I don't own any character. It's all Saban…. This is my first little story. Trying to get more out, maybe even a bigger one. But let's starts with that one. The next and finally chapter is in work

„ Arhg, i can't… i can't push any more" Deirdre screams at the druid in front of her and the maid standing next to him. Perls of sweat are running down her face.

„ You can…. you need to…" Rohan trys to encourage his wife while still holding her hand and stroking it with his thumb. His hand hurt very much, Deidre had squeezed it hard a few times, but he didn't care about it. Her pain was much more hurting than his hand right now. With his free hand he takes a little towel and wipe away the sweat from her forehead.

Deirdre pause for a moment, breathing hard. As she feels another wave of pain coming, she collects all the energy she still have somewhere in her body, presses Rohans hand hard and push one more time, before she falls back at the pillow.

Rohan watches his wife and as she was about to finished this, he feels the hard press on his hand. He could hardly hold back a few tears, as suddenly everyone hears the scream of a baby. He take a short look at this former teacher, holding the baby, before he places his arm behind the back fallen Deirdre to comfort her a bit.

Heavily breathing the newborn mother lean again his chest, unable to say much.

„ Congrats you two, it's a girl" the old druid look at them, before he handed the baby to the maid, which starts to wash and wrap it into a little blanket. Still smiling she walks over to the bed and watch at Deidre.

Deirdre open her eyes and a smile escape her lips as she watched her baby girl in front of her. „Can you ...hold her, i can't…" she looks at her husband weakly. With a nod Rohan slowly remove his arm from her and take the baby, his daughter.

„ Are you alright your highness?" Cathbad looks at her worried before he rushes to the other free side of the bed. He placed a hand on her forehead and then on her cheek. „ You are hot, i will get you something to recover and find some sleep. This was hard work i know" he adds on and turn to Rohan and the maid. „ Can we have a few minutes, i guess i can do the rest here all alone. I will call you when we are done."

Rohan watches the little girl in his hands, but one ear was with his wife and Cathbad. He looks worried at the old man but he just point at the door. A bit confused he follows the maid outside. „ Some woman can get ill, especially after their first child" the maid tells him „ but she is strong, she will be better soon"

„ Hopefully" Rohan whispers while still watching his daughter. The little girl wrinkle her forehead a bit before she relax again and fall back to sleep. Watching his makes him smile and start to gently rocking her.

„ Hey, who do we have her" he hears familiar voices behind him and as he turns arround he spots his friends, Angus, Ivar and Garett. All of them doing a little bow in front of the little newborn before they look at their leader. „ Congratulations daddy" Angus slap him on his back with a laugh. „ Yeah, congrats, how did everything going? Is Deirdre alright?" Ivar falls in.

Rohans smile disappear and his face becomes worried again. „ I am not sure, she is weak and seems like she has fever. The maid told me that his can be normal, but i don't know..." he sighs

„ She will be fine, you know how stubborn she is. She won't let the kid alone with us" Angus grin, trying to cheer him up.

„ You mean, with you" Garett add on and Angus just wink at him. „ Someone need to show her all the tricks" Angus comments.

„oh i can imagine" a voice behind him let him freeze for a moment. Cathbad was back and pass the knights. He hands Rohan a little bottle. „ the half now, the other half later on. And give her something to drink when ever she is awake" he instructed his former apprentice.

„ i will do thanks" Rohan answers. As he sees the bottle he looks up for the maid which has been in the background while the knights are talking. „ Can you please take care of her, i will check on you two as fast as i can" he looks at the woman and hand her the bundle.

„ No worries, she is in good hands. Take the time you need" she answers and and leave.

Rohan watches after her and swallow hard. This wasn't exactly what he thought of for this day... Then he graps the bottle from Cathbad.

Cathbad nod back and turn arround to leave and so does his friends „ You know where we are, if you need us" Ivar take one last look at Ronan before the follows the druid.

Rohan looks after his friends before he walks back in his and Deirdres bedroom. The princess seems to be asleep, lying on her side, her face towards him. He cross the room and knee down on the bed next to Deirdre. With his free hand he carefully stroke her cheek, trying to get her awake so far that she would be able to drink. As she slowly open her eyes he hold out the bottle to her mouth. „ Just a few sips, then you can get back to sleep" Ronan whisper at her, taking her head in his palm to comfort her and slowly the princess starts drinking like he told her to.

As she was done, he feels her hand on his arm, her skin was pale and ice cold. „ Rohan… i…."

„ shshsh, our baby is fine and i am there, there is nothing you need to worried about" he look down at her and continue to stroke her cheek with his thumb till she has closed her eyes again. As she was asleep he took her hand from his arm and placed it on the bed, but didn't let it go. Her hand was still cold and even after minutes in his hand, it didn't start to get warm. He looks arround, but the window was closed and the fireplace still working. There is no reason while she should be freezing so much.

Suddenly he feels a movement in his hand and as he looks all over the bed, he sees his wife shaking. „ Hey, hey, don't do that to me" Rohan almost screams as he jumps up. He walks over to the wardrobe and get some more covers, before heading back to the bed, he leaves room to call out for this friend „ Can someone please get Cathbad, something is wrong her!"

Back in the room he throws the covers over Deirdre as he heard footsteps, so he turns arround just to face his old master. „ Cathbad, she is cold and shaken, something isn't right"

The old druid looks from Rohan to Deirdre and walks over to her bed. He look at the shaken princess and feel her forehead again. „ That's kind of ague. We need to get her warm and let her get some more rest" I says and looks at Rohan „ I am sorry, but thats all we can do. Giving birth is hard work and her body needs to rest".

Rohan looks at him, scared as hell. „ Could she…. What is he worst thing that can happen?"

Cathbad sigh and look at the young woman. „ Hard to say, some woman getting better and some of them not"

Rohan stare at Cathbad for a moment. This can't be true…