I'm drinking with Lily, talking about the recruits she's been working with and which ones are showing some real promise. We're gathering up names to form regiments that will be working directly under us, when the time comes to fight. Later this week, we'll be taking the names we've selected and putting them all together in some tests me and John thought would be good to try their endurance, thinking under pressure, and if they can work with a team successfully and then on their own.
Their was already an obstacle course here, but me and John could do it with ease, if we started off with it. So we had tracked out a running path that took you around the grounds, on inclines, stairs, jumping from one third floor balcony to the next... The gap was only four feet and we had a safety net rigged underneath it, so no one would get hurt. We finished the run track with the obstacle course and after running, then the obstacle course was not nearly as easy as we thought.
"Lily, I want you to put your name on that list." I tell her after going over her recent list of candidates.
"You want me?" She questions me like I've lost my mind.
"Damn straight I want you." I tell her to hear a laugh come up behind me.
"If I didn't know any better, I would have thought you were trying to pick Anzo up, Sin." John wraps his arms around me and gives me a peck on the cheek before letting go and grabbing a seat next to me.
Lily blushes, "That's when I'd have to say, 'Sorry, I'm strictly dickly'."
"That's when I'd say 'You may be in luck.'" Suites came up and sat with us holding a couple of beers and hands one to John.
Lily gives an eye roll sighing at me. Her face says, 'In his dreams...' but her smile said, 'but I don't mind the ego boost.'
"Anyways, if you really want me to, I will but remember I'm short, I don't think I'll make it across that jump. If I do, I'll be shocked." Lily laughs warm and richly and starts to gather up her documents.
"I'm going to go take care of a few things before dinner, if that's alright Sin." She finishes off her drink and I nod letting her go.
As she walks away, Suites pipes up, " Sorry if I ran your friend off, I was just joking. I didn't mean to offend her." He takes a nice long swig of his beer and I wave it off.
"It's nothing, she had some things to take care of. If you had offended her, trust me you would know. She's one of those who has a temper that I'd avoid invoking." I inform him.
"Alright then, I'd like to get this over with too. I would like to apologize about earlier. I didn't realize and I should have knocked, but I'm very sorry about walking in on .... earlier." He clears his throat as he talks, obvious that he was just as shocked as we were earlier.
"Yep, it just got awkward.... but apology accepted. Even though it was just an accident." I nod him off and excuse my self to go get another drink.
I'm walking back to the table and as soon as I sit down my phone is going off.
"Hello? Elena?" I answer it.
"Sin, I'm having contractions, every hour and at first it was not too bad, but they're getting worse."
She sounds concerned and a little frantic before she starts breathing heavy.
"I'm coming right now, I'll have John get Cass." I hang up.
"Is the baby coming? She's early." John asks a little surprised.
"I don't know yet, I'll see you soon." I knock the drink back quickly and snap to Elena's.
"Elena! I'm here!" I shout out as soon as I get there.
"Bedroom!" I hear and immediately go in and see her face contorted in pain.
"Okay, did your water break?" I ask her.
"No." She grimaces.
"You said it's been on the hour every hour? How long?"
"Since this morning before lunch. It's been getting more painful the last two hours." She pants.
"How long does the pain last? Is it continuous or several burst before it stops?" I ask her as John and Thietian show up.
"Several short bursts." She musters as another one starts.
"I'm taking her to the medical building." I turn to tell them and they just nod and I continue, "Grab whatever you think she may want or need there just in case."
"Okay, Elena I need you to stand up so I can take us there." I help her up off the bed and Thietian comes forward.
"Is there anything you want me to bring?" Thietian asks.
"Yes, Cass." She gets out through the pain and right before I snap us to the medical building, I see a shocked and crushed look cover Thietian's face.
The next second we're at the medical building and the few who are working in there now, rush over to us.
"What's the problem?" One of the ladies asks and there's something about her that tells me she's part Fae.
"Pregnant, due date is still about two months out. Started experiencing painful contractions, one hour apart for short intervals, two hours ago, but they started about six hours ago. Her water is still intact though." I let her know quickly.
"Okay, please go get her a chair and then we'll get her to a room." She nods to one of the assisting attendants who runs off for a chair to wheel her to a room.
We get her into the bed after changing her into a gown. They hook her up to some of the monitors and check her babies heart rate. After her contraction stopped they checked to see if she was dilated.
"Okay you're at 4 cm. We can deliver this baby, or we can stop the contractions and see if you can keep them in there a little longer. The longer they bake the better off they normally are."
The one in charge told Elena and Elena looked to me questions in her eyes.
"If they stop the contractions, you'll most likely be stuck in the bed until the baby comes. If you deliver there is a chance his lungs won't be fully developed and will have to stay in here to make sure he doesn't get sick or develop more problems." I inform her.
"Are you a doctor Ms.????" The woman trailed off looking for an answer.
"Sin, but no not a doctor, a nurse with midwife certifications." I tell her.
"She's also part of my family. I don't want to make that decision without Cass though where is he?" Elena looks around for Cass.
"I'll send John a message."
-Where the HELL is Cass? She needs to make a decision but wants his input.-
*dink*
-coming right now.-
Cass came in with John with a bag of clothes and items for Elena with a concerned look.
He looks exhausted and worn out, greatly in need of sleep. Yet one look at Elena in the bed and he looks more alert.
"What's the matter? What kind of decision?" He runs forward.
While they are discussing it, I pull John off to the side.
"Hey is everything alright?" I ask John who also has a concerned look on his face.
"Yeah, Thietian is just having to check his emotions, cause her wanting Cass right now kind of stung. He understands though. I think it's just him so stressed out and working so much that it bothered him. However, when they went to morph, they had trouble, Mary."
John looks at me seriously as he whispers this information to me.
"They were just tired." I rub his shoulder but keep that in the back of my mind.
Soon though they are giving Elena some medication and getting her set up to be more comfortable.
"It looks like she'll be staying in here for now." I tell John and Cass comes over to us.
"I'm staying here with Elena for the night, can you go let Turk know please? I'll be there tomorrow morning but we need to stay with Elena for now." Cass asks us.
"Sure man, they'll understand. Try to get some rest while you're here too." John smacks his arm lightly and Cass gives a try at a grin before turning and going back to Elena.
"He looks rough, this is taking a toll on them with so much stress. We need to move our timeline faster and get our teams under us so we can help him more in the afternoons." I suggests to John as we walk out of the building and snap back to the training compound. We head to the mess hall and grab some dinner and he snaps his work to him as we head to my office.
The lock works in there at least.