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"And, oh, how do I tell him, Lily?" wailed Marlene as she sat on her best friend's kitchen stool
"What do you mean, tell him? He's dead, Marly. You don't have to tell him anything." Replied a very confused Lily Potter
Marlene was confused. She was absolutely sure that Lily had seen Sirius at the funeral earlier that day.
"Lily, he was at the funeral barely three hours ago." Said Marlene whose face exactly mirrored Lily's look of confusion
"What? Gideon's been dead for almost a month, Marly." Said Lily
It hit Marlene like a load of bricks. Gideon. Her ex boyfriend that she had broken up with before he had been killed. Of course, they had broken up months before he died, but ever since going into hiding, Lily had been a bit behind on gossip. That would explain why she had assumed that Gideon was the father. But now that meant having to tell her who the father actually was.
Lily must have seen the look of surprise and realization on her face, and then put the pieces together. Well, most of the pieces.
"Oh my god! You don't know who the father is, do you?" she gasped
"Lily, I just said that he was at the funeral, okay. Don't be so thick! It's Sirius!" snapped Marlene, before she even realized how much she had said
Lily looked like she was just about to pass out.
"You- you never even told me that you had gotten back together!" she gasped
Marlene felt her ears burn. Lily could be so proper sometimes! It was almost like having to explain this to her mother, had she been alive.
"Um, we're not even really dating." Whispered Marlene her ears growing redder by the second
Lily looked just as shocked as Marlene had expected her to. This might have been worse than telling her parents- more like her mother- about the whole situation. She wasn't even dating the father of the baby! But hey, at least she knew him!
"So… how do you think he's going to take it?" asked Lily
"I was hoping you would have some sort of idea." Replied Marlene
Marlene was going to kill Lily- and soon- if she didn't shut up. At the moment, Lily was dragging Marlene all over the house trying to show her and tell her everything anyone could ever want to know- or need to know, for that matter- about a baby.
"So, you're definitely going to need a crib and a lot of diapers. Oh, I don't even want to think about all the money we spent on diapers!" Lily was gushing as she pointed around Harry's room at various objects that she swore Marlene was going to need as soon as possible
"Lily, I'm less than a month pregnant at this point." Sighed an exasperated Marlene, "What I'm worried about right now is telling Sirius!" she said
"Well, whether he's happy or not, you're going to be needing a whole lot of stuff for that baby." Said Lily, as she began examining a diaper bag
It took Marlene a few seconds to realize what Lily was actually doing. It was hard for her to be moving on with out James, and a new baby would bring a lot of distractions to her friend. So, she was trying to get as involved as possible with the baby to help her move on. And, as her best friend, it was Marlene's job to make sure that she did.
"So, what about baby clothes?" she asked, a forced smile on her face, but the look of joy on Lily's face was worth it
As Marlene opened the locked door to her flat, she suddenly realized the weight of the situation that she was being faced with. She was having a baby. She was going to be a mother. She wasn't going to be able to go out and party all night. She wasn't going to be able to drink anything alcoholic for nearly a year. She was going to have to move and find a flat in a safer neighborhood with (hopefully) more than one tiny bedroom. She was… she was most certainly going to need Sirius to help her out, now more than ever.
It was their baby, not just hers. She needed someone to help her! Anyone!
She collapsed down onto her couch and began to sob hysterically into the pillow that her mother had sewn for her seventeenth birthday. She could never be as wonderful as her mother had been. She couldn't sew or bake- hell! She could barely cook potatoes as it was! What on earth was she going to do?
Marry well and soon seemed like the only solution.
A loud banging from the small entry hall behind her roused her from her thoughts.
She turned around quickly, forgetting all of Mad Eye Moody's wise (though slightly paranoid) words of caution.
Sirius saw her, and ran foreword like a mad man, dripping water all over the carpet.
"M- Marly! There you are!" he hiccupped as he fell foreword onto her and Marlene realized that he was drunk
"Sirius, what are you doing?" she asked cautiously, as she helped him to stand up
"Look, i- I was thinking tonight and, well, I realized that I love you and I want to marry you and I even want to be a father to the kid and all, and that we should go get married quickly and then your parents wont be quite so mad and-"
She was excited, at first, until she remembered that he was drunk and obviously knew that she was pregnant, judging by the way he said "Be a father to the kid". Marlene stopped him quickly, sadness in her hoarse voice.
"Sirius, you're drunk." She whispered sadly
"Yes- yes, I did make a stop by the bar on the way over, but I still mean it, you know." He admitted in a surprisingly thoughtful voice
"And the only reason you're asking me to marry you is because I'm pregnant." She finished sadly
"Well, yes, that did have a lot to do with it, but I would be asking you to marry me one day, pregnant or not, just the same!" he smiled brightly as he said this part, as if he had just solved the entire problem, and Marlene would have laughed had the situation not been so serious
"I appreciate the fact that you want to be a father, Sirius, but you're drunk and not thinking clearly." Sighed Marlene with a small attempt at a smile on her face
Sirius must have thought that the smile meant yes because he said:
"I cant wait to tell everyone, they'll be so thrilled!"
Marlene sighed again, and took him over to the couch. She might as well start practicing being a mother with her baby's daddy.
"Why don't you lay down a little while and we'll talk some more later." She said calmly
"Yes, yes, we'll have to find you a ring in the morning." He decided as he lay down and shut his eyes
Marlene woke up the next morning to bright sunshine streaming in through her window and a worried looking Sirius in the chair next to her bed.
As soon as she saw him, she groaned and rolled over. Talking to him was not on her list of things that she wanted to do that morning.
"Look, Marlene, I know what I said last night and I know that I was drunker than hell last night, but I really meant it! I love you and I think that I always have and I really do want to marry you and I really would want to marry you, baby or no baby, so please just hear me out!" begged Sirius frantically, as he rolled her back over to face him
She looked up into his face, strewn with concern and sorrow, and realized that she couldn't say no.
"Alright. Then let's do this." She whispered nervously, as he broke out into his familiar grin full of excitement
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