Just the Two of Us

Will Smith

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From the first time the healer placed you in my arms
I knew I'd meet death before I'd let you meet harm
Although questions arose in my mind would I be man enough
Against wrong choose right and be standin' up

James looked at the tiny bundle in Lily's arms. Laughing, she held it out for him to take. Giving her a dubious look, he reached out and held-for the very first time-his son, Harry James Potter. In that instant, James knew he would protect this tiny person forever.

From the hospital that first night
Took a hour just to get the carseat in right
People drivin all fast got me kinda upset
Got you home safe placed you in your bassinette
That night I don't think one wink I slept
As I slipped out my bed to your crib I crept
Touched your head gently felt my heart melt
Cause I know I loved you more than life itself

They brought Harry home carefully; James held him and they Flooed, while Lily Apparated. Exhausted, Lily fell asleep the first moment she could. James watched her sleeping for a while-she had never looked lovelier-then crept across the room to Harry's crib. Just looking at the baby boy gave James a rush of every loving, protective, and anxiously excited emotion he had every felt. Would he be a good father? What would Harry be when he grew up? Would he be a trouble maker, like his father, or a perfect student, like his mother? Would he be better at Transfigurations or Potions? The only thing James wasn't worried about was what House Harry would be in: with a family like this, Harry Potter was sure to be a Gryffindor.

Then to my knees and I begged the lord please
Let me be a good daddy all he needs
Love knowledge discipline too
I pledge my life to you

Sirius arrived, quietly. James turned to him, smiling. They spoke softly of what a beautiful baby James had, how wonderful Lily was. Then James, unable to hold it in any longer, confided his fears to his best friend. Sirius laughed them off: James would be an excellent father, the best. James believed him. It had nothing to do with arrogance (which Lily would have suggested, he knew) James just trusted Sirius, completely and implicitly.

Just the two of us we can make it if we try
Just the two of us just the two of us
Just the two of us building castles in the sky
Just the two of us you and I

James couldn't wait until Harry was older. He couldn't wait to see who Harry would become, what he would do. Would he like Quidditch? If he did, would he be a chaser like James? Or a beater like Siruis? Maybe something uniquely Harry-keeper or seeker? James couldn't wait to find out.

Everytime I look at you I think man a little me

Just like me

Wait and see- gonna be tall

Makes me laugh 'cuz you got your dad's ears and all

Harry did look so much like James. James watched from wherever he was and saw his son. James was grateful, though; Harry had inherited the best of Lily as well, and the best of Lily made up for the worst in James. In fact, James noticed (and it made Lily laugh) Harry's personality was as much his mother's as his looks were his father's-just a deliberate mistake here or there.

I pledge to you I always will do

Everything I can

Show you how to be a man

Dignity, integrity, honor

And I don't mind if you lose, long as you came with it

And you can cry, ain't no shame in it

Harry held James up as the epitome of dignity, of friendship; James was the man Harry wanted to be. Even if James had died, everything people said about James, Harry wanted them to say about him.

It didn't work out with me and your mom

But yo, push come to shove

You was conceived in love

So if the world attacks and you slide off track

Remember one fact, I got your back

James and Lily had died. For both, it had been an easy decision: die for your son. For James, it had been especially easy. He was dying to protect the two people he loved the most. They were being attacked and James knew he would die, Lily would die, but maybe, just maybe, Harry would be saved. Either way, James would try. Glancing at his wife and Harry once last time over his shoulder, he thought: I got your back.