Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates
I don't know if this will be the last chapter or not, I may put in another chapter just to close the story, but then it's the third story of the I'm Lily Sparrow Savvy? Series, I haven't thought of a name for it yet and I am still unsure about what will happen, but I have a few ideas.
Chapter 21
It felt worse than a cannon ball being shot straight through me, a wave of the most immense pain I had ever felt. I gasped and ran to my room, not sure of what to do. I called for Elizabeth but no sound escaped my lips. My heart skipped a beat at the thought of going through this on my own. Could cope with battles against other ships, blood-thirsty pirates coming at me from all angles, perverted drunken men ogling at me in the seediest taverns in Tortuga, but not this, not alone at any rate.
I collapsed onto my bed in pain, releasing the breathe I didn't even know I was holding. I clutched my stomach, not knowing what to do.
"Elizabeth!" I screamed, knowing that only she could help me through this birth, Oliver was only good for holding my hand and muttering reassurances, but Elizabeth could keep her head together and help me through the labour.
I heard shuffling outside the cabin door, I hoped it would be Elizabeth but as the door opened I found that the person on the other side was Oliver.
"Oh my God. Lily are you ok? I heard you shout, is it the baby?" he asked, I knew he was concerned and uncertain about the situation but I couldn't help getting frustrated with him.
"Yes Oliver it is the bloody baby I'm not giving birth to a bloody watermelon!" I shouted, "Go and get Elizabeth!" I demanded through clenched teeth. Oliver nodded, not wanting to argue with me and ran out of the room in search for Elizabeth, I realised I had forgotten to tell him that she'll probably be in the hold, I prayed she wouldn't be in there, it was the one place that no one would look, which is why she went there to think in the first place. A bolt of pain shot through me and brought me back to my senses.
"God Elizabeth hurry up!" I gasped in anguish. I lead back on the bed, hoping that it would somehow ease the pain, but it didn't it only made it worse. I screamed in pain, wondering how the hell Elizabeth did this twice with only minutes in between each one.
At that moment, Elizabeth, followed by Oliver, Dad and Anamaria came bursting through the door, their eyes scanning the room for me hurriedly.
"I'm here!" I said, I saw their eyes look at me finally and they all came to me.
"Right then Lily all I want you to do is breathe calmly through the pain, it will help ok? Can you manage that?" Elizabeth asked, she propped me up against the headboard of the bed.
"I am breathing!" I shouted, casting all of them a dirty glance. To my amazement Elizabeth laughed.
"Yes I wondered how you'd act through this" she said, she opened the chest of drawers next to my closet and looked inside. She scanned all of the drawers first before frowning.
"What?" I asked
"Where are the blankets you got from Tortuga?" she asked, looking back at me.
"They're still on the Star Maker!" I gasped as another wave of pain went soaring through me.
"Oliver go and get the blankets for me eh? They should be in your cabin on the Star Maker" Elizabeth said.
"The…spare…cupboard" I said through yet another contraction. Oliver looked like he was going to protest but before he could I yelled at him, "GO" he ran out of the room.
"What can I do?" Dad asked from in front of Anamaria, he looked just as nervous as Oliver did. Anamaria's expression was unreadable.
"You can go outside and wait, it only takes one of us to help Lily in this situation and that would be me" Elizabeth said, hinting to Anamaria that she wasn't needed either. Anamaria took the hint and ushered my protesting father out of the door. A few second later Oliver came running through the door thrusting the blankets at Elizabeth. he quickly came to my side but one deadly glare from Elizabeth made him exit the room. She reassured me that everything would be ok and she arranged the blankets.
"I can't do this!" I shouted as another contraction raced through my body.
"Yes you can" Elizabeth said calmly. How could she stay so calm!
"Is it coming out yet?" I asked, I couldn't tell because so much of me was in pain. I wanted to go to sleep and not feel a thing.
"No not yet" she said, "labour can take hours Lily, so until we see a head we have no idea how long you're going to be like this"
"You mean to tell me that I could be in this pain for hours?!" I shouted.
"Yes but its unlikely" Elizabeth replied. I glanced out of the open door, seeing Oliver, Dad, Will and the twins and Anamaria all peering through the door, trying to see what was happening. Oliver and Dad kept trying to get through but Anamaria shouted at them, she had even managed to slap Oliver, which seemingly brought him back to his senses and made him stay put. Elizabeth shut the door and I cried out, wanting to die.
"KILL ME NOW!" I screamed, the pain had increased drastically and I wanted so badly for it to stop. I heard Dad on the other side of the door arguing with Anamaria for her to let him in and make sure his 'little girl' is alright since she's screaming at Elizabeth to kill her.
"A head!" Elizabeth squealed. It was more in excitement than anything else. "You can push now Lily!" she informed me.
"I don't want to!" I screamed "it bloody hurts! It can stay in there and find its own way out!" I yelled. Elizabeth laughed at my outburst.
"You'll be meeting your child soon Lily, aren't you even a little bit excited?" she asked, picking up the blanket and getting ready to grab the baby which was causing me so much pain.
"Excited!" I yelled mockingly "I'm pleading with you to kill me Elizabeth so no I am not bloody well excited! I am in pain and I want to die so if you can take that dagger over there and put me out of my misery I'll be sure to put in a good word for you wherever I end up" I yelled, pointing at the dagger Elizabeth had removed from my body which was on the table in the middle of the room. I pushed anyway, trying anything to help me get this baby out of me.
"The shoulders are next Lily brace yourself" Elizabeth informed me.
Oh. Good. Lord.
The pain this time was huge, huger than huge!
I pushed with all my might, breathing through the pain like Lizzy had instructed me to do, suddenly the pain decreased and then eventually stopped. It was silent for a moment apart from me crying because of the pain I had just been through. The next sound I heard was that of a baby crying. My baby.
"Oh Lily, she's beautiful" Elizabeth beamed. I smiled before registering what Elizabeth had said.
She. I had just given birth to a baby girl.
Elizabeth wrapped my baby into the blanket she hadn't used and passed her to me. I looked down at the baby who was clutching my arm as if she knew who her mother was straight away. She really was beautiful. She already had lots of hair, my hair, beautiful black hair, just like fathers. She had Oliver and Will's eyes, my nose, she was perfect. My perfect little girl.
Just as I had finished soaking up every feature of my baby's face, I noticed Oliver and father coming through the door, followed by Anamaria and Will. The rest of the crew were either waiting outside of the door or doing their jobs.
"She's a beautiful little lass isn't she Lily?" Dad asked, looking down at her. I passed her to Oliver; he looked amazed and happy with his new little girl.
"What will we name her?" I asked, taking my eyes off the baby and looking at my husband.
"Charlotte" he said, "I thought about names often, even though we never really spoke about, but I'd like her to be called Charlotte, Charlotte for my mother" he said. I thought the name over in my head. Charlotte. I like it.
"Charlotte it is" I said. "I never knew your mother's name was Charlotte" I said.
"I did" said a voice from behind us all. We turned to find Bill stood in the doorway watching us all. "She was my sister"
"Oh my goodness" I gasped. I looked at Oliver for his reaction. He was stood up now, Charlotte lying in his arms.
"What?" he asked Bill.
"She was my sister, you're my nephew, Will's cousin" Bill replied.
Oliver looked at Will, who was as equally shocked as Oliver.
"How?" asked Will, "I mean I know how, but why? Why didn't you tell us Da'?"
"Same reason I never contacted you when I found Barbossa" Bill replied. "Although I didn't know Oliver really was your cousin until he said that his mother's name was Charlotte, that confirmed it for me, have you not noticed the similarity in you both?" he asked.
"I have" I said tiredly, "the same eyes, the same hair" I said simply. Bill nodded at me.
"Well ye learn something new every day" Dad said.
"Aye" Will replied, "but it's not everyday you learn you have a cousin you didn't even know about"
We all laughed, glad that it was out in the open, I was glad that the similarity issues running round in my head. We didn't say anything about it after that; there was nothing to do or to say about it, we just have to get on with it and nothing changes.
Please review I want to know what you think about my little twist at the end!