Author's Notes: After all the cries of
evilness directed at me, I decided it was time for a little fluffy fic. Unbeta'd,
so all mistakes are mine.
Setting: After Out of Their Minds
Disclaimer: Not mine...If it was, we'd have a Farscape Channel.
"You push! I don't want to frelling PU-PUSH! I just want it out of me!
The old mid-wife looked up from between the female's leg and said, "You have to be stronger for just a little while longer my dear, I can see the baby's head." She watched as the male nervously looked down at his mate and smiled as she began to doze off.
"Wipe her head, and help keep her awake. She needs to be alert during this final stage of the delivery."
Watching as the male Sebacean lightly smacked his mate's face to rouse her. The female looked up to see who had assaulted her. The old woman almost laughed at the look of accusation.
"Don't look at me like that, this was just as much your fault as it was mine," he said as she let out another ferocious scream of pain.
Once she settled down for a few microts rest, she tried to control her breathing. "Yeah, but you never...bothered...to tell...me...about how your...species reproduces."
"I didn't know, or thought it mattered at the time."
"Likely...GRRRRRRAAHHHH...EX-CUSE!" she screamed as another contraction wracked her body."
Her head fell against her mate's chest as their child let out it's first scream.
"It is a male, congratulations." The old woman said, cleaning the blood away from the child's face.
The female gave the child a tired smile. "Aeryn, he's...beautiful," she said.
The male was obviously proud of his offspring, wiped the sweat from his mate's face once more and said, "Yes, he is, John."
Originally posted November 21, 2003