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-Symbiotic
Diana couldn't believe she hadn't noticed some of Akko's pregnancy symptoms way earlier. It might have been easy to let it slip that Akko was going through some moody feelings that made her seem like an emotional wreck, but Diana chided herself for not seeing some of the far more obvious symptoms. Chief among them Akko's morning sickness.
Diana first began to notice it when Akko forgot to shut the door behind her when she went to go to the bathroom, not that shutting the door was chief among her concerns. The light would often shine in Diana's eyes as she slept, waking her out of her deep slumber to find Akko with her head practically buried in the toilet throwing up violently in the evening. At first Diana ignored it for she knew that morning sickness was just something that women go through when they're pregnant, but soon it began to worry her greatly, namely because nothing seemed to make it stop.
The final straw for Diana was when she returned home from Luna Nova one day and was hugged by Akko upon her return. But before Akko could go to say something Diana watched as Akko turned pale and proceeded to vomit up on her professor's uniform. The display made her want to gasp, but she held it in knowing that any display of surprise or disgust would greatly hurt her wife's feelings and she needed to do her best to remain empathetic to what Akko was going through.
The sight devastated Akko and made her fall onto the floor. Diana couldn't help but sigh. She stripped off her professor's uniform and hovered over Akko in nothing but her underwear, bending down and placing her hand on her wife's head to make sure Akko wasn't feverish. "I'm sorry," Akko squeaked. "I'm really sorry."
"It's okay," Diana said gently. "It's perfectly fine, Akko."
"No it's not!" Akko bawled. She stayed curled up in a ball and continued to sob onto the floor, unable to face her wife. "It's not okay because I know I'm keeping you up and now I just lost control of myself all over your uniform."
"I assure you that…" Diana began.
"I just want it to stop," Akko cried out. "I just want it to stop…"
Diana reached down and hugged her wife tightly. She may have been exhausted due to a lack of sleep and all the classes she was teaching, but she was determined to make Akko better no matter what. With that she led her upstairs and laid Akko on her side, assuring her that everything would be okay.
Diana then closed the door behind her and went to her study. Quickly she opened up every book she possibly could and began to scour the pages, looking for something that could help her wife. Anything would do; a spell, a potion, an incantation to some kind of a being. Anything that could possibly help her wife regain a constitution and be able to stop throwing up. And there was nothing she could find. There were no spells to reduce morning sickness, and more troubling there were no potions that Diana could make in her cauldron to help Akko feel better. In fact in all the literature that Diana possessed there were very few spells that actually could deal with pregnancy. Despite the fact that she had stumbled upon the ancient fertility spell that had allowed her and Akko to conceive a child in the first place there was little in the way to actually ease a pregnancy and make it better, and nothing that could help with morning sickness.
Hastily she made a call with her crystal ball to the one person she figured she could help. She waited on her end for several minutes before she got a hold of just who she wanted; Sucy Manbavaran. "I need your help," Diana said quickly.
"You need my help?" Sucy said shocked. Diana heard the puce haired witch snicker from the other end of the line. "Can the great Diana Cavendish please repeat that once more?"
"Sucy…" Diana growled.
"Okay, okay I've had my fun," Sucy said. "What's going on? What do you need my help with?"
"Has Akko by chance told you what's going on with her?" Diana asked.
"I haven't talked to Akko much lately but I heard what happened to you two. Congratulations."
"Thank you. But Akko's been going through a bout of...morning sickness for lack of a better term. And I need a way to address the matter."
"So you're wondering if there's a potion that can fix it, I assume?"
"As close as we are I wouldn't really be calling you otherwise, Sucy."
"Well at least you're honest," the puce haired woman replied. "But to be frank with you a potion isn't necessary to cure morning sickness."
"What? Really?" Diana said, completely baffled by what she was hearing. "I mean surely their must…"
"Nausea is a pretty small problem to be cured with something like a potion," Sucy stated. "There are loads of natural remedies and different things that can cure it before you need to turn to something magical."
"Can you give me some ideas?" Diana asked. "I'm truly struggling to figure out what to do and I'm afraid it could be getting worse."
Sucy began to rattle off a list of things that Diana could use, things which the blonde heiress wrote down upon a piece of paper. After she was finished she thanked Sucy and made her way over to the computer that Akko had set up in her study. Some things required the power of the internet to obtain more than magic.
"Akko?" Diana said. It had been a few days since the incident where she was vomited upon and Akko was still resting on her side with a pillow between her thighs. Diana approached her slowly. "How are you feeling?"
"Hmm?" Akko muttered groggily. "Diana…"
"How are you feeling?" Diana repeated, sitting down on the side of the bed next to her wife. She stroked her hair lovingly.
"I'm okay," she said with a smile. Diana could clearly tell her wife was in pain and continued to stroke her hair. "That feels nice."
"I got you some things," Diana said. She reached down for her bag and opened it up for Akko, pulling out a small container for her to open up. Akko opened up the container to find a medley of assorted food items; crackers, antacid chewies, and most interesting to her a host of assorted lollipops. Diana picked one up and unwrapped it for her. "Try one."
Diana watched her wife take the lollipop and begin to suck on it. Immediately a smile came across her face. "This tastes really good, but shouldn't I be avoiding sugary stuff when all this is happening to me?"
"These are what they call 'Preggie Pops'," Diana explained. "They're made of all natural ingredients and come in a variety of flavors. They're even doctor recommended for pregnant women as a way to reduce morning sickness."
"Aww," Akko said. Diana found herself quickly wrapped up in an embrace. "You're so thoughtful." Diana watched Akko suck on the lollipop. "And you know that sweets are the quickest way to my heart."
"You're far too elementary, my dear," Diana said. She bent over and kissed Akko on the forehead, which made the Japanese girl giggle in delight. Diana reached back into the bag and pulled out a can of ginger ale, which she poured for both her and Akko. "Two months," Diana said as she held her glass up. "Only seven more to go."
"Yeah," Akko said as she tapped her glass against Diana's. "Only seven more to go." Akko drank her ginger ale down and then let out a small burp, making Diana roll her eyes. "Thanks for sticking by me."
"What would I do otherwise?" Diana said. "You are the mother of our child and…"
"No I mean really, thanks for sticking by me," Akko repeated. "Thanks for staying up late to make sure I'm okay. For never complaining about being kept up so late because of what's happening to me. For letting me throw up on your uniform."
"Well I don't think I really wanted that last one to happen," Diana chuckled. "But I was completely fine with it, don't you worry." She bent over and kissed Akko again.
"But really, I know you don't have to do all this," Akko said. "You got your own life ahead of you and you got all the students. You don't have to put up with the fact that I'm such a mess." Diana watched Akko reach over and hold her hand. "I can take care of myself you know."
"I know you can," Diana said. She gently picked up Akko's hand in her own. "But as long as I'm here you'll never have to do that, Akko." She reached down and kissed her wife's hand, making Akko smile as she continued to suck on the lollipop. Diana then laid down next to her wife and closed her eyes. She didn't want to fall asleep but couldn't help it. And true to Akko's demeanor her wife let her drift off into a peaceful rest.
