"Happy birthday Lils!" James said as they sat in the lounge on a warm morning in early May. He kissed her cheek and she giggled and wrapped her arms round his neck. He put his hand round her waist and pulled her close. The fire turned green and, landing on his butt, out came Harry, 9 months pregnant, extremely round and due three days ago.

Lily squealed and let go of James (much to his annoyance) before going to help her son up.

He hugged her and gave her the small present in his hands. "Happy birthday mum." He said and Lily squealed again. She opened it and was over the moon by the beautiful silver locket engraved with Lillie's on.

"It's beautiful, thank you so much." She said and he tiredly flopped down into an armchair.

"You alright? Any signs of labour?" James asked hopefully and Harry shook his head.

"Just my back is killing me." He replied." Unfortunately I don't think he's going to share his birthday with his Grandma!" He said disappointedly.

"I'm sure it'll be soon." Lily said and out the kitchen, walked a big black dog wearing a party hat.

The dog looked at Harry and ran over before jumping up next to him on the armchair and licking his face happily.

"Hey Sirius." He said and the dog transformed back into Sirius. Sirius looked excitedly at his godson.

"Is it today? Is today the day I become a daddy." He said eagerly and Harry shook his head, Sirius looked disappointed.

"Hey! Don't give me that, take it out with him." Harry said poking his belly and Sirius went close to it and started talking like a parent would scold a child.

Lily and James watched the conversation in amusement, both amused and glad to see Sirius happily accept his impending parenthood.

"Can we show him Prongs?" Sirius then asked excitedly and James nodded with a smile on his face.

"Show me what?" Harry asked and Sirius jumped up and pulled him off the couch.

"Come on, you'll see." James said and Harry waddled up to him while Sirius sniggered.

As the 2 walked and Harry waddled along the passageway and up the stairs Sirius kept laughing behind his hand.

"What do you find so funny?" Harry asked bitterly.

"Nothing." Sirius said quickly and James opened the door to one of the rooms. Harry gasped as looked round the room. It was painted light blue and the crib Sirius and him had bought was set up in the middle of the room and covered with all sorts of soft toys inside it. In the corner of the room was a toy chest and on the wall was a shelf already with a few baby books on it.

"It's, it's, it's beautiful!" He said, tears welling up in his eyes.

"Sirius did a lot of it, I just helped with the painting." James said and Harry looked up at Sirius in shock. James smirked and quickly left the room.

"You'd do this all?' Harry said and Sirius nodded slowly.

"Course I would." Sirius said and Harry hugged him the best he could at his size, the tears streaming down his cheeks.

"I can't thank you enough for all you've done."

"You don't need to thank me, I'm just making up for getting you in this state," he said surveying his large godson.

"It wasn't only you, I shouldn't have given in like that so easily anyway." Harry said shaking his head.

"But you were upset over Justin and being left behind, I shouldn't have taken advantage of you."

"It's too late to change the past, all we've got to do now, is look forward to the future." Harry smiled and Sirius hugged him again before getting excited and showing him round the room and all the things he had done to make it perfect for the baby.

It was as he was showing him a the crib, Harry felt a pain. He ignored the first one but on the second he held onto his stomach. Sirius looked worriedly at him then understanding hit him.

"Hold on Harry." He said then rushed downstairs to find Lily and James snogging on the couch. He coughed and they looked up. Before he could say anything, something hit his head then landed on the floor next to him with a squeak.

He looked where it had come from. "Some help you are!" Harry yelled sounding pained and angry before Sirius was hit by another teddy.

"I'm coming, just don't pull the room apart!" Sirius yelled and Lily and James both got up and followed Sirius up the stairs.

They found Harry leaning against the wall, not looking happy. Sirius came close to try and help.

WHAP!

He received a whack upside the head. "Ow! What was that for?" He asked and received another whack.

"It's cause this is your fault. If you hadn't been there that night, we wouldn't be here." He said and just for good measure, gave Sirius another slap.

"Well, your body has changed and you're about 2 centimetres dilated." The healer said and replaced the sheet back on Harry's legs. "That was what they call pre-labour, or Braxton hicks contractions, it's like the body's way or preparing for the real thing." He said and Harry nodded, Lily and James at either side of him and Sirius just hovering around.

"So it'll be soon?" He said.

"Yes, pretty soon, could be a few hours, 2 days, the maximum is about a week longer." He replied and Harry nodded again.