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It's officially a month since Wakanda battled Talokan. The Royal family was sitting together for breakfast, this was usually a once a day occurrence with Shuri always getting caught up in her lab and T’Challa and Nakia having Royal duties to do. They usually only got to eat one big meal together. The meal usually being breakfast or dinner. Ramonda didn’t usually do much stuff anymore now being freed of the duties of being Queen of Wakanda with Nakia's marriage to her oldest son. Most days she would stay with her grandson, check out some of her daughter’s inventions and see what was the latest thing she was creating, and she would also check on her newest daughter in law helping her with some of her duties as the Queen. From personal experience she knows it's hard the first couple of years so she decided to be as much help as she could for Nakia. With Ramonda not being busy she usually had no issues showing up to breakfast or dinner.

Today Riri Williams joins them for breakfast. She has been in town for the past few days working with Shuri in her lab. After the war with Talokan was over everyone agreed on letting Riri go back to America, but if she wanted to build anything advanced and that could potentially have the CIA after her again she had to come to Wakanda that way her inventions were safe in Shuri’s lab.

The Family was currently laughing at Toussaint’s pronunciation of breakfast or as he calls it, “Bread-Fist.” Riri stared in awe at the little boy. “King T’Challa and Queen Nakia, your son is the cutest little boy ever.” Nakia took a sip of her water before speaking, “Thank you Riri and please call me Nakia.” T’Challa spoke up once his wife was finished speaking, “Yes, the same as Nakia said please call me T’Challa.”

Ramonda spoke up, “So Shuri and Riri what type of Shenanigans have you two been getting into recently in the lab?” Shuri spoke, “Nothing much mother I’ve been adding updates to the Black Panther suit and I’m trying to update the Dora Milaje Spears.” Riri started speaking once she noticed the Princess was done, “Just updating my suit a little more and helping Shuri out.”

The Palace servers started bringing their breakfast out. Everyone thought the food smelled delicious. Well everyone except Shuri as the food was starting to be passed out the smell kinda made her feel nauseous. She thought it was probably because the last time she ate a real meal was yesterday afternoon. She kept a smile on her face not wanting to alarm anyone. When she got her plate she immediately felt like throwing up, she quickly excused herself from breakfast finding the nearest bathroom to throw up the contents of what was left of her yesterday lunch and her little protein bars she eats when she works in the lab and is too busy to eat an actual meal. It took 5 minutes before the wave of nausea passed.

Shuri got up from the cold bathroom floor flushing the throw up down the toilet and washed her hand. As she was exiting the bathroom heading back to the dining room to eat breakfast with her family she saw Riri walking down the hall looking for her. As soon as the shorter girl caught sight of Shuri she immediately ran towards her.

“Hey, are you ok? You looked really sick when you left.” Riri looked worried, “Yeah, just a little Nausea that's all.” Shuri said reassuringly.

The two walked back to the dining room. As soon as Shuri’s family caught sight of her she saw the worry in their eyes. T’Challa was the first to speak up, “Usisi is everything alright you left in a hurry?” Shuri spoke reassuringly, “Ubhuti I’m just fine I just had a bad wave of Nausea.”

Ramonda spoke up, “I hope you're not coming up with something.” Her mother said as she felt her head checking for a fever. Shuri grabbed her hands softly holding her hands, “Umama everything is just fine I didn’t eat dinner yesterday so my body probably was just nauseous from not eating an actual meal for the past 18 hours,” Shuri turned to the rest of her family, “So let’s just drop this and enjoy the yummy food our chefs have prepared.” Everyone dropped the subject, noticing Shuri was getting a little frustrated.

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Shuri and Riri were in her lab working together to create a new spear for the Dora Milaje. They were having trouble making the spear a little more advanced without altering the design.
They wouldn't have this issue if Okoye would just let the Dora try out a new weapon besides a spear, but she refuses saying it would disrespect their ancestors. Maybe Shuri doesn’t understand the Dora’s traditions because she scoffs at tradition herself, but she was sure the ancestors wouldn’t mind them using the new technology they have to strengthen their weapons.

As Shuri was working she started to get lightheaded. She walked toward the new snack station T’Challa added in her lab. He claims he added it for her workers to have easy access to snacks, but Shuri knew he mainly added it so she would at least eat a snack while working in her lab. She looked at the protein bars and decided today to eat a piece of fruit instead. She still had no idea what caused her to throw up this morning. She decided until she could figure out what made her sick she would stay away from protein bars. As she looked at the fruit bowl she saw an orange that looked appealing to her. She picked the fruit up and could feel herself get a little nauseous again. It wasn’t as bad as before so she ignored it. She peeled the orange and ate a piece of it, and as soon as she swallowed the orange she could feel herself getting more nauseous. She ran to the nearest trash can puking out her breakfast and the piece of orange she just ate.

Riri saw this and immediately ran to the princess. “Shuri, Oh my God are you ok?” She patted her back as she continued to puke. Soon Shuri started to sit up not puking anymore. She saw the worry in the girl's eye and realized she couldn’t lie anymore. She lowered her voice. “Riri I have no idea what’s going on, just today I started to get these bad waves of nausea randomly. I think I need Groit to do a scan over me.” Riri agreed, “Ok is there anything you need me to do like bring your family here?” Shuri looked at the girl and shook her head. “Please just for right now can you not tell anyone, especially my family?” Riri saw the worry in her eyes when asking her not to tell her family, “I promise my lips are sealed.”

Shuri looked at her kimoyo beads and sent out a notification to everyone in her lab. Riri was a little about what had just happened until she saw everyone take off their lab coats and leave. “I excused everyone for today.” Shuri said as she saw the confusion in the girl's eyes. The lab looked empty, “Griot, is anyone else in here besides me and Riri Williams?” The AI immediately answered back, “No it princess it’s just you and Ms. Williams in here.” Shuri talked to the AI, “Good please alert me if anyone gets close.”

Shuri walked to the medical table she had in her lab for patients with Riri following closely behind. “Groit can you start a medical scan over me?” Machines started to move over Shuri. It only lasted 30 seconds before they stopped. “Princess, your vitals are doing pretty good, nothing urgent and the baby also looks healthy. Your hormones are also going up to accommodate your pregnancy.” Shuri and Riri’s eyes widened as soon as the AI said baby. “Griot, you've never said anything about me being pregnant?” The AI replied, “You never asked Princess.” Shuri Murmured, “Smart-Ass.”

Riri tried to comfort Shuri, noticing this information was also new to her. “Well maybe Groit is wrong.” Shuri shook her head, “No, Groit is the best AI system in the world, I programmed him myself he’s never wrong. Plus it makes sense I’m currently 3 weeks late for my cycle. “Groit how far along am I?” The AI answered, “About 6 weeks Princess.”

Shuri’s eyes started to water. Riri noticed this and softly grabbed her helping her sit up. “Don’t cry. I know this is unexpected but I’m sure your family will welcome this baby. Plus I’m sure Wakanda would be extremely happy to have another Royal Family baby. Shuri wiped her tears and shook her head, “They won't be happy with the person I chose to lay with.” Of course Riri thought baby daddy drama. “Riri the father is Namor,” Riri’s eyes widened quickly. Shuri and her had been in Talokan for a week before Nakia rescued them. She had an idea that something happened between them. There were a lot of flirty interactions, longing looks, and her sneaking out in the middle of night and Riri wasn't dumb. She tried asking her but she claimed it was nothing.

Finally finding the words Riri spoke, “Ok, so that wasn’t the answer i was expecting, but Namor is now Wakanda’s only ally so that could help you and your family is your family no matter who you have a kid with they’re going to love you.” Riri’s reassuring words helped her calm down. “Thank you that really helped,” It really did help. She still had some doubts about her family reaction but it wasn't as bad as it was when she first heard she was pregnant.

The unasked question hung in the air between both Riri and Shuri. Riri was the first to ask, “How do you think the baby daddy is going to react?” Shuri thought about it before voicing her answer, “I honestly don’t know right now I have a big decision. I have to figure out who I'm going to tell first. I need to tell my family, but also I need to let Namor know.” Riri spoke, “Well I can’t help you figure out who you wanna tell first but I know whatever you decide will be the best decision for you and your baby.”

“Princess, your mother is approaching the lab.” The AI announced Shuri waved her wrist getting rid of the information in front of her and she immediately got off the table. Riri and her made their way to the table with the spear they’ve been working on to not look suspicious.

Ramonda entered the lab, “Good Afternoon Sithandwa, how have you been feeling? She made her way to Shuri and hugged her while secretly checking for a fever again. “Just fine Umama.” Ramonda looked at the bent spear before asking, “So what is this you’ve been working on?” Shuri looked at the spear before she spoke, “This is a new design for the Dora’s Spear. But let me tell you why it looks like that…” Shuri went on ranting to her about the issues with the spear, but Okoye not allowing them alter the design. She was so caught up talking to her mother about science and ranting to her about her issues, she almost forgot about the big news she just heard and the big issue she had while talking to her mom.

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T’Challa was sitting in his office when he heard a knock on the door. “Come in,” One of the main maids for the Royal Family walked in holding a basket. She bowed before him, “Esihle is everything alright?” The maids never paid him a personal visit unless something was wrong. “No my King, look at the sheets in this basket.” He checked the sheets in the basket, he was confused. They look clean, no stains or anything out of the ordinary. “I'm confused. These sheets look perfect.” Esihle started talking, “That’s the issue, these sheets are clean. These are Princess Shuri sheets from the past two weeks. She should of had her cycle two weeks ago, and those sheets don't have a drop of blood. Plus we haven't found any menstrual product wrappers in the trash. It's been eight weeks since the last time she had her cycle.”

T’Challa took in this information he had just heard. He didn’t know what to say so he asked, “Are you trying to tell me you think she’s pregnant?” The maid nodded. This was a lot of information to take in, “Esihle you're excused and you can leave the basket.” The maid left.
T’Challa sent a text to Nakia through his kimoyo beads to come to his office as soon as she could.

A minute later Nakia walked into his office. She should knock but she only does that when he has a meeting in his office. “Hey, what's up?” T’Challa pointed her in the direction of the basket. “Look at the sheets in that basket.” Nakia walked over and looked at the sheets in the basket confusingly. “Those are Shuri sheets from the past two weeks, Esihle the main maid paid me a visit today. She told me that Shuri hasn't had her period in two weeks and the last time she had it was eight weeks ago.

Nakia could see the stress, worry, and fear in his face, she walked over to his desk and sat in lap. Nakia hugged him trying her best to comfort her husband.

“Well just because she hasn’t had her period doesn’t mean she’s pregnant.” T’Challa looked at his wife confused, “But I thought you said when your cycle doesn’t show up it means you're pregnant?” Nakia looked at her husband and thought of the best way to explain this to him. “Ok so pregnancy isn't the only thing that can make you late. It is one of the main things that can make you late, but it's one of the first things people think of when they’re late.” T’Challa nodded. “The next big thing that could cause people to be late is stress, which could be Shuri’s case. I mean she was kidnapped, we just finished restoring our kingdom from the flood damage.” T’Challa nodded, Nakia could tell from the way he looked he still thought sister might be pregnant.

T’Challa sat a little bit and moved to login to his computer. He opened up the internet typing ‘Pregnancy symptoms’ into the search bar. A list of different symptoms popped up, he wrote each of the symptoms down before he did something really fast on his kimoyo beads. Nakia started to speak, “Uswiti if wanted to know pregnancy symptoms you could’ve just asked me you know i carried our beautifully healthy child for nine months.” She said and kissed him. He kissed her back, “I know mfazi wam omhle but i just wanted to look it up for myself.”

There was a knock on the door, “Come in.” T’Challa said. The door opened and the General of the Dora Milaje walked in. She bowed before Nakia and T’Challa before speaking, “My King and Queen, what did you call me for?” T’Challa pointed to the basket of sheets. “Look at those sheets,” Okoye looked confusingly at the basket before shuffling through the sheets. “My King, I'm confused. These sheets look perfectly fine.” T’Challa replied, “Yes General, that’s the issue. I have a new mission for just you and if possible I would like our beautiful Queen to join you. Those sheets you're looking at are Shuri’s. Esihle paid me a visit today and told me she hasn’t had her cycle and is two weeks late. Apparently the last time she had her cycle was eight weeks ago.” He handed Okoye the paper with the symptoms before continuing, “These are the symptoms of pregnancy, I want you and Nakia to spy on Shuri for the next couple of days and figure out if she has any of these and let me know if you notice anything.”

Okoye thought about something one of her Dora told her today. “One of the Dora told me Shuri threw up in her lab today. Apparently she ate an orange and then immediately got sick.” T’Challa wrote this information down, “She also got sick at breakfast today, but she tried to brush it off as her not eating dinner yesterday. Are you two ready to start your assignment?” Okoye started to talk, “I’m ready to start my mission. T’Challa looked at his wife waiting for her answer. “I will also be joining her.”

Nakia started to joke around, “Well I guess this is Operation is Princess Shuri Pregnant?” Okoye and T’Challa laughed. Okoye put her hand in the center, “Well I guess that’s how we should end this meeting.” Both T’Challa and Nakia put their hands on top of Okoye’s before yelling, “Operation is Princess Shuri Pregnant?”

T’Challa excused Okoye. He then turned to his wife. “Are you ok with doing this? I know I kinda just sprung this on you and I’m sorry…” Nakia shushed him, “umyeni wam othandekayo I’m just fine Shuri’s also my little sister too and I want to make sure she’s ok. Even if it means going behind her back and spying on her.” T’Challa smiled and kissed his wife.

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Once Ramonda had finished visiting Shuri in her lab, Shuri decided to take a nap in her room. She was going to allow Riri to stay in the lab and work, but with her random nausea spells Riri wanted to stay by her side to make sure she would be ok.

When Shuri got up it was getting late. She checked the time and realized everybody was probably about to eat dinner soon. She looked for the young scientist who insisted on staying with her while she slept and saw her sitting on the couch doing some assignment on her laptop. The young girl heard moving and looked up to see Shuri awake. “You ok? Are you having another bad nausea wave?” Shuri held her hand, “Riri, I’m just fine just because I'm pregnant, don't I need supervision every thirty seconds.” Riri could hear the sass in her voice, Shuri continued. “I’m hungry, what about you? We should go see if anyone is in the dining room.”

Riri nodded, “I'm glad you said something cause my stomach has been growling for the past hour.” Shuri got up and put on the same outfit she had on before as it was a bit more appropriate than the purple nightgown she had on.

As they made their way to the dining room they could already hear little Toussaint babbling random words. When Riri and Shuri entered the dining room the family turned their heads, and as soon as they saw who was there their mouths opened in shock. “Well look who decided to step away from her lab for a second to join us for dinner. I wonder what we did for my sister to grace us with her presence? ” T’Challa said sarcastically. Shuri sat down in an empty chair next to Nakia and Riri sat in an empty chair next to Shuri . “Well if you really want to know, I took a nap today. When I woke up I realized it was dinner time, and decided to join you guys.

Nakia’s eyes widen at this information, Shuri never takes naps, always too busy to take one. “Sister, what made you want to take a nap today?” Shuri had a mini panic attack in her brain, Nakia was once pregnant she could have already figured it out with the nausea and long nap. “Nothing just felt tired.” Shuri tried her best to sound normal. “Hmm that strange my Dora didn’t say anything about you being tired today.” Okoye walked into the dining room questioning the princess. Shuri immediately panicked why was everyone asking her all the questions. Okoye is one of the best and most observant Dora did she already know?

“Did you get tired perhaps after you got sick and sent all of your scientists home for the day?” Okoye questioned. Ramonda's eyes widened, “Shuri, you didn’t tell me you threw up again when I came to visit you today.” Nakia gave Okoye a look to lighten up on her before she blew their cover. Shuri is the smartest person there's no reason why she shouldn’t have a response for her mother or Okoye, but she doesn’t.

She was sure that Bast was helping her, but just in time the place’s servants came in with the food. This distracted everyone from the current subject. Thank Bast this time the food didn’t make her nauseous, The nausea spells probably only come in the morning and afternoon for her.

Once everyone finished their dinner T’Challa made an announcement. “Sister I’m so glad you and Riri could join us for dinner today cause I have an important announcement to make.” Everyone turned their attention to him for this announcement. “As you all know, Wakanda has a new ally, Talokan. Tomorrow will be our first council meeting post the alliance with them. Everyone will be required to be there including Riri as I’m sure your name will be mentioned at some point in the meeting.”

Shuri’s eyes widened, this would be her first time seeing Namor since the battle. She didn’t realize she would be seeing him so soon since figuring out she was pregnant. Within the next fifteen hours she needed to figure out if she was going to tell him exactly tomorrow that she is carrying his child. She is going to tell him eventually, but she doesn’t if she wants to do it so soon.

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It's the day of the council meeting. Nakia woke up to T’Challa’s side of the bed empty. She frowned. Normally her husband would be next to her when she woke up, but on days like this his duty as The King of Wakanda called.

As soon as she arose from her bed she heard rustling in the baby monitor Shuri had made for her and T’Challa. Toussaint must be getting up, so she made her way to his nursery. Nakia loved starting her day off with T’Challa and little Toussaint especially on stressful days like this when there is a council meeting. Today was going to be extra stressful due to the fact Namor will be joining them.

As soon as she opened the door she saw little Toussaint had just woken up and was staring around as soon as he saw his Mama he started to do grabby hands towards her. Nakia's heart melted at her son. She grabbed him out of the crib and placed him on her hip. She started to slowly rock and forth to keep him calm.

Toussaint was only his middle name; his actual name was T’Challa Jr, but with T’Challa still being alive both Nakia and T’Challa knew everyone would call him Junior. They didn’t want that to be what their son was known as until T’Challa died, so they decided to call him by his middle name and keep the information of his real name away from the public until his debut as King.

Nakia wished she could stay in this moment forever, but being Queen of Wakanda meant she had lots of things to do before the sun set. She soon saw one of the Palace’s Nannies standing at the door

“Sorry my Queen, I didn't mean to interrupt but I heard Prince Toussaint’s monitor go off and tried to get here as quickly as I could. My Queen, a lot of people are looking for you, I can take Toussaint off your hands now so you can get started on your day.” The Nanny said.

Nakia wanted to decline and continue to hold her son, but duty calls. She handed Toussaint to the Nanny, and started to walk towards the main area of the castle where she knew everybody was waiting for her. She had preparations to make as the Queen for the big meeting. As she made her way down the hall she passed the hallway that leads to Shuri’s lab and remembered she still had to figure out if her sister was pregnant. Even though Nakia already knew the answer. Shuri is pregnant. She had this mom sense in her that was giving her this vibe that Shuri was pregnant. She doesn’t know if it's true or not or if a mom sense even existed, but she could feel it in her gut that Shuri was with child.

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One duty Nakia had as the Queen was to pick every royal family member outfit for the council meeting and important event. Nakia would always tell Wakandan designers that she wasn’t going to choose an outfit for her family members. Each designer understood and would let each family member pick out their own outfit.

Today she decided to do something a little different. She was going to secretly pick Shuri’s outfit. Nakia picked two different outfits out for Shuri. One was a tight fitting long purple dress that was modest enough to wear for a council meeting, but was also super sexy showing all the curves in her body. The second dress was a black loose kinda oversized flowy dress.

One thing Nakia remembers when she first was pregnant was being very insecure people could see her bump and everyone would find out. This was just her being paranoid, but she remembers hearing similar stories from other girls, especially one who had a non planned pregnancy. She was almost absolutely sure that if Shuri is pregnant it wasn’t planned.

Her plan with giving her these two outfits is to kinda test her. If she picks the purple then maybe she wasn’t pregnant and everybody was just being paranoid, but if she picks the black she might be scared to bring up pregnancy and is trying to hide it from everyone including her family.

Nakia hates being secretive and going behind Shuri’s back to figure out something that isn’t even her business. But if her sister is pregnant she needs to know because she’s going to need her. Nakia didn’t tell T’Challa and Okoye this, but when she finds out if Shuri’s pregnant or not she wasn’t going to tell T’Challa like she was suppose to, she would simply go to her sister and talk to her. Although Nakia loves T’Challa, Shuri needs the guidance of women before she tells her brother.

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Shuri was in her bed when she heard a knock on the door. Usually on Council days she would work in her lab until she was forced to leave by the Dora for the meeting. But with her Morning Sickness and her energy just being lower because of the fact she was growing a whole baby she decided to stay in bed today.
She got out of bed and opened the door, of course it was a designer with two dresses. “Good Morning Princess Shuri, I have two dresses here for you that Queen Nakia specifically picked for you, may I come in and show you.” Shuri nodded and the designer stepped in with two garment bags. Shuri thought about what the designer just said, Nakia nevers chooses their outfits. It was weird she picked them today.

The designer handed her both of the bags, she opened one of them and saw a tight fitting purple dress. She opened the second one and saw an oversized flowy black dress.

“Go try them on!” The designer encouraged. Shuri headed into the bathroom putting the purple dress on first. After she got the dress in she looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes heading to her stomach. She put her hand on her stomach and looked at herself. She could already see a small bump. That means if she can a bump , everyone else can too. If people didn’t see that then they definitely could tell her small breasts were bigger than normal.

She headed out the bathroom. “Oh my Goodness, you look fab, Princess, you have to wear it. Shuri looked at herself in the mirror in her bedroom, there was no way she could wear this. Everyone will figure out she’s pregnant including Namor which is the last thing Shuri needs.

“Girl, go try on the other dress. I’m sure you look equally as beautiful.” Shuri headed to the bathroom and put the black one on. She had to wear this one. Nobody could see the changes of her stomach and it made her breast look normal. While she loved the purple dress the black one was the better option.

“I’ve made my choice,” Shuri said, stepping out of the bathroom in the black dress. “Already Princess, I knew you would decide on the pur-” Shuri cut him off. “I've decided to go with the black dress.”

The designer looked shocked, “Ok Princess Shuri, I’ll just leave this dress here in case you change your mind. I guess I’ll let the Queen know she can cross something off her list of duties for today.” The designer bowed before leaving.

Shuri was left alone with her thoughts. Today might be the day she tells Namor about her little secret. It's scary because she doesn’t know if he’ll have a good reaction, and how was she supposed to explain to the Council. This is a mess, but this is her mess and when she’s ready she’ll clean it up. Shuri fell back on her bed and sighed.

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T’Challa and Nakia stood at the entrance of the castle waiting for some of the Dora to get back from getting Namor at the borders.

They soon landed and the door opened, Namor came out with Namora and Attuma behind him, a few feet behind them were the Dora members that got them.

T’Challa bowed, “Welcome to Wakanda Namor, it's a pleasure to host you and your army.”
Namor also bowed, “Thanks for having us, also please call me K’uk’ulkan.”

Nakia spoke, “You’ll have the next two hours to yourselves to settle in before our council meeting. We’ve prepared 3 suites in preparation for your visit.” Nakia pointed at 4 Doras standing next to them. “They will lead you to your suite after you settle in your welcome to do anything you want. If you need anything, ask a Dora.” Nakia remembered and handed a small kimoyo earpieces to a Dora, “Oh, also these are for your generals, they’re translators for the meeting. Personally made by Princess Shuri.” The Dora gave Attuma and Namora the earpieces.

Namor and his two generals soon followed the Dora to their rooms. After the trio was out of sight T’Challa kissed his wife, “We did it, our first time greeting an Ally of Wakanda.” Nakia smiled, “We did. I have to go though I need to check on how everythings going with the chefs for the dinner after meeting.”

She kissed T’Challa before heading back into the Castle.

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Shuri was in her lab adding some extra details to her newest invention. She created it as a gift for Namor mainly on behalf of Wakanda as a thank you gift for the new alliance.

She had one her lab coat today, she never usually wears one, but with the council meeting being soon she needed to be prepared to head straight to the throne room once she leaves her lab. Especially since she got the news a couple hours ago Namor was there and getting settled in.

She put the gift in a special box just in time to look up and see Nakia walking in.

“Shuri, “We have to go, the meeting is in 15 minutes!” Nakia said urgently.

“Ok, Ok,” Shuri got out of her lab coat quickly before rushing her way through the halls to make it to the council meeting on time, luckily it was only a 5 minute walk for her from her lab 3 if you run.

Before she and Nakia entered the room they caught their breaths as it is unlady like to breathe heavily from running when entering a meeting. When they walk in they see not many people are there, even T’Challa himself wasn't there yet. The only people there were Ramonda and Toussaint and his nanny.

“Mama!” Toussaint got up from the ground and ran to Nakia.

She picked him up, “Hi baby, mama missed you.” His Nanny immediately ran over to Nakia and apologized letting her know he’s going to be in her arms for the entire meeting. Nakia gave her son a kiss on top of his head and handed him back to the nanny. She sat down in her dedicated seat with Shuri sitting next to her. She looked at Shuri and realized she picked the black dress. Nakia decided that later today or tomorrow she would talk to her. It was time for her to figure out the truth and spying on Shuri wasn’t going to help her figure it out.

T’Challa walked in and kissed his son before taking a seat. Soon everyone started to make their way into the throne room. Every leader was there; they were only waiting on their newest ally.

The Talokan trio made their way into the throne room for the meeting.

T’Challa, Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda, Toussaint Nanny, Okoye, and Ayo stood up. T’Challa spoke, “Today is our first meeting with Wakanda’s first ally Talokan. Wakanda welcomes you today.”

Namor stood up and walked to the font of the room where the royal family stood. He bowed and did the Talokan hand signal for royalty to T’Challa, Nakia, and Ramonda.

He walked over to Shuri and grabbed her hands softly, he brought her knuckles to his lips and kissed them softly all while maintaining eye contact with her. She swore she could hear him say ‘Princess.’ He let go of her hand and walked back to his seat in the middle of the room.

“Sorry, in Talokan it is customary for us to meet single unmarried women with a kiss on the knuckles.” Namor smiled at Shuri.

She could feel the heat in her gut from when he kissed her knuckles. She knew everything he was saying was bullshit, he just wanted to rile her up.

“Ok well let’s get this meeting started. Does any tribe have anything they want to bring up or any issues?” T’Challa said

The leader of the Merchant tribe stood up, “Yes, the mining tribe has been barely giving us any vibranium. Which has been lowering sales due to us barely having supplies.”

The leader of the Mining tribe stood up quickly. “We’ve been giving most of our vibranium to help rebuild our city that was damaged by the flood caused by our new ally.” The elder shouted and pointed at Namor.

Attuma and Namora held their spears up in a protective manner. “It's ok you guys can put your spear down.” He whispered to them. Namor moved to stand up, “I apologize for that, but your kingdom did kill two innocent citizens when saving the princess. As a king I of course saw that as a war action." Both the merchant and mining tribe started yelling at Namor.
T’Challa raised his voice, “Everyone settle down please, Kukulkan you have the floor to speak.”

“Thank you King T’Challa, I was thinking as an apology for the damage Talokan has caused Wakanda I could send some warriors to help you guys rebuild. They could help with mining or even physically help you rebuild buildings and homes.”

T’Challa and Nakia considered it and talked for a quick second. T’Challa stood up, “Queen Nakia and I have talked about it and we accept your help. How soon will we receive this help?”

“One sunset after I get back to Talokan, the warriors will be at your border exactly at sunrise.”

T’Challa nodded, “Great, are there any other issues we need to talk about or any concerns?”

Namor stood up, “Yes, I just wanted to make sure the scientist hasn’t been getting in trouble and following our agreement?”

Riri was standing behind the Dora just for protection and made her way from behind them.
“Yes, I’ve been following our agreement and only building dangerous stuff here in Shuri’s lab.”

Namor looked at Shuri and stared at her passionately. “Princess, is this correct?”

To anyone besides Shuri it would look like Namor was just looking at her normally but to Shuri she felt the passion, lust, and unsaid words in his gaze. She swallowed, “Yes, she’s been visiting and working in my lab on dangerous inventions.”

T’Challa stood up again, “Anything else that we need to discuss?” Silence filled the room.
“Alright meeting adjourned.”

Shuri walked over to Namor and held a box out for him. Everyone started to leave but she could see the glares from the elders as she gave him the gift. He accepted the gift. “This is a gift on behalf of Wakanda they’re kimoyo beads that will work in Talokan. It's for easier communication between us and Talokan.” Shuri smiled.

“Thank you Princess.” He grabbed her hands and kissed her knuckles again. “I’ll see you around Princess.” Him and the trio walked off heading towards the dining room they had specifically for big events.

Shuri could feel the heat in her stomach. How could someone make the word princess sound so hot? She felt like she was about to melt right there into the floor. She was so distracted thinking about Namor she didn’t see her sister in law walk up to her

“Shuri, can I talk to you in private? Nakia whispered.

Yeah, of course. Let’s head to the lab everyone left early due to the council meeting.

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Shuri and Nakia walked into her lab, “Groit are me and Nakia the only people in here?”

“Yes Princess.” The AI answered.

“What did you wanna talk about in private?” Shuri asked while Nakia and her sat on a couch in her lab.

Nakia moved to grab her hand and looked her in the eyes, “Usisi I do not mean to be offensive when I ask you this, but I’ve been worried and noticed some things that has made me wonder. I also feel an energy in my gut telling me this.”

Shuri looked at her worried, “Nakia you’re scaring me what’s going on?”

“Are you pregnant?” Nakia finally asked.

Shuri’s eyes widened in fear. How did she figure it out? Was it that obvious? Shuri’s eyes started to water, “I’m sorry, I’m the worst princess ever. I got pregnant out of wedlock by somebody Wakanda hates.” She sobbed.

Nakia hugged her, “Hey it's gonna be ok gonna be ok you have me, T’Challa,...” Shuri started to sob even harder at the mention of her brother's name. “...Queen Mother don’t tell anyone I called her that even though she isn’t Queen anymore, and Riri we're all gonna be there for you.” Nakia used her hand to rub her back. After a couple minutes Shuri started to calm down.
“Are you ready to talk about it more? Shuri nodded her head. “Who is the Father?”

“I need you to promise me you wont get mad?” Shuri asked her.

“I promise,” Nakia told her.

“It’s Namor’s baby.” Shuri looked up at her.

Nakia eyes widened in shock she neve expected him to be the father, now that she thinks about it does make sense, she did have to drag Shuri out of there kicking in screaming.
“Ok I didn’t expect you to say him, but it will be ok. We're gonna get this figured out. Are you planning on keeping the baby?”

“Yes.” She replied.

Nakia took a deep breath, “Have you told him yet?”

Shuri shook her head, “No, only you and Riri know.”

“I hope you know that this information doesn’t make me think any less of you. We’re all gonna be there for you through all of this no matter who the baby daddy is. I will definitely be there for you to help you through this pregnancy.”

Okoyo popped out from behind a desk, “Yes Princess, the Dora will be there for you also.”

Nakia and Shuri screamed. Nakia yelled, “My goodness Okoye you scared us and how did you even get in here?”

Okoye laughed, “Oh please princess, your AI system has its weak areas. But everything Nakia said is true, we're gonna be there for you through it all. Oh and if Namor doesn’t accept this baby I’ll personally go find him and cut his dick off.”

Shuri laughed and got up to go hug Okoye, “Thank you Okoye I really needed that laugh.”

Okoye looked at her with a straight face, “I wasn’t joking princess.”

Shuri smiled, “That’s what makes it funny. Nakia how did you know I was pregnant and Okoye how did you know?”

“Nakia cleared her throat, “Yeah so about that. A maid came to your brother's office yesterday. They’ve been saving your sheets for the past two weeks. They told him because you haven’t bled and they thought you were pregnant. He called me and Okoye and asked us to spy on you and help him figure it out if you were.”

Shuri's eyes widened in panic, “Does that mean T’Challa knows or that he’s in here right now?” She started to breathe heavily and fast.

Nakia put her hand in her arm trying to calm her down. “Hey breathe,” Shuri started to take deep breaths to settle herself down.

“No, your brother doesn’t know yet. I decided that I would talk to you first and encourage you to talk to him yourself.”

Shuri could feel herself settle down. “I don’t know how I would tell him. I mean he’s my brother, how would he react to knowing his little sister gave herself to someone before marriage.”

Nakia shrugged, “It doesn’t matter about his feelings on sister not waiting till marriage to have sex cause he didn’t either.

Okoye and Shuri’s mouths dropped at Nakia’s bluntness.
“What I’m telling the truth. If that’s one of your worries then you're fine because if he gets upset with you over that I’ll slap him upside the head.”

Okoye and Shuri Laughed, “Thank you both seriously, you guys are already a big help.”

Okoye grabbed her hand and looked at her. “Anytime sister and if you want us to, we'll be there when you tell T’Challa you're pregnant.” Nakia nodded in agreement.

“Thank you guys but I have to do this on my own. Maybe having y’all on standby might be helpful.” Shuri said.

“Of course, anything you need.” Nakia said.

Shuri took a deep breath. “One more thing I need help telling Namor. I mean I don't know what to say to him. ‘Hey remember when we fell in love within the span of a week and fucked mutiple times? Well I’m pregnant now, surprise!’” Shuri said sarcastically.

Nakia shook her head. “Well I can’t tell you exactly what to say because I don’t know what happened between the two of you, but I can say this, Namor is in this building right now. You don’t have to tell him now but he’s gonna be here till tomorrow so you can tell him now, or wait until you know for sure what to say but that’s your decision usisi.”

Shuri nodded. “I understand, you guys can make your way back to the dinner. Okoye I’m sure the Dora are looking for you, and Nakia I know my brother is looking for you.” They both hugged her before making their way back to the dinner.

Shuri stayed behind in her lab working on a project she had left out when she heard Groit notify her that somebody was entering the lab. She guessed it was T’Challa, Nakia, Ayo, Okoye, or her mother trying to bring her back to the dinner. “Yeah yeah I know I’m about to start heading down there soon.” She said without looking up.

“Wow, do you really hate me that much princess you can’t even look up to acknowledge me.” A familiar voice said, She knew that voice she could recognize from miles away. She looked and her eyes met with Namor’s smug ones.

“Namor, can you please just leave? I don't want to talk to you.” She said frustrated.

“Princess, we had a connection when you were in Talokan. I felt it and I know you felt it too.” He moved closer to her.

“Whatever happened in Talokan is over Namor, Our people barely like each other as is, the only reason we tolerate each other is because of our alliance.”

“Princess I know whatever happened in Talokan is still there between us and you may not wanna accept it, but I am.” He moved even closer to her so much closer she could feel his breath on her face. When did they get this close to each other?

“He whispered, “Princess,” she doesn’t remember who made the first move but all she knew was his lips were on hers. It wasn’t a soft kiss, it was a messy, hard one with passion and lust and behind. His tongue licked her lips begging for them to open. She complied, They made out with each other for a while before she came back up for air. They breathed heavily against each other, That was when she realized what happened she smacked his chest forcing him to back up.

“Groit shut everything down.” She yelled before running towards the door.

“Princess,” He yelled, chasing after her.

“Just stay the fuck away from me!” She yelled running out of her lab. As soon as she got as far from her lab as she could without him finding her she sat against the nearest wall and broke down into tears again. It took a while but she recollected herself and made her way to the dining hall.

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The Next Day

Shuri decided she was going to wait to tell Namor after the events of yesterday happened. She needed time to think about everything.

Nakia and T’Challa walked outside with the Talokan trio following them.

“Thank you again, King K’uk’ulkan for your visit. It was an honor to have you stay with us and be our new ally.” T’Challa and Nakia smiled at him.

“Oh please the honor was ours King T’Challa and Queen Nakia. The next time I come to visit you guys have to give me a tour of the castle. We unfortunately didn’t have enough time on this visit but hopefully during my next visit we could fit this into our busy schedules.”

Nakia agreed, “Yes, the castle is beautiful, we have to give him a tour the next time he comes.”

“Will the princess make it my farewell?” He asked looking for her.

Nakia answered quickly, covering for Shuri. “No, She has some lab work she needs to catch up on so unfortunately she won’t be making it today.” Nakia knew all about the lab incident last night. Shuri told her about it as soon as she found her. As much as she wanted Shuri to tell Namor before he left she also knew they needed to sort things out in their minds first before adding a baby to the mix. Which Nakia completely understands she just hopes they can sort things out before Shuri starts showing.

Namor was a little disappointed at Nakia's answer, but he knew the real reason she wasn’t there was because of what happened last night. “Again Thank you for this wonderful stay.” Namor shouted as he got onto the jet.

“Your welcome,” both T’Challa and Nakia waved back.

They watched as the jet headed towards the borders. Once it was out of sight T’Challa and Nakia headed back inside, as soon as they entered the Palace they saw Shuri standing there she kinda scared them.

“Sister, you scared us. Is there anything you need?” He asked

“Yes, ubhuti, I need to talk to you in private.” Shuri looked at him seriously.

“Let’s go to my office.” He said, leading the way there. The Dora started to follow them but he made a hand gesture asking for privacy.

They got to his office and Shuri locked the door. She didn’t want anyone hearing what she was about to tell him.

“Sister, what did you want to talk to me about?” He asked.

Shuri took a deep breath, “I know about the whole Nakia and Okoye spy mission on me.”

T’Challa tried to defend himself, “Look I was just trying to-”

Shuri cut him off, “I’m pregnant, I’m keeping the baby, and It’s Namor’s.” Shuri let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding in.

T’Challa looked at her in shock. Before she could realize it he was hugging her. “This is definitely not the reaction I thought I would have, but my baby sister is all grown now having her own babies.” He pulled away from her. “Does Namor know yet?”

She shook her head.

“Ok well I want you to be the first person who tells him, but even though this is exciting we have to figure out what we’re going to do moving forward, Like if there will be a marriage. Oh and who all knows? He asked.

“Nakia, Okoye, Riri, and now you,” She said.
“Wow, my sister was the first person to know about my son and what does she do but make me the last person to know about her child.” T’Challa said sarcastically.

Shuri punches his shoulder lightly, “Oh please first you aren’t the last person mom still doesn’t know, and second the only reason I was the first person to know was because you and Nakia needed to use Groit to do a Pregnancy scan to figure it out.”

Both her and T’Challa laughed. She didn’t expect her brother to have such a positive reaction.
“Wait so you aren’t mad.” She asked

“No, I was never mad, I was just worried about my usisi.” He hugged her.

She smiled even though she still had one more family member to talk to. She thinks everything might actually be ok for the first time in three days.

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Two weeks later

Shuri stood in her lab with her mother, T’Challa, Nakia, and Okoye by her side. Riri had left a week prior to catch up on some school stuff. In Shuri’s lab they had built a jet landing just for the princess. They mainly added it for emergencies, but once she started traveling for different purposes for her inventions they decided to make it just her own personal jet.

She was about to go meet Namor at the border and tell him about their baby. Okoye would be coming with her for safety and to as she says, ‘cut his dick off if he doesn’t accept you and this baby.’ They all gave Shuri a hug before her and Okoye left for the border.

She had Okoye land the jet a mile from the meeting spot so that way Namor wouldn’t feel watched and asked her to stay a little far back that way Namor and her could have privacy. Okoye hugged her and found a hiding spot in the forest.

Shuri watched as the calm peaceful waves turned into harsher waves. Namor appeared coming out of the water. He came alone.

“Princess, what have you called me here for? He asked while approaching her.

Shuri took a deep breath, “I’m pregnant.” It felt like weight being lifted off of her as she told him. She watches Namors neutral expression turn into a big happy smile. He picked her up and spun her around.

“Princess, please tell me you aren’t joking?” She shook her head and smiled. “This is the best news ever. I'm going to be a father!” He picked her up and spun her around again.

When he sat her down she used him for balance as she was starting to get Nauseous and dizzy. “Morning sickness,” She murmurs

“My bad,” he says and he just hugs her. Shuri embraces his hug and decides to be in the moment. She doesn’t know where her and Namor stand relationship wise, but that’s a conversation for another right now it was just her, Namor, and their child growing in her and that is the only thing that matters right now.