Chapter 6: Return to Earth
"Usagi, Welcome Home" Hiroto says as he hugs his daughter in law. "Or whatever you call this place" he says with a laugh and Serenity smiles.
"This is home now to me, just as the moon is" Serenity says and Endymion smiles as he holds her hand.
"Endymion" Hiroto says. "Usagi, the nurses are waiting for you" he says and Serenity squeezes his hand before walking off.
"I want to go in…alone" she says and he nods respecting her wish.
"Of course, would you like me to wait or…?" he asks her and she frowns. She wanted him to leave, give her some space. "Ok. I'll leave. I guess I'll know tonight or not if you are…with child" he says and she nods with a smile as his hand leaves hers and he takes a different path towards the room.
"Princess Serenity" a lady says and she frowns. There isn't anything in this room but a bed. "I'm Aina. You're midwife" She says and Serenity smiles nervously.
"Usagi…" She says and she frowns. "I haven't been experiencing any pregnancy symptoms" she says and Aina frowns before grinning.
"We don't need any pregnancy symptoms to know. May I?" Aina asks and Serenity nods as her hands pull up the dress and touches her stomach. "Hmm…let me measure you're waist span." She says as she gets something out and starts measuring.
"What is it?" Serenity asks and Aina grins before pulling Serenity's dress back down over her stomach. "Am I?" she asks and Aina grins.
"I congratulate you. Yes you are two weeks along. Your hips are expanding slightly and I can feel that you are indeed with child" she says and Serenity can't help herself.
"Feel?" She asks and Aina grins.
"I have a gift to feel for others, I can only for royals as that's what I am required to do. Feel the presence of injuries, diseases, illnesses, disorders, and change that is normal enough like pregnancy. So it took one time conceive? You lunarians but be pretty fertile" she says and Serenity blushes.
"I guess" she mumbles and Aina grins. "Can I leave?" she asks and Aina nods.
"I must notify the Council immediately" Aina says and Serenity grins as she leaves the room to find Rei and Ami outside, awaiting the news.
"So?" Ami asks and Serenity Blushes a deep shade as she walks up to her friends.
"She's with child, look at her face" Rei says and Serenity blushes a deeper shade of red.
"I need to speak with Mamo…do you know where he is?" she asks and they shake their heads. "Could you go tell Minako and Makoto, I'll go find Mamo" she says and the girls leave. She walks down the corridor and noticed that Aina is going towards the council room. "Aina, if Mamo is there, could you tell him for me?" she asks her and she nods as she walks around until she reaches the stairs, which she climbs carefully until she reaches the top and bumps into a person. "I'm sorry can I help you?" she asks them as she tries to move past them, but before she can move, they pushe her and she falls. Her head hits the concrete and it cuts to black.
*Prince Endymion*
"Thank you for letting me know Aina, I should go find her" Endymion says as he smiles to the woman and walks towards the stairs. He turns the corner and finds a familiar body on the ground, surrounded in blood. "AINA" he yells and she turns up at his side as he runs towards the body to find his wife. "USAKO! CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Endymion yells and Aina frowns as she looks for wounds.
"Concussion…She has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?" Aina questions and Endymion nods. "Bleeding from the head. Broken ankle" she says and he nods as he places his hands on her head. Kunzite and Minako turn up and gasp.
"Oh my! We only heard the news…who did this?" Minako asks as Kunzite runs down the hallway and calls for the others.
"Get whoever did this now" Endymion says as he starts to feel ill.
"Endymion, rest. This can put no strain on me" Aina says as she replaces his hands with her, and within a matter of minutes, her head is healed. She moves onto her ankle and picks up the princess and frowning. "The embryo has survived" she announces and Endymion lets out a breath. "But it might not depending on how much blood she has lost" Aina says as she lays serenity down on the bed. "I'll come back in an hour" she says and Endymion nods as she leaves and he holds her hand.
For the next week, serenity doesn't move, speak, or even open her eyes. She just sleeps and breathes. She's still in a stable condition. Aina checks the baby before Serenity where he condition doesn't change. The girls change Serenity into clean clothes and brush her hair before cutting it shorter than normal, around shoulder height. He frowns as it grows longer every day, and her condition never changes.
Then, two weeks after the accident, her hand squeezes his. He momentarily stops breathing. But it goes back to silence, he loses hope. Her eyes flutter open, revealing the bright blue depths from within and her panic.
"Mamo-"She gasps and he frowns. "The…Baby-" she says again and he pushes her down onto the bed.
"Usako…the baby is fine, it's you that's not though…do you remember anything?" he asks her and she frowns.
"I don't remember anything after climbing the stairs. Why what happened?" she asks him and he chuckles. She knows she has been injured, but more concerned about the foetus than herself.
"You were pushed from the stairs and I could tell you were pushed by the way you were laid on the ground…a concussion, bleeding from the head and a broken ankle which are all fixed now" he says and she frowns.
"Oh" is all she says and he frowns as she stairs up towards the canopy.
"The girls changed you into some clean clothes and cut your hair way too short for my liking" he says and she grins before looking at her hair.
"It's the same from before" she says and he grins. "It grew out again?" she asks him and he nods with a laugh. "How short?" she asks and he frowns.
"Shoulders" he says and she laughs. "You looked like a completely different person" he jokes and she grins.
"I guess I should get the girls to do that more often" she says and he laughs as he kisses her hand gently.
"No I love your hair the way it is" he says and she grins.
"What would you do if I coloured it into…a brown?" she asks him and he laughs.
"I might cry" he says and she grins. "Or try to colour it back" he says and she grins.
"Not going to give up anytime soon?" she asks and he shakes his head with a laugh.
"No…not now or ever" he says and she grins back at him.