Invisible thread | Sav & Anna

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Mid October 2025

Since the explosion at the match, life had gone pretty much back to normal for a lot of people. Sav’s team had started practices backup and now that school had started again, it felt almost as if nothing had happened. Except for the hole left by those who didn’t make it out of the attack. Sav and Katie were lucky, they both escaped with healable injuries that only kept them out of commission for a matter of days. But the rest of the summer went by quickly and easily. Though he certainly never expected to have started the summer with one partner and be ending it with two. But things with Anna and Kat were going surprisingly well.

Sav was at home, standing in the kitchen, scarfing down a bowl of cereal when he heard the front door open. Since Kat was already at work, he knew it would have to be Anna, paying a visit before she went to her own practice. “Hey, in the kitchen!” he called. The apartment wasn’t huge, but there was a small wall separating the kitchen from the main living area. He had originally intended it to be his flat, but he had invited Kat to stay at the end of term and now it usually housed either the 2 or 3 of them on a regular basis.

@iliana

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h i g h - f l y e r

SHE ENTERED THE FLAT IN A FLURRY OF MOTION. Shoulders tense with agitation, hands sweating as she tossed her gym bag under a wooden console table in the hallway, hitting one of the legs and jostling the decorative contents on top. It was Sav and Katie's flat, but Ana had sort of injected herself in to the very corners of it. Feeling more comfortable in the couples home than she did at her own, most days.

"H-hey..." She yelled back in greeting, pacing the hallway, before turning and marching back to the doorway. It was Sav's voice calling to her, familiar and warm. She wanted to go towards it, to find comfort in the strength of his arms, but she couldn't. Rubbing her sweaty palms against her thighs viciously she scrunched her face and crouched beside her bag, inside was a small scroll and a little glass phial. She grabbed them both, stuffing them in to the waistband of her leggings as she stole herself and entered the living room tentatively, her expression grave until she painted on a smile.

"No practise?" She asked quietly, shifting from foot to foot a she poked her head around the wall that separated the living room from the kitchen. He looked relaxed, content. Ana almost turned back around and left. "Where's Kitty?" She asked, if only to fill the silence. She knew the answer would be 'work'. Pulling herself around the divider, she leaned against the small breakfast bar built against the wall, keeping her distance carefully, lest he feel the bulging paperwork hidden under her loose team jumper.

She'd gone to an appointment at St. Mungo's that morning, instead of attending football practise like she was supposed to. After a missed period and more nausea than she cared to admit, Ana thought the stress from the Quidditch Cup explosion had made her ill. Maybe a missed injury that was messing with her internally. She'd only gone for some medication, maybe a calming draught to help her sleep at night. Instead, a healer had sat her down, and quite gently told her that she was pregnant. Ana had spent an hour in that room insisting that it couldn't possibly be true. It was true, now she had to tell people. She felt her gut turn sickly.

"One second..." Ana garbled thickly, a hand pressed to her stomach, before she turned in a hurry and ran for the bathroom on fumbling, wobbly legs. Whether it be the stress, or whatever was growing inside of her, Ana didn't know. Couldn't dwell on it. She painted the toilet bowl with her breakfast, foot pressed against the door to stop Sav from barrelling in behind her. "M fine!" She yelled, unconvincingly. But her eyes were watering and her chest and throat ached. 

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Sav stayed in the kitchen for most of that time, still consuming his cereal in quiet peace as Ana did whatever she was doing in every other room of the flat. It wasn’t unusual for her to be here so it didn’t find it odd at first that she didn’t come into the kitchen, he had no reason to think that she would be avoiding him. So he responded to her questions easily “yeah but not until later this afternoon.” he explained. There was some press thing the coaches had to do during the day and training had been pushed off a few hours, meaning it would go late, but it wasn’t the end of the world. “She’s working.” Katherine was always working, and he smirked at her calling Kat ‘kitty’ she was probably the only person alive who could get away with that.

And then he heard it; the sound of sick. And his boyfriend instincts kicked in, he set his bowl down on the counter quickly and went to her. He found her there, on the floor of the bathroom. She insisted that she was fine, but Sav raised his eyebrows as he knelt down next to her, handing her a hand towel from the shelf above. “Are you sick? Is that why you’re not at practice?” he hadn’t thought much about why she must be here, since he knew her practice schedule was often as subject to change as his own, but maybe she wasn’t feeling well and hadn’t gone.

@iliana

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h i g h - f l y e r

TRYING TO PUSH SAV AWAY, ANA FELT HER GUT roil as she vomited across the porcelain inside of the pan. Hair falling around her face as she squeezed her eyes shut, humiliation seizing her as she openly groaned, hands clawed around the toilet seat until it passed. When it did, she spat the taste again and again and pulled the plug with a sigh. Sav was still there, diligently waiting as she collapsed back on to her backside, scooting back against the cabinet mounted under the skin, her knees pulling up under her chin as she forced herself to look at him.

'I'm pregnant', she envisioned herself saving, throat raw and raspy. 'I'm pregnant', she answered as he inquired with complete innocence. Taking the towel he offered and burying her face in it, unable to say exactly what he deserved to hear. She mumbled in to the fabric, not loud enough to be deciphered beyond a garbled understanding of an attempt at speech. She wanted Kitty to tell him for her, but Kitty didn't know. She wasn't ready to admit it, because then it was real. At least in her mind it could be a delusional. It wasn't.

Looking up, Ana's mouth parted, her chest expanding as she drew in a deep breath. "I'm-" She swallowed harshly. "I haven't been to practice in weeks." She admitted hoarsely, because it was easier. "They're not going to let me compete, I'll be benched at best." And not because she was pregnant, she answered as an afterthought. "Also... I think I'm pregnant." She added swiftly, like inserting a footnote. Ana only hoped one would cancel out the other. She leaned back, tenting her hips slightly to pry the St. Mungo's scroll of parchment from her waistband. She tossed it at him, the towel abandoned in her lap. "I'm definitely pregnant." 

@sav

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Sav watched her there, his eyes grew wider when she vomited again. He wanted to help her but she didn’t seem to want him nearby. She admitted that she hadn’t been to practice in weeks and that they wouldn’t let her play now and that if they kept her on the team she’d be on the bench for the season. And then she said it: Also... I think I'm pregnant. Sav blinked. What? He hadn’t been expecting that. He had been expecting food poisoning… just food poisoning… or maybe a flu. “are you sure?” he asked just before she tossed the paper towards him. He picked it up and scanned the page with his own eyes. “Woah… Ana I’m… sorry.” he wasn't sure what else to say. He already knew it was his so he didn’t feel the need to ask. He was shocked. “Did you just find out?” he asked. Did she want to keep it? Sav couldn’t really imagine anything else, he didn’t want to run for his mistakes and dodge taking responsibility, but he wanted her to be comfortable and recognized it was her choice.

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h i g h - f l y e r

ANA FELT ANNOYANCE FLARE IN HER CHEST, reddening her cheeks immediately. She wiped spittle from her mouth with the back of her hand, her nose burning and throat raw. "No, I'm a little unsure!" She snapped, guilt wrinkling her nose as she handed him the information packet from St. Mungo's. As if she would ever say something without unequivocal proof. The fact of it so loud inside of her head that she felt faint, but that could have been the vomiting.

"You're sorry?" Ana stared at him in surprise, her mouth slackening before she turned and snorted in to her curled fist. "Sorry!" She exclaimed, shoulders shaking as she collapsed in to fits of laughter. It all seemed so ludicrous now that she'd said it out loud. Ana couldn't be a mother, she couldn't even iron her football shirts. She didn't even have a job. And Sav said sorry. Ana couldn't tell if he meant about the baby, or losing her placement, or if it was for everything all at once.

"It's my own fault..." She said once the laughter had faded, slackening to wet hiccoughs as her eyes filled with tears. She slapped her hand over them angrily, hating the fact that she was crying. Ana wasn't against crying, it was cathartic, but the complete lack of control she felt suddenly was overwhelming. "I ruined it all and-" Dragging the hand down over her face, she pulled at her skin hatefully. "And now I'm bloody pregnant." Sniffling, Ana turned suddenly and grabbed a hold of Sav's shirt, pulling him towards herself. "I'm sorry, Sav." She echoed his previous statement, curling herself in to him helplessly. "I don't know what to do." 

@sav

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