Mommy, I'm Home!

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Chapter Three: Of Alibis and Such

James sighed in frustration. He couldn't for the life of him remember what the password was. It had to be some sweet that much he was sure of, but whether it was wizarding or muggle no one ever knew.

His arms were beginning to ache from holding onto an unconscious Lily for so long, and it didn't help that little him kind of gave him the heebie-jeebies.

"Pumpkin Pasties," he yelled out only too become more frustrated as the statue didn't move.

"Prongs!!" came an overly energetic voice from behind him. Crap, thought James, this is all I need. The whole reason I came up here was so I wouldn't bump into people with Lily and miny me. "Prongs, thank God I found you. I thought you'd forgotten about the prank we pulled last night. Come on Moony," the hyper boy called over his shoulder, "time to make the alibi."

James had to think really fast. This was one of those days that he praised the lord Sirius was a bit thick, being down the hall he hadn't yet noticed the red head in James's arms, nor the younger version of Potter. Turning to the boy, James whispered quickly, "Go hide behind the statue, and don't come out until I give the all clear. Okay, kid?"

"Sure, Daddy," was the little ones only reply as he scurried into the shadows of the griffin. James still had no idea how he was supposed to hide Lily, but found no need to as Remus, a.k.a. Moony, rounded the corner immediately seeing the unconscious girl.

"James, what happened to Lily?" Remus asked with worry etched in his tone. Unlike Sirius and James, he was actually friends with her.

Before James could answer, Sirius finally noticed Lily. "Way to go Prongs, my boy! I knew you had it in you. Finally got her. Knew she'd come around. See that Moony? Evans is lying in Prongsie's arms without hexing him."

"That's because, Sirius if you'll notice, she's unconscious. Now what happened James?" came Remus's swift reply.

Opting for the truth James told them about how he couldn't sleep, went down to the Great Hall, and found Lily lying on the floor. He had carefully omitted the part about little him; he didn't need Sirius to know about that yet.

The afore mentioned looked a bit put out at the fact that James had indeed not swept Lily Evans off her feet, but merely picked her off the floor.

Feeling a little nervous, and wanting to get his friends away before Remus found little him, James changed the subject quickly.

"What were you guys looking for me for again?" he asked.

"Oh, right," Sirius said, jumping up and down in excitement, "McGonagall should be getting a new hair dew at any moment, so we need to have a firm alibi to where we were last night."

They all stood in deep thought for a moment, when Lily started to shift in James's arms making it very hard for him to hold on to her. She kept squirming as he tried to keep her from falling onto the stone floor.

"Evans will you just be still?" he hissed out of frustration.

At the sound of her name Lily's eyes snapped open and as they landed on James she recalled the happenings of her morning. Eyes narrowed she let into him, barely above a whisper.

"So Potter, I'm sure you found your little prank very funny. 'Hey guys, let's get Evans again, how about we pretend I'm her son, change my eye color. Won't that be fun?'"

James had jumped slightly at hearing her speak, and glanced quickly at Sirius and Remus to make sure that they hadn't heard. Leaning closely, so that his mouth was right next to her ear, he said, "Evans, that was no prank. When I came into the Great Hall I found you passed out and miny me standing over you with a worried expression on his face. It was scary as hell."

"If that's so than where is he," she demanded a little louder than she meant too, bringing both Remus and Sirius's attention to them.

"Where's who?" asked Remus.

James sighed deeply. There was no way around this. If he called little him out he might cause a panic amongst Lily and Sirius, where as if he didn't Lily would think of him as an extremely cruel liar.

"Hey kid," he called to the statue, and little him stepped into the light.

Professor McGonagall stepped out of the shower, singing happily to herself. It had been a full three weeks since the Marauders had pulled one of their famous pranks on her, and she was feeling good. Twirling towards the mirror her breath caught in her throat before she let out a blood curdling scream.

"He-he's real," Lily managed to breathe out in a hushed tone. Every one had gone silent. Remus stood there with a look of utmost surprise and confusion on his face, Lily, still in James's arms, had turned pail and was shaking slightly, James was glancing from Lily to little him and back again worriedly, and Sirius, well, was still looking at James expectantly, waiting for some kid to appear.

"Of course I'm real Mommy. Don't you know me?" for the first time it hit little Harry that maybe the reason his mommy and daddy were acting so strange was because they didn't remember him. Maybe, they didn't die in that car crash like Aunt Petunia said, but instead had forgotten all about him. This thought suddenly coming to him, five year old Harry Potter broke down into tears.

"Damn Marauders, just when I let my guard down. I'll get them this time. There is no way they can come up with a way to talk them selves out of this one. I don't care what ditsy little fan of theirs they have vouching for them, this time I won't believe it, not a word, not without solid evidence. And a hickey will not count," McGonagall was hissing to herself as she threw her robes on, gathering her wand and heading out the door to find those little miscreants who called themselves the Marauders.

At the site of the crying little boy who claimed to be her son, Lily's fear melted away, being replaced by concern and a deep caring that surprised her. Finally realizing where she was, she hopped out of James's grasped and rushed to her "son".

"Shhhhh... sweets, its okay. Mommy's right here its okay," she whispered softly into his ear while hugging him close and running her hand through his silky mop of hair.

James stared at what was happening, dumfounded. Was this really happening? Was Evans, Lily Evans, kneeling on the stone floor comforting a little him? Was she entertaining the fact that she was his mother?

Sirius seemed to be thinking along the same lines as him because, right when his clone was quieting down, he said "Who are you?" which consequently brought forth a new wave of tears from the kid and a death glare from Lily. James, knowing that Sirius had meant the question for Lily and not for her "son", bent down awkwardly to the boy's level.

"Hey, kid, Sirius wasn't asking you, he was joking around with your mommy," he was surprised at how easily he had said that. Especially at calling Evans mommy.

Lily looked up and gave him a small smile before turning back to the child. "Harry?" she asked tentatively.

The little boy looked up with shining puffy eyes and a huge smile on his face. "You remember me!" he yelled while wrapping his little arms tightly around Lily's neck.

Minerva McGonagall was getting more infuriated with each passing second. She had looked for the boys in Gryffindor Common Room. When they weren't there she actually climbed the stairs to their dorm only to find it empty of the three brains of the operation. Huffing in anger she had searched most of the school, the kitchens, the room of requirement, etc. She even looked inside the library! Finally giving into the inevitable she had entered the Great Hall seeing the tables scattered with the few early morning risers, but no Marauders. Grumbling her frustration, she headed off to the one and only place left unsearched. The Headmaster's Office.

"Kid, I think you're going to strangle your mother if you don't let go," James teased as he tried to loosen little him, or Harry's, hold on Lily.

"Sorry Daddy," Harry said, quickly letting go of his mommy. But those two words, or more like the last one, were enough to break Sirius's silence.

"You're his dad! Oh yeah! Go Prongs! You got your girl. She finally fell for the Potter charm. When's the wedding?" he continued ranting on like that until Harry looked up at him as if he was the stupidest person on earth. A look which caused Remus and James to roll on the floor in uncontrollable laughter, verging on hysteria.

But the laughter stopped suddenly when they heard angry muttering coming there way that sounded eerily like McGonagall. Shit, Remus, James and Sirius thought at the same time, we forgot to make our alibi.