Twin Power
Chapter Seventeen: A Friends Loss
A/N: Ok everyone this is going to be a short chapter probably, and I am sorry for this, but I will tell you that this is going to be very angsty. This will be covering a subject that is hard for some people, and if you don't like what I'm writing into this story, you can skip this chapter. It is going to be the loss of a child, more specifically the loss of Ron and Hermoine's unborn child. I'm sorry, I just had to put some angst into this story. I hope that you don't stop reading this or any of my other stories because of it, I promise that this will be the only chapter like this in this story. Thank you again for your reviews, and I am expecting flames more than likely for this chapter. Just remember that they have a few children already, and that people do lose babies. This was your warning about this chapter, so as always please read and review. This is going to be hard for me to right. —Donald
It was three weeks before the OWLS and NEWTS were to start, and all the students and professors were having a hard time with their classes and getting the students ready for their tests. Ron and Hermoine were anxiously waiting for the birth of their child, they weren't expecting it for another three months tho, and were a bit surprised when one night Hermoine woke up to find that she was having a lot of pain in her belly. She immediately woke Ron up and told him that they needed to get to St. Mungos immediately. Ron got the rest of the children up and to Harry and Ginny's room explaining what was happening. He asked them to get a hold of Mrs. Weasley and Mrs. Granger to have them meet them at the hospital. With that, Ron made and emergency port-key and ported them to the hospital emergency room.
"Is there someone here that can help me and my wife please? She's 6 months pregnant and she woke up with a real bad pain in her belly. Please someone help us." Ron was crying and running around the hospital carrying Hermoine looking for someone to help them. They came across a nurse and she led them immediately to a bed and had a healer come in to check Hermoine out.
The healer cast a number of spells on her and ushered Ron out to talk to him. "I'm sorry sir, but it looks like the baby is coming now. There isn't anything that we can do to stop the contractions, and I know that it is way to early. Is there any family that you want to be here for this to help you all get through this?" The healer was a nice older witch, and was calming Ron down some.
"My brother-in-law is the Headmaster at Hogwart's and he is getting a hold of my mother and mother-in-law. Is there a fireplace I can use to floo the rest of my family?" Ron knew that there was, but was just to nervous to think straight at this time. "How long do we have before the baby is to be born? Do I have enough time to get a hold of them?"
"You have plenty of time to get a hold of them, but tell them that they will need to be here really quickly. The fireplace is just down the hall, and please hurry, I'm sure that your wife would want you to be with her during this." She smiled at Ron, and patted him on the back before he ran off down the hall to use the floo network.
He threw some floo into the fire, and stuck his head in yelling "the Burrow. Mom, Dad anyone home? I need you to get a hold of everyone and get them to St. Mungos immediately. Hermoine's having the baby tonight. I know that it's three months early, but she has gone into early labor, and they can't stop it. Please hurry, I'm going to go stay with her now."
Half an hour later, the whole Weasley, Potter and Granger clan was at St. Mungos waiting with the nervous Ron to hear how the Baby was doing. "Do you think they will be alright mom? I can't lose Hermoine and I know that we want this baby. I don't know what I would do if I lost either one of them." Ron was crying on his mothers shoulder, and you could tell that the rest of the family was just as nervous as he was. They were all talking quietly, and classes the next day were canceled at the school.
"How much longer do you think it will be Mom. I don't know how much longer I can take not knowing. Why aren't they letting me in to be with her?" Ron was now pacing like a caged animal, wondering what was happening.
"I don't know how much longer Ron, they already told you why you can't be in there, it's way to crowded in there with all the healers trying to save both of them. I know that this is hard for you Ron, but you need to come to an understanding that the baby is way to young to be born yet, and that it may not survive. I'm sorry Ron, but that is just the way things happen. Not even magic can save a preemie yet." She hugged her youngest son tight, rocking him like she used to back when he was still a baby.
The head healer came in an hour later with a sad look on her face. "Mr. Weasley, you can go in and see your wife now. Not for long tho, she needs her rest. Only him tho, you all can see her in the morning when she wakes up." Ron ran into the room, not even waiting for a answer about the baby. He was happy that his wife was alright, but he had a sick feeling in his gut that they had lost the baby. When he got into the room, his suspicions were held up when he saw that Hermoine was crying and there wasn't a baby around.
"We lost her Ron, she was just to small. I'm sorry that this happened, she was a beautiful baby. She had your hair, and my eyes." Hermoine just cried and cried then and Ron held her whispering soft words into her ear.
"It's ok baby, we can have another one. I know that it wasn't our fault, it just happens. I'm happy that your healthy, and that we can still have more children." Ron just kept reminding her that he loved her, and they eventually drifted off to sleep in each others arms crying that night.
The head healer let the rest of the family know about what happened, and that there wasn't anything that they could do about it. The baby was just to small, and they should go get some sleep, they would provide a bed for Ron to sleep in there with his wife, but they would have to go home to sleep. They all left with sorrow in their hearts, and prayers for Ron and Hermoine. They slept unwell that night, and spent the next couple of days with Ron and Hermoine until she was able to go home. Classes had been canceled til they got back at the end of the next week. When they got back, all the students had known already what had happened, and they didn't bother their professor about what had happened. Classes went on as normal with a few exceptions, where Hermoine and Ron would just start crying, and had to be given Calming Droughts by Madame Pomphrey.
A/N two: I hope that I did well with this subject. Please let me know what you think about how I did it. Don't worry, they will have more children, but not in this story. I'm almost done with this story, only have the OWLS for the four fourth years, and then three more chapters left, so seven chapters to go. I might even have them up tonight. Take care my faithful readers, and please read and review. —Donald
