Entry #22: January 4th
In the four months that have passed things have gotten worse, far worse I'm afraid. It's not Emma that's gotten worse, thank god, just the war. Attacks are breaking out constantly about London and other parts of England. The Order has it hands full dealing with it all. Some of the female members like Emma and Molly, who is a Weasley now, are pregnant and unable to help in the field. Luckily they were able to help out at St. Mungo's healing some of the wounded from the attacks.
One morning as we were leaving for work Mad Eye Moody's head popped into our fireplace. Since the war had started he had lost a chunk of his nose and one of his eyes. That's why he was call 'Mad Eye' now, because he had a giant electric blue eye spinning in its socket in place of the old one.
"James, Sirius Lily, we need you...now! The bridge out by Hogsmaid is under attack," He said in his rough and gravelly voice. We all got up and that left Emma alone at the table. She didn't move, she just looked down at her plate, that look of disappointment that I knew all too well on her face. I snagged a couple more pieces of toast and kissed my wife on the forehead.
"I'll be back, alright? Don't worry," I told her. She nodded. "I love you."
"Love you too…" She whispered back at me. Then I bolted for the door.
"Poor Emmy, she looked so sad when we left," James said.
"It's because she has to sit out on the sidelines and wait for us all to return in one piece. I know that she realizes since she's pregnant we can't risk her begin out there, but she misses the days where she got in on the action too," I replied as we walked into Moody's office. There Remus was waiting for us.
"Where's Emma?" He asked.
"It's her day off, and they are advising her to take it, since we've already had complications with the pregnancy and everything."
"And the baby?"
"Doing very well now, we have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and we find out the sex of the baby," I told him. After a bit of chit chat we got the low down on what was going on and headed to the transportation room to take a Portkey to the battle.
"Remember, if you can help it, capture the Death Eaters and only kill if you have too," Mad Eye said.
"Only to have the ministry give them a big kiss later…" Remus mumbled. Lily gave a huge shudder and James reached for her hand to reassure her. We took the Portkey to a location close to the battle field and met up with Arthur Weasley there.
"Glad you all made it, we sure needed the help," He told us. "They need you down by the southwest side, over that way." He pointed to where beams of light could be seen darting across the morning sky. The four of us nodded and we jogged off to battle. At first it looked a bit hopeless; black cloaks everywhere and hardly any of our people to be seen. Alice and Frank Longbottom were dodging spells close by and I could see Kingsely dueling it out with three Death Eaters. I let out a sigh and then bounced on the nearest Death Eater I saw.
"I hate fighting," I grumbled as a chucked a few spells his way and dodging a few as well. I was trying my hardest to immobilize him but he kept blocking all of my spells. Finally I just resorted to punching him when he got to close and then stunning him while he was down.
"Teach you to mess with me that will," I told him. Soon it looked better for our side as more people showed up and the Death Eaters began to fall. Within about a span of two hours I had six Death Eaters ready to cart away to Azkaban.
"Crucio!"
"Expelliarmus!" I hissed quickly countering the spell as it came sizzling at me. The Death Eater was disarmed and I swiftly walked over to him rage boiling in my blood. I knew that voice all too well and I wasn't about to let him get away.
"Lucius…" I spat. I watched as a sneer curled on his lips from underneath the edges of his mask. Then he let out a laugh.
"How's your wifey doing Black? Have you checked on her recently? Do you know if she's still safe at home?" He asked slyly. The Death Eaters where retreating now and Lucius was going to get away with them, I just knew it…
"Leave Emma out of this you snake!"
"Tsk tsk I'll take that as a no and that you haven't checked up on her. You really are a terrible husband you know that?" He smirked as he got to his feet. "I'd check up on her if I were you. Unless you want me to do it for you?"
"NO!" I shouted and took off at a run. I sprinted past James, Lily and Remus who gave me looks of confusion.
"Padfoot what's wrong?" They called after me. All I had to shout was one word. A name. My wife's name. Emma…I apperated mid run to the house and burst in screaming her name over and over.
"Emma! Emma! Emma please answer me! Emma where are you?" I bellowed her name checking every room in the house. Even the back yard and the garage, she was nowhere to be found. Soon Lily, James and Remus were in the house too, wondering what was going on. James grabbed me and forced me onto the couch to try and calm down.
"Emma's gone," I whispered still freaking out, my breathing heavy. Remus wasn't paying attention; he was reading a scrap of parchment that was on the kitchen table.
"Emma has gone to talk with your brother. Emma's with Regulas Sirius…" He said. Before anyone could get another word out I was gone, back on the doorstep to my old house. My childhood nightmare. I burst in to find Emma collapsed at the foot of the stairs a bloody gash on her head.
"Emma…!" I rushed to her side and grabbed her head and checked her for a pulse. Her eyes snapped open a second later. She started to open her mouth to say something to me but was cut off when the others burst through the door.
"I'm okay," She said quietly as they all looked at her concerned. I helped her up and then James and I both helped her apperate to St. Mungo's. When we got into the waiting room Emma insisted that she was fine.
"You are not fine you've got a great big bleeding gash on your head and were passed out for we don't know how long. You need to be looked over to make sure the baby is okay," Remus told her forcing her into a seat. I sat down next to her and took her hand.
"Sweetie, we're all here for you okay? None of us are leaving you, and that's a promise," I said. She nodded and then a nurse had us follow her back to go see the doctor. I told the others we'd be back soon.
"So Emma, tell me what happened?" The Doctor asked as he looked at her head wound and then began to heal it.
"I went to go see my brother in law because I know he's in league with Voldemort. I wanted to get some sort of information out of him, but it was a trap. When I knocked on the door Lucius was there instead and he attacked me, knocking me on the head and leaving me on the stair landing," She said getting a bit teary eyed. We all knew it was the baby hormones that were making her over emotional, but it didn't stop my heart from breaking a bit to see my wife cry.
"Well the good news is that the head wound is just a simple bump on the head and that the baby is fine. I know you had an appointment tomorrow but would you like to just get it over with today and find out what the sex of your baby is?" The doctor asked. We both nodded. He smiled and went to go get our usual doctor.
"Em, Regulas is a worthless piece of scum. Please promise me you'll never try anything like that again alright? Please for me?" She nodded and gave me a kiss. Just then Doctor Paisley came in and greeted us with a warm smile.
"I heard you took a little fall today, I'm sorry to hear that. But It seems like you're okay so we're just gonna have a quick peek at your little bundle and see how it's doing and find out what color you need to paint your nursery," She said kindly. She held her wand up to Emma's stomach and did a few spells. She nodded and smiled.
"Well, the fall and the knock to the head didn't do any damage what so ever to your baby girl. Congrats you two," She said smiling widely before leaving.
"A girl? We're having a girl?" I said shocked. Emma laughed.
"What did you think for sure we were gonna have a boy?" She asked me giving me a kiss. I nodded a little and then we went back to our friends, wide smiled on our faces.
"So…how is everything?"
"Everything is fine, and we're going to have a healthy baby girl!" Emma said. Lily threw her arms up in the air and hugged Emma tightly. Then we all went home to go celebrate. It was the good life for sure.