1. Unwanted news

17-year-old Megan Lupin sat on the floor of her ensuite bathroom bawling her eyes out. Today was the day of her mother's funeral and she had just thrown up. Grief sucks. She thought to herself, as she threw up again.

Megan eventually stopped being sick and made her way to her bedroom. She looked at her calendar as she walked past. 'Well Megan, you need to stop denying it now. You are almost 1 month late and you're throwing up. You're pregnant.' She said to herself, in her mirror. She started bawling again.

Outside her door, her father Remus had been about to knock and check on her when he heard her crying. He stopped himself – he didn't know what to do. What to say? Although he and Marlene, Megan's mum, had been together at school they hadn't been a couple since Megan was a baby. Remus sighed and stalked down to the room he had been staying in where he found his partner, Sirius Black, getting ready for the funeral.

'Is she ok?' Sirius asked hoarsely. He and Marlene had been the best of friends – even closer than her and Remus.

'I couldn't go in.' Remus responded, avoiding the other man's eyes.

'Remus, you're her father and she needs you right now.'

'Does she though? What good am I to her?'

'For Gods sake Remus, when are you going to stop this? Your pity party for one is getting old now – you're her father and you helped raise her. Of course she needs you – now get back down that hall and speak to her, or hug her, or just hold her.' Sirius turned his back on his partner.

Remus left the room again, huffing. Sirius was right of course, but he wasn't going to tell him that. He loved the man, but his ego was big enough already.

Remus knocked on the door and waited for a soft 'come in.' before her entered.

Megan turned around, took one look at her dad and burst in to tears again.

'Oh sweetheart, I am so so sorry. I should have been here for you earlier. Today is going to be hard, but we will get through this.'

Megan so wanted to tell her dad the truth, but she just nodded and fell into him, sobbing into his chest. 'I'm really sorry to say this, but we have to go soon.'

'It's time already?' she asked, her eyes red and puffy. He nodded and helped her up from the floor.

'It's not fair' she whispered 'Mum only died 3 days-ago and we already have to say goodbye. We should have longer.'

'Sweetheart with everything going on, you know we can't delay this.'

Megan nodded, she knew why. The war – if they didn't bury her mother now, they probably wouldn't be able to do it at all. 'I'll be down in a minute.' She whispered and waited for her father to leave her room.

She touched her belly. 'I'm sorry Mum' she whispered, 'I'm such a disappointment to you.'

'How could you be a disappointment to anyone?' a voice asked behind her. Her other dad.

Megan turned around and burst into tears again. 'Oh Dad, I don't know what I'm going to do.'

'What? What do you mean? Is this about your exams? McGonagall has said you can take them in the Summer if you feel too stressed.'

'No, it's not that – I want to get them over and done with soon. Dad, I think I'm…I think I'm pregnant.'

Sirius started at his step-daughter. 'Sorry?' he asked.

'I think I'm having a baby.' She wailed.

'Oh, oh, come here. It's ok. Why do you think that?' he asked, hugging her.

'I'm late – a month – and I keep throwing up. I just need to do a test, but I'm scared.'

'Have you told him?'

Megan shook her head, thinking about the man – sorry boy – who broke her heart two weeks ago by breaking up with her via owl.

'He needs to know.' Sirius said, bluntly.

'Does he? He dumped me.' She snapped back.

'He still needs to know Megan. Besides, we went over this. He broke up with you for quite noble reasons.'

'No, Sirius, that's what you think. In his letter he told me he had to break up with me because we were too young to settle down or to keep going down the road we were going down. Basically, he wanted to sleep with anything that moved and didn't want to cheat on me – I can give him that I suppose.' She responded bitterly.

Sirius gulped; it wasn't very often she called him by her first name – usually only when she was mad – and it hurt like hell when she did.

'Ok, whatever you choose, I'll be here.'

Megan nodded.

'You need to tell your dad.' Sirius said, as he left her room.

Megan took that as a sign that he wouldn't tell her dad – that was good, she could wait until the day was over. Now though, it was time to say goodbye to her beautiful mother.

….

The coffin disappeared out of her view and she so desperately wanted to go and bring it back. How could her lovely, smiley, beautiful, loving mother be gone?

Megan felt the tears rolling down her face again, as she noticed her dads standing up and realised, she had to follow them. She had to go and leave her mum there, in that tomb.

She walked silently up the aisle, keeping her head down until she neared the back, and gasped. There he was. The one that had broke her heart. He wasn't alone – he sat next to a tall girl with long blond hair – Penny Willow, a girl from his year at school. He smiled at her, but she put her head back down and hurried past him.

George Weasley POV

George, you are a complete idiot. He thought to himself as his ex-girlfriend rushed away from him. First off, you break up with the girl you love – VIA OWL. JUST because you wanted to be one of the boys and party/sleep about like your brother and then you show up to her mother's funeral two weeks after you broke up with her, with another girl.

George groaned, but thought he had done it in his head. He realised it was loud when he heard 'What's wrong honey?' from his side.

'Nothing.' George said shortly. He was getting a bid fed up of Penny – he had meant to have a one-night stand with her three nights ago. She was still there, and she was nothing like Megan.

'Well we need to move, everyone's going inside.'

'Penny, wait. I need to tell you something. I'm sorry, but I'm just not interested in you. You were just a rebound after Megan and I broke up.'

'Seriously? You bring me to a funeral, and this is what you tell me?'

'I didn't bring you here, I told you I was coming here, and you followed me.' He said bluntly.

Penny gaped at him 'I'll just go then.'

George nodded and walked away from her. Now to check on Megan. George made his way inside, looking in each of the rooms as he passed. He was about to give up when he spotted someone going up the stairs – her waist long curly red hair was immediately recognisable.

George went up the stairs and made his way along to her bedroom; he had spent many nights there, so he knew exactly where it was.

He gently knocked and waited for her soft 'come in.' It never came though – instead he could hear someone retching.

George opened the door and stepped into her room 'Megan, are you ok?' he called.

The bathroom door opened, and Megan stepped out. She was crying and looked very pale.

'No George I'm not ok. I'm at my mother's funeral – what about that makes you think I would be ok? Why are you even here?'

'I wanted to check on you.' He said quietly.

'I don't need you to check on me, go back to Penny.'

George was about to say something else, but Megan glared at him and he backed out of her room. Megan threw herself on her bed and sobbed her heart out.

What a mess.