"10 drabbles, 10 topics challenge" on the HPFC forum. Prompt: setting- hospital
Coming into wakefulness is not Lily's idea of fun right now, but her mind demands to know the source of the beeping and why she feels so pained in her abdomen.
So she opens her eyes and closes them again immediately, biting back a groan of pain. The lights are far too bright, she thinks, turning her head to the left to reopen her eyes.
Her sights rest on her husband James, who isn't looking in her direction and doesn't even seem to realize that she's awake. She frowns until she sees the bundle wrapped in blue in his arms, and it all comes back to her. Harry. Her baby.
"…and you'll be a Quidditch star, Harry, lead Chaser on the Gryffindor team- or any other position, really, I'm not fussy," James mutters joyfully to the babe, making Lily smile fondly. "And then, let's not forget all the pranks you'll pull and how crazy you'll make ol' Minnie. Give her more than a few gray hairs for me, will you? It'll serve her right for all of those detentions she gave me and your uncles…"
"Corrupting him already?" Lily sighs, and James looks up at her with a brilliant smile on his face.
"Lily!" he says happily, standing and placing baby Harry in her open arms. "I can't let him get away with living for a moment without goals," he defends.
She talks to Harry instead of to James. "Don't listen to your father," she says softly, staring into his unfocused green eyes. "He's crazy and doesn't know what he's talking about, goals like that."
She glances up and James laughs quietly. Then Sirius walks in the door to her hospital room, and Lily feels all hope of peace and quiet go out the window.