The Third Mate

AN: So far most people voted for the child to die, only two people wanted it to live. this is a trial run. if you don't like the way the story will go then you'll need to vote. no one has reviewed in a few days so i figured people stopped reading.

Proposed plot: Its going to be a compromise between some of the ideas a few reviewers had. There wont be any physical fighting, it will be political. there will be as much emotion as I can put in and lots and lots of sex, cuz thats the reason i started this story in the first place. I debated having them name the kid, but i decided that they wouldn't do that. Harry and Sirius are still going to fight, but it wont be for positions, they are going to become more or less equal. this event will show them that their positions aren't in stone or magical its an attitude thing.

Chapter 4

Sirius was having a moral delima. He'd never wanted to carry a child. He just wasn't the mother type..hell he wasn't the father type. He was pregnant, there was a life growing...well dying, inside of him and he wasn't sure how he was supposed to feel. He knew Harry and Remus were beating themselves up for not protecting it, but Sirius had only known about the kid for a few hours. He didn't feel anything for it. Like it was a story he read in the paper "Aww a kid died, that's to bad".

Minerva cast another spell on him and Sirius could feel the magic prickling inside him.

She sighed. So far they had been able to determine that the unknown spell on him was siphoning off the magic that would create the womb inside him. Without that, the child would die. Harry had said that if they destroyed the object containing the siphoned magic, that the child would be fine. How were they supposed to get this object?

Sirius wondered if he should be more upset. He was a man, so he didn't have the mothering instinct. He was furious that someone had dared to cast spells on him without his knowledge, but he didn't feel like the child was alive yet. He couldn't help it.

He wanted to get back at the ministry and the only way he knew to do that was by using the public. If the ministry authorized the murder of an unborn, and the public knew about it, then they would pulverize them. Similarly if they didn't authorize it, then the unspeakables were out of the ministry's control and the minister would eradicate them. Perfect either way.

"Can you make a record of the spells and things before you go?"

Harry and Remus turned to him and Sirius flinched at the looks he got.

Harry, unable to really process what Sirius had said asked him to repeat it. "Well we're going to need proof that they did this to us if were to get our revenge."

"How can you just give up?" Harry yelled at him. Sirius was impressed, it was usually he who was yelling outrageously. Remus interrupted their budding argument. "I understand Sirius, you've only known about it for a little over an hour. I have creature in me so I feel for it more then you and Harry has always wanted a family." Remus pulled Harry into his arms and held him there forcefully, preventing his retreat. Sirius saw Poppy, Filius, and Minerva leave to give them privacy.

"Harry, you cannot expect him to develop feelings this quick." Sirius was insulted by the insinuation, he wasn't sure what it was but he knew it was insulting. "Oi!"

Remus shook his head, "Harry you don't have feelings for it either. Its just an idea at this point."

Harry pulled out his his arms enough to look at them, "yea, your right. Sorry Sirius." Sirius shrugged, it wasn't that big of a deal.

"I just.." Harry broke off and Remus pulled him up on the bed so Sirius could comfort him too. Harry ended up with his head on Sirius' stomach with the other two pressed on top of him.

Sirius could hear him whisper, "I'm sorry little one." Over and over into his stomach. He wasn't good with these feeling things but he knew it was a way of saying goodbye. There just wasn't a way to help their child.

"We'll be able to have more Harry." He tried to comfort him the only way he knew how. Harry nodded.

They spent a few minutes just saying goodbye.

Eventually Harry pulled out of their arms and stood up, his back to them. Slowly he drew himself up, as though he was gathering strength as he straitened. Remus recognized it from the war and grew fearful. He may play at Alpha but Harry had really commanded armies in the war.

"They've taken a lot from me over the years, but they will pay for taking our child." A chill settled on Sirius and Remus. Harry's eyes held a gleam they'd never seen before.

"In Hogwarts, the hat wanted to place me in Slytherin but I said no. Its time I used some of that cunning."

He left to find the others and Sirius turned to look at Remus. "But its not his kid." Remus chucked, some things never changed.

"We are a pack now, any child we have will be the child of all of us. Understand?" He smiled at his first mate. He was used to his insensitivity, and prison had not really helped with teaching him social customs.

"So he's going to pretend its his kid too?"

"No Sirius, it is his kid. We would all be fathers." Sirius nodded, but his confused expression didn't leave. Remus chuckled again. It was nice to have something to laugh about.

Harry returned with Filius, Minerva, and Poppy and the Headmistress pulled out some parchment to record the spells. Poppy cast her spells again and Remus could see their results appear on the parchment. It was a nifty charm. He wondered why it wasn't used instead of Quick Quills.

When all the spells had been recast and recorded Remus asked Harry what he had planned next.

"Well I was thinking. As reputable as Poppy is, I'm not sure her findings will stand up in court. I'm thinking we take Sirius back to St. Mungo's" Sirius groaned. " It shouldn't take very long, I may not be as popular with the administration as I once was, but my fame is still rather annoying." He winked at his mates.

"Then I'd like to make a press conference. Minerva could you set that up for me?" She nodded and asked for a time and place. "I want it to be public, how about in two hours at the steps of Gringots. I'll send an owl to the goblins." They nodded and Poppy left to get an owl for Harry.

"What are you going to say Harry?" Sirius asked him. "You'll have to see." Harry winked again and wrote his letter to the goblins.

An: well there it is..as i said if this isn't how you wanted it to go then you'll need to vote and in a week if things change I'll put up another proposed story line.

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