Chapter Five: A New Addition?

Three months had passed and it was now Spring. In Bailee's opinion, it was the best time to have an outdoor wedding, which is exactly what Trent and Jamie's wedding was going to be.

"How are we going to get to the Burrow?" Jamie wanted to know.

Bailee and Jamie were standing in the living room of Jamie's flat as they began dressing for her wedding. "Floo powder." Bailee replied.

Jamie nodded even though she hadn't the slightest idea what floo powder was. Jamie stood up and put a white rose garland on top of her head as she stared at herself in her reflection. Bailee stood behind her and smiled, she was happy for her new friend.

"Do you want to grab some fast food before we go to your grandparent's house? I don't think we'll have another chance to eat until the reception." Jamie stated.

Bailee immediately shook her head, "no, I'm not hungry. In fact I don't think I can eat at all, lately food has been making so me sick. I can't stand the smell of anything fried. But I'll come along anyway if you like."

Jamie turned around and grabbed Bailee's wrist, taking her by surprise, "how long have you felt this way?"

"Couple of weeks, maybe I am catching something?" Bailee replied waving her free hand.

"Bailee! Call me crazy, but I think you're preg-"

"No, I can't be!" Bailee replied interrupting her friend.

She freed herself from Jamie's grasp and collapsed down on the sofa. She placed her face in her hands and began to cry softly. It all made sense now, the reason she had been feeling so off color for the past two months. Jamie sat down beside her and placed her hands on Bailee's shoulders, "Don't worry Bailes, everything is going to be alright. After the wedding, I'll take you to the muggle doctors and we can have you checked out."

Bailee looked up at Jamie, "Don't bother, I already know I am…"

"Come on, having a baby isn't such a bad thing. Most people find it a blessing…"

"Well are those people unmarried twenty-three year olds that work in a little joke shop?"

"I don't know."

Bailee stood up and wiped her face, "we better get to The Burrow."

She walked over to the mirror and used a spell to get rid of the runny mascara on her face. No one could tell she had been crying. She fixed her dress and was thankful that she wasn't showing yet.

She pulled out her jar of Floor Powder and turned towards Jamie, instructing her on how to get to The Burrow. Then Bailee herself took a handful of floo powder and headed for her grandparent's home.

She stepped out of the fireplace moments later and fixed her dress, feeling nauseous. She cupped her hand over her mouth and ran into the downstairs bathroom. She felt as if the entire room were spinning. She grabbed the counter and closed her eyes, but still felt like she was going in circles. She stepped back and began falling towards the ground.

"Bailee!" Ginny gasped running into the bathroom beside her daughter.

Jamie leaned over Ginny and stared down at Bailee, "looks like she fainted, perhaps I should get some smelling salt from the kitchen."

Ginny turned and looked at Jamie, "did she eat today?"

"I'm not sure." Jamie shrugged.

It only took a couple of seconds before they could revive Bailee. She sat up placing her hand over her forehead, she was lucky she managed to get sick in the toilet. She looked up at her mum and began to feel embarrassed.

"I'm okay." She spoke, slowly getting to her feet.

"Bailee…" Ginny trailed off.

Bailee turned away from her mom and walked out of the bathroom. She fixed her dress and then walked into the living room beside her grandparents and relatives. There were relatives there at The Burrow that she hadn't seen in years. Her younger sister, Brooklynn, was among the crowd. Bailee hadn't seen her for months due to the fact that Brooklynn was still attending Hogwarts.

She managed to make polite conversation before it was time for her to lead Jamie down to the alter. The wedding was beautiful and went without a hitch. Jamie and Trent both said their vows and devotion to one another in a short matter of time and it wasn't long before the reception began.

"I can't believe I'm married!" Jamie squealed as she and Bailee walked over to the banquet table, "Mrs. Jamie Potter, I like the sound of it."

Bailee smiled and nodded her head, trying not to glance down at all the food. She hugged Jamie and then walked away from the table and towards the garden. She found an unoccupied bench and sat down, staring at her family from afar. She closed her eyes and thought about her past conversation with Jamie. She couldn't believe that she was actually going to have a baby. It seemed so unreal.

"Bailee?"

Bailee opened her eyes and stared at Alec. He smiled and sat down on the bench beside her. It was evident that he was more happy to see her than she was happy to see him.

"Is everything alright? You seem so quiet." Alec wanted to know, placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, everything is fine." Bailee lied, and closed her eyes again. Everything is fine except for the fact that I'm having your baby, she thought.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

Alec shook his head and stared at the uncut grass. He knew something was wrong with her but he wasn't sure what. He couldn't force it out of her. He brushed back his hair, which had grown longer over the months and stood up. He looked down at her and shrugged before walking away. He was about to make his way back to the bar when he noticed a oddly familiar brunette.

He wasn't sure at first, but when he got closer he realized that it was Raven Warner, his ex-wife. He approached her and grabbed her arm tightly, pulling her away from the crowd.

"What the hell are you doing here?" He demanded, and then got a better look. She appeared to be well, pregnant.

"I came here to find you! Let go of me! Your father told me to find you!" Raven replied trying to pull herself away from Alec, but he wasn't letting go.

"Why? Why are you coming after me? I want nothing to do with you, we're divorced, remember?"

"That maybe so, but I think our child doesn't have to know that!" Raven cried as Alec's grip tightened.

"What? How dare you! That is not my child!" Alec exclaimed.

"I know that," she lowered her voice, "but your father doesn't know that. He thinks we made up, he thinks this is our child."

Alec had never hit a girl before his life, and this had to be the first time he had almost come close. "Well I demand you go to my father and you tell him the truth! You filthy whore!"

"I can't do that Alec."

"Why the hell not?"

Raven opened her mouth to reply but noticed Bailee walking in their direction. She smiled maliciously, and cocked her head to the side, "that's why not."

Alec immediately let go of Raven and froze as Bailee had spotted them. Bailee walked up them with a confused expression plastered on her face. She glared at Raven and then at Alec.

"What is she doing here?"

Alec took Bailee's hands, "I honestly don't know Bailee."

"Of course you know Alec Malfoy." Raven stood in front of him, "I came here to inform Alec that he is the father of my baby."

"What?" Bailee questioned, looking down at Raven's stomach. She gasped placing her hands over her mouth and then turned to Alec, "is this true?"

"Of course not Bailee!" Alec shouted.

"Oh come on Alec, you know for a fact that we've tried for years to get pregnant. Well we finally succeeded." Raven stated looking at him, still smiling.

"Alec?" Bailee cried, tears stinging her eyes.

"Bailee, I-"

"I don't believe this!" Bailee spoke and suddenly apparated into thin air.

Raven nodded her head, and then began walking away, "I'll go talk to Draco now, about our arrangement." She tossed back and disappeared into the Weasley crowd.

"What arrangement?" Alec asked himself.

***

Bailee ripped off her bride's maid dress and changed into her more normal clothes. Soon she'd have to buy all new clothes to fit her and the baby. She put her dress in the closet and then opened her suitcase. She began tossing clothes in left and right without paying any real attention.

Then she helped Osiris into his cage and together they left her cottage. She walked to the centre of Hogsmeade and held out her wand. It was only seconds before a bright purple double Decker bus appeared out of nowhere. Since Bailee had been a conductor on the Knight Bus, she was quite familiar with it. The driver, Stan Shunpike smiled brightly as Bailee boarded the bus.

"Hello Bailee Potter, how are you doing this evening?" He inquired fixing his bright purple hat.

"Good, I need to get to London please." She told him as he closed the bus doors behind her.

"Twelve sickles."

Bailee paid Stan and then chose an unoccupied bed to lay on. She placed her stuff and Osiris' cage on the floor and then closed her eyes. Since she was so use the bus's erratic movements, she fell asleep without a wink.

It wasn't too long before the bus was in the centre of London. Bailee sat up and yawned stretching her arms. Then she gathered her belongings and flounced down the bus. She waved goodbye to Stan and then stepped onto the darken London road, in front of the Leaky Cauldron. Within fifteen minutes, Bailee had a room booked at the Leaky Cauldron and was once again, fast asleep. In the morning she'd go to Jamie's flat and stay there for a while.

She awoke the next morning and wrote an owl to her mum, letting her know that she was alright. Then she wandered downstairs to grab a bit of breakfast and managed to keep it down.

Alec sat in the darken corner of the Leaky Cauldron with his father, Draco Malfoy. He glared contently at his fire whiskey as his father spoke.

"If you do not take care of Raven's baby, I shall have you disowned from the Malfoy clan. Do you understand me Alec? There will be consequences for your actions." Draco spoke.

Alec looked at his father angrily, "I am not taking responsibility for that harlot's baby. I want nothing to do with her and I want nothing to do with you. I hate you. I am sick and tired of you holding money and the family name over my head. I've had enough of it. It's my life now Father and I can do with it what I wish."

Alec stood up, knocking his fire whiskey over the table. Draco leaned forward and grabbed his son's wrist tightly, "I warned you Alec."

"You can't threaten me." Alec spat back and pulled away. He marched out of the darken corner and out of the Leaky Cauldron.

Meanwhile, Bailee finished her breakfast and wandered back upstairs to her room. Her mum's owl, Lucky, was waiting for her a roll of parchment. Bailee groaned taking the parchment from Lucky and hand her a bread crumb in exchange.

She unrolled the letter and read it carefully.

Bailee Potter! Where on earth did you run off to? We were worried sick! Not to mention Alec! He left shortly after you did, in search for you. Did he ever find you? You father and I are worried because he didn't show up at the Ministry this morning.

Bailee rolled up the parchment and stared at the brown barn owl, "Alec didn't show up for work? That is very unlike him. He's probably off in Romania proposing to Raven."

She turned around and packed her suitcase up. Then she left the Leaky Cauldron and wandered the busy streets of London, towards Jamie's flat. Jamie didn't live too far from King's Cross Station. As Bailee walked by herself, she began to think. Raven looked like she had been at least five or six months pregnant. She must had been pregnant when Bailee ran into her the first time at The Three Broomsticks.

Bailee felt a slight pang of guilt in her stomach. Raven and Alec had been divorced for longer than nine months. Unless Alec had gone back to her in that time, there was no way he could be the father. He had even confessed, they only had sex one time and it ended up badly. Why would he go back and have sex with her again for fear that she'd have another miscarriage? It wouldn't make sense, Bailee told herself.

"I have to go find him." She said out loud. She wheeled around and began hiking back to The Leaky Cauldron. The only thing was, Bailee was unsure where'd she find him. She fixed her jacket and walked passed the unfamiliar muggles.

Alec violently kicked the gravel as he walked down the street, near by the Leaky Cauldron. He had never been so angry before in his life. He had just faced his father for the first time in his life. He had stood up and been a man. It should have made him proud, instead it made him pissed. He crossed his arms and huffed. How dare his father tell him, a twenty-three year old man, how to live his life.

"Alec?"

He looked up and felt instantly better, Bailee stood before him. She dropped her luggage and Osiris' empty cage and ran towards him.

"Oh Alec…"

He wrapped his arms tightly around her, "Bailee I am so sorry. I swear I'm not the father of that whor- of Raven's child. I swear it."

"I know Alec, I know, I did the math. I didn't mean to lose my cool. I should have heard you out instead of running away. I'm sorry too." Bailee replied placing her head on his gentle shoulder.

He smiled and kissed the top of her head. "Let's go home yeah?"

"Yeah."

Bailee picked up her stuff and then took her free hand and placed it in Alec's hand. She smiled as they entered the Leaky Cauldron together.

Little did they know, that Draco hadn't left the Leaky Cauldron. He watched the young couple as they both stepped into the gigantic stone fire place. Draco gritted his teeth with irritation. So this was the reason Alec refused to go back to Raven. He was still in love with that stupid twat Bailee Potter.

"I must put a stop to this!" Draco banged his fist on the checker table.