The Black Line Continues

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MishapsErrors: At the moment I don't think there will be any Harry/Draco in this story, mainly because I don't like the pairing but I may be persuaded to write it in.

Lunaris: Sorry, the Italics were there more out of habit than anything.

Shinigami: Severus was so gleeful about Remus being pregnant because he didn't think Sirius would wake up, so ultimately Rem would have to raise the baby alone and suffer. And of course, Severus not liking the Marauders would want to see them suffer. As for Andromeda, I mainly put her in with Bellatrix and Narcissa because we don't know too much about her. We know she was Sirius' favourite cousin and that she married a Muggleborn, but that's about it. So she could easily be prejudiced against werewolves for all we know, as a lot of people in the wizarding world are.

If I missed anyone out then I'm sorry, but thank you!

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Chapter 4: Our Baby

"Are you sure there's nothing you want?" Asked Remus after Sirius had settled down in his bed at Twelve Grimmauld Place. "No drink or anything?"

"Remus, sit down and shut up for a while." Ordered Sirius, Remus had been fussing over him ever since he had been brought back to Twelve Grimmauld Place this morning. It had been sweet to start with but now it was just getting a bit irritating considering it was eleven in the evening. Sirius had always been rather independent; he didn't really like it when other people did things for him but Remus always used to ignore that.

Remus sighed and sat down on the bed next to Sirius, "Sorry…" he reached out and tucked some of Sirius' long hair behind his ear. "Old habits die hard, you know?"

Sirius nuzzled his head into Remus' hand and smiled slightly, "I know…I love you."

Remus leaned forward and brushed his lips gently against Sirius', "I love you too." And he did, possibly even more than he used to. He had nearly lost Sirius twice now and he was carrying the man's baby as well. "Do you want me to stay?"

Sirius grinned slyly, "Of course."

Remus rolled his eyes, "To sleep, Sirius."

"I knew that."

Remus smiled, "I'll be back soon." He kissed Sirius again and then he left the bedroom.

Sirius sighed and settled down on his side under the bed covers, he curled up and closed his eyes. He had been seriously against coming back to Twelve Grimmauld to recover from his injuries, one reason being that he hated it here and he had had to spend the first sixteen years of his life in this hell hole. The other reason being that he was still sick and tired of being a prisoner, first in Azkaban and now in the house he had inherited after his mother had passed away. Of course, everyone said it was for his own good and protection but they didn't understand. If he stayed locked up much longer he felt he would become a prisoner inside his own mind as well as these walls.

On top of that, everyone had been acting mighty strange around him since he had come back to the house this morning. Seven times he had been told 'Congratulations', congratulations on what? Surviving his psychopathic cousin's torment? Being held prisoner again? It confused him to no end, and when he had asked Remus why they kept saying that the werewolf had looked pleasantly curious, which was Remus' facial expression for 'I know something you don't know'.

Also, when he had attempted to go into the Drawing Room to get a book to read while he was meant to be bed ridden, Remus had dragged him away before he had been able to enter the room. His birthday was the last day of August so he thought that maybe they were going to throw him a party, but he felt that was very unlikely as he wasn't the most pleasant of people to have around at the moment.

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"Is Sirius all right?" Asked Molly curiously when Remus had entered the kitchen for a drink.

Remus nodded, "Yeah." He poured himself a glass of water. "He is rather confused, mind you. He's unsure of why everyone keeps saying congratulations to him." He gazed pointedly at the few people at the kitchen table.

Tonks raised her head from the Daily Prophet she was reading; "Oh…you haven't told him?"

"No I haven't." Replied Remus; he drained his glass of water. "And it would be nice if he didn't find out from someone other than me, so please, try not to say anything else."

Molly smiled, "I'll make sure they don't, Remus."

"Thank you, Molly." Remus flashed her a charming smile before heading to the door. "Goodnight."

"Night Rem."

"Goodnight."

"Sleep well."

Remus left the kitchen and went back upstairs; he crept quietly passed the portrait of Sirius' mother so as not to wake her up again, he really couldn't be doing with her making a racket right now. They still hadn't figured out how to get her portrait off the wall, even Dumbledore had had a go and he couldn't either. When Remus had asked him Dumbledore was fairly certain dark magic was probably keeping the portrait there, so he would ask Severus or Lucius to have a go at getting rid of it next time either of them was at the Headquarters, the same for the Black Tapestry.

When he got back to Sirius' room he could hear his lover snoring quietly, so he carefully got into the bed carefully so as not to wake Sirius and extinguished the lamps with his wand. He cuddled up behind Sirius and draped an arm over the dark haired man's waist.

Though Sirius had been conscious for about the last week, too much activity was quite exhausting to him because he was so weak from his injuries. That's why Remus had been a little annoyed that he was wandering around the house all day, he knew Sirius had only been doing that to prove he wasn't an invalid and he could look after himself. Maybe he could look after himself but Remus was nearly as stubborn as he was when it came to certain things, when his lover was sick or injured for instance, the werewolf refused to let Sirius do things for himself.

Before Sirius had gone to Azkaban the two had argued over silly little things like that, they had nearly broken up over it once because they couldn't agree to disagree.

Remus sorely missed those times, when they were young and they didn't have much to worry about, he knew Sirius missed his life from all those years ago as well, before Azkaban and James and Lily's deaths. But now Remus couldn't help but look ahead to the future, when hopefully the war would be over, Voldemort would be dead and he and Sirius would have their own little child to love and protect.

Remus soon forced himself to stop thinking; he pressed a kiss to the back of Sirius' neck and closed his own eyes for sleep.

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Remus awoke the next morning to find himself alone in the big bed in Sirius' bedroom; he sat up blearily and gazed around the dimly lit room. It wasn't like Sirius at all to leave him alone in bed in the morning, the Animagus always woke up first and when he did he always waited for Remus to wake up before he even attempted to get out of bed.

He lay there for a while staring up at the ceiling before he realised there was an obvious absence of morning sickness today. His pregnancy usually never failed to wake him up at sunrise so he could throw up and he felt suddenly worried because it hadn't happened today.

Remus rolled out of bed and headed into the bathroom, he made a mental note to ask Molly if that was normal when he went down for breakfast in a little while. After all, if anyone knew about pregnancy, it would be her.

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Sirius in the meanwhile had decided to go and poke around in the Drawing Room while Remus was still asleep. He still didn't know what it was in this room that Remus didn't want him to see; it had to be something big though, didn't it? Throughout his snooping though, Sirius had quite conveniently not gone anywhere near his family tree, so he was still absolutely none the wiser about Remus' pregnancy.

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It had been nearly three days now since Sirius had come back to the Order Headquarters to continue his recovery, and as far as Remus knew, his lover was still completely in the dark about his pregnancy. Though Sirius was giving him some suspicious looks now and constantly questioning his so-called odd behaviour.

"You've been acting mighty strange Rem, are you sure you're all right?"

"You feeling all right, Remmie?"

"Are you sick? I just heard you throwing up…"

But two days before the children went back to Hogwarts; Sirius finally realised something rather big.

"Remus?"

"Mm."

Sirius sat down on the bed where Remus was reading a book, he gazed suspiciously at his lover as he posed his question, "Why didn't you transform this full moon?" He watched as Remus' eyes widened slightly and the werewolf mouthed silently. "Does it have something to do with what you've been keeping from me?"

Remus bit his bottom lip and sighed, "Yes…" he closed his book and put it on the bedside table before finally looking up at Sirius' curiously suspicious face. "…I was rather hoping you wouldn't notice, but it has everything to do with what I've been hiding from you."

"Are you going to tell me now?" Questioned Sirius frowning slightly. Remus had told him everything ever since he had first found out his friend was a werewolf, so why had he been hiding something now?

Remus nodded, then much to Sirius' confusion, he took one of the dark haired man's hands and placed it on his abdomen and covered the hand with his own. "I'm pregnant, Siri." Sirius' grey eyes widened in shock. "Two months pregnant." He watched as Sirius gazed silently at his stomach for a few minutes before he started to get a little worried. "…It'd be nice if you said something, Sirius…"

Sirius finally shook his head and blinked a couple of times before he looked back up into Remus' worried brown eyes, "Ar-are you sure?"

Remus gave a small smile and nodded, "I'm positive…"

Sirius didn't appear to register what Remus had said for a moment, but then he took the werewolf by surprise by pushing him down onto his back and catching his mouth in a passionate kiss. When Sirius finally pulled away he gazed at Remus lovingly and stated quite plainly, "You're carrying my baby."

Remus smiled up at him and kissed him on the corner of the mouth, "Our baby."

Sirius gazed at him with his head tilted to the side in a way reminiscent of Padfoot, "Our baby…I like the sound of that…"

Remus lifted his arms and slipped them around Sirius' neck, "Am I right in thinking you like the idea of having a child, then?"

Sirius grinned and kissed him again before resting his forehead against Remus', "You know I've always wanted a child…with you…"

"That's just as well then." Said Remus smiling.

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A/N: Yey! Happiness! It probably won't last…just thought I should say…

Next Chapter: Remus is four months pregnant. Sirius has doubts about having this baby during the war.

When I finish this sentence this chapter will be exactly two thousand words long.