Chapter 4
Prue's new pregnancy and death.
The day was beautiful, the birds were singing and the sun washed down the paddocks of Drovers Run. Prue was horse riding Shadow, her favorite horse while Claire was in the kitchen with Meg.
Meg was making Claire's breakfast. "Claire what would you like, beside corn bread?" Meg asked her. "I would like cheese with corn bread, please!" Claire said. At that moment Prue entered and while she greeted Meg, Claire run towards her and then she gave her daughter a big hug and a kiss. "What are we having for breakfast this morning Claire?" asked Prue. "Don't tell me it is corn bread again" she continued. "Mummy but we will have some cheese with it! You know that is daddy's favorite!" she wanted to please her father. "But we don't have to eat it everyday Claire" Prue said to her daughter. "There is no arguing with her, she will have her ways" said Meg and laughed.
Jack came in, he said hello and asked what is for breakfast. "Don't worry dear it is your favorite! Claire's orders." Prue said and both she and Meg laughed.
After they finished the breakfast Claire went outside and she asked Prue if she could ride her horse but Prue told her that she was too little to ride him and when she saw how said Claire was she said "You could give him some carrot for treats because he has been very well at his lessons today. Wouldn't that be great?" Claire's eyes lightened from joy. She always loved to watch her mother training the horses. And she would be in her father's arms while he stood next to the fence. And now she is going to give her mother's horse some treats. She was so happy like she was given the most valuable gift.
Meg picked up some carrots from her veggie garden and she washed them and than gave them to Claire. And then she ran towards Jack who was unloading some supplies for the shearing sheds from the truck and said: "Daddy, come with mummy and me to see what I am going to do!"
"What is she up to now?" asked Jack in wonder. "You'll see!" smiled Prue to her husband.
They entered the stables and Claire got her hands up towards her father because she wanted to be picked up in his arms. Jack gently picked her and then she shows him the carrots and says. "Shadow is been a good horse and mum said that I can give him some carrots. He likes carrots, see?" and then she opens her palm and puts it out towards the Shadow's mouth. And then the horse opened widely his mouth and picked up the treats from the little hand that Claire was stretching so she could come closer to the horse. Prue stood there and watched her daughter in her husband's arms and she just melted from love she felt for the two dearest persons in her life. Claire giggled and said to Prue "Shadow tickled and kissed my hand mummy!" Prue smiled to Clare and asked "Was he?" and while she said that she felt dizzy and than she fainted.
Jack put Claire on the ground and kneeled towards Prue and he called her name. He said to Claire to go get Meg. She was still unconscious. And after few seconds she came around. "Ya all right, Prue? You scared me?" said Jack with worried tone of voice. "Am all right, I don't know what came over me. One minute I was watching you two and the next I am on the ground" she said. "I am calling the doctor right now!" said Jack.
The doctor came out of the bedroom and said to Jack: "There is nothing serious she is just simply going to give your little girl a baby brother or a sister. Congratulations Jack you're about to become father once again!"
"Oh, thank you for easing my worries" said Jack with relieve and continued "I felt scared for her, I didn't know what was going on she just fell down."
"The pressure had stabilized and now all she has to do is to take it easy and she mustn't ride horses for a long period of time." said the doctor to Jack and he gave him some medications for Prue.
The time had passed by and Prue was preparing for arrival of her baby. She was considering what name she would give to her baby and she was reading the book of children's names that she got as a present from Meg.
"I have chosen few names for the baby and I wanted to see what you think about them?" said Prue to Jack and continued: "If it is a girl I think that Amy, Emily and Rose are all nice names but I would go with Emily. I like it a lot.
"I like Emily too, and what do you think about Adam for a boy? he said. "Adam is wonderful name. So it is either Adam or Emily! All we have to do now is wait and see." They smiled.
It was in the middle of the night when Prue felt hard pain and she knew that it is time for baby to be born. She woke Jack and asked him to call the doctor because she was having the contractions. Jack run down to the hallway and rang the doctor and asked him to come immediately. And when he come back to the bedroom he saw Prue washed in sweat and she was trying to breathe properly and he than grabbed her hand and told her that the doctor and the nurse are on their way to Drovers. The pain was getting harder every five minutes. Jack was worried and he wouldn't want Prue to see how much he really was so he pretended that everything is going to be fine once doctor comes but she knew that something isn't right.
When the doctor came and he measured Prue's blood pressure and it was very high and it was treating her life. He told Jack that the baby and Prue are in danger and that they have to deliver the baby right now or Prue and even both of them will die.
Delivery was going on for hours and Jack was out of his mind of worry. Every now and then the nurse would come out and say that they are trying the best that they can but baby is positioned in the wrong way and they are having trouble and that it is going to take some time to see if the baby will go back in the right position or the doctor will have to make a section and deliver the baby that way. In a while Jack was called to come in and to see his wife and baby boy. Doctor told him that the baby was out of oxygen for a long time and that they were trying to make him breath on its own. Prue held her little tiny boy that was placed in her arms and the baby stood still. He died in his mother arms. She then fainted and doctor measured her blood pressure again and the readings were now very low. She was loosing her blood fast, her body was weakening and she was getting in and out of consciousness. She called out her husbands name and she said to him: "We will never have enough time for our dreams. Take good care of Claire she is going to need you now more than ever." She looked him and asked: "Did I tell you that I love you today?" with that she smiled and closed her eyes. Her heart had stopped.
NEVER ENOUGH
There was never time enough
I can't breath
It's too hard to think of love
I can't breath, I can't breath
Can't let my words betray
I won't talk, I won't talk
Words will never be the way
I won't talk, won't talk
Many fears, many dreams
Many roads out there
Hide the pain behind the smile
Behind the tears
You burn like fire
Burn like ice
Your heart tears, your heart tears
You be strong and hold it in
But your heart still cares
Many fears and many dreams
Many roads out there
Hide the pain behind the smile
Till there are no more tears
Many fears and many dreams
Many roads out there
Hide the pain behind the smile
Till there are no more tears
There was never time enough
I can't breath
It's too hard to think of love
I can't breath, I can't breath
Many fears and many dreams
Many roads out there
Hide the pain behind the smile
Till there are no more tears
Many fears and many dreams
Many roads out there
Hide the pain behind the smile
Till there are no more tears
There was never time enough...
Lyrics By: Posie Graeme-Evans Music By: Chris Harriott
Vocals By: Rebecca Lavelle
The funeral was held upon the Drovers hills. Prue's coffin was placed in the ground and next to it there was this little white coffin of her baby. And on the tomb stone read "In Loving Memory" Prudence Claire McLeod 1950-1975 "LOVING WIFE & MOTHER", and on the other "In Loving Memory" Adam John McLeod. 1975 IN GOD'S CARE.