Adopted by Phan

Chapter 106

Jay's P.O.V.

I groaned, forcing my eyes open as best as I could and wincing when I felt a flash of pain across my abdomen. I felt a hand in mine and another tracing little patterns up and down my arm and I relaxed, knowing that Dan and Phil were there.

I managed to focus my mind a little bit and I knew at once that the surgery was over, and my son was born. Phoenix James Lester was here.

"Easy Jay, can you try and open your eyes?" I squinted again, trying to open my eyes again but the medication kept pulling me back under and I felt really groggy.

"Jay?" Dan's voice came into my range and I attempted to move closer to the voice, just wanting comfort at that point. "Hey Jay, it's okay, everything's fine."

I opened my eyes again, this time surprising myself when they didn't automatically slide shut, they stayed open for long enough that I could get them to focus and look around. As I twisted my head around I saw Dan and Phil sitting just beside my bed, heads resting together.

Phil's head turned as he heard the door open and a nurse came into the room with several pieces of paper in her hands.

"Hello sweetheart, I see you're awake now. If you give me a couple of minutes I'll get the doctor in charge of you and Phoenix to explain everything." Dan nodded, flexing his hand nervously.

A couple of minutes later, at least I think it was minutes because I was struggling to keep track of the time, the door opened again and a doctor came through. It was a woman and with her came Maya Williams, the midwife who Dan, Phil and I had been talking to prior to the birth. She smiled at me.

"Good to see you again and I'm glad to say that everything's gone very well, well as well as it could have gone for being 1 and a half months premature." I heard Dan sigh in relief beside me. The nurse then spoke up.

"Phoenix is in the NICU at the moment and is in a stable condition, he weighs about 3 and half pounds which is a little on the smaller side but he's doing fine." Phil squeezed my hand.

"He'll be in the NICU for at least two weeks just so he has time to develop a little more, but as far as we can see there isn't any major complications more than what you'd expect in preterm babies."

"You'll be here for a few days Jay, just recovering and things like that but you'll be able to see him soon. He's in an incubator for the time being, so we can't bring him in here." I nodded, wriggling the arm that didn't have an I.V. in it and placed it over my stomach, wincing as I did so.

I could tell that I wasn't wearing my prosthetic, I didn't remember wearing it when I left for the hospital so it was probably still at home. Dan actually had my phone in his hand and once he saw I was looking at it he handed it to me, and I noticed that I had a message from Anais.

'Jay!'

'WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER ME!'

'JAYYYYYY!!!' It took me a few seconds for my eyes to focus on the words on my screen, the medication still taking some of my senses down.

'I'm in hospital, that's why I wasn't replying.' I got another reply almost at once.

'WAIT WHAT!? IS IT THE BABY?!'

'Yeah, I went into labour early and had to have a kinda emergency C-section.'

'Oh? Are you okay? Is the baby okay?" She had insisted on calling him the baby until she knew the gender, which I didn't mind but it did get a little annoying sometimes.

'I'm fine and he's fine too, I haven't actually seen him yet because I can't go anywhere just yet.'

'Can I come and visit tomorrow? I want to see you." I glanced up at Dan and Phil, both looking down at the floor and whispering to each other, hands intertwined.

I still hadn't told them about Anais and I being together and I wasn't sure when I would tell them, but I did want to see Anais and I knew they wouldn't mind, so I just texted back yes. I rubbed my hand across my head, my senses weren't what they usually were and it was a little unnerving.

'I have no idea what room I am, but I'll tell you when you get here tomorrow.'

"Anais is gonna come around and say hi tomorrow." Dan nodded.

"That's fine, we'll have to go and get her though because they don't allow visitors into the NICU without one of the people staying here more permanently." I took it in and nodded again, as it made sense. They probably locked some of the doors to stop random people, mostly children, wandering in and out.

The door opened again and the doctor from before came back in, papers and clipboard still in hand.

"Okay I've just gone and checked on Phoenix again, it's my job to go between wards and do the general overview of patients on this floor. He's doing good but I really think we should try and get you over there to see him, as the bond with the mother is a really important thing." She looked over at Dan and Phil.

"A C-section isn't a major operation and we could probably get you into a wheelchair over the next half an hour as I know you can't walk without a prosthetic or crutches, but crutches aren't great for you to use right after surgery." I did want to go and see Phoenix, but I wasn't sure if I was able too physically even though I wanted to try.

"I'll do it."

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"Alright I just need you to swing your legs down the side of the bed so you're sitting up, I can help you if you need it." I did as the doctor asked, Phil holding my hands for support as I pulled myself into a sitting position on the bed, biting my lip as it moved the wound on my stomach.

Once I was sitting I spent a couple of minutes sitting there with my eyes closed, waves of light-headedness taking over every time I tried to open my eyes. I knew it was because of the medication and that it would pass eventually, but it didn't make me feel any better.

When it cleared Dan helped me into the wheelchair which was sitting beside the bed. Phil wheeled the chair for me as I wasn't really up to it at the time, and the wheelchair wasn't the same as the one that I had been using at home, the wheels were stiffer.

"Okay this is the NICU." I had clocked the sign just above my head that read 'NCIU, please be as quiet as possible.' Just before we went in I also clocked a sign that said 'please wash your hands before entering.' I pointed at it and everyone washed their hands, including the doctor who was following us to show us where Phoenix was.

I was wheeled through several halls and past quite a few tiny rooms that had babies in incubators and some that had parents cradling the babies in their arms.

"Here we are." Phoenix's room was right at the end of the hall and had a curtain drawn over the doorway and through the little window I could see a nurse in the tiny room checking on him.

From my viewpoint I couldn't actually see Phoenix, just the top of the incubator and the nurse and when the curtain was drawn back but I was wheeled into the room I saw him for the first time.

"There he is Jay, that's your little boy."