Chapter Twenty-Six: Outing

February came and went and Jezzy found herself in her thirty-sixth week. The nurse from St. Mungos had told her that she could possibly go into preterm labor around thirty-seven weeks. She was starting to freak out. She needed to get out of the house, but Lucius would hardly let her do that. She wrote to Maria one afternoon and begged her to come over. It was the spring holiday from Hogwarts. Maria wrote her back and said that she would love to come over and would be there in twenty minutes. She rose out of the bed and waddled to the next room.

"Lucius?"

He looked up at her and stood. "Jezzy, I was just coming to check on you. I have some business I have to attend to. Is there anyone who can stay here with you while I'm gone?"

"Actually yes, I was just going to tell you Maria is coming over. When are you leaving?"

"About thirty minutes. Are you sure you'll be alright without me here?"

"I will be fine." She purred.

She pulled him close and kissed his lips. They had not even kissed properly since her hospital visit and it was a sweet as honey to do it now. He groaned and tried to stop her when she licked his lip. She kissed him as deeply as she could and pulled away with a smug look on her face.

"I'll be back soon." He breathed.

"Can't wait."

"Jezzy, you know we..."

"I know, but I can still think about it." She grinned and cocked an eyebrow at him.

He smirked and left the room. As he was getting ready to leave a car pulled up to the house, coming to a very sudden stop. Maria hopped out and ran to the front door. Jezzy let her in and hugged her. Lucius waited for Jezzy by the fireplace.

"You will be good while I'm gone, won't you?"

"Lucius! I'm always good."

He frowned and kissed her cheek. She smiled at him as he threw down the floo powder and left them alone. She rounded on Maria.

"You have to take me to the hospital!"

"Why, are you okay?" Maria asked with sudden concern.

"I'm fine, but I need one of the things... a... sonogram! I need one."

"Why?"

"Because I need to know how many." She made her eyes big and Maria almost screamed.

"Okay, but if Lucius comes back while we're gone, I'm blaming you."

"I can handle that. Let's go."

It was a fifteen minute drive to the nearest Muggle hospital. Jezzy already had some Muggle cash on her and was hoping the wait was not going to be too long. After signing in the nurse took her vitals and asked her to sit in the waiting room.

"Shouldn't be more than twenty minutes, dear."

Jezzy fidgeted and Maria picked her way through fourteen magazines before a nurse called them back. She told Jezzy to lay back on the chair and expose her belly. Jezzy did and they put some cold jelly on her belly.

"How far along are you?" The nurse asked.

"About thirty six weeks."

"Oh." The nurse put the wand to her belly and rolled it around for a bit.

"I just want to know how many."

"Not the sexes?"

"Oh, come on, Jezzy. What if you are having three? Wouldn't it be easier to know what as well as how many?"

Jezzy tried not to smile. She did want to know.

"Alright, tell me."

The nurse smiled and continued her search.

When her and Maria got home Lucius was waiting on the door step. His face was flushed and his mouth was tight.

"You're in trouble." Maria whispered. "I'm not gonna stick around for this. Love ya babe, congrats."

"Thanks." Jezzy maneuvered herself out of the car and walked up the steps.

Lucius had his arms crossed and stared down his nose at her.

"Hi." Jezzy said.

"Where the hell have you been?"

"I..."

"I have been waiting for an hour! You didn't even leave me a note! You're supposed to be on bed rest!"

"Lucius..."

"How could you jeopardize or child's life like this?!"

"Oh, would you shut up!"

Jezzy still had a wide smile on her face. "I need to sit down and tell you something."

She brushed past him and made her way to the bedroom. After positioning herself on the bed she sighed. It had been an exhausting day.

"Where were you?"

"I was at the hospital."

"What happened?"

"I'm fine, first of all. I went to St. Christopher's, the Muggle hospital."

Lucius sneered.

"I had to find something out that magic couldn't tell me."

He crossed his arms again and sat in the chair closest to the bed. "And?"

"Well, I'm pregnant..."

"I think we already knew that."

"With triplets."

His eyes got wide and his arms fell to their sides. His mouth hung open slightly and started to work as if he were trying to talk, but no sound came out. Jezzy pulled the sonogram pictures out of her robe and handed them to him.

"See, this is a head, and this is a head, and this is a head. Three"

"Wh...wh..."

"Do you want to know what they are going to be?"

"They told you that?"

Jezzy shook her head. "I told the nurse to write it down so that we could find out together. Because I know how much you wanted to know."

He looked at the sonogram pictures again, his eyes still wide. She handed him an envelope and he took it in a trembling hand.

"Open it." She said.

He ripped open the envelope and pulled out a single piece of paper that was folded in half. He looked up at her as he opened the paper and she leaned forward. On the paper were four words.

Two boys, one girl.