Extraterrestrial Lives

30

The doctor's give her medication, they say that it's postpartum depression. I can only hope that it helps her. Depression after having a child, I've never heard of it before, but from what the doctor's tell me, it happens fairly often. 

Her mood seems to pick up as the medicine starts to take affect. But she still stays away from both of us.

Reports from the navy say that the ships are starting to act erratic. Some have stopped without any easily understood reason. We can only hope that the illness is working.

I hold our daughter as I watch Maha. Princess has been getting more impatient waiting for her mother to acknowledge her again.

I hold her tight wanting to cry. Each day Maha has pulled away from us. Even the medication isn't helping for that.

The medication is working. But the effects aren't what people are hoping for. Rafe holds our daughter and watches me. They both watch me as I move about the room.

I leave the room without Rafe. He's done as my guard now. Rafe will be crowned king soon. He should have been already. The people are starting to get anxious that neither the coronation nor the wedding has happened.

I have nothing to do with the coronation, except that Rafe wants to hold my coronation at the same time. In order to do that it would be done right after the wedding. I have no desire to go through the wedding now.

How can I when after the Other's are taken care of I'll be dead?

I hate to do this but it has come to the point where I have to step in. I've called them to my office.

"Maha, the people won't wait any longer. They want this wedding and they want it now. You will marry my son in one week. It's time that he takes the throne and you will be crowned at that time as well."

Maha' eyes get wide and then she gets furious.

"No." That's all she says.

"Why are so against this now Maha? Before your daughter's birth you and Rafe were inseparable. There wasn't anything that Rafe wouldn't do for you and you wouldn't do for Rafe. What happened?"

"He'd rather have his daughter than be married to me." She replies to my inquiry.

"I've heard a lot of bull shit in my time as king Maha, but I have to say that that takes the cake. One day he gets lost in the wonder that is his daughter and suddenly everything he feels for you doesn't exist anymore? The depth of feelings he has for you is rare and impossible to duplicate by faking."

"Yeah, but it's hard to fake the fact that he didn't even know that I had left the hospital for more than two hours. He so cares for me that anything could have happened to me and he wouldn't even have noticed. I had to hit him with something to even get his attention and I had all of two seconds, if that, of eye contact with him.

"Assassins could have come after me in that time and he wouldn't even have noticed. So don't tell me that he cared. He got lost in his daughter is right. She's his, not mine. I'm done with this masquerade, I'm done with all these lies. " The princess starts crying at her rejection.

"So her attachment to you is fake as well?" I demand and she seems to deflate a bit before my eyes.

"No, unfortunately for her it's real enough. Doubly unfortunately for her her father made it so I didn't have time to bond with her when she was first born. She is his child, not mine."

"Just because you didn't bond in the first day doesn't mean that you can't bond with her now," I say.

"Just like you bonded with Rafe?" She says coldly.