"She's yours Liam," Her words caught him off guard, partially because she was in his room talking to him, partially because he had no idea what she was talking about. It was around midnight, everyone else in the house was asleep in the various rooms which hung off the tilting house, but in his doorway stood Kayla wide awake, and talking about something he just didn't understand. "The dreams, they aren't me… They're about someone else, our daughter."


They were sitting next to each other, not daring to look at each other. The bed was creaking just slightly under their collective weight, but that did not break either of them from the awkwardness that had overcome them.

There was not another sound throughout the house as they sat there. And it was almost as if they were wishing for someone to walk in and whisk Kayla away to her own room, because while they were still in school there were no mixed sex bedrooms.

Kayla bit her lip nervously and Liam ran his hands over his face. It wasn't a huge shock, not like he hadn't known that maybe one day they would be together, but he hadn't even slept with her yet, and already she was telling him that they were having a baby together, maybe not now, or in a few months, or even in a few years, but it was like she had turned around and said to him she was pregnant.

And now he didn't know what to say.

What didn't help was knowing what she was going to go through… Knowing that she was going to feel the pain that Kayla went through, if it were anyone else that would probably bother him, but this was his daughter, the daughter that hadn't even been conceived yet.

And what if she wasn't actually his, what if in reality, they broke up and it was someone else's child, that was just as likely as anything else, if not more so.

He wanted to say that no matter what happened, it would be alright, but he didn't know that, he didn't know what he was meant to say at all.

"Liam," She sounded so desperate as she spoke, her words full of tears, she was trying to remain calm, and totally failing, he knew that, but he wasn't sure what he was meant to do about that. "Please, Liam, it's not so awful, Debbie and Noah are so much younger then we will be, and they're doing so well with Allison."

"Kayla, you're talking about my kid right now, and we haven't even had sex, so please just…" Liam closed his eyes taking a deep breath. "What are you, like a seer?"

"Kind of, Emily Lucas explained it to my parents and me; I can see her future because we're so closely connected… if it were someone else I'd probably never know. The entire world would not know what is going to happen," Kayla explained, her voice quiet and broken with the tears, but her words were sure.

"Kayla, I… What do you want me to say?" Kayla would have replied but a loud cry broke out, and they turned towards the door, which had been left open in their state of shock, to find themselves looking directly at Noah and Debbie Weasley.

"Seriously Kayla, kids are great and all, but you don't want one just yet." Debbie said, thinking that Liam and Kayla were about to do the naughty, and not freak out from the fact they were going to parents.

"No, we're not planning for that," Liam replied, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Mate we weren't planning for Ally either," Noah pointed out, before furrowing his brow. "Are you two alright? Is this about Kayla's freaky dreams?"

"Noah?" the questioning voice made the now eighteen year old shut up instantly, and looked guiltily down the hallway.

"Hi Aunt Hermione," Noah said, as Liam and Kayla heard the footsteps, towards their room.

"Is Allison alright?" Hermione asked, but stopped short when she saw Liam and Kayla. "Why don't you get her bottle, I'll just be in here," She closed the door walking into the room. "Look, we all love Allison dearly, but we could really do without another baby in the family right now, so please tell me you aren't…"

"No mum, fully dressed," Liam pointed out.

Hermione nodded, switching her weight from one foot to another looking slightly uncomfortable.

"Mum told you, didn't she?" Kayla asked, but she already knew the answer, so it was pointless when Hermione nodded her head. She looked unsure as she stood in the room, it was obvious she didn't want them to be in the room together right now, but clearly they weren't doing anything.

"Don't worry Hermione, I'm going," Kayla said suddenly, getting to her feet, and simply leaving the room, not looking back.

As she walked towards her own room through the dark corridors, she wondered briefly if telling Liam this was actually going to change things, because she honestly couldn't see a way back, not now.