Less than a year after their wedding, Lily Potter was entitled to soon-to-be mother of James Potter’s child. If it was a girl, they were to name her Rose. If they had a boy, they would name him Harry. James was off somewhere doing something for Dumbledore and the Order, so Lily was all alone in the little cottage in Godric‘s Hollow… well they had a cat but he was always somewhere in the garden. Lily sat down quietly at her desk, writing on parchment and pressing delicately on a quill. I wish you could have attend the baby shower, but I know you must be busy, trying to land the job as Defense against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts. I really wish I could see you at the Order meetings, I haven’t seen you in months, Sev. I’m due in August, so maybe you could come visit then. With loads of love and hope you may reply this time, Lily. She folded the letter in to an origami heart like she always did and slipped it in to an envelope for extra precaution. She sealed it with a stamp and attached it to an owl “Send it to Severus please,” she said quietly and the owl flew out the window, hoping maybe when it returns she might get a reply.
Lily suddenly felt a sharp pain in her lower back, then tons of pressure around her belly; she held on to the edge of the table “OOOOW!!!” Lily screamed; her water had just broke and it spilled all over the floor. This can’t be, she thought, the baby isn’t due until August, she kept thinking over and over “JAMES!!!!” She shouted. It was dreadful, the floor was all wet and her pants were drenched. There was two loud cracks at the front door, James and Sirius entered the house casually, they entered the living room where Lily was. “OH SHIT!” James and Sirius seemed to yell at the same time. James rushed to his wife, “Sirius call St. Mungo's!” James yelled, Sirius got his wand, said an incantation and four nurses apparated right in front of them “Please help, my friend’s giving birth!” Sirius pleaded “It’s okay Lily,” James kept saying, trying to support Lily’s weight. The Nurses levitated Lily from the ground and pulled her on to a stretcher. One of the nurses pulled out a port key from their pocket, it was a simple hoop, they all held on to it and Lily, in a matter of seconds they were all transported to the hospital.
Lily was practically dying of pain, it felt like someone was stabbing her with a large knife and twisting it. “Help me!” she cried out, a nurse muttered a spell and suddenly, all the pain and the burning left her body and she was completely numb. She wasn’t sure how long it would last, but she was certainly taking advantage of this “I’ll see you when I get out!” Lily called out to James and Sirius. She was rushed in to a small, white room where she was practically isolated from everyone else. The nurses and doctors instructed her to do breathing exercises, the spell had sped up the birth process, the baby should be out in an hour.
“I should be in there with her.” James said through gritted teeth “Calm down mate she‘s fine. I find it so ironic that her and Alice seemed to be having both their babies at the same time.” Sirius said, Alice Longbottom‘s water broke almost the same hour Lily‘s did, she was sitting at a table during the meeting and when she stood up, water gushed through her dress, Frank was panicking and looked like he was going to faint, it was a relief that Dumbledore finally called St. Mungo's to get Alice. “Did you call Moony?” James said “Yeah he’s on his way over, speaking of the meeting, you know who we haven’t seen for weeks? Wormtail, I wonder what the bloke is up to…” Sirius said suspiciously. A loud crack rang through their ears and Remus Lupin stood right before them “Where’s Lily? Is everything okay?” he asked quickly “Yeah, she’s giving birth right now, she should be out in an hour or so, they did the spell thing on her.” James said, Remus had a face of relief. “I hope it’s a boy.” James said.
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The moonlight from the small window hit the baby’s fragile head. Lily had just given birth to a healthy baby boy, and she was relieved too, because she and James so desperately wanted one. “You will always be protected, and you will always be loved.” Lily said to her child, as she began to pick him up from his plastic crib. “Harry James Potter, you’ll always be my baby, until the very end.” she said softly, hugging him. She couldn’t believe less than five years ago, she was picturing James Potter being thrown off the astronomy tower, and now she was holding his child. The irony.
The lights powered off, Lily automatically turned on her protective instincts; she hugged Harry tightly, not planning to ever set him down, she could hear frightened screams from the other patients rooms. Then the moon disappeared behind thick, black smoke and another image replaced it. It had a eerie green glow and a negative vibe attached with it, a thin snake emerged from the smoke and then it took the shape of a skull. A skull that had a snake coming out of it’s mouth. Lily looked outside the window and straight in to the empty eyes of the skull.
