rp: happy birthday! Who: Andromeda and Penny Where: Andromeda's house What: childbirth! Rating: PG-13 maybe? Status: Incomplete
It began suddenly. Penny had managed to find a needle and thread in the house on her own, and she was repairing a hole in her sock when the first pain hit her. She knew it would go quickly from there. This was her seventh birth, and Penelope could easily remember how quickly it had gone last time-- less than four hours. She dreaded the pain, but knew that she could handle that as well. She also knew that time was of the essence. She had been experiencing minor contractions for two months, but there was no mistaking the real thing once you had been through it as many times as she had.
Penny stood slowly from her chair in her bedroom and staggered to the door through the waves of pain. She opened it and called out, "Miss Andromeda?"