Post by Kypriotha on Jul 31, 2011 13:00:36 GMT 10
Title: Waiting
Rating: G
Character: Tobe
Event: Donkey Discus
Words: 479
Summary: Tobe is impatiently waiting for an important event to occur.
Note: Resolution picks up where this fic leaves off.
Tobeis Boon paced nervously outside the infirmary. He wished he was allowed in, but the midwife had told him very firmly that the birthing room was no place for a man. He had briefly considered arguing the point but the midwife had a very no-nonsense face that told him he wouldn’t get very far. He’d decided to save his breath.
Now, he wished he had tried argue his way into the room. Anything would be better than this agonising wait, not knowing what was happening. Sir Neal had warned him about it and had tried to give him some tips on how to deal with it. But Tobe, who had been there with Lady Kel when Sir Neal was waiting for the birth of his first child, wasn’t sure how valuable the tips were, as they hadn’t seemed to do Sir Neal any good. Then again, Tobe thought, that may have just been because it was Neal.
Thinking on that birth and that wait, Tobe wished he had someone to wait with him now, as he had waited with Neal when Lady Kel went in to see Lady Yuki. Lady Kel had said she’d try to make it in time, but he knew the chances of her being held up on the road were high. And his brother-in-law had said he would come, but there had been an emergency and he was called away. All their other friends were busy.
As time ticked on, Tobe thought he would scream with frustration. When one of the assistants finally came to the door to get him, he was too relieved to notice the worried look on her face. He rushed to his wife’s bedside and took her hand. It was only then he realised that she was pale, clammy and shaking and that everyone else in the room looked grave. The stern midwife, and baby, were nowhere to be seen.
“Gydo, what is it? What’s wrong? Where’s our baby? Is everything all right?”
Gydane Boon shook her head, tears streaming down her face. “I don’t know. I don’t know where the baby is or what’s going on. Salome took the baby away and no one has told me anything.”
Tobe squeezed her hand tightly and planted a kiss on her cheek. “I’ll find out, okay? You stay here and let these ladies look after you and I’ll find the midwife and our baby.” He gave her another kiss before rising and going in search of the midwife.
He found her in the next room, talking frantically with another healer. Tobe had never seen the unflappable midwife this worked up. He looked around for his baby and drew a sharp intake of breath as his eyes rested on the small form on the table between the two healers. It was his baby, but it wasn’t a baby.
It was a little foal.
Rating: G
Character: Tobe
Event: Donkey Discus
Words: 479
Summary: Tobe is impatiently waiting for an important event to occur.
Note: Resolution picks up where this fic leaves off.
Tobeis Boon paced nervously outside the infirmary. He wished he was allowed in, but the midwife had told him very firmly that the birthing room was no place for a man. He had briefly considered arguing the point but the midwife had a very no-nonsense face that told him he wouldn’t get very far. He’d decided to save his breath.
Now, he wished he had tried argue his way into the room. Anything would be better than this agonising wait, not knowing what was happening. Sir Neal had warned him about it and had tried to give him some tips on how to deal with it. But Tobe, who had been there with Lady Kel when Sir Neal was waiting for the birth of his first child, wasn’t sure how valuable the tips were, as they hadn’t seemed to do Sir Neal any good. Then again, Tobe thought, that may have just been because it was Neal.
Thinking on that birth and that wait, Tobe wished he had someone to wait with him now, as he had waited with Neal when Lady Kel went in to see Lady Yuki. Lady Kel had said she’d try to make it in time, but he knew the chances of her being held up on the road were high. And his brother-in-law had said he would come, but there had been an emergency and he was called away. All their other friends were busy.
As time ticked on, Tobe thought he would scream with frustration. When one of the assistants finally came to the door to get him, he was too relieved to notice the worried look on her face. He rushed to his wife’s bedside and took her hand. It was only then he realised that she was pale, clammy and shaking and that everyone else in the room looked grave. The stern midwife, and baby, were nowhere to be seen.
“Gydo, what is it? What’s wrong? Where’s our baby? Is everything all right?”
Gydane Boon shook her head, tears streaming down her face. “I don’t know. I don’t know where the baby is or what’s going on. Salome took the baby away and no one has told me anything.”
Tobe squeezed her hand tightly and planted a kiss on her cheek. “I’ll find out, okay? You stay here and let these ladies look after you and I’ll find the midwife and our baby.” He gave her another kiss before rising and going in search of the midwife.
He found her in the next room, talking frantically with another healer. Tobe had never seen the unflappable midwife this worked up. He looked around for his baby and drew a sharp intake of breath as his eyes rested on the small form on the table between the two healers. It was his baby, but it wasn’t a baby.
It was a little foal.