Yarrington caught the Queen before she fell, handing her to the King as
soon as he reached her side. Xandar rushed her to Dr Yeil''s medical
centre. Christian, Annie, the alliance, Ken and Janice all waited along the
corridor outside the doctor''s room.
Xandar was looking at his mate''s unconscious body on the examination
table in dismay. He felt her cking out from across the hall, and the
next thing he knew, he was witnessing her petite figure falling before
the Education Minister caught her in swift motion
Dr Yeil extracted some blood, and got one of his nurses to go have it
analysed. Two minutes into the body examination with his second
nurse, Lucianne let out a moan. Xandar rushed to her side without a
second thought and asked frantically, “Baby. Baby, can’ you hear me?”
Her eyes fluttered open, and her gaze shifted from her mate to Dr Yeil
and his nurse before her sights returned to Xandar as she asked, “Wh-
what happened?”
"You passed out, sweetheart. How are you feeling?”
“A little dizzy.” she responded.
Xandar lifted her off the table, and held her close to his chest, using the
mate-bond to ease her difort. Lucianne kept her eyes closed as
she concentrated on Xandar''s scent and heartbeat, and another three
minutester, she could open her eyes without seeing her surroundings
spinning.
She reached for her mate''s cheek as she muttered, “Thank you, my
love.”
He smiled in relief knowing that she felt better, and pecked a kiss on
her forehead before he muttered, “Anything for you, Lucy.”
He sat her in a chair when the nurse came in with Lucianne’s blood test
results. What was odd was that the nurse was smiling. DI Yeil and the
other nurse looked at their colleague in bewilderment before turning
their eyes to the report. They were shocked at what they saw before a
smile graced both their features
The doctor looked at the King and Queen, and smiled radiantly as he
said, “It seems you can heal from just about anything, my Queen
Congrattions, your Highnesses. You''re pregnant.”
Xandar and Lucianne froze at the statement. Lucianne blinked a few
times before she shook herself out of her daze and asked, “I''m sorry, Dr
Yeil. I''m quite certain I didn''t hear you right. What did you just say?”
The nurses smiled wider when the doctor said, “I doubt you heard me
wrong, your Highness. You''ve healed from the infertility poison, and
now, you''re with child. It''s two days old, so the heartbeat is still faint.
Give it another five more days, and you''ll be able t o hear it easily in a
quiet room. It looks like the Kingdom can wee a new addition to
the royal family in eighteen weeks time.”
Xandar knelt before Lucianne, and pressed an ear over her abdomen,
where he detected the beautiful sound of a beating drum. His eyes
glistened in joy when he looked up at his mate and cupped her cheeks
as he eximed in a hushed voice, “You''re pregnant!”
Lucianne’s own eyes glistened as well when she chuckled in tion for
a moment as she looked down at her still-t belly, her thumb stroking
it lovingly. For the first time in so long, she felt that the Moon Goddess
didn’t hate her. It was because their Goddess gifted her the ability to
heal from poisons that she was able to conceive again. Then, something
came to her mind.
With bright, inquisitive eyes, Lucianne asked Dr Yeil, “Thest time there
was infertility poison in my system, you said that you sent my blood to
theb, Dr Yeil?"This text is property of N?/velD/rama.Org.
Xandar stood by her side and faced the doctor as the old man
answered, “1 did. I called the head of the department just yesterday,
your Highnesses, but my colleague over there confirmed that there''s no
change in your bloodposition. It''s still the blood of an infertile
creature.”
“But the blood in my body is now healed?” Lucianne confirmed.
Di Yeil looked at the report in his hand and said, “It appears so, my
Queen. There are no traces of infertility poison in your body, or any
poison for that matter. But I must say, the recovery phase did take a
longer timepared to silver and Oleander.”
“Why is that?” Xandar asked.
Looking up from the report, the doctor answered, “My best guess? It''s
because the hormones required to conceive took time to return to their
normal levels. You see, your Highnesses, the infertility poison wipes out
the hormones required for pregnancy and...i s supposed to inhibit
production of such hormones from the organ producing them
indefinitely. To put it simply, the poison was... supposed to turn off the
production switch in the organ, much like how lethal poisons such as
silver and Oleander turn off the functionality switch in vital organs.
But..."
Dr Yeil looked at the report again and said, “If we learned anything
about the Queen''s immune system, it''s that her organs know
how to take care of themselves. Since the switch in her organs never
allows anything external to turn them off.. at least not permanently, she
retained the ability to continue hormonal production. It took this long
because hormones may take days, weeks, o r months, in some cases, to
return to their normal levels, depending on one’s diet and lifestyle.
ording to this report, your hormones are now at healthy levels to
carry a child, my Queen.”
Lucianne was speechless as she continued staring at the medical
professionals. Xandar caressed her shoulders before he pecked a kiss in
Lucianne’s hair and uttered, “Amazing.”
Lucianne then asked, “So, if I gave you my blood that has healed from
the poison, and you sent it to your colleagues in theb, do you think
they can study the bloodposition and develop an antidote to cure
someone who has sumbed to the same poison?”
Everyone''s eyes snapped wide open. Dr Yeilposed himself and said,
“Technically speaking, and if we were to be optimistic, it should be
possible, your Highness.”
Xandar caught up to his mate''s thoughts. She was thinking about
Annie. Lucianne wanted to know if there was something in her blood
that could be replicated to heal her. The thought of how selfless she
was even in this made Xandar''s heart melt.
With her doe eyes, Lucianne looked up at her mate and asked, “You
don''t mind if I gave some of my blood, do you? It won''t affect the
child.”
Xandar lowered himself to peck a kiss between her eyebrows and said,
"Of course not, sweetheart. I think it''s a great idea.”
Lucianne’s eyes sparkled when she said, “In that case,” she looked back
at the doctor and nurses as she said, “Take a little more of my blood,
please. See if it can cure anything else.”
“Not too much of it though.” Xandar said with worry. He didn’t want
her to faint again.
Lucianne rolled her eyes and said, “I doubt Dr Yeil will take everything,
darling.”
Dr Yeil affirmed her statement, “Medical protocol doesn''t allow us to
extract more than three syringes of blood from a pregnant woman, my
King.”
Xandar''s tense shoulders rxed, and he heaved a relieved sigh before
pecking another kiss on his mate''s forehead as he said,” That''s good to
know.”
After giving them the blood, Xandar and Lucianne agreed to keep the
last part of their medical consultation from the Duke and Duchess until
they actually have good news. They didn''t want to get Christian and
Annie''s hopes up and then shoot it to the groundter on if and when
there was no cure.
In the hallway, everyone''s eyes snapped to Lucianne and Xandar, and
when the smiling couple told them that they were expecting, the
strained atmosphere lightened as everyone conveyed their
congrattions. The two most excited people were Janice, who couldn''t
wait to wee another grandchild, and Annie, who couldn''t wait to
be a distant aunt. Since Xandar was close to her and Christian, Annie
doubted that they''d be distant at all!
Toby''s cheeky demeanor reced his worried features as he said, “A
dynamite carrying a dynamite. This is definitely one safe Kingdom to
live in."