I'm sorry if this chapter moved along too quickly, but I needed to write something! Also, I had to look most of this stuff up.

-11:41 am/John & Vriska's house-

"Cassia Jane Egbert!" Vriska exclaimed, running over to pick up her eight-month-old daughter. Casey had opened one of the cabinets in the kitchen and was trying to grab hold of a Ziploc container. "No ma'am, we do not do that."

Casey stopped and plopped her bottom in the floor, staring at her mother. "Ma?" she cooed, reaching out her arms as Vriska picked her up.

"Hi baby." Vriska kissed her daughter's cheek and brushed back her fluffy dark brown hair. "It's time to eat, okay?"

The second Vriska slid Casey into her high chair, her cell phone buzzed with a text message.

From: John

Text: Karkat just texted me. He and Terezi are at the hospital.

Vriska cocked her head and typed her response. Is Tez having the gru8?

Casey was confused as to why her mother wasn't feeding her, and reached her arms out. Vriska was about to pick her up, but her phone buzzed again.

Yeah. Karkat said Terezi's in a lot of pain, so you probably shouldn't talk to her.

Vriska shrugged and set her phone back down on the table, then turned to Casey. "Okay, Casey-Peanut," she cooed to the infant, "are you ready for some carrots?"

-3:57 pm/Maple Valley Regional Hospital-

It had been almost eight hours since Terezi went into "labor", and she was miserable. At only four centimeters dilated, there was no way she could push the egg out right then. She had begged and begged the doctors not to do a Caesarean section, because if they cut her open, they might mess up her, ahem, special "troll parts". Not to mention the whole "not human" thing in general.

Karkat hated seeing his matesprit in so much pain. After a maximum dosage of pain medication plus the epidural, she still was crying out in pain quite often. She had even requested some ice to chew on and a hot towel, which had yet to be brought to their room. He couldn't do anything but hold Terezi's hand and tell her everything was going to be okay.

"Mrs. Vantas?" A nurse knocked on the door before opening it. "I have your ice right here; unfortunately, I can't bring the towel until you're dilated a bit more."

"Okay." Terezi groaned as she took the ice from the nurse.

"I also need to check you…" Terezi nodded before the nurse sat down on the stool at the foot of the bed. "It looks like you're about…six centimeters. Four more until you can push!"

Terezi sighed with relief, looking up at Karkat. "Thank you," she managed to get out before she was overcome with a wave of pain.

"Terezi…?" Karkat immediately grabbed his wife's hand as her head hit the pillow. "Terezi, babe, are you okay…?"

The nurse gasped. "Mrs. Vantas?" she exclaimed.

Terezi continued to lie there, totally unresponsive.

"Is she okay?!" Karkat shot a piercing look at the nurse, who began to back away uncomfortably.

"W-well…" The nurse broke eye contact with the male troll and scratched her neck. "It's…not particularly common nowadays, but…it IS possible for a woman to pass out during labor…"

"But will she be okay?!" The mutant-blooded troll slammed his hands down on the hospital bed, jumping a bit when it shook so hard.

The nurse nodded before exiting the room much quicker than she had entered.

"Terezi…" Karkat softly chucked as he sat down on the edge of the bed, taking his wife's hand in his. "Why do you have to make things so difficult every time you end up in the hospital?"

Suddenly, he heard a small moan from the other end of the bed. Terezi slowly reached up and rubbed her eyes.

Karkat's eyes lit up and he squeezed her hand. "Terezi, babe? Are you okay?"

"I'm not weak, dumbass." She grabbed her stomach with one hand and punched Karkat's shoulder.

"Ow!" he exclaimed, his hand immediately flying to rub his shoulder. "What was that for?"

"For being such a fucking idiot and knocking me up in the first place." Terezi sniffed and wiped her eyes. "Karkat, I don't want to have any more kids if it's going to hurt this badly!" She grabbed her enlarged stomach as she cried out in pain. "I don't even know how Vriska did it! It feels like someone is stabbing me repetitively and there's nothing I can do about it!"

Karkat sighed. "Babe…" He hesitated. "Everything is going to be okay. You can do this. I trust you."

-8:30 pm-

The minutes continued to tick by, and the "contractions" only continued to get worse. Fortunately, Terezi had dilated to ten centimeters rather quickly (within five hours), so she was just about ready to push.

It was a miserable fifteen minutes. Along with the doctor, more nurses than needed were waiting to assist Terezi whenever she needed it. A small crowd had gathered outside of their room, beckoned by the intense screaming and cursing coming from inside.

"C'mon, Terezi," Karkat coaxed, squeezing his wife's hand as he looked on, waiting for the egg to pop out of her. "You can do it; you're almost done."

"No I can't, fuckass!" She let out a scream of excruciating pain as a contraction forced her to push.

"Okay, Mrs. Vantas." The doctor looked directly at Terezi in all seriousness. "I need one big, strong push, and then I think I'll be able to pull it out, alright?"

Terezi nodded, but was still unsure. Either way, she knew she had to get the egg out somehow.

"Are you ready?" Terezi nodded again. "Okay, push!"

The teal-blood let out a final scream and finally pushed the highly anticipated egg out. Panting and exhausted, she attempted to sit up and get a look at what would soon be her child.

"No wonder it took such a long time to get out!" The doctor tried to crack a joke, but Karkat and Terezi weren't very amused. "It's a…I don't really know what this is…!"

She held it up for the new parents to see. Karkat and Terezi looked at each other before nodding at the doctor to clean it off. There wasn't much to clean off; it was an egg, after all. All it needed was a good wiping, but otherwise there was nothing.

Terezi gasped when she finally received the egg, now cleaned off and wrapped in a fluffy yellow blanket. It was about the size of a newborn human baby, slightly wider (of course it was hard to push out). Although she couldn't really see it, it was still beautiful to her—it was hers.

Karkat smiled as he peeked over the edge to get a look at what would turn into his kid. He could see the outline of a still-developing grub through the translucent membrane. While the physical features of it couldn't specifically be pointed out, by God, did it have a lot of hair!

"Do you maybe want to start thinking about names…?" he whispered to Terezi, running his fingers down the side of her hot, teal-tinted cheeks.

Terezi smiled, looking up at Karkat. "It's a girl, so I think it should be easy."

"How do you know it's a girl?"

"I can smell her, dummy!" Terezi laughed before nuzzling her face against Karkat's shoulder.

"Well, what should we name our daughter, then?" Karkat had smiled a smile as large as he had when he and Terezi got married.

"Ka—" Terezi was about to say something, but thought for a moment. "—trina!"

"What?"

"Katrina! We should name her Katrina!"

Karkat chuckled softly and stroked the newly laid egg's membrane. "Katrina. I like that. Katrina Teresa Vantas."

I think that took me much longer than it should have but whatever, I finally finished it.

I REALLY need ideas, guys! I don't want to be mean about it or anything but I literally have nowhere for this story to go. They don't even have to be detailed ideas! Any are appreciated!

homestuckTroll – I kind of like the idea of a new character popping up in the story. And it gives lots of places for strong emotions.

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