Here it is! An Interesting Reaction! I'm sure you are all waiting on the edge of your seats to read this! But first, a brief word from your author.

Remember, I know exactly where I am taking this story. I do know what J.K. Rowling has written in her stories, and I do know who is dating whom, when, and where in the Harry Potter world. Please trust me on this and don't criticize my story until I've had the chance to tell the whole thing.

My alpha (because she's too cool to be a beta), Alex, is the most amazing person in the entire world.

Other than that…I own a brand new copy of PoA (Thank you mommy!) and about $20. That's really about it.

READ ON!

Beth looked over the living room for the umpteenth time that day to see if anything was out of place. Nothing was, of course, because she was the only one home. It was just as perfect as it had been when she fixed it this morning. She paced back into the kitchen, and saw that everything was as it should be in there too. Beth's hands ran through her hair. It had been three months since the day of her wedding, and since they all gone their separate ways off that train home, the seven of them hadn't all been together at the same time. Lily and James had been planning their wedding and working, Peter had been disappearing for weeks at a time without explanation, Sirius had bought this ridiculous magical motorbike and was taking Sam on spastic trips every few days, and Remus and Beth had a honeymoon to go on, and a flat to buy.

But finally they were all getting together tonight in Beth and Remus's new flat. Beth wanted everything to be absolutely perfect for the great get-together of the Marauders and the Ladies Fair. Beth sighed in relief as she heard the door swing open and Remus call out, "Beth? Where are you?"

"Kitchen!" Beth called back and Remus came in and gave her a great big kiss.

"How was your day, Mrs. Lupin?" Remus asked, still holding Beth close.

"It was fine, Mr. Lupin, how was your day?"

"Just fine. It felt like it would drag on forever though, I just couldn't wait for tonight. When is everyone coming?"

"They should arrive any minute now." Beth pulled herself in closer to Remus. "I'm so excited." She whispered into Remus's shoulder.

Remus ran his hand down the length of her hair. "Me too, honey, me too."

When everyone arrived, it did not take very long for the group to flow right into the meeting, as if they hadn't left Hogwarts and were simply on another break. It wasn't long at all before Sirius put something down Peter's pants, or Lily scolded James for a rude joke.

It's interesting to see that not much has really changed, Beth wrote in the notebook that she had propped on her knee, but it's fun to know just how much it has.

The mood shifted, and the room became serious briefly as they discussed what was going on in the wizarding world today. They talked about a few recent murders, and the rapid gain in power that Voldemort and his Death Eaters seemed to have.

"Okay. Enough of all this You-Know-Who talk, Lets think about something happy." Peter snapped, "Lily, James, What's up with your wedding?"

"Well, I've already asked Sam to be my maid of honor, and she's accepted." Lily smiled.

"And, if he promises to behave himself, we would like to have Sirius as the best man." James commented sheepishly.

"What? Well, of course I'll behave myself!" Sirius stood up, in a rather dignified manor, "I swear I won't be drunk for the ceremony, unlike somebody we know."

"Hey! If they hadn't decided to elope right in the middle of one of the best parties in Hogwarts history, then I would've been sober!" James also jumped to his feet.

"Boys, boys, settle down." Remus murmured.

Sirius laughed. "Listen to him. All married and grown-up. Aren't you just ready to raise your family?" He teased.

"Well, he better be, he's only got seven months to prepare for it." Beth commented off-hand.

Her comment was almost ignored, but then all at once everyone turned to look at her.

"Seven months? As in, two less than nine?" James asked.

"Very good, James." Remus laughed, "All those years at school did you some good."

"You're two months pregnant?" Sam whispered.

"I am two months pregnant." Beth replied. Everyone jumped up at once and charged at her, and she quickly found herself in the center of a crazy group hug.

"Why are we only hearing about this now?" Sam scolded from somewhere to Beth's left.

"We were waiting so that we could tell all of you at once," Remus replied.

"And you all just couldn't sit still. Every weekend, someone else was gone." Beth laughed.

"Well, that'll teach us to have lives, won't it?" James's laughed from Beth's right.

"Two Months pregnant. Out little Bethie is all grown up!" Sirius sighed, pulling out of the massive group hug, leading the others to do the same.

"A Him or a Her?" Peter asked.

"We don't know. We want to be surprised." Remus laughed.

"Well, do you have names yet?" Lily pressed.

"Well, we did promise our first born son to be Sirius's name-sake, didn't we?" Beth laughed, "But if it's a girl, we don't have a clue."

For the next few hours, they all talked about names for Beth's child and prospective names for Lily and James's future children as well. Dinner and Desert passed quickly, and before they knew it everyone had headed home and Remus and Beth were all alone again.

Beth rolled her eyes as Remus propped her feet up on a pillow. "You know I am only pregnant. I can still move on my own and such."

"I know, I know," Remus said, tucking a blanket around Beth's waist, "But I love taking care of you. Plus, I want my baby to be big and strong and his mummy happy."

"Well, then, stop fidgeting with the bed, and come lay down." Beth commanded and Remus's obliged. "After all, this is my last night with your for a couple of days."

Remus kissed her forehead. "I'm sorry."

Beth waved her hand dismissively. "It's through no fault of your own." The next three days Remus was staying in James and Lily's basement for transformations. Beth's mom came to their apartment to help Beth, because these parts of the pregnancy were some of the most difficult, and being that Beth's Mother was the only known woman to be pregnant with such "Circumstances", she was the best woman to help.

"Oh, God, Mum, isn't there a spell that can make this stop hurting?"

"Elizabeth, Dear, there isn't a spell in the world that could get rid of that much pain." Beth's mother put a hot towel over Beth's slightly swollen stomach. "Honey, have you told Remus?"

"That his unfortunate condition puts me is so much pain I wish to kill every nerve cell in my entire body when he already feels guilty that any children we have will probably be werewolves? No, I really haven't." Beth snapped at her mother.

"Elizabeth Micrada!"

"Elizabeth Lupin, and…I'm sorry, Mum, it just hurts." Beth put her hands over her stomach as another wave of pain shot through it, and her mother rested a second hot towel on her forehead. "It's like the baby is biting at the inside of my stomach. It's insane."

"Oh, I know, honey. I wish I could tell you that it gets better, but it really doesn't. But believe me, when you first hold that baby in your arms and recognize your husband's nose and your lips, it's all worth it."

"I'd pity that poor child if it's a werewolf and has Remus's nose." Beth laughed weakly as the pain relaxed for a moment.

"Elizabeth! Be nice to your husband!"

"I am being nice to my husband. He just has a big nose. He knows it." Beth winced again as another pain ripped inside her stomach. "Dear God, I think I just might kill him."

"Just wait until you start labor, Elizabeth. At that point, sharp objects should not be within a twenty mile radius of you."

""

"Beth is pregnant." Lily said, folding down the corner of her blanket.

"I know, Hun, I was there when they said it and you've been reminding me every hour or so for the past two days. Something on your mind, Lily?"

"It's just, them getting married was no big deal. In the back of my mind they've always been married. But a kid..." Lily crawled into bed and stared up at the ceiling for a few seconds, "I guess this just makes if official. Hogwarts is over; we have to grow up now."

James crawled into bed next to her. "Yeah, we have to grow up now, but it'll be fun. Plus, we have to grow up to get married, don't we?"

"Well, yeah."

"And don't you want to get married?"

"Of course."

"Then there you go. Now let's stop this. No one would expect that Lily Evans is hesitant to grow up and James Potter would have to talk her into it, and honestly, it's creeping me out." James gave Lily a big kiss and turned on his side away from her.

"You know what else no one would expect?" Lily murmured

"What?"

"That when lying in a bed with Lily Evans, James Potter would turn his back to her, and instead, Lily Evans would have to coax him into doing something."

"Oh? Something?" James turned back to face Lily.

"Yeah, Something."

"You know what everyone would expect, though?" James laughed.

"What's that?"

"That Lily Evans wouldn't have to do all that much coaxing at all to get James to agree to something."

""

Peter picked at his nails in an absent minded-way. It was odd to sit, in his own apartment, and although he had been living there alone for a few months now, the silence still sat weird with him. He let his hand fall back down to the table in front of him, and wondered just what he was going to do for the rest of the night before heading up to bed.

Luckily, the random pops that sounded a few seconds later answered that for him.

"Pettigrew, you have been summoned by the Dark Lord for a report on any information you have collected recently about the Potters and their friends." Snape's silky voice slid from beneath one of the many masked men now standing in Peter's Kitchen.

"Yes, yes, of course." Peter rose to his feet and began to go change, but Snape stopped him for a moment.

"Pettigrew, it better be good today. If it is, then the Dark Lord will make you a more permanent member of our little organization here." Peter instinctively gripped his forearm.

"Of course. My information is always good." Peter mumbled, and then disappeared into his bedroom to change.

""

"Sirius Lupin. Baby Sirius Lupin. The oh-so-handsome Sirius Lupin."

"Sirius, please stop that. You've been saying it for two days now and you sound ridiculously gay saying Sirius Lupin over and over again." Sam pulled her hair back into a ponytail and adjusting her jacket.

"Sorry, but I'm excited. Do you really think that they will name their baby boy after me?" Sirius handed Sam her helmet, and put his own on.

"Of course they will. You know Beth; she can't go back on a promise. The big question is: What will his Middle name be?" Anyway, let's get going. I want to hit Switzerland before Sunrise." Sam pulled her helmet on, and Sirius kicked his motorbike to life.