A.N: -This is my first fanfiction. Please read and review.
Disclaimer: - None of these characters are mine.
Another painful scream reached Andromeda's ear. It pained Andromeda a lot that her mother was suffering. This had been going on since last six hours. Aunt Walburga had arrived five hours ago and had told Bellatrix and Andromeda that their mother was going to have the baby soon.
Andromeda already hated the baby for making her mother suffer so much. She wiped the tears that had unknowingly formed in her eyes. She looked up from the picture book she was supposed to be reading to find Bellatrix.
Bella was sitting upright on the couch and reading a book. She was trying very hard to concentrate on the text in front of her but her mind was with her mother. Andromeda was too young to understand but Bellatrix had overheard a healer telling her father that this pregnancy might be critical for her mother and there was a very less chance of the baby surviving.
Another scream echoed throughout the manor. This was the worst scream till now. Both Andromeda and Bellatrix were up on their feet. They looked at each other helplessly. Bellatrix noticed the tears on her little sister's pretty face.
They noticed their father coming down, his face was devoid of any color and he had bloodshot eyes. Anyone else might have concluded that Cygnus had been crying but not his daughters. They were droned regularly by their aunt Walburga, whenever she found them crying, about how they were the purest wizarding family in the whole of England and the purebloods did not cry. On noticing the worried faces of his daughters he waved his wand in the direction of their mother's room and whispered silencio. He told them not to worry, their mother was fine. Both the girls believed their father as they could hear no more cries coming from their mother. He retired on the couch and closed his eyes. His mind began wandering on its own rein. He wanted to think about anything, anything except that his wife might die today.
He had been very happy when Bellatrix was born. She was the first Black of this generation and had inherited the temper, stubbornness and the looks of the Black. His second born was Andromeda. When Walburga had announced that he had another girl, he was very disappointed. He wanted a boy to continue the Black line. Though all that disappointment was soon converted to happiness when he had held her in his arms. He had a sense of foreboding which told him that this girl was special. Although all the Blacks were special but he felt like his little girl would turn out to be a different kind of special.
Since then whenever he had looked at either of his daughters he was filled up with a sense of pride. Both his daughters were exceptionally pretty and intelligent. He had already had many pureblood families with sons, requesting him to betroth one of their daughters to their sons. But he had rejected their offers. He wanted his daughters to make the choice. With so many pureblood boys of their age to choose from, he was sure that they would make the right choice. Because the Blacks were always right.
Even though he was proud of his daughters, yet his desire for a male heir increased gradually. So he had decided on having another child.
Today, when healers had arrived and had told him about the critical condition of his wife, he was beyond furious. Now, just because of his stupid desire for an heir he might end up losing his child and his beloved wife. And if he ended up losing his wife, he knew that he would never forgive himself. His wife was the most beautiful and the most important thing in his life.
The first time that Cygnus had laid his eyes on Druella Rosier at the ball given in honour of her turning eleven, his fourteen year self had decided that he would marry her. They had started going out in her third year and since then they had always been together. Their marriage was the front page news of the Daily Prophet. Cygnus was very happy at how his married life had turned out.
When they had started going out everyone said that it was just infatuation; purebloods did not believe in love. For the pureblood families, marriages were all about the lineage and the amount of money and assets that were going to be transferred. Their marriage for love was the first one of its kind during the century and Cygnus Black was very proud of it.
He and his wife had never been included into any scandals, which was a rarity in the pureblood families. Even his cousin Orion was involved in a scandal and was found to be cheating on Walburga.
He was interrupted from his inner musings when his sister Walburga descended down the stairs. She told him that his wife was fine and his daughter was healthy. This time Cygnus did not care that he had another daughter. All he cared was that his wife was fine.
He stood up from the couch and looked at his daughters. They had pretty smiles on their face. He took them along with him to their mother's room. When he reached there, his eyes, on their own accord glued themselves to his wife, who was holding their youngest daughter in her arms. At the sight of this, he was filled with immense joy and satisfaction. She looked up at him and gave him a tired yet a radiant smile. He wanted to go and hug her but he checked himself on realizing that the healers were still there and so were his daughters and his sister. Walburga did not approve of Cygnus's public display of affection. She believed affection was a sign of weakness and purebloods were everything except weak. Cygnus was afraid of Walburga who had inherited the famous temper from the Blacks.
Cygnus thanked the healers and headed towards the bed on which his wife was lying. The healers left the room and so did Walburga, to give the family a bit of privacy. Cygnus noticed his daughters looking at the latest addition to the family. He heard Andromeda mutter something about the baby having mother's hair. He too looked at the baby and smiled. The baby had inherited the Rosier genes and looked quite fragile yet he cannot help but realize that all his three daughters will turn out to be very pretty and thus will have no trouble in captivating attention of the pureblood boys. As Druella handed the baby to Bellatrix, Cygnus placed his arms around her waist and she rested her head on Cygnus's shoulder.
As Cygnus looked at his family of five he felt himself to be the happiest man alive.
Little did he know that a Riddle had his own plans, plans which would destroy his whole family and rip them apart.
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