A/N: I haven't written a chapter or story in ages, so I hope this meets the standard. Please review.

Chapter written by Pinocchio

Chapter three.


"No name yet?" Ellie asked, as Emma cradled the tiny baby, he had fine wisps of black hair (obviously a Sirius trait) and blue eyes (an Emma gene), she was standing in Emma's room with Kat, Lily and Sirius, while James had been sent out looking for last minute presents. Kat had apparated herself to the hospital when Remus wasn't looking, so he was bound to show up some time soon, to make her go home again.

"No, not yet." Emma said,

"I thought you had named it Baby Boy Black?" Kat said,

"No, that's the name on the arm tag, because we haven't chosen a name." Emma said,

"Oh, I thought it was really original, his nickname could have been triple B." Kat said,

"Oh that's a cool name!" Sirius said, with a look of delight,

"Don't even consider it." Emma warned, as she moved the baby so they were both more comfortable, he slept soundly in her arms, the nurses had tried to take him from her but she stubbornly refused.

"What about Sirius?" Sirius asked,

"I don't think so."

"You don't like the name Sirius?"

"No, it's a great name. I just don't like the idea of naming a baby after his parent." Emma said, "What about the name Harry?"

"No, Emma I bagged that name in fifth year!" Lily said,

"Oh yeah, I don't think Harry would suit my little boy anyway. Uh, Geoffrey?

"No." Sirius said, "Rocky"

"No chance Sirius."

"What about Ellio?" Ellie asked,

"Uh, no." Emma and Sirius said in unison,

"Why not? It's the masculine form of Ellie, which by the way is an awesome name!" she said,

"Jet?" Sirius asked, ignoring Ellie's last comment,

"Does it look like I just pushed out a plane Sirius?" Emma said in frustration, and then said, more calmly "Marty?"

"He's not a teddy!"

"Bob?" Emma suggested,

"Nup, Bob the knob!" Sirius said,

"Dani?" Kat asked,

"Kat, in case you didn't realise, our child is a boy!" Sirius said sarcastically,

"Jonah?" Emma asked,

"Jonah? Hi, I'm Jonah, I live in a teepee and the trees are my friends!" Sirius put on a dazed face and flitted around the room,

"Why don't you just get one of the baby name books?" Ellie said,

"Looked at about a thousand of them already." Emma said,

"And you didn't find anything?" Kat asked,

"Nope." Sirius answered.

"Right, you two can figured this out on your own." Ellie said, "I'm going to find the boys. You coming Kat?"

"You bet."

"Lily?"

"Yep!"


Ellie, Lily and Kat hurried out the door and down the corridor to the elevator. They stood outside the window near the baby room, and looked in at all the little babies.

"They're all so tiny." Ellie said, her hair flickering from pale blue, to pale pink and back again,

"I want one!" Kat said,

"Oh so do I!" Lily said,

"Yeah, well you're two steps closer to it than I am!" Kat said,

"What do you mean?"

"You have a boyfriend and that relationship is actually going somewhere!"

"You think?"

"What did you only just figure it out?" Ellie asked,

"No, I meant do you actually think that our relationship has a future?" Lily said,

"Are you serious? You didn't know that?" Kat said,

"I never actually thought about it."

"Oh my god Lily… that is so weird, we all thought you and James were like majorly serious." Ellie said,

"We're serious, just not sure how serious."


There was a high-pitched scream come from Emma's room as the baby started crying, the girls walked quickly back into her room, they saw the baby red-faced and crying, and Emma doing the same. Lily didn't come, as she had gone to talk to James.

"I can't get him to stop crying!" she sobbed, "What's wrong with me?"

"Oh, there's nothing wrong with you Em!" Ellie said, "All babies cry, it's just the way they let you know what's going on. Here." She took the small crying baby from Emma's arms and rocking him back and forth.

"There we go, nice and calm." She said, the baby calmed down and stopped crying,

"Okay, wow, how did you do that?" Emma asked,

"I don't know; I used to take care of babies at the orphanage, seeing as the nuns weren't really caring towards them."

"You need to help me!" Emma gasped happily, as Ellie handed the baby back to her,

"Any names yet?"

"No, Sirius keeps suggesting stupid names like Port and Dilbag and stuff like that."

"Isn't Port a muggle type of alcohol?"

"I dunno, probably."

At that moment, Sirius burst through the door, with a look of sheer joy on his face,

"I've got it! Gregory!"

"Sirius!" Emma shouted, "Do you hate our son?"

"Sorry." He said, as the baby started crying again,

"Just support his head and rock him back and forth." She said, heading for the door, "I need some coffee."


Lily found James in the gift shop looking at a teddy bear and a baby romper.

"Lily! Oh thank god, I have no clue what to get the baby! I'm no good at this stuff!" He said desperately, "Should I get this teddy bear with the blue bow, or this romper thing."

"James, that romper has 'my grandpa loves me' written on it!" Lily said,

"So?"

"Sirius doesn't even talk to his dad."

"Oh, yeah. So I guess we're going with the bear then?"

Lily nodded, "James, where is this going?"

"To Emma and the baby." James said as he handed the cashier some money.

"No, I mean do we have a future?"

"Everyone has a future Lily."

"Stop trying to avoid the question, do we as a couple have a future?"

"I don't know, probably." James said casually, with a shrug.

"Well, I can't leave it at probably. So tell me when you come up with a proper answer." She said, walking out of the gift shop.


Katherine sat in the waiting room alone; her back was sore, and she was really bored of being at the hospital, and she couldn't figure out why Remus hadn't showed up yet. She turned the page in the magazine she was trying to read, but she was too distracted to actually pay attention.

"Mrs. Sutherland? " a voice asked, "You can see your husband now." Katherine looked up to see a nurse looking at her, a male nurse. He had dark brown hair and blue eyes and was about six foot three.

"Oh, I'm not Mrs. Sutherland, and I'm not married, sorry." She said,

"Oh, sorry … err?" he paused, gesturing for her to say her name,

"Um… Ka-ren," she stuttered timidly, "I mean Katherine."

"Right, sorry Katherine, I'm Cameron." He said, "Well, I gotta find Mrs. Sutherland, but it was nice meeting you."

"Yeah, you too." She said, as he turned and walked away, as soon as he was gone she banged herself on the head with the magazine, "Karen? What the hell is wrong with me?" she said to herself and hit herself again,

"Er, Katherine?" Cameron said, coming back again, she looked up to him,

"Yes?"

"Do you wanna go out with me some time?" he said nervously,

"Uh yeah, okay!" she replied, ripping off a piece of her magazine, "Do you have a pen?"

"Yeah." He handed her his pen and she wrote down her number then handed it to him, "Thanks, I gotta get back to work now, but I'll call you."

"Look forward to it!" she smiled as he once again walked away, "Ow!" she rubbed her head in the place she had hit.

"Katherine!" Remus shouted, stomping towards her, "I get back to your room with you soup and you had…"

"I thought I asked for toast." She mumbled,

"That's not the point, I thought Sam had come back!"

"Well, I'm fine. Better than fine, I just gave my number to a very cute nurse, now can I get back to my magazine?"

"See what happens when I turn my back for five seconds, you disappear then decide to bat for the other team?"

"A male nurse Remus." She said firmly,

"I know, but that was pretty fun, I like working you up." He said, "I'm going to go and find Ellie now, bye."

"Seeya."


Remus gently closed the door to Emma's room and saw Ellie sitting with the baby in her arms, Sirius was sitting next to her, just looking at the baby. The toilet flushed and Emma walked out of the bathroom,

"He doesn't look like a Charles does he?" Sirius said,

"Nah, too formal." Ellie said, "Hey Remus!"

She gave Emma the baby and jumped up to give him a hug as Emma took her seat."

"I've got it! Orion!" Sirius shouted,

"Sirius, shh he's sleeping." Emma said,

"Emma, Sirius doesn't come with volume control." Remus laughed, as he put his arm around Ellie,

"Orion! Pleas Emma, it's my middle name!" Sirius whined,

"He doesn't look like an Orion either."

"What about his middle name?"

"Fine, you can have Orion for that."

"Yes!"

"But that doesn't help with his first name."

"Uh, we're gonna leave you two to figure this out, hopefully you'll have it done by Christmas." Ellie said, taking Remus by the hand and walking out the door.


Lily sat down next to Katherine, "What's up?" she asked,

"Nothing much." Katherine replied blankly, not looking up from her magazine.

"What ya reading?"

"A magazine."

"Do you wanna go grab a coffee?"

"Just had one."

"Wanna get a cookie?"

"Okay, what's up Lily?" Kat asked, closing her magazine,

"What do you mean?"

"Well, every time something happens, you get skittish and very interested in what's happening with the rest of us. So what happened?"

"Well, I asked James if he thought we had a future, and he said, 'I don't know, probably.'"

"Oh my god," Katherine gasped,

"What?" Ellie said, walking up to them and sitting down,

"Where's Remus?" Katherine asked,

"Getting coffee. What's going on?"

"I asked James if he thought we had a future, and he said probably." Lily said,

Ellie laughed, "You don't ask a guy if he thinks you have a future, that's just like asking him to jump off a bridge, it freaks them out."

"No, James isn't like that." Lily said,

"All men are like that." Ellie said,

"No, they're not." Katherine protested, as Remus handed Ellie a coffee,

"Hey Remus," Ellie said, "Does it freak guys out when girls ask if they have a future together?"

"Yep, nothing scares them more." He said, sipping his coffee, "By the way guys, Emma and Sirius have chosen a name."


The door opened, Sirius looked up, Katherine, Ellie, Remus, Lily and James had walked in.

"So you have a name?" Ellie asked,

"Yeah, we do." Sirius said,

"Guys, meet Nicholas Charles Orion Black." Emma said happily.


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