Contractions.

Yelena gasped in discomfort. Something was not right. The world was tilting dangerously. Pain seared through Yelena as the contractions began. She kept the screams muffled and collapsed to the dungeon floor until they became too painful to manage with quietly. Her yells soon alerted the guards and other prisoners that something was not right. Yelena's body jerked as the jolts of agony left her delirious of her surroundings.

Had she not already suffered enough at the hands of Reyad? The experiments and rape had been excruciating, did she really deserve more pain?

Yelena's inner thighs were suddenly soaked as a result of her water breaking. She had tears streaming down her face, she was not ready for this. The bolt on the door slid back, opening for the guards to peer through at the woman. By now the pain had taken hold, Yelena didn't care for other people's reactions, she just wanted it to stop.

A lantern lit up the room and allowed the pair of guards see what was the cause of all the prisoner's screaming.

"Shit! Go. Get a medic." Someone ordered. "You, get Valek. Now!"

"Looks like you were right about the pregnancy."

The guards rushed to follow the orders, the sound of their feet on the stairs were drowned by Yelena's cries as they sprung from her lips. Her stay in the dungeon degraded the health of the mother and baby severely due to malnutrition and stress. It took an eternity for the guards to return.

The door to the cell flew open, the medic getting to work, muttering as she worked, cursing the guards stupidity. Yelena scrunched her eyes together and cringed away from the sudden influx of light from the multiple lanterns they brought with them.

"Upstairs. And quickly, she's on the verge of giving birth. Hurry! Hurry!" A women shouted.

My hand was grabbed and squeezed softly as I was carried out the dungeon to the medical bay. "Poor thing." A new woman's kind lilt said. "Do you think she will... make it?"


Hi! This is my first Study Series fic and am so excited. There are two more chapters to finish this. Hope you like and, as always... R&R. PLEASE!