XANDER'S POV:

I've been running for a few minutes now. Izzy has been drifting in and out of consciousness. "You're okay baby, you're okay." I keep mumbling as a sprint.

I sigh in relief as I see the hospital lights. I burst through the door and see Mary at the front desk looking at her papers, "MARY!" I shouted. She looks up at me, but her eyes are instantly drawn to a very pale and very pregnant Izzy in my arms. Mary is on her feet and rushes towards me. She starts to shout orders at her team. A doctor rolls a hospital bed and I lay my mate on it. They rush her towards a room and I follow.

"The length of the stab is two inches, the depth of it is unknown." someone said.

"She has bled too much, we need a blood transplant. John! get me some -0 blood stat!"

"Her heart is failing!"

"We need to perform a C-section if there is any chance of her and the baby living." They rush around the room, preparing to cut my mate open and I just stand there staring at her pale body.

"Sir if you would like to stay, you need to put these on." A little Asian woman hands me some scrubs. I quickly go into the bathroom and change. I come out and see that everyone is ready. They cleaned my mate up and put her in some dress scrubs.

"Alright, let's get this baby out."

My hands curled into a fist as I watch all of these people touching my mate. I had to do my very best to hold my wolf back when they cut her lower belly open. Now and then I growled, but they still continued. I watched as they used this strange tool to keep the incision open. The doctor put his hand in her open belly and out came something that was so surreal. It was a baby. My baby. I was in awe as I watch the doctor pull out my son, my crying son. He looked at me and smile, "It's a boy!"

I smiled. My heart was beating against my chest as I watched the nurses clean my son. A hand touches my arm. I look and see that it's one of the nurses. She smiles at me and nods towards the bed. I turn and see my Izzy coming back to consciousness. I rush towards her and grab her hand, "Izzy? Sweetheart? Can you hear me?"

She blinks a couple of times before her eyes slowly focuses on me. She frowns then looks around at the hospital. Suddenly her eyes widen in a panic. "No no please don't tell me I lost him."
She sits up but whimpers because of the stitches. Izzy still starts to shake as she looks around the room frantically. "No no" she keeps mumbling.

I grab her face softly and turn her eyes towards me, "Hey hey. It's okay! Izzy stop!! You're okay!"

"The baby..." She whispers,

"Is fine. They performed a c-section on you because your stab wound induced you into labor."

She lays back down and sighs in relief. She still looks extremely pale, but I think she's okay.

"Luna, would you like to hold your son?"

I look up and see a nurse holding my pup. Izzy's eyes instantly brighten. She nods her head. She tries to pull herself up a bit, but immediately winces. I instantly get up and wrap my arms around her to pull her up a little. She smiles to me in thanks. Then the nurse settles our little treasure in Izzy's arms.

They just look at each other for so long. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. My Izzy and our son that we made together. Then out of no where, our son cracks a huge smile on his face as he looks at Izzy. He starts to laugh and giggle as he touched her face. All of the nurses stop what they're doing and look. Their eyes widen in shock.
"A new born baby isn't supposed to be able to do that. They're too young to feel those kinds of emotions yet, let alone express them."

That just make me even more happier. It shows that my baby is one if a kind.

"What should we name him sweetheart?"

"Xavier." She whispers softly.

Suddenly, everyone starts to go frantic. One if the nurses grab the baby off of Izzy and places him in the incubator.

"What's going on?" I shouted.

"She has lost too much blood and her wounds are starting to fester. Please we need you to leave for this. We have to operate on her if she has any chance if living."

"Like hell I'm gonna leave. She's my MATE! My LUNA!"

"She won't be your mate for long if you stay. Please Alpha, for the sake of your female. Please leave"

"Ah!" I snarl. I turn to Izzy and hold her hands tightly, "Baby I have to go. Your wounds have gotten worse. They need me to leave so than they can operate on you."

Her eyes widen with fear. She leans closer to me as if she is seeking my protection from all of the havoc, "No," she whispers, "please don't go. I've lost you once. I can't bare to lose you again." I hear her voice crack and that really does break me, "Hey," I whisper, "hey hey look at me sweetheart." I hold her face softly in my hands. "I am not going anywhere and neither are you. All they're going to do is get some infections out, stitch you back together. That's it. Nice and simple. Then when you wake up, I'm going to be right by your side." She looks at me with such sorrow, "You promise?" She whispers, "You promise you'll always be with me."

I give her a soft, comforting and compassionate smile, "With everything I am...I promise to always be with you."

She takes a deep breath and nods her head, "Okay," she whispers. 

I lean in and give her a quick peck on the lips. I turn and stomp out.  I slam the door shut. I look over my shoulder and through the window, I watch all the staff rushing around my girl. They put a mask over her head. I see her tears leaking down the sides of her face. She looks so scared. It breaks me knowing that she is so frightened and I can't do anything about it. I roar and punch the wall. I've given her so much pain. I left for so long. I thought it was a good idea, but now I don't think it was. There could've been another way. I did it knowing it would be hard for her. But I had to do it for her safety and for the safety of our son. 

I sit on the hospital chair outside the door. I hold my head in my hands and pray. "Please let her get through this. Please help her!" I whispered to myself. 

"How is she?" I look up and see Noah. He is covered in blood, sweat and dirt. I shake my head "They performed a c-section on her. With her wound and the operation..she lost too much blood. They're operating on her now to see if they can fix something. But they said that she is in big trouble."

Noah sighs loudly. He plops himself on the chair beside me. Clasps my shoulder and squeezes, "Don't worry Xander. She'll push through. She always does. If she can survive 9 months without you, which most mates can't. Then she can do this."

I nod my head, "How was she when I was gone?"

Noah shakes his head, "She was a mess man. She would such bad nightmares sometimes that she would wake the whole pack house with her screams. She did have a lot of break downs during the day, but that was only when she was by herself. Slowly she started to get better. Tried to just not think about it. You should've seen her man. She was strong. She was being a good Luna to everyone. She didn't think once about herself while she was ruling. Everything she did, she did or the good of the pack and your son."

I smile a little in pride of my mate, "She's really strong."

"She is. You're lucky she's with your sorry ass."

I chuckle, "Yeah true. I'm one lucky bastard to have someone like her be with me."

"Don't worry man. Whatever happens, good will come out of it."

I nod my head in understanding, "Man I hope so."

"You should go get cleaned up. You look like a mess. You'll probably make her more sick if she sees you like that when she wakes up."

"Nah man. I have to stay. I have to be there for her. I promised."

"No one said you couldn't be there for her and be clean at the same time. Come one man. Just go quickly get cleaned up. I'll mind link you if anything happens, yeah?"

I sigh in defeat. "Okay. But if anything happens, I want to know about it. Even if it seems like nothing."

Noah bows his head to me, "Will do."

I turn to walk away, but then Noah shouted out, "Hey Xander!" I turn around and look at my beta. He gives me a smirk and says, "It's good to have you back man."