A/N: Thank you for all your reviews. I also thank everyone who didn't verbally kill me like they usually do when I do something unpleasant. I'm sorry to leave you on such a cliffhanger. It was intentional though. So, thanks again, and please review.
Catch My Fall
Chapter 20-Harry James Potter
"Oh my god, oh my god," Sirius mumbled, his eyes growing wide with fear. "Can you Apparate?"
"Do you think I'm in the condition to Apparate?" Lily asked, her hormones returning.
"Right," Sirius muttered. "Good thing I brought my bike."
"You mean your motorcycle?" Lily asked, clutching her stomach and breathing slowly in and out. "We're going to the hospital on your motorcycle?"
"Do you have a better suggestion?" Sirius asked her stubbornly.
Lily shook her head and just screamed, "Quickly."
As they were walking out the door, Sirius wrote a note to Remus and owled it off to him. He saw Lily approaching the bike and he ran up to help her. Hopefully, when James returned to check on Remus, Remus could tell him to get to the hospital.
"Where's James?" she cried as they flew off into the air.
"He's coming," Sirius assured her. After five minutes, the abandoned brick department stoor he knew to be St. Mungos appeared in front of them. He led Lily to the ugly dummy in the front and nearly yelled into it, "We have a patient going into labor."
The doors opened and Sirius led Lily inside. As they climbed the stairs, a healer in lime green robes took Lily's other arm and helped carry her up.
"It will be alright," the healer said to Lily.
"No it won't," Lily insisted. "My husband's not here."
.X.
Remus awoke to the sharp feeling of being bitten. He opened his eyes and immediately felt a sharp pain in his head. He saw an owl holding a letter for him.
He read it and immediately started panicking. He had no idea where James had went. How was he supposed to contact him?
Hopefully, the owl could find James for him. It had to.
Prongs,
Lily's going into labor. Sirius took her to the hospital. Get over there ASAP
Moony
Remus sent the owl off into the sky and hoped it would be able to find his friend. In the meantime, Remus figured Sirius could use all the help he could get.
.X.
James had never had to deal with personal attachment when on the crime scene. He had experienced many loss' before, but he had never actually seen the after effects of murder on someone that was his friend.
"What was she doing here, Moody?" James asked his boss. Moody seemed at a loss for words. He was looking at Katy Jones as if he had lost a child. An Auror was always one of the hardest things to lose as you know the Dark side gained one up on you and your chances have gone down by one.
It was more complex with Katy though. She was a good person. She was their friend. James thought of Remus. He almost felt that Remus had died as well. His friend would never be the same again because Katy had died while the two of them were not on good terms. Remus loved Katy. Anyone could see that. Voldemort tore people apart. He always had.
"Damn him," James muttered. "We're supposed to be able to stop these things from happening."
"You're right," Moody said quietly. "We are. Unfortunately, there will always be mistakes. It was a mistake for Voldemort to kill a fine Auror like Katy Jones."
"How do we know Voldemort killed her?" James asked softly.
Before Moody could answer his question, an owl dashed in through the open door. It was Sirius' owl once more, but the note was from Remus. James looked at it and his eyes showed even more anxiety.
"I've got to go," James said, handing the note over to Moody. "Do you think you can catch up with Remus before he gets there? Someone needs to tell him and I wish I could, but Lily's going into labor."
"I can do that, Potter," Moody assured him. "Now go have your baby. We need more good people in this world."
James Disapparated and left Moody at the death site of one of his favorite Aurors.
.X.
Sirius was beside Lily in the hospital room, his hand already aching from the amount of pressure she was putting on it. Both Healers Lupin were there, assuring both Sirius and Lily that everything would be ok. Apparently, she was going to have the baby very quickly. They predicted less than three hours.
"I want James," she moaned in between contractions.
"Maybe I should go and find..," Sirius suggested.
"Go?" Lily asked, her emerald green eyes scared. "Sirius, you're the only person I have right now. You can't go."
Sirius desperately wanted to go though. He hated hospitals. Ever since Halle died, the white walls haunted him. He remembered holding Cherish, her dead body in his hands. He didn't want that for Lily. If it happened to her, he didn't know what he would do. He didn't want to stick around either. He had to though, it was Lily. His friend, his best mate's wife, Lily. He had to help her. He was all she had.
"I won't," Sirius promised.
"Thank you," Lily whispered, her voice going from screaming.
"Come on, Mrs. Potter," Healer Lupin coached. "You need to push."
"James isn't here," Lily reminded them. "I need James."
"I'm here, baby," someone said from the door. James was struggling to put on a hospital gown.
He thanked Sirius and took his place next to his wife. She smiled at him before the Healers told her to push.
"Come on, Lily," James coached. "You're strong. You can do it. Don't you want to know what our baby looks like?"
She pushed.
"I see a head," Healer Lupin cried. "With lots of hair."
"Uh oh," Sirius teased. "Looks like all Potter's have that ridiculous head of hair. James laughed, but stopped as he saw the pain in his wife's face.
"Last push, Mrs. Potter," the Healer announced. "One last push and you can see your baby."
"Come on, Lils," Sirius cheered. "Come on!"
She pushed with all her might and soon, they had a baby.
"It's a boy," Healer Lupin announced. "A beautiful, healthy, baby boy."
James grinned and leaned over to kiss Lily. He whispered in her ear, "I love you so much."
Sirius nearly jumped on James, hugging him. Once the healers had washed him off, they brought the new Potter boy over to meet his parents.
"Oh, he's so beautiful," Lily whispered, holding a small hand of her baby. "You're what's been kicking me for the past nine months. He looks just like his daddy too."
The baby opened it's eyes and James swore that a green light emitted from them.
"Not exactly like me," he said, seeing the green eyes his son has acquired from his wife.
"What should we name him?" Lily asked.
"Harry," James answered, looking at his son. "He looks like a Harry."
"Harry James Potter," Lily decided. "Two men I will always love."
"And he beat the month of July too," James said. "August 1st , buddy."
"Actually," the Healer informed them. "He was born at 11:59 PM on July 31st."
A/N: That chapter was not as good as I wanted it to be. I am sorry about the length. It will improve, I promise. Next chapter we'll learn more about Alice, Peter, and how everyone will react to Katy's death.
