Safe- Mattheo Riddle

Confessions

Aurora

Another week has passed since I found out I was pregnant. My mother had checked me over with a spell and she confirmed I was indeed carrying a child. I was at least a month pregnant.

Theo had been keeping me wrapped in cotton wool, I insisted that I could still do everything I was doing before but he disagreed.

So here I was sat in bed covered in blankets, dreading going back to school tomorrow.

"Mi amore, please try not to worry about it too much" Theo spoke as he rubbed a hand up and down my arm.

"I am worried though Theo, I'm going to have to tell Mattheo tomorrow, there's no way to hide it anymore. Soon enough my school skirt won't fit and I think it will become pretty obvious to everyone. I'd like him to be the first to find out"

"We will tell him together" he said with a smile.

"Oh no, you can't be there. He will kill you Theodore Nott" I said with furrowed brows.

"I don't care Aurora, I'm not letting you do it by yourself"

"Fine" I said in a huff and rolled onto my side, closing my eyes and letting myself drift into a deep sleep.

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Waking up in the morning was hard. I felt a wave of nausea wash over me and I didn't know if it was morning sickness or anxiety. Maybe both. I tried to ignore it and carried on getting ready.

I managed to still squeeze myself into my tiny school skirt and I thanked Merlin for the big baggy robes. It's not like my stomach was massive yet, but my waist was so tiny before, that it had definitely gotten bigger already.

I walked into the bedroom to see Theo stood waiting for me with a smile on his face.

"You look beautiful Aurora" he smiled at me.

"Thank you Theo" I spoke with a small laugh and then walked over to him and linked my arm with his.

We disappeared into a cloud of black smoke, the spinning and twirling feeling taking over my whole body and mind. When my feet finally touched the ground again. I felt more nauseous than before, I ran into the bathroom of the boys dorm where Theo had apparated us too and let the contents on my stomach fill the toilet.

"Aurora, are you okay?" That voice. The voice I hadn't heard in more than a month.

"Mattheo" I said and smiled widely. "I'm fine, um just apparation sickness"

He held his hand out to me and pulled me to my feet, I walked over to the sink and washed my mouth out with some mouthwash that was on the side.

As soon as I was done I turned around, I'd missed his face. His hair. Him.

I wrapped my arms tightly around his neck and he wrapped his around my waist.

"Mattheo, we need to talk" I said when I pulled away. Looking down at the ground.

"Okay darling" he said with a smile.

We walked back into the room and I saw Theo sat on the end of Draco's bed, him and Draco playing rock, paper, scissors.

"Theo" he turned to look at me and I nodded my head. He got up from his spot on the bed and walked to stand next to me.

"Okay we have to tell you both something" I said quietly.

"Okay, what is it?" Draco said, a look of confusion on his face.

"Well um, I-um...I" I was stuttering so much, my voice shakey.

Theo grabbed my hand in his and gave it a squeeze.

"Aurora is pregnant".

Mattheo

There's no way that he just said that, I must of heard wrong. However, when I looked over at Draco, I knew that I hadn't. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly hanging open.

I looked at Aurora, but her gaze didn't meet my eyes. I could see tears running down her face.

"So when I asked you to look after her? You really did huh?" I spoke, looking directly at Theo.

"Don't Mattheo. Let us explain" Aurora looked directly into my eyes, a harsh glare on her face.

"I already told you that my parents said I must carry an heir. They told me I had until I was 25. When we went back to see them that day to tell them I'd chose Theo, my father told me the reason we had to stay there until the wedding was so that we could get started with it. I was confused because they said I still had years until I had to do that but they said that we will start trying now. So we did, because quite frankly, I didn't want them to force me and Theo to have sex under the imperious curse" she let out a shakey breath.

"So you knew? You knew that day when me and Draco were still there and you didn't tell me?" I stood up from my seat on the bed, fists clenched at my sides.

"Yes I knew and I'm sorry Mattheo. I'm sorry for not telling you, I should have but I was scared"

I turned to look at Theo. "I was right wasn't I? All those months ago when I said to you that you wanted Aurora? You told me you didn't and that she was just your friend. Doesn't look that way anymore" my jaw was clenched so hard.

"I didn't want it to be like this, I never wanted to take her away from you but it was either me and her do this or her possibly lose her life Mattheo!" Theo shouted back at me.

"No, fuck you Theo! You just couldn't keep your hands off what wasn't yours!" I was so close to his face now that I could feel his ragged breaths.

"She's MY wife!" He snarled back at me.

That was it. I swung my fist back into his face. Knocking him the ground. He recovered quickly and threw one back at me.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Draco stand up and rush over to Aurora, moving her away from the fight and pushing her behind him.

"Stop it! Both of you" Draco shot a stupefy spell out of his wand, sending us both flying back.

"You need to talk about this like adults! Yes Mattheo, we know you're mad and you have every right to be mad but you haven't even asked Aurora what she wants to happen now! And Theo, you've done a really shitty thing, you should have told him! But I also understand that you both didn't really have a choice!" Draco was angry, practically foaming at the mouth. In all the years we'd known him, he had never gotten this angry before. He was the one who was always level headed.

"Both of you are idiots! You do not fight like that when she is in the room. You could have seriously hurt her..." he trailed off almost sounding sad. I darted my eyes over to Aurora's shaking figure in the corner. I wasn't mad at her, not really. She'd been forced into this situation by her parents.

She was carrying a child that wasn't mine but I couldn't help but still love her, still want her.

I stood up from the ground slowly and walked towards her. I wrapped my arms tightly around her body and pulled her into my chest. Her sobs were being muffled by the fabric of my robes.

"I'm sorry darling, I'm so-so sorry" my voice broke and for the first time, I cried in front of my friends.

Authors note
(1286 words) soooo what's gonna happen now I wonder...I'm sorry I'm so terrible for doing this to you
Kisses xoxo
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