"I'm fat."

Ted looked up from his book, eyes landing on his wife and smiling. "You're beautiful," he corrected her as she stared at herself in the mirror. He set his book aside and stood, going to her and wrapping his arms around her, gently placing his hands over her stomach.

"She's going to be beautiful. Just like you."

Andromeda nodded, but said nothing. The thought going through her mind was that if their baby looked like her, she would also look like Sirius, which wouldn't be horrible. But she would also look like Bellatrix, and Ande wasn't sure she wanted that tie back to her family.

"Are you regretting it?" Ted asked after a long silence.

"No," she answered honestly. "I'm just worried. I'm scared for you."

He nodded sympathetically. "Because of what happened at the wedding?"

They locked eyes in the mirror, and Andromeda pulled away from him, moving to make the bed he had just gotten out of.

"Ande, I'm sorry," he said, sighing. It had been a while since Narcissa's wedding, and Andromeda refused to talk about it, or anything that had happened there, including whatever threats her family may have thrown at her. Just after Narcissa and Malfoy left the reception, Andromeda has declared to the Blacks that she had eloped with him, a muggleborn, and Ted could only imagine the aftermath of that kind of statement, in front of all the pureblood families present.

And while he was never very fond of any of the Blacks, he knew that they were Ande's family, and he never said anything bad about them. Even when she was negative about them, he would just listen, never giving his opinion.

Andromeda appreciated that. She did notice the very delicate air between them whenever her family was mentioned, and decided that it was just best to mention them as little as possible. If they could disown her, she could disown them and forget them, right?

She knew she didn't regret what she had, but then why did she feel like she had regrets?

"Ande, please talk to me," Ted asked, turning Andromeda away from the sheets on the bed and holding her.

She leaned into him and cried.