Linda Karynson screamed as she gave birth to her first child.
She screamed to her husband, the former Karyn now Karl. "This is all your fault!" Her husband was standing by her bedside, waiting for their first child to be born. "If you ever come near me with that thing again I swear I will make you an unwilling woman!" Karl was seriously beginning to regret offereing to hold his wife's hand through childbirth as it was now being crushed.
"One more push!"
Linda screamed out a defiance to the hounds of Hades making them turn tail and run back to thier dens. Then she heard the cry.
A baby's cry had never heard so sweet to Linda as she lay there, panting for breath.
Karl watched, fascinated, as the baby was swabbed and cleaned before it was presented to his wife.
"You're daughter, ma'am," The nurse laid the pink wrapped bundle in the new mother's arms.
Linda cradled her new daughter to her breast. She knew that it would become a customary position for the next few years and smiled at her husband. "What do you think?"
Karl leaned close and looked at his daughter, then at his exhausted wife. There could be only one answer. Karl stared lovingly into her eyes before saying, "She's almost as beautiful as her mother, and I'll love her just as much."
Linda felt her eyes beginning to moisten as she grabbed Karl in a one armed hug. Mindful of her daughter in her other arm she pulled him close to her. Pulling his head down close hers she whispered, "I want more."
Karl knew that he used to be a woman named Karyn. He knew that his wife used to be a boy named Jon. He looked down upon his wife and new daughter and couldn't find it within him to resist her.
"As many as you want love," he bent down and kissed her forehead. "But what shall we call this one?" he asked, gesturing to his new daughter.
Linda pulled him down into a deep kiss before letting him up again. "Illianna, her name will be Illianna. I don't know why, or how, but the name seems to fit. We can call her Anna, for short."
