Seeing is Believing

"So what's this all about, Prongs?" Sirius asked his best friend. All of his close friends, the Longbottoms, Lupins, and Peter Pettigrew were all at James and Lily's home.

"You mean we just can't have our friends over for dinner?"

"I would believe you, but you have this really dumb smile on your face that tells me otherwise."

"Just sit down, Padfoot,"

A few hours after Lily had told James that she was pregnant, they had decided to only tell the people closest to them until it was extremely obvious that Lily was going to have a baby. Tonight they would tell their close friends, and tomorrow they would tell Lily's mother and the Order.

But half way through dinner, Peter nervously said, "I wanted to tell you guys something," as he glanced between James, Sirius, and Remus.

"Well, go ahead, Wormtail," Sirius said as he took another bite.

"Josefine and I are g-getting married,"

Sirius nearly choked. Everyone was quiet, avoiding Peter's eyes, before Elizabeth spoke up.

"Wow, Peter, that – that's great news."

"Uh, yeah, Wormtail," said James, following Elizabeth's lead, "Congratulations, mate."

Everyone else joined in congratulation Peter, though only half-heartedly. No one like Josefine all that much, but they had never had the heart to tell Peter.

"Alright James, I'm going to ask you one more time," Sirius said as they all sat down in the living room after dinner, "Why did you really invite us all over."

"Actually, Lily and I have something to tell you guys...and we wanted you to know first." James said as he held Lily's hand.

"Well, what is it?" asked Elizabeth.

"I'm pregnant," Lily said.

Alice and Elizabeth immediately jumped up and hugged Lily while Sirius, Remus, Peter and Frank shook James's hand.

"Did you just find out today?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yeah,"

"This is awesome!" said Alice. "I'm probably only a few weeks further along than you, so we'll practically go through our pregnancies at the same time."

"I know! Alice, we've just got the best timing ever." Lily and Alice laughed before they looked at Elizabeth.

"Oh, no," Elizabeth said as she threw her hands in the air. "Remus and I have only been married for a few months...you two let me now when your ready for your second children, and maybe then I'll have good timing too,"

But this only made the girls laugh harder.

After a lot more congratulations and drinks – though not from Lily or Alice – they all went home to their own houses...their own warm beds...

Except one...

As soon as he left James and Lily's house, Peter Pettigrew Apparated to Josefine's apartment.

"What's wrong, Peter?" asked Josefine curiously as she rubbed her left forearm subconsciously.

"Oh, nothing," he said as he sat down next to his girlfriend. He smiled before he continued, "Lily's going to have a baby."

Josefine narrowed her eyes. "So did they have you over just so they could boast about it?" she said coldly.

"Well...n-not exactly...I told them that we're engaged,"

"What did they say?"

"They seem happy,"

"Really?" Josefine's tone was dripped with doubt.

"I guess,"

"You know, I still don't understand why you hand around with them," she huffed. "All they ever do is walk on you."

"We've been friends for a long time," he said quietly.

"That's no excuse,"

Peter hung his head slightly. She put her hand on his thigh and seductively whispered, "Hey...forget about them...I know how to make it all better,"

000

The next day, James and Lily had both called off of work to visit Lily's mother. Just as they had thought, Mrs. Evans was absolutely thrilled about her youngest daughter's pregnancy. But eventually, they had to leave to go to Lily's Healer appointment.

They were sitting in a waiting room on the sixth floor of St. Mungo's – the maternity floor. Lily had only been here once before, when she was first hired at St. Mungo's and Marlene had showed her around. She knew that this was only one of the two waiting rooms on this floor. This one was where the expecting mothers waited before there normal Healer appointments. The other, located on the other side of the floor, was were family waited while the pregnant mother was in labor.

Lily nervously looked around the waiting room. She saw about five other women – most with their husbands – at various stages of their pregnancies. But she couldn't help but notice that she and James were the youngest couple there.

But before Lily could dwell on the thought of we are way to young to have a baby, the witch at the desk called Lily's name and she and James walked to the desk.

"I'm Lily Potter," she nervously told the blonde witch at the desk

"You and your husband can go down the hall to room eight, it'll be the fourth door on your left. Healer Thomas will be with you shortly."

"Thanks,"

Lily and James easily found the room that the witch at the desk had said. Lily sat on the patient table as James anxiously stood beside her. She barely had time to register how weird it felt to be on the other side of an examination when there was a knock on the door.

A woman with long, curly, dark brown hair wearing the signature green Healer's robes carrying a clipboard entered the room.

"Hello, I'm Healer Thomas, and you must be Mrs. Potter," she said as she shook Lily's hand.

"Please, call me Lily. And this is my husband, James,"

"Hello, James,"

"Hi,"

"You know, Lily, you look awfully familiar...do you work here?"

"Yes, I'm a Healer downstairs,"

"That's right. I remember Marlene speaking very highly of you. Now, let's get down to why you're here." Healer Thomas conjured a stool and sat next to Lily. "How have you been feeling?"

"Aside from the morning sickness, I feel alright,"

"Good," the Healer scribbled a note on her clipboard. "I can give you a potion to stop that,"

Lily smiled gratefully.

"Well then, let's go ahead and have a look at your baby," Healer Thomas went to the far corner of the room and grabbed a screen and set it up so that it faced Lily and James.

"Alright, Lily, I'm going to need you to lie down,"

She did as she was told, and, once she was lying down, grabbed James's hand. He leaned closer to her and whispered, "Everything's going to be fine," before he kissed her forehead.

The Healer muttered a spell with her wand directed at Lily's abdomen, then flicked her wand at the screen. Almost instantly, a black and white picture appeared on the screen. And, right in the middle of the screen was this little round thing. Without being told, both Lily and James knew what they were looking at. That is my baby, she thought.

At that moment, Lily felt something catch in her chest. It finally hit her how real this was. She had known for only a little over twenty four hours that she was going to have a baby, but actually seeing her child, seeing the life that was growing inside her, was something completely different. Tears slowly trickled down her face as she looked at James, who was staring at the screen with a look of awe written on his handsome features.

Sensing he was being watched, he glanced down at Lily. He wiped the tears off of her cheeks and squeezed her hand.

"Everything looks fine," Healer Thomas said after a moment as she made more notes on her clipboard, "Your nearly five weeks along, so that will put your due date at...August fourth...Now, before you leave, you need to stop at the front desk to make another appointment for early to mid January." She gave the screen a quick tap and a picture appeared in her hand. "And here is the first picture of your baby..." She gave it to Lily. "Oh, and here is the potion to get rid of the morning sickness," Healer Thomas handed Lily a dark blue bottle. "It'll keep refilling until your next appointment, but you will probably still need it after that. Do you either of you have any questions?"

"I don't think so," Lily replied she sat up and looked at James, who shook his head.

"Great, then I'll see you next month,"

A/N: I'm really, really sorry it took so long to update. I had major writer's block on this chapter for some reason. I'm hoping to update sometime before the end of the month, early May at the very latest. And don't forget to review! (Please)