DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING IT ALL BELONGS TO TAMORA PIERCE THE PLOT AND ANY CHARACTERS YOU DON'T RECOGNISE BELONG TO ME!
a/n: sorry I haven't updated in a while but I have been rather busy, with the end of school and my huge end of year dancer performance and the various tests and exams I have had to do. Thanks to all my reviwers: Jules-Gemma, Charlie and Lola, Lady Knight, anonymous girl, elfsquire90, Dom's Angel, Lady Shannon of RosePeak, Obidian crystal, kaki hsu and any others I haven't mentioned.
Chapter 2: Happy Times
The next day Alanna and Jon met Gary in the noble's mess hall. Gary looked extremely tired.
"Before you ask. I did no get enough sleep last night. I was woken up every few hours by Robin crying." Gary said grumpily. Alanna and Jon sat down either said of him.
"Who said we were going to ask?" Alanna said cheekily, Gary just glared at her. Alanna piled food on her plate and began to eat at an alarming rate.
"Alanna slow down. You don't have to go any where in a hurry do you?" Jon asked. Alanna shock her head.
"No, but I am just so hungry. I am not just feeding myself you know. " She told him.
After breakfast, both Jon and Gary headed to the practice yards. Alanna would have normally gone with them, but she decided that she would go and pay Cythera a visit instead. She quietly nocked on the door and Cythera opened it looking even more tired than Gary had earlier that morning.
"Come in, but be quiet. I just got Robin to sleep." Cythera told Alanna, who nodded in reply. Alanna walked into Cythera's bedroom to find little Robin fast asleep in the bassinet beside the bed. Cythera followed Alanna into the room and collapsed into the nearest chair, not caring if she rumpled her skirts.
"I'm telling you Alanna babies are a lot of hard work, I'm exhausted. But it is so worth it" Cythera told Alanna, who nodded not really listening to what Cythera was saying. She was off thinking about the future and about how much her life would change once she had the twins in some three months time. Alanna was snapped out of her thoughts at the sound of Robin crying. Cythera hurried over to the small child and picked him up, talking soothingly to him the whole time. Alanna watched in amazement as Cythera managed to get the screaming child to calm down.
"How did you do that?" Alanna asked. Cythera shrugged.
"It's easy, you will know what to do once you have own children." She said.
Three months later to the date Alanna was sitting in her room, reading a book whilst Jon was doing some paper work, when she felt a pain in her stomach.
"Ow!" Alanna said, somewhat surprised by the sudden burst of pain. Jon looked over at his wife, a look of concern on his face.
"Alanna what is it? What is wrong." He asked.
"I'm not sure." Alanna told him truthfully. "I was fine then I felt a sharp pain in my stomach and now it's gone again." Jon still had a look of concern on his face.
"Lets go and see duke Barid he might know what is wrong." Jon told Alanna, who agreed.
They met Duke Baird down in his office and Alanna quickly explained to him what had happened. He listened, his face serious.
"Have you felt any other pains today?" he asked. Alanna was about to open her mouth to say no when she was hit by another wave of pain.
"ooowww." She moaned. Duke Barid sat in thought for a moment.
"When did you feel the last lot of pain?" he asked Alanna.
"About ten minute's ago." she replied. The Duke stood up.
"Lets get you to a bed, I do believe that you are about to go into labour." He said.
About an hour, later Alanna was sitting up in a bed, her contractions hitting more and more often. Duke Baird came in to cheek on her every five minutes or so. Jon sat by her side never leaving. When Alanna's contractions were barely a minute apart Duke Barid said: "ok Alanna I want you to push as hard as you can when I give you the signal."
As soon as he gave her, the thumbs up She bore down and pushed with everything she had.
"Good Alanna good. It looks like this is going to be a very fast birth. I can see the head. Push!" Duke Barid said to her.
"Oooh!" Alanna moaned as she prepared to push again. Again, she pushed as hard as she could.
"Okay one more push on your next contraction."
"Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!" she screamed as she delivered the first twin.
"It's a boy!" the Healer declared,
"Alanna he's beautiful!" Jon said from her side, Duke Baird placed the wailing son into a crib with plenty of blankets and pillows.
"Jon go stand with him, I'm okay." Alanna said. Soon however, Alanna was screaming in pain again as the second twin arrived.
"Come on Alanna." Duke Baird said kindly
"Oooh it hurts!" Alanna screamed out. Alanna pushed and pushed. This baby was taking a lot longer to come out. Eventually Duke Baird lifted a screaming baby from between Alanna's legs. He placed the screaming child with its brother.
"Congratulations you have a very health girl," Duke Baird told them. Alanna and Jon beamed. "Now if you excuse me I will go and inform their majesties." and , he left. Jon picked up the two children and brought them over to Alanna. He gave her the tiny girl. Alanna looked at the small child, and the small child looked back.
"What do you think we should name them?" Jon asked. Alanna sat in thought for a moment.
"How about Chantelle for the girl and Jason for the boy?" she asked. Jon smiled.
"I love it." He told her. Alanna looked at Chantelle, who had Alanna's purple eyes and small tuffs of Jon's black hair.
"Do you like your name?" she asked the child, who made a noise in reply.
"I take that as a yes." Alanna told the child.
A/N Plaese R&R