Title: Meant to Be?
Author: Requiem of a Dream
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
*Severus' POV*
"In labor? Now?" I questioned.
"Yes now. Please get me a robe." Harry said. I ran to our closet and pulled out the first robe of his that I saw.
"Now what?" I asked.
"Help me get it on. Then you are going to help me get up to the infirmary."
He grabbed at his stomach again. I was at his side and helped him to stay standing up. When it was over I helped him pull the robe on and button it. Then I slipped my arm around his shoulders to help support him. We made our way into the common room where Hermione, Ginny, and Molly were eating breakfast.
"Severus what's wrong?" Molly asked.
"He's not feeling well. I'm going to take him up to the infirmary. Now if you'll excuse us."
I said not wanting to put them into a frenzy. The last thing Harry needed was three women all trying to help him. I decided to tell Molly by fire-call once we were up there. Harry gave me a questioning look but I just kept walking. We made our way slowly to the infirmary; stopping now and again to let Harry rest or when another pain would hit him. As soon as we got up to the infirmary Poppy knew that Harry had gone into labor.
"He's gone into labor this early in the day?" Poppy asked.
"Yes. Now would you please help him? He's in quite a bit of pain."
"What do you want me to do about that?"
"Give him a painkiller of some sort."
"His body wouldn't know what to do with it. He's not supposed to have a womb."
"You really should have told me all of this from the beginning." Harry said right after another contraction hit him.
"I know but I didn't. So give up on the argument." Poppy said. I turned to Harry and got him onto one of the beds. I told Poppy that I was going to fire-call Molly and tell her that Harry had gone into labor.
I walked into her office and threw some of the floo powder into the fireplace and summoned my common room. I stuck my head through the fire and looked into the living area. Ginny was the first one to realize that I was there.
"Mum Professor Snape is in the fireplace."
"Severus, is Harry doing better now?"
"No he's gone into labor. Could you please come up here?" I didn't give her time to answer, just left and went back to Harry. When I came back out Poppy had gotten Harry into a gown. I held his hand as another contraction hit him.
"Is his labor supposed to be progressing so fast?" I asked Poppy.
"It's not fast. I woke up at 4:30 with the beginning of contractions." Harry answered.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I didn't want to worry you since my water hadn't broken."
"Harry, when you feel the pain again, I want you to push, okay?"
Harry laid back and tried to relax but a minute later another contraction hit him, and when it did he pushed with all of his might. At that moment Molly walked in. She rushed to his other side.
"Ok Harry that's enough. That's was good, now each time I need you to do that."
"Uh."
*Harry's POV*
The following hour and a half passed unbearably slow for the Severus and I. I shouted and moaned the majority of the time and grasp at the bedspread with each contraction. After almost two hours of pushing on every other contraction I had our first child, Cael Severin.
"Harry I can see his head I need you to push again. Can you do that for me?"
"Yes I can." I said breathing heavily. I sat up a little and Severus put his arm around my back and held my hand. I pushed again and the head came out. "One more time Harry." Severus said. I pushed again and the shoulders came out. Poppy was able to pull him out and then we heard him cry. Poppy placed the baby on top of my abdomen and then cut the cord so she could clean him up. She let me touch my baby then asked Molly to go and finish cleaning him and then wrap him in a blanket. Severus was about to follow her but I stopped him.
"Don't worry she'll bring him back, but right now I need you here." Severus nodded and then he climbed onto the bed and sat behind me to help support me. I was having a hard time sitting up on my own and Severus realized that.
"Harry do you think that you can deliver the next two babies?" Poppy asked.
"Yes I think I can. I mean I have no choice right?" I leaned against Severus and felt like I could just go to sleep and never wake up. Severus put both his hands in mine.
"Harry rest a minute but after the next contraction you need to start pushing again." Poppy told me.
Molly came back and had Cael in her arms. She handed him to me and let me hold him while I rested. He was so little. He was waving his hands in the air and crying. I kissed his head and put one of his hands in mine. Severus put his hand on top of his head and just stared at him. But that happiness was short lived as another contraction hit.
"Molly can you take the baby please?" Severus asked. She nodded and then transfigured a little bed for him.
I let the contraction pass and then on the next one pushed. It took me about a half hour to deliver the second baby. It was our little girl, Isadora Star. She came quickly and Poppy had Molly take her and clean her up before bringing her back to Severus and I. Molly again came back and handed her to me. I held her for about three minutes and then had to hand her back to Molly. The contraction hit and I tried to push but I felt so weak.
"Harry I really need you to push." Poppy said.
"I don't have any strength."
"Please just try." She pleaded.
And try I did. I would try with all my might but it wasn't enough. On my fourth try I collapsed and went unconscious. I felt myself slip into darkness. I couldn't hear, see, or feel anyone or anything. It was like I was in a dream. I saw Severus and myself walking in the woods after telling him that I was pregnant. The scene changed to me in labor right before Cael was born. Then I saw Cael, sleeping in his cradle and next to him I saw Isadora, in her cradle. As I began to walk towards them I saw Jamison. Severus was holding him crying, and Jamison wasn't moving. As I walked closer I could begin to hear Severus' voice.
'Harry, come back. Harry I need you, your children need you. Please wake up. Harry, please, Jamison isn't going to make it.'
I kept walking closer to the image of Severus and Jamison; and as I got closer the image began to fade. I fell asleep then the next thing I remember was waking up and seeing Severus sitting in a chair and his hands entwined in mine. I looked up into his face and saw that he was crying.
"I'm back." I said quietly. Severus opened his eyes and looked at me.
"I thought you weren't going to wake up."
"I know and I'm sorry." I smiled but as soon as I did it was gone again. "Is Jamison ok?"
"Yes he's fine. Molly has him."
"How long was I out?"
"Three days. When you went unconscious we thought that Poppy was going to have to perform a cesarean, but your magic took over and made your body to continue working to have Jamison."
"Can I see him?"
"Of course. I'll go get him and the other two." He left the room and when he came back he was carrying Jamison and Cael, and Molly was carrying Isadora. Severus handed me Jamison and he held the other two babies. I was happier than I could ever remember being.