Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the ideas associated with it. I'm afraid J.K. Rowling does and I am just telling the story the way I believe it could possibly play out.

Four weeks had gone by since Sirius and James had gone away on business and Lily Potter was beginning to feel the stress. Not only did she have James to worry about she also had the baby, work, the order, and her friends. She had hardly seen anyone in the weeks since James's departure. That had started to worry her. Remus and Peter were known for disappearing every once and awhile, they always turned up in the end. Ella on the other hand had no excuse. She had only seen her once since the afternoon shopping trip they had gone out to lunch last week. This lunch with her last week; however, hadn't done much but added to her list of concerns. Ella had been distant and when Lily had inquired as to what was wrong she merely responded that she wasn't feeling well and thought she had caught a bug. Lily had made up her mind to visit Ella on the way home from work.

"Ella? Ella are you home?" Lily inquired as she let herself into the house. If there was one thing you could say about Sirius it was that he had good taste. After he had inherited the small fortune of money from his uncle he had spent it on acquiring a nice house in a small town. The fact that the homes in this area were reconstructions of famous wizarding homes from the past was the added bonus when Ella decided to move in. Lily made her way into the kitchen where Ella was currently sitting at the table with a glass of ginger ale looking at a magazine of some sort.

"Hey I didn't hear you come in," she said as she cast a glance in Lily's direction.

"You've got to be kidding with all the noise apparting creates you still couldn't hear me? Okay what is going on you have been avoiding me for ages. Is this about…," Whatever Lily thought it was about was never revealed. The only sound that was emitted in the room at this time was a gasp as Lily Potter looked at the cover of the book her friend was reading; Magical Pregnancies for the Clueless.

"You and Sirius are having a baby and you didn't bother to mention it to me? We are going to have children the same age and you didn't bother to tell me. I mean the only person I've had to sympathize with me to date is that Alice Longbottom, nothing against her it's just hard to be pregnant with someone who acts like its no big deal. It is after all a very big deal. You could give a person some notice that she was going to be an Aunty. After all James and Sirius are as good as brothers which makes you my future sister in-law. You should have told me."

Oh right I'm going to tell everyone before I get around to telling the father? That doesn't make much sense does it? Ah… I don't know how this could have happened. I mean we only did 'It' once. I mean I thought it was alright because we were planning on getting married. What am I going to do Lily? A baby? I can't have a baby, at least not now.

"What? I can see why you would want to wait until you two were married but now that it has happened why not just go with it. It is Sirius after all and if he is nothing else he is impulsive. So if he was ever to want children this is the manor in which he would want them. I mean doing things in the traditional fashion isn't Sirius' forte is it?"

"To be fare I wanted what happened to happen just as much as he did, maybe even more. As for 'tradition' it is totally overrated anyway. Just because you ware a ring on your finger doesn't make a difference when it comes to parenting. At least it shouldn't," she said with a little more conviction than she was feeling at the moment. "Well its not that I don't think I would make a good mother its just I'm not sure that I want everything to happen so soon. I thought that I would be married for a long while before something like this came up you know?" Ella was suddenly brought out of her soliloquy by the sound of someone clearing their voice.

"I beg your pardon?" The question had come from not only Sirius but Remus as well as the four Marauders had been there for the later part of the conversation.

"Sirius I didn't hear you come in. That seems to be happing a lot today," Ella managed to stammer as she turned to look at her stunned fiancé.

"Are you really pregnant? Are we really going to have a baby?" Ella nodded to Sirius's line of questioning. She suddenly realized that she was she didn't know how he was going to take the news. Up to this point she really hadn't thought about it much. She had just assumed that he would want the baby the way she did deep down and accept everything for what it was. For the first time in days she was actually facing the reality of what this baby could mean for her relationship with Sirius that had really just began. However, before she could take this line of questioning too far Sirius had her in his arms.

"A baby that's amazing! How do you feel? Are you alright? Do you need to lie down? Did you hear that Prongs? Another Marauder on the way, are we ever going to raise hell. Oh these kids are going to be such trouble makers.

"That's what you think Black!"

A.N. Sorry it took so long to update. It's just been so hectic getting ready to go to University. I also hit a roadblock with one line that appeared in the Half- Blood Prince that sort of messed up my entire plot. So I had to reroute the path my story was taking. Read and Review, tell me what you think.