Chapter 14
"The baby is fine. But i suggest that she stays here for a couple of days, just in case" a healer informed Draco. He was at St Mungos and They had performed a caesarean to save Mary.
"And Sophie?" Draco asked.
"We don't know yet. She hasn't shown any signs of waking up" the healer said sadly.
"Okay" Draco said and sat down in a chair in the waiting room. It was the waiting room for those who were gonna be a dad, but he felt like he needed a break at the moment.
"You look young?" A man asked.
"Please, I'm not in the mood for talking now" Draco groaned.
"Yeah, i understand! I remember how it was with the first kid." He said. Draco rolled his eyes. "I'm here for my third kid though. The wife never wanted me to be there when she's giving birth. But you have those women to" the babbled away. Apparently he liked to talk.
Draco got up and walked away, but the man didn't seem to notice. He was to busy talking.
He walked to the floor a healer had said they'd put Sophie.
"Sophie?" Draco asked the receptionist .
"Can you be more specific? We have three Sophies at this floor at the moment." The receptionist said.
"Blackwood!" Draco groaned. He started to get impatient.
"Oh, yeah. Fifth door to the left in that hallway!" The receptionist explained and pointed at a hall.
Draco nodded and found the fifth door to the left. He entered and saw Sophie totally unconscious in a bed.
His eyes got a little watery as he saw some kind of instrument that was helping her to breathe. He heard beeps from the machine. It was steady.
But Sophie lay there with her eyes closed and her skin pale.
He walked over and stroke his hand over her cheek. Her skin was a little colder than normal.
"Please wake up" he said silently as he noticed a tear running down his cheek.
He found himself a chair and sat down while holding her hand. And he sat there, hour after hour, without letting go of her hand. As if he could hold her and she wouldn't fall into eternal sleep, also known as death.
He thought it was weird seeing her without that massive baby bump. He was so used to it by now.
Suddenly he felt himself waking up. He had fallen asleep, and his head was resting to her mattress. He could swear he had felt someone's stroking his hair.
He looked at Sophie, sure she was awake now, to see her just as unconscious as earlier. He sighed and looked out the window. It was dark. It was the middle of the night. He stood up and stretched. As he looked at the clock, he saw it was 3 in the night.
He walked a couple of times back and forth in the room. He ignored that he was hungry and thirsty. He could get something in the morning. It probably isn't the best to wander around in the middle of the night.
The rest of the night went by with Draco sitting in the chair. He just sat there, like a guardian.
Around 8 in the morning, a healer came to check on Sophie. She was there a couple of minutes, wrote down some numbers from some of these instruments, before walking out again.
Next time the healer came to check again was around 9.
"How is she doing?" Draco asked. The healer avoided his eyes, and took a minute to find something to answer.
"She isn't exactly... stable" she said.
"What does that mean!?" Draco asked, but the healer was already gone.
A little later, Narcissa came with something to eat and drink for her son.
"You should go and rest" Narcissa tried to tell him.
"No, I'll stay here" he replied.
"But you are exhausted" Narcissa tried to convince.
"Mom, I can't leave. It's my fault she's here" he said.
"She would never let you say that!" Narcissa answered.
Draco sighed.
"And Mary?" She asked to change the subject. It hit Draco that he hadn't been seeing his daughter once since she was born.
"We can go and see her" Draco said and got up. Narcissa nodded and followed her son. They went to where the receptionist of the floor for baby delivery sat.
They went to a room with many baby cribs, and inside the room was a healer that was taking care of them.
"Last name?" The healer asked.
"Malfoy" Draco answered.
"Then i guess your here to see this little one" the healer said and leaded Draco and his mother to a crib. In the crib lay a newborn baby girl with light golden brown hair. Draco smiled, she was gorgeous.
"Can I hold her?" Draco asked. The healer nodded and Draco picked up little Mary.
"You can take her out of here if you want" the healer said and picked up a crying baby who was crying.
Draco smiled and walked out together with his mother.
"She's adorable" Narcissa said.
"Yeah" Draco answered and sat down where he had been sitting when that guy started talking to him.
Narcissa sat down next to him. There sat a couple of guys around, looking for nervous. One of them looked at Draco and gave a small smile.
The feeling of holding little Mary again felt so good to him.
"Shall we check on Sophie?" Narcissa asked after a while. Draco nodded and they bought the little one with them.
When they were back, Sophie had several healers around her. They were communicating while fixing on the instruments and a lot of other things.
"What's going on?" Narcissa asked. The healers didn't seem to hear her.
"We're loosing her!" One of the healers yelled.
Draco handed Mary over to Narcissa and walked over, he needed a last glimpse. The machine that controlled her breathing went slower than before.
"I'm sorry. There's nothing more we can do" a healer said sadly.
"What?" Draco noticed his eyes being extremely watery. And then that one long beep came. Healers started to all wires that was connected to Sophie.
Draco cried. He held her hand tightly, and noticed her skin was cold as milk that had just been taken out of the fridge.
Narcissa looked at her son with watery eyes as she was holding her granddaughter.
"Please come back! I need you!" Draco cried. He had burried his face into Sophie's neck as he was sitting with his knees down in the floor next to her bed.
Authors note:
Alright, i know this chapter was a bit depressing. There's one more chapter before this story is over!
I just wanted to know, what would you guys want me to write when this story is done? A Tom Riddle story, or a George Weasley story?
Leave a comment on what you want to read!