Right. For a moment, Ross forgets how to breathe, frozen to the spot as he tries to let Demelza's words sink in, though there's a very distinct part of his mind urging him to get a move on. The baby's coming, she'd said. Demelza is in a bloody cemetery far from the hospital because she'd been taking flowers out to the graves of souls she's never once met, and the baby is coming.
It all catches up with him then, in one fell swoop, Ross remembers all that their doctor has told them. He remembers the instructions they'd been given if an emergency like this were ever to happen and what he'll need to do once he's able to calm Demelza enough to make the necessary calls to retrieve her from the cemetery. He takes a deep breath, pacing in the stables, and he hears Darkie huff from just a few feet away at his distress, but Ross pays none of it any mind.
"How far apart are the pains?" he asks, his free hand rubbing absently on the stubble he hadn't bothered to shave this morning. "Has your water broken? Are you alone, is there anyone who can help, or can you find somewhere to rest? I need to know exactly where you are, Demelza, I'm going to have to call the hospital to get you." She's not having their second child alone in a cemetery, Ross will make damn sure of that.
"Listen to me, love," he says, "I just need you to find a place you can stay still for a bit, and you have to stay calm until I can find you. Do you understand? I'll call the doctor but then I'll stay on the phone with you all the time until we're together again, I promise you that."
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Right. For a moment, Ross forgets how to breathe, frozen to the spot as he tries to let Demelza's words sink in, though there's a very distinct part of his mind urging him to get a move on. The baby's coming, she'd said. Demelza is in a bloody cemetery far from the hospital because she'd been taking flowers out to the graves of souls she's never once met, and the baby is coming.
It all catches up with him then, in one fell swoop, Ross remembers all that their doctor has told them. He remembers the instructions they'd been given if an emergency like this were ever to happen and what he'll need to do once he's able to calm Demelza enough to make the necessary calls to retrieve her from the cemetery. He takes a deep breath, pacing in the stables, and he hears Darkie huff from just a few feet away at his distress, but Ross pays none of it any mind.
"How far apart are the pains?" he asks, his free hand rubbing absently on the stubble he hadn't bothered to shave this morning. "Has your water broken? Are you alone, is there anyone who can help, or can you find somewhere to rest? I need to know exactly where you are, Demelza, I'm going to have to call the hospital to get you." She's not having their second child alone in a cemetery, Ross will make damn sure of that.
"Listen to me, love," he says, "I just need you to find a place you can stay still for a bit, and you have to stay calm until I can find you. Do you understand? I'll call the doctor but then I'll stay on the phone with you all the time until we're together again, I promise you that."