Chapter Thirty-Six: A Big Sister

Hey everybody, I just wanted to apologize for the delay as I've been rather busy lately and thinking about how exactly to end this chapter. However, there really are only a few more chapters now until the end.

"So Aunt Lily, what's his name going to be?" Stevie questioned her eagerly.

"Well, I'm not sure as we haven't chosen one yet and I really think that we should leave that part as a surprise." She told her while Sarah just simply folded her arms and threw her cupcake.

"I don't want a baby bwothur!" She cried.

"Well tough, I want a puppy but you can't always get what you want in life." Harry told her.

"That's right honey listen to your brother." Lily began. "And you're going to clean up your mess or you're going to go straight into timeout." She threatened but Sarah just simply stuck out her tongue and blew spit at her so Lily picked her up and set her back down in the corner for a couple of minutes since she didn't listen to her.

The whole entire time Sarah cried, fussed, and screamed but eventually after her two minutes were up Lily got an apology from her for her rude behavior and she wound up cleaning up her mess. The rest of the year flew by and Lily was now nine months pregnant with her unborn son. Stevie would also be graduating Hogwarts this month, and Harry's fifth and Sarah's third birthday were only one month away.

One afternoon Lily had taken Harry and Sarah to the swimming pool when all of a sudden she had to use the restroom. After she got back she told her kids that she would have to get ahold of their father since her water just broke. Harry and Sarah went to go stay back with their aunt Petunia and cousins Stevie and Dudley while Lily went to the hospital.

Severus paced the floor of the delivery room because he couldn't remember the last time if ever when he had been this nervous and apprehensive. As soon as Lily was told that it was time for her to start pushing Severus went back over to her side and grabbed her by the hand and squeezed it tightly. Lily closed her eyes and started to push with all of her might.

"He's coming! He's almost here! I can see his head!" Lily heard and just silently prayed that her son would be okay and healthy. Within a few more seconds she heard him start crying. He had an awful lot of thick black hair on the top of his head and Lily and Severus could already tell that he was rather big and had a bit of darker skin than Lily.

Tears of joy rolled down Lily's cheeks as Severus was then asked to cut the cord. The baby boy weighed seven pounds and eight ounces before he was cleaned off, wrapped in a tiny blue blanket, and handed over to his mother for the first time and by this time he had finally stopped crying. As Lily held her son for the first time, her mind flashed back to five years ago and she smiled through her tears.

"He looks just like Harry when he was born." She whispered softly.

"Really?" Severus questioned and was suddenly filled with curiosity of how Harry looked and acted when he was a tiny baby.

"Yes, except Harry's eyes are greener than his. As his are more hazel." She told him. "Too bad he isn't a girl, otherwise that would make a really pretty name for him." She pointed out.

"Yeah, well, no son of mine is going to be named Hazel." Severus told her as Lily giggled a little bit.

"Alright, that's fair enough, but what are we going to name him then?" She wondered and then she thought it over for a few moments. "How about Tobias? Like your middle name. We can call him Tobey for short." She suggested. "That way it might not remind you of your abusive father as much." She pointed out as Severus smiled at her.

"Okay, Tobey it is then." He told her before they both shared a passionate kiss. Later on they decided that his middle name would be Aaron after Aaron Parker which they now considered to be a good family friend of theirs.

A few days later Lily and Severus took Tobey home to meet his new big brother and sister since Harry and Sarah were still way too young to come and see him at the hospital. However, Sarah still seemed like she didn't want anything to do with him and Harry wanted to help in any way that he could.

"I only wish that there was some way that Sarah would come to see that having a little brother is actually a really good thing." Lily said one day to her husband as they brought their children to Godric's park and Tobey was fast asleep inside his carriage. Lily watched Sarah who was suddenly interested in a tiny white miniature poodle mix.

"Hey Sarah honey, don't get too close to the doggie without asking." She told her daughter and that's when suddenly she got an idea. "Besides, I thought you liked cats. Doesn't that mean that you shouldn't like dogs?" She asked her but Sarah just simply turned her head over to look at her.

"It's no use. She's way too young to understand." Severus began. "There are just some things that she'll have to learn on her own." He said when suddenly Tobey woke up and started to fuss. "Is that a hungry cry or a wet cry?" He wondered.

"Well,.. it's been awhile since he's been fed or had his diaper changed so it's probably a bit of both." Lily replied. "I don't mind changing him if you want to feed him though. Just as long as you promise to keep an eye on the kids for me." She told him.

"Of course I will sweetheart." He replied and Lily stood up, bent over, gathered Tobey inside his arms and then started carrying him towards the restroom.