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Chapter Fourteen

Full of Surprises

Sirius quietly crept out of bed, allowing Petunia to have a lay-in. Leaving the master bedroom he went and checked on Danny who was still sleeping soundly. The little guy had quite a time at Remus birthday the night before and had tuckered himself out completely; no doubt he would sleep for another couple of hours. After placing a soft kiss on his brow Sirius left the nursery and headed downstairs and into the kitchen.

Opening the cupboards he started to pull out ingredients. He had decided to surprise his family with a grand breakfast. Yes, his family. He didn't really know when he started referring to Petunia and Danny as his family exactly, but he had. He loved them, more than he ever thought possible, and when the time was right he would ask Petunia to marry him, and he would adopt Danny as his own. He didn't care that they were muggles, or that Danny would never attend Hogwarts, his boy would still attend the finest schools, magic or no. He would see to that.

An hour later a fine breakfast of sausage, eggs, kippers, toast, fruit and yogurt sat neatly on the table. He placed a warming charm on the hot food and headed upstairs to wake his future wife and son.

He chucked first on Petunia who was still fast asleep. Deciding to allow her sleep just a bit longer he went to wake Danny. Danny however was already wide awake sitting in his crib playing with his stuffed dragon.

"Good morning little man."

The small boy dropped his dragon, his neck twisted towards Sirius. "Dada." Danny stood up stretching out his arms.

Sirius' hearts swelled every time that beautiful boy called him dada. When he had first learned how to say the word he called most every male he saw that, but no longer. Now, it was reserved just for Sirius.

"Hey buddy." Sirius smiled taking the toddler into his arms. "Shall we get you ready for the day?"

Danny nodded and giggled. "Good, so first a clean nappy." Placing Danny on the changing table, he pulled out his wand. Danny instantly started clapping. "Yea! Ma-ic."

"That's right Danny, magic time." And with a flick of his wrist the boys pajama bottoms were pulled down and his wet nappy came off, wadding itself into a ball and floating into the nappy bin. Next was the wipes which zipped out of their container before automatically cleaning off the small boys privates.

Petunia watched quietly from the door as Sirius magically dressed her son. He was so good with him. The perfect father in her opinion, much like her own in fact. They had briefly talked about marriage the other day. It was something they both seriously wanted to consider, but not just yet. Sirius had wanted to go back to work first, even though his uncle had given him a fair bit of gold when he ran away, he still felt he needed to do the proper thing and work to support his family.

"You make that look so simple." Petunia finally spoke just as a red shirt with a lion printed on it slipped itself onto her son.

Sirius turned to his girlfriend and smiled. "It is simple my, love." He said greeting her with a quick kiss.

"For you maybe." She said with a laugh.

"Mama. Ma-ic."

"Yes, I know, baby." The brunette picked up her son, and cuddled him close to her chest. "Sirius, I forgot to ask you last night, but I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon, you'll watch him for me, won't you?"

"Of course I will, love." He said before quickly kissing her lips. "You're not feeling ill are you?"

"No, not really, it's just time for my annual."

In truth she hadn't been feeling a hundred percent recently, or at least the past couple of weeks, but she had also had her hours at the library extended, plus she had started work building her own accounting business, that combined with taking care of Danny and the house she figured she had just over done it a bit. She figured she would just bring up her fatigue with her doctor, who would no doubt tell her to simply tone down her workload a bit. So she really wasn't worried at all.

"Oh, no problem. Now come, I've made breakfast."

XXX

Severus didn't hold back a smirk as he fastened the letter to his owl's leg and then watched it fly off in the distance. He had decided to reply to Black's apology, it was the polite thing to do after all. Heading back to his rooms he found his children sitting at the kitchen table eating, while Ellie finished packing up an overnight bag for them. Cora and Kian would be staying the weekend in Minerva's quarters, Severus refused to allow her in theirs in fear she would bring the headmaster, and he did not want that meddling old coot in his home alone.

"Almost ready?" Severus asked placing a soft kiss on her brow.

"Just about. When does out port-key leave again."

"In about a half an hour."

"Oh good. We still have time to-

The witch's sentence was interrupted by the sound of two toddlers giggling. Ellie and Severus grinned with pride as they watched several raisins float out of their sons portage and into the rubbish bin.

"That's my boy." Severus smiled quickly going to his son and pulling him from his high chair and kissing him on the cheek. "My powerful little wizard."

Cora's levitating binky had only been the beginning of a burst of accidental magic that she and her brother began to display throughout the rest of that night and into the morning.

"Yes, he is." Ellie said kissing her son on his forehead. "But that doesn't get him out of eating his raisins."

Severus laughed before placing his son back in his chair. "How about we find him a suitable substitute."

"Like?"

"Like grapes. You like those, right Kian."

The boy nodded vigorously and in an instant a bowel of grapes landed on the table. "Did you do that, Sev?"

Severus shook his head. "Nope. I'm telling you love, we have ourselves the next Merlin's." Still smiling he diced up several grapes and gave them to both his children.

XXX

Petunia had already left for the doctor, Danny was playing with blocks in his playpen, and Sirius had just opened up a letter that had come for him.

Black,

I received your letter. I must say I was quite shocked. Someone must have some very seriously damaging black mail on you to get you to send me an apology. Unfortunately I cannot beseech your request that I burn it, instead I plan to frame it and hang it in my office.

S.T. Snape

Sirius let out a low growl before crumpling up the paper and the incinerating it.

"Dada." Danny looked up at Sirius, worry written all over his small face.

"It's okay, little man." Sirius smiled. "Just a bit of annoyance from a greasy git. Hey, how about a trip to the park." The wizard suggested picking the boy up in his arms.

"Yea!"

"Alright, well just get you bundled up and then we'll be off."

XXX

Petunia sat impatiently in the lobby as she waited for them to test her blood. She never should have mentioned her fatigue at all. Her doctor insisted on running tests 'just to be safe'. Really, she didn't have time for this. She still had to pick up her new business cards, go to the grocers, Danny needed new shoes and the list went on.

"Ms. Evans." Petunia rose at the sound of her name and proceeded to follow the nurse into the exact room she had been examined in minutes earlier. "Doctor Hastings will see you momentarily."

Only seconds later her doctor re-entered the room, a small smile playing on his lip. "So, Petunia." He said sitting down on his rolling stool. "You have a son, correct?"

"Yes. Danny." Her brow furrowed in confusion. What did her son have to do with anything? "Why?"

"Because it looks like Danny is going to be a big brother."

XXX

Ellie gave a small smile as she looked at the ocean view out her hotel window.

"Beautiful isn't it." Severus came up beside her placing his hand in hers.

"It's positively breathtaking." The couple silently took in the view for a few more moments.

Severus would not push Ellie into anything she wasn't ready for, but this trip was her idea, so he hoped she was feeling safe enough to rekindle the intimate part of their relationship.

"Severus."

"Yes."

Ellie turned to face her husband. Taking his hand she placed it softly on the small bump protruding for her stomach. "I've known for a few days, but I wanted to wait until we were here to tell you."

"Tell me what?"

"We're having another boy."

Severus' smile was so wide it was nearly splitting his face in half. "That's wonderful." He then slowly wrapped his arms around her. They hadn't talked much about the baby since the rape. He was glad she had brought up the subject.

"I want to name him Gregory, after my father. What do you think?"

"I think Gregory is a wonderful name."

The young witch looked lovingly into her husband's dark eyes, eyes that always brought her comfort and peace.

"Severus…I need you to do something for me."

"Anything." He kissed her brow. "Anything."

"I need you to make love to me. Not…not sex, but love. You-you know what I mean, right?"

Severus nodded before placing a soft kiss on her lips. "I know what you mean, Ellie." Taking her hand the couple walked over and climbed onto the bed. Ellie closed her eyes as Severus slowly began to unbutton her shirt, softly kissing her face and neck as he did.

"I love you Ellie, and every time I am with you, every time my body is inside of yours it's because I love you."

Ellie allowed her shirt to drop from her shoulders and onto the bed. She closed her eyes as her husband's warm hands ran from her shoulder to her back. "I love you so much Ellie." He told her once again. His fingers undid the clasp on her bra as his lips sent soft kisses down her shoulder. "You tell me if you want me to stop, okay?"

Ellie nodded as she continued to allow her husband to love her body.

XXX

Lily was out having lunch with an old school friend and James was at home alone with Harry. Harry was a good boy, but at times he grew restless, and during those times Lily was normally the only one who could calm him down. At his wits end and against his wife's explicit instructions, James picked up his son, took him outside, headed over to the broom shed and pulled out his Comet 360.

"Want to go flying Harry?"

The boys emerald eyes widened in excitement. He loved watching his daddy fly, he had wanted to go with him before, but mummy never let him. Where was mummy anyway?

"Okay Harry." James said applying a sticking charm on his son. "You can't tell mummy we did this okay. She'll have my hide for sure."

Harry just laughed.

Mounting the broom James took off in the sky, his son magically glued to his chest.

Arriving home Petunia found a note (conveniently enough floating just inside the front door) letting her know Sirius had taken Danny to the park. This was good; it gave her a bit of time to figure out how she was going to tell her boyfriend she was pregnant. She was still having a hard time wrapping her mind around the whole thing on her own; she couldn't really contemplate how she was going to tell Sirius.

With Danny it was only her parent's reaction he had to worry about, well and Lily, but she didn't really care what she thought, at least not at the time. Now however, now there was a boyfriend in the equation, but Sirius was more than just a boyfriend, he was her lover, a lover she was in love with. She didn't think he would be upset, maybe a bit surprised, even shocked, but not upset or angry, at least she hoped not.

She heard the front door open and the sound of her little boys giggle. Danny was always laughing, smiling and happy.

"Mama." Danny instantly ran over to Petunia who scooped him up in her arms. "Hey sweetheart." She kissed the top of his head. "Did you have a good time with Sirius?"

Danny yawned as he nodded. Petunia smiled as she ran her hand through her son's messy black hair. "I think it's just about your nap time little mister. Sirius, don't leave just yet, I need to talk to you about something first."

"I wasn't planning on going anywhere, love." Sirius gave his girlfriend a quick kiss before she headed up the stairs with her sleepy son.

XXX

Severus sat down at a small desk which rested against far wall of their hotel room. Pulling a piece of paper and a muggle pen from the drawer he began to write a list.

Curses I plan to use of the Dark Lord

Conjunctivitus Curse (will use it until his eyes are raw and bloody hanging from their sockets)

Crucio (he will feel the wrath of his own favorite curse)

Diffindo (Severing Charm)

(Entrail-Expelling Curse)

Expulso

Incendio

Knee-Reversal Hex (for a laugh)

Langlock (if necessary)

Levicorpus (again for a laugh)

Petrificus Totalus

Reducto

Sectumsempra

Avada Kedavra

"Sev." Severus turned around to see his wife sitting up in bed, a rather inviting smile played on her lips as she pulled back the sheet. "I'm lonely."

"Hum." The potions master, who was wearing nothing more than a pair of black silk boxers, made his way over to his wife. "Well let's see if I can rectify that shall we."

XXX

Sirius was wearing a goofy, sideways sort of grin; his grey eyes sparkled with happiness "You're really pregnant?" His smile widened as he asked her.

She nodded and grinned as well. He was taking this a lot better then she had expected. No she didn't think he'd be seething mad, but she did think he would have been concerned. It wasn't planned and as much as they loved each other they really hadn't been together that long.

"That's fantastic." He then pulled her in for a fervent kiss.

"You…you're excited about this?" Petunia was, well she really didn't know how to react at the moment. She was happy he was happy, but still…it was a…accident.

"Why wouldn't I be? The woman I love is going to have my baby. I should be shouting it from the roof tops."

"Please don't do that."

Sirius laughed before taking his girlfriend into his arms and kissing her once again. "Will you marry me?"

Petunia blinked. "What?"

"Marry me. I love you Petunia. I love you more than anything. Marry me so we can be a proper family."

Sirius was asking for her hand in marriage.

Marriage.

They had talked about it, and considering the circumstances it would be the proper thing to do, but for Petunia, marrying Sirius would be about so much more then decorum, it would be about love. Wanting to spend the rest of her life with the man she loved.

When she had her crush on James she had often fantasized about walking down the aisle to him, but that was long ago. She hadn't thought of her sister's husband that way in months. Not since she had Sirius in her life. Handsome, magical Sirius, who loves her and her son. Who loves her son despite the fact that he thinks he is a muggle? Well there really was only one thing she could say to that.

A/N: Don't hate me. I know, big cliffy, but I need to keep you all on the edge of your seats once in a while.