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"What?"

"Kel has gone into labour!" yelled Dom.

"You are just trying to prank me and when I get to yours and Kel's room something will happen that will embarrass me!" he shot back.

"No, Kel is actually in labour"

"Neal, maybe Kel really is in labour!" said Yuki quietly.

"No I bet it's all part of their plan to prank me" he told her quietly.

Dom was, by now turning purple. "KEL IS IN LABOUR!" he yelled.

"He's a good actor, isn't he Yuki?" asked Neal.

"I'm not acting" he yelled at Neal.

Just then Lord Roaul came by and spotted Dom. "Dom, what are you waiting for your wife is in labour!" he told his sergeant. "What happened to you?" he asked Neal.

Neal pointed at Dom. Dom pointed at Neal.

Neal blanched. "Kel's actually in labour?" he asked.

Both Raoul and Dom nodded. "Well why didn't you tell me?" he asked Dom.

"Dear, maybe you should go see how Kel is doing and get away from Dom... he looks like he wants to strangle you" said Yuki.

"Do not strangle or hurt Meathead, Don't strangle and hurt Meathead" Dom kept repeating to himself. "Until after your daughter is born than both Kel and I can beat him up!"

"Going" said Neal as he rushed to his best friends room, followed closely by Dom, Raoul and Yuki, and pretty much everyone he had landed in front of.

When he reached her room, he looked around. "Where's Kel?" he asked, thinking that they were playing a prank on him again and that Raoul was in it. Dom pointed to the privy. Kel was sitting on the floor clutching her belly as a contraction hit.

"You actually ARE in labour!" he told her.

"Thanks for informing me, I really hadn't noticed!" she said. She looked at him "you look like a chicken"

"I'll cleanup" he told her. He had totally forgotten about the tar and feathers. He went to the sink and cleaned out the feathers and tar. And then he turned to Kel.

"Stay!" he told her.

'What am I?" She asked, "a dog?"

He went to her bed, where the blankets were crumpled and there was still warmt from bodies sleeping there. Trying to banish the thought of Kel and Dom napping together, he pulled the covers aside and put some clean blanket on it and led Kel to the bed where he propped her against the pillow.

He turned around to see Raoul and Dom standing around awkwardly, worry for Kel clearly written all over their faces.

"Raoul, Dom why don't you guys wait outside" He saw Dom about to argue "I know Dom, your wife is in labour, but there is not much you can do except being in the way. Trust me on this, I will take care of Kel"

Dom nodded and left with Raoul. "Yuki can you please get some cool compress and wipe Kel's forehead with them"

"Of course" she said "Don't worry Kel, you'll be fine!"

Merric, Owen, Raoul, Buri, Daine, the Prince, Wolset and many more people were waiting with him outside his room. He shuddered every time he heard his wife scream in pain. All he wanted was to be in there and be able to soothe her and tell her she was the most amazing woman. Having been kicked out of his room and denied entry every time he had tried, he stood in the hallway pacing.

Thank god Wolset was worried for Kel, or Dom would have been teased mercilessly.

He could hear Neal tell her it was almost over and he felt slightly comforted. But of course Owen had to ruin it and murmur "he's been saying that for the past 3 hours"

Dom glared at him. Raoul put his hand on Dom's shoulder. "She'll be fine"

"It's been over seven hours! How long does it take to give birth"

Shinko came up to him holding her son's Jonathan hand and Kely's hand. "It took thirteen hours for me to give birth to Jonathan, and by what I hear, Kel is actually close to be done, Don't worry"

Dom then picked-up Kely and took comfort in her small weight. She actually fell asleep in his arms.

One hour later, the sounds coming from his room changed. The hall fell silent as they listened to the soon-to-be mother and the healer.

"Ok Kel? She's about to come out soon"

"About time" said Kel.

"Ok when I tell you to push, I want you to push" she said.

"Thank you for clearing that up! If you had told me to push I probably would have pulled" she told him sarcastically.

"This is no time to be sarcastic, dear" he informed her. "Now ready to push?"

"Push what?" she asked. Then moaned as, Dom thought, another contraction came over her.

"Just... push" he said.

"That totally cleared thing up!" she informed him.

"Well, just push the baby out?" he more asked than told her.

"Helpful!" she told him.

"You know what, you are the first woman to ask me that! Usually they understand what I mean!" he informed her. "And I've never given birth so I can't really help you"

"Neal, once I'm over the whole birth thing and I'm rested you and I are going jousting"

"Eh! I can still drop your daughter"

Dom growled at that. Apparently he wasn't the only one because a low rumble was heard behind him. "Don't worry Dom, I won't" Neal screamed through the door.

"Now Kel... push" he told her.

"Push what?" she yelled.

"Just try to push the baby out your body, with your stomach muscle" said Yuki.

"See Neal! Couldn't you say something helpful like that?" she said. She then screamed. "Push!" yelled Neal.

Dom's nerves were at his limit and he went to open the door to see his wife, everyone in the hall with him wanting to see her and comfort her. But then Neal said.

"There!"

Then they heard it, his daughter complaining at the ordeal of being brought into the world. Dom couldn't help it, he burst into the room and looked on has Neal wrapped his daughter in a bundle of cloth, while Yuki bathed Kel's sweaty forehead with a cloth. Kel was sitting upright in bed, her arms outstretched, demanding to hold her baby.

Neal looked up when he came in and walked the short distance and held out his daughter so he could hold her. He took her small body in his arm, looked at two very blue eyes. He walked over to Kel as if in a dream. He gently deposited his daughter in his wife's arms. Kel actually had tears in her eyes.

"She's so beautiful" she said. "She has blue eyes, I hoped she would!"

"She's so beautiful!" said Dom "I'm so proud of you." He said as he dropped a kiss on her forehead.

"How do we keep her from crying?" asked Kel

"Feed her" said Neal, smartly.

Kel turned to see Neal "I haven't forgotten about you Neal!" she told him "just push Kel!" she said mimicking Neal.

"Hey, I was trying to help!" he said.

She laughed and her eyes rested on the doorway where most of her friends stood, trying to catch a glimpse of the baby. Tobe was in front, unsure if he should come in. At Kel's nod, he came in and peered at his new sister.

"She's so tiny" he said. And then he lowered his head to whisper in her ear "wait till you can walk! I'll show you how to ride a horse! You'll be so beautiful!" he informed his sister. "You'll be able to ride by the age of 4 little Mia"

"Mia?" asked Kel.

"She looks like a Mia" he said.

"I like it" said Dom.

"Me too" she said.

All the while Mia was making her hunger and discomfort known. "Kel" said Neal "I suggest you feed her, do you want a wet nurse?" he asked.

"No" she said. "Dom can you close the door please? " she turned to the people in the doorway "Why don't you guys come back tomorrow and see her?" they all nodded and left.

"She is a treasure" said Dom. "She's amazing! Look at her, she's so pretty!"

"I know" said Kel gazing at her daughter, while she unclasped her shirt to expose her breast band.

"Neal" said Dom "leave now"

Neal said "I helped her get in the world and I can't even hold her I mean I am her godfather!"

"You are?" said Kel and Dom in unison.

"Of course I'm her godfather" said Neal. "Let me!" he said holding his arms out.

Dom took up little Mia and put her carefully in Neal's arm. "If you drop her your are a dead man"

Neal looked at Mia and checked all her vitals with his magic. "She's so cute" he said. "Not as cute as Kely, but she was already behind with Dom as a sire" he walked to Kel and deposited Mia in her arms "Here, she's got all ten toes and all ten fingers. She's healthy as can be, I'll see you tomorrow"

With that he left the little family to its own. After Kel fed the little one, Tobe took her in his arms and Dom was making sure Tobe didn't drop the little one.

"She's so... squirmy" said the little boy.

Dom laughed as he adjusted Tobe's hold on his sister.

"Come here" said Kel to them. Dom followed Tobe who was holding Mia. She patted the space beside her. Tobe climbed up on the bed and gave her Mia, who was by now fast asleep. Kel gently laid her daughter on the bed beside her and Tobe laid down beside Mia. Dom then went behind Dom and draped his arm around his family.

Kel, content to have her family around her, her daughter and son and her wonderful husband next to her, fell asleep.

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