Hey everyone, sorry this chapter took so long, we've had exams and then I've been sick for a while. I hope it's up to usual standards as I just finished it while sitting at home while everyone else is at school because I'm not feeling too good at the moment.

Written by: beachbabe12


Sam . . . Sam . . . why would he? I went out with this person for months and I didn't think he was capable of murdering someone. Sam . . . I cannot believe he would do that to me.

"Hello, it's Emma, EMMA, E-M-M-A! Sirius, this is urgent, we found Kat in her room stabbed. The doctor's say she'll survive, but someone did this to her. I don't know who. Sirius, I'm your fiancé, now do you know who is telling you that your best friend was nearly murdered? You, Lily, James, Remus and Peter need to get over here now. I love you too."

Ellie couldn't help but laugh, but she quickly stopped when she realised how grave her situation was. She was sitting next to her best friend, who was lying on her stomach, showing the open wound on her back. It had been so excruciating to see Kat in pain, they had to peel off her shirt because there was so much blood that had started to dry already. Ellie was going to be sick it was that disgusting and horrible to go over in her mind.

"Can you have a miscarriage from sadness?" Emma asked Ellie.

"Surely you would know, you've read every book on pregnancy and children to actually be one your self," Ellie answered in a monotone voice.

"No, I think my baby is like, feeling the stress I have, it's really hurting me," she said quietly to herself, moving around in her chair. Ellie didn't hear her comment as Lily and Sirius had walked in the room.

"Where are James and Peter?"

"Downstairs chatting with Katherine's doctor, they want to know everything so they can try figure out who did it before Katherine can tell them."

"How is she?" Sirius asked.

"She's heavily sedated so the pain isn't getting to her at the moment. They said she'll be home not tomorrow, but the next day and she'll just have to stay in bed and take medicine every few hours to heal the wound quickly," Emma answered, taking his hand. "I decided I'm going to be her nurse and help her all the time. I even thought she should have a little bell thing so she can contact me when I'm somewhere else in the house."

"Good idea," Lily said, staring at Kat.

After a few minutes silence, a shriek came from Sirius, "bloody hell woman!"

"What?" Lily and Ellie said at the same time.

"She squeezed my hand so hard I think it thinned out."

Emma blushed and held her stomach. She tried to grab onto Sirius' shoulder, but it was too late, she had fallen back onto the ground and been knocked out.

James walked in and saw her on the floor, "great, just what we need."

Ellie and Lily looked at each other and picked Emma up, her eyes still closed. "SHE'S HAVING HER BABY!"

Sirius laughed, "no, she's not, she told me tomorrow was her due date."

James pointed at Sirius, "even I'm smarter than him. Sirius, she could have her baby today because the baby doesn't come on an exact date, it just comes whenever it wants to."

"Oh crap."


A nurse had been called and Emma had taken her medication for the hour. Everyone decided they were going to take turns going to different rooms. Sirius, James and Lily one time while Ellie, Remus and Peter were staying with Kat.

"What about Kat, will I get to see her soon?" Emma asked her midwife.

She smiled kindly and left the room.

"Um, hello!" Emma shouted. "You didn't give me an answer! Can I walk over there now? I was having contractions before and I was fine!" she kept yelling.

Sirius, who had been sitting next to her, had blocked his ear drums incase they had burst. "You were fine," Sirius comforted, "until you passed out and fell onto the floor."

"That was a one time thing; I am . . . ohh . . . mmmmm . . . owwww . . . . Sirius you idiot make it stop!" Emma shouted.

Sirius jumped up from his chair and ran around the room, trying to look for something quickly.

"What the hell are you doing?" James asked. "You are an idiot."

"Ok, ok, everyone can breathe again, it was only a minor contraction," Emma said, shutting James and Sirius up.

"I can't wait for the next one," James muttered silently.


In Kat's ward, Peter, Remus and Ellie were sitting in silence, staring at either the wall, each other or occasionally, Kat's wound.

It had been twenty minutes when Katherine started to move. Ellie had seen it first, but she thought it was just her imagination.

"She's moving," Ellie tapped Remus on the shoulder lightly. "Go get a nurse or doctor, go get something!"

Remus ran out of the room and Ellie could hear his footsteps fade away as Kat tried to move her head again.

Ellie decided to speak to her softly, tell her what was wrong and where she was, her main priority at the moment was to keep her calm and relaxed.

"Kat, its Ellie. You're in hospital after having a little accident and you have hurt your back."

Kat mumbled something but Ellie couldn't understand. Her hair changed colour out of frustration and difficulty.

"I can't hear you," she said in a hushed tone.

Kat shook her head slowly and Ellie swore she said don't worry.

Remus came back with a doctor and he began examining her. He muttered a few things and touched her wound gently.

"Does she have any family?" the doctor asked.

"Not here," Remus said, "but we're probably closer to her than her family are."

"Alrighty then. I'll just tell you first off that there is no bad news, her wound is healing quickly and if you just give her some medication every hour when she's at home – do you live with her?"

"Yes, we all do," Remus answered again.

"Ok, so can someone always be with her at home then?" he wanted to know.

"Yup, someone will always be home," Remus smiled.

"Ok then, well, she'll be in here until tomorrow morning, so if you want to stay – you sure can, but she'll have to be picked by ten in the morning – okay?"

"Yes, we'll be here at that time."


Emma had been checked up on by three midwives by the time the news got to them.

"Kat has woken up and the doctor said she'll be out by ten in the morning tomorrow," Peter said, trying to catch his breath.

"The midwife said our baby is going to be born today!" Sirius said. He was sitting in a chair next to Emma who was reading a book.

"So, should we swap now?" Peter asked, looking assertively around the room.

So the group switched, Emma complained about not getting to see Kat and Katherine complained about not being able to turn around.


By ten in the morning the next day, Katherine was ready to go home. She had been up for several hours, chatting away to Lily and Ellie. Her wheelchair was beside her bed and Ellie had packed her things up for her and got the medication for her to take hourly. But Katherine was determined not to go home yet, as Emma was still to have her baby.

"You take me home and I will scream so loud that you won't even hear it."

Remus raised his eyebrow, "what?"

"You know, I'll scream so loud you'll go deaf."

"You don't have to go home, but you'll want to after I tell you that Emma isn't expected to have her baby for another eight hours."

"I want to go home."

So Remus had lied to get Kat to go home, he didn't care. He wanted her safe and sound in bed and when Emma was going to have her baby, Sirius would call.

Ellie was outside playing some Quidditch practice by herself and Emma couldn't be here to be Kat's nurse at the moment, so Remus propped her pillow and made her cups of tea, walked down to the shops to get her a magazine and chocolate bar and stole Emma's Ipod for Kat to listen to.

Sirius was at the house talking to Kat to see how she was. Emma had written her a letter asking how she was and if she wanted anything, Sirius would go and get it for her.

"I'm like her messenger," Sirius told her.

"Well done, it's a very important position," Kat said finishing reading her letter.

"I thought I would get her some roses from the shop down the road," he said. "Do you want to come in your wheelchair and you can come to the hospital if you want. It's due in a couple of hours so I thought we would do that and go."

"Sure thing, just tell Remus for me."


When Sirius, Remus and Kat got to the hospital Emma was just getting wheeled out of the room to go have her baby. The only person allowed to go into the room with her was Sirius.

So the others sat waiting and talking quietly amongst themselves about trivial things that had no importance whatsoever.

"Are you all friends of Emma?" a nurse asked after what seemed only a few minutes.

"Has she had her baby?" Katherine asked excitedly.

"She sure has," the nurse replied, smiling. "I'll take you to her room."

The group turned the corner into room 690 apprehensively. When they did they saw a crying mother and son with a grinning father.

One by one the group took turns holding the baby, the new pride and joy of Emma and Sirius. Lily couldn't help but cry when she saw Emma and her baby. How she hoped everything would end up the same for her and James.

"Have you decided on a name yet?" Ellie asked while holding him, bouncing him up and down.

Sirius looked at Emma and calmly took the baby off Ellie.

"We can't decide!" moaned Emma who was so annoyed. "I've had eight months to decide and I can't make up my mind!"

"Don't worry," said Lily soothingly, "when you do decide a name, it will be the most perfect name anyone has decided for their baby."