It's about time --3am(Tag Tyr, then eventually Juliet)

[mjrhoulihan]

Margaret couldn't sleep. She tried to be careful and quiet, trying not to wake Tyr getting up for the fourth time that night. She put on robe and slippers and padded into the nursery and turning on the light, taking a cloth to the furniture in case some dust had settled on it in the last fifteen minutes. She checked and re-folded and rearranged the

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[kodiak_tyr]

There was something in the air. It was more than Margaret's wakefulness, which Tyr had been monitoring like he'd been watching everything else related to her and her condition. There was a different something.

Scent? Feeling?

Pain.

It took a few repetitions to register that Margaret was having pains. Regular pains. What else could it be? He rose silently.

"Do you think you're ready?" he asked quietly. She was so close to being Nietzschean in her natural ways that it seemed likely that she'd know. Why she would wait for him instead of telling him... It could be subliminal, or it could be last concerns. it could be that she wanted him to ask. He smiled slightly. "Physically. Everything else has been ready."

They were both as prepared as they could be. The rest was a battle to be fought at the time.

[mjrhoulihan]

She hadn't wanted to disturb him, but she could not deny the feeling of reassurance that swept her at the sight of his big, solid presence, she would almost swear that there was a chill in the room and his presence radiated a warmth that dispelled it. Her face and bearing relaxed.

"I wasn't sure, I didn't want to raise any false alarms, but I think it might be." She had to pause then, hand to her stomach which hardened and contracted visibly as she breathed slowly, steadily, her entire attention drawn inward, concentrating on relaxing.

[kodiak_tyr]

"I think you're right." He was fairly sure it was time. "Can you walk to the clinic?"

He could carry her.

"There's enough time. I can carry you. The doctor can come here." It's not that he wasn't nervous or excited, because he was. There was no reason not to do what needed to be done in the off chance that Margaret felt like being unreasonable.

Childbirth was painful and there was no need to keep herself calm if the mother didn't feel like it, not when she had someone to take care of things. Margaret had taken care to be sure she was taken care of. Tyr appreciated her advance planning.

[mjrhoulihan]

She nodded,

"Walking is good, strengthens the contractions. The bag is packed, it is in the closet near the door." Margaret was going to be calm because Margaret didn't DO panic. She did take charge. Of course she also did 'bust heads if people aren't doing what she orders' but there was no need for that...yet.