A/N: Alice Finnegan is the daughter of Seamus and Lavender. She is, indeed, a redhead! XD Short one this time. Thanks to all who reviewed!

Disclaimer: I own Alice, (yippee!) but nothing and no one else.

James Potter (II)

Defeated

"Oh Ja-ames!" Musical laughter. Loud, booming response.

"Will you pick up Spencer at day care?" Grunts. Door slams.

How is it that one woman can defeat him so completely?

She has every power over him.

She wields it well, but he still knows.

He is not really himself—he couldn't live without Alice, without their baby. His heart is perhaps shared, but his soul isn't defeated.

Though his will may be, he is all right with that.

He'll do anything for his wife and child.