It Started With Sweet Revenge

The week passed by much faster than expected and before Sirius knew it, it was the day before the first scan. He yawned sitting up in bed and pouring himself a cup of his potion, only a half size as his morning sickness was starting to ebb away.
Sipping from the goblet he reached up and pulled the drapes open around his bed. “Morning” he greeted to the sight of James getting dressed, Peter trying to quickly do the homework he was supposed to do over a week ago and Remus still snuggled up under his covers fast asleep.
“Morning Padfoot” James smiled watching Sirius down the rest of his potion and sit back comfortably under the covers.
“I’m up before Moony this morning” Sirius chuckle nodding to Remus’ bed where he lay completely buried under his blankets.
“Yeah but he had the full moon last night, he’s exhausted” James chuckled and Sirius rolled his eyes playfully.
“Supposed I’d best be up and dressed, I need to go and find Regulus this morning” Sirius said slipping out from under the covers and immediately turning his back on James.
“What for?” James asked curiously as Sirius quickly pulled off his nightshirt and grabbed his plain white school shirt tugging it on and buttoning it quickly before he reached for the pyjama bottoms he had been wearing as trousers.
Sirius shrugged. “Just got to tell him something” he replied pulling on his pyjama bottoms and slipping his feet into his shoes.
“Anything important?”
“Not really” Sirius said flatly, knotting his tie he pulled on his jumper and cloak before heading to the bathroom.
James stared after him suspiciously there was definitely something weird going on with Sirius. He had known for a while there was something not quite right and whatever it was Sirius was keeping it from the Marauders but telling Regulus everything. James frowned slightly, why would Sirius hide anything from his friends? They were all so close, fair enough Regulus was his little brother and he should be friends with him no matter what Regulus is like although admittedly he did seem to have improved dramatically within the past couple of weeks but why would this stop Sirius from telling his friend’s what was going on?
A few minutes later, washed and ready to go, Sirius grabbed his school bag and made for the door. “I’ll see you lot down at breakfast I need to go find Reg” he called. “Feel better, Remus” he said as he closed the dormitory door behind him.
Another awkward morning over, they were always the worst. Sirius had tried several times in the past few days to hang back until everyone had gone before getting dressed, to get up early which failed every time, and then dress before they could see him or turn his back and change as quickly as possible hoping that none of them noticed that he was a little bigger this week, his stomach was rounded into a little bump protruding through the skin. Sirius was getting bigger quickly and tomorrow he would have his first proper baby scan to check how the little one was getting on, he knew things were only going to get harder from here on out but in some ways he really didn’t mind.
Smiling to himself he headed out of the common room and down the stairs into the entrance hall. Making his way over to a bench he sat down and gazed off absent mindedly down the dungeon corridor waiting for Regulus to appear, knowing his brother as well as he did, it wouldn’t be long, Regulus did like to be up fairly early most of the time.
Strangely enough in the past day or so, Severus hadn’t done anything much to bother him apart from stare at him strangely during lessons and occasionally pout at him and then send him a wicked grin that really hacked Sirius off, how he wanted to go over there and grab the Slytherin by his long greasy hair and scream in his face, to punch him so hard in that oversized fucking nose, to pick him up and literally throw him into the lake with a bar of soap. But instead he did nothing, he didn’t even react, he knew that Severus was looking for a reaction and the more he got the more he would keep up even if he was frightened of Sirius.
It wasn’t long before a familiar small, slim figure appeared out of the dungeons walking across the entrance hall. Sirius snapped out of his daze and jumped to his feet. “Regulus!” he called waving at his little brother watching as a grin spread across Regulus’ face and he hurried towards him.
“Morning, how are you feeling?” the younger boy asked instantly.
“Fine thanks, you?”
“Yeah I’m great, you’re up early, what’s up?” Regulus asked brightly and Sirius couldn’t help but smile.
“I’ve been waiting for you, wanted to catch you before everyone else came down so we could talk” Sirius began sitting back down on the bench gesturing for his brother to sit down beside him.
Regulus complied with a smile.
“It’s the first scan tomorrow I was wondering if you still wanted to come?” Sirius asked hopefully.
“Yeah course, I’d love to, I was wondering when you were going to tell me about that I thought maybe you’d forgotten”
“Pfft, Reg, how could I possibly forget my own kids scan and that you’re going to come with me” Sirius laughed.
“Great so what time and where shall we meet?” Regulus grinned.
“It’s just after eight in the morning and I was thinking it might be easier if we stayed together tonight, being as it’s going to be early and my friends are a bit of a pain to hide from especially if they think I’m going to see Pomfrey they might try and follow” Sirius replied.
“Okay and uhh, how exactly do we do that?” Regulus blinked confusedly.
“We could stay up in the room of requirement I guess” Sirius suggested with a light shrug.
“Sounds cool to me” Regulus smiled. “Won’t they wonder where you are?”
“Yeah but I’ll make something up, I can’t be bothered with another morning of hiding away from them in the dormitory or changing with my back turned and as quickly as possible it’s awkward and annoying” Sirius chuckled.
“That cause your bumps getting bigger?”
Sirius nodded. “Yeah the other day James asked if I’d been gaining a little extra weight, I mean he knew about the pyjamas but he said he thought I looked a little fuller in the face as well, thankfully my bump isn’t very big at the moment”
“You do, kind of, not much and you probably wouldn’t really notice if you didn’t see you all the time but there is a little something more there, have they seen your tummy?” Regulus asked curiously.
“No thank Merlin” Sirius laughed. “I doubt they’d guess I was pregnant even if they did see it but I still don’t want them asking too many questions, besides, I’m planning on telling them maybe tomorrow night after the scan or the weekend, I wanna see how I feel after I’ve had it and whether or not the baby is alright” Sirius replied.
“I’m sure the baby will be fine but it’s up to you when you tell them, best make sure you’re ready to do it” Regulus nodded.
“I will don’t worry, and I’m also thinking of telling Snape within the next few weeks, definitely before Christmas I think” Sirius’ dark eyebrows furrowed slightly and he bit his bottom lip.
Regulus stared hard at his brother for a few moments before he spoke again. “Look Sirius I know you pretend you aren’t worried or bothered by him but I know you are I can see it in your eyes, you’re hormonal and emotional it must be a fucking nightmare for you to deal with all of this but once it’s done it’s done and he might lay off you a bit”
“I hope you’re right, Reg, but it still doesn’t stop this from being any less difficult, this is a baby we’re talking about a real human life living inside me and I didn’t make him or her on my own” Sirius sighed. “I might act as if I’m aloof but I do care for the kid even if it is half of Snivellus, it didn’t choose for him to be its father and Merlin help it with a greasy git like that but I’ll do anything I can to protect it I just wish everything could be normal in the meantime”
“Things are never normal with you Sirius” Regulus chuckled. “But I see where you’re coming from maybe once you tell your friends you’ll feel better and fingers crossed they will support you, I have no idea how they’re going to react because I don’t know them overly well but I think that everything is going to be okay, I’m good with people”
“You got that right, Reg” Sirius laughed. “I honestly don’t know what they’ll say I’m not gonna tell them who the dad is cause that will cause upset, at least for now anyway I’m going to keep things quiet and just make up some story that I don’t know” he half shrugged.
“But surely they know you’ve been having lots of issues with Snape, more issues than usual” Regulus winced slightly. “They don’t seem very dumb to me, especially that Lupin he’s a smart arse surely they could put two and two together”
“I hope not....” Sirius replied shaking his head with a sigh.
A few minutes later and they spotted the three other Marauders coming down the stairs towards them. “Right shall we go and get some breakfast then? I’m feeling pretty ravenous” Sirius smiled getting to his feet with Regulus by his side.
“Sure thing, so meet me outside the library tonight at around eight and we can go to the room of requirement then” Regulus said quietly and Sirius nodded.
“Okay, see you then” he smiled kissing Regulus softly on the cheek.
Grinning Regulus pecked his brother’s cheek in return before turning round and heading off into the entrance hall. Sirius watched him disappear through the doors as his friends stopped in front of him.
“Why are you so kissy cuddly with Regulus all of a sudden?” Peter asked bluntly.
Sirius shrugged. “Just getting along like we used to I suppose” he looked at each one of them in turn. “Come on let’s go get some food I’m starving” he said. The four of them turned and headed into the great hall together happily.
After a rather boring first lesson in charms where they did nothing but take notes and listen to a lecture, the four boys headed off up to their even more exciting History of Magic session.
“I hate this subject” Peter groaned traipsing up the stairs with the rest of them.
“It’s not all bad you can get some interesting facts from it” Remus commented and the others stared at him hard. “That is.... when you aren’t falling asleep of course!” he added quickly.
“Nice save” James chuckled.
They stopped outside of the classroom for a few minutes waiting for Professor Binns the only ghost professor to call them in.
“So what are you guys planning on doing for Christmas then?” James asked leaning back against a wall.
“I’m going to stay here” Sirius yawned.
“Me too, my parents are going to visit some relatives that I really don’t want to be the centre of attention of” Remus cringed remembering the last time he had visited some of his family and they had done nothing but baby him the whole time he was there.
“I was planning on going home actually” Peter said and James nodded.
“Me too”
“Looks like it’s just the two of us then this Christmas, Moons” Sirius chuckled.
“Still not sorted the trouser situation out then, Black?” Severus commented as he walked past to join his Slytherin friends a little way down from them.
“Shut it Snivellus” Sirius growled.
“Touchy” Snape smirked nastily.
“Watch it Snape or I’m gonna have to deal with your little back chat problem myself” Sirius snapped.
“No need to bite my head off” Severus sighed catching Sirius’ eye. An odd sensation ran down the Gryffindor’s spine that he couldn’t quite put his finger on as he glared at the smaller boy.
“Go fuck yourself”
Severus’ face spread into an ear to ear grin. “Careful Black, we don’t want to get too close to that territory do we?”
Sirius swallowed nervously he could see his friends staring at Severus with disgust. “Why don’t you just grow up and piss off, you know where to shove it” Sirius dismissed him entirely.
Severus stared at him for a few moments unsure of what to say, so he forced a light chuckle from his tight lips.
The rest of the day passed fairly quickly with no more problems from Snape. After a hearty dinner, Sirius retreated to the Gryffindor common room for a while sitting himself down on the sofa amongst his friends, it was only half seven he still had a good twenty minutes to kill before he needed go find Regulus.
“So what’s the plan for tonight boys?” James asked eagerly as he dropped into the seat beside Sirius.
“Homework, Professor McGonagall is going to actually kill me if I don’t hand it in tomorrow” Peter said nervously pulling his things from his bag.
James laughed. “Moony?”
“Probably going to do homework too” he half shrugged.
“What? You’re so boring where’s the fun in everything, what about planning some new pranks for those dirty Slytherin bastards?” he whined. “Sirius please tell me you’re up for the job” he turned to his friend.
“Actually I’ve got plans” the dark haired boy said quickly.
“What? Since when do you have plans?” Peter asked wrinkling his nose.
“Since this morning when I asked Regulus if he wanted to hang out tonight” Sirius replied.
“Oh right....” James said and they all exchanged looks. “So guess that means I’m gonna be sitting here plotting on my own then”
“Looks that way” Remus chuckled. “Or you could join us and actually do your homework for once”
James was quiet for a few moments before he sighed. “Fine but you better promise to help me plan my pranks another night then otherwise I’m going to have a serious fall out with you guys”
“Agreed” they chimed.
Sirius glanced up at the clock it was just gone ten to eight and he slowly got to his feet. “Right then I’m off now I’ll see you guys later” he said slinging his bag over his shoulder.
“Don’t be too late” James said.
“I won’t, see ya” Sirius waved heading through the portrait hole thankful to get away from the three of them for a bit, at least he wouldn’t have to do the whole hiding thing in the morning, Regulus knew he was pregnant and had seen his bump so it wasn’t like it was anything new or shocking to him.
He yawned walking down the stairs towards the library. Tomorrow was his first proper baby scan and he would see the little one for the first time all grown into a baby human, his little baby.
He headed along the library corridor stopping outside the library for a few minutes and waited. At precisely eight o clock, Regulus appeared in the doorway grinning madly.
“Oh you’re here already” he said slightly surprised that his brother was actually there on time.
“You did say about eight” Sirius chuckled.
“I know, so shall we get going then?” Regulus asked quickly and his brother nodded.
“Yeah come on” Sirius said leading Regulus back along the corridor towards the stairs.
“So how’s everything been today then, no more trouble I hope” Regulus asked as they walked out onto the stairs and began to climb them.
“Well Snape did have his usual comments this morning but nothing too bad really, he’s more of an annoyance at the moment besides I’ve got bigger things to worry about” Sirius replied resting a gentle hand on his tummy. “I need to tell my friends, I need to explain to them everything and come clean I can’t keep lying to them about this baby they will be really hurt”
“I suspect they might be but hopefully they offer you support and help you need it no matter how much you pretend you don’t, I know you Sirius, you’re going to keep pretending nothing is going on and even when you’re nine months gone you’ll be parading around flashing your teeth and flirting with everything that moves” Regulus sighed watching his brother closely through the corner of his eye.
“I just want things to be normal, I want to have a nice pregnancy without any of the usual drama and have a nice comfortable birth” Sirius swallowed.
“Sirius I hate to break it to you but the past three months of your pregnancy have been nothing but dramatic, look back at everything that’s happened things are going to remain that way unless you do something about it, you’ve got to put your faith in people, it’s about you and your baby and of course Snape” Regulus explained. “I can’t make you tell him and I can’t make you be nice to him but you could at least try for the sake of the baby, some kids grow up not knowing who their mother’s or father’s are or they want nothing to do with them so if you can give him or her the chance of that even if Snape does reject it then at least you tried and you’re being the bigger person”
Sirius stopped along the corridor and turned to face his little brother. “Wow I never knew you were so good at this whole advice thing, maybe you should consider a career as an agony aunt for the daily prophet”
Regulus blushed a little a muttered his thanks. “But that still doesn’t mean you should ignore what I say!”
“I’m not it’s just.... put yourself in my shoes of a pregnant sixteen year old boy, still in school, with OWL exams at the end of the year, friends that know nothing about the pregnancy, a good reputation and the most embarrassing baby daddy you could find, seriously Reg now you try and tell me there aren’t a few slight problems with that”
Regulus closed his eyes in a long slow blink and sighed. “You’re right but you still have time to make things better, take the plunge and just do it it’s better than waiting until you’re in labour and a baby falls out your body with Snape holding your hand, they’re going to find out either way it’s better you tell them sooner rather than later”
“I know” Sirius sighed turning his attention to the wall in front of them. He closed his eyes for a few moments, opening them slowly a dark decorated door appeared melting through the wall in front of him. “Yes it worked, the room of requirement” he grinned glancing up and down the corridor making sure nobody was looking. “Come one” he said grabbing Regulus’ wrist and dragging him through shutting the door tightly behind them and watching as it melted back into the wall.
“Nice in here” Regulus commented gazing around the neatly decorated little bedroom, a door lead off presumably into the bathroom and a large double bed sat right in the middle.
“Yeah not half bad” Sirius nodded heading over to the bed and pulling his night shirt, potion and spare goblet from his bag.
Regulus kicked off his shoes, ran and jumped onto the bed lounging across it happily watching Sirius pour some of the potion into his goblet.
“Won’t be long before the morning sickness is behind you and you’re dealing with the swollen ankles and back pain” Regulus smiled watching his brother down the potion.
“I’m already getting a few small cramps in my lower back, it’s normal in early pregnancy but I doubt it’s the same as when you’re actually heaving a great big belly around” Sirius chuckled resting the goblet on the bedside table, kicking off his own shoes and lying down beside Regulus.
They lay in silence for a little while just enjoying each other’s company.
“You know Sirius it might not seem like it, or have seemed like it for a long time but I do really care about you” Regulus said slowly looking at his brother.
“Us Blacks, most of us aren’t really the caring type” Sirius chuckled.
“You are”
“Yeah but I’m not exactly a typical Black am I?” Sirius grinned.
“In mum and dads eyes you’re not, they’re going to freak when you find out about the baby when are you going to tell them?” Regulus asked quickly.
“No idea, not anytime soon though I want to wait it out for as long as possible, I know it sounds bad but they’ll still be sending me a nice chunk of cash every couple of weeks and that will come in handy as fuck for the baby stuff I’ll need, and the new trousers and clothes I’m gonna have to buy myself within the next couple of weeks” Sirius replied.
“It doesn’t sound bad, not when you think of it like that” Regulus replied. “Got to think of your baby don’t you? I do have to wonder if Snape is planning on helping you out with the cost at all”
“He’s not exactly got very much money though, Reg” Sirius sighed.
“No but he should at least give you some even if he doesn’t want anything to do with his baby, child maintenance and all that” Regulus pointed.
“I can’t even think about that kind of stuff right now I just want to have my scan and know that my baby is alright then announce to my friends and once all that is done and dusted I think things will definitely be much better, a lot easier you know”
Regulus nodded.
“So how about we get changed?” Sirius yawned sitting himself up and reaching for his bag pulling out his nightshirt that thankfully he packed just before dinner.
“Alright” Regulus said going into his own bag and digging out his night shirt, he got up and began to undress.
Regulus pulled on his nightshirt watching as Sirius tossed his pyjama bottoms to the end of the bed with his shirt and he grinned. “That little bump is a tiny bit bigger this week”
Sirius stopped what he was doing and smiled gently stroking his fingers over it. “I know, baby’s still only tiny right now but it won’t be long before he or she is going to get much bigger”
“You’ll be enormous in no time, guess you should make the most of every minute of the pregnancy, not exactly a lot of guys get to experience it” Regulus nodded watching Sirius pull on his nightshirt and head for the bathroom.
“I will, except the morning sickness” he laughed shutting the door behind him.
A few minutes later he emerged and switched places with Regulus, his younger brother going into the bathroom as he climbed in under the bed covers making himself comfortable.
Regulus emerged a couple of minutes later grinning and hurrying over to the other side of the bed climbing in beside his brother.
“I think it’s great we can spend time together like this you know, it’s such a relief to get away for a while” Sirius breathed.
“Yeah I know what you mean, Snape’s been hanging around me in the common room a lot dropping irritating little remarks when we’re alone” Regulus said wrinkling his nose with disgust.
“Best to ignore him for now besides I’ve been thinking more on what you said, you know, with the whole Snape knows idea” Sirius replied.
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah and I just kind of figured that if he did already know about the baby which I doubt, then what’s he going to be like when I actually say ‘hey look I’m up the duff with your kid and it’s actually going to come out of my body kicking and screaming’ I get the impression it’s going to be quite rough” Sirius said thoughtfully.
“Well duh, even if he did know about the baby, knowing but not having it confirmed and actually hearing the words ‘I’m pregnant’ are two different things, one is fantasy, well sort of, and the other reality” Regulus said quickly.
“Yeah I guess you’re right, anyway I wanna go sleep I can’t keep my eyes open these days” Sirius yawned relaxing into the bedding.
“Lazy bugger” Regulus laughed snuggling down beside him.
“Mm goodnight Reggie” Sirius yawned closing his eyes.
“Night Siri” Regulus replied watching the wall torches dim almost completely out before he closed his misty grey eyes.
It wasn’t long before they were both sound asleep only their deep even breathing could be heard.
The next morning Regulus awoke snuggled up to his brother’s chest. Yawning he reached up and rubbed his tired eyes blinking himself awake before he realised. It was the first scan in just under an hour, and he grinned madly.
Shuffling back a little he rested a hand on Sirius’ shoulder. “Sirius, oi wake up we’ve got the scan in less than an hour!” he said quickly giving his brother a gentle shake.
Sirius’ dark eyebrows furrowed and he groaned. “Five more minutes” he grumbled turning over so his back was to his brother.
“No get up now or we’ll end up late, you don’t wanna be late to your scan now do you? To see your little baby all tucked up inside you” Regulus tried.
Sirius yawned loudly, sitting himself up he rubbed his tired eyes and reached for the potion pouring himself a half cup and drinking quickly. Reaching for his wand he filled the cup with water and downed it in one go.
“Ah that’s better” he said stretching himself out like a cat and Regulus couldn’t help but laugh.
“So tell me then, Reg, is there a little girlfriend on the horizon for you?” Sirius asked cheekily making Regulus blush a deep shade of crimson.
“Well uhh no, not exactly....”
“Aww you’re not bad looking I’m sure there is some nice girl just itching to get into your boxers” Sirius said.
“Sirius can I be really honest with you?” Regulus asked nervously chewing his bottom lip.
“Course, what’s up?”
“I uhh I-I’m not exactly into.... girls....” Regulus said nervously swallowing a large lump in his throat.
Sirius turned to stare at him for a few moments before grinning madly. “Ah after a bit of cock then are you?” he beamed only embarrassing Regulus further.
“Kind of.... I don’t want to be shagging around though but I would like to have a nice boyfriend....” Regulus admitted shyly.
“Aw Reg” Sirius smiled pulling his brother in for a hug. “I’ll help you find someone, in fact I know a gay guy who’s in the same position as you are” he grinned excitedly.
“Who?” Regulus asked curiously.
“Remus”
“What?”
“Remus Lupin, you know my friend the blonde guy” Sirius said.
“Yeah I know who he is but Sirius he’s....” Regulus said awkwardly.
“He’s what?” Sirius blinked confusedly.
“He’s only a.... half-blood”
“Regulus! Your little niece or nephew is ‘only a half-blood’ get used to the idea it won’t do you any harm, besides I think you and Remus would get along well together you have similar interests surprisingly enough” Sirius said sincerely.
“Well....”
“How about I introduce the pair of you properly some time, let you get to know each other” Sirius offered kindly.
“Yeah I guess that would be cool” Regulus smiled up at his brother. “Thanks”
“You’re more than welcome, now let’s get ready I don’t wanna be late for my scan” Sirius grinned pulling back and slipping out from under the bed covers and reaching for his clean clothes.
Twenty minutes later and they were both washed and dressed, ready to go. Sirius packed his things back into his bag after two goblets of water and slung it over his shoulder slipping his feet into his shoes.
“Ready then?”
“Yeah just coming” Regulus said picking up his things and hurrying over to where he left his shoes pulling them on quickly.
Sirius walked over to the wall watching the door materialise through the middle of it before he opened it slowly and slipped out with Regulus closely behind him. They turned to see the door melt away again before they set off down the corridor towards the stairs.
Ten minutes later and they arrived at the hospital wing stopping outside the door Sirius let out a long drawn out breath shifting from one foot to the other with nerves.
“You okay?”
“Yeah I’m fine just a bit nervous” Sirius replied quickly.
“Nothing to worry about come on let’s go in and see the baby” Regulus smiled gently.
“Give me a second okay?” Sirius said slowly closing his eyes for a few moments, he felt really nervous and worried, this just made it seem all the more real and one step closer to finding out whether his baby was healthy and to telling his friends about the pregnancy.
“Okay....” Sirius nodded slowly opening his eyes.
“You ready then?”
“I’m ready” he swallowed opening the door and heading into the empty hospital wing with Regulus behind him, he heard his brother shut the door and follow him through into the middle of the large room, rows of beds lined everywhere neatly made, it was pretty warm and cosy in there with the familiar intimidating scent of a hospital.
“Oh good morning Mister Black, you’re a few minutes early” Madame Pomfrey said appearing through the back door.
“Yeah sorry we were just eager” Sirius said nervously.
“It’s no trouble, how are you feeling?” the nurse smiled kindly.
“Alright, had a bit of an issue last week where I needed more potion and had some morning sickness but it seems to be wearing off a little now, my frequent urination is calming down but I’ve got a few aches in my lower back, I’m emotional and tired as hell” he sighed.
“Yes all perfectly normal symptoms, if you’d like to follow me the area is all set up and ready to use” she smiled gesturing to where a long draping white curtain was pulled around the end bed on the top far corner of the room.
Sirius glanced at Regulus for a few seconds before the two boys followed after her slipping behind the curtain drawing it behind them.
“Right now make yourself comfortable up on the bed, open your shirt and pull your trousers down a little way fully expose your tummy for me and we can get started” Pomfrey said calmly snapping on a pair of fresh latex gloves.
Sirius did as he was told watching Regulus move and stand on his left hand side beside him smiling down reassuringly.
“So how have you been coping with the pregnancy, I can all together assume that your brother knows” the nurse said smiling at Regulus.
“Yeah he does and he’s been a great help, I wouldn’t be coping that well if he wasn’t here for me” Sirius grinned to his brother.
“That’s good and what about your friends, family, the baby’s other father....?” she asked pulling out a tube of lubricant gel.
“Oh uhh none of them know anything about the baby yet but I’m planning on telling my friends maybe tonight or something, the baby’s dad in the next few weeks and my family not for a while yet so please don’t tell anyone” Sirius cringed a little.
“As I said before, anything you tell me is in complete confidence it’s not my place to go around gossiping about my students” she replied sincerely reaching forward and squeezing a decent amount of gel onto his tummy and spreading it around with her fingers.
“Thanks a bunch” Sirius grinned flashing his dazzlingly white teeth watching as Madame Pomfrey tapped her wand onto the ultra sound machine watching it whir into life. Regulus stood staring at it curiously as she lifted the scanner from the side hooks and moved to hold it above Sirius’ stomach.
“Are you ready?” she asked looking from one to the other.
Sirius and Regulus exchanged a quick excited smile before Sirius gave her the thumbs up and another mad grin.
Smiling she carefully pressed the scanner to his stomach shifting it around a little until the picture came into focus on the screen.
“There’s your little baby” she pointed to the picture watching as Regulus’ mouth fell open with surprise, and Sirius was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
“Oh my god Sirius....” Regulus whispered unable to look away from the little baby moving and flickering on the screen.
“Your baby is about two and an half inches perhaps a little more in length which means the baby has more than doubled in size during the past few weeks” Madame Pomfrey began. “The baby’s eyes have moved to the front of his or her face and the ears are pretty much in their final position” she continued with a smile shifting the scanner a little.
“Wow....” Sirius breathed tears welling up in his eyes.
Regulus glanced down at his brother and grinned. “Sirius you’re not crying are you?”
“No, well yes but.... it’s my hormones making me emotional not seeing my lovely little baby properly for the first time” Sirius sniffled wiping his eyes on the back of his hand.
Madame Pomfrey let out a short laugh. “Of course not” she said sarcastically.
“Right, that flickering is your baby’s heart beating which looks perfectly fine, nice and strong and-“ she said reaching forward and flipping a button on the machine. A sound like a rumbling or trains filled the air around them. “Sounds perfectly fine” she added with a smile watching the two boy’s stare in amazement at one another.
“That’s its heart?” Regulus asked in awe.
Madame Pomfrey nodded. “Yes quite amazing isn’t it?” she smiled watching the grins spread across their faces, Sirius wiping more tears from his cheeks.
“Baby will be able to move around freely now and although you won’t be able to feel the movements yet, he or she will be doing them regularly” Madame Pomfrey continued. “Baby will also be practicing sucking and swallowing by consuming a small amount of amniotic fluid which is perfectly safe”
“This is so amazing” Sirius breathed.
“Quite a bit more emotional than last time” Pomfrey smiled warmly. “Can either of you take a guess as to where the baby’s intestines are at the moment?” she asked looking from one to the other.
“In the baby’s stomach?” Sirius tried but she shook her head.
“In the fluid around the baby?” Regulus asked.
“No but that’s a good guess, in fact some of them are dangling in the umbilical cord right now as they develop” Madame Pomfrey replied.
Both of the boys looked incredibly shocked but smiled none the less.
“That’s alright is it?” Sirius asked worriedly and the nurse nodded.
“Everything looks absolutely fine in there, no problems at all, the baby is perfectly healthy so you’ve got nothing to worry about” Madame Pomfrey smiled removing the scanner and replacing it on the side of the machine pressing a button and the machine whirred again. She handed Sirius a tissue watching himself gently wipe the gel away from his skin.
“Right now you’ve got your book, are there any questions you want to ask me?” she asked looking directly at Sirius.
“Yeah I was wondering a bit about what’s going to happen in the next few weeks with my body and that?”
“You’ll be changing you’ve probably noticed your body will have changed shape a little already to accommodate the baby feel yourself lucky that you’re a wizard as it makes this slightly easier, often the second trimester which you will be fully entered into next week is the most comfortable time for your pregnancy, you will continue to grow quickly as the baby develops more, your morning sickness should stop but it may come back at a later date, you’ll find sleeping easier and just feel better in general, there may still be a little light cramping on and off which is normal and just watch what you eat make sure you are getting plenty of the right foods and take it easy” Madame Pomfrey replied.
“If there are any concerns you can pop back to see me any time, another thing that you might find is a bit more expansion of your hips and I see you’re growing and changing a little already so you will obviously need some new clothes and about the baby it will be developing in pretty much every way possible especially brain development and will be able to practice voluntary movements and flexing” Pomfrey added.
“Okay that sounds cools” Sirius smiled up to Regulus before pulling his clothes straight and hopping off of the bed.
“Your next scan will be at sixteen weeks as they will be every month and the one after is at twenty however knowing that you’re likely to want to know the sex before the five month scan it is possible to get a clear and accurate viewing at eighteen weeks so between the sixteen and twenty week scan I’ll make an appointment with you to come and we’ll check the sex if you wish to know” the nurse smiled again.
Sirius’ face spread into an enormous excitable grin. “Seriously? Yes definitely!” he said eagerly.
Madame Pomfrey chuckled. “I thought you might be eager, so make sure you’re sleeping and eating well generally taking care of yourself, taking it easy and of course announcing the pregnancy as you won’t be able to hide forever”
“I know and thanks for the help” Sirius nodded.
Madame Pomfrey reached out into the tray at the bottom of the ultra sound machine and picked up several square pieces of paper, handing two to Sirius and one to Regulus they grinned madly at the little moving pictures in their hands.
“Wow they’re scan photos of the little baby!” Regulus grinned gazing down at the one in his hands.
“They’re nice to have and keep even after you’ve had the baby” Pomfrey commented.
“They’re brilliant, thanks a lot” Sirius grinned again, suddenly everything seemed so much better this morning.
“It’s no trouble, take care” she called watching the two boys leaving the hospital wing chatting excitedly about the baby photos.
Outside the hospital wing, Sirius slipped his photo’s into the inside top pocket of his cloak watching Regulus do the same with his.
“Sirius that was so cool” Regulus grinned to his brother.
“I know I’m glad the baby’s alright that’s a big weight off of my shoulders” Sirius breathed resting a hand on his stomach.
“Now you’ve just got to tell your friends then you can sit back and relax for a while” Regulus grinned.
“Yeah don’t remind me” Sirius chuckled. “Shall we go get some food I’m starving?”
Regulus nodded and the two of them headed off down the corridor and down into the entrance hall. They stopped outside of the great hall and sighed.
“Supposed I’d best be off back to the Slytherin’s”
“Yeah and I supposed I’d best be off to my friends to explain where I was last night” Sirius chuckled.
“What are you going to tell them?” Regulus asked.
“The truth of course” Sirius smiled. “Anyway see you later, Reg and thanks for coming today” Sirius smiled pressing his lips to his brother’s cheek. “Don’t show anyone that picture alright?”
Regulus nodded “Of course and it’s no problem, good luck with your friends later” Regulus said and Sirius nodded.
The two brothers parted their ways to their own circles of friends.
Sirius spotted the other Marauders sat just a little way down the Gryffindor table. He made his way over casually dropping down next to Remus and grinned.
“Where the hell have you been?!” James almost shouted.
“Calm down mate, I’m alright” Sirius laughed piling his plate with food.
“You were gone all night we were worried!” Remus said quickly.
“It’s alright I was with Regulus, it got a bit late and Filch was hanging around so we ended up staying in the room of requirement together it’s no big deal” Sirius said casually stuffing his breakfast into his mouth consisting of his fruit covered toast.
“Well I guess that couldn’t really have been helped” James shot him a glare.
“Mm so what’s first?” Sirius asked drinking his juice.
“Uhh care of magical creatures, but you dropped that so looks like you’ve got a free period” Remus replied.
“Great, think I’ll head on up to the dormitory and have a kip then” Sirius smiled happily.
“Lazy....” James chuckled.
After waving his friends off, Sirius headed on up to the dormitory pulling off his cloak, tie and shoes he curled up on his bed his mind buzzing with the excitement of what happened that very morning. The baby was perfectly fine and healthy, everything was going well, the pregnancy was great, Regulus was being good and he was feeling much better about everything. Sighing to himself he closed his eyes, he would ask to speak to his friends later on tonight. Yawning he allowed himself to drift off into a comfortable sleep.
The rest of the day passed with only a minor incident with Snape making his usual vague threats and was easily dismissed by a sharp clip around the ear, unsurprisingly Severus cowered down and scurried away frightened he was going to end up seriously injured and from then he hadn’t said another word to Sirius all day apart from the usual face pulling during lessons.
Dinner time approached and the four boys dropped into their seats in the great hall.
“Did you see me partnering with Evans this morning in potions? I think I managed to rub some of the old charm off on her” James said proudly shovelling food onto his plate.
“That’s not the way she saw it” Sirius chuckled, he had managed to actually sleep through half of his potions lesson, arrived late and Slughorn said he would be better off not joining in with the practical it being so late just helping Remus and Peter out.
“Pfft what do you know Pads, she couldn’t get enough of me, I’m thinking for Christmas I buy her a pretty bracelet” James said excitedly.
“How do you know she’ll like it?” Peter asked.
“Because it’s from me, duh!”
The four boys burst into fits of laughter drawing some attention to them from the other tables.
When the laughter calmed down they all resumed their dinner quite happily. Sirius’ mind was elsewhere he was starting to feel rather nervous.
He swallowed a lump of steak before clearing his throat nervously. “Uhh listen boys I’ve got something I need to tell you all so meet me in the common room about ten everyone should be in bed by then so it’ll be empty” he said nervously.
The other three stared at him in confusion for a few moments.
“Why can’t you tell us now?” James asked.
“Because it’s personal and it’s not something to really talk about at the dinner table” Sirius replied awkwardly.
“Told you he had worms” Peter blurted out making the other two shoot death glares to him.
“What?! No I don’t have worms, just wait until later yeah?” Sirius said starting on an enormous slice of chocolate cake.
“Ookay then” Remus replied confusedly looking to James who shrugged.
After dinner they headed up to the dormitory, James and Remus were busy working on the Marauder’s map adding some finishing touches to it and Peter was once again buried beneath the mountain of homework he wished he had bothered to do when he was supposed to.
Sirius on the other hand lay curled up on his side dozing softly happy to just relax for a little while before he said anything to his friends about the baby.
It was about five to ten when James and the others all looked to Sirius.
“You still want us in the common room?” James asked curiously and Sirius nodded.
“Yeah go down now I’ll be with you in a second” he swallowed nervously closing his eyes in a long slow blink.
The other three exchanged confused looks before shrugging and getting up leaving Sirius alone in the dormitory with his thoughts.
“You can do this, Sirius, no need to be worried they’re your friends they should support you” he whispered to himself. He was shaking slightly with nerves, fumbling around in his cloak he pulled the scan photos out and tucked them into the top pocket of his shirt underneath his school jumper. “Just explain to them what’s been going on, surely they’ll understand” he swallowed.
Taking a deep breath he got slowly to his feet without even bothering to put on his shoes he headed for the dormitory door and left. He padded along the landing and peered down the stairs. James, Remus and Peter were all sitting around the fireplace in the common room. Sirius swallowed nervously before making his way down the stairs and walking towards them smiling weakly.
The other three fell silent watching Sirius shake his arms out with nerves an started pacing up and down in front of them quite a way away from the softly crackling fireplace.
A few minutes passed in silence as they watched Sirius pace before he came to a stop right in the middle of them.
“I umm brought you all here because it’s time you knew the truth” he began.
They all stared.
“What’s this about Sirius, you’re shaking like a leaf” James pointed and Sirius held up a hand to silence his friend.
“I-I feel it’s time you knew the reason behind why I’ve been so ill and although I’m feeling a bit better and will feel better there are going to be lots of changes happening to me” Sirius said slowly looking at each one of their confused faces in turn.
“Sirius what-“
But Sirius had moved to continued pacing nervously fidgeting with his hands and gazing up at the ceiling before finally he stopped and turned to face them.
“I’m pregnant”
James, Remus and Peter’s faces dropped looking utterly devastated and confused.
“WHAT?!”
“Are you having a fucking laugh mate?” James asked confusedly searching his friends face.
But Sirius shook his head. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out the scan photos and handed them over to his friends, they all stared at them their mouths hanging open with surprise and confusion as they gazed at the little moving flickering scan photos of the baby.
“It was at the start of term during that party you remember how drunk I was, well at one point I was messing around and put my glass down, I was so drunk I didn’t know what I was doing and fell over, well during that time someone spiked my drink with some fucked up potion and when I managed to get up again I obviously drank it unaware of what was in my drink” Sirius began and they all stared at him.
“There was this pain in my stomach, really bad like but it did wear off after a little while, I decided to go and get some air and when I did this guy.... kind of threw himself at me” he continued nervously. “Long story short we ended up having sex, but the sex wasn’t right because the potion.... created something inside of me, an extra opening like a woman’s thing behind my bollocks, I was in too much of a state at the time to think clearly I was blind drunk for Merlin’s sake and well.... after that went back to the dormitory and didn’t think anything else of it, I didn’t know at the time what was happening to me”
Once again, nobody said anything.
“It was a few weeks later when I started getting cramps, nausea, tiredness, feeling kind of weak and over emotional, then I started throwing up every morning and sometimes during the day as well” Sirius said slowly. “You know I was proper ill and then I passed out on my birthday, well, after Madame Pomfrey chucked you out and I came round I told her about how ill I was and explained my symptoms, well she ended up testing me and the pregnancy test came back positive, she said it was the work of the Trenceptous potion I think it’s called and that although it’s rare for a bloke to fall pregnant it can happen” he said nervously.
“Sirius-“ Remus tried.
“Let me finish” Sirius swallowed.
“The potion is mainly used with women for fertility or some crazy shit like that but gay blokes can use it as an extra opening to spice up their sex lives and well.... the other guy, the baby’s dad that is spiked my drink with it, we fucked and now I’m up the duff”
“Who is the other father?” James asked curiously looking back down at one of the little scan pictures in his hands.
“It doesn’t matter who he is” Sirius said quickly.
“Why not? Do you know who it is that got you pregnant?” Remus asked curiously.
Sirius nodded. “Of course I know who did it but it’s just- it doesn’t matter, okay? Don’t go on at me about it” he said.
“Alright but why won’t you tell us, we’re your friends?” James tried.
Sirius sighed. “You’re my best fucking mates but I just can’t and don’t want to say who it is, it doesn’t matter, it’s nobody important so let’s just drop it for now, you’ll find out when the time is right”
“Okay” James nodded slowly.
“Does he know though?” Remus asked before he could stop himself.
“What? Oh no I don’t think so I haven’t said anything to him, actually I haven’t really spoken to him since it happened” said Sirius.
“How far along are you?” Remus asked again looking from the scan photo to Sirius and back again.
“Twelve weeks today, those pictures are from this morning when I had my first proper scan, I mean I had one when I found out I was pregnant but this is a proper baby scan” Sirius swallowed.
“Why didn’t you tell us?” James sighed shaking his head a little as he gazed at his best friend.
“Because I couldn’t I didn’t know what you’d think of me this isn’t some stupid little prank or a game it’s a real baby that’s buried inside of me and I’m growing” Sirius said nervously turning to the side and lifting up his jumper and his shirt as well as tugging his pyjama bottoms down a little way revealing the little rounded baby bump protruding through his pale ivory skin.
“Oh my god Sirius....” they gasped staring at his little baby bump.
The three boys got to their feet walking over to a worried looking Sirius who replaced his clothing quickly they carefully wrapped their arms around him seemingly unsure as to whether or not they could actually physically touch him.
“Congratulations Padfoot” James grinned slinging an arm around his friends shoulders.
“Yeah we’re going to have a new mini Marauder in a few months-time” Remus grinned excitedly.
“Yeah is it a boy or a girl?” Peter asked quickly.
Sirius couldn’t help but laugh. “I don’t know yet, my next scan is in four weeks but in six weeks I’m having another to find out what the baby is sex wise”
“That’s amazing, what are you hoping for?” James asked eagerly.
Sirius shrugged. “Don’t mind as long as he or she is healthy, which by the way it is”
“When you gonna give birth, or should I say how?” Remus asked quickly.
“Early June time I should think can’t really put a time on it cause most babies don’t come on their due dates” Sirius said. “You know that extra hole the potion created behind my balls? Well it’s still there and will be for a while after I give birth, basically it’s like a woman’s thing and the baby is coming out of there”
“Is it gonna hurt?” Peter asked.
“Well of course it’s going to hurt Peter, it’s a baby coming out of a tiny little hole” Sirius laughed. “Hey guys listen, I was thinking that, maybe you should come to my next scan in a months-time, I’ll invite Reg again too and everyone will get to see the baby properly” Sirius offered with a grin.
The other three started grinning madly to one another.
“That would be awesome!” James said excitedly. “Wait- invite Regulus again?”
“Yeah he uhh, came with me this morning to the scan and saw the baby” Sirius said awkwardly.
“Who else knows then besides us?” Peter asked.
“Madame Pomfrey, Professor Slughorn and Regulus”
“So not your parents then?” Remus asked and Sirius shook his head.
“No cause they will freak out and disown me and besides I don’t want to tell them just yet because they’re still sending me money which if I keep and store up I’ll have plenty to buy things for the baby and new clothes for myself” Sirius replied seriously.
“That’s a pretty smart idea, although it is wrong in some ways you really don’t have many other options apart from to ask your baby’s father for some money once the baby is born, it’s his kid and he has to help you with it” Remus replied.
“That’s exactly what Regulus said” Sirius chuckled.
“So you could at least give us a little bit of information out, is the baby pure or half- blood?” James asked curiously.
Sirius stared at him for a few moments it couldn’t really hurt to tell him what the baby’s blood status was besides there was a lot of half-blood students in the school and a fair few Muggle born so it would be much harder for him to guess the father through that, if the baby had been pure it would be much easier. “Half” he smiled.
“Your parents are going to freak” James laughed.
“I know tell me about it” Sirius grinned. “How about we go upstairs I’m knackered”
“Sure mate best be catching up on some of that sleep now” James replied with a grin, Sirius couldn’t help roll his eyes, all this time James had been telling him to get out of bed not go to sleep.
They headed up into the dormitory, Sirius’ mind was reeling with the events of today he couldn’t believe how good this was, he was a pregnant boy in school and that was hard in itself but his friends were going to be there for him and help him through it.
With a yawn he began to change his clothes with pretty much no interest in hiding himself from his friends. He could feel their curious eyes burning on him as he changed and turned to face them.
“Get a good long look cause I’m not going to be staying this small forever”
“Mate you’re getting a little curvy” James laughed pointing to Sirius’ more rounded hips.
“Hope I don’t end up like a woman” Sirius wrinkled his nose with distaste.
“Probably not, even girls will experience it during pregnancy your body is just adjusting to cope with it” Remus commented still staring at Sirius’ shape.
“Yeah it’ll probably go away after you give birth” James nodded with agreement then smirked. “Give birth? That’s never something I would expect to say to one of my friends” he chuckled.
“You guys are actually going to stick by me with this aren’t you? You aren’t going to suddenly change your minds when I’m heavy and people take the piss because they will” Sirius said worriedly, it was never like him to be so insecure but this was a completely different situation he was actually going to have a little baby and although he was capable of handling himself he really needed his friends support right now and the support of anyone who would give it to him.
“Of course we are don’t worry” Remus said sincerely.
“Yeah we’re not just friends we’re all like brothers we stick by each other no matter what, take Remus for example” James replied.
“Thanks it really means a lot to me” Sirius smiled pulling on his clean night shirt and slipping between the covers pulling out his potion he poured himself a decent amount and began to sip at it.
“When are you planning on telling everyone else?” Peter asked curiously climbing into his own bed.
Finishing his drink, Sirius rested the goblet down on the bedside table. “I’ve got to tell the baby’s other father yet once he knows then I’m going to see what happens after that”
“That’s surprisingly sensible of you Padfoot” Remus said.
“Well I guess I have to be a bit more sensible now, I’m still a Marauder and always will be but I’ve got a mini Sirius who needs me to be careful now too” he grinned resting a hand gently on his stomach.
“Yeah and hey!” James said grabbing hold of one of the scan photos he carefully pinned it to Sirius’ footboard at the bottom of his bed. “There that’s better, every time you have a picture or whatever then stick it on there so we can all see”
Sirius couldn’t help but laugh. “Well I have got one from my first scan” he said reaching into his pillow and pulling out the photo handing it over to James.
“Wow now that is tiny” he breathed. “It doesn’t look completely human there it’s a slightly odd shape” he said passing it over to Remus.
“That’s cause babies start off as like a round blob then move into some weird little prawn thing with a tail then change into a baby” Sirius yawned making himself comfortable under the covers.
“That’s really amazing” Remus commented passing the picture over to Peter.
“Yeah I’ve got this book on pregnancy tells me so much I need to know it goes week by week as to what’s happening and it’s really accurate” Sirius yawned as Peter passed the photo back to James who stuck it beside the newer image.
“You should have told us sooner” Remus said slipping between his own bed sheets.
“I know and I’m sorry I didn’t but it’s hard being pregnant you know” Sirius grumbled struggling to keep his eyes open.
“Well what’s done is done we know now and at least we can help you and try to understand” James nodded.
“Mm thanks, yeah, sleep....” Sirius grumbled lazily.
The others couldn’t help but laugh, by the time they had gotten into their own beds Sirius was fast asleep.
Now his next challenge was soon approaching and that came in the form of Severus Snape....