3 WEEKS AFTER JAMES' LEFT
"Sirius, I need your help!" said Lily, bursting into his kitchen.
"What? What do you need?" asked Sirius, panicked by the urgency in Lily's voice.
"I need you to look at something for me!"
"Is that all? Good God woman, you scared the life out of me!" said Sirius, thinking she wanted him to look over a report for her.
"Well it's scaring the life out of me," said Lily, her voice all squeaky.
"What do you want me to look at?" asked Sirius, getting worried now. Lily didn't get worked up over nothing.
"I think I'm pregnant…" she said breathlessly, disillusionment splattered across her face.
"What? How the hell did that happen?" Sirius spluttered.
"The night before James left… I think we were in too much of a hurry to remember the charm and… the pill is missing… we screwed up and now I think I'm pregnant… my period…" ranted Lily frantically.
"Arrrgghhhhh I don't want to know about that!" shouted Sirius, sticking his fingers in his ears.
"Stop being a baby and help me, damn it!" shouted Lily, pulling his fingers out of his ears.
"Alright, alright, but no more girly talk," said Sirius dramatically.
"Fine, I am going upstairs to do this test," said Lily, holding up the pregnancy test she had just bought. "And when I'm done, I need you to go and look at the result."
"Why?"
"Because I'm afraid to!" said Lily, storming up to the bathroom.
"Well what did it say?" asked Lily, urgently once Sirius had checked her test.
"It said it was positive. You're pregnant…" said Sirius dazed.
"Are you sure?"
"I checked it five times," Sirius told her emphatically. "You're pregnant."
"Oh my god. What am I going to do?" gasped Lily, sinking into the nearest chair. "James is gone and I'm… a baby… this can't be happening!"
"It's okay, it'll be okay. James will be back in a few months and until he is, I'm here. I'm here for anything you want or need."
Lily took a second to calm herself down, breathing in slowly and exhaling slowly. She closed her eyes for a few moments, and let her nerves settle.
"Okay," Lily said, opening her eyes. "Okay, I can do it."
"Yeah, you can," Sirius said reassuringly. "You can do it. And James'll be back soon."
"Right," Lily said. "James'll be back soon."
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6 MONTHS AFTER JAMES LEFT
Lily was 6 months pregnant and huge. She had moved back in with Sirius, so he could help her with the pregnancy. She was missing James more than ever, and she knew he should have been with her through her pregnancy.
"How was the scan?" asked Sirius, as soon as Miriam and Lily got back.
"Fine, the baby is growing normally. My blood pressure is normal and I'm getting fatter," said Lily, handing Sirius the scan picture.
"Good, look at my godson, isn't he a beautiful blob?" said Sirius adoringly, looking at the scan picture.
"No my daughter is not a blob. She's a fully formed baby, just too small to come out yet," said Lily. She and Sirius had been having friendly debates about the sex of the baby for months. Sirius was somehow convinced that it was a boy, and Lily was positive it was a girl. Sirius had been with her at every appointment, but couldn't make it today because he had to work, so Miriam had come with her.
"It is a boy," said Sirius, pointing to Lily's swollen stomach.
"It's a girl, I should know. She is growing inside me."
"I have a sixth sense," argued Sirius.
"You know, you could both stop this if you would just ask the healer what the sex is," said Miriam, who was dying to know herself, but Lily wouldn't let the healer tell anyone.
"No, we don't find out until James is home or until the birth. Whichever is first," said Lily.
"He'll be back for the birth," said Sirius reassuringly.
"Will he? We don't know that," said Lily sadly. "He's already missed so much."
"He will be back."
"Maybe," sighed Lily, turning to go up the stairs to her bedroom. "I'm going to go lie down."
"He better damn well hurry and get back here," said Sirius to Miriam after Lily had gone. "She can't take this much more."
Little did they know that James was on his way home.