Life
Hello there! This is chapter 4 of Days in the Lives. It was requested by a guest who wanted a story about James and Lily right before Harry was born. So, to that guest, I hope you enjoy your story about James and Lily. And also, I hope I got the timing correct.
Lily Potter sat in front of a window in her and James' house in Godric's Hollow. It was a small, charming place and they had moved in quickly and had soon made it home. Unpacking their things, putting the furniture in the dining room, putting plates and silverware away in the kitchen. Decorating the living room, and the bedroom and the offices and bathrooms. They had moved in a few months before they got married. After their wedding, they spent their wedding night at their house, and didn't hesitate to consummate their marriage.
It was a year and eight months since they had gotten married, and Lily was eight months pregnant. She was getting ready for work when she had her first bout of morning sickness. She had it for a few days before she finally went to the Doctor about it and found out that she was pregnant.
While sitting in front of the window and looking out to a bright, beautiful summer day, Lily remembered the day she told James that he was going to be a father.
She sat nervously at the table, leg bouncing, and waiting for James to return home. There were so many ways that she could tell James, and she figured she should just get straight to the point and tell him that she was pregnant. There were butterflies doing gymnastics routines in her stomach, but then it turned into something more than that and she ran to the bathroom to empty the contents of her stomach.
James chose that exact moment to come home.
"Lil, you ok?" His voice was laced with worry.
"No." She whimpered.
James made his way up to where his wife was sitting.
"I went to the doctor the other day, James."
"Yeah? Did you figure out what's wrong?"
Lily took a shaky breath, looked up at James, then took hold of James' hand and brought it to her stomach.
"I'm pregnant James."
He looked at her for a few tense moments before kissing her deeply, "I'm going to be a father? We're going to be parents?" James grinned.
Lily nodded and smiled up at her husband.
That was one of the best days of Lily's life. She was terrified that James was going to up and leave her to raise the baby on her own. They had decided to wait until the baby was born to learn the gender. James and Lily had also decided to wait until a month or two before the due date to start picking out names. And they were going to do that today, when James got home from work.
The only problem was that Lily didn't know when James was coming home from work. He had recently gotten back from an auror mission a few days ago and was swamped with paper work. Lily sighed and got up. She made her way away from the window and went downstairs to fix herself a cup of tea. Lily was going to put the tea bag in when a pair of familiar hands placed themselves on her swollen belly and a soft par of lips pressed a kiss to her neck.
"Hey Lil." James rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Hey James. How was work?" She put the tea bag in the mug.
"It was long and tedious. I'm glad to be home with my beautiful wife and child."
Lily turned around and pressed a kiss to her husband's lips, "We missed you too. Now, do you want to work out the names for our beautiful baby?"
"Sure thing, Lils."
The couple sat down at the table, and started on picking out names. They started with girl names.
"Alright James, you go first."
"Gertrude."
"Merlin's beard, no!"
"What's wrong with Gertrude?"
"I don't want our child named Gertrude Potter, James." Lily took a sip of tea.
"Ok, what's your idea?"
"What about Annabeth?"
"I like that one. We can have it as a choice." James got a piece of paper and a pen and wrote it under possible girl's names.
"Good. Now should we make a list of a few then decide our favorite for each?"
James nodded.
"Ok. Your turn!"
They settled on two more names for a girl; Monica and Ramona.
"Now for the boy's names!" Lily said, "James any ideas?"
"Can James be his middle name?"
"Of course dear."
"Yes! Ok, that's mine. What's yours?"
"Richard?"
"No. I don't like that name."
"Ok… Uh, George?"
"That one is good." James wrote it down.
Lily and James had a grand total of two names, George and Alan, before James blurted out, "Harry."
His wife stared at him, "That's perfect, James. I think it's settled for the boy names. If he's a boy, he'll be called Harry. Harry James Potter."
I'm sorry I didn't have them pick a definite girl's name, but I wanted to end that one shot on kind of a hopeful-ish moment. As of right now, I have no idea what chapter 5 will have, so I'll have to figure that out! Thank you so much for reading!
-RMarie