Author's Note: All things must come to an end eventually. Thanks to all the people who reviewed, alerted and faved the story! I may or may not be making more one shots based on the Holly/Sirius pairing. I don't know about that yet, but I am currently writing up a Holly/Arthur Weasley one shot. I know it sounds weird but I'm tweaking it a bit by pulling back Holly's dob about 25 years or so and making Arthur a struggling widow with like seven kids. It's a work in progress that I hope people will enjoy. Keep a look out for a summary on my home page for more details. I may even put in a sneak peak-like excerpt.

Epilogue

"He's beautiful," Sirius breathed in awe. "I've never seen anything so breath-taking in my life."

The baby boy he held in his hands was born at about 6:59AM on a Monday. He was healthy with a head full of dark auburn hair and his father's eyes. He was wide-eyed and quiet as opposed to the banshee like scream that had emitted from his healthy lungs when Holly had finally been able to push him free from her body.

As soon as Holly had seen the hair color of her first-born child she had began to sob anew, which had to have been the hundredth time that day. The auburn hair had to have come from her mother's side of the family because as far as Sirius had been able to think back, everyone in the Black family lineage had been born with black locks. But Holly didn't care about that because she just knew that in some way this had been a work of her mum's.

The dark auburn hair had been a beautiful gift from her mother and it brought tears to her eyes. Tears that were of grief, joy, happiness and thankfulness. Oh how she wished more than ever that her parents had been alive to see their grandchild. But that's alright. because her mother had sent down a little piece of herself for her daughter to have with her forever. And that little piece was now living in Holly's own child.

Mother and baby were now resting peacefully in bed. Holly and Sirius had actually decided on a traditional home birth in the new home they had purchased out in Ottery St. Catchpole. With the help of Lavender Weasley, Molly Weasley and Holly's healer, Gertrude Stump, the labor itself was a few minutes over eleven hours long. As soon as the contractions had hit her, Holly had been eager to get her baby out! She had never felt such pain before but when she held her baby in her arms she knew that it was worth every second.

Sirius had not really been much help to Holly. She knew that he was trying to be sweet by holding her hand and giving out occasional supporting compliments, but there was never a time more than through the entire labor where she was so incredibly annoyed with his face. She had been so incredibly hot and uncomfortable that there were more than a few times she would have to scream at him through clenched teeth to "GERROFME!" when he had only been trying to give her a hand to hold.

"Just give me some space to breath!" she had begged him through her clenched teeth as another contraction had hit her.

Lavender and Mrs. Weasley would occupy him by sending him out of the bedroom to get more and more ice chips, which Sirius was incredibly thankful for.

The first person to hold the baby had been Mrs. Weasley. As soon as Holly had pushed her son out, Healer Stump had handed him off to her to clean up. Lavender had been at her side to help, but she had been limited to what she was able to do since she herself was heavily pregnant. After he was cleaned, Molly held the boy in her arms with tears in her eyes. She made small steps to Sirius before she handed him off.

"He's gorgeous!" Mrs. Weasley sniffled. "I've got to floo call the family! I'll have Arthur come on over as well!"

Healer Stump then showed Holly how to have the baby latch onto her breast to begin breast-feeding and she flinched and hissed the whole time. The process was painful for her very sensitive nipple but Healer Stump assured her that it would get easier and if it still remained painful she could also seek the use of muggle breast pump. It turned out that Healer Stump was a muggle born who was trying to introduce of couple of modern muggle marvels into her pediatric office. The baby latched on easily and fed with a gusto of a starving man as Holly and Sirius watched totally enraptured.

The healer began taking out official papers from her suitcase and a quill automatically appeared at the ready to document.

"Have you two settled on a name?" Healer Stump asked.

Sirius and Holly smiled at each other and then down at their beautiful baby boy.

"James," said Sirius while wiping a hand over his exhausted yet happy face. "James Sirius Black."

"Welcome," Holly cooed down at her baby with a kiss to his brow. "My baby boy."