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Chapter 2: Becoming A Mummy

January 31st, half an hour later…

Arkady had walked up the stairs, with out much of an effort with his graceful movements. His dark blue eyes made brief glances at the moving picture that graced the halls that lead to where his wife lay. Checking the bedroom with a slight frown, to notice that his beloved was not there and concluding it with his strong hearing he sighed. Is she already up so fast? That means I just have to find, my lovely Victoria now, He thought with a pondering look on his face turning around and trying to find her. Their room, which had once only belonged to the teenage him, it was as now much larger, with a considerable bathroom and nursery for the twins still. He couldn't help but wonder when Victoria wanted to have another child. He loved the twins to no end, but he had always wanted a family with Victoria now. And Arkady, wanted more children to bless the Manor with…but he first had to take into account with the other little ones running about as well from his siblings.

He couldn't help the smile that crossed his face as he walked down the hallway where he could sense his amour coming from, he could smell her sweet rain like scent over anyone's and that was a good thing. Arkady never wanted to lose her in any long shot. She was his, and just as much as she was his, he was as to her. As Arkady came upon the corner of the hall, he smirked in knowledge of where Victoria had gone. It was of course the Heart family Library, just one of the larger ones in the Manor. What you thought they only had one? Right, these purebloods had quite a few. Not to mention that Amedeus Heart, loved books that were speculated on the Dark Arts, and torture to be exact. And just that thought, made Arkady make a mental note to make sure his children never touched the torture ones. It was best that didn't know what he had gone through anyways. Another soft smile came onto his face as he neared his wife; her back was to him in the overstuffed chair she sat in. It looked like she had been reading one of the books.

But he couldn't help but slight frown for a moment, at the negative aura that surrounded his wife. If he wasn't mistaken she could be pissed off at him for the world and he wouldn't have cared. But Arkady couldn't tell anyways, not at that moment. But he didn't pay any heed to it nor attention. Softly moving towards her, he licked at the blood that had dried at the corner of his mouth, the salty dried blood still tasting good against his tongue. His breath held faint traces of the metallic smell of blood, so he tried not to breath on her. Arkady just smiled as he slowly kissed Victoria's cheek as his hands wrapped around her waist softly. "Bonjour ma amour," he said with a contented voice. "I've missed you terribly so this morning." When he leaned in to kiss her on her wonderful mouth he wasn't expecting the quick outburst of anger at him.

Growling angrily Victoria pushed Arkady away from her before his lips could even touch her own with might've been a soft kiss. But the look of madness in her baby blues was there present. "Levicorpus!" she practically yelled flicking her wand out of her back pocket as she stood up pointing it at him. Before Arkady could breathe, he felt a pull around his navel as he was yanked up by his right ankle to dangle in front of his wife. He growled as he hung in mid air as she went on ranting at him, he gaped at her as she called him a prick. What in the bloody hell was she ranting on about what he'd done to her. You're going to get it now my darling husband, she thought with a smirk.

Victoria's husband didn't stand once chance to draw in his next breath. When he was suddenly yanked from being in an upright position to being hung upside down in the middle of the library. Glaring at him pointedly she began to rant off at him. "I'm not your fucking brood mare Arkady Alexander Heart!" she more or less screamed at her now gaping husband. "The twins aren't even three yet and you do this to me again! You prick" She didn't even hold up as she called him names that even a sailor would blush at. Not to mention some didn't even seem to be in human language, she was growling and screaming at him for it.

Damn, what did I do now? He thought not knowing what to say. It didn't catch onto him for a bit, but when he finally understood his mouth shut into a thin line at her. What the bloody hell did I do? I mean come on, what's wrong with bearing my children damnit! He thought with a loud sigh. Arkady looked at her, as he tried to stare at her; everything was considerably different looking at her the wrong direction of course. The woman had begun to pace back and forth in front of her husband as she yelled anything that could hurt him, and just tossed it out to him. She stopped noticing the book that had fallen to the floor when she had so roughly pushed Arkady away from her. Quieting herself Victoria turned to her husband with the most sincere smile on her face. But that smile was more in meaning that anything and he knew it all to well. She would do the most dangerous things to him when she had that glint and look on her face.

Arkady gulped as she gave him the sweetest smile that would make butter melt it her mouth like a piece of honey. Well he'd be damned as she pointed it right at him after looking at a book. Now that she had his attention, Victoria pointed her wand straight at Arkady again and gave him one of the most innocent sweet smiles she could gather before she called out her spell. "Hermavesco!" Of course, she assumed that her husband had no clue what she had just done, but he was soon going to. A dark beam shot out of her wand and struck her husband fully. As the spell hit the former Slytherin he hissed as his body shuddered under the force of the spell she had done, it felt like his insides were twisting around to form something. Arkady gagged suddenly as he could feel the blood starting to rush from his belly which was now making him feel sick.

To rush in the definite wrong direction, his face turned a little green under the death like tones of paleness that his skin was. That green colored did not suit him, as well as not a familiar one. God only knows what kind of thing might happen now. But his blue eyes blinked wide as Victoria moved forward to plant a kiss on her husband's nose lightly as she brought him down slowly and utter one thing to him. "Congratulations my darling husband. You're going to be a mummy soon." She said with a smile. That sudden movement which had now placed him on the floor brought an abrupt wave of nausea, and he couldn't help it. Arkady's stomach flipped as he heaved up some of the blood from his earlier feedings and proceeded to seep across the wooden floor. He moaned and wiped his mouth with his hand shuddering. God I hate it when I taste something twice like this. Remembering what she had said, he looked up at her with a grimace.

"WHAT?"

Victoria Jumped back in a brief surprise gagging herself, as Arkady threw up, blood allover the floor at her feet. Shuddering the woman turned away trying to calm herself from upchucking herself at the mess he had created. Slowly with a delicate hand in place over her hand she flicked her wand at the blood and cleaned it up. She of course had been thinking of the word to clean it, as she turned around and spelled it away. "I was pregnant again sweetie," Victoria said hoping that he could understand she wasn't ready to bare another child. After giving a long birth to both the twins, Alexander and Chantal, she just wasn't ready yet. "But…that is now your honor." She knew it probably wasn't the best thing to say in the world, but the look on his face made her regret it slightly. Arkady stared up at his wife, gaping up at her his dark blue eyes had suddenly gone wide at what he realized that spell was for. It was starting to register with him, as things started to click into place from what was happening. "You've made me pregnant?" he said as a wounded look came onto his face. Being the guy he was he ran his hands down his chest to his…well down over his stomach and pants. Just checking he still had THAT anatomy there in place.

Well shit, Victoria thought as she felt the need to take back what she had done, almost that is. Almost, was the key word. Just that look on his face was alone to make her worry on her bottom lip to ask if she had done this wrong. No, he deserves to know what the throws of pregnancy are like. She could sit and help him through it all of course, that was no problem. But she didn't want to have to bare the child herself. Arkady sat there trying to figure out how the fuck this was going to work, even as his medical training popped up into his head. Of course, male pregnancies only happened by a curse…which his wife had clearly done. Glancing down he looked away suddenly feeling like a scorned little child again in the face of his father, for doing something wrong. Was this his punishment now?

Swallowing roughly he spoke to her, in a hurt betraying voice: "Then if you didn't want our child, why not just get rid of it?" Victoria's eyes filled with tears at her beloved's question. How could he think that she wanted to get rid of a child they had created together? Out of love? Kneeling herself down next to her husband who sat on the floor, she placed a hand on his pale soft cheek before speaking to him.

"Arkady my darling," she said. "Why would you think that I would want to get rid of a child that we had created? I could never to that," Victoria's voice, was held back with tears, she didn't know what to say to him. A question formed in Arkady's eyes and she scrambled to answer it, for him to the best that she could. "I'm not ready to bare another child if it could be anything like giving birth to our twins." Merlin Kady you know this, she thought. Sighing again Arkady looked at her; all he wanted to do right now was go hide away. Surely his mother could fix all this mess. It was taking his mind a slow time to process that his own flesh in blood now rested inside his belly, and was steadily growing inside of him. He shook his head trying to get over it, but the colors of his vision swam. Great just what he needed.

Before Victoria could utter another word, Arkady said one finally thing. "Merlin I'm pregnant," even as he said it he fainted on the spot. Those dark eyes of his snapped shut as his body went limp on him, and he crumpled at the feet of his bemused wife. Well peachy, now he'd gone and made himself faint. Well holy shit! Victoria thought. Arkady Heart, her husband had just fainted. "Kady!" she cried out to him as he went limp. Sighing there was only one thing she could do. "Wingardium Leviosa!" she cast upon her husband making his body float for her, as she moved him and herself down the hallway and into their bedroom. The twins were still not home thankfully, Victoria knew her mother in law might figure out something soon about Arkady's new condition. Gently setting him on the bed, (he was carrying their child!) She began to pace looking with a worried look back at her husband as she did so. Oh she knew all to well he was going to be pissed at her when he woke up. I still can't get over it that he fainted like a pregnant woman, she thought amused.

Finally Arkady began to stir on the bed that Victoria had carefully laid him upon, as he opened his dark eyes he groaned and slowly pulled himself to sit up. The sharp remembrance of what had occurred just a short while ago stopped him for a while in thoughts, as he wince as a slight pounding began behind his temple. He rubbed it slowly as he glanced around, his eyes narrowing on his wife. He knew what was going to happen to his own body in a few short months. And he was not pleased. Pleased my ass! I don't want to give birth, he thought cursing mentally. I'm going to give birth to my own son shit! He had even realized what he had said in his head. Arkady stood up slowly, not wanting to do something stupid after all he had fainted and didn't want to do so again either. His wife had now made him the one who would carry the child that he could feel snuggled safe inside of him. This was just peachy.

Victoria was unaware that Arkady was now glaring at the back of her head, and she had moved to the window that was covered by thick material to keep her husband safe from the sun. She wondered just what Mya would say when she finally knew of her son being pregnant. And also…where she was with Victoria's own children. But that thought blew her mind as he husband shouted her full name making her spin around and gape at him. "VICTORIA MADISON HEART!" The twenty five year old growled walking slightly towards her. "Who gave you the right to make me the one to bare our child?" He seriously wanted to know why he had to do it, and his eyes flamed at her as he crossed his arms over his chest. Slowly calming herself she began to throw things back into her husband's face. "I have a right, while you only take a few seconds to create a child I have to do all the hard work in carrying that child, gaining weight and finally giving birth!"

Now both of them stood staring at each other, before he could speak out again she beat him to the chase. "I'm not ready Arkady to carry another child. I can't give this one up, but I can't carry it either," she said looking up into his dark blue eyes. Arkady's face crumbled at her words, and he turned away from her. So was this his entire fault then? It's exactly what he had heard in her voice, and he moved away from her looking all for the world defeated as he castaway his gaze automatically. He moved towards the bathroom and stopped just at the door, as he moved his hand throughout his black and red hair. Arkady had stepped away from her, before he entered the bathroom with a slam of the door in Victoria's face. He couldn't handle this right now. "So you think I'm the one who should carry, is that it Victoria?" he said as he sat against the marble sinks. With a flick of his hand at the door and it was locked tight from her.

He had locked himself away from her now, locked himself in the bathroom. Victoria felt broken, what had happened to them to cause so much trouble over a child? Were they drifting apart now? Was this the beginning of the end for Arkady and Victoria? Please god. If you're listening...please let us get through this and be okay. The woman prayed wanting it to be just back to normal as she sat against the bed. Now she knew that her husband wasn't the one who had learned a lesson, but she had. Don't play with fire and expect to not get burned. Arkady had sunk down to being against the bathroom sinks in as he rubbed his face in his hands. "Then here's an agreement, you don't want to have our son right now do you? No, so then I have to deliver him myself," he said. "For every child you don't want to deliver, I'll do it." What? It's not like he didn't know that he was risking something major here. With all his medical training he had a fear ring through his head. "But what if my mother isn't home, when I have to give birth? What'll be do then cherie?" he asked her worriedly. Arkady didn't move from the marble sinks, even as he cast a look down at his stomach.

His head bowed in shame, he wasn't shamed by his child. No he was shamed of acting the way that he had been, he could sense his wife's hurt just as must as he could his. But he'd done the more damage, running a hand through his hair again Arkady sighed, his six foot three frame moved slightly. Maybe I'll just go and move into James' room for a bit, He thought silently hoping his wife wouldn't hear it. He didn't know what to do, he just had this feeling in his gut that he wanted to disappear, but he knew he couldn't. He couldn't leave her he loved her too much. Even though she knew that Arkady hadn't wanted her to probably hear his thoughts, she couldn't help it. And that one sounded so far away that she almost wished to bang down the door and tell him now to leave her. Plead him to stay there with her. But now he wanted to leave her. He didn't want to be around her now that she had told him that she didn't want to carry this child. Their child. Their son was what he had said. Another son. But her Jones pride came up and it refused that she would lose her voice in this matter. She didn't want to lose what Arkady had fallen in love with her for. Her spirit.

Arkady silently got up and twisted the knob opening it for himself, but kept his eyes down as he entered the room not wanting to look at her. He felt submissive right now, not the dominate fellow he usually was. Sitting on the front of the bed he said in a slow low voice to her: "Then if we can't agree upon things, maybe I should go stay in James' room for a while," he said to her before going silent once more. Victoria had heard the soft clicking as he had come out of the bathroom, and the bed dipped as he sat down away from her. She didn't think she had the courage to look at him, fearing that she just might fall to the floor in a sobbing heap of tears and regret. There was nothing she could do if he wanted to leave. If he wants to leave, I can't do anything to stop him I know I can't do that. It's his choice, not mine, she thought. She was going to be strong no matter what happened now. Looking over at him finally she saw that he couldn't even look at her while he had said those painful words. "Are you trying to say that this is a trial separation of sorts Arkady?" she asked him. In all her heart she couldn't believe that they had disagreed over this child.

He nodded slowly to her, showing her that it was like that. "Oui, I think that I need time to be by myself to understand what I am going to have to do," he said finally looking at her. The raw look in Arkady's eyes made the woman's heart clench painfully. "Kady….I won't stop you if that's what you feel you have to do. Just don't leave me forever," she said, but it's not what she wanted to say. She wanted him to stay with her, not leave!

Come on! She was a realistic woman. She knew that they would have their arguments and disagreements. But not because of this. Not because of a pregnancy. "Kady, I..." she began. Then with a sigh, the woman hung her head. "I - I can't stop you if you feel that you have to get away from me," she said. But that really wasn't what she had intended to say. Arkady got up from the bed much to her disappointment and grabbed a bag as he began to throw random things into it, including spare clothes to take with him. I'm sorry Victoria," he murmured to her before leaving the room with his head bowed down. AS she listened to his footsteps slowly disappear down the hall she didn't moved from her spot on the floor, and just hung her head. She hoped like hell that he would come back soon. Victoria already felt an ache in her heart for him…

Author Note: How do you like the story so far? You know I do sooo enjoy feedback on what I write, so Read and Review is much thanked. Arkady's pregnant, as well as that they've had a fight? What do you think might happen in the next chapter's eh? -winks-