knightsoflegend | castle ❍ you were only waiting for this moment to arise

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castle ❍ you were only waiting for this moment to arise

♬ Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan

WHO || Hayley Marshall, Rebekah, Klaus & others
WHAT || Hayley goes into labor
WHERE || Medical Center - 2nd Floor
WHEN || July 13th
HOW || sections for: before. during. after. [actionspam]

The pain had started the evening prior, but Hayley thought it was just the baby shifting around and deciding that it needed to move again. She kept track of them, but didn't think much of it. She hadn't ever gone to a doctor to get her exact due date. She knew roughly, but she wasn't sure if that would match up evenly once she had gone through the veil. By the middle of the morning, she's pretty sure that this is not just an odd feeling. She finds Rebekah and lets her know so that she can go figure out whatever needs to be figured out. The one thing that she knows is that her water hasn't broken yet, so that's a small favor.

She would be really okay with a few more small favors.

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[She doesn't have many physical possessions where she has one of those nifty 'go-bag' things packed. It's not this rush of knowing exactly what to do either. Eve and her had gone through breathing and she thought that she'd be having her baby in the bayou or wherever Klaus had demanded it happen. Here it felt like a giant waiting game and now, as another contraction makes her abdomen go rigid, she knows there is no waiting.]

[I guess Klaus was called in for this, because he's there before everything goes down. Whether he will be there for the actual birth is up to Hayley. He's come around to accept the fact that she's carrying his daughter by now, but given their strained relationship even prior to his skepticism over her claims (not that he recalls any of it, I just assume she's filled him in--and if not her, then Rebekah), he figures she might be more comfortable with him waiting in another room.

Until she asks him to go, however, he's going to be a presence there. Deal with it.]

Are you certain I can't get you anything?

[As he offers, probably again, she shakes her head and waves him off. Though her waving hand actually progresses to gripping to his arm and squeezing as another contraction decides that now is a good time to twist her muscles. She knows she should breathe through them, but they feel like they're trying to separate her muscles into smaller pieces and that's not a good feeling at all.

As she exhales, she looks at him.] Rebekah's on her way. She said she'd be here.

[Klaus ain't sayin' shit, but he's not going to be holding his breath awaiting his dear sister's arrival. But he doesn't seem to mind when Hayley uses him as her stress ball through the contractions she's experiencing. The good thing about an Original holding your hand during pregnancy is that you can break that shit over and over again.]

You and my sister have grown close. [He's just making an observation and perhaps trying to get her mind off of what's happening idk.]

[She exhales slowly, nodding at his statement, that she's pretty sure was meant to be also a question.]

Us girls gotta stick together. [She says, quoting Rebekah.]

You're even starting to sound like her. [As though ... he had any idea what Hayley sounded like before. Whatever he knows his sister and her rah rah girl power trips ok.]

That was sort of a direct quote, if I'm honest. I've never really had family or really good friends and I think I'd consider Rebekah to both of them.

Well if what you claim is true, then you'd be right about being part of this family.

[she still isn't comfortable with the fact that he still doesn't believe that she's carrying his child, but she's not going to bring it up.]

I've been called family, but you don't seem very keen on agreeing with that.

I'm fiercely protective of those I consider to be my family. As I'm sure you're well aware.

Though from speaking to both you and Rebekah, it seems I may have had some trouble coming to terms with the idea.

That doesn't mean I'm opposed to it. I just want to be certain.

[Carrying... presently in labor ~ same thing.

Either way, she's just going to breathe for a moment and start to walk some more, because she probably doesn't have time to debate this right now.]

I get it, I do, but I'm trying to be kind and courteous and give you that space, but I'm having this baby and I'd like you to be a part of her life. So, you've got however long it takes me to have her to get certain.

[Hayley's water breaks and it seems like everything has just been pushed forward. That whole time to push thing is probably ahead and whoever is nearest to her is possibly getting a broken hand by the end of this.

aka - who knows what Arden is going to do with her magic dice.]

[ solace is not overly accustomed to births in the castle, but he's not new to it either. he's here mostly to supervise, which might be good, because i rolled for complications and hayley is going to be in some massive additional pain.

something

is wrong :( ]

[You are the worst!! Hayley is a werewolf though! She's spent a good eight years dealing with physical transformations - this should help her... right?

After her writer figures this out it has been ascertained that it isn't so bad with her fortitude roll of 16 + 8 modifier!! Unless her writer did that wrong, but she still can FEEL the pain, she just handles it really well.

With a bit of screaming. Sorry to anyone with good hearing.]

What's wrong?! Something's wrong!

[ surprise, vi is here for baby duty. she is all over this. ]

It's fine, you'll be fine, I promise and I'm going to need you to trust me on this, I will not let anything happen to her. Just keep breathing, okay? If you're in distress, the baby will be in distress, so I need you to just keep breathing right now. [ so calm, so zen, vi is a fucking chill ass lady right now. but her diplomacy is only 14, which seems legit considering, you know, the active labor. right in front of her. hey. but she means it! she's not going to let anything happen to hayley's baby. except being born, that can happen.

she glances over at solace like YOU WANNA GIMME A HAND HERE DUDE. ] Can you do something for the pain? That is not my forte and I'm ten million percent sure an Advil ain't gonna cut it this time.

[Hayley believes Vi, but she also knows that she's not gonna let anything happen to her daughter either. She's fought against too many people to ensure her survival to just let something happen now. The reminder about being in distress connects, though, and she tries to relax. It's just hard when there's another living being trying to exit her body in the most painful way possible.]

Isn't it too late for drugs? [Because, she's not even sure how her tolerance to any of it would work with the fact that her baby is half vampire half werewolf.]

It is, yeah, but luckily, you know, we have magic and stuff. Magic epidurals don't have the same time limit regular epidurals have, I'm sure. [ speaking of magic, she casts a heightened quick boost on hayley to give a temporary (four rounds) + 4 to her constitution score so she can, hopefully, deal better with the pain. ]

I'm gonna have to... get in there in a sec. See what's going on with her, okay? [ she is calm, yes, but that doesn't take away from vi's natural awkward babble. it is just kind of a little hard to say "i need to stick my hand up your junk to see what's up with your uterus". she thinks she is doing well under the circumstances. and so is hayley, so she's going to remind hayley of that. ] You're doing great so far.

No! [Hayley's face is stern on this one.] No magic. [After witches hexing her and Father Kieran, plus their overall desire to kill Hayley, the way they killed Davina and all that they put her through, and everything else she's seen done for the "good" of magic, she's definitely not good with any spells or magic being done on her.]

I can do this. I broke every bone in my body twice a month for eight years. I can handle this. [Those monthly transformations from age 13 to 21 tends to give a girl some pain tolerance.]

Go ahead and do whatever you have to. [Because she's not going to just say "You are welcome to go spelunking in my uterus." to Vi.]

....oh my god? Like... wow. That's... ow.

[ okay, vi, get back on track. she shakes her head to regain her focus. ] No magic, got it. There's still stuff we can do for pain. Like, um... [ THINK VIOLET, THINK. ] Uh, acupressure!

[ before she dives in, she holds up her arm, bending it so her hand rests on her shoulder. ] See this little crease? [ she points to the crease made by her bent elbow, taking to whomever is getting their hand crushed by hayley's grip. ] Apply pressure there, it should make the contractions easier to deal with. [ knowledge: earth and life sciences 17. it works on period cramps, she is literally just winging it for any option that will give hayley a bit of relief.

and then, spelunking ahoy to find out what is going on with that baby. heal/treat injury 22?? idk. ]

Edited 2014-07-17 04:37 (UTC)

[ solace had been all ready to make with the spells, but when hayley protests so strongly, he exchanges a look with vi and nods, stepping away to leave them. from what vi can tell, the birth is going to involve an abnormal presentation, which could mean its head might get caught. ]

[Women do natural childbirth all the time, so she figures she can handle this. Even if it does feel like something is really wrong. She's trying not to get upset, but when you're in pain and something is wrong it's difficult to just be sunshine and kittens about it all.

She'll do some of that breathing that Eve had been teaching her, since originally she was supposed to give birth with her at her side.]

[ oh boy. deep breath. she leans back, peeling her gloves off and dropping them on the floor, so she can push her hair back from her face, tucking it behind her ears. ]

Okay, here's the deal. The baby isn't facing the right way. It's not 100% a bad thing, but it does explain why you're in more pain than you should me. But we do have a few options, so don't worry.

So, I can try to move her into the right position? [ she sort of pantomimes how that could work, holding her hands apart and then twisting them a bit to the side. ] It might not work, but I think it's worth trying regardless. If she doesn't move, we can try pushing but we run the risk of her head getting stuck. In a normal presentation, the head comes out first because it's the largest part and the rest of her the body just sort of slips out. In a breech presentation, either her tush comes out first or her feet and her head could get stuck. And you may have to have an emergency c-section.

[ she's still calm, like she is in her element right now, because she doesn't want hayley to panic and she's trying to lay down the facts as simply as possible with as much information as possible without bogging her down with scary what ifs. ]

[Hahahahaha and Hayley thought that it'd be easier to give birth here instead of the middle of the bayou.]

Just do whatever you need to do - I don't really think that I have a say in this. She [the baby] seems to be calling all the shots here.

[and then things will happen!! and Hayley will make it through!!]

[ with some probably incredibly painful finagling, vi turns the baby around and then it's all systems go with the regular pushing and the... more pain. it's not a very comfortable thing, giving birth, but hayley manages like a champ and once the pushing is done and all the gross stuff is dealt with and cords are cut like a professional episode of er and a tiny little cry is begging for her mommy, vi passes over the little wriggling bundle of blankets and adorable. ]

Meet your little girl. She looks just like her Momma.

[ and vi will bow out so the little family can do little family things and she can tell solace that he better have so many drugs available or she's going to probably murder someone. :) CONGRATS HAYLEY! ]

[YAY! A BABY.

Hayley's probably gonna cry a little bit.

Also, it's gonna hop down to the other thread, so Klaus can deal with it.]

[It's a girl.]

[Waiting for the during drama to play out, but Klaus is going to be here too. :')]

[Hey. I just met you... and this is crazy... but take a look --

Here's your baby.

Hayley knows that it's probably been bothering him to be outside the room the entire time, but she's also positive that if he had been in the room during all the complications he might have become one of the complications. Now, though, she's just tired and worn out, and possibly sweaty and gross. Still, she's holding her baby, still trying to settle on a name. She does glance up and wave him in, though. Maybe seeing her will do something, trigger some underlying desire for caring about his daughter.]

She's a fighter, that's for sure.

Of course she is. [Like that shit should be a given tbh.

But it still hasn't quite sunk in for him that this is, in fact, his child. Even now that he can see it--can see her in her mother's arms as he approaches their bedside, he still finds himself unable to fully accept these events as they have been described to him.

It could be due, at least in part, to the fact that unlike Hayley, Klaus hasn't had the past nine months to come to terms with his impending parenthood. Without so much as a month's notice this was all a little sudden for him. The fact that he was here at all and not actively murdering them both should speak for itself, right?

... In a really fucked up way ok. But he's not just here to watch. He was supposed to be an active participant (now that the difficult part was over with lmao).]

May I?

[Hayley is still a bit apprehensive, if only because she knows that this Klaus hasn't had the nine months to prepare and even for her those nine months weren't the best. There had been good moments, though. Ones that let her trust him more and more, but she didn't have that to lean back on here. He hadn't made himself vulnerable or offered her anything more than the chance for her to try and convince him that this baby is his.

Hayley looks down at their baby girl, her hand sweeping over the top of her head. She wants to protect her and she knows that it'll be okay, that if anyone so much as tries to harm her child she'll kill them, but it's still that moment of having just gone through so much to bring her into this world only to have to hand her off again.

She kisses the top of her head and then shifts her arms as she looks to Klaus.]

Here, just slide your hand underneath here. [Her arms lift the baby up and away from her slightly, trying to keep her on that same even position in her arms.]

[It's a good thing she complied because he could have just taken her js. B(

Not that he would but, you know, he doesn't like when other people don't cooperate with him. But he's careful to do as she instructs, despite the fact that this isn't the first baby he's ever held. It very well may have been hers, however, so the excessive caution on her part is understandable.

Once he has her, he remains standing where he is if only to prevent Hayley from going into mama werewolf mode. Apart from that little consideration his focus appears to be entirely on ~~his~~ their daughter. Klaus gazes at her for a good few moments as though doing so might spark some sort of recognition to ease all of his doubts.

It doesn't happen, but she's adorable as fuck and he isn't entirely heartless so he can still appreciate that if she is his daughter, she's not one of those new babies that makes you wonder why the fuck people find babies cute in the first place.]

Have you chosen a name?

[She had a few names rolling around for a while, but no one had really asked her -- no one actually had much time to ask her what she'd been thinking back home, that she's not given it much thought since she arrived.]

Not really. I mean, I had a few ideas, but now that I've seen her they all seem wrong.

Humor me anyway. Let's hear what you've come up with.

[Because, right for her or not, at least she'd taken the time to consider a few. Klaus, meanwhile, had not. Then again, it probably wasn't really his place to do so. Father of her child or not, it wasn't as though he'd been invested in Hayley's pregnancy until the very end--and even then...]

[She glances to him, pushing her hair out of her face.]

Kaitlyn had been one. Olivia is another... [She shrugs as she watches him holding the baby.]

Both are fine names, if you want my opinion on the matter.

Though I admit, of the two I'm partial to Olivia.

It wasn't on my list originally, but I thought of it earlier today.

It's lovely. As is our daughter.

[He strokes a thumb across that chubby little bb cheek. :3]

[She's not sure why it was so important for him to be okay with the name, but she still feels like he's waiting for her to pass some sort of test. Hearing him say 'our daughter' does take some of the weight off of her shoulders and she nods, smiling softly (and really she's probably just exhausted) at Klaus holding their baby.]

She'll be safer here. [At least she hopes that's true.]

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