needed to happen, and within fifteen minutes they were in the car and Maya was on the phone being told to meet them there and the city was passing the windows and Kieran was breathing through his nose and trying to count and generally faili

They're Here

ELLIOTHe had been in the theatre for every second of it and he would never forget a single one.He stood on the other side of the screen in hospital scrubs with one hand holding Kieran's and the other pressed flat against the bed rail because he needed something solid and the bed rail was what was there. He kept his eyes on Kieran's face the whole time. Not on the screen, not on what was happening behind it. Just Kieran. The tight line of his jaw. The slow deliberate breathing. The expression he wore when he was managing something enormous and had decided nobody was going to know about it.Elliot knew that expression. He had watched it for nine months across boardrooms and hospital corridors and kitchen tables at five in the morning. He knew the version that meant I'm fine and the version that meant I will be fine and the version that meant I am at the absolute limit of what I can hold but I will hold it. Kieran wore all three at different points during those twenty minutes and Ellio

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Labor Begins

They're Here