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Chapter 9 Magical Ultra-Sound
"Daddy!" Teddy squealed, running for them the second they got to the door. "Cousin Draco!"
Harry smiled, letting go of Draco's hand reluctantly to scoop the little boy up into his arms carefully, laughing when he giggled and squirmed as he ticked his tummy gently.
"Did you have fun with GrAndromada, Teddy?" he asked as he set him back down on his feet.
"Yeah, I guess so. Did you have fun talking with cousin Draco?"
Harry's face flushed slightly with pink as he nodded, smiling at Andromeda when she walked into the room.
"Yes, I did, thank you for asking. Are you ready to go see your baby brother?"
"Yes, I am. You looked flushed, daddy, do you have a fever?"
"No, I'm alright. Perfectly healthy, I promise. I've never felt better, or more happy and at peace then I am now in this moment. I have my true-love, and I have my babies. That's everything. All that I've ever wanted."
Teddy smiled, his small face more serious then a child's face should be as he looked up into Harry's face.
"I love you, daddy. I'm glad that you're happy, now. I've listened to you cry yourself to sleep too many times."
Harry blinked at his words, his green eyes filling with pain to easily remembered, and guilt at what he hadn't realized that he had put Teddy through with his loneliness.
"You're far too observant for a five year old," he teased, trying to lighten the mood.
"Almost six," Teddy corrected, not giving in even an inch.
"I'm sorry, Teddy, for hurting you with my pain. I didn't realize… I should have tried harder to hide it, for your sake, but I want.. I need you to understand that I wasn't completely miserable.. I love you, and that having you with me, taking care of you, holding you when you're sick, being your daddy, gives me such joy. Such happiness, such peace. You were my reason to go on, and you still are one of them. I guess that's it."
"I know," Teddy said simply, solemnly, moving to hug Harry for a moment before pulling back. "Let's go now, daddy."
"Alright," Harry said, nodding and scooping Teddy up again, setting him on his hip carefully before turning back to the boy's grandmother.
"We'll see you soon, Andromeda. We'll bring by a picture of the baby for you."
"Of course. That would be wonderful, Harry dear."
Harry smiled, and Teddy gave her a goodbye hug from his place on his godfather's hip, then Harry took Draco's hand in his, squeezing it affectionately before Apparating them away.
They reappeared in the exam-room at St. Mungos.
They were a few minutes early, and Healer Ian wasn't there yet, so Harry set Teddy down on his feet, ruffling his hair gently, kissing Draco's cheek, letting his lips linger for a moment as he squeezed his hand in his and then released it reluctantly.
"I'll just be a minute, love. I… I just need a moment alone. With everything that's happened recently… So fast… I'm just nervous, I guess. Do you mind watching Teddy? Just for a minute?"
"No, I don't mind, baby," Draco promised, his gray eyes concerned as he watched Harry walk into the connecting-bathroom with a reassuring smile in Draco's direction.
He left the door open a crack, and, after Teddy had sat down in a chair and started swinging his small feet back and forth to amuse himself, he watched Harry turn on the small sink and splash his face with water, his green eyes closing almost blissfully as sparkling-droplets slid down his skin slowly, clinging to his damp, long black lashes.
"Gods, Harry," Draco breathed, his gray eyes wide with admiration and softened by love as he gazed at him. "You should have been a water-god…"
Harry blushed as he turned his head to look at him with a small smile, then his face paled and he spun to hang his head over the toilet as his breakfast was violently expelled from his stomach, gasping slightly as he got his breath back by breathing in through his nose slowly.
Then he flushed the toilet, turning back to the sink, sighing in relief as he felt Draco, and Teddy's hands rubbing his back gently to soothe him while he splashed his face against with water, rinsing his mouth out before finally straightening up carefully.
"Thanks," he said, smiling gratefully as Draco led him by the hand over to a chair and helped him sit down, twining their fingers together as he sat beside him, putting an arm around his shoulders and holding him close comfortingly, pressing his lips to his forehead in a gentle-kiss.
"Of course. Are you alright, baby?"
"Yeah, I'm okay. It's just the normal pregnancy-nausea."
"Promise?"
"Promise," Harry said with a nod, his emerald eyes shining with love as he lifted their twined hands to press his lips to the back of Draco's hand in a soft, lingering-kiss.
Teddy giggled at their actions quietly, then the door opened as Healer Ian entered with his clipboard, closing the door behind him quickly.
"So, Harry," Ian said, walking toward them with a smile. "How are you feeling? You look a little pale."
"Uh, huh, I'm sure I am," the brunette said with a nod and a slightly-weak smile. "I just threw up because of the baby. He must have kicked my stomach, because it was quite sudden."
"Really? Well, if you'll get up on the exam-table and pull up your shirt, then we can see what he's up to in there maybe."
Harry nodded, standing up and moving to lay down on the examination-table on his back, still holding Draco's hand as he removed his Glamour and pulled his shirt up just far enough to reveal his rounded-stomach.
Ian grabbed the edge of something that looked like a big-screened t.v. but wasn't, pulling it on the wheeled, waste-high metal-cart, maneuvering it closer to the examination-table so that all of the people in the room would be able see it clearly.
Then he drew his wand out of one of the many deep pockets of his light-blue robes, his smile reassuring as he touched the tip to his stomach lightly, moving it so that it was just above Harry's belly-button before he whispered the necessary spell under his breath.
The screen hummed to life instantly, revealing the inside of Harry's magically-created womb, and he moved the light-oak wand over his large, bare stomach, searching for the baby on the color screen.
"Ahhh, there he is," Ian said, pointing to where a small, pink hand was visible at the very bottom of the screen.
It's tiny fingers were moving, almost as though waving at them, and the fingernails were clearly delicately and fully-formed even though Harry was only four months into the pregnancy.
Draco and Harry glanced at each other with excited smiles, turning back to watch as Healer Ian moved his wand further down on his belly to reveal the whole baby, his tiny, wriggling pink toes, legs, back, head with his small, closed, nearly-transparent eyelids, and, finally, as Ian used a second spell to rotate the view of the womb, something else as well.
"Well, it's definitely the boy that you wanted, Harry, and most importantly, he's very healthy. Exactly as he should be at this age. Congratulations."
"Thank you, Ian," Harry said with a bright smile.
"You're very welcome," Ian answered, nodding, about to cancel the spell and remove his wand from Harry's large stomach when he noticed something else on the screen, shifting the view again to study it closer curiously.
His eyes widened at what was revealed, and he used another spell that split the screen to show both of the sections of the womb that he had focused on, looking back and forth between them to be certain before he said anything.
"Um, Harry," he said calmly since he was the only one still looking at the screen.
"Yes, Ian?" he asked, his green eyes puzzled as he looked up at him.
"There's another. A second child. It's twin boys."
"What?" he gasped, his eyes flying to the split-screen to stare at the two side-by-side images with shocked-wonder.
"Well, I guess this means that I don't have to worry about choosing between the two names that I came up with…"
