Chapter 20

"Lily?" Came a female voice from the living room.

"In here," Lily yelled between the few times she kept throwing up.

"Oh Lily," Alice said running over to her friend and holding Lily's hair. "Are you still having morning sickness?" Alice asked her best friend three days before Christmas.

"Ugh," Lily groaned as she rolled over from the toilet to lean against the bathtub. "how much longer does this morning sickness continue?"

"No idea," Alice said sitting down to her best friend.

"Do you still have morning sickness?"

"Yes but not everyday anymore, here and there."

"Lucky you. I get sick everyday and sometimes twice a day."

"You are only a month pregnant and I am two. Besides some women have morning sickness up to five months."

"You have got to be kidding me!" Lily moaned, "Wait. Why aren't you at work?"

"Lunch break."

"So you came to visit me instead of my husband?"

"The boys ended up getting in a fight with one of the guys going through our training so they did not get lunch today, they had to do extra laps."

"Who did they get in a fight with?"

"Amos Diggory."

"What!" Lily said as what little color that was left in her face was now gone.

"Yup."

"Amos is trying to be an Auror?"

"Yes, but the main word is trying."

"I did not even know that he was going to be an Auror."

"Oh don't worry Lily," Alice giggled. "There is no way that he will make it, he really sucks. Oh! I almost forgot, did you know that Sirius has a date tonight?"

"With Amelia? What's new?"

"No not Amelia."

"What? They have been a thing since the Ministry Ball…"

"Wrong," Alice said shaking her head. "Don't worry, I thought the same thing. Supposedly they are only friends."

"Oh, you could have fooled me. So who is the mystery girl?"

"Dorcas Meadows."

"The Ravenclaw seeker during our sixth year?"

"Yeah," Alice nodded. "She graduated a year before us."

"Wasn't she brunette?"

"I honestly don't know," Alice shrugged. "She changes the color of her hair everyday, but she is also in our Auror training class."

"Why didn't she do it last year?"

"She was taking care of her sick mother, and her mum passed away in March. Dorcas is a very sweet girl."

"How is Amelia taking it?"

"I honestly don't know."

"I could have sworn they were dating."

"Me too."

There was a 'pop,' and the girls heard, "Lily? Lily, are you home?"

"In here Amelia!" Lily and Alice yelled from the bathroom.

Amelia walked into the downstairs half bath and frowned at her two friends, "What are you guys doing in here?"

"Oh shucks!" Alice said looking down at her watch, "I was suppose to be back at work five minutes ago. Later you guys."

"Bye," Amelia and Lily said at the same time as Alice left the bathroom and was heading towards the living room.

"What were the two of you doing in here?"

"When Alice showed up, I was in here throwing up my guts." Lily moaned.

"I thought you looked paler than usual."

"Help me up, will you?"

"As long as we can have some tea in your kitchen nook."

"Sounds perfect," Lily nodded.

Once the girls were in the kitchen nook drinking tea, Lily began to question Amelia. "Did you get off early today?"

"Yes," Amelia nodded. "Thank goodness."

"Are you and Sirius an item?"

"What?" Amelia began to laugh manically as she almost spit her tea all over Lily's pale face.

"Are you and Sirius an item?"

"No," Amelia said shaking her head.

"You aren't?"

"No, we are just friends."

"Well you know we all thought that you two were an item."

"No we are just friends."

"Did you know that he has a date with Dorcas Meadows?"

"So she said yes, that's awesome." Amelia said smiling from ear to ear.

"I can not believe I am hearing this," Lily said beginning to rub her ears.

"What?" Amelia asked clueless.

"The other week you were joking about maybe you should get pregnant next."

"Yeah, and?"

"I figured that you meant a baby with him."

"Sirius!" Amelia asked beginning to laugh uncontrollably. "Oh…too…funny…must…stop…laughing."

"I don't understand."

After Amelia was able to breath and stop laughing, "Don't get me wrong. I see why your friend Cassidy fell in love with Sirius, married him, and wanted to start a family with him. Sirius is a wonderful man, but Sirius and I just aren't compatible."

"What is that suppose to mean?"

"This is too funny because at first Gabriella, Alice, and you were all angry with me for being with Sirius."

"I know, I know. I am glad Alice and I got over that stupid grudge, because you are a wonderful person and friend."

"How about some butterbeer?"

"Oooh, that sounds really good. Think we could get some cauldron cakes too?"

"Why not?" Amelia shrugged, "Let's get to The Three Broomsticks."

"I have to go to the fireplace and Floo."

"I thought you had your Apparation license?"

"I do."

"So why aren't you going to apparate to the Three Broomsticks?"

"Duh Amelia!" Lily chuckled, "When you are pregnant or ever with someone who doesn't have their Apparation license then you have to Floo."

Amelia began to giggle to herself, "I should know that."

"Yeah especially since you are thinking of joining the bandwagon and getting pregnant too, but with who's child?"

"I guess the next nutter I run into," Amelia began to laugh and Lily just shook her head.

"You are just too much, sometimes you are just too much Amelia Bones."

"Where are you going?"

"I have been reassigned."

"What about us!"

Bellatrix Lestrange cackled her laugh that showed her insanity, "Pete, you are and have only ever been a good shag."

"What!" Peter yelled, "I…I started to fall in love with you…"

"I told you my pet, not to fall in love with me. I love only my husband."

"I…I…"

"I have got to go," Bellatrix said apparating with her things.

Peter dropped to his knees onto his hardwood floor and felt his whole world falling apart. Peter had loved Bellatrix and forever he tried to deny it. Now that she was going off on a special mission ordered by the Dark Lord with her husband, and now she was just dropping him off like a battered old school book.

Bellatrix had been one of the many reasons that Peter had joined ranks with Voldemort, that and his scary powerful powers scared the crap out of him too.

Of course the fact of all of his friend becoming traitors to their friendship and James falling in love and marrying that horrid Mudblood. Then he goes and knocks her up. Sirius married that ungrateful pureblood that dirtied herself with the said Mudblood. O'Brian would have been ideal for the Dark Arts, but she had to back up the Mudblood and the Mudblood loving fool Dumbledore. Remus's filthy Spaniard was a dirty as the rest of those dirty whores she hung out with.

"Pete?" Peter turned around on his knees and turned to see Sirius, the husband of the first woman he had killed. "What are you doing on the floor?"

"My knees gave out on me again," Peter lied.

"Poor Pete," Sirius chuckled. "We are all going to the Three Broomsticks."

"You are off of work early today, huh?"

"Not really, we all kind of got in trouble. Anyways, Amelia and Lily owled James and me at work to meet them there. To get you, Alice, and Frank to come too."

Peter's dark mark began to burn and he knew better than to grab his arm because Sirius of all people would know what was going on if he grabbed his arm. One because Sirius's biological family was all into the dark arts and in fact Sirius's brother and two cousins were Death Eaters. Two because Sirius was in Auror training.

"I can't," Peter said which really surprised Sirius.

"Why not?"

"Mother," Peter sighed.

"Oh boy," Sirius said sitting down on Peter's couch which really irritated Peter because he needed to get to the Dark Lord, as he was being called.

Peter looked at his watch and made a surprised face, "Shit! I am late and she is going to…"

"Have a hippogriff," Sirius nodded. "We will all miss you, but until then…" Sirius apparated out of Peter's apartment to the Three Broomsticks.

"About time," Peter said rolling his eyes as he disapparated from his flat to the location that the Dark Lord wanted all of his worshipers to meet him at.

"Hey Sirius," Alice said smiling from ear to ear. Alice's emotions had been going all over the place and Alice being pleasant towards Sirius was a big surprise to everyone at the table, including Alice.

"Hi Alice."

"Where is Peter?" James asked Sirius looking for his other friend.

"Mother Pettigrew is requesting a dinner with her only child."

"You know that poor guy sees that old hag more now then he did when he still lived with her."

"James!" Lily said shoving her husband, "That is a horrible thing to say!"

"You have never had to deal with the great Mother Pettigrew," Sirius said sitting down next to Amelia.

"I met her at James and my wedding."

"Yeah, but you only met her. You don't really know her."

"Sirius is right you know," Frank added which surprised both girls.

"How would you know?" Alice asked her husband, "You have never been over to Peter's house as of my knowledge."

"I had been gone to Mrs. Pettigrew's house a few times with my mother when I was younger, you know when my father was running for Minister of Magic. Mrs. Pettigrew and my mother had been in the same house at Hogwarts and just a few years apart."

"Oh, but you only met her once?" Alice asked a bit confused.

"A lot before I started Hogwarts, and only a few times after I went to Hogwarts."

"So where is Dorcas?" Amelia asked changing the subject and looking at Sirius as she was winking at him.

Lily and Alice looked at each other as they almost chocked on lemonade, "She is on call today."

"She still could have come," James mentioned and James's admission shocked Lily greatly.

"Stuff it Prongs," Sirius said rolling his eyes. "Dorcas said she couldn't make it today, so she couldn't make it. Enough said, now can we please change the subject."

"I picked a name out today," Alice said smiling from ear to ear.

"For what?" Sirius asked stupidly, not catching what Alice was talking about.

"My baby."

"A bit early isn't it?" Sirius asked.

"Never too early to start thinking about the name of your baby," Lily interjected.

"What is the name you were thinking of?" Frank asked his wife.

"Talon."

"Ek!" Sirius groaned as he spit butterbeer all over James.

"Eggh! Padfoot!"

"Where the hell did you come up with the name Talon? I would kill my mother if she named me that, well honestly I hate my mother so I would kill her regardless."

"I like the name Talon," Alice said.

"Alice," Lily spoke up. "I love you to death and you are my best friend, but please don't name your child Talon. Besides you don't know if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl."

"True," Alice sighed. "Just seems like it is going to be like forever before our babies are here with us."

"So you are all coming to our Christmas Eve party, correct?" Lily spoke up.

"What Christmas Eve party?" Everyone but James and Lily asked at the same time.

"James!" Lily yelled and smacked her husband on his arm, "I told you to tell everyone as you see them almost everyday and I don't with my schooling."

"Sorry love, but I forgot with everything we have been doing during our training."

"James is right, Lily."

"I didn't ask you Sirius." Lily said not taking her eyes away from her husband.

"Lily I am truly sorry," James said looking over at Alice and Frank for help.

"Here is your tea, Mrs. Potter." The waitress at the Three Broomsticks said but jumped back when she heard Lily wail.

"Ah!" Sirius yelled throwing his hands over his ears.

"Lily, what's wrong?" James asked his now crying wife.

"I…can not drink…t…tea," Lily cried. "Caffeine is bad for…the…baby…that's not my drink."

"I am so sorry," the waitress walked off to go and get Lily's correct drink.

"Come here love," James said pulling his crying wife into his arms. "It was only a mistake I am sure, she didn't mean to upset you."

"How do you know?" Lily asked as big crocodile tears.

"Our waitress looked very sad that she got you so terribly upset."

"I am so sorry," Lily sobbed back into her husbands chest.

"For what, love?"

"Acting like this!"

James pulled Lily back from his chest and looked straight into her watery green eyes, "This is just hormones Lily."

"How do you know?"

"I read it a book about pregnancy."

"You read that?" Sirius asked, everyone ignored him and Amelia slapped Sirius upside his head.

"Can we go home?" Lily asked with just a few tears falling down her face, "I don't feel too well and I have embarrassed myself now."

"Sure," James said kissing the top of her head. "Whatever you want."

The next morning James heard his daily alarm for the last few weeks, Lily throwing up whatever she had eaten the night before.

James knocked on the door, "Are you alright Lily?" Another wrenching sound and he sighed. He loved the thought of Lily carrying their child, but he hated the morning sickness and how much it exhausted her.

James opened the bathroom door to see Lily laying on the cold tile floor, "Are you alright?"

"When does this end?" Lily whined.

"Anytime or up to about your fifth month. I even read that some women have morning sickness up until they give birth."

Lily opened her eyes and looked straight up at James, "Your child better not keep me that sick up until then."

James sat down beside his wife and held her in his arms, "Do you really want to have this baby?"

Lily pulled back and blinked at him, "Of course I do. I mean…you still do, right?"

"I can't wait until we our baby is in this world with us, but it seems all you are doing lately is complaining about it."

Lily chuckled at her husband, "Ask Frank and I guarantee you that Alice has been doing the same. I am just being moody and grumpy. I ache all over my body and I throw up everything I eat the night before. I love knowing," Lily said putting both of their hands over her abdomen. "That in here our baby is growing and waiting to see us in a few short months. I can't wait until I get a little belly and when I begin to feel the baby move. To feel the baby kick, I really can't wait for all that."

"Neither can I," James said smiling from ear to ear.

"My hormones are going a million different ways and I am going to be moody. For this I am sorry, but that's what happens with pregnant women."

"I know this Lily and I am ready for the ride as we are waiting for baby Potter to join us."

"I need to take a shower," Lily moaned. "I got vomit in my hair."

James's nose curled up, "Ek."

"Ek, is right. Want to join me in the shower?"

"Wash your hair first."

Lily rolled her eyes, "Of course. It's not as if I would rub my hair on your body."

"Your vomit hair."

"Oh James Potter, what will I do with you?"

On December the twenty-third, James Potter came home from work and found a frazzled Lily Potter and a trashed house.

"Lily?" James asked as his eyes bugged out at his destroyed home, "What has happened to the house?"

"These damned hormones!" Lily said eyeballing the sofa and it blew up.

"Ah!" James yelled and he jumped away from the sofa, as he had been two feet away from it. "What did the sofa ever do to you?"

"Fell on my foot," Lily whined as she threw herself down into James's favorite armchair.

"How did that happen?"

"It started floating earlier."

"How did it start floating in the air?"

"I thought it would be funny and I was sad earlier."

"Why were you sad?"

"What's with the twenty questions?" Lily asked twirling her hair around her index finger.

"Sorry, but I have never seen our house this trashed before."

"I was trying to clean and fold laundry and some how I blew the living room up. Then the more and more I tried to fix it and clean the house up, well the worse it got."

"Can you call for a pizza and I'll fix our living room?"

"Only if you promise you aren't mad at me."

"Lily," James said pulling Lily up from the chair and hugging her closely. "I can never be mad at you. I love you too much. Now go order us some pizza and get some of that fizzy stuff that muggles like to drink."

While Lily went into the kitchen to use their muggle telephone to order some pizza and soda pop, Sirius popped in.

"Wow Prongsie, what have you and Lily been doing now? You know it is too early to start trying for baby Potter number two?"

"I know that," James said rolling his eyes while he was doing some cleaning and repairing spell and charms. "Lily's hormones haven't only taken over her being sick, her mood swings, but now her hormones are also taking over magical powers."

"Oh boy."

"So Lily trying to clean the house and do some laundry…"

"Was disastrous?"

"Exactly."

Leaving another Death Eater gathering that our Dark Lord has called us too turned out exactly how I expected it to be. The Lestranges have a secret mission outside of the country, Crouch Jr. is in charge of Muggle baiting with the Malfoys. Pettigrew looked pathetic at finding out that his secret lover, Bellatrix, is leaving with her husband. He acts as if it is a big deal or something.

Of course I have my own secret mission, but that isn't important at the moment…

"Amelia are you home?" Sirius asked as he apparated into the living room of her small flat, "Amelia?"

Still no answer and Sirius began to get worried when he heard on answer from her.

"Amelia?" Sirius asked opening her bedroom door.

"Sirius!" Amelia yelled as she threw her towel around her.

Too late, Sirius had gotten a pretty good look at her backside. "Sorry! So sorry!"

"Go Sirius!" Amelia yelled and he slammed the bedroom door closed, "I will meet you in the living room in five minutes.

Amelia came walking down the stairs in a tight ice blue sweater and a pair of bellbottom jeans, "What was so important that you barged in on me right after I had taken my towel off."

"I didn't mean to walk in on you naked."

"Sure," Amelia said rolling her eyes.

"I'm not lying."

"I apparated and I called and called your name and I didn't hear anything from you. I got worried about you and I went to explore your house to see if you were really here or if…"

"Sorry Sirius."

"You looked damned sexy," Sirius winked at her.

"You pervert," she shoved him.

"Only for you, only for you."

"Whatever," Amelia chuckled and rolled her eyes at him.