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Adult +
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The Way You Love Me
THE WAY YOU LOVE ME
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“Oh, Zelgadis!” Amelia yelled out before she pushed her face into the covers of her bed, muffling her moans.
She was bent over the side of her large canopy bed, her lover taking her from behind. His hands tightened on her hips as he climaxed inside of her, and she came just seconds later.
Zelgadis pulled out of the princess and pulled her panties back into place, then dropped the large skirts of her gown that he had been holding out of the way.
It was mid-day and Amelia was supposed to go to a council meeting, so Zelgadis had decided to leave his mark because he would not be seeing her again until dinner time.
Amelia's face was flushed when she turned to face him. She smoothed out the front of her gown and shifted her tiara back into place. She felt the mix of her wetness and her lover's semen pooling in her panties, but made no move to change them. She would never admit it out loud, but she loved the feeling of him claiming her in that way.
“I have to go now, but I'll see you tonight,” Amelia said, standing on the tips of her toes to give Zelgadis a soft kiss on the lips. He returned the kiss and rubbed his hands gently down her arms.
“Have fun,” he said with a smile. Amelia made a face at him before turning and exiting her room.
Zelgadis heaved a happy sigh and sat down on the foot of Amelia's bed.
It had been almost a year since they had first made love during one of their crazy adventures with Lina and Gourry. In that time, they had taken every opportunity to slip away and be together in private, but they had agreed that Zelgadis would follow one last lead for his cure wile Saillune was busy helping with the restoration of Taforashia. He left for only a few months before he couldn't stand the distance between himself and the princess anymore. Cure be damned, he had made peace with his anger at Rezo, so there was nothing stopping him from making peace with his condition. Amelia had, so it seemed stupid to continue moping around when he had a beautiful woman who was, amazingly, in love with him and attracted to him.
So Zelgadis had returned to Saillune and taken up residence as Amelia's protector. She was allowed to choose a Knight to work strictly under her, so of course she had appointed him that role.
The only problem was the royal council. They were already suspicious of the relationship between the princess and the chimera, and those old fogies would certainly burst a capillary if they knew the princess was no longer a virgin. Not to mention that she had lost said virginity to her chimera bodyguard, and that they planned to stay together for the foreseeable future.
Zelgadis heaved a sigh and stood up. It was time to make some rounds inside the castle. Though his duties were more of a front than anything, he still took them seriously.
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“I think we should just tell daddy,” Amelia said that night, as she laid in her lover's arms.
The night was balmy and hot, so the large bay windows in the princess' room were open, and the two lay nude under a thin white sheet.
Zelgadis turned on his side and pulled Amelia possessively to him. “I know we probably should,” he said, “But I can't stand the thought of being separated from you. There's still a possibility that your father wouldn't approve, and then I'd either be banished or arrested, and I'd never see you again.”
Amelia turned her head and saw the sincerity of fear in his light blue eyes.
“I'm the crown princess!” She exclaimed, surprising Zelgadis. “I should be able to be with whomever I choose!”
The chimera gave a small chuckle and carefully buried his face in the nook between her neck and shoulder, giving it a lick.
“And you choose me?” he said with some amusement.
Amelia smiled. “Yep. Aren't you lucky?”
“Very,” Zelgadis said, then rolled over onto his back and pulled the princess on top of him. She could feel his erection against her leg and her heart sped up. The thought that she turned him on so much added to her own excitement. Not to mention that the sight and feel of him still drove her mad.
Amelia sat up, straddling Zelgadis around the waist, then slowly lowered herself down on him. As he entered her, she gave a low moan and leaned forward a bit. Zelgadis pushed upwards and into her the rest of the way. Gripping her hips, Zelgadis set the pace as Amelia bounced up and down on his manhood, making it slick with her need.
Amelia leaned forward more, until she was practically laying straight down on top of him. Zelgadis moved his hands from her hips to her ass and spread her cheeks as he increased the pace. Amelia's moans also increased, and Zelgadis found it was difficult to keep himself from screaming out her name. After all, the window was open.
Finally, Amelia reached her climax and tightened around her lover's shaft, causing him to spill his seed inside of her. Once finished, Amelia rolled off the chimera and onto her back on her own side of the bed, breathing heavily.
“I love you,” she managed to gasp out, her eyes closed. “So much.”
Zelgadis smiled and leaned over her slightly, brushing her forehead with a kiss. “I love you, too.”
Though they didn't say the words often, there was never any question that the two loved each other. First as friends and comrades, then as partners, then as lovers. It was obvious to anyone who knew them well.
Unfortunately, they had no idea that one particularly hot summer night together would force their hand.
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“Amelia, we should probably take you to a healer,” Zelgadis yelled through the bathroom door. Luckily, it was the private bath in Amelia's bedchamber, so no one else would have to hear the sounds of the princess vomiting up her breakfast.
Amelia finally opened the door and stepped out, looking pale with a sheen of sweat on her face.
“I'm fine, Zelgadis, really,” she tried to assure her lover, forcing a smile.
“It had better not be anything you ate,” he said, his voice dark, “because so help me if I find out your food wasn't prepared properly I'm going to go down to the kitchen and personally give the chefs a...”
“Zelgadis, please!” Amelia interrupted him, “It was nothing I ate. I promise. Maybe I'm just coming down with something. I'll go see Sylphiel-san later, all right?”
The chimera seemed appeased by that answer, so he nodded and offered his arm to Amelia so that he could help balance her shaky steps as she made her way to change for her next meeting.
Amelia made it through the rest of the day without vomiting on anyone, though just barely. She skipped lunch and would have skipped dinner except that Zelgadis wouldn't hear of it.
“Have you seen Sylphiel yet?” He asked her quietly as he escorted her to her room for the night. Soon he would retire to his own room and then sneak back into Amelia's via their shared balcony.
“Not yet,” she answered, then took his hand and pulled him into her room, not caring if anyone saw. “Come here, I need to talk to you.”
She shut and locked the door behind them, than began removing her gown. Since her shaky fingers were fumbling, Zelgadis began to unfasten the buttons down the back.
“What do you need to talk to me about?” He finally asked, an edge of nervousness to his voice. His worst fear was that one day she would announce that she didn't want him there anymore.
“Well, it's about my sudden illness. I didn't go see Sylphiel-san because I already know what's wrong.”
As she said the last words, her gown fell to the floor and she turned to the side.
Zelgadis gasped as he noticed something that had not been present any of the other times he had seen Amelia naked.
“Amelia...you're...”
She nodded. “I seem to have popped around 12 weeks. That would explain the sickness, too. I wasn't showing at all until just a couple days ago.”
Amelia's round and gently protruding belly took Zelgadis' breath away. He slowly approached her and then gently placed a smooth stone hang on it.
“...I don't know what to say,” he finally admitted, breaking the long silence that had fallen over them.
“I don't really know what to say, either,” Amelia said, looking her lover in the eyes. They could see each other's fear.
“I think it finally happened that one really hot night. Remember, when we slept with the window open?”
Zelgadis nodded. “Amelia, I'm just...I didn't think I could father children, to be honest. Being what I am, it seemed only logical that it would either be impossible or at least extremely difficult.”
“I know,” Amelia said, placing a gentle hand against his cheek, “But maybe that's why it took so long. All those times, we had never even tried to prevent anything from happening. But we couldn't cheat fate forever, I suppose.”
“Oh, shit!” Zelgadis exclaimed, removing his hand from Amelia's belly and jumping back from her. “What the hell are we going to do!? Your father doesn't even know we've been...and we're not married...they're going to arrest me and give me the death penalty, Amelia!”
Amelia's mouth fell open in shock at Zelgadis' outburst. Then she laughed. It started as just a chuckle, then exploded into all out hysterics.
When she stopped laughing, Amelia said to him, “I love you, stupid! I would never let anything bad happen to you! Besides, no one needs to know. This weekend we can announce our engagement, then we can announce my pregnancy a little while later. Then I'll just give birth a little 'early'. What do you think?”
“That works,” Zelgadis said. A strange calm had come over him now at the initial shock had worn off. “But what if the council tries to stop our marriage? What if your father does?”
“They won't,” Amelia stated with a confidence she didn't completely feel.
“And what if...” Zelgadis continued. “...What if the baby ends up looking like me?”
Amelia smiled and took him by the hand, leading him to bed.
“Then I'll be a lucky mother to have such a beautiful baby.”
“Amelia,” Zelgadis breathed and took her mouth in a deep kiss. He had no idea how he ended up so lucky. After being dealt a horrible hand in his youth, a possessed grandfather and being turned into a monster, he somehow ended up with the most amazing woman in the world. She loved him, accepted him, and was going to give birth to his child.
Zelgadis began massaging Amelia's breasts and deepened the kiss even more.
“Zelgadis,” Amelia gasped out his name, “You want to...even with me like this?”
“Somehow,” he said with a smile, “You've never been more beautiful.”
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The various announcements regarding Amelia's relationship with her Knight went off mostly without a hitch. Her father and most of the council hadn't seemed very surprised.
The wedding turned out well, and then the princess and new prince consort disappeared for a couple weeks on their honeymoon.
Once they arrived back, they waited another few weeks to announce Amelia's pregnancy. The council was actually elated that the two had created an heir so quickly. Though, in actuality, Amelia was about 5 months along. She hid it well under large gowns.
Amelia's real due date passed without incident. It was a few days later when contractions began wracking her body, and she grabbed Zelgadis by the shoulder so hard he thought she would bruise his stone skin.
“It's coming!” She yelled, and Zelgadis scooped her up in his arms and ran with her to the hospital wing.
Lina and Gourry came swooping in just in time for the birth. Lina pressed a cool damp cloth to Amelia's head as Sylphiel crouched between Amelia's legs, yelling at her to push.
Zelgadis held Amelia's hand, letting her clamp down as hard as she wanted. He silently thanked Rezo for his body, since she probably would have broken the fingers of any other man.
Gourry paced on the far side of the room, saying something about not wanting to accidentally see Amelia's 'lady parts.' She was like a little sister to him, and Zelgadis appreciated that the whole situation was probably awkward for the swordsman.
“HARDER, AMELIA!” Lina yelled, having decided that Sylphiel wasn't being stern enough.
With one last moan and a long push, Amelia gave birth to her first child. Syphiel caught the small bundle and gave it a little slap, causing a cry to ring out.
She handed the baby off to Lina for cleaning, and began casting Recovery on Amelia to help her regain some strength after the long labor.
Prince Phil had heard the cry and decided it was now the perfect time to burst into the room.
“Do I have a grandson or granddaughter?!” He demanded.
“Granddaughter,” Lina said, bringing the bundle back over and handing it to Amelia.
Zelgadis looked nervously at the baby in Amelia's arms, but then gave a long sigh of relief.
The baby wrapped in the pink blanket was peach colored and had dazzling blue eyes. She also had a mop of purple hair that was somewhere between the dark plum of Amelia's, and the lavender-silver of Zelgadis'.
“She has your eyes, Amelia,” Gourry remarked, having finally walked over to the bed.
“She has my chin,” Zelgadis said with a smile, “from when I was human, I mean.” He absently rubbed his fingers along the rocky ridges of his chin, but his eyes were far away; remembering.
“She's so beautiful,” Amelia breathed.
“A little premature, though, isn't she?” Phil asked with a knowing smile.
“Daddy!” Amelia blushed bright red.
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That night, Amelia returned to her room with her husband. The baby's nursery was right next door in the room that used to belong to her Knight, and there was a nanny with her. Zelgadis' sensitive hearing would pick up anything unusual, should they be needed.
Once in bed, Zelgadis pulled his wife to his chest. “Sometimes I think this is all a dream, and I'm terrified I'm going to wake up.”
Amelia gave him a playful slap on the arm. “If this is some dream you're having, I'm mad at you for making me go through 12 hours of labor!”
“What should we Christen her as, tomorrow?” Zelgadis asked, changing the subject.
“Her middle name should be Lina. I kind of promised,” Amelia said. Zelgadis laughed.
After a while, Zelgadis finally spoke up. “Do you think we could name her Victoria? For my mother.”
Amelia's breath caught in her throat. She had never heard Zelgadis so much as speak of his parents before.
“Of course we can!” the princess exclaimed. “I also think we should throw Gracia in there. For my sister.”
“Victoria Lina Gracia Saillune?” Zelgadis muttered. “That's kind of long.”
Amelia nodded. “It's a royalty thing.”
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And so it was that the first and eventually only child of the future Queen of Saillune and her husband was Christened as Victoria Lina Gracia de Saillune.
Victoria grew up strong and smart, always thirsting for knowledge and Justice throughout the land. She inherited magic skills from both her parents, and trained often with her uncle Gourry so that she would never have her mother's fear of weapons. Aunt Lina taught her a bit of black magic, though it was under protest from Amelia. Most of all, Victoria loved to pass her days in the library with her father, researching various things, and talking about everything or nothing.
Amelia and Zelgadis never tried to prevent more children, but lightning simply never struck twice. So they considered Victoria their little blessing, and protected her with the tenaciousness with which they had always protected each other.
THE END
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“Oh, Zelgadis!” Amelia yelled out before she pushed her face into the covers of her bed, muffling her moans.
She was bent over the side of her large canopy bed, her lover taking her from behind. His hands tightened on her hips as he climaxed inside of her, and she came just seconds later.
Zelgadis pulled out of the princess and pulled her panties back into place, then dropped the large skirts of her gown that he had been holding out of the way.
It was mid-day and Amelia was supposed to go to a council meeting, so Zelgadis had decided to leave his mark because he would not be seeing her again until dinner time.
Amelia's face was flushed when she turned to face him. She smoothed out the front of her gown and shifted her tiara back into place. She felt the mix of her wetness and her lover's semen pooling in her panties, but made no move to change them. She would never admit it out loud, but she loved the feeling of him claiming her in that way.
“I have to go now, but I'll see you tonight,” Amelia said, standing on the tips of her toes to give Zelgadis a soft kiss on the lips. He returned the kiss and rubbed his hands gently down her arms.
“Have fun,” he said with a smile. Amelia made a face at him before turning and exiting her room.
Zelgadis heaved a happy sigh and sat down on the foot of Amelia's bed.
It had been almost a year since they had first made love during one of their crazy adventures with Lina and Gourry. In that time, they had taken every opportunity to slip away and be together in private, but they had agreed that Zelgadis would follow one last lead for his cure wile Saillune was busy helping with the restoration of Taforashia. He left for only a few months before he couldn't stand the distance between himself and the princess anymore. Cure be damned, he had made peace with his anger at Rezo, so there was nothing stopping him from making peace with his condition. Amelia had, so it seemed stupid to continue moping around when he had a beautiful woman who was, amazingly, in love with him and attracted to him.
So Zelgadis had returned to Saillune and taken up residence as Amelia's protector. She was allowed to choose a Knight to work strictly under her, so of course she had appointed him that role.
The only problem was the royal council. They were already suspicious of the relationship between the princess and the chimera, and those old fogies would certainly burst a capillary if they knew the princess was no longer a virgin. Not to mention that she had lost said virginity to her chimera bodyguard, and that they planned to stay together for the foreseeable future.
Zelgadis heaved a sigh and stood up. It was time to make some rounds inside the castle. Though his duties were more of a front than anything, he still took them seriously.
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“I think we should just tell daddy,” Amelia said that night, as she laid in her lover's arms.
The night was balmy and hot, so the large bay windows in the princess' room were open, and the two lay nude under a thin white sheet.
Zelgadis turned on his side and pulled Amelia possessively to him. “I know we probably should,” he said, “But I can't stand the thought of being separated from you. There's still a possibility that your father wouldn't approve, and then I'd either be banished or arrested, and I'd never see you again.”
Amelia turned her head and saw the sincerity of fear in his light blue eyes.
“I'm the crown princess!” She exclaimed, surprising Zelgadis. “I should be able to be with whomever I choose!”
The chimera gave a small chuckle and carefully buried his face in the nook between her neck and shoulder, giving it a lick.
“And you choose me?” he said with some amusement.
Amelia smiled. “Yep. Aren't you lucky?”
“Very,” Zelgadis said, then rolled over onto his back and pulled the princess on top of him. She could feel his erection against her leg and her heart sped up. The thought that she turned him on so much added to her own excitement. Not to mention that the sight and feel of him still drove her mad.
Amelia sat up, straddling Zelgadis around the waist, then slowly lowered herself down on him. As he entered her, she gave a low moan and leaned forward a bit. Zelgadis pushed upwards and into her the rest of the way. Gripping her hips, Zelgadis set the pace as Amelia bounced up and down on his manhood, making it slick with her need.
Amelia leaned forward more, until she was practically laying straight down on top of him. Zelgadis moved his hands from her hips to her ass and spread her cheeks as he increased the pace. Amelia's moans also increased, and Zelgadis found it was difficult to keep himself from screaming out her name. After all, the window was open.
Finally, Amelia reached her climax and tightened around her lover's shaft, causing him to spill his seed inside of her. Once finished, Amelia rolled off the chimera and onto her back on her own side of the bed, breathing heavily.
“I love you,” she managed to gasp out, her eyes closed. “So much.”
Zelgadis smiled and leaned over her slightly, brushing her forehead with a kiss. “I love you, too.”
Though they didn't say the words often, there was never any question that the two loved each other. First as friends and comrades, then as partners, then as lovers. It was obvious to anyone who knew them well.
Unfortunately, they had no idea that one particularly hot summer night together would force their hand.
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“Amelia, we should probably take you to a healer,” Zelgadis yelled through the bathroom door. Luckily, it was the private bath in Amelia's bedchamber, so no one else would have to hear the sounds of the princess vomiting up her breakfast.
Amelia finally opened the door and stepped out, looking pale with a sheen of sweat on her face.
“I'm fine, Zelgadis, really,” she tried to assure her lover, forcing a smile.
“It had better not be anything you ate,” he said, his voice dark, “because so help me if I find out your food wasn't prepared properly I'm going to go down to the kitchen and personally give the chefs a...”
“Zelgadis, please!” Amelia interrupted him, “It was nothing I ate. I promise. Maybe I'm just coming down with something. I'll go see Sylphiel-san later, all right?”
The chimera seemed appeased by that answer, so he nodded and offered his arm to Amelia so that he could help balance her shaky steps as she made her way to change for her next meeting.
Amelia made it through the rest of the day without vomiting on anyone, though just barely. She skipped lunch and would have skipped dinner except that Zelgadis wouldn't hear of it.
“Have you seen Sylphiel yet?” He asked her quietly as he escorted her to her room for the night. Soon he would retire to his own room and then sneak back into Amelia's via their shared balcony.
“Not yet,” she answered, then took his hand and pulled him into her room, not caring if anyone saw. “Come here, I need to talk to you.”
She shut and locked the door behind them, than began removing her gown. Since her shaky fingers were fumbling, Zelgadis began to unfasten the buttons down the back.
“What do you need to talk to me about?” He finally asked, an edge of nervousness to his voice. His worst fear was that one day she would announce that she didn't want him there anymore.
“Well, it's about my sudden illness. I didn't go see Sylphiel-san because I already know what's wrong.”
As she said the last words, her gown fell to the floor and she turned to the side.
Zelgadis gasped as he noticed something that had not been present any of the other times he had seen Amelia naked.
“Amelia...you're...”
She nodded. “I seem to have popped around 12 weeks. That would explain the sickness, too. I wasn't showing at all until just a couple days ago.”
Amelia's round and gently protruding belly took Zelgadis' breath away. He slowly approached her and then gently placed a smooth stone hang on it.
“...I don't know what to say,” he finally admitted, breaking the long silence that had fallen over them.
“I don't really know what to say, either,” Amelia said, looking her lover in the eyes. They could see each other's fear.
“I think it finally happened that one really hot night. Remember, when we slept with the window open?”
Zelgadis nodded. “Amelia, I'm just...I didn't think I could father children, to be honest. Being what I am, it seemed only logical that it would either be impossible or at least extremely difficult.”
“I know,” Amelia said, placing a gentle hand against his cheek, “But maybe that's why it took so long. All those times, we had never even tried to prevent anything from happening. But we couldn't cheat fate forever, I suppose.”
“Oh, shit!” Zelgadis exclaimed, removing his hand from Amelia's belly and jumping back from her. “What the hell are we going to do!? Your father doesn't even know we've been...and we're not married...they're going to arrest me and give me the death penalty, Amelia!”
Amelia's mouth fell open in shock at Zelgadis' outburst. Then she laughed. It started as just a chuckle, then exploded into all out hysterics.
When she stopped laughing, Amelia said to him, “I love you, stupid! I would never let anything bad happen to you! Besides, no one needs to know. This weekend we can announce our engagement, then we can announce my pregnancy a little while later. Then I'll just give birth a little 'early'. What do you think?”
“That works,” Zelgadis said. A strange calm had come over him now at the initial shock had worn off. “But what if the council tries to stop our marriage? What if your father does?”
“They won't,” Amelia stated with a confidence she didn't completely feel.
“And what if...” Zelgadis continued. “...What if the baby ends up looking like me?”
Amelia smiled and took him by the hand, leading him to bed.
“Then I'll be a lucky mother to have such a beautiful baby.”
“Amelia,” Zelgadis breathed and took her mouth in a deep kiss. He had no idea how he ended up so lucky. After being dealt a horrible hand in his youth, a possessed grandfather and being turned into a monster, he somehow ended up with the most amazing woman in the world. She loved him, accepted him, and was going to give birth to his child.
Zelgadis began massaging Amelia's breasts and deepened the kiss even more.
“Zelgadis,” Amelia gasped out his name, “You want to...even with me like this?”
“Somehow,” he said with a smile, “You've never been more beautiful.”
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The various announcements regarding Amelia's relationship with her Knight went off mostly without a hitch. Her father and most of the council hadn't seemed very surprised.
The wedding turned out well, and then the princess and new prince consort disappeared for a couple weeks on their honeymoon.
Once they arrived back, they waited another few weeks to announce Amelia's pregnancy. The council was actually elated that the two had created an heir so quickly. Though, in actuality, Amelia was about 5 months along. She hid it well under large gowns.
Amelia's real due date passed without incident. It was a few days later when contractions began wracking her body, and she grabbed Zelgadis by the shoulder so hard he thought she would bruise his stone skin.
“It's coming!” She yelled, and Zelgadis scooped her up in his arms and ran with her to the hospital wing.
Lina and Gourry came swooping in just in time for the birth. Lina pressed a cool damp cloth to Amelia's head as Sylphiel crouched between Amelia's legs, yelling at her to push.
Zelgadis held Amelia's hand, letting her clamp down as hard as she wanted. He silently thanked Rezo for his body, since she probably would have broken the fingers of any other man.
Gourry paced on the far side of the room, saying something about not wanting to accidentally see Amelia's 'lady parts.' She was like a little sister to him, and Zelgadis appreciated that the whole situation was probably awkward for the swordsman.
“HARDER, AMELIA!” Lina yelled, having decided that Sylphiel wasn't being stern enough.
With one last moan and a long push, Amelia gave birth to her first child. Syphiel caught the small bundle and gave it a little slap, causing a cry to ring out.
She handed the baby off to Lina for cleaning, and began casting Recovery on Amelia to help her regain some strength after the long labor.
Prince Phil had heard the cry and decided it was now the perfect time to burst into the room.
“Do I have a grandson or granddaughter?!” He demanded.
“Granddaughter,” Lina said, bringing the bundle back over and handing it to Amelia.
Zelgadis looked nervously at the baby in Amelia's arms, but then gave a long sigh of relief.
The baby wrapped in the pink blanket was peach colored and had dazzling blue eyes. She also had a mop of purple hair that was somewhere between the dark plum of Amelia's, and the lavender-silver of Zelgadis'.
“She has your eyes, Amelia,” Gourry remarked, having finally walked over to the bed.
“She has my chin,” Zelgadis said with a smile, “from when I was human, I mean.” He absently rubbed his fingers along the rocky ridges of his chin, but his eyes were far away; remembering.
“She's so beautiful,” Amelia breathed.
“A little premature, though, isn't she?” Phil asked with a knowing smile.
“Daddy!” Amelia blushed bright red.
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That night, Amelia returned to her room with her husband. The baby's nursery was right next door in the room that used to belong to her Knight, and there was a nanny with her. Zelgadis' sensitive hearing would pick up anything unusual, should they be needed.
Once in bed, Zelgadis pulled his wife to his chest. “Sometimes I think this is all a dream, and I'm terrified I'm going to wake up.”
Amelia gave him a playful slap on the arm. “If this is some dream you're having, I'm mad at you for making me go through 12 hours of labor!”
“What should we Christen her as, tomorrow?” Zelgadis asked, changing the subject.
“Her middle name should be Lina. I kind of promised,” Amelia said. Zelgadis laughed.
After a while, Zelgadis finally spoke up. “Do you think we could name her Victoria? For my mother.”
Amelia's breath caught in her throat. She had never heard Zelgadis so much as speak of his parents before.
“Of course we can!” the princess exclaimed. “I also think we should throw Gracia in there. For my sister.”
“Victoria Lina Gracia Saillune?” Zelgadis muttered. “That's kind of long.”
Amelia nodded. “It's a royalty thing.”
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And so it was that the first and eventually only child of the future Queen of Saillune and her husband was Christened as Victoria Lina Gracia de Saillune.
Victoria grew up strong and smart, always thirsting for knowledge and Justice throughout the land. She inherited magic skills from both her parents, and trained often with her uncle Gourry so that she would never have her mother's fear of weapons. Aunt Lina taught her a bit of black magic, though it was under protest from Amelia. Most of all, Victoria loved to pass her days in the library with her father, researching various things, and talking about everything or nothing.
Amelia and Zelgadis never tried to prevent more children, but lightning simply never struck twice. So they considered Victoria their little blessing, and protected her with the tenaciousness with which they had always protected each other.
THE END