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The old house, with its wildly overgrown garden, was silent, secretive. At least that was how it usually looked. Sirius always teased Lily about the garden being overgrown; in truth it wasn't safe for them to leave the house long enough to straighten it up, so wildflowers had taken root in the lawn. On this Halloween night though it was different; the usually lush garden was trampled to the ground. The flower stalks bent towards the road as if a blast had erupted from inside the house. The door was broken down and the glass shattered.
He took a deep breath steeling his nerves before drawing his wand and entering through the ruined door frame. He stopped up short in what had once been the entry and stared at the man that had been like a brother to him. James Potter lay on the floor the glass from the nearby window littering his jumper. His unseeing eyes stared holes into the ceiling. Sirius might have stood there staring forever if a child's cries hadn't broken through the fog that had begun to fill his mind. Harry!
Ignoring the broken glass and splintered wood covering the stairs he ran to the baby's room, and stopped short when he saw the toddler unharmed. Harry was crying and reaching his little arms between the bars of his cot. Sirius followed his eyes and saw Lily facedown on the nursery floor. Something was different about the way Lily laid, and the second Sirius realized that she was moving slightly he fell to his knees and gently shook her shoulder. As he shook her shoulder Lily groaned and came too. Seeing the face of Sirius Black staring down at her she bolted upright. Harry's cries began to subside as he saw his mother wake up.
"Sirius where is James? Oh bloody hell, Voldemort was here Sirius where is he?" As Lily spoke she picked up Harry who snuggled in close to her chest.
"Lily… James is … he umm…"
"He's where?" Lily looked at Sirius cautiously as she held Harry tighter as if to protect him from the horrors of the world.
"He's… Lily he didn't make it," Sirius ran his hands through his hair mimicking the motions that James had once done subconsciously.
"No… no you're lying," Lily looked at Sirius as tears swelled in her eyes. She began to shake her head. "This is no time for the two of you to pull a prank. Where is he?"
Sirius shook his head sadly, he didn't want to be the one to tell her this, but who else was there.
"Lily… I'm not participating in a prank," Sirius took a shaky breath as a single tear escaped his eye. "I passed by him to get to you. He's gone Lily."
"No he can't be… Harry needs him … I need him … and … he just can't be gone," Lily cried breaking down.
Sirius moved forward to catch Lily as she started to fall; the sudden movement made the floor boards shake and he was reminded of the damage done to the house. Gently he steered her toward the door and down the stairs.
"We need to get out of here now, the house isn't stable," Sirius said while descending the stairs. When he reached the bottom he realized that Lily's feet had stopped moving alongside of his. He turned around to find her staring off to the right mouth hanging wide open. Sirius didn't have to follow her gaze he knew exactly what she was staring at.
Tears poured down her cheeks as she looked at her husband and held her son closer. Harry began to fuss as Lily whispered.
"No… I never got to tell him," the last word came out in a sob.
"Tell him what?" Sirius laid a hand on her shoulder to steer her away. Lily turned her gaze from James to Sirius, and shifted Harry who was beginning to fuss. He was sensing his mothers sadness and letting it out the only way he knew how.
"I…I'm pregnant… three months… I wanted to be sure before telling him," Lily's body shook as the tears poured down in torrents.
Sirius didn't know what to say, so he pulled her into a hug. The pair of them nearly crushed Harry between them. Sirius only pulled back when he heard the creaking of the ceiling. Sirius was reminded of the instability of the house and pulled Lily outside only to bump into Hagrid.