AN: I know some of you won't be thrilled with the people's choice, but the baby decision that won, did have over half the majority vote. I hope, even though it's considered a clichè, that you'll enjoy it and I promise I will try to make it more original.
Chapter 5: Too Perfect.
"You're not even a little curious?" Sophie asked as she made breakfast for herself and Jasmine. Jasmine shrugged, she was, but she was also in a bad mood. The spell Sophie had done the night before was a success but, like her own, had stop and only indicated to a general area.
"Girl. Boy. I'll be happy so long as he or she is perfectly healthy and don't have their fathers homicidal tendencies or their Mother's inability to walk away from danger." She smiled slightly but her mood was still slightly off. "Besides, I have a feeling its girl." Her mind went back to her spell the night before and she smiled wider.
"And a feeling is enough?" Sophie prodded and Jaz rolled her eyes.
"Of course it's not! What did you have in mind?" She asked her witch friend and Sophie beamed.
"I have a friend from the quarter, Sabine. She knows a spell that can determine whether or not its a boy or a girl and I've never seen it fail." Sophie explained and Jasmine was thoughtful for a moment. "Plus, I have a small gift that I've neglected to mention." Jasmine was dragged from her thought and she glared slightly at her new witchy prisoner friend.
"Well?"
"I can sense when a woman is expecting." She admitted and Jasmine just stared at her like she was dancing the conga on a 7ft wall by herself.
"Well, it's a bit obvious I'm expecting now, isn't it?" She gestured to her rather large four months pregnant belly.
"Obviously, but there's something else." Sophie was observing her belly like it was a different language and she was trying to translate it. "I can't really make it out but-"
"But?!" Jasmine was listening now. Something could be wrong. What if the baby had Nik's ego. Oh, Godric. Her brain started to spiral until Sophie spoke again.
"I don't think there's just one baby."
"Piss off!?" Jasmine's jaw dropped.
-x-
"So how does this work, Sabine?" Jasmine asked she had made Sophie call her friend straight away after what had been said over breakfast.
"It's simple really, You lie down, I use an indicator and hold it over your stomach, whichever way it starts spinning will determine gender." She shrugged and Jasmine was starting to think she should have gone to Madame Pomfrey.
"Okay, let's get this going then." Jasmine eagerly jumped up onto the counter and lay down, Sabine and Sophie standing around her. As far as she could tell it was nothing like a muggle scan. There was no cold gel. No picture on a screen. There were pros and cons to both.
Jasmine closed her eyes and began to focus on the life growing inside her. Or lives. A mini Klaus or a Mini Jasmine. Would they have her eyes and his hair? Would they have his mischievous grin? Her trouble magnet? Boy or a girl? NAMES?!
What would she call it? Steve? No.
James and Lily had always been on her list but now she was older, she didn't really want her child to grow up in the shadow of someone else. Even if it was her, Nik had just as much of an input when it came to the names as she did. Maybe he'd want to honour his little brother. Henrik.
"It's a girl," Sabine announced, pulling Jasmine back to the land of the living and undead. Tears welled up in her eyes. Her own little flower. "No. Wait-"
"Wait for what? Please tell me I'm not having a mini-Klaus." She joked, but it was short lived as the crystal began to spin faster and faster.
"Sabine-" Sophie was concerned. Then suddenly the crystal began to glow emerald green and Sabine dropped it. Jasmine sat up to look at the witch when suddenly her eyes rolled back and she began to chant.
"Hoc est infantima malom. Nos Omnia perditu el eam." She spiralled in a low gravelly voice.
Then she snapped back, Sabine looked terrified before collapsing on the floor and Jasmine was concerned. She checked the Witch on the floor was still breathing and then uses a wingardium to levitate her into the sitting room.
"Well. That doesn't sound good." Her outer brave, Gryffindor coming out to mask her terror. "Sophie. Pack a bag. We're going on a trip."
It was about time she checked in with Madame Pomfrey.
-x-
"So, where exactly are we?" Sophie asked after the sickness of travelling so far magically passed. They were in a small village. It was early February so it was pretty cold but Jasmine thanked the lord for the unusual lack of snow.
"Scotland."
"Scotland?! Why?"
"The only healer I'd trust with this lives in Hogwarts," Jasmine added as she and Sophie began to walk towards the castle.
"Hogwarts?"
"The magical school I attended- Are you going to keep asking questions?" Jazz cut Sophie off before she could try and get more out of the mother to be. "Hopefully this will be a quick visit, if not I have a small house in London we can stay at for the night."
They tracked their way from Hogsmeade and Sophie was in awe as the beautiful castle came into view. It was magnificent. Even will all the rebuilding that had been done after the battle, it still looked like the Hogwarts she herself had seen for the first time as an 11-year-old.
"Beautiful isn't she?" Jasmine smiled.
"You went to school here?" Sophie was blown away. Her school was nothing like this. She was kind of jealous.
"It's my home away from home."
-x-
"This will be cold." Poppy said and Jasmine just nodded to the older lady as she put some on her stomach. It wasn't the same as the ones a muggle doctor used, but a magical equivalent. People were still working on trying to get any sort of technology to work around as much magic as Hogwart's had and until then Poppy was stuck with the wizarding way. After the gel was applied Jasmine felt Poppy's wand press lightly on her stomach. After a moment a small cloud materialised above Jasmine's stomach, a clear picture of her womb and what lay inside.
"Well, you little friend was right, Jasmine," Poppy confirmed with a grin. "You're expecting twins." Poppy felt her own eyes well up.
"And there's nothing wrong?!" Jasmine asked desperately.
"They're both healthy as far as I can see, but I will suggest that you either got to a muggle ultrasound or visit St Mungos. Their methods are much more thorough." Poppy added in her professional voice. "Would you like to know the genders?" Her voice cracking. Jasmine was a miraculous Witch. Only the last remaining Potter could pull off a stunt like this. Soon there would be two more.
Jasmine smiled and nodded.
-x-
"Nik?" Jasmine called as she appeared back in the Mansion, leaving Sophie to regain her senses and go and check on Sabine. They'd only be gone for a few hours and Jasmine was vibrating with excitement. She was about to tell Nik that he wouldn't only be a father to one child come summer, but two. His reaction was hard to foresee but Jasmine was happy. Twins had never been something she was expecting. The Potter line wasn't known for them and as far as she was aware, neither was Nik's line.
They really were miracle babies and after her magic release the night before, she had been seeing a better side to being a mother. Yes two babies might be harder than one, but she was ready and Nik would be an amazing father. That she had no doubt about.
She passed the still unconscious Sabine on the sofa as she looked for Nik, the only other place he was known to be at this time of the day was his study. So that was her next stop.
"Nik?" She asked as she pushed the double doors into his private space. He usually went there to paint or plot. This time she was taken aback when she saw he had a guest. The pretty blonde bartender from Rousseau's. "What have you done now?" She asked raising her eyebrow and nodding her head towards the girl.
"Ah, Jasmine. Perfect timing, as always." He smirked. "This is Camille, she's going to be my scribe.. of sorts."
Jasmine rolled her eyes. "Poor you." She said remorsefully but went over and extended her hand in a kind gestured. "Nice to meet you, Camille."
"Cami, please." She smiled sweetly and took Jasmine's hand, noticeably a bit reluctantly. "You're not a vampire too are you?" She asked and Jasmine's eyes widened.
"Oh god no." She laughed. "I'm just a simple witch."
"Right, simple," Jasmine smirked at Cami's obvious sarcasm.
"Well, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I have some rather, important information to tell Nik." A small raise of her eyebrow and a gesture to her rapidly growing stomach and Klaus quickly wrapped up his session with Cami.
"She's nice, I like her," Jasmine told her boyfriend as his muggle friend left.
"She's honest." Nik corrected and Jasmine couldn't argue. "That's why she's perfect for the job I've given her. So, what's this news? All good I hope."
"Well, Sophie invited one of her witch friends around because she had a feeling that there might have been something 'off' about my pregnancy." She told and Nik's eyes flashed with concern. "Don't worry. Her assumption was right but it's not bad."
"Well?" He asked agitatedly. Even though he considered himself a master in the art of suspense, he didn't like it when it was redirected onto him.
"We're having twins." She smiled, her eyes welling up with tears. "Two baby Mikaelson."
"Twins?" His own eyes widened to a size that made Jasmine concerned they might roll out. "Are you sure?!"
Deciding to not tell Nik's about Sabine's little meltdown was an easy decision. These babies, no matter the amounts of premonitions made by crazy witches, we're going to be loved and this moment was not going to be tarnished by something, if anything, could be dealt with in the future.
"Well, as soon as Sabine said there were two, I grabbed Sophie and went to check in with Poppy. They're beautiful, Nik." Her tears started to fall. Happiness encasing her for the first time in forever. She took his hands and placed them on her temples. Showing the daddy-to-be the same image of their babies that Poppy had shown her an hour beforehand. As the memory ended, Nik had Identical tears in his eyes and smile on his face was as wide as hers. He pulled her into a hug and they stood there for a while.
"There is more." She said wiping her eyes on the sleeves of her jumper. "The genders."
Klaus pulled away and looked at her intently, waiting for her answer.
"A girl and a boy." She didn't think her smile could get bigger. Nik's face dropped in shock. "A son and a daughter. Best of both worlds."
"This is a joke right." He looked around for the rest of his family and friends to jump out and scream April fools. In February.
"No jokes. All truth." She laughed and Nik joined her.
"This is-" Words escaped the otherwise literate hybrid.
"Crazy, insane, weird?" Jazz tried to finish as she walked over to the big armchair and collapsed into it.
Nik was in front of her in a flash, his hand placed gently on her stomach. "Perfect. A bit too perfect, but would you expect any less from the children of a Hybrid King and Warrior Queen?"
"I would not. Oh, Merlin, I hope they don't have our tempers combined." Jasmine massaged her head before laughing.
"Or your untamable hair." He added.
"HEY!" She swatted his arm. "I have learnt to control my hair."
"Yes, but you're forgetting I've seen you in the morning before your many potions and products."He smirked and Jasmine glared.
"Yes well above all, I hope they're happy and well loved." She said glancing down at her stomach, where the love of her life still had his hand.
"I'll destroy planets for their happiness," Klaus vowed.
"Or maybe just buy them some Lego? Kids prefer that, I think."
-x-
Well, that's it, the gender special. I'm sorry my last two chapters have been so short but as I said in the last chapter I've had a rough few weeks. Not to go into too much detail but my dad has been very ill.
The majority of that was Nik and Jasmine again. And a lot more cheese then I'm usually comfortable writing. I'm trying to get across how devoted they are to their children earlier than in the originals.
My next chapter will be up Sunday. It will be longer and Jasmine will finally meet Davina and get her first glimpse of the little witch.
And finally, Names. Any ideas? Let me know. Because I cannot think of any I like.
Thank you for reading. You make my day!
Kat xox
