Thank you for you're patience. Now I know that if I left this any longer, I would not live to post it.
Ch.31, Green.
Soon, it was the big day. The wedding day of Lily and James. All the Order members were there, and so were all of their school friends that weren't Marauders or Birds. The girls had thrown Lily's wedding shower the night before.
---Flashback---
Lily was at Len's, and they had just got back from shopping. Now, they planned on getting to Melissa's to 'ask her opinion on their choices'.
What Lily didn't know, was that all her good friends were at Melissa's planning the surprise of her life.
When the fireplace erupted in green flames, the group already there was hiding in the blind spot behind the fireplace.
When Lily stepped neatly onto the fluffy red and gold carpet in front of the fire, (placed for Sirius' benefit.) she looked around and didn't see anyone, while they were all desperately trying to muffle their sniggers.
"Melissa? Mel, are you here?" Lily called out to the Sirius-kicked-out-of-for-the-time-being house. The moment Len stepped through the fire, the group jumped out.
"Surprise!" they all shouted, and then Melissa quickly took a picture of Lily, on the floor, fallen from surprise.
"Wha?" Lily asked, while rubbing her sore behind.
"Come on Lil, did you really think we would let you get married without a wedding shower? Get up and get opening presents!" Melissa said as she came forward and she and Len picked Lily up by her arms.
They seated the still stunned Lily on the sofa, and she was piled with presents right away. They were all wrapped in green paper, which was her favourite colour.
In the end, she got several things that made her blush and made the small group there howl with laughter. But it was Melissa's present that got the most stares.
By the end of it, Lily had thanked everyone for their gifts and was still beat red from Melissa's present.
"Mel, may I ask you what the heck possessed you to get me a present like that!" Lily asked once they had all gone home and it was just them.
Melissa just smiled.
---End of Flashback---
So now Lily was pacing inside the magically enlarged tent while waiting for the wedding march to start.
"Lily, if you keep pacing, you'll wear out you're shoes." Melissa said. She was in a strapless emerald green dress with a little flower crown on her head.
"You'll be fine Lily." Len said from beside Melissa, in a halter emerald green dress. The bridesmaids and maid of honour had to have different dresses, and Mel was the maid of honour.
But Lily could practically hear her heart beating wildly as the music started, signaling for the wedding march to start. The flower girls (quintuplets) went, then Len went out, soon followed by Melissa.
But Lily got the most stares as she emerged from the tent. her vail was still over her face, but her dress was gorgeous. It was the purest white, strapless with lace covering the bodice. Little lilies were sewn to the dress, in random places, and on the vail. She held a bouquet of white lilies.
Lily almost laughed at the stunned expression on James' face. Sirius, who was beside him, wasn't even looking at her, he was still to mesmerized by Melissa.
When she reached the front, which seemed like forever to James, they said their own vows, which were very sappy, and then Benji raced forward to get a picture of it all. Unfortunately Len and Melissa were cut out, but Sirius, James and Lily were still in. Then, they were officially married.
But the reception was the best. The crowd howled with laughter, as it was the job of the bridesmaid, maid of honour, groom's men, and best man to embarrass the couple.
"In our second year at Hogwarts, Melissa and I were up first for once. So, we took a shower, got dressed, blah blah blah, but then Lily awoke. For a few moments she stared at the fact that we were up before her. So, after staring, she went to take a shower. But Mel and I had wanted nice long showers because we were up very early. Therefore, there was no hot water left. She probably woke up the entire castle by screaming." Len said, making Lily go bright red.
Then Sirius stepped forward. "In the summer of our fourth year, Jamsie here was pranked by his own sisters. ("Padfoot! Don't you dare!" James shouted. Sirius smiled.) The quintuplets decided to take all of James' underwear and ("I'm warning you Padfoot!") put it in random places. They were in the cupboards, on the furniture, even in James' soup! But the winner of best places was ("You are sooo dead Padfoot!") on a flagpole on top of Potter Manor!"
This sent the crowd into peals of laughter. James was blood red, and apparently trying to hide in his chair. Lily was going red herself, but from laughing so hard.
Then Melissa herself stepped up. "This has nothing to do with Hogwarts, but at Lily's 18th birthday. Lily, James, and Remus and Len, were playing a muggle game called Twister. (Insert short explanation of Twister) But then Sirius and I decided to rig the wheel. I do believe I have a picture here somewhere... (she enlarges a picture of the Twister game from previous chapters. Lily and James go red, and so do Remus and Len.) And in my opinion it was quite funny."
And she was right. The crowd was red from not laughing. Then Lily sent them all a death glare, but it was even more funny to see it when she was beat red.
So then they ate the marvelous dinner provided by the house-elves of Potter Manor, and finally, it was time for Lily to toss the bouquet. No one caught it.
Then the bride and groom shared their first dance as husband and wife. Soon the other couples present piled onto the dance floor.
This was the happiest day in Lily's life.
Halloween came and passed, and with a crazy costume party the Order had to celebrate the fact the Voldemort seemed to have settled down a bit.
Melissa decided to get everyone in the group a present on Len's birthday. She handed everyone a box wrapped in, well, wrapping paper.
When Lily and Len opened theirs, they found their aura stones had been put on chains so they could wear them around their necks. The boys didn't get a chain.
"I thought that since so much has happened since we were all at James' house, and all single, we should re-do them. What do you think?" Melissa asked.
"I think it's a wonderful idea! Thank you Mellie!" Len said, and Melissa scowled. Everyone else snickered, they knew she hated that nickname, but no one was allowed to get the birthday girl angry.
James took his stone and put it in his hand. Four colours flowed into it. A large amount of yellow (joy), pink, orange (luck) and gold.
Sirius' stone hadn't changed much. Three colours, pink, red, and blue(pain).
Remus had the same colours as before, except that they were in different amounts. Half the stone was yellow, a large portion of it was pink, and there were only small splashes of red and blue.
Lily gasped as the first colour to enter her stone. Most of the stone had turned green. The rest was a mix of yellow and pink. Sirius and Melissa laughed at this, and Melissa said that the larger the amount of colour, the sooner or more of it. Neither Remus or Len dared to tease, because they both knew that green would be at least one of the colours on Len's stone.
She was right. Len had a slightly less amount of green than Lily did, and there were three other colours on her stone. Pink and Yellow swirled around like a tie-die, but brown had joined the mix.
"What does brown mean?" Len said, partially to get them to stop teasing her and Remus. They had talked about starting a family, and Len knew that Lily had spoken to James about it.
"Oh it's nothing to worry about, it's a pretty dodgey colour. It means bad luck." Melissa answered with a wave of her hand.
But after that, on the same day, Len stubbed her toe five times, broke 3 china bowls, tripped 4 times, and even got a paper cut.
"Nothing to worry about huh?" Len said as she nursed her sore toe, after hitting it on the leg of the coffee table. For the sixth time.
Nothing else really happened for the rest of the year. The number of Order meetings slowly got less and less, and the group's in-training auror got into their final year. Remus' boss found out he was a werewolf and he got fired. The Order soon only gathered for special occasions like birthdays and holidays.
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(Please note that I will only mention the traitoring, back-stabber rat's name when I must.)
"What have you found out? Is the scum nest finally still?" a cold voice hissed. A figure cowered at his feet. The figure stammered an answer.
"Y-Yes Master. You're plan is working perfectly." he stuttered.
"Excellent. We will let them sleep, then, at the right time, they shall never wake up. You have done well Wormtail." Voldemort sneered.
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Around July, the girls decided to drag their husbands/boyfriends to the beach. It was a muggle beach, so no magic. Which led to the boys scowling.
They got to an issolated area, and allowed the boys to use a little magic as long as they were certain that no muggles would see. Soon they had conjured up a nice picnic, and decided to go swimming before they ate. The girls challenged the boys to water volleyball.
"Now remember what happened last time men, we must stay focused!" Sirius said, pacing in front of the two boys just as an army sergeant would. This had James and Remus trying not to laugh.
Meanwhile, Melissa was doing something similar.
"We just have to turn on the charm, and they'll be in the palms of our hands!" Melissa said happily.
"I say we have a little wager Black." Melissa said playfully.
"Oh yeah? What would that be?"
"If we win, you boys have to answer to our (she indicates the girls) every want and whim for the entire day." she said.
"Okay, if we win, you girls have to answer to our every whim for the rest of the day!" Sirius said.
So they did just that. And it would be the understatement of the year if I said the girls barely won.
On their way back to the picnic blanket, Lily demanded that James carry her. It was very hard to carry someone, and wade through chest-deep water at the same time. This led to the other girls demanding/ asking politely to be carried, and to Sirius being silently cursed by the two boys.
When they got to the blanket, Sirius simply dropped Mel onto it, while the other boys put their wives down nicely.
"Aww, why'd you have to be nice to them Prongs and Moony!" he had whined.
James put his arm over Sirius. "Sirius my friend, you are very lucky that Melissa doesn't know that wives have every right to make their spouse sleep on the sofa at night."
Months passed, and September came. Len came back from her first day to report that there was a new crazy old hag for a Divination teacher. She had predicted every teachers' death, unless they went along with her little thing. Len's death had been predicted 10 different ways so far.
More months passed, and as January came in, so did the flu season. There was a simply terrible bout of it at Hogwarts, and soon all of Len's classes, no matter what year, were all in one. Several teachers were sick.
The group decided that Len must have been a carrier. This made her feel very guilty, because Lily was soon sick. About a week and a half after Lily caught it, Len woke up to a very strange feeling. She then bolted for the bathroom, waking Remus up in the prosses. You could hear her throwing up in the toilet.
"I can hear you Len, I'm contacting Dumbledore and telling him you got the flu and can't come in today!" Remus called out, and could barely hear her protests as he sent an owl to Hogwarts.
When he got back, he helped Len up, and marched her right back into bed, despite her protests and complaints. Then, after she was all settled, James popped into the kitchen.
"Hi Remus. How are you?" he asked.
"Len's got the flu. I just sent Dumbledore an owl. Is Lily driving you crazy?" he asked, then scowled as James snatched his waffles from the toaster.
"Why do you think I'm here? I needed some sane moments!" James said in mock exageration.
So the wives of the group were sick. And even though she was around the both of them, trying to help all day long, Melissa somehow didn't catch the flu. Both sick women blatantly refused to go to Saint Mungo's.
So, since both husbands were extremely worried about their annoyed-at-being-sick wives, because neither had a fever. Flu came with a fever.
James was finally able to convince Madam Pomfrey to make a house call. She was up to her neck in sick students and the HW was full. Students were now being treated in their dorms. Classes had been canceled, mainly due to the fact that 75per cent of the teachers were sick.
Lily was sulking in bed. Now she felt absolutely fine, but James wouldn't let her get out of bed. Then, she rolled her eyes. James had convinced MP to make a house call!
Lily seethed as MP gave her an examination, but then announced her perfectly healthy. In fact, she seemed quite happy. MP whispered the reason in Lily's ear, and just as Lily's eyes grew big MP shoed her out of the room to talk to James.
Lily sat down on the sofa with him, and he asked why she looked so stunned.
"James, she said- she said I'm pregnant."
James stared. And stared. And stared some more. After it sunk in, he jumped up and shouted, "YAHOOOO! I'M GOING TO BE A DAD!" Then he picked her up and swung her around. When he was done, he bent down and started talking to Lily's stomach.
"Hello there little guy-" but was cut off by Lily laughing so hard she had to bend over.
Sirius sat stunned in the doorway, as he had apparated in just in time to hear James' shout.
"Prongs, what in Merlin's name are you doing?" he asked as he saw James try to talk to Lily's belly.
But just then MP came out and said, "Now I must be going along, I suggest you go to Saint Mungo's tomorrow Lily, just to get checked out, make sure the baby's okay, that sort of thing. Now you said that Mrs.Lupin has been suffering similar symptoms? I must go and see her. And may I be the first to congratulate you." she said as she apparated to Len's place.
"Lily? You're pregnant?" Sirius asked.
"Yes! I haven't had the flu at all, it was just morning sickness!"Lily said, still very happy.
"Congrats you guys!" he said excitedly.
When MP apparated in to Len's appartment, Melissa was just coming out of Len's room. She had insisted that all her student's work be brought to her, especially the OWL and NEWT grades. Melissa explained to MP that Len was asleep.
Normally she wouldn't have woken a paitient up, but this was special. As she examined a groggy Len, she came to a conclusion.
Len walked out of her room and joined Melissa and Remus and the living room.
She was able to talk when it had finally sunk in. "Guys, I'm pregnant!"
"What?" both Melissa and Remus asked.
"I'm going to have a baby! Remus you're going to be a father!"
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