Disclaimer: Harry Potter and it's character's do not belong to me. Yeesh this thing is tedious.
A.N. Next chapter up. Yay!
The News
The next few months passed blissfully for Lily and James. Within two months of trying for a baby, Lily declared that she was pregnant. James picked her up in his arms and swung her round in circles until Lily vomited on him. He soon learnt to be careful with her. The two of them arranged to have their friends over to share the good news with them.
So when James got home one day, Lily had already cooked a meal worthy of Hogwarts and set the table. He kissed his wife and made his way upstairs to change his clothes and clean up. Fifteen minutes later Lily entered the bedroom just as James had taken off his trousers. He jumped and tried to conceal himself, Lily laughed.
"You must be joking," she said as she placed her hands on her hips and an amused expression on her face. James wobbled on one foot and reached for his jeans from the double bed.
"What?" he asked quickly. Lily walked up to him with a smile.
"I've seen a lot more of you then that, darling. There's no need to worry about modesty now." She said in a low voice as she looked him up and down in a cheeky manner. James relaxed a little and laughed.
"Yeah, I know, I don't even know why I did that." He said just before they kissed. When they parted James knelt to the floor and placed a hand tenderly on Lily's small bump.
"And how are we today?" he asked the bump. Lily chuckled and shook her head with amusement.
"Baby is fine. I saw the Healer today; I'm 3 months pregnant next Friday." Lily said softly as she placed her hand lovingly on James'. He looked up surprised.
"That means that it happened on our anniversary night!" James exclaimed happily. Lily nodded.
"So we didn't need to keep trying." She sighed. James smirked. The two of them had been trying for a baby at every opportunity, it was rather tiring, but who was James to complain? His smirk turned into a grin.
"Well there's no harm in, you know, making sure," he said slyly as he stood up and kissed her on the lips whilst pulling her close to his body. When they broke apart Lily raised an eyebrow.
"Oh I see," she said, they were about to kiss again when the doorbell rang. They both jumped.
"They're here already?" James exclaimed as he pulled on his Jeans. Lily flicked a lock of red hair out of her face.
"I'll let them in, you come down when you're ready," she said and with that she left the room. James hurriedly got himself dressed.
A few minutes later
"There you are James! What took you so long? We were waiting to start this feast Lily has provided us!" Exclaimed a tall Wizard with shaggy black hair as James entered the dining room.
Lily was sat on the far end of the table, to her right sat Remus Lupin, the rest of the chairs were empty.
James grinned and the two men embraced in a brotherly hug. "Good to see you Sirius." He said. Sirius clapped him on the shoulder and gave him a wink before the two of them approached the table. Remus got up and James gave him a quick hug. With a smile at Lily, James sat on the other head of the table.
"So is this it?" he asked as he looked around the table. Sirius sat on Remus' right and the two chairs facing him were empty.
Lily smiled and shook her head.
"No, Peter is running a bit late, apparently Albus wanted to talk to him, which is why he is late too." She explained calmly.
"Albus Dumbledore is coming tonight?" Sirius asked in a awe as he picked up his knife and fork.
"Yes," Lily said with a nod.
"Should we wait for them?" James asked, just as Sirius was about to place a whole roast potato in his mouth, he froze and his eyes darted to Lily.
"You can relax Sirius," she said through a laugh, "They wont be here for a while, we should begin." Sirius grinned, popped the potato in his mouth, chewed thoughtfully and then gave Lily the thumbs up.
"You're cooking is spectacular as usual Lily." He remarked once he swallowed. Lily flushed with pride.
"So how have you been Remus?" Lily asked as she turned to him. Remus smiled softly, small lines appeared near his eyes.
"I've been well, unfortunately no one wants to employ me and I'm being forced to live in a secluded area on my own…apart from that, I've been very well indeed." He said calmly.
"When is the next full moon?" James asked him. Remus stopped smiling and looked down in thought.
"Two weeks from now," he replied. Lily gave Remus a sympathetic smile.
"Perhaps in a few years, the healers will find a cure." She said hopefully. Sirius barked with laughter and everyone looked at him.
"As if!" He exclaimed. "The healers have enough people on their hands to worry about making cures. Voldemort seems to be on a roll, he's torturing people left right and centre!"
There was a subdued silence after Sirius' words. The four of them ate quietly until there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get that." James said quickly as he got up from the table. Lily smiled from where she sat and placed her hand on her stomach.
James opened the door to see his old friend, Peter Pettigrew, a short man, with mousy hair. The two of them shook hands and clapped each other's shoulders.
"Glad you could make it Peter," James said lightly, Peter gave a strange smile and entered the house, behind him stood Albus Dumbledore.
James grinned.
"Albus, always a pleasure," he said as the two of them hugged.
"I thank you most graciously for inviting me over, I was just telling Peter here that I haven't had a proper meal for some time now." Dumbledore said as he smiled serenely.
The three of them made their way to the dining room and sat down at the table.
After everyone greeted Peter and Albus, James and Lily looked at each other and smiled knowingly, for it won't be long until they would have the chance to make their important announcement.
"Well it is quite clear that you both have someone thing you want to tell us," Albus stated politely. Lily blushed and James laughed. Sirius stopped eating and looked up.
"What is it?" he asked quickly. His head swivelled from left to right as he looked from James to Lily and to James again with an enquiring look.
"James?" Peter asked curiously.
"Alright, well you're right, Lily and I do have something to tell you." James said, he looked at Lily and raised his eye brows and gestured to her, she shook her head and James nodded.
Remus looked between the two of them and noticed that Lily briefly placed her hand on her small bump again before quickly moving it away. Remus smiled.
"Are you moving house?" Sirius asked eagerly. James shook his head, his smile wide.
"You've got a promotion!" Exclaimed Sirius happily, James laughed and shook his head again.
"Perhaps it would be a good idea if we let James tell us his news rather than wait for us to guess, at the rate we are going it will be likely that we won't guess correctly for several days." Albus said with a chuckle.
Peter laughed but quickly stopped when Sirius gave him a look.
James cleared his throat and everyone looked at him.
"Alright, well Lily and I invited you all here so we could share some exciting news." He said slowly. His heart began to race and he was beginning to sweat. Not sure why he felt so nervous about telling everyone, James stopped.
"Yes we know that," Sirius said quickly.
"What's the news?" Peter squeaked. Remus and Albus smiled at each other.
Lily looked at James and continued. "I'm pregnant." She said softly.
There was a moment in silence, in which Sirius and Peter stared at her in shock. Then suddenly Sirius jumped up and gave James a bone breaking hug. He ran over to Lily and hugged her more gently, then patted her stomach and said "Hello in there!"
Remus congratulated the two and beamed at James.
"My, this is exciting." Albus said when Sirius finally stopped jumping up and down.
Peter was the only one who didn't speak. James looked over to him expected some sort of congratulations, but he didn't receive any; it appeared that the blood drained away from Peter's face.
After a few moments his face broke out into a smile. "Oh James, you're going to be a dad!" he said with a few tears in his eyes.
James smiled and looked at his beautiful wife. She was going to be a great mother.
A few hours passed, then Albus, Remus and Peter left. Sirius stayed because James had asked him to. Once the dishes were washed and put away James joined Lily and Sirius in the living room.
"We want you to know something," Lily said softly as James sat by her side. They held hands and James wrapped his arm around Lily's shoulder as they looked at Sirius.
"What?" Sirius asked curiously. Lily and James exchanged loving looks.
"We want you to be the baby's Godfather." James said slowly. Sirius' eyes grew wide and he stared at the two of them in shock.
"Are you serious? Me? I mean, James, Lily, are you sure? Why me? Why not Remus? He's more mature than me!" Sirius stuttered. James smiled.
"You're my best mate, and you're most like me, if anything happened to Lily and I, it would be a relief to know that the baby will know you, because then they will get a flavour of me." James said honestly. Sirius was silent and nodded with wide eyes.
"We really believe you will be a wonderful Godfather," Lily said earnestly. Sirius contemplated the thought and then grinned.
He gave the two of them a hug and patted Lily's tummy again. "I will always be there for you, little one," he said loudly into the bump. Lily and James chuckled.
"If anything happens to your mum and dad – but lets hope nothing does happen- I will let you stay at my house and I will teach you how to play quiddtich like your dad and I will raise you to be the fifth marauder!"
Sirius continued loudly.
"Oh how nice, another marauder," Lily said sarcastically.
"Of course!" James said quickly. "He must be a marauder!" Lily laughed.
"Oh and if it's a girl?" she asked. James shook his head quickly.
"No, I've decided this baby is a boy, it can't be a girl." James said firmly. It was his dream to have a son who looked exactly like him.
Eventually Sirius left and Lily and James climbed the stairs to their bedroom. Once the two of them were ready for bed they collapsed into each other's arms and sighed.
"Well now everyone knows." Lily said contentedly. James nodded sleepily.
"What a day," he exclaimed. They kissed gently and Lily rolled over to her side, James wrapped his arm over her body and the two of them drifted off to sleep.
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