I admit, this one was fun.
"Argh screw this!" Anna was not having a good time. The morning sickness was ridiculous and Elsa was in a meeting and the handmaidens were being too clingy and all she wanted was a deep fried pickle covered in chocolate. She leaned back over the sink and spit out the last of the phlegm in her mouth; okay, some mint tea would be great too.
When the castle doctor informed her and Elsa that Anna was with child both were a bit perplexed. "Anna, is there something I should know?" Elsa had turned to the red-head with a barely concealed smile.
"Elsa, I think there's something we both need to know and I think the trolls might know what that is." The Queen of Arendelle had nodded and slipped her hand over Anna's stomach, "so, do you want to keep it?"
Looking back on it Anna could understand the question but at the time she'd nearly slapped Her Royal Majesty upside her royal head, "Well, some magic bits in you think we should have a baby and this may be the only chance at it for the two of us so, yeah, Elsa, I think we should keep it."
"Even if it has ice magic?"
"Because it has ice magic. Because it's ours"
Anna hadn't seen Elsa smile like that since their wedding day.
However, apparently magical babies were much harder than regular babies and while the castle staff tried their utmost to be of service in these trying times usually it was only Gerda or Elsa who could get Anna to relax. But right now at this very moment, nothing was going to get Anna to relax.
"Holy shit." Anna staggered on her way to the dining hall and Gerda, with hearing more sensitive than a bat on acid, came bolting from the library. The handmaiden with Anna had just enough time to rush to the Queen's side before Gerda bodily moved the girl out of her way.
"Getting some contractions honey?" Gerda cooed as she glared at the handmaiden who realized that her job in this was to fetch other people more qualified than her. "Come on, sweety, lets get you to bed."
"Ah sweet mother of pearl," Anna didn't curse a lot and Gerda knew she was in pain but Gerda had seen Anna through everything from diapers to marriage and a baby was just one more stepping stone for her. So Gerda sucked in her motherly instinct to sit down right there and bawl about her grown up babies and hooked an arm under Anna's because there was work to be done and it would be a cold day in hell before Gerda let this family down.
Anna was not real attuned to Gerda's strife because of her own strife. She'd heard that contractions were supposed to start with long intervals between them, but hers were already just minutes apart. The doctor got to them as Anna was laying down and Anna could not have given two shits about where her skirts were because "Sweet Mother of the Dawn, it hurts!"
Meanwhile, Elsa was rubbing her temples over an incredibly boring trade meeting. She couldn't seem to concentrate. There was something nagging at her and even her magic was antsy. She understood when Kia entered the room looking much more haggard than usual.
"Excuse me admiral, but my wife has gone into labor." She calmly stood from her study chair and didn't hear what the surprised man said back. Ice was already creeping along the floor.
The Ice Queen of Arendelle swept up the staircase until she heard a yelp of pain, then she ran. Two handmaidens and the guard captain stood at the door, "Excuse me Your Majesty, but the doctor has asked that you remain outside during the birthing process."
The Queen gave the Captain a withering stare and replied, "I will be by my wife's side while she gives birth to our child." She moved forward to open the door herself but the Captain spoke again.
"Er, Gerda has also, um, suggested that you remain outside." Everyone in the hallway understood the implications of that statement. The implications made all the more real as ice and frost continued to climb the hallway walls.
"WHERE IS MY WIFE?!" The shriek of indignation resounded in the hallway and Elsa shook in her heels. Her magic wound its way around her clothes, worming into the fabric, embracing its master in her time of need. The cold wafted off of her, penetrating even the Captain's armor. Elsa did not look happy.
"I DON'T CARE IF SHE FREEZES THE LOT OF YOU, I WANT MY WIFE." Elsa bodily twitched. "ELSA, GET YOUR FROZEN ASS IN HERE BEFORE I-AUGHHH," Captain Reynard, veteran of 20 years, folded away from the Queen like paper in front of a pair of scissors. His only thought was to move away and keep the two handmaidens from harm.
In the next few weeks the story of the Ice Queen's entrance would circulate the castle besides Gerda's best attempt to keep the rumors down. In one version Elsa enters the birthing room with ice crackling through the air, another had a snow giant take the door right off its hinges, a third involved a blizzard and an ice lance.
Gerda looked up from Anna's face to see ice blue eyes flash over her, she'd seen Elsa through puberty, but even Gerda flinched as the Ice Demon of the North strode into the room. Her dress was ruined, the magic swirling around her had replaced the fabric with the cold heart of the North Mountain. Her eyes were like mirrors, glazed with the magic calling from Anna's womb. The trolls hadn't warned them of this because they hadn't known about it.
Nothing on Earth could have kept Elsa from Anna at that moment.
Anna was not paying attention to the obvious drop in temperature, she made love to the Ice Queen, she was used to it. At the moment Anna wanted to show Elsa exactly how much pain a magical baby could give to a person. "Elsa, come here."
The being of ice and cold strode away from the door, freezing the stone she stepped on, and stopped beside Anna. "Put your left hand on my forehead and give me your right."
The magic whirling around her responded and Elsa raised one hand to her wife's brow and the other slipped into Anna's own hand. If Gerda was any weaker of a woman she'd have fainted and died on the floor right there, her Queen was about to kill her other Queen. The doctor really didn't have time for this, yes it was a bit nippy in the room now, but he'd been around for Elsa's birth, he just wanted a glass of scotch.
At the next contraction Elsa was snapped back into conscious control of her body as her magic quietly slipped away from the pain in her hand. Elsa sucked in a breath, Anna let out a breath in a holler, Gerda realized that she needed to breathe, and the doctor sighed because they were going to be there for a while.
What seemed like years of breathing and yelling and Elsa's slowly breaking fingers later the doctor gave a triumphant "hmph" and held the royal heir to the Arendelle throne. Elsa sighed with relief, Anna just kept breathing and closed her eyes, she wanted to hold her baby, but also she didn't want to move.
Gerda wrapped the child in a blanket and handed her to Anna. "She's a girl and she's healthy."
Much cooing and crying ensued, the doctor decided this was his time for that bottle of scotch, and the handmaidens from the hall finished drying the walls.
About an hour later the question of the child's magical abilities was answered as Gerda took her binky, which subsequently froze to the head maid's fingers. Gerda sighed and looked to Elsa as the child cried.
Elsa smiled. Idun would grow in a loving environment, her ice magic would not hurt anyone. Anna dozed and didn't wake to the tiny cold fingers clenching at her night shirt.
That Guard Captain and the doctor shared that scotch. Don't know if I'd fear Elsa or Gerda or Anna more though.