PROLOGUE - THE FIRST SON
news reports opens with a graphic that reads "Witches are real !" It cuts to a news reporter standing somewhere in New Orleans.
"you may or may not have heard of the recent developments of real-life magical beings living among us. the leader of these witches known as the "supreme" let it known in a recent interview a few days ago they mean no harm..."
The news broadcast cuts to Cordelia sitting down being interviewed.. "we are just you.. we are not a threat to anyone.. we aren't a cult we are sanctuary.. for the lost girls out there confused about what the can do.. we only want to live in peace.."
The news Cuts back to the news reporter.. "While the witches are up and front center we asked if there were any male witches.."
"Yes, but they went into hiding a long time ago.."
Cuts to the reporter.. "Why?"
Cuts to Cordelia.. "It's a long petty story.. let's just say we have a difficult relationship with them.."
If there's one thing to take from this is that where does the world go now that there are beings out here with these kinds of power-CLICK "Hey! I was watching that!"
The girl said standing up from the couch.. yelling at another girl hiding the remote..
"Well, I'm missing Riverdale!"
"Riverdale is trash.. I'm watching the news.."
"The news is trash!" The girls start fighting over the remote until Queenie steps in between them.
"HEY! HEY!" Queenie said pointing down at both of them.
"Look girls if you can't share the both won't watch jack! Got it?" Both girls nod their heads up at Queenie. "Play nice! Fighting each other isn't gonna fix anything.." Queenie said still looking down at them.
It was a busy day in the coven.. girls walked back and forth through the house going about their day.. it was only three days since they revealed themselves to the world and things were running smoothly. They were extending the academy adding more space for the girls.
Zoe stood in the unfinished part of the academy. Kyle walks up standing beside her.. Kyle vocabulary had an upgrade.. he was still a work in progress.. he could talk but he only in short sentences. "There's still a lot of work to be done.."
"Yeah.. but it's worth it," Zoe said leaning her head on Kyle's shoulder.
"it's funny I remember this place being completely empty. it's a full house now!" Kyle said putting his arms around Zoe in a full embrace.
Zoe looks towards Kyle still holding on to him.. "I never imagined this.."
"Imagine what?"
"Finding a place where I belong... I always felt out of place at school, home, and around other people but now I'm home.." Zoe said smiling.
"Oh yeah, I fit in here too... minus the witch part.," Kyle said jokingly.
"I love you.." They pull each other closer still embracing.
Cordelia quietly walked through the main hall smiling at the girls as they passed her.. she walked into the living stopping in front of the her painted portrait.. she gave a confident smirk at it.. right next to it was her mother's portrait... Fiona had been dead not that long.. yet she still always felt the portrait was alive staring back at her.. it was a reminder to her to not let being supreme go to her head... she saw what mother use to do when she was supreme... her fear of death was ironically what made her downfall. Cordelia turns continuing Through the living area until she suddenly feels the need to throw up.. she rushes to the bathroom barfing heavily into the toilet.
"What's wrong with me?" Delia thought as she washed her hands in the sink.
"Is it the flu? No that would impossible a supreme is impervious to that type of stuff.. Is it cramps? No, I haven't even had my-" Delia pauses in shock.. it had been a whole month pass and she didn't even notice her periods stopped.. but how? "Am I? No impossible!"
It seemed impossible indeed she hadn't slept with anyone since hank... ...in the fertility ritual... then it finally clicks in Delia's head.. she did the ritual with hank out of desperation for a baby.. so much was happened in the past month she had completely forgotten about it.. without even thinking she ran into her spellbooks looking up the fertility ritual.. she had all the symptoms, it did exactly what she wanted at the time. Delia fell back on the bathroom wall sliding down to the floor.
"Shit!"
She had no doubt she was pregnant.. as Cordelia sat on the floor someone knocks on her door...
"Cordelia? Are you OK?" The door cracks open Queenie peaks her head in seeing Cordelia sitting on the floor..
"Umm.. you doing all right?" Queenie said approaching her...
"Yes.." Cordelia said plainly.
she already knows something is up with Cordelia. "Are you hurt or something?"
"No.."
"I haven't seen you this worried since the seven wonders.." Queenie said..
"Queenie I'm OK.."
"then you wouldn't mind me asking why you're on the floor?" Queenie sat right next to her on the floor.
Cordelia leaned her head back on the wall. "I'm... I'm pregnant."
Quennie was trying to find the words but couldn't. "What?! But like... how? when?!"
"When I was with hank.. we were trying to have a baby... nothing we did was working... we tried every option so we turned to magic... it was supposed to help me be fertile.. and.. it worked.." Cordelia said letting out a nervous laugh.
"Jesus Delia.." Queenie grabbed Cordelia's hand. "What are you going to do?"
"I honestly don't know... I've always dreamed of this moment but it just seems unexpected now.." Cordelia said sitting up, wrapping her arms around her knees.
"I always wanted to be a mother... I guess in a lot of ways it was to heal myself of the shit relationship with my mom. " Cordelia said.
"Well.. if decide to go through with it just know you don't have to go through it by yourself.. you have me, Zoe and Kyle.." Queenie said still warmly grasping Delia's hand.
"thank you.." Delia said softly, leaning her head on Queenie's shoulder...
"But I'm not changing any shitty diapers if you do keep. that's out of the question.."
Cordelia laughs. "Fair enough.."
"YOUR PREGNANT?!" Zoe said as she hugged Cordelia.
Zoe's happy face slowly turned to confusion.. "Wait... you're pregnant?"
"Yep.," Queenie said laughing at Zoe's reaction.
"Wait you knew about this?" Zoe said a little salty she found out before her.
"I just found out 2 minutes ago!"
"Girls there's a bigger issue here.." Cordelia said pointing to her stomach.
"Are you gonna keep it?"
Zoe and Queenie both look at Cordelia for a response.
"I'm keeping the baby.." Cordelia said smiling at the girls.
"Holy shit! Your really serious about this?" Zoe said.
"Yes.. this is something I wanted so badly for so long and it's happening..." what Cordelia was about to say was a sentence she never thought she would actually say. "I'm going to be a mother.."
Zoe and Queenie softly hug Cordelia.
"Wait a minute... who's the father?" Zoe said breaking from her hug.
Delia pushes his name out of her mouth. "Hank.."
"The witch hunter.. OH.." Zoe remembered covering her mouth.
"Yeah, I know.."
"I grew up without my father.. my mother wasn't exactly present but My baby will still have its mother.," Cordelia said with her hand on her stomach.
9 months later..
"PUSH!"
The doctor said to Cordelia.. she screams as she gives birth. She breathes hard and sweats.. outside of the delivery room Queenie, Kyle and Zoe sit in the waiting room.
Kyle gets extremely worried "is she alright?.." Kyle says rubbing his knees.
Zoe holds Kyle's hand and gives a warm smile at him... "she will be fine." She says reassuring him.. but the truth was Zoe was extremely worried for the supreme.
Queenie interjects "well I mean.. she did lose her mother, a student, and husband who happened to be a witch hunter and on top of that finding out your pregnant by that said husband I can't say I blame him.."
Zoe looks up at Queenie still rubbing Kyle's back. "Jesus Queenie! your not helping!"
"She's been through worse is what I'm trying to say!" Queenie said rewording her sentence.
inside the delivery room, Cordelia struggles with the birth and she begins to cry.
"I CAN- I CANT DO IT!" Cordelia says in total defeat..
the doctor lifts the sheet covering her legs "it's alright I need one more good push from you OK?!"
Cordelia nods her head at the doctor bracing herself.. "1. 2. 3. PUSH!"
She lets out a yell that echoes through the night. Cordelia in a daze can only see blurry faces.. the doctor cuts the umbilical cord and the nurse smiles at Cordelia holding the baby "its a baby boy!" As soon as Cordelia looks at the baby she instantly snaps out of her daze looking at the baby's glowing face.. she smiles at him with full tears in her eyes.
"can I hold him please?" The nurse puts the baby in her arms softly. Cordelia adjusts herself and holds her son in a warm embrace.. the baby grabs her finger and gives a little smile on his face. "can I.. be alone with him for a second?" She says rocking the baby in her arms. she brushes her hand across her baby's head.. taking in every detail on his little face.
" So.. you're the little guy I was so worried about?" the baby opens his mouth and yawns.
"don't you fret mommy is gonna good care you.." Cordelia says kissing his forehead.
Zoe peeks through the door.
"Shhhh! He's sleeping.." Zoe and Queenie step in quietly beside Cordelia. "Aww, he's so cute!" Queenie says looking down the sleeping infant. "So what's up his name?" Zoe says. "I always said if I had a son I'd name him Francis... After a warlock, I read in a history book along time ago and it stuck with me.."
" eh.. Francis? That's what we're calling him?" Queenie adds.
Cordelia smiles at down at the infant totally transcended "yeah. Francis.. Francis timothy Goode.."
Zoe moves closer to Cordelia "supreme I have a question.." Zoe says with a nervously.
"me and Queenie were thinking since we helped out with the pregnancy.. if it's not too much to ask if we can be his godparents"
"Are you kidding?! I wouldn't think twice about having you guys as godparents!" Cordelia says with glee..
"what will you do when he starts asking questions about his you know who?" Queenie asks Cordelia
of course, she knew who "you know/who" was.. Cordelia looks at the baby then back up at Queenie and gives a loud and clear response.
"my son has no father.. he's mine and mine alone. When the time does come when he gets old enough to start questioning things it will be my burden to bear.." ...
Zoe looks out the window noticing a glowing reflection on the window.. she walks over to the window and sees a street full of witches holding candles and bringing gifts.
"holy shit! Cordelia all these people must be for you!" Zoe exclaims..
"there not for me. there for him.." Cordelia says holding the baby slightly up..
Queenie turns towards Kyle standing in the doorway and says "kyle can you tell the nurse to come get Francis. I think the supreme will need some rest.."
"wait. You didn't want us to stay here With you?" Zoe says turning back at Cordelia with a concerned look...
"no I will be fine.. the girls are probably going crazy right now with me not there.. you girls just go home and ill be fine.. the guards will be here with me.."
Zoe sighs in defeat "she's right.. the coven needs us.. just take care alright?" Zoe and Queenie exit the room quietly... leaving Cordelia and little Francis at peace...
for the first time in what seems like forever Cordelia has a full night's sleep .. the baby in the hospital nursery sleeps as soft as a mouse.. a bright hand touches the babies chest as he breathes soft and calmly.. the figure reveals herself...
It's Misty...
she moves closer toward the infant kissing his forehead.. behind her a dark man appears only in. "what are you doing here?" She says looking over shoulder at papa legba with a mean look...
"you think a man of my work can't stop by and pay his respects?" He says with a sly tone putting his hand on his chest...
"I never knew a fella like you would know anything about respect.," Misty replied with sass...
papa still grinning at her gives a quick glance at the sleeping infant.. "a supreme has never had a son before... I had to come to see for myself.. it's always been a rare occurrence of witches having warlocks.. but If it's ironic I'm surprised you showed.. especially after what happened.."
Misty slightly lowers her head.. "what happened was nobody's fault I was weaker then.." Misty replied.
legba walks closer too Misty.
"and yet after dying and being stuck in hell you still came back? Back here with them?" Misty looks down at Francis's hand still softly laying on his little chest...
"they're the only family I have.. they're my tribe."
Papa legba scoffs at her response disappearing into the shadows... Misty leans Down at Francis giving him a kiss on the forehead...
"take care of your mama Little fella.." Misty disappears into the darkness sleeping peacefully in his nursery...