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"Are you sure you want to Joust?" he asked her, for the hundredth time it seemed.
She rolled her eyes at her husband. "Yes, and don't worry I'll be careful! And we will announce it tonight! Is that fine?"
He smiled as he softly kissed her "Well, you were pretty sick this morning"
"I'll be fine! It was just morning sickness! See I'm perfectly fine now"
She was jousting against a newly knighted knight. It would be an easy joust. Mithros she had unhorsed Lord WYldon and Raoul was now refusing to joust against her, because 'it would hurt my ego' was what he said.
She climbed up on Peachblossom and adjusted her shield. As usual the crowd of fans was in the stands. As the trumpet sounded she went down the lane and aimed her lance at her opponents shield. Of course she was very surprised when she then got a beautiful view of the sky. She tucked and roll as she had been shown how to do baffled by the fact that she had been unhorsed.
Dom rushed to her side "Are you ok?" he asked worried.
She looked at him and answered "No" as she turned her head to be sick again. Neal, seeing Kel vomit on the field, ran over to see what was wrong.
When Kel saw her best friends glowing hand she pushed it aside. "Kel let me check you"
"I know what is wrong" she said.
"Well then I can heal that" he replied, clearly annoyed.
"No I don't think you can" she replied.
He rolled his eyes. Why was she always so stoic? "What is it?"
"I'm pregnant" she said.
"Come again"
"I'm pregnant"
Neal just stared at her "You and Dom... are... having... a baby?" he asked.
"Yes" replied Dom, rolling his eyes.
"Watch out Dom, it looks like he's about to faint" said Kel.
"I do not faint" he replied hotly.
"What about last month? When Kel unhorsed Lord Wyldon?" asked Dom.
"That was completely different" said Neal. "Kel? I have a question for you"
"Yes?" she replied, wary.
"WHY IN MITHROS NAME WERE YOU JOUSTING IF YOU KNEW YOU WERE PREGNANT?!?!" he yelled.
A shocked silence filled the air. "I realized it yesterday" she answered "And there was no time to retire from the list, and since I'm about one month pregnant I didn't think it would be too bad"
"You are pregnant?" asked Raoul coming up behind Neal. Kel nodded mutely. He patted Dom's shoulder. "I should warn you, George was on the brisk of running away from Alanna when she was pregnant. Mood swings, morning sickness, food cravings, the weird urge she had to poke him with her sword because he was 'overprotective'. All lovely side of pregnancy. But otherwise, congratulations guys"
"Mom?"
"Yes Tobe?" replied Kel.
"When my new little sister comes along, will you still love me and be my mother?" he asked.
"Yes" she replied. "Of course I'll always love you Tobe, you are my son and always will be"
"Tobe?" said Dom, as he entered their tent "Me and Kel have been talking, we are now the baron and baroness of New Hope, and will eventually be the lord and lady of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak" Tobe nodded "So we figured that you, and only you, shall inherit New Hope, since it is your home"
Tobe looked at Dom "Really?" he asked, wobbly.
'Really" replied Kel.
Tobe threw his arms around Dom's middle. Laughing Kel went and joined them, wrapping one arm around Tobe's shoulder and the other around Dom's waist.
"Tobe?" she asked after a while.
"Yes?'
"Why did you say your new little sister?" she asked "Maybe it'll be a boy" she said.
'No" he replied "Irnai said it'd be a girl"
Kel rubbed her stomach absently "A little girl" she whispered with a smiled.
For the two next months, nothing really changed. Except the fact that she wasn't allowed to joust. But she still managed to force her way and lead Third company to be the relief force for a town that had burnt. She had barely managed to convince Neal. So the moment he had agreed she had packed her stuff and left as quickly as possible hoping that he wouldn't change his mind before she left.
The stayed at Fenlith for two months, repairing the damage. Of course she was starting to show a slight bump and Dom loved to rub his hand along her stomach. When they slept, he would press her back to his chest and gently rub the small bump protruding from her belly.
The men also started to notice her bump and they loved to rub it. They also indulged Kel with whatever she wanted. And she had some cravings. Ice cream, pickles, oranges, rice. Pretty much anything. Dom had his hand on her belly, as usual, when the baby made her presence known for the first time.
"Was that..." he asked.
"The baby kicking?" she finished for him "Yes"
Of course the men scrambled around her. They were all talking excitedly about the baby. Wolset approached her gently and touched her stomach to feel the second kick that came. He grinned. "She'll be a strong one!" he said.
Everyone laughed at that. "She will be so spoiled" said Kel to Dom quietly.
Dom looking at the men of the King's Own couldn't help but agree. Apparently all it took to turn the brave and undefeatable men of Third Company to turn them to softies was a little baby. Listening to their conversation he realized, not any babies. Kel's babies.
His and Kel's kids would always, in the mind of the men of the King's Own, be the King's Own's babies. He knew that his children would have a hundred uncles and that the men would love them unconditionally because they were Kel's. And Kel and himself belonged to the King's Own. He smiled as he drifted to sleep, wrapped around his wife, feeling once again his unborn daughter kick.
When they returned to the Palace for Midwinter Kel was about seven months pregnant. She was clearly pregnant, having what felt like a watermelon sticking out of her stomach.
Raoul, when he glimpsed his ex-squire figure, jumped up from his chair to rush over and ask if the baby kicked.
'All the time!" replied Kel. She took his hand and guided it to her stomach where he felt a hard kick. He grinned at Kel.
Just then Neal, Yuki and Kely walked in. Kely, it appeared, had learned how to walk. She rushed over to Kel and lifted her arm. "Auntie Kel!"
Dom took the squirming child from Kel and told the little one "Soon you'll have a little cousin!"
"I just hope they don't become like their fathers" said Yuki quietly. "Guess what Kel"
"What?" replied Kel.
"I'm having a second child"
"Congratulation!" replied Kel.
Kel was actually quite surprised by how much the pregnancy didn't bother her. She disliked the fact that she couldn't train, but she didn't hate it. It felt like she was in vacation. She especially loved all the attention she was getting from Dom. She realized the pregnancy had fallen at exactly the right time, with no war to fights and not to many immortals. And she was happy to have a child with Dom. She just couldn't wait to have the baby.
She smiled softly at Dom. "You know I love you more than anything?" she asked.
He smiled "I know, and I love you just as much!"
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