A/N: Drabbles galore! Also, this was actually quite hard to write. But it always struck me as strange that James and Lily should decide to have a child in the middle of a war.


Title: alright

Summary: Lily is pregnant.

WC: 454

Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Family

Characters: James P., Lily E. P.


"You're pregnant?" James asks.

Lily nods. Her face is tense, worried even. She has a smile, but it doesn't reach her eyes. It's not the vibrant, explosive smile he knows. But then again, there have been so few occasions to smile, these days.

"How many weeks?"

"Eight," she simply says, hoarsely.

"And-" he starts, but she cuts in.

"I'm due end of July," she tells him.

It takes him a moment to realise what she means by that. But it hits him. Of course it does. The bloody Prophecy. Suddenly, he understands that her sombre expression is not just because this pregnancy is unplanned.

"Oh, shit," he says.

"Don't swear around the baby," Lily chides lightly, but the humour there should be in her voice isn't there. There's only that fake smile.

"Lily-"

"We'll have to contact Dumbledore, of course," she starts, pragmatic as always. But here, she's talking about a baby, her baby. This cold pragmatism seems out of place.

"Lily-"

"Probably put in place the same measures as Alice and Frank-"

"Lily-"

"Maybe a Secret Keeper too?" she continues barely listening to him, and he can almost see her thinking out all of the things that need to be done.

"Lily." This time, he says it more firmly, and finally she looks up at him. She's bordering crying, and he thinks to himself that's not the way someone who's just learnt she's expecting should look. "Do you- do you not want this baby?"

"What? No!" she exclaims, "Of course I do, don't you?"

"Of course," he reassures her, and already he can see her relaxing. "Then we'll get through this."

"But-"

"I know there are a lot of buts, but I promise you it'll be fine."

"James, I know you didn't want to start a family this early, and there's the Prophecy…"

"That's true, but it's done either way. And I know I love you and that should be enough to get through this together. Don't worry."

"I love you too," she tells him.

"Thank Merlin for that."

She laughs a little, the smile back on her face. Then, she says in a shocked voice. "I'm going to be a mother, aren't I?"

"And a fabulous one with that."

She simply brings her arms around him fiercely. James hugs back. And I'm going to be a father, he thinks quietly, smiling himself.

And even though Lily is sobbing, he knows she's actually overjoyed at the thought of motherhood. And even though this pregnancy wasn't planned, he knows this baby will still be fiercely loved. And even though they're in the middle of a war, and there's a prophecy about a child born end of July, he knows that everything will be alright.


FOR HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

House: Ravenclaw

Assignment/Task #: Cryptology: Task #12: Write about pregnancy, or becoming a parent