Chapter one: Happy Birthday Harry
"You may now kiss the bride." Lily Potter heard the voice of the priest say inside her head while she kissed her new husband inside of her dreams as Sirius Black (their best man and close friend of the Potter family) smiled at them and everybody else cheered and applauded for the two newlyweds. That's when suddenly she woke up with a rather loud groan as she knew that she was about to vomit for the millionth time in the past few days.
She quickly sprung up out of bed and rushed into the bathroom shutting the door behind her while her husband James Potter was still fast asleep. While Lily vomited inside the toilet their cat Fluffy leapt up on top of the bed and started meowing hungrily. Lily had named him Fluffy because when they had gotten him as a kitten he looked one tiny little black puffball.
As Fluffy started rubbing his head against James' cheek he finally woke up. "Okay, okay Fluffy. I'll go get you your breakfast." He told him and smiled rather warmly at him while scratching him behind the ear and that's when he heard the sound of his wife vomiting and a look of concern grew onto his face as he pulled back the covers and got up out of bed while sliding his black fuzzy slippers onto his feet.
"Lily, sweetheart, are you okay?" He questioned and that's when suddenly he heard the toilet flush and as he walked out into the hallway, she opened the door. "James, I'm not sure how to tell you this but I think that I'm pregnant." She said.
"Yeah I sort of figured that because for the past few mornings you've been doing exactly the same thing. Maybe you should take a test just to be sure though." He told her when all of a sudden Lily started feeling a bit upset.
"Is it just my imagination or do you not actually seem really excited about this? I thought you would be happy." She said with a bit of disappointment inside her voice.
"I am honey, I am believe me. It's just that we're still rather young and I'm not sure if I'm ready to be a father yet." He admitted before Lily smiled at him and kissed him on the lips.
"Don't be ridiculous sweetheart, you're going to make a great father. That is, if I'm even pregnant, but I'm going to go find out right now." She said before making a pregnancy test appear magically appear inside the palm of her hand and then she went back into the bathroom to take it while James waited anxiously outside the door. A few moments later it opened again.
"So, what's the verdict?" He questioned her as she simply just smiled at him in response.
"I think that it's time we better start picking out some baby names." She replied as an excited grin grew onto James' face.
"Oh Lily! That's wonderful! I'm going to be a father!" He cried out as he tightly embraced her and spun her around before the feeling really started kicking in. "I'm going to be a daddy." He said to himself when suddenly Fluffy started rubbing up against his leg and then glanced up at him with another loud meow as if to say; "yeah, congratulations,.. now where's my breakfast that you promised?"
"Alright, alright Fluffy, let's get you some breakfast." Lily said before walking out into the kitchen as Fluffy let out an excited meow and trotted after her with his tail straight up in the air.
The following weeks that followed Lily and James started shopping for everything that they would need for the new baby and they decided to buy unisex clothes since they wanted to keep the gender of their unborn child a surprise which drove everybody at Lily's baby shower completely insane.
That's when suddenly one day as Lily was outside tending to her garden, she saw somebody that she least expected to see strolling up her driveway,.. Albus Dumbledore. "Good afternoon Lily." He began inside his familiar gentle and loving tone.
"Professor Dumbledore," she began with a look of shock and bewilderment on her face. "What are you doing here?" She questioned him with uncertainty.
"Lily you are an adult witch now so you're more than welcome to call me Albus." He began. "And to answer your question I have come here on behalf of your old friend Severus Snape." He told her but from the look on her face he could already tell that she was even more confused than before. "You see a prophecy has been made, and Severus is pretty sure that it concerns your unborn child." He explained.
As Lily suddenly became very concerned and worried for her unborn infant, Albus began to calm her down and told her that he already had a place for her and her husband to stay. So they both moved to Godric's Hollow and elected one of their old friends Peter Pettigrew as their secret keeper upon the request of Sirius Black.
Then one day on July 31st, 1980 as Lily came out of the bathroom, she revealed to her husband that her water had just broke. "What!? Now!? Lily, you're three weeks early!" James cried.
"Yeah, well tell that to our baby." Lily replied while breathing heavily.
"Well I'll just start packing and we'll get to the hospital." James told her.
"No James, I don't want to go to the hospital." She told him with a shake of her head.
"What!? But Lily, you're in labor!" He exclaimed.
"I know, but we're in hiding remember? If we went to the hospital it would be easier to find out where we're located. Especially with birth records and the birth announcement being announced in The Daily Prophet." She told him as a few moments of silence passed between them before James finally nodded in agreement.
"Alright, but I don't think I can do this. I don't even know how to deliver a baby before." He told her as she laid down on the couch.
"Relax James, you'll be fine. I believe in you." She told him and he silently nodded at her and Lily continued breathing heavily until it was time to start pushing. James took her by the hand and squeezed it tightly.
"Alright Lily only a few more pushes you can do it!" He coached her and sure enough within those few pushes, a healthy baby boy was born screaming his tiny little lungs off.
"What is it?" Lily questioned him as tears of joy rolled down her cheeks.
"It's a boy." James replied nearly in tears himself as he cut the cord off of his new infant son and started cleaning him off before wrapping him up in a blue hand towel. That's when suddenly the baby finally stopped crying and opened up his bright green eyes for the first time and squinted them as he looked up at his father while trying to focus.
"He's got a full head of thick black hair, but he has your eyes." James told his wife as he turned his head and smiled at her before looking back down at the baby and smiling before kissing the top of his head. "What should his name be?" He wondered aloud.
"Harry." Lily replied while smiling rather warmly and lovingly at her husband. "Just like his grandfather. And his middle name should be after his father." She said as James smiled back at her.
"I love it." He told her. "And I love you Mrs. Potter." He added before planting a quick kiss on her lips in which she lovingly returned.
"And I love you too Mr. Potter." She replied before baby Harry started fussing again. "Here, let me hold him. He's probably hungry." She told him before he gently laid the baby inside her arms as he continued to cry. "Shh,.. Harry." She whispered before she offered him her nipple and started singing softly to him.
"Baby mine, don't you cry. Baby mine, dry your eyes. Rest your head close to my heart, never to part, baby of mine." She sang. "From your head to your toes, you're so sweet goodness knows. You're so precious to me, cute as can be, baby of mine." She finished singing before kissing him on the top of the head while he ate and closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep as he did so.
I always loved this song from Dumbo, but just so you know I took out the second verse because I didn't believe that it fit.