Chapter 21 (WE'RE IN THE TWENTIES ALREADY!) My Girls

Disclaimer, blah.

So to clarify some things. I realize that I've never said if Teddy was a pure blood, or a half blood or muggle born. I just never really thoguht about it, but this chapter has some muggle-dealings so I figure she's a half blood on account of her mother's muggle-ness.

And I've been getting the name of the dressmaker wrong, it's Malkin. Silly me.

I would like to say that this chapter was inspired by Juno, but I haven't seen that movie in a year, nor have I put any quotes in here. Truth be told, I just was listening to Kimya Dawson earlier.

And Trekkie, thanks for putting this on alert! It sort of sped up the process of updating.

"So you're pregnant?"

That simple, yet loaded question was the only thing to tear my eyes away from my latest Eiffel Tower piece. I had plans to make it sparkle like the real tower did whenever the sun goes down, but at that moment I had to look whatever costumer asked that in the face.

"When are you due?" I realized it was one of my Loyals, Stacey, and her face just beamed as if her questions were socially normal and applied to anyone.

Of course, my heart racing probably meant that I was overreacting to this question. Stacey knew that I had gotten married a month ago (although I couldn't tell her to whom) and perhaps she was just questioning when I was planning on having kids (which also didn't seem like an appropriate thing to ask either, but was slightly more acceptable than assuming I was already pregnant).

But how could Stacey have known that lately I was having terrible motion sickness and I could smell someone's deodorant from a mile away? And quite frankly, how did she know that I skipped a period?

"I-I beg your pardon?" I finally stated with a confused face. She held a bracelet in her hand like she was expecting to buy something, but most of my costumers (especially my loyals) didn't start off a business transaction like that. I leaned back in my chair, trying to get her to see that my stomach was not bulging with a baby.

"Yet," a voice in the back of my head that I choice to ignore said.

But her seeing my stomach didn't make her smile diminish or the color fade from her face, which usually happened when someone realized they made a big mistake like that. Instead she just re-asked "When is the due date for your baby?" and then added "Have you found out if it's a boy or a girl?"

I just stuttered around making a complete sentence, searching for something to say besides "I'm not pregnant", because I had a simple feeling she wouldn't take that for an answer.

And partly because I knew I had some of the symptoms of being pregnant. But that was a very small part, miniscule even.

Something must have clicked in Stacey's head because her smile finally lost some of its area and she almost dropped the bracelet that she was holding.

"Oh you must think I'm a terrible person!" She ushered, sounding like a normal 15 year old and for a minute I thought she was going to usher an apology next (a minute mind you, is not a very long time). "I'm a quarter Elvin."

At that moment I recognized her impossibly blonde hair and fair skin, but how her genealogy explained why she thought I had a bun in the oven didn't make sense.

When I gave her an even more confused look, Stacey spoke again.

"Elves are extra sensitive to life forms. They're like dementours in detecting human beings, minus the whole 'evil, soul sucking being' part. Anyway, I can detect two beings in your seat, so you must be pregnant!"

She explained it like it was the most natural thing in the world (maybe her being part Elf meant that it was normal for her), and during it Professor Binn's class on Elves vaguely re-entered my head.

But whether or not I remembered his speech verbatim didn't matter, the only thing that mattered was that she confirmed the nagging question in the back of my mind without meaning to. I sat still in my seat besides draping an arm over my head.

"Oh," Stacey exclaimed. "Am I the first to know? How exciting, you have to keep me updated on what you're going to name the baby and everything!"

She didn't quite seem to grasp how surprised I was about being pregnant.

Finally, after what seemed like ten decades of her pearly whites staring at me, I leaned forward again and weakly asked "I'll give you 50% off of that,"

"Hey Remus," Sirius called from the love seat in the small, almost purely white room off of the kitchen. "Can you come in here?"

The door sung open and Remus' frame stood preventing from the door to properly close, he looked like he wasn't expecting this little talk to take long. His face was long and Teddy knew he was having a hard time within the Order, so Teddy tried to offer a smile from her position of being on the other side of Sirius.

"So you know how Agnes here is pregnant," Sirius lead, his arm around her shoulder tightening.

It took everything in Remus' power not to scoff, it was only April and Teddy was showing rather blantly. Pregnancy, though, some how suited Teddy- her face didn't round like a beach ball and fingers seemed less long and spindly.

"Well she has an appointment with some gyno-collosull, gyno-pterydactul-"

"Gynecologist, Sirius" Teddy corrected, laughing over Sirius' pronunciation.

"Right…she has an appointment with a muggle doctor," The moment Sirius put the look on his face, Remus knew Sirius wanted something and he could only dread what it was. "And I can't go looking like myself because they'd cart me away again, and you don't want a pregnant woman in a fragile state like Agnes (this time Remus really did scoff, Agnes was probably the most dependent female he ever met) to be left alone do you?"

It took a while for Remus to realize what Sirius had truly asked, underneath all of the words he actually said. What Sirius wanted explained the odd potion brewing in the kitchen that he had been examining before he was called.

Remus sighed in a defeated acceptance.

"Come on, just kiss me once!" A man who looked like Remus begged in the waiting room of the gynecologist, sitting right next to Teddy.

"No," Teddy giggled, pushing the man away lightly with her arms. "It's too weird!"

"Aw, Agnes, it's still me beneath this skin," The man laughed back, taking her hands and kissing them with his lips, making Teddy erupt in more giggles.

The only other couple in the room, an elderly couple, looked at Teddy and "Remus" fondly, glad to see that the youth was still capable of love (even more to see the wedding rings on their fingers).

A few minutes passed, Teddy still giggling and Sirius still trying to make her kiss him even though he was in disguise as their friend, before a nurse in pink scrubs opened the door that led to the rest of the doctor rooms and called "Agnes Lupin?"

Teddy got up and dusted off her blue and white maternity top, she felt like someone had used an expanding spell, it was only four months and she gained fifteen pounds. With Remus' (Sirius') hand on her back, Teddy was led to the fourth room on the right and was told to put on the hospital gown lying on the doctor's table, before the door closed.

"You should never do this again," Teddy stated, looking at Sirius, who sat beside the table that Teddy was sitting on, in a peach metal chair.

"Why not, aren't you curious at all the talents Remus has been hiding from us?" Apparently, the fact that he was double jointed, counted as a talent.

The door opening made the conversation drop, a woman in her thirties stepped into the room with a white coat.

"Hello, Agnes," She outstretched her hand to Agnes. "I am Dr. Hemming; obviously you're doctor for today!"

She laughed a little before outstretching her hand to Remus (Sirius) for him to shake, "And you are?"

"Remus Lupin, her husband." S said proudly.

"Oh congratulations, when did you get married?"

"In December," Teddy answered with a smile.

Dr. Hemming smiled and looked back at her charts, "This says you're roughly 17 weeks along…"

Her voice quieted as she realized the time line of Teddy's pregnancy and her wedding coincided. All thoughts of a shot-gun wedding were diminished, though, when Remus (Sirius) leaned forward in his chair with a devilish grin and not-so-quietly whispered to the Doctor "We know, I've just got super sperm."

The sound of the ultrasound machine was loud and annoying, but that didn't bother Teddy. Her eyes were glued on the images of the screen that was a few feet away. Sirius' hand squeezed hers and she didn't even care that it was in the form of Remus', her eyes were glued.

"And that," Dr. Hemming way said with a small smile and she moved the cursor left on Teddy's stomach "is his feet, by the looks of it, he'll be a tall one."

In perfect unison and in perfect amazement, the young couple in the doctor's office said "Oh wow".