The day seemed to crawl by. Thankfully, it was pretty busy and I delivered two babies, plus did a pre-natal visit for Aria. The baby was growing slightly ahead of schedule, and our best guess was that she would deliver somewhere around seven months. I was trying to convince her to have a home birth because none of us were quite sure what would happen while she was in labor. Would she be able to control her powers? Would the baby be born normally or present differently? There were too many variables. I could tell that Xavier kind of agreed with me, but Aria said she wanted to think it over.
It looked like Xavier wanted to ask me something at the end of the appointment. He started a few times, but stopped and looked a little embarrassed. It occurred to me that I might need permission to be
