Who: Tesla and Logan Echolls, Kendall Casablancas and Aaron Echolls. Where: The Coronado bridge passing from Neptune into San Diego. When: The early evening of Monday the 4th, say around 6 P.M PST. What: Drama, death of Kendall and the big bang beginnings of Tess' true labor. Warnings: Character death but no gore, probably crude language. Heroic Aaron FTW.
Duncan's invite had been welcomed, Tess figured maybe making Ace as UN-comfortable as possible might inspire him to come. She was 40 weeks pregnant that day. 100% gestated baby. Massive by her standards and barely able to bend over without the risk of falling right on her face. Always had Logan grab her hand before she even tried, just to be safe. So they had lunch, played with Little Lilly and chatted with Duncan about random stuff that did not involve birth so as not to jinx the whole thing.
Then some light volleyball, them all being extremely careful not to smack it anywhere near Tess so she always had to walk off a bit to bend slowly, grab it and bring it back to smack into the air right at Logan and Duncan. Ace certainly felt significantly lower, and it was incredibly uncomfortable. So at around five thirty they said goodbye and grabbed all their things to go home. Got into the car to drive off toward home, paid the bridge toll before driving onto the Coronado, and easing into a steady speed toward home.
Ace gave a few dull kicks, legs flailing a little, clearly as uncomfortable as Tess was so she was still in her seat, gave her belly a good rub, tried to send some karma-esque encouragement for him to come on out, once they got home of course. Tess was nearly dozing off with her exhaustion when the XTerra swerved a little, there was a huge banging sound and Tess automatically screamed once, startled before turning to look out the back window. "What the fuck?"