Author's Note: Semi graphic description of child labor
The room was already fixed for this moment.
Pamela Grayson, the midwife, and Doctor Andrew Holstein had their tools set up, and had already sterilized the room.
"Alright everyone, clear the room, the lot of you," Holstein ordered while pulling some sort of cloth from his medical bag.
As soon as he spoke, I felt one pain begin to come after the other.
No amount of writhing would cease or ease the pain.
I wanted to scream my head off but I knew that would only make things worse for me, since I was already getting breathless. I had only been laying down for a few minutes at the most.
One moment I was being helped to lay down. The next moment being repositioned before I watched as Ms. Grayson cut off my under things quickly from my lower body, and probed me with her fingersto see how dilated I was.
I screamed as I felt another contraction hit, resisting the urge to push as I did so.
By this time, I was bathed in sweat.
My hair matting to my face as I felt time crawl by, as it did I began losing the purpose of time.
After who knows how long, Ms.Grayson checked me once more.
As she did so, pain tore through me, spreading throughout my entire body like it was beginning catch fire.
I thought someone had used an unforgivable on me.
I bit back a scream as pain shot once more through my entire body.
The entire time I kept wishing that somehow Tom would get into my head and realize what was going through my mind, rushing to my side, but I had made my choice and now, this was the consequence.
There would be no Tom arriving, and it was my own fault.
"Alright, Sophia, I need you to push onto your bottom as you feel the next contraction hit. Then slowly begin to count to five in your mind and push again." She instructed as she put a hot cloth on my forehead.
When I felt the next pain hit, I pushed with all my might, gasping to breathe as I felt my body relax for a fraction of a second.
This cycle continued until I felt extreme pressure in my arse and twat.
The next moment I heard the squeal and cry of one of my babies.
I sighed in relief, before another contraction hit, ceasing me mid-breath.
"Ahh...!!!" I cried out, in pain as the pressure down there increased tenfold.
"It's a boy." I heard Ms. Grayson whisper happily.
"Keep pushing, Sophia, come on, you're almost through." Dr. Holstein ordered as Ms.Grayson wrapped the baby in a warm blanket.
"I-I can't do it. I-I'm too tired." I gasped and groaned, tiredly sagging into the bed.
"No. No. No... You do not give up now. You have your children to think about. Now push, come on, you can do it, Sophia. Push as hard as you can!" She commanded.
I continued to push, the next three pushes were rather hard to do, but just as I was about to give up, I heard the second most beautiful sound I've heard in all my life.
"It's a girl." Ms. Grayson breathed happily again, as she wiped the baby's matted face and wrapped her in a warm blanket.
Then she helped me deliver the afterbirth and cleaned me before giving me a pat on my shoulder.
I let out a relieved breath, closing my eyes for a brief moment before I snapped them back opened scanning the room.
"You did beautifully, Sophia, after I am done cleaning here and sterilizing the room once more, I shall send an owl to the Headmaster in Hogwarts and the professors informing them of the arrivals." She said.
Within a second they both cleared up everything that was bloodied, sterilizing the room with a swipe of their wands.
Once they departed, everyone who was waiting outside the room, rushed into the room to look at the new arrivals.
"Ooh, they're gorgeous and so tiny. What are you going to name the little angels?" Grisha asked as she looked at the babies who laid by my sides.
"Mia Adley Riddle, and Tom Arlo Riddle," I said, unable to keep the smile from my face.
"It's one thing to see it and another one thing to live through it, isn't it, Annie?" Bellatrix said as she smiled down at the sleeping babies.
"Yes...it truly is." I replied tiredly.
"Cheers, on your new arrivals. Get some rest now. We'll see you tomorrow morning." James said as he began pushing everyone out of the room to let me rest.
I smiled as I snuggled both babies closer to me, and letting my eyes close, as I finally sunk into unconsciousness.
Tom's PoV:
It's been a little more than eight months if not nine since the disappearance of Anna.
Bellatrix left when she was just five months into her pregnancy to be with her mother. Bastan went along with her.
Of course, he did. She's his wife. She is carrying his child inside her.
What I wouldn't give to see Anna like that. Carrying my baby inside her.
My head had been hurt for the past month and a half.
I felt as if there were pieces missing from a puzzle I craved to solve.
Memories of my last year in Hogwarts kept popping into my mind at random moments of the day.
One of the most prominent ones, where the night after Anna woke up after being unconscious for the better part of three weeks.
That moment in the astrology tower where she gave me an ultimatum-!!!
I suddenly felt as if the wind had been knocked out of me. The blood draining from my face, as reality set in.
"Oh, bloody hell! She is or was pregnant when she left all those months ago." I muttered shocked, the crystal sphere I held in my hand dropping to the ground and shattered.
"My-my lord?" Lucius called, looking cautious.
"Where is your wife, Narcissa? Where is she right now, at this very moment?" I pressed, waiting anxiously for his reply.
"She's- she's gone to-to visit her mother and sister." He replied, confused.
"Has she- has she gotten any mail lately?" I questioned, growing irritated.
"Two days ago. It was from Bellatrix. That is why she is gone today. She said it was urgent." He explained.
I nodded, realizing someone else might know something about this. Avery. He is going with Anna's aunt.
"Call Avery, now. I am sure he knows where Anna is. Get him here now!" I ordered as I began to pace the length of the room anxiously.
Three hours later and a very badly hurt Avery.
I had no answers to any of my questions.
I felt farther and farther away from finding where Sophia truly was.
Frustrated, possibly infuriated more, I stormed out of the room, later finding myself in the garden.
Where I decided to stay for a while before I noticed that a storm was making its way towards us, forcing me to retreat into the house once more.
I slowly walked back into the house, towards the room to shut everyone out once more.
Six days had gone by, since my discovery.
To say I was angry would be to put it lightly compared to how I truly felt.
She left! She left me! Not only that but she left while she was pregnant with my unborn child, to make matters so much worse she didn't utter a single word to me to inform me about the matter.
She just disappeared into thin air as if hidden under an invisibility cloak.
Memories kept flashing inside my mind, reminding me that I had been the one to push her away when we discussed such matters.
As time began to fly by, I began to realize that I was at fault.
Instead of discussing my true beliefs on having children, I decided to conceal them and let her believe everything she heard.
Now Sophia was gone and I'm not sure that I may ever find her, but if there is a higher power that exists then I truly hope it's on my side.
I have to find her... Especially if she truly is carrying my child.
My, my how things have changed.
Who would've thought I'd actually care to have a child, let alone want to be a father.
I had to find them, I just had to.