"What's up with you, Padfoot?" Asked James, who had just flooed into the Order of the Phoenix Headquaters. He was trying to sneak out again, however much married life way suit him, in times like this Lily always feared whenever James was out of her sight. As did James.
It was no doubt that Lily would be a few moments behind him. Sirius better make this quick.
"I'm just scared." Sirius admitted gravely. "With the Order suspecting there to be a spy, and the Prewett brothers both being dead… It just makes you think, you know?"
James nodded.
"And what if we don't make it out? Chances are one of the four of us, well five, including Lily, are going to get-"
James flinched, he may be able to say the Dark Lord's name when others may not, but he could never say the 'm' word.
Murdered.
"Don't say that!" James cried, trying to make the situation seem light hearted. "Nothing's going to happen to us. You're being a twat, you're just getting all wound up about nothing-"
"But it's not nothing!" Sirius interjected irritably.
"I know that. But we've got to keep on living. You're just getting all wound up because you're too freaked out to leave. Seriously, when was the last time you saw daylight?"
Sirius shrugged.
"I just don't want you or Remus" he grimaced at the thought of Remus lying in some cold alley, a Dark Mark rising above his limp body… "or Peter or Lily to get hurt or anything to happen to you. And if it was my fault that one of you had died…"
"You planning to kill me?" Asked Lily, neither James or Sirius had noticed the usual BANG that occurred when someone arrived via the Floo Network.
"I would never kill me third mum!" Sirius gasped.
"Third?" Asked Lily, pursing her lips together.
"Yeah… Well first there was my biological mum… Walburga." He spat out the name as if it was a filthy word. "Then I moved to James' place so his mum became my second… And now you're here!"
Lily nodded, brushing a hand over her stomach and sitting next to James.
"And as my parents you're not allowed to die." Sirius decided.