Chapter Three: 11 Weeks (November 1994)
It was always an awkward feeling to be laying back on one of the hospital wing beds with your top raised so that your stomach was showing. But for the pregnant members of the school this was becoming a common occurrence as they were having regular checkups to make sure the foetuses were doing well and that the expectant parents were healthy also.
These checkups meant that once a fortnight or so each of the pregnant students and the grumpily pregnant Professor Snape would make their way to visit with Madame Pompfrey and have the required scans and blood work done, so far so good for all of them.
Neville felt a sense of peacefulness come over him as he heard the heartbeat of his little one sound around the wing. The sound had quickly become his favourite thing to listen to. It always had a calming effect on him as it was a sign that he wasn't alone and that his baby was for the time being safe.
"Alright now Neville you can lower your shirt and get up now" Madame Pompfrey instructed as she concluded the medical exam. As Neville sits up he looks over at the medi-witch anxiously awaiting the all clear for his own and his baby's health.
"Not to worry dear" she assured him "you are both in perfect health" and with that declaration Neville's face split into a grin. His baby was healthy.
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It wasn't that he was showing yet, because he wasn't really but he had noticed a slight change. His stomach had tightened a little only just noticeable to him as it was his body after all. Blaise had felt the shock of it all start to wear off after the first few weeks, now it was just the reality of his life. By the end of the year he would be a father.
It would be rather nice to have another family member besides his mother to share his life with. His mother was hardly there for him and had not even acknowledged the owl he'd sent her about his pregnancy as she was far too busy trying to score herself a new rich husband to be bothered taking an interest in her only child's life.
As he lay on his bed stroking his slowly expanding belly, he felt his bed sink slightly as Daphne Greengrass lay down on his bed next to him. She snuggled into his side and asked "why so serious Blaisie?" she asked the classmate she thought of as her brother.
"Just thinking Daph" he replied and pulled her closer to snuggle into his side. There was nothing romantic between the pair of them. Blaise had known he was gay since he was quite young, plus the two of them consider the other to be their surrogate sibling what with Blaise being an only child and Daphne having only her sister Astoria.
"Don't think to hard brother dear, it'll give you wrinkles" she told him mock seriously and Blaise smiled, oh how he loved Daphne.
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Maybe his anger wasn't quite justified but he couldn't seem to get over it. Logically he knew that Harry wouldn't have tricked the Goblet of Fire into entering him into the Tournament now that he was pregnant, Harry wouldn't put his unborn child at risk. But Ron still couldn't cool his fury toward his best mate.
Since his falling out with Harry, he'd been spending most of his time with Dean and Seamus who he suspected were in love with one another, even if they didn't know it just yet. They were both good blokes and Ron considered himself lucky to be able to consider them both mates but it wasn't the same as being with Harry and Hermione.
This falling out truly sucked, he wished he could stop being so damn stubborn and makeup with Harry, he really needed his best mate during this time of throwing up at odd times of day and always needing to eat. He was currently growing two lives inside of himself and wished he could be sharing it all with Harry.
"Bloody hormones" Ron grumbled to himself as he lay down for a short afternoon nap.
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He could feel the Dark Mark growing clearer as the days went by although it hadn't yet burned bright the way it had during Voldemort's strongest time. But Severus new that the way the mark was currently prickling that the Dark Lord was clearly gaining strength and that would not likely bode well for Severus and his unborn child, whom despite himself he had grown quite fond of.
Although at this current stage in his pregnancy he was unable to brew most of the potions he wanted to as some of the more volatile ingredients posed a threat to the foetus's health. This had of course put the potions master into a rather foul temperament but it was not something uncommon for him at all.
As a bout of nausea came over him Severus called out "Binky!" and a small house elf appeared in front of him "Yes Mr. Snape Sir? What can Binky do for Sir?" she asked in a high and squeaky voice that grated on the man's already rather frayed nerves.
"Bring me some tea and ginger biscuits" he ordered, not even bothering to open his eyes to look at the elf. "Oh right away Sir, Binky will bring it to you now Sir" she squeaked and with a pop disappeared off to the kitchens to fetch his requested tray of tea and ginger biscuits.
As he swallowed back the nausea that threatened to explode from him, he hoped that the elf would be quick.
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So far for the blond haired boy this whole pregnancy ordeal had been a real nightmare. He had been constantly ill and unable to keep much of anything down. He was tired and aching all the time and his nipples had become increasingly sensitive to the touch with each passing day. To say the least it was not at all fun for him.
He found himself envying those of the bunch who had escaped the most of these horrid symptoms and truly hated those blasted Gryffindor girls who seemed to have skipped almost all of the side effects, especially that damned Brown girl who had breezed through it all so far, it was well unfair.
But despite all the trouble his little Leech had been causing him, he found himself growing ever fonder of said leech. This was his baby and he knew in his heart that he would love it and protect it the best he could as it grew into a human being. He found himself wondering who the child was and if he had a future son or daughter in there although all his instincts were screaming at him that he was growing a very special little prince right now.
"I wish you would hurry up and be here" he spoke to his still flat stomach "I can't wait for this hellish pregnancy to be over and to be able to finally meet you" he continued, one day the throwing up and aching would be over and he's have a sweet new life to share his time with.
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Why did things like this always happen to him? Why was it that his life was so full of dangerous and strange things? First he had been in a potions accident that had led him to be pregnant, although he wasn't alone in that. And then he had somehow been picked as the fourth champion and would be forced to compete in the Triwizard tournament, despite being several years younger than the age limit and pregnant.
Someone up there clearly had it out for him. Some bored god must take pleasure in his suffering and trials. It really wasn't fair. He had already been through so much in his fourteen years of life. Harry often found himself wondering what else the horrid universe might have install for him in the future, the thought always caused him to shudder and hope he hadn't just jinxed himself.
Although at the moment the hardest thing wasn't being pregnant or about to be doing a series of dangerous tasks, it was the fact that his best mate was so irrationally furious with him that he wasn't even speaking to him. Harry hoped that Ron would come around soon because no matter how much he loved Hermione and how his Homework had improved it just wasn't the same without his redheaded friend.
The teen absently stroked his own belly rather protectively and muttered to himself or maybe to his baby or event the universe "We're going to make it through this, we'll be fine." He just hoped that he'd be able to believe that soon, because right now it felt like an impossible lie.
A/N: it took awhile but chapter three is finally done. I will hopefully have 4 and maybe even 5 done and posted tomorrow. Those two chapters cover the 1st and 2nd tasks. I hope you're all liking the fic so far. Please keep up the reviews and make any suggestions you'd like about the future chapters. And please remember to check out my sister SenaKD's mass pregnancy fic "Bluebells and Belladonna" and my best friend SidheGirl414's one "Oh Merlin, No!" and leave them reviews too. We decided to each write a fic using the same idea and some criteria and see how different they turn out. If any of you guys want to do this too, let me know and I'll send you a list of the criteria.