Doc McFluffins

Oooh how Venom’s rounding belly made her happy. Her grandchildren were growing larger and larger by the day, likely to the chagrin of the mother who had to deal with the effects, but to know that they seemed healthy put a little pep in her step. Of course, the real test would come in but a few weeks when the little ones would be old enough to be felt moving around. When she’d been young and naive, she hadn’t known that she’d been supposed to feel them moving inside her. Never once had she felt kicking or any signs of life, but she’d felt so swollen and horrible that it had gone over her head. It wasn’t until she’d birthed 6 stillborns that she’d known why she hadn’t felt any movement. Oh, how she’d clung onto Hanzo and cried for days, a mixture of seemingly unending grief and pure joy that at least he had survived, somehow completely healthy.

She could do everything she could to make sure her son and her daughter-in-law never knew that pain.

The ghostly lady wasn’t surprised by her child’s displeasure at being examined. He had always been so stubborn at such things, but he’d grit his teeth and bear it. With the help of Yui, she slid the pack off of her pack and opened it to remove a few things. First, a bottle containing small peppermint leaves. Now that the Empress was past the beginning stages of her pregnancy it was safe for her to eat peppermint, and dare she would even say necessary, given the nausea that came with child bearing. She pulled out 3 leaves along with some dried ginger, putting them into a separate container as she’d done before. She picked it up and moved to the woman, placing the bottle down near her. “Here is another mixture for the nausea tea I prescribed. This amount should last you another week, as the last one did,” she commented.

“Is it alright if I check your pulse and hydration, my lady?” she asked. The pair had been through this several times before, but Kiyo always made sure to ask before beginning the physical part of her examination.