All her ladies are sitting with her in Kennas chambers. They are wondering about Marys child. What will he look like, what kind of a king he'll become once the time comes, names etc. Mary is now 8months and 9days pregnant and her belly is huge. Catherine and Nostradamus both told her not to walk around much but she can't just stay in her own chambers all the time. And Kennas chambers are close to hers and there aren't even any stair between their rooms so that's why they gathered there
Francis has been really supportive these last weeks since the pregnancy has been extremely hard on her. He still has much work to do to keep the privy council and all the lords busy so no one notices King Henry's illness. The man has started to forgot a bunch of stuff now. It's not rare for him to try to leave his chambers without trousers and for that Catherine has ordered his guards to make sure that he's fully dressed if he tries to leave his chambers.
"but what if the baby has Marys eyes, wouldn't that be cute?" Kenna asks
"Okay imagine, it's a boy with his blonde curls and with Marys big brown eyes" Aylee says, she's really exited about the baby, she is probably the most excited one out of Marys ladies but even she can't top Catherine, the French Queen can't stop talking about the baby of course since the baby is Francis' child and Francis is Catherines golden child and everyone knows that
"Hey I don't care who's eyes or hair he'll have, no matter what I'll love him anyways" Mary says, she's getting pretty tired by everyone wondering what he'll look like.
"I know, we are just excited to meet him" Greer says while slightly rubbing Marys back, Mary has gotten some small gramps and back pains in the recent days.
"I'm really scared of giving birth, what if something goes wrong?" Mary sighs
"Hey it will be fine, your strong you can do it" Lola gives her an assuring smile. Mary smiles a sad smile back at her before she feels a sharp kick and she inhales sharply while placing one of her hands on her abdomen.
"Is he kicking?" Aylee asks as she places both of her hands on her abdomen trying to feel the babys kicks Mary just nods eyes closed focusing on breathing deep breaths.
"Are you okay?" Kenna asks when she realises that the uncomfortable look on Marys face doesn't leave. Mary just shakes her head for an answer. "Do- do you want me to go get Francis?"
"no" she breathes in sharply again "he has more important things to do than just fuzz over the baby kicking"
"Mary-" Lola tries.
"no don't, I'm fine" she says trying to sound assuring but the words come out as a whine. The ladies just look at each other confused.
"No I'm going to go find him" Kenna says and stands up, she has seen her friends baby kicking and usually it doesn't last that long and Kenna thought that Mary might be getting gramps and not kicks. Mary doesn't answer anything while Kenna runs out of the room.
"Mary are you sure you are okay?" Lola asks as she sits next to her on the bed.
"It hurts" another sharp inhale "it hurts a lot"
"Should we go get Catherine or Nostradamus?" Aylee asks worried.
"No, I'm fine, it'll pass soon" Mary groans.
"what if you are going into labour" Aylee says and Mary doesn't answer. "Wait here" Aylee says as she stands up. Mary stays there with Greer who's still rubbing her back gently and Lola who sits next to her looking scared.
"Mary, are you okay?" her worried husband says as he runs into the room Kenna behind him. Lola moves and Francis takes her place next to Mary. Mary just shakes her head trying to fight back wornds now.
"Mary I think your water broke" Lola says suddenly looking at the edge of Marys dress that is now wet.
"I'm scared, I'm not ready, I don't want to" Mary starts to ramble. As she holds on to Francis' arm like a last lifeline.
"Darling, listen, you can do this, don't worry" he assures his wife while he wipes her tears from her cheeks.
"What if I can't?" Mary snaps and inhales sharply.
"You are strong, you can do this" Francis says as he strokes her hair slightly. It doesn't take long till Catherine, Nostradamus and Aylee storm into the room.
"What's going on?" Catherine asks as she basically runs into the room.
"I- I think she's going into labour" Lola says. Nostradamus starts to ask questions about where she feels the pain etc and then he tells Aylee to go fetch the midwife and other supplies.
"I'm sorry Kenna, she's gonna have to give birth here we can't risk moving her to another chamber now" Nostradamus tells the worried lady.
It doesn't take long for Aylee to get the midwife and then the midwife and Francis help Mary out of her dress and into one of her nightgowns so it's more comfortable. Mary is now laying against the pillows on Kennas bed, Francis is holding onto her hands while she cries in pain. Catherine is pacing back and forth while Marys ladies are sitting on the other side of the bed.
It has been now around five hours of just pain, screaming and crying. The severe pressure she feels just seems to be growing but still nothing is happening, no child has born and the midwife told them that it might take sometime before she can even start to push and until then she just has to try and stay conscious. Nostradamus gave her some weird tasting tea that was supposed to help with the pain but it hasn't.
"Okay your majesty, when the next wave of pain comes, I need you to push" the midwife tells her and she nods while squeezing on to Francis' hand. The wave of pain comes and she pushes as hard as she can but she feels like the more she pushes the more it hurts. She tries to push a couole more times before she feels like she's gonna faint.
"I- I can't" she cries.
"Yes you can Mary" her husband assures her while stroking her sweaty hair off of her forehead and gives her a quick kiss on the cheek. "You are so strong, you can do this"
"but it hurts, it hurts so much" she whines.
"I know it hurts but the harder you push the sooner it will be over" the midwife tells her. And so she tries, she tries her hardest. "She's loosing too much blood" the midwife says as she throws another blood drenched washcloth away and takes another clean one. Mary can barely hear what the midwifes saying, her ears are ringing and sgecan barely see through her tears.
"Mary, darling, we need you to push a couple more times really hard okay? Then it will be over" Francis says to her trying to remain calm but she can see that he's scared.
"If you need to choose, if it comes to it, then save the baby not me okay" she groans "Promise me you will do anything to save him, not me" she cries. She pushes as hard as she can but suddenly out of nowhere she feels herself drift away everything becomes light and she can't hear the ringing in her ears anymore or much anything else, the pain is gone. She feels like she's just floating calmly. Everything seems so peaceful she has nothing on her mind she can't even remember where she was before the calmness hit her. Where was she? She remembers and just like that she feels herself breath in deeply as if she wokeup from death. All the pain is back, the ringing, everything.
"Jesus Mary, you scared me, I- we though we lost you" she sees her husband cry next to her, did she die for a moment there? Did her heart actually stop beating? She doesn't have time to think about that she just feels the need of push and so she does.
Her screams probably fill the whole castle before they are replaced with a cry. A new born babys cry.
"You have a daughter your Majesties" the midwife tells them. She hands the small thing wrapped in a cloth to Francis and Mary watches as his whole face lights up.
"oh Mary, she's prefect" he tells her as he gives the child to Mary, her eyes fill with tears of happiness as she gets to hold her. She's such a gorgeous small thing, she seems to have light hair like Francis' and also blue big eyes. The scenario couldn't be more perfect until Mary feels another wave of pain and an urgency to push and she inhales sharply.
"Your Majesty, I think you might be having twins" the midwife tells her when she sees how Mary acts. Mary quickly gives the baby back to Francis and then she's back to pushing and screaming. This one doesn't take as long at all and it barely takes more than minutes before the room is filled with another babys cries. "Another girl, your Majesties" the midwife tells them.
"I can't believe it" Mary says as she sits up against the pillows and both babies are given to her. The first one, light hair, big blue eyes and the second one also seems to have light hair but big brown eyes "you are so perfect" Mary says as she cries the tears of happiness.
"I love you so much" Francis says as she gives his wife a kiss "I couldn't be more blessed"
"excuse me your Majesty, I must go find the wet nurse, you must rest you lost much blood tonight" the midwife tells them as she stands up.
"No" Mary says shaking her head.
"What do you mean no, my love, you must be exhausted" Francis asks.
"I'm not gonna have another woman nursing my children" she says as she glares at the midwife for even suggesting so.
"Mary-" Catherine tries
"No, not going to happen" she insists. They 'fight' about it for awhile until they give up and let Mary nurse the twins herself. She is tired but she feels uncomfortable about the idea of someone else nursing her babies.
It's a bit difficult for her to nurse two babies at the same time but she soon gets the hang of it. After she nursed the babies it doesn't take long for her to fall asleep in Kennas bed, Kenna is kind enough to borrow her chambers to the young royal couple until Mary is strong enough to move to their owns chambers. Everything seems so perfect for once.
A/n: okay now what should we call the babies? I'm taking suggestions so pls suggest something and pls give me some feedback. Also stay safe y'all!
