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[layonhands]

♬ Dare You To Move - Switchfoot

WHO || Myri, Vi, THEIR BABIES, Risa, Solace, Various visitors and famiree and wellwishers
WHAT ||THE BABIES ARE COMING
WHERE ||Dragon's Light Wing, the Castle
WHEN ||June 15th (Vi) and June 28th (Myri)
HOW || Actionspam

[ Vi's baby comes first, the labor pangs beginning around 9pm on the 14th, while she's alone, watching TV.

Myri's wake her up in the middle of the night, at 4am, on June 28th.  ]

Comments

[shootfirst]

God-mom's got this covered. Brb. [ and she's gonna tear out of there ]

[graveflowers]

[ one down, one to go, she's feeling pretty pleased with how well she is handling all this. she's not panicking, she's not freaking out, she's powering through most of the pain. she feels like she's in charge for the moment, so she looks to elena and felicity like let's find me a room and do this. ]

Okay, so supplies. Which I may have hidden in here a few weeks ago. There's a pink striped duffle bag under one of the beds. [ she's just gonna lead the way to that bed tbh, slow and steady, eating her french fries steadily. ] It's got my iPod dock and a fluffy pillow and some lavender scented stuff. Let's get this party started.

[ she has other stuff like clothes for her and the baby so someone doesn't have to go running back to her room later and a soft green blanket with lucia's name stitched into it, but the music and flower smell is what is important to her right now. ]

[doubletake]

On it.

[She makes sure Felicity has Vi, before she heads in the direction her friend is leading them, finding it pretty quickly (search 29). She pulls it out as they head over, extracting the items mentioned since she's pretty sure that's what she'll want first.]

[allmydreams]

[Felicity totally has Vi (strength nat 20), and she will very carefully help her over to the bed and help her climb up, reaching for the pillow when Elena brings it closer.]

Just let me know where to apply the padding.

[graveflowers]

[ she lets felicity do most of the heavy lifting, giving them both grateful smiles once she's seated, crisscrossing her legs in front of her. ]

Uh, behind me, please, so I can keep sitting up. You guys are the best, thank you again for being my beautiful partners for a few hours.

[ lucia is going to be born into a sea of badass women tbh. that is vi's birthday present to her daughter. ]

[allmydreams]

[Felicity nods and adjusts the pillow behind her accordingly, before nodding with a smile.]

Anytime.

[graveflowers]

[ for a minute or so it's just... chill. vi has a contraction that actually draws a gasp of pain and it sucks, but it ends and she's just sitting there casually listening to california love coming out of the ipod dock (because vi's taste in music is rap/hip-hop or boy bands or elvis, there is no inbetween) and eating the last of the french fries.

also she knows all the words, so you're welcome for that impromptu recital, ladies. ]

I'm not doing too bad, right? [ she thinks she's doing pretty well, but she wants to double check. ]

[layonhands]

[ RISA IS HERE, she just sort of bursts in and then realizes they've got her all like set up and shit lmao hi ] I came as fast as I could.

[graveflowers]

Hi. [ she grins at risa, infinitely fond. ] I dunno how long this is gonna take. You might be early.

[allmydreams]

[Felicity and Elena are a very effective double team. Felicity just nods as she grabs a chair to pull up and settle in. She's heard it could go for hours. She's all ready to hurry up and wait.]

But early is better than rushing later.

[doubletake]

What she said.

[Let's not have babies in the hallways. She'd much rather be in for a long haul here instead.]

[graveflowers]

[ KANYE SHRUG. ]

[layonhands]

Well, it seems like you've got a very capable back up team, at least. That's very important. [ she smiles gently at vi and the others, as she gets to familiarizing herself with the set-up, looking for anything she still needs, etc. ]

[graveflowers]

Well, you know what they say: bitches get shit done.

[layonhands]

[ risa's eyebrows loft a bit at the phrasing, as if she's still not used to that kind of word being thrown around good-naturedly, but her smile doesn't drop. ] We might be here awhile, so it's good that you're comfortable.

[graveflowers]

[ she offers an apologetic shrug. ] I figured, that's why I didn't call anyone else, no sense in making everyone hang around and do nothing with us when this can take hours.

[ she doesn't want it to take hours, but you know. she's not deluded. a contraction seems to punctuate her point, too painful for her to just keep talking through, squeezing her eyes shut. ] Santus Diespiter, filius canis!

[ nbd, just swearing in latin. ]

[layonhands]

[ risa leans over to grab her hand and let her squeeze the shit out of it.

hours is right, tbh. she's going to be in labor for 19 of 'em. kat comes back, and gar probably comes too, and i assume wynn drops by for a little bit, but it's mostly long hours of oh my god just get on with it baby. 8|

she does have to make a ~fortitude save~ ]

[graveflowers]

[ that's too many hours.

as it slowly plods along, she will make elena and felicity get some rest, even if it's just in another bed in the light wing because let's not all be exhausted and she knows what they're like without sleep and coffee. some time, probably the next day, she'll have elena call the rest of failboat (and mark, again) to let them know that something is happening, but slowly so don't fucking rush 'cause wow this is taking forever.

she'll even try to get some sleep herself, but her fort save was an 11 so... who knows how successful she is or if she can accomplish any of that. :) ]

[layonhands]

[ there is probably not a lot in the way of sleep going on, but risa has sleep spells so she can probably get her a little magical nap and then dispel it later if that's what vi opts for. either way, the actual delivery goes off without a hitch, and risa can help relieve the pain a bit.

lucia is born on june 15th at 4pm i think? math is hard. but when she does come out, risa's eyes widen a bit when she sees her. ] Oh.

[graveflowers]

[ vi will take that magical nap, please, and the pain relief as well. by that time, presumably, the women of failboat that wanted to be present have arrived so when risa says "oh" which sounds like the most ominous "oh" to ever be uttered, she looks around wildly between them. ]

Oh what? Oh what!

1/-

[shootfirst]

Uh-- [ kat is just st-aa-ring but uh at least not saying anything stupid ]

2/-

[rationalizes]

Well, isn't that, er-- interesting! [ this is gar's SAY IT IN THE MOST UPBEAT WAY POSSIBLE VOICE right here. ]

3/--

[slay]

It's ... [ Buffy's face contorts in a series of thoughtful looks, mingled with discomfort, confusion, and straining for dismissal. She grasps for affirmation but then quiets and lets her reassurance trail off, instead opting to confirm in a hushed, ] Is it supposed to ...? [ She looks to Risa. ]

4/--

[doubletake]

[Elena's face is perfectly calm. In fact, she even looks a little affronted by these comments, okay.]

She's beautiful.

5/--

[witchwoman]

[Elena's response seems to snap Myri out of a shocked daze. She glances to the woman, before looking back to Vi and nodding in agreement with Elena's comments.]

And healthy, from the looks of it. [Also important!! More important than... what everyone is still trying to process here.]