Chapter 10

Blinking, Sirius was greeted by a harsh light. He groaned and sat up, looking around him. James was sitting in a chair, dozing slightly. On the bedside table there were get well soon cards and candy. Where it had come from, Sirius had no idea. Sirius also looked down at his stomach. It was not concealed and was still really round, which implied that nothing had happened to the baby.

Next to him, James began to stir. He woke up and his gaze immediately went to Sirius. The past few days had been very hard for him. He had been excused from all of his classes because Professor McGonagall seemed to realize that he would be no good in any of his classes. However, sitting next to Sirius was near torture to him. He couldn't even see him without feeling incredibly guilty. He was afraid that each breath would be his last, that suddenly his pulse would stop and the gentle rhythm of his chest rising and falling would end.

Now however, he could clearly see that he was alive and well. Or, at least as well as he could be. "I'm so sorry, Siri," he whispered, reaching forward and pushing some of his raven black hair out of his eyes. It took all of his will power to not jump up and wrap him in a tight hug.

Sirius shook his head slightly and tears filled his eyes. "Don't be. I'm to blame, all me. I should have told you about…" he didn't finish his sentence, just gestured to his stomach.

"I don't know why you didn't. Remus said it was because you were afraid I'd leave you." When Sirius didn't say anything, James grabbed his friend's hand and clung to it tightly. "I would never leave you. Even if you had not had a legitimate reason for telling Snape about Remus, I would end up forgiving you and loving you just as much as I had before."

Sirius nodded and looked away from his friend. "I'm sorry. I really regret not telling you. If I had, a lot of things could have been avoided."

James gave a half smile and nodded. "It's not your fault. Don't even begin to think of it as your fault."

Sirius smiled and James crawled on the bed to give his boyfriend a hug, one that Sirius gratefully leaned into and cherished.

A few days later, although she didn't want to, Madame Pomfery let Sirius go back to his dormitory. However, she made him promise to take it easy and not to do anything strenuous since she wasn't sure how his recent health issues had affected the baby. So Sirius was limited to class and going to get food. And even then Madame Pomfery said that if he could get someone to get him food, to do that.

After he had come out of the hospital wing he had decided that, considering James knew, he shouldn't use a concealing charm. Which brought quite a surprise to Peter, but considering he was always off with his girlfriend, it didn't really matter.

A few days after he had been released from the hospital, Sirius was sitting on his bed, trying to concentrate on his homework. That was not as easy as it might sound, though. The baby seemed to be dancing around, which was highly distracting and painful to the teenage boy.

Sirius was drawing nearer to when the baby would be born. It was now his sixth month and he was getting slightly anxious as to what to expect. He wasn't sure how the baby would be born, what to do during the birth, and after that he wasn't sure of what to do with his baby. Obviously he couldn't breast feed and he didn't have money to go out and buy things for the baby. Hopefully Madame Pomfery would be able to help him out.

"Hey, sweetie," James said as he entered the room. He smiled when he saw Sirius attempt a smile and then wince as the baby kicked again. "You know, your stomach is really big. Are you sure that you're only having one baby?"

Sirius shook his head slightly. "No, Madame Pomfery really isn't sure."

"Even though she knows every single spell there could possibly be to discover it," stated James, looking at his friend closely.

Sirius shrugged. Madame Pomfery really hadn't told him anything, but he had a suspicion that she did know and just didn't want him to panic. Either way, he didn't really care. All he was focusing on at that momentwas the kicking in his stomach. It was really starting to hurt.

"Do you want to take a pain relief potion?" asked James as he noticed his friend's pained expression. He could only imagine what it felt like to have someone kicking you from the inside of your stomach.

Sirius nodded and went back to reading, or at least trying to read, his textbook. He had missed quite a bit of classes recently and actually had to read something to understand it. It was really rather annoying, considering he never had to study.

After what seemed like forever, James came back with a pain relief potion and handed it to him. Sirius took a deep breath and gulped it down. He hated the taste and only took it if he was really hurting.

James sat down next to him and wrapped his arms around his shoulders. Sirius leaned his head on James's shoulder and sighed happily. It was hard to believe that just a few days ago he had thought that he had lost the most important thing in his life.

"How are you managing this?" asked James randomly, awe shining through his voice. "How do you go to your classes while you're pregnant? How do you get up each morning after what those bastards did to you? How did I get so lucky as to get someone as amazing as you?"

Sirius smiled slightly and closed his eyes, simply enjoying the feeling of being in James's arms. "I don't know what you're talking about. I'm the lucky one," he muttered, quickly become drowsy.

James smiled slightly and rubbed his boyfriend's shoulder in a comforting way. Before he knew it, Sirius was fast asleepon his shoulder, with his textbook still open on his lap. James smiled and closed the book. Gently kissing Sirius on his forehead, James whispered, "Oh the things we go through."

A.N. that was really fluffy. Anyways, please review and thank you to all of you who read this, even if you don't review, or like it. THANKS A BUNCH!!!