James' gaze slid down from her eyes, and locked onto her stomach. What? " Are you..serious?"
Lily nodded. " D'you think that I would lie about something like this? Oh, James, what are we going to do?"
James shook his head, disbelieving. How could he have gotten Lily pregnant? Why didn't the spell work? He had a mind to go run to Dumbledore, demanding to know why the spell books for his classes lied. But that wouldn't do. Nobody must know about this, they would be expelled if it were found out. Immediately, James saw faces. His mother, crying and worried as she realized that her only child's life was being destroyed. His father, disappointed as he berated James for doing something so stupid. Sirius, furious, while ignoring him for acting like a prat. Dumbledore, telling them that they both had to leave Hogwarts. Lily, hating him for doing this to her.
" L-Lil-Lily, I'm sorry?" Mentally, James kicked himself a he watched Lily's tears dry, her face turning bright red. Here we go, He thought. But it never came. His girlfriend just leaned up against him, and sighed.
" I just don't understand why that spell didn't work. We used all kinds of protective spells, and now look at where it got us. Who can we talk to?" She sighed again, and twisted her arm backwards as she ran her fingers through James hair absentmindly.
" Err- no one? Lil, why does anyone have to know? Come June, and we'll be out of here, we can get married, and have the baby. It will be simple." James laughed bitterly.
" James, you are such an idiot," Lily hissed." It's December. By June, I'll be huge. Even before June everyone will know that I am pregnant. We have to do something, we have to talk to someone. There has to be a spell that I can use to cover it up. There just has to be." James knew that Lily was about to start crying again right when she became very, very quiet.
" Lily, they'll probably make us leave. They won't let us stay at Hogwarts."
Lily stayed quiet, but then stood up abrubtly. " No."
"What? What do you mean, no?" James watched Lily as she walked over to the bookshelf that was near the teacher's desk.
" James, this isn't against the rules. We weren't in school when it happened. We were on Holiday." She bent down under the desk, and surfaced with a very large and dusty book in her hands.
" So?"
" So," Lily brought the book over to the desk where she and James were, and slammed it down. She began to rifle through the pages. " The rules say that we would have to be expelled if it happened on school grounds, but it didn't." She looked up at him. " We can stay."
James felt a huge weight being lifted off of his chest. But still, something was nagging him. " Lily, what about our parents? Even if the school says that we can stay, my Mum and Dad are going to pull me out, and so are yours." Then they will murder me, James thought to himself.
Lily just shook her head. " They are going to have to deal with it." She put her hands on James' knees, and he lifted her onto his lap. Lily spoke quietly. " I love you, James Potter, and that's never going to change."
James was confused. Minutes ago, when she told him that she was pregnant, he thought that she would have been breaking down in frustration. But she wasn't. She was being strong. Unless, she was just pretending to be that way. But...a child!? With Voldemort out in the open? He was glad that they had a chance of staying at Hogwarts, it was the only safe place now-a-days, but still.
" I love you, Lily." He hugged her, and momentarily forgot about Dumbledore, his Mum and Dad, and Sirius.
Lily and James both moved stealthily around the corridors, hiding from Filtch and his cat with the help of the Marauders Map and James' invisibility cloak. They slipped into Gryffindor tower, and were able to make it to their Head dormitories without waking anyone else up.
The next morning, Lily purposely stayed in the common room so that she could talk to James' alone. When he finally came down, Sirius, Remus, and Peter laughing in his wake, Lily knew that he hadn't told his friends.
" James?" Lily said tentatively, sliding her hand into his. He just shook his head, and smiled at his friends as he told them to go down the Great Hall for breakfast, reassuring them that he would be quick to follow.
Once they were gone, he pulled Lily up the stairs and into his dormitory. They sat down on his bed, which was rumpled with its sheets tossed about. Lily sighed, and began to make it for him.
" Lily, do you want to go to Madam Pomfrey, instead of going directly to Dumbledore? With any luck, she'll say that your too, err, sick to have to go into a meeting with him." James was proud of his plan, he saw it as a very clever way to ignore Dumbledore's dissapointment while still doing what was right. Lily, however, frowned.
" James, I might be safe, but what about you?"
James stopped smiling immedialty. " Err, I could faint or something?"
Lily laughed, and sat down on the bed. " No, silly. You couldn't."
James pulled Lily into his embrace. " Then shall we do it by the end of the week, then?" Lily nodded, and they went down to breakfast. If their friends noticed their spacy expressions, they didn't say so.
