By the time the emotionally strung out men were done destroying every stereotype that said men shouldn't cry it was so late that they could barely keep their eyes open. Remus was leaning back on the couch with his head nodding down every so often before he would catch himself and pop his head back up in a vain attempt to stay awake. Sirius wasn't even trying, he had just stretched out and laid his head on the armrest to doze. James smiled sleepily at his friends antics, the messy haired man got up from the comfortable chair he was in and leaned over Sirius' to shake him awake.

"Come on at least wake up enough to go upstairs and sleep in one of the guest rooms."

James pulled Sirius up laughing when Sirius just sort of flopped over his shoulder. Remus was smiling at his attempts for a couple of seconds before he got up to help. With a strength that only someone not completely human could have, he picked Sirius up and turned to James. The bespectacled man just gave a tired chuckle and led the way to the room Sirius always used when he stayed over.

As James led Remus down the hall from Sirius to another guest room decided to asks friend to speak to his wife about her problems.

"Remus?"

"What, James?"

"Do you think you can help Lilly tomorrow? She has been crying a lot and I don't know how to help her, she sees me and just cries harder. She will not tell me what has been bothering her either."

" Yeah James I'll talk to her tomorrow, and then we can all fix the problem. I think the war has just become too much for her. After all you two married right out of school and jumped right into the fighting in the war. Then you need to realize that Jamie is only six months old, she is probably stressed from the war and having an infant at the same time. Also from what I've read it can take almost two years for her body to recover from the pregnancy, including her hormones."

By this time the two men had made it to the room Remus used to prefer to stay in. Unlike Sirius' room it had a large window to let in the light from outdoors, allowing Remus to feel less closed in. The color scheme also helped as it was a more woodsy theme with lots of greens and browns, the occasional cream tone kept it from being too dark thankfully.

"Uhhh...Remus, when and why did you read about that sort of stuff?"

"James, you and Lilly are two of my best friends. As soon as you announced her pregnancy I started doing my research so I could help if you needed it."

James sighed and let his friend go to bed. He was incredibly mad at himself, he couldn't believe he had allowed himself to forget that Remus had always put his friends needs above his own. How he had believed that Remus could be the spy in the order he would never know. James walked upstairs to his and Lilly's room, for the first time since the birth of his son he felt that things were looking up. His friends were back together and Remus should be able to help Lilly; Jamie was healthy and their small family was making plans to survive.

James looked in on his little boy in his crib in the corner before laying down in bed with his wife. Even though she avoided him all day she still cuddled in her sleep. She sighed in relief at his presence before snuggling into his neck ,her sleep becoming more relaxed as she felt the safety of his arms.

Remus awoke to the early morning sun shining through the large window in his room. The werewolf stayed in bed staring up at the ceiling and thinking over everything that had happened yesterday. His morning and afternoon filled with the fear of being caught helping the other wolves escape Magical Britain, the early evening when his sort of boyfriend had sneaked up on him and asked to come over, the late evening conversation and revelation with his best friends. To say that he was emotionally exhausted was putting it mildly. He understood why James had thought the way he had, but the lingering fear from his childhood that the people he chose as his pack mates wold abandon him didn't help matters. He felt betrayed by James but elated that Sirius had stood up for him. Remus wondered what Peter thought, what Lilly thought, would they like James believe he would hurt them like that, or would they defend him like Sirius? Would any of them understand that he is just as scared as them , that being a wolf on the light side of the war has made him a prime target for the dark side to make an example of, and that most of the light side didn't really care if he made it out alive because of his furry little problem?

As he lay in his bed contemplating his current situation Remus' advanced senses alerted him to little Jamie waking up. Knowing that the child's crib was in James and Lilly's room he got out of bed and got dressed in the spare robes he had brought with him yesterday. When he left his room and made his way downstairs to the dining room he was met with the expected sight of James trying to feed his son. Trying because every time James attempted to get Jamie to eat the baby mush that was on the spoon the infant turned his head or flailed his hands causing a mess on the table. After a couple of minutes the child grabbed the spoon and got the pureed food all over his hands and body. At this point James gave up and just let his son play in the mess while he went to get a bottle of milk. While James was getting the milk Remus decided to clean the baby up; there was no point letting the mess dry on everything.

Lilly potter woke up terrified. Her house was silent from what she could tell and neither her husband or son were still in the room. In her panic she merely grabbed a dressing gown, threw it on over her nightwear and ran out of the room before bothering to think about the situation at all. She ran downstairs and almost crashed into James as she made her way to the dining room where she could finally hear her son's baby chatter.

"James?! Oh Merlin, James if your out here who has Jamie? Did some one break in? Are they holding him hostage? What do we do?"

James looked at his wife as she began asking more questions and getting hysterical. She had bags under her eyes and looked as though she had lost weight again. He just pulled her close and led her through the door so she could see for her self that their son was perfectly safe. Both he and Lilly were surprised by the sight they came across. He had expected to see his son still playing in the mushed bananas he had tried to feed him and Remus simply watching over him, instead he walked in and found his son completely cleaned off and sitting in Remus lap while the man played peek a boo with him. The chubby infant giggled every time the werewolf would move his hands away and follow up with his own attempt at saying "Boo" ; of course it came out more like "bu!"each time.

Remus looked up at his two friends and smiled gently before handing Jamie to James. He stood up and walked to Lilly, gathering her slim form into a reassuring hug. He felt her exhale a large breath and held her tighter, trying with out words to let her know he was there to help. He took in her scent in order to see if she was sick or hurt since James asked him to help her. He was startled by what he could smell on his friends body. He looked at James and received a nod that he could take Lilly back upstairs.

" Lilly? How about we get you upstairs to get properly dressed while James finishes feeding that hungry little munchkin? Okay?"

Lilly didn't respond she just stared at James holding their son with tears in her eyes and wouldn't look away.

Remus guided a shell shocked Lilly back upstairs and into her room. They were barely in the room for a few seconds before she burst into tears and started apologizing but not saying what she was sorry for. Remus let her cry for a couple of minutes before he tried to make her stop. He attempted to talk to her twice before getting frustrated because she would just cry louder . Remus gave up and decided to do something he normally avoided; he tapped into his inner wolf and growled at Lilly. He knew the noise would either scare her into silence or shock her into it. Either way she would be quiet and listen.

Lilly sat back and stared at her long time friend. She couldn't believe he just growled at her like she was an errant child. Oh she knew the difference in his growls, and that one was definitely a scolding one. She didn't know what to say, she wasn't sure why he had growled and didn't want to ask him mad by guessing either. She saw him take a deep breath and let it out and assumed he was about to start talking.

"Lilly... Why are you crying?"

"That why you growled at me like a cub chewing on its mother tail? Because I was crying?"

"No I did that because you wouldn't stop crying and your wails were beginning to hurt my ears."

"Oh..."

"Lilly I would like to know why your crying? James is afraid for you. He asked me to speak to you."

" Sniff*...Remus its awful... I... I.. I messed up and ...and ..."

"Lilly? What? What did you do? It can't be that bad, I'm sure we can work it out."

" Remus you just don't understand. Jamie is only just six months old and were in the middle of a war and James and I are so young. We weren't ready for Jamie and some how I forgot but I don't know how I forgot and everything is just way too much right now and James is going to hate me because now I've forced even more on his shoulders..."

The slender woman burst into tears again leaving Remus to try to make out what was wrong by the clues she had mentioned. Luckily he was the scholastic one of his group of friends.

"Lilly, STOP CRYING! I hate to raise my voice but i need you to answer my questions."

"Okay... *Sniff...*Sniff"

"Does this have anything to do with you smelling like your pregnant again?"

"*GASP... You can smell when someone is pregnant? I... I didn't know that."

"Yeah I can. Now will you tell me what is wrong please?"

" I'm pregnant Remus. My son is only six months old and I'm already going to have another baby. I wasn't really ready to have Jamie. I-We had plans. James and I. He was going to become the youngest head of the Auror Department and I was going to get a mastery in charms so I could teach. I figured if I was a teacher I could spend the summer holidays working on inventing new charms. Then he said we should get married since the war was getting worse and he wanted me to be safe in the manor. Then we both decided that even though we weren't really ready we should have a child to continue the Potter name. Now here we are and he's an Auror and I am a stay at home mom. I'm so mad at myself! How could i do this! Jamie deserved to be an only child for a few years, he deserved to be my sole focus for a while. Now here I am pregnant again and he isn't even a year old. He'll be fifteen months old when I give him a sibling. He wont even be able to talk properly before he has to share his after the conversation we had with Albus a couple weeks ago he is already going to have a lot of trouble in his life. "

Lilly looked down at her hands before continuing

"Whats worse is that I tried to make sure we didn't get pregnant again. I looked up all sorts of contraception and picked the potion. I drink it once a week every week. But I must have missed a week because this happened. I don't even know how because don't have an extra potion from when I missed...Gods what am I going to tell James?"

"Are you sure you missed drinking one and it wasn't James that forgot?"

"What? What do you mean?"

"Lilly the contraceptive potion has two parts. The original potion caused permanent infertility if one person drank the completed potion, so it was split onto two parts to make it woman has to drink a potion every week. The man has to drink a potion once a month . the two potion working together insure a zero percent chance of conceiving. But if only one of the potions is taken between a couple you still have like a fifteen percent chance of getting pregnant. Did you not know?"

Remus never got an answer. For the first time in weeks Lilly Potter wasn't sad or depressed. No she was angry. Very Angry.

"JAMES CHARLES POTTER! "