Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
Author's Note: I'm sorry for not updating sooner, but I will post the next chapter in a few days too.
May, 1982
"So will I get to be the godfather of this child too, whenever it pops out?" Sirius asked Lily.
"When it pops out, children don't just pop out, haven't you learned anything after Harry's birth and yes I would like to make both you and Remus godparents of this child," Lily answered him sounding annoyed that Sirius still thought that babies still popped out of their mother without any effort at all.
"Well, at least Remus will be there with you if it doesn't come on a full moon night, since he went to those classes with you," Sirius told her sounding like he was both jealous and proud of his friend at the same time.
"You know that Remus has been helping me with Harry and he'll help out with the new baby too. Well, at least you're now starting to being civil to Snape and accepting his place in our lives," Lily reminded her husband's best friend.
Sirius looked relieved at that last part until Remus arrived after playing with Harry for a while. A few minutes later, they heard Lily scream as if she were in pain, and when they got to her they found her clutching her stomach as if she were in pain.
"I think that I'm in labor. I need to go to the hospital," Lily told the two men who both suddenly seemed suddenly interested in being helpful while Lily whinced in pain.
"How do you know if you're in labor?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I felt like this right before Harry was born. I've already had one child in case you haven't forgotten, Harry didn't come from the sky you know," Lily replied to him right when she was going to the fireplace to get ready to floo to St. Mungo's.
Of course Remus grabbed her overnight case while Sirius was left to watch Harry and to wait patiently for word from the hospital. Sirius considered asking Snape to see if he would watch Harry while he went to the hospital to wait, but he quickly decided against it since he didn't trust him to be anywhere near Harry. About an hour of waiting with no word, Sirius finally decided that he didn't want to wait in the Potter's house, so he finally decided to bit the bullet and ask Snape to come watch Harry, if he could get the time off from Hogwarts since he wanted to be there when Harry's new sibling was born like he was with him. Snape was surprised to hear that Lily had gone into labor and that Sirius actually wanted him to watch Harry while Sirius went to St. Mungo's. Of course since classes were over for the day at Hogwarts and since it was a Friday night, he didn't have classes the next day he went right over to Lily's house. When Snape arrived Sirius gave Harry a kiss goodbye and left him with Snape for the rest of the night. Snape had watched Harry before when Lily had to work and both Remus and Sirius were unavailable, so Sirius realized that he wouldn't try to harm Harry while he was gone.
Of course Sirius had to wait in the waiting area which he felt was better sitting there than waiting at Lily's house with Harry. While he was waiting for Lily to deliver her baby, he wondered into the long term care ward and went to James's bed.
"Well, Lily is getting ready to bring your child into this world, I don't know if you even knew that she was pregnant or not. Snape is watching Harry, but he's done a good job at watching him lately and I wanted to be here, so that was the only option open to me. Remus is in the room with Lily, since he took those child birthing classes with her because you couldn't be there. Remus has found himself a job, he's getting paid to watch Harry everyday while Lily goes to work. I know that I haven't been around a lot but I've been really busy with work and helping Lily out," Sirius told his friend who just stared at the wall with a blank look on his face.
"Oh bloody hell James, did you even understand what I just said or do you even care that Lily's having your child right now. Well, I'll bring your child by after he or she's born, though I don't know if you'll care or not," Sirius told his best friend right before leaving the room leaving James in the same condition that he was in.
When he arrived back at the waiting area for the labor and delivery part of St. Mungo's he realized that James would never get to know this new child like he had gotten to know Harry, even if it was just for a year. This realization made him angry that anyone could do anything like this; the bad part was that Lily would probably make the two children visit their father frequently. Sirius didn't want to think about how the children would react to seeing their father in such a state.
He didn't have time to think about it for too long, when Remus came out and was surprised to see him, "What are you doing here? Where's Harry?" Remus asked him sounding worried.
"Harry's fine he's with Snape, well I wanted to be here when his little brother or sister was born like I was with Harry," Sirius answered him.
"Well, since you're here Lily just had a girl, though she's not sure what to name her yet," Remus told her sounding proud of the new arrival.
"Well, I'm sure that James would be proud if he was able to be here and knowing what was going on," Sirius answered him with a bit of regret in his voice at the last part. "Well, I guess that you better go on to Lily's house after you see her and let Severus know that Harry has a little sister," Remus told Sirius.
"Are you coming too?" Sirius asked.
"Yes and then tomorrow we can bring Harry by to visit his new sister," Remus answered him sounding tired while leading Sirius to Lily's room.
When they entered her room, they saw her lying in bed with a little pink bundle lying beside her.
"Well, I hope that Harry's doing okay since I left him with you and hopefully he's not home all by himself," Lily answered him sounding concerned while Sirius was trying to get a new look at the new baby.
"Of course, Snape is watching him since he would do anything for you and I wanted to be here, I figured that he would be willing to watch Harry and I was right," Sirius reassured her.
"Well, then at least he's in capable hands," Lily replied sounding pleased that Severus and Sirius were at least starting to get along.
"Well, she's cute I'm sure that James would be proud if he could be here. Though speaking of James do you plan on showing her to him, even though he may not recognize her?" Sirius asked, curious on how his best friend would react to this tiny baby that he had helped to create.
"I do when the Healer gives the okay to visit him, though if I know you, you'll probably sneak her up there before the okays given," Lily answered him sounding concerned. "Well, then I guess we'll better go back to your house and let Snape know that Harry's got a baby sister. Do you know what you're going to name her yet?" Sirius asked sounding curious to see what the new baby's name would be.
"Well, I'm thinking about naming her Jamie, then again maybe Rose since that's a pretty name but I don't know right now," Lily answered the two of them.
"Well you better pick a name pretty soon, since they'll need to have a name to put on the birth certificate," Remus reasoned with her.
"I guess that I'll have to go with Jamie Rose for her father and maternal grandmother," Lily answered the two of them sounding tired.
"Well that sounds like two good names for Harry's sister, I'll better go by your house and relieve Snape from his duties and let them know what her name is," Remus told her just as he and Sirius were leaving the room.
When the two of them arrived at the Potter's house, they saw Snape asleep on the couch, with Harry in his crib fast asleep upstairs in the nursery. Sirius decided that he would be the one to wake Snape up and let him know that Lily had a girl.
"Hey we're back," Sirius alerted Snape who immediately got up from the couch and looked up at Sirius.
"Well, what did she have? When can I go see her and the baby?" Snape asked Sirius. "She had a girl named Jamie Rose and it's too late to see them tonight, though you can see them tomorrow if you're not doing anything else," Remus answered him sounding tired from the long night that he's just had while Sirius went upstairs to see how Harry was doing.
When he found that Harry was doing fine and was just sleeping, he came back downstairs.
"Well you can go home now since Lily has had her baby and that Harry is okay," Sirius told Snape in a gleeful voice, sounding glad to get Snape out of Lily's house.
"I'll go ahead and go, but I'll be there at the hospital to see Lily and the new baby Black. Hopefully she'll look more like her mother to make a perfect match," Snape informed him sounding smug as he said it.
"I don't know who she looks like, as long as she's healthy, besides what's wrong with a child looking like James?" Sirius asked him sounding offended that Snape would prefer the child to look like Lily.
"There's nothing wrong with Lily's child looking like James as long as she didn't inherit his arrogant attitude," Snape replied sounding hopeful.
"Your right, there's nothing wrong with it and anyway I would still love that child no matter who it looked like," Sirius answered him sounding offended that Snape would still insult his friend, no matter that he was still in the hospital and wouldn't truly get to know his own child.
"You don't remember that we were mean to Snape here, I'm sure that he doesn't want any of their children to be as cruel to others like we were," Remus stepped in defending Severus to Sirius.
"We weren't that bad," Sirius insisted.
"Yeah, well you were the one who nearly killed him and used me to do it," Remus reminded him of the time that Snape discoved his little secret.
"Hey, I didn't mean for him to really go down there," Sirius protested.
"Well, you were lucky that the only thing that happened to him was that he was scared and found out my little secret. If you don't remember after that little incident I didn't even talk to you for almost two months," Remus reminded him.
"Aw that was nothing, I mean no harm came from it right, besides now he's got a good job as the Hogwarts potionmaster.
"Right now, it doesn't make what we did as kids right but that is in the past and this is now," Remus reminded him while Snape went back to his quarters at Hogwarts during their banter eager to get to the hospital first thing in the morning to see how Lily and the baby were doing.