The girls ☺️
Remus should’ve known really, it’s been a little over a month since they’ve told everyone in the dorm (plus Barty and Evan) about the pregnancy. A month of James and Peter going between fighting for best uncle or complete mother henning. A month of building a stronger friendship with Regulus and sometimes Barty & Evan joining. A month of his body being perpetually hungry and also giving him random bits of extreme nausea. He can now fall asleep anywhere which he has a feeling he should probably be grateful for.
It’s also been a month of Sirius officially being his boyfriend and being extremely obnoxious about it. Now, don’t get him wrong, he loves it. He loves how Sirius always seems to need to be touching him whether it’s a hand on his thigh, an arm around his waist or over his shoulder pulling him to his side, or just holding his hand. He loves the protective way he glares at anyone who gets too close or looks at him the wrong way. He loves being pulled into broom cupboards, passageways, or really just a corner in a hallway because Sirius doesn’t care if someone sees. He loves the marks he leaves and re-darkens every night like a brand on his skin that says, this one is mine. He loves Sirius and honestly most of the time he’s in heaven, he never thought he’d get to have this. He thought he’d be pining forever, settle for having him in his life as a friend and nothing else until it settled like a dull pang in his chest. But now he has him and oh how he loves him.
He also loves how unexpectedly well he’s taking this pregnancy. He’s had two check ins with Poppy since he told him. With it being a twin pregnancy, a teen pregnancy, and his Lycanthropy, she considers it a high risk pregnancy so he’ll be seeing her every two weeks from now on. He’s had no problems so far and they’ve gotten to see the babies and even got some pictures that they gave to Regulus and James (?he asked for one we’re not sure why but he cried). Sirius asked a billion questions about his health and the babies and makes sure Remus always has his prenatals and his nausea potion. He also cried during the magical sonogram but he made him swear not to tell anyone. He was surprised but he shouldn’t have been. Sirius has always been diligent and making sure Remus was okay and had everything he needed before and after full moons without having to ask and even if he seems like just an arrogant rich pureblood to a lot of people, he actually loves fiercely, is insanely smart, and can/will do whatever he needs to do for the people he cares about.
So Remus really should’ve known, he shouldn’t have been surprised at all.
What also shouldn’t have surprised him, were the negatives. Homophobia didn’t really exist in the Wizarding world but blood purity still does and classism apparently. Whenever he’s in a class he doesn’t have with Sirius, people are sending him notes or “whispering” about how he’s selfish for keeping Black for himself when he should be with someone of pure blood or how he must have given him a love potion because “why else would he be with a poor half-blood with scars everywhere?” Sometimes he’s even getting pushed around by other students or cornered by girls telling him he’s not good enough to be with him and should just let him go so that he’ll find someone worthy of him. He shouldn’t let it get to him, it’s not too often because of how much he and the marauders are together but it gets to him. He’s 15 almost 16 weeks pregnant, his hormones are going haywire, and he’s starting to show to the point where he’ll have to start figuring something out because the regular sewing charms he knows aren’t going to cut it anymore soon. He really should’ve known.
It’s Tuesday, and he woke up at a godforsaken hour because he had to pee and he couldn’t go back to sleep so he decided to just get ready and maybe he could get the house elves to make him something early and he could relax for a bit before everyone started getting up. He decided to take a long hot shower. He usually doesn’t get to, having to share with 3 other boys is not really great for long showers. He feels a bit dizzy when he gets out but after drinking some water and sitting down for a bit he’s fine and he starts getting dressed for school. Or, he tries. His pants won’t button, did he pop overnight? Is that a thing? That doesn’t happen overnight, sure he’s been starting to show and he’d had to do a sewing charm on it but he’s already done that and they still don’t fit. He goes back to the bathroom, closes the door and looks in the mirror now that it’s not fogged up and.. maybe it can happen over night because that looks distinctly more obvious than it was yesterday. And maybe it was the straw that broke the camel's back because he can feel the tears forming in his eyes and what the fuck really. There was the hormones and the insults and the whispering and the notes and getting pushed around and he’s so tired all time and he could handle it he could he was used to most of it already because of the scars but fuck he can’t get his pants to fit and he doesn’t know why it’s bothering him so much. He leaves the bathroom and changes into a jumper and a pair of loose sweatpants before quietly leaving the room.
He initially doesn’t know where he wants to go but before he even thinks about it he knocks loudly on the girls dormitory door where Lily is. He hasn’t even stopped to think about the fact that he just successfully walked up to said dorms without it turning into a slide but he’s too overwhelmed to think about it right now he just keeps knocking. “WHO IN MERLIN’S NAME IS- Remus?” Lily stops her ranting as soon as she sees his tear tracked face and ushers him inside. Mary & Marlene, who were also woken up by his incessant knocking, are crawling out of their beds to Lily’s where Remus was planted. They’re all looking concerned and a bit confused as he’s just sitting there crying on Lily’s shoulder while holding a pair of pants. For seemingly no reason as far as they know. They let him cry it out for a bit just giving him quiet comfort and cuddles until his breathing has evened out and he’s down to sniffles.
“There you are love, now do you want to tell us what’s going on?”
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“I popped”
Silence
“I popped and now my pants don’t fit and I don’t know any other sewing charms and I can’t get them on an-and I’m so tired all the time and I keep getting insults or minor threats from people I don’t even know because I’m dating ‘THE Sirius Black, Gryffindor heart throb’ and do you know how many times I’ve been called a gold digger just this week? It’s exhausting not showing how much it gets to me because I’m complicating his life and stressing him out enough, he doesn’t need to stress about this too, you know? And it’s just, it’s so stupid because I should be able to handle it, after all the shit I get from being a half-blood with all these scars but fuck it’s so overwhelming and now I can’t even put on these fucking pants because I popped”
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“Okay we will get back to the bullying, and don’t look at me like that it is b u l l y i n g without a doubt and I will not stand for it. But, darling, what exactly do you mean by popped?”
Oh. He forgot they didn’t know, are these the pants that.. yes! He pulls out 3 sonogram pictures and hands them to the girls.
“I’m pregnant, with twins, they’re Sirius’ of course, a boy and a girl. I’m almost 16 weeks I think and I was already pretty lanky yanno and there’s two of them so I started showing pretty early. I’ve been using just the basic sewing charm but this morning I realized i was too big for it to work and” -he extracts himself from the girls to stand up and pull up his jumper- “I popped”
The girls are now staring openly and unblinking at his hard very obvious protruding belly with open mouths. He doesn’t really know how long he’s supposed to just stand there waiting for a response so he slowly pulls his jumper back down and looks back at them waiting for a response. He doesn’t have to wait long before the squealing starts and they pull him back down for mix of crying and hugging.
“BABIES?? THERE'S MORE THAN ONE? SWEET MERLIN”
“REMUS !! THIS IS GRAND!”
“OH MY GOD YOU'VE BEEN HIDING THIS FROM US FOR ALMOST 5 MONTHS???”
He hugs them back and laughs wetly against them. He knew they wouldn’t react badly but he’s glad he has their support and they didn’t yell at him or anything disappointing. He really doesn’t know why he didn’t tell them earlier, they're amazing friends and he should hang out with them more often honestly. Mary is the one who breaks first.
“Alright love now get up so I can measure you and I’ll get these pants all fixed up and you can tell us about who had the audacity to say those absolutely untrue things about you”
“Ugh it’s not a big deal, I can handle it really it was just a lot building up and it came out”
“It's not nothing, Remus it’s not true you know that don’t you? Anyone who’s close to you two has known it was inevitable for years, we were just waiting to see when it would happen honestly”
“Lily’s right, I think I noticed all the way back in third year? You two move around each other like there’s an invisible string attached to you and you have to snap back together” Marlene responds genuinely with a laugh.
“Look, we’re your friends if you don’t want us to retaliate, that's fine, we’re not Sirius or James, we won't go around hexing anyone that looks at you wrong. But we’re here for you, even if you can handle it, it doesn’t mean you have to do it alone. You’re not a burden.”
And isn’t that just the right thing to say. Merlin, he really needs to remember he has other friends outside of the boys. So, after being reassured again that he’s not being a burden and this is what friends are for he tells them.. everything. Every comment or note or push or look, he tells them every uncomfortable or straight up hurtful interaction. He also tells them everything about how the pregnancy is going and every annoying symptom but also the happy parts like being able to see them at appointments and hear their heart beats. It feels so good to just be able to put it out there, he feels like a weight has lifted off his chest. Maybe he will tell Sirius at some point, not now, but later if it feels this good telling them.
By the time he makes it back to the dorm with his newly redone slacks, everyone is up and getting ready for the day. He’s not questioned on where he was, which confuses him until he sees the map on Sirius’ bed and figures he checked once he woke up and Remus wasn’t there. Thankfully, all he gets is a good morning kiss and a look saying “you good?” He nods that he’s great and everything is fine as they all get ready for the day.