Well this is the last chapter, a sort of loose ends tiding up thing. And I'm done. Yay! In case you haven't noticed I've changed my name as well. It could be in celebration but really I just liked it better! The end of Cutlass yet I will be starting my new story once I get my other stories up to date. It's been fun writing this and it'll be fun writing new stories in the future. I guess this is goodbye (sob) but it's not really the end. It's more of a new beginning (I'm terrible at goodbye speeches) so bye. Fairwell. Adios and all that jazz. This is the last chapter of Cutlass, enjoy!

An epilogue of sorts

Some amount of time later…

Almond shaped eyes, the exact shade of emeralds, stared up at the pirate flag of the ship Emerald Shadow with immediate adoration. The owner of the eyes let out a happy gurgle.

"Yes Harry" Lara cooed, picking the baby up and pointing to the sails "That's the Jolly Roger. A must for all self respecting pirate ships. Can you say Jolly Roger?"

"Sweet, he's not even a year old. He can't talk" Sirius chided "And you shouldn't be carrying anything at the moment" Lara poked her tongue out at him and rearranged Harry to sit over the bump protruding from her stomach

"Just because you knocked me up…"

"As I recall it was a mutual effort" Sirius replied dryly and stole his godson from her, swinging the baby into his own arms "Isn't that right little Prongs junior" Harry gave another happy burble

…and promptly vomited down Sirius's top.

Lara cracked up as he looked downwards with a shocked and repulsed expression on his face. He looked Harry right into the eyes; Harry gave a toothy smile and drooled.

"You know what? Forget all the nice thing I said about you kid. You're not a prodigy child, you are a drooling, diabolical, son of a-" he cut himself off and looked straight ahead with a frightened expression on his face "-a beautiful and lovely captain" he amended quickly and plastered a beaming smile on his face for good measure.

Lily raised an eyebrow, and her cutlass "Just be glad that you are holding my son Black. If Harry wasn't there…" she let the sentence hang.

Sirius gulped and clutched Harry closer "My dear sweet godson, light of my day, OW!" Harry clutched a handful of Sirius's hair in his chubby hands.

"I though I was the light of your day Siri" Lara said deceptively pleasantly "I mean, I'm the one who's been carrying your child for the last eight and a half months. I'm the one who has your child playing quiddich with her kidneys, the one who needs to go to the bathroom forty seven times a day because of your child pressing on her bladder, the one who's feet and back ache from carrying yourchild, the one who can't fit into her clothing because of your child's weight"

"Come now dearest, it can't be that bad" Sirius said ignorantly.

Lily and Lara glared at him "Yeah it is!" they said together.

"I'm fat" Lara said, prodding her formally flat stomach in a depressed manner.

"Aww, you're not fat" Alexia said comfortingly, coming up behind Lily with Delia. She stole her nephew from Lily to fuss over "After the birth, the weight just falls off"

Lara cast a sulking glance to Lily "Didn't happen to her. If Lily still hasn't gotten her figure back then what hope if there for me?"

Lily looked annoyed "No hope whatsoever. You're doomed to be podgy forever" she snapped. Lara's eyes filled up with tears

"Lily!" Sirius scolded pulling his sobbing wife into his arms "Now look what you've done!"

"I-It's not h-her" Lara hiccupped rubbing her eyes "I-It's th-the Hormones!" she broke down in a new frenzy of bawling.

"Please Lara, don't cry" Lily begged looking down at her shirt in horror "You're going to make me…lactate" It was too late; the two milky stains blossomed through her chest.

Alexia bit her lip hard, Sirius covered his eyes, Lara started shaking again but for completely different reasons and Delia just straight out laughed.

"Num-num" Harry held out his arms to his mother as she dabbed at the milk stains. That cracked them up even further.

Lily growled angrily and unbuttoned her top to feed Harry. Sirius glanced up once, turned pale and buried his face in Lara's shoulder. The sound of laughter brought over Remus followed by the newest member of the crew.

Remus had fallen into a deep depression following the news of Shaiera's death. Though slowly everyday he was a little bit more cheerful. A large part in help to the young woman skipping beside him. He turned and smiled at her.

The girl, sporting a violent orange fohawk, turned and beamed back. The second she took her eyes off her path however she tripped over a scrubbing brush. Remus caught her with much practised ease

"Honestly Nymphadora" he teased

"I told you not to call me that!" she growled back. They walked over, with only one more trip for Tonks, to the group congregating on the upper deck.

"I'm sooooo bored" Lara complained.

"Well tough" Lily replied buttoning up her shirt and patting Harry on the back to burp him "When I was pregnant I wasn't allowed to do anything. I had to entrust my ship and all its crew members to you"

"And did I do a good job?" Lara pressed proudly.

Lily sighed and rolled her eyes "Yes. Yes you did a good job…with minimal damage"

"And a large amount of help from our Marauder boys" she gave a fond kiss to Sirius.

"Tonks! My darling cousin in law, how goes it in the land of Moon?" she cried upon seeing the free spirited metamorphagus.

"Peachy as always. Though if Remus would stop calling me by that name my fool of a mother gave me everything would be perfect" she said giving Remus a fond peck on the lips "It's astounding what women can come up with when pumped full of painkilling potions"

"Shotgun! I get to choose our baby's name" Sirius said suddenly.

Lara hit him "You can't call a shotgun on a baby's name"

"James did" Remus remarked dryly.

"It was a joint agreement to name Harry after his grandfather" Lily interrupted.

"I still think 'Sirius' would have been a better choice" Sirius muttered.

"You would. Sorry Black but there's no way in hell I was naming Harry after you…maybe next time though"

"What's your baby going to be called Lara?" Alexia asked curiously, poking Lara's stomach. She jumped when the stomach poked back.

"I'm thinking we go with the Black tradition of naming after a star" Sirius replied for Lara, giving her stomach a fond rub.

"That's the downfall of being pregnant" Lily noted.

Lara nodded "Suddenly your stomach becomes public property"

"You belong to me so your stomach and every other part of you belongs to me" Sirius said smugly.

"How does it feel being objectified by a male? Sort of disregards all we stand for doesn't it" Delia asked wryly.

"Ah, but I own him too so it all evens out" Lara gave Sirius a patronizing pat on the head while he was cooing at her belly.

"Padfoot, if I didn't know any better I'd say you were mellowing out in your old years" James said wrapping an arm around his wife and son.

Sirius snorted "You're one to talk James, forgotten already what you were like when the former Evans was up the duff?" James ignored him in favour of picking up Harry and bouncing him up and down. The baby gave a delighted gurgle

"That's my boy" James said proudly and pulled a small lion toy out of his pocket. Harry grabbed on to it delighted

"Look, a Gryffindor through and through"

Lily frowned at her bias husband"Why can't he be a Ravenclaw? He's a very smart baby for his age"

"And a sweetie. Totally Hufflepuff" Alexia tickled her fingers at Harry

"I'm not having my child be one of those brainless idiots" James pulled Harry away and glared at Lara "And don't you even say it"

She blinked innocently "But why not? Harry is just as likely to go in Slytherin as any other house"

She conjured a green glittering snake and sent it dancing in front of Harry who dropped the lion toy and reached out to the snake illusion.

James looked at him horrified "No Harry! Don't listen to her; she's trying to make you go over to the dark side!"

"Oh stop being so overdramatic James" Lily sighed with a smile "We're not going to love him any less, whatever house he gets into"

"Harry's got a whole family to teach him" Sirius chuckled him godson under the chin

"Yeah a whole family to teach him and screw him up"

"Delia" Alexia scolded gently "Of course we're not going to screw him up"

"I pity him. He has a pirate for a mother and a fugitive Lord for a father" Delia replied in a joking way.

James stuck his tongue out at her "It's hardly our fault that Tom Riddle is a sore loser. You know he only outlawed us once we stopped his attempts for the third time"

"And we will continue to stop them" Lily said positively.

"We can't let the system win! Tom Riddle is going down!" Tonks said enthusiastically, hitting the wheel by accident and causing the ship to veer left sharply. Remus pulled her back against his chest and wrapped his arms around her to prevent any further mishaps

"Nymphadora" he warned. Tonks turned round and glared at him pointedly, then licked his nose.

Alexia giggled, Delia made a face "Careful Delia, if the wind changes you might get stuck like that" she sung out. Lily and Lara continued arguing

"Forget it" Lily shook her head.

"Can't I even scrub the decks or something? Lily, I am actually offering to scrub the decks"

"And I'll take you up on that offer in two weeks when your baby is born" Lily said stubbornly.

"But I won't want to do it then" Lara wailed pathetically.

James looked at Sirius who looked at James

"She's your wife" James said.

'But you had experience with it when Lily was with child" Sirius countered.

"And just think" Remus said happily "Only two more weeks of this to go through"

Sirius sighed in relief and James got an evil grin on his face. "…and then the late night feed and diaper changes begin" Sirius froze, eyes wide.

"But" James said kissing the top of Harry's head "I wouldn't trade him for the world. Isn't that right Harry?"

Harry was still looking at the snake and suddenly a strange hissing and spitting noise came from him to the snake which hissed back. All conversation ceased immediately with everyone on board staring shocked at little Harry Potter, now revealed as a parseltongue.

Lara blinked "Well that was unexpected"

And I'm done. Caput and finished. Draw the curtain and everybody go home. I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and read this story. You guys rock! And Lara just had to get the last word. Um, it was obvious that James, Lily and Sirius and Lara were going to get together. The thing about Remus was about ten chapters into the story I realised that I should have put Tonks into the story instead of another OC (Shaiera) since I'm a Remus/Tonks shipper and all. Anyways this has been fun and awesome and it's the first non-oneshot story that I've finished! Cheers for me.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper…

Love Queen Cocaine (the newly crowned)

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