Mal let Evie talk all the way to the hospital area about babies, pregnancy, clothes, and the long walk to the medical room. Once in a while, Mal smiled and seemed to agree with her friend's pep talk. She still can't believe she's pregnant and knows that eventually she'll be as happy as Evie, but now is not the time.
The two go to the castle's medical room. There is a medical wing for everyone who lives in the palace. Although she doesn't go there much, Mal knows the doctor and so does Evie, Dr. Clare is Grumpy's daughter, the only woman among the seven dwarves and in Evie's opinion, after Doug, the quietest of the family.
"Clare?" Evie knocks on the door. "Can I come in?"
"Evie and Queen Mal? Come in, be my guest." The women sit down facing the doctor. "I don't see the queen around here much, which is fine, that's not what I mean. Not that I don't want to see you and..." Clare is shy and fumbles over her words, just like her cousin.
"Calm down, you're just like Doug when you get nervous."
Evie says, laughing.
"And how is he?"
"He's coming home this weekend."
Her husband is traveling, and the whole family knows it.
"What brings you here?"
"It's just that Mal..."
Evie tries to speak easily. It's still hard even for her to believe that Mal is expecting a child.
"I'm pregnant."
Mal says briefly, as if she's already accepted the idea. The doctor is also stunned when she hears the news.
"Clare, no one must know for now."
Evie says, almost imploringly, since not even the baby's father knows yet.
"Don't worry, everything that happens in the palace stays in the palace. So, what can I do for you? I don't imagine you've known for a long time." Mal agrees. "Pregnancy test?" There was a mirror too, but it's best not to mention that part. "Well, I'm not an obstetrician, so I can't monitor your pregnancy, but as this is your first appointment I can do the basics, okay?"
"Great." Evie replies as Mal is too distracted to answer. This is the first of many questions Evie has had to answer, even though the pregnancy isn't even her own. Mal is on another planet or somewhere other than the room. "Mal? Mal?" Evie calls her into the world.
"Huh? What?"
"We're going to do an ultrasound, okay?"
Dr. Clare asks suspiciously, wondering why the queen is like this.
"Okay."
The two walks to the other side of the room where the ultrasound machine is. Mal doesn't feel comfortable at all, especially when she has to lift her clothes and be exposed.
"I'm going to apply this thing, and it's a bit cold, maybe you'll feel uncomfortable." Mal nods and doesn't think that the product really is that cold and uncomfortable. Due to the strangeness, she shrank back a little, but even that didn't stop her attention. "And there he is. A seven-week-old baby, about to enter its eighth week." Mal turns around, but all he sees is a gray spot. "He's still quite small, but here he is growing." Mal is almost certain that Evie is going to cry, but she herself remained scattered, until a sound caught her attention. A loud, rhythmic sound.
"What's that noise?"
She asks the doctor, thinking it might be a noise outside the castle.
"It's his little heart." She turns up the volume on the device so that Mal can hear it more clearly. "Pretty loud, huh? It sounds like he's very agitated or excited."
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Dark Times -2 season
FanfictionTwo years had passed since Agatha and the apocalypse in Auradon. Things were harder than they imagined, getting everything back on track was taking more work than it should have. But the worst was yet to come. It was in the midst of everyone rebuild...
