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"Come on people. Why are we just standing around?" All the healers standing around the room looked up and tried to act busy as Lily Potter, new head of the department and their boss, walked through the doors.
"Good morning Healer Potter."
"Morning Mary. What do we have first today?"
"There's nothing on your list until nine, but we have a patient in labour on the fifth floor that needs someone to deliver." Lily looked at the young blonde healer who she was monitoring,, still relatively new to the hospital, following her and nodded.
"I'll go." She told her before looking around. "And why did no one else take this? Were they supposed to deliver their own baby?" There was a rush and she rolled her eyes, walking out the other door into the corridor, Mary still hurrying behind her, a chart in hand.
"The laziness in this group astounds me. It's no wonder there were so many complaints last year." She told her and Mary nodded. Tying up her hair, she snapped on a pair of rubber gloves and tied a mask over her nose and mouth before going into the room, Mary doing the same and coming in behind her.
"Deep breaths, sir, let it pass." Mary said, going up next to the man. Lily had never in her entire life had she ever thought she'd see a man giving birth. But since the discovery of a certain potion a few years back, a thorough examination and testing of a wizard's cadaver and a lot of experimenting, a male pregnancy had been documented.
It was a recent thing; she had been an intern and the assistant to the healer who'd discovered it (thus her fairly quick rise up to the top of her career path), her own little Harry had only been a tiny baby himself and it was only gaining popularity in the past five or ten years.
A small space just behind and above the bladder had been discovered and through testing, they had found the potion they created could form a uterus equivalent to the one found inside a witch and enable a foetus to develop.
Another potion when labour began, a mild version of a transgender potion, allowed a temporary change in genitalia and a normal birth.
A scream from her patient brought her back down to earth and she didn't look at him as she held up the potion, making sure it was the right dosage and strength.
"Good morning sir, I am healer Potter and I'll be delivering your baby."
"Lily…" She heard him say in a familiar voice and her head turned, pulling the mask off her mouth.
"James?" She said as she looked in his eyes. "What happened?" He couldn't answer as another contraction came. She looked at Mary.
"What happened?"
"I'm not sure, they're saying it was just some sort of switch with another man when he came. I heard it's dark magic."
"Is this why no one would take the case?" She looked at the other healers from the room she'd come into. "If there's one complication, one single problem, I'll have your jobs! Every last one of you!" She shouted angrily at them.
"What are we going to do?" Mary asked her as she pulled her mask up again.
"We're going to get this baby out, I don't care what the circumstance is!" She said and as the nurse uncorked the potion and held to James's lips, Lily stared.
"Why are you so upset? This has happened before."
"This isn't just a patient Mary, it's my husband."
They sat at the restaurant deciding what to have silently. Harry's eyes looked up from his menu to stare at Draco hollowly.
"Draco…"
"I think I'm going to have the pancakes… What about you?" Harry put his menu down slowly and shook his head.
"I... I'm not really hungry."
"Suit yourself… Now what were you saying?" He shook his head again.
"Never mind."
"Moony? Did you lose the baby? I thought you were past the miscarriage risk?" James said and Remus shook his head.
"We thought we'd lost it too but… Sirius! You're going to have to face him sometime!" He said and gripped Sirius's arm, pulling him into the room and out of his hiding place.
"Whoa!" James said chuckling and Sirius blushed, pulling his arm away from Remus. James stared wide-eyed as he sat down in the chair next to the bed, not muttering a single word.
"Well that's one way to keep him quiet." James said and looked at Remus again. "Why is Sirius pregnant instead of you? Are you taking turns?"
"I could ask you and Regulus the same question." James looked down at the baby again. "Where is he anyway?"
"We got here because it was coming early and I don't know, it just suddenly disappeared from him and the next thing I knew I was being wheeled into the delivery room and he scarpered."
"So you don't know where he is?" Sirius asked and James shook his head.
"I'm sorry Padfoot." Sirius shrugged.
"Not your fault it just decided to-," He stopped and looked at Remus. " Spontaneously move from one person to another." Remus stopped and his mouth opened in shock.
"It's exactly the same thing. But… why now?"
"So, what happened?" Harry gave a sniff and Lily placed an arm around his shoulder comfortingly.
"I don't know. We went to the healer for a check-up and when they did the scan, it was just, gone!"
"These things happen. There was probably nothing you could do to stop it. And I know it hurts, but it'll get better with time." He nodded slowly. "And when you're ready, you could always try again and I'd be your healer and make sure it doesn't happen." He leaned against his mother, eyes shut tiredly, tears glistening on his lashes.
"Next time? The healer said the uterus wasn't even there and he can't take that potion again. How would there ever be a next time?"
James looked up from the little baby in his arms and stared at Draco, disgusted by his mocking tone when it was clear how upset Harry was at the loss of their baby.
Worse, still, Harry had buried his face in his mother's shoulder, shaking with his silent sobs, and all his lover, it was something like a month from three years together (despite all their fights and issues), could do was stare at the mixed bunch of flowers (straight from Sirius and Remus' garden) distastefully.
Not for the first time, as a silent awkwardness filled the room, both Lily and James wondered why their son stayed with Draco.
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