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The weeks after their first mission back together since the battle against Noxus, weren’t the easiest.
Vi’s grief of losing her family had hit her harder than Caitlyn could have ever expected, causing the redhead to become listless at times throughout the day and inevitably, arguing with Caitlyn on going to therapy for grief counseling.
“Look, Cait, I get it that you Pilties do things differently here, but in Zaun? We don’t get to talk about what hurts… We have to be strong, so that’s what I’m doing!”, Vi argued as she stood across Caitlyn in the living room downstairs of the Kiramman mansion, while Caitlyn had her arms folded and her eye full of concern.
“Vi, I know that… I’ve personally seen how the people of Zaun react to their grief, and while I admire your strength, darling, I am also concerned. You’ve changed, Violet, and it scares me. I don’t want to lose you to the end of a bottle, or worse!!! To you fighting someone over something crass!! Please, just consider this, for me? For us? If it would help… I’d go with you… I… I should have attended the therapy when mother died, but instead? I changed when I promised I wouldn’t and hurt not only you in the process, but countless others. Vi… You know what’s at stake here.”
Vi’s eyes drift down to where Caitlyn now lowers both hands to rest over her belly and she swallows hard, “I didn’t mean for this to happen, Cait… Your mom, Jinx, my dad… This…”
Caitlyn’s eye furrows, “What do you mean by, “this”, Violet? You mean the baby we conceived together? In a moment of desire and vulnerability between us? I… I didn’t exactly plan it either, Vi, being as I wasn’t even supposed to go into Heat yet, or you in your Rut?! We ignored the signs; the anger we both held for each other over Jinx… It consumed us… Changed us, but in that moment of love? We’ve created something beautiful, darling. A child… Our child… So please, as their other mother, will you just grant me this one request? For our future?”
Vi sighs, “You’ll go with me?”, her eyes on Caitlyn’s one eye as her partner nods, and the Alpha sighs once more, more dramatically this time as she droops her shoulders and nods. “Alright, Cait, but only if you go with me.”
“I will”, Caitlyn assures Vi, striding across the room to place both hands to Vi’s face and leaning forward to kiss her Alpha’s forehead. “I promise; for certain this time.” The Omega eyes her Mate as Vi slowly relaxes in her embrace, “Together... We do this and everything else together.”
“Ok”, Vi says quietly, wrapping her arms around Caitlyn and gently guiding her close as they melt into each other.
A knock sounds on the front door and Caitlyn frowns as she carefully removes herself from Vi, “Who could that be at this hour?”, curious as she eyes Vi, who nods and the two move to the door together to investigate.
As soon as the door is opened, they both startle as a figure falls through the opening and blink in bewilderment before looking up to see Sevika standing there with blood on her face.
“Sev, what…”
“Firelights got ambushed… Ekko needs your help”, Sevika says wearily, “Scar here got hurt bad, but I couldn’t make it to the Council’s infirmary. Your place was closer, Kiramman…”
Vi growls, “Who attacked them?”, she asks as Caitlyn kneels down to the floor to check on an unconscious Scar, while Sevika grimaces.
“Seems there were a few Noxians that scattered during the battle and ran off… Said they were getting their fill of the Undercity scum that helped kill their people… I got two, Scar got three, but more are in the Sanctuary going after Ekko. You’ve got to help them, before what the Boy Savior built, is gone.”
Caitlyn looks up at Vi, her face paling as the Alpha nods to Sevika. “Vi, please, don’t go”, her voice quivering as she knew what the Noxian soldiers were capable of. Her mind rewinding back to when Vi had been pierced by the Noxian’s spear, and she swallows hard from the memory.
“Cait, I have to! Ekko’s like my brother and he… He’d do the same for me. I’m going, I’m sorry, but you should stay. Can’t have you risking the baby”, Vi says through gritted teeth, while Sevika’s eyes widen in shock. She sees and rolls her eyes, “Yes, my Omega’s pregnant, don’t be weird about it. Now, take me there.”
“Vi, you really should-“
“Sev, I swear to Janna if you tell me to stay and not help because I’ve got a kid on the way, so help me…”
Caitlyn looks down and sighs, “Go, but take the gauntlets… And please, be careful.” She sees Vi nod and how Sevika shoots her an empathetic look, which she waves off as she calls out for her father to come help Scar, while Vi hurries out of the mansion with Sevika to go retrieve her gauntlets from the station…
Minutes turned to hours, which turned to days…
There was no sign of Vi…
Caitlyn’s heart ached for her Alpha, crying herself to sleep at night and praying to Janna that her Mate would come home safely. Even Sevika was missing, and there had been no word on the Sanctuary or of any Noxians.
Scar’s injuries were so severe, that Tobias had placed him into a medically induced coma to allow proper healing as they all knew that he’d race back to help his people and ignore his wounds.
Eventually, eight months passed and it was time for their baby to arrive.
Whilst she was hurried into labor and delivery with her water broken and contractions having begun two hours prior, another emergency was called out to notify the hospital staff as a woman was brought in on a stretcher…
Upon hearing Caitlyn’s cries of pain, the woman on the stretcher opened her eyes and a low gasp escaped her lips. “Cupcake…”, she breathed out, now thrashing to get up and find her Omega as Vi growled at the nurses.
“Ma’am, please!!! You were just brought in for dehydration, multiple untreated injuries and a concussion!! They say you were found with a few others on the beaches, and kept hostage for months!! You need treatment, so please remain calm!”
Vi growls, “That’s my Mate I just heard screaming!!! I need to get to her!” She frantically claws at the IV stuck to her arm and rips it out, causing blood to splatter as she scrambles off the stretcher and bolts after the sound of her Omega, while the nurses call for security.
Tears fill the Alpha’s eyes, wincing with soft gasps as she runs, despite the broken left leg and despite several fractured ribs, a concussion, a bloodied lip, and blood all over her.
When she and Sevika had reached the Sanctuary, they’d been ambushed by the Noxians and both were knocked out cold before even getting a chance to reach Ekko. However, when they awoke on a ship, they’d found Ekko sitting across from them with his arms and legs tied together by metal chains, with a gag in his mouth.
He’d broken down once Vi had managed to slip out of her restraints to ask what had happened and where they were, informing them both that it was a trap. The Noxians had somehow found the Sanctuary weeks beforehand, and made camp nearby before putting their own sinister plan into place.
Inevitably, they’d all been taken hostage as participants in the Battle, but the rest of the Zaunites had been left alone.
As Vi stumbles and falls to the floor, crying out in pain while Ekko and Sevika were also being examined, having been brought in after her as Vi had endured the worst of the Noxian’s torture, she regains her footing and continues after Caitlyn’s cries of pain while blood dripped to the floor…
Caitlyn whimpers as she’s wheeled to a room, the hospital security lights going off as an announcement was made that a patient was on the loose and very injured, posing a danger to themselves and others around them.
Once inside, Caitlyn has the necessary IV placed, along with the monitors for the baby while her father, also her physician, inspects her below to check her dilation.
“Darling, you’re at a ten already, so I need you to be brave and start pushing when I say so, alright?”, Tobias says gently, to ease his daughter’s anxiety and pain.
Caitlyn nods, wishing Vi was there for the Alpha to guide her through this and if by some miracle was answered, she hears a familiar voice yell out as someone stumbles into the delivery room. She blinks her eye and gasps as soon as she sees her, “V-Vi?”, her heart racing as Vi nods weakly before fainting to the floor. “VI!!”, the Omega screams out, but then she whines as her contractions increase with her baby ready to greet her.
Tobias has nurses quickly tend to Vi, instructing them to place her into the nearest chair and growling when security rushes in. “Out!!! That is my daughter-in-law you are attempting to grab, who has been missing for months and believed dead! Get out!!!”
The guards wince and apologize before leaving, while Vi stirs in the chair with faint whimpers.
Caitlyn keeps her eye trained on Vi, “Vi, oh gods what has been done to you?”, whimpering and pumping out pheromones for her Alpha as Vi’s eyes flutter open.
Vi looks around the room until she finds Caitlyn and her heart skips, realizing what was about to happen and she pales. “Is that… Is she… The baby?”
“Nurses, help Violet up and bring her to her Omega… This is her sired pup I’m delivering”, Tobias says firmly, his eyes soft as he looks to Vi and the two share a respectful nod.
Caitlyn reaches out in a frantic motion for Vi, tangling her right hand with Vi’s as the Alpha presses a kiss to her hair. She sobs, “I thought… I feared you were dead, Vi… Or that you grew tired of me.”
“Never, Cait… Sev and I got ambushed and we got taken hostage, along with Ekko… Tossed onto a Noxian warship, that was docked too far and hidden from the public eye. We were on the sea for months, before Sevika finally managed to take a guard down… We didn’t go down without a fight; each of us injured but they’re ok… Ekko turned the ship around three weeks ago, and there was a storm… We crashed, and were found on the shores just outside of Piltover with the sea rescue team doing their annual training… We got lucky, Cait…”
“Never leave me again”, Caitlyn says between pushes, gasping in pain as she’s nuzzled by a bloody Vi. She scrunches her nose, “You reek, but I won’t complain.”
“Alright, Caity, one more push!”, Tobias says excitedly, beaming with pride as he spots the thick hair on the tiniest head as it rests in his hands while awaiting the rest of the baby’s body to be pushed out.
“Together?”, Caitlyn asks as she looks up at Vi, who smiles tiredly and nods.
“Together, Cupcake…”
With one final push, Caitlyn screams out before feeling as if her while belly was just removed as she felt empty all of a sudden as a small cry pierced the room now. She gasps and grips Vi’s hands as Tobias proudly wipes the baby’s face clean and cuts the cord to lift their newborn up.
“It’s a girl”, Tobias says softly, smiling as his Omega daughter begins to have tears stream from her eye and her Alpha Mate looks at the tiny baby in awe.
Caitlyn quickly reaches out for the infant, sobbing with joy as the baby cried until being placed into her waiting arms. She coos gently, pressing kisses to the lavender colored hair and she finally lets a soft breath out, “She’s perfect.”
The Alpha watches in wonder as the small baby’s eyes meet hers, and she sobs as she sees the color of them.
Their daughter had Jinx’s original eye color…
Caitlyn sighs as a nurse helps push her gown aside to allow the baby to nurse, and smiles softly as Vi kisses her sweaty forehead. “Look at her, Vi”, she murmurs out as their daughter eagerly latches onto her breast to suckle away at her milk.
“Lavender…”, Vi murmurs out, “Her hair is like lavender…”, her voice gentle as to not startle the baby.
Caitlyn’s eye widens and she smiles, “Darling, what if we named her that? Lavender? But… She’ll need a middle name too.” She ponders on it until Vi nods and surprises her.
“Her middle name should be your mother’s”, Vi says as she reaches down to caress the baby’s tiny back. She sees the look of surprise in Caitlyn’s eye and shrugs, “Only fair.”
“Lavender Cassandra Kiramman… I love it”, Caitlyn says smiling, eyeing their daughter proudly as her father now stood to inspect Vi’s wounds.
“Caitlyn dear, I’m afraid I must borrow your Alpha… She needs surgery, instantly”, Tobias says calmly, waving his hands as Caitlyn panicked. “I need to mend her leg and ribs is all”, he assures his daughter. He turns to Vi and gently pats her back, “Come now, let’s get you taken care of and then we can bring you in here with your girls, yes?”
“Ok”, Vi says as she grows weaker by the second, nodding as she relents to Tobias and gives Caitlyn another kiss before he forces her out of the room…
A week later, they were both sent home from the hospital with Vi being given a clear bill of health, as long as she rested properly and didn’t overdo herself.
Ekko and Sevika were given rooms to recuperate in at the mansion, but were forced to excuse themselves when Tobias gave them the grim news that Scar had passed two days prior, as his heart had given out...
However, as they returned to Zaun to prepare for Scar’s funeral, Vi found herself with Caitlyn and baby Lavender while the most unexpected therapist sat before them in their bedroom.
“You seem surprised that I’d take up this line of work”, the therapist says with a flick of her furry ears as she smiles.
“I mean… You were into more, crass, subjects before, including tending to Salo…”, Caitlyn retorts as Lavender nestled close to her chest and Vi snorts.
Lest hums and shrugs, “Just as you became Commander and had your own faults, but look at you now… Both of you… So, shall we begin the session then?”
Vi sees Caitlyn eye her, and she takes in a breath, nodding with a smile as she looks down at the sleeping baby in the Omega’s arms. “Yeah, let’s do it…”
Caitlyn smiles, proud of her Alpha and rests her head against Vi’s as Lest nods and the talking began…
Hours after Lest left and Lavender was placed in her crib for the night, Caitlyn cuddled close to Vi and yawns as she grew sleepy. “Have I ever told you how proud I am of you, darling?”
Vi shrugs, “Hmm, I don’t know, have you?”, grinning as Caitlyn scoffs but smiles. She hums and plays with her Omega’s hair, “You know… Our love will always make it through the fire and rain, because I came back to you…”
“Mm and also because, against all odds, we made it… We have Lavender and also defeated the concept of oil and water… Through the fire oil can create and the rain caused by the water in the clouds… So, yes, I am proud of you, Vi… Today was wonderful, and I feel better knowing that I get to spend the rest of my life loving you and to be Lavender’s mothers. She’s the greatest gift anyone has ever bestowed upon me”, Caitlyn says softly, smiling as Vi nods in agreement.
“But, we’ve talked enough tonight… Rest, my Violet… And tomorrow? We can take a walk in the gardens with Lavvy”, Caitlyn yawns out, falling asleep quickly while Vi chuckles to herself.
“Ok Cait, ok”, Vi says smiling, pressing a lingering kiss to her Mate’s sleeping form before closing her own eyes and allowing herself to rest, while knowing that no matter what was thrown their way next, they’d always return to each other…
Through the fire and rain…
END!