Chapter 26

The expression on Des face was a mixture of daze, surprise and shock, as he blink his eyes rapidly staring at the doctor with a puzzled expression. "Twins?" He asked, in slow low tone and the doctor nodded, knowing the exact unsettling confusion whirling in his head.

Des looked dumbfounded at the folder in his hands and murmured "How is that possible? You said Harry might have developed the womb within a period of two months?"

"How come he's three months pregnant?" He asked.

"I don't know, but the scans we took clearly shows the babies are three months old" The Doctor answered, equally confused.

Des placed the folder on the table and leaned back against the chair, palming his face. After a couple of awkward silence, he looked at the doctor with a slight frown. "Do you think this might be something supernatural?"

"I don't believe in the supernatural" The doctor stated.

"As a scientist, if I find something I can't explain, then I state the reason as unknown. Trying to hide my ignorance by inventing some explanation like a supernatural is just stating I don't know in a different way"

Des let out a loud frustrated groaned, and rose up from the chair, pacing back and forth. "Then how would you explain Harry's sudden disappearance and him mysteriously developing breasts, a womb and now he's three months pregnant?" He whispered yelled.

"I don't know, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the situation" The doctor sighed.

Des glanced at him with an unbelievable expression and went on with his pacing, deep in thought.

The doctor watched him then leaned forward in his chair, and folded his arms. "Do have any idea who the father could be?"

"Huh?" Des halted his pacing and looked at the doctor with a frown.

"Harry's babies father, do you know who it could be?"

"I didn't even know Harry was sexually active" Des grumbled.

"Most teenagers don't tell their parents when they start having sex"

"I know but I made him promise to wait until I meet the boyfriend first, before anything else"

"Besides I haven't seen Harry with any other boy except Niall"

The doctor raised his eyebrows "I thought they are best friends?"

"Or boyfriend's and I wasn't aware" Des groaned frustratedly.

"Then I guess we'll just have to wait for Harry to wake up or you could ask Niall if he's the father or knows the father?"

Des sighed softly "I'll ask Niall but not now, maybe tomorrow"

"Can I see my son now?"

"Yeah sure, he has been moved to the recovery room" The doctor murmured standing up, then led Des out of the office to Harry's room. When he opened the door, Niall was already inside, sitting beside Harry on the bed.

Des and the doctor noticed Niall holding Harry's hand and exchanged a knowing look, then the doctor cleared his throat loudly as they closed the door behind them.

Niall quickly averted his head towards them, sniffling and wiped the tears coursing down his cheeks with his hand then stood up, stepping side. The doctor went to Harry's side and felt his pulse and checked on the IV set up.

Des patted Niall's back, giving him a reassuring smile then Niall returned with a weary smile.

"His vitals are normal, we'll have wait for him to wake up before conducting any further tests" The doctor murmured, after checking on Harry.

Des nodded and thanked him. The doctor went out of the room then Des moved and sat beside Harry. He leaned forward and kissed Harry's forehead, breathing deeply, as a tear trickles down his cheek. "You're everything I have got left in this world"

Then slowly he lifts Harry's hand and kissed the back of it. "I don't know what I would have done if anything should have happened to you" He slowly touch Harry's cheek with the back of his hand.

"He will be alright Mr Styles, he's home now" Niall whispered behind him.

Des averted his eyes to Niall and smiled. He let go of Harry's hand and gently placed it beside him then kissed his forehead again. He got up then gestured at Niall with his hand for them to go outside.

"Why don't you go home and get some rest, my driver will take you" Des muttered as they walked out of the room.

"But I have to be here when Harry wakes up" Niall murmured tiredly.

"Harry might be waking up tomorrow, so no need to worry. Come back when you have rested well"

Niall gave a long, weary sigh and nodded. "I'll come back tomorrow morning"

"No, come back in the late afternoon" Des insisted and Niall nodded, yawning slowly. He led Niall to his car at the hospital parking lot and instructed his driver to take him home.

When the driver pulled into the driveway of Niall's house, his parents came out, surprising him. He sighed knowning Des might have called to inform them, he was on his way home. He thanked the driver and as soon as got out of the car, he ran over to his parents and hugged them. His parents hugged him back and his mother cried.

They went inside the house after few minutes, then his parents started asking him questions but he refused to answer, telling them he was tired and wasn't ready to talk yet. His parents understood and his mother insisted he eats something but he couldn't eat anything. He excused himself, went to his room, got a quick shower and laid down, trying to sleep but his conscience just wouldn't let him, in the end he decided to do something to distract his thoughts. He played his video games for few minutes and paused it when he realized the video game wasn't distracting him.

He laid down on his back, staring at the ceiling and sighed softly, thinking what Harry's reaction will be when he wakes up. His eyelids became heavy then he closed his eyes and opened them again then gasps loudly when he realized he was back in the ancient realm specifically in his room, where he and the General shared.

He gulped nervously as he rose up from the bed and when he looked at his body, he realized he had the body of a female. He looked around the room, trying to figure out if he was really dreaming or this was real.

Nefert

His body froze when he recognise the voice, then slowly he turned around and his gaze met the eyes of the General. They stared at each other for a while then Niall took a step back, confused. "This is a dream, right?" He asked but the General said nothing and smiled in returned.

Then he felt something rubbing itself up against his leg and heard a faint meow.

He looked down and realized it was white cat rubbing itself against him. He frowned in confusion and looked up at the General who was still looking at him with a smile.

Then suddenly he woke up, gasping for air. He sat up and opened his mouth slightly, squeezing his eyes shut as he tries breathing normally while his mind struggles to make sense of the dream.

Then it clicked, he knew who the cat was, she is an ancient Egyptain goddess called Bastet.

But what the fuck is Bastet doing in his dreams? Unless.. Niall's eyes widened.

"No no no no" He whispered and shifted his gaze to the wall clock. It's was eleven in the evening, his parents must be sleeping. He got dressed and walked quickly, but very quietly, downstairs then took his bicycle out of the garage and rode to the nearest pharmacy.

When he arrived, he locked his bicycle to some pole and made his way inside the pharmacy, then looked around for the shelves where the pregnancy test kits were.

When he found it, he grabbed several of the test kits and strode to the store attendant to make the payment of the items. The store attendant smiled and looked at him weirdly at the number of test kits he had bought.

"Um, it's for my mom" Niall murmured nervously as he hand over the money to her.

"Of course" The store attendant smiled widely with a knowing look as she took the money and bagged up the items then handed it over to him.

Niall thanked her then went outside and unlocked his bicycle and rode it back home. As he nears his house, he realized the lights were on and cussed under his breath.

He threw the test kits into the dustbin at the driveway in fear his parents might see it, then packed the bicycle at the entrance of the door. He sighed loudly and opened the door to find his father talking on the phone while pacing in the room.

His father turned around when he heard him closing the door then thanked the person on the other line and ended the call.

"Where did you go? I got worried when I couldn't find you in your room, I thought you went back to the hospital"

"I went out to get some fresh air" Niall whispered avoiding his father's eyes.

"You should've left a note or something, I nearly got a heart attack" His father sighed softly.

"I'm sorry" He murmured, feeling guilty for lying to his father.

"It's okay, just don't leave in the middle of the night without informing your mother and I" His father said and Niall nodded.

"Get some rest and stop over thinking, no good comes from reliving something over and over again"

"By God's grace Harry has been found, he's alive and well. Let's dwell on that and move on from the past"

Niall inhale deeply wishing it was that easy.

"Yeah sure I'll get some sleep" He whispered and smile weakly then walked passed his father and climbed the stairs to his room. His father sighed softly and placed the phone on the receiver and went to his room.

When Niall got to his room, he picked his phone up and dialled Mr Evans's number. "Hello"

"Hi Mr Evans, um it's me Niall"

"Thank God, you called. I was dying to know about Harry's condition, how is he?"

"He's okay, the doctor said he will conduct more tests on him when he wakes up"

"I'm sure they're want to conduct the tests because of Harry's breasts, but they are not going to get the answers they went" Mr Evans said with a sigh.

"Will you tell them the truth?"

"Will they believe me?" Niall whispered.

"Probably not" Mr Evans replied. "They will think you're crazy"

"Yeah" Niall emitted a long breath. "Are you back? I need to discuss something important with you"

"Is everything alright?" Mr Evans ask with a concern tone.

"Not really, um I can't talk on the phone right now, I need to see you in person"

"Okay, I will text you the address of my house after we end the call. We arrived an hour ago"

"We?" Niall asked.

"Yes, Kwame and I. And it's not what you are thinking"

"Okay, if you say so" A small smile played on Niall's lips knowing it's just a matter of time before Mr Evans and Kwame get back together.

"I will see you tomorrow, get some sleep okay?"

"Yeah, bye" Niall ended the call and curled himself into a ball in the middle of the bed. He tried to sleep but he couldn't, he just couldn't do it. His mind was completely taken by the thoughts Harry, Bastet and the General.

When morning came, he couldn't even get out of bed because he was too tired, then after few minutes he ignored the aching in his body and stood up, his legs feeling wobbly as he walked to the bathroom and did his morning business.

After he was done, he got dressed and went downstairs then wrote a note that he was going to the hospital and placed it on the kitchen counter where both of his parents could see it.

He rode his bicycle to the hospital and packed it, then walked inside and found Des sitting in the reception area, deep in thoughts. He walked over to him and tapped his shoulder. "Good morning Mr Styles"

Des hums and looked up with a slight frown. "What are you doing here? I thought I told you to get some rest and come back in the afternoon"

"I couldn't sleep" Niall uttered.

Des sighed softly "Me too"

"The nurses are with him, cleaning him up. We'll have to wait for few minutes to see him"

Niall nodded and sat next to him. "How is he?"

"Still the same, I'm waiting for him to open his eyes" Des smiled and Niall returned his smile.

"I wanted to ask you few questions yesterday, but you were tired" Des muttered, looking at him. Niall gulped down nervously and nodded.

"Are you and Harry boyfriends?" Des blurted out and Niall kitted his brows "No sir we're best friends" He answered.

"What about friends with benefits?"

"No" Niall frowned.

Des sighed softly "Do you know if Harry has or had a boyfriend?"

"Harry has never had a boyfriend" Niall frowned deepens.

"Niall please tell me the truth, I need to know who the bastard is, after impregnanting my boy, he had the audacity to give him a herb to get rid of the baby"

"Harry wouldn't have tried to kill his own child no matter the circumstances"

Niall's body froze, staring at Des with wide eyes. "Harry is still pregnant?" He whispered slowly and Des nodded.

"The doctor confirmed it yesterday, he's three months pregnant"

"But-but there was so much blood, so much blood" Niall stutted, with a shaky voice

"You were there when it happened?" Des muttered with suspicion evident in his voice.

"Um...........

"Mr Styles" A nurse interpreted them and Des shifted his gaze to her. "You are needed in Harry's room. He's awake"

On hearing those words, Des rushed out of the reception area, followed by Niall. When he opened the door to Harry's room, the doctor was already inside talking to him.

"Harry" Des called out his son's name then Harry shifted his gaze to him "Daddy" He whispered weakly.

Des face beamed with happiness then rushed to his side. "Oh son" He cried out and hugged Harry, making sure not to put his body weight on him.

"Daddy" Harry whimpered as he buried his face in his father's neck. Des held his son's fragile body tightly in his arms, thanking the gods from above.

"I thought I'll never see you again" Harry whimpered again.

"It's okay, I'm here. Daddy is here" Des spoke in a soothing tone, rubbing his back.

After few minutes, they let go of each other with Des wiping the tears on Harry's face. "I'm never letting you out of my sight again" He murmured and Harry placed his head on his father's chest, sniffling.

"Hush stop crying, everything is going to be alright"

Niall and the doctor weren't surprised with Harry and Des display of affection. Ever since Harry's mother died, Des has devoted his life and time to raise Harry up as a single parent, giving Harry whatever he wanted as child and a teenager.

Harry is a daddy's boy.

Niall began fiddling with his fingers waiting for the moment Harry would notice him in the room. Waiting for the fate of their friendship, whether it will be going down the drains or begin a fresh start.

"When did he wake up?" Des asked the doctor.

"An hour ago" The doctor answered.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I knew you wouldn't give me the space to do my job, I had to examine him to see if everything is okay first" The doctor replied, giving him a knowing look.

"Okay" Des sighed softly, still rubbing Harry's back with his hand.

"Have you given him some water to drink?"

"Yes and one of the nurses will be bringing some soup for him to eat in few minutes" The doctor murmured.

"No, hospital food, I will call the house chef to prepare some chicken soup and my driver bring it" Des muttered and the doctor rolled his eyes.

"Alright, I will take my leave now. I will be back in three hours to check on him again" Des nodded and the doctor left the room.

"Niall is here to see you" Des whispered to Harry after few minutes and Harry shook his head rapidly. "I don't want to see him"

Niall's heart broke at Harry's words.

Des frowned and leaned backwards, looking into Harry's eyes. "Why don't you want to see Niall?"

"He betrayed me, Daddy"

"He lied to me, he took the most important thing in my life away from me" Harry cried out.

"Harry it's not what you think......... Niall tried to talk but Harry cuts him off.

"Get out, I don't want to see you ever again"

"Harry, please let me explain" Niall cried as tears rolls down his cheeks.

"Our friendship is over!"

"You wanted me back here, didn't you? Are you happy now?"

"No, I'm not!" Niall whispered.

Des looked confusedly between Harry and Niall. "What is going on here?"

"Nothing" Harry answered before Niall could.

"I just don't want to see him ever again, I want him out of this room this instant" Harry laid back on the bed and curled his body away from his father and Niall, crying.

Before Des could say anything else, Niall bolted out of a door, sobbing. He went to the packing lot, took his bicycle and rode it to Mr Evans's house which was thirty minutes away from the hospital.

When he got to the address, he got off his bicycle, wiped his tears and blew his nose before walking to Mr Evans's door and knocked on it then waited.

Mr Evans opened the door with a smile that faded when he saw Niall, crying. His eyes grew with concern and quickly pulled Niall inside the house and hugged him.

Kwame came into the living room to see what all the commotion was about and immediately Niall saw him, he rushed towards him and without thinking starts hitting Kwame on his chest, shouting.

"You said it would be impossible to bring him back if he's carrying the Pharaoh's seed!"

"You said he couldn't come back because he's already part of the past!"

Kwame quickly held Niall's hands to stop him from hitting his chest any further. He looked at Niall with a confused expression, trying to make sense of what he just said.

Niall's words staggered Mr Evans as his eyes became wide.

"What are you saying?" Kwame asked.

"He's pregnant! Harry is still pregnant!" Niall shouted as a sob escapes his lips.

"How-how?" Mr Evans stuttered

"I don't know but somehow the termination was unsuccessful. Harry is pregnant and yet he is back in this realm. How is that possible?"

"You said he couldn't come back even if I force him"

"That's explains why he still had breasts" Mr Evans murmured to himself.

"Calm down" Kwame tried to calm Niall down.

"I'm not going to calm down until you tell the reason why" Niall yelled.

"Because it wasn't my magic that brought him back, it was the Pharaoh's" Kwame shouted making Niall to suddenly became quite.

"Every individual magic has its own set of rules and strengths. Everyone operates his or her magic differently.

"I use black magic, I don't know what kind of magic the Pharaoh uses or how he was able bring Harry back when he's still pregnant"

Niall whimpered and began crying again. Kwame sighed softly and hugged him, trying to comfort him. He looked over at Mr Evans who was staring back at him, dumbfoundedly.

Kwame picked Niall up then took him to Mr Evans bedroom and laid him down on the bed. He began stroking his hair and murmured some chants into his ears then within seconds Niall's eyes closed and he fell asleep.






After few hours, Niall opened his eyes and yawns softly. He inhaled deeply and stretched his body, feeling tired. His eyes roam around the room, confused as to where he is and his gaze landed on Mr Evans picture hanging on the wall.

He inhaled in relief and slowly rose up from the bed then his stomach growled from lack of food. He walked out of the bedroom down the corridor and heard Kwame and Mr Evans voices.

"I was very confused when Harry told me he saw Jepri and Geb-Keb in his dreams. It's all makes sense now"

"What kind of gods are they?" Kwame asked with confusion evident in his voice.

"Jepri symbolises resurrection and Geb-Keb symbolises the beginning of life and fertility"

"Harry's destiny wasn't only to be retied with the Pharaoh but also to bore him an heir no matter what happens"

"No matter what happens?" Kwame asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah I mean think about it, Niall said the healers confirmed Harry lost the baby then suddenly the baby is there as if nothing happened"

"Wait, so are you saying Jepri and Geb-Keb worked together to resurrect the dead baby and gave it a new life"

Kwame and Mr Evans shifted the gaze to Niall as he descends the stairs and walked towards where they sat.

Mr Evans nodded."That's the only possible explanation, I can think of"

"It's doesn't make sense, why would they let the baby die and resurrect it later? Why not protect the baby from dying in the first place?" Niall muttered.

"That's why they're gods" Kwame answered. "Their thoughts are are not our thoughts, and their ways are not our ways"

Mr Evans nodded in agreement, then Niall frowned slightly "Do you think the Pharaoh knew Harry was still pregnant?"

"I don't think so" Mr Evans answered.

Niall's stomach growled loudly and smiled sheepishly "Sorry, I haven't eaten anything since morning"

Kwame chuckled softly "I prepared some jollof rice and chicken, this afternoon, let me get you a plate"

"Jollof rice?" Niall asked with a raise eyebrow.

"It's a west African dish" Mr Evans murmured.

"Yes, but Ghana jollof rice is the best" Kwame muttered with a grin and Mr Evans rolled his eyes as Kwame walked out of the room to the kitchen.

Niall sat opposite Mr Evans and palmed his face. "Feeling better?" Mr Evans asked.

"Yeah, I didn't even know when I slept"

"You looked very tired when you came in so Kwame casted a sleeping spell on you"

Niall's eyes widened and looked up at his teacher, then Kwame walked in with a plate of jollof rice served in a small wooden tray and placed it on Niall's lap "Now taste it and tell me what you think"

Niall took a spoonful of the rice and moaned. "Good?" Kwame asked and Niall nodded rapidly.

Kwame and Mr Evans watched in amazement as Niall finished eating the entire jollof rice within four minutes.

"More?" Kwame asked and Niall nodded. Kwame served him other plate and Niall ate it within three minutes. After Niall finished eating and drinking a glass of water, he looked up to see Kwame and Mr Evans looking at with wide eyes.

"I was very hungry" He murmured trying to justify himself.

"Yeah we can tell" Kwame murmured and took the wooden tray from him and set it aside. "Will you go back to the hospital?"

Niall sighed with sorrow "Harry doesn't want to see me again, he hates me"

"He will come around, especially now he's pregnant" Mr Evans murmured.

"Does he even know he's still pregnant?" Kwame asked.

"I think his father might have told him by now" Niall sighed loudly and lean back against the couch.

"He's going to go through a lot of emotional heartbreak and physical shock when he finds out he's still pregnant. He left everything behind because he thought he couldn't give the Pharaoh a child no matter how hard he tries"

"And it's my fault"

"Regardless, he could have stayed. He could have gotten pregnant again but he made a choice and chose to come back" Kwame replied.

"Don't blame yourself for the choices he made"

"There is nothing you can do but to let the chips fall where they may, without regret"

"Yeah, at least everyone involved in this adventure is alright, the gods didn't get angry with us for interrupting the prophecy and send curses in our way" Mr Evans said calmly.

"And for Harry, we'll all be there for him, we're not going to let him go through this alone"

Niall kept quiet for a while and sat up, fiddling with his hands nervously as a tear trickles down his cheek. "Not everyone is alright"

Mr Evans and Kwame exchanged looks and gaze back at him.

"Remember I told you I wanted to talk you about something important" Niall whispered staring at Mr Evans.

"Yeah, but I thought it was about Harry. I didn't know it was about something else" Mr Evans answered with a slight frown.

"Last night I dreamt about Bastet" Niall blurted out and the room became silence.

"There is no cause of alarm, right?"

"Isn't Bastet the sensual goddess who enjoys music, dance and perfume?" Kwame asked.

"Yes, but Bastet doesn't only enjoy those things but she also protects pregnant women and children" Mr Evans murmured staring at Niall and Kwame's eyes widened and also averted his gaze to Niall.

"Please tell me you're not pregnant" Mr Evans murmured with a shaky voice.

"I don't know" Niall palmed his face.

"You had sex with someone in the ancient realm?" Kwame whispered yelled.

Niall nodded and began crying.

"With whom?"

"The General, Rameses Zayn's second in command"

"Niall....

"That was the only way to get closer to Harry. When the General saw me, he liked me and took me to bed then afterwards, he kept me as his mistress"

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"I didn't think it was important, besides the maids always give a herbal tea which was supposed to prevent me from getting pregnant, so I thought I was safe"

Kwame stood up and picked up the car keys on the table. Mr Evans looked up at him "Where are you going?"

"To get some pregnancy test kits. We can't just sit here and assume Niall is pregnant because he saw a cat in his dream"

"We have to confirm first before we do anything"

Kwame strode out of the room and within ten minutes he came back holding a paper bag containing the test kits. "Here go to the bathroom pee on all the thirty test kits"

He handled the bag over to Niall who looked up at him as if it's the end of the world. "Don't panic, I'm sure it's not what we are all thinking but we just need to be sure"

Niall nodded and rose up the couch and walked to Mr Evans bathroom which was connected to his bedroom. With trembling hands, he took out all the thirty kits Kwame had brought from their boxes and followed the instructions written on the box.

After he was done, he quickly rushed out of the bathroom to the bedroom and met Mr Evans and Kwame who were already in the bedroom waiting for him to announce the news.

"So?" Mr Evans asked with a nervous voice.

"I didn't look, I'm scared" Niall whimpered and Mr Evans moved to his side and hugged him, rubbing his back, consoling him.

Kwame sighed loudly and strode to the bathroom and checked on all the pregnancy kits Niall had placed on the sink and walked back to the bedroom. All eyes stared at him as he nodded his head.

"All the thirty kits showed two red lines"

Niall burst into tears upon hearing the news and Mr Evans held him tightly. "What am I'm going to do now?" He cried out.

"How am I going to explain this to my parents?"

"How am l going to take care of this baby when my parents can hardly afford for my schooling?" Niall cried harder and Mr Evans kissed his forehead, feeling powerless at the situation at hand.


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A difficult chapter to write.

I'm sorry for the delay and I'm sorry if this chapter is slow.

A lot of interesting things will start happening from the next chapter. So be prepared. 😎

Remember when Trisha talked about how Rameses Zayn saw Nefertari for the first time and he couldn't keep his eyes of her?

Well I would like to know if you guys would like to read how Rameses Zayn and Nefertari fell in love, even though Louis and Liam were interested in her.

I Know I'm late but HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Thoughts on the Chapter

Thoughts on Harry

Thoughts on Niall

Thoughts on Kwame and Mr Evans.

Thoughts on Des

Thanks so much for reading and your patience ❤️

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