James was in the corridor waiting to take his dad home. He saw Lily she looked like she was arguing with her boss, not that Calvin bloke some other Healer. He discreetly inched closer so he could hear, they were speaking in hushed tones.
"Get somebody else to do it," Lily hissed.
"Why can't you? You've done it before, you know how to work the machine."
"I can't do it."
"Why not?"
"I'm pregnant you moron!" hissed Lily.
"Wh…uh" said James eloquently as he nearly fell to the ground in shock.
"James!' gasped Lily helping him to stay on his feet. "Are you okay?"
"You…you're pregnant?" he spluttered.
"Oh…you heard that?" said Lily. "I…I should have…"
"No…it's fine," said James trying to wrap his mind around it. "I'm sure you and Calvin is it, will be very happy together. C…congratulations"
"James…it's…" tried Lily but James had wandered off.
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That night James was in the Leaky Cauldron sitting at the bar, downing firewhiskey after firewhiskey. He was trying to drink away the fact that his wife was with someone else and was pregnant by them. He just couldn't take it in. They had only split up three months ago, and already she was starting a family with someone else. How could she have done that? He hadn't even thought about other women since Lily. He hadn't stopped thinking about her. She was his wife, he shouldn't have suggested a separation he had thought they just needed a break from each other and now she was gone for good.
"Mate, what's wrong? Mum just called to say you didn't show at the hospital," said Sirius sitting down next to James and signaling to the barmaid to bring him a drink.
"She's gone, really gone for good," said James polishing off yet another drink.
"Who? Lily?" said Sirius confused. "She hasn't gone, you know where she is."
"But she isn't mine anymore, is she?"
"Has she started dating again? Is that what this is about? You told her you wanted to separate, you can't expect her to be miserable forever," said Sirius. He didn't mean to be so harsh with James, but he was feeling sorry for himself. Sirius had never agreed with their decision to separate.
"She's seeing someone, having his baby too. So yeah I am sitting here getting pissed and feeling sorry for myself. I think I'm allowed to do that."
"Seriously?"
"I heard it straight from her." Said James sadly. "So I'll be here until closing, care to join me?"
"I'll be back soon mate," said Sirius hitting James on the back supportively. "Don't do anything stupid."
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Sirius went to Lily's flat, he could hear voices inside. He knocked on the door and Calvin answered the door. Sirius saw red, what James had said must be true why else would he be answering Lily's door.
WHAM
"That was for Prongs," muttered Sirius, wincing a little at the pain in his fist.
Lily ran out of the kitchen and saw Calvin on the ground bleeding and Sirius rubbing his fist. It didn't take a genius to work out what had happened.
"Sirius Black! What are you doing?" she demanded.
"James is my best mate," he said.
"Come in here right now," said Lily sternly sounding a little like Gloria.
Sirius hesitated, then he saw the look on Lily's face. Lily was scary normally but pregnant, hormonal and pissed off. It would be best to do what she said.
"In there," she pointed to the living room.
Sirius went inside, not before standing on Calvin's hand on his way past.
"Are you okay? I am so sorry…at the hospital when James…he thought the baby was yours…" babbled Lily helping Calvin to his feet and examining his face.
"I'm fine. Go in there and put him straight. I'll be in the kitchen if you need me," said Calvin. He was trying really hard to be the nice guy, the good friend. But inside he was screaming at her to forget about James and love him and raise the baby with him. But he was her friend, and friends give good advice not selfish advice. It wasn't Lily's fault he was in love with her.
"Right. Okay. Thank you for being so understanding and nice, you're my rock you know," said Lily.
"It'll be okay," said Calvin gently then he got up and went into the kitchen.
"So I assume you spoke to James," said Lily calmly as she joined Sirius in the living room. He was furiously pacing.
"Yeah, your damn right I saw him. I thought it was him just being an idiot but look at you…you're up the duff," spluttered Sirius glaring at Lily.
Lily was wearing a fitted t-shirt, in which it was definitely obvious that she was pregnant not just fat.
"Very observant," said Lily dryly.
"You are cold…"
"It's James'," she interrupted him. She knew Sirius he was about to call her a string of insults, he would regret and apologise for later.
"What?"
"We separated three months ago. How pregnant do you think I am?" said Lily exasperated. Sometimes boys were so stupid, it was obvious she wasn't just a few weeks along.
"How pregnant are you?" he asked warily.
"Four and a half months you moron."
"Merlin."
"Exactly."
"Why the hell didn't you tell him that earlier? Do you have any idea what sort of state he's in?" said Sirius remembering how mad he was supposed to be.
"I was going to but…he disappeared and I couldn't find him," said Lily quite feebly, she hadn't really looked that hard for him.
"You should have told him months ago."
"Perhaps. But in case you didn't notice I was a wreck, my marriage suddenly ended. I couldn't cope, I thought about a termination in fact I thought about it so long when I decided to keep it would have too late to do anything anyway. I just had my first check up this morning…" said Lily. She trusted Sirius, she knew he would understand if she explained.
"But you are going to tell James?"
"Yes, yes of course I am. I was always going to tell him, I was just putting it off. But he was always going to know," sighed Lily.
"Right then. Make sure you tell him tomorrow."
"I will."