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Chapter 8

Meanwhile ...

Lily was in one of her panic modes. She knew that she had to tell her husband, but she wasn't sure how he was going to react. She could feel her stomach retch against her will, but she knew that it wasn't the morning sickness this time. No, this time she knew that it was from her nerves. Finally, she steadied herself and called out to her husband.

"James, can you come and join me for a moment?" Lily nervously bit her lip.

When James Potter entered the room he eyed his wife suspiciously before joining her at the kitchen table. "What's wrong, Lily?"

"Nothing's wrong. At least, I don't think it is." She allowed herself to smile to try to comfort him. She could see the worry in his eyes as he looked at her. "James, I'm pregnant."

There was silence in the house for about five seconds. The next thing she heard was, "What? Really? How? Wow! Are you sure? How far along are you? Is it a boy or a girl?" James rattled off a few more questions before noticing the amused (and partially relieved) smirk on his wife's face.

After he managed to quiet down a little bit she finally let out the laughter she'd been holding in. "I hoped you would be happy. I know you wanted to wait a while before having children. I was afraid of how you would react."

In actuality, wanting to wait was an understatement. They had discussed children before and James had wanted to wait a couple of years before they started having them. So they used both magical and muggle protection each time they became intimate.

"Lily, this is the second happiest day of my life. The first being our wedding day, of course." He winked at her, which made her blush.

She stared at him for a few moments just to watch him fidget. "Oh, I suppose I'll answer your questions."

James beamed at her. He had, no doubt, been hoping that she would.

"Yes, I really am pregnant. You should know how, but if you don't, I'm not telling you. I'll get Sirius to explain the birds and the bee's to you. I'm around ... two months pregnant. And you're going to have a son." (The mid-wife had performed a sex-identification spell that morning before James had gotten home from work.)

She watched her husband's face turn into the biggest grin she had ever seen. He then rushed over to her, picked her up, and kissed her.

"I can't wait to tell everyone!"

"I was hoping that if you took the news well, you would feel that way. So, I took the liberty of inviting over a few friends for you." She smirked at him as his eyes widened. Truthfully, she had invited them over so she wouldn't back out of telling him about the baby. She had tried twice before today and couldn't ever seem to say the actual words.

"You are the most wonderful woman ever! Has anyone ever told you that?"

She grinned. "I think I've heard it someplace before."

After they kissed again, she told him to go amuse himself for a couple of hours while she fixed dinner.

Lily waved her wand around the kitchen and set a few things to work. Occasionally, she would fix dinner the muggle way, but she had a some things on her mind at the moment, and she didn't want to burn the food.

She was thrilled with her husbands' reactions. The only problem that kept creeping up into her mind was that this child was probably not James'. She had never really given it any thought that her and Severus had never used any protection until she learned that she was pregnant. Even after that, she still had to admit to herself that she still had no regrets from their meeting.

Flicking her wand at the dishes in the sink, they began to clean themselves.

In reality, she was thrilled at the possibility of carrying Severus's child. During school, they had talked about children several times, but Severus was always paranoid at the prospect of what kind of father he would be. He did not have a pleasant childhood of his own. Lily always insisted that he would have been a great father because of that. She chuckled slightly at the memory of his face when she used to say that to him.

As she stirred the soup and checked the roast in the oven, she allowed herself to audibly sigh.

If James ever found out that there was even a possibility of this child not being his, let alone a chance that it belonged to one of his enemies from school, she knew it would break James's heart. And that was something she did not want to do. She felt nervous at the prospect of hiding this from him, but it had to be done. She really did love James and wanted to keep him from all the pain she could.

Floating everything onto the table, she told herself that she needed to find a charm or a potion of some sort in case this child was Severus' and actually looked like him. If the baby looked more like her, then she wouldn't worry too much about it.

Dinner guests, that evening, included members of the Order of the Phoenix, Albus Dumbledore himself, and a few other friends. They were all ecstatic to hear that Lily was expecting.

But what made the entire evening was when Lily looked at Sirius Black (James' best friend) and told him that James asked 'how' she could be pregnant.

By the time everyone left, they all had aching ribs from laughing so hard because Sirius had indeed explained 'how' a baby was made ... in extreme detail.

A/N: 7/29/11 - Edited words and such ...