James smiled at her weakly and waved goodbye as he disapparated away.
"He's really a great guy," Molly said, grabbing a pitcher of water and a glass, "Can you drink this by yourself, or do you need help?" she asked.
"I can't move, and I can't feel a thing, Mrs. Weasley," Lily replied hoarsely.
"Call me Molly," she said smiling, and filling the glass with cool water, and bringing it up to Lily's mouth. Lily nodded, letting the water drip down her chin.
"You need to take a bath and get all that blood off of you," she stated, pulling the blankets back off of Lily.
"I'll help you up," she said kindly. She pulled Lily up carefully and supported Lily on her way to the bathroom, helping her get undressed and into the warm water.
"You need someone to watch you, we don't want you to drown," she said, as Lily closed her eyes.
"Thank you so much, Molly, do you know if my baby is going to be all right?" she asked, placing a hand on her stomach. Lily was completely covered in bubbles.
"He'll be fine," Molly replied, hoping she was right. "He'll be the strongest little boy you'll ever see, just wait."
Lily's eyes flew open. "It's a boy?" she asked, her mouth open wide.
"Why, yes James was beaming while he was telling me about all the things he was going to have his son do with my boys, I'm sorry I thought that you knew," Molly said, reddening.
Lily smiled, "It's ok," she said, "A boy, huh?" she added as an afterthought, smiling.
James appeared at a gory scene. There were spells flying everywhere, and it seemed as if muggles had gotten into the mix with their primitive weapons. Shots were firing and blood was everywhere. Sirius ducked and rolled into James.
"Oh, thank Merlin that you're here!" he said wiping the sweat off of his forehead.
"What happened?" James asked, in awe. Sirius pushed him down, and fell to the ground also.
"No time for that, just fight. They've got Dumbledore, and McGonagall. I don't know what happened, but Dumbledore fell and they took the opportunity to capture him. They're all upstairs, we need to get up there and rescue them," Sirius said, complaining.
James and Sirius ran to the stairs, but it seemed too easy, as if no one was aiming for them, but James brushed it off.
They reached the top of the stairs and James looked around. The floors were white but stained with dried blood, as were the walls.
"Sirius, it's too quiet, I think something is wrong, we need backup," James said, looking around. It was silent.
"No, we can take them, just think of how famous we're going to be if we rescue Dumbledore single handed!" Sirius said, excitedly.
"Sirius, we need to turn back now,'' James said looking at Sirius. He knew that was not how Sirius normally acted.
Lily sat back in bed, resting peacefully. She was going to have a little boy! He'd be just like James! Just what she had always wanted and dreamed of, a happy family with James.
"Ah, Miss Evans, I see that you're feeling a little better," said a silky smooth voice from the doorway.
"Severus!" Lily said, surprised. She motioned for him to come over and sit with her.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
Lily shook her head, "Like crap," she said, pulling the blankets up closer, "And I'm hungry."
Snape laughed, Lily was always hungry. "Anything special you might like?" he asked, pushing hair back out of her face.
She thought for a minute, "How about a bowl of chocolate ice cream, with a pickle on the side?" she asked.
Snape wrinkled up his face in disgust, but returned a few minutes later with her order.
"You have to be careful," he said watching her eat.
"About what?" she asked, her mouth full.
"About James, he makes bad decisions," Snape replied. Lily narrowed her eyes.
"Is Potter's brat a boy or a girl?" he asked.
"My child is a boy, I think," Lily said, sticking the spoon in her mouth again.
"You think?" Snape asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well Molly said that James said it was a boy, and James asked the doctor behind my back, so I don't really know," she said, explaining it to him.
"Oh," he said sighing. He had always dreamed he would be with Lily, that Lily would have his children, but it would never be, and he accepted that.
"How did the fight go?" Lily asked, switching subjects, sensing that Snape was thinking about their failed relationship.
"We finished quite a long time ago actually; it was fairly easy considering the Dark Lord wasn't prepared. A few were injured, Dumbledore asked me to come up and check on you, and apparently my potion worked seeing as you're not in labor," he replied monotonously.
Lily laughed a little bit. Snape sighed and got up to leave. As he was at the door, Lily stopped him.
"Thank you for what you did to help me," she said, smiling. "Could you send James in when you see him?" she asked. Snape nodded.
Snape got downstairs and saw everyone. Everyone except that blasted Potter. He went over to Dumbledore and asked him where Potter was. Dumbledore didn't know, and neither did anyone else.
James and Sirius approached one of the doors and tried to open it, but James felt the handle burn beneath his hand, he pulled away quickly, swearing.
"Where did they go Sirius?" he asked, shaking his still burning hand.
"That way," Sirius replied, his eyes blank, pointing to the next door. James opened it, easily, too easily.
The room was almost completely dark, lit only by a fire burning brightly. There was a large desk facing it, with a large overstuffed scarlet chair, its back turned towards the door. There were two black cloaked figures with large hoods standing on either side of the desk.
"Avada Kedavra!" and a thump was heard as someone fell to the ground, dead.