Dream Love

XV

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5 months later

"I want this over! I want drugs! This hurts!" Erika screamed.

"I know love." Haldor began.

"No you don't you ass! You are the cause of all of this pain. You try squeezing a large melon out of an opening the size of a small lime. It hurts! Now shut up and get the doctor! I want pain meds!" Just then the doctor walked in and checked her for dilation.

"Good news, Mrs Landvik, you are fully dilated and are ready to give birth." The ass was smiling the whole time.

'NONONONONONONONO! I want drugs!!!!!"

"I'm sorry dear. It's too late for that. Now, I want you to start pushing. We have a baby's head crowning."

Erika began to push and the first of her triplets made his noisy entrance into the world, soon followed by his brother. Their sister however was being stubborn. Erika was exhausted and the baby was not cooperating. Haldor felt a moment of panic when the doctor stated that they would have to put her to sleep and do a c-section to get the last baby out.

When Erika woke several hours later, it took her a minute to realize that something was different. Gasping her husband's name caused him to awake where he was sleeping in a chair beside her. Standing up, he looked down at his wife. Then he said the words that her heart wanted to hear most.

"They are all fine, love. Ten finger, ten toes each. They are all quite healthy. The reason for the surgery was because the doctor was afraid that you were so exhausted that you or the baby would be damaged. You have some staples going across your belly and you'll be in here for a few days. But that's ok, because the babies are too. Wait until you see them love. Beautiful, everyone of them." 

"Have you picked out any names yet?" Laying back and closing her eyes, she asked.

"No love. I wanted us to do that together."

"How do you feel about Bjorn the bear, Ulfr the wolf and Ravn the raven for our daughter. Good strong names for good strong Viking children?"

Haldor looked down at Erika in surprise. "You've done your research, haven't you love? You want to give them English middle names?"

"Yes. Bjorn Malcolm, Ulfr Alexander, and Ravn Rose. Good?"

"Very good, love. Now, rest. The nurses are going to bring the children for you to see later. But, only if you rest."

Erika closed her eyes and was soon asleep again. She soon started dreaming.

"Mom! Can you come help me get ready. The guys are no help, being guys. Dad is nowhere to be found, and I haven't seen Ragnar either. There probably down stairs drowning their nervousness in meade or ale. I swear mom, those or my brothers better not be drunk during my wedding. I know dad can handle his drink, but still....."

"Alright darling, I'm here. Calm down, Ravn. I know you're nervous as well. You have every right to be. Every bride is. It's such a big day for her. When I married you father, he was just out of a hospital bed. He had been in a come for three weeks and just woke up two days before our wedding. He waited only long enough for his legs to hold him up long enough to say our vows."

Flash to another dream. "Love, I'm a nervous wreck. I wasn't this nervous at Revn's wedding. Bjorn's about to marry his sweetheart, and all I can think about is getting a mug of ale to calm my nerves." Haldor said. She leaned over and kissed him. "I'll give you something better. We have time and the door is locked." She smirked at him and dropped her dress off of her shoulders/

Flash to another dream. "Mom, how did you do it?"

"Do what, Ulfr?"

"Plan all of our weddings and stay sane?"

"Easy son, your father helped me a great deal. He still does. If we raised you boys to be even one tenth of the man your father is, then your brides should be very happy." Erika smiled at her middle child. He was always the most serious and the thinker of the bunch. Bjorn had always been hot tempered and Ravn had always been the happy, playful one. All of her's and Haldor's children were good kids. They had grown to be great adults and had done their parents proud. Just then Ravn's husband stepped into the room.

"Alright folks. It's time to get this show on the road. Both Ravn and Bjorn's wife are starting to show signs of going into labor. They would never say anything, because the want to see you married."

Thus began a new generation. 

Erika smiled in her sleep. Haldor was watching her, wondering what was going on. He'll ask when she wakes.

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