• Chapter 2


    The morning light hit her face, and made her turn onto her other side, to face a warm chest, with two arms wrapping around her more snugly.The grass beneath her felt a little wet; from the morning dew, but comfortable to say the least.And the chirping of the birds and smell of the plants and trees all around made her want to stay in that moment forever.
    Her eyes snapped open.
    Because she remembered that comfortable was not at all what she was meant to feel.And neither were the two arms around her.
    She looked at Kaname.At his perfect face.And she knew without a single doubt in her mind, that last night had been real.She had never felt like that before, never felt as loved, wanted, and needed, or felt the same things for another person, for so long.
    But that it had to end.Of course she loved him, she would not deny that fact, but they both needed to move on.As much as they loved each other, they needed to go on, and live the lives that Fate had marked for them both.
    He opened his eyes.
    "Good morning," he wispered to her.
    "Good morning," she wispered to him.
    They lay in silence, looking into each others eyes, for what felt like eternity.His hand slipped between their bodies, and rested on her stomach.He smirked.
    "I wouldn't be surprised that after last nights activities, that you would be carrying my child your magesty."
    She smiled and nodded.She knew that there was an almost 100% chance that she was impregnated from last night.
    She sat up, and so did he.
    "We...have to....be apart...from now on," she choked and tears ran down her face.Oh how she wish it didn't have to happen!But she knew that if they tried to be together, everyone around would stop them.She would be barred from ever seeing him, and he would be sent to the front of the war.Or worse, he would be killed for "treason" and she would be exiled with the dynasty ending with only herself.
    He wrapped his arms around her, and held her tightly as she sobbed.He too knew that, thats what would have to happen.They could not be together.He had to be with Lady Paula.One way or another, he had to marry Lady Paula.There was no other way around it.
    "I know.I know," he said.He looked out into the horizan, and glared at the sunrising.At the orchard trees in their perfect rows.Everything except for themselves, knew where their lives were heading.Before last year, he too had known where his life was heading, and so had she.But if they could have had another chance and gone through it all over, neither of them would had changed a thing.
    "Kaname, if its anything at all, please know that I will never marry anyone at all.My soul is your's forever, and to give it to someone else, to have someone else's babies, will kill me.I'll be happy, as happy as I can truly ever be.And when we die, our souls will meet in heavan and we will be able to free from all our earthly duties that bound us and made it so that we could not be together.In our hearts we will be together til we die, so that we can be together for all eternity, in heavan," she said.
    So they held each other, knowing that soon, they would both go back to their own lives.He would marry Lady Paula, and start a family, and take over as Lord of his family once his father passed away.And she would go back to being a Queen, never marrying anyone.

    8 MONTHS LATER


    She held her hair away from her face as she once again, vomited into the pot that her governess had given her.It had been this way for the past few months, and every day her belly got bigger.Though it had been subsiding in the recent weeks, and she was almost certain that this would one of the last times that she would vomit while her mother, nurse-maid, governess, and two ladies-of-the-chamber would watch her in sympathy.Soon her child would be born, and she could be happy to get rid of the nasty part of being pregnant.Why no one had warned her of the nasty part of being heavy with child, was beyond her.All she knew was that there was more to being a pregnant mother then she was willing to know.
    She stood up and handed the pot to one of her chamber maids, and washed her hands and mouth.She felt a strong kick from within her belly, and automatically put her hand to her stomach and smiled.No one had questioned why she had mysteriously become pregnant, and only those with her right now in her bed chamber knew about how she had come to carry a man's child who was already married to another.They had all left her alone, though those appointed but not so very trustworthy, like a lizard of a man, had given her looks and had wanted to find out the truth.It was a good thing that he himself, had stepped in and said to all of those pathetic people that no one was to question the legitamicy of her child, or wondered at all who the father was.
    The father.The wedding.
    Of course it had only taken place 2 months ago, and Lady Paula seemed to not know what had even happened.But it had been the worst day of her life.Here she was, a queen in her own right, and a mother with a child out of wedlock.Her child would never know his or her father, and she would be damned if she ever told.Though she knew that there would come a day that her child would find out, she could only pray that it wouldn't be for a very long time.
    Though, something about Lady Paula changed after the wedding that made Hillary wary of what exactly she knew.Even though she seemed happy that she had gotten the very man that she had loved from afar, and who seemed to hold feelings for Hillary, she would give Hillary looks.It was strange, that Hillary would come to be pregnant the one night that no one had been able to find either her or her Kaname.From time to time Lady Paula felt a feeling in the pit of her stomach, that the child Queen Hillary was carrying, was the child of her own husband.And it enraged her.This Hillary knew, and could see every night she sat at the table for dinner and felt the suspicious eyes of Lady Paula on her.She was careful with what she said and did now, never looking at Kaname who now sat at her table as his father had done when he was lord.
    Her governess came forth and put the finishing touched of her make-up.Pregnancy had done so much for Hillary.Before, she was already deemed a beauty through out the country, and her pregnancy had given her a glow that made her ten times more beautiful.

    As she went about her day, in meetings and important doings with all those around her, she kept feeling a strong kicking in her stomach.What could it possibly be?The baby was never this active, and usually left her alone.
    As she sat down at the dinner table the kicking got worse.Servings came and went, and she could barely pay attention to the conversations about her.As she tried to stand up and say that she needed to get away for a few minutes, an extremely strong pain went through and made her scream, almost crashing to the ground until two familiar arms quickly reached for her and held her.
    "Someone get the Apothercary!NOW!"
    "She's having the baby!"
    Dear Lord, please be with her!"
    Voices and faces went around her, and she felt him pick her up and carry her to her bed chambers, telling her that it was going to be alright.
    He laid her on her bed and brushed her hair away from her face, praying in his mind that his love would live through childbirth, knowing that many women did not.
    "Stay with me Hillary.The baby and I need you," he wispered as he kissed her forehead.

    The labor went through the night.She was given a rope that was hung from the top of her bed to grip and pull with all her might when the pain got to be to hard to handle.She screamed, and they gave her a wet towel to put in her mouth to bite with all she had in her.He had been sent away hours before, and the only ones were her close family and friends and the midwife, with a nursing maid close by.She grabbed her mothers hand and heard her say to push, that they almost had the baby's head.Earlier she had heard the doctor say that her hips were too narrow, and that she could die.No, her baby needed her, and she was going to stay alive.
    She screamed again as she pushed once more.The doctor exclaimed that he saw the head and too push again.With the last of her strength she pushed, and heard the doctor say that he had the baby, and she heard the cries of happiness and of her baby.
    "It's a girl your magesty!" the doctor yelled in happiness.
    "Give her to me.Give me my baby," she said happily.
    They wrapped a blanket with pink with gold ermine trim, around her baby, and handed her to Hillary.She held her arms around her tiny miracle and felt tears break through the surface, and roll down her face.
    "I'll never let them hurt you.I'll protect you from the things I know and have done," she said to her.
    "What will you name her?" her mother proudly said as she watched her daughter and her grandchild be in blissfill happiness.
    She thought about it for a minute and finally came to her conclusion, "Celeste."
    Everyone nodded in happiness.

    "Hillaria!"
    Hillary looked up in alarm, as someone called her by her Spanish name, from playing on a blanket on the ground with Celeste who was now 2 months old, as her governess ran up to her.She stood up with Celeste in her arms, worried that something had happened.
    "What is it?" she asked worriedly.
    "Hillaria, I'm so sorry, he...he...he," her governess seemed to burst into tears, "He was killed Hillaria.In close combat with a British soldier.They tried to save him, but they could not succeed.I am so sorry."
    The entire world froze.
    The heart breaks silently, and no one can hear.