**A/N: I'm so very sorry to my readers that I've been neglecting this story :( I know that it's not an excuse—but I've been working extremely hard for school and this coming Monday, I will officially have this semester wrapped up! Do you know what that means? That means that I can update bi-weekly for the next three weeks! Yay!**
Things start flashing in and out the moment that we land out of the fireplace. It feels as if there's a huge weight sitting on my chest and a loud buzzing fills my ears. I couldn't hear anything that was going on other than that horrible buzzing noise and I have to admit that it was terrifying. The pain in my lower stomach is indescribable and from the limited amount of vision that I had—I could tell that I wasn't the only one who was freaking out. Above me, Sirius's face is pinched and pale as he lies me down on a hard, flat surface and is quickly pushed away. I slide my eyes shut and I give in to the darkness as the pain reaches new limits.
The first thing that I'm aware of when I reach consciousness is that my stomach hurts horribly and that I felt incredibly weak. The second thing that I notice is that I can fully hear and feel things again. Soft breaths fill the room along with steady beeping that I assumed was my heartbeat. As I hear someone shuffling around the room, memories flash into my mind and instantly my heart begins to hurt a little bit more. I let my eyes slide open and take in the darker green of the ceiling as my mind starts to wake up a little more and the pain gets a little worse.
"Annalise?" I hear someone breathe in quietly and faces swarm above me causing me to groan as I try to sit up.
"Oh, sweetheart, no, you need to stay lying down." A gentle hand pushes my shoulder down and I give in without much of a fight.
"What h-happened?" I whimper quietly and someone picks my hand up and grips it tightly before their face comes into view.
"Anna, you're fine. Everything's fine." Sirius assures me quietly and I find myself relaxing a little bit more when I see his face.
"Hmm?" I mummer as I look into his eyes and notice that he looks worn out and rough as if he hadn't slept or washed for days.
"Annalise. You almost experienced a miscarriage due to high blood pressure and high levels of stress, but I was able to stabilize you." An older women informs me quietly and my eyes meet up with hers as I realize who she must be.
"Anna, sweetie, I'd like you to meet my mum." Luke introduces us formally and I swallow softly as I realize the enormity of the situation.
"It's n-nice to meet you Mrs. Potter." I whisper quietly and she gives me a nice smile in return.
"I believe that we have some things to talk about concerning the baby. I've only just been informed that I'm going to be a grandmother." She speaks softly and glances at Lukas before turning back to me.
"Yes ma'am." I agree with her without much hesitation and she nods once more at me before leaving the room silently.
"Everything's going to be fine, Anna," Sirius mummers and then bends down to kiss me.
I feel his lips touch my forehead and close my eyes at the amount of comfort that surrounds me at that moment. His cheek stays cuddled against my forehead and I pick my hand up to hold him there for another moment. The pain of finding out is still embedded down deep, but Sirius being close to me heals the wound somewhat.
"Annalise, are you okay?" I hear someone mummer from the doorway, but I keep my eyes closed without answering him for a moment.
"She's fine." Remus speaks up without me having to say anything at all, "Just met Luke's mum." He says this as if that explained it all.
"Of course, she does tend to be involved in drama all the bloody time." Severus drawls as he gets closer to the bed.
"Always." I mumble quietly and I drop my hand so that Sirius knows to pull up, before opening my eyes and looking into the worried, annoyed eyes of my brother.
"Always." Severus repeats just as softly and I take a shallow breath—all that my lungs would give at the moment—as I realize how long it's been since we've spoken.
"I'm sorry." I whisper this quietly to him before dropping my eyes to the comforter wrapped around me.
"You have nothing to be sorry for, Annalise." Severus states quietly, "I reacted horribly and that is my fault, not yours." He assures me before taking my hands in his in a comforting gesture.
"Sev-" I start to speak, but get cut off quickly.
"I've decided that you'd be better off in your situation if you and I weren't bickering nonstop. You must understand Annalise, that I just want what's best for you." He whispers and I can tell that he is only speaking to me at the moment—almost as if he's blocking everyone else out.
"You weren't what caused the stress Severus." I assure him gently, but he just brushes it off as if he doesn't care about that matter.
"Nevertheless, I'm not going to fight with you if you choose to stay here." He mumbles to me and I can't help but to give him a gentle smile at the way that he was reacting to the situation.
"The baby?" I ask my sibling out of curiosity, knowing that he must have spoken to Mrs. Potter about my health before coming to visit me.
A small trill of nervousness rises up as I watch Severus drop his eyes to my stomach and then raise them up to meet Remus's stare. My hands are placed back on my lap as he says nothing to me for a moment before taking a deep breath and looking back into my eyes.
" I think that's something that you're going to have to speak to your boyfriend about—provided he doesn't leave you before he gets the statement out." He sneers quietly, but I can tell that he is more worried than anything else.
My eyes go from watching my brother to travelling around the room in order to stare at all of its occupant. Lukas stands at the foot of my bed quietly, but his eyes are on my stomach and I can see that he is confused. Standing on the right side of my bed is both Sirius and Remus, one looking as if he wanted to cry and the other looking as if he wanted to comfort me.
"Remus?" My voice comes out unnaturally high and I flinch as I realize how extremely nervous I am about the situation all of a sudden.
"Annalise, if I had known that it was a possibility when—" he cuts himself off and restarts quickly, "I didn't know that this could happen…if I had known then I wouldn't have allowed it to happen at all." He whispers.
"What? What's happened?" I question him loudly, I could tell that what he was about to say was something quite important to me and the very idea that everyone knew but me was making me all the more anxious.
"When a werewolf finds his mate, the wolf's instinct to either get their partner pregnant as quickly as possible or to physically mark them in order to claim possession. I refuse to mark you and I thought that since you were already with child that there was no way that I could impregnate you." He sighs
quietly as he stares at his hands miserably.
"You thought?" I whisper and my stomach begins to churn as I realize that he's admitting that he had no idea that whatever happened could even occur, what had happened?
"Annalise, you are pregnant by both Lukas and I." He hisses out the words quickly before looking into my eyes.
I stare into his eyes for a moment as the information sinks in and I can fully grasp what he's saying. What did he mean that I was pregnant by both him and Lukas? Would the baby have two biological fathers? Was that even possible? I blink at him as I try to process my thoughts before turning to look at Lukas in confusion. He stares at me with a blank expression on his face for a while before giving me the information that I was so clearly missing.
"Anna, you're having twins." He states this while looking into my eyes.
I feel myself beginning to shake as the news makes its mark on my already fragile emotions, tears start to build up as my mind starts to think in overtime. Thoughts fly through my mind so quickly that not only do I feel shocked, but overwhelmed as well. When I had discovered that I was pregnant by Lukas, I knew that I was changing history. I had never anticipated that by sleeping with Remus, that I would be making such a large change in the timeline. Anxiety claws its way into my mind as I begin to truly cry, not only for the fact that the world that I had grown up in was truly gone and I had been the one to cause it, but also for the simple fact that I had become pregnant with twins.
"Superfetation is extremely rare in muggles, but common in the magical world, especially when it comes to werewolves." Severus states as Remus pushes himself in front of Sirius in order to take both of my hands in his. "The Potter child and the Lupin child will have to be born on the same day, which means that one of the babies will be born at least nine weeks early." He finishes his explanation calmly but I can barely hear a word that he's saying because of the ringing in my ears. I close my eyes in the hopes that it will push some of the anxiety away, but it doesn't help.
"Please, Annalise, please calm down." Remus mummers beside me, "I am never leaving you, you and the babies are going to be fine, because you'll have all three of us taking care of you." He assures me of this softly as he brings my hands to his lips and starts to kiss them gently.
"Three?" I question him weakly and I'm sure that if I spoke any louder than what I did that my voice would have cracked.
"Lukas, Sirius, and I. Sweetheart, we're here and none of us are leaving." Remus whispers softly and I feel him wiping my tears away with him thumb a second later.
I lean into Remus's hand, allowing him to wipe my tears as they came, because it calmed me down somewhat. After my tears dry up and I stop shaking, I breathe in as deeply as I can before opening my eyes. I look first into Remus's hazel orbs, before switching to the icy blue's of Lukas, and finally landing on the molten steel of the one that had become so close to leaving me in the first place.
"Even you?" I ask him quietly and he flinches at my question and takes a breath before trying to speak.
"Even me, Anna. Never, I will never leave you." He speaks this softly, maintaining eye contact the entire time even though I can see that it hurt him that I even asked.
"What are you talking about?" Severus asks suddenly and I flinch at the realization that everyone was still in the room. "Isn't Black the one that stayed with you to begin with?" he questions and I look at my hands which are still encased in Remus's overly large ones.
"Yes, he is. We've just been recently going through a delicate time and I've lost my trust." I whisper the truth out into the open and Sirius stiffens beside me.
"You've lost your trust?" His question slices through to me at the core and I shut my eyes before the tears begin to fall once more.
"I think we need to give you guys some alone time." Lukas mutters quietly before motioning for Severus to follow him out of the room.
As the door shuts behind them, I feel as if I'm suddenly trapped in a situation that I can no longer get out of. I wanted so badly not to talk about this right now, to just avoid it until I was at least physically healthy again, that I refused to be the first one to speak. This, of course, resulted in an incredibly tense and drawn out silence.