The Ice Queen [s.b.]

Names - 71

A/N K so this chapter is super intense, so I wanted to put a buffer in. Since I don't really have a place for this short, just picture it in the missing time. So many dead characters (Dorothy, Ginger, Regulus) were in the original draft of this and now I'm sort of crying but I'm also watching Criminal Minds and feeling a lil dead inside. But it's cool!

Short below:

"Happy anniversary, Love," Anna sings in Sirius's ear as she takes him up the stairs and into the Astronomy Tower where she'd gotten permission from Dumbledore to use for the night under the promise that nothing over PG-13 would happen.

Sirius grins, "It's not our anniversary, Princess."

"Of course it isn't, silly! But it's the fourth anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody!"

He gasps, "Holy hell, how did I forget?"

There isn't an ounce of sarcasm in either of them.

"I dunno, mate. But," Anna waves her wand and Bohemian Rhapsody starts playing, "that doesn't matter now."

They dance the rest of the next hour and then listen for another two, Sirius peppering kisses on her pregnant stomach.

Just before they drift off, Anna whispers, "Sirius?"

"Yes, Princess?"

"It's a boy."

March 20th, 1979.

They baby preparations had long since been made when Annalee Fawley and Sirius Black get in a fight.

"So you really think I'm just going to... leave again?" Anna asks softly.

Sirius nods, "You haven't exactly proven me wrong, Fawley."

"I'm sorry, Sirius. I've told you that. But I wouldn't be able to live with my regrets if I ever let them in."

"I don't want you to regret anything."

"It sort of sounds like you do," she rolls her eyes. "I'm going for a walk. I'll be back soon. I promise."

"Okay," Sirius agrees softly. "Be careful, okay?"'

She doesn't respond.

Then she apparates to Diagon Alley for her walk. Outside. Alone. In the dark.

Almost immediately, she's cornered.

"Annalee Fawley," Avery announces.

Mulciber glares at her, "The Dark Lord will be happy with us, don't you think? Stupefy!"

TRIGGER WARNING: MISCARRIAGE

It hits Anna's stomach before she can react and she passes out.

When she wakes up, she's in Malfoy Manor.

"Annalee?" a voice says gently. She has straight blond hair and bright blue eyes.

"Narcissa?" Anna asks, before her eyes widen. "I need a doctor. Right now," she demands.

Bellatrix walks in. "Why would we do that?"

"I'm pregnant. You know that. Please. He stupefied me," Anna says, no resistance in her voice. Her voice breaks as she says, "Please."

"Get her a healer," Bellatrix orders. "I'll stay with her."

"Thank you, Bell," Anna says pitifully. She screams out in pain and blood pools at her feet.

"Anna? Anna, what's wrong? Talk to me," a soft voice that Anna recognizes as Bella's says.