A Vampire Among Us (Fred Weasley Romance)

Chapter 50

The store bell rang slightly causing everyone to look up from the counter, the day had been slow going and whoever walked through the door was the most interesting thing to happen thus far that day.

"I'm pregnant," Alexandria whispered while leaning against the store door, her eyes were wide with surprise, excitement, fear, and confusion as she looked at the three boys who were staring with open jaws.

"I hope they have my eyes," Vic mused, resting his chin in his hands on the counter.

"Shut up you twit," Fred brushed him off, rushing toward Alexandria. When he was in front of her, he stopped unsure of how to react. This was nothing short of a miracle, Alexandria lifted her hand, holding out the positive pregnancy test. "Bloody hell," Fred whispered, his face breaking into a grin and hugging Alexandria tightly.

Alexandria pushed away quickly, coughing slightly while her hands ran protectively to her torso, "can we talk in private?"

"No one has visited our store all morning, this as private as you can get!" Vic called from behind Fred, Alexandria rolled her eyes at his retort.

"Away from the annoying cat over there."

Fred took Alexandria's hand and pulled her through the store to the back office, closing the door for prosperity sake as George and Vic obviously eavesdropped on the opposite side.

"Are you completely sure this is real?" Fred whispered, excitement but also worry filling him. When he had found out about Alexandria's vampirism, he wholeheartedly accepted everything about her and that included not having children if there was a future with her. He wasn't even sure he ever wanted children to begin with, not that he didn't mind the idea, but he could have a happy life even if that wasn't in his future.

"Yes, I went to St. Mungo's and...." Alexandria nodded, tears beginning to fall, Fred studied her trying to understand what she was thinking, "we're going to have a baby, Fred," her voice breaking at the end.

"We're going to have a baby," Fred echoed, excitement fueling him more than any other mixture of emotion he was feeling, "I can't....I can't even begin to-"

"I know, it's crazy!" Alexandria agreed, "I was a vampire! I was a frozen point in time essentially.....this is just-"

"It's a miracle," Fred grinned, taking Alexandria's shoulders in his hands and giving her a slight squeeze, "our miracle."

"I threw up out here, just an fyi," Vic's voice came from the other side of the office door.

"Go away you annoying cat!" Alexandria yelled at the door, pointing her wand and casting a silencing spell to give them more privacy.

"Do you.....do you want children?" Alexandria looked up at Fred worriedly, it was a tough subject for both of them, aside from Alexandria having been through a traumatic past; having children was something Alexandria never dreamt of as a possibility and it was something the two silently ignored together.

"Alexandria Weasley, I married you knowing that there may not be children in our future," at this Alexandria averted her gaze, her expression that of regret and guilt, Fred took her face in his hands and made her look at him, "but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want them with you if the chance arose. This is all just....mad, when you think about everything we've-you've been through-it's hard to say that yes I would love to have children, but only because I never wanted you to feel pressured or feel like it was a necessity for our marriage. It's not, but now that we are going to have a child, I'm more than ecstatic, I'm more than happy that we get to do this. We are going to be the best parents to this miracle, because its our miracle."