Chapter twenty-six of Sleepless has been posted.
Chapter Twenty Six February: 2009
His pacing was relentless- back and forth, back and forth. The rhythm was become all too familiar by now- after hours of this, it felt like the only constant in his life. How long had they been there, exactly? How long had it been since he'd been kicked out of the room while his wife gave birth? That hadn't happened when she was having Rose. Rose had been fairly uncomplicated, to be honest. Ron had been there the whole time. It was fine. He'd held Hermione's hand and encouraged her and regularly given his family members updates on what was going on. But now he was just as clueless as they were. He couldn't even hear what was going on, due to the powerful silencing charm placed on the door. It was meant to protect family members from having to hear the screaming, he knew that. Its main purpose at the moment, however, seemed to be simply to drive him insane.
Ron was nervous, Ron was scared, and Ron was angry. He wasn't used to being told no when it came to Hermione- what was her business was usually his business. He was her husband, for the love of fucking Merlin. He was always there. For everything. He could get into the courtroom to watch her being all lawyer-y. He could sit there for hours and watch her be a mum if he wanted to. And he was pretty sure it was within his rights to be there when she gave birth. Wasn't it? Unless something was going terribly, terribly wrong, it was absolutely positively within his rights to be able to be there for her during the birth of one of their children. Which brought along the unthinkable question: was something wrong? Were there complications?
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