Crescent Moon - J. Whitlock

EIGHT

December 30th, 2005

—— Time passed slowly at first but Aquila refused to cry. If Jasper felt she wasn't good enough it was not her problem but his. Aquila was waddling around, setting the table as she waited for her best friend to come home. That's when there was a knock on the door, Aquila waddled over to the door looking out the peep hole to see Emmett waiting outside. Aquila smiled letting him in.
      "Hi Emmett!" Aquila said as she watched Rosalie's car pull up.
      "Aquila you won't believe what I bought!" Rosalie yelled happily as she came running inside with a large box only to find Emmett standing in the door way.
      "Emmett, no need to be a middler." Aquila deadpanned as she just started at him as Emmett started awkwardly laughing. "Rosalie what did you buy?" Aquila asked as Rosalie set the box on the table.
      "I bought a stroller." Rosalie said proudly as she started speed building it as the timer went off. Aquila smiled before waddling over to the time and taking out a rotisserie chicken. "Dinner!" Aquila called as Rosalie sat down across from Emmett before taking a sip of a purple liquid that was in one of two cups. Smiling, Rosalie dug into half of the chicken.
      "What's this?" Emmett asked skeptically as he watched Rosalie eat the food.
       "A potion now drink then eat." Aquila said as she took some food and ate the food. Emmett skeptically drank the potion before taking a bite of a chicken leg. Emmett's eyes glowed with happiness before taking the rest of the food. That's when Aquila felt water trickling down her leg like a snake that was staying to suffocate her.
       "Aggie, what's wrong?" Rosalie asked as she looked at her best friend.
      "Rose I'm going into labor..." Aquila said as Rosalie grabbed the ready bag and Emmett brought Aquila to the car, towels under her bottom.

—— "Sorry Ma'am beacuse our new boss hasn't signed off on the-" The nurse was cut off by Rosalie shouting.
        "Sorry won't cut it. My sister is in labor and you won't help her. Not to mention she YOUR NEW BOSS SO HEAD YOUR ASS BACK IN THERE UNTIL YOU CAN FIND HER A DAMN ROOM." Rosalie shouted as Aquila gripped Emmett's arm so tightly it made his arm crack.
        "Damn it, Emmett! I thought you were the strongest!" Aquila said as she yelled out in pain. Emmett just anxiously chuckled as he sat outside the delivery room instead of being in their with her. Emmett figured he'd let Rosalie be in the Labor room with Aquila. Soon two gingers, a brunette and one person came in looking for Aquila.
       "Where is she?" The one with raven colored hair and emerald green eyes said as he frenetically looked around.
        "She's in there." Emmett said said as he pointed at the Labor room.
         "We'll just have to wait." The brunette said as she held her baby that could be older then a month or two. The baby had fiery red hair, doe brown eyes and small little freckles, from what Emmett could tell.
         "Who are you exactly?" A woman with red hair (in a pixie cut), ocean blue eyes and lots of freckles.
          "I'm Emmett Cullen, my girlfriend is in the room with Lilia right now." Emmett said as he recognized all of them from Aquila's living room photos. "Your Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Rose and Ron?" Emmett said as they soon also recognized Emmett from all the pictures of him and Stefan with the rest of the Cullens in the letters she often sent to them.
        "Does anyone know what his name is going to be?" Ron said as he ate corn nuts he had gotten from the vending machine.
       "Aquila said she wanted to name his Sirius." Harry said fondly as Rose started crying.
       "Shhhh."  Hermione whispered as Ron finished his corn nuts.

December 31st, 2005

—— Aquila sat in the bed, the sheets sticking to her damp skin. In a NICU (neonate intensive care unit) across the room was a baby that didn't way more then four pounds. Rosalie sat next to Aquila, holding her hand tightly as she cried. "Rosie; why can't I hold him?" Aquila asked oblivious to the fact that her son was to small. Aquila had gone through 14 hours of labor only to find out her baby was born premature.
        "What will his name be Aggie?" Rosalie asked as she tried to divert Aquila's attention for the fact she could not hold her baby.
       "Sirius Carlisle Black." Aquila said as she smiled fondly.
       "Carlisle?" Rosalie asked as she was not prepared to hear her adoptive father's name.
       "I heard it's a muggle custom to have your child's second name as your in-law's first." Aquila said more formally as she thought back to her childhood. The door opened as Aquila said more. "And I do not want to name my child Lucius." Aquila said her adoptive father's name with anger and hatred engrossed in every letter.
       "If you named your kid after that git I'd take him away from you." Ron joked as Hermione sent a patronus to Mrs. Weasley saying that Aquila had finished giving birth and that she was fine.
       "Honestly Ronald. Surely you can't take Sirius away from Aquila just because she gave him the middle name Lucius." Hermione said as she rolled her eyes. Rosalie smiled as she watch her sister interact with her family. Rosalie knew that now that she had helped Aquila she is officially part of the family and part of that scared her.
       "You're Rosalie? Pads talks about you non-stop." Harry says as Ginny rolled her eyes. She couldn't believe that the two of them really went with the idea of calling each other Padfoot and Prongs.
         "Um, yes. I am Rosalie, I'm sure you met my husband Emmett." Rosalie said knowing that each of them married at you ages.
        "Yeah, funny lad he is." Ginny said running her fingers through the little hair she had.

Written: Feb. 14, 2023