Titled: Nine Months
Author: drunk on moonshine
Genre: Romance/Family
Rated: T, for suggested themes, mild language
Characters: Tamina, Dastan (and a handful of others)

Summary: A collection of drabbles following Dastan and Tamina's first pregnancy.
Expected Number of Chapters: 10

Author's Note: This collection's coming to a close! Prepare for happiness and tears.

Disclaimer: I do not own Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Characters are simply borrowed and live in my mind.


Beats. (300 words)

It was nearing ten in the evening when she first felt it. Tamina was just settling into bed, waiting for her husband to come to bed. After a shirtless Dastan had walked out from behind the changing sheet, something within her had begun to move.

"D-D-Dastan!" she stammered, shocked at the strange feeling. She stared at her belly in wonder.

"Yes, Princess?" he answered, climbing into bed next to her.

At a loss of words, Tamina had grabbed his hand and laid it on the cantaloupe-sized bump on her lower abdomen. There was nothing for a moment. Growing frustrated at the lack of movement, she was going to call it a false alarm, but it moved once more.

With his hand still placed on his wife's stomach, Dastan stared at the spot in surprise and wonder. Something had just nudged his hand from within Tamina's abdomen.

"I-I-Is that...?" he asked, looking at her belly in disbelief.

"Yes, Dastan," Tamina beamed, "that's our child."

His surprised expression slowly turned to one of happiness, and he waited a moment more to feel that tiny kick once again.

"The babe knows we are here, darling," Tamina smiled, tears streaming down her face, as the fetus began to dance in the womb.

He was at a loss of words, too overcome with joy to say something. Dastan lifted the princess' bed shirt up to place a light kiss on her abdomen. Just as he was about to pull away, he could have sworn he heard a light thud, thud, thud.

His heart raced in his chest as he rested his head on her stomach.

"Dastan—" Tamina began, words laced with confusion.

He lightly shifted her, listening for a sound within.

Thud, thud, thud...

"Its heartbeat..." he whispered, a wide smile displayed on his face.


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