A/N: OMGIOD OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD!! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! AREN'T YOU ALL SCREAMING FOR JOY LIKE I AM!? AREN'T YOU AS EXCITED AS I AM!? Well, just keep reading out find out what else happens………..
Disclaimer: See previous chapters…
MEMORIESCHAPTER 29: Three Wives…Two Babies…One Family in Danger
Written by ByeByeBirdie
Both Sirius and gasped and Sirius sat in shock for a few minutes before finally realizing what James had just said. "Oh, My God!! I have to go now. Oh, God. Oh, wow. Oh, man. Okay…umm…Is Savannah okay? Where is she? How's she doing? How long ago did it happen? How long has she been at the hospital?? Why is the baby coming two weeks in advance? And why am I still here!?!?!?" Sirius cried, jumping out of his seat.
James laughed and grabbed him. "Come on, let's just hurry and I'll explain everything on the way there!"
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"Damnit, where is he?" Savannah groaned.
"He's going to be here soon, Savannah," Lily said, holding on to her hand.
"Oh, no," Savannah cried. "Another contraction," she breathed heavily.
"Calm down, Savannah. Breathe in, breathe out," Lily advised. "Hey, you know, this is going to help me for when my baby comes."
"Aghhhh," she cried, as she gave her a murderous look
"Right, right. Not important," Lily said as Savannah squeezed her hand tightly.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow," Savannah said.
"You're going to be fine, honey," Lily whispered.
"I was so not ready for this today!! I was just supposed to baby-sit today!! And now those kids had to see my damn water break and had to see me screaming for over two hours!!!! God was not supposed to have me giving birth in his handbook for today!!"
Lily couldn't help but chuckle.
"AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHH!" Savannah cried, as another bigger contraction came. She was getting ready to scream again when suddenly her doctor opened the door and came to look at her charts.
"Um, excuse me?" Savannah asked crossly.
"Yeah?" the doctor sad, nodding.
"As much fun as sitting here on this bed for an hour has been, I'm about to kill someone right about now. When will this damn baby come out!?!" Savannah screeched.
"Actually, you're ready for delivery now and it doesn't seem like the baby will wait, so we're going to wheel you down to the delivery room now and we should probably hurry," the doctor said looking at Savannah and giving her a smile. "You're about to become a mother."
Savannah sucked in her breath as another contraction came. "Ouch! Ooh, ooh, ooh," Savannah cried, squeezing Lily's hand.
"Wait, wait, wait," Lily said, as her hand was probably about to fall off.
"What?" Savannah asked, alarmed.
"What about Sirius?"
Savannah gasped and turned back to the doctor. "Wait, no, I can't do this without my husband."
"I'm sorry, but this baby doesn't seem to want to listen."
Savannah suddenly broke down into sobs as another contraction came just as the doctor and her assistant started wheeling her down. "Damn him, damn him!! I'm going to kill Sirius! Why doesn't he ever tell me where's he going to be!?!?!"
"Shhh, Savannah. It's going to be alright."
"Oooh, ooh, ooh! Ow, ow, ow," Savannah screamed. "How the hell is it going to be alright!?!?! My damn husband isn't here, Lily, and he's the one that got me into this in the first place!"
Lily tried to say something that would make her feel better, but she had nothing off the top of her head, so she just patted Savannah on the back.
"No, no. This is all wrong!" Savannah moaned.
"It's the exact opposite. You're about to have a baby. That seems pretty right to me."
"Yeah, but-"
"SAVANNAH!!" a voice screamed from down the hallway.
Savannah and Lily both looked up to see Sirius literally tearing through the hallways and running directly towards them.
"Sirius," Savannah whispered, about to cry, grabbing his hand.
"Oh, Vannie, I'm so sorry I got here so late," Sirius whispered into her ear, after kissing her on her sweaty cheek.
"As long as you're here, Si-Si…as long as you're here," she mumbled as a tear rolled down her cheek. She kissed his hand hard and held it tighter.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing…nothing at all," Savannah answered. "It's just…well…we're about to have a baby, Si."
Sirius smiled and bent down to give her a kiss. "I know."
They wheeled her through gray double doors with Sirius right beside her.
Lily stood there watching the doors swing back and forth thinking about how much Sirius' and Savannah's dream was about to come true.
"Hey, sweetheart," James muttered from behind her, kissing her on her forehead.
"Why'd it take so long??" Lily demanded to know in frustration, hitting him on the arm.
"Okay, ow," James teased.
Lily winced. "Sorry."
"I'm sorry, Babe. I couldn't find them anywhere," James answered with a sympathetic smile.
"It's a good thing you finally did. Sirius made it right in time."
"I know. Thank goodness. I don't think Savannah would've wanted to do it on her own."
"I know," Lily said, smiling secretly to herself. "I can't believe they've waited this long without knowing the sex of the baby," she murmured.
"I probably would have to kill myself if I didn't know. Or maybe the suspense would kill me instead," James joked.
Lily laughed and started thinking about Sirius and Savannah and their baby, and couldn't help smiling again. "God, I'm so happy for them."
"Oh, I know. Here they are, finally, having a baby. A baby that they both wanted to have together for as long as I could remember."
"It just seems so…"
"Perfect," they answered in unison.
They exchanged looks and smiled at each other. "And in a few weeks…that will be us," James said with a smile towards Lily as he bent down to give her a kiss.
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"Knock, knock, knock," Lily said, peeking her head into Savannah's hospital room, along with Kaitlynne, Remus, James, Peter, Josh, Jenna, Cole, and Elizabeth.
"Oh, hi guys. Come on in," Savannah said from her bed with the baby in her arms.
"Mommy!" Elizabeth cried, running across the small room and crawling on to her bed.
"Hey, honey," Savannah whispered.
"What's dat?" she asked, and everyone laughed.
"This is your new baby…" Savannah looked up into everyone's eyes and finished the sentence, "…Sister," Savannah said, with a glistening around her eyes.
"It's a girl!?" Lily shrieked.
Elizabeth looked at the sleeping girl in Savannah's arms. "Sistuh?"
They all laughed again and Savannah gave Elizabeth a comforting hug as Sirius kissed Elizabeth on the forehead.
"Awww," Lily and James cooed.
"It's like one big happy family," Kaitlynne said weakly with heart-warming smile.
"It is one big happy family," Remus corrected, drawing Kaitlynne closer to him.
"What's her name?" Josh asked.
Savannah and Sirius shrugged their shoulders. "We're indecisive," Sirius replied.
"What? I thought you had two girls' named picked out already," Peter pointed out.
"We did. But now we're still trying to choose between the two," Savannah said with a laugh, still holding onto her baby girl, with splotchy cheeks from tears.
"What two?" Kaitlynne asked.
"Isabelle and Zoe," Sirius responded.
"Oh, those are such cute names!" Lily squealed.
"I know, but that's the problem," Savannah whined, and they all laughed. "Okay, I love both names. So, you get to choose, Sirius."
"What? I can barely choose between what color socks I'm going to wear in the morning, and that's only for the day! How am I supposed to choose what to name our baby, who will be ours for the rest of our lives??"
They all laughed.
Savannah looked down at her daughter and couldn't help but get all teary-eyed. As she looked into the baby's bright blue eyes, she suddenly remembered the first time they met, the first time they went out, the second time they went out, the third time they went out, etc. Then she remembered Christmas Day, the day she showed up at Sirius' house and the day he proposed to her. And then their wedding…and then the rest of the year as a married couple. Everything seemed to perfect…and it suddenly hit her.
"Wait, Sirius," Savannah said, interrupting what he was saying to the rest of the group about the baby girl.
"What, honey?" Sirius asked, full of concern.
"What about…Leigh?" she said breathlessly.
Sirius stared into Savannah's eyes for a few seconds before slowly grinning very widely. He couldn't help but notice the tears in his eyelids. "You remembered," he mumbled.
"Of course I did," Savannah replied, giving Sirius a kiss on the cheek.
"Then Leigh it is," Sirius responded, smiling even wider, if possible.
"Isn't that Elizabeth's middle name?" Lily wondered. Savannah slightly jumped, forgetting that they were all there.
"Whuh bout me?" Elizabeth babbled, which made everyone laugh again.
"Yeah…Sirius gave her the middle name," Savannah explained.
They all gave her blank stares.
"I know, I know. You're all thinking he wasn't there, but it's kind of a long story, and right now all I care about is little Leigh," Savannah said with a smile.
"She's so adorable," Lily cooed.
"It's obvious where she gets it from," Sirius said, winking at Savannah.
"Yeah, after a long, hard, annoying state of labor," Savannah muttered. They all laughed as Savannah continued. "In fact, I give up. I'm never doing that again," she teased.
"A-hem. I can't help notice that our family is a little unproportional," Sirius joked.
"What's unproportional about it? Four girls doesn't seem enough?" Lily teased Sirius.
Sirius threw a pillow at her.
"I'm just kidding!" Lily cried with a laugh.
"Sure, sure. Is it Gang Up on Sirius Day and nobody told me?" Sirius said, feigning hurt.
"No, it's Gang Up on Sirius Century," James responded, and they all laughed.
"Now, I hafta ask: how is getting a newborn daughter ganging up on you, Si?" Remus asked Sirius.
"I obviously deserved a reward for taking all the pressure," Sirius replied.
"Oh, and I wasn't enough?" Savannah said with a laugh.
"No…you were more than enough," Sirius whispered, kissing her on the lips before taking Leigh in his arms.
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Two weeks later, on July 30, they were all back at the hospital, even Savannah who had just got released a week and four days earlier with Leigh, to be there for the arrival of James' and Lily's little boy. Unfortunately, their baby took much longer to be delivered than Savannah and Sirius. All of their friends, plus Elizabeth, Cole, Jenna, and Leigh have already been waiting for over thirty-five hours, since the afternoon of July 28.
"James, just kill me now and get this over with," Lily whined.
"Honey, if I kill you then you won't live to see your baby boy."
"Why do you have to be so goddamned reasonable?" Lily teased before tensing up to a contraction. "Damnit!" she cried, holding her back and seething in pain.
"It's going to be okay. You're going to do a wonderful job and sooner or later you'll be a mother."
"I hope it's sooner rather than later," Lily cried. "I haven't gotten any sleep in over a day and I'm tired of it!! I want this damn baby out of me, James!"
"Shhh, it's okay. You're-"
"No, it's not, okay, James!! I am in a damn hospital with a damn baby inside who's just waiting for the moment just to piss me off and all of my damn friends are in the waiting room, and they haven't left, even after I tell them a million times I'd call them when this baby was ready to come out!"
James kissed her on her sweaty forehead. "Honey, they love you so much they'd wait a whole century without sleeping if they had to. And I love you, and that's all that matters, sweetheart."
"Oh, what do you know. You're not the one pregnant," Lily mumbled.
"That's a good thing or else you'd be married to a transvestite."
Lily had to laugh. "I know, it's just that Savannah and Sirius have been having a tough time taking care of Leigh and Elizabeth and Kaitlynne's fever is getting worse and she shouldn't be up and around and Allie and Josh have been taking so much time off work and Peter…well, he's just been everywhere that past two weeks, and they should be at home sleeping!"
James couldn't help but grin at his worried wife. "Honey, they just want to be here for you."
Lily pouted. "Damnit, why do I have such good friends?"
James laughed as a head peeked into the room.
"Can I come in?" Sirius asked.
"Sure, come on in," Lily said.
Sirius walked in with a huge smile plastered on his face. "Oh, guys, I'm so proud of you. This is so exciting!"
"What is? The fact that's I've been sitting here for over thirty hours or the fact that this damn baby is still in my goddamned stomach!"
Sirius laughed. "Both are exciting actually."
Lily threw a pillow at him.
"You know, you guys haven't slept at all either, Si. In fact, for the past two weeks, you haven't slept much at all. Why don't you all just go home and we'll just call you later or something?" James suggested.
"No way am I leaving you two alone in the hospital at one o'clock in the morning waiting until the last possible second before this baby comes out."
"Oh, thanks, Si. So reassuring," Lily said sarcastically.
"No problem, anytime," he teased.
"I just want him out of me! Why is he trying to torture me!? Why is he doing this? Was I not a good enough home for the past nine months!?" Lily yelled at her stomach.
"Lily, step away from the stomach," James teased.
"I wish I could!!" Lily exclaimed and they all laughed.
"Sirius, now that I think about it, James and I had a proposition to make," Lily said after silence.
"Okay, shoot."
"Well…we were just wondering if you wanted to be godfather of our son," James said with a grin.
Sirius gasped and stood there gaping at him in silence for a few seconds. "Are you serious!?!"
"Yeah, and yes I'm completely sane even with a baby who is very unwilling to come out hiding inside of me somewhere," Lily responded with a slight smile.
"Wow…I mean…wow."
"Is that a yes?" James asked.
"Of course it's a yes. I would absolutely love to. This…this is amazing. Thank you guys so much," Sirius said with a trembling smile on his face. "This means so much to me. You have no idea."
"We knew you'd be perfect for the job," Lily said, as Sirius bent down to give her a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks so much," he whispered. "Now I can teach him everything he'll need to know in life. Like, the greatest pick-up lines, the best places to meet girls, what not to do on a date to be slapped by a girl, how to get beer under-age-"
Lily turned to James and interrupted Sirius' train of thought by saying, "And you thought he'd be teaching our son how to have sex, James. He is obviously so much better than that."
"Yes, but I got the part where he was focused on girls pretty much right," James joked, and they all laughed jovially.
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"It's just so…so perfect," Lily mumbled, rocking her son in her arms as the tears silently rolled down her cheek with happiness.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked, being the only one in the room at the moment since James had gone off to the gift shop to 'get a surprise' and everyone else had finally left. It's already been an hour and half after Harry was born (at 6:32 a.m.) and Savannah had to put Elizabeth and Leigh down to bed since they were all tired and Allie and Josh had to put Cole and Jenna down to bed and Kaitlynne was nine months pregnant, tired, cranky, and could barely walk so she and Remus had left earlier.
"Nothing. Everything seems so perfect, Sirius," Lily said, kissing the top of Harry's head.
"It is perfect," Sirius replied.
"I know. I'm just so goddamn happy," Lily whined.
"Is that a bad thing?" he teased.
"No, it's a good thing. But I'm afraid that this happiness will die down soon," Lily confessed.
"It won't. Take it from Savannah and me. Leigh has been with us for only two weeks and we can't be happier. Even though Leigh is trouble and she wakes me up in the middle of the night wailing her little head off and you can't keep your eye off of her for one second or else she causes trouble-"
"Was there a point to this story?" Lily joked.
Sirius chuckled and continued, "She's just too adorable…and she's ours. That's what matters."
Lily nodded and looked up at Sirius. "You're so right."
"I know I am," Sirius teased.
"Knock, knock," a familiar voice said at the door, peeking into her room.
Sirius and Lily both turned, thinking it would be James, but instead it was someone else, taking them both by surprise.
"Professor Dumbledore!" Sirius gasped, obviously pleased.
"What are you doing here?" Lily wondered.
"Well, I heard about young little Harry here and I came to say congratulations," he said wisely.
Both Lily and Sirius looked at each other in confusion. "But he's only been born for about an hour and a half," Lily protested.
"Word gets around fast," he said with a shrug as he turned to Sirius. "And I heard congratulations are in order for you, as well."
Sirius beamed. "Yep."
"And I hear Mrs. Kaitlynne Lupin-Young is still awaiting?"
Both Sirius and Lily nodded. "All in good time," Lily replied with a smile.
"Yes, Mrs. Potter. Very true."
Lily was surely surprised to be hearing her last name as Potter, not Evans. No one has actually called her that yet, but she couldn't help but notice how good it sounded.
"Actually, I came here to talk to both you and James, if all possible."
"Oh, sure, that's fine. James should-"
"What about me?" a voice said from the doorway, caring a bouquet of white roses and balloons. "Oh, Professor Dumbledore! How are you these days?"
"Why, hello Mister Potter. I've been great; thanks for asking."
"What brings you here today?" James asked, putting down the gifts on the table nearby.
"Just to congratulate both you and Mrs. Potter on your new-born baby and I have something important I must discuss with you two…privately," he added, eyeing Sirius.
Sirius looked up. "Right, right," Sirius said, sitting down in a nearby chair. "Okay, go ahead."
They all laughed, including Sirius. He stood up walking towards the door. "Nah, I'm just kidding. Actually, I've got to be heading home anyway. I'm sure Savannah needs my help. I'll come back later, guys," Sirius said, turning to James and Lily. "Congratulations again."
Sirius left the room and Dumbledore turned to them. "I'm not sure if this is going to come to you as a surprise or if you've been hearing rumors lately, but Lord Voldemort has been on your case for the past ten months, ever since you two had gotten married."
A/N: Uh-oh. (that's all I hafta say besides REVIEW!)
