Remus and Sirius sat together silently, cuddling on the couch, covered in a large fluffy blanket, watching the warm blaze of the hearth fire. Sirius was rubbing gentle circles on Remus' slightly rounded stomach; Remus had his eyes closed, head resting on Sirius' chest, almost asleep. Remus blinked at the flames, for a second they had looked green, then with a deafening roar, the flames turned an emerald green and Lily and James stepped out of the flames, slightly soot covered. Remus sat up, and stared at his friends, Sirius casting them an irritated look and James chuckled slightly, having seen that look many times on Lily's face, especially when she had just put Harry to bed, and James somehow managed to wake the child into screaming consciousness.
"Hey, you guys. We have a surprise for both of you! Come on!" Lily said happily, pulling Remus gently to his feet. She smiled at the man and held his slender hand in hers. James reached over and did the same with Sirius, who just looked overly-confused,
"Jamie-boy, what are you doing?" He asked, James chuckled, and Lily giggled,
"James, don't tell him anything!" She giggled, holding onto Remus, Sirius raised a brow at his best mate,
"Not tell me what, all right, what are you guys scheming?"
"Hey, look, I can't tell Remus where you're going, and Lily can't tell you where Remus is going, me and you will have a guy's night out, and Lily and Remus will have a girl's fun day. Now, come on! We've left Harry at home with a sitter, and I don't know how much of him she can handle, she's a senior citizen you know." And with that, the two men immediately apparated back to the Potter home. Lily giggled again, and reached up a hand, gently tugging the ponytail out of Remus' hair.
"Come on, darling, girl's day, with me, we're going shopping, for you and the little you." She said, gently patting Remus' stomach. He giggled slightly, when her touch tickled, she smiled and pulled his hand, leading him to the fireplace, hand in hand, the two flooed to diagon ally. Lily giggled and pulled Remus along, as they gazed at the shops, the first one they went into was a tailor's. The elderly woman gazed at the two girls, her eyes landing on Remus, who was gently stroking his slightly bulging stomach. A smile broke across her wizened features,
"Maternity clothes? Yes, yes, my dear, come here." She beckoned Remus forward; he walked forward shyly, meeting the woman's kind gaze. She smiled and held out a hand to Remus, he took it, and she helped him up onto a small platform resembling an enlarged stool. She smiled and began taking his measurements, and when she was done she disappeared behind a very large rack of clothing. She came back, her arms full of clothing,
"Here you go my dear; they expand with a simple spell." She muttered the words, and demonstrated for Remus, who was simply glad to have clothes he could actually fit into. He took the garments, and held them while the woman fit them all into a plastic bag. Remus smiled at her, and put the coins on her counter, she smiled back,
"Good luck, and congratulations my dear, have a wonderful day."
"You too. Thank you, very much." Remus replied quietly, as he left with Lily. The woman grinned, and pulled Remus into a dark ally, casting a shielding charm; she conjured a curtain, and began playing dress-up with Remus as the doll. When Lily was satisfied, she examined Remus; he was now wearing a pair of dark denim jeans, and a cute little black shirt with a green clover embellishing the chest area. Lily smiled and took down her charms, and led Remus out of the ally. She smiled, thinking Remus looked cute with a blush, and led him into other random stores. Meanwhile, James and Sirius were having their own night of fun. James smirked at his friend, or well, the four images of his friend. Sirius challenged James to a firewhisky chug contest, and, well, Sirius won, downing ten firewhiskys, but was now basically unconscious on top of the bar. James sighed, and looked over towards the bathrooms, wanting to go, but not quite sure which of the floating, spinning doors was real, and which ones were fake, not to mention the chance he might go into the woman's. James sighed and stood, pulling Sirius along; James hailed a cab, and told the driver the address.
"Hey, man, look, if you hurl on my seat, I'm gonna get fired."
"No, it'll be fine…… Ugh, man, fuck, Sirius is so wasted." James sighed, falling over onto Sirius' lap. Sirius giggled,
"Jamie, that tickles!"
"Stupid queers. Hey, hey! Wake up! We're here!" James sat up, and stared blearily out the window, and attempted to push open the door, but it wouldn't budge.
"Huh? Oh no! It's stuck! What do we do?!" He wailed, banging on the door loudly, Sirius laughed, swaying in his seat, the driver looked murderous,
"STOP BANGING ON IT! Here, it's unlocked!" And with that simple word, the door flew open, and James toppled out, landing painfully on his stomach, face full of the concrete. Moments later Sirius was tossed out of the cab, landing right on top of James. James groaned, and shoved the heavy man off of him, and stumbled to his feet, as the two of them walked drunkenly towards the house, James shoved open the door, not at all worried about why the door was unlocked. Going into the den, he fell onto the couch, Sirius collapsing on the floor close by. James sighed, and walked into the bathroom, happy to finally be able to relieve himself. Walking out, he found Sirius lying on the couch, shirt missing, pants unzipped and riding very low on his hips. James sighed and tossed a blanket over his unconscious friend, and thought about going upstairs to his bedroom, thought better of it, and collapsed on top of Sirius.
"JAMES!" Lily called, shaking the man roughly. He groaned, and opened his eyes slightly, but clenched them shut,
"Ah, Lily, stop, ah, I have a hippogriff gnawing my skull."
"Get up you stupid drunk, you're going to kill Sirius." James quickly got to his feet, gazing down at his long-time friend, the man, all though far more wasted the night before, seemed to be far better off than James was. Sirius smirked,
"Jamie-boy, you know you don't hold your alcohol well, I've never had a hangover in my life." Sirius' smirk grew wider, "You should know by now, you'll never beat me in a chug contest, sorry to break it to ya." Sirius winked, and pushed himself up, looking around the small den.
"Where's Remus?" He asked Lily suddenly, she smiled,
"He's with Harry, Remus is going to be a wonderful mother, and he already is getting motherly instincts." Lily giggled, "It will truly be a funny sight when he's back to his normal self, won't it?" She sighed happily, and stood,
"Liiiillllllyyyy" James whined, tugging on her pants, she sighed and looked back at him with pure impatience, "You are not two yeas old, my dear, now what do you want?"
"Can you make some of that potion for me? Please?"
"Oh yes, and I might just make one to make you grow a newt tail. Get up to bed." She said, turning away from him and bustling into the kitchen, as she began to brew the simple potion. When it was done, she took it up to her husband, and grabbed him behind the shoulders, heaving him up; she pried his mouth open and poured the vile liquid down his throat. He shuddered and began to cough and splutter as it burned his throat, but once it was down, and his stomach settled, and stopped attempting to force the potion back up, his head immediately began to shrink, instead of feeling like it weighed a thousand pounds. And the hippogriff took flight, ending its chewing torment. He sighed in relief, and smiled at his wife, who refused to smile back, but continued to glare at him.
"Harry was in hysterics." She said bluntly, James' eyes widened,
"What? Why? Ms. Applebottom was with him all night.
"He thought you were dead. She took him out for fifteen minutes to play at the park, and they come home and find the two of you out cold on the couch. She called me, and had me come home, completely ruined my date with Remus, all because you scared our poor son shitless."
"Hey, I'm sorry. I got wasted, and, hey, I'm sorry baby."
"Oh, don't you baby me, potter. I am sick of it, go up there and apologize to your son, right NOW!" She said furiously, and shoved him off the bed. He rolled out, landing on the wooden floor with a painful smack.
"Ow, god dammit Lily!"
"I'll give you the bat boogie hex if you don't get out there right now!" She threatened, lifting her wand with a glare; James gave glare for glare and stormed out, slamming the door. But, unfortunately, at that precise moment, Remus came out of the bathroom, holding a now clean Harry, and at hearing the slamming door; the small boy began wailing at the top of his lungs. Remus gasped, and glared at his friend,
"Shhh, baby, its okay, here, here you go, oh, that's a good little man, aren't you? Yes you are! Yes you are!" Remus cooed to the small boy, gently bouncing him, Harry calm quickly and grabbed a fistful of Remus' golden hair and yanked, Remus winced, and gently eased his hair out of Harry's grasp, flipping it back out of reach over his shoulder.