While He Is Sleeping
Chapter One - Godfather
"Moony!" Sirius whined. He closed his eyes and lolled his neck back as he paced the marble floor of the maternity ward at St. Mungo's. "What is taking them so long!?"
"Pushing out a baby takes a while, Padfoot," Remus said in an annoyed tone. He shushed Peter, who sat next to him, as he laughed at Sirius.
"It's been hours!" Sirius exclaimed.
"They told you not to come for a few more hours so we didn't have to wait so long!" Remus yelled in the quietest voice he could muster.
He was nearing a full moon and Sirius had been giving him a massive head ache for the past four and a half hours. And... the healer behind the desk had been glaring at them while filing her nails and smacking her gum ever since the trio arrived. It seemed obvious at first because Sirius as been pacing and whining and asking the same question ever since he got here. But as the time went on and Remus has hand more time to think, he thinks he or Sirius might have slept with her at a party they had thrown; her face was getting more and more familiar by the hour.
"Then why did you come?" Sirius replied indignately to his friend's earlier comment.
Remus shot Sirius a nasty look which earned a wheezy chuckled from Peter. "You came to my house, woke me up, forced me into cloths, and then dragged me out of my house and here." He growled.
The lobby was silent besides Sirius's feet hitting the floor as he paced back and forth, back and forth, it was silent. The healer blew a large bubble again as she glared, more spesifically at Sirius which made Remus feel better, and looked at the clock on the wall impatiently. She seemed to want this baby to come as much as Sirius - and the other two Marauders. But her reason was likely to be the fact that the three would leave her lobby. As if the heavens decided to answer all they're prayers, another pair of foot steps joined Sirius's which caused the man to finally stop pacing.
As soon as they saw the fourth Marauder, Remus and Peter stood and created a line with Sirius. They stood anxiously for James to near, and once they saw what he was so intent on they quietly sprinted over to him to look at what was inside the blue bundle of blankets. Sirius made it to James first with the biggest grin and biggest sigh of relief out of all of them.
"What's his name!" Sirius exclaimed in a whisper, as to not wake the newborn. He seemed like he was about to jump up and down.
"Harry," James whispered lovingly, still staring at his son. "Harry James Potter."
"Yay! You got the James in there!" Peter grinned, patting his friend on the back in congradulations.
Remus, now as excited as Sirius, put the said man in a head lock and ruffled his hair since he couldn't do it to James. Sirius didn't mind though, he held back a laugh and leaning closer to Harry after being released. James had spent the last nine months trying to convince Lily to name their son James - be she, rightly, had refused. But it seems Lily had cracked some point after giving birth to her son; settling with James as the middle name.
"Do you want to hold him?" James asked Sirius, who he knew was most anxious.
Sirius nodded frantically and so the new father carefully passed the infant to his best friend and the mane who was practically his brother. The pass was a sucess, but the father hovered his hands under Harry. Sirius smiled at the baby but also at his friend; he knew that James was forever changed, for the best. He now had another thing he loved more than his own life and Sirius knew that James would do anything for the tiny human being that was now sleeping in his arms - Sirius would do anything for the child as well. To show James that he could take care of Harry, he took a step back so James's hands weren't hovering under Harry anymore and James grinned sheepishly.
"You'll be godfather, right?"
Sirius finally managed to look away from the baby, gasping. Remus and Peter smiled at their two friends; this was expected.
"Lily and I... We want you to be godfather to Harry," James grinned.
Sirius didn't answer verbally, and James knew that it was because his best friend may get chocked up if he had to speak. This was just another validation that Sirius was apart of the Potter family. Instead of answering, he bounced Harry gently in his arms in a soothing manner and began cooing to his new godson.
I'm writing a new Harry Potter story and at some point it reminded me of this story so I began to re read it. My writing is a lot differnt (I think for the better) now and so I'm going to fix the chapters I've posted and hopefully post more. I am so sorry that I haven't updated in so long, I didn't even realize it; I kind of fell out of writing for a little while but now I write a lot more so I'm starting to get back in the groove of things! I hope you like this chapter now since it's a little different, and I would love to hear from you and get to know what you think. :)