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Whilst being back in Hogwarts for the new school year, you discover you’re pregnant and along with Remus’ help you reveal the secret to both your nephew/godson and husband on your husband’s birthday.

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After the tragic night of the 31st October, 1981., Harry rightfully went into the custody of his godfather and godmother all thanks to the trial that happened and proved Sirius' innocence. Now 12 years later, his lovely godparents were everything a child could wish for. They love him unconditionally, protect him with everything they have and the most importantly, he has a roof over his head in which he doesn't have to fear for his life. Sirius being a stay at home dad/husband while y/n Potter-Black (James Potter's younger sister) works as an Advanced Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts along with Professor McGonagall who teaches both advanced and regular Transfiguration. Sirius and y/n were married for almost 10 years now with no children of their own. They didn't feel the need to have their own child when Harry was basically their child. All of their focus was on making sure Harry has everything he needs. September 1st was the day Sirius used to love so much when he was a child. It would mean he was finally free for a few months from his hateful family and reunited with his best friends. But now he's starting to hate it because it means he won't be seeing his family everyday. He used to have Remus at least to bother, but this year he's joining them as a professor of defense against the dark arts so he's being especially dramatic and heartbroken over them leaving him. While he would be visiting them every Hogsmeade weekend since this year Harry is able to go there for the first time, it's still nearly not enough for him.

 

'' Harry get your butt downstairs, the breakfast is done! We're leaving in 45 minutes for the station so make sure you packed everything! '' y/n yelled as she placed the food on the table with Sirius' assistance. A minute later, Harry rushed down the stairs no matter how many times both of his godparents told him not to do that. After hundredth time they gave up on telling him.

'' Did you check everything is packed? '' Sirius asked him as he placed a couple of pancakes on his plate. '' Yeah, got everything I need. Oh the permission slip for Hogsmeade still isn't signed so y/n can you please sign it before the first trip and give it to professor McGonagall? '' y/n nodded. '' Don't worry, it's on the fridge so I'll just quickly sign it before we leave for the station. ''

An hour later it was about 30 minutes before train leaves for Hogwarts. Remus told them he'll meet them there. Sirius was already all pouty and eyes were glistening with tears. '' Padfoot don't tell me you're already crying and we didn't even leave? '' Harry teased his godfather and uncle. Sirius rolled his eyes. '' I'm not crying, you are.'' as you rolled your eyes at their bickering, Remus approached you and wrapped his free arm that wasn't carrying his bag around your shoulder. '' I see they already started their annual bickering. '' he chuckled. '' Does it even surprise you anymore at this point? I mean one came from James Potter and the other one was always drama queen. Sometimes it makes me wonder what a mess mine and Sirius' child would be mixing Potter and Black genes. '' you shivered at the thought of the possibility of giving birth to most dramatic child. As you shivered at the endless possibilites of what would your child become, Remus noticed your scent was different. He shrugged it off, thinking he was probably just even more tired than usual after last night's full moon. 10 minutes later, it was boarding time. Harry and Sirius immediately stopped their bickering and both basically started crying as if they won't see each other for years and not a few weeks if not sooner knowing Sirius somehow finds a way to come and visit you both in Hogwarts. After they were done with their goodbye, Harry gave you and Remus quick hug before running off to find Ron and Hermione. Sirius and Remus hugged tightly and did their handshake before Remus boarded the train, going to find a free place for you and him. '' Sirius please don't cry, love. I'll see you tonight when we talk in the fireplace, and Harry has James' two way mirror so you can talk to him anytime you want as well, okay? '' you placed your hands on both sides of his face, resting your forehead against his. '' I know, but I always get used to seeing the two of you almost everyday and it gets harder each year. '' he puts his hands on hers. '' As soon as the summer break starts next year, we'll move to Hogsmeade village so you'll be closer and I'll be able to come home every night and use the floo network in the morning to get back to Hogwarts. I love you and so does Harry. '' she wraps her arms around his neck, while Sirius wraps his around her waist. '' I love you both just as much. Go and remember tonight, okay? '' You smiled and kissed him. The kiss went on for a minute before you had to let go of him. He placed another quick peck on your lips before you went on and boarded the train.

 

About a month has passed since the beginning of the new school year and your new scent only kept being stronger to Remus before it dawned on him; You're pregnant. He was a little offended for neither you or Sirius or even Harry who's known for having big mouth like his godfather/uncle have told him the news yet. So he decided to confront you about it one day during both yours and his free period whilst having a tea. '' Hey y/n/n can I ask you something? It's a bit personal though. '' Remus asked. '' Remus we've been best friends for probably 20 years now. You can just ask me. '' you chuckled. '' Are you pregnant? '' your eyes widened and the sip of tea that you just took was spit out. '' Am I what? Remus if I was pregnant you would've known already. I'm not pregnant, I promise. '' he squinted his eyes. '' Are you positive? Because ever since the morning at the train station before we left for Hogwarts, your smell has changed. I blamed it on my tiredness from the full moon back then, but your new smell keeps getting stronger. '' y/n only sighed. '' I am not sure what changed about my smell but I can assure you, it is not pregnancy. ''

Two weeks later she noticed she kept craving some foods she usually doesn't eat much, such as; strawberries, cream cheese etc. Sometimes you would sneak into the kitchens late at night, still knowing the password to it back from your student days and would ask elves if they would be so kind and give you some strawberries and cream cheese. A couple of days have passed since your last visit to the kitchen and you were sitting in the great hall and eating breakfast. Everything was fine, you were sitting between Pomona Sprout and Remus when the sudden smell of eggs made you so naseous and sick you had to excuse yourself and quickly rush out of Great hall, passing worried Harry who was ready to go after you when Remus told him to stay and finish his breakfast and that he'll go make sure you're okay. As you found the closest bathroom you rushed inside and clogged to the nearest toilet, throwing up everything you consumed this morning. Remus was besides you in matter of minutes, rubbing your back comfortingly with one hand while the other held you hair in a makeshift ponytail. A few minutes have passed and you finally stopped throwing up. '' Let me get you some water to wash out the taste. '' He summoned the glass of water, giving it to you. Whilst you were drinking water, he noticed how pale you looked. '' Did you eat something bad or what happened? You look very pale. '' you rested your head on his shoulder while he still rubbed your back comfortingly. '' I am not sure myself what happened. One minute I was fine the next I was smelling eggs and the nausea came out of nowhere. And lately all I've been wanting to eat was such random food that I only used to occasionally eat. Have you ever tried eating strawberries and cream cheese together? It's surprsingly really good. '' Remus was connecting all the dots in his head while you kept on telling him all the random cravings of food you've been having. The different smell of you, food cravings, certain food making you nauseas...it all leads to one thing he asked you couple of weeks ago. With a smirk on his face, Remus gently lifted your head off his shoulder, making you have a direct eye contact with him. '' Y/n...you're definitely pregnant. And don't you even dare deny it and say it's not true. Listen to yourself. Your smell changed, you've been having food cravings and I also noticed your different mood swings and the food nausea. All those things have one thing in common; pregnancy. So what we're gonna go do now is go visit Madam Pomfrey, she's gonna give you a nausea potion, do a little test or whatever to confirm you're pregnant. '' with a sigh, you nod your head and with Remus' help you get up, making your way to the hospital wing. Just like Remus thought, you were pregnant. You were about two months in which check out the timing with one of the last times you were intimiate with Sirus. You two were never really careful, saying if it happens it happens. The irony of you imagining the dramatics of your child back at the train station, not knowing you were already pregnant didn't pass you. It just made you internally roll your eyes. Deciding it's not worth going back to the Great Hall, you tell Remus you'll be resting in your chambers until your first class and that he should tell Harry, you just ate something bad or something, explaining you want to tell both Harry and Sirius at the same time and that you'll do it at Sirius' birthday. So that's what he does. Harry relaxes knowing you're okay but still decides to visit you as soon as he can, during his free period, not having any time left now and wanting to let you rest. You were still in shock about your pregnancy. If Madam Pomfrey was correct, your due date was towards the end of May, meaning you'll be having to go on maternity leave at the end of april/beginning of May. As much as you were happy about the pregnancy, you were also terrifed, you were 32 and Sirius is about to be 34 in a few weeks. You were basically internally panicking and overthinking, not even realising how much time has passed before the alarm you set to let you know it's 10 minutes until your class starts. Pulling yourself slightly together you went and taught your sixth years as if you weren't having panic attack before the class. At the end of the day, Harry came over to your chambers and you told him how you felt slightly sick but were better now, not wanting to worry him.

As it turns out, the Hogsmeade weekend and Sirius birthday allined perfectly. Harry decided he wants to spend it with both of you, asking if you'd mind if Hermione and Ron joined in as well. Of course you agreed. It was the night before Sirius' birthday and trip to Hogsmeade, meaning the day you finally tell Harry and Sirius you were pregnant. You were sort of glad that Remus knows so you can kind of rely on him for support. Wrapping up his gift which was an actual gift you got him even before knowing you were pregnant and a photo of your ultrasound and muggle pregnancy test which was, of course, positive.

As you were waiting for Sirius to arrive and Harry was too busy talking with Ron and Hermione, you started fidgeting with your fingers unconsciously, deeply in your mind when a pair of your favourite arms wrapped around your shoulders from behind you. '' What's got my favourite girl deep inside her head to not even notice her handsome birthday boy husband, hm? '' making you roll your eyes playfully as you tilted your head back, smiling up at Sirius who was standing right behind you with Remus by his side. '' I was worrying you were gonna ditch us on your birthday and go off to hook up with your best friend. '' you cheekily said, talking about Remus. '' Who's to say the reason we were late wasn't the fact that we were too busy hooking up? '' Remus smirked while Sirius choked on a laugh. '' Shh, don't expose us in front of my nephew/godson and his friends, lover. '' Sirius winked before placing a gentle kiss on your lips and moving on to bug Harry and his friends. Remus sat down next to you, placing a comforting kiss on the top of your head. '' It'll be alright. He's gonna be the happiest man in the world when you tell him. '' after Sirius was done with bothering the golden trio, he sat on the other side of you. '' I didn't even get to say, happy birthday pads.'' you placed another kiss on his lips. You all talked for about an hour before you decided it was time for a cake and a surprise. Getting up, you kissed Sirius' cheek, placed a kiss on the top of Harry's head, telling him it was time for cake, asking if he could carry the cake whilst you carry the gifts. both of you heading towards the back where you asked Abeforth to hide the cake and gifts for you. When Harry got a hold of cake and you of gifts, you walked over to where everyone sat and started singing happy birthday. '' Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear padfoot. Happy birthday to youuuu. '' You finished singing as Harry put the cake in front of Sirius. '' Make a wish, Siri. '' closing his eyes, Sirius made a wish and blew out the candles. Everyone cheered and Sirius was grinning. '' Okay, who wants cake? '' everyone agrees so Sirius cuts cake while you hold the plates and give it to each of them their plate. '' Okay so I have two gifts for you. One is only for you while the other one is gonna be a shared gift for you and Harry. Well I wouldn't say it's really a gift, more so a suprise. A really good surprise! At least I hope so, it's probably not anything you expect or anything like that but I still want you to like it-'' your nervous rambling was stopped with Sirius kissing you. '' Whatever it is, I'm sure we'll both like it, right Harry? '' Harry nodded. '' We will pretend we do even if we don't. '' Harry grinned, making Sirius kick him under the table. '' Don't be an ass Proof-Lily-And-James-Shagged. '' Sirius was the one grinning one. '' Okay so this is just a gift for you. '' You said as you placed one of the two nicely wrapped gifts. Like a kid at the candy store, he quickly unwrapped it (more like tore apart the wrapping paper) inside the box, there lied the limited edition Queen vinyl, a mini plushed black stuffed dog that kind of looked like Padfoot (a hint for second gift), a new bottle of his (yours) favourite perfume, and lots of his favourite candies. '' I love it all so much, especially the Padfoot lookalike. Thank you, mon amour. '' he kissed you with a big goofy smile on his face. '' Open the rest of your presents, I'll leave my second gift for last. '' So that's what he did. Everyone got him something had they knew he will love and cherish. ( he might've cried a little when opening and seeing that Harry's gift is a framed photo back from 1980, right after Harry was born. On the photo there was obviously, James and Lily with baby Harry, Remus, Sirius and you all grinning, not knowing what was going to happen only a year later.Hell the photo made you bawl, you internally blamed it on pregnancy and missing the hell out of your brother and sister in law). And so only gift left to open was your second one. '' I need everyone but Remus to close their eyes only because Remus knows what it is. '' you took a deep breath and placed the gift on the table between Harry and Sirius. '' Open your eyes. '' as they did, you stood behind them, nervously bitting your lips and put one of your hands on your yet non existent baby bump. Harry let Sirius open it and as he did, he was confused at first. Before he took the ultrasound photo and actually gasped out loud. '' HOLY FUCKING SHIT! '' Sirius jumped out of his seat, quickly turning around to where you stood, tears streaming down his face. '' You're not joking are you? This is real? You're actually pregnant? '' he pulled you close to him, wrapping his around your waist. As tears streamed down both of your faces, you nodded smiling. '' Yeah, it's real. I'm about 8 weeks pregnant. '' Sirius dropped down on his knees, hugging you tightly, resting his forehead against your stomach. '' I don't think you understand how happy this made me. Holy shit we're gonna be parents. Again. '' Harry just stood there kind of frozen for a minute before everything suddenly made sense. '' That's why you throwed up that morning, like almost a month ago. Merlin's balls, I'm gonna be a brother. '' He rushed to where you and Sirius stood, hugging you both. '' You're gonna be the best brother, Harry. '' You kissed him on the forehead before a thought run through your mind. '' James would kill you if we was alive. You tainted his baby sister. '' you gently patted Sirius' cheek. '' Mon amour, we're both over thirty. He would not kill me. '' you just looked at him with raised eyebrow. '' Are you sure we're talking about the same James Potter who wanted to rip you apart the day he found out we were dating. Even Regulus found it funny. '' Ron and Hermione congratulated you and Remus and Sirius were celebrating while Harry wanted to know more about the day his dad found out about you and Sirius. All you appreciated was the fact that both of your boys adored your unborn baby.

 

BONUS:

'' I knew way back before any of you did. Suck on that Padfoot. '' Remus said smugly. Sirius rolled his eyes while hugging you close to him, you sitting on his lap sideways, playing with his hair. '' No one likes a smart ass Moony. '' Sirius winked while you just watched them, wishing another smart ass was here along with them, preaching about random things he learned during Lily's pregnancy, not knowing both of them were there in spirit, one with the biggest smile on their face and the other pretending to be mad but secretly being the biggest supporter, knowing there's no safer place for his baby sister to be than with his son and two best friends.