AN: Here's the next chapter. The naming problems are in loving memory of how my mother named my brother. It took three day and hundreds of suggestions before one of her friends walked in and named him Zachary. Also the name translation came from a baby book and Newest Addition
Cries of pain permeated through headquarters, but for once these cries only signaled something good coming into the world. For once Ria's pain filled cries were brought on by something other than Voldemort. Remus was sitting next to her, his crushed in hers. It was probably broken in a few places. Ria had been in labor for seven hours and she seemed to have at least another hour to go. Every so often Remus would stick his head out of the room and give an update to those waiting.
For the last seven hours the Bandits, their companions, the Marauders, and Lily were waiting outside the infirmary for information on the baby. It was now two o'clock in the morning and most of the group was dozing off in their seats. James and Lily couldn't wait to be grandparents. They had spent the last month setting up the nursery for Remus and Ria, the only problem was that they had to choose neutral colors because the parents hadn't wanted to know the gender of the baby before it was born.
In the infirmary Ria was lying on the hospital bed, gripping Remus's hand in a vice like grip. She was sweaty, tired, and in pain. Silently she acknowledged that this wasn't as painful as some of the things she had to go through in the past, but out loud she swore violently and vowed to Remus to never, ever have sex with him again unless he was doubly sure he cast contraceptive charms. The baby they were having now was an accident, not that it wasn't welcomed, just unexpected. Remus was infuriating her by just sitting and smiling at her. He took all of her threats in stride and whenever she had a contraction he would endure her verbal and physical abuse without comment and a smile.
The contractions were finally getting very close together; Poppy walked over to check on Ria and declared her ready to start pushing.
"Push when I say, dear." She waited for the contraction to come, "Now push Ria." This went on for another hour before Ria gave one final push. Poppy asked Remus to cut the cord and after he did so Poppy took the baby to clean it up some. When Poppy walked back over she gave Ria her baby boy to hold. On December 24, 2002, at two a.m., Arianna gave birth to a sweet little boy.
Remus looked happily at his cub and his mate. The sight of his child awed him. He sat next to Ria on the bed and together they cooed over their child. In their minds nothing was as perfect as their child. Soon Ria began yawning and Remus leaned over to kiss her, telling her to go to sleep.
He took the baby into his arms and walked out of the infirmary to where the others were sitting. Harry was the first to notice him come out and he stood and made his way quickly over to see the bundle in Remus's arms. The others followed him over to Remus and soon the newest Lupin had a crowd of faces hovering above him. The child was passed around to all the people before they all began to file back to their rooms. By the time Remus went back into the infirmary it was three a.m. He put the baby back into the basinet, crawled up next o Ria, and went to sleep.
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Two hours later both Remus and Ria were awakened by the child's cries. Remus got up and handed him to Ria so she could feed him for the first time. They sat watching and playing with the baby until he fell asleep. Once Remus had put him back in his basinet, he turned to Ria, "You know, we really need to name him." "Yes we do, but I just can't decide what I want his name to be." "Well, we'll talk about it in the morning, right now let's go back to sleep."
The next day was Christmas, and the celebration was in full spring. Ginny was taking all the pictures she could of the baby's first Christmas. Ria had moved back to her room, the baby had been moved into the nursery, and they still hadn't come up with a name. The names James, Arthur, and Albus had all been discarded. Ria didn't want her child to bear a name that would be associated with a memory of some one that he would feel obligated to live up to. She wanted a name that would fit where he came from and who he would become. Remus was just getting fed up with not being able to call his kid by a name.
Finally Lily walked into their room after the baby had been put down for his nap and suggested a perfect name to them, "Cuilean Alexander, which means Cub that protects man." Both Remus and Ria immediately like the name and so the baby Lupin got his name and all was well with that. The next order of business was to name godparents for the baby. Remus wanted to have two separate sets of godparents, one for their world and one for this world. So it was decided that if they accepted Moony and Padfoot would be named joint godfathers in this world and in their home world 'Mione and Ron would be named godparents.
So Cuil was welcomed into the world. He had grandparents, uncles, 4 godparents, and a bunch of people who would probably become extended aunts and uncles. He was a welcome addition to the order family and he would be spoiled out of his mind, especially by his grandmother, Molly Weasley, Alice Longbottom, and Poppy Pomfrey. Everyone swamped him with gifts for Christmas, and for once the outlook for the war was bright with hope.
