A/N: Warning - graphic descriptions of childbirth
Disclaimer - don't own Merlin but I do own the hospital, Lily the midwife, the baby, Amhar the schools etc. JK Rowling owns the last three words
All my little plans and schemes. Lost like some forgotten dream. Seems like all I really was doing was waiting for you. Just like little girls and boys, playing with their little toys. Seems like all we really were doing was waiting for love. Don't need to be alone. Don't need to be alone. It's real love, it's real love
5th August 2020
Morgana knew she was absolutely terrifying in labour yet she just didn't give a shit. She'd long passed the 'giving a shit' stage. Her old maths teacher could be delivering the baby at this point, she still wouldn't give a shit. Kara was absolutely terrified of Morgana, probably in her first year since graduating so was rather nervous even though Morgana tried to be nice to her. Well, as nice as she could be while in active labour and slightly high on gas and air.
"Do you want anything?" Kara asked.
"Could you do the pool please?" Morgana asked with a sigh. She'd been in active labour for over twelve hours now, and rather fed up with contractions and the pain.
"Of course" Kara replied.
"Merlin, stop eating the fucking rats!" Morgana exclaimed as she relaxed in the pool.
"Huh?" Merlin asked.
Morgana was looking slightly loopy. "We don't eat fucking rats just because the crops don't grow, it's stupid!". Kara ran out to the nurses station to probably hide.
"She's absolutely terrified of you" Merlin chuckled. "Bless her".
"Merlin, did you know that school, vagina and uterus are all six letter words that hold screaming children for nine months".
"Yes dear" Merlin replied.
"It's hilarious" Morgana giggled. "I work in a school, have a vagina and a uterus, have been carrying a child for nine months and am about to push a kid out my vagina. Awesome, right!".
"I suppose so" Merlin drawled.
"Cervix too! My cervix is dilating. This is amazing, I love gas and air".
She checked the time. Almost eight at night. The shift had gone past rather quickly, Morgana was dilated to eight centimetres by the time Kara left and Lily returned.
"I'm still in labour" Morgana cried from the pool.
"It's okay" Lily replied. "You been doing much?".
"Walking around like mad, watching Netflix, bouncing on the ball. Nothing works" Morgana sighed.
"I'm sure it won't be too long. Did kara say how dilated you were?".
"Eight centimetres" Morgana grumbled. "Fuck fuck ouch!" she gripped Merlin's hand making him pale at the pain while holding her entonox pipe in the other hand.
"That's not long at all" Lily exclaimed while Morgana continued to whinge.
"Is it really that bad?" Merlin asked as he rubbed her stomach
"Merlin, shut the fuck up or I'm going to bite you" she said to Merlin.
"Kinky" Merlin smirked and winked.
Morgana rolled her eyes, sighed, leant over mouth open wide and sunk her teeth into Merlin's hand.
"Ow! What was that for!" Merlin exclaimed as he took his hand away. He gently shook it trying to soothe it and wiped away the blood with a tissue. It looked out of place too, not to mention hurt like hell. Merlin decided to keep his mouth shut. Morgana looked at Lily who chuckled and shook her head.
"Men are fucking idiots" Morgana rolled her eyes.
"Can't say I disagree" Lily grinned.
"What did I do!" Merlin mocked offence. He offered morgana his other hand while nursing his bleeding hand.
"Exist, and put me in this position" Morgana muttered as she sucked on her pipe. Lily took her pipe away to change the can of entonox seeing as it was beginning to run out. "When I eventually give birth, I'll get some string, tie them around your balls until they turn blue and then remove them with a scalpel" Morgana turned to Lily. "Do you have a scalpel?".
Lily bit back laughter. "No dear. Not in the midwife led unit".
"Fuck" Morgana swore. "Well I need a scalpel. His balls aren't safe at all".
"Oh dear" Lilly remarked. Merlin went slightly green and looked as though he might puke at any moment.
"Don't look at me like that" Morgana barked. "You're the one that impregnated me".
"I thought we both agreed to try for a baby?" Merlin asked.
"I'd keep quiet if I was you" Lily advised.
"Good idea" Merlin agreed with a grimace.
"Oh yeah, fun fact" Morgana said as she had more gas and air. "We actually conceived right here in this very hospital".
"Really!" Lily exclaimed. "Wow. Uh...how?".
"We made out, he had an erection so put his penis in my vagina and next thing you know, bang! We're back here in this exact same hospital ten months later and instead of his penis in my vagina I'm pushing a baby out of my vagina".
"Well that is what giving birth is" Lily laughed.
"Merlin, if I ever willingly get pregnant again, don't do it" Morgana warned.
"Whatever you say love" Merlin winked.
"I'm going to be sick" Morgana announced. She retched and projectile vomited all over Merlin. "And there's your answer" she said as she wiped vomit off her chin.
"Eugh!" Merlin said as he looked down at his top. "Second time".
"Whoops" Morgana shrugged.
"It's okay" Merlin insisted as he changed again.
"At least I haven't pooped in the pool" Morgana smirked triumphantly. "I'm counting my victories here. Only thrown up twice, which is a hell of a lot better than I've been doing at twenty weeks".
"I get a rainbow vomit top instead" Merlin chuckled as he put that top back on.
"You're seriously going to wear that top again" Morgana raised her eyebrows.
"It's colourful" Merlin shrugged. "What's wrong with it?".
"It's covered in puke Merlin!" Morgana exclaimed.
"Would you rather I go naked?" Merlin raised his eyebrows.
"Would you like me to tie up your balls with a string until they turn blue and then remove them with a scalpel?" Morgana arched an eyebrow. Even though she hadn't gotten them threaded in a while, they were still in perfect shape.
"No" Merlin replied.
"That's what I thought" Morgana smirked. "Fucking hell, I've been here over twenty four hours! It's like ten almost!".
"Okay, time to check how far dilated you are" Lily said as she helped Morgana onto the bed. "Nine centimetres!".
"Urgh" Morgana groaned. "Can't I just start pushing now?".
"Sorry, not yet" Lily smiled sympathetically. "Has to be at ten centimetres. Though I can pop your waters if you want?"
"Yes please" Morgana agreed as Lily popped them. She ended up being covered in the water as did Merlin, the pain intensifying.
"I'll get you some scrubs, Merlin" Lily said as she left the room.
"Let's watch Dumbo on Disney plus" Morgana decided. "Lucky Mrs Jumbo doesn't have to shove a baby out her hoo ha".
"What's a hoo ha?" Merlin asked.
"It's a vagina, Merlin" Morgana deadpanned. Morgana still wasn't quite at ten centimetres dilated even though it was almost eleven o'clock. While they thought that they'd have the baby today, it was looking more and more unlikely by the second that Morgana would get her water birth. Labour wasn't progressing as quickly as they'd hoped, though contractions were much more consistent now that her waters had gone and Morgana had decided to use a TENS machine and that couldn't be used in the water. They also decided to do some extra monitoring on the baby, though the contractions remained consistent. By half past eleven, Morgana was ten centimetres dilated and could begin pushing.
"Did I just ... shit on the table?" Morgana blushed.
"No, you didn't" Lily reassured her.
"Merlin, set the ambient lighting to blue" Morgana ordered. "Hey siri, play push it by salt n pepa".
"Playing push it by Salt and pepa" Siri said as the song began to play, Morgana pushing in time with the music.
"Heart rate seems to be dipping, so we're going to take you over to the delivery suite".
"Is everything alright?" Morgana asked.
"We're going to move you up to the labour ward" Lily said as she pressed the button and someone else came running in. "Alice, can we check if there's a delivery room free?".
"Delivery room two is free" Alice said. Merlin recognised her even with her mask on—Gaius' ex girlfriend. He had wondered what'd happened to her in this life.
"Right let's get her up there then" Lily said as they helped Merlin pack up Morgana's things. "Merlin, I'm going to have to ask you to wear a mask while we transfer over".
"Let's put the sheet on you" Merlin said as they exited the room.
"No," Morgana stuck her lip out like a petulant toddler and threw the sheet off.
"Morgana, we're in the main part of the hospital" Merlin hissed. Morgana shrugged, she didn't care. If anyone saw her like that they saw her like that. It was the middle of the night in a global pandemic so was highly unlikely anyway. They went down a few corridors into the delivery suite and then into room two. Morgana had to leave the gas and air behind and was given an oxygen mask instead.
"Fuck it's happening again!" Morgana screeched.
"Right Morgana, with this next contraction I want to you to push now" Lily said. Morgana held her mask onto her face and and held on to Merlin's hand as she began to push. "Okay that's good, good girl".
"Can we turn the lights down?" Morgana asked. "I don't want the baby to get shocked by the light".
"No, I need to see what I'm doing" Lily said. The door opened and someone walked in.
"Dr Aglain, how we doing?".
"Not fucking great—ahhhhh" Morgana threw her head back against the bed.
"Morgana, the baby's heart rate is dipping we need to deliver this baby as soon as possible, if not within the next half an hour we're looking at a c-section".
"What, is he okay? He'll be okay, right!" Morgana cried.
"We need you to push Morgana".
"Imagine like you're doing a big poo" Alice added.
"Urrghhhh JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Morgana screeched. "This is worse than being stabbed!".
6th August 2020
One day, ten minutes and three contractions later Morgana was wiped out.
"Okay, seems like there's another one coming" Lily said.
"I can't" Morgana cried. "It hurts .. I'm so fucking tired ... shit" she began breathing heavily.
"Five more minutes of pain, for a lifetime of happiness" Merlin said.
"Aww how fucking sweet" Morgana sneered. "Which movie is that from?".
"Jane the virgin" Merlin replied. After taking her pipe out, Morgana glared at Merlin.
"Well I'm certainly not a virgin, at least not in this life" Morgana shouted as she pushed.
"He's crowning" Lily said.
With one last push, the baby was out, born at 00:06.
"Oh my god!" Morgana cried as she pulled the mask off. "Pass me my baby!". She waited to hear the cry. Where was it?
"Okay we have the cord around the neck" Aglain said. He grabbed some scissors and began to cut the cord.
"What's happening!" Morgana barked.
"Baby's not breathing" Lily said as they flipped the newborn onto his back then his stomach.
"What's happening!" Morgana screamed. "My baby! My baby!". A shrill cry filled the room, tears streaming down both Merlin and Morgana's faces as their son was passed to them. He still had all the gunk, vernix and blood on him, not that they cared about the mess. "Oh thank god".
"He's okay" Merlin cried as he put his pinky on the baby's hand. "Hey little man".
"Hi sweetie" Morgana cried as she latched him onto her breast with help from Merlin and Lily. It hurt like hell and was rather difficult but she didn't care. The baby was here. "Hi sweeties. Oh sweetie, it's been a long time waiting for you. We were so scared just then, so so scared".
"You're okay, and I'm your daddy and there's your mummy" Merlin cooed in a baby voice. "We've been waiting for you for a long time".
"Oh Merlin I was so scared" Morgana cried.
"He's okay, see" Lily said. Morgana and Merlin looked at the baby and into his eyes.
"Aw sweetie" Merlin said as he gripped his pinky finger.
"We've been waiting for so long sweetheart, so many days. Mummy and Daddy have been waiting so long and so has your big brother, he can't wait to meet you. I can't believe you're here my precious".
Merlin and Morgana gazed at their newborn, while Lily took a few photos on their phones. He had a little bit of jet black hair, his nose was small and he was rather alert. He was perfect, all was well.
A/N: Yes I cried when I wrote this (I mean in my defence I was on my period so rather hormonal lol)