Chapter 4. Really, I have no idea if it's any good. Not just this chapter, but the whole story. Please review so that i can have some idea of it's quality.
I'm also working on The Will to live, but it'll have to wait a bit because I'll be without my comupter while I'm at my dad's house for a day.
I was the first one to know that Integra was pregnant. After all, I could smell it, a subtle hormonal change that resulted in a different scent which mingled with the familiar smell of her blood.
How I knew the nature of this change is beyond me, but I had known what the scent had meant and informed her of her state before she had even the slightest notion that it was a possibility. Needless to say, she was shocked. A trip to the doctor confirmed what I had already known, and she seemed to handle the news rather calmly over all.
John, on the other hand, nearly collapsed. After the initial shock, he refused to leave Integra's side at any time, fussing about and generally being a nuisance. He had rather softened up to me in the year since we'd been living in the same house, and enlisted my help in keeping Integra from doing just about anything, going so far as to even request me to teleport her about the house so that she didn't have to walk. Once out of earshot, this had caused me to laugh to the point of tears, remembering the fierce woman that Integra had once been and contrasting it to her current condition.
Despite John's numerous fears, Integra gave birth to twin boys without complications. They were baptized George and Geoffrey and all three were deemed healthy enough to leave the hospital in near record time.
The once quiet halls soon came to be filled with the crying of babes and the hushed attempts at silencing them by their beleaguered and somewhat disillusioned parents. It was quickly suggested that I care for them when they awoke at night as I slept during the day.
It still amuses me how swiftly the newly-wed phase had ended after the boys were born.