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He only gets a good look at her for a moment before the tears blur his vision. She is so small. Though she lays in an incubator, nothing familiar nearby to judge her exact size, he can tell. And then there’s the tubes and IV lines, making her look so much more fragile. But he also notices wisps of dark black hair and her mother’s little button nose.

She looks like Lexi…

She would have been happy to hear that…

The tears spill down his cheeks once again, collecting in the hair at his cheeks and jaw that he had not quite had the time to shave recently.

“She’s beautiful,” he whispers around the lump in his throat. “We always knew she would be.”

A picture….

Callum had waited so long to meet Emma. He had anticipated the moment the last seven months, from the very moment Lexi showed him that positive pregnancy test. It felt so, so wrong to see her for the first time through a picture on Isabelle’s phone. He should have been there when she was born, watched her take her first breath, heard that first cry. He should have been there, arms ready to hold her, and he should have introduced her to his parents himself, a little pink bundle of joy. Isabelle should have met her with Lexi, not alone in a cold, sterile hospital.

This was wrong. This was all wrong.

Even still, he wanted - no, needed - to see her somehow, in whatever form he could. He needed to see for himself that she was alright. So, he nodded his answer.

Hearing his mother was with her comforted him further, as well. If anything were to happen, if anything was wrong, she would know what to do and she would get it done. His mother was a force of a woman and a hell of a nurse. Emma could not receive better care, even from her own father.

“No. No, Emma needs her.” Callum is quick to answer. “Let her stay with her.”

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