Mrs Darwell
We are writing to inform you that carers will be appearing at your house today at 8 o'clock to escort Mr Darwell to the hospitals facilities. We advise that you are close by to keep Mr Darwell calm and explain the situation to him but not close enough where he may be able to harm you with physical contact.
Regards
Wood round psychiatric clinic
Auroras hands shook around the letter her eyes widened and vision grew glassy so the words formed fuzzy lines instead of vocabulary.
Her fist clenched causing the letter to fall to the ground. "Aurora?" Tom yelled from the bedroom.
She wanted to yell back, she wanted to get the letter back badly into her pocket so he couldnt see it but she was completely frozen in a sickening wash of confusion guilt and fright.
"Darling are you alright the waters been running for ages!" Tom shouted ignoring the thickening silence that began to creep around the bathroom.
Aurora couldnt break it, it felt like her mouth was stuck open in a state of shock, the silence was smothering her, crushing down in her the weight of her actions trying to crack her bones as it pulled on top of her.
She heard Tom getting up from the bed and walking quickly towards the bathroom and as if some primal instinct she was snatched from her traumatized state as he tried to push open the door.
"No! No Tom stay outside!" She demanded flinging herself as the door trying to shove him out but he kept fighting.
"what why? Are you okay did something happen? Is it the baby?" He asked still trying to push her off of the door on the other side.
Aurora felt vomit rising up in her throat from the sheer panick over taking her system as her foot tried to reach for the the crumpled letter on the floor but she couldnt reach.
"I'm- I'm fine everything fine! I just...i-i just got my period!" She blurted out without thinking then mentally punched herself in the head when she realized what she said.
"What!" Tom panicked voice shouted trying more eagerly to shove the door down. "What do you mean you got your period? your pregnant! What's going in why wont you let me in!" He demanded jamming his foot in the gap in the door trying to pry it open.
"Tom get out!" She yelled banging her fists to push the door further and trying to push his shoulder out of the room as his chest fit through the gap in the door way.
He shoved the door once more and Auroras arms gave way and the door sprung open and Tom stormed into the room looking for some sort of Injury his eyes confused and anxious looking.
Aurora watched him silently her whole body was rigged her fingernails digging into her palms as she prayed to any and all gods that he wouldnt see the letter crumpled in the corner of the bathroom.
He gave her a strange look "why are you being so strange are you okay or-" he stopped as Auroras luck ran out and his eyes snagged on the paper.
He looked at her raising his eyebrows and chuckling and he bent down to pick it up. "Tom leave it it's-its nothing its just a bill for-" she tried to convince him grabbing the back of his shoudlers trying to get the paper from him desperately.
Tom easily kept it away from her grasp by dangling it playfully above her head grinning at her pathetic attempts to reach it.
"What? Is it some secret lover from france? Or maybe spain?" He joked as he turned his back to her so she couldnt get it and opened the crumpled letter.
"Tom seriously dont! You dont need to see it" she argued trying to grab it over his shoulders. Her mind worked quickly through the panic and her hands travelled down quickly to his pajama bottoms pocket dipping g and her hand closed round the long stick of wood pulling g it out and hiding it behind her back.
Tom was still laughing light heartedly at her thinking it was something she was embarrassed of or... Aurora stiffened when his laughing came to a sickening halt and silence overwhelmed them like a thick blanket.
He turned round and his heart seemed to turn to a heavy stone as he saw Aurora standing infront of him her arm outstretched and his wand in her hand pointed straight at him.
She was trying so hard to be seen as ruthless she was trying so hard to fight off the emotion itching onto her face but it was given away from the tig of her lips not to gasp for breath and the glass plates in her eyes.
All she saw on his face was betrayal. Betrayal betrayal betrayal what a heavy word. It made her feel disgusting.
So she kept reciting the reasons she was doing this. Muggleborns, children, war, the potters, regulus, baby. Muggleborns, children, war, the potters, regulus, baby. Muggleborns, children. War, the-.
"So...you did call them" he finally said breaking the everlasting silence. Aurora nodded shakily.
"Why?" He finally spat out his eyes where filled with disappointment that made Auroras conscience feel heavier and heavier.
She stared at him for a moment, the wand shaking in her hand as she tried to point it at his chest while holding his burning gaze, the letter in his hand had fallen to the cold marble floor, drifting through the air like a floating g death but when it made contact with the chilling stone the side caught fire in flaming orange flares and the note burnt infront of her from the fires of Tom's anger, his magic pulsating in the small flames that turned the parchment to ash.
"I cant stand here and do nothing... I wont-... I won't watch you ruin yourself, this world" she said her voice was sharp yet wavering.
"I do not to plan in ruining our world Aurora. I plan to cleanse it, to rebuild it, make it stronger..."
"by wiping out an entire race" she interrupted his words fierce her anger started to evolve into confidence.
Tom paused "animals kill off the weakest link of the pack to make them stronger, to make their chance of survival higher. To provide for their offspring and give them a chance in life-"
"we are not animals Tom. We are humans, wizards actually. Mugglborns are not any weaker than you and I" she protested.
Tom sighed "you do not understand" he said softly "I do understand, I understand that you are sick and you need help." She stopped her face softened ever so slightly as well as her tone.
"You're ill Tom, and I know you dont know that but you've got to trust me when i say I'm trying to help you. This... this empire you've built isn't real! It isnt what you want... dont you see you've trapped yourself in your own mind" she tried to reason with him, to make him see why she was doing this, why he needed this.
But he was ignorant and stubborn and refused to see her side of the arguement, his walls that had fallen around him for the day built back up around him. Hard cold stone blocking any affection from her. She could see his eyes harden like drying choclate.
"You're wrong" he spat viciously. Aurora sighed sorrowful and shook her head.
"One day you'll see..." she said quietly. Tom paused, he took a step forward and Aurora wasted no time hitting him with a light red spell shouting "Preoccupo!" Tom stumbled back feeling a tingling sensation in his hands, he looked back up to her breathing heavily like an enraged dragon.
"You taught me that spell, dont you remember? Stops your opponent using wandless magic" she said Tom scowled his eyes flaring up with fear and rage then he lunged forward trying to grab her and the wand from her grasp but she dodged him quickly and dashed to the door but his hand caught round her wrist his tight grip bruising into her skin as he tried to yank her back.
she looked back at him a small gasp escaping her lips. "Dont you dare" he growled but she did she aimed the wand "stupefy" she shouted causing Tom to fall back into the roo. his back hitting the sink with a sickening thud.
Aurora was quick to close the door locking it speedily and mumbling her charms and runes. She jumped when she felt the vibrations of the banging on the other side of the door and his shouts through the wood.
She finished off the runes with shaky hands and backed away from the door breathing deeply. Tom continued to pound on the door and Aurora thanked Merlin that the house had been installed with unbreakable glass windows due to Tom's overwhelming paranoia.
He shouted through the door lists and lists of profanities leaving his lips anger being converted into a stream of hateful words. Aurora squeezed her eyes shut and faced away from the door covering her ears with her hands. She didnt realize there where tears running down her cheeks until she tasted the saltiness on her lips.
The pounding stopped.
Auroras eyes shot open in fear that something happened. She uncovered her ears and made her way towards the door reaching for the handle but she stopped herself before her skin would touch the brass.
She stood quietly trying to listen. Then she heard it, the heavy breathing on the other side of the door so close it felt like it was only centimetres away.
"Aurora...." the voice started hoarse from screaming, Aurora could only imagine the damaged he had done to his hands.
"Please sunshine... dont do this to me..." he said. Aurora pressed her lips together.
"You cant... you cant send me away, what about us? What about the baby? Are you really going to take him away from me? He's my son too" he said.
Aurora stood up a little straighter her shoulders stiffened and a stab of guilt in her abdomen that made her rethink her entire decision. She shook her head tightly and let her hand drop to her side.
Stay strong don't cave into him! The voice in her head whispered into her ear.
"I...I have to Tom. For his safety- for thousands of peoples safety I have to do this" she breathed against the wood hearing the hand held above Tom head slide down the door in defeat.
"You can't..." he hissed angrily through clenched teeth. "Are you really that determined to be the cause of my down fall? To cause my failure? First you burn down an entire fucking street and now this?" He asked venemously.
"When does it end?" Aurora clenched her jaw forcing herself to be strong and rigid. "Its stops when you stop. Some day you'll understand everything I've done is for you" she spat at the door.
She didnt wait for a response nor did she want to hear one but she did anyway as she turned in her heels walking away steadily and closed the bedroom door she heard the ferocious banging and screaming become distant like a blurry dream.
No, a nightmare.
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There was a knock at the door. It was hard and loud like booming thunder and made Aurora's stiff form jump at the sound of it.
She waited, as if she had imagined it or maybe she just hoped they'd go away. There it was again, knocking. Loud thunderous knocking.
She rose to her feet and ran swiftly to the top of the stairs. When she reached the top she paused waiting to see if they'd knock again, she was stalling.
The hard bang drew her out of her thoughts and she rushed do the stairs yanking the large door open.
Imediately a crowd of men crowded in dressed in white lab coats and light blue scrubs, Aurora panicked slightly at the crowd of doctors surrounding her she tried to shout st them and regain some sort of power but it soon turned useless as they where already dissecting Tom's diagnosis's with each other, like gossiping teenagers.
She shoved past some men roughly to the door and she was shocked to see a large white ambulance like van with a flashing blue siren ontop. There where two men in blue opening the back doors and Aurora got a glimpse of what looked like restraints on a board.
An awful guilty feeling in the bottom of her stomach suddenly she felt as if she was going to be sick.
One of the men behind her placed a hand in her shoudler steering her away from the ambulance back to them and began to talk to her but all Aurora could hear was muffled voices.
"Mrs Darwell!" The doctor said louder snapping Aurora from her shock. "We are going to try and make this process as smooth as possible Mrs Darwell, we understand that in your condition" he motioned to her pregnant stomach "that stress is the last thing you want" he smiled kindly at her, he looked like he had alot of practice doing that. His words where meant to comfort her but she found them alarming.
"Are you going to put him on that awful board thing out there?" She asked quietly her voice filled with horror. "We can assure you Mr Darwell will be taken care of discreetly and safely, now you must let us know where he is or-"
"no- no" she interrupted stammering her hands moving as if she was trying to create some space.
"No, no I want you and your men to leave I've changed mind" she said quickly pointing to the door. "I dont want you here get out! Get out! Leave my husband be" she ordered shakily.
"Mrs Darwell, we respect your decisions but I must voice my opinion that I worry for the safety of you and your unborn child if Mr Darwell is left present in your life with out professional supervision. Please reconsider, for the baby" the doctor said gently.
Aurora paused blinking rapidly as she crossed her arms around herself protectively.
"Alright" she whispered softly. "He's in the ensuite in the master bedroom" she murmured. The doctor squeezed her shoudler "thank you Mrs Darwell everything is going to be alright" he smiled.
He then murmured among his doctors and they descended quickly up the stairs leaving Aurora alone in the hallway hugging herself as she debated ravenously with her self if she was doing the right thing in her mind.
She waited for what seemed like days but in reality it was probably only minutes. With each tick of the antique grandfather clock behind her she grew more and more nervous until he tension finally built up to an explosion and she heard loud angry shouts and banging.
It soudne like some sort of fight had broke out, it was so aggressive like someone had just let a tiger out of its cage and it had pounced onto the zoo keeper.
Aurora cringed as the yelling echoed throughout the house. Smashing started along with a cry of pain. Auroras heart leapt to her throat and her last thread of self restraint broke and she dashed up the stairs as fast as she could.
As soon as she stepped onto the hallway floor she was met with the mob of doctors shouting and yelling instructions at each other panicked.
Everything seemed to go in slow mo as the men in white bustled past her she stuck to the wall watching the chaos unfold before her frozen in horror.
As they past by screaming and yelling she was filled with a strange mix of relief and nausea when she saw a large bleeding gash on the side of one of the doctors heads, another two had a bloody nose, the next was clutching his eye and 3 other where limping.
They moved past her as if she was a ghost but her eyes caught on the center of the brawl, in the only man dressed in back trousers yet his bare skin was nearly as white as the coats.
She was horrified at his state, his hair was messy, beads of sweat falling from The crown of his head, his nose was bleeding again and she could see various magical binding spells wrapped around his torso but they where doing very little to minimize his uproar. But what terrified Aurora the most was the wild look in his eyes he looked like a animal. All of his humanity and sanity had been drained from his leaving this violent thrashing shell of a man with a crazed look in his shocking eyes.
He screamed and yelled every wandless spell he knew but nothing was working. He ordered them to release him but he was ignored he thrashed violently trying to forcibly pull his arms from the men grabbing hold of him dragging him down the hallway but nothing was working. He like like a he was being possed by and demonic entity fighting it's way into his body.
He truly looked out of his mind.
Suddenly his eyes locked on hers and his horrifying screechs came to a halt for a moment.
"Aurora!" He yelled over the noise of the men they caught sight of Aurora and shouted at her to run, to get away from him as they pulled him past her forcibly shoving him down the stairs as he fought with all his might to get out of their hold.
"Aurora! Aurora! Darling please tell them to stop! Tell them!" He pleaded her shouting as he was dragged away. Aurora forced herself off of the wall and she dashed towards the mob running down the stairs as they hauled Tom towards the open doors.
She pushed past some doctors who protested her presence yelling at her to get back. She ignored them and shoved past the doctors to the middle as they continued to shout and hold Tom back.
They fell into the court yard as the doctors battled against Tom to pull him into the ambulance. To put the tiger back in its cage.
"Aurora!" He shouted trying to shove the doctors away like tiny ants but there was no use their where to many of them. "Tom!" She shouted trying to grab him but one of the doctors grabbed her trying to haul her away.
"Let go of her!" Tom screamed furiously lunging at the doctor "I'll kill you! I'll fucking kill you let go of her!" He roared as he tried to pull Aurora back but she fought back and grabbed onto Tom's face.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry its going to be alright, okay? I promise this is for you own good just trust me, trust me yeah? You'll be okay theyll take care of you for a while!" She tried to reassure him sending the fear in his wide eyes.
"No, no! Aurora dont let them please, please Sunshine dont! Tell them to let me go please please!" He yelled the doctors tried to yank them apart again the one holding Aurora restrained her arms but she shoved forward put her head against his
"it will be alright I promise you'll be okay I promise I won't let a thing bad happen to you" she said rushed she crashed her lips onto his harshly, he kissed her back violently tasting the saltiness of tears on her lips but they where pulled apart aggressively and Aurora was fully restrained by the doctor and Tom dragged away.
"Aurora! Aurora please! Please!" He begged as he was shoved roughly into the ambulance he threw a punch at the closest doctor and the man let out a cry of pain as blod began to seep from his nose.
Suddenly Tom was hit with a more powerful spell causing him to lurch back and his eyes to roll back ino his head his neck going limp as the doctors clambered into the ambulance slamming the doors harshly behind them.
"Tom! Tom!" She screamed as her tears dripped off of her face the doctor held her back trying to reason with her to stop trying to run to the ambulance and that it was for the best.
The ambulance engine started and began to drive away out of the courtyard and Aurora swore she heard banging against the metal door.
All she could do was stand there and watch as it disappeared into the fog, her cheeks where streaked with tears and she stood still like a lifeless statue any sort of emotion draining out of her.
The doctor let go of her looking behind him at his colleagues with a concerned look on his face. He placed his hand in her shoulder.
"Mrs Darwell, why dont we go inside. I can make some tea" the man said soflty. Gently he steered Aurora towards the house and walked hr slowly to the living room sitting her down.
He left and returned a few minutes later with a hot cup of tea. He handed it to her and sat down opposite. Aurora stared at the dullish grey liquid in the cup watching it shake along with her hands.
The doctor cleared his throat awkwardly adjusting his glasses. "Mrs Darwell, we have decided that with 3 months of treatment Mr Darwell should be able to return home safely" the doctor said "if you dont mind me asking when are you due?" He questioned.
"Um 5 months, so September" she whispered hoarsely.
The doctor smiled approvingly "congratulations, child birth is truly a wonderful thing I dont know how you women manage it" he laughed nervously. Aurora nodded she looking at her cup.
"Well um Mr Darwell should be home in time to meet his new...um" "son" Aurora finished "youve already had your ultrasound?" He asked sounding suprised most witches waited until 24 weeks.
"Didnt need one" she mumbled "I just knew" she said soflty her hand rubbing soflty over her bump.
The doctor as a medical professional obviously didnt agree but he kept his opinions to himself. He placed three docnets on the coffee table sliding them towards Aurora along with a quill.
"We will be needing your permission to go through with Mr Darwells treatment" the doctor said.
"It wont hurt him will it? It's to make him better" Aurora said quickly fear present in her voice.
"No no of course not it is simply to treat Mr Darwells... various illnesses" he reassured. Aurora paused for a moment but signed the documents.
The doctor took hold of them clipping them in his clipboard then stood up. "Oh. And also I've been asked to inquire about the where abouts of Mr Darwell's wand?" He asked, Aurora didn't look up as she pulled it from her pocket and set it on the table.
The mans eyebrows shot up in surprise "well that's alright then. You should hang onto it" he said.
"Thank you for your corporation Mrs Darwell, I understand how hard this situation can be for significant others. I wish you all the best with your pregancy" he said kindly.
Aurora smiled at him tightly. "Thank you Doctor" she said softly.
"Um...is there someone you could call, a friend maybe?" He asked. Aurora paused for a minute her brain went straight to Regulus. "Uh yeah... yeah I'll owl him" she murmured.
She never did.
instead she sat in the living room till her tea grew cold and the sun sunk behind the hills and the sky turned black.
Hi guysssss
Sorry for the wait I've had alot on hope the chapter was okay
I love you and stay safe
~Lizzie <3