It's not a moment and it's not our time yet

The man introduce himself as the baby's father. It didn't take much to see that this guy had "first time father" written all over his face. He looked more than a little scared.

"It'll be alright," he told him confidently. "Let's take care of this first, shall we?" He went over to the cabinets, unlocked them with a wandless magic spell and took out a potions bottle. He checked it to be sure it was what he wanted, poured a bit in a glass, and replaced the bottle in the cabinet.

He took the glass to the father-to-be. "For you, to steady your nerves if you think you need it. If you've not done this before, it really does help."

Then he turned his attentions to Ms. Haywood. "How are you feeling, Ms. Haywood? Is this your first child? Oh, so you know, I work mostly by touch." He touched her forehead, as was his usual method for assessing a patient's vital signs.

Michael couldn't believe he was on call. Apparently a couple of the regular healers had come down ill. And he was only down to assist, since it had been ages since he did anything outside his specialisation.

Of course it was too much to hope it would be a quiet night. Michael hated pregnancies. It wasn't the mothers or the babies or anything like that, just the reminder that his own daughter's arrival into the world had been laced with bad feeling.

He shouldered open the door to the room, performing sterilisation spells on his hands as he entered.

Lupin was already there, but then, Lupin seemed to be everywhere these days. Michael knew he ought to know more about the other healer's unique diagnostic abilities, but he'd never really understood.

"Can you tell how dilated she is just from that, or am I going to have to check?" he asked.

"Oh, hello, Mr. Corner," Robert said. "Glad you're here. I've just started assessing the mother's vital signs. Haven't gotten to checking how dilated she is. We'll have to do that the old fashioned way, I'm afraid. I can probably tell you the vitals of the baby, though, if you would be so kind as to check her, please?"

He moved his hand to the mother's abdomen for a moment. He wasn't feeling anything out of the ordinary, and right at the moment, he seemed to be catching things between contractions. That wasn't unusual either. As far as he could tell, though, Ms. Haywood and her baby seemed to be well enough at the moment. He did know that babies never failed to provide surprises, but so far, he didn't detect any complications. He wanted to be sure they stayed well.

"So far, so good, I think, Ms. Haywood, " Robert said reassuringly to the mother.

Michael supposed talking to Robert about his obsession with formality could happen later.  He hung the patient file back on the foot of the bed and approached the woman.

"Hi, Aria, is it?" he asked quietly.  "I'm Michael, Aria."

"I'm just going to check how far along you are. It's going to be a little bit uncomfortable.  Can you put your knees up for me?"

The examination was quick, although probably a bit unpleasant for Aria, and her boyfriend, come to think of it.  For some reason, the men were usually more comfortable when a midwife did this.

He jotted down the result on her record:  3/50/-2

"Looks like you've got a while to go yet," he told her.  

At least, that's how it would go if this was an ordinary delivery.  Michael had seen enough births to know that an ordinary delivery was surprisingly rare.

Aria kind of did feel a small pain there but she was under some kind of potion so she didn't feel very strong pains but still they were there.

"Okay. I'll think about later when baby is here," she said there with a weak smile on her face. She had a bit time before it happened, she could think about it in her head still since she had time before she needed to decided the name and everything else.

When healer entered and introduced herself she smiled. "Hello," she said with a small smile. She wasn't really sure what else she should say since Daniel himself did answered the healers question.

"Okay, yes this is my first child," she said there the answer to the question. She was still just only quite young. She didn't say there much and did let Robert to do what he needed to do there. Soon did show up other healer too and who was here to help too probably.

Aria did has was asked, she did put her knees up so the other healer called Micheal could check something there. It was bit of unpleasant to Aria but she decided to bare with it. Seems like she had no other choice.

"Oh I see," she said there now with a small smile. She actually wanted to get over with it soon as possible, she actually wanted to see her baby girl already.

Daniel looked at the doctor and had the feeling that now follows a review.
Well, that's something that he did not want to watch. It's just, to weird since everything what happened between him and Aria.
"Um, I'm going to get some coffee, I'll be back soon, I promise," he smiled at Aria and kissed her on the forehead.
When he finally left that room of horror, first he went to the bathroom to wash his face.
The hospital bathroom was surprisingly clean. He let the stream of cold water and then looked at his reflection in the mirror.
Although the potion which doctor gave to him helped him to calm down, he is still pale. Daniel should be support to Aria but he felt she in all of this coping much better than he.

Finally, he found a coffe machine in the waiting room and took a cup of coffee without sugar. He finished in 3 sips and then sat down on a chair, just because he did not have the courage to go back there.
He looked at the clock and saw that he left room 15 minutes ago.
He got up and went back into the room.
"How's it going?" smiled encouragingly.

"If you want to walk around a bit, it'll help with the pain and speed everything along," Michael was telling Aria just as the father-to-be returned to the room.

"She's fine," he replied in clipped tones, mostly because his concentration was elsewhere.  

"You don't look so well, though.  Why don't we step outside a moment?"

He took Daniel out to the waiting room, and when he returned, the other man wasn't with him.

Aria looked at the healer when there came suggestion maybe she wouldn't want to walk around a bit and it would help speed it along better. But before she could answer to the question Daniel came back in the room and soon after that was taken back to waiting room since he didn't look so good for sure.

It did give her few more seconds to think about the suggestion. "Well I guess I could walk a bit a around but not sure where or so. I don't think it's not good idea to go very far for sure," she said there now when the healer who suggested came back to room alone with out baby's father.