- Messages
- 233
- OOC First Name
- Daphne
- Blood Status
- Mixed Blood
- Relationship Status
- Married
- Sexual Orientation
- Straight
- Wand
- Knotted 11 Inch Flexible Laurel Wand with Kelpie Hair Core
- Age
- 10/2007 (54)
Set in August 2048
The world was quiet, and Claudia sat alone in her darkened bedroom. Times where she wasn't busy with one thing or another were increasingly rare, but she felt anything but peaceful right now. Her head was in her hands as her thoughts raced. How had she missed the signs? It was true that she had been too busy to even eat sometimes, but she had thought she would have still recognized the signs. It had just been so unexpected. Claudia, and James too, had thought that time of their lives had been over. Their oldest child was an adult for Merlin's sake. A pregnancy hadn't been in the plans at this stage of their lives, especially not with Claudia's current duties as Minister. What were they going to do? What would James want? What did she want? But it wasn't just their opinions that mattered. Claudia was in the middle of so many things, and so many people depended on her. Would she be able to add a pregnancy to that? What worried her even more was what would come after. When Rose had been born, Claudia had given up her career to raise her children. That wasn't an option now, and even if it was, Claudia didn't want to do that. Could she be a good mother to a young child along with being minister? Would James want to take a larger part of the burden? Claudia didn't know, and all the unanswered questions were pressing down on her. It was almost laughable that this had happened. They were married adults with careers, with four teenage daughters. This sort of thing didn't happen to them, but maybe that was the precise line of thinking that had caused them to be careless.
The world was quiet, and Claudia sat alone in her darkened bedroom. Times where she wasn't busy with one thing or another were increasingly rare, but she felt anything but peaceful right now. Her head was in her hands as her thoughts raced. How had she missed the signs? It was true that she had been too busy to even eat sometimes, but she had thought she would have still recognized the signs. It had just been so unexpected. Claudia, and James too, had thought that time of their lives had been over. Their oldest child was an adult for Merlin's sake. A pregnancy hadn't been in the plans at this stage of their lives, especially not with Claudia's current duties as Minister. What were they going to do? What would James want? What did she want? But it wasn't just their opinions that mattered. Claudia was in the middle of so many things, and so many people depended on her. Would she be able to add a pregnancy to that? What worried her even more was what would come after. When Rose had been born, Claudia had given up her career to raise her children. That wasn't an option now, and even if it was, Claudia didn't want to do that. Could she be a good mother to a young child along with being minister? Would James want to take a larger part of the burden? Claudia didn't know, and all the unanswered questions were pressing down on her. It was almost laughable that this had happened. They were married adults with careers, with four teenage daughters. This sort of thing didn't happen to them, but maybe that was the precise line of thinking that had caused them to be careless.