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Chapter 5: I could never hope for more.

June 30, 1987

"I look fat and ugly James!" Lily cried as she looked at herself in the mirror. James just shook his head from the bathroom as he was shaving.

"You look radiant! Lily, there is no possible way you could ever ugly, especially when you're with child! To me you will always look amazing and I'm the only opinion you should really care about. Unless .." He looked out of the bathroom door.

"No unless. You are the one and only for me." Lily reassured him with a giggle. "Are you sure I don't look ugly? I really do want to impress you're co-workers."

"They're already impressed. Everybody in the ministry has heard of your amazing job with the German minister and his cabinet. You really are brilliant." James said obviously impressed with the fact that she was his wife.

"Okay but if I'm called a beached whale throughout the night I'm coming home and crying." She said.

"Well if you're called a beached whale I'll kill them then come home and comfort you." James said making the last preparations.

"Are you ready for the most boring dinner party you will ever experience?" James asked.

"I guess so. What time did the invitation say?" Lily asked.

"6:30." James answered nonchalantly.

"6:30! James it's already 7! We're late thanks to you." Lily exclaimed. Then she added with a smile, "I thought it was the woman's job to take so much time getting ready."

James looked her smiling face and just sort of ignored the statement. He knew he always took a long time getting ready but that was only based upon the fact that he was lazy. It took a lot from him to get up from the couch and start the long and excruciating task of showering, picking out his robe, putting on his dress robes, shaving, etc. Lily on the other hand took a lot less time because she tended to do things the magical way. Why James did things the muggle way, only he would know, but that's the way things were done and that's how it had to be.

"Let's go we'll be later then we already are." James said when he finally got done from the bathroom.

"JAMES! You're unbelievable!" Lily chuckled.

"No, you are. You are breath- taking my love." James said giving his wife a peck on the cheek.

July 29, 1987

"AAAAGHH! JAMES!" Lily Potter's screams could be heard from the waiting room, where three people were patiently waiting for their friends to become parents.

"What can I do for you darling, I would do anything for you." James said calmly. His hand was losing all feeling, His legs were falling asleep as he stood next to his wife, and he so desperately wanted his child and his wife not to be in so much pain. For Lily to be in pain, it caused him pain.

"GET THIS BLOODY CHILD OUT OF ME!" Lily screamed as another contraction followed the last one closely.

In the waiting room Remus, Saydey, and Sirius were sitting in hard chairs and drinking coffee, waiting for the sixth member of their family to arrive.

"Remus, remind me to never have kids." Sirius said when he heard a scream emit from one of the hospital doors.

Remus and Saydey looked at Sirius and laughed.

"I'll remember that next time, Padfoot. Don't you worry." Remus said.

"Okay, with your promise I'm happy." Sirius tried to peak around the corner as he heard yet another loud scream.

Back in the delivery room, James stood next to his exhausted wife and waited. The doctors and nurses were cleaning his son up and examining him. Finally after what seemed like forever, the nurse cradled a blue bundle carefully in her arms as she brought it over to the tow new parents.

"Your son is an amazing boy, he is perfectly happy and he is apparently magical." The doctor said smiling as he turned around. He was the victim of a simple color changing spell that was already beginning to fade away. James guessed that he had already performed the circumcision.

The nurse handed the young Potter over to Lily. As James watched his lovely wife look down lovingly at their lovely son he thought his life, well, lovely, perfect even. After James held his son in his arms for a couple of minutes, the nurse took him away. He kissed his now sleeping wife and went out to see if his friends were still there.

Remus noticed James erupt from the room with a HUGE smile on his face, making Remus plaster a HUGE smile on his face. Saydey noticed Remus' smile and then looked at James and she did the same as her boyfriend and best friend. Sirius was looking at the patterns on the walls trying to find all the circles and didn't quite notice his three friends until they were done giving each other hugs and kisses.

"Well how's Lily?" Saydey asked.

"She's doing wonderfully, she's resting. Want to go see Harry?"

"Well duh!" Sirius answered for the other two excited people.

James led them down a corridor and to a glass window. Sirius plastered his face to the glass and looked in excitedly at all the bundled babies. They stood there for a good half hour then Sirius decided he wanted pancakes so he, Remus, and Saydey went to Breakfast with promises of returning later that day.

Totally sorry about the obnoxiously long wait I've had a lot on my plate this year, thanks guys for reviewing 3 you all. I hope that you enjoy this tale. I won't wait 2487189371247 months to update next pinky promise.

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