Title: Lies
Rating: R for sexual situations, language, and future violence.
Chapter 6: The Unborn Soul
Chapter Summary: Something's *happened* to Lily...
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About a month later...
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"Let's just take a look here..."
The screen turned on with a flick of the doctor's wand, and an image started forming....
Lily's heart was racing a hundred miles per hour, definitely hoping that her recent fatigue and sickness was not what she thought it was. It seemed like she had been waiting hours with these magical devices resting on her stomach in a St. Mungo's hospital room. She just prayed there was nothing. That she was just ill. Maybe the flu...? Yes, that was it. She'd better ask for some medicine...
"That's it," said Dr. Fitch, gesturing towards a black-and-white patch of fuzz on the screen. "That's your baby."
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"Shit shit shit shit shit shit SHIT!"
Lily lay in bed, twisted with anger, sadness, and...joy. The anger? Apparently her birth control spell hadn't worked that time. She was sure she had whispered the incantation correctly. But it was too late. No use on dwelling on a mistaken spell, right? It was too late.
The joy...of course she was thrilled. Lily...pregnant! She knew she had one day wanted to be a mother...and now was her chance.
But the baby's was Sirius's. That wasn't so hard to stomach...in fact, she would rather her children fathered by him. Under terms with James, though, well it would be a scandal to find out. She could just imagine the rumors!
"Did you hear?"
"Yes, Lily Potter! That tramp!"
"I can't *believe* she slept with her husband's best friend."
"And now she's pregnant!"
"Scandalous!"
Dammit!
"What am I going to do?"
Here were the choices...one, she could just admit to James that she was sleeping with Sirius, and that her baby was Sirius's, and let Sirius have a part in the baby's life. OR she could always divorce James, run away with Sirius, get married and have *their* baby together. OR...(and here was the more realistic plan)...Lily would make sure to have a fling with James, guarding against pretense of the baby being anyone *but* his, and have it with him. Sirius would certainly know...but he would be broken-hearted...and the kid would never know his or her real father...
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"James." He walked through the door and collapsed in an easy chair. "Rough day?" She leaned down and began massaging his shoulders, certainly hoping he was "in the mood" tonight. But wasn't he always? :)
"Hell yes. Had to deal with some witch in Dunmore, claiming there were Death Eaters outside her window. Turns out it was just some kids having some pre-Halloween fun. Imagine Apparating down there and searching *everywhere* for bad guys, thn returning with nothing. It was horrible."
Lily put on her best seductive voice and spoke:
"But I could always make you feel better. I had a rough day too, you know. We could both use a little..." she laughed, "pick-me-up, if you know what I mean."
"What *do* you mean?" asked her suspicious husband.
"Give me just a few minutes. I'll be upstairs." With that, Lily ran up.
"Women."
Up in their room, Lily put on the sexiest lingerie she had (which she usually reserved for Sirius's pleasure only) and fluffed up her hair. To match the red satin and lace of the lingerie, Lily smoothed on especially sexy red Chanel lipstick.
"Okay...here goes Plan C." She hid in the bathroom.
Moments later, James was heard coming up the stairs.
"Lily? What are you doing?" With that, she emerged.
"Oh, I was just getting dressed up for a little fun tonight," she said, walking toward him and smiling sneakily. Tugging at his work tie, she added, "it's been pretty boring around here lately."
"That's for sure," said James, watching as she took it off and unclasped his robes.
"Maybe now I can repay you....?" she said, throwing aside the robes. Lily stepped forward and planted her lips on his, like they used to do.
Their passion grew, and James lay his temptress on the bed, unlacing the ribbon of her nightie and slipping it up over her head. They continued to kiss, James pretty happy, and Lily basically trying to get some "work done." She wasn't interested in pleasure tonight; she was interested in making this baby *his*. Now when she told him he was a father, he would have somewhat of an idea of "where it came from," and only Lily had to know the truth.
Before dawn broke over the horizon, her plan had worked.
"You're going to be a mom," Lily said to herself, holding James to her through a layer of sweat. She crawled to the front of the bed and laid down for good. "And it looks like James is going to sleep pretty well tonight!"
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Lily faked about two weeks of innocence. She was waiting a bit before she could tell James. But...was this the right thing?
"James, we need to talk."
"I can't, Lily, I need to get to work. The minister's coming by today for his annual surveyance of the Auror's Guild."
"We need to talk," Lily repeated firmly. He turned to her.
"Shoot."
She spoke slowly and shakily: "James...I don't really know how to tell you this, it being so unexpected and all...but...but..."
"What is it?"
Lily took a very deep breath and whispered,
"I'm pregnant." This took a moment to register, and then:
"Lily!"
"I know, we were going to wait a bit, at least until we thought both our jobs could handle it, but nonetheless..."
"No, that's fantastic! Really, it is!" He kissed her. "I can't believe it!"
And so he carried on…
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A/N: This chapter isn't very good, probably because I just started a new story called "Tears, Memories, and a Broken Past," and this one has no interest for me now. However, I plan to continue because I *hate* it when my stories are unfinished!
Disclaimer: Yes, our naught characters are in somewhat of a mild porno flick here, but oh well…it's my fic! The characters belong to the ever-humble J.K. Rowling. And I better not be an old lady in dentures by the time Book V is released!!!
