New Arrival ( Patrick )

[Kazumi O'Connor]

Kazumi had been home alone. Not that it was very uncommon, what with Patrick still having duties to fulfill at the school from time to time. Sure, it was summer, but with summer school the pillars had been taking turns to watch over things during the day and with her being so far along, and the baby being much larger than she was expected to be, Kazumi just couldn't uphold her duties...so he had been covering her's as well.

Nothing really remarkable had happened today, at least not at first. She had cleaned up what little mess there was left from breakfast and did the dishes, which included the ones from dinner the night before. She had then went about her usual routine, which involved cleaning the counters, going through the house picking up bits of trash that managed to magically miss the trash cans and then standing in front of that television in the living room for half an hour with the plug in hand trying to gather up the courage to plug it in. She had been trying for weeks now, but she just kept failing. It was something she knew she would have to get over eventually, for the baby and for Pat, but right now she just couldn't.

Then, she had gone ahead and gone through the rest of the house, dusting and cleaning what little needed to be done. Though, in the midst of cleaning the bedroom, she found a bag stuffed away in the closet, a bag which contained some of the little outfits she had bought for the baby about a week ago. She had forgotten all about them, having been too tired to cart them upstairs that night and instead just sticking them in the closet. So, figuring she better get them put away before she forgot again, she headed up the stairs.

And that was when things went from dull and mundane to full blown panic.

See, she had gotten up there alright, just a little pain stabbing at the center of her lower back...But nothing she wasn't used to. She had then went about laying the clothes out on the changing table and folding them up so she could put them away. Hell, she even took some time, as to not overdo herself, to sit in the rocking chair that was in front of the windows and look out over the rest of the neighborhood. Letting that pain in her back subside before bothering to try and make it down the stairs.

But, it was in her trip down the stairs that things went wrong...See, being pregnant, and being as small as Kazumi was....when her belly grew so big, esp with an over sized baby in it, she couldn't really see what was in front of her when she walked. Which in all honesty, should not have been anything. But see, in her hand currently, there was a little pink sock...but only one. The other having fallen somewhere, her best guess being the closet. So, she was on her way down to try and find said sock so that she could match them up and lay them on the dresser to take up there later on and put away.

Well, she found that sock, but not in a way she had hoped....her own sock covered foot stepping on it just as she got near the bottom portion of the stairs, catching it right on the edge of the step and causing her foot to slip...

Foot slipping meant that she slipped and her slipping meant that she fell, because lets face it, Kazumi is not the most balanced individual. Her little hand trying to hold onto the railing, but the sock in her hand making it hard to maintain a grip, esp with her weight fully behind her fall....and so she ended up letting go and down she went. Granted, it was only about four steps she tumbled down before she hit the floor of her bedroom just inside the door frame of the door that led up to the nursery...but being seven and a half months pregnant and already on strict orders to be careful....four steps might as well have been thirty. A sharp pain shooting through her, starting in her spine and circling around her sides and coming together again at the front of her stomach....Sharp enough that she gave a little cry of pain and struggled to sit up with one hand as the other gripped her stomach.

But then, as she moved, she felt something warm between her legs...A little gasp given as she felt fear grip her chest so tightly that she couldn't breath...She didn't want to look, she didn't want to see....but as another pain shot around her belly like fire, she would sit up more, yelping in pain and looking down at the same time....that crimson stain seeping through the skirt of her dress the only thing she needed to see before she would turn and literally drag herself toward the nightstand...

She couldn't get up, the pain in her back and stomach making her legs not want to work, and, she was afraid if she moved too much it would only further progress her labor....labor she should not have been in. So, when she finally reached the nightstand, she would grab the cord to her phone which was plugged in and pull it off the table, grabbing it up off the floor once it fell there and whimpering as another jolt of fiery pain ripped through her.

She wanted to call Patrick, but right now she needed a hospital...and Carmine was outside...where he was every day when she was home alone. So, that is who she called...."Help me....please..." Gritted out through clenched teeth before she dropped the phone and cried out in pain which was steadily getting worse.

Twenty minutes later

Carmine would thrust open the doors to the hospital, blood staining the front of his white button up shirt as well as the cuffs of his sleeves. She had been bleeding pretty bad when he found her and having to carry her had only proved to transfer the blood onto him.

Now, with Kazumi being taken care of by the doctors, he knew he had to call somebody....and though he knew he should call his boss first, the number he dialed instead was not Kevala's. Putting the phone to his ear, he would wait, and once there was an answer he would speak out in a tone that was clearly panicked...one that NOBODY had ever heard from the big man before. "Patrick, she fell down the stairs at the house. Its the baby. We are at [insert address here]..." Barely getting the address out before the line went dead (undoubtedly)....

The large man pale as he dropped the phone to his side and struggled to get it together, knowing he had to call her Moms now, and knowing that this call wouldn't go over well...Especially since the two women were out of town on business this week. But other than that, all he could do was wait on Patrick to get here.

[Legion]

The day had started like any other. Breakfast with his beautiful wife, yeah, he loved saying that. Still. They had been married for a little bit now. It wasn't a big deal, they had just wanted to make sure that their Daughter was born within wedlock, even if she wasn't conceived in such. Not that Patrick minded that she was conceived outside of wedlock, but he actually agreed with Kazumi, he wanted their daughter to be born inside their marriage so that she would never question her Parents love for her or each other. That she was always part of the plan, never a hindrance or someone who got in the way.

Anyways after breakfast Patrick had to go to the school, he was taking Kazumi's shift of watching the summer school hooligans. He did really want to do it to be honest. This school captain thing was getting to be quite a drag, especially now that he had places that he actually wanted to be. Like home, with Kazumi, lounging around in their home. Spending quality time together could never get old, not to him. He loved every bit of her. Loved spending time with her and enjoying her company. As he drove off it was times like these that made him wonder exactly why he was a pillar.

Patrolling the school wasn't much, there was hardly anyone there, so there wasn't too much opportunity for him to get into any trouble, and be him he meant others, so he didn't really have any messes to clean up, so he found himself on the roof, simply looking out peacefully into the cityscape unaware of what was going on at home. Unaware that in a few short minutes he couldn't be driving his truck faster. Though for the moment he couldn't help but think that if he were still smoking, now would be the time. Not that he was craving a cigarette, no he was done with them, it was just a thought that he considered.

But then it came, that phone call from a panicked Carmine? Well that certainly worried Patrick, the guy was a stone cold killer. What could possibly make him:

"Patrick,she fell down the stairs at the house. Its the baby. We are at [insert address here]..."

"Is she okay?! Is the baby okay?! What happened?!" Patrick demanded into the cell phone as he was already sprinting to get to his truck to floor his way to the hospital, not knowing what was happening. Was Kazumi alright? Was their baby fine? Questions only serving to push his foot down on the pedal more. Carmine having not given him an answer, which mad him slightly irate as tires skidded across a turn. The suspense killing him.

Though finally he'd make it to the hospital and barely get his truck in park before rushing through the doors. The big man, not exactly hard to spot, Patrick becoming more concerned as he saw that shirt stained with blood. Speaking, really demanding more then asking, "What happened?! Are they okay?!"

[Kazumi O'Connor]

By this time Carmine had called the Moms and they were on their way back, it would be a good twenty four hours before they could get here and he would be lucky if he survived the night after that. Not that any of it had been his fault, he had tried to come in but she had put her foot down that she wanted him outside. She hated having him lurking around all day, they all knew that.

He was pacing the floor of the waiting room, blood still staining his fingers, his hands literally shaking as he waited for Patrick to get there, which didn't take long at all. The sound of a truck flying into the parking lot and then the doors flying open, his eyes looked up just in time to see the other man coming at him and demanding to know what happened. "All I could get from her, was that she was putting something up in the baby's room, came back down the stairs and slipped...she drug herself to her phone called me...and here we are. She was bleeding, really bad." He looked down at his shirt just then, holding his hands out in front of him slightly.

Just about then, a nurse would come rushing from in the back, turning to speak to Carmine, her cheeks a bit flushed, clearly having been hurrying about and was out of breath. However before she could speak, Carmine would shake his head and motion toward Patrick. "He's the father..." The sound of almost relief in his tone, not sure he could handle any more of this. He had been there since Kazumi was an infant, and he had watched her grow. She was as close to a daughter as Kev was, if not more. He loved that little girl, and this was killing him.

The nurse spun on her heels and looked up at Patrick not eve missing a beat. "You are the husband?" Of course that got a glance from Carmine, since nobody knew, but he said nothing, just collapsed back into one of the waiting room chairs. "Follow me." She would then take off and down the hall, leaving the waiting room behind. She would walk and explain since time was not really something they had a lot of.

"From what we understand from her, she fell down some stairs, and it caused her to go into labor." Moving down another hall and the distinct scream of Kauzmi echoing from one of the rooms near the end of the hall. "The doctor is on his way, she is already too far along to stop it. She is seven months along?"[/i] Concern evident in her tone as she asked this.

Though a few seconds later, another scream would erupt and a hospital tray would come flying out of one of the rooms. Yeah, guess which one his wife was in? [/font]

[Legion]

As Carmine explained Patrick nodded appreciatively, calming down a bit. Admittedly he was more calm then Carmine, but perhaps that was because he didn't have to worry about being flayed by Kevala for this. Patrick knew it wasn't his fault, he trusted the guy, and knew that Kazumi didn't like him being inside the house. She always thought he was creeping around. In reality the guy was just doing his job, and well he was attached to Kazumi, that much had always been evident. No, not in the way that creep Edward had been but in more of a fatherly way. Yeah, that wasn't normal but as Patrick had come to discover in his time with Kazumi, nothing ever was. This was just a type of peculiarity that he wasn't worried about.

To be honest Patrick respected the guy. Carmine seemed very good at his job and he went about it with a crisp professionalism. They didn't talk much, but at least Patrick always felt that there was a mutual respect between the two of them. Like some sort of unspoken code between two killers who were professionals as opposed to crazy psychopaths. Although Patrick wasn't a killer, not anymore.

As the nurse came by and Carmine pointed to him being the father Patrick looked at the woman, anxious to go see his pregnant wife. Make sure she was okay. As the nurse asked if he was the husband he gave a slight nod. Not that he didn't want to shoot a grin at Carmine, because he didn't know but Kazumi was still the concern here, and he had no idea what her condition was.

His attention turned fully towards the nurse, following her as she spoke, nodding. So it was happening today? It was early but he couldn't help but feel excited and nervous. No one had mentioned to him yet if they were okay. Hearing Kazumi scream only increased his concern, although he was certain that was more of a labor scream then anything, right? As she asked him that question he nodded, "Seven and a half. Are both of them alright? Are they hurt?"

Questions he desperately desired the answers too. But as they neared the room with the screaming Patrick saw a hospital tray fly out of a room, having heard another scream. The connection wasn't hard to make. Patrick only hoped as he rounded the corner into the room that he wouldn't get hit by another, hands up just in case...

[Kazumi O'Connor]

The nurse stumbled to a stop as she saw that tray come flying out of the room. She hadn't been expecting it, but then, who would have been? It wasn't like every day you got a pregnant woman who was terrorizing the hospital and the very people that were trying to help her. Yet as he asked his questions she would somehow get her feet to start moving again, nodding a bit as she seemed to regain her composure, at least slightly. "The baby's heartbeat seems to be fine, though your wife seems to be acting a bit....strangely."[/i] She would purse her lips, not sure how to define it. It was more than just the violence, it was something in the way she looked.

But then, they didn't know about that ability that Kazumi had. They didn't know that when she was injured and that injury resulted in blood loss, that she went into a sort of blood rage as her body demanded that she replenish what was lost. So for them, it was as though they were dealing with something very out of this world, watching as eyes changed colors and aggression mounted. Not to mention, it had been near impossible to ignore the fangs that the woman had....all four of them.

Just then another scream would erupt from the room, this time more than evident that it was Kazumi as her voice soon followed in a growled and demanding tone. "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!?!" Another crash just about the time that he turned through the door into her room, a chair splintering against the wall near the doorway and just to the left of the spot where two nurses were huddled into the corner of the room. One of them holding her hand close to her chest as blood dripped from a very obvious bite mark.

Around the room was a litter of pretty much anything and everything that they had put within her reach that she could throw at them. Pretty adamant that they were not going to touch her or make her lay down and be quiet until her husband got there, and clearly trying to force Kazumi to do anything was a wasted effort.

Though, as he came into the room, and the pieces of the chair clattered to the floor, Kazumi would look up..blood staining her lips and dripping down her chin from her attack on the nurse, sweat covering her brow and soaking through her hair, and her eyes dark as night. Not to mention she was pale and her entire body seemed to be trembling, most likely due to the pain caused by being in labor. Yet, the instant she saw him, everything about her demeanor seemed to change. She no longer looked like a woman about to kill somebody, she no long seemed on edge, volatile or dangerous. Instead, her eyes faded to a brilliant amethyst shade, tears brimming within them as her lower lip would jut out just slightly and tremble.

"B..Baby...." Wincing as another wave of pain hit her, little hand gripping her stomach as she struggled to control her breathing. Not exactly easy seeing as how she was all worked up and well..in labor...but she tried just the same. Her head lowering, she bit down through another contraction, fingers of her opposite hand gripping the edge of the bed rather tightly as she struggled through it.

Taking his moment, though a bit taken back by a woman turning from raging bitch to big baby in under a second, the nurses would stumble out of the room, leaving only the one that had accompanied him in from the waiting area. "We need her to lay down Sir. She is too far progressed in her labor to be moving around so much." Her words soft and kind, as she tentatively extended a hand toward Kazumi.

Though about the time her hand go close it would be slapped away as Kazumi's eyes shot up toward the woman, a low growl issued in the back of her throat. "I am sitting right here! Don't talk about me like I'm not!" Barely getting the words out before another contraction hit...She had never been through labor before but even she knew that this wasn't normal..They were coming too fast, way too fast and they just kept getting stronger. "P..Patrick, s...somethings wrong..." Her tone soft and shaky, full of concern as she gave another little whimper and then closed her eyes, gripping her stomach as she choked back yet another scream. [/font]

[Legion]

Patrick breathed a sigh of relief when the nurse told him that the baby was fine. Though yes, his wife was acting strange indeed. Even for her. Patrick knew about her new qi ability, yes, but she had not sustained an injury where she had lost blood since acquiring it. So he had no clue. To be honest, his first guess was that this was Nyx. Though when Patrick heard her scream for him, he knew it was her. That was her voice. So that was an interesting fact. Puzzling too. Hearing the chair crash made his eyebrows raise as he really did wonder as was quite concerned.

As the chair fell to the ground and he turned into the room the place looked like a battlefield, and Patrick's eyebrows were raised, quite amused. His eyes seeing the nurse with the bleeding arm, his questioning glance only to be answered moments later as he saw Kazumi standing there, eyes black as night as blood coated her mouth, fangs bared. Though when she saw him her eyes changed to that amethyst color, that word leaving her lips as she saw him and winced in pain, likely from the contractions.

She seemed to calm down immediately, until the nurse spoke and reached for her, Kazumi slapping her hand away, growling at her. Though as another contraction hit Patrick looked at her in concern, worried for his wife. She didn't need to say it for him to know it. Something was indeed wrong. Patrick turned to the nurses and asked kindly, "Can ye give us a moment please?"

As they would move to leave Patrick would utter, "Thanks"

After they did Patrick would walk up to her, wrapping an arm around her asking softly, concern in his voice, "What's wrong Kazumi?"

"Here," sticking out his arm, "Take some of my blood, it'll help right?"

Her blood healed right? So that mean it would work now?

[Kazumi O'Connor]

She hissed as another sharp pain hit her, struggling to breath at least somewhat normally as the nurse tried her best to edge her way closer. They couldn't very well sedate her without risk of it affecting the baby, and with this being a preterm birth they could not risk what it would do. Instead she had to try and get the woman back in bed. Though as she inched closer, she was stopped by Patrick asking for a moment alone.

She would straighten up, nodding a bit as she backed off, assuming that he would be able to calm his wife down, especially given the way that she had reacted to his appearance only moments before. "Very well, but only until the doctor gets here."[/i] She nodded and would move to leave, hopefully getting the point across that they didn't have a whole lot of time before the baby would be arriving. Walking away, she would close the door, leaving the two alone.

Kazumi would breath a sigh of relief as the nurse left, watching as he came near her, his arms wrapping around her little form. But before he could even offer his arm, her fangs would sink deep into that mark on his neck, a little possessive growl given as she made it clear that she, or at least her body, knew exactly what it needed. That feral animal that she had become more like since her qi ability kicked in coming forth to not only mark what was her's...something she loved doing more and more often these days....but to also draw that blood that, quite frankly, she was addicted to. He was the only one she fed from, save for stored blood when he was not around or she had taken too much....and she loved it. A little groan given as she drank down his blood, not being too clean about it either as bits dripped from the corner of her mouth and down her chin. Eyes rolling back slightly as she would start to feel that increasingly familiar sensation of his blood working into her own, the intensity of her contractions letting up, the sense of something being wrong slowly starting to fade away.

A few moments later, she would pry herself away from him. Her lips stained crimson as she ran her tongue along them and slowly shifted to lay back onto the bed. Completely calm now and back to her usual self as her entire body began to tingle with the effects of her qi firing to life. "I...I am sorry...I was just so hungry..." She usually gave him warning, but she had not been hurt since she gained her qi, so she had no clue what that would do to her....Now, well, now they knew.

Just then, there would come a knock from the door a split second later the doctor came pushing through along with the nurse that had been there before, both of them a little taken back. Him by the state of the room and the blood on the woman's lips...her from the fact that the woman looked so completely calm and settled down. A complete contradiction to how she had been earlier.

Though they recovered soon enough, the doctor moving around so that he could check on the baby's progress, luckily not getting a reaction from Kazumi. No, instead she was in the midst of another contraction, her hand shooting out to grasp Patrick's as she gave a a little whimper, her eyes squeezing shut rather tightly. The nurse turning to look at Patrick and noting the wound on his neck. "Are you alright?" Clearly concerned.

Though before he would have time to answer, the doctor would speak up in a rather hurried an authoritative tone. "Get everything ready. Now!" Practically snapping at the nurse who jumped and quickly rushed to get everything prepared...The doctor then turning to Kazumi and speaking in a much softer, soothing and yet authoritative tone. "Okay, you are going to have to push. Alright?"

His words getting a little growl from Kazumi, though as another contraction hit, she would let out a little scream and do as he said, her hand grasping Patrick's so hard that her nails sank into his flesh, the other literally tearing the bedding on the opposite side of her. [/font]

[Legion]

Patrick would smile appreciatively as the nurse gave them their moment. He really didn't want her to see what was going to happen next. It was a rather intimate moment to say the least. Even if it was a little bit of a rough thing and her qi demanded it, it was still quite personal when they did it, simply because it related to their intimacy, their love making.

As Patrick's arms wrapped around her, to comfort her he barely had time to get any words out at all before she bite her mark on his neck. Patrick hissed as he felt those teeth sink into his flesh. Though he had not been expecting it he loved it. Loved hearing that little growl she gave him, to let him know he was hers. Loved feeling her tongue on his neck as she lapped down his blood, telling that she was not being exactly clean as she so, though he didn't mind in the least.

As she pulled back apologizing and laying on the bed Patrick grinned. Looking at her like this, he always thought of how sexy she was, his blood on her lips. Looking quite wild indeed. His Kazumi after all. Sweet, but terribly feral at times. He loved it, and her.

Just then the doctor and nurse burst through, though at their looks Patrick couldn't help but grin at the confusion. As the doctor came around to inspect Kazumi Patrick saw her go into another contraction and felt her hand shoot to grip his as she struggled through it. When the nurse asked about his neck Patrick could only grin. Others could never really understand what they went through, what it was like. So it was never really worth explaining.

But he didn't even have time to say yes as the Doctor began barking out orders, as things seemed to be progressing quite rapidly. As he told her to push she would, letting out that scream as Patrick felt her hand grip around his so tightly, nails digging into his flesh. It was definitely time it would seem...

[Kazumi O'Connor]

Kazumi was not in a very happy place right now. Broken bones, stab wounds, hell....torture...she could do. This. This was like nothing she had ever felt before and to be honest, in the moment, she didn't ever want to feel it again. Sure that would change later, but right now, she was not a happy camper at all. "FUCK!" Not too shy about expressing how she felt either apparently....

Then as the contraction ended, she would collapse back onto the bed, breathing heavily and covered in sweat. Her body trembling as she closed her eyes, the stress of the contractions possibly the most tiring thing she had ever felt in her life. Though she didn't have very long to wait at all before another contraction hit and the doctor was telling her again to push. A little whimper given, quickly turning into a short but loud scream as she did just that.

Nope. Death had been easier. Right now, she would take that any day compared to this nightmarish experience. Actually, nightmare was too nice a term. This was in a category all its own. Nothing could possibly compare and quite honestly.....she was mad as all fucking hell at her husband. "WHY THE FUCK DON'T YOU HAVE TO DO THIS SHIT!?" Black eyes shooting toward him as she growled and would collapse back onto the bed once more. Her lip bleeding now, her fangs having cut into it as she bit down just now though anyone who dared to touch her there would be asking to get bitten....And not nicely either.

Time Skip For Plots Sake

So it would go, for about half an hour. Oh the things she said to Patrick. Things that would make a sailor blush and cover his ears. Things that had the nurse blushing as she stood beside the doctor with the needed tools for when the baby arrived.

See, it would not have been taking so long if not for the fact that Kazumi was so tiny and the baby was rather big for its age in development. So yeah, things were not meshing well and the exhaustion was clear on Kaz's face as she laid there upon the bed between another set of contractions. She was tired and her little body was completely given out, though this was not exactly something that she could just....stop doing. In fact, she was so very close to being done and yet she just didn't know if she had the will to do it anymore. Yet the doctor would tell her to push as soon as she felt another contraction and she would whimper rather loudly....now to the point where she was ready to reach down and snap his fucking neck if he didn't stop saying that. SHE GOT IT! You have a contraction. You push. It wasn't rocket science.

Then came another contraction and she would growl rather darkly, gripping the bed, which was shredded and fucked up beyond repair at this point, and gripping Patrick's hand as hard as she could. "GET IT THE FUCK OUT OF ME!" Making her point very fucking clear just about the time that all the pain seemed to suddenly and instantly just.....vanish. Sudden enough that she was almost caught off guard...And in fact she would have been if she had not been so utterly exhausted...collapsing back onto the bed...covered in sweat, her hair soaked and plastered to her face and neck.

Though just as suddenly as the pain had stopped would come the very sharp and very distinct cry of a newborn infant, the doctor having made quick work to hand the baby to the nurse who was busy about cleaning her off and making sure she was okay. Usually they would have offered her to her parents, but given that she was premature, they thought that they would have to rush her off to the neonatal intensive care unit.

But, after a few moments had ticked by....agonizing ones at that, seeing as how nobody had said anything and Kazumi was panicking, scared to death that something was wrong...She would start to try and push herself up in the bed, to see what was going on as the doctor, who had finished cleaning her up, would now be huddled with the nurse around the area where they had Patrick and Kazumi's daughter. "Is she okay?!" A little whimper, eyes already brimming with tears as she cast a glance toward Patrick, clearly scared more than she had ever been in her life.

Then, before either of them could ask anything else, the doctor would turn around, baby in his arms as he moved over toward them, coming to a stop in front of Patrick and slowly offering the little girl out to him. "She...Well she is surprisingly a completely healthy, five pound, six ounce, baby girl. Not a single issue that we can tell." Clearly surprised and clearly not sure what to make of it, but not wanting to keep the infant away from her parents any longer than needed.

As for why they did not offer her to Kazumi first? Well she was covered in blood and quite honestly, a mess. It was just the best option, until the nurse got her cleaned up, and honestly, Kazumi didn't mind one bit. Tears spilling from her eyes as she looked up at her daughter being handed to her husband, a little sob held back by her hand covering her mouth. "She is beautiful..." Her own self still clearly too exhausted to move too much, especially now that she knew the baby was okay. Hell, she could barely hold her eyes open.

[Legion]

Apparently giving birth was far more painful that he could imagine. At least that was the impression that he was getting here. Listening to Kazumi bellow that obscenity as she pushed. Patrick could tell that she was in a lot of pain, that his whole ordeal was very tiring and very stressful. Now watching all this Patrick was just glad that he didn't have to give birth, or ever worry about doing that. Because damn, it looked painful. As she screamed at him, asking why he didn't have to do this he had to fight a chuckle. He had a smart ass remark prepared, but the black in her eyes and the whole situation helped him bite his tongue. Something just told him that saying that would be a really bad thing.

TIME SKIP

Oh the magical things she said to Patrick. The kinds of things that made him feel all bubbly inside. Nah, Patrick really didn't mind. He lind of had an idea of what Kazumi was going through. That and some of the things that she told him were funny. Yeah, Patrick had exceptionally tough skin when it came to his armor.

As he watched he, he could tell that she was in pain from the contractions and that she was exhausted from the ordeal, the only real problem with that was that their daughter wasn't with them yet. So she couldn't be done, yet. Though Patrick could also annoyed he was getting at the doctor for telling her to push every time. That next contraction though, that was a doozy. Patrick could tell that she was going through a bad one because well, he thought his hand was going to break from the force that she as squeezing into his hand. If it weren't for that there might be a chuckle given to her last comment, the one directed towards the baby.

Though that was the last scream she'd give, because as Patrick was privy to witness the child was born, his daughter. After a moment as Patrick watched the doctor take her he'd hear his daughter cry, a bright smile crossing his face because she seemed well, taking a few steps to the doctor. Trying to see what was going on, because they hadn't said anything, and they weren't giving up their daughter, his sentiment being expressed perfectly by Kazumi.

But before either he or she could ask anything else the doctor would turn and hand Patrick his daughter, for the first time. As he took his daughter, to be perfectly honest, Patrick stopped listening at healthy. His focus solely on his daughter, that he held in his arms with a smile. She was beautiful, the most beautiful thing he had ever seen besides Kazumi. He was so proud, beaming down at his little girl. Patrick took a few steps back towards Kazumi, holding her down in his arms for her to see their beautiful baby girl.

Patrick was so proud of them. Of both Kazumi and his baby girl. Patrick hadn't been happier in his life, simply holding her in his arms, and smiling down at her. She was just so beautiful and Patrick couldn't believe that the had made her...

[Kazumi O'Connor]

Kazumi was on the verge of a nervous breakdown by the time that Patrick lowered the baby down for her to see. A sigh of relief and another soft, muffled sob given as bright blue eyes looked down upon their daughter. She was absolutely perfect. Ten fingers, ten toes....perfect little nose and lips. Never in her life had Kazumi seen anything this amazing or this beautiful. Never in her life had she felt the kind of love she felt now. Yes, she loved her husband, but this, this was different. A severely protective and fiery nature seemed to instantly swell up within Kazumi, her demon even growling as it seemed to mirror the sentiment. Her hand coming up and the back of her index finger softly tracing over their daughter's silky smooth cheek.

"She looks so much like you..." Speaking with a kind of awe as she looked down at the baby he held in front of her. She still could not believe that she had helped in creating her. That she had been a part of something so.....amazing. "She...She is amazing..." A little whimper given as she laid there, unable to move much other than that hand that softly stroked her daughter's cheek.

Finally, she would manage to peel her eyes away from the baby to look up at him, blue eyes still swimming with tears as she smiled weakly, her hair sticking to her forehead and falling across her eyes and onto her cheeks....still very sweaty and the lulling of her eyelids told him that she was damn near ready to pass out. She couldn't help it. The labor had been rather hard on her, and until he was able to give her more blood she was going to be rather weak and drained. It was just a side effect of her Qi.

The baby giving a little cough and moving within his grasp, her hand managing to wiggle free of the blanket just a bit more than it had and falling against his thumb as he held her, tiny little fingers grasping said digit lightly, not even big enough to fully encircle it. Slowly, as if the light hurt her eyes, which one could imagine that it did, since this was the first time she had ever been in it, the baby would begin to open her eyes...looking up at him. Blue-ish green eyes with flecks of gold in them, looking up at him with an innocence that was so utterly pure that it was breathtaking. No two ways about it.

A little hiccup given, seeming to scare herself a bit as her eyes closed and her little nose would scrunch up as though she were about to cry. Though a soft shushing sound would be ushered from Kazumi and slowly the baby would begin to relax, once more opening her eyes and looking around. Her little fingers not yet to release his thumb, even as she wriggled about just slightly before yawning and starting to doze off.

[Legion]

Patrick smiled at his wife's reaction to seeing their child. She really had made a beautiful child. Yeah, he had helped, but she was the one that had carried their new daughter for the last seven plus months. That look on her face was beautiful. The kind of love that she had in her eyes. Amazing was the only word that he could use to describe it. It was a love that he imagined only a parent could have for their child. He felt it too as he looked back to his daughter, fiercely protective of her. In a way so much greater in some ways then what he could feel for Kazumi. Not that he wasn't protective of Kazumi, but she could defend herself. His daughter now, looked so peaceful, so harmless and yes, so helpless. It was that paternal instinct that made him feel this way. Smiling, he watched Kazumi reach out and touch their daughter's cheek, hearing her words, and how much awe they held.

"We made a great daughter Kazumi," Patrick said looking at their daughter, sitting down on the bed beside Kazumi, looking up at her, "We really did."

Patrick looked at Kazumi with a loving and very happy smile. He was so proud, of her and his daughter. He couldn't help but feel that, and be happy, so, so happy. He could tell that Kazumi was tired, close to passing out, and with those strands of hair in her face with a smile he'd reach out and brush them back behind her ear. Smiling again at her lovingly before his eyes looked down again at their daughter.

Patrick could only smile at her little cough, smile widening as she wiggled out of her blanket a bit and her soft little hand grasped his thumb. Warm loving smile looking down on her as her hand wasn't even able to fully close around his thumb. When she slowly began to open her eyes for the first time the first thing she'd see was her father, looking down on her warm, loving smile on his face. The look of her eyes was breathtakingly beautiful. He couldn't quite describe it in words. Pure and innocent, that was the look in her eyes. Looking like she had both of their eyes, blue, green and gold. Smiling as he looked down on her Patrick would say softly, "Welcome to the world little one, Yer mother and I love ye so much."

Patrick would smile softly as she gave a little hiccup and scared herself. That was too cute. As her eyes scrunched up, looking like she was about to cry he would hear Kazumi hush her, smile warming as she was able to calm their daughter. Smiling as his daughter began to look around a bit, moving around a bit in his arms. Loving smile as she began to yawn and doze off a bit, smilling as she continued to hold onto his thumb...

[Kazumi O'Connor]

Kazumi would smile at his words, snuggling into him as he took a seat beside her and brushed a little of her hair out of her face. Her eyes lowering to their daughter for a moment before she would start to feel herself slipping. "I...am really tired baby..." Her voice slightly slurred as she would lay her head to the side, eyes slowly starting to flutter closed.

Yes, she was a bit pale, her Qi making it impossible for her to handle such things without drinking blood soon after....but at the same time she was genuinely tired from the act of giving birth. It wasn't exactly easy, at all. In fact, a few seconds later, she would be out, her hand falling away from the baby as she would simply lay there, not even bothering to roll over and curl up as she usually would. Just that exhausted.

As for the baby, she would have doubled up one little fist and have it pressed to her mouth, sucking on it as best she could. Still too little to grasp that she could suck her thumb or anything....but managing to do so on her fist just fine...well, kinda. Her other little hand loosening on his thumb just a bit before she would hear something or have some kind of dream and tense up, her grip on him tightening as best she could. Which yeah, wasn't much. Yet, she seemed to find sleep just as easily as her mother, content with where she was, with her parents and with her daddy holding her...clearly already well on her way to being a daddy's girl.

[Legion]

As she snuggled into him Patrick would shift on the bed, leaning into her a bit, smiling. She really had done well today, all things considered. She looked pale and it looked like she needed more blood, and all things considered she probably did. She really didn't need to say it for Patrick to know that she was tired, she looked it, looked exhausted and pale. Looked like she was about to pass out. She really did need her rest though so Patrick smiled at her whispering, "Then get yer rest love, ye've had a long day. After ye should have some more blood."

Patrick would smile as she slowly faded off, falling asleep, looking beautiful as she did so. Noting that she did not roll onto her side like she usually did, she really was exhausted. Smiling as she fell asleep and that hand fell away from their daughter as she drifted off. Patrick's attention once more shifting towards his daughter.

Patrick smiled warmly down at his daughter as he watched her trying to suck on her fist. Finding it a little amusing that she did so. Completely enthralled in watching his newborn daughter sleep, thinking that he could never find this to be old, even though she hadn't been alive that long. Still, he watched every little thing she did, feeling her grip on his thumb loosen a bit, before she either hear something or dreamt of something, fingers tightening again. Patrick smiled down at her as she seemed to be sleeping so peacefully in his arms.

As Patrick watched her he couldn't help but think he was between his two favorite girls...

[Kazumi O'Connor]

Eventually the nurse would come in to take the baby, wanting to take her to give her a bath, feed her and all the other normal things that they needed to do. A glance given toward Kazumi, noting her pale color and furrowing her brow just a bit with concern. "Should I have the doctor come take a look at her?" Curious as she stopped near the bed. Waiting for his answer before she would hold her hands out and glance down at the baby.

"I need to take her down to the nursery to clean her up and feed her. You can come get her in an hour or so if you wish." Speaking softly, getting a very clear sense of this not being a family that would easily want to hand over their child. Some being worse than others, though to be honest she had no clue how right she was. Still she would wait and if he did hand over the baby, she would cradle her close and then head out of the room, stopping to turn back and look at him. "Have you two picked out a name for her yet?" Of course that way they could put it on her little bassinet, other than just her last name.

Whatever his answer, she would eventually leave the room, leaving the two of them alone. Kazumi sound asleep at the time....though within a few moments of the nurse taking the baby, she would shoot awake, knowing without a doubt that her daughter was not there before she even opened her eyes. "Where is she?" Clearly not pleased with their daughter not being there. She could feel her just as she felt her brother and her Mother and so knowing she wasn't with them scared her beyond anything she had felt before in her life...Trying to push herself to sit up in bed, looking at him questioningly.