Blue Waters: episode #49 The Surprise
Previously: Mr. Zam's wife Ashka had a set of identical twin boys named Paul and Joseph. She left Mr. Zam…and actually took Baby Paul with her. Correon's wife had a daughter named Vera. Now it's September 30 and as Bail's wife was about to give birth, Samantha went to Dagobah to get out of the way. It turned out, Bail and his wife had a son and they decided to name him Wedge. As Samantha left Alderaan, two people followed her: Arawn and Magg. Of course she's unaware of this.
As Samantha approached Yoda and Obi—wan,
Yoda asks, "how many times have you seen the doctor about your
pregnancy?"
"Just when I first found
out. I've been too scared to go because I was afraid there might be something
wrong with it, or someone might find out and go after me, as you said."
Yoda says, "go to the
doctor now. On this the entire galaxy
does depend. I want to make sure everything's okay. You are a month away from
the due date, correct?"
Samantha nods. The two
spies hear this and follow her as she makes her way to the medical center on
Dagobah. (Remember I told you there was a hospital there.) It wasn't as if she had been careless or
something during her pregnancy. She had
been careful, very careful. Since Bail's wife had been pregnant, too, she had
shared things. She only ate healthy
food…she normally did anyway, but she had been extra careful. She also had
exercised a lot and had done as close to following the steps necessary for
pregnant people as possible. I wanted
to tell you that so you wouldn't' get a bad impression of her based on the fact
that she hadn't gone to the doctor. As soon as she walked in,
the doctor says, "Is there anything wrong?"
"No…Yoda just gave me an
order to come here though."
The doctor smiles.
"Good…now who have you been
seeing doctor wise?"
"No one…but the friend
I've been staying with just had her baby. I've been watching myself
carefully. I would have come sooner,
but there was too big of a risk with Palpatine. I'm Queen Samantha of Coruscant."
"Your majesty? Sorry I
didn't recognize your right away. I
hadn't known you were pregnant…no one's even mentioned it. Strange…you'd
think…"
She cut him off, "And that's the way I need to keep it…. secret. I
don't' want Anakin or Palpatine finding out."
"I'm doctor Que. Okay, so
when are you due? Or don't you even
know that much.'
"Next month…I went to a
doctor like the week after I got pregnant, but that was the only time."
The doctor nodded, "Yeah, I
was going to say it had to be within a couple months…you're fairly big in that
area. Um, why don't we take a look here using advanced technology. Would you
like to know if it's as boy or a girl?'
"Yes, that would be very
helpful. I think Bail would want to know."
"Then please lie down on
the bed there and I'll get this thing set up."
She lies down and the doctor gets several instruments and equipment
set up.
"The last thing I'm going to do is take a picture of it for
you…right now I'm going to try heartbeat, and I should be able to estimate it's
approximate weight at this time."
"Well everything seems to
be all right. Your baby is a little
bigger than average. I'd estimate its'
about 9 pounds, and you're not a very big person. I'd say you might have it a
little sooner…either that or it will be like 10 or 11 pounds when you have it.
Hang on here, let me see if I can get a good picture of it."
The doctor brings some sort
of machine over to view the baby with.
"How long will this take?"
Samantha asks.
"Shouldn't take long…maybe
5 minutes at most. I'm going to guess that everything's' fine in there…it
should be a problem."
Samantha relaxed a
little. The doctor was very optimistic
about his, but she still had some fear. After looking at the image for about a
minute, the doctor's smiled faded. He said nothing, but bit his lip while
staring at the image.
"Is something wrong?"
"Um…no, but it's probably
not what you're expecting to hear."
"What is it?" she asks in a
worried way.
"You have a problem. I'm
afraid you're pregnant with twins."
"How? I mean…why couldn't I have known about
it? How'd you miss it when you examined
me?"
The doctor turns towards
her, "I'm not sure. But you're having twins. There's a girl and a boy."
"Thank you. Am I free to
go?"
The doctor nodded and says; "I think they're both healthy, although
the boy is considerably smaller than the girl. But all organs are there on both
and the heartbeat is fine for both. I must have missed the boy because he's
small."
"He'll be all right
though?"
The doctor shrugs,
"there's no way to tell for sure, but there's nothing majorly wrong with him
here."
She nods, and then says,
"Can I go now?"
"Yeah, but I'll be wanting
to see you probably every week…at least. This'll probably move your due date up
some."
She then says, "all right."
"Bye now."
Arawn turns in the shadows.
Until next time!