"Paige? Paige darling, are you awake?" Edvard quietly whispered to a sleeping Paige. "I am now…," she replied sleepily. "We need to talk about something, something that I have wanted to talk to you about for a long while now." "Eddie? Is everything ok?" "no, no its nothing bad. I just-" Paige cut him off, "then what is it?" "we have been married for a little over a year now and I was just… I don't know… wondering if you wanted to start a family of our own?" Paige fell silent.
At this moment Paige was thinking of Eddie with the kids back in Sangu and how happy he looked. Meanwhile Edvard was afraid she was not ready to start a family, and that maybe he should've waited a bit longer. Eddie knew that starting a family, would make it nearly impossible for Paige to keep her job as a doctor in Copenhagen, and they would no longer be able to travel and see the world as they have been doing for the past year. But he had a certain love for children and felt as though it could only bring him and Paige closer.
Paige wanted to tell Edward that she was ready to have children and start a family, but she couldn't. She did not know if she was ready, so she simply replied, "Can we talk about this later, I am awfully tired." "yes of course my love." He then kissed her softly on the forehead and went back to sleep. All throughout the night they both thought about what their lives would be like after children. They both had the same idea of a happy royal family, but the consequences of the children were different in each of their heads. Eddie thought about how tired they would be staying up all night for two years and running a country on no sleep. Paige was just bewildered with everything that could go wrong with the pregnancies,and the possibility of having to practically raise them on her own because Eddie would be away for long periods of time.
The next morning they awoke to a soft knock on the door. It was Arabella. "Come in sweetheart," replied Eddie smoothly, motioning for her to come in. The look on Arabella's face worried the couple, as it was sad and it looked like she had been crying for a while. "What's wrong Arie?" worriedly asked Paige. "Daddy is ill again this morning. Mom told me to come and wait in here with you until she sorts him out." Paige and Eddie looked at each other as though they could read each others mind. I will stay with Arabella and you will go and help your mother and father. Edvard rose from the bed and kissed Arabella on the head as he headed out the door. Paige motioned for her to get on the bed. Arabella explained to Paige that Harold's illness has returned and it is much worse than before. She sobbed on Paige's shoulder, and Paige comforted her by stroking the top of her head. It seemed to be working, the crying stopped, just the sniffles now. "Paige?" quietly asked Arie. "yes?" replied paige. "Are you and Edvard ever going to have children, because I think you would make a great mom." Paige waited a moment before she replied. She had children on her mind ever since her talk with Eddie last night, and what Arie had just said, went to the heart. "Probably, we are thinking about it… and you really think I would be a good mom?" Arie looked at Paige with the most reassuring look and said, "of course you would."
What they didn't know was that Edward had returned minutes before and heard their conversation. He thought yet again about children. Once he had snapped back to reality he slowly walked into the room and sat next to Paige. "Arie you can go and visit father now, he is doing much better." Before Arie left she looked at Paige again, but this time with a tell him how you really feel kind of look. But Paige became very nervous and as soon as Arie left the room, she began a conversation about her father in law. Until Eddie cut her off.
"Paige. Do you wanna talk about last night?" she quickly rose from the bed shut the door to their bedroom then went into the bathroom and locked the door behind her. But she wasn't fast enough, Eddie was hot on her heels caught the door before she had the chance to close it. She started to undress as if she was going to take a shower, ignoring the fact that Edvard was still standing in the doorway.
Eddie sighed. "Paige can we please just talk about this? If you really don't want to talk about thi-" before he had the chance to finish, she leaned over the sink and began to cry. "oh paige, why are you crying?" he said in a comforting yet concerned tone. "what if something goes wrong with the pregnancy? What if we have to leave the state to some dangerous faraway land, that I refuse to bring them to. Do we just leave them behind with some nanny, or worse your mother? Eddie I'm just not sure how this is going to work. Not to mention I would have to quit my job being a doctor, and become a mommy nurse. Im not sure I'm ready to be a mommy nurse.
"There are solutions to almost all of those problems. Yes we would leave the children behind, but with a trustworthy nanny. If something does go wrong with the pregnancy I will be by your side the entire time." "What about the days you spend in parliament and in meetings with the prime minister. Am I supposed to drop my duties as queen and raise OUR children by myself." Eddie walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her and said, "You will never be alone. I will always be there even when I'm not. If you were to ever need anything I could be there in the blink of an eye." "Eddie, are you sure you want to do this? Not wait just a little bit longer?" "paige, if youre not ready its ok, but just for future knowledge, I am ready to start a family with my beautiful, intelligent amazing wife." He turned her around, and their foreheads touched. He then softly kissed her on the lips.
They kissed for a while, until there was yet another knock on the door. It was seron. "You r majesties your breakfast with the prime minister begins in 20 minutes." "thank you Seron" replied Edvard. He turned back to Paige, "so is that a yes?" "I guess it is." Answered Paige with a huge grin. Eddie picked her up and spun her around until he threw her on the bed, and kissed vigorously. "we better get ready" laughed Eddie. "I guess so." Happily replied Paige.
From that day on Edvard and Paige began the road of trying to get pregnant. They tried and tried for months but nothing seemed to catch. They became frustrated and decided to take a break for a while. One morning, Paige awoke to a startle, she was going to be sick. The scented candle in the bathroom disgusted her thoroughly. She ran to the bathroom and was throwing up non-stop because she couldn't not reach the candle. She became very light headed and dizzy, she could not longer keep her balance. But as she fell her right wrist slit open on the toilet paper holder. She began to lose blood very quickly. Eddie had left for the morning but would be back at around 10:30. He entered the room to see paige on the floor unconscious and covered in blood. "PAIGE! PAIGE! Oh god. Oh god." Yelled Eddie worriedly. He picked up and laid her on the bed. Then he ran to get his mother and the ladies maids. They wrapped her wrist in wash cloths. "Eddie, did she…?"asked Rosalind. "Mother, I don't think she would try to, why would she…?" Eddie began to cry. "why would she do this?" "Well we don't know what happened Edvard. It could just be an awful coincidence." Replied Rosalind.
Eddie was worried. He kept thinking about how they were trying to get pregnant. What if she is pregnant and could be losing the baby because of Paige's bloodloss? Eddie picked her up once more and took her downstairs to the ambulance. Before they closed the doors to the ambulance, Eddie took a good look at the palace and thought about all of the reasons she would've tried to commit suicide. Maybe being a queen, and a doctor, and not being able to get pregnant was really getting to her. But why didn't she just talk to him, let him know what's going on. Maybe Eddie was just away to often for her to talk to him. He kept thinking about whether or not it was his fault his wife tried to commit suicide out of the blue. They had arrived at the hospital, as soon as they opened the doors to the ambulance the paparazzi swarmed. The doctors were sprinting to save the queen, with no hesitation.
Eddie followed behind until they said he could go no further. Eddie stood there for a moment not even noticing the paparazzi surrounding him. The royal guards quickly de-surrounded the King. They then escorted him to a private waiting room. Eddie was restless just thinking about not living the rest of his life with Paige. She was his saving grace two years ago. She is the love of his life now and forever.