Forever Yours

Chapter 17 – You're What?

After Christmas passed, the New Year party followed. It was held at Sirius and Kayla's house, and everybody from Hogwarts that had been friends with the group were there.

Then, it was time to go back to work. It seemed like time started to pass by faster than ever after that short holiday. Lily started to get behind on cases, and it seemed like she only had time to read, eat and sleep. She still spent time with her friends and family, but not as much as she usually did. And she was still trying to figure out why her Father had the full prophecy while Intelligence only had a portion of it. She didn't know why, but she had the feeling that the answer to that was important for some reason.

Meanwhile, after the holiday's, Deatheater activities skyrocketed. There were two or three hits a day, mostly on muggle villages. And the hits weren't just restricted to Britain either. They went all over Europe, Asia, and America. And it was James's duty to get information out of the muggles, and perform memory charms on them. They weren't doing any fighting, but they did follow the trail that Intelligence gave them trying to see if they could beat Voldemort at his own game. No luck so far, but you never know.

Sirius and Kayla were sent on daily raids, trying to fight the Deatheaters and save the muggles at the same time. It's not to say that they got out of the fights unscathed, because they didn't. They've gotten cut, they've gotten hexed, killing curses thrown at them, along with many others, but they were still alive, and that was all that mattered.  

Remus and Aria, whom were both working in the experimental labs, were trying to find a way to live through the killing curse, but so far had no luck.

And on top of all that, the six friends were still doing their extra training that they had started in their seventh year, and they were all keeping an eye out for Tiffany and Peter. They were all getting this feeling that they were going to be showing up soon, but they didn't know when, and they wanted to be prepared for him.

It seemed like everyone was so occupied with work, and discoveries, and mourning's for those lost that they were all taken by surprise when they started to see Halloween decorations being put up everywhere. What happened to the rest of the months? They all thought as they stared at the decorations stupidly.

~*~*~*~

One night, Lily was laying in bed, reading a case file, when James stumbled through the door looking like hell.

"What the hell happened to you?" Lily gasped as she threw back the covers and ran over to her husband.

James leaned against the bedroom door and clutched his head. The room was spinning, and his gaze was fuzzy. "Lily?" he croaked out as he lifted his head and tried to look for her, but even with his glasses on, he could only make out blobs of color.

"Right here, James," she said as she slid an arm around his waist and led him over to the bed. "Come on, we're going to lay you down, and I'm going to see if anything is wrong with you, okay?" she whispered lightly, knowing that he had a headache. She was starting to shake she realized with a jolt of shock. She'd never seen James this beaten up. Not even after Quidditch practice or even games. He had a gash on his forehead that looked nasty and bled continuously, his hands were bruised and battered, and his back was slumped for some reason.

"Here you go," she said with a fake smile. "Lay down. Easily!" she nearly shouted as he started to fall onto the bed. After she eased him down, she ran to the bathroom and got some water and bandages out, and grabbed her wand from her bedside table.

"I'm going to clean you up first, okay honey?" she asked as she took off his glasses and began getting all of the dirt off of his face.

"Lily?" James whispered. "Come to bed with me."

"I will, I promise," she smiled. If he was asking that, he must not be all that hurt. "Just let me clean you up some, okay?"

"But I want you with me right now!" he whined and pouted.

Lily laughed at his antics and finished cleaning him up in seconds. She then took her wand and pointed it at his forehead, and with a flick of her wrist, the cut was healed. "I'm going to get you out of these clothes to see if you were hurt anywhere else okay?" she asked as she began to unbutton James's black shirt.

"As long as you end up naked with me," he smiled goofily, making Lily wonder what he used as painkillers. "James, honey, what did you take to make all the pain go away?" she asked.

James furrowed his brows in concentration and thought. "I don't really know. After I got attacked by this lady's husband, thinking that I came back to kill them, she gave me two pills from this brown looking container and told me to take one, that they'd take the pain away, so I did."

Lily shook her head. Wizards bodies weren't used to muggle painkillers or medicine, so he probably felt like he was on top of the world at the moment, but he'd definitely be feeling the after affects tomorrow. She looked down at his chest, and struggled not to let her gasp of outrage come out of her mouth. His beautiful chest was bruised! Black and blue, and they were big bruises! "Oh, James, honey," she sniffled as she lovingly ran her fingers down his chest, being careful to avoid the black and blue areas. Whoever done this to her husband better be glad that she didn't know who they were, else they'd be ending up worse than James had.

Lily inspected the rest of James's body and muttered a healing spell, and he was almost all better. He'd be having a backache for a while though, as she didn't know how to make that one go away.

"Mm. You finished yet?" James asked as he opened his eyes and gazed at his wife.

"Yes, I am."

"Good. Come here then," he smiled as he opened his arms to her.

Lily smiled and knowing that he could see her, she raised her hands to the thin straps on her nightgown, and lowered them slowly. As the silky material fell away from the swells of her breasts, she let the garment drop to the floor, and got on the bed to straddle her husband. He was deliciously naked from when she removed his clothes to see if he was hurt anywhere else.

"Mm. Lily," he groaned in appreciation as his hands cupped her breasts. Lily let her head fall back as his fingers bushed over the hardened tips of her nipples.

James watched as his wife's head fell back and felt his body react. She looked so beautiful when she stopped trying to control everything. Her auburn hair falling down her back in waves, her sparkling green eyes watching him from little slits, her mouth slightly opened, her back bowed invitingly. "God, what you do to me," he whispered as he sat up and took one of her breasts in his mouth, enticing a low moan of pleasure from Lily. He let his now free hand travel down the length of Lily's back, then stopped on her butt. Slipping a finger along the crevice, he slowly, ruthlessly rubbed his finger against her swollen clit, and was delighted when he felt her grinding her lower body against his finger, trying to get some kind of release.

James dipped his finger in her opening, and his lips around her nipple. She was ready for him. Hot for him. Wet for him.

James took his finger away from her body, and his mouth released her breast with no little sorrow, and took her lips in a searing kiss as he shifted her back, her entrance over his cock.

Lily didn't wait for him to guide her down, she impaled herself down his length, and their groans melded as she set a fast pace. Lily placed her hands on James' chest as he laid back down and gripped her hips. He timed his hips to her thrusts, and gripped onto her hips. Hard. He knew that he was going to leave bruises on the pale flesh, but at the moment, he didn't care.

Lily was close to her peak, and she knew it. She could feel it. The knot in her belly was as tight as it was going to get, and it was about to snap. James thrust upwards one more time, and she shattered with a hoarse scream. The stars all exploded behind her eyelids, and she grew limp. With one more thrust, James exploded within her body.

Lily slumped sticky with sweat on James's chest. "Wow." She whispered as she listened to the frantic beat of his heart.

"Mm." Was all James could manage as he played with the tips of Lily's hair.

It was a while before James found enough strength to pull himself out of the warm, sweet haven of his wife and shift her to lay curled into his side.

~*~*~*~*~

Halloween seemed to pass before it even came, and Lily found herself at the beginning of December before she realized something crucial. She was late. She was now two months late.

"Lily?" Kayla asked as she walked into Lily and James's room. And looked at Lily weirdly as she saw that her best friend was pacing the room. Something was up. And if James did something to make Lily worry, she would personally beat the living shit out of him. And she knew for a fact that James was in Diagon Ally with Sirius shopping for something or another.

"Kay, I think that I'm pregnant," she whispered from her spot next to the window.

Kayla looked at her best friend in shock. "W-what?" she stuttered. "Are you sure?" Lily shrugged and pinned her friend with a frantic look over her shoulder. "I made an appointment for today with the doctor, but I'm scared to go alone. W-will you come with me?"

Kayla, still somewhat shocked, scowled at Lily. "You honestly have to ask! Of course I will! What kind of best friend do you think that I am?"

Lily laughed and walked over to her best friend. "I'm sorry. I'm just scared. What if James changed his mind about it? What if I'm not ready?" Lily fretted.

"Lily. You'll be a wonderful mother. And James would be stupid to have changed his mind. And it's natural for you to be scared, just relax okay?" Kayla instructed. When Lily nodded her head, Kayla asked, "When's your appointment?"

Lily glanced at the clock on the mantel and sighed. "In about ten minutes."

Kayla shook her head. 'She could have told me a little sooner,' she thought. "Well then, don't you think that we should get going then?"

Lily nodded her head and picked up her coat before heading over to the fireplace. "Dr. Huggins office!" she yelled as she stepped into the fire.

Kayla did the same, and came out inside of a white fireplace and looked around. The room was pale white and gray. Pretty depressing if you asked her, but she shrugged and walked over to the seat where Lily had sat down.

They had barely been there for two minutes when an aging woman walked out of a door that seemed to never quit moving. "Lily Potter?" she called as she looked around the full waiting room.

Lily and Kayla stood up and made their way over to the doctor.

"I'm Lily Potter," Lily smiled at the woman.

"Right, if you'll follow me?" she asked.

Kayla and Lily followed the woman past a series of room until the stopped in front of one that had a cushioned table and a few different machines around it.

"If you don't mind, I'm going to do a regular check up on you first, then we'll check to see if you're pregnant," Dr. Huggins asked as she timed Lily's heartbeat.

After being in the room for five minutes, the doctor pulled her wand out and pointed it at Lily's stomach. "You're going to feel a tingle, okay?" the doctor asked as she muttered a few words.

Lily felt a weird tingle in her abdomen, and struggled not to laugh. It sorta tickled.

"Well, Mrs. Potter, you're going to be a mother. You're pregnant," the doctor smiled as she lowered her wand.

Lily stared at the doctor for a few minutes before it finally settled in. She was going to be a Mother! "Oh my God. I – I have to tell James!" she nearly screamed as she jumped off of the table and hugged the doctor. "Thank you!" she laughed as she stepped back and looked into the eyes of a laughing doctor.

"You are most welcome Mrs. Potter," she smiled. "But you need to get an appointment with a (A/N: I have no clue what in the world those doctors are called that you go to when you're pregnant, sorry! If one of you could tell me, I'll replace this note with the actual name.) soon to make sure that the baby is healthy and all of that, okay?" she asked Lily, who just nodded her head and started out the door.

"I'm pregnant," Lily whispered as she hugged Kayla.

"Go home, wait for James, tell him the good news," Kayla laughed as she shoved her best friend towards the fireplace.

~*~*~*~

Lily took Kayla's advice and went home to wait for James.

She started to pace the floor of their room again, this time not with fear, but impatience.

"I have something important to tell that man and is he here? No! of course not! He's James Potter," Lily growled as she kept on pacing the room, not noticing a grinning man in the shadows of the room. "When I get my hands on that man I'm going to strangle him. After I tell him that is," she continued.

"Then maybe I should go back out," James smiled as he stepped out of the shadows and over to his shock wife's form and hugged her. "Sorry I was gone so long," he whispered into her ear then leaned back and kissed her lips.

"Mm," Lily sighed, "You're here now. I have something to tell you," she smiled as she looked in his eyes.

"I gathered, so why don'tcha tell me?" he asked as he began humming and guiding Lily in a dance with music that only he could hear. He was so happy! In less than a week he and Lily would be married for a year. In less than a week he and Lily would be married for a year. A year! He just came back from picking out her present with Sirius when she stepped out of the fireplace and began pacing. He'd been watching her for at least twenty minutes before he said something.

"James, I hope that you aren't going to be mad about this, or that you haven't changed your mind," Lily started, then stopped to breathe deeply. This was a little awkward if she did say so herself.

James frowned. It was obviously important, but what would he be mad about? "What is it Lily? You can't know for sure unless you tell me," he told her and ran a gentle finger down the side of her cheek. 'Her skin is so smooth,' he thought as he gazed into her emerald green eyes.

"James, I really hope that you are happy about this, but I found out earlier today that I'm – I'm going to have a baby." She managed to get out. She held James's gaze after she said this, and watched the shock, fear, and happiness go through them.

"A baby. A real live baby?" he asked softly. Lily nodded her head and continued to watch James' reaction.

"That's wonderful! That's great! We're going to be parents Lily! Parents!" He screamed as he picked her up and twirled her around.

Lily laughed and threw her arms around his neck and hung on. "Yes, we are," she smiled as he put her down on her feet.

James looked down at Lily's stomach with wonder and laid a trembling hand on it. It was still flat as ever, but he knew with a sense of wonder that his son or daughter was growing in there. "I love you Lily," he whispered, his voice choked up with emotions.

"I love you too James, so much," she smiled through her tears.

James leaned down and rested his forehead on hers and just stood there looking into her eyes.

~*~*~*~

Later that night, the Potter's, Black's, Alexandra, Kayla, Aria, and Remus were all seated in the library while Lily sat on the desk, and James stood besides her with a hand resting on her shoulder.

"Lily and I have some news for you all," James smiled down at her.

"I'm pregnant," Lily gushed happily.

James's Mother and Lily's both gasped and ran over to Lily to hug her. "I'm going to be a grandma!" they cried together.

As Alexandra pulled back, she looked into Lily's eyes. "Even though I'm too young to be a grandmother, I'm so very happy for you baby," she smiled.

Lily beamed at her Mother. It seemed like she couldn't stop smiling. Ever since she told James that afternoon, she couldn't stop smiling, even though her cheeks were hurting, she couldn't stop.

For the next couple of hours, everyone celebrated the good news. And then Kayla and Sirius announced that they finally managed to pick a date for their wedding.

"We know that this is your party Lily, but we wanted to announce this. Sirius and I finally picked our date. Everything has been set for the past three months, but we just couldn't come up with a date for the wedding. Well, we finally did. February 1."

With a squeal of delight, Lily hugged her friend. "Finally! I thought that you two were going to remain engaged forever!"

"So did I!" Kayla laughed.

"Let's just hope that I don't take that long," Aria smiled as she gave Kayla a hug.

"You won't. You're too determined to wait that long." Kayla smiled.

Aria laughed. "Yea, I guess I am. It's just I start thinking that if I give Remus enough time to think it over, he's going to get scared and balk," she explained as she looked over at Remus who was talking with Sirius and James.

Kayla and Lily looked over towards the corner where the guys were talking and smiled.

"Let's go over and talk with the men," Lily smiled as she made her way over to James.

Lily slipped her hand through his, and he glanced down at her with a smile before turning back to his conversation and slipping his arm around her waist and pulling her closer to his body.

As she looked around, she noticed that the other guys had done the same, and smiled. It was uncanny how much alike these three could be, yet still be different at the same times.

They were each special in their own way too.

~*~*~*~

Authors Note:

Hey you guys. I'm sorry that I'm skipping so much time, but I really don't know what else to put in between. And I fear that I'm probably going to make Lily's pregnancy fit into only one chapter, but I promise that it'll be a long one.

I'll have the next chapter out as soon as I can.

I hope that you liked this one! Review and tell me what you thought!

Mistress del Mare