A/N:- Ok, I'm putting the a/n here to give the cliffie at the end of the chapter a more effective..effect :s...anyway, this story is going well though i'll probably have just a few stories of HArry's childhood and stuff, obviously I'm going to have the birth of April's new kid, and Sirius going through Labour...you'll see. I'll be adding a story about how Orion gets into his new hobby when he's about 5 or 6 and then I'm going to add a cool story that my friend/co-author Kaylee came up to think of it she came up with most of the storylines in this story. Anyway, back to me. I know it's really far ahead to plan this but what do you guys think of continuing this sort of thing into Harry's 6th year. Like Lily and JAmes are alive in his 6th year and seventh year? I have a scene written out called Emma's rebellion and a scene involving Orion, Snape and a skateboard. hehe.

I would also like to say..I LOVE YOU ALL!! I have never received as many reviews per chapter in ANY of my other stories. I want to hug and/or kiss you all. You're all so nice to me.

2 more things then i'll shut my trap. Check out sweetest-sin980's story starting small, ending big. It's brilliant. And there's this website writing competition thing called Quill To Parchment. They've just posted this months writing challenge, check it out, it should be fun. You can get to it from my writer's page, there's a link there. toodles

The Pregnancy Test

"Sirius honey" April called around the house. She put down her bag and took off her robes.

"Mummy" said Orion as he peered out of the living room. He looked as though he'd been painting. He had colours all over his face and stuff all over his clothes.

"Hey Orion." April said as Orion tottered over to her and clamped himself around April's leg. April bent over and picked him up but Orion didn't let go. "Oh for crying out loud." April muttered. Rhia came out of the living room. She had lipstick in one hand and what looked like a powder puff in the other.

"Orion!" Rhia said enticingly. Orion turned and shouted and April picked him up. Orion hugged April's neck. "Mummy!" Rhia said slightly annoyed

"Rhia, what have I told you about using your brother as a doll?" April said sternly. Rhia looked at her even more annoyed.

"Use Daddy." She said.

"Very good." April said, "Now where is your dad?" Rhia pointed to the living room. Rhia looked at the bag and dropped the make up and went to the bag.

"No, Rhia. That's not for you. Can you bring it to the living room?" Rhia nodded and started pulling it behind her. April went into the living room. Sirius was draped across the sofa fast asleep. His mouth was open and he was snoring gently. The floor was covered in April's make up. Her foundation was dripping off the coffee table, her mascara had been used to draw pictures on the wall. The sofa was smeared with lipstick. April took a sharp breath. She turned to Sirius. After looking at him it was obvious why Rhia had decided to use Orion as a doll. He was covered in make up, from the tips of his hair being dusted in eye shadow to his nails being very badly manicured.

"Rhia, go and get the camera." April said. Rhia grinned and ran out of the room. April carefully placed Orion on the table and he leant forwards to get a better look at his daddy. Rhia came back with a camera placed in her hand. She handed it to April. April took it and put it near her face and took a few photos of Sirius sleeping. Orion was laughing and Rhia giggled slightly.

"Ok, lets tidy this place up." April said tensely. She couldn't believe Sirius had let their children play with her make up. Thank Merlin it wasn't hers. April thought, well not all of it. Most of it was borrowed from Lily and Jenny. They weren't going to be happy at all. "Scougify" April said waving her wand. The room tidied up immediately. April turned to Sirius and hit him. Sirius started.

"Ah!" Sirius shouted sitting up and getting out his wand.

"Wake up you idiot" April said. Sirius looked at April sleepy eyed.

"What?" Sirius said, "Oh April."

"I left you in charge of the kids and you let them destroy my make up collection!" Sirius looked at her confused. "And you fell asleep." Sirius' expression fell.

"I'm really sorry." He said quickly.

"Oh never mind." April said, "I have something for you." April turned and put her hand into the bag. Sirius stood up and gave Orion a quick smile. Orion grinned and looked at Rhia. Rhia was climbing on the table to look in the bag. April pulled out what looked like a shirt with a bump where the stomach would be.

"What's that?" Sirius asked April uncertainly. April handed it to Sirius.

"Put it on." She said innocently.

"No." Sirius said, "Tell me what it is first." He said. April looked at Sirius tiredly.

"I can always have Lily castrate you." Sirius went pale and hesitantly took the shirt thing. He looked at it before putting it on reluctantly. The moment it was on it seemed to stick to Sirius and the bump shrunk. He stiffened.

"What the-"

"That Sirius is a Pregnancy bump." April said. "You are now going to feel what I feel for the next nine months, see if you like what I go through every time you get me pregnant!"

"WHAT!" Sirius asked. "Get it off!" Rhia and Orion laughed as Sirius tried to get it off.

"You can't get it off Sirius. It's linked to me. You will be able to take it off when the baby is born" April said. Sirius looked at April panic stricken

"Men aren't supposed to be pregnant, April please, I won't get you pregnant again."

"Why are you so scared?" April asked.

"Because I've seen you and Lily when you're pregnant, it doesn't look fun." Sirius said. "I don't want to go through Labour!" He said sitting on the sofa pretending to cry. Rhia and Orion burst out laughing. Rhia nearly fell off the table. April sat down next to Sirius and patted his back

"It's not that bad. You get to eat about three times as much as usual." April said. Sirius perked up.

"Really?" Sirius asked. April slapped the back of his head.

"You are so insensitive" April snapped.

"Hi Sirius." Lily said happily that evening as she walked past Sirius in the street on the way back from the local corner shop.

"Hi" Sirius muttered.

"How's the baby?" Lily asked cheekily. Sirius stopped and looked at her.

"You know about it?" Sirius asked.

"Of course. I got the pregnancy shirt for April." Lily said.

"Uncle Sirius is pregnant?" Harry asked uncertainly. Harry knew that women got pregnant and men didn't. He also knew that it wasn't fun because he remembered his mum and Aunt April going through pregnancy.

"Yes. Uncle Sirius annoyed Aunt April and now he has to pay." Lily said to Harry. Harry grinned.

"It's not funny" Sirius muttered. "I've been feeling tired all day." Lily smirked.

"Oh, I love the person who invented that invention" Lily said shaking her head. "Where are you going anyway?"

"I'm hungry and April won't feed me" Sirius said pouting.

"Oh, poor baby" Lily said with a smirk, "Come on, I'll feed you something"

"Thank you Lily." Sirius said. Lily shook her head as she laughed and let Harry run ahead to the house.

"Also, I guess April's at work?"

"Yeah, she is. How did you know?" Sirius asked.

"James came back." Lily said.

"You and James alright now? I mean this morning you two weren't sleeping in the same bed." Sirius said.

"We're alright now I suppose" Lily said with a frown. "This may seem weird but he seems slightly different"

"How different?" Sirius asked

"A bit colder" Lily said. "Well, when I saw him when he got back he got a bit enthusiastic to see me." She said with a slight smirk. Sirius looked at her with a suggestive look.

"Well, lets go talk to my old friend." Sirius said clapping his hands. They went to the house and Lily opened the door. Harry had gone through the back door.

"What's for dinner then?" Sirius asked as he wondered through the house.

"Pasta Bake." Lily said. Sirius grinned.

"Is that all you know how to make?" He asked.

"I know how to make other things but it's easiest to make and it's like the only thing you'll eat."

"You know me better then my own wife knows me." Sirius said. Lily shook her head in disbelief. Sirius walked into the living room where James was frowning at the TV. Emma was sitting on his lap playing with the remote control.

"Hey Jamie." Sirius said. James didn't look at him. "ok, I know you hate that name but do you really have to ignore me"

"Huh?" James said turning around and looking at Sirius. "Sorry um..."

"Sirius" Sirius said slowly.

"Oh yeah, Sirius." James smiled.

"What's with the-" James pointed at his own face. Sirius frowned and touched his face. He quickly summoned a mirror and looked at himself.

"Oh Merlin!" Sirius said. April hadn't told him he had all that make up stuff on his face! Sirius pointed his wand at himself and cleaned himself up. "Oh, April is going to die."

"Ok." James said with an amused frown.

"She's already got me pregnant" Sirius said sitting next to James. James scowled.

"How could she get you pregnant?" James asked. "Men can't get pregnant."

"She tricked me into putting on this thing that makes me feel every single thing she feels while she's pregnant...including the bump!" Sirius said. James snorted slightly.

"You're going to have a bump!" James laughed. Sirius didn't look at all amused

"It's not funny!"

"What did you do to deserve that!" James asked.

"What has April been complaining about all day yesterday?" Sirius asked James. Sirius gave James a side glance. James looked at him confused.

"What has she been complaining about?"

"Oh never mind." Sirius said, "I'm going to get a drink, you want one?"

"No I have my own drink, thanks." James said. Sirius looked at James slightly surprised then got up to go to the kitchen where Lily was having an argument with the kettle.

"Oh work you stupid thing!" Lily nearly shouted at it. The kettle let off some steam then switched off. "ARGH!" Lily shouted.

"Having fun?" Sirius smirked.

"Shut up Pregnant man." Lily snapped at him.

"That was low." Sirius said with a pout.

"I don't care. It seems like we're having Pizza today." Sirius grinned.

"YAY!!" He said throwing his hands in the air like a child. He looked at Lily who was giving him the strangest look. He lowered his hands quickly. "I'm sorry. I won't do that again" He said hanging his head. Lily smiled and shook her head. She headed for the phone and ruffled Sirius' hair on the way past him.

"You'll grow up one day Sirius." She said. Sirius grinned.

"Oh by the way, I think you're right. James didn't know about April being annoyed with me and he didn't react the way I thought he would when I told him about me being pregnant." Sirius said. Lily stopped at that comment.

"There is something very wrong with you saying that." Lily said. Sirius shrugged. "Anyway, it's not just me then?" Lily asked in a hushed voice, "James is different isn't he?" Sirius nodded.

"I think he is." Sirius said in a hushed voice.

"What are you whispering about?" James asked from the door way. He was holding Emma in a way that Lily had never seen before. She didn't think Sirius noticed but being married to him, Lily knew all of James' little habits.

"Oh, nothing" Lily said. "We're having pizza tonight for dinner"

"Oh brilliant." James said with a smile.

"Do you have any preferences?" Lily asked sweetly.

"Um, get me...pepperoni." James said.

"Alright, could you run a bath for Harry please?" Lily said. James nodded and put Emma down and headed upstairs. As soon as the door was closed Lily turned and picked up a piece of parchment and a quill.

"That's it." Lily said. "I'm sending the kids to Jenny's" Lily said.

"What? Why?" Sirius asked.

"That's not James, or it is and there's something wrong with him." Lily said.

"How do you know?" Sirius asked.

"Several reasons. You said that he didn't know a thing about April's pregnancy, April told me she's done nothing but complain about it to James. He was holding Emma differently and James hates Pepperoni pizza. In fact, I think he's allergic to the meat on it!" Lily said. Sirius looked at her slightly surprised

"I don't even think April knows that much about me. You pay a lot of attention to James don't you?"

"He's my husband, Sirius." Lily said. "I know these little things about him and unlike you and April we have a love-love relationship, not a love-hate one" Lily wrote something quickly on the parchment and folded it up. "Give this to Sultan whil I order the pizza." Lily said handing the parchment to Sirius.

"Okey dokey" Sirius said taking the letter and leaving the room to find the Potter owl, Sultan.
Remus had just left that evening with Harry clutching his new broom and Emma in Remus' arm. Jenny and Remus were more then happy to take Harry and Emma for a few days though they were curious as to why Lily wanted them to take the two children so desperately.

"I'll tell you later" Lily had told Remus. Sirius had been at the house as well and didn't seem quite as anxious, actually he looked quite tired while he was stuffing his mouth with pizza. Lily saw Sirius off and then went into the living room to tidy up the boxes of pizza. She had been watching James all evening. He'd eaten the pepperoni pizza without anything happening. Usually James nearly choked on the pizza. It was the one thing he was scared of. If he came into contact with a boggart it would probably turn into a slice of pepperoni.

"Where are the kids?" Asked James from the door. Lily started in surprised and dropped the boxes she had been holding.

"Oh, They've gone to stay with their friends." Lily said. "They were begging me all day today." James nodded and looked at the pile of Pizza boxes. Lily watched him uncertainly. There was something about the say that James was behaving that she didn't like. James took a bottle from amongst his robes, another thing that Lily had noticed, and took a sip from it. Not only was he drinking his own drink but he was wearing robes. As the Potters and Blacks lived in a muggle neighbourhood they usually wore Muggle clothing.

"Ok." James said. "You coming to bed soon?"

"James, you're sleeping on the sofa remember?" Lily asked. He wasn't really but it was another test from Lily. James looked at Lily.

"Why?" He asked.

"We had a fight last night, don't you remember? That's why you took the night shift to look after the Longbottoms?" Lily asked. She had always made a convincing actor. In her seventh year she had made Sirius believe that she and April were lesbian lovers. James frowned.

"What did we fight over?" James asked.

"I wanted a divorce." Lily said, "You found out about my affair with Sirius." James nodded.

"Right" He said slowly. "Well I think that maybe you should sleep on the sofa."

"That's not what you said yesterday." Lily said coolly. This was definitely James. It was an impostor.

"I don't care what I said yesterday-" James stopped. Lily had her wand out.

"Who the hell are you?" Lily asked.

"Your husband."

"No you're not." Lily said. "You're an impostor. My husband is afraid of pepperoni pizza, my husband doesn't wear wizarding robes around the house and he wouldn't have believed that we wanted a divorce, who are you?" Lily asked. James reached for his wand. "Expelliarmus, accio wand" Lily said as the wand flew out of James' hand. James looked at her. Lily looked at the wand. She tucked it through a belt loop in her jeans. "This isn't even James' wand. Who are you?" The impostor James sneered at her.

"Your husband is dead, like your children will be." He said. Lily tensed and looked at the impostor coldly.

"Sit down" Lily said coldly. The impostor stood where he was firmly. "I SAID SIT DOWN!" She shouted at him. He looked at her then went to the sofa. "Now for the last time, who are you?" She asked him.

"I'm not telling you." Lily got closer to him and put a hand in one of the pockets in his robes and pulled out the bottle that he kept drinking from while keeping her wand trained on the impostor the whole time. It was difficult for her but she was forcing herself to do it. When she was a few steps away she unscrewed the bottle and smelled the drink.

"Polyjuice potion." She said, tipping the contents over the pizza. "Think of something more original next time." She said. The impostor glared at her. "And do more research on your victim's habits. I know James better then even he thinks." Lily said, "You thought you could pass off as James?"

"Not really. I told my master I wouldn't be able to." The impostor said.

"Your master?" Lily asked. The impostor's eyes glittered and Lily tensed. She took a step out of the way as someone came crashing through the window. Lily held her wand out tightly, her knuckles were going white. The intruder looked at the impostor then at Lily.

"Expel-"

"Silencio" The intruder said. Lily's voice cut out. "Now hand me the wand." He said. Lily flicked her wrist and used a whip like motion and the intruder shrank into a bunny for a few seconds. He turned back and laughed. Lily started panicking. Ok, this wasn't good.

"Accio wand." Lily's wand was pulled from her hands as the impostor's wand ripped through the belt loop and flew to the intruder. "Av-" Lily closed her eyes and used all her will power to apparate. She appeared in April's house. It was still dark, meaning Sirius wasn't back yet. Lily sat on the sofa and put her head in her hands. She thought about what the impostor had said, was James dead? He couldn't be. She was like that for a few moments until the front door opened and she heard Sirius giving a sigh. Lily stood up and ran to the front door. Sirius jumped in surprise when he saw her.

"Lily?" He asked. Lily pointed at her throat. "What?" Lily pointed at her throat then at Sirius wand. "Oh right, Finite Incantatum." He said.

"Thank you!" Lily said hugging Sirius tightly. Sirius patted her back.

"It's alright. What happened?" Sirius asked.

"James, it's not him." Lily said, "It's an impostor, he's using Poly juice potion and then someone attacked me. He came flying through the window, they've got my wand." Lily said. Sirius looked at Lily seriously.

"Take my wand, protect yourself." He said. "Go to April's parent's house"

"What are you going to do?" Lily asked.

"I'll get your wand back."

"How?" To answer Lily's question Sirius turned into Padfoot and ran out through the door.
The large black dog crouched by the house and then jumped up to have a look through the window. He put his large black paws on the windowsill and peered inside. There were two men in the room. One man was James Potter, the other a man in a hooded cloak.

"You idiot!" The man in the cloak said. "You keep failing."

"Actually, it's Lucius that failed last time" James said. The hooded man turned to look at James.

"Don't talk back at me." Padfoot looked around the room. As a dog his eyesight wasn't as good as when he was human but he could see that the hooded man had an extra wand...Lily's wand! Padfoot jumped down and walked around the house to the back door, he could open the back door as a dog. Padfoot jumped up and pulled the handle down. The door opened slowly and Padfoot went in as slowly as he could as quietly as he could. He smelt the air. He could smell Lily and James, he went into the hall and glanced into the living room. The James sitting on the sofa didn't smell like James. He smelt of someone completely different. Padfoot looked at the hooded man and then at his hand, it held onto Lily's wand tightly. He lifted the wand and tucked it into one of his pockets in his robes.

"Now what are we going to do?" The hooded man said. "Where's Baby Potter?"

"The girl or the-"

"You know which one I mean. Where are the children?"

"I don't know. That bitch sent them to one of their friend's houses. As April Black is working tonight they can't be round hers because the other Black was still here after the kids had gone."

"Which can only mean they're at the Lupins-"

"Or April Black's parents." James said.

"Yes, or there-" Padfoot ran into the room and jumped onto the man's chest. He fell over backwards because of the weight and the shock of having this huge dog jump at him. Padfoot barked at him and ripped the man's robes with his claws.

"Stupefy!" Shouted James. Padfoot moved out of the way at the last minute and the spell hit the man in the robe. Padfoot slid to a halt and looked at James. He hesitated slightly but then crouched on his haunches and growled. James flicked his wand again and a yellow jet of light shot at Padfoot. Padfoot ran forwards and jumped in time for the spell to miss him. He landed, front paws first, on the man's chest and knocked him backwards. James stumbled backwards into the sofa.

He struggled with Padfoot but screamed as Padfoot clamped his jaws around the man's wrist. This was when it was a good thing that the Potter's house was a bit outside the main village of Godric's Hollow. The more the James impostor struggled the tighter Padfoot bit his arm until it gave a crack and the impostor screamed even more. Padfoot, satisfied that he'd pretty much disabled the impostor's wand hand went back to the intruder and rummaged through his robes before he found Lily's wand.

Padfoot held it carefully in his jaw and was about to jump out of the window when he stopped. He looked back and went to the nearest wand lying on the floor and pressed his back paw on it with all his strength and jerked it to the side. The wand snapped and Padfoot gave a satisfied but muffled bark and jumped out through the window. He ran to his own house and hit his head against the door a bit too hard. When the door opened Padfoot was a bit unsteady on his feet. Lily helped the dog into the house and then closed the door. Padfoot changed quickly back into Sirius. He stumbled to the wall and leant against it.

"Oh god, are you ok Sirius?" Lily asked worriedly

"Yeah, just hit the door too hard" Sirius said with the wand still in his mouth. "Your wand" He said handing Lily her wand.

"Oh thank you Sirius!" Lily said hugging him. "Where they still in the house?" Sirius nodded.

"But I managed to break one of their arms and the other one is out unconscious. I'll go and get Kingsley or whoever is at the Auror HQ. You go and check on Harry and Emma." Sirius said. Lily looked at him sceptically but then nodded.

"Alright" She said. "Good luck." She said, she handed Sirius his wand back.

"See you soon." Sirius said grimly. Lily was about to go when she hesitated.

"You didn't happen to find out where James is?" Lily asked with a frown. Sirius shook his head. Lily nodded and disapparated away. Sirius tucked his wand into his pocket and then apparated to the Ministry. He went straight to the Auror Headquarters. It took him a while and he ended up shouting at the Elevator to go faster but it didn't make any difference. As soon as the elevator opened on the appropriate floor Sirius ran out and down the corridor and into the Auror Head Quarters.

"Kingsley!" Sirius shouted, knowing that April wasn't there and neither was James. Sirius and Kingsley had met several times before when Sirius used to come and visit April at work. He was a nice man and he seemed to appear from nowhere in front of Sirius.

"What is it?" Kingsley asked.

"There was an attack on Lily Potter. She's got Harry and Emma out but James is missing" Sirius said. Kingsley frowned and nodded.

"How many people?"

"Two, one taking polyjuice potion to look like James he's got a broken wrist and the other is unconscious, he looked like a Death Eater." Kingsley immediately went into action. He got the attention of about seven nearby aurors and rapidly gave a set of orders.

"Karen." Kingsley said, getting a witch by the arm. She stopped and looked at Kingsley. "Go and swap watch with April. We need her on this. Tell her to get to the Potter house ASAP." The witch, Karen, nodded and rushed out. Kingsley turned to Sirius. "We'll take it from here." Sirius nodded and headed out of the Auror Headquarters reluctantly. He got to an area of the ministry he could apparate from and went to a house surrounded by trees. It was a nice looking house, like a country bungalow. Sirius walked up to the door and knocked on it. There was a noise inside and the door opened. A half Chinese looking boy opened the door.

"Uncle Sirius." He said.

"Bo, your parents?" Sirius said. Bo nodded and opened the door.

"Uncle SIRIUS!" Emma shouted as she ran to Sirius and jumped into his arms. Sirius held her tightly and she gave him a quick kiss. Sirius smiled and went into the living room where he found Harry wrestling Remus. Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"Moony?" Sirius asked. Remus tried to get to his feet with Harry hanging from his neck.

"Sirius." Remus said.

"What are you doing?" Sirius asked.

"Oh, Harry was picking a fight. Then he stole the book I was reading."

"AH!" Harry shouted as he couldn't hold onto Remus' neck any longer. He fell to his feet and stood next to Remus.

"Right, and you're supposed to be the mature one." Sirius said. Remus shrugged. "Anyway, has Lily come by?" Remus shook his head.

"Why, was she supposed to?" Remus asked. Sirius nodded.