a\n: God bless and enjoy. please review and leave any ideas...
A rash....a rash all over her stomach and pelvis.....lower and lower....it burned....it itched.....it didn't matter.
Molly held Arthur's hand tight as he snored...she hadn't been able to sleep at all. She wished selfishly he would wake so they could tlak, but other moments she was content to just look at him, and relish in being able to stroke his forehead..and chest and abdomen...all the while holding his hand as he slept peacefully, unaware, for those few hours, of the world outside of him.
"Love," Molly whisperered quietly. "I need you....I'd do anything for you." she said, looking down on him, as his chest rose and fell....she loved him so much...and the disease she had contracted wouldn't take that away.
As she saw him struggle with a quick breath, then again, begin to flow with it easily, she was brought back to a time where she was the one doing the same thing...the time their first son was born to the world....to them. As Arthur dreamed, they both though of something along these lines....
"Push Molly.....just push..just...nothing else matters....squeeze my hand!" Arthur yelled, trying to encourage her, as she was beginning to give up...it had been 12 hours of labor and the strength and excitement she had posessed was long gone.
""I'm trying....love...I'm trying...its just...just....ahh..its just too....hard.....ahhhh." She threw her head down to her knees as she looked down at her stomach. Her fist clenched around Arthur's and the other hand on her side railing. Her teeth held tight together in agony. Brows:furrowed in concentration.
"Molly...your almost there." As she felt the baby's head come out she gasped, her breath hitching in her throat as she struggled with the feeling, then she again relaxed with her breathing and kept pushing.
"Molly, Love...one more...one more...please...keep going...one more time." Arthur whispered in her ear as he held her close, and a split second later, their child was born.
Molly continued to stare down at her husband, then she broked the silence that fell between herself and the sleeping man.
"Arthur...Love, we;ve been through a lot together...and we can still make it just...give me one more time."