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NOTE: If you're a hard core Harry Potter fan and can't stand anything that drifts away from the basic story plot of the story then don't read this Fic. Sorry but I'm a very strong believer in broadening the horizons and asking the basic question of What If? A bad habit but what are you going to do?
If . . .
Chapter 4: What do you think of Harry?
Life was good for the newly weds, James and Lily Potter. When they got back from Paris they lived in the apartment that they had lived in for that year before they go married. They worked for the Ministry of Magic and for the Order of Phoenix, a secret organization that Dumbledore formed to fight the rising Lord Voldemort. They often feared they would never see their better half again when they went to work or a mission for Albus. They lived for a year this way, coming in and out seeing each other as much as they possibly could and also worrying about the other.
Finally one day in late September Lily started to get sick often and ache all over, when she went to St. Mungo's for a check up to make sure nothing terrible was happening to her and they told her some pretty big news. When she told James that she was pregnant he was overjoyed and started to make a list of names and supplies they would need for little baby Napoleon (that's what he wanted to name the child if it was indeed a boy). Lily of course disagreed entirely and actually told James that if he tried to tell her to name her child Napoleon one more time, then she would have to kill him (James not the baby).
They weren't the only one's that were ecstatic about it their friends were too, especially those in the Order.
"You know what this means don't you Lil?" Saydey asked as they were sitting in Lily and James' apartment one December afternoon alone. James, Sirius, and Remus were on a mission for the Order so they figured that it would be better if they worried together then alone.
"Yeah I'm going to be fat!" Lily cried out. Saydey just laughed and shook her head.
"No, that's not what I was going to say. I was going to say that you're going to have to get a bigger apartment or house and that you're going to have to lay off the missions for the Order." She looked at Lily's sad look as she said the last part.
"You mean quit the Order." Lily said looking slightly dejected.
"No, I don't think I would ever forgive you if you did that. I just mean that you're going to have to become like an information sorter at headquarters. I think that if you did that then we wouldn't have to go on so many missions to get the same information that five people have already collected." Saydey said making Lily feel a little better.
"I guess that would be useful. Yes it would. Thank you Say you're a genius! I'll talk to Dumbledore first chance I get!" Lily jumped a little as she heard three small pops come from the kitchen simultaneously. "James is that you dear?"
"Ummanbugerfuger!" James' voice came in sounding exhausted. Lily went in to the kitchen to see if her husband was seriously injured and she was met with Sirius lying on the floor drooling and snoring, James standing up with his eyes open but somewhat blank and Remus sitting in a chair with his head in his hand.
"Don't worry Lil, he's sleeping at the moment but don't you worry, he'll be fine. Do you mind if we stay over the night, I just don't have the strength to apparate to my flat?" Remus said with his eyes closed.
"Well I don't exactly have any choice now do I. Say, could you can take care of your boyfriend while I take care of James?" Lily said turning to her friend who had joined her.
"Why of course!" She nodded her head to Sirius and asked, "What about him?"
"Oh we'll leave him there. I'll put a pillow under his head and put a blanket over him then just leave him there." Lily answered; she got a nod in approval.
Lily took James in to their bed room and undressed him and put him to bed in boxes only. She then went into her closet and took a blanket and extra pillow then went in to the kitchen and placed the pillow under Sirius head and covered him with the blanket.
"Lily, let's go over to mine and Remus' flat and have a little sleep over." Saydey suggested.
"Alright, just let me get changed." Lily went in to her room and put on a pink flannel shirt and a pair of James' pajama pants that had ducks on them. She then got her wand, kissed James on the forehead, met her friend at the door, and with that they apparated to the residence of Saydey and Remus, leaving Sirius, James, and Remus sleeping peacefully.
Remus and Saydey's Apartment, Gloucester
"So I take it the relationship with Remus is pretty good?" Lily asked. The two friends were sitting in front of the fireplace, listening to Motley Crue, talking about anything and everything, and eating Fudge Graham cookies.
"Yes it is. He has an engagement ring hidden in a sock located in the top drawer of his dresser." Saydey informed her friend.
"And how would you know this fun fact?" Lily asked raising an eyebrow her friend's way.
"I was looking for socks and he only had two pairs in his drawer so I took the one with the ring out and there it was." Saydey shrugged her shoulders then suddenly her eyes brightened, "Do you want to see it?"
"Of Course!" Lily said practically jumping up from her seat. She followed her friend in to their room and sat on the bed while her friend went in to her boyfriend's drawer and extracted a green sock and brought over to her. She turned the sock upside down and out fell a black velvet box. Lily gingerly picked up the box and opened it then gasped.
"Do you know what type of stone this it Say?" Lily asked, her eyes not leaving the ring in her hands.
"No but I'm sure you're going to tell me." Saydey's words seeping with sarcasm.
"That's a moonstone. Only a small amount of it is found and only on the new moon. It's said to be fragments of the moon. If it glows when it's on a women's finger it means that the giver and the receiver are soul mates." Lily said still entranced by the ring she held.
"What?!" Saydey said surprised. She knew Remus loved her but not this much… how could he have afforded something like this… where had he gotten it? Millions of questions bombarded her brain for answers but she couldn't find any answers. "And if it doesn't glow what does that mean?"
"That you aren't soul mates and that there's still someone out there for each of you." Lily answered. She saw her friends face go even whiter then it had when she told her about the ring. She hastily got up closed the small box, slipped it in to the green sock that it had come out of, walked over to Remus' dress drawer, and placed the sock in the back of the top drawer. She went back over to the bed and sat beside her friend.
"What if we're not soul mates?" Saydey asked in a quite voice.
"That doesn't matter much… you two are madly in love and you should be together." Lily said putting an arm around her friend.
"But you said there is someone out there for me if it doesn't glow. I have to find him if it doesn't." Saydey said.
"But it might glow for Remus." Lily reassured.
"Yes, that's a possibility but I have never dated anyone besides him, how can I possibly know if he's the one?" Saydey said to herself more then to Lily.
"Saydey what are you thinking?" Lily asked standing up also.
"I'm just saying that I'm too young to be tied down to one man. I'm different then you Lily. I haven't exactly found my soul mate, I love Remus yes… but I don't know if I'm in love with him. I'm thinking that I need to see the world, I need to see what's out there before I get married." Saydey said looking at the sun rise out of the window behind Lily.
"Break to Remus easily. He's obviously very in love you with you." Lily said softly. No she didn't approve of what her friend was about to do to every one of their lives, but she wasn't going to stop her either. She didn't need to lose her friend permanently.
"Oh Lily, don't take me seriously! I thought that you of all people should know that when say crazy things I don't mean them. I guess I'm a little scared. You wouldn't tell Remus would you?" Saydey asked again herself more then Lily.
"Of course not!" Lily said. "Maybe we should go back to my house so we can cook a nice breakfast for our three men."
"That's a wonderful idea. I'll get some food from my kitchen to help you out." Saydey said excitedly and practically ran to the kitchen across the hall. She returned with her arms full with food to see Lily standing there with her wand out and ready to go.
James and Lily's apartment Building, London
The smell of Beacon aroused the sleeping Sirius. He sat up groggily and asked where he was. He was answered by tow familiar laughs.
"What am I doing here Lily?" Sirius asked getting up and sitting in the nearest chair he could crawl to.
Lily put a cup of coffee in front of him and answered his question, "You fell asleep here last night so we just left you on the floor with a pillow and blanket."
"So you didn't even try to bring me to the couch or anything! Thanks I see how it is." Sirius was not a morning person.
"Well sorry. I guess we shouldn't even bother to cook you eggs and beacon either." Saydey said taking some eggs off the pan and putting some more on.
"Well you see it'll be completely forgotten if you do cook for me." Sirius said defending his stomach.
"What will be completely forgotten?" Remus walked in and gave Saydey a kiss.
Lily smiled at the couple and continued what Saydey was doing.
"I smelled beacon and coffee." James entered in a robe. His wife turned around with two cups of coffee in her hands, she gave one to Remus and gave one to her husband. He set his coffee down and brought her in the hall where they shared a passionate kiss (a/n: I hate to kiss in front of people). The returned a few minutes later smiling at one another and their friends smiling at them.
"Breakfast is ready!" Saydey announced.
When they were finished their meal and cleaning up, they all went to the parlor and talked about the men's mission and the new addition to the Potter's
"How about Harry?" Lily asked. "It's your dad's name; I think he'll like having another Harry Potter in the family."
"But what about Napoleon?" James and Sirius asked simultaneously.
"NO!" Saydey and Lily said simultaneously also. Remus just laughed and shook his head.
"I'll make you a deal Lily, if we name this child (if it so is a boy) Harry, the next one (again if it's a boy) will Napoleon." James asked.
"Fine!" Lily said in a huff. She would never admit that she thought the name Napoleon was cute.
Oh man Chapter 4 complete. You know, I don't think I ever wrote on of these for this story yet let me go check hold on… No I haven't! oh man well I really thank the beautiful people who reviewed you are AMAZING! Thank you:
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