AN: thank you for the positive feedback! I was going to do flash backs anyway but I didn't think of doing one about the pregnancy or the birth because I already had them talk about it, but after the suggestions, I got some ideas so….yeah I wrote it, in this chapter
Posted: 12/7/11
Awaking and aching
It took a few seconds after she woke up, before she felt the dull ache all over her body, her head was pounding and her back was killing her. She kept her eyes tightly shut but she could tell it was daytime, her bedroom window was open and she could hear her mother barking orders at her people in the courtyard bellow. She would have rolled her eyes but it hurt to move. Typical, I'm in agony, I had my first change and she doesn't even care Talwyn thought.
The dull ache and pain in her back and even her headache were bearable; if she kept still enough and concentrated on her breathing. But then she tasted blood and felt something piercing her lower lip "Sh…!" she opened her eyes and mouth wide, and jumped out of bed to inspect herself in the mirror. The first thing she saw where two long, sharp fangs, from where her K9 teeth had extended. She turned her head and ran her tongue cautiously over the end of each one, inspecting them.
"You'll get used to them, then you won't stab your own lip"
Talwyn, startled, looked in the mirror to see Quinn standing in the corner of the room watching her "Sorry I didn't see you there"
"That's okay… Your wings will come through in an hour or two, I'd try to go back to sleep, so you sleep through the pain. Once you have your wings then you'll be able to shift back and forth when you want" Quinn explained
"I didn't think it would hurt this much" Talwyn said throwing herself back onto her bed, then regretting it due to the abrupt contact with the mattress
"Yeah, but at least your body isn't changing shape, it's just your muscles becoming more defined, and the wings are more of an addition than your bones reshaping, that's why it's an achy kind of pain, like growing pains. Apparently for werewolves the pain is more intense but only lasts a few minutes. It won't hurt when you change voluntarily. How's your vision?"
Talwyn hesitantly peeled her eyes open "Normal, I guess"
Quinn knelt down by her side and inspected her daughters eyes "They haven't changed yet, when they do; visibility will increase dramatically, you will be able to see better in lowly lit places too"
Talwyn closed her eyes again and heard Rachel in the courtyard shouting something to someone; Talwyn groaned "Why isn't she here? Does she not care?"
"Don't say that Tal; she cares a great deal. She caught you, when you passed out, then she carried you in here. She was so worried last night she didn't go to bed; she curled up in the middle of your bedroom floor and slept right there. She wouldn't leave you this morning but I'd already given my orders out so she had to go and give hers"
Talwyn now felt a small amount of guilt "I'm going to sleep now"
"Okay" Quinn dropped a kiss to the exhausted girl's forehead and then silently left the room.
She closed the door quietly while Rachel simultaneously entered the quarters and closed that door quietly too, behind her.
"How is she?" the brunette whispered
"She's fine, she just gone back to sleep"
"She woke up?" Rachel sounded disappointed, Quinn nodded, she hated seeing Rachel like this. "Will she be okay to leave at 1600 hours?"
"She should be, she already has her fangs" they walked into the living area and sat down
"She has her fangs!" she whisper shouted, she then looked longingly at the door, she wanted to see her daughter but she couldn't disturb her.
"You two really need to work on your communication" Quinn huffed and shook her head
"What do you mean?" Rachel turned back to her wife
"You think she drifting away from you and she's worried that you don't care about her. There is a distance forming between you, if only she knew how protective you are over her"
"I don't want to worry her, if she knew I beat one of my own men because I thought he was complaining and mocking her for her birthday when I asked him to pick up some supplies, she'd think I was…" she gave up thinking of a better word "Crazy"
"She'd only think you were crazy once she found out that in that incident it was later revealed he was complaining about his own daughter wanting a party like Talwyn's"
"Yes, I do remember what happened I didn't need you to repeat it and make me feel bad. In my defence, no one stopped me after I accused him, so I might not have been wrong and he and his family were heavily compensated, I bought them a bloody villa in Spain, with my own money, money I've been saving since my first ever job" Rachel kept her voice low
"Don't worry about it Rach, it happened like 10 years ago, you shouldn't feel bad about it anymore… I think you and Tal need an activity something just you two can do together, you could teach her something"
"Like…? we have no common interests"
Quinn huffed "Are you kidding, she's so your daughter. I'm actually relieved she's a vampire; except her eyes she's just like you, she has your attitude and she looks very similar to you. When we get to Lima, we'll find something you can do together okay?"
"Sure" there's no way she'll want to spend time with me; her mother
"I heard that" Quinn warned "She will; you two are so alike it's scary" Quinn lowered her head to the brunettes shoulder and sighed what am I going to do with these two? She smirked knowing her thoughts could be heard
Rachel just rolled her eyes.
…
They enjoyed the silence for nearly an hour, keeping thoughts and plans to themselves. They were bought back to reality by a crash coming from Talwyn's room. The pair simultaneously leapt from their seat and charged towards the door Rachel reached it first by a millisecond, Quinn deliberately let her be the first one there. Rachel ran out of fear, but Quinn knew what was waiting on the other side of that door.
Rachel's heart was beating a mile a minute until she stood in the doorway. Talwyn was sat up right on her bed staring at her reflection in the mirror on her dresser, opposite. Her eyes wide and now a radiant green like Rachel's to her surprise. Her fangs were still there form earlier that morning and now she had wings, they were huge, bat like, and the same tone as her skin. She looked to her parents, she looked a little shocked and a bit mesmerised. Quinn noticed the broken lamp on the floor and chuckled to herself.
"I'm sorry, I stretched, I forgot I might have wings and I stretched them too" she'd knocked the lamp off her bedside table with her wings when stretching
"You look amazing, T" Rachel commented
Talwyn smiled "Thanks"
"Why don't you try them out? You and your mum could go for a fly while I go and check that the cars will be ready to go, I forgot to tell them to put chains on the tire and with the snow…" she trailed off
"I'd love too" she ran out the room kissing her mother on the cheek and grabbing her mum's wrist dragging her outside. Rachel watched the two most important people in her life, leave the sanctuary of their quarters, Talwyn obviously wanted to show off to the rest of the residence, otherwise she would have left via the balcony. I that moment Rachel felt that even though Talwyn was still with the other parent, maybe they had made a little bit of progress.
…
Flash back
"Rachel!" Tina ran down the hall and crashed through the double door out onto the courtyard where Rachel, Santana and Will were training some of their latest recruits." Rachel!"
The entire courtyard of people all looked towards Tina "It's Quinn, it's time" she panted
"Where is she?" Rachel rushed over franticly
"Your bed room"
"But we had a room all set up and, and-" Rachel started almost hyperventilating
"It doesn't matter about that right now come on" she dragged the brunette by the wrist "Santana you too!"
Santana looked surprised but followed the two werewolves; sprinting through the grand hall and dashing up the stairs taking more than one at a time. Rachel looked nervous, she wasn't sure she was ready for this. She gulped as she was yanked through another door.
Quinn was sat in the middle of the bed in the classic position for this 'event' she was already taking lots of repetitive breaths and she already had a layer of sweat oh her forehead. Mercedes and Brittany were either side, doing all they could to help her. All 6 women in the room had learnt about what to do in this situation when they found out Quinn was pregnant. Rachel was left standing in the doorway, taking many shallow breaths herself. Santana arrived moments later, she had stopped by the room they had originally set up and grabbed towels and a few other supplies, she dragged Rachel forward to Quinn and she settled the stack of towels down handing them to the others trying to assist the blonde.
Rachel stood beside the bed helplessly, all the information they had researched on 'what to do in this situation' went out of her mind, she just watched as Quinn grit her teeth and yelled "you suck" to her over and over again
Mercedes got annoyed with Rachel and moved her out of the way, unfortunately toward the foot of the bed. Rachel was now sweating with nerves as Quinn cried out in pain, Rachel wasn't concentrating, she thought she heard Quinn yell "It's never coming out!"
The next time Quinn said something as Mercedes and Brittany held her down, Rachel didn't hear her; she could only hear her own heart beating in her ears as she watched Quinn's face as her emotions changed from anger to pain to maybe a little bit of panic, (Rachel avoided looking anywhere else)
Santana was standing behind Quinn, she reached forward with a damp cloth to wipe Quinn's forehead, Tina stood by Mercedes ready to jump in to assist at any point.
Out of the corner of her eye Santana saw Rachel sway "Catch her!" she pointed to Rachel and Tina (who was closest) turned in time to catch Rachel as she went limp.
...
Rachel was woken by someone nudging her in the shoulder, she was laying on the sofa in the living room, she slowly opened her eyes and Tina was looking down at her "It's over"
"What is it?" Rachel sat up abruptly almost knocking heads with her friend
"A baby" Tina said casually and Rachel's excited expression dropped
"Seriously not funny"
Tina laughed mischievously "Why don't you go see for yourself" She offered her hand which Rachel accepted, helping herself to stand.
Rachel still felt a little wobbly on her feet; she took a moment to clear her head. She finally took the last few steps towards the room as Mercedes, Brittany and Santana walked out smiling. Rachel gave a nod to them, then her heart sped up again as she reached for the door handle and pushed the heavy door open.
Quinn sat in the middle of the bed leaning against the head board; the hair from her fringe clung to her forehead and a little wrapped up 'bundle of joy' in her arms. She looked up at the intruder and smiled sleepily "Would you like to meet your daughter?" she said softly.
Rachel grinned, they had a girl, it didn't really matter (it just meant she'd won money off Puck) she didn't mind what they had; all that mattered was that it was their child.
The brunette careful lowered herself to sit next to her wife; she carefully peered at her daughter making sure not to disturb her "She's beautiful, just like you" she looked at the blonde lovingly who looked back and smiled brightly, Rachel leaned over and kissed Quinn softly on the lips "What are we going to call her?"
"I have no idea" Quinn gently chuckled
End Flashback
…
"Everything packed up?" Rachel called out, she got the usual few verbal responses and nods.
Talwyn landed next to her mother abruptly, almost falling over in the process, Rachel put a single arm out to support her "I love this!" she exclaimed as she shifted back to human form, Quinn landed next to her immediate family, she however landed gracefully (thanks to years of practice)
"Are you ready to go?" Rachel asked her daughter
"Yeah! I'm really excited to go out into the 'big wide world'"
Quinn laughed "You really know nothing about Lima do you?"
"No, I thought we'd be talking about it on the way"
"Yeah, we'll talk about what happened the last time we were there, come on" they all piled into two land rovers, Rachel, Quinn, Talwyn, Santana and Britt in one and Puck, Tina, Sam, Mercedes and Will in the other, a guard drove each of the cars. The cars pulled out of the courtyard and the gate was shut behind them.
Talwyn looked out the back window at the her home "We'll be back soon" Quinn said softly
"I know, I'll miss it, but I'm really excited about this too"
Any thoughts?
Was it crap? :/
I'm normally positive at the beginning and by the end, I'm not so sure