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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! And if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving I hope you had a good weekend! Anyway, instead of making you wait until the end of the week I decided to go ahead and post this tonight. Thanks again to all of the reviews and alerts; I really appreciate them!
I had been having a nice dream about pumpkin pasties and sugar quills when suddenly I woke up. It was a Saturday morning and from the faint amount of light shining in through the window I could tell that it was still very early. Not my ideal way to start my Saturday. A quick glance to my left showed that Scorpius was still sound asleep, completely unaware of me as he faintly snored.
That's when my stomach roiled and I instinctively moved to go to the bathroom. As I knelt down in front of the toilet and lifted the lid I realized that not only had it been about a month since what we had termed 'the full moon incident' but I had yet to have my period.
"Oh Merlin." I moaned right before my stomach heaved and what was left of my dinner from the night before left my stomach and took up occupancy in the toilet bowl. And that's when the tears started.
A few heaves and minutes later Scorpius stumbled into the bathroom, rubbing his eyes sleepily, "What's going on Rosie?"
"I haven't had my period yet and I'm barfing in the morning, Scorpius! I'm pregnant."
That seemed to wake him up.
"Hang on a second; you don't know that for sure. Why don't you take a nice shower while I go and get dressed and we'll head on over to the castle like McGonagall told us and have Madame Promfrey check you out."
"Okay; you better write Professor McGonagall first though."
"Will you be okay?"
I nodded and slowly stood up. A shower really did sound nice at the moment, but I knew that it wouldn't cure the anxiety I could already feel curling in my stomach. As if I needed more to get my stomach roiling after that bought of throwing up.
Two hours later saw us at Hogwarts in the Hospital Wing with Madame Promfrey and Professor McGonagall. Thankfully Madame Promfrey had already been filled in on the situation prior to our arrival and had had a bed and everything set up in the privacy of her office by the time we arrived.
"So today was the first of the symptoms?" She asked as she pulled her wand from her robes.
"Yes, and I realized that my period should have come by now."
"I see. Well, I'll do some basic tests to determine whether you are pregnant or not and then we'll go from there."
I looked anxiously at Scorpius then and he met my gaze with a reassuring look and grabbed my hand within his.
Madame Promfrey ran her wand around my stomach, said a spell and two rings of white surrounded my belly.
"Well, it would seem that you are pregnant dear." She explained. "And the two rings indicate two fetuses."
"Twins!"
"Well, you did say that the conception happened when you were wolves; they have multiple births. It's a miracle you don't have a few more in there. Now I am going to see if we can tell whether or not they are human."
Scorpius' hand tightened around my own as Madame Promfrey waved her wand and something similar to a muggle sonogram appeared in the air above my belly. I had seen sonograms before from watching muggle movies with my Mom; however, the quality of this one was a whole lot better. I could clearly see the two fetuses she was talking about, but I had no idea if what I was seeing was normal for human babies at this stage or not. Judging by the look on Scorpius' and Professor McGonagall's faces they had no idea either.
"It appears that they are normal human fetuses. Now we will have to monitor this pregnancy closely. Absolutely no changing into your animgai form—"
"Poppy, shouldn't we see if the fetuses change with her?" McGonagall suggested. "It seems to me that they are able to survive a change otherwise they would have been aborted when she changed back into her human form." She then turned her attention to the two of us, "Now…there is no chance that they were conceived normally?"
I shook my head, "No, it had to have been that night. We always use a contraceptive spell."
"Well, if Mr. Malfoy and Miss Weasley are agreeable to it, let's have her change and I can examine the babies from within her wolf form."
I turned my gaze to Scorpius. There was a chance that I could abort the babies by changing, however McGonagall was right; wouldn't they have already been aborted that first night if that were the case?
"Do it." Scorpius urged.
I nodded and got off of the examination bed. Of course Scorpius had to change with me so on the count of three we both changed into our animagi in front of the two old ladies.
"Alright Rose, if you would come here, I'll run the same test."
With that said the sonogram appeared above me once again and we all waited while Madame Promfrey examined it closely.
"Amazing." She breathed. "They've changed with her!"
The two of us quickly changed back and turned anxious faces to McGonagall and Promfrey.
"What does this mean?" Scorpius asked.
McGonagall smiled, "I would hazard a guess that they are already animagi. Of course we can't know anymore than that until they are born. But judging from what we've seen I'd say it's safe to say that this will be a regular pregnancy. And although you can change; I'd advise against it in case you find yourself having the babies wolf style."
"No problems there."
Xxx
"We're going to be parents." I breathed in amazement as we stumbled back into our town house.
"Your Dad is going to kill me."
"I've got to tell my Mom about this!"
Scorpius stopped me with one of his trademark Malfoy looks, "Not yet. Have you heard of Gretna Green, Rose?"
"I think I read about that place is some muggle romance novels, why?"
"Pack your bags because we're going to wizarding Gretna Green to elope."
"You can't be serious."
"Dead serious."
"Our parents will be furious!" I protested.
"I think they'll be less furious than if they find out I've gotten you pregnant with animagi twins before marriage!"
"But no one will be there to see us get married."
Malfoy quirked a brow, "Did you really want to go through the long painful process of getting our parents to agree on wedding arrangements?"
"Well, not really. And I am already going through enough wedding stuff with Carmen…but wait! Carmen would be so angry not to know!"
Scorpius looked thoughtful for a minute and ran a hand through his hair, "Alright, we'll take Carmen and Derek to be our witnesses. I'm sure they can keep their mouths shut about the circumstances until the time is right to let everyone know."
"Great, I'll go start packing for the two of us!"
"I'll floo the two of them."
Xxx
No one was more surprised than Carmen had been after Scorpius and I had explained the entire situation to she and Derek when they had arrived with bags packed a mere half hour after Scorpius had made the floo call. They had been just as shocked as we had been, but once they got over the weird circumstances they were ecstatic. Besides… they really couldn't throw stones when they lived in a glass house themselves.
"Our babies will grow up together and be in the same year at Hogwarts, Rose!" Carmen said excitedly as she zipped up the dress I had found at the back of my closet for our ceremony. The dress was something Carmen had made me buy months ago for some work party, however I had ended up not going to the party leaving this cream colored strapless dress in the back of my closet with the tags still attached.
"It is pretty amazing…I just hope they turn out alright considering…"
"Don't even worry about it, Rose. We'll deal with whatever may happen after they're born, but I'm pretty sure that any offspring sired by Rose Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy will be bloody brilliant and healthy. If not a bit gifted. Now, let's go get you married."
Thinking about it, I guess I had never really been the girl who had dreamed of her wedding. Of course I had thought about it a time or two as I helped Carmen plan her own wedding, but I never had a certain desire for it like Carmen did. So as I took my place besides Scorpius in front of the official, I felt very at peace and happy with what we were about to do.
The ceremony seemed to fly by and before I knew what was happening, Scorpius was leaning in for a kiss as the official pronounced us wizard and witch. When Scorpius pulled away he was beaming and turned his happy smile onto our two best friends who were cheering and clapping in the background.
"This is monumental you know." Derek stated with a smirk. "A Weasley just became a Malfoy."
Scorpius chuckled, "I'll do you one better; there's two kids in there," he began with a gesture towards my belly, "that are half Weasley and half Malfoy. This of course means that they will be the first Malfoy children that are not pure bloods."
"Change is good." Carmen added. "Besides, you British pure bloods were starting to get a bit inbred."
Typical Carmen.
Xxx
After many hours of celebrating with Carmen and Derek, Scorpius and I made our way to the honeymoon suite he had booked for us at the biggest and most expensive hotel in wizarding Gretna Green. I would have been happy with just going home, but Scorpius insisted and bribed me with the prospect of a Jacuzzi as well as room service.
"Well, Mrs. Malfoy what should we do first? Order room service or take a dip in the Jacuzzi?"
I smirked, "I say that we order some ice cream and then eat it while in the Jacuzzi."
Scorpius nodded his agreement and while he went to work on that I stripped off my clothes and got into the Jacuzzi naked. Not only did I not have a bathing suit with me, but this was my husband and I was not about to be shy about my nakedness. Up until this point I had been pretty embarrassed about my nakedness outside of bed even after he had spent a long time seeing everything. Scorpius found it all funny and meanwhile had no trouble parading around naked in front of me. So, it was time to change that; especially now that we were married and I was expecting his twins!
A little while later Scorpius came into the bathroom carrying two bowls of ice cream. He handed me the first and then, noticing my nakedness, smirked and shed off his clothes before he joined me with his own bowl of ice cream.
"Well, it seems I've already discovered one perk of being married." He grinned and took his first bite of ice cream. He looked thoughtful as he ate and then lifted his eyes to mine, suddenly serious. "I know I haven't said it before, but I've felt this way for a long time now. I love you Rose; more than anything or anyone in this world besides those twins growing inside of you."
Of course me being the emotional person I was in this state of pregnancy, felt tears come to my eyes. Although I was pretty sure his words would have had this affect on me anyway, pregnant or not.
"I love you too."
Xxx
Unfortunately the two of us were not able to get a few days off of work for an extended honeymoon on such short notice, so the next day we returned home. Scorpius insisted that we apparate on the doorstep and once the two of us had landed he turned to me with a smirk.
"I saw on a muggle movie that the man is supposed to carry his bride over the threshold of their home."
"You'll hurt yourself!" I protested.
He quirked a brow at me, "I am not a weakling. Besides it won't take me that long to get you over the threshold."
With that said he threw the door open and quickly scooped me up into his arms to carry me inside the house. The two of us were laughing as he sat me down in the entrance hall, but our laughter immediately died out when the two of us heard the sound of voices coming from our living room.
"Scorpius? Rose? Is that you?" We heard his Mom ask.
"Of course it is, Astoria." His Father replied.
"We've been waiting here all morning; so get in here!" My Dad called.
"Ronald! Honey, if you and Scorpius could come in here we would like to talk to the two of you."
Scorpius and I looked at each other in panic. We knew that eventually we would have to tell our parents everything, but we weren't expecting it to happen so soon! We weren't prepared! If I had known our parents were going to show up, I would have insisted we stay up and think of things to say instead of staying up so late engaging in another more pleasurable activity.
"Let's do this." Scorpius stated and grabbed my hand.
Xxx
The first thing I noticed was that our parents did not look too pleased with the two of us. My Dad's face had the familiar flush that was associated with red heads when they're angry and Mr. Malfoy had a look on his face like he had just smelt something foul. Thankfully our Mothers didn't look as visibly upset.
"Scorpius, what were you thinking getting married without your Father and I?" Mrs. Malfoy shrieked.
Okay…so apparently looks were deceiving in her case.
"How did you find out so quickly?" Scorpius asked instead of answering her question.
"As a Malfoy you shouldn't have to ask that son." Mr. Malfoy replied. "I have a friend who operates the hotel you stayed in and he thought I would be interested in knowing that my son had come to elope."
"Well, that's not all we have to tell you." I finally said.
"Did you get my daughter pregnant you piece of-"
"Ronald!"
"Everyone just sit down and calm down and Rose and I will fill you in on everything that has been going on lately. But before we begin I would like to state that we are adults and are very capable of making our own decisions."
As usual when Scorpius raised his voice, everyone obeyed. He was just naturally commanding and if I was being honest…it turned me on a bit at times. Of course it wasn't appropriate to be turned on by this in front of our parents, but I couldn't help myself. I blame the pregnancy hormones.
"I will be honest with you Mr. Weasley, yes I did get Rose pregnant, but it is a bit more complicated than that." Scorpius began. "You all know about our animagi situation. Well, after a long spell of not changing we went out to change and well… nature took over."
"What?" My Dad asked in confusion.
"That means they engaged in intercourse in their wolf forms." My mother whispered to him, a red tinge staining her cheeks as she did so.
Scorpius then went on to explain everything that had happened afterword with Professor McGonagall and finally Madame Promfrey which led us to running off to wizarding Gretna Green to get married. When he was finished nothing but silence filled the room for a very uncomfortable five minutes until finally:
"Twins?" Mrs. Malfoy asked hopefully.
I nodded my head in reply and watched as tears of happiness filled her eyes before she jumped up and wrapped both Scorpius and I in her arms.
"Oh, I always wished I could have had more children!" She cried.
My Mom then decided to join the hug session, "These babies are going to be extraordinary! Born as animagi? I can't wait until they come into the world and we'll know for sure."
Our fathers, however, remained unmoving in their respective seats. My Dad looked completely bewildered and Mr. Malfoy looked like he was thinking. Finally he stood and clapped Scorpius on the back.
"The first Malfoys that will not be pure blooded. At least they'll go down in the history books if they can't have that."
It was the best we could hope for from him.