"Miss Elena," A voice called out to me, making me wake up with my sleepily eyes looking around the room.
"Yes…?" My voice was a mouse speaking. It sounded so quiet, close enough to say you wouldn't be able to hear me. I was getting worried about my condition. Each passing day, I grow weak, tired and pale. This baby bump of mine wasn't growing since I couldn't provide it food. Then I slowly moved my eyes to the maid who called to me.
"Master Ash told me to watch over you because you've been out for a couple of days since he last talked to you." The maid replied.
"Where….is he….going?" My breathing was very weak. I feel like an old lady, breathing its last few words before death. I shifted myself to sit up.
"He's going to France for the Exposition Universelle." After hearing what the maid had said, I quickly jumped out of bed. I didn't care about my condition because no one can help me unless it's Sebastian. "Miss Elena!" She shouted, as I ran out from my room to the front castle to see Ash putting the bags in the carriage.
"Ash!" I yelled out to him and repeatedly until he heard my calls, then turning around to see me running toward him, holding me skirt up so I wouldn't trip and fall.
"E-Elena…?!" He looked shocked for a moment, before masking his face to his gentleman face that he always showed out to the world. I finally caught up to him with a pale red faced and breathless, grabbing onto his sleeve. "Elena, you need some rest. Please, go back inside the castle to rest until you're much more better." He pleaded, cupping my face with his white gloved hands.
"I'm fine really. I want to explore in Paris with you. Don't leave me here where I have to stay in bed all day until I recover. You don't have to worry about me, Ash, I'm going to be better than ever, trust me. I want to look at the arts and Eiffel Tower with you because I don't think I'll ever explore again outside of England, please." I quickly bowed, hair falling over my face as I really wanted to go. I don't want to stay in the castle no longer.
He heavily sighed, knowing that there's no way getting out of this. "If you wish, Elena." He bowed, making me feel a bit relieved that I could go.
"Thank you, Ash." I grabbed his hand and lightly jumped on my two feet with a pleasant smile on my pale face. Still feeling like crap but I can't do anything. "Let me help you put the bags away." I offered, but was quickly declined.
"No, I can not let you do that. You're a pregnant woman. I can't let you carry something heavy." He objected, blocking me from the bags from my view since he was tall like a tower to me.
"Ash," I stomped, voice growling, staring at him with my arms crossed. "It's not that heavy to lead me into a miscarriage or whatnot. It's not going to be that bad." I pushed aside him and picked up the bag, placing it inside the back of the carriage.
"A-ah…" He stammered, resuming back to putting the bags away as well.
After putting it away, Ash requested for me to sit inside the carriage, but again, I declined because I don't really want to sit with the Queen since it's going to be awkward. "No, Ash," I shook my head. "I'm sitting up with you." He was the coachman of this carriage.
"There's no way of getting through your stubbornness, is there?"
"Nope." I popped the 'p' as I said it. "I'll be stubborn with you if I have to." I grinned at him, showing my white teeth and he chuckled lowly, being done with me.
Ash got on there first, then helping me up. We sat close to each other as he controlled the horse with the rein. The road was a bit bumpy but smooth, the sky was still a baby blue color, and the people were lively as ever.
"Have you been to Paris before?" I asked, bringing up a topic.
"Yes, a few times. I feel like those few times I visited, it got beautiful by each trip sounds crazy, doesn't it?" With a loving smile, he sighed, staring up at the sky for a second then looking forward to the rode.
"No, no it doesn't. Places can change even within that time frame. Show me some places then, if you want." Now I felt tired, but I can't show it to him. I don't want him to worry about me.
"Aren't you tired? I can see it from your body language. You're leaning back to get comfortable as possible. If you're tired, come sleep on my shoulder. It's okay, I don't mind to have a beautiful lady like you to sleep on me." He teased, making me slap his arm playfully.
"How smooth you are?" I couldn't help but smile at him. "But I'll take the chance to sleep on you because I am tired. Please don't say that I should've stayed at the castle, because that line is getting waaaayy annoying." I rolled my eyes before laying my head on his broad shoulder.
"Don't we look like a couple?"
"Don't know…" My eyes were slowly dropping on me, but I kept on forcing them to stay awake. "Fall asleep, Elena. Don't force your mind to stay awake if it's wanting to rest." He gently spoke with his voice soothing me to sleep as exhaustion was pulling me down to a deep dark world.
"Push, Miss Elena, push!" I looked around to see nurses around me in the room that I used to live in the Phantomhive's Manor. I was unaware what was happening, but what was pulling my conscience back was the back from my womanhood stretching wide open from the child I bared.
"AHHH!" I screamed in pain as I clenched the beddings until my knuckles were white. There was nothing that could numb this torturous pain from my lower region. My eyes were shifting around the room. There were three nurses in the room, trying to help me give birth to the demon child that Sebastian had planted inside of me. Then again, I screamed another painful push of trying to get this child out of me. My skin was burning from all the strength from pushing and being tired.
"Come on, Miss Elena, the baby is almost coming out. Just a few more pushes!" One of the nurses encouraged me, but I had no more strength to push… "Miss Elena!" I heard shouting as my eyes were spinning around.
Then, I felt a tight grip holding my left hand. I forced my head to turn, and I saw Sebastian holding my hand, helping me get through the child delivery. He moved his hand up to my head and wiped the beads of sweat that were forming and falling, then slid it down to caress my cheek. "I told you that I'd come back. Elena, you can deliver this child of ours." He leaned forward to kiss my lips.
Now I didn't feel tired. I had some little energy in me to get this baby out from me. I pushed out one last time before I heard crying from the living demon child that entered this beautiful world that we lived in. I hit my head back against the pillows that were lifting my body and head upwards. "S...Sebastian," I called out to him with a joyful smile that I'd never thought showed in this beautiful moment of time.
"Yes, my love?" He pushed back some of my hairs that were stuck on my face.
The nurse gave me our child in my arms, wrapped in a cozy white blanket. Our child looked so calm and quiet now, before it was crying like crazy from the washing and clean off from my blood. I snuggled close against the warm baby, crying from this creation that I made with Sebastian. "Sebastian, I-"
My eyes quickly opened from a big crashing noise. I looked around to see that I wasn't on the carriage, sleeping on Ash's shoulder, I was on a moving ship…! I ripped off the blankets to look out at the window in the room that I was sleeping in. "No way…" It was my first time on a ship.
"Yes way." I turned around me to see Ash standing at the doorway with a trolley at hand.
"You carried me on the ship didn't you?"
"Yes, because I didn't want to wake you up from the dream you were having. You were scrunching your face up, looking like a bunny, you know?" He started to pour some tea in a cup.
Oh yeah… I had that dream of giving birth to this child. I started to rub my lower stomach in recalling parts of the dream. But I wished that the dream could've lasted longer than shorter. I wanted to see the gender of my child. I felt like this was a sign for some reason deep down in my heart. "Did I really looked like a bunny?" I asked, holding the tea that Ash gave me.
"Yes you did. It was adorable to see your baby faced expression." He teased me once again. I wonder how much he'll tease me.
-Time Skip-
I was out on the deck of the ship with the sun setting, casting a sun kissed glow on my pale white skin. My skin was never this pale. I looked like I was dead, the walking dead to be corrected. "Elena, come inside the ship. It's getting dark and cold now. Since we're in the middle of the sea traveling to France, you'll need the most sleep as possible and also anything can happen in the waters. I don't want anything to happen to you, so come inside with me." He held a hand out to me and I proceeded to walk toward him.
I pushed my flying hair back from the direction of the wind that was blowing at me. I linked arms with Ash as we went inside the ship. "I have some news to tell you." Ash's voice sounded dead serious now.
"What is it?"
"Never mind. It's not important now. But aside from that, we have to share a room together. It turns out that this ship doesn't have a lot of rooms, I'm sorry." I had to think about it for a second before realizing that Ash and I will have to share a room together and even the bed! My face immediately was turning red, a bright red.
"Oh Elena, I won't be sleeping on the bed with you, I'll be on the sofa to sleep on, giving you space and comfort on the bed." Ash was being too nice with me. He's never stubborn to what I see, but he can release his anger by accident.
"O-oh thanks, Ash. You're too kind."
We entered the room and got settled. He gave me one of his pjs to sleep in since I didn't bring anything with me. His clothings were big and loose on me. No matter how much I declined to wear his night clothing, he shoved me in the bathroom to wear it. I crawled in bed as he was tucking me in like a child. "Are you going to read me a story?" I joked, remembering that my mother would read me stories before I fell asleep.
"If you want to." He sat at the edge of the end, already changed, looking handsome even in night clothing.
"No you don't. I was just joking, if you could tell." I chuckled out before feeling tired once again. "Well, goodnight, Ash. I'm going to sleep."
"Goodnight, Elena." Ash walked to each candles to blow off the fire that were lit in the room. When the last candle light blew off, it was now pitch black with the moonlight shining in the small window in this room. I closed my eyes to have that dream I had before, hoping that it'll come back to me.