Chapter 25

"Sirius?" Amelia yelled as she pulled her coat closer to her body, "Sirius?"

He didn't answer and Amelia ran and ran through the graveyard until she found him kneeling in front of the two graves that Amelia knew he would be in front of.

"Are you okay?"

"What do you care?" Sirius snapped, "After all I am the biggest mistake of your life."

"Sirius…"

"Leave me alone as I come to visit my deceased wife and baby."

"Sirius we need to talk, I know they upset you…"

"I said leave me alone!" Sirius yelled turning around and Amelia saw only pain in his beautiful gray eyes.

"Come away it is freezing out here."

"I am all alone here and no one cares about me anymore. I have no purpose here without Cassidy and Aurora."

"Lily, James, Remus, Alice, and Frank all love you."

"They pity me."

"Sirius."

"I said go away!" He growled.

"You need to go home."

"I told you that I can't, Remus brought fleas into our flat."

"Then go back to wherever you are staying tonight."

"I can't."

"Why not? Lily and James love you."

"Just go away."

"Sirius," Amelia said putting her hand upon his shoulder but as he stood up and threw it off of his shoulder she looked hurt.

"I said go away!" He yelled.

"No."

"Why the hell not!"

"I love you Sirius."

"Oh sod off…wait…what!" Sirius's eyes bugged out at the end of Amelia's sentence.

Amelia's eyes got as big as Sirius's as she shook her head and ran off, "Nothing."

Sirius transformed into his dog form and ran after Amelia. Once he was in front of her he turned back into Sirius the man.

"How in Merlin's name?" Amelia asked as her eyes got huge.

"I heard you."

"You heard nothing," Amelia said shaking her head back and forth.

"You said that you love me."

"So what if I do! You are still in love with a dead woman, I have no chance with you Sirius Black."

Sirius grabbed Amelia's hand and they apparated away from the cemetery.

Order members were not so friendly with one another anymore with the threat of a spy around. In the next few months more and more Order members were killed, and Dorcas Meadows had been killed by Lord Voldemort himself.

Lily and Alice Flooed frequently over to Molly Weasley's home to not only visit Molly and the kids, but to also get some one on one time with a new born baby. Molly didn't mind the girls holding baby Ronald, feeding him, and even changing him. It gave Molly a little more time to spend on the other five boys. Bill and Charlie were in a home school for younger magical children being taught by the ministry. The ministry was really trying their best to save and educate the next generation of witches and wizards.

April, May, and June had flown by. Before Alice or Lily could believe it, well it was already mid July. Alice and Lily's stomachs and swollen up and you could defiantly see the babies now. Sometimes Alice and Lily would put their stomachs up to each other and Alice swore the babies were talking to one another.

Alice and Frank had already decided on a name that was okay, Lily still wouldn't name her son Neville. Neville was an old family name, in fact Frank's grandfather was named Neville.

"Neville Franklin Longbottom, you come out now!" Alice said yelling at her stomach which only made Lily and Amelia giggle at her.

"Go ahead and giggle you," Alice snarled at her best friend. "I can't wait to giggle at you in a months time when your baby refuses to come out."

"My godson is so much better than your baby, in fact I bet that he comes early." Sirius said sticking his chest out in which Alice shoved it back in with her index finger which made Sirius cough really bad.

"Don't you talk about my baby like that!" Alice yelled.

"Do you think you should be yelling you might hurt the baby."

"Don't you….ouch!"

"Alice!" Frank said running over to Alice's side as they had all been in Lily and James's home in Godric Hollow. The ladies were in the living room on the sofa and the guys were on the loveseat and armchairs. "Are you okay? You know the doctor told you to take it easy, you don't want to hurt the baby. Did you have a contraction?"

"Yes I am okay, no I don't want to hurt the baby but he sure has hurt me a lot. In fact he has turned my perfect body into a shape I never thought I would see."

"Me too," Sirius piped.

Alice squinted at him and Sirius flew across the room and you heard a, "Ooof!"

"I told you not to mess with a pregnant woman," Amelia warned.

"No I didn't have a contraction, but I wish I would. You are already suppose to be out!" She yelled. "It is already July seventeenth and he was suppose to be born two days ago!"

"The doctor said this is very common for first births."

"Lily's sister had her first baby on time," Alice piped.

"Ugh," Sirius turned green which made all the guys excluding Frank to look ill. "Don't mention her reproducing."

"Please," James pleaded.

"Oh come one," Frank spoke up.

"No they are right," Lily gagged. "My sister is one of the ugliest women I have ever seen."

"Correction, the ugliest." Sirius piped up.

"Okay fine. Her husband is an uglier brute."

"The ugliest brute," James smiled

"We get the idea," Amelia said rolling her eyes.

July 30th, 1980

"Lily are you home?"

"She is upstairs cleaning," Amelia yelled from the kitchen.

Alice waddled into the kitchen and sat at the table, "What are you doing away from work? It has been so crazy lately that I am sure I am seeing less and less of Frank."

"It has been crazy, but I haven't been working that much lately. You know baby Susan was born a month ago and I have been helping out with Susan."

"Oh, so why are you here?"

"Sister-in-law told me I am helping too much and sent me out of the house for the day. I have only been working half days, which aren't so bad."

"You are seeing more of Sirius now aren't you?"

"I don't know what you are talking about," Amelia blushed.

"You were never a good liar."

"No she never has been," Remus said joining the women in the kitchen.

"How is the job search going?" Alice asked.

"As to be expected, lousy."

"Sorry," Alice gave a sad smile.

"It's fine," Remus shrugged.

"No it's not," Lily said now joining them all in the kitchen. "It is horrible how badly you are mistreated because of what you are."

"You get the same Lily as a Muggleborn," Remus pointed out.

"At least I can get a job if I wanted one, it's just not fair to you."

"Life isn't fair."

"Lily I think your table is leaking," Remus frowned. "My shoes are now wet."

"That is impossible."

"Ouch!" Alice screamed grasping her abdomen.

"No it's not," Amelia said turning around as her eyes got huge.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch!"

"Alice's water broke!"

"What!" Lily said jumping up to see her friend in total pain.

"Ew," Remus's nose turned up. "What is all that stuff?"

"You have got to help me get her to the hospital," Lily said turning to look Remus straight in the eye.

"I will go to the ministry and get Frank," Amelia apparated out of the flat.

Lily ran over and turned off the stove, then Lily and Remus helped Alice to the fireplace to get her to St. Mungo's.

Once they were there at the hospital and Alice was now lying in a bed, between contractions Alice sighed. "About bloody time! Took him fifteen days over his due date to come out!"

"Allie, Allie!" Frank yelled skidding into the room, "Oh Merlin!" He fell beside the bed, "I was afraid I would be too late."

"I have only been here for thirty minutes."

"Yeah it usually takes hours for babies to come," Lily pointed out.

"Thanks for reminding me LILY!" Alice yelled the last part because another contraction was coming.

"We will be waiting for you in the waiting room," Lily yelled through Alice's screams. Amelia and Remus followed behind Lily.

"You ready for that?" Remus asked.

"She was kind of scaring me."

"Could tell," Amelia nodded.

"James!" Lily's face lit up as she saw her husband sitting in the waiting room with Sirius and Peter. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We left with Frank."

"Doesn't the ministry need you?"

"Na," Sirius shrugged.

"Can we go for a walk?" Lily asked James.

"Sure," Sirius pitched.

"No the two of us," James said noticing the look in Lily's eyes.

"Fine," Sirius snapped.

"We can go to dinner," Amelia batted her eyes at her current boyfriend.

"What about me?" Peter piped up.

"We can go to a bar," Remus shrugged.

"Sounds good to me."

"Are you okay Lily?" James said looking at his wife with a very worried face, "You don't look like yourself."

Lily saw an unoccupied bench just feet away from them, "Can we sit? We have been walking for a while now."

"Sure," James nodded.

"I am scared."

"Of what?" James asked leaning down to kiss the top of her head as she had her head buried into his chest.

"Having the baby."

"Oh Lily," James pulled her head up with his index finger lightly to her chin. "You are going to be a fantastic mother."

"Molly said it is pretty easy to catch on and she would help me as both of our mother's are deceased and I refuse to go anywhere near Petunia."

"So what's the matter?"

"I saw the pain Alice was in."

"I'm sorry," James said pulling her as close as he could without squishing her belly. "What was that!" James asked pulling back and he looked at Lily's belly.

"He kicked my stomach again," she smiled.

"I want to see!"

"James," Lily giggled. "How many times have you see the baby kick?"

"I don't know," James shrugged. "It is so neat every time!"

"Fine," Lily sighed and she pulled her maternity shirt up a bit for James to see the baby's foot slide across her stomach."

"It's so weird to think he is really in there."

"I know," Lily said with an odd look upon her face. "I hope I will be a good enough mother for him."

"You will, and hopefully I can follow in your footsteps and be an average dad."

"You will be great! I am scared of all the pain with the baby, all that screaming Alice was doing scared the life out of me. They don't have epidurals here like at Muggle hospitals."

"What is that?"

"They have this big needle and they shoot it into your spinal cord to get rid of some of the pain during childbirth."

"Ek," James's eyes bugged out. "I hate needles, I pass out."

"I know," Lily giggled. "I remember when I still wanted to go to muggle doctors and I needed a shot."

"Don't remind me," James groaned.

"You passed out."

"I know, but they don't do that in our world."

"You mean I have to go through natural birth without any kind of pain medicine!"

"No your delivering healer can put numbing spells on you."

"Oh," Lily nodded her head. "So why didn't they do that with Alice?"

"When you got there with her a Healer hadn't been by to see her yet, but I am sure she has those numbing spells on her as we speak."

"James?" Lily asked hours later as they were getting ready for bed, "Maybe we should be at the hospital."

"Why? What's wrong with the baby?"

"Nothing," Lily said honestly. "Alice is having baby Neville, we should be there."

"She will most likely be tired and want some rest. After all she has been in labor for almost twelve hours."

"You think Frank will contact us?"

"No," James shook his head.

"Why not?"

"Because I told him not to, besides tomorrow I am off of work and we will go visit Alice, Frank, and baby Neville in the hospital."

"Oh."

"I was hoping that we could spend a night alone, after the baby comes we won't have too many full nights of sleep or together."

Lily smiled, "You are right but honestly I can't wait to see him."

"Me neither."

Then Lily began to cry uncontrollably."

"Lily?" James ran across the room and pulled his very pregnant wife into a tight hug and then he pulled back to look into those brilliant green pools that he loved so much. "What is wrong my love?"

"Us!"

"What?" James felt his heart starting to break, he knew being married to Lily was too much to be true. He had done something to anger her and she was ready to leave him. She would leave him with their son and he would never see him. "I understand."

"You do?" Lily looked somewhat relieved but James looked as though he would pass out. "So you agree that we need to figure out a name for our baby? We just call him our boy or our baby. I would like to have a name figured out before he joins us."

"Oh," James now looked relieved. "Yeah I agree."

"We were not talking about the same thing James, and I can tell."

"I thought you were trying to leave me and take our son with you."

"James," Lily sighed but she gave me a smile that made his heart flutter. Lily took James's hand and got him to sit on the bed with her. "Why would you think that?"

"Lily I know you can do so much better than me and I still sit and wonder what you really see in me. I thank Merlin everyday that you agreed to date me again and then accepted my marriage proposal."

"Because I love you and only because I love you James. You are my life and I love you. I love you and this baby," Lily said placing her hands with James on top of her abdomen. "OUCH!" Lily's eyes pulled shut tightly.

"Sorry!" James said jumping back and looked at her and then down at the bed. "Lily you peed all over the bed!"

"No I didn't James," Lily said through gritted teeth.

"Yeah you did, look Lily! You can't deny it!"

James was at his feet by now but Lily was still sitting on the bed but breathing very hard. "James."

"Can you get up so I can clean the bedding Lily?"

"It is not bloody pea you filthy toerag!"

James's eyes bugged out of his head, she had not spoken like that to him since they had been broken up their sixth year at Hogwarts until the very beginning of their seventh year. "Then what do you want me to believe it is?"

"It is my bloody mucus plug and water."

'You tell me to watch my mouth around the baby and that means you too missy! Also, what is a mucus plug and we can get you some more water."

"That," Lily said getting really angry with her husband. "Is what keeps the water in my stomach for the baby."

James frowned, but you could see that the wheels were turning. "That means…"

"That means the baby is coming you bloody idiot!"

"What!" James's eyes began to bug out of his head. "Not now!"

"Yes now!" Lily yelled through a contraction.

"But…but it is too soon!"

"Well the baby thinks right now is the perfect time!"

"What do we do?"

"What did you do to Lily now?" Sirius asked as he came strolling into the bedroom. "I could hear her yelling at you as soon as I apparated into the house.

"Baby…coming!" Lily grunted between her contractions.

"Oy!"

"Oy is right Padfoot, I don't know what to do!"

"Pack some clothes and hygienic things!"

"Okay!" James nodded.

Sirius sighed when he opened the suitcase, "Not for you!"

"JAMES!" Lily yelled as another contraction came.

"Well I don't want to leave her alone."

"Fine," Sirius sighed. "You have to pack some things for Lily also."

"Right!" James said as the thought had just struck him.

"Okay now give me the suitcases, you Floo to St. Mungo's with Lily. I will meet the two of you there. I will try to get a hold of Amelia, Remus, and Peter.

"Master," a Death Eater bowed to Lord Voldemort. "I come bearing news."

"What news Severus?"

A young Severus Snape looked around the circle. There were some faces here Severus knew he could trust, but there were also ones he was not so sure of. "Very important new master. Perhaps only the inner circle should know?"

"We are all trustworthy here Severus," Lucius Malfoy's voice boomed.

"He is suggesting that Pettigrew is not trustworthy master." Came Bellatrix's maniacal voice.

"Well he is still friends with Potter, Black, Longbottom, and Lupin." Snape pointed out.

"On my orders and you know that Severus," Lord Voldemort's voice threatened. "After all how do you think Gabriella Martinez, Cassidy Black, the Bones, the Prewetts, and the McKinnons were killed?"

"You killed the last three."

"That you are right about, but how do you think we got the information of where they were hiding Severus?"

"I honestly don't know master."

"This is for anyone else whom doubts Wormtail's loyalty. He killed Cassidy Black and Gabriella Martinez on my orders. Wormtail also found out the secret locations of the McKinnons and the Bones so that that I could kill them. Last and certainly not least Wormtail set up the Prewetts so that I could order five of my best Death Eaters to murder them. Any more doubts about Wormtail, Severus?"

"No sire."

"Anyone else have any doubts?" Voldemort asked in a threanting tone. No one answered and Voldemort went on, "Good." Then he turned back to Severus Snape, "Now Severus what is so important?"

"The prophecy…"

Everyone erupted in whispers and Voldemort's eyes bugged out a bit. Since he had first head about this prophecy he had been very obsessed with it. "What about it?"

"There were two women went into labor today at St. Mungo's, my source told me."

"And? Do you know how many women go into labor daily?"

"They both have fought and survived attacks against you three times with their husbands. One has already given birth to the babe, but the other just went into labor. I remind you that it is the end of the seventh month."

"Who?" Voldemort asked as his eyes narrowed.

"Alice Longbottom and Lily Potter."

Voldemort turned from Severus and back to Wormtail and smirked, "Well, well. You might be more of an asset to me than I thought."