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Chapter 25
Artemis P.O.V
As I started to wake up, the first thing I noticed was the warmth either side of me. The second thing I noticed was the two weights on my waist and stomach, keeping me pinned down. I remembered the healer saying I was pregnant, and Umbridge's suggestion. I started to panic. I had to get out. Panic gripped me as I struggled to try and get up.
"Artemis calm down." I heard a familiar voice say. Victor's voice. My vision started to come into focus, and I saw Victor and Logan leaning over me.
"You're safe now, it's alright." Logan said
I let out a sigh of relief. "For a moment I thought that…" I trailed off. How should I tell them this?
"Tell us what?" Logan asked.
Ah. I'd forgotten about that for a moment, that they could hear my thoughts. "Well, I…" I decided to just show them the memory. I let it play out across my mind, from the group turning up, to the healer scheduling the Abortion. When it was done, I opened my eyes, to see them looking at me, shocked. "I guess you got there just in time, huh?"
"So that was what Madam Pomfrey was being so tight lipped about when she did a check up." Logan said.
"Probably, where are we?"
"Grimmauld Place." Victor said. "Jimmy and I are going to be fathers?"
"It seems so." I said.
They both grinned, and Logan brought his lips down onto mine. Half a second later, I felt Victor's lips on my neck, right on top of my mark. Logan bit lightly down on my bottom lip, and I opened my mouth and his tongue entered my mouth, exploring it. Victor nipped and sucked at his mark and he lapped up any blood he drew. They both had an arm round my waist, and a hand on my back, holding me against their bodies. Soon, they switched places, Victor claimed my mouth, and Logan latched onto his mark. I moaned, arching into them. Victor released my mouth as I started to need air, and then moved back to his mark. After several more heated moments passed, there was a knock on the door.
They pulled back, and Logan looked to the door, as Victor shifted, keeping his body between me and the door, shielding me from view. Logan kept me sandwiched between him and Victor as he spoke. "What?"
The door opened, and Madam Pomfrey bustled in. She took one look at the position we were in, and rolled her eyes. "I take it you knew, and have told them then, Artemis?" Because of all the times I'd been in the hospital wing, she'd started calling me by my first name.
"Yes Madam Pomfrey." I replied.
"If you would kindly move aside, Mr. Creed, and allow me to finish my examination of her."
Begrudgingly, Victor moved aside, and Madam Pomfrey took out her wand. She waved it over me, and seemed satisfied. Then she waved it over me again. "You should be able to tell in about two weeks whether there is more than one baby, and what gender the child is." Madam Pomfrey said. "I suggest that you use a bubble head charm when around brewing potions to protect yourself from the fumes. Your time at that prison has left you dehydrated and slightly malnourished. A balanced meal, and several drinks, non alcoholic, should set you right as reign. Other than that, there is no damage."
"Yes Madam Pomfrey." I chorused. "How long have I been pregnant for?"
"Somewhere between two and three weeks." She answered. "Now, I will go tell everyone that you are awake. Congratulations on your impending motherhood." She turned to leave, and then turned back to look at Victor and Logan. "If the child is anything like Artemis, then I suggest you have a good healer on hand." With that, she left the room.
"So, I'm gonna be a dad, and an Uncle at the same time?" Victor said.
"It seems so. Now, I'm hungry, and thirsty. I'm going downstairs for breakfast."
"Don't you want to change first?" Victor asked.
I looked down at myself, and saw that I was wearing a white t-shirt that was several sizes too large. From its scent, I could tell it was Logan's.
I nodded. "You're right. But first, I need clothes."
"On the dresser, darlin." Logan said, nuzzling my neck. I smiled, and wound myself out of their arms, and stood. I grabbed the clothes, and quickly pulled the t-shirt over my head. I threw it at Logan, who caught it and grinned. I felt two sets of eyes raking over my body, so I took my time slipping my clothes on, giving them chance to survey my body. The clothes were just a pair of jeans, and a red t-shirt, with a gold lion on the front, but I was glad I didn't have to put the dress back on.
When I was dressed, the three of us left the room, and headed downstairs. We walked quietly passed the portrait of the charming Mrs. Black, and down to the kitchen. I opened the door, and stepped into the kitchen to see several people already there. It only took a moment for me to be barrelled into by Hermione, and caught in a tight hug.
"Thank Merlin you're alright!" She said.
"Come on Mya. This is me you're talking about! I come back from everything! Even the killing curse!"
"You are such a danger magnet." Hermione said, pulling back, and pushing my shoulder lightly. Then she dragged me to the table, and pushed me into a seat. Mum walked over and hugged me. "Don't you ever scare me like that again Artemis."
"Good thing you didn't see me through school then, huh?" I laughed.
"Probably, now, what do you want to eat and drink?"
"A mug of tea, and I don't care, just so long as Sirius doesn't cook it." I said.
Lily laughed, and others in the room looked to Sirius, waiting for a retort. He just shrugged. "My cooking tends to turn out like my surname. Black."
I laughed as Logan and Victor sat down on either side of me. I noticed that Victor was glaring at someone, and turned my head to see who. My eyes rested on a large blonde feral. He was almost as big as Victor.
I placed my hand on Victors arm. "Not now. You don't want to wake Sirius' mum, do you? I hate the hag and her screeches."
"You aren't the only one." Sirius said.
"Your mum is here?" someone said. She was blue with red hair.
Mystique. Logan told me.
Suddenly, there was a crash, and the screaming began. "FILTH! A STAIN ON THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS! HALF BLOODS HALF BREEDS MUDBLOOD SCUM! BLOOD TRAITORS!"
"I'll go sort this out. It seems the old hag is awake." Sirius said. "Come on James, lets go close the curtains over her portrait."
More screams began, as the other portraits woke up and started to scream. Dad and Sirius left the room.
"SHUT UP YOU OLD CRONE!" Sirius yelled.
"YOU! TRAITOROUS FRUIT OF MY LOINS! GET OUT OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS!"
The screams cut off. Soon Sirius, Dad, Remus and Tonks walked in. "Well, that was interesting." James said. "Why don't you just get rid of her portrait, Paddy?"
"It's impossible Prongs. The hag had it stuck there with some sort permanent sticking charm. We've tried to chisel it off the wall, every reversal spell we could think of, and even tried to burn it off. She just escapes to another painting, and then the canvas repairs itself."
"Your mum's a painting?"
I turned to see Magneto, without his helmet.
"In the wizarding world, people can have paintings made of themselves, the paintings act like the real person, say the same things, and all that. They're only made after a person dies though."
"So those screams are what she'd really be yelling?" Mystique asked. "Charming."
"Yeah, no need to guess why I ran away." Sirius said, sitting back down.
Mum placed a plate of food in front of me, and a mug of tea. I dug in immediately.
"I wonder how Teddy's doing." Tonks said.
"He'll be fine, Dora. He'll just not let go of us for several hours when we get back." Remus said.
"Like his father then." Tonks said.
I snorted.
"Hey! I am not clingy!" He protested.
"You can be." Tonks said. "Especially around the full moon."
"That's Moony coming out."
"Still you mind."
"So, Teddy takes after his dad, then?" I asked. "I always thought he took after you, Tonks."
"It's a good mix." Tonks said.
"God help us when Artemis gets pregnant then, if the kids a mix of all three of them." Draco said.
"That won't be a while. Will it Artemis?" Dad asked.
"Err…" I said. "Is just under nine months enough time for you?" I asked.
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