Baby Blues
Pairing: Hermione/Cormac
Word Count: 328
Written For:
- Crystals & Gemstones - Sha Fu Stone/Basic: Write about someone decorating their house.
"Ron, get in here!" came Lavender's shriek from the from the upstairs bedroom. Ron had been brewing his wife, at her demand, a cup of chamomile tea. He left the mug on the sideboard and rushed upstairs.
Lavender was halfway up a stepladder, a paint roller in one hand and the other pressed to her swollen, pregnant stomach. There had been a tin of baby blue paint on the top rung of the ladder, but it was now upturned on the cream carpet.
The couple had been decorating the small bedroom for their unborn baby, and Lavender was supposed to be completing the easier jobs—such as putting together the baby's cot. The white wooden pieces of the unstructured crib were abandoned in the corner of the room. "What are you doing?" Ron gasped, rushing forward to help Lavender down from the ladder. She stepped slowly and awkwardly, her legs apart. "You were supposed to be fixing the cot!"
"I know," moaned Lavender. "But I just saw a pale patch at the top of the window that you must have missed. I know how much I've been annoying you with my nagging, and I thought it would just take a second to cover." She paused, glancing at the enormous paint splatter at the foot of the ladder. "Oh, Ron. I've ruined the carpet."
Ron rolled his eyes and smiled good-naturedly. "What is it about pregnancy that makes you forget you're a witch?" He pulled his wand from his pocket and gestured it silently towards the mess. The can jumped back to its original spot on the ladder, and the spilled paint was leached from the carpet and returned, drop by drop, to the can. "There. All clean again."
"There's something else," Lavender continued, her hand still pressed to her stomach. Ron glanced at her, his eyes trailing down to her swollen belly. A dark, wet patch was spreading across the front of her jogging bottoms. "My water just broke."