Chapter Four: Fifteen Weeks (The First Task)

This was attar foolishness, who in their right mind would let that boy participate, he was after all only fourteen and pregnant to boot. Severus felt the anxiety well up inside himself as he watched the boy summon his broom and begin to try and fly past the hormonal mother dragon in an attempt to retrieve that damned golden egg.

Although he would never admit it, he felt very protective toward the boy who was the only thing left in this world of his childhood friend and the first person he had ever really felt love for, besides he late mother of course. As he watched Lily's son do some dangerous stunt on his broom as he flew he found himself rather concerned for Lily's unborn grandchild.

But Madame Pomfrey had cleared the boy to participate in the first task as long as there was someone there to offer immediate assistance in case of an emergency involving the pregnant champion. The sullen Professor felt a hand gently squeeze his shoulder and allowed himself a quick glance that confirmed that said hand belonged to Albus Dumbledore.

Severus glared at him for a moment before returning his attention to the boy who was now locked in battle with that blasted beast. He just hoped that this would all be over soon.

"Bloody foolishness."

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She had gone a pale white with worry as she watched one of her best friends close encounter with an angry mother dragon. She gasped and screamed out "Oh no!" as Harry narrowly escaped serious ingury with nothing but a minor scrape. It was nerve racking to say the least. Hermione felt her baby fluttering slightly as she yelled.

It had been an interesting experience starting to feel her baby move inside of her, it wasn't strong movements just yet or prominent kicks, but just little butterfly flutters every now and then. Feeling her unborn child move even just a little had left her feeling as if this was truly happening

She was growing to be very attached to her little one and had been the first of the students to raise the question of who the other parent would be or if they were just genetically one person's child. Madame Pomfrey had said it was most likely that someone they had been sitting near to during the accident would have been the other contributor to the gene pool.

Upon hearing this all of the students had begun to speculate whose child they were carrying. Madame Pomfrey had assured them that she'd be able to do a DNA test on each of the infants once they were born to confirm parentage. Theodore Nott had spoken up after being told his unborn child would have another parent "well good, whoever it is can keep the thing" he had snarked.

Hermione quickly jumped out of her seat and ran off towards the champions' tent to check on Harry. She was relieved to see that he was okay and that Ron had run along to catch up with her. There was hope for those two yet.

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"Bloody hell mate!" Ron exclaimed as he joined them in the tent. It was the first time he had spoken to his best mate in weeks but watching the task and fearing for his friend had completely sucked all of his irrational anger away.

"Talking to me now are you?" Harry asked rather grumpily as he lay on the makeshift cot waiting for the school medi-witch to come and check him over. Ron blushed a deep pink at Harry's comment, which he knew he deserved as had been a right prat over the past few weeks. But he had knew know that he cared for his best mate too much to let his stupid, petty insecurities and jealousies get between them.

"Yeah mate, look about that" Ron began to say but was cut off by Harry "just forget it Ron, we're square now" he assured his best friend. Ron let out a sigh of relief and Hermione burst into tears. The two boys looked at her as if she had up and lost her mind.

"Oh you boys are so stupid" she spoke through the sobs and tears, whacking Ron none too gently upside the head and feeling grateful that the stupid argument between her two best friends had finally been resolved.

"Oi, what was that for?" Ron demanded as he rubbed the back of his head. "For you two being such total idiots these past few weeks" Hermione replied as she stopped crying and glared at the two of them. As they had entered their second trimester, Hermione in particular had become very hormonal and often went from crying to laughing to very angry in a split second.

"You didn't hit Harry though" Ron whined and was met with a fierce glare from Hermione "Of course I didn't, he's in a hospital bed!" Hermione yelled and whacked Ron on the shoulder. Harry laughed at his friends antics despite the pain in his arm, he had missed this, had missed just being with both of his best friends at once.

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"Dragons!" Madame Pomfrey muttered to herself as she shuffled over to check on Harry's arm. "You were lucky Potter, it could have been much worse for you and your baby" she said as she got to work cleaning up his cut and healing it. Upon hearing her mention his unborn child Harry's worry turned only to the baby.

During the task he had been too busy and too distracted to really remember that he was even pregnant but now that the adrenalin had worn off his worry had spiked and he was unable to think of anything other than the safety of his baby.

"Is she alright?" he asked rather panicky. This baby was the only blood family he currently had that would actually be able to stand the sight of him and to lose that was not something he wanted, not at all. Madame Pomfrey finished up with his arm after pouring a purple liquid onto his cut which stung quite a bit.

Whipping out her wand, the medi-witch did a few quick tests to check out both baby and parent's general health before saying the spell that all the pregnant teens had become accustomed to over the past couple of months. It was the spell that caused a little screen like picture to appear in front of them to allow them to check on the foetus. It was very much like a muggle ultrasound. She examined it closely for a few minutes and when Harry demanding "so how is the baby? Please tell me!" she spoke with a calm smile on her face.

"She is just fine Mr. Potter" Harry had a dumbfounded look on his face at that.

"She?"

A/N: Hope you all enjoyed. I know the chapters aren't very long at the moment but I will try to make them longer as I go. The next chapter with cover the second task and then it'll be mostly baby centric after that for awhile until the third task. Suggestions are always welcome and I of course love reviews! And please don't forget to check out and review SenaKD and SidheGirl414's versions of this Mass Pregnancy fic. And if any of you are writing one please let me know and I'll check it out. Until next time =)