Shayne Tristan Gallagher... (Reira)

[Matrim Gallagher]

It had been time for the baby, the baby was coming... and Matrim was freaked out. He didn't know what to do, in fact apart from getting the news that they needed to go to the hospital, Matrim didn't pay much attention to what Reira said or did. What he did do however, was rush around the house and grab everything he could, all the stupid baby stuff they had, a blanket, a pillow, and he got it all ready and called a cab.

When the cab got there Matrim rushed to go pick up Reira and carry her groom style to the cab, being careful while taking her through the door he rushed to the cab, getting her comfortable in the back seat he told the cab driver where to go, throwing a fist full of twenties into the front and saying "Step on it."

The cab rushed to the hospital, Matrim turned back to Reira, making sure she was good. In a few moments they would be at the hospital, where they would rush her to a room on a wheelchair and get her set up for giving birth to their soon to be baby boy.

It's time Reira.....

"We're almost at the hospital, are you ready Rei? It's time, today we're going to become parents!" Matrim said, he was terrified and happy at the same time, he wanted nothing more than a family to spend the rest of his days with, and all of this was a dream come true to him.

[Reira DeMorvick]

Reira had been waiting for this day for a long time. What she wasn’t expecting, or rather, didn’t know how to expect was the pain that pregnancy brought about. Right now, she was in a lot of it. She was right in the middle of preparing a meal in the kitchen when she suddenly collapsed on the kitchen floor.

Her eyes wide, and her heart pounding, she instinctively knew what was happening…at which point she began screaming for Matrim. She was afraid to move, so she just sat there as Matrim rushed about, looking a little pale around the cheeks. He seemed to be gathering an assortment of things, all the while managing to call a cab.

Before she knew it, she was swept up in his arms and placed gently into the back seat of the taxi. Reira’s head was spinning. It almost looked like she was going to be sick. Was she supposed to feel this way? Probably. The random jolts of pain wasn’t helping her either. Minutes feeling like hours, they finally arrived at the hospital. Hooray for wheelchairs!

Reira managed a small, faltering smile, after Matrim spoke to her. The poor guy looked terrified. Hell, she was too. Reaching her hand out, she grabbed onto his wrist, wishing she could walk so she could at least hold his hand properly.

“Finally,” she said, with tears brimming her eyes. The hospital staff had now moved her into a room. “Finally a family…” The whole time she was squeezing his arm. She didn’t want to let him go. Even though she knew he wouldn't leave.

[Matrim Gallagher]

“Finally a family…”

"I know Rei, I know what you mean...." He said, alongside her as they went, she was holding his wrist and he returned the grip, grabbing her wrist as they made their way to a room. The staff were doing different check ups on her, and one of the nurses walked over and broke Matrim's grip, "Hey what are you---"

"Sir, we need you to go to the waiting room, th--"

"Hey, she's my wife okay? I need to be-"

"She needs for the Doctor's and Nurses to be able to maneuver and do their jobs." She said, and Matrim got a look of frustration on his face, but backed away.

We should just kick some ass. Come on, attack the staff, go in there and grab that bitches woman's hand.

Just... just let the Doctor's do their job. Spend time concentrating on positive things and check in periodically. Maybe pray in your free time.

"Fine... I'll just go get something to drink....." Matrim said to himself and went to a pop machine, standing with all the weight on one leg he had his hand on his hip staring at selections. He couldn't decide what he wanted. He just stood there staring at the pop machine. Not sure what to do, he just got a water bottle and made his way to a nearby couch. The couch was uncomfortable, but he found that he slept quite easily... perhaps the stress took it out of him, or the adrenaline rush crashing might have done something... but he was out of it.

Just.... just let her be alright.... let my child come into this world unharmed....

[Reira DeMorvick]

Something didn’t feel right. Yes she was in the normal, labour pain…but there was something else. For some reason her breath was short and the room was beginning to spin much more frequently. What’s going on? Nothing felt normal to her anymore, almost as if this whole thing was a sick dream. The only firm grasp she had on reality right now was the grip she had on Matrim, but even that was taken away from her.

“No! Don’t make him leave--don’t….”

After a sharp pain in her wrist, her world fell into darkness.

~Hours Later~

Reira was falling in and out of consciousness. The sound of the doctors’ voices and the constant movement in the room kept her awake for the most part. There was also the pain, but even that was growing dull. “You’re doing just fine, just a few more. That’s it,” said the doctor…then she heard something amazing. The sound of a crying child.

There was sudden movement all around her. Reira struggled to keep her head up, but it fell into her pillow. A few moments passed. “Let me see him, let me see my baby.” Looking over to her right, she saw Shayne for the first time, all wrapped up in a nice white blanket, a dark mess of hair on his head. She smiled then, tears of joy falling from her eyes.

“Please get Mat---” She was cut off by the frantic beeping of the machine that she was connected too. It felt like a white, hot fire, had swarmed throughout her body. The world was blotting out…then she felt nothing.

Please god…please no. Let me see him one last time…

[Matrim Gallagher]

Wake up..... WAKE UP

Matrim woke up, going straight to a sitting up position. Something was wrong, something was very wrong. He got up and started going toward the room, along the way he ran into a doctor who began to talk to him, "Mr. Gallagher you're wife has just given birth to a baby boy, the child is healthy but there were some complica--"

"Not now, Doc." Matrim punched the Doctor straight in the nose, feeling a lot of breaking take place underneath his fist, he had definitely busted more than nose as the Doctor went unconscious and slumped to the floor, bleeding profusely. He busted through the door and after shoving some nurse out of his way he looked at Reira, "Reira, what's wrong? What's happening to her? Reira.... Reira I love you....."

Matrim's world was spinning, he could tell something was wrong, he could just sense it from the Doctor. He knew people and their reactions and he knew that this Doctor had a grief face. Reira was in pain, he didn't know what was wrong but he held her face with his hands, "Reira..... Rei........"

Matrim's eyes were filled with panic as the machine started doing something funky, "REIRA!!!!!!!"

[Reira DeMorvick]

Reira was staring at the ceiling from her resting position on the bed. Her eyes were glazed over and it was as if she was looking for someone, searching, like she was in a different world. She knew that she was dying, but she wouldn’t respond to those voices that were calling to her, not until she saw Matrim.

All noise died out to complete silence. All but his voice. She heard him screaming her name. With her dull cerulean eyes she finally found him looming over her, a very pained expression on his face. She didn’t want him to be like that. She knew he’d be fine without her, so she smiled for him then. Raising her hand to his face weakly, she brushed his bangs out of his eyes.

“Matrim,” she said in the most softest tone. “You’ll be a….a great father….I love you…always.”

Her last words spoken, Reira’s hand fell limp to her side. There she lied, a look of peace on her face. Even though the birth of Shayne cost Reira her life, she couldn’t be happier as she passed on. For she knew that the gift of life, was the greatest gift of all.

[Matrim Gallagher]

A roar of pain and anguish escaped Matrim as he turned away from her after she went limp, he punched through the wall sending debris into the next room. He did this as hospital staff rushed in to calm him, security was on it's way as a nurse took his son from the room, Matrim threw an orderly through the wall as he made his way to where the nurse was going with his baby boy, "That's my son!" He yelled out, "Let me see my s-"

"Sir calm down!"

"NO YOU GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!" Matrim yelled grabbing the man by the throat and raising him up hard so that his head collided with the ceiling the man dropped and Matrim walked toward the nurse, "I won't hurt anyone else as long as I get to see my child."

"Just... just let him come with me," The nurse said and looked up at Matrim. Matrim nodded and followed her to the nursery, "What's his name going to be?"

"His name...." Matrim said, tears warming his face up as he thought about what Reira wanted to call the boy, "His name is Shayne Tristan Gallagher...."

And I love him.....

Matrim was in tears for a few hours as the hospital nurses took care of his child along with other newborns. Someone talked to him about how to raise the kid and he ended up paying the nurse to come stay with him awhile as a sort of hospice situation. Except instead of the terminally ill it was baby sitting and teaching Matrim how to take care of his child. Because he could pay this nurse a lot better than the hospital could, and he was willing to do everything he had to in order to take care of his son.

(End Thread)