Creation began on 04-09-16

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The Little Mermaid

Heir To The Throne: For Comfort

A/N: What if, instead of kink, Ariel and Melody delivered in their rooms while Prince Eric awaited the arrival of his newest children?

Melody couldn't remember when she was capable of screaming so loudly and in intense pain while in labor with her father's baby inside her womb. Even when assisted by the castle's servants, it was still a trying ordeal for her.

"Aaah! It hurts!" She cried out as she felt something big and slick pushing out of her. "It hurts!"

"I know, dear," went the midwife in front of her. "Just push, and it'll stop soon."

"I want my mom," she whined, the part of her conscience that was still immature taking over as she tried to follow the midwife's instructions. "I want my mom here!"

"I know you do, but she can't be here right now," the female servant behind Melody informed her, trying to keep from potentially harming herself or the baby. "But she's close by. She's in the next room having the other baby."

"Aaaaahh!" Melody cried out.

-x-

"Aaah!" Ariel groaned as a contraction came.

"The baby's crowning," the midwife announced. "Get ready to push, Ariel."

"Melody," the mother uttered, concerned for her pregnant daughter. "Is she alright?"

"Aaah!" She heard her daughter in the room across the hall from hers. "Aah!"

"First-time mothers always scream from the labor," the woman behind Ariel expressed.

But Ariel was still concerned about her daughter. Ever since they got pregnant by her father, Melody's belly had expanded more than Ariel's did, which might've been due to eating more than necessary. Yet, because it felt like a mother's intuition, Ariel suspected that there was more to her daugher's pregnancy.

"Are you ready, Ariel?" The midwife asked her, reaching underneath the blanket over the mother's waist and legs.

"Yes!" She gasped.

"Okay…push!"

"Aaaaurgh!"

-x-

"Aaaaurgh!" Melody screamed as she bore down on the bed while the midwife pulled the baby out of her.

"Waah! Waah!" The room was filled with the cries of a newborn, Eric and Melody's first child and Melody's half-sibling.

"It's a boy," the midwife announced, cutting the cord and wrapping the child in a blanket.

Melody thought she would have a long rest after delivering her son and half-brother…but then she felt pain all over again.

"Aah! Ow! Aah!" She cried out, and the midwife returned to her.

"My God," she gasped, realizing her error in judgment to assume that Melody was anywhere near done. "We might be in for a long night."

-x-

Ariel panted as her new baby was finally delivered, and she was able to rest.

"…Aaurgh!" Her slight haze was disturbed by her daughter's screaming.

"Huh? What's wrong with Melody?" She asked the midwife tending to her son.

"I'll go see, ma'am," she declared and left out the room after putting her child in the bassinet.

Her daughter's screaming was loud and full of pain, and she wasn't sure why, anymore.

The midwife returned and informed Ariel, "Your daughter delivered a boy, but she's still in labor, ma'am."

"Still?" Ariel questioned. Is Melody having twins?

-x-

"…Push, Melody!" The midwife ordered, pulling the second child out of its young mother and half-sister.

"Urgh!" Melody groaned as she pushed as hard as she could, feeling like the new baby was being yanked out of her body, unlike the first one. "Aaaurgh!"

"Waah!" The baby cried, breathing for the first time.

"It's a girl," the midwife announced to Melody, cutting the cord that connected the young girl to her daughter and half-sister.

But Melody couldn't express her joy at having another child by her father that was her little sister. She still felt agony, like there was something still inside her belly trying to claw its way out of her.

"It still hurts," she cried quietly, unsure if she was able to scream any longer.

The midwife tending to her had set the newborn baby girl turned back to look at the young mother…and saw blood staining the bedsheets under her legs. But that wasn't the only thing she saw under the blanket.

"Melody," she uttered to her, "I need to push again."

"I can't," Melody moaned, certain that she had at least one more child in her womb.

"The head's already crowning, dear. You need to push."

"I can't," she cried quietly.

"Melody," her mother's voice cut through the agony as she appeared beside her, barely recovered from her son's delivery. "You're almost done. Finish what you started."

Melody saw her left hand held out in front of her, and she reached for it.

"Aaaaahh!" She howled out as she felt another contraction.

-x-

Eric worried about his wife and daughter. As he waited for the news of their children's arrival, he feared that they were in great pain, especially Melody, due to this being her first pregnancy and childbirth, and she was much younger than Ariel had been when she was pregnant. And Ariel had mentioned her being larger than herself.

"Prince Eric, sir?" One of the two midwives assigned to his wife and daughter had entered the room and bowed to him.

"How are they?" He asked, needing to know what state they were in.

"Your wife delivered a boy," she revealed to him, "but your daughter…she…"

"What about Melody? What's wrong with Melody?"

"Your daughter had a difficult birthing, sir. She delivered a boy…but was followed by two daughters, the second of which caused some blood loss."

"A boy and two girls? She…she had triplets?"

"Yes. It was quite a surprise for everyone. I had expected twins, but not triplets. Your daughter should be fine when she wakes up; having triplets at such a young age was a heavy toll on her."

Eric went to his daughter's room and found her unconscious in her bed, being watched over by her tired mother.

"Ariel?" He called to her, and she looked over at him.

"Have you heard?" She asked him, softly stroking their daughter's forehead.

"She had triplets," he responded. "I can't believe that she was able to carry all three of them to term. Twins, maybe, but not triplets. I hope that she wakes up soon."

Ariel could see that her husband felt concern for their eldest daughter (since Melody's daughter's were Ariel's stepdaughters, not just her granddaughters), since he was largely at fault for putting her in such a position. Though, it was also Ariel's fault, as well; ever since she found their daughter playing with herself in her room, she put her in her current relationship with her parents as her lovers.

"Could you two please be quiet?" They heard Melody speak out to them. "It's really hard to sleep in here."

Hearing their daughter say that implied that she was going to recover in the end.

-x-

It was a long and stressful two months, but both mothers had recovered from that night.

"Drink up, girls," Melody told her daughters and half-sisters as she was in her bed preparing to breastfeed them while her mother was feeding her son/half-brother and little brother. "Mommy feels like she's going to burst."

As she felt her daughter on her left make contact with her breast and began suckling on the milk, in the other room, Ariel was breastfeeding her son and grandson while sitting in a rocking chair. The feeling she got from nursing them was almost hypnotic to her senses.

"Ahh…that's right, you two," she told them as she held them closely. "Drink up so you can grow up to be strong men."

Her grandson feeding on her right breast moved his right hand on said breast, causing the milk flow, which was low, to flow better.

"Now, now, girls, don't fight," Ariel heard her daughter say to her daughters in her room. "There's plenty of milk for both of you."

Eric had to go on another voyage across the ocean, but prior to leaving, he had married his daughter so that their triplets wouldn't be stigmatized by the fact that they were born out wedlock or the fact that their father was also their grandfather. When he returned, he planned to make sure that Ariel and Melody got some much-needed relaxation from the babies while he looked after them with the servants.

"Remember that I'm not just your mother," Melody's voice was raised again, "but I'm also your sister, and I love you and your brother and uncle very much."

Ariel chuckled at Melody's maternal affections towards the babies.

The End

A/N: I have to admit, I was going to do another Col. Kink here, but decided that, with the minor exception of Melody breastfeeding her girls, it was better to have Ariel and her daughter be tended to by skilled women and not Eric. What did you think of this alternate to the other chapter? Read and review.