The ball carried on after that with everyone leaving. Everyone greeted me goodnight with happy expressions. By the end of night I had found the my wings could go back into my skin and come out at will. My tail on the other hand was harder to hide. By the end of the night I just curled it up and hide it under the folds of my dress. Claude was having a rough time not kissing me. Alois on the other hand was loving the fact that I could fly him up to the balcony.
After the ball each triplet tried to pamper me. Timber cooked a gourmet dinner for me, Thompson ran a herds bath for me, and Canterbury kept acting like my personal butler. There efforts made me chuckle. That night after reading to Alois another chapter of spiderella, Claude took me to bed. We had recently turn the room that was my room into our bedroom. Since Claude spent more time in my then he we just moved his things over to mine. Claude held me from behind and scooped me into his arms. He carried me to bed and began kissing my neck passionately. He kissed me nose and said, "Now I don't have a soul for you tonight, but I do have a surprise for you."
"Claude you're getting too rough with me." I said as he ripped my clothes off and accidentally pulled my tail. I let out a yelp and he rolled us over so I was on the bottom. He began running his hand down my leg and a sharp pain ran through my stomach. I slapped Claude and said, "Claude. The baby. The baby."
"What about the baby?" Claude was immediately off of me and had pure worry in his eyes. I let out a scream before I could answer Claude. I gave him a look as if to say "the baby is coming" and screamed. I'm pretty sure I awoke the whole house for Alois was in my room in a matter of seconds. Claude grabbed a hold of me and put his coat around my naked body. He grabbed my hands and began talking to me softly, "What are you feeling Abigail? Speak to me."
I took my hands back and pulled him by the collar. "Pain," was all I said as my wings broke through the back of Claude's coat and my eyes flared with fiery pain. I felt as if my ovaries were going to explode. Claude moved into position to catch the baby while Alois ran from the room. Timber held my left arm, Canterbury had my right, and Thompson secured my back so I could push the child out. "CLAUDE!" Was the only warning I could give before the child left my body.
"Um. Honey?"Claude said in a very confused tone. I couldn't see his face but i knew there was something wrong. I sat up the best I could with the triplets help to see Claude holding a very bloody egg. Not a baby, but an egg. Why was my baby an egg? "I think being a succubus affected the baby a bit."
"I am not sitting on our child until it hatches." I pointed out plainly. Claude chuckled and Alois poked his head back into the room. I ushered him into the room and he sat on the bed. I felt the room and put on a new nightgown. When I got back Thompson had a wet cloth and was going to clean the blood off my egg. Before I knew what was going on I pounced on him leaving Claude with the child. I had extended long claws from my fingernails and held them inches away from Thompson's neck. I told him in a rather grisly voice, "Don't touch my baby."
"Abigail. Calm down." Claude put a hand on my shoulder. I turned to him and growled. Once it kicked it that it was just Claude my fingernails went back to normal and I apologized to Thompson.
"I'm sorry." I held my head as I spoke, "I don't know what came over me."
"Motherly instincts." Claude kissed my head and handed me a clean black egg. Our little black egg. I don't know why but it felt like I was holding the most beautiful thing in the world in my hands. I crawled the egg as if it were a baby and sat on my bed with Alois.
"Mother?" Alois cooed as he pulled my selve. He then pointed at the egg and questioned, "Will the baby be born looking like a bird? Please don't be mad." He covered his face as if I was going to snap.
"I'm not sure Alois." I answered and ran a hand through his golden hair. I hope my baby didn't turn out looking like a bird. I hopped my baby would look like a normal baby. I turned to Alois and kissed his forehead. "Want me to read you asleep again?"
"No I'm fine." He gave me a childish hug at the waist. "But Claude? Could you walk me back to my room? The halls are really dark."
"Of course your highness." With that everyone left the room and I was left alone. Alone with my baby of course. I laid down in bed holding the egg. How would the baby hatch? How long until it would hatch? So many things ran through my head. I must have been lost in thought because Claude nearly scared me to death when he came back into our room. He shut the door behind himself and said, "I don't know about you, but the whole birthing of an egg ruined the mood for me." I chuckled and ran finger through his hair as he climbed into bed. I hadn't noticed but he was carrying a large bowl with blankets in it. He held it out for me and I placed the baby in the bowl. Claude wrapped the egg in blankets so it would be warm and set in on the nightstand. I pulled his arm and said, "what if the baby makes the egg toss and turn, the bowl falls off the table, and kill the baby?" Claude smiled and moved the baby to the floor before turning into he demon form. He then jumped to the ceiling and began weaving large amounts of spiders webs until it made a small hammock just a foot or so above the ground. He quickly changed back and took our egg and set it in its little bed. He came back to bed with me and waited for my approval. "I think it's fitting."
Claude slowly began rocked the egg back and forth gently as if it were a crying baby. It was sweet to see him so excited for a baby. He was really going to be a great father.