Disclaimer: The novel Harry Potter, nor any of the characters or ideas pertaining to it belong to me, they are the sole property of the one and only J.K. Rowling.

A/N: Sorry to my readers for the time it took me to update, you see I am in the middle of my final exams and as such have been madly studying. My exams won't end for about another two weeks, but my updates should be a lot more frequent after this time. Anyway a big thankyou to those people who took the time to read it and a special thanks to those who both read and reviewed:- Aussie Rose, wolfawaken, Sony13 and athenakitty.

As to the concerns expressed in the reviews, don't worry too much I don't like it when characters die, so there is only a small chance that I will kill some characters off. As to the rest of the questions, well you will just have to wait and see, won't you?

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Chapter One – Dump Galore Hesham Bake?

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James awoke to a strange feeling of deja vu; he thought he had been there before, but with the blurry picture he was presented with due to the absence of his glasses he could not be sure. He made a movement to reach over and grab his glasses, in the process he was quickly and painfully made aware of exactly where he was – a hospital. With a groan he slowly lowered his arm back to his side as he rubbed his aching ribs; an action which soon caught the notice of a man who had been keeping a constant vigil over his bed for the last fourteen hours.

The man yelled out something that sounded to James like "DUMP GALORE, HESHAM BAKE!". As this made no sense to James he opened his eyes to glare at the person who was making the infernal racket; after doing this for a little while he began to make out the form of said person, to his surprise it was a person he was quite sure he would recognise anywhere. Sirius Black.

To the people who had not sustained a serious head injury, what Sirius had in fact said was "Dumbledore, James is awake" As James was thinking over his current predicament, the healer attending him was quickly called. As she reached him she propped the bed up slightly, at the same time asking "Mr Potter, can you hear me?". All of this was done at such a rapid pace that Sirius, whose eyes had been following the nurse since she entered, began to feel dizzy and as such decided it would be wise to stop ogling the woman.

To the nurse's question James' only reply was a muffled groan that sounded vaguely like "Wha?" The nurse nodded to herself as if this proved something to her before grabbing one of the vast arrays of potions she had lined up and rapidly poured it down James' throat. This particular potion caused him to splutter a bit before he resumed his incoherent mutterings; the nurse merely nodded to herself again before she poured another concoction; this process continued until they heard James mutter a coherent "O Merlin, I hope the other guy looks worse!"

"Indeed he does" answered Sirius, happy to have his friend back. This appeared to trigger some kind of memory in James as he suddenly sat bolt upright, causing the blood to fall rapidly from his head to his feet, his face in moments as white as a sheet.

This naturally caused the nurse to shriek in alarm, "Mr Potter lie back down this instant, you are not yet ready to get up!"

James, ignoring the woman's protests tentatively got to his feet as Sirius rushed to his side and tried to get him to lie back down. James grasped Sirius' shoulder, staring at him with imploring eyes James whispered "Lily and Harry... where are they?"

Sirius, knowing James well, realised they would not get his friend to rest until he had seen for himself the fate of his wife and child. Thus Sirius assisted him to the neighbouring room where Lily and Harry lay.

"HOW ARE THEY?" James demanded of the healer attending them "are they alive?" he murmured more quietly as the healer came out into the hall to see what all the ruckus was about. Quickly comprehending the reason behind this man's state, the healer reassured James, saying "Sir your family is fine, your son and wife are resting peacefully, and we expect them to wake up some time in the next few hours" he paused "though we were worried your wife was going to lose the baby she was carrying for a while, though they have both now returned to a stable condition"

The dizziness finally catching up to him, James lost consciousness once again while muttering "baby, what baby?" Unfortunately for James, Sirius was still in a state of shock over the news of a baby, added to the fact that had not entirely recovered from his ordeal and as such lost his hold on James' shoulder. James consequently slumped to the floor with a rather large thud.

Dumbledore emerged from the doorway where he had been observing the commotion, and said to the healer with a twinkle in his eye, "perhaps it would be best if we moved him into the same room as his family" and with that he conjured a hospital bed and spoke the word "Mobilicorpus" as he levitated James to his new bed.

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James awoke many hours later under the scrutiny of his wife's worried eyes as she directed her gaze between her immobile husband and son. She let out a surprised squeal as she heard her husband murmur her name.

"James" she whispered back; somewhat reassured now that her husband was awake, she rested her eyes from the perusal of their son.

"Lily, you're pregnant?" James asked in confusion.

"James I..." she started as the nurse walked in; Lily paused considering waiting until the nurse left, but misinterpreting the look on James' face as one of anger she pressed on "I meant to tell you, I just didn't know how and besides I only knew for sure the day before we were attacked...". Lily's voice cracked as she recalled what had happened and her anxious gaze returned to the form of her son.

She was quickly brought out of her pensive reverie by James "Lily, it's okay, I'm not angry with you, just surprised is all ... well we seem to be expanding our family quicker than we thought" he chuckled.

"So you are fine with this are you?" Lily asked, still worried.

"Fine?" James beamed "Lily, I'm ecstatic!" though his smile lessened considerably as his eyes fell on his sleeping son. "Lily, have they said anything about how Harry is doing?"

"They said he should wake up in the next few hours" Lily replied as James attempted to get up "James!" she scolded, "you know you shouldn't get up yet".

"I'm fine!" James retorted somewhat childishly, though was soon forced to agree as the room began to spin around him. "OK, so maybe that wasn't the best idea" he said as he cradled his pounding head in his hands.

Sirius came into the room in time to hear his last comment and guessing the reason for it said teasingly "Prongsie, didn't you learn from last time not to get up?" though all James could manage in retort was a loud groan.

"LAST TIME?" Lily Potter's voice rose alarmingly, "what do you mean 'last time'?"

"Ooh somebody's in trouble" Sirius taunted.

"Sirius!" Lily said warningly.

"Well you see dear Prongsie here jumped out of his bed, against the direct orders of the healer, straight after ingesting a cocktail of potions, to come and find you and Harry." Sirius reported, duly chastised.

Lily's eyes softened upon hearing Sirius' explanation, and in the end could only manage a half-hearted admonition of "James!" to which he grinned and shrugged sheepishly. James, as he had gained back some of his equilibrium, then proceeded to his wife's bed. When he reached Lily he drew her into a soft hug and kiss.

As Sirius turned his eyes from their moment, his gaze fell on the sleeping boy and a sudden seriousness came over him, with a gravity that was not often present in this particular young man. "I thought I'd lost you there for a while; I don't suppose you know the details of what happened that night, and I think it best we do not discuss anything while we are here. But one thing you must know, Peter betrayed you willingly, he betrayed all of us, he was a spy for Voldemort." Sirius turned to his two friends as they let out simultaneous gasps of surprise and shock.

Sirius' voice cracked with emotion as he continued "I went to visit him that night, just to check up on him, but when I got there I found him cowering in a corner. It took me an hour or so to finally get it out of him what he had done, you can imagine how I felt at that point, I wanted to kill him, but I wanted to find you as quickly as I could. I bound the rat up and called the Order before leaving for Godric's Hollow in a blind rage. When I saw Voldemort standing over Harry, I really thought I'd lost you all" he said as a lone tear ran its way down his cheek. He soon felt the pressure of a hand squeezing his shoulder in a comforting gesture, and he slowly turned and captured James in a bear hug. After a while Sirius said in a stage whisper to James "Prongs, if we hug much longer Lily might have to start worrying about your sexual orientation" with a roll of his eyes James pushed Sirius away "no way Padfoot, you're not pretty enough for me" he replied, knowing full well that Sirius was just trying to get their attention away from his emotional outburst.

James, starting to feel dizzy again moved over near Harry's bed and sunk down in a nearby seat. His wife soon moved off her bed, gave Sirius a quick hug and sat down next to her husband while Sirius took the seat opposite as they waited and watched as Harry continued to lie motionless.

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Dumbledore, who was standing in the doorway, observed the scene with a heavy heart, knowing that soon the Potters would come to him for answers, and he would have to tell them the truth, a truth he knew they would not like to hear.

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A/N: Mwahaha. So, what did you all think? Hope you all liked it! Though perhaps I should point out now that this will probably be quite AU, because some parts in cannon I don't like, and others don't fit with my story, so don't flame me if some ideas, characters and theories aren't quite the same. Oh and by the way this story will definitely be Harry/Hermione, with a little bit of James/Lily thrown in. There will most certainly be other ships thrown in as well, but if I told you who I'd ruin the story, wouldn't I?

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"Hezakiah and Life's Little Wonders"