Forever

The Delivery

Mary's point of view
Francis and I were getting ready for a ball. "Mary are you ready?" Francis shouted "I'm almost ready." I said putting my earrings in. "You look beautiful." He kissed my cheek. "Thank you." I smiled then kissed him. "Are you sure you want to go to this?" He asked "Yes sure, I want to dance with my husband." I said wrapping my arms around his neck. "Okay as long as you think your ready." He smiled "Let's go babe." I smiled "Okay babe." He smiled "I love you babe." I giggled "I love you more babe." He laughed, we heard a noble and his mistress calling each other babe like way to much and it was so funny. "Babe I really think we should name our baby Francis jr." He laughed "Babe, What If we have a girl?" I laughed "Babe, her name can be Francesca." He laughed "Babe, I will be a good wife and mother because I will never let my children be named Francesca or Francis." I giggled "Okay babe but if you are sleeping when we show the people our baby I will name him or her Francesca or Francis." He laughed "I can't even fight with you about this anymore babe." I laughed "Babe I'm sorry." He laughed as we walked into the ball room. Francis pulled my chair out for me, I kissed his cheek then sat down. He sat down next to me. I stabbed his pork with my knife and put it on my plate. "You could say please." He laughed "Babe you should just know." I laughed "Babe I wanted my pork." He laughed "Babe here's a taste." I smiled then put some in my mouth and kissed him. "Babe that's so good." He laughed "Will you two stop saying babe! For Christ's sake." Cathrine said, Francis and I looked at each other and laughed "Babe we need to stop." He laughed "I'm sorry Cathrine." I laughed then started eating my food. "Come dance baby." He pulled me into the dance floor. "Francis my stomach hurts." I said "Cramps? Is the baby kicking?" He asked "No, I don't know what it is." I said "Well do you want to go back to our room?" He asked "No, no I'm fine let's dance." I said "Are you sure?" He asked "I'm sure." I smiled then we started dancing. "You know you might be pregnant and think your fat and ugly but I still think your the prettiest girl in the whole world." He smiled spinning me around all the noble girls looked at me with complete annoyance. "I don't think I'm ugly I just think I'm bloated." I laughed "Well my bad." He laughed "Thank you though." I smiled then kissed him, I laid my head on his chest and we swayed back and fourth. I felt water come out like I was peeing, but it felt heavier. Almost thicker. "Francis I think my water just broke." I smiled "What?" He asked them slipped in the water, I don't even know what it supposed to be walked. I started laughing then helped him up. "Please help me to my birthing chamber." I smiled "That stuff is slippery, someone needs to clean that up. But of course." He slid his hand on my waist and held my hand then brought me to my birthing chamber. We were waiting for the pope to bless the bed. My contractions started "Oh my god! Francis! Francis there starting!" I screamed as I squeezed his hand. "Jesus Christ!" He screamed as I squeezed his hand harder. The priests looked at him in horror. "Okay I'm sorry that was a bad word but can we please hurry this up? As you can see my wife is in just a bit of pain here." He said "It's ready your grace." the priest said, Francis helped me out of my dress and into a night gown then laid me down. "Francis put my hair up please, it's making me sweat more." I said "Okay hold on a second baby." He said then pulled my hair up and twisted it into a bun. "Thank you." I said I looked up and saw Greer. "Greer come here please." I said "How are you doing Mary?" She asked "My vagina hurts really bad." I said laughing. "Is it like period cramps?" She asked also laughing "No, it's so much worse. And when my water broke it felt like a bunch of blood clots falling out of me at once." I laughed "Mary can we please stop talking about periods? Thank you." Francis said, Greer and I started laughing. "Jesus! Oh my God! Why does this hurt so bad?" I screamed squeezing Greer and Francis's hands. "Mary just breath, it's okay." He said "Mary you need to start pushing." The midwife said so I did. "Mary just try some of the breathing things the midwife taught us." francis said "Francis now that I'm giving birth those don't work at alllll!" I screamed "Mary it's okay, just breath." Greer said "Francis I can't, I can't it hurts to much." I cried "Shh baby don't say that, you can do it. You are so strong I know you can." He said "Francis it hurts so bad." I cried "I know Mary, if I could take all the pain away from you I would but I can't. I need to to push Mary, just push and it will all be over soon." He said "Do you promise?" I asked "Yes baby I promise." He said, I started pushing and screaming. "Just a little longer Mary you can do it." Greer said  "Mary keep pushing?" The midwife said "If it comes down between me and the baby I need you to save my baby, I know Francis will try to save both of us but that won't be able to happen judging on how much I'm bleeding. I need you to promise me please, promise me." I cried "I promise Mary, I promise." She said tears were in her eyes. "No! No don't listen to her! Save my wife! Don't follow her orders I'm your prince you need to listen to me!" Francis yelled "Francis sweetheart it's okay, let me go." I said crying. "No mary, I won't. I can't, I love you." He said "I love you Francis Valois, always." I said slowly falling to sleep. "No Mary! Mary don't leave me! Mary you need to wake up." He shook me, I couldn't move I just move, I was just laying there. I felt Francis hugging me and crying over me. "Your grace I need to cut her open." She said "No, no! Just wait! Wait I few minutes she's going to wake up." He said the bent down to my ear. "I love you Mary, so much. More than you could ever know. And I can't raise our baby with out you. I could never be as good of a parent as you. Please don't leave me baby, please." He cried. I suddenly woke up and shot up out of bed panting. "Mary oh my god!" Francis hugged me, I suddenly felt more contractions. "Oh my god Francis not right now!" I screamed then grabbed on to Greer and Francis's hand. "Mary you go this baby, just keep pushing it will be okay." He said, I felt a sense of relief. I let go of there hands and laid back on the bed. I heard crying. "It's a baby boy, blond curls and blue eyes ten fingers and ten toes." The midwife smiled. "Let me see him." Francis said, she handed him to Francis. Tears were falling from Francis's eyes. "Francis let me see him." I smiled "Here you go." He put him in my arms. "Hi James, hi my love." I smiled, he wrapped his tiny hand around my finger and smiled at me. "He's so perfect." Francis said "I know." I smiled, he started crying. "Why is he crying?" I asked "He's hungry I'll fetch the wet nurse." She said "No, I will do it just show me how." I said, she helped my position James in front my breast and he latched on. "He's so tiny." I smiled as I looked down at James. "James has temporary rights to those after he's done breast feeding I'm the only one sucking on those." Francis whispered in my ear. "Oh stop it." I laughed, James was finished and milk was on his face. "Come here, do you want daddy?" Francis smiled then took James from me. James yawned then moved his head on Francis's shoulder and fell fast asleep. "You should all be leaving, my wife and I will spend the night in here." Francis said, everyone nodded then walked out. Francis laid back so he wouldn't wake James up. I laid down next to them and smiled. "Well he clearly likes me more." Francis laughed quietly. "Okay it's been like five minutes, we'll see." I smiled "Come here." He smiled then pulled me closer to him, I put my head on his chest and James rolled closer to me. I kissed James's cheek then pulled him onto my chest and we all fell asleep.