It Started With Sweet Revenge

The next morning Sirius awoke slightly later than he had done the previous few days. He yawned sitting up slowly rubbing his tired grey eyes before reaching onto the bedside table and pouring himself a cupful of the potion, thankfully the urgent need to vomit wasn't there in fact he barely felt sick at all. Sirius smiled to himself sipping carefully at the potion he still couldn't believe he was actually pregnant and going to have a baby in seven months a real little baby for him to hold and love and take care of it would change his life forever. He wondered what life would be like with the baby, whether it would be healthy, whether it would be a boy or a girl, what he or she would look like? He cringed, hopefully not like Snape.
Resting the cup back down on the bedside table his eyes flickered to the lumpy package from Regulus wrapped in the bright gold paper he still hadn't opened. Curiously he lifted it and began to tear off the paper, inside was a baggy black hoody that Regulus must have misjudged the sizing and bought one that would be a couple of sizes big on Sirius but actually a thought struck him, this would be of big help, unfolding it a pair of nice gloves fell out along with a bar of Honeydukes finest chocolate. Sirius grinned, Regulus always knew what he would love. As he went to discard the wrappings something else fell out, frowning, Sirius picked it up curiously and turned the small item over in his hands. It appeared to be a crystal pendant, much like the one he had seem Regulus wearing around his own neck only this one was of a Ruby Crystal. Grinning to himself, Sirius hung it round his neck.
Reaching up, Sirius pulled open his bed curtains, tucking the chocolate inside his pillow case so Peter didn't steal it he got out of bed and reached for his uniform just as the others were getting out of bed.
"Have you cheered up any this morning?" James asked throwing the covers neatly back over his bed.
"Yes"
"Good because I've got some big plans for today" James grinned maliciously.
"Like what?" Sirius asked curiously.
"Ohh let's just say it involved the dungeon bogs and Snivellus' face" James laughed as Remus came out of the bathroom rolling his eyes and tutting loudly with disapproval. "Alright there Moons?" James grinned over to him.
"There are plenty of other things you could be getting on with rather than upsetting Snape" he said pulling on his shoes and cloak.
"Aw but Snivelly likes it he knows he's a scum bag he enjoys it" James replied and Sirius let out a nervous laugh. Shit, he really didn't want to be getting too involved with torturing Snape right now especially after what happened and now he knew about the baby he had to be extra careful of himself. Snape couldn't possibly know about the baby right now but it still made Sirius feel very paranoid.
"Ahh maybe Moony's right Prongs, I can't really be bothered with him today still not feeling well and all" Sirius replied.
James, Remus and Peter all turned to stare at Sirius surprised by his reaction, usually he would be all up for it.
"Wow you must really be feeling ill" Peter laughed.
"Yeah Pomfrey said I needed to rest ya know so I think I'll be taking it easy for a bit even if it means laying off Snape for a few days" Sirius replied turning away from them hoping that would be the end of the conversation.
The other's exchanged awkward glances.
"You never did tell us what's wrong with you" James said before he could stop himself.
Sirius visibly tensed pulling on his cloak. "I don't want to talk about it" he said flatly making his bed over and heading towards the bathroom.
"Is it something serious? You can talk to us about it you know we won't judge we'll help" Remus tried but Sirius flat out ignored him.
Sirius walked into the bathroom and shut the door on them. A few minutes later he remerged washed and feeling fresh moving back over to the bed to pick up his school bag.
"Padfoot what is going on, seriously you're getting me all worried about you" James sighed.
Sirius slung his bag over his shoulder, turned around and said "Nothing that's going to harm any of you lot, or anyone for that matter I'm not going to die, I'm not seriously ill and I'm not hurt it's nothing for you to be concerned about" Sirius replied marching towards the door, opening it and slamming it shut behind him as he marched off down the dormitory stairs.
James, Remus and Peter all stood in the dormitory staring after him worried expressions on their faces.
"I think we should leave him alone about this for a while and see if he comes to us, it's obviously bothering him and like he said he won't die and it doesn't really concern us" Remus sighed.
"It does concern us because he is our friend and if he isn't okay which he clearly isn't then he needs our help" James said quickly.
"But if he won't talk to us, obviously doesn't want us to know about it and gets really pissed off when we ask him about it then it's not going to do anyone any good to keep pestering him about it" Remus argued.
James sighed, Remus was right if they kept on at Sirius it would just push him further and further away, James didn't want to risk losing him over this but he did want to know what was going on so maybe he could even help him if not just give him comfort.
"So what do you think is wrong with him?" James asked after a moment's pause.
Peter shrugged. "Maybe he's got worms"
"Peter that's fucking gross!" Remus gasped.
"Not to mention he hasn't been scratching his arse or shitting his brains out" James added.
"No maybe not then, just thought maybe if it's not an illness or hurting anyone then it could be something like that" Peter shrugged.
"I can see where you're coming from Peter but I doubt it's worms" James wrinkled his nose with disgust.
"We'll just have to wait until he tells us then won't we?" Remus sighed.
"I guess you're right" James replied.
Down in the great hall Sirius walked in with his head held high as usual trying to pretend nothing was going on, he sat down at the Gryffindor table and began piling his plate with food, he had to eat more now considering he was pregnant he wanted the baby to get plenty to eat.
It wasn't long before the three other Marauders came in, hesitantly they made their way over to Sirius and sat down around him although he didn't mean any of their eyes as he continued to eat his breakfast.
After breakfast they got up and left the great hall when Sirius spotted his brother just a few feet ahead of him. "Regulus!" he called walking quickly to catch up with him. The younger boy stopped and turned around grinning up at his brother.
"Hey how you feeling this morning?" he asked.
"Much, much better thanks you?" Sirius replied with a usual toothy grin.
"Yeah I'm fine"
"I just wanted to thank you for the birthday present, the hoody is kinda big but that's quite fortunate to be honest I'll be needing some bigger clothes before long and that's going to come in really handy" Sirius grinned flashing the pendant hanging around his neck and Regulus laughed.
"Don't mention it I was trying to figure out what size you'd be seeing as you're skinny but you're taller and broader than me so I just got a big one in case" Regulus chuckled.
"It was nice of you to do it, Reg" Sirius smiled as his friends came up behind him looking curiously between the two brothers. "Hey listen I'm gonna have to get going I've got lessons this morning"
"Okay see you later then, take care" Regulus said shooting Sirius a knowing look.
Sirius leaned in and kissed his brother on the cheek. "Later Reg" he waved turning and heading for the staircases with his friends trailing confusedly along behind.
A week had passed and now at nine weeks pregnant, Sirius was starting to feel better although he still hadn't told his friends and apparently had no intention to. He had also managed to avoid James' plans to upset Severus.
He was sitting in the common room late on Friday night just staring at the fireplace mulling things over in his mind. He was pregnant, what on Earth was he going to do? During some conversations particularly at night before they went to bed his friends would try to ask him what's going on because admittedly he had been rather quiet but there was good reason. When the others were asleep Sirius would often pull his pregnancy book out and lie awake reading it for a little while, it in fact actually did contain a lot of useful and comforting information explaining what was going on with his body and happening to the baby week by week, the first early pregnancy pages told him that he should be taking it easy, eating plenty and making sure to stay hydrated if he was vomiting. So, Sirius decided to lay off the usual madness for a while just until he felt better and the other's knew and of course he had his twelve week scan to make sure that baby was still alright, he actually did really care about the baby even if it was partly Snape's.
His lessons were going fairly well even if he was feeling very tired most of the time which he read was very normal, he would often struggle to keep himself awake during classes. Professor Slughorn had been calling him back after lessons to have a chat with him asking him how the potion was working, how he was feeling, if he was having any trouble with things and such which helped take some of the relief off his chest especially seeing as the only other person he could really talk to was Regulus, which was another thing his friends were becoming suspicious of, the amount of time he was spending with the young Slytherin. Normally he and Sirius wouldn't be overly friendly, chatting away to each other all the time but now he was speaking to Regulus every day, going and sitting in alcoves alone with him to talk about who knows what and it worried Sirius the fact his friends were incredibly nosey that they might accidentally over hear something or they might fall out with him over it but he still didn't want to tell them.
Sirius sighed, it wasn't just that they might get pissed with him over the whole Regulus thing it was that he was hiding such a big secret from them, not only might they be angry but they could also be very hurt he didn't tell them. It was after all his secret and his baby it's not like they needed to know.
Sirius frowned slightly. There was another problem to this in the name of Severus Snape. Yes he had continued to send threatening or strange looks to Sirius during lessons and making sly comments nothing revealing or particularly upsetting just the whole attitude of that he could tell everyone what happened at any given moment. Sirius would definitely have to have words with him, a smile curled in the corners of his mouth when he remembered last week when Regulus punched him in the face.
Yawning he checked the time on his silver pocket watch before getting up slowly and heading into the dormitory, the others were already asleep by the time he got there. Sirius changed into his night shirt before climbing into bed, the second his head hit the pillow he was out like a light.
Meanwhile in the Slytherin Common Room...
Regulus sat on the sofa by the fireplace pondering over the last week's events, everything had been so explosive so shocking yet so nice. He sighed, things were only going to get tougher he knew that for a fact he could sense it especially as the pregnancy progressed.
He was so deep in thought he didn't even hear the dormitory stairs door close or the footsteps approaching him until a sudden weight sank into the seat beside him and he looked up.
"Good evening, Black" a familiar voice spoke as Regulus gazed up into the face of Severus Snape.
"Evening" he replied turning his attention back to the fire.
"Haven't had much of a chance to chat with you this past week, you look rather troubled" Severus said slowly his dark eyes staring into the side of the younger boy's face.
"Oh really? Clearly not as troubled as you though" Regulus said flatly.
"And what do you mean by that?"
Regulus shrugged. "Not my place to say anything even if I was going to tell you exactly what I think"
"Then maybe you won't mind telling me exactly why you decided to punch me in the face last week" Severus replied quickly his eyes still closely studying the younger boy.
"I think you already know why" Regulus swallowed still not meeting Severus' gaze.
"If I knew I wouldn't be asking you would I?"
Regulus closed his eyes in a long slow blink before turning to look at the older boy with complete disgust. "I know what you did"
Severus stared hard at Regulus for a few moments the look on his face as though cogs were turning in his head, he had seen Regulus spending rather a lot of time with his older brother recently especially in the last week or so. They had been talking closely and skulking around together. Severus struggled to force the nasty smirk from his face.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about here, Severus" Regulus said after a moment's pause.
"Then you shall be happy to share what you know with me" Severus half sighed, oh he knew indeed what Regulus was talking about but it just seemed so much more entertaining to make Regulus say it out loud.
Regulus was quiet for a few moments debating whether or not he should actually come out with it, he could just get up and go to bed right now and be done with it, it wasn't too late but no he thought it better to confront the problem head on.
Taking a deep breath he said "I know what you did with my brother"
Severus' face didn't even twitch, he did his best to hold his composure nice and calm and cool.
"Whatever are you talking about, Black?"
"You know perfectly well what I'm talking about, Severus" Regulus said angrily. "You took advantage of him" his eyes flashing dangerously.
To his surprise Severus chuckled. "And you think that your brother is all innocent? That he's the knight of Gryffindor, the perfect hero do you?" Severus said nastily.
"I never said he was innocent but what you did was wrong, you waited until he was in a state to spike his drink and when he wanted some air you sank your claws into him" Regulus spat.
"I believe that's not the only thing I sank into him"
And with that Regulus swung his fist and belted Snape straight across the face. The older boy slumped back against the sofa clutching his throbbing red cheek in utter shock.
"I had respect for you Snape, despite you being a half blood I actually thought you were a decent person and I felt sorry for you when people bullied you but now I see why they do it, you're a nasty selfish person and I think you know full well what you've done" Regulus snarled through gritted teeth.
"Trying to protect Sirius now are you? What a hard man you must be Black, I tell you something it must be hard not being able to live up to your brother and what everyone else sees in him" Severus said nastily. "He's the one they all admire, he's the one they all adore and you're just his little baby brother who managed to get all the left overs, it's a shame really"
Regulus sat staring at Severus in amazement shaking his head with utter disbelief, he never knew that Snape could be this awful just so nasty and selfish and horrible.
"I don't give a crap about any of that I know you're just trying to hurt me but you won't" Regulus said quickly.
"I'm not trying to hurt you in fact I do still see you as my friend but be warned, Regulus, that I can just as easily let this whole thing slip and tell everybody exactly what happened with your brother that night so you had better get your act together before I decide to do something drastic" Severus growled.
Regulus was quiet for a few moments pondering on whether or not he should push Snape any further. "If you DARE breathe a word about this to anyone Snape..."
"What are you going to do, Regulus? Just stick to what you know and back the fuck off this is between Sirius and I and when the time is right he will come to me about it I'm sure of it" Severus smirked nastily.
Regulus remained quiet for a few minutes staring at the fire place before he got quickly to his feet. "I'm going to bed, goodnight Severus" he said turning and walking towards the dormitory stairs.
"Goodnight, Regulus" Severus replied watching the door bang shut behind the younger boy.
Severus sat by the fireplace pondering over everything for some time before he finally decided to go upstairs and get into bed. He wasn't going to let silly Regulus Black worry him, oh no he would just have to let things run their course for the time behind and hope the problems resolve themselves. Flopping down behind his emerald drapes he decided to forget everything to do with Sirius or Regulus Black for the moment
A few days passed quite smoothly with no trouble from Severus or from anyone else for that matter. It was the start of a new week and Sirius was now nine weeks gone and feeling much better than before although he was still incredibly tired and had now taken to going to bed by nine every day and sleeping in half an hour extra in the mornings, on the weekend he had slept until almost noon and was in bed by ten at night and his friends were starting to feel rather worried.
It was in History of Magic that Sirius found it easy to relax and just think about the baby. It wouldn't be long before he would grow, the bump would show and the baby would be born, he found himself wondering what it was going to be like, if he would ever stop feeling this tired or worried about what was going to happen. He was Sirius Black after all known for his cheek and charm but since he found out about the baby he had calmed it down a little, he may have been a badly behaved, back talking charmer who made everybody swoon but he did care about himself and his baby and didn't want to put it at any risk.
Yawning Sirius rested his chin on the palm of his left hand and blinked around the room. The majority of students looked thoroughly bored and were on the verge of falling asleep if not already however one boy sat alone on the row directly across from Sirius. Severus Snape.
Sirius' eyes narrowed as he glared at the Slytherin. He still hadn't told him about the baby, confronted him or spoken to him despite the strange looks Severus had thrown him and the vicious grin he had flashed when James was harassing him at the end of last week.
How he hated Snivellus for what he had done, he had been used and abused by the slippery little snake and now he was made to feel uncomfortable and worried about what the greasy git might do next. Sirius' face softened slightly, but if Snape hadn't have done that he wouldn't be having a baby and even though it was half of the nasty little prick it was still his innocent unborn baby that didn't choose to be conceived or have a father like Snape. In a way Sirius was thankful to Severus, although he would never admit it.
At the end of the lesson the four Marauder's packed up their things and headed out of the classroom with the rest of the student's.
"You know something boys? I think I might really have a chance with Evans this year" James grinned as they walked out into the corridor together stopping to allow Peter to tie his shoe laces.
"You say that every year and it never happens mate, why don't you just give up and choose a different girl to stalk?" Sirius grinned flashing those dazzling white teeth as Severus walked out of the classroom behind them stopping to stare at the Gryffindor bunch.
"Shut up Padfoot you know she wants me" James laughed. "Wait until she sees me in next month's Quidditch game against the Slytherin's her knickers will be so wet she'll have to bring an extra pair up to the stands"
"Crude as ever I see Potter"
The four of them turned to stare at Severus, his long nose wrinkled with disgust as he looked at each one of them in turn. "And you wonder why she doesn't want you when you say things like that about her?"
"Shut up Snape nobody gives a damn about what you think" James tutted.
"Really? Well at least I know how to behave in front of a girl, making disgusting comments like that won't get you anything past a slap round the face" Severus retorted nastily.
"Oh and you're such an expert on women are you because you've fucked so many" James replied.
Severus' dark eyes flashed excitedly, he exchanged a brief knowing glance with Sirius whom swallowed nervously. "Something along those lines"
"Pfft yeah right, grow up Snape and stop stalking us it's getting kinda creepy" Peter laughed.
Severus tutted shaking his head his long curtains of black hair swaying from side to side. "If only you knew" he said simply glancing at Sirius again. "If only you knew" he repeated turning on his heels and stalking off down the other end of the corridor.
"What's wrong with him?" Remus frowned slightly.
"Yeah he's been acting strange lately, even stranger than usual" Peter replied.
"No idea maybe he's just pissed because Regulus punched him one and he's lashing out at people he thinks he can get away with it" Sirius said quickly.
"Probably, come on we'd best go before we're late to potions" Remus said.
And with that the four boys headed off down the corridor together talking amongst themselves and thankfully there was no more mention of Snape. Sirius breathed a long hard sigh of relief, he did not want to face Snape's accusations any time soon.
Down in the dungeons they stopped, James and Peter leaning against the cold stone wall with Remus and Sirius standing around them.
"Sirius why does that group of Slytherin's keep staring at you?" Remus commented nodding over to where Severus was standing amongst a group of the boys from their potions group staring in their direction and talking quietly.
Sirius' face paled slightly and he swallowed nervously, what if Snape was telling them about what happened at the start of term?
"No idea the little creep must have it in for me" he shrugged.
"More so than usual?" James chuckled and Sirius grinned madly at him.
"Probably, dunno why and I don't really care either he's not worth it"
"True that" Peter said.
"Oi Black!" Mulciber shouted catching their attention.
"What do you want?" Sirius snapped.
"Your little brother" Mulciber said simply.
"Regulus? What about him?" Sirius quirked a dark eyebrow inwardly sighing with relief.
"Why are you being so chummy with him all of a sudden? You're gonna spoil his reputation" Avery called.
"What reputation, of a nasty little death eater like you? I think he'd be better off with that one ruined" Sirius retorted.
"Shows how much you know doesn't it" Mulciber sniffed.
"Shows how little you know then as well" Sirius said quickly and the three others started to laugh. By now the group of Slytherin's were looking increasingly angry.
"You gonna fucking tell us what you're doing sniffing around Regulus all the time? What do you want from him?" Mulciber asked in a harsh tone of voice.
"Uhh well let's see, he's my little brother, we grew up together and we're friends, got a problem with that?" Sirius snarled.
"Yeah you're fucking bringing down his and our reputations, might wanna back the fuck off before we have to handle you ourselves" Evan spat.
"Oh be quiet little boy" Sirius tutted wrinkling his nose with disgust. "Why don't you ask Reg what he wants, go on, ask him I'll bet he won't agree with all your reputation bullshit"
"Bet he will" Snape butted in.
"Yet he belted you across the face last week..." Sirius replied.
Severus was quiet for a few moments before taking a few steps forward out of the safety and protection of his friends. He approached Sirius stopping barely a few feet away from him a nasty smirk spreading across his face. "And we both know why that is, don't we, Black?"
Sirius was quiet for a few moments he could feel everyone's eyes burning on him staring curiously as to what they were talking about.
"Look Snape, shut up, grow up and piss off nobody likes you you're a pathetic little scum bag that needs to crawl back down the hole you came from" Sirius said nastily his eyes sparkling dangerously as he glared at the smaller boy warning him to be quiet instantly.
"Well said mate" James pointed moving to stand beside his friend slinging an arm around his shoulders.
"Do you really want me to say it? To say it out loud in front of all these people?" Severus gestured lazily to the crowd outside the classroom all turning to watch excitedly.
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, Snivellus" Sirius shrugged casually trying to remain as calm as possible.
"Oh but you do, you know exactly what I'm talking about but I'll bet your pathetic little friends don't" Severus replied with a smirk.
"Sirius what is he talking about?" Remus asked exchanging confused looks with both Peter and James.
"Nothing" Sirius replied glancing at the werewolf. "Snape if you know what's good for you, you'll shut up right now before I break your jaw with my bare hands"
A look of fear washed over Severus' face, he knew that when Sirius made threats like that it was extremely unlikely that he was joking around, he had been on the receiving end of some seriously nasty hexes and a broken wrist in the past and didn't fancy testing the boy's patience any longer.
"Good" Sirius said after the moments silence. "Now run along back to your little friends, close your mouth and mind your own fucking business" he grinned triumphantly.
Severus stared hard at him for a few moments his dark eyes narrowing to slits. "Both you and I know this is definitely my business, but never the less I will stop mentioning the little... incident... for now" he said before turning on his heels and marching back over to his confused looking friends.
"Sirius what-"
"Sorry I'm late everyone I had a bit of trouble in my office with some student's from last lesson" Professor Slughorn said loudly flicking his wand and unlocking the classroom door. "Go on in everyone and take your seats we're having a theory lesson today" he said brightly as the student's began to file into the classroom muttering excitedly about what just happened.
Heading into the classroom the Marauders took their seats, Remus next to Sirius behind James and Peter.
"So what was Snape talking about?" Remus asked unpacking his things.
Sirius shrugged. "No idea, you know what he's like Moony, a bit of a nutter in my opinion"
"But he was actually threatening you..." Remus said again as James and Peter turned round to face them.
"Who cares it's only Snape he doesn't know anything" Sirius replied starting to feel rather annoyed.
"But what did he mean, talking about something we didn't know about?" James asked curiously searching his best friend's face.
"I've already told you I don't know can we just leave it at that I don't feel very well" Sirius said angrily.
"Still?"
"My potion has stopped my throwing up and helped a bit but I'm not going to feel better straight away these things take time" Sirius replied.
"You've been ill for ages, are you sure it's nothing serious?" Remus asked worriedly.
Sirius sighed. "I've already told you that I'm not seriously ill and I'm not going to die, it's not a fucking problem so don't try and make it into one!"
"Fucking hell I was only asking" Remus tutted.
The lesson was well under way the students were all busy chatting and answering their questions when Professor Slughorn approached Sirius.
"Ah Sirius, how are you feeling today, do you need any more potion?" he asked warmly smiling at the young Gryffindor.
James, Remus and Peter instantly looked up hoping to find out what was going on, if Slughorn was making a potion for Sirius, surely he knew what was wrong.
"Not so bad thanks, it's working great but I'm still feeling a bit rough and tired all the time" Sirius half yawned.
"Yes as expected, don't worry I'm sure that will pass with time though" the older man smiled briefly glancing at the other three boy's.
"Hopefully" Sirius chuckled.
"If you do need anything just let me know and I will be happy to help" Slughorn nodded.
"Okay thanks"
Just over a week passed and Sirius was starting to feel his pregnancy a little more although he was getting much better than he was to begin with. It was one morning when he was getting dressed with his back to his friends that he realised there was no way he could get his trousers done up any more, sighing with annoyance he pulled his boxers up a little higher and yanked his shirt and school jumper down hoping to disguise his expanding waist line. It wouldn't be long before his friends realised he was gaining weight so quickly especially with him being such a slim teenager they had already commented on the fact he was getting changed with his back to them most mornings and was no longer parading around topless.
"I feel the cold at the moment, besides it's practically winter" he said to James avoiding his suspicious glares.
"Honestly Padfoot I think you're turning into a woman!" James laughed pulling his own trousers on. Sirius couldn't help but stare enviously as James buttoned them with complete ease.
He was ten weeks pregnant now and it wouldn't be long before he wouldn't be able to hide it at all, people would start asking questions and poking fun at him for gaining a nice big tummy. On the other hand, Regulus seemed all the more helpful although he had taken to asking rather a lot of questions about the pregnancy when they were in private and staring at his stomach occasionally but apart from that everything was fine. Sirius smirked to himself, maybe it was good practice for when the rest of the students did it.
About a week passed since the incident in the corridor and surprisingly nothing else was mentioned on either side. The Marauders were still exchanging worried glances and talking quietly when Sirius' back was turned but that was okay he could deal with that no problem because no matter what they came up with they wouldn't even come close to getting it right.
Up in the Gryffindor dormitory, Sirius pulled off his cloak and kicked off his shoes he began to shed his clothing. Dropping his trousers to the floor he discreetly tried to hide the fact that the top button was now undone and the zipper coming down and he was having to be extra careful not to let everyone see his trousers were open all the time because he could no longer get them done up. He pulled up his pyjama bottoms quickly thankful that they were at elasticated at the waist before pulling off his shirt and yanking a t-shirt over his head disguising the small rounded bump on his tummy.
"Fancy planning some pranks tonight, Padfoot?" James asked flopping down on his own bed watching Sirius climb in under the covers and reach for his potion.
"Nah I'm too tired I need to sleep" Sirius replied with a yawn pouring a good measure of the bright blue potion and holding the goblet to his lips.
"You're always tired when are you gonna start planning stuff again, I was hoping we could sneak into Hogsmeade at some point and nick stuff from the Honeydukes cellar" James whined rolling onto his side to stare at his friend.
"You shouldn't steal" Remus said loudly but James just rolled his eyes.
"You rob food from the kitchens all the time, Moony and you eat food I robbed for you" James smirked.
"That doesn't count!"
Sirius couldn't help but laugh.
"So are you in?" James grinned hopefully.
"I'm gonna have to pass I'm just too tired and I need my rest" Sirius replied sipping at his potion. "If this was day time then I'd probably be all up for it but if I try it now I'll end up passing out and missing the whole of tomorrow's lessons"
"You've seemed better these past two weeks like pretty much normal though" Peter commented hopping into his own bed.
"Yeah that's cause my potion is helping me so I can sleep and eat properly again but I still don't feel completely better if I stopped drinking this potion I'd still be throwing up all over the place" Sirius replied resting the now empty goblet back down on his bedside table.
"Can't you go back to Madame Pomfrey and see if she can give you something else, I don't know, to keep you awake?" James suggested but Sirius shook his head.
"Nah, besides I've got a check-up with her next week or something to see how I'm getting on" Sirius replied, he had in fact been sent a notification that morning by owl stating that he had a scan coming up in a weeks-time to check how the baby is doing and talk about his pregnancy not that the other's knew that, although they were thoroughly interested in seeing what was written in the note.
"Want us to come with you?" Peter asked.
"No!"
They all stared.
"I mean, no thanks I'll be alright besides Pomfrey won't take too kindly to a whole crowd of us going down there, it's nothing serious anyway just a check-up" he said quickly watching their faces relax slightly.
"Guess you're right" James shrugged.
"Anyway guys I'm off to bed now, see you in the morning" Sirius yawned reaching for the curtain pull.
There was a resounding 'night' before his drapes fell shut plunging him into dim lightly. Yawning he reached inside his pillow case and pulled out his pregnancy book smiling to himself.
"Week eleven" he whispered turning to the correct page. By this week the baby was just over two inches long, the fingers and toes have fully separated and the baby is capable of easy movements and will be kicking inside the womb however you cannot feel it at this early stage. Sirius' eyebrows shot into his hairline when he read that the baby already has tooth buds. Smiling he skimmed through some of the information before settling on the page all about him.
Sirius sighed quietly it said it was perfectly normal for him to still be emotional and that was right, one minute he would be sitting doing his homework quite happily the next he would almost be in tears because he lost the right page or his quill ran out half way through a word, the next he would feel very worried and scared then ridiculously happy again and this hadn't gone unnoticed by his friends, even some of the girls he tried talking to were being a little cautious of his strange behaviour although he was still trying to act like perfectly normal Sirius Black.
Also that he would most likely still be feeling nauseous and or vomiting in the mornings, with a little back ache (which he still had on and off) frequent urination and tiredness.
Closing his book he buried it inside his middle pillow and snuggled down under the covers, thank Merlin for that book otherwise he would be stressed beyond belief about what was going to happen. Although he was a Gryffindor and raised a Black it still didn't stop him from being utterly terrified about having a baby, about what his family would say even though he wasn't overly fussed about them, about what Snape would do, how his friends would react if they would support him or call him a freak of nature and run a mile and what everyone else would think of his situation. Professor Slughorn was being surprisingly helpful considering Sirius wasn't a Slytherin however he did hold Sirius back after lessons to ask him how he was feeling, what was happening and if he was coping alright and thankfully he was partly because of Slughorn's support and the massive amount of help Regulus was being.
Regulus' behaviour had surprised Sirius the most, his little brother was helping him so much he would come up to him in the corridor even if he was with a large crowd of Gryffindor's, he would always ask how he was, offer to help him with things, do things for him and just sit talking about normal things completely unrelated to the baby which helped keep some balance and normality in his life.
Yawning he closed his eyes, at least things seemed alright at the moment.
The next morning arrived and Sirius groaned hearing his name being called loudly from outside his peaceful bed.
"Oi Sirius are you going to get out of bed or not? You're gonna be late!" James shouted like he did pretty much every morning.
"I'm coming" Sirius groaned sitting up and rubbing his tired eyes. He reached up and yanked the curtain pull.
Great.
He needed some more potion he would have to ask Slughorn during this morning's first lesson, hopefully the dose from last night would stop him from being sick this morning.
Sighing he climbed out of bed watching as Peter and James headed down to wait in the common room and Remus went into the bathroom to get ready, he waited until they had all disappeared before shedding his pyjamas and turning his back to the door just in case anybody decided to walk in on him and notice the expansion of his waist line.
He reached for his trousers and pulled them up sighing with annoyance and gritting his teeth, there was no way he could go another day like this his trousers would be wide open flapping in the breeze and it would be so difficult to not only hide the fact that they were open and his underwear was on display to the world, that he was also growing a bump underneath his slowly shrinking shirt which now seemed about an inch shorter than before.
Sirius stopped for a few moments gazing thoughtfully off into space before heading over to his trunk, opening it and rummaging around. "Aha!" he grinned pulling out a pair of baggy black pyjama bottoms. Although they were obviously pyjamas they were better than nothing at least he wouldn't be so exposed and possibly be accused of being a devious pervert.
Shaking his head he pulled them on grinning to himself at the fact they not only covered his bump but stopped his crotch from being on display. Heading back around to the bed he pulled on a clean shirt, his tie, school jumper and cloak just as the bathroom door clicked open and Remus appeared.
"Oh you're actually up, I thought I might have to literally drag you out from under those covers" Remus smiled heading over to his own bed to finish getting dressed.
"Oh shut it Moony" Sirius stuck his tongue out playfully. "You stay in bed half the day after a full moon!"
"Yeah that's because I'm in a lot of pain and bloody exhausted" Remus replied knotting his red and gold tie.
"Yeah well, I'm exhausted too" Sirius replied.
"From doing what?" Remus chuckled turning to stare at his friend. "All you do is eat, sleep and laugh"
"Yeah well I'm ill" Sirius pouted slightly.
Remus rolled his eyes and tutted before something caught his eye. "Are those your pyjama bottoms?" his thin blonde eyebrows creased into a slight frown.
"Oh uhh yeah" Sirius said.
"... Why?"
"Because I umm... gained a bit of weight and now my trousers won't do up anymore" Sirius cringed at little.
Remus' face twitched as though he was about to burst out laughing. "Oh..." he replied turning away to hide the smirk that appeared on his face.
"Oi you, what's so funny?"
"Just that you've always been so skinny and proud of your size now you've gained weight and you don't even seem the slightest bit bothered by it" Remus half shrugged glancing over his shoulder at his friend.
Sirius shrugged. "I'll live, I'm ill and I can't be bothered it'll probably shrink back down after a good few months"
Remus turned to stare at him suspiciously. "Months?" he blinked confusedly.
"Yeah?"
"Fair enough" Remus said his eyebrows slightly raised.
Sirius smiled to himself heading into the bathroom to finish off getting ready, well that was much easier than he thought at least Remus wasn't as loud or over bearing as James he was more understanding and that's why he usually always went to the werewolf about things because he always seemed much better. Sirius had contemplated telling Remus about the baby but changed his mind, he wanted to tell the three of them together at the same time when the time was right after his next weeks scan.
About fifteen minutes later and the two of them headed down into the common room where James and Peter were lounging on the sofa, James once again messing around with his stolen Snitch.
"Finally, thought we'd have to go down without you lazy buggers" James commented stuffing the Snitch back into the top inside pocket of his cloak and getting to his feet with Peter.
"Oh be quiet, you" Remus laughed as they headed towards the portrait hole.
"So guess what" James began. "I'm planning something big for Valentines day" he grinned and the other's all exchanged strange looks.
"That's like almost three months' away, it's the end of November" Sirius laughed and James shot him a glare.
"Yeah shouldn't you be more concerned about Christmas?" Remus chuckled.
"I am concerned about Christmas but Valentines day will be the day I finally pull Lily Evans" James said loudly thumping himself on the chest.
"In your dreams, Potter" a soft female voice spoke as Lily herself and two other girls pushed past him shooting him filthy glares before hurrying off down the stairs in front of them.
"Better luck next time, prongs" Sirius laughed slinging an arm around the boy's shoulders.
"Just you wait, she will like what I'm planning you're just jealous because you don't have a special someone" James said gruffly.
"Neither do you" Remus pointed making Peter snigger.
"Don't be so jealous, Remus" James replied hotly shrugging Sirius' arm off.
Remus frowned slightly and shook his head. "Of what?"
"No need to get so upset, James we're only having a laugh" Sirius chuckled.
"Well I'm not okay, I love Lily and I will get her to be mine, you'll see" James snapped.
"Ooooh love!" the three other boys teased.
"Just because you don't have anyone doesn't give you the right to take the piss out of me"
"We're only having a laugh, we don't mean bad by it I'm sure you'll get your chance to impress Evans at some point but maybe you should tone it down a little in front of other people" Remus frowned slightly.
"Like I'd take advice from a queer bloke that's never even kissed anyone before" James said nastily.
"Fine then, see you later" Remus said gruffly before marching away.
"Aw come on Moony-" Sirius called but Remus had already gone.
"You should really apologise to him you know, he didn't deserve that" Sirius said.
"He had it coming" James shrugged. "Let him cool off he's be fine later"
"You're the one in the wrong here, not Moony" Peter said quickly as they walked across the entrance hall.
James was just about to reply when a voice caught all of their attention.
"SIRIUS!" Regulus shouted hurrying towards his brother a bright smile on his face. He stopped right in front of him grinning excitedly. "How are you feeling this morning?" he asked kindly.
"Not so bad, need to get some more of that potion so I don't start throwing up again" Sirius said feeling his stomach give a small churn and he winced.
"Fair enough, umm, why are you wearing your pyjamas?" Regulus nodded down to his brother's legs.
Sirius looked him straight in the eye speaking slowly making sure Regulus understood exactly what he was talking about "Because I've gained some weight and can't get my trousers done up any more I've been eating more because I'm ill"
Regulus stared at him nodding slowly. "I see and that's a good thing isn't it, the eating well and that?"
Sirius nodded. "Very"
James and Peter looked between the two of them very suspiciously for a few moments before sighing. "Listen catch up with us in a minute, I don't know what you two are on about but I'm sure we don't wanna know" James said.
"Yeah see you in a bit" Sirius replied watching James and Peter walk off in the direction of the great hall. "Come on" he said grabbing Regulus' arm and discreetly pulling him into the nearest broom cupboard.
"Ow Sirius-"
"Look" the older brother said lifting his shirt up and gently pulling the front of his pyjama bottoms down a way exposing his growing little bump. Regulus' face softened and spread into an enormous grin.
"Aw you've got a little bump!" he said excitedly.
"Yeah that's why I can't do my trousers up, apparently the baby is just over two inches in length now" Sirius grinned.
"That's so cute, can I feel your stomach?" Regulus blushed slightly.
"Yeah go right ahead" Sirius nodded watching his brother reach out and gently stroke his fingers over his tummy.
"Aw that's so nice, you're growing quickly" the Slytherin nodded with a bright smile removing his hand and watching his brother replace the clothing neatly.
"Yeah I know it won't be long before I'm all kitted out like a tranny wearing maternity clothes" Sirius smirked making Regulus burst out laughing.
"I'm sure you'll find something to wear that isn't a dress, but that would be kind of funny" Regulus snickered.
"Hahaha very funny, Reg" Sirius teased pulling his little brother into his arms feeling him wrap his arms around Sirius' ribs in response. They stayed like that in silence for a little while before Sirius spoke again.
"Hey Reg?
"Hmm?"
"Next week is my first proper scan I was wondering... if you'd like to come with me?" he asked hopefully.
Regulus drew back an excited smile on his face. "I'd love to, where is it, what is going to happen?" he asked excitedly.
Sirius chuckled. "Well basically it's in the hospital wing with Madame Pomfrey she's going to give me a scan to make sure the baby is okay and developing properly and we're going to talk about the pregnancy and the birth just make sure everything is alright really"
"I'm sure it will be" Regulus nodded.
"Hope so" Sirius smiled.
"Have you still not said anything to Severus?" Regulus asked curiously watching the expression on his brother's face suddenly turn very worried.
"No and I'm not going to just yet, remember when I said he was purposely being a dick head and trying to threaten me?"
Regulus nodded.
"He's still staring at me, still acting like a creeper and still making faces so I don't really know what to do" Sirius sighed.
"Although you hate him he is still the father of the baby and you can't really change that now no matter how much you want to, who knows, maybe he will step up to the plate I mean he's going to find out sometime if he doesn't already know"
"What do you mean 'if he doesn't already know?'" Sirius swallowed.
"Nothing just that if he's behaving so strangely with you, he spiked your drink, used that extra hole or whatever does it not seem kind of suspicious to you?" Regulus asked with a slight frown.
"This is Snape we're talking about, he's a fucking idiot" Sirius shrugged.
"Yeah but he doesn't strike me as the sort of person to rush in to something, if it was him that brewed the potion and spiked your drink with it surely he could have known this was a possible side effect?"
Sirius stared at his brother for several moments not saying anything, he had a point what if Snape did know about the possible although rare chance of a male pregnancy, surely he wouldn't want to take that risk especially not at his age with no money and the rest of the school to worry about especially the Marauders and Sirius himself.
"I really don't think he'd do that, think about it Reg, he's a fifteen year old greasy stalker with no money and ambitions to become a death eater like he's going to want to run the risk of having a kid" Sirius chuckled in disbelief.
"Did he use a condom?" Regulus asked quickly and Sirius shook his head. "Whether he knew or not you' think he would still use one especially if he thought you had been sleeping around unless he was willing to chance it for some reason"
"I have NOT been sleeping around, ever!" Sirius frowned. "But you kind of have the point here, still, he's a little freak he probably doesn't think that way"
"Who knows" Regulus sighed. "I still think you should think on it, if it was me in that situation I'd be looking at all possibilities of what could have happened and if he is behaving so strangely he might be completely oblivious to the pregnancy but he might just be faking we don't know and it's not exactly simple to just walk up to him and whack it out there that could make things a lot worse.
"I get where you're coming from, Reg, but I think we should leave it for now unless he actually says something that would suggest he already knows then we can assume he doesn't we don't want to fall into any of his traps, I don't think he would have done it on purpose although the idea is pretty sharp to come up with I still think he wouldn't want something like that, for starters he hates my guts" Sirius laughed making Regulus grin.
"He hates mine now as well after I punched him one" he chuckled.
"Yeah nice punch, he had it coming" Sirius laughed.
"We should really be getting some breakfast by now I'm starving so I can't imagine what you're feeling like" Regulus nodded to his brother's stomach.
"A little queasy to be honest but I'd better eat something anyway" Sirius replied. "By the way I'll let you know what time the scan is at so we can meet up before hand and go there on time"
"Okay I'll look forward to it and remember if you want me to keep an eye on Snape then I will" Regulus smiled warmly.
"Thanks that would be great" Sirius nodded opening the door as the two of them headed out and into the great hall.
"See you later, Sirius" Regulus smiled hugging his brother. "Feel better soon"
"Yeah later's, Reg" Sirius smiled kissing his brother on the forehead before they parted ways to their own house tables.
"What was that all about, you were gone ages!" James said as Sirius dropped down into a seat in front of him.
"Ah brother stuff" Sirius replied piling food onto his plate his stomach churning a little with discomfort.
He frowned slightly. "Where's Remus?" he blinked.
James pointed off down the table to where the werewolf was sitting on his own picking at his breakfast.
"Hey Remus!" Sirius shouted and the boy looked up. "Come on don't be silly and sit there on your own" he called.
Remus looked from Sirius to James and wrinkled his nose. "No thanks"
"Right then" Sirius said getting to his feet and lifting up his goblet and plate. "I'll go keep him company, see you in lessons" he smiled before heading off down the table and dropping into the spare seat next to Remus.
After breakfast they headed along to the potions classroom, Sirius had managed to convince Remus to walk with James and Peter so they walked along and normal.
"I hope this is another theory and research lessons cause I really can't be fucked this morning" James yawned stretching upwards as they headed down into the dungeon corridor.
Sirius swallowed hard his stomach was churning uneasily. "Yeah me too, I feel a little sick again" he said wrinkling his nose.
"It'll pass once you sit down for a bit" James replied as they stopped outside the potions classroom.
"Hope so, need to ask Slughorn to make some more of that potion for me it was really helping" Sirius yawned ignoring the crowd of Slytherin's staring at him and whispering as usual, giving each one of the Marauder's filthy looks.
After a few minutes of casual talking the stares became too annoying for Sirius he just had to say something. "Is there a problem?" he snapped glaring at them all in turn.
"Nice pyjama's Black, didn't realise that was the new trend" Avery smirked nastily.
"Yeah, to look queer" Mulciber laughed.
Sirius rolled his eyes. "Why are you so interested in me all of a sudden?" he asked curtly. "I'm very flattered you take so much notice but I'm not interested in dating either of you dick heads"
"Oi we aint queer" Avery shouted angrily and Sirius couldn't help but laugh.
"No need to be so defensive if you've got nothing to hide" James called.
"Could say the same about you Black" Severus interrupted. Sirius felt the anger rise up in his chest, his stomach was churning horribly but that didn't even draw the attention away from the face Snape was standing there bold as brass calling the shots once again.
"Who cares what a greasy little cunt like you says" Sirius snapped.
"If only they knew, Black, I wonder if you'd be saying the same thing then" Severus sighed amusedly.
Sirius felt a vein throb in his temple, he took several steps forward standing square with Severus although a few inches taller.
"Say that to my face and I'll smash your greasy head through that wall" Sirius snarled.
Severus seemed to ponder on this for a few moments before smirking again. "A pureblood who is eager to use his fists like a common Muggle? Don't make me laugh" he grinned hearing the agreements coming from the other Slytherin's behind him.
"Better a Muggle than a scum bag like you" Sirius replied. "If you know what's good for you, you'll shut that sarcastic little mouth of yours and crawl back into the sewer where you came from and hopefully while you're there you'll die"
"Nice trousers Black" Severus smirked a strange expression washing over his face for a few brief moments.
"That all you can say, Snivellus? Why don't you take your pathetic little comments and sod off" Sirius tutted. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and puke" he swallowed giving Severus a light tap on the cheek before heading off down the dungeon corridor towards the toilets.
Heading into the boy's bathroom, Sirius flung himself into a cubicle throwing up into the basin until he dry heaved. Reaching out shakily he tore off a piece of toilet roll and wiped his mouth flushing the toilet he made his way over to the sinks.
Stupid fucking Snivellus, stupid Slytherin's, stupid sex, stupid everything!
Sirius sighed angrily as he washed his hands and splashed some cold water on his face . He let out a long drawn out breath, Sirius knew it wouldn't be long before he had to tell his friends at least and talk to Snape.
Sighing he made his way back into the potions classroom, by now everyone had gone in and was seated. Dropping into the chair beside Remus he frowned to himself, when did things suddenly become so complicated?
That night when Sirius went to bed he lay awake for a little while gazing at the canopy over his draped bed. That was it he couldn't do it any more, next week after his first scan he was going to tell his friends about the baby and hope that everything would work out fine, as for Severus he would just have to wait and see how things panned out but no doubt he wouldn't be waiting much longer to announce the pregnancy to him either.
Rolling onto his side he smiled, he was going to have a little baby and next week he would see him or her on the monitor screen again with his little brother. As he drifted off to sleep he couldn't help but dream of the wonderful, extreme and exciting times ahead...