“Push!” he said, softly.
“I am pushing,” she yelled before bearing down with the contraction.
“You can do this,” I soothed from beside her.
“No, I can't. I really can't,” she cried clutching my hand.
“Not much longer and you'll get to meet your baby,” I cooed, as I wiped a cool cloth across her forehead.
“I can't, I changed my mind ,” she said shaking her head back and forth.
“Honey,” I said. “You've done so well. Not much longer.”
“Thank you for being with me. I couldn't have done this alone,” she cried.
“You're never alone,” I promised.
Another contraction hit at that point and she was panting and writhing again.
“Can't you do anything?” I asked.
“She's too close,” he said.
“Push, Leah,” he said and started counting to ten again. “I can see the head.”
“If Paul were alive, I'd kill him,” Leah said, breathlessly as she prepared to bear down again.
“You can do it, Leah,” I said as Carlisle counted to ten again.
“I don't know how you did this on your own, Bella,” she half sobbed. “I want Paul to be here. I want him to see our little girl.”
“I know you do,” I soothed. “I know he'd want to be here too.”
“Here it comes again, Leah,” Carlisle said.
“No shit, Sherlock,” Leah said between clenched teeth, letting a few more expletives fly before she clenched her teeth and prepared to deliver her daughter.
“Very good,” Carlisle said. “You're almost there!”
She pushed again and, at Carlisle's prompting, I looked down to see the tiny head slip into the world, covered in a mass of black hair.
“Oh, Leah,” I said. “She has so much hair.”
“Just one more push,” Carlisle said, “and she'll be here.”
Leah pushed with all her mite and the tiny baby girl slipped from her body. Even though Carlisle had kept his hands on a heater to try to lessen the shock to the poor baby, she wailed in earnest at the shock of the cold hands on her overheated flesh.
“She's beautiful,” I said to Leah as Carlisle lifted the screaming infant up to her mother's chest.
“Look,” Leah said as she stared lovingly at her daughter, “she's got her father's temper.”
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