Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or places in the following
chapter, I just like not having to think up new ones and Tamora pierce is
so much better at this than I am so I'll just steal her ideas.
Authors note: Hello again! I'm sorry it's taken so long, I'm just starting year 10 and I don't have a lot of time any more. So I'm sorry about that. Any way here is the fifth and final chapter of my first fan fiction. If you liked mine you would probably like 'Daughter of the Pearl' at least I think that's it's name, but it's good, it's very funny. Here it is, hope you like it and don't care if you don't so REVIEW!
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"YOU'RE GETTING SICK OF THIS PREGNANCY?" Daine yelled at Numair who had been expressing his opinion of her mood swings, "YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO IS CARRYING THE EXTRA WEIGHT! YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO WAS THROWING UP EVERY MORNING! YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO IS CRAVING AVOCADO AND CHOCOLATE! I DON'T EVEN LIKE AVOCADO! I'M THE ONE WHO IS HAVING MORE TROUBLE WITH THIS PREGNANCY AND I WOULD APPRECIATE A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT ON YOUR ACCOUNT!"
Numair cowered against the wall, he had never seen Daine this angry and never wanted to again!
"I'm sorry Daine." He was about to say when she turned on her heel and stormed out of the room, turning left when she reached the corridor. Numair slid down the wall until he was sitting on the floor leaning against the wall.
When Alanna entered the room looking for Daine she saw Numair curled up in a ball against the wall, his shoulders shaking with smothered sobs. That couldn't be right! Numair never cried! Alanna walked across the room to sit beside him.
"What happened?" she asked,
Numair lifted his head and wiped his streaming eyes.
"Nothing." He replied.
"You wouldn't be crying over nothing Numair! It's Daine isn't it?"
"That baby is due in a weeks time and she's just getting so angry at me all the time." he said "I think she's starting to realise that her death will be mostly my fault."
Alanna sat there silently gaping at him. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Eventually she got enough breath together to say,
"That's ridiculous Numair! And you well know it."
With that she stood and walked out of the room to find Daine.
Later that day Daine returned to her room and to her disappointment found it empty. After standing in the doorway a moment, contemplating where Numair might be. She decided that she would most likely find him in his favourite library and went there.
When she arrived Numair was sitting at a table hunched over a thick leather- bound book. She walked over to him and discovered he was asleep. She smiled to herself and sat down in a comfortable armchair in the corner next to a window, which overlooked a large courtyard centred around a small lake. For a long time she sat there staring blindly out the floor to ceiling window just thinking. After a while, just as the sun was going down, it started to rain lightly.
Daine couldn't forgive herself for her actions the past few months. She had been blaming Numair for things that were not his fault. She felt distressed at the thought that she only had roughly a week left in her lifetime and she had wasted away the past eight months in a raging temper and taking it out on whoever was there at the time, mostly Numair. Daine clumsily emerged from her chair, lit a few lamps and found a good book to read before flopping back into her chair.
The rain hardened suddenly and the sound woke Numair from his dreams of living a happy life with Daine and a beautiful baby boy. He stretched in his chair. Wondering what he had been reading about before he fell asleep he turned to the front cover of the book to find a title pressed into the leather which read; "A Man's Guide To Pregnancy, Baby's And Toddlers."
"Well that's interesting!" Numair thought, looking around him and discovering Daine's presence. Numair lifted his tall frame out from behind the table and walked over to the window to sit in the armchair across from Daine.
"What are you doing here?" he asked when he had her attention.
"That's a lovely way to greet the future Mother of your child!" Daine replied with a smile.
Numair gave her a smile of his own and Daine continued.
"I actually came here seeking forgiveness for my terrible, terrible actions against the man I love." She said with tears filling her blue-grey eyes with sorrow.
"I know of nothing to forgive you of." Numair told her kindly.
"Numair, I'm sorry for the way I've been acting during the pregnancy and I'm not going to make excuses for myself but I wanted you to know that I deeply regret the way I've treated you and I hope you can forgive me."
Numair surveyed her for a moment before standing up, walking to her chair and taking her hand.
"My only whim of the past months is that the time has been ever dulled by the thought of what the coming of our baby means to your health." He said, not taking his eyes from her face.
Daine stood up and threw her arms around his neck, pulling him into a bone- breaking hug. But almost instantly she recoiled collapsing on the chair in pain. Numair looked worriedly at her.
"What is it?" he asked unable to keep the worry from his voice.
"I don't know." Daine replied, speaking fast before hugging her knees as close to her chest as she could manage with the enlarged form of her belly, which luckily had stayed quite small, "it hurts but I don't know what is causing it."
"I'll get Alanna." Numair said fleetingly before throwing himself out of the room and sprinting down the hall.
A few minutes later Numair returned closely followed by Alanna. When she entered the library Alanna saw Daine lying in a ball on the floor clutching her stomach. Alanna sprinted over to her. "Daine what's wrong?" she demanded, "you have Numair in a panic as well as me!" "It's my stomach!" she said, "it hurts and I don't know why!" Alanna stared for a moment, perplexed, before putting her hands to Daine's swollen belly and probed with her Gift.
"Daine! You shouldn't be here!" Alanna gasped, "The baby is early! Come on get up! We have to get you to your rooms at least!"
Daine gasped in shock.
"But it's not due till next week!" she protested, "My water hasn't even broken ye . . . ok now it has!"
"And now we have to go!" Alanna said less calmly than she meant to.
Alanna ran ahead to get a bed ready for Daine while Numair followed carrying Daine. When they got there Numair laid Daine on the bed and knelt beside it holding Daine's hand as she started the breathing Alanna had tried to teach her before Daine got sick of learning something she didn't see the point of.
Alanna positioned herself at the foot of the bed and constantly said comforting things to Daine. After about ten minutes Alanna could make out what was most definitely a small head emerging.
"Alanna I can't do it!" Daine wailed.
"You think one is bad?" Alanna asked her, "Try having twins!"
"You must have been CRAZY to go through that!" Daine yelled back before giving way to the silence of uncontrollable pain.
Half an hour later the baby was half out and Daine was tiring very quickly. Numair chose to stay silent as all this was going on. But he kept a firm grip on Daine's hand as if holding onto her would prevent her death. Ten minutes later the baby was out and Alanna was holding Daine's hand, keeping her alive long enough to see her baby. It was a girl.
"Name her 'Katrinya' please?" Daine said before letting out her last breath, holding her child in one arm with her lover holding desperately onto her other hand.
Daine thought she had woken up but she realised that what she saw was not real. She was looking upon a space that seemed to have no end. She was surrounded by white and could distinguish no walls, roof or floor around her. Then out of the white appeared a being that was undeniably the god of death. But he was not alone. The Goddess and Daine's parents were also present.
"I'm dead, aren't I?" Daine asked gloomily.
Sarra laughed,
"Now don't be like that!" she said, "It's not nearly as bad as you might think!"
"Your Mother's right Daine." The Goddess said, "We bear good news."
"What good news?" Daine asked dubiously.
"It has been decided that if you wish you may be a goddess of Wild Magic." Said a voice, which could only belong to the dark god.
"What about when I decided to go back to the mortal realm instead of being a minor goddess, last time I died? I was told that I couldn't ever come to the divine realm again." Daine said
"That was disregarded at a council of the great gods." The Goddess continued. "There we decided that if you were willing to give your life to another, and considering your background of good use of your magic it was agreed that should you wish you may live in your father's house as a great goddess of Wild Magic."
"What about Numair?" Daine asked, "I can hardly live as a goddess if I have to leave Numair to go to the realm of the dead!"
"We already thought of that!" said Daine's father, smiling, "it has been decided that he may live with you in my house as a minor god of Learning. But he has not died yet and it is not yet your time!"
"What do you mean?" Daine demanded, "I'm about as dead as I'm going to get!"
In answer to this the goddess opened her palm and a ball of blue light appeared there.
"Look into the ball." The goddess told her kindly, "That question at least may be answered."
Daine looked. She saw the room she had just left. Numair was still kneeling beside her body sobbing silently while Alanna had taken the baby and was laying it in a cot on the other side of the room. Suddenly Numair jumped up and said,
"Alanna! Do you remember the first year we knew Daine? On the way to Pirate's Swoop and she killed herself trying to talk to the dolphins! You brought her back then! Couldn't you do that again?"
Alanna looked at him sadly, "I wish I could, Numair, but I haven't the strength in my Gift I've been drained keeping her alive until the baby was all the way out."
Numair fell silent for a while, thinking. "What if I lent you some of my Gift?" he asked with renewed enthusiasm, "Jon hasn't given me a job for a while and my reserves are higher than ever."
"That could work though I'm afraid she might be too long dead to bring back, give me your hand and give me strength."
Daine saw Alanna run to the bed and Numair place his hand upon her shoulder. For a long while Alanna stood there flicking her fingers at Daine's cold body and sending raw magic into her. After what felt like an age Daine began to faintly feel the jolts in her body. Daine began to be pulled backward the way she had come. She was half way there when Alanna and Numair's power ran out. She prayed to the goddess to send her the rest of the way and felt no response. The blue ball of light appeared again and she saw Numair hunched over her body sobbing silently. Alanna was sitting in an armchair holding the baby, wrapped in a blanket, and crying.
Daine stopped. She sat where she was and hid her face from the image being emitted from the blue ball. Then suddenly without knowing why she stood and started walking the way she was going.
Soon she came across a wooden door with an iron handle and iron edging. She reached out for the handle and opened the door.
Daine opened her eyes and rolled over in bed. The movement startled Numair, he gasped and lifted his head.
"Hello!" Daine said before collapsing into a deep sleep.
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Authors note: well that's all guys. The end of my first fan fiction! Hope you liked it and now you can review it for me! (!!!
Authors note: Hello again! I'm sorry it's taken so long, I'm just starting year 10 and I don't have a lot of time any more. So I'm sorry about that. Any way here is the fifth and final chapter of my first fan fiction. If you liked mine you would probably like 'Daughter of the Pearl' at least I think that's it's name, but it's good, it's very funny. Here it is, hope you like it and don't care if you don't so REVIEW!
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"YOU'RE GETTING SICK OF THIS PREGNANCY?" Daine yelled at Numair who had been expressing his opinion of her mood swings, "YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO IS CARRYING THE EXTRA WEIGHT! YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO WAS THROWING UP EVERY MORNING! YOU'RE NOT THE ONE WHO IS CRAVING AVOCADO AND CHOCOLATE! I DON'T EVEN LIKE AVOCADO! I'M THE ONE WHO IS HAVING MORE TROUBLE WITH THIS PREGNANCY AND I WOULD APPRECIATE A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT ON YOUR ACCOUNT!"
Numair cowered against the wall, he had never seen Daine this angry and never wanted to again!
"I'm sorry Daine." He was about to say when she turned on her heel and stormed out of the room, turning left when she reached the corridor. Numair slid down the wall until he was sitting on the floor leaning against the wall.
When Alanna entered the room looking for Daine she saw Numair curled up in a ball against the wall, his shoulders shaking with smothered sobs. That couldn't be right! Numair never cried! Alanna walked across the room to sit beside him.
"What happened?" she asked,
Numair lifted his head and wiped his streaming eyes.
"Nothing." He replied.
"You wouldn't be crying over nothing Numair! It's Daine isn't it?"
"That baby is due in a weeks time and she's just getting so angry at me all the time." he said "I think she's starting to realise that her death will be mostly my fault."
Alanna sat there silently gaping at him. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Eventually she got enough breath together to say,
"That's ridiculous Numair! And you well know it."
With that she stood and walked out of the room to find Daine.
Later that day Daine returned to her room and to her disappointment found it empty. After standing in the doorway a moment, contemplating where Numair might be. She decided that she would most likely find him in his favourite library and went there.
When she arrived Numair was sitting at a table hunched over a thick leather- bound book. She walked over to him and discovered he was asleep. She smiled to herself and sat down in a comfortable armchair in the corner next to a window, which overlooked a large courtyard centred around a small lake. For a long time she sat there staring blindly out the floor to ceiling window just thinking. After a while, just as the sun was going down, it started to rain lightly.
Daine couldn't forgive herself for her actions the past few months. She had been blaming Numair for things that were not his fault. She felt distressed at the thought that she only had roughly a week left in her lifetime and she had wasted away the past eight months in a raging temper and taking it out on whoever was there at the time, mostly Numair. Daine clumsily emerged from her chair, lit a few lamps and found a good book to read before flopping back into her chair.
The rain hardened suddenly and the sound woke Numair from his dreams of living a happy life with Daine and a beautiful baby boy. He stretched in his chair. Wondering what he had been reading about before he fell asleep he turned to the front cover of the book to find a title pressed into the leather which read; "A Man's Guide To Pregnancy, Baby's And Toddlers."
"Well that's interesting!" Numair thought, looking around him and discovering Daine's presence. Numair lifted his tall frame out from behind the table and walked over to the window to sit in the armchair across from Daine.
"What are you doing here?" he asked when he had her attention.
"That's a lovely way to greet the future Mother of your child!" Daine replied with a smile.
Numair gave her a smile of his own and Daine continued.
"I actually came here seeking forgiveness for my terrible, terrible actions against the man I love." She said with tears filling her blue-grey eyes with sorrow.
"I know of nothing to forgive you of." Numair told her kindly.
"Numair, I'm sorry for the way I've been acting during the pregnancy and I'm not going to make excuses for myself but I wanted you to know that I deeply regret the way I've treated you and I hope you can forgive me."
Numair surveyed her for a moment before standing up, walking to her chair and taking her hand.
"My only whim of the past months is that the time has been ever dulled by the thought of what the coming of our baby means to your health." He said, not taking his eyes from her face.
Daine stood up and threw her arms around his neck, pulling him into a bone- breaking hug. But almost instantly she recoiled collapsing on the chair in pain. Numair looked worriedly at her.
"What is it?" he asked unable to keep the worry from his voice.
"I don't know." Daine replied, speaking fast before hugging her knees as close to her chest as she could manage with the enlarged form of her belly, which luckily had stayed quite small, "it hurts but I don't know what is causing it."
"I'll get Alanna." Numair said fleetingly before throwing himself out of the room and sprinting down the hall.
A few minutes later Numair returned closely followed by Alanna. When she entered the library Alanna saw Daine lying in a ball on the floor clutching her stomach. Alanna sprinted over to her. "Daine what's wrong?" she demanded, "you have Numair in a panic as well as me!" "It's my stomach!" she said, "it hurts and I don't know why!" Alanna stared for a moment, perplexed, before putting her hands to Daine's swollen belly and probed with her Gift.
"Daine! You shouldn't be here!" Alanna gasped, "The baby is early! Come on get up! We have to get you to your rooms at least!"
Daine gasped in shock.
"But it's not due till next week!" she protested, "My water hasn't even broken ye . . . ok now it has!"
"And now we have to go!" Alanna said less calmly than she meant to.
Alanna ran ahead to get a bed ready for Daine while Numair followed carrying Daine. When they got there Numair laid Daine on the bed and knelt beside it holding Daine's hand as she started the breathing Alanna had tried to teach her before Daine got sick of learning something she didn't see the point of.
Alanna positioned herself at the foot of the bed and constantly said comforting things to Daine. After about ten minutes Alanna could make out what was most definitely a small head emerging.
"Alanna I can't do it!" Daine wailed.
"You think one is bad?" Alanna asked her, "Try having twins!"
"You must have been CRAZY to go through that!" Daine yelled back before giving way to the silence of uncontrollable pain.
Half an hour later the baby was half out and Daine was tiring very quickly. Numair chose to stay silent as all this was going on. But he kept a firm grip on Daine's hand as if holding onto her would prevent her death. Ten minutes later the baby was out and Alanna was holding Daine's hand, keeping her alive long enough to see her baby. It was a girl.
"Name her 'Katrinya' please?" Daine said before letting out her last breath, holding her child in one arm with her lover holding desperately onto her other hand.
Daine thought she had woken up but she realised that what she saw was not real. She was looking upon a space that seemed to have no end. She was surrounded by white and could distinguish no walls, roof or floor around her. Then out of the white appeared a being that was undeniably the god of death. But he was not alone. The Goddess and Daine's parents were also present.
"I'm dead, aren't I?" Daine asked gloomily.
Sarra laughed,
"Now don't be like that!" she said, "It's not nearly as bad as you might think!"
"Your Mother's right Daine." The Goddess said, "We bear good news."
"What good news?" Daine asked dubiously.
"It has been decided that if you wish you may be a goddess of Wild Magic." Said a voice, which could only belong to the dark god.
"What about when I decided to go back to the mortal realm instead of being a minor goddess, last time I died? I was told that I couldn't ever come to the divine realm again." Daine said
"That was disregarded at a council of the great gods." The Goddess continued. "There we decided that if you were willing to give your life to another, and considering your background of good use of your magic it was agreed that should you wish you may live in your father's house as a great goddess of Wild Magic."
"What about Numair?" Daine asked, "I can hardly live as a goddess if I have to leave Numair to go to the realm of the dead!"
"We already thought of that!" said Daine's father, smiling, "it has been decided that he may live with you in my house as a minor god of Learning. But he has not died yet and it is not yet your time!"
"What do you mean?" Daine demanded, "I'm about as dead as I'm going to get!"
In answer to this the goddess opened her palm and a ball of blue light appeared there.
"Look into the ball." The goddess told her kindly, "That question at least may be answered."
Daine looked. She saw the room she had just left. Numair was still kneeling beside her body sobbing silently while Alanna had taken the baby and was laying it in a cot on the other side of the room. Suddenly Numair jumped up and said,
"Alanna! Do you remember the first year we knew Daine? On the way to Pirate's Swoop and she killed herself trying to talk to the dolphins! You brought her back then! Couldn't you do that again?"
Alanna looked at him sadly, "I wish I could, Numair, but I haven't the strength in my Gift I've been drained keeping her alive until the baby was all the way out."
Numair fell silent for a while, thinking. "What if I lent you some of my Gift?" he asked with renewed enthusiasm, "Jon hasn't given me a job for a while and my reserves are higher than ever."
"That could work though I'm afraid she might be too long dead to bring back, give me your hand and give me strength."
Daine saw Alanna run to the bed and Numair place his hand upon her shoulder. For a long while Alanna stood there flicking her fingers at Daine's cold body and sending raw magic into her. After what felt like an age Daine began to faintly feel the jolts in her body. Daine began to be pulled backward the way she had come. She was half way there when Alanna and Numair's power ran out. She prayed to the goddess to send her the rest of the way and felt no response. The blue ball of light appeared again and she saw Numair hunched over her body sobbing silently. Alanna was sitting in an armchair holding the baby, wrapped in a blanket, and crying.
Daine stopped. She sat where she was and hid her face from the image being emitted from the blue ball. Then suddenly without knowing why she stood and started walking the way she was going.
Soon she came across a wooden door with an iron handle and iron edging. She reached out for the handle and opened the door.
Daine opened her eyes and rolled over in bed. The movement startled Numair, he gasped and lifted his head.
"Hello!" Daine said before collapsing into a deep sleep.
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Authors note: well that's all guys. The end of my first fan fiction! Hope you liked it and now you can review it for me! (!!!