Outside the Infirmary the hall was cold steel like much of the lower level halls.
Laura ushered everyone from the infirmary so Hank and Lyra could do their work. She noticed Logan was absolutely panicking. However he seemed calm and still. She could smell his nerves though. Del wasn't due for another six weeks.
Logan stood against the wall with his arms crossed.
"Dude, chill"
Tom said, standing right beside Logan with his eyes closed "They're going to be alright."
"I AM CALM!" Logan shouted at Tom. He realized he'd flipped just a bit and recrossed his arms. Both of which where currently covered in blood due to the several dozen men he'd killed when they rescued the Smiths.
Tom sighed as the blood lifted off Logan's arms, screwing itself up into a ball and threw itself into a waste paper bin. "I could increase your seratonin levels... it might knock you out or calm you down."
"If I where to offer any advice..." Laura began to Tom. It wasn't often at all she spoke to anyone outside of classes. "If I where you, I'd just leave him alone."
Tom huffed slightly and walked over to the other side of the room, wrapping his arms around himself like Logan. He kept his eyes closed; watching what was happening in the infirmary from out here with his powers.
Jayn had been waiting for the others to arrive in the hangar. When he realized the jet had arrived and not landed in the hangar something must have been wrong. He arrived in the hall and saw everyone standing far too calmly. "What's going on?" he asked
"Delaney's in labor."
William informed him. "She's six weeks early but they can't stop it. Her water's broken."
"Holy hell..."
Jayn replied. "I'd better tell Kari." He turned away from the group and summoned Kari on his comm.
"I'm here, I'm here!"
Kari flew in with soaking wet hair and towel on her head. "What did I miss? Anything?!" She rubbed her hair dry with her hands.
"NO your just in time."
William told her
"They just brought them in."
Jayn added "Where are the boys?" Their infant twins where only hours old and now unatended. It was the whle egg incident all over again.
"Hm?"
Kari went blank at his question, "Oh! Right-" she looked behind her and whistled. A floating, stroller-compa
rable device whirled over from the door Kari just came out of. There was a transparent shell over it, to shield from the noises. It only expelled sound and didn't let any enter.
"I love your toys." Jayn said seeing the contraption.
Kari smiled, "Thanks! Mom sent me them in a dream last night. I'll tell her tonight that Jayn and Jayden were born." She clasped her hands and rested them against her cheek.
"You're going to put me out of business if you just make all these high tech gadgets out of thin air Kari" Tom muttered, watching the stroller as if it had personally insulted his mother.
"Oh um..." Kari muttered, "I'm sorry.." She bit her finger a little.
Tom sighed, ran his fingers through his hair and chuckled lightly "No need to apologise. Just a bit of professional envy... Just don't let your devices get seen on the open market."
"Oh- no no no." Kari waved her arms in front of her, "I won't! If it helps, I could request some info from the palace regarding technology for you."
Tom laughed again "It's ok. We need to do things like... be able to produce that sort of technology on a large scale before I introduce it."
Kari smiled again, "Oh well, I'm still sorry for offending you. It truly was not my intent." she explained.
"I just wonder what could happen if the new age technology that pops out of your head got into the wrong hands..." Tom sighed lightly "Then again some people might consider my hands the wrong hands."
Kari giggled a little, "Oh I wouldn't say that." She smiled, her tiny fangs showing.
"Oh they think you're a right genius until that dummy goes KA-BOOM for the third time..." Tom muttered, then blinked and grinned nervously "Forget that... Never happened."
Jayn wasn't paying attention to them any more. He was now standing with his ear as close to the door as he could get it.
Kari noticed her sons stir a little. She opened the clear shell over them and leaned in. Her voice cood and whispered a soft melody in a foreign tongue. "Reyuect eyin nocoos jacene...." The twins shifted a little and drifted back to sleep.
When Kari spoke her native tongue JAyn always noticed. He looked away from the door. "Did you just cast a spell on our kids?" It was a new one for him. Normaly one couldn;t just whisper a baby to sleep instantly.
"No, of course not." Kari explained, closing the bubble, "Just lulling them to sleep. Used an itty bit of my powers though." she winked.
Jayn didn't know how to put it but he wasn't sure using their powers to keep the babys asleep ws a good idea. "Do they do that on Aztrentose often?"
"I don't know." Kari explained, saddened a little. She looked down at the twins and released them from sleep.
"I don;t mean it's not a useful trick... but newborns sleep all the time already..." Jayn was confused. He didn;t know if he was being overprotective or not.
"No no no..." Kari shook her head, "Your right! I'm a horrible Aztrent. I'm sorry, Jayn. I don't deserve to be a mother." she bit her finger as she got a little dramatic.
"That's not what I meant!" Jayn said taking Kari into his arms "Just, wait till they can't sleep I guess. Like 3am in the morning and we're about to kill ourselves."
"Yes Jayn, I will." Kari nodded, just then the two twins started to burst out in cries almost in rhythm. Kari smiled despite them and asked, "I wonder if she will have a boy or girl?"
"I think I heard her say she thought it was a boy." Jayn said and went to the pram to scoop up his sons. He held them in the crooks of his arms carefully, swaying them gently.
The twins batted away like infants often do and squirmed in his arms. Their screamed settled a little when they were picked up.
"Oh boy" Tom muttered, eyes closed as he looked towards the door "She's having a bit of trouble... They're having to do a c-section."
Just then Lugan and Laura headed into the infirmary quickly. They had been beckoned by Kurt's telepathy
Ten agonizing minuets passed befoer Lyra came threw the door. "Mother and child are fine." She said quickly "8 pound four ounce healthy baby girl."
Tom swooped down and hugged Lyra close "That's wonderful! You did a good job in there, some credit to the new girl and her mother of course but you did good too."
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!" Lyra said as Tom grabbed her up. There where all sorts of nice fluids on her scrubs. THe cold stickey feeling pressed against her fur. "Thanks but eWwWwWwwww."
Tom rolled his eyes and the... not so pleasant fluids curled up in a ball and chucked themselves in a bin like the blood on Logan's hands had "You'd think as a doctor you'd be used to those."
"It's the only thing I have an issue with." Lyra said "Besides, if you could smell it the way I could you'd understad.
"I can see every liquid, every element and every atom in that horrible stuff" Tom said, poking her belly "I can't smell it but the sight is terrible."
Del and klurt appeared,wearing clean clothes and holding their newborn baby. Lyra, Logan and Laura had emerged from the infimary, followed by Hank.
Kari squeaked and went over with Jayn and their twins to see the new baby. She was a little shocked when she saw how...ugly Earth babies where. "That's...a boy, yes?"
"A girl." Del corrected. She was holding littel Waya up fro everyone to see.
Tom chuckled lightly and reached out, stroking Waya slowly and smiling "Hello little one."
"How exciting!" Kari clasped her hands. They will be in the same grade." she smiled, referring to Waya and the twins. "Do you think they will be friends? Oh- what is her name?"
"Waya." Del answered "It's the Cherokee word for Wolf and my mother's name."
As Tom stroked Waya slowly his eyes wondered sideways towards Lyra as if they had a mind of their own, gently taking in her entire form.
del Stood there smiling, holding the baby. It was shocking how everyone else seemed to be in awe.
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