Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Sugar RUSH ❯ The Sweetest Sound ( Chapter 26 )

Hi… I know it has been a while, please forgive me. Another three weeks and I will be free of school. I look forward to comments. This is the first time I have ever written a chapter like this (subject matter) and would like some feedback on ways to improve. Thank you to all who have supported my fic. It is seriously appreciated.

 

Sugar Rush 26

 

Andy inhaled and tried to quell the tears that fell from her eyes. “Nic… Nestoir, it hurts…” She whimpered and clenched her small hands around her husband's. He looked up at her and the fear in his eyes was unmistakable and he was unable to hide it.

 

“I'll go get Lord D.” He said and sat his wife carefully on the bed and ran from the room.

 

Break

 

T-Chan clawed at D and Leon's room door frantically until D opened wearing a hastily donned robe. “What is wrong T-Chan?” D asked when he noted the agitated state of all the animals in the shop. “Andy…” D said after a moment. “Leon, you have to get up and call JJ, he has my father and Andy is in Labor.” D said and shook Leon awake.

 

“No she's not; she is only seven months pregnant.” Leon grumbled and rolled over trying to tug D back into his embrace.

 

“Tell that to her water, it broke.” D said and snatched away from Leon, at this gesture Leon did sit up and blink, even when D was mad at him he was not this cold. Leon reached for his cell phone and frowned, the sun had barely risen, it was going to be a long day.

 

Break

 

Lord D snuggled closer to JJ and sighed in his sleep. JJ answered his phone when it began to buzz as if he were on auto pilot. “Hellllooo…” He mumbled groggy from excess loving the night before and not enough sleep. Lord D opened his eyes and looked up. “Yeah, he's right here, what's up…Geez no need to yell… Here.” JJ handed the phone to Lord D. Lord D looked at the small cellular phone as if it might bite him. “It's Leon, he is frantic asking for you…Oh shit, it might be little D.” JJ sat up when Lord D brought the phone to his ear.

 

“What…how long ago…” Lord D stood from the bed and pulled his pants on and began searching for his robe. “How far apart are her contractions…? I'll be there as soon as I can… I have not eaten, so I don't have the energy to Trans…what ever, keep them both calm, I'm on my way.” During the conversation JJ had dressed himself and had penned a quick note to his grandmother. Lord D was running to the door trying to braid his hair.

 

“Wait darling, what's up?” JJ asked and pulled Lord D to a stop and undid the mess atop his head and re-did it neatly.

 

“Andy is in Labor.” Lord D said and waited anxiously for JJ to leave the note where his Grandmother would find it. “I need to be at the Pet Shop…”

 

“Ten minutes ago,” JJ said and opened the door of his car for Lord D. JJ pulled his siren out and turned it on before peeling out and speeding down the street.

 

Break

 

Every pain that Andy felt was like a sword ripping through Nestoir's body. He wished he could help her, but he had no way to alleviate her pain. Angel had shown up and begged her to give him some of her pain, but she wouldn't as Nestoir knew she would not. He himself had begged her. Andy lay on her side and moaned. Nestoir perked up when he thought he heard a siren outside the pet shop. Lord D had left the car running before it had come to a full stop. JJ ripped the keys from the ignition and ran into the shop behind him. Leon breathed a sigh of relief as Lord D marched to Andy's room.

 

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!” Lord D yelled when he saw D helping Andy into a clean nightgown.

 

“Father, she needed…” D did not finish, Lord D took him by the arm and ushered him from the room. “The labor has only just begun, I do not need you to see this now, when your own time will be here soon enough.” Lord D shut the door firmly behind him. Lord D turned to where Andy and Nestoir were sitting on the bed he sighed and tried to calm them both. “If you both are calm, your son will be born healthy into this world. Before we start, say a prayer with me… Father…”

 

 

Break

 

“Oh God, she's early.” Daphnus said and paced back and forth across the hallway outside the Princess's room. “If something goes wrong I am going to kill Nestoir, you mark my words this is his fault. Maybe she was too active, she never could sit still you know. He should have made her sit still. I'll kill him.” Leon pulled a chair into the hallway for D to sit on while they waited. D paled as a scream could be heard from behind the door.

 

“Take me out and shoot me,” Daphnus said to JJ. “If I am dealing with a wound I won't concentrate so hard on what's going on.” JJ backed away palms up away from the distraught High Prince. Prince Angel pulled out his inhaler and worked it furiously as another scream could be heard. Leon grew worried as D grew paler still.

 

“I think you should come with me and prepare breakfast for the kids.” Leon said another scream and Leon feared D would faint.

 

“I have delivered children before, or rather young animals; it was not so… why is she screaming like that?” D said and his breathing became uneven as another scream pelted through the door. Leon became truly frightened in that moment and he was reminded that although D had lived for a thousand, twenty-four years, comparatively, he was only nineteen. Leon pulled D into his arms and held him tightly.

 

Break

 

“On three… one… two… three… and push.” Lord D said and waited. Andy strained and Nestoir prayed.

 

Break

 

The afternoon came and went, as evening rolled around, Lord D opened the door. “I need fresh water; I can no longer summon it.” Lord D sighed tiredly and waited. Clarisande waved her hand and steaming water appeared. “You should come in here; I'll need that talent of yours.” Lord D said. Clarisande nodded and stepped into the room.

 

Break

 

Evening slipped into night and D paced beside Daphnus. Daphnus had been forced to sedate Prince Angel; he now slept blissfully on a lounge set up in the hallway. Jill and Diana showed up for their shift and found the pet shop in chaos. Jill called Ryo and Dee over to wait for news of the new royal trying hard to be born.

 

Break

 

Ryo patted D's hand and hoped he would be okay, the more the Princess labored the more distraught he became. Andy screamed again and D began to hyperventilate. “I'm sure she is going to be fine.” Ryo said calmly. He looked at D and was surprised by how young he looked when he was this scared. He was not his usual self contained, mature self. Instead, he looked like a scared kid.

 

D rubbed his small tummy and tears fell from his face. “If it is this difficult for a human… God…Leon I am so sorry.”

 

“Don't talk like that,” Leon said and got to his knees in front of D. “You'll be fine… Fine…”

 

Break

 

-Shuko, do you know what Princess Andy's baby will be? - Chris asked the dragon.

 

“It will be a boy, and he is destined, to rule as well as his parents.” Shuko said and for a moment Chris was confused as Shuko looked scared. “It is difficult for Kami's to give birth…” She said quietly.

 

“Chris,”

 

-Yes Junrei- Chris was surprised that Shuko had left with out saying any thing to him. Bikky could never tell which face was which and so preferred to see them as a dragon with three heads. He noted Shuko crying and wondered why.

 

Break

 

“Come now my lady, one more aught to do it.” Lord D said and waited. Andy strained and Lord D smiled. “The head is out, push again and I'll be able to reach in and help.” Andy pushed and Lord D was able to slip his hands in and gently guide the child to safety. Andy let out one final scream before she collapsed back against the bed. Lord D began to sob. The child was not breathing. He cleaned his mouth and airways and waited. He gently smacked the little bottom. Nothing.

 

Clarisande held a hand over her mouth as tears coursed down her face. She would sob and worry the High Princess… She would not.

 

Lord D fitted his mouth over the baby's and blew gently. He worked furiously while Nestoir sobbed and tried to shield his wife's view.

 

“Nes, why isn't he crying?” Andy said and tried to sit up.

 

“No, baby please, just lie here, Lord D is…”

 

Lord D blew again and the tiny chest heaved and he sighed as the baby let out a wail. It was the sweetest sound he had ever heard. Clarisande gasped and laughed through tears of joy. Andy sighed with relief and fainted. Lord D finished cleaning her and the child up before he handed Nestoir his son. Lord D smiled weakly at Clarisande before he quietly left the room.

 

Break

 

The sun was peeking over a new day when Leon sighed. A baby's cry could be heard. “See baby, its okay.” D lay trembling in Leon's arms on the lounge Prince Angel had vacated. Later the door opened and Lord stepped out.

 

“You have a new Prince,” He said with a smile and fell weakly against the wall. JJ scooped Lord D into his arms before he could fall exhausted to the floor and carried him to his bedroom. JJ leaned Lord D against a wall and undressed him before he picked him up and placed him in the tub. As Lord D ate a plate of food with plenty of desserts, JJ undid the braid and washed his hair. After Lord D was clean and dressed in a fresh bed robe, JJ lay down beside him in bed and slept.

 

Break

 

Leon sat and stared at D as he slept. Had they made the wrong decision? All those months ago when they had decided that D could carry the child, Leon had not known just how difficult it could be. If he had known, he would have argued D's choice, insisted… Leon broke into tears and pulled D into his arms. He could not lose him... he just could not.