Hope you enjoy! This one's very fluffy, so read at your own risk.


James Potter by all rights should have been asleep. And he would be asleep if he was in control of his life, but sadly one word was changing all that. A rather onomatopoeic word, to tell the truth.

"WAAAAAAAAAH!"

Lily, now half-awake, groaned and rolled over in bed, grabbing James' pillow and shoving it over the edge of their king-sized bed. This was Phase One of her rather clever strategy of getting him out of bed.

As James fumbled for the pillow, he felt the covers yanked off of him by his sleepy wife.

Phase Two.

"Oh Merlin, Lils, I hate you so, so much right now," James mumbled drowsily, before falling out of the bed with a loud crash. This made Aurelia cry louder from next to the bed.

James pulled himself up and walked over to the garishly pink plastic cradle, taking his baby daughter out of it. She was screaming her tiny head off.

Lily mumbled something indistinct from her pillow. James glared at her for a moment before replying "Pardon?"

"Take her to the other room. I need sleep," Lily groaned.

"I got her last night!" protested James indignantly.

"Actually, I did."

James realized with a start that she was right. "Damn," he muttered, and walked tiredly out of the room with his daughter in his arms.

Aurelia was crying still, very loudly, and James was slightly vexed at her. Then he became angry at himself for being angry at a helpless little girl.

He walked all the way down to the living room, where he slumped down onto the couch and tried to fall asleep.

It didn't work. Then he got one of his bright ideas and started to sing.

"Um…"

Or would have, if he could remember any song lyrics besides "Odo the Hero" which hardly seemed appropriate right now.

And then he remembered a song Lily adored, something by the Insects or the Roaches or something like that.

He hummed it at first until he could remember the chorus, and then he remembered most of it after that.

"Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on bra,

La la how the life goes on.

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on bra!

La la how the life goes on.

Mm hm hm hm hm hm to the jeweler's store,

Buys a mm hm hm hm golden ring…"

Aurelia was dozing on his shoulder, which would have been cute if James wasn't sleep-deprived and agitated in a tired sort of way. He brushed one of her red curls away from her face and continued to sing.

When he finally stopped singing, he was too tired to get up, so he fell asleep on the couch with Aurelia in his arms.


Lily held back a squeal at the cuteness. Her husband with bed head, their baby daughter curled in his arms contentedly.

She had to take a photo. Hastily she dashed up to the bedroom and grabbed her camera, snapping a photo that unfortunately woke up both James and Aurelia.

Aurelia screamed miserably, and James wordlessly handed her off to Lily before stumbling back to bed.

"In retrospect," Lily mumbled, bouncing Aurelia as she walked around the kitchen and waited for her baby's sobs to die down, "that picture might not have been worth it."


"You're that sick of her? Really? Leaving a three-week-old with me and Moony so you can go on a little night out?" Sirius grinned. "You do know what we'll probably end up doing to her by accident-"

"You break my baby and I hex you seventeen years into the future," threatened Lily in response.

"Wha-how-break your baby?" replied Sirius in amusement. "How do you break a baby?"

"I am sure that you will show us," Remus responded from where he was playing peekaboo with Aurelia (who was really too young to understand the concept). "You have a certain aptitude for breaking things, which is why James and Lily left me in charge."

"I don't break babies!"

"You broke Crookshanks," shot back Lily with a grin, scratching the bowlegged cat behind his ears. "The present I got from Mary. You made him run into a wall after a mouse and now he's probably never going to be the same again."

"Touche, Ev-I mean Potter."

"I know, it's hard to get used to, isn't it?" laughed Lily gaily before hurrying over to Remus and kissing Aurelia on the top of her head. "Mummy loves you, sweetie. Be good for Uncle Moony and your godfather, okay?"

Aurelia tried to grab her nose.

"I'll take that as a yes."


Remus stared at Aurelia.

Aurelia stared back.

"Staring contest GO!" yelled Sirius in Remus' ear. Remus jumped, and Aurelia screwed up her face and wailed loudly.

"Wow, she can scream," Sirius added conversationally.

"Sirius Orion Black, we need to keep this baby in one piece!" snapped Remus before muttering to Aurelia, "Ignore him, he's an idiot."

Aurelia was still crying, so Remus got up and took her into the kitchen.

"See this?" he crooned in a low voice. "That's a toaster. You probably shouldn't touch it until you know what a burn is and then you'll be fine."

Aurelia's sobs started to subside.

"And this is a sink. You turn the water on and off, see?" Remus reached with the hand not supporting Aurelia and twisted the handle. Aurelia watched intently, suddenly forgetting to cry.

"On. Off. On. Off."

Aurelia placed her hand in her mouth and sucked on it.

"On. Off. On. Off."

"She's got quite an attention span, hasn't she?" commented Sirius.

"Sirius, I am not going to talk to you right now," Remus turned away from the faucet. Aurelia started to cry again.

Hastily, he turned on the faucet, and Aurelia began to sniffle up her tears. But as soon as she didn't see the water going on and off, she started to wail.

"Oh please no," groaned Remus. "Anything but the faucet."

Sirius grinned. "Want me to get you a chair? I have a feeling that you'll be there for a looong time."


"How did everything go?" asked Lily three hours later.

Sirius grinned. "Moony's entertaining your daughter. You may have a high water bill after this."

Lily and James, both of them slightly bemused, hurried into the kitchen.

"Oh thank Merlin," sighed Remus without turning around. "On. Off. On. Off."

"Remus, what're you-" began Lily.

Remus groaned slightly. "She seems to have a special interest in water. This is the only thing we've been doing for three hours."

Lily giggled. "I see she's inherited your brains, James."

James laughed as well. "Come on, Little Lily, I bet you just needed to be distracted from missing Daddy, hmm?"

Remus handed Aurelia to James, but as soon as she realized that she couldn't see the water she burst into tears again.

"Oh cr-"

"NO SWEARING IN FRONT OF THE BABY!" shouted Lily and Remus together, while Sirius cracked up in the corner.


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