Prompt: Exhausted

Summary: Liz is in her third trimester of her pregnant of her first born child and wonders how any woman survives the first child as she so tired and cranky all the time. Klaus is taking fatherhood very seriously XD LOL

"Professor Hart? Can we help you?" asked a few of her student as she "waddled" back to her office with a pile of books, she wasn't supposed to be carrying.

She just handed them the books and waved them behind her.

After delivering her books to her office they took off for lunch, and Liz sank into her chair, probably not getting up again.

"Shayne" kicked her hard in the stomach and she winced slightly before lightly tapping her stomach in retaliation.

"Mister, don't make me mad before you even get out here, your time in there is almost up" she chuckled to herself as he seemed to calm down.

The door burst open and Klaus swept inside before heading towards her chair.

"Some student's just informed me that you were carrying books' again love. You know this is bad for Shayne at this point in the trimester" he lectured her, head bent down listening for movements.

"You just missed him kicking me in the gut again, he's fine go away Mr. Overprotective" whined Liz turning towards her pile of unmarked papers.

Klaus clung on and glared at her.

"That's my son as well, Mrs. Goldstein." he reminded her.

"I love you but seriously your super clingy, it's just a baby" she rolled her eyes at him.

They said women got weird during a pregnancy, they were wrong the men went a bit weird.

"Well you're close to your due date, I don't particularly want you having him in class" Klaus muttered more to himself.

Liz glared at him for that remark.

"I won't even be here for that to happen. My last day of work is today and it may as well be now cause, Prefect Kaylee is taking over my classes." she argued back.

"If that's the case, let's get you back to the estate pronto" Klaus said gathering her stuff together for departure.

"Can't I at least grade these?" Liz asked holding the papers out.

"No, the Prefect's can handle that work. Please? For me will you come home already before I worry more" he pleaded with her.

Liz sighed at her losing battle before grabbing her jacket and allowing Klaus to escort her home.

On their way out a bunch of staff and students wished her best wishes and an easy delivery. Normally that probably wouldn't have bothered her but it made her grumble and bit back her remarks that they should try it first before wishing her that.

Baby Shayne kicked happily as her mood went from calm to annoyed. She silently grabbed Klaus's hand and rested it on the top portion where she felt the most pressure. He smiled in amazement and began to rub at her stomach for more kicks.

He may have been an overprotective prude throughout this whole thing but he was going to be a great father, she could tell.

They arrived safely at home and to her surprise, his mother was present.

"Welcome home dears, Klaus it will be fine. You can head back to the academy" she instructed waving him away.

You could tell he was hesitating but in the end obeyed his mother. Once he was gone, she sat on the couch and breathed a sigh of relief.

Liz joined her puzzled at what just occurred.

"Let me guess, he's being super clingy and overprotective especially in the past three months?" the older one asked.

"Precisely" Liz responded.

"He's just like his father when I was having Alfonse, unfortunately it seems to get worse the more children you have, by the time Elias was almost here I literally had to send Walter away for a weekend, he was too overbearing for me to relax, which put Elias at risk with my stress" she explained.

Liz was surprised… and grateful for her intervention, Klaus was getting on her last nerve. Well she hoped that he wouldn't mind only two kids because if she had to go through this again, she might have to kill him… two seemed like the perfect number.

Liz got up and made her way to the kitchen too prepare tea for her guest but Klaus's mother beat her to it and forced her to relax. She was officially on "rest" time as everyone was going to cater to her. She was two weeks to her due date and she was not going to deliver early.

This was going to be the most interesting two weeks of her life.

She got settled into bed with some books and a food tray for meals and her tea breaks. She mostly had the house to herself unless you counted that someone dropped in about every two hours on Klaus's orders.

A week later Liz grew bored and wanted to sneak downstairs but she wasn't feeling up for facing Klaus's wrath… it didn't scare her anymore like back in the their academy days. He was such a child underneath his facade. If she remembered correctly it was Luca's day to come and check up on her.

The clock chimed 10 am and Luca didn't appear… Hmm that was weird. As she wondered if something may have happened to him, she felt a sharp jab unlike the usual discomfort… and grew a bit nervous, didn't the midwife tell her that labor pains felt didn't then movements and kicks from the child?

It was two hours later when Elias showed up to check on her that he found her in the kitchen kneeled over moaning in pain.

"Liz! Oh my gosh… what happened?" he asked trying to stay calm.

"I started getting pains two hours ago and just now my water broke…. Elias I need Klaus right away but I can't even charm paper… please…" she gritted sharply falling limply against him.

Klaus was in the middle of a lecture when the headmaster interrupted his lecture with the wonderful news that Liz was in labor and he was needed elsewhere before letting him dash prepped to take over his class. Klaus slammed his notes on the podium and ran out the door.

The students were left in awe as it was super rare anyone got to see Professor Klaus lose his cool like that and flustered.

On his way, he grabbed Alfonse who was headed that ways as well.

"How is she?" he asked almost breathless

"I'm not sure… the midwife is already on scene along with mother and father, Elias found her in rough shape in the kitchen when he sent word for help" Alfonse rushed through his words.

Klaus grimaced and rushed on faster.

They arrived at the house and found Walter and Elias in the living room waiting for news, Elias looked pale and worn out as Walter tried to console him. Screams came from above and Klaus and Alfonse rushed up the stairs.

Shayne Goldstein was born at 3 pm in the afternoon that day and he and Liz were fine. Klaus's hand got broken though when Liz accidentally squashed it with accidental magic while she was in pain. Alfonse patched him up though.

Once Liz rested up a bit and could stay awake, she admired her husband "cart" Shayne around protectively and hardly anyone got to hold him, besides his mother. This would be a precious memory to share in the future of their little family.

~fin