The Goddess' Champion

"I'm afraid this child might have Hydrocephalus... it is a complicated condition." The doctor said from the side with an afraid gaze, he didn't want to be the one to give 'the carnage' this news.

"D-Doctor and what can it cause!?" Worse than a battlefield filled with murderers, Constantine was beginning to feel fear and even Caroline had to hold his hand to calm him down.

"It can cause severe brain damage if left untreated... there are a handful of doctors in the capital that might be able to treat it, it requires surgery and the treatment is quite expensive and risky..."

"... How risky?"

"I'd say there is a 60% chance that there could be problems during the procedure... creating worse damage or even... killing the baby."

Constantine's legs weakened.

He had to choose between risking his son's life or him having permanent brain damage.

"W-What are the causes..." He knew already, but he needed to ask.

"One of the main causes is rare genetic disorders..."

"L-Like... babies conceived out of incest relationships." His gaze switched between Isabella and Constantine, even if no words were said, it was evident, still, he'd rather close his mouth than have his head roll.

"I understand, doctor... n-nothing is wrong with my other kids, right?"

"Not as far as I can tell, I'd need to do some more tests on them, but... I think the mother should keep them for now, she needs it."

The nurses and doctors left.

"Caroline it was my fault." He began, this had been their fear all along, even then, he was thankful only one of them had this problem.

"Dear... you two are at fault, but there is nothing that we can do! Blaming ourselves is not going to solve anything."

"What can I do?" He looked at his fiancé, the person he knew would always give him the right answer.

"Wait until mother wakes up... then you can decide... don't decide on your own." Sometimes Caroline thought she loved him too much for her own good.

There was nothing she could tolerate... nothing she wasn't going to go through with him... but in the end, it was the same for him as well.

"Thank you for being here, I love you, Caroline... I'm sorry for being such a bastard."

"You're a bastard indeed, but I love you that way~"

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Nova's eyes struggled to open in the darkness of the night, there were some small candles lighting up the room together with the shine of the moon from above.

It was the big bed where she gave birth, an arm was encircling her waist, she knew it was her son.

Then she saw them right in front, the three of them were on her abdomen, resting while covered in mantles.

"M-My babies... my beautiful babies..."

Her hands caressed all of them and it was then she noticed one of them had a bigger head than the rest, she didn't pay much attention to it, her knowledge of medicine nonexistent, all she knew was that she gave birth to healthy babies, it had been so hard.

Beside her in the bed were Constantine and Caroline, and not too far away sleeping on a sofa were Swan and Stella, everyone seemed to be extremely tired and it was the middle of the night, only she had woken up.

​ *RUMBLE!*

A wave rippled across the entire universe... travelling marginally faster than the speed of light could ever hope to achieve, its centre... this room.

Time stopped and everything turned grey.

Out of nowhere, a man walked out.

His outfit was like embodied stars and his hair was like the endless tendrils of time.

His wave swept over... initially landing on Caroline who was embracing Constantine from behind, deeply asleep yet emitting a slight golden aura in this world.

Then her gaze moved to Isabella who was being embraced by Constantine with the three children on top of their bodies... then the peacefully sleeping kids before it turned into disgust; then to Constantine, endless wrath, killing intent and poison filled his gaze.

"You don't need to pretend... I know it is you." He said coldly.

"..." Isabella's eyes opened, shining in purple light as a purple aura like Caroline's but way greater coated her body, still, aside from giving the man a cold look and caressing her babies who were no longer grey in this world, she said nothing else.

"You're not this timeline's Nova... your power is nowhere to be seen, you used my power... my time laws... to leap your consciousness back in time just so you could play with this mortal."

"..." Once again she had nothing to say, what was the point when everything he said was the truth?

"Talk to me!" But Toki, the Primordial God of Time, wasn't going to leave without an explanation, he grew flustered and was clearly fuming.

"Don't yell in front of my children..." Her glare turned threatening in total disregard for this person's feelings.

He noticed that they were breathing even inside his time barrier and concluded that she allowed them so.

"Those aren't your children, they're that woman's children, don't confuse yourself." He 'cleared' but his words did nothing but further irate the goddess.

"They're my kids, Toki! Go away and let me be!" All she wanted was for her children and beloved to be left alone.

"You're my wife!"

"MAKE YOURSELF SOME OTHER SLUT IN SANDORIA AND LET ME BE!" She said once again, yelling this time since her 'husband' didn't seem to understand what she meant, this was clearly a petition to 'divorce'.

"Waaaa!!" At that time, one of the babies, the little girl began crying and all the killing intent that Nova was mustering disappeared as if it never existed.

"My baby I'm sorry... mummy doesn't want to yell...shhhh" She didn't know how to handle babies, most of her experience came from Isabella who aside from being deeply confused at what was going on, was suppressed by Nova to simply focus on the children, this was not a scene a mortal should be witnessing.