006 - Hours

Time ticks by slowly. Adam wished that it didn't but that wasn't much help really. No matter if he sped time up, still the same amount would have passed, just faster, and so he would wait patiently. But it had been six hours now, and he was getting as nervous as the one he was sitting next to.

"I'm sure, they're both fine!" he said, patting Newt gently on the leg in a comforting way. It didn't help.

He wondered if his dad had been this nervous at his birth. He wondered even more briefly if his father had been. He shook his head. No, he wouldn't think that here. You never know what could happen.

"Yeah," Newt replied, giving him a quick smile.

Adam hadn't supposed to have been here to wait with the expecting father to be, but he had been walking home and Newt had stopped and picked him up, and Anathema had just happened to go into labour in the car.

In the wild rush to the hospital, he had been dragged along. In a way he was glad. Someone had to stop Newt from going to the coffee machine, and the waiting rooms were blissfully clear of any instruments of healing used in these places. Having Newt around them would be disastrous.

With a jolt though, Adam remembered something. "Oh, I will be right back, gotta call me dad."

It took ten minutes of trying to calm his mum down telling his parents that he was in the hospital but it wasn't for him, that Anathema had gone into labour and he had gone with them for moral support and he was sorry that he had forgotten in the excitement.

His mum told him he would be hearing of this more when he got home.

By the time he got back, he found Newt gone. Adam froze on the spot and went to the nearest nurse, who looked mighty happy about something.

"The man who was sitting there," he asked, pointing to where Newt had been sitting. "Where'd he go?"

The nurse smiled even more cheerfully at him and pointed at the door they had been waiting outside. "He has gone inside to visit his wife and their new baby girl."

Adam smiled brightly, and opened the door a sliver to peek in. The new parents looked very happy together thankfully. Slowly he closed the door, got a nurse to inform Newt and Anathema that he had gone home, and went back to the phone.

Within ten minutes he was telling his mum and dad that he was now going to be an uncle for a new baby.

Both his parent shared a Look. He was after all, only 13, and their daughter wasn't pregnant.

Well, he thought, at least a babysitter.