X3 Last Stand

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Birth Of James & Oliver Howlett

Seven and a half months have gone by since Logan and Ororo's wedding. Both are happily married and awaiting the arrival of their twin babies. Ororo had begun to show five months into her pregnancy. Jean and Megan were monitoring her progress but Lucy hired a private doctor who happens to be a mutant to watch Ororo's progress. Professor Xavier had the nursery for the twins completed while Logan and Ororo were in the Bahamas.

Emma decided to throw Ororo a baby shower and made certain that everyone knew she was expecting twins.

Ororo also spoke with Rion wondering if he was ok. She remembered how her aunts acted with him. Rion said he was ok but was happy to see his grandmother.

Ororo also taught her classes for a while until Jean put her on bed rest. Logan was very a tentative to his wife's needs bringing her anything and everything she wanted no matter how odd her requests were. Logan would also spend time talking Ororo's stomach bonding with his babies. He, Scott, Alex and Rion helped to put together the baby cribs and fixing the nursery up Ororo's liking. Logan painted the room blue because he knew they were having boys. John did as well. He would bring his mother anything she wants and can't wait to welcome his little siblings. Ororo wondered how he knew this. He said he can tell the difference between the heartbeat of a male and that of a female.

The two are walking around the back yard talking. Jean thought it'd be best to walk around get a little exercise. Logan agreed.

"How are you feeling darlin?" Logan asked her.

"Ok. I can't til the little ones are born." Then I can relax." Ororo said as they walked slowly in the garden. "Why are you so sure we're having boys?"

"Because girls and boys have two different heartbeats." Logan said showing her the difference by tapping his heart once for the male and twice for the female. Ororo chuckles. "You talked to Rion?"

"Yeah." Ororo said.

"I noticed your grandmother talking to him but your aunts wanted nothing to do with him." Logan said.

"Yeah I noticed it to. I asked my aunts about it but she wouldn't say. Rion seems fine but I know him. Deep down he's hurting." Ororo said then stopping dead in her tracks.

"What's wrong?" What's the matter?" Logan asked alarmed.

"My water broke." Ororo said then letting out a painful groan.

"Come on." He said holding her. He takes her back into the mansion. Jean and Emma came running towards them. "She's in labor." He said as they hurriedly got Ororo down to the lower levels.

"Get Megan and Hank." Jean told Emma. Emma nods and turns heading to get Megan who is in her lab. Rion comes running into the sick. "Get Nurse Susan." She adds.

"Roh!" Rion calls out to her.

"We're in here." Logan said as he and Jean worked to get Ororo onto the beds. Ororo's dress was torn off by Logan and Jean covered her with a hospital gown.

"Roh breathe hon." Jean tells her. Ororo does as she is told. Jean pushes the end of the bed up towards Ororo's butt. "Logan, go help Ororo. Help her breathe. Rion you help him." Jean told him. Both go to help Ororo who was doing breathing that she l learned in lamas class.

Megan, Hank and Professor Xavier came into the room. Nurse Susan comes into the room.

"How far dilated is she?" Megan asked helping Jean. Nurse Susan is assisting them as well.

Jean separated Ororo's legs to check. She and Nurse Susan took a look.

"She's only about four centimeters dilated. Six more inches to go." Jean said.

"Ororo you have to wait til your ten centimeters dilated." Megan told her.

"We'll stay by your side sis." Rion told her. She nods.

Hank, Megan and Jean made the room comfortable for Ororo who continued to have a contraction every hour each getting stronger and stronger. Nurse Susan monitored her contractions timing them.

John paced back and forth while in the living room. He was waiting to hear news of his mother's condition. He wasn't the only one. Every student in the mansion was worried for Ororo and couldn't wait for news about the baby.

Six hours had passed and Ororo had experienced her last contraction. Emma, Rion, Alex and the professor stood outside while Hank and Megan assisted Jean and Nurse Susan in delivering Ororo's twins. Logan assists his wife as she pushes.

"Push Roh." Jean said Ororo does exactly that. She screams loudly pushing with everything in her. Logan holds her hands as she pushes out the first baby. "I see the head." Jean says. Ororo stops pushing. "Deep breathes Roh." She said.

"You're doing great Roh." Megan said. Logan kisses her forehead.

"Come on Roh, push." Jean said as Ororo pushes as hard as she could. The head comes out as Jean has to make a small incision to make room for the baby's head to come through. Nurse Susan is helping her. Ororo stops pushing to catch her breathe. "Almost there hon. Give me another push hon." Jean said Ororo pushes again. The baby's shoulders come out and the baby's body slides out. A high pitched scream is heard. Jean takes the baby and hands him to Megan who immediately goes to work in cleaning the baby up. "It's a boy." Jean said as Ororo and Logan smile at her. Ororo felt another sting of pain as the second baby is ready to come out. "Roh need you to push again." Ororo does. This time the second baby's head slide through, the shoulders and the body followed. Jean was able to pull the second baby out. Another high pitched scream is heard. "Another baby boy." Jean said smiling. Megan had cleaned up the first baby and put him in the basinet. She did the same for the second baby boy. Ororo pushes out the after birth and then jean stitches her up.

"You wanna see your boys." Megan asked.

"Of course." Logan said. Megan hands Logan and Ororo their baby boys. "Darlin look at our boys."

"They're so beautiful." She said. Jean, Megan and Hank smiled. Nurse Susan smiled as she cleaned up the area. Jean telepathically let them know that Ororo gave birth baby boys.

"I'm going to let John know." Alex said heading outside of the room then headed upstairs.

"Come in." Hank told them. Rion, Emma and the professor came into the room.

"Let me see my nephews." Rion said going over to get a closer look. "They are so adorable." He said cooing over his nephews.

"Yeah look at how cute are little guys are." Ororo said kissing one the babies. Logan has the other one."

"Have you named them yet?" Emma asked.

"The one I'm holding is James Logan Howlett the second." Logan said.

"I'm holding Oliver Olamaide Howlett." Ororo said. Hank wrote the babies' names on name tags before placing them on the babies' hats covering their heads.

"They are quite precious." Professor Xavier said to them. Both Ororo and Logan smiled staring at their little boys.

The doors opened and in came John.

"Hey ma." John said.

"Hey baby. Come over and see your brothers." She said to him. He comes over to see them.

"Wow. Look at how cute they are." John said smiling. "What are their names?"

"James Jr. and Oliver Howlett." Logan said to him.

"You wanna hold Oliver?" She asked.

"Sure." John said holding his little brother. Rion got to hold James.

Logan kissed Ororo happily the proud parents of two bouncing baby boys.

Two days later, Logan had carried Ororo to their bed room. Rion and John had brought the babies up to their nursery. Everyone had gotten the chance to see the sleeping tots. Scott brought his son Nathan into the room to see the babies. He told him that he and the babies are going to grow up together.

Lucy had stopped by to see her nephews. She even got them birth certificates social & security numbers for the boys. Logan thanked her for the assist. She said it's her pleasure.

Logan and Ororo are standing in the nursery looking over their boys.

"I can't believe they're here." Ororo said.

"You did a great job darlin." Logan told her. Ororo smiled. He wraps his arms around her waist. "You know between the two of them we won't be sleeping much."

"Oh boy do I know." Ororo said. "We can handle it though."

"Yeah we can handle it." Logan told her.

"So Mr. Howlett, why don't we take the baby monitor and head downstairs for dinner?" Ororo said.

"Ok Mrs. Howlett." Logan said as they both laughed and headed out of the nursery leaving their bedroom. The baby monitor is on in the babies' room and they have the other one. Things were definitely great in the Howlett family. Not only did the Xmen save the day but they welcomed two more additions to their family.

The End!