Title: Births of the New Blood of the Pharaohs

Author: Dream Out Loud 18

Summary: Title says it all. The births of the new blood of the pharaohs of the Kane Chronicles!

Couples: Carter/Zia, OC/OC, Jaz/Walt, Sadie/Anubis

Rated: T

Which couple is going to be in this chapter? Zia/Carter (Zarter)

Disclaimer: I don't own the Kane Chronicles. I do, however, own their children and Abby and Simon. (Insert evil grin here)

Chapter 8: Birth of Timothy Mathias Kane Rashid

How ironic it was, when the fourth Kane Rashid wanted to be born while his mother was talking with a healer, the same healer that had brought her other three children back to life.

Zia Kane, née Rashid, had brought her kids, 3-year-olds Diana and Janice "Janie" Kane, and her 1-year-old son, Adrian Kane, to play with the Stone-Anderson kids. Jaz Stone, née Anderson, was there, cradling the newest edition to her family, Jade. Zia and Jaz watched as Adrian and Jade played together in Jade's playpen and while Diana and Janice had a Boys vs. Girls game of tag against Brian and Jesse Stone.

"So, how's the baby coming up?" Jaz asked, watching Jade squeal gleefully as Adrian handed her a toy.

Zia put a hand to her stomach. "I swear to the gods, this will be my last pregnancy."

"That's what you said when you were pregnant with Adrian."

"I mean it for real this time."

It was at that moment that Zia's water broke. She let out a groan. "Not again!"

Jaz's eyes widened as she put an arm around her fire elementalist friend, murmuring words of comfort, before calling her husband and Carter. After a while, a burly black man stumbled in, and Jaz was quick to take Zia to the infirmary, where Carter was waiting. Everything passed in a blur. Zia, who, in her opinion, is now an expert at labour, didn't yell at her husband, but gave him a deathly glare as she pushed her son out of her stomach.

"Come on Zia, push our son out and it'll be the last time I get you pregnant, promise!" Carter encouraged, holding her hand.

"It better," Zia growled through gritted teeth, before giving a final push, then slumped back, hearing Jaz's call of "He's out!" and soft, baby cries. Carter, who's right hand was now immune to Zia's tight grip, gently caressed her face. "No more kids?"

"No more," she breathed. "Four's enough, don't you think?"

"Don't worry, we're not going to be like the Weasleys with so many kids," he assured her. She let out a small laugh. Carter cracked a smile and looked up as Jaz entered with their fourth (and hopefully last) child.

"Here he is," Jaz cooed, looking at the baby, before handing him to Carter (he had called dibs to hold the baby first between the two parents) before heading out to clean herself up and return home to make sure that the six kids didn't drive her husband insane and/or destroy the house.

"Timothy," Carter muttered, looking at the child that looked so much like Adrian, with his little wisps of brown hair, mocha skin, and half-closed amber eyes.

"What?" Zia looked at him, confused. Carter blushed, before muttering, "Timothy. We can call him Timmy. I just...It's November, and next month is December, which means Christmas, and I was thinking of one of my favorite Christmas time books, a Christmas Carol, and how bad I felt for Tiny Tim for having such a terrible disease and for him possibly dying but that was changed, so yeah. Timothy."

Zia stared at him, then smiled fondly. "Oh, my sweet bookworm," she called him fondly. "Of course we can call him Timothy. What would his middle name be?"

"Mathias?" Carter asked after a while. "He was one of the co-workers of Howard Carter, and you know I'm named after him and all that..."

Zia cracked a smile and held out her arms for her child. Carter handed him to her. Zia admittedly gushed over it, kids being a weak point in her barrier. "Hey there, Timothy Mathias Kane Rashid," she cooed.

Carter looked relieved as Timothy blinked his half-closed eyes at his mother. He looked so confused, and Zia almost squealed.

Carter was sure his wife was going to spoil Timmy rotten.

Timothy Mathias Kane Rashid, son of Carter and Zia Kane. Descendant of Narmer and Ramesses the Great, and perhaps Nerifiti.

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I AM SO INCREDIBLY SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT. I KNOW I COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY SUCK.

Yes, I know Zia was OOC at the end, but I figured that hey, since she had just given labor, she would be kind of hazy in the head.

Has anyone read the Serpent's Shadow yet? I have, and it's AMAZING! But, talking about that...I'm doing this with all my stories in here that came out BEFORE the Serpent's Shadow. Since gods can be at two places at once, Anubis is hosting two people at the same time, so Walt's still alive but is with someone else, and Sadie is with the other host that holds Anubis.

To GoddessOfTheMoonAndEnthusiasm: You have earned my respect.

To TRL loves you: Sorry, all Sanubis kids are done, but maybe you can do that. :)

To readingrules512: Just these couples, sorry.

To musesdaughter547: Good luck with that. :-/

To Egyptiandude990: All pregnancy. I can write action in another story if you'd like. :)