Lily lay on her bed, being nearly nine months pregnant wasn't easy, as she was finding out. She now knew why Emma had been so cranky when she was pregnant, she wasn't just carrying one, which was bed enough, she was carrying two, that must have been hell!

She rolled over and looked at James who was lying next to her asleep.

"James are you awake?" She asked, there was no reply. She nudged him in the back and he stirred. "are you awake?"

"No," James mumbled.

"I thought you were." Lily said, "I don't suppose you want to make me breakfast?"

"Not really." James said and he startled to drift off again.

"Good, I'll have fried bacon and sausages, and eggs, and beans, and fired tomatoes." Lily said, her mouth watering. "Just give me the full English."

She turned to look at James and realized that he was asleep.

"JAMES!" She shouted at him.

"What?" James asked abruptly sitting up straight. "What's going on?"

"You were asking me what I wanted for breakfast, and I told you a want a fry up." Lily said.

James looked at her sceptically. "I did not offer you breakfast, it's only six thirty."

Lily looked at him with puppy dog eyes, "me and your unborn child are hungry," she said, "you know I would bother you, it's just I'm finding it so hard to move. Look don't worry, I'll do it myself, I just hope I don't strain myself, then me and the baby would be-"

"Ok, OK I'm doing it." James said sliding out of bed. "But it's only because I love you." He said and he kissed her on the head, then kissed her bump.

Lily smiled to herself and lay back in bed, maybe being pregnant wasn't so bad.

Later that day Dumbledore had called an Order meeting, from his owl they could tell it was very important. Lily, James, Sirius, Emma, Jess and Remus were all there (strangely Peter wasn't) along with Mad-Eye Moody, Frank and Alice Longbottom, and a few other important Aurors.

Lily was sitting next to Alice Longbottom, who was also pregnant, and discussing their mutual state.

Dumbledore called them to order.

"Now, I have some news to share with you, very important news." Dumbledore said surveying every person sitting around him.

"Well out with it then." Mad-Eye said impatiently, "I have other things to be doing, a lot of paper work."

Dumbledore smiled at him but took no notice otherwise. "I was recently interviewing someone for the post of Divination teacher at the school when I heard something very interesting, a prophecy." He said, "but not just any prophecy, a very intriguing one, but I'm not all that sure of its reliability. The candidate who I was talking to wasn't the best seer you've ever met." Dumbledore now pulled out his pensive and placed it on the table in front of him. "I'll let you hear it for yourselves and see what you make of it."

A figure of a woman draped in shawls, and weighed down with bangles floated out of the pensive, she repeated the word of the prophecy she had given back in her interview before disappearing.

"Well what does this mean?" Sirius asked.

"Well," Dumbledore said, "it is exactly as you heard it, apparently the one who will be able to defeat Voldemort will be born at the end of this month to parents who had escaped death by him three times."

Lily's eyes opened wide in shock and she looked at James, "but that's me." She said.

Dumbledore nodded glumly.

"And me," Alice said.

"Yes this could apply to both of you, you have both defied Voldemort three times, and are due to have children at the end of this year." Dumbledore said.

"But what was the bit about him having the power he know not?" Remus asked.

"I'm not sure about that, but all I can guess is that this child, whether it be Lily and James' or Frank and Alice's' will do great things." Dumbledore said.

"But you said before that you didn't know how reliable this prophecy was." Mad-Eye said. "How do you know if it's even going to come true at all?"

"Well so far it has been true, and it would be foolish just to ignore it." Dumbledore said. "There is also another problem, we are not the only ones who know about this prophecy. It seems there was someone listening in, a Death Eater."

"That's all we need." Mad-Eye moaned.

"I would not have wished Voldemort to hear of this prophecy, but his mole didn't hear all of it. He was found and removed half way through so we still have the upper hand." He said, "but this also means that both Lily and Alice are in danger, as are all the people close to you, and this is why I have called this meeting."

"Well what do you purpose to do?" James asked.

"I have a few ideas, " Dumbledore replied, "have someone on your guard all the time, making sure you come to no harm, but that isn't very practical. In fact many of my ideas aren't very good, except."

£Except what?" Alice asked.

"I have the one idea, you would go into hiding using an ancient charm." Dumbledore said.

"The fidelius charm." Lily said, Dumbledore nodded, "but there must be another way."

"I wish there was, but this is the only way that would ensure you were safe." Dumbledore said, "you do not have to make up your minds right now, but think it over. In the mean time we need to make sure nothing happens to either of these two, and all their friends and family need to be on their guard as well."

Lily and James returned home after their meeting with Sirius, Emma, Jess and Remus.

"Well it could be worse." Emma said.

"How exactly?" Lily snapped.

"Well Alice could have not been pregnant." Emma said, "then you'd be screwed, but at least you still have hope, it might not be you."

"Don't worry Lily." James said hugging her, "we'll get through this, we'll find a way to make it all alright. And Emma's right it might not even be us."

"Well I'm sorry but that doesn't really console me." Lily said and she pulled out of the hug and she went upstairs.

"We'll go after her." Jess said and she pulled Emma with her after Lily.

James sighed.

"Don't be so down prongs." Sirius said slapping him on the back.

"Yeah it's not all doom and gloom." Remus said. "You have a beautiful wife and a baby on the way."

"You should be happy, being a fathers great." Sirius said.

"I just don't want this baby coming into the world and have to be in danger," James said.

"Well like Emma said it might not even be you, it might be Frank and Alice." Remus said.

"Let's just change the subject." Sirius said, "so how's the weather?"

"Shut up Padfoot." James said throwing a cushion at him.

"I was only making conversation." Sirius said ducking out of the way of the cushion.

"I'm going for a ride on my broom stick, let off a bit of steam." James said.

"We'll come," Sirius said, "we'll race."

"I'm not racing, you know I can't ride a broom to save my life." Remus said.

"We know, that's why we want you to come, so that one of us doesn't come last." Sirius said.

"Oi!"

"Come one then," James said, "last one back to the house has to smell Padfoot's old socks!"

"And what's wrong with my socks?" Sirius said in outrage.

"What isn't wrong with your socks mate?"

The end of July drew nearer and nearer and Lily prayed to God that she didn't have her baby before August the first.

Today was the 30th, and she sat with Jess out in the garden. The light was fading as it was late evening, and they sat discussing the fidelius charm which Dumbledore had purposed.

"It seems very complicated to me." Jess said, "all this secret keeper malarkey."

"Well it's very effective, but it would mean that I had no life, I would basically disappear." Lily said.

"But it's not like we would never see you." Jess said.

"Yeah but James and I would probably have to give up our jobs." Lily said.

"It would be worth it to keep you safe though, and it's not like you can't afford not to work." Jess said, "not after all that money James' parents left you two."

"I know we can afford it, but I was just so looking forward to working as a fully qualified Auror." Lily said, "I don't want to be cooped up at home all the time, I'll go mad."

"Well it won't be ideal, but you could still go out, just in disguise or something." Jess said.

Lily frowned and in the distance they heard a bell ring.

"Is that the door bell?" Jess asked.

Lily nodded, "probably muggles, will you get it?"

Jess nodded and went back through the house to the front door.

"Hello, I'm Mr. Haroldson and I would like to talk to you about your double glazing needs." A man dressed in a shard suit asked, his hair parted and greased down.

"No thank you." Jess said and she went to close the door.

"Please don't close the door." the man pleaded, "if I don't make one sale by the end of the week I'll be fired."

Jess frowned, "I'm sorry but I'm not buying double glazing off you."

"Alright then, but can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? What's wrong with my sales technique?"

"Um," Jess said looking at the man, "well maybe you should try and sell it in a quiet village where no one needs double glazing."

"Right, never thought of that," the man said.

"Look I'm really quite busy," Jess said.

"Right sorry to have bothered you, I'll be off." The man said, and before he could say anything else Jess slammed the door shut.

"What a nutter." Jess said to herself.

"JESS!" Came Lily's voice from the garden, she sounded panicked. "GET OUT HERE NOW!"

Jess ran through the house into the garden where Lily sat looking horrified.

"What's happened?" She asked.

"My waters broke, the babies coming." Lily said.

Lily had been in hospital all night, and it was now early morning.

James sat with her in a room in Saint Mungos as her last contraction finished.

"James, I don't want it to happen now." She whined.

James stroked her hair, "don't work yourself up, it will only make this harder." He said, "if it's meant to happen now it will, we can't stop it."

Lily clasped his hand again as she felt another contraction coming.

"Right," the Healer said, "it's time to start pushing, now take a deep breath and….. PUSH!"

Outside Emma heard the screaming, "God I feel sorry for her."

"Her, I feel sorry for James," Sirius said, "he'll have a broken hand by the end of this." Emma hit him lightly.

"I wonder if it's going to be a boy or a girl?" Jess wondered.

"It sounds like we'll find out soon." Remus said.

Inside the room the baby was nearly out.

"Come on one more push." The healer said.

Lily gritted her teeth and did as she was told.

"It's a boy, it's a boy!" James shouted beaming like an idiot when the baby was finally out and it's screams filled the room.

"A boy?" Lily asked and the healer showed her.

"I'll just get him cleaned up." She said and she took him off.

Their friends then flooded into the room.

"I heard a baby crying," Emma said.

"That was James." Lily joked tiredly.

"No it wasn't," James corrected her, "it was our son."

"A boy?" Jess squealed, "that's wonderful."

"Where is he?" Emma asked.

"He's being cleaned up," James said.

A few minutes later the healer came back with the baby.

Lily held him in her arms and James put his arm around both of them.

"What's his name?" Sirius asked

"We're calling him Harry, after James' dad, " Lily said.

"Harry James Potter." James said beaming.

"He has your eyes Lily." Jess said, "he's beautiful."

"He really is." Emma agreed.

Lily smiled at her new child, he was so small and innocent, and although she had never felt happier there was a was a feeling of dread in the back of her mind. She felt a tear come to her face as she thought of what this baby may one ay have to face.