Silent Pain

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*I'm speeding up some time, so this won't have a gazillion chapters; I appreciate all of you, though, and please. Comment anything else you want to see.*

Marie had rushed down the hall when she heard the first screams of her wife. However, Alcina quickly grabbed her and pulled her back. "Marie, calm down. She's okay." She promptly hurried as the maids assigned them rushed past with more towels, water, and supplies. "She's screaming. How can I not worry?" The wolf lord tried to force her way through Alcinas arms, but the scratches only healed.

The bug babies watched wearily as they could hear the woman screaming in agony. "What's going on?" Daniela whispered, "I think it's labor." Bela looked at the middle sister. They chattered, and their flies nervously buzzed around as the screams only got louder.

Alcina dragged Marie by one leg as the wolf tore through the carpets to get to Donna, "Miranda told me... to keep you out." The woman struggled; the vampire had never had this many issues before, but as the screams only got worse, so did the claw marks and fighting, "Mother? What should we do?" Bela asked, "Nothing, you girls go. I've got her." The lord grabbed Marie by the back of the collar and carried her into a locked room, throwing her inside and slamming the door.

"Miranda asked me to do this. I'm sorry, Marie." She called from the other side of the door, "That's my wife. Dammit!" The wolf screamed and banged on the door, clawing at the metal and doing her best to escape. Her hands shook, and her claws would make sparks on the metal, but she kept fighting.

Alcina sighed, making her way back up to the bedroom. "Daughters, once Donna delivers and I give you the signal, I need you to let Marie out. Be sure to stay out of her way." The three girls nodded and made their way to the locked room. Alcina ducks into the bedroom. The smell of blood is overwhelming. Miranda is working with Donna, who lies on her back; Alcina's maids hold her in place by her legs.

Alcina took her place, gripping Donna's hands and making the woman look at her, "Come on, almost there." Miranda smiled, the maids cleaned and worked with the priestess, "You can do it Donna. Marie is waiting for you." Alcina knealt to the bed. Angie sat in a chair, utterly unresponsive across the room; Donna's head flew back in a few last painful screams.

"Come on... just a little longer," Miranda chimed, her eyes narrowing. She was currently in only her black robes. It was 4 a.m. when the castle woke to a panicked Marie screaming, "The baby's coming!" Donna had been in labor for almost three hours down all the halls, and Miranda stood by her side through it all while Alcina tried to get the wolf lord to calm down.

Donna gripped Alcinas hand in an extremely tight squeeze; the plants around the room had grown twice their size as the woman let out one last agonizing scream before falling back. A baby's cry could be heard, and the priestess took the newborn into her white blanket with a smile, holding them tightly as she got them clean.

"You did so good," Alcina chimed, gently laying a pillow behind Donna's head. Something was off, and the smell of blood only increased. "Miranda?" The woman holding the baby noticed and swallowed, handing the child to the maids, who took them to the bathrooms. The priestess started her work.

"Okay, don't panic." She said softly, "But that's too much blood." She finished, doing her best to find and fix the issue and help the woman as much as possible. Donna swallowed, her breath caught in her throat, her dark eye cloudy, and she looked up at the ceiling.

"Breathe, Donna." Alcina held onto the woman's hand as she took a slow breath, releasing it in quick, painful spurts. "Marie..." she wrasped. "My daughters have orders to keep her locked in a room. I won't tell them to release her until everything is better, but for now, focus. Breathe." Donna nodded. Her baby's crying grounded her as she took breaths. Looking around the room, it was blurry and green.