AIDEEN

“Bra

Bra

“This is very different than what I imagined seeing Aideen’s private parts would be like,” Alec murmured from behind me as I eased myself down into the birthing pool.

Nico choked on air. “You imagined that? Bro, she is our brother’s girl. The mother to our niece or nephew.”

I looked up at them when I was settled on my knees and leaning on the pool’s side.

Alec blinked. “I’ve imagined it since I first met her... should I be sorry about that? Because I’m not.”

Nico shook his head. “I’m telling Kane you said that.”

“You’ve always been a little snitch bitch!” Alec hissed.

“Time and place, bro,” Damien grumbled. “Time and place.”

I wanted to laugh at them; they sounded like arguing little boys, but I couldn’t because all I could focus on was the pain that consumed me.

“Kane!” I cried as a mighty contraction tore through me. “Oh, please. I need him.”

“Death!” Alec hissed. “That is what he has asked for by not answering his fucking phone!”

Nico nodded in agreement then reached for my hand and grabbed ahold of it.

“He will be here, Ado.”

“When?” I screamed and squeezed Nico’s hand when the pain I felt intensified. “I’m goin’ to fuckin’ kill him if he isn’t already dead or worse.”

Nico’s face turned red and his eyes almost bugged out of their sockets.

“Ow,” he whimpered. “Ow. Ow. That hurts.”

I let go of his hands and focused on Alec laughing at Nico as he shook out his hand and cradled it against his chest.

“I can’t do this,” I panted.

Bra

I didn’t have anything.

I couldn’t fucking do it.

“Make it stop,” I screamed as burning filled my vagina. “Help it stop. Damien!”

“Oh Christ,” he whispered and scrambled closer to me, but full blown panic came over him and he could do nothing but move to the side and rub my hand.

Alec took his place in front of me.

“Take her mind off of it,” Nico whispered to him, but had his eyes locked between my legs.

The way I was positioned was not ladylike at all.

“Sons of Anarchy!” Alec suddenly shouted. “I’ll put on the show and you can-”

“Shut. Up,” I growled as I stared at him. “And don’t move a bloody muscle. You’re me focus point.”

He began to panic and started to sing, “I love you, you love me. We’re a happy family-”

“Alec!” Nico snapped. “Barney songs? Really?”

Alec placed his hands on the side of his head and he whimpered, “I don’t know what to do!”

“Just do what Aideen asks,” Bra

Alec looked at Bra

“Bronagh is already pregnant,” Dominic cried into his hands. “It’s too late to pull out.”

“I’m never ever having sex ever again,” Damien whispered.

For God’s sake.

“Stop pushing?” Alec then suggested. “Squeeze your cheeks together and keep that little Slater up there until Kane gets here.”

Bra

“It doesn’t work like that, Alec,” Bra

“She can’t do beautifully because Kane isn’t here!” Alec stated for a second time. “He needs to be here for this.”

Bra

Alec did just that. The bloody freak of nature kneeled down next to the pool, cupped his hands at the sides of his mouth and shouted, “Stop your journey down the vaginal canal, we’re not ready for you yet. Your daddy is at the gym pumping iron, have some respect and wait for him!”

Dominic pulled Alec away from my most private body part and smacked him on the nose. “Stop it.”

Alec jumped with fright and silently lifted his fingers to his nose while he stared at his brother with wide eyes.

“I can’t believe you just did that to me.”

Nico shook his head, chewing on his i

“Aideen?!”

Oh, thank God.

Bra

Seconds passed by, then Kane and Ryder burst into the bedroom. I didn’t look up. Instead, I lowered my head and screamed as pain swam around my abdomen.

“Strip down and get into the pool with her, she needs you,” Bra

“Where the fuck have you been?” I screamed as I pushed.

I ignored everything and picked up the two balls Bra

And breathing, I really needed to remember my breathing.

I heard mindless chatter and sounds of items hitting my bedroom floor, then I heard water splashing, as ripples of water knocked against me.

Kane was in the pool.

I felt a hand pressed against my back, then multiple kisses to my shoulder.

“I’m here, babydoll.”

I began to cry, the relief of having him here hit me like a bomb. I was terrified he would miss the baby being born.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered and kissed the side of my head. “I’m so sorry.”

I turned my head to him, pressing it to the side of his face. “I can’t do this.”

Kane smiled. “What are you talking about? You’re doing it, and you’re doing it fucking awesomely.”

“Hell yeah she is,” Bra

Kane interlocked his hands with mine and didn’t make a sound when I squeezed him with every ounce of energy I had.

“God, it hurts!” I cried out and held our conjoined hands under my stomach.

“Spread your legs as wide as you can, honey, and as soon as you get another contraction you bear down and push, okay?”

I nodded to Bra

Pushing. Hurt. Like. Hell.

I screamed as loud as I ever had in my life when burning ripped through my vagina. “Ahhhhhhh!” I roared until my contraction faded, but even then the burning lingered.

“Bra

I felt the cloth against my head.

“Push through that sting, do you hear me? You push through it with everythin’ you’ve got.”

I did just that. For thirty more minutes I pushed like hell through the burning sting until I thought I would collapse from exhaustion.

“She’s crownin’, that means the head is almost out, Kane,” Bra

Fear struck me.

“Bra

“I’m ready,” he breathed. “I’ve got this, babydoll, trust me. Push as hard as you can one more time.”

Ryder and his brothers hunkered down in front of me and they each grabbed my hands, arms and legs, letting me use them as leverage.

“Let’s do this, Ado.” Alec smiled.

I nodded my head, then I sucked in a huge breath and with all my might, I bore down and pushed like my life depended on it.

“Good girl, babydoll,” Kane cheered. “Keep pushing... keep pushing.”

“The head is fully out,” Bra

More burning pain flooded my vagina and I screamed, but quickly inhaled and exhaled through the pain.

Nico moved to the side to get a better view and laughed. “Nothing but dark hair, a true Slater.” He tried to high five Damien who pointed at his own mop of white hair causing Nico to wince and say, “My bad, bro.”