Baby? But How?
Haruka and Michiru sat silently and happily across from each other at the dinner table. Haruka was holding tight to Michiru as she just wanted to be with her lover. Michiru smiled lightly across the table at her partner. They didn't need words to express how they were feeling, they were in love and nothing was going to change that. Michiru thought back to all the happy times they had shared with Hotaru, but Hotaru was now older and away at school, her father was taking care of her now. Haruka finished her dinner:
"That was an amazing dinner Michiru, I don't know how you do it, but you do it." Michiru smiled at her and rubbed her hand. "What's wrong?" Haruka could tell something was bothering her wife, five years together had given her a clue to Michiru's little quirks.
"Nothing," Haruka looked in her eyes, "Haruka I want to have a baby." Haruka swallowed and looked at her wife curiously.
"Michiru…" Haruka stopped not knowing what to say, she knew Michiru had always wanted a child, but Haruka could not give her that, she looked at the beautiful woman who sat across from her. "I love you, and you know I would give you anything you ever wanted, but Michiru, how can I give you a baby?" Michiru shrugged and looked lovingly at her wife.
"I know, I love you to, it was stupid."
"No it wasn't, sharing your heart with me is not stupid, please don't be afraid to share with me. We will find a way, I promise." Michiru nodded, but wasn't sure how Haruka would make good on this promise. Haruka reminded herself to kick herself, for making the first promise she had no clue how to keep, but smiled and squeezed Michiru's hand reassuringly.
Haruka laid awake quietly as she could feel Michiru's breath on her chest, Haruka had been trying to figure out how she could make good on her promise. Michiru smiled in her sleep knowing that everything would be alright, because Haruka had told her it would be okay. Haruka moved from the bed and out on the balcony, she really wished she keep this promise, she knew Michiru would never leave her, but this troubled her to see her partner hurting this bad over something. Haruka looked up and at the first start she saw twinkling bright she made her wish. "I wish Michiru could have a baby of her own, one that would be ours." Haruka smiled as she saw the star twinkle at her. She felt the wind blow gently across her face giving her a relaxing feeling. She walked back into the room and laid down, she was going to keep her promise. Haruka moved onto her side and kissed Michiru gently on the forehead.
As the two women slept a special power was working. Haruka pulled Michiru close to her as they slept and a warm light filled the room transforming the two women. Haruka and Michiru both smiled as they dreamed happily feeling that their deepest desires had been fulfilled.
Haruka rolled over and noticed the place beside her was empty. She moaned as she could hear the toilet flush and the sink turn on. Michiru looked in the mirror at the circles around her eyes, she splashed some water over her face and brushed her teeth. As she rinsed her mouth she heard Haruka knocking on the bathroom door.
"Again?" Haruka yawned. Michiru wiped her face off and stepped out.
"Yeah," Haruka brought Michiru into her arms and kissed her lightly on the forehead.
"Michiru this has been going on for a month, you are dead tired, eating everything, gaining weight and you are still throwing up everything. This can't be healthy."
"I know Haruka, I know." Haruka could hear that Michiru's irritation.
"I'm sorry, are you alright?" Michiru nodded as she rested her head on her lover's chest. "Promise me you'll go to the doctor, you can't keep this up, it's not healthy." Michiru nodded as Haruka slowly guided her back to the bed. Michiru slipped under the covers and snuggled closer to Haruka who reached over and ran her hand up her leg and under her gown.
"Congratulations miss, you're pregnant." Michiru looked at the doctor curiously. "Is there anything wrong?" It was not often that he got looks like that from his patients. Michiru was shocked as she searched for words.
"Are you sure? I can't be pregnant." The doctor looked at the young woman not understanding why the girl looked frightened.
"I'm positive miss, what makes you think that you can't be pregnant? I can see on your figure that you are married." Michiru shook her head. The doctor looked serious, he hated it when women came in pregnant and not wanting the child. "Miss, do you want an abortion?" He hated that, but if the woman didn't want the child he had to do it. Something had triggered Michiru to start thinking again.
"NO!" She said it rather quickly and harshly, in which she blushed. "I mean no, I want this child. Can I hear it's heart beat?" The doctor smiled as he felt relief.
"We can try, I can't promise anything." Michiru smiled. "If you lay down I'll have a nurse bring the ultrasound machine in." Michiru nodded.
"My partner is in the waiting room will some one go call him in here?" The doctor nodded and left, leaving Michiru to change into gown. Haruka entered as the nurse smiled opening the door.
"Hey baby, what's up? Is there something wrong?" Haruka tried to read Michiru's face, but couldn't tell. "Nurse, can you leave us alone for a minute?" The nurse nodded as she finished setting up the machine. As the door shut Michiru moved to throw her arms around Haruka.
"I don't know how you did it, but you did it!" Haruka smiled happy to see her wife was not in pain, but she didn't understand.
"What did I do?" Haruka asked smiling as the smaller woman released her and backed away. Haruka could see that she was glowing and felt some relief that Michiru was happy.
"I'm pregnant, we're going to have our own child." Michiru smiled as she leaped back into Haruka's arms and Haruka who was shocked had to smile and thank her star. Michiru let go as a knock came at the door. "Enter please," Haruka looked at her beautiful wife stunned at how perfect she was. The doctor smiled as he saw the tall thin man smiling and looking at his wife.
"So you must be the lucky father," He held out his hand to shake Haruka's as she shook her head and looked down at the shorter man.
"Yes sir, I'm the luckiest person ever." The doctor smiled seeing that the young girl's partner was taking the news really well.
"Well, your wife wants to see if we can pick up and hear a heart beat yet, miss, have you considered how long ago you might have gotten pregnant?" Michiru thought about it, and raised her eyebrow to Haruka.
"I started morning sickness about a month ago, but…" Haruka looked at her wife who was clueless as to when they would have gotten pregnant.
"I think about a month an a half a go, probably about six weeks." Michiru looked at Haruka.
"How do you figure that?" Michiru looked at her.
"My last race was six weeks ago, and that was the night we…" Haruka grinned and left the rest for the others to think about. "And if you think about it the last monthly you had was eight weeks before that."
"That's right, we just assumed I was late because I had gained some weight."
"Well we will count from your last period witch puts you at eight weeks, that should be a good amount of time, we should be able to hear some kind of heart beat." The doctor smiled as Michiru laid back and lifted up her shirt for the doctor to put some cool gel on her belly. Michiru smiled at Haruka who was holding her hand tightly. The doctor prepared the machine. "It's not everyday that I get a couple in here where the husband knows about his wife's menstrual cycle." Haruka blushed a little. Michiru smiled as she brought Haruka's hand up to kiss it.
"Haruka is just sensitive like that." Michiru smiled as she saw her wife blush a little more. The doctor smiled at the two loves.
"Alright, I'm going to move the mouse up and find your heart beat, then we'll move from there." Michiru nodded as Haruka kissed her hand lovingly. A slow heart beat appeared as they listened. "That's your heart beat, now I'm going to move it down to find the baby's." The couple smiled and listened. The doctor moved it down and soon as he hit the left side of Michiru's belly they heard a very rapid noise. "That is interesting," Michiru looked at the doctor with panic.
"What's wrong?" Haruka could feel her wife squeezing her hand rather tightly.
"Oh, nothing, that is a good heart beat for a baby growing in her eighth week, but the baby is really close to the left." Michiru let lose of Haruka's hand as she was assured by the doctor that nothing was wrong." The doctor smiled as he moved the mouse over towards the other side of Michiru's belly and just as they thought the sound was fading it quickened again coming in just as loud. The doctor smiled as Haruka and Michiru looked on with curiosity. "I believe what we are hearing is twins." The doctor smiled as Michiru tightly squeezed Haruka's hand.
"Twins?" Haruka looked at Michiru almost in horror, but Michiru looked surprisingly excited.
"Of course it will be a couple more weeks before we know for sure." The doctor smiled and turned the machine off turning back around to clean the small woman's belly.
"Well would that explain all my symptoms?" Michiru asked.
"Yes, I was curious as to the weight gain that normally doesn't occur until the second trimester, but twins would explain that." Michiru smiled as she let her shirt down. "So do you have any questions for me right now?" Haruka could think of a million questions, but could not seem to voice any of them. "I'll let you change while you think of them and then come back." The doctor smiled as he moved to leave the room.
Haruka pulled into the drive way in silence, she was still in shock, twins had not been what she had thought of when she had made her wish, but then Michiru was happier about it than ever. Michiru was beaming as she sat looking straight a head, Haruka turned off the car and looked over at her wife.
"Well," Haruka wasn't sure what to say, Michiru turned to look at her and smiled. Michiru couldn't take it any more, she threw her arms around Haruka's neck and kissed her as if they had never kissed before. Haruka grinned and pulled the girl into her arms and kissed back. As they pulled back Michiru was smiling more brilliantly than Haruka had ever seen.
"I don't know how you did it, but you did it!" Michiru smiled as she kissed Haruka quickly once more. "How did you do it?" Haruka smiled.
"I made a wish upon a star." Haruka shrugged as she grinned happily. "So, we are going to have twins." Michiru smiled. "Some things have to change." Michiru nodded.
"Thank you Haruka," Haruka nodded as she moved to kiss her beautiful bride.