Chapter 2:

Remus walked into his house, beaten and bruised, followed by a tired Sirius holding a small bundle. The battle had lasted about an hour, and the death eaters had fled not long after Voldemort had fled. Remus was the first to see Peter, head lolling, blood coming from his mouth and nose, two black eyes, and it looked as if he had been beaten for at least a half an hour.

"L-Lily, are you alright?" Remus said loudly as he looked for her. He found her, sobbing in the corner of Remus's bathroom, rocking back and forth like a crazy person.

"H-Harry, J-J-James" she cried.

"Lily," Remus said, touching her shoulder, "Sweetie, Harry's ok, Sirius has him.

At first Lily looked at him like she could murder him for lying, but what she saw when she looked into his eyes was truth, she burst into the living

room and saw Sirius cuddling Harry, she smiled, at least her baby was alive. She saw Sirius glaring at Peter, she had beaten the shit out of him for at least twenty minutes straight.

She just stood there looking at Harry when it dawned on her... Remus had said Harry was alright... He hadn't said anything about James, she

looked around, a sad realization dawning on her. She crept into the bathroom where Remus was washing his face. "What about James?" she

said, her eyes already filling with the tears she was about to shed.

"He died protecting Harry from Voldemort, we got there just as we heard Voldemort reciting the killing curse. He tried to kill Harry, but failed."

Remus looked at her, waiting for a reaction.

"It should have been me." Her head dropped and tears fell to the floor.

"No, it shouldn't have been either of you, it was a horrible thing Peter did." Remus hugged her and let her sob into his shoulders.

Slowly, over the evening Remus gave a better account of what had happened, the house was in shambles, nothing survived, they had battled

hard and long, but there was nothing they could do. Remus left out the part about Severus Snape, he decided she really didn't need to go beating

everyone involved. Plus, Sirius made sure Snape paid. Not with his life, unfortunately, but he paid.

Weeks passed, Sirius and Lily went to Diagon Ally and got all the supplies necessary for the baby, and had helped magically add two more

rooms to Remus's house (he graciously said they could live there) James funeral followed soon after, with no threat from Voldemort they could

celebrate Jame's life, and mourn for him.

2 months later

"Lily, did i mention how nice it is to have a women here, to cook" Remus laughed as Lily put on some stew

"Yea, yea, thats all I'm ever good for." she smiled. She was getting better everyday, her smiles were genuine now, not a lot of sadness behind

them. Harry had become the center of her world, she focused on him, and it was nice to have Remus around, she had always enjoyed her

company, plus, he took her mind off James.

"Mommy!" a cry echoed from the nursery and broke their conversation.

"Coming Harry!"

"I'll get him." Remus said, "its no problem, plus Sirius always gets to hold him, and hes not here."

She smiled, "Alright."

Lily walked down the hall to tell Remus the food was almost done. She looked in the nursery to find him rocking Harry, he had turned the chair

toward the crib so his back was to the door. "Hush little baby don't say a word, Moony's gonna buy you a mocking bird." he sang softly.

She smiled, she didn't even know he knew muggle lullabies. She just felt happy, and that worried her, it was so soon after James death, she shouldn't be happy, and she deffinatly shouldn't be having the thoughts she was having about the man holding her child, but, she was having them, and that made her uneasy, she should still be mourning... and part of her was, but part of her had always loved Remus, and was just happy being in his house.

She walked into the kitchen and finished lunch and had just finished putting the bowls on the table when Remus walked in. "okay, Harry's asleep again, just a dirty diaper."

"Oh, Remus, you shouldn't have had to change it."

Remus laughed, "Lil, it's okay, I promise."

Sirius came in right then and, after helping himself to a bowl, sat down at the table to eat with them.

"Sir," Remus said, "Don't you have a life?"

Sirius smiled, "why yes," he started counting on his fingers, "protecting, loving, and spoiling the hell out of my Godson, hanging with my buds Remus and Lily, and sleeping, oh, and eating." He smiled again as he spooned the stew in his mouth.

They laughed at him. Lily watched Remus laugh, and when he caught her eye he smiled at her then turned the conversation back to Sirius.

'Oh, goodness, why did I do that?' Lily thought to herself. 'That was wrong, my husband just died, I shouldn't be feeling this.' She felt horrible, 'You have always felt this, remember, part of you has always loved Remus.' she was startled, and worried she was going mad, but she kept up the conversation with herself, 'Yes, but i also dearly loved James.' The voice stopped, but it was right, even though she loved James, part of her had always loved Remus.

"Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiily" Sirius said in a sing song voice.

"Huh," she guessed she'd been spacing too long.

"You daydreaming their Lily?" Remus smiled

'god he's beautiful when he smiles, ahh stop talking to yourself!' "No, I was just thinking, i have to go shopping today, making sure i remember everything, I'm pretty low on diapers." well it wasn't a lie that she told.

"okay." they said and started chatting about last nights quittich game.

"Hey Lil," Sirius said, "Can I take Harry with me tomorrow to Hogwarts, they are having a quittich match, Gryffindor VS Slytherin, wanna dress him in maroon and gold." Sirius smiled his award winning smile.

Lily bit her lip, she didn't really like Harry being taken into the wizarding world and avoided it, everyone always made such a fuss.

"Come on Lil, tell you what, let him get out of this house for the day, and ill go shopping with you tomorrow." Remus said.

"Remus Lupin, Shopping, I always knew you were part girl." Sirius said sniggerring as he received a punch in the arm.

'Remus...shopping...with me...alone!" she pretended to think a little longer and then said, "alright, but i swear Sirius, one hair out of place, and yes i know how many there are, and I will kill you."

"No hairs goneI promise! Sirius laughed

A/N: Thank you for reviewing...please do more, and dont hate me! you saw it coming:( please keep reading, im just finishing the fifth chapter, and it gets good!