JIMIN POV
"I'm fine." I pushed Jungkook's hand away, trying to get
my own stupid shirt on.
It wasn't like I was going to
be wearing it long.
I was already in active labor
and from what Jin said, the human guidelines for how long labor was held no reality for shifters.
Once things started to come, they were game on—which
was good.
Because the idea of being like this for a day or more sucked.
"I know you're fine but I
want to help." His eyes were more wolf than human.
Poor Jungkook was having a
hard time seeing me like this
and I'd have had more
sympathy about the entire
thing if I wasn't about to
push a baby out of me.
"You can help."
I set my hand on his chest.
"Go bring Dalsu to Grams."
"She said she'd be glad to
watch him once labor set in."
"Right, Going."
He bolted out the door and I heard our front door close
then open as he forgot the person he was to be delivering.
It was easy to see why alphas weren't the ones having the babies.
I had my clothing on and
was closing the front door
when he returned.
"He's with Grams and she said she'll bring him by when our baby is here."
And then he tried to pick me
up.
Pick his ginormous, forty-
one-week pregnant omega's
ass up.
"Don't Even."
I just rolled my eyes.
"I can almost see it from here."
I took the first step as my contraction rolled through me again, grabbing onto the
handrail for support, trying
my best not to scream.
"Yeah, That's not going to happen." He said as I stood
there catching my breath.
"My turn." This time he did
scoop me up and I let him, the exhaustion of the contractions starting to wear on me.
Trenton stood in the doorway
as we arrived.
"Grams said you were on
your way and you needed
some tea."
Heck yeah, I did.
"Bless your soul." I said as
Jungkook carried me in,
setting me on the exam table.
"Can I have two?"
Trenton laughed.
Not little laughing either,
full-on belly laughing.
"I fail to see the humor."
I bent over, another
contraction building.
Trenton went to work on whatever concoction he was creating for me and I couldn't wait to down the sucker but
then he handed it to Jungkook.
Traitor.
"Sorry omega, I have no tea
for you but this will at least
help your alpha calm his ass down."
"Epidural?" I squeaked.
"If you want to go to the
human hospital, although I'm guessing we are too late for that."
He turned his attention to
Jungkook and demanded he drink up or leave because his wolf was too close to the
surface and I didn't know
what, because another contraction had already started.
This one, I couldn't bite my tongue, the feral cry that escaped me rattling the
stupid window of the stupid
room where there was no
stupid tea for me.
Because fuck it, everything
was stupid.
"Best get your clothes off."
Trenton was calm—so calm.
I wanted to slap the calm
off of him and Jungkook.
He was calm, too.
Everyone was calm.
Didn't they see I was about
to push out a human?
Jungkook came over and
helped me with my shirt and
as he reached the elastic of my pants because I was officially size, you are too huge for zippers, another contraction
hit, this one stronger, the
urge to push already upon me.
"Push." I cried out and
Trenton begged me to not
push just yet.
I counted, counting my
favorite form of distraction
and somehow managed to
not follow my body demanding.
I push and the two of them
had my pants off of me so
fast when my contraction subsided that I probably
looked like one of those
guys in the strip shows doing their pull of pants thing,
only huge and sweaty and
not at all sexy.
"This next time you can
push."
Trenton stood by my feet, pushing, literally pushing,
Jungkook out of the way.
Poor guy was getting pushed around a lot today but then
again he was the reason I
was here, so my empathy
for him wasn't flowing.
As my next contraction built, Trenton told me to push as
Jungkook gave me his arm
to mangle and kept telling
me how great I was doing.
Not great enough.
It took three more pushes
until the sweet sounds of my baby filled the air and then everything changed, I was
falling away and the sound
felt farther and farther away.
Something was happening.
Something not good.
Something very not good.
Trenton and Jungkook were yelling back and forth to each other, the baby was crying but none of it meant any sense, it was like being part of a real-
life Snoopy episode with the teacher talking.
Only this wasn't a cartoon.
I felt myself float or maybe
get picked up, I wasn't sure which but then the air
changed and it was cool
and fresh and so quiet.
So very quiet.
"Shift." Someone whispered.
"Shift." someone spoke softly, like they were in a library.
"Shift." someone said in the normal voice one might use
at the dinner table.
"Shift." someone said like they were talking over someone.
"Shift." someone said like they were in a crowded room.
"Shift." someone belted out.
"Shift." someone commanded.
"Shift." Jungkook pleaded.
"Shift." Jungkook bellowed.
"Shift."
And my wolf took over, my
bones cracking, my mind becoming clearer, my body
now a wolf.
"Shift."
Jungkook cried out and I did,
my crumpled body now on
the ground, his arms encasing me, the moisture of his tears pressed against my neck.
"Don't you ever do that to
me again. Never. Promise."
He was sobbing and I wrapped my arms around him wanting
to make the hurt go away
but unsure of how I wound
up where I was.
"What happened?"
"You nearly died is what happened."
"You are not allowed to do
that."
"Don't you dare die on me."
"I need you."
We held each other, tears
from both of us freely flowing
as the reality of what had happened sunk in.
My uterus ruptured and I
was bleeding out my wolf
saved me but only because
My mate showed him the way.
After all we fought for, it
almost ended on what
should've been one of the happiest days of our lives.
"May I see our baby?" He
picked me up and I let him, snuggling in close to him, needing his warmth.
"He's perfect." Trenton spoke
to our left.
I hadn't even noticed his presence but of course he
was there.
"Kookie is absolutely perfect."
We settled in at Trenton's
and now after I no longer was begging for it, he gave me
some nasty tea.
I drank it down greedily.
Anything he could do to
help me be okay. Anything.
"Here's your son." He settled
Kookie into my arms.
"Grams called and made me promise to let her know the second he was born, so I
better do that now."
He rolled his eyes.
"My omega, is he going to
be all right now?" Jungkook's voice quivered.
"He is better than all right."
"His wolf healed him better
than before." he reassured.
"And I really better call
Grams."
"She's going to smack me
upside the head as it is."
He wasn't wrong.
She did and we laughed,
Trenton included, earning
him a second smack.
"Did you want to hold your brother?" I asked as Dalsu
stood beside me, staring in wonder.
"Dada, will you help me?" He asked, my heart still melting every time he called Jungkook that.
"Of course." Jungkook took
him from me and settled
him in dalsu's arms.
"He looks like you."
"Actually, the facial structure
first observed in newborns
tends to be misleading due to
the way they are designed to
be pushed down and out of
the body."
"Give it another week or so
and we will better know who
he might or might not
resemble." He rambled on like
an adult, a smile on his face.
"He is cute though."
"Aren't you, little brother?"
He kissed his little toes.
"And when you get mad at
me for doing stupid big brother stuff, always remember, I
gave you your name so
you have to like me."
"Sounds about right." I teased.
"That's why you have to like
me."
"No Daddy, I have to like you because you are strong, kind,
a good cook and would do anything for your family."
He handed kookie back to me.
"And I have to like you dada because you make daddy
smile, love me with all of
your heart and You are you."
"How did we get such a good son?" Jungkook asked.
"PawPaw says it's because I
am here out of love." He sat down on the rolling stool.
"I think it's because I was
born awesome."
"That you were son."
"That you were." Jungkook ruffled his hair.
I looked around at my family,
the one I almost lost and
couldn't help but be filled
with the wonder of it all.
Fate had shone down on me
all right, shone down in the perfect shade of blue.