Title: *The* Tree

Writer: Azure K Mello

For Dec 8th of the SiriusXJames Dec challenges

Words: 121

"Sigh?" asked James softly as they lay on the couch looking at *the* very first, tree.

"Yeah?" Sirius replied paying little attention to James as he tried to puzzle out what he was going to say when he told James that. . .

"Will you marry me?" he asked in that same tired/content/sated tone.

Sirius instantly tensed. "I can't believe she told you!" He never should have confided in Lily, he should have known. . .

"Who told me what?"

"Don't play me for a fool."

James spoke softly, "Is that a no?"

"You don't mean it."

"Of course I do. Spend eternity with me! Please, Sear, don't deny me this."

"You wouldn't say this if I wasn't pregnant."

"You're *what*?!"