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If You're Not The One
Chapter Seventeen: I'm What?
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The days passed, and still Remus didn't feel any better. The full moon had been the night before and he was still tired and queasy. In fact things were getting worse. He had nearly slept in this morning, and when he sat down next to Sirius and caught the smell of the eggs he had piled onto his plate his stomach lurched and he had to run for the toilets. He had been so sure it was just because of the full moon, but now he wasn't so sure. And apparently neither were his friends.
"Moony you should go see Madame Pomfrey," Sirius said after classes that day when they had gathered in the library to work on their Potions essay on 'undetectable venoms'.
"Yeah Moony, you haven't been quite right lately," James said as he scratched out a sentence in his essay.
"What do you mean 'not quite right'?" Remus asked looking up from 'One Hundred Most Venomous Creatures'.
"He means you've been acting weird," Peter said trying to look at what James had written so far.
"Gee thanks for clearing that up," the werewolf said sarcastically.
"Well... you just don't seem to be yourself lately Moony. You've still been throwing up for what seems to be no reason at all..."
"I told you... my wolf sense of smell has just been more sensitive lately. Some smells are just making me nauseous," Remus said defensively.
"You're sleeping a lot more than usual," Sirius continued.
"I'm always tired around the full moon!" he protested, his anger flaring.
"You've been having a lot of mood swings," James commented.
"And not to mention how weird you acted during your transformation," Sirius piped in before Remus could protest to James' observation.
"What are you talking about?" Remus said more confused than anything. He hadn't known he acted weird during his transformation. "I didn't act weird."
"Moony... you curled up in a ball and did nothing but make weird noises as you licked your stomach. You wouldn't let any of us within ten feet of you. You nearly took my leg off when I went to sit next to you."
Taken aback by this Remus turned to look at James. Surely they were pulling his leg. Why would he act like that? Even by his own accounts of his transformations he had never done something like that.
"Its true mate," James said nodding.
"But surely I didn't..." Remus stammered turning to look at Peter who was his last hope.
Peter shook his head, and all his hopes of them playing a joke on him vanished. Sure he had been a bit moody but... And sure he had been more tired than usual but... And yes he did still get nauseous but...
"I guess I should see Madame Pomfrey," Remus stated, defeated.
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"Well Mr.Lupin that certainly isn't normal," Madame Pomfrey said when the teen had accounted his 'symptoms' for her.
"Do you know what it is?" Remus asked a little nervous about what could be wrong with him.
"Well I have a few ideas, but I'm going to have to perform some tests to rule out other things," the mediwitch said as she pulled out her wand, and summoned some bottles from her potions cabinet.
For what seemed like forever Remus was poked and prodded at, as Poppy performed a few simple spells. She took his temperature, checked to make sure his blood wasn't in need of replenishing, and various other tests for other ailments. It wasn't until she did a more thorough scan of his blood that she showed any sign of knowing what was wrong with him.
"Huh... well isn't that interesting," Madame Pomfrey said to herself.
"What's interesting?" Remus asked nervously.
"Mr.Lupin are you by any chance sexually active?" the mediwtich asked turning to her patient.
"Uh... y-yes..." he replied, a blush stretching across his cheeks.
"Do you have a male partner?" she asked ignoring the discomfort Remus was obviously showing.
Blushing deeper, Remus nodded and looked at the floor. He couldn't understand why she would need to know such a thing. He didn't get how that could be relevant. Madame Pomfrey gave him a potion to drink which he downed without comment as he was so lost in thought. It wasn't until his stomach gave a warm tingling sensation that he came out of his thoughts, and looked down to see his stomach emitting a golden glow which disappeared as fast as it had come.
"What was that?" he asked alarmed.
"That Mr.Lupin would be your body testing positive," Poppy said a small smirk coming to her normally expressionless face.
"Positive? Positive for what?"
"Positive for a pregnancy Mr.Lupin. You're pregnant."
"I'M WHAT?!?" Remus shouted, obviously shocked at the news. Whatever he had expected the results to be. It definitely wasn't that.
"You're pregnant," the mediwitch repeated.
"But-but I'm a guy... its not possible."
"Yes you are a male, but you are also a werewolf," she stated as if that explained everything.
"So...?"
"Didn't anyone tell you?" Madame Pomfrey asked slightly confused by his lack of comprehension.
"Tell me what?" he asked, anger flaring to the surface.
"Mr.Lupin calm down and I shall explain," she demanded, and didn't continue until he nodded for her to continue. "A male werewolf is capable of becoming pregnant if it has a male partner. However male pregnancies are rare in werewolves because a male werewolf is only fertile a few times a year when its sperm are capable of turning into an Ova."
"A what?" Remus asked, trying to take it all in.
"An ova... a mature egg," she explained, but when he still looked confused added, "Like a woman has."
"S-so... I'm going to have a baby?" Remus asked carefully, as if the words would sting him.
"Yes Mr.Lupin... right now you're experiencing all the same things a woman would experience during pregnancy."
"I'm going to have a baby..." Remus murmured softly to himself.
"Why don't you go think things over, and come back when you've made a decision," Madame Pomfrey suggested.
"Decision? What decision?"
"The decision of whether or not you are going to keep the child." When Remus blinked his confusion Madame Pomfrey explained further. "You do not have to have the child if you don't want to. The baby can be terminated."
"NO!" Remus exclaimed automatically. Even though the news was still sinking in he knew there would be no way he could kill this child.
"Well then you are left with two options. To keep this child or to have it and put it up for adoption."
"But-"
Before he could saying anything more Madame Pomfrey stopped him and told him to go think things over and then come back when he's decided and she'll answer his questions then. He was then ushered out of her office and he stood staring at the Hospital Wing's door. A thousand and one thoughts rushing through his mind.
He, Remus J Lupin, was pregnant. He was going to have a baby. Unconsciously his hand went to his stomach and he began to rub it in small circles. He was going to be a father. At that thought something inside him warmed. His heart gave a jolt of joy, and he knew then that he wanted to keep this baby. He knew there was a million reasons why he shouldn't. He still had so many unanswered questions, but still he knew he wanted this baby.
The only thing of importance was... would Sirius?
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TBC...
