Iero's Family!

When the helicopter finally landed on the roof of Billings Medical Centre, Frank was relieved to see Dr. Sager there waiting for them. The hospital's staff had a wheelchair ready, but Frank shook his head and carried Gerard in his arms instead.

"Hello there..."

Dr. Sager said as they met up at the door of the elevator.

"How are you feeling?"

Gerard shrugged slightly.

"Mostly just scared."

"His waters broke at work and he was sick on the flight here."

Frank said as the elevator headed down to the second floor. Gerard gave him a look, and Frank gave him a look right back.

"Alright...and are you in any pain?"

Gerard chewed his lip, moving his eyes away from Frank's and to his lap.

"Some."

Frank frowned.

"You didn't say."

"I didn't want to worry you."

The elevator stopped and the doors pinged open. Dr. Sager led Frank down the hall and into a private room. There were monitors and machines already set up next to the bed.

"Alright, I'm going to just go and get you booked in. Please change into the gown and make yourself comfortable on the bed, then I'll be back to do some checks and see what's going on...ok?"

Gerard nodded as Frank carefully sat him down on the bed. Frank turned to the doctor before she left the room.

"Doc?...they will be alright, won't they?"

He couldn't help the concern in his voice. Dr. Sager smiled reassuringly at him.

"I'm sure everything will be fine...try not to worry, your family are in good hands."

She smiled again, then left the room. Frank turned back to Gerard.

"Ok, let's get you into this stupid gown thing..."

Gerard giggled slightly, but stopped abruptly as pain flashed across his face. Frank took his hands in his.

"It's ok sweetheart, try to breathe..."

After a few moments, Gerard relaxed, panting slightly.

"Better?"

Gerard nodded, swallowing deeply.

"I'm scared Frank...what if something's wrong?...what if something happens when I'm in theatre?...Frank..."

Gerard sobbed slightly, Frank wrapped his arms around him and held him close, knowing that Gerard needed to rant right now, but that he also needed to be comforted.

"Frank, if it's a choice..."

"Gerard no."

"Frank listen...if you have to make a choice, tell them to save our baby."

Frank pulled Gerard back from his chest so that he could look in the younger man's eyes.

"Gerard no...don't even think about that...nothing's going to go wrong...you and our baby are going to be fine."

"You don't know that...Dr. Sager told us that she's never had to deal with something like this...no one has."

"Gerard, I love you with every part of my being but right now...shut up and listen..."

Gerard frowned, but nodded for Frank to talk.

"Yes, this is new...but she has done hundreds upon hundreds of Caesarian Sections, and I know they were all on women, but she has been studying all of the scans they've done on you, and she knows what is where, and what she needs to do. If our baby has decided that today is the day, then so be it...you are soon going to be holding our child in your arms...focus on that, ok?"

Gerard took a shaky breath, then let it out slowly as he nodded.

"Ok...Frank?"

"Yes sweetheart?

"Do you think Mikey and Lucas will get here in time?"

Frank grinned.

"I taught Lucas how to drive...they'll be here."

Gerard smiled and nodded.

"True. Ok, I better get changed before Dr. Sager comes back."

Frank nodded, then helped Gerard out of his wet pants and underwear, wiping his legs clean with some paper towels while Gerard pulled off his sweater and shirt. Frank then held open the gown for Gerard to slip his arms in, then tied it at the back.

"Very fetching."

Frank chuckled as he helped Gerard back onto the bed. Gerard stuck his tongue out at his husband, then shivered.

"It's cold in here."

Frank nodded and grabbed some blankets off of a chair in the corner. He carefully laid them over Gerard's legs and belly.

"Better?..."

Gerard nodded, just as there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Frank called, without taking his eyes off of his beautiful husband. The door opened and Dr. Sager poked her head in.

"How we doing in here?..."

She stepped inside and closed the door as she saw that Gerard was in the gown and in bed. Gerard smiled nervously, and Frank squeezed his hand gently.

"Ok, so I'm going to start with an ultrasound..."

The doctor moved over to the machine and turned it on...Gerard's details came up on the top of the screen straight away. She smiled at Gerard as he pushed down the blankets and pulled up the front of his gown...he was used to this part. She squeezed some of the clear gel onto the little wand device, then moved it onto Gerard's belly. Gerard flinched slightly.

"Sorry, its cold..."

Gerard smiled cause it was always cold, and he always flinched, and she always apologised. He turned his eyes to the screen. Dr. Sager moved the wand around quietly for a minute, then grinned.

"Here we are..."

She pointed to the blurry image that Gerard and Frank could just about identify as their baby now.

"So from what I can see, you're right that your water has broken, which means that your baby is ready to come meet you..."

She looked up at them with a smile.

"Are you ready?"

Gerard sobbed shakily, looking toward Frank. Frank put his arms around him gently, then turned back to the doctor.

"We're ready."

Dr. Sager smiled softly.

"Don't worry, everything's going to be ok. So I'm going to go and get the theatre ready, a nurse will be in shortly to give you a pre-med, then, once everything is set up, I'll come and get you and we'll get this baby out, ok?..."

Gerard was clinging to Frank's shirt with white knuckled fingers, but he nodded his agreement silently. The doctor looked at Frank.

"I'm sorry you can't be in the theatre Frank, but you can walk down there with us, and you should be able to see them as soon as they're out of surgery...alright?"

Frank nodded.

"Lucas and Mikey are on there way here, can someone tell them where we are when they arrive?"

"Of course. Now, try to relax, the nurse will be in with your meds in a minute."

She smiled, then left the room. Gerard broke down, sobbing into Frank's chest. Frank held him close and gently stroked his long, fine blonde hair.

"See sweetheart, everything's under control, you just need to relax."

A few minutes later, a nurse came in with a little plastic dish. In the dish was a small vial and a syringe, still in its packet. Gerard clung to Frank, burying his face in Frank's chest as the nurse prepared the pre-med, and then injected it into the cannula in the back of his hand. Gerard whined slightly as he felt a coldness spreading up his arm, but there was no pain. The nurse cleaned away her equipment, then left them with a reassuring smile.

For the next few minutes, Frank sat on the bed with Gerard curled up...as much as he could with his belly the size of a small beach ball...in his arms. Frank hummed to him to keep him calm as Gerard absently played with the buttons of Frank's shirt.

"Frank?..."

Frank hummed for Gerard to continue. Gerard looked up at him with slightly glassy eyes...the drugs had kicked in.

"If it's a boy, can we call him Michael?"

Frank smiled.

"I think that's a wonderful idea. What do you think of Leo for a middle name?"

"Michael Leo Iero..."

Gerard smiled drowsily.

"I like it. But what if it's a girl?"

Frank shook his head.

"I don't think it's a girl...boys are very strong in the Iero bloodline."

"But what if it is?"

Frank chuckled.

"Well, I always liked the name Eliza."

Gerard considered the name for a moment, then smiled.

"Eliza Hope Iero."

"Hope?"

"Yeah, cause this little one is our hope."

Frank smiled fondly and pressed a kiss to Gerard's forehead.

"Then Hope it is."

The door opened and Dr. Sager entered with two orderlies to push the bed.

"Ok guys, time to go."

Gerard whimpered, but Frank squeezed his hand as he slipped off of the bed to walk beside it, and Gerard knew that Frank would be there with him, even when he couldn't be.

Two corridors, an elevator ride up two floors and another four corridors later, and they were outside the operating room.

"This is as far as you can go Frank. I'll give you a minute."

Dr. Sager went in through the double doors and left them with just a nurse, who was starting to attach heart monitor pads onto Gerard's skin.

"I'm s-scared Frank."

"I know you are sweetheart, but I'm here, and soon we'll get to meet little Michael Leo Iero."

"Or Eliza Hope Iero."

Gerard said with a shaky smile. Frank chuckled, brushing Gerard's hair from his face before leaning down to lay a soft kiss to his husband's trembling lips.

"Yes, or Eliza Hope. I love you Gerard."

"I l-love you t-too Frank."

"Alright, times up..."

The doctor said as she appeared in scrubs at the door, and two men, also in scrubs, moved to wheel the bed into the theatre.

"See you soon Frank."

Frank nodded to the doctor, waved to Gerard, and then let out a shaky breath as the doors closed between them.

Frank was pacing in the waiting room when the door opened. He looked up and saw Mikey and Lucas.

"What's happening?"

Mikey said before anyone could even say hello. Frank took a breath.

"He's having the baby."

Notes

Hi there chipmunks, how's you?

So I know you've been waiting forever for this chapter, but it's here now, so I hope you enjoyed it.

Boy or girl?...what do you think?...

Until next time...PLEASE COMMENT, and peace out babies!
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