Fandom Birth Stories

~ Eep X Guy, Fear

Tags: Fear. Pregnancy. Labor. Birth.

Fandom : Croods I & II, Film/Movie.

Pairing : Eep and Guy.

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Guy is not prone to fear.

He is intimately familiar with the number of ways the world can kill you, but natural curiosity, quick thinking, and the need to survive have always trumped the worst kind of fear – not the quick bursts that quicken his mind, sharpen his senses, and fade when the danger's past, but the thick, debilitating fear that locks muscles and stops thought and never goes away.

But what is happening now is so far outside of his experience, and worse, outside of his control, that he cannot help the terror that comes to choke him.

His more rational self knows that this is, in fact, the most natural, normal thing that has ever happened in his very un-normal life. This is how it happens everywhere, has happened from the beginning of time. Men love women and women have babies. Male and female beget offspring, the survival plan of every species.

But he also knows that women die and babies die and he could lose everything that matters to him in this life before the sun goes down. And not only is he powerless to do anything about it, he had a hand in it, because he took her to his bed knowing what could happen, knowing what the risks were because she was his mate and he loves her and what could be more natural?

What was not natural, not normal was the way his mate was screaming now; Eep was tough, strong and stubborn and Eep did not scream like that, ever.

His pacing takes him by the door and he can smell the blood, and he begins to shake from head to foot. He leans against the wall. "Ugga? Hope?" He calls, his voice so strained it is barely his own.

"Almost," Was the answer, tight and controlled from his mother-in-law, and he does not feel any better. Part of him wishes they would let him in; part of him is afraid of what he would see. 

It's been so long now, how could anyone endure this for so long?

He tells himself Eep is tough, Eep is strong, Eep wanted this so badly, and Eep will not give up. He feels like he is failing her, leaving her to face this alone.

He turns and puts both hands on the mud wall, the wall of the home he built for them. "Eep," he calls, "I love you. Your mom says you're almost there, okay? You can do this." His voice quavers and he whispers, "Please." 

He doesn't even know who he is asking. The sun slips softly below the horizon and the darkness comes, held back now only by the fire he built hours ago, Dawn sitting tending to it now to keep it lit the rest of the tribe had gone hunting leaving Guy, Dawn and Grug there waiting. She looks up to see her childhood friend freaking out waiting for this to finally end. "Guy, you need to calm down, this is all normal hard as it may be it is normal." 

Guy looks to her and sighs, "This is why we came back when she got close to delivery, neither of us would know what to do, I'm currently freaking out and she's locked away from me in the most pain she's likely felt ever" Running his hands through his hair Belt hugs his friend's waist in comfort. Dawn felt sympathy she knew this wasn't just really hard for Eep who was currently trying to bring their newest member into the world but for the frightened father who had to wait for them, unable to his mate and child. 

"Guy?" Eep's voice called sounding rough and weak.

"I'm here," Guy immediately says, racing back to the door hands on it listening to hear her voice better.