Sirius sat in the waiting room, falling asleep but forcing himself to keep his eyes open He had rushed him to St Mungos not caring about who saw or knew and it had not been very easy. He had sat for three worry filled hours in the waiting room, Crosby sitting on his lap with the pink stuffed penguin that Sirius had given Harry in that very room before he was born.
Eventually a healer had came and told him what they were going to do. It turned out that there had been some pretty major spell damage to the babies and they would have to make an incision in Harry's stomach and manually clean each one off with a complicated charm and then close him up again.
Flashback "Mr. Black?" The healer asked as Sirius after five minutes as he sat unmoving. "Mr. Black? Must I give the go ahead for the operation? Mr. Black? Mr. Bla-" Sirius cut her off and looked straight into her face. "What's the risk?""Pardon?"
"If you do the operation, what risk is there of him, not making it." He asked and the healer paused for a moment before looking away and answering him.
I won't lie to you, Mr. Black. It's very dangerous and there's a chance that he might start haemorrhaging and lose too much blood or his heart could stop completely due to the stress that's being put on his body."
"And what if we don't do it?" Sirius asked, his throat feeling like it was closing completely.
"If we don't do it, one thing is for sure. In about an hour he will lose the two babies and his body will go into coma due to the shock. A coma where there's not much chance of him waking up. She said and Sirius buried his head in his one free hand.
"So you're telling me I've lost my husband either way, one's just delaying the process by a few hours." She looked at him sadly. "What should I do?"
"It's up to you, but the first option has a better chance of them living than the other." He sighed for a minute and choked back a sob. She just watched him before turning away and heading for the door when he finally spoke.
"Do it." He whispered and she didn't hear.
"What did you say sir?"
"Do the god damn operation!" He almost yelled at her and she rushed out. Sirius stood up, his legs numb, and left the office. The young blonde nurse that had been holding Crosby for him handed him back and he thanked her before going back to staring at the floor in a trance. The thoughts rushed through his mind and very disturbed by another healer.
"Sir, would you like to see your husband before he goes into surgery." Sirius practically scrambled up.
As Sirius ran through the doors, there was a scream as it hit the wall and as he was running he turned back to see he had knocked one of the healers into the wall with the door. He didn't even bother to apologise, just kept running. He looked around and saw a bunch of healers pushing a cot into one of the theatres, the person lying on it sobbing.
He hurried to follow them, but a nurse stepped in front of him and shoved a clipboard towards him. "Sign this." She said and Sirius, his hand shaking nervously, put his signature on the paper and shoved back at her.
He ran in and saw the healers buy putting a mask on Harry to put him to sleep the muggle way, considering charms would be too dangerous for him. Sirius ran to his side and took his hand and he looked at him, fear evident in his eyes.
He gave a nervous smile as Sirius stroked his hand and whispered to him as his eyelids started to droop. He mouthed the words 'I love you.' And passed out before Sirius had the chance to say it back. The healers started bustling around straight away and Sirius's eyes widened as the healer next to him pulled out a large silver scalpel. He gulped and looked away to see another healer marking a long line on Harry's stomach.
He put both pieces together and before he got the chance to leave, a third healer pushed him out, saying it was dangerous to have more people then necessary.
Flashback end
It had now been fifteen long worry-filled hours and Sirius once more sat waiting, Crosby sleeping in his lap. He hadn't heard one word about how the operation had gone but every now and then he would ask a nurse and she would tell him they were still busy.
His head drooped and his eyelids started to close. He opened them and found himself in an operating room. A loud beeping noise filled the room and a healer started casting all different charms on the person lying motionless on the table.
The beeping stopped and one unpausing note filled the air. Sirius knew what that meant and it was confirmed when the healers all stopped and bowed their heads sadly. Sirius walked forward and looked on the table gasping.
"No," He said hoarsely as he stared at Harry. "It can't be,"
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