About a month and a half later...

Lily and James watched as the train came in, both eager to see their first-born son. Since Hogwarts was having some sort of conference for the teachers, the students had received 3 days off, either at school or to come home. Harry had sent a letter saying he was going to stay, but under the request of Lily and James, he was coming home.

He looked up and came towards them, but something about him was different, besides having the concealing charm on him, his cheeks were hollow and his eyes had lost their spark, a dull green instead of bright emerald as they used to be. He also looked tired, like he hadn't slept in weeks.

"Hello Harry!" Lily greeted and Harry smiled softly at his mother.

"Hi mum, dad." He said and they went to the muggle car Lily had convinced James to get a few years back. The drive home was silent and as soon as Harry got home he went upstairs and locked himself in his room.

While Lily ordered the house elves around to make dinner in the kitchen, James sat in the lounge waiting for his friends. He had made up slowly but surely with Sirius and all though things weren't the same, they were getting there and were hoping he could make up with Harry that night; he was still his godfather after all. Peter and Remus were also coming; the first time James had seen either of them in ages. They were then staying for the night and going out into the forest nearby for the full moon.

The fire turned green and Peter was the first one to arrive. He squealed rat-like when he saw James.

"Prongs! How have you been?" He asked.

"Good, how 'bout you Wormtail?" He said and Peter nodded quickly and eagerly. They sat and talked for a while till the fire turned green once more and Sirius appeared.

He turned into Padfoot and leapt on top of James, licking his face and barking. Remus appeared shortly after that, looked tired and pale but a smile still on his face. After they talked, reminisced and joked for a while, Lily came into the room and Sirius stood up.

"Evans! How are you?" He said and she saw as he pulled Lily into a tight hug.

"Sirius Black! Get off of me!" She said as she attempted to push him off. He laughed and let her go.

"Where you going in such a hurry? The kitchen's that way isn't it?" He asked and she rolled her eyes.

"No, we've moved it upstairs!" She said sarcastically. "Of course it's that way, I'm just getting Harry!" She said and Sirius froze while Lily carried on up the stairs.

"Isn't he supposed to be at Hogwarts?" Peter asked before Sirius could.

"Yes, but the lucky little buggers got time off because of some teacher conference." James said.

They went into the large dining room they used only when they had company, remembering the first time they had walked into it after first year when Mrs and Mrs Potter had so generously taken them all in for the summer (exception of Remus who snuck away on full moons).

"Boy does this bring back memories! Ey moony?" Sirius said and Remus smiled. As they were talking, a few houses elves walked into the room, each holding a silver platter. They put them down on the table and with a bow, they left. Soon after, Lily entered the room closely followed by Harry.

Sirius noted that he looked unhealthier; his hair was messy as ever but seemed to have lost the 'life' in it. He had dark circles under his eyes and (compared to the way Lily had looked in her 7th month of pregnancy both times), didn't seem to be as they say 'glowing'.

"Hey! How are you?" Remus asked and Harry smiled as he sat down.

"Ok." He said and as dinner slowly but surely passed, every one of the adults noticed the change in the boy. When he was small, he had closely resembled Lily in personality, extremely shy and timid.

!?Flashback!?

James shushed his wife as she cried into his shoulder. The loss of their first son had been hard on both of them. Sirius had been babysitting 3-year-old Harry; the last time either had been seen was in Diagon alley right before it was attacked.

That night when they had got home, James had cried for the first time since his parents died over 5 years ago, having lost his best friend and only child

That was over a month ago. Now, both lily and James were sitting at home on a Saturday evening, waiting for Dumbledore to read Sirius's will.

Dumbledore was supposed to be on his way when an owl came in through the window. James opened it and then after reading it looked up to Lily.

"Another raid, we need to go, they're short of aurors to help clean up." James said and Lily nodded slowly.

They left a note for Dumbledore and left the house by apperation. They went to the area the letter said and nearby, saw an old house that looked like it was falling apart, clearly where they were supposed to go.

They searched the house for what felt like hours until James finally found something. He leaned against a wall to stop himself collapsing from the lack of sleep when he found it collapsing. He picked himself up and looked around.

There one the floor, were a bunch of pale adults in ragged robes and covered in blood. James quickly seeked out his best friend and found him pale in a corner.

He shook him and dull grey eyes slowly opened. Hey widened and a grin appeared on his face. James hugged Sirius tightly, like he was hanging on for dear life...

!? End Flashback!?

That had found Harry and a few other small children locked up in a room in the attic, including little Neville Longbottom and Bill Weasley.

Frank and Alice Longbottom had also been found, unfortunately, both had been driven insane by use of the crutacius curse.

Harry and Sirius had both been all right, but Harry's shyness had gone up to a new level.

He gone through muggle primary school with high marks and not many friends due to the fact that it had gotten so bad he barely spoke.

They had taken him to specialists and healers and all had said the same thing: he would grow out of it.

It seemed to get anything but the opposite as he got older and James remembered standing with Lily, watching him get on the train, both worried sick.

They had been delighted to see it had gotten better when he was home for Christmas after he had made friends with a young muggle born girl by the name of Hermione granger and then in about April with Ron Weasley.

By the summer you would barely have recognized the child who had spent years burying himself in books and Qudditch.

As the years had passed he had became more confident and until he had started dating Justin, he clearly resembled James at that age.

"May I please be excused?" He asked and went out the dining room without waiting for an answer.

"What's wrong with Harry, he seemed quiet tonight." Remus asked as they sat in the kitchen drinking coffee.

James turned around and looked behind him at the doorway, Lily wasn't there so he leaned in.

"He's pregnant" He said softly and Remus and Peter gasped.

"You're kidding Prongs! How far along?" Remus asked.

"Bout 7 and a half months and a concealing charm." He said and ran a hand through his hair.

There was no noise until Sirius broke the silence. "Congrats Prongs! You got two months then you're a granddaddy!" He said clapping James on the back.

"Thanks Padfoot!" He said, taking all his courage not to say that Sirius was going to be a daddy, not wanting to shock his friends more.

"Do you know whose the father?" Peter asked and James, shooting a glance at nervous looking Sirius out the corner of his eyes, decided to lie.

"He won't tell, we think it's that Slytherin boy Draco he's dating." He said uncomfortably and Remus frowned.

"He's dating a Slytherin? Is that why you're so, well, out of it, tonight?" He said and James shook his head.

"It's cause it's a Malfoy." He said and Remus choked.

"A Potter/Malfoy baby? Isn't that going to be an interesting hybrid?" Peter said as he thumped Remus on the back and James nodded slowly.

"We are going to meet him when he comes here next month for the Easter hols." He said slowly. "God, if he's anything like Lucius, I'll throw myself off a cliff!"

There was a small knock on the door and Harry looked up from his homework at his desk to see Sirius nervously standing at the door.

"May I come in?" He asked and Harry shrugged. Sirius walked in and closed the door behind him. Harry pushed himself away from the desk and stood up. As expected, his stomach had greatly increased in size since the last time Sirius had seen him. "So how have you been?" He asked and Harry shrugged again.

"Ok, besides having my ribs molested." He said And Sirius's eyes lit up. Harry rolled his own eyes.

"Yes, everyone finds it amazing until they experience it from the other side themselves." He said and sat down on the bed.

"May I?" Sirius asked and Harry nodded. He put his hand on the almost beach ball-like stomach that held his unborn boy. He felt something gently push on hand.

"Was that..." He trailed off and Harry nodded. "Wow!"

"You can talk to him if you want, maybe if he kicks more he'll wear himself out and I can actually get a goodnight sleep later." He said and Sirius frowned.

"Aren't you still mad at me?"

"Not really, I'm over it." He said and smiled softly at him.

"Well, forgive me or not, I want to play a proper part in this baby's life, even if I can't claim paternity for it, it is, or will be, my first born after all." He said and Harry shrugged once more.

"Course you can, even if you do have to be known as God-grandpa Padfoot. I'm just worried what I'm going to tell him when he starts get curious about who his other father is." Harry said and Sirius smirked.

"There will be plenty of time to think about that. Now tell me, what is this about a certain Slytherin your dad told us?" He said and Harry blushed.

"You mean Draco." He said and Sirius nodded before Harry launched into the story of how he had seen Draco that night in St Mungos and how they had got together that first night back.

Remus looked outside the window as the full moon got closer. "We have to leave now or we won't get to the forest in time." He said.

"We can leave, but where's Padfoot? James asked.

"Cheez, he's been upstairs with Harry for about an hour now." He said and James jumped up.

"I'll get him." He said quickly and went upstairs. He quickly got to his son's room and found the door closed. He mentally thought of what he would do to Sirius if anything happened again.

He opened the door and didn't get what he expected. Instead, his friend was lying on his stomach on the bed talking animatedly in conversation to his son's tummy and every now and then stroking it while Harry was leaning back against the headboard silently reading a book.

James coughed and both looked up. "We have to go now Padfoot, or moony won't make it to the clearing". Sirius sat up and hugged Harry then bent down and kissed the swell in the abdomen.

He got up and then went out the room while James looked angrily at his son.

"What?" He asked.

"I should be asking you that!" James said sternly and Harry looked up.

"Don't get so paranoid."

"Why was he kissing you?"

"For your info, he wasn't kissing me, he was kissing the baby goodbye." Harry explained.

"James, Remus says hurry!" Lily said as she came into the room and noticed James glaring at Harry. "Ok, what happened here?" she asked and James ignored her.

"Well the baby is still inside you, in case you didn't notice."

"I'm not stupid! I know it is, but that is missing the point. He was kissing his baby, not me! It's not hard to understand that despite what happened, he still has a right to at least know his own son." Harry said and James sighed and left the room.

Lily walked closer and sat on the side of the bed. She sighed. "7 months already, only two more till you become a dad yourself." She put a hand on his stomach

"Same to you, Grandma." He said jokingly and the baby gave a hard kick in response. They basked in the moment till a squeaky voice interrupted their thoughts.

"Mistress Lily, there has been an accident in the kitchens, we need you urgently." The small house elf said nervously.

"Ok, coming Scrubby." Lily replied and stood up. "This could take quite a while, don't stay up too late and call me if you need anything."

Harry had just turned the page when he heard a yawn from his door. He looked up and saw his little brother, dressed in pyjamas and still holding a small blanket and rubbing his eyes. "Harry?" he said uncertainly.

"Hey Jackie!" He said and with a squeal his little brother ran up to him. He climbed onto the bed with some difficulty and hugged Harry round the neck.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked as his brother let him go. "Why aren't you asleep?"

"I had a bad dream." He said and Harry pulled him close.

"Don't worry little bro, you can sleep here with me tonight." He said and Jack cuddled up to him.

"Harry? I'm not tired anymore."

"Well we can stay up a while longer, how does that sound?"

"Ok." Jack replied and there were a few more minutes of silence.

"Harry?"

"Yes?"

"Why has your tummy gotten fatter?" He asked and Harry smirked and put his hand on his 'fat' tummy.

."It's because the baby in my tummy has gotten bigger." He replied and the smaller boy's hand went on top of his own.

"How much bigger is it going to get before it comes out?"

"A bit bigger, then your going to be an uncle." He said and Jack laughed but as the baby kicked his hand, he jerked away like it had burnt him.

"What was that?" He asked.

"Calm down sweets! He just kicked." Harry said and Jack unsurely replaced his hand.

Padfoot huffed dog-like as he lay watching Prongs munch on grass. He felt something staring at him and his eyes drifted over to moony who was staring at him, a familiar glint in his eyes.

Padfoot sat up and Moony followed, he tilted his head and Moony did the same. He was now sure what the werewolf wanted and ran off, ready to 'play' with his mate...