I stood in the middle of the kitchen in awkward silence, watching as Andi disappeared. I was just about to turn to go back up the stairs to help when James spoke, causing me to freeze mid-step.
"What's going on? Why are you taking all of those things to my sister's room?" James asked, worried.
I looked over at Remus, who seemed to bejust as lost as James.
Sirius was the only one who seemed to understand the gravity of the situation that was occurring, because he turned towards the two clueless men, placing a hand on both their shoulders, and looked them straight in the eye, before he said:
"Prongs, Moony, I know you two blokes don't quite understand what's going on, so let me put this in simpler terms for you chaps. Torin is pregnant with Moony's child, she is about to give birth to said child. Congratulations, old chap, you're about to become a father." Sirius said, over exaggerating.
I giggled at his antics, before turning to leave the kitchen and go back to the room.
As I reached the room, I could hear the groaning coming from Torin.
Just as I was about to push open when it flew opened, Andromeda stared at me shocked before she pulled me into the room and slammed the door shut behind me.
Torin was writhing on the bed in pain, her fist clenched, as well as her jaw.
Every now and then she'd let out a small groan.
I vaguely remember wanting to tear a new one on Tom as I was giving birth. I almost smiled at the memory. It seemed so long ago now.
"Alright. I think she's almost ready to start pushing." Andi said, turning to look at me.
Andi took charge and directed me, informing me to place moist rag with hot water on Torin's forehead. I watched as her forehead began to form bead of sweat.
"It hurts so much. Oh dear, Merlin. Oh I'm going to tear him a new arsehole, I swear it!" She cried as another contraction hit, her stomach tightening as it hit.
"We know, just a little bit more... alright Torin, you can begin to push now. Just push onto your bottom when you feel the next pain come in." Andi said, calmly.
"Anna, go get a warm blanket for the baby." She commanded me. "The blankets are in the closet down the stairs, on the left. Get two of them." She said, her eyes never leaving Torin's wide ones.
I nodded, slowly slipping out of the room, as I rushed down the stairs I could vaguely hear Lily singing to the twins and Nymphadora as I ran to the closet.
I was about to rush back when Remus, Tom, Ted, James and Sirius were waiting to ambush me with questions.
Speaking at the same time.
"How are they?" Remus asked, nervously.
"How's Torin?" James asked, worried.
"Anna, what's going on? How's Torin?" Tom asked.
I rolled my eyes at them before pushing past them. "Stop it. I'll tell you once the baby is born. Until then three of you need to calm down. Tom, we'll talk when Torin's finished giving birth, alright? Until then be quiet. The lot of you, and don't give Lily or the children a hard time." I muttered as I rushed past them.
"Remus John Lupin! I swear on Merlin's beard that once this baby is out of me, I'll castrate you!" Torin screamed as I opened the door, causing me to flinch back.
It had been six hours already and the baby still wasn't born.
I was panicking, until we all heard the greatest sound that lit up the entire house.
A baby's soft cry.
At last, around five in the afternoon on the twenty-seventh of December, John Raymond Lupin, was born to Remus Lupinand Torin Potter.
He had his mother's blue eyes and his father's dark wavy hair.
I'd say he looked like his uncle James, which was rather amusing to see, especially when everyone walked in and noticed the same thing I did.
"Locomotor Wibbly!" Torin uttered tiredly, when she pulled out her wand out of thin air.
The hex hit Remus before any of us could blink, he wobbled on his legs unsteadily and fell splat on the ground before I took pity on the old sap and removed the curse.
"If any of you value your lives, might I suggest you mind what you say in front of the exhausted woman." I suggested.
"Ohh, we remember." Sirius and James muttered at the same time.
"I'll say, remember when Sirius accidently told Anna, here, she looked tired?" Remus asked, amused.
"He was limping in pain for a week." James said, chuckling.
"Of course, I remember! I still have the mark on my arse to prove it too." Sirius mutter, subconsciously rubbing his left ass cheek, where I threw a sharp object at him when he tried to run.
"That wasn't my fault." I muttered, blushing.
"Alright, alright. We understand, stop taking jabs at Sophia, and let's allow Torin and her baby rest."Andi said after she came in to check on Torin.
She pushed everyone except Remus out of the room, and led us down the stairs into the kitchen.
The kitchen still had the food I had made this morning, sitting on the breakfast bar.
Andi quickly waved her wand in the air and all the uneaten food disappeared along with all the cookies and pastries I had baked.
"Please tell me you didn't throw out the cookies or pastries Sophie baked early this morning." Lily said looking longingly at the breakfast bar.
"No, they're in the pantry, just over there." She said pointing at the door to the left of the room.
We all watched as Lily slowly made her way over to the pantry and pulled out the jar of freshly baked cookies.
"So, there are a lot of things that we need to get in order. I'm almost certain that most, if not all of you, remember how much we practiced and everything we practiced over two years ago at school?" I asked, looking at them.
"We weren't there." Ted said, looking at us, with his arms crossed over his chest.
"You may not have been there at school but you were both present during the summer." Tom commented pointedly.
"Look, don't start your arguing now. We're here to take precaution-" I said, before a soft knocking sound came from the window.
I made my way towards the window, slid it opened and watched as an owl hopped into the kitchen through the opening.
I took the letter it had in its beak and opened my hand to give him a few treats before I watched it fly away.
"The Lestrange Family is pleased to inform you of the arrival of two new members of the Lestrange and Black clan. Cassiopeia Marie Lestrange and Cepheus Joshua Lestrange. Born to Bellatrix Lestrange and Rabastian Lestrange, on the twenty sixth of December at three in the afternoon." I read out loud.
"Ooh, she had twins?!" Andi said , her eyes tearing up. "My baby sister had twins." She cooed, as Ted pulled her into a hug.
"I thought she was older than her?" Sirius muttered, causing James to elbow him in the ribs, shaking his head quickly at him.
"I'm guessing so. Wonderful, another set of twins." I said smiling at Tom, who in turn shook his head at me, amused.
"Well, I want to have twins, now. I feel left out." Lily said, pouting and rubbing her stomach.
"Sure, you say that now, but wait until you're in labor. My twat has yet to recover from that slaughtering pain..." I muttered, earning a smack on the arm by Andi.
"Can we please get back to the task at hand?" Sirius asked, rolling his eyes at us.
"Err... yes, let's do that." I said, turning towards Tom.
"I leave the floor to you, lover boy, I have two babies to tend to." I said as I left the kitchen and made my way into the sitting room.