Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!
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"I would like to make a toast!" Lily said. Lily, Marissa, Kiah, James, Sirius, and Remus were all eating dinner at a very nice restaurant in Hogsmeade. They were celebrating Sirius and Marissa's engagement. The rest of the group picked up their glasses.
"First off I would like to say congratulations. You two are truly in love and so much fun to be around as a couple. It's amazing to see all of my best friends getting married, and I know how happy you will be…" Lily said, not being able to finish because she has tears in her eyes.
After a few more minutes of chatting and eating, Marissa cleared her throat. The table looked up at her. "I've been thinking about who should be my maid of honor all through dinner. You both are so special to me and I really just did a coin toss in my mind," Marissa said. Lily and Kiah both looked at each other, smiling. "So, Lily will be my official maid of honor, but I am going to give both of you the same duties because you both mean so much to me and I really can't choose."
Kiah smiled. "That's great! I really don't care, Lily is much more experienced in the wedding area."
There was some more chatter and Marissa nudged Sirius a little too hard. "Ow! What?" Sirius asked. Marissa gave him a pointed look. "Oh, well I guess I'll announce who's my best man," Sirius said. Both James and Remus looked up from their plates and gave him their undivided attention. "I'm stealing this idea from Remus and I want you both to be my best men, it's too hard deciding between the Marauders."
"What about Peter?" James asked.
Sirius sighed. "I already owled him, he said he couldn't come to the wedding."
"Where has he been lately? No one's work is that demanding," Remus said, mostly to himself. With a jolt he remembered being in a forest and in excruciating pain. He saw one Death Eater walk up to him and take his mask off. It was Peter. With a gasp Remus said, "Oh my God!"
Kiah squeezed his arm and everyone leaned in. "What is it, Remus?" Kiah asked.
"Peter, he's…he's…" Remus was about to say, then the memory was gone and he didn't remember what he was about to say.
"What about Peter?" asked James, worry etched in his face.
"I-I don't remember," Remus said, holding his forehead with shaking hands.
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"Lily! I'm home!" James said, popping into the house. He was greeted with silence. "Lily?" James called as he walked in the kitchen. He saw a note on the table, reading, My work called, they needed me to sing back up for a few hours. Be back later!
James just shrugged and went to the study to check the owl post. He saw an envelope with green writing on it. He recognized the writing as Dumbledore's. Curious, he broke the Hogwarts seal on the back, took out the letter, and began reading.
Dear James and Lily Potter,
I have written to you today thinking of a growing threat in our world. Voldemort is getting stronger everyday and more innocent lives are being thrown away. I come to you for help. I believe we need to take a stand against Voldemort and try to help our world survive.
I have started an organization called the Order of the Phoenix. It is very secret, not even the Ministry of Magic knows about it. I am humbly requesting that you join this organization. Lord Voldemort has affected both of your lives and you are both very powerful. You could help put a stop to Voldemort's power. There are very few that are qualified enough to become apart of the Order of the Phoenix, this is a huge opportunity to help both wizard and muggle worlds.
I do hope you join; both of your talents would be so valuable. The first meeting is on Friday at seven o'clock. Please send an owl back with your response. Oh, and please don't mention this to anyone else. Voldemort could discover our organization, then all of our lives would be in grave danger.
Albus Dumbledore
Headmaster of Hogwarts
James smiled to himself. Finally, an organization to help get rid of him, once and for all. James quickly took out some parchment and scribbled back a response, saying they would indeed be there.
A few hours later Lily came home. "Lily! We got a letter from Dumbledore today," James said as she popped in the living room. He gave the letter to her as she flopped down on the couch. Her eyes widened as she read it.
"Did you accept?" Lily asked when she finished.
"Yes, that's alright isn't it?" James asked. He forgot to ask Lily if she even wanted to do it.
"Of course! This is the most perfect thing to help defeat him," Lily said, giving James a kiss.
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James and Lily popped to the Hogwarts gates, starting the long walk up to the castle. "Oh, I miss it so much!" Lily sighed, looking around the grounds.
They reached the castle and went into the entrance hall. "Hello James and Lily," said McGonagall, heading over to them. "The meeting will be held in the Room of Requirements. Walk past it three times, thinking of simple room with a long table and chairs," James and Lily nodded. "It's very good to see you again," McGonagall said with a smile.
When Lily and James reached the Room of Requirements, they saw Remus and Kiah already sitting there, along with Dumbledore and a few other unknown wizards. "You guys are here, too?" James asked Remus.
"Yeah, but I already guessed you too would be here," Remus said, giving them a small smile.
"We are expecting two more plus Minerva. Please, sit," Dumbledore said quietly.
A few moments later, Sirius and Marissa walked in, being followed by McGonagall. Dumbledore stood, smiling at each of them in turn. "Welcome to the Order of the Phoenix! There were a few more scheduled to be here, but they had prior arrangements.
"I would like to begin by saying thank you to all of you. Not many would accept this invitation, not many are willing to risk their lives in the growing threat surrounding our world. But each of you have accepted, and I would like to say thank you, you are helping all of mankind.
"Each of you will have an assigned job. Everyone will have certain missions; you will probably have a mission once a month. But you each will a designated duty, which only you will do to help the Order.
"Let's start with James. You will help decode messages from Voldemort that are intercepted. You will also bring any information from the Ministry that you are allowed to release," James nodded, "Lily, I've heard that you have a natural talent for Healing, so I have decided you could help Madam Pomfrey with anything medical. If someone returns from a mission hurt, you will help heal them. I need you to begin studying medicine as much as you can. Sirius, you will bring any leads on Voldemort that your office gets, such as new locations or attacks. Marissa, you also get any information on Voldemort you can, such as his history. Being in the high position that you are, you have access to almost everything. I understand that there are many things you are forbidden to release, but please do what you can.
"Remus, you have so many talents and I had trouble deciding where you would be most useful. But I believe you should join any attacks the Order is prepared for. You would be dueling many Death Eaters. This requires training, and you will be paid for doing this. But I need you to accept it first," Dumbledore said.
"I will happily accept, Albus," Remus said. Dumbledore smiled and continued.
"Last but not least, Kiah, you will bring any information you can from the Department of Mysteries. I know there is a code against it, but you would be very valuable against Voldemort, and it would mean you would be more of a threat against him. I hope you are willing to take that chance."
"I am, I think all of us are," Kiah said as the rest of the table nodded.
Dumbledore smiled. "Very good." He continued to address the other seven people at the table with their role in the order. The only people James recognized were Mad-Eye Moody, an old Auror that seemed senile, and Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth, who was wearing bright pink robes backwards. "The next meeting will be in November, I need time to gather more people. Thank you all for coming." Everyone took this as his or her cue to leave.
"This is so great! Dumbledore is a bloody genius for thinking this up!" James said excitedly, skipping down the halls.
Lily ran after him, grabbing his hand and making him slow down. "You guys want to come to our house?" she asked everyone else.
"Sure," everyone said in unison.
"Oooh, look Lily! It's our broom closet!" James said, pointing to a door. Lily's face turned a deep shade of red.
"No it isn't, it's mine and Marissa's!" Sirius said, scoffing, receiving a slap from Marissa.
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Lily awoke on a warm October morning, stretching lazily. She knew she had no studio time today, and realized James must have gone to work already. Lily was about to climb out of bed when she suddenly felt very sick. She groped her way to the bathroom.
Fifteen minutes later, she emerged, feeling very weak. Lily mentally went through a list of everything she ate the night before, trying to figure out what made her sick. She went to the fridge looking for something to calm her stomach, but finding it empty.
Lily saw a note on the table, reading, Hey babe, we are out of food, I think we need to get some more, if we don't want to starve. Love you, James. Lily smiled, going into the bedroom to get ready for a trip to Diagon Alley.
Twenty minutes later (and another trip to the bathroom), she Apparated to Diagon Alley, happiness radiating in the air. She walked past a tray of budding flowers. For some odd reason, tears sprung up in her eyes. She touched on of the buds and the whole tray bloomed, growing more flowers from the touch of her hand. Puzzled, she continued down the street.
Lily passed the animal shop, and as she did, all three of the chickens that were sitting there, laid eggs at the same time. Lily was getting more confused as the day wore on. She felt a rain drop and looked up at the cloudy sky, frowning. I wish it were more sunny… Lily thought to herself. Suddenly, the clouds vanished and the sun came out under a perfectly blue sky.
Shaking her head, more baffled than ever, Lily quickly finished her shopping, Apparating back home. She felt so tired, even though she went to bed early and slept in late. She put everything she had bought away, then headed down to the couch in the living room.
As soon as Lily finally got into a light slumber, Marissa popped in the living room. Lily groaned loudly. "Oh my God, Marissa!" she said angrily, sitting up.
"What?" Marissa asked questionably.
"I had just got to sleep and you come in here very loudly and wake me up! Did anyone say you could come over? Don't you have any respect for others?" Lily yelled.
Marissa blinked slowly a few times. "I'm sorry?" she asked questionably.
Lily's shoulders sagged and tears welled up in her eyes. "I didn't mean to yell at you! I'm so sorry!" Lily said, giving Marissa a hug.
"Um, Lily? Are you alright?" Marissa asked.
Lily sighed. "I don't know, it's been a very weird day," Lily said, and proceeded to tell her everything that happened today. When she finished, Lily moaned and said, "I miss James!"
Marissa watched her friend cry on the couch. "Lils, I think you might be pregnant."
"WHAT?" Lily said, angry again.
"Well your obviously emotional, and with you being sick in the morning and all that weird stuff that happened to you today, you just might be," Marissa said.
Lily blinked a few times. "No, no James and I have been using spells to prevent that from happening, they are supposed to last another week before we have to renew them."
"Yours and James' love is very strong, it might've broken through the spells," Rissa said gently. Lily thought about it for a few moments, hugging the pillow to her chest. "What about your period?" Marissa asked.
"Well, I'm a week late, but I've been off in the past, so its nothing to worry about," Lily said. Marissa gave her a pointed look. "Is it?"
Marissa shrugged. "You won't know until you take a pregnancy test."
Lily abruptly stood up and headed to the bathroom. A few moments later, she came out, smiling. "I took a pregnancy test, and it read false."
"Was it a muggle one?" Marissa asked. Lily nodded. "Wow, I can't believe I know more about this than you. Muggle pregnancy tests don't work on witches." The smile fell from Lily's face.
"I still don't believe I'm pregnant," Lily said.
"Alright, fine, I'll bring over a book later about pregnancy signs. Just give it a few days and see what else happens. Well I have to go back to work now, my lunch break is up," Marissa said.
"Oh, here," Lily said, summoning a sandwich and a soda from the refrigerator and handing it to Marissa.
"Thanks, Lils. See you later, and good luck," Rissa said. Lily nodded and watched her friend Apparate away.
Lily sighed heavily, looking around for something to take her mind off of this. She tried watching TV, but everything she flipped to seemed to be about mothers, children, or giving birth. Lily clicked the TV off and went to the study, pulling out a random book. She began reading, but as she read she realized it was a book about childcare. Lily angrily put the book back on the shelf and headed down to the kitchen for something to eat. But everything she smelt made her nauseated. Lily spotted some knifes on the counter, scoffed and carefully put them in a brown paper sack. She also saw scissors, butter knifes, forks, glass plates, a food processor, an ice pick, a cheese grater, a vase, and the toaster. She put all of it in the bag and climbed up to attic, shoving it into the furthest corner, shivering and heading back downstairs.
Yawning, Lily made her way back down to the couch, feeling exhausted. Just because I've been crying a lot, not because I'm a pregnant… Lily thought, reassuring herself.
Three hours later, James popped into the entryway, putting his cloak and briefcase away in the closet. "Lily?" James called, wandering to the living room, stopping when he saw Lily sleeping on the couch, her face glowing. James smiled and kissed her on the forehead, smoothing the hair away from her face.
Lily squirmed a little bit, the slowly opened her eyes and smiled, wrapping her arms around James' neck and pulling him onto the couch. James gave her another kiss. "How was your day?" Lily asked, nestling her head on his shoulder.
"Uneventful, looked through millions of pictures of nothing. Broke one code, but then I took it to the Head of the Department and he said they had already broken that earlier this week, and it must've gotten recycled to me. How was your day?" James asked, locking her gaze.
Lily opened her mouth to speak, about to tell him about Marissa's idea of her being pregnant, but then closed it again. "Not much happened, Marissa came over for lunch. I went to Diagon Alley and replenished our food supply. But the weirdest things happened while I was there," Lily said.
"Like what?" James asked worriedly, immediately thinking of Voldemort.
"Oh nothing dangerous. Just like I was looking at some potted flowers and I touched one and they all bloomed, really big. Then I walked past chickens and they all laid eggs at the same time. Then I wished it was sunny and pretty out and suddenly, the clouds disappeared and it was," Lily said.
James relaxed and hugged her tighter. "That is strange, but I'm sure it was just a bizarre coincidence." Lily smiled; relieved to think she might not be pregnant. "I'm going to make something to eat," James said, kissing her nose.
James walked into the kitchen, feeling like there were some things missing. Then he realized the toaster was gone. He also realized the food processor, the knives, and a vase was gone. James just shrugged it off, then got out some pudding. He opened the curtly drawer and realized there were no forks or butter knives.
"Hey Lily? Where is…everything?" James asked, looking around the kitchen and scratching his head.
Lily walked into the kitchen. "What?"
James listed the things that were missing. "Oh, well those were just too dangerous to be in the house. An accident could happen," Lily said, shrugging it off nonchalantly.
Raising and eyebrow, James asked, "Where did you put those things?"
"In the attic, no one goes up there so there is no chance of anyone getting hurt," Lily said. James went up to the attic, found the bag, brought it back down, and began setting everything back up.
Sirius and Remus popped in while James was arranging the flowers back in the vase, and doing a poor job of it. "Thinking of redecorating, Mrs. Potter?" Sirius asked James while hopping onto a barstool.
"If you are, I beg you to choose a lighter shade of blue, it just doesn't go with the room," Remus said, laughter in his eyes.
James rolled his eyes. "Haha, very funny. For some odd reason, Lily packed away anything 'dangerous' and put it in the attic. So now I'm putting it all back."
"Dangerous?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, I guess knives, scissors, curtly, anything electric. I don't know what's up with her," James mumbled, still messing with the flowers. Sighing he said, "How does anyone do this!"
Remus whipped out is wand and mumbled a few words. The next instant the flowers were arranged perfectly.
"Wait a minute, anything else strange go on?" Sirius asked.
James thought for a second, then nodded. "She said something about going to Diagon Alley and making flowers bloom and chickens lay eggs and-"
"Making it sunny on a cloudy day with a thought," Sirius finished with him. Remus and James looked at him curiously. "Marissa had lunch with Lily, she told me what happened at Diagon Alley."
"What are you talking about?" Lily asked as she walked into the kitchen, her face flaming red. All the boys backed up a few inches.
"I was telling them what happened in Diagon Alley and I guess Marissa told Sirius too," James said quickly.
Lily turned on Sirius, her eyes furious. "What did she tell you?" Lily said, an inch away from his face.
Sirius tried to scoot further away, but he was already balancing dangerously on the end. "Well, I, er, uh, she just mentioned you had lunch together and the weird things that happened in Diagon Alley," Sirius stuttered.
"Why are you always here?" Lily screamed.
Remus and Sirius looked at each other. "What?" Remus asked bravely.
"You're always here disrupting our lives! Leave us alone!" Lily screamed, making the vase with the flowers shatter into a million pieces with her anger radiating off the walls.
James stepped forward. "Lily…" he said timidly.
Lily whipped her head around, her blazing eyes on him, but then the anger left her eyes when she saw him, and tears filled it instead. James hugged her as Lily cried into his shoulder. James mouthed 'what is wrong with her?' to Remus and Sirius, but they both shrugged.
"I'm so sorry, James," Lily said.
James kissed her head, and said soothingly, "It's alright, but can you tell me why you are so upset?"
Lily sniffed. "I don't know, I just felt mad," Lily looked up suddenly and started weeping. "You're having an affair with someone else!"
"WHAT?" James yelled.
"Uh, we're going to go," Sirius said, both him and Remus Apparating.
"I smell the perfume from your robes, James! And you have lipstick on your mouth!" Lily moaned, going to the living room and throwing herself on the couch.
"Lily! That's your own perfume and lipstick from when you kissed me earlier!" James said, going to the couch and cradling her in his arms.
Looking up with a red face, Lily asked, "Really?"
"Of course!"
Lily smiled, and the smile got bigger, and she started bursting out laughing. Soon she was doubled over with laughter, tears running down her face. "I can't believe myself! First I'm angry, then crying, then laughing! Too much caffeine today," Lily said with a whoop, getting up and spinning around the room.
James watched in stunned silence as she danced around the room. "The world is coming to an end…" he muttered, falling back on the couch.
Three days later, Lily's emotions were everywhere; her period still hadn't come, and gained seven pounds, not to mention she had bent over the toilet every morning.
Marissa popped in the living room during her lunch break, seeing Lily flipping through the channels by blinking her eyes and giggling each time she did. "Rissa! Watch this!" Lily said, stared at the TV, and blinked. Then channel moved from an infomercial to a high-speed cop chase. Lily giggled again.
"Um, yeah, that's great. Listen, James came over last night and told me everything that has happened since I last saw you. I decided to bring this book about the signs of pregnancy," Marissa said, holding up a book that read Magical Pregnancies; Signs, Theories, and Stories for the Concerned Witch.
Lily smiled and took the book. "Thanks! You want to go out to lunch?"
"Sure, the new pizza parlor on Main?" Marissa asked.
Lily nodded and summoned her cloak and purse. Before the Apparated, Lily said thoughtfully, "You know, I'm craving Dill pickles with whipped cream and ketchup." Marissa rolled her eyes, grabbing Lily's arm and Apparating.
An hour later, Lily came back to the apartment, throwing down her purse and cloak, immediately heading to the book. For the past three days its been driving her insane, she had to know if she was pregnant. Lily picked up the book as if it were a bomb, went to the study, and sat down. Getting comfortable, she opened it up to the first chapter.
Chapter One, Signs of Magical Pregnancy.
There has been a different sign for each witch pregnant. There are some strange stories out there about some of the symptoms (See Chapter Twelve, Wild Tales of the Pregnant). But of course, there are the basics ones that even muggles get.
You could feel nauseated at times, especially when you wake up. Some witches get sick for about fifteen minutes every morning. You could feel exhausted and tired all day, and feel like sleeping forever. The most common sign, your monthly menstrual cycle is a week or two late.
One of the most common sign is emotions. Muggle woman when pregnant are usually very moody and emotional. With witches it is ten times more so. They would be laughing one minute, angry the next, and ending with crying. One little word will set them off.
Some of the other basic signs are strange food cravings, sensitivity to odors, frequent urination, and rapid weight gain.
There are many other magical symptoms also. Some of the more common ones are higher levels of magic, flowers blooming at a woman's touch, motherly things jumping out, putting dangerous objects away, thinking of children and finding a baby doll in your hand, feeling the need the need to protect unknown children, and many more.
There are also a lot of stranger ones that have been reported. Such as blinking to make things move, unintentional Apparation, making dead plants come to life again, making chickens lay eggs-
Lily abruptly closed the book. She had almost all the signs. She opened the book to the index and looked up pregnancy tests, found on page eighty-seven.
Muggle pregnancy tests require the user to urinate on a stick, and after a few minutes it will show if the user is pregnant or not. These are highly inaccurate and cannot be used by a witch. If you want to see if you are pregnant, there is a spell you can use.
Concentrate on a baby, point your wand to your abdomen, and say Prenatal! There will be a white ball forming around your abdomen and it will glow gold if you are pregnant and will glow a dark silver if you are not. If you want to know the sex of the baby, say Sestet! The ball will glow blue if it's a boy and pink if it's a girl.
Lily closed the book and pulled out her wand, heading to the bathroom down the hall. Taking a deep breath, she pointed her wand to her abdomen and said, "Prenatal!" She felt a small tingling sensation in her stomach, up her spine, and into her head. A small white ball popped into sight. It started growing bigger and stopped when it was the size of a basketball. There was a blinding white light, then the ball turned a deep, sparkling gold with red sparks flying out of the sides.
"Oh my God," Lily muttered, "I'm pregnant." She didn't know just want to think. "Nineteen and pregnant. I'm too young to get pregnant," she said to herself.
Lily didn't understand. Her and James set up all the right spells and charms around the room, ensuring protection. How could this happen? Marissa's voice floated through her mind, Yours and James' love is very strong, it might've broken through the spells.
No, Lily's thoughts said, This can't be true. I'm too young to be pregnant. We talked about it and agreed we wouldn't have a baby until we were twenty-one. How am I going to tell James?
Waving her hand through the gold ball to make it disappear, she raced downstairs, grabbed the Floo powder off the fireplace, lit a fire with her mind and threw the powder in. She stuck her head in the fire and said clearly, "Marissa Peele!" There was a rushing, blinding moment, then Lily saw Marissa sitting at her desk, working. "Rissa!" Lily said.
Marissa jumped and then smiled. "Hey Lils! What's up?"
"I need to talk to you now. Can you come over?" Lily asked.
"Oh, no Lily I'm sorry. I am buried waist high in work and they won't let me out."
"But this is very important!"
"I'll try to get out in an hour, fire call Kiah and see if she can come."
Lily sighed heavily. "Okay, see you later." Lily pulled her head out of the fireplace and then threw more Floo in, clearly saying, "Kiah Lupin!" In a moment, she was in Kiah's office, but since it was the Department of Mysteries, she couldn't see anything more than Kiah, everything else was black around her.
"Hey Lils! Whatcha doing here?" asked Kiah, leaning down to the fireplace.
"I need to talk to you, can you get off work and come over?" Lily asked.
"Sure I was just about to leave, I'll see you in a minute," Kiah said, grabbing her cloak and briefcase. Lily pulled her head out of the fire and went to the entry way just as Kiah popped in. "What's up?"
Lily took her cloak and briefcase and put them in the closet. Then she took her time conjuring tea and scones for them. "You can quit stalling, what is it?" Kiah said, rolling her eyes.
With a heavy sigh, Lily opened her mouth to speak, but it seemed she couldn't, like her voice wasn't working. Lily burst into tears, burying her head in her arms. Kiah rushed over, hugging her and coaxing Lily to tell her what's wrong. Once she finally calmed down, Lily said, "You know how I have been acting really weird lately?" Kiah nodded and Lily took a sharp intake of breath, "I'm…hiccup…pregnant."
Kiah sat there, her mouth wide open as she heard her say the news. "Y-y-you're what?" she stuttered out.
"I'm pregnant. Marissa thought I might be, so she…hiccup…let me borrow this book on signs of being pregnant. I had a ton of them, so I cast a pregnancy spell to see if I was. After a few…hiccup…minutes it said I was," Lily trailed off.
Kiah broke out into a smile. "This is wonderful!"
"What? How?" Lily asked.
"Don't you see? Lily, you and James are doing the most miraculous thing. You are creating life. And you and James are going to love this baby so much, it is going to be the happiest baby in the world!"
"But I'm only nineteen! This is way too young to start thinking of all of this. I just got out of school! I'll have to quit my job to take care of him-"
"So? James has a fortune, and so will you when your parents pass," Kiah interrupted, knocking on wood for the last part.
"But who am I, to bring a baby into this evil world. With Voldemort around and deaths every single day from his hand, and then this baby is going to join in all this hate-"
"No, it won't be affected by Voldemort. You two will love it so much, and it won't matter about anything else!"
Lily sighed, more tears springing up. "But I'm only nineteen…"
Kiah wrapped her arms around her. "Lily, everything happens for a reason. You were meant to have this baby now, you may not know the reason, but you will find out. Just trust me and smile."
After a lot of talking and tissues later, Marissa popped in the room. "Sorry! It took me forever to get off work! What the matter Lils?" Marissa asked, seeing Lily upset. Lily repeated everything she told Kiah, leaving Marissa with her mouth hanging over.
"How do you think I should tell James?" Lily asked.
Marissa finally found her voice. "Wouldn't you just tell him?"
"No, he'll freak out, not as bad as Sirius, but still bad," Kiah said.
Lily sighed, looking at her watch and standing up quickly. "James is going to be here any minute!" She began scurrying around, picking up tissues on the floor.
"Uh Lils, you are a witch…" Marissa said.
"Oh, right!" Lily said, rounding up all the tissues with her wand and sending them to the trashcan.
Lily pushed her friends out the door just as James popped in foyer, running into Lily. James caught her just before she fell. "Hey," James said, giving her a lopsided grin.
Lily gave him a weak smile, giving him a kiss and pulling herself to her feet. "We need to talk, James."
James gave her a concerned look, but nodded. Lily grabbed his hand and led him to the bedroom, sitting on the end of the bed. She let out a deep, shuddering breath.
"I don't know how to start," Lily said. She saw that James was looking immensely worried, so she grabbed his hand and squeezed it. "James," Lily started, finding herself not able to get the words out. Just say it! she told herself. "I'm pregnant."
James stared at her for a minute, then his mouth opened in shock. He tried, to speak a few times, then finally cleared his throat. "But I thought we had protection spells to prevent that," he croaked out.
"Well Kiah and Marissa's guess is that our love was so strong that it broke through them," Lily said. James sat in stunned silence, just looking at Lily. "Say something please."
James shook his head. "Are you positive?" Lily nodded. James finally broke into a smile. "We're having a baby?"
Lily smiled at James then kissed him so lightly. "We're having a baby!" she said in an excited whisper. James smiled, tears in his eyes and pulled her into his arms. He was holding her so delicately, as if she would break. James loved her so much, and now they were having a beautiful baby together.
"I'm going to be a daddy?" he asked, kissing her again.
"The best in the world," Lily said. James smiled, pulling her closer.
"I love you so much," he said, tears slipping out of his eyes.
"I love you, more than anything," Lily said, crying with him.
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"You're going to be a dad!" both Remus and Sirius shouted at the same time.
James' grin grew wider, as it steadily had for the past hour. "Yeah, I'm a daddy!"
Sirius whooped, doing a dance around the kitchen. Lily, Marissa, and Kiah looked on in amusement. Sirius pulled James along with him and Remus just stood there, a bemused sort of smile lingering on his face. Soon James jumped out of the dancing circle and went to Lily, giving her another delicate hug.
"I have a question, is it a boy or girl?" Kiah asked.
Lily looked up at James. "Do you want to know?"
"Yeah, but I have a strong feeling it's a boy," James said.
"Nope, it's a girl," Lily said.
"Oh no," the other four murmured.
"Care to make it interesting?" James asked.
"What?" Lily said suspiciously.
"We'll cast the spell to see what it is. If it's a boy, then you have to change its diaper for a month. If it's a girl, then I will serve you breakfast in bed for a month," James said.
Lily smiled and thought about it for a while. "Won't having the baby be enough for me?"
"Won't putting up with your emotions for nine months and then you killing me when your giving birth be enough?" James matched.
"This is interesting…" Marissa whispered to Sirius.
"I will only agree on these terms. If it is indeed a boy, which its not, then I will change diapers for a month. If it's a girl, which it is, then you have to streak through the Great Hall naked, during the Halloween feast, singing," Lily said, smiling.
James doubled over laughing. "You're on, but your going to loose for sure."
"We'll just see," Lily muttered, pulling out her wand with a small smile. "Sestet!" Lily said, her wand pointing at her abdomen. The gold ball with red sparks instantly appeared, but then it started changing to silver. It spun faster and faster, then with a blinding light, it turned a deep shade of dark blue.
"We're having a boy," Lily said breathlessly.
"Told you so," James said. James leaned over to Lily's stomach. "Remember, little guy, that mummy called you a girl once." In return, James received a slap on the head from Lily.
"What are you going to name him?" Marissa asked.
Lily gasped and grabbed James' hand. "I have the perfect name! Picture this, Etienne Pollock Potter!" Lily said, spreading her hands in front of her.
The kitchen was silent for a while, then everyone burst out laughing. "Our poor child Lily! He'll be beaten up in the school yard!" James said.
Rolling her eyes, Lily asked, "Okay, what's your bright idea?"
"Alright, here we go!" James spread his legs, his arms wide, and said, "Bartholomew Vinson Potter!"
"Oh dear Lord! No I refuse to name our son that!" Lily said, clutching her heart.
Sirius jumped up and down. "I got one! Sirius Remus Potter!"
"No, Remus Sirius Potter!" Remus said.
"How about none of the above," Rissa said.
"And so the name war begins…" Kiah said tonelessly.
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Author Notes: Not much to say, except I'm excited we're closing in on the last few chapters. In case some of you didn't know, there will be 49 chapters of Hogsmeade Kiss plus an epilogue. I'm updating faster because I'm ready to start fresh on the love hate story, I have so many ideas for it I don't even know how to organize it lol. I am disappointed in the number of reviews I'm getting, but I understand because everyone is on vacation. But still, please R/R!