Of course your water broke during one of the few games he had left on the regular season. Quinn had just had five game-free days, and you’d both hoped that you’d be giving birth during one of those days; but unsurprisingly enough, it was during his game against the Krakens that you were rushed away to the hospital.

Thank god it was a home game – at least Quinn wasn’t on the other side of the continent playing.

He hadn’t been told about you until after the game, when one of his assistant coaches explained what had happened and told him to hurry to the hospital. Quinn had never gotten out of his gear as quick as that night, and no one even batted an eye at the fact that he left the arena before the post-game analysis from the coaches.

After finally having been guided to the right room in the hospital, Quinn enters in a hurry, his heart thumping in his chest. “Did I miss it? Please tell me I didn’t miss it,” he says as he walks in, and-

He stops once he’s met by the sight of his girlfriend in the hospital bed, with a tiny little baby in her arms.