This chapter is dedicated to deanine who made me realize that I was being a total prat and should change the first chapter.

Lily sat in the living room of Potter Manor. She would nervously glance at her husband now and then but James appeared to be totally oblivious to her peril and continued to work silently. She thought the role reversal was pretty ironic for usually she was the one working while James tried to find other ways to amuse him.

She looked at her own report, the parchment was completely blank. She glanced at her notes and scratched her neck. She couldn't make out a word of the notes that she herself had taken.

There was a relieved sigh and a shuffle of papers from the other side of the room and she looked up to see James roll his parchment into a neat scroll. He was done! She stared at her own parchment panicking slightly; she was supposed to hand this in tomorrow!

"What's wrong?" James voice attracted her attention and she looked up to find him staring at her with a curious expression.

"Nothing" she mumbled shakily as she opened her ink pot. She dipped her quill into it and then turned to stare at her hasty notes. She was getting frustrated now. Usually she could connect the dots within a minute but today she couldn't even concentrate enough to find any connection among them.

All the victims were males. A ransom note was found. Three children and two women missing…..

"Then why are you staring at me like a teenage girl who wants to ask me out?" he asked her with an amused expression "we are already married so sorry love but you can't have more".

Lily gulped. How was she supposed to tell him what she had found while visiting the healers?

Well you are gonna have to tell him somehow.

Guess I will have to find a opening…

"I went to the healers today" she told him casually as if a visit to St. Mongo's was normal to her.

"Everything okay?' he asked her in a concerned voice.

Lily hummed nodding into her parchment as she began the report which she knew would be the worst one she ever handed in.

"That's good" James mumbled and Lily had to refrain from hitting him. Honestly! Did he not get the opening?

"They did have some news though' she said pointedly.

"Is this the point where you throw butter beer into my face because I made you pregnant?" James joked as he tied his scroll and cast it aside. He frowned at Lily's horrified expression.

"How…how did you know?' she gasped watching him shakily.

"That was a joke" he exclaimed holding out his hands in a mock defeat.

Lily could only smile at him.

James was flabbergasted. The idea of even connecting his name with the word father was…surreal. The idea that he would have his own baby boy was wonderful but bizarre. A million emotions clashed in his heart.

He felt shock at the news he had just received. Would his life ever be the same? There was of course the inevitable feeling of love for the child who even though hadn't been born still was very important to him. Then, a fear appeared distorting all the other emotions. The world he lived in was in no way appropriate for a child to grow in, would it ever be safe?

He saw Lily watching him uneasily as she fiddled with the hem of her robes. He realized that he should say something to her but he couldn't find a way to explain the warmth which was steadily spreading through his chest. As springing two words together seemed like the hardest job ever he decided to show his pleasure in a non-verbal way.

"And if Padfoot I get even a whiff that you told her I am…..going to do something to you!" James warned Sirius as they talked through the fireplace.

Lily had asked James to keep the new addition to the Potter family a secret but unfortunately secrecy among the Marauders was like trying to keep water in your cupped hands. So the fact could be easily established that all the friends knew. Remus had immediately agreed to act surprised when Lily told them but Sirius was a totally different story. With a fanatical grin on his face he said, "Not tell her and miss a chance to get you busted, never Prongs!"

James glared at his friend "Padfoot!"

"Fine fine Jamie boy, no telling I promise" said Sirius but he crossed his fingers behind his back.

James nodded and immediately disappeared as Lily's calls could be heard. Sirius grinned, how thick was James to actually take his word for it. All these years with Sirius should have taught him to always keep his friend's fingers in sight when he promised him something.

"It is party time!"

"Please tell me you didn't tell them" Lily pleaded James as she watched him uneasily read the daily prophet. She had gotten her suspicions as soon as she saw him lurking near the fireplace. She knew for a fact that he hated the Potter's drawing room because it was too formal for his liking and only went there to make fire calls.

Startled by her statement James lifted his newspaper and effectively covered his face "Of course not dear" he assured her cursing his lips which kept on twitching. How could he lie straight to the person who had the ability to expel him from school and not to his wife was beyond him.

"James" she said in a warning tone once she saw her husband hide his face. She knew he was terrible at lying to her for she could always notice the faint twitch of his lips "look into my eyes and tell me you didn't tell them".

Hesitantly James dropped the paper and said "I didn't tell them" in one breath.

There is the twitch!

"You told them!' she accused him.

"Fine alright but I swear…"

The knocker of the main door sounded and Lily rounded at James her vegetables forgotten "that will be them" she growled clearly annoyed.

James shook his head "they promised not to bug us".

"And you told them not to let me know that they knew" she sighed as someone knocked at the main door again "and I will let them in before they knock the door down".

Lily moved to the door with James tailing behind her nervously running a hand through his hair. They could see shadows on the other side of the door, to be more exact three shadows. Lily opened the door and James took hold of his wand; a cautious safety precaution. When the door opened to reveal their visitors his precaution seemed unnecessary.

"SURPRISE! We are here to celebrate the birth of the heir of the marauders" Sirius yelled as he pushed a badly wrapped package into Lily's hands. Lily realized her life would never be the same again as she reluctantly invited the marauders into Potter Manor.

I know I wrote the scene of the whole party but…..well truth be told I got lazy. Please don't hate me maybe I will add it later or write a one-shot (of the better version of course the last one sucked)