I think it's about time we spend some time on Lily and Severus. Lily was still sick as can be but some things had stopped. The little bit of bleeding stopped a week ago, it only lasted three days so it was most definitely he man. Lily suspected her period must be coming soon because she still had those very small cramps in her belly and her breasts were really sore. She had been vomiting everyday but she seemed to get used to it and was able to work and do things like walk in the park. She had also scheduled a dentist appointment because her gums had been really inflamed lately. As well as her gas, oh boy that was bad. So hopefully she didn't have a serious gastro-intestinal disease.
"Lily the appointment is in an hour please get ready" Lily's mother called from downstairs. Lily knew she only had fifteen minutes to get dressed and go because the drive was only five but she had to be there early. The red head did not feel well enough to put anything fancy (or presentable) on so she just slipped on a hoodie and sweatpants. Severus knew she was nervous so he was downstairs with breakfast for her. She still wasn't allowing anyone near her, still she figured out whether she was contagious or not.
She trotted down the stairs and Severus handed her a bowl of oatmeal, her favorite with cinnamon and sugar. But the smell assaulted her nostrils with the most horrifying smell and she immediately threw up all over the carpet. Severus made the oatmeal in the bowel disappear and casted scogify on the carpet where Lily had emptied her bowels.
"I'm sorry Sev"
"No its ok my Lily just eat and pear and go to the doctor where he will tell you what's wrong ok lover"
Lilly nodds, "Mmm ok"
She grabs a pear before going through the door and into the car where her mom is waiting. She wasn't planning on eating it, she didn't feel hungry.
"It is going to be ok Lily I am sure you are fine" her mother says. Lily wanted to yell at her, she just threw up what little food she had left in her and now everyone was telling her she was going to be ok. She wasn't ok. The drive was only about five-ten minutes but for the red haired Evans girl it seemed like an eternity. Finally when Mrs. Evans said they were there. She slugged her way out of the car and walked into the office and sat down, closing her eyes. Lily hadn't been this sick in her life and if this kept her from going to school she would really hate it. Around her there were elderly people, an old man with an oxygen tank and a pregnant woman sitting next to her husband comparing blue booties with yellow booties. Then there was a little girl with a pale face and a bucket next to her, her mother leaned over to hold her daughter and rubb the little girl's shoulder as if telling her it was ok without words.
A While later after many names had been called before her she heard her name
"Lily Evans?" The red haired girl looked over to see a short and slim nurse with her brown hair tugged back and wearing dark pink scrubs. Lily and her mother slowly stood and followed the nice nurse into a little clean room. The nurse changed her gloves and sat down on a black cushioned stool in front of Lily with a clipboard.
"So sweetie I am just going to take your temperature, blood pressure and ask you a few questions ok?"
Lily nodded, the nurse proceeded to do exactly what she said she was going to do. It made Lily feel more comfortable at a doctors office when the nurse tells you what they are going to do and then does exactly that. She takes her temperature and says.
"Well that's normal"
Then the blood pressure
"That is normal too! Good Job!" The nurse says congratulating Lily on doing something she didn't even really do.
"Ok now I am going to ask you a few questions just like i would in a normal check up ok Sweetie"
Lily nods again.
"Are you on any sort of medication as of now?"
"No"
"What is your sexual orintation, that means gay, strait, lesbian, bisexual. It is a weird question but it's on the sheet so I have to ask it"
"Strait"
"What gender are you?"
"Female"
"Do any two of your parents have any history of medical problems?"
"I got Ovarian Cysts around when I was 40"
"OK, Ovarian Cysts"
"Anything from dad's side"
"No"
"Have you recently been feeling sick?"
"Yes"
"Out of this list of symptoms which do you have? Vomiting, Nausea, headache, fever, loss of taste, dizziness, dry mouth, runny nose, excessive urination, constipation?"
"All but fever, lost of taste, dry mouth and constipation"
"Ok"
"Are you sexually active"
Lily didn't want to lie to the doctor but the doctor would never know because she had used a contraceptive charm. She was a muggle doctor. Lily then realized she had been silent for a good fifteen seconds.
"Lily? It's ok if you are when I was your age I was too" The nurse says.
"So was I, besides Severus is a good guy" Her mothers ads.
This gives lily a little bit of relief and she says, "yes"
"Ok" the nurse checks off that box.
"That should be all it will just be a short wait till the doctor comes in" The nurse says before she leaves. Lily's mother looks at her and smiles.
"See it's alright Lily"
"And maybe after this appointment we can go to the drugstore to get you some condoms"
"No its ok we have spells"
"Ok" her mother giggles.
"What was it like?"
"MOM stop" lily whines with an embarrassed frown.
The two Evans women sit in silence for a while before the door clicks and a young geeky looking doctor comes in. He looks young but he is not. Lily saw this man when she was a baby all the way though well now.
"HI Doctor" her mother says politely when he sits down.
"Hello" he greets before he gets straight down to business. "So Lily I looked at the notes Nurse Calderwood took and I have a theory and do not be worried at all when I say this, I think we should test you for pregnancy"
There was silence. Lily huffed.
"There is no possible way I could be pregnant. I have been very diligent with protection besides. It has only happened twice."
"Twice is all it takes and besides sometimes there are little tiny holes in condoms that let a rare lucky sperm though"
Lily knew this wasn't possible; she was a witch for god's sake. She casted a spell and it definitely worked. This couldn't have happened.
"I think just to be safe we should" Dr. Barrett says softly, handing her a urinalysis cup. He leads her to a bathroom so she can do her business.
Petunia had only known James Potter for three weeks yet she was in love. She spent every second day dreaming about him and every minute of her life hoping another letter would come. He was so much better than Vernon. He liked the same kind of thing she did mostly and his dream in life fit so beautifully with hers. She would spend forever with him If she could. She remembered Lily saying he was a prat and his friends were idiots as well. But when you got to know all of them they were just goofy-lovable idiots. James said that he really wanted to spend more time with her over the school year and they were figuring out how that could happen. THe two new lovers had talked about meeting up at his manor on the weekends. That would work but James would have to get permission from Dumbledore to use his office to floo and he would have to get the ministry to attack the Evans house to the floo network so she would be able to get to the manor. Petunia could have been depressed over the fact that she wasn't able to see James as much but she wasn't. The blonde Evans girl was drunk on excitement and affection. She closed her eyes and spun around the room and in the middle of the room she bonked her head on something, something soft. She opened her eyes and stared straight into the eyes of Binkie, the blue tiger she had loved ever since she was a baby. Turning around she says other things floating. Paper, pens, dresses and stuffed toys.
"LILY!!!!" She screamed unsure what to do. But Lily was here at her doctor's appointment. THe door opened and instead of Lily there stood her father and Severus. Severus broke into a big laugh and started plucking things out of the air. He acted as if this was an everyday incident. Maybe for him it was but for Petunia this was really really strange.
"Severus, what does this mean?" She asked looking at her dad's face which was set into a surprised grin.
"This means you are going to be learning magic with eleven year old kids at Hogwarts, you'll have to start in the first year of course" The dark haired Slytheran says matter of factly.
"Oh wow" Mr. Evans breathes.
"I will owl Professor Dumbledore tonight"
"Who is Professor Dublebore"
"Dumbledore is the headmaster of Hogwarts"
"Ok," Petunia says with a laugh.
Everyone helped put the floating things on the bed and Petunia ruffled through the pile to find a notepad and a nice pen. She was going to immediately send a letter to James.
A brown owl sat on the window sill of the dining room tapping. James and his parents were just sitting down to eat when it took its perch and began just staring at James. It was dark outside and he couldn't really see much but he knew this was Lily's owl. Other post owls would just slip the letter in the mailbox but Lily's owl obviously did not like stubble appearances because he would hunt down James (And find him no matter what the cost) just to deliver a letter. James Potter knew for a fact that Lily would not be sending him a letter at this hour. No one else in their house would. Especially Petunia, she was a very reasonable person. Petunia Evans would never owl him at this hour unless something had happened. Jame's calloused fingers whipped open the window latch at a ridiculous speed and the owl rushed in, attacked him with a letter before grabbing a treat from the owl treat dish and flying straight back out the window.
James flinched, that owl was ornery. It was a good post owl, did its job very well but it had an attitude.
The black haired boy sat down at his desk and immediately snached the silver letter opener which he used. As he read his love letter his smile became a grin and he felt like the luckiest boy in the world.
Lily Evans snached the little urine cup and glared at the doctor before looking at her mother. Her mother seemed perfectly calm. Lily knew that was a good thing. Her mother trusted her to use proper contraceptive spells. That's why this text was useless. SHE WAS A WITCH! One wave of a wand and there was no chance this would happen. But just to please the doctor she would pee in his stupid cup.
"Are you done?" the doctor asks kindly when she comes out of the restroom. Lily nods with a frown. Lily knew that the test would be negative and that that negative was correct. Muggle pregnancy tests were normally 99% correct. Even spells weren't as good as the little test.
"Ok I am going to go test this and be back in about ten minutes" the doctor says before leaving the room and closing the door.
'You used a good spell right Lily?"
"Yes I did mother! We both did"
"I trust the two of you"
The two Evans women sat in silence till the doctor came back with a few tests.
"So It will be"
Hearing this Lily knew what he was about to say.
"There are many options"
She did the spell right, they both did.
"We did a few tests"
What did she do wrong?
"All three came back positive"
It had to be wrong.
Everyone was silent for a minute.
"We have a opening in the ultrasound room right at this moment and if it's ok with you we would like to check if everything is going well so far"
"Ok"
"After that you can go to our maternal therapist to have a little chat about your options. We aren't too busy today so an appointment won't be necessary. SHould I tell her you're coming in? She is a very nice woman."
"Ok" was all Lily could say.
Dr.Barrett smiled and ushered the two women to the ultrasound room. Normally this kind of technology would interest her but at the moment she was terrified of it.
The ultrasound technician was kind and very understanding and despite the red haired girl being scared she even made lily smile.
The cold blue gel was rubbed over her belly and as soon as the little device touched her belly things started appearing on the screen. At first it was nothing then all at once the nurse pointed out a little gray white blob on the ultrasound screen. And it had a heartbeat.
As soon as James had found out about Petunia he had taken the floo to the Evans house. Where he had hugged her and happily kissed her. This year was going to be perfect. Petunia was a witch and he would be able to spend the next two years at school with her.
Lily didn't know what she was going to do. This year would be a disaster. How could this have happened to her? She knew she had to keep it. But still she was going to that option meeting the doctor had set up.
"Hi Lily, how are you doing?" The maternal doctor calmly asks with a smile. Everything about this woman was calming. This little room did not look like a doctor's office. It looked like a bedroom. THere was a comfy looking bed full of pillows and a few puffy chairs everywhere.
"Sit anywhere you would like"
Lily sat on the red beanbag chair in the corner.
"So the doctor told me that you want to talk about options. Do you know what your options are?"
Lily nodded.
"I'm going to keep it, because that is the right thing to do"
"Mom, do you agree with this?"
"Yes I do, that is the responsible option"
"Ok well I am here to help you decide which it looks like you already have, but the most important reason I am here is to help you feel prepared and confident with the option you chose."
Lily nodded.
"I assume you're tired and ready to go home and sort things out with your family so let's schedule an appointment for next week. Would Tuesday at four be ok for you?"
Lily nodded.
The drive home was pretty scary for the red haired girl. She was avoiding talking to her mother but her mother was obviously not avoiding talking to her.
"Lily it's going to be ok"
Lily did not respond. She didn't want to talk to her mother. She wanted to talk to Severus.
The house looked quiet from the outside. It was almost dinner time and Lily trudged into the house. As soon as she opened the door her sister squealed and hugged her. Lily wasn't in any mood to be happy. So she broke down in what she had pent up for the last four hours. She cried in her sister's arms.