Seawood Apartment

Teal's three bedroom flat is located in Rainham, a suburban town in east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. The flat was originally purchased by Nyxie Seawood.
The Seawood Apartment can appear sparse as Teal looks to make the flat into a home her family can live comfortably, and peacefully in. Not nearly as knowledgeable in Herbology as her sister, Nyxie is. Teal still keeps a large amount of magical plants, and a small brewing station, always clean, and ready for use a safe distance from the general living area walled off by a large enchanted red "warning" curtain.

## Roleplay

### Teal and Unborn Baby Flaherty

* Teal at 6 weeks Tuesday February 11th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She paced back and forth. She kept a fist to her face clutching the shirt she had stolen from Benjamin constantly inhaling his scent as everything else for the time being was making her nauseous. She stopped, and turned around to start another lap when she looked at the brewing station in the corner. She wondered if there was anything she could brew that might make her feel better, but keep her baby safe from harm. She did not want this to be the way she and Benjamin became ''something more than friends''. She did not want to make him feel like he needed to chose because in ... What was it Hope said? In about thirty-four weeks they would be the new parents to a small child. She sighed and walked to the bedroom closing the door behind her despite knowing that she was all alone and no one would hear her cry herself to sleep.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She was curled up on the couch with a pillow and blankets the next morning. She stared down at the pamphlets that had been given to her. She had read them front to back, and was re-reading them while taking small sips of water, and nibbling on saltine crackers. She mentally reminded herself to have a large bowl of salad if she could stomach it. She had not been to see Benjamin despite telling him he would be the first person to know what the healer had to say. She loved Benjamin deeply, and she always would. She was slowly warming up to the idea that she was carrying his child. The thought still produced a great deal of fear, but the more she imagined what their child would look like when he or she was born the more all of her fears seemed to melt away, and for a little while she was able to fall asleep peacefully.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She woke up a few hours later still curled up on the couch after falling asleep dreaming about her baby. It had been getting harder to stay awake throughout the day, she was taking more and more naps than she wanted to. She tossed the blankets off of her, one of the pillows supporting her slipped to the floor as she got up to take her cup of now room temperature water, and crackers to the kitchen. She felt hungry now, but she knew as soon as she went to put something in her mouth the second a flavor hit her tongue she was going to be hugging the toilet bowl. This baby was feeling more and more like a parasite, but she had to remind herself not to think that way. If she kept it, she might morph the baby into an actual bug that might eat its way out of her belly. She put both hands on her stomach, and shuddered at the thought before she poured herself a big glass of water to drink while she started making herself a broth based soup.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She sat at the table looking over the pamphlets, again, as she slowly slurped her warm soup. It tasted good despite the fact that the preparation had to change due to dietary restrictions. It felt like she might actually keep it all down for once. She finished her last spoonful and just as she put the spoon back in the bowl and sighed with contentedness she jerked forward. ''Not again.'' She thought covering her mouth and rushing to the bathroom. Everything came out, the water, the crackers and all of the soup she had just eaten. She did not understand how pregnancy was supposed to be a blessing. This part, it felt like a curse. She could not help but think she deserved it. For all the wrong she had done. She sat shivering next to the toilet, balled up pieces of tissue in her hands.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She showered after her dance with the toilet, and she also happened to vomit in there. Despite how disgusting it was to litter the floor of her shower with bile, she still felt clean afterwards. She sat in her bed with a towel to head drying her hair, and wearing Benjamin's shirt. It still smelled like him, and she occasionally pulled the collar up and over her nose just to make sure. She was starting to think she could not do this alone. She knew she needed to tell Benjamin, the longer she waited the more angry he would rightfully be with her for keeping it from him. She laid in bed pulling the covers up to her neck, rolling over on to her side seeing the empty space beside her she imagined Benjamin there with her. Again, as she had the night before she cried herself to sleep.}}

* Thurdsay February 13th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She woke in the morning feeling emotionally worse than before, but somehow better physically. She was not as nauseous as usual, she was wearing Benjamin's shirt. Thus far his scent was the only way to curb morning sickness ... the name of which she thought was nonsense in and of itself. It was ALL DAY sickness. She was extremely hungry, and settled on having dry toast and plain herbal tea, she was able to keep it down which was a surprise. She walked around the apartment looking at all the changes she had made after Nyxie let her know she had always kept a place for the three of them in London, a place for the wolf pack. It was Teal's place now. Nyxie was in Romania, and she was probably not ever coming back. Romy definitely was not coming back, and the thought of being without her sisters brought tears to her eyes. She wiped them away walking around making notes of the additional changes she would need to make for the baby. ''If'' there was a baby to bring home. She sat on the couch again, cradling herself in blankets reading over the pamphlets, this time looking for very specific information.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She felt like she had put off telling Benjamin for long enough. She got dressed determined to march over to his house and tell him. If she learned anything from asking him her all too personal questions about his relationship with Mary it was that she was going to have to be honest with him. Always. She was truthful when they first met, about everything. It was strange, and it was wonderful. In such a short amount of time he became one of the most important people to her. She had to remember how much he meant to her. She had to remind herself of what they had before, and what they could have again. Then she began to hesitate. What if this was not what he wanted? What if he never wanted a family? He said he wanted one with Mary. The thought that kept her from walking out of the door was knowing that she was <u>not</u> Mary, and he might not want a family with her.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She sat on the couch cradled in blankets and pillows. She needed to talk to someone, she should have gone back to Mungos. She should have gone to talk to Hope. What she was feeling was not strange, it was to her. It did not concern her pregnancy therefor it did not concern Hope. She sighed deeply wanting to talk to Nyxie. Even Romy. ... That was when she decided to write. She would write about everything that she was feeling. Everything she did not want to feel. And she would write to her baby. She stood quickly, and instantly she was lightheaded. She spread her arms out trying to balance herself in the air before she let herself fall back to the couch, and her nest of blankets, and pillows. She sat on the couch for a moment. She steadied herself placing her hands on her knees before she attempted to stand again. She reached for the top of her lip instinctively, and when she looked at her fingers she saw blood. Teal's nose was bleeding, a natural symptom of her pregnancy. Covering her mouth and nose with her hand she walked to the bathroom and leaned forward, with her mouth open, so the blood either dripped out of her nose, or she could spit it into the wash basin. From her reading she learned it would reduce the amount of blood that goes down the back of her throat and into her stomach. One of the many things which can ''now'' make her feel queasy.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She sat at the dining table nibbling on the knuckle of her index finger. She was able to eat her broth soup, and hold it down. She tried to eat leafy greens as Hope told her she should, but the baby did not agree. She had read somewhere about prenatal vitamins and wondered if she should be more concerned about it. She was not taking any, although she had changed her diet, and had been eating and avoiding a lot more foods than she should have. She was even doing a minuscule amount of exercise. She wondered if these changes would be significant enough for the development of a baby. A person was trying to start life inside of her. It was insanely overwhelming, and she was slowly learning to accept it. She was still terrified, it was the reason she had yet to tell Benjamin. She was so afraid, and her last admission had embarrassed her greatly. She finally understood how Romy felt all those times she and Nyxie had gone around her making plans for the three of them without including her. It was exactly how she thought Benjamin would feel. As if she had come back in his, and her own, moment of weakness to trap him. To finally have him in the way she did not have him before.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She spent another night crying herself to sleep. She had not worn Benjamin's shirt that night she kept it to her nose most of the day needing a new one as this one was starting to smell more like her. This ... situation was not one she ever imagined herself to be in or mentally prepared herself for. She expected Romy to be in her place, maybe by some stroke of fate it would have been Nyxie. She knew exactly what she would say to them. Finding the words to say to herself was impossible. She was ''supposed'' to be the Head of the Department of Magical Transportation. She was ''supposed'' to be a member of the Wizengamot. She was ''supposed'' to be a productive member of society not a "freelance" Wandmaker's Assistant. She was ''supposed'' to be with Benjamin not crying herself to sleep every night wishing her were with her. Wishing she had the courage to tell him the truth. She made a promise to herself. ''I will tell him.'' She did not know when. She definitely did not know how. She would, because he needed to know.}}

* Friday February 14th, 2025

{{Teal|~~~~~|She spent the morning bent over the toilet, and every sink in the house. She did not eat anything and barely drank water. This was the worst day of them all, if she had another day half as bad she very seriously believed that might die. She sat slumped over her bare arms resting against the bathtub the feeling of the metal cooling against her skin. Morning sickness was becoming more and more familiar now. He mouth always watered uncontrollably, and she could feel the bile building up in her stomach. It was becoming similar to the feeling of being hungry. She pushed herself upward slowly, turning on the water in the shower sighing as she realized she had no energy for this day.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She sat at the table eating some sort of strange fruit and vegetable salad. She was eating it raw, and the baby seemed to enjoy it. It was a perplexing day to say the least, most fruit had been coming back up, and liquids, warm teas and soups seemed to be the only things the baby appreciated. She ate slowly should the little one change her or his mind about her menu. She sighed eyes droopy from exhaustion and reached for her journal. It was time again to write. Everything she dare not say. She picked up a pen and clicked it holding it above the page before pressing down and leaving the following ink marks.

''I promised myself I would tell Benjamin.''

''I keep telling myself I need to wait.''

''Every time I get ''sick'' I start to think why should I tell him? There may not even be a baby. I could have a miscarriage. Why should I make him join in the stress of this when it could be all for naught?''

''I adore him. I love him. With all that I have left. Benjamin and this baby are my family. No matter how my "family" may be perceived.

'''It. Is. Love. We. Are. Love.'''

''Happy Valentine's Day Benjamin. We're Pregnant!''}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She ate a little steamed broccoli and drank a few cups of plain herbal tea. She was getting ready. She was making herself presentable despite the fact that the baby inside her wanted her to lay in bed cuddled comfortably in all the pillows she found she needed to conjure at some point in the night. She looked at herself in the mirror in the bathroom before going to the bedroom to change out of Benjamin's shirt. She removed the wrinkles from her clothes with a Hot Air Charm before she looked around telling herself not to leave. She listened to that little voice deep inside that was screaming out for her to ''GO!'' and pulled open the door headed to Benjamin's house.}}

* Teal at 8 weeks Tuesday February 18th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She returned from Benjamin's house after staying with him for the weekend. There was more talking they needed to do, and that one night was not going to cover half of it. She felt ... better. Not entirely. Of course. She still felt like she was trapping Benjamin. She worried their situation was too much for him to handle right now. It was the reason she could not parade the more difficult aspects of pregnancy around him. In ''his'' home. Teal would love if Benjamin moved to Rainham with her. It is a beautiful suburban neighborhood. Perfect for raising a child. Naturally, she felt no reason to inform of that. A part of her wished she had waited. Waited until Benjamin was "ready". Waited until she was out of the danger zone, and reduced her risk of losing the baby. Waited until she had the baby, if she had a baby. That would have definitely given him enough time. She cleaned up the apartment despite knowing no one would see what state it was in spotless or filthy.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She packed up a bag as she was headed to Portree to see her mum and dad. She knew she was not going to tell them about the baby, or that she had seen Benjamin. What she would do was talk about Romy, and ask them about Nyxie. She had not heard from Nyxie in about a week. It worried her. Not much, since Nyxie had wizened up after that business with ''Scamdrew''. Why the three of them fell into the trouble they did eluded her. Without Romy the disturbances from the past became memories she looked back on with fondness knowing the danger was over. She grabbed a few gifts she had for her mum, and a few books she had for her dad. She stuffed them into her bag before she decided this would all be too heavy for her to carry. She left everything behind. Her mum and dad would be upset about the abundant use of magic, but they would be happier to see her after so long they would probably forget.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She moved to the door wondering if she should tell Benjamin she was leaving. The little voice inside told her to let him know. She told herself she was coming back, he did not need to know. He would probably ask if she was going to tell her parents. She wanted to admit no, but the closer the time came for her to leave the more she wanted to see the expression on her mum's face when she told her. She smiled and headed out the door.}}

* Saturday February 25th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She returned home from Portree more exhausted than when she spent the days and night bent over the toilet. She went straight to her room locking the door behind her leaving a trail of clothing on her way. Her dad had smelled awful. It was horrible, there was almost nothing she could do. She had to wear Benjamin's shirt everyday. She had to chew gum, lollipops. Any form of candy. She developed a Potions recipe in her Seventh year for edible medicines. Her's had been surprisingly successful. When her mum and dad asked why she was brewing so much more than they could remember she used to. Teal confessed that she had always been a brewer only her interest in Wandlore was much greater. She had very recently been thinking of taking up part-time work as a Potioneer, the smell of her cauldron heating seemed almost pleasant now. It reminded her of Romy. She let them know that as well. She lowered herself into the bed feeling the tiniest bit queasy, yet mostly sleepy. As soon as her head hit the pillow her eyelids began to fall, closing completely before she was fast asleep.}}

* Teal at 9 weeks Wednesday February 26th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She woke feeling normal, she stretched her arms yawing from a sitting position in bed. She threw one leg over the edge of the bed, followed shortly by the other. She stood carefully on her shaky sleepy legs, and took a deep breath exhaling long and slow. She felt so much better emotionally knowing that Benjamin knew. The look on his face will never leave her mind, she had to imagine it was the same look Hope had seen on her face only a few days before. Teal shook the worries out of her mind, and walked to the kitchen to find something she and the baby would keep down so she could bathe without leaving bile at the bottom of the shower, and possibly leave the house today. She stood in-front of the open pantry trying to decide what sounded good while ignoring what looked unappetizing. She settled on porridge and apple juice.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She had been doing a lot of pregnancy reading, trying to find the best Muggle ways to handle a pregnancy. They had been doing it forever without magic, and even witches and wizards had not found a way to save a dying mother or her child. Since that was fact using magic to solve her pregnancy symptoms was starting to scare her more and more. She made a note, writing ''ask Hope'' in the margin on one of the pages of her journal. She closed the journal, and cleared her cup and bowl from the table washing it in the sink. Taking the journal to her room, she tucked it into a desk drawer. She picked out her clothes for the day then headed to the bathroom to shower. She started to think of Nyxie, she wondered why Nyx had been keeping in contact with their parents, but not with her. Was Nyxie mad? Did Nyxie blame Teal for what happened to Romy? Teal would understand if Nyxie did. Teal blamed herself. She turned on the water, looked at her forlorn face in the mirror then removed her clothes before she stepped into the shower.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She wrapped a towel around herself before she stepped out of the shower, very carefully. She had fallen before, and it was a pretty bad fall. She stepped on the rug laying outside the tub, balancing herself by holding the shower door and placing her hand on the wall. When both feet were solidly on the floor she let go and wiped the condensation from the mirror. She looked at herself running her hands softly over her face when she noticed the bulging veins on the back of her hands. She looked down to see she had the same ones on her feet. How had she not seen them before?! They were unsightly. She wanted to morph them away, and if she was not so afraid she could cause harm to the little person inside of her she would have. She missed her red hair, she missed the starburst in the center of her bright green eyes. She did not feel like herself, she did not feel like Teal without those trademarks to her appearance. She felt ordinary. She felt common. She sighed at reflection in the mirror, and picked up the clothes that she had planned to wear. She took the pile of clothing back to her room, folded each item and put it away before picking out something more appropriate. She put together a small bag, with her journal, two books, water, crackers, and some of the treats she made while in Portree visiting her parents. She picked up her key and headed out for the day.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She was making her way back home several hours later. She headed up the walk when she noticed an envelope stuck to the door. It had her name ''Teal'' written on it in a familiar print. She took the envelope into her hand, and looked around for the person who could have left it. She unlocked the door, pushed it open and locked it behind her. She left the bag she had been carrying on a table by the door as she walked past it. She sat on the couch tracing a finger over the letters of her name knowing that it was Romy's handwriting. She never thought she would see it again. Yet here it was, in her hands, with a letter from her deceased sister. Teal hesitated dropping the envelope onto the coffee table. She wanted to open it, she wanted to know what Romy had to say. Another part of her wanted to burn it. She thought Romy was dead. If this letter meant that Romy was alive, Teal did not want to know. She sunk back into the couch pulling her knees as close to her as she comfortably could resting her head on the cushions behind her as thoughts of all the damage Romy was going to cause if she truly was back flooding her mind.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She ignored the letter for hours. She even tried to hide it from herself. If she did not see it, perhaps, just perhaps she might not think about it. That tactic did not work. She thought even more about it because it was out of sight. She began to wonder if Romy had tried to reach out for help. Maybe she needed her sister. No. Romy would never ask for help she would only ever manipulate someone into helping her. Teal sighed. She was not going to open the letter. She would never know what Romy had written. It was like Schrödinger's cat. Teal was not about to kill the cat, she was going to let it remain in the life and death state it was perpetually stuck in. The same with Romy. She took the envelope to the sink, conjured a ball of fire and let the papers turn to black ash before her eyes. She felt a chill run through her as she stood completely still watching the fire burn until the flames died out.}}

* Sunday March 2nd

{{Teal|~~~~~|She sat on the couch waiting for Benjamin to return home frenetically scribbling in her journal. Each pen-stroke was an angry stroke. Her ink-lines were bleeding through, and she had ripped a hole in the page she was writing on more than once. She was furious. She was furious with Benjamin. He knew that she had been abandoned as infant. How could he ask her if she "wanted" to lose her baby. How could he even think to ask if she "hoped" she would lose ''their'' baby. Had he forgotten who she was? Had he forgotten how much value she places in preparedness? Of course, he could have. She had been gone for years, and she had done so with no word. On their night together she was not herself. And now in the midst of pregnancy she was not herself either. She began to feel guilty for being so angry with him. Her eyes filled with tears and she started to cry thinking she was a monster. He was only concerned, he had not meant to say something that she would take so personally. She cried for a while letting herself get over the anger, and the sadness his questions dredged up. All the missing pieces of her past she never let herself spill tears over.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She would have considered herself disheveled. Her hair was not pinned back, the length and the volume of which was obvious as it draped around her shoulders, and fell to her waist. She was dressed down, and completely, comfortably, casual. She was positively swimming in one of Benjamin's shirts, wearing a loose pair of night shorts underneath. She was laid back on the couch having fallen asleep with a Muggle book ''What to Expect When You're Expecting'' laying open across her chest.}}

* Thursday March 6th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She woke up in Benjamin's bed feeling her world had changed. She did not feel that same grey cloud hanging over her head, that same longing feeling she went to bed with every night. The feeling that usually made her cry herself to sleep. Knowing Benjamin finally shared his secret. He had told his ex-fiancee that his ex-girlfriend was expecting a child, his child. And that he was going to be with his family. In her heart, it brought Teal unfettered joy. In her head it was a new source of stress. Teal felt like this woman, Mary, had taken Benjamin from her. Teal never said goodbye to him. Technically they never broke up. Teal knew it was unfair for her to think that way. Nevertheless it was how she felt. This woman, Mary, had tried to steal an integral part of Teal. Benjamin. She knew exactly how this woman, Mary, felt losing him. It had to be the same way Teal felt when she lost him, when she lost him because of Romy. The similarities between Mary and herself began to stick out in Teal's mind. She wondered again. What it was about Mary? Why would Benjamin have married ''her''?}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She spread some peanut butter on to a piece of lightly toasted bread, and took a smile bite hoping the peanut butter was not going to be the problem looking at it already was. She had a craving for it, the sight however was nauseating. Even the smell was starting to bother her, but the taste was blissful. She licked some of peanut butter off her finger, and her eyes rolled into the back of her head. She sighed happily and took a bigger bite, while taking breaths with her face turned away from the toast. "This is ridiculous." She laughed and took another couple bite before she decided to toast two more pieces of bread one at a time. Two might be enough, and three might be pushing it.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She cleaned up the mess from her bread crumbs and sticky peanut butter, moving rather quickly towards the end as she was starting to feel it all coming back up. "Why?" She moaned before running to the bathroom. She was getting so much better at controlling her nausea finding ways to work past the overwhelming need to vomit. She tried even harder when Benjamin around not wanting him to hear the sounds, see the sight, or smell the smells. She was getting increasingly nervous about being gassy in-front of him. He is a man, she knew that he knew what it sounds like when a person passed gas. What she did not want was for him to know what it sounded or smelled like when Teal did. She kneeled in-front of the toilet her elbows resting on the bowl while she propped her head up with her hands.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She scrubbed the toilet making sure it was clean for her next use up close and personal visit, then she stepped into the shower. That good feeling she had when she was woke up was gone, so was the added stress, the only thing that remained was the joyful feeling deep inside her heart. She stepped out of the shower carefully, as always. She did not bother to wipe down the mirror, she went straight to the bedroom to pick out her clothes. She had a plan for the day it was the purpose for trying to eat something she craved hoping it would make the baby happy.}}

* Teal at 10 weeks Monday March 10th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She paced every inch of Benjamin's house after waking up early for no apparent reason. Her second appointment with Hope was today, it was making her anxious. She was worried Hope would tell her that morphing so early in her pregnancy had affected the baby. It would grow up deformed if she was even able to carry it to term. She breathed heavily trying to shake the thought out of her mind. She walked to the bedroom and grabbed her journal, then she headed to the kitchen looking for something to drink. She sat at the table with a large glass of water, she took a deep breath, inhaling slowly and exhaling even slower. She pinched the bottom of her lip between her teeth and opened her journal clicking the pen over the page before leaving the following ink marks.

''Appointment #2 Today''

''10 weeks. Just over 2 months.'''

''Pregnancy has not gotten easier. Some parts are not as ... hard to deal with as they first were.''

''Nausea is a thing of the past with the right balance of fresh air, and flavors. Gum works like a Charm.''

''One of the books said something about HG. Hyperemesis gravidarum. It is rare, estimated to affect 0.5–2.0% of pregnant women. Metamorphmagi are rare as well.''

''According to the reading materials the baby is about 3.1cm long from crown to rump and weighs less than 4g.''
}}

* Friday March 14th

{{Teal|~~~~~|Teal woke and laid in bed staring at the walls, and the ceiling, and the floor, at the dust particles floating in the sunlight. It had been a month since she told Benjamin she was pregnant, one month with the knowledge that they were going to have a child together. She was beginning to accept it more with each passing day, she was even becoming less nervous. Her fears of hurting the "little one" with something she had done wrong had not resurfaced since her last appointment. Aside from needing to use her prescriptions she felt like she might actually enjoy pregnancy. She liked the look of her slightly thicker body, it made her feel more like a woman. It made her feel ''sexy''. She smiled pinching her lip between her teeth as she sat up heading to the kitchen for something to eat.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~| It took her longer than usual to decide what to eat, she had a list of different foods to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner written out, and charmed to keep it from getting destroyed. She was running out of her favorites, it was starting to look like she would have to settle for a Tuesday breakfast. She sighed, and picked out fruits for her smoothie then began blending it, cleaning everything after she used it. She decided that adding the yoghurt to the blend was better than eating it. She tried to drink the smoothie slowly, it came out thicker than she wanted. She eventually chose to eat it with a spoon. "You've won this round yoghurt." She finished off her smoothie cleaned the glass, the spoon, and then headed back to the bedroom to pick out clothes for the day. She wanted to visit the day care and orphanage. She told Benjamin she was going to, and she never made it. The more she thought about it, the more it felt like a lie. She picked out her clothes going straight to the bathroom to shower, and head out for the day. }}

{{Teal|~~~~~| She walked to the door to Benjamin's house. She felt good about going to Lil Bundles. It felt like it could be the start to making up for all the wasted time she spent chasing Romy. She was surprised to have met one of the co-owner's Lars, she was even more surprised to learn that he was a Gryffindor Alumni. She constantly wondered all through her time talking with him, and being shown the day care about keeping her mouth shut about being pregnant, and whether or not he knew the father of her baby who also happened to be in Gryffindor. She was able to keep all that information to herself. It made her laugh thinking of what Benjamin would say if she had over-shared with that man. She set her bag down on the couch beside her, pulled out her prescriptions, and a bottle of water. She sighed taking them both, then laid back on the couch. She pinched the bottom of her lip between her teeth staring up at the ceiling, nervous for no reason.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~| After the patronus from her mum, a patronus she had never seen before. Teal was a little more than freaked out. She sat on the couch eyes wide in panic, her hands gripping the cushions so tightly her knuckles were white. The message was not what alarmed her, the message had been some of the most comforting news she had received in the last few days. It was the fact that her mum bothered to send a patronus at all. It worried Teal, and she instantly disliked the feeling that something was wrong. "Nyxie's coming..." She repeated. That was the news. "Meet her in Rainham." It was a good thing. They would get to stay in the apartment together, for a few days. It would be like old times. "Almost..." Why was there that little feeling of fear that only kept getting worse as time went by. Teal sighed. Something bad was going to happen.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~| She was getting dressed trying to find something to wear that did not make her look fat or pregnant. She had yet to tell any of her family, and she definitely did not want Nyxie to make a stupid guess that happened to be right. Teal choose something demure, and still professionally respectable. She may not have worked for the Ministry of Magic anymore, that did not mean she could not dress like a Ministry official. She packed up the same bag she used to visit Benjamin. She hoped to stay in Rainham with Nyxie a few nights, although she doubted Nyxie would stay in London longer than a few hours. Teal always regretted teaching Nyxie to Apparate, it was Nyxie after all who taught Romy. She left a note for Benjamin, telling him exactly where she planned to be for the next few days, and who she would be with --to stress the importance-- she wrote down the address to the apartment as a just in case, she knew he would have a way to find it even without her. She smiled thinking of Benjamin as she walked out of the house, locking the door behind her.}}

* Teal at 11 & 12 weeks Tuesday March 16th - 28th

{{Teal|~~~~~|She showed up at the apartment first, of course. She wanted to throw some things around, and make the place look, and smell lived in. She did not want Nyxie to know she was living with Benjamin, most of all she did not want Nyxie to know she was pregnant. She cleaned the dust off of '''everything''' doing triple checks just to make sure. She started brewing different types of Potions right away so the smell would hang in the air. She sighed looking around finding herself missing the place when it had been bare. She laughed at the thought making her way through to the kitchen to find something to snack on.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|Nyxie came through the door lugging a few bags slung haphazardly over one shoulder, and a single animal in an over-sized cage.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She walked out of the kitchen with the stick of one of the nausea pops she made sticking out of her mouth. She took one look at the cage Nyxie lovingly set on the floor, then Nyxie's bags, Nyxie's reddish hair, then Nyxie's face. She smiled standing frozen in place watching her. It was so, so, so good to see her again.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She was so consumed with the animal in the cage she did not even notice her sister standing in the same room with her, nor did she notice Teal was home. She looked inside the cage nervously for a few second before laying on the floor on her stomach in-front of it.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She smiled staring down at Nyxie's worried sighs. "Nyxie. Get off the floor, please."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"No." She sighed, and rolled her eyes. She stared into the cage before she stood up, and dusted herself off. "When did you get here?" She crossed her arms over her chest.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I have been here for a few hours, Nyxie. You may not have noticed me because you brought a ''friend''."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I did." She laughed. "He's adorable. Once you see his face, you're gonna love him too. I know it!" She smirked. "Did you cook? I'm starving."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I was going to." She nodded "What do you feel like eating? Veggie pizza?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Raw Cauliflower Crust?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She nodded, although she had been thinking of her special pregnant lady veggie pizza. "Were you thinking of something else when I said veggie pizza?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"People change, . . . "}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|Her face grew sad, and she could feel the tears welling up. "I-... I am going to go and make the pizza. You make sure you let ''him'' out of that cage when he wakes up. I know you hate to have animals travel that way."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I'm gonna leave the cage door, open. He can come out whenever he wants to."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"You better not!" She walked all the way back to the entry way to make sure Nyxie heard her warning.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I won't. ..." She rolled her eyes.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She waited with narrowed eyes before walking back to the kitchen.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"While you're still standing here." She smiled opening the cage and blowing a kiss before walking to the kitchen to help cook.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What are you doing in here?" She frowned at Nyxie. }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Helping." She smiled as she finished washing her hands.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Make the crust." She smiled. "Please."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You don't have to be so formal, Teapea, it's only me." She laughed. "Did you put everything in?" Nyxie put her nose to the bowl and took a whiff.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|Her eyes went wide, she had been getting baby brain. Did she forget to add an ingredient? Her mind went through the number of ingredients as her eyes searched among the ones placed on the counter. }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Golden flax, hemp seeds, ..." She looked up from the bowl silent in thought. "Himalayan salt. I brought some!" She looked over at Teal and smiled. "Get the flax and the hemp seeds, I'll go get the salt. Don't forget to add some black pepper, maybe a dash of white."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She sighed, and smiled as Nyxie left, it felt good to have her back. After the thing with Mary and her sister Teresa, she wondered how Benjamin would feel having Nyxie around to help take care of the baby after the little one was born. She wondered if Nyxie would even want to be around. She hated people, all people in general. What made her think Nyxie would get along with her own niece or nephew. She tried not to be distracted. She tried to focus on the pizza crust, and this time she had with her sister.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She came back in the kitchen with pink salt. "He's up, but I swear he'll be good."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What does that mean?" She stared at Nyxie brows furrowed.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"It means he might come in here, and he might not." She smiled. "Did you put in the seeds like I told you to?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"No. I forgot." She grabbed the pepper-mill and twisted it over the bowl of dry crust mixture. "I put in pepper."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Stealth mode. I didn't even see that." She rolled her eyes, and laughed. "How toasted do want them? Crackers or kind of doughy?" She added in the flax and hemp seeds giving the bowl a light dash of salt.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Crackers." }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Crackers." }}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She laughed, and covered her mouth as she did, keeping her cauliflower crusted hand far from making contact with her face.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She smiled and cocked her head to the right staring at her sister. "Why do you do that?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Do what?" She smiled putting her hands back in the bowl to grab handfuls of mix flattening them out to make crust.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Cover your mouth when you laugh. You've been doing it forever."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I didn't even notice it."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I can't believe you still do it."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Should I? ... Should I try to stop? Is it ''that'' noticeable?" She tore the crust she was making, and tried to mend the tear she made by forcing two edges together.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"No. It's cute. It's you." She smiled. "I'm surprised someone hasn't already called you out on it, and gotten you to get all ''Teal' 'about it, go mega self-conscious trying to find a way to fix it."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Oh." She nods, and wonders if Benjamin has ever noticed, he noticed a lot of things that she had yet to notice about herself.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Steamroller." She looked at Teal with a hard glare. "I'm not judging you. I love you no matter what."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"No matter what." She pinched the inside of her bottom lip with her teeth. Would Nyxie still love her after this week, no matter what?}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~| She cooked off the pizza dough crisping the edges just the way they like it. "Do you want me to make yours?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Yes. When I finish slicing I can help you, if you want me to."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You can sit down. Check on Ten for me. Will you?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Ten?" She was not going to sit down without cleaning a little first. She started washing knives, and scooping sliced vegetables into resealable containers.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Tenerife." She smiled placing a slice of tomato down on each crust, and topping it with thin strips of onion. "I've been calling him Ten for short."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What ... is he?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"He's a ... hybrid."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"''We'' are hybrids, Nyxie. What did you bring here with you?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"He's supposed to be part-crup. He's got ten tails Teal! He's only eight weeks old, today. I couldn't let him get nine of his tails cut off. He's just a baby!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Did you ... steal him?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"No? ... I adopted him. ... Actually. You did." She smiled guiltily.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I did what?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You adopted Ten, from the Spanish Ministry."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie." She sighed.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"You could not have thought of anything else?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"This worked out just fine." She shrugged.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I cannot keep him."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You have to!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Why? He is '''your''' dog."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"No. He's ''your'' crup."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie!" She groaned.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Teal!" She groaned back.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"No. Dogs are messy and ... sort of stupid."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Other dogs, maybe. Not Ten. He's wizard-bred. He's partially trained, and he's a really good dog."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Then you keep him."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I can't!" She sighed. "If I could, Teal. We both know I would. Romania is not very happy with me, after having to watch my every move for the last few years."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She pinched the inside of her lip between her teeth.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Exactly. I can't do anything wrong or they are going to have to call me on it. I had to save him, I had to get Ten out of the Canary Islands. If I didn't Spain was gonna have him put down. I couldn't let that happen."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She sighed "Don.. Isn.." All she wanted to was to ask her sister was if there was someone else she knew that could raise the dog for her. It was not the right question for Nyxie. Nyxie didn't make human friends. "How long am I supposed to keep him?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Forever?" She smiled innocently.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie!" She groaned again burying her head in her hands. How was she supposed to handle a baby, and a partially trained crup?}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Take these to the table while I feed Ten." She left the kitchen, and the perfect veggies pizzas she layered on clean white plates for Teal to take to the dinning room table. She walked to the entryway looking for Ten, the eight week old part-crup pup. He wasn't in his cage. She spun around searching for him, then reached into one of her bags, and pulled out a squeaky toy shaped like a rolled up newspaper, and a dog whistle. "Ten!" She called to him walking through the house looking for the bright eyed little cutie.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"NYXIE!" She screamed.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Hold on! I'm looking for Ten."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"NYXIE!" She screamed again.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"HOLD ON!" She screamed back before blowing into the whistle then screaming again. "TEN!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"NYXIE!" Teal screamed once more. "He's in here! On my lap."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Oh." She walked into the dinning room, and squealed seeing Ten on Teal's lap trying to get comfortable. "Ten!" She dropped to her knees, and squeezed the chew toy making it squeak. The little pup looked at her his tongue hanging from his mouth. "Ten. Stay." He sat in Teal's lap, and barked once. His eyes were glued to the toy, and his tongue was still dangling.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Ten. Get down." She glared at Nyxie for making the dog sit in her lap. The little pup jumped down clumsily from Teal's lap, and sat on the ground. "Oh." She laughed looking down at him sitting at attention on the floor. "I-I had no idea."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I told you he was partially trained. He's quick to learn but, he gets excited very easily." Nyxie tossed him the squeak toy, and he happily ran off with it.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"He is adorable, Nyxie." She smiled thinking of Benjamin's bright blue eyes. "His eyes are mesmerizing."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Who? Ten? Or Ben?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|Her eyes went wide. "What?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Ben. Benji? You were thinking about him... well you were thinking about his eyes." She smirked.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie!"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What would make you say that?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Legilimency was a requirement in a Romania when I became part of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. I know exactly what you were thinking. I just don't know why..." She grinned playfully.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"How come mum, and dad have yet to tell me you are a Legilimens?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"They don't know."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie?! Why would you not tell them?" She was proud of her sister, she also wanted to change the subject. There would be time to discuss Benjamin later.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I don't know."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"They would be just as proud of you as I am. It is a little scary to know how far you have advanced. I still believe you can handle it."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~| She frowned. "I don't want them to think less of me. You know how they feel about magic."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"They have it, and they choose not to use it. That does not mean they would love you any less for how you choose to use ''your'' magic. Nyxie, tell me that is not what you are afraid of?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"No." She looked away. "Yes." She frowned. "Remember how they reacted when I told them I wanted to go to Greece?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"You told them you wanted to chase Chimaera? How were they supposed to react to that?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"They were supposed to be happy for me."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"It is hard to be happy for someone who is choosing to do something reckless."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"That's easy for you to say." She grimaced rolling her eyes. "You've never disappointed them."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She sighed staring at her sister.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She nodded knowing she was right, and began picking at her pizza.}}

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{{Teal|~~~~~|She woke up to Ten cuddled beside her. He was not asleep he was lying beside her watching her sleep. When she opened her eyes, and looked at him, his head popped up and his tongue fell out of his mouth. "Good morning, Ten." She giggled, and pet the little pup who proceeded walked all over her until he was sitting on her chest. "Ten. No. Down." She sat up, pushing the little pup off her chest, and back onto the bed. "You should not even be on ''my'' bed. Ten. Down." She pointed to Ten, then to the floor. He barked once, then he looked at the floor as Teal pointed, then he looked back at her, his tongue still dangling from his mouth.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Teal? Is Ten in here with you? I heard him bark." She pushed Teal's door open all the way and smiled seeing Ten, and Teal sitting on the bed. "I told you."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"No. He did this. I woke up, and he was on the bed."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Sure. He does do that, but ''you'' let him stay." She teased.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I just woke up. I opened my eyes, and there he was starring right at me."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Aw! He likes you! I knew he would."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I bet you did. How do I get him off the bed? And keep him off."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"He still needs a little more training." She smiled sitting at the foot of Teal's bed, and calling Ten towards her. "I know he can understand what I'm saying, he chooses not to."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"He thinks he's human."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"He thinks he's human." She rolled her eyes before glaring at Teal "I knew you were going to say that. ...And no, he doesn't." She scratched the under side of Ten's belly making him thump his foot on the bed. "He's better than human."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie." She smiled, the sister she knew had not changed one bit. "Get him off my bed."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Ten." She stared at the little pup standing from off the bed. "Down. Now!" Ten jumped off the bed, and sat at Nyxie's feet. "See. He listens, but ... I think he only does it when he wants to?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Because you let him think he's human." She laughed.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She glared at her sister then smiled. "I'm hungry."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I am too."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What are we having?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Muesli?" }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She grimaced. "... I want peanut butter, and bagels, and chocolate. I want nutella!" She grinned suddenly, and her eyes went wide.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She stared at Nyxie curiously almost afraid to ask. "What?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I want a Nanaimo bar."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She smiled. "Do you remember how to make them?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She narrowed her eyes raising one brow very slightly. "Do you remember how ask stupid questions?" She stuck her tongue out. "You make them better, but yeah, I remember how."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Good." She nodded. "I am not certain if we have everything here, one of us might need to go out, and pick up some stuff."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I'll let you get ready. We can take Ten out. He'll love that." She smiled slapping her thigh twice calling Ten to follow her as she left the room.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"We? No, I said one of us. Nyxie. Nyxie!" She called to Nyxie as she continued to walk away.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I can't hear you!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Yes you can!"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"No ... I can't" She tried to throw her voice, and pretend she was farther away than she really was.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~| She sighed, and tossed her legs over the edge of the bed standing up, and stretching very carefully. She grabbed some clothes, and made her way to the bathroom to shower before fixing something to eat.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~| She listened from the kitchen, and she walked closer to the bathroom door when she heard Teal singing in the shower. She laughed to herself before taking Ten out back.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She dressed, and made herself presentable in the bathroom before stepping out, and heading to the kitchen. "Nyxie?" She searched the house for Nyxie, and Ten. Not finding them inside she headed toward the backdoor. "Nyxie?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"We're out here!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~| She stepped out back smiling as she watched Nyxie playing with Ten. She could never understand how Nyxie could be so loving, and nurturing to creatures, but have such a distaste for humankind.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She looked up at her sister, and smiled waving her over. "Come here."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~| She walked over standing beside her sister.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Here." She handed Teal a small rubber ball. "Toss it."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"How far?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Teal." She gave her sister a look. "I don't remember you ever being a professional athlete. Just throw it."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~| She threw the ball, and was surprised to see the speed and power in Ten's little puppy body as he chased after it leaping to catch it in midair. "Did you teach him that?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Nope." She smiled shaking her head. "Good boy, Ten." As Ten came running back he dropped the ball at Teal's feet, Nyxie picked it up, and handed it back to Teal.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie!" She used her other hand effectively covering them both in the slobber that the ball was also covered in.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What? Did you think it wasn't slobbery the first time." She laughed.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Ew!" She threw the ball again, and walked back toward the house.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Where are you going? He's not done playing with you."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I am hungry, and dog slobbery hands are not very appetizing."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"They are to dogs." She laughed picking the ball up again, and tossing it to for Ten.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She darted into the house headed straight for the bathroom, she had to get that slobber of her hands before she threw up. She washed her hands pressing her lips together tightly. She turned her head before she was able to turn the water off, and dropped down to the floor quickly trying to aim for the toilet bowl.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She brought Ten back in the house, she took him to a pet bed she had set up for him in the living room. She tossed a few toys on the little bed before commanding him sternly. "Ten. Stay." She eyed him, and pointed. Ten starred at her his tongue flopping out of his mouth. She laughed quietly walking into the kitchen.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She quickly cleaned the mess she made, and brushed her teeth again before leaving the bathroom, heading for the kitchen.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What are we eating."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What do you want?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I told you. I want a Nainamo bar."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"You can't have Nainamo bars for breakfast."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Have you looked at the clock lately? It's after noon."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She laughed and pointed at Nyxie. "Not the point."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She touched the tip of Teal's finger with her own. "What is the point?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"If a Nainamo bar is your first meal of the day, it is your breakfast."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You said that like I would only eat one." She smiled.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She laughed. "We are not having dessert for breakfast." }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Lunch."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Lunch." She smiled picking through the pantry for something to eat.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"We're still making them though?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Of course. But not right now. Right now we are going to have pancakes."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Panclocks! With blueberries?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Unless you were thinking something else." She smiled setting out the ingredients, and a large mixing bowl.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I don't get why people eat them with anything else."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Banana pancakes are not entirely terrible, they are a bit of an acquired taste."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Who likes acquired tastes." She grabbed a large flat pan, and set it aside while she sliced fruit to make smoothies for them both.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"You." She laughed. "Are you or are you not the one who insisted we eat a raw food diet."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Raw food is not an ''acquired taste''. It's natural."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"And sometimes natural is disgusting." She smiled. "Will you get me a-"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Pan. Already did." She tilts her head in the direction of the pan. "You say that about organic food because you just don't know what good food is."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What makes you say that?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"... You're." She didn't want to say it, she knew Teal was going to be offended. "You're looking sort of... curvy?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She tried not let those words enter her mind, she tried to play dumb. "What are you saying?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Nothing. Never-mind."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie. ..." She hesitated still apprehensive about telling anyone.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Teal."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie. I'm pregnant."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She almost sliced her fingers open. She yanked her hand back from the cutting board, she set the knife down carefully and turned to face Teal.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Benjamin, and I are having a baby."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~| "That's why you were thinking about him!" She covered her mouth leaving fruit stains on her face as she broke into the giggles.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|''That's not the only reason.'' She smiled.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What's the other reason?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie!"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Teal!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"He was engaged. We, he and I ... I am not sure how to say this." She laughed nervously.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Had sex. Go on."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~| She blushed.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Steamroller." She pointed at her sister with fruit flesh covered finger. "Go on."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"He told me they had ended their engagement."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Okay, and that's a bad thing how?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She shook her head forgetting how complicated personal relationships were, and how difficult it would be to explain the intricacies to someone who did not have any. Not with anyone or anything that was not considered a beast or creature of some kind. "I know he loves me, and I know, at least I hope he knows that I love him. I worry that ... this," She points to her belly. "This is too much too soon."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Life only gives you what you can handle. You were born to be a mother." She shrugged. "If you two ended up together after everything, he was born to be the father."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She started to cry. She was not sad, she was happy. Overjoyed that Nyxie was not upset, and that she seemed to be more accepting of the changes to their family than Teal herself had been. She stopped cooking, and threw her arms around Nyxie.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What are you doing?" She wasn't uncomfortable, but it was weird. They hadn't hugged since they were little girls, since they had been at the orphanage sharing one bed.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I'm sorry." She sniffled. "I didn't think you would be happy."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Why?" She ignored the fruit stains on her hands and embraced her sister. "Because people are stupid?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Be cause you ''think'' people are stupid."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I could never think that about you, or your baby." She laughed. "Teal! You're having a baby!"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I know! I'm so scared!"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Because of mum?" She nodded already knowing.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Not just that. We don't know where we come from. What if I can't even have a baby?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She pushed Teal away so she could look her in the eye. "If you couldn't have a baby, I don't think you would be pregnant." She smiled "So? When?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"A few months ago."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Not that." She sighed before trying to do the math. "November?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Late September, I think."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"That's the perfect time for a birthday. How is your baby's daddy taking it."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Don't call him that." She frowned.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She laughed. "That's what he is. Would you prefer the father of your child."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|Her frowned deepened, and she glared. "He has a name, I would prefer if you use it." She used a tone she typically reserved for Romy, firm and with a slight edge to it. }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Sorry." She grimaced. "How is ''Benjamin'' taking it?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"About as well as I am. Probably better, he is so much more calm than I am."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"That's good. You need that."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She shot Nyxie a look.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Don't look at me like that. You do, and you know it. That's probably how you ended up together in the first place. He has something you need, and you have something he needs."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She laughed thinking about him.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Yep. That's what I thought."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie!" She scolded her before she went back to making their late pancake lunch.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Teal." She laughed before she went back to chopping fruit.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She piled high one plate with blueberry pancakes, and carried two extra plates to the table.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She poured the smoothies into two large glasses, and brought them to the table. "Teapea! They smell so good." She started to drool.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I should hope so. I put a lot of love into them."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You and baby, am I right?" She nodded sticking her tongue between her teeth.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She raised a brow, and gave Nyxie a look. }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She sat down easily taking half the stack of pancakes onto her empty plate. "I still wanna talk about it," She grimaced she didn't like referring to Teal, and Benjamin's baby as an 'it'. "...her, him. Shim? You know what I mean."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"I do." She nodded taking two pancakes onto her own plate.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"So? Do you think you're having a boy or a girl?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She shrugged covering her mouth to speak. "I have no idea. I was under the impression it wasn't all that obvious yet that I'm pregnant."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"It is." She shoved another forkful of pancake into her mouth picking up a blueberry with her hands, and tossing it into her mouth as well.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie." She sighed.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She pushed her half-chewed food to one side of her mouth. "I didn't mean it like ''that''. You are curvier, but it's not just that. ''You'' are different. You talk different, you look different. ..."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What do you mean?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"You almost never use contractions. It's the most annoying thing '''ever'''." She nodded. "Every once in a while you slip a few in there, and then you go right back to not using them. And, I wasn't about to bring this up. But, your hair." She pointed at Teal with her fork.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What's wrong with my hair?" She did not want to be so self-conscious, but with her sister pointing out what sounded to her like obvious flaws she could not help but to be.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"See. You just did it. What's." She smiled. "The Teal ''I'' grew up with would never say 'what's', she would have said 'what is'." She dropped her fork, and her eyes rolled back into her head as she pretended to strangle herself. "I always hated that, so I'm glad baby is messing with your brain. I guess pregnancy is messing with your powers too. I didn't notice this before, but you're eyes are way less green then they usually are. You... you look more like me than you usually do."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She frowned. Unsure of how to respond she brought a forkful of pancake to her mouth.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Don't be mad. I'm only telling you what I noticed."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Maybe I didn't want you to notice."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"That's too bad. Everyone is going to notice in a few more months."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Will you come with me? When I tell mum, and dad?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I have a bunch of problems with that!" She shot Teal a look.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Why?"}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"I'm not the one having a baby, and I'm also not the one that got you pregnant. That's something you, and Benjamin should be doing together. Do they even know you're...seeing him again."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Not exactly." She began pinching her bottom lip between her teeth.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"And you want ''me'' to be there when you drop that bomb? Why?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Because you're my sister." She looked across the table at Nyxie sadly.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She looked at Teal suspiciously.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Nyxie, you are the first person, second of course to Benjamin, that I choose to tell. I wasn't sure how he was going to take it, and to tell you the truth..." She hesitated biting her lip, she had not even been this honest with Benjamin. "I put off telling him because I didn't think he would want ''our'' baby. I'm already afraid that the abilities we were born with could do damage that no is aware of until it is too late. The last thing I want is dad asking Benjamin all sorts of stupid questions that I don't think he has any right to ask."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Fine. I'll go with you." She sighed. "But you're gonna owe me one."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"You cashed in your one when you got here."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"What? How?"}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She folded her hand on the table, a very small smile on her face. "Ten." She spoke quietly to keep the dog from running in, and jumping on her lap, again.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"''Right.'' So... you are going to keep him?" Her eyes lit up, and she started to bounce with excitement.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Not if Benjamin is allergic, or my baby turns out to be."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"That can always be remedied." She laughed.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She shook hear head and smiled.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~|She sat on a bench outside of the strange supermarket Nyxie '''had''' to go to. The smell even from outside was offending Teal, and the baby. She wrapped Ten's leash around her wrist, and pulled out her journal. She clicked the pen over the page before leaving the following ink marks.

''One fear down, one million to go.''
''Benjamin has been gone for a while now, almost three weeks. I miss him every single day, and it is harder than I thought it would be not to cry myself to sleep. I know he is coming back home, to me. I cannot help but to be afraid that he will not make it.''
''Being pregnant has steadily gotten easier, and steadily become more difficult. The emotional, and physical changes happening to me are another topic of conversation, they should not, I feel, be lumped in with some of my other symptoms.''
''I cannot think straight, I feel as if I cannot do anything the way that I know how to do it. I get a little more eager to hear that heartbeat again every time I think about it. It was a strong beat from the first thump, our little one has got a lot of heart.''}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|She stands at the door of the shop looking out at her sister. "If I buy this will you eat it? I don't think you will, and it doesn't matter. If you will I'll buy more."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"What is it?" She looked up trying not to include the conversation in her writing.}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Cereal bars. They have real fruit in the middle."}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|"Get them... get two."}}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~|"Get two." She walked off opening the box, and eating one while she shopped.}}
{{Teal|~~~~~|She smiled, and rolled her eyes looking down at Ten as he whined watching Nyxie walk way, and disappear inside the shop again.}}

{{Teal|~~~~~| }}
{{Nyxie|~~~~~| }}

\*March 20th

\*March 23rd

\*March 26th

TO BE CONTINUED . . .

* Teal at 13 weeks Saturday March 29th

* Tuesday April 1st

* Teal at 14 weeks Saturday April 5th

* Tuedsay April 8th

* Friday April 11th

* Teal at 15 weeks Monday April 14th

* Thursday April 17th

* Teal at 16 weeks Sunday April 20th

* Wednesday April 23rd

* Teal at 17 weeks Saturday April 26th

* Tuesday April 29th

* Friday May 2nd

* Teal at 18 weeks Monday May 5th (First fetal movement)

* Thursday May 8th

* Teal at 19 weeks Sunday May 11th

* Wednesday May 14th

* Teal at 20 weeks Saturday May 17th (Gender confirmation)

* Tuesday May 20th

* Friday May 23rd

* Teal at 21 weeks Monday May 26th

* Thursday May 29th

* Teal at 22 weeks Sunday June 1st

* Wednesday June 4th

* Saturday June 7th

* Teal at 23 weeks Wednesday June 10th

* Friday June 13th

* Teal at 24 weeks Monday June 16th

* Thursday June 19th

* Teal at 25 weeks Sunday June 22nd

* Wednesday June 25th

* Teal at 26 weeks Saturday June 28th

* Tuesday July 1st

* Friday July 4th

* Teal at 27 weeks Monday July 7th

* Thursday July 10th

* Teal at 28 weeks Sunday July 13th

* Thursday July 17th

* Teal at 29 weeks Sunday July 20th

* Wednesday July 23rd

* Teal at 30 weeks Saturday July 26th

* Tuesday July 29th

* Friday August 1st

* Teal at 31 weeks Monday August 4th

* Thursday August 7th

* Teal at 32 weeks Sunday August 10th

* Wednesday August 13th

* Teal at 33 weeks Saturday August 16th

* Tuesday August 19th

* Friday August 22nd

* Teal at 34 weeks Monday August 25th

* Thursday August 28th

* Teal at 35 weeks Sunday August 31st

* Wednesday September 3rd

* Teal at 36 weeks September 6th

* Tuesday September 9th

* Friday September 12th

* Teal at 37 weeks Monday September 15th

* Thursday September 18th

* Teal at 38 weeks Sunday September 21st