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Lily listened in quiet horror as heavy footsteps slowly made their way over to her coffin. The last time that she had checked her watch, she still had twenty minutes, so she hoped that the funeral arrangements hadn't changed, that the funeral party had arrived to collect the body.

As the footsteps came ever closer, she could hear a mans voice, muttering the names of the poor souls in the coffins. Finally he stopped.

"Regulus Black", he said. And to her dismay, the man appeared to have found the body he was looking for, as he did not walk any further.

Ignoring the pains coming from her stomach and up her back, and strained her ears to catch a glimpse of what the man was saying.

"I'm not going to miss you Regulus." She heard. "The only reason I am here, is because I feel sorry for you."

She hoped that this mans conversation with Regulus's coffin wouldn't last long. She guessed that she now had only fifteen minutes to pull the calf into the coffin, and clear the area.

"I always wondered why you turned out how you did. I used to think it was all your fault, but the family have to take some credit for it. Encouraging you to hurt muggles and mugglebornes, and congratulating you on becoming friends with known death eaters and their families."

"I'll never forget the time you smiled at a muggleborn on the platform to school on your first day, I don't think I have ever seen father so mad, except of course, when I ran away from home." The man gave a dry laugh and sighed.

"I'm not, of course, invited to attend the funeral, not that I would anyway. As far as I'm concerned we're not brothers. I don't even know why I'm here." The man sighed.

"I just wish I had done more to discourage you from taking the route you did. I should have done more. If I had, you might not be here now! For that I'm sorry."

Lily realised that the man speaking must be Regulus's elder brother, Sirius. As much as she was pleased for Sirius making an effort to say goodbye to his supposedly dead brother, she felt a pang of frustration.

She needed him to leave, so that she could complete the last stage of her plan.

For minutes she lie in silence, knowing that time was slowly ticking away. She could hear slow breathing from beside the coffin, telling her that Sirius had not yet left.

"Please let him leave, please let him leave!" she prayed, and for a moment, she thought her prayers had been answered. From beside her she heard Sirius stand up abruptly and quick footsteps away from the coffin. But from inside her cramped box, she did not hear the muffled footsteps making their way around the building.

It was not until the large door swung open that she realised that the funeral party had come to collect the body. It was too late, and she was going to be buried alive.

If she jumped out of the coffin now, her plan would be rumbled and everyone would know that Regulus was alive. James would probably leave her, Snape would be killed for his involvement and Voldemort would kill Regulus once and for all. But she couldn't stay in there could she?

Suddenly, she heard a huge commotion from across the room. Someone was yelling and a woman screaming.

"My head!" was all Lily could hear. The commotion got further away until she could hardly hear it.

Before she could decide whether or not to open the coffin lid, someone did it for her.

"Lily? It's me"

"Regulus?" Lily looked up at her friends face, and felt herself being hoisted out of the coffin.

"We haven't much time" he whispered and walked briskly over to the calf. "You have to help me!"

"What happened?" Lily questioned walking over to join him.

"I tuned my mothers hair into snake." He laughed hoisting the front half of the animal up. "Don't think she liked it much. They've all gone outside in a panic."

"How will we get out?" Lily asked lifting the back legs.

"Window."

The pair struggled over to the coffin and pushed the dead calf into it and shut the lid.

"Will it work do you think?" Lily asked.

"I don't want to wait to find out." And with that he grabbed her hand and pulled her over to the window. "I'll help you up first."

"No, you go first, if I get caught here, it won't be as bad as you getting caught." She waited until Regulus had a firm grip on the window ledge before pushing his legs up.

"Now you" he said when he was safely on the top. He took hold of her arms and pulled her up towards him. Being lighter, this was easy, except by the time Lily was next to Regulus, she could barely move for the pain.

"What's wrong?" Regulus asked his face full of concern.

"My stomach, it really hurts" she moaned clutching her abdomen. "I don't think I can move!"

"You have to!" Regulus cried and put her arms around his shoulders. "I'm going to jump into the alleyway, but I've got you. Hold on tight."

He jumped but the impact of the landing hurt Lily so much that she turned over and threw up.

"We're nearly there!" Regulus panted desperately pulling Lily to her feet. He grabbed her arm firmly and twisted quickly, transporting her to a North Yorkshire village.

"A few more steps Lily!" he said encouragingly and walked her to an old country house. He opened the door and they went inside.

"That Caradoc had good taste!" he said cheerfully, but his smile faltered when he noticed his friend clutching her stomach and bent double.

"You need to get to a healer."

"But I can't leave you!" she cried desperately.

"You have to, I'll be fine!" He said soothingly. "I have food, water and shelter, and you can send me the mirror in a few days. But you won't be good to anyone like that!"

"I can't apparate." She said breathlessly.

"Take some floo powder, and get to St. Mungo's that way."

"I need James. I'm going to go home." She gasped, dragging herself towards the fireplace and grabbing a handful of floo power."

"Stay in contact, let me know you're ok." Regulus said patting Lily on the back. "And thankyou" he added. She gave him a weak smile and walked into the fireplace.

She tried to ignore the swirling and green flames as she was delivered home again, but as she stumbled out of the fireplace, she collapsed onto the floor, fighting for breath and clutching her agonising stomach.

"Lily?" said a panicked voice. In her dizzy state of mind, she had no idea who it was. She allowed herself to be picked up and placed on the sofa.

"Has she been like this all morning?" said a new voice.

"No, a bit sick maybe, but nothing like this!" said the first voice again. She blinked and her husbands face came into view.

"James?" she asked shakily.

"What happened?"

"I don't know, I can't breathe, my stomach- it hurts so much I can't breathe."

"Tell me when it hurts" said the second voice and she saw it belonged to a middle aged woman with dark hair and healers robes. She began to prod Lily's stomach. Lily cried in pain as the healer touched the skin on her lower abdomen.

"That would be it then" she heard the woman mutter and she took out her wand and began to perform long, complicated charms over her stomach.

To James's surprise and Lily's bewilderment, a gold mist began to grow from her stomach, brightening the room. With a small nod, the healer cleared the mist and began to search through her bags until she found a small glass bottle containing a luminous orange liquid.

"Drink this quickly" the healer advised, and Lily obliged, downing the small bottle in one gulp.

In a matter of minutes, the pain subsided, and her breathing became regular again.

"Are you alright?" James asked looking at her.

"I think so, I don't know what happened!" Lily replied sitting up slowly and gingerly testing her stomach for pain by pressing it slightly.

"You were extremely lucky" the healer said sternly. "A few more minutes, and you would have lost the baby."

"What baby?" Lily and James asked simultaneously.

The healer stared at the look of shock and disbelief on their faces.

"You didn't know you were pregnant?" she asked Lily who shook her head numbly.

"Well you are, so I'd advise no more strenuous activities. And I would also recommend you coming into the hospital for check ups and advise, you know where to owl I presume?" and with that the witch stepped into the Potter fireplace and disappeared, leaving two, very happy people behind her.

Tada! Next chapter up soon! Please review and let me know what you think!

Lili

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