Six Months To Go

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It had been six weeks since Lily's first appointment, and Lily was beginning to go a little mad. Today was the day she would meet her parents in Hogsmeade. Today, they would reveal their secret. Lily woke with a start. She bolted out of bed and got dressed. In an effort to remain calm, Lily began reciting the major events of the Third Goblin Revolution. 
"...Garbin the Great is captured by the Scottish ministry, Smarmy the Smiggot leads a mutinous ambush on his dungeon..."
James awoke to the sound of his girlfriend and mother of his unborn child's voice. "Mmm..." Said James, reaching his hand out to grab lily. Upon realizing he was stroking the sheets and not lily, he sat up and threw his glasses onto his nose. "Lily," he began. "I'm glad you remember the events of the Third Goblin Revolution, but it's five o'clock in the morning- and I love you, but you're driving me mad." He said jokingly. She began to pace as James stared at her in confusion.
"I can't do it- I can't tell them. My father will go absolutely bonkers! And my mum! She'll just...she'll just die!" She began to pace getting closer and closer to the curtain's barriers. "I cannot do it, James. They'll just have to not know." Her insane idea started to reassure her and calm her down. "That's what we'll do. We'll keep it a secret. And Harry'll just have to stay in there." With that, she was satisfied and approached James once more. She lied down next to him and closed her eyes. James began to laugh under his breath.
"James, I'm trying to sleep." Lily said.
"Sure you are...but we have to tell you're parents." He said.
"Why?" She said into her pillow.
"Because he's their first grandchild. You'll be living with them when you deliver." He said. Awaiting a response, he propped his head up on his pillow.
"I suppose you're right. But it will be nearly impossible to stay apart from you for my last two or three months of pregnancy. Unless..." Lily began.
"Unless what?" He asked with trepidation.
"Unless I live with you...Padfoot stays there anyway! We'll make a party of it!" She practically shouted that last part.
James opened his mouth to object, but considered Lily's last statement, instead. "Ok." He said.
"What? I'm not being completely thick and barking mad?" She asked sarcastically.
"Oh, you are," He said confidently. She playfully slapped him. "But I am, too." He finished.
She kissed him and sunk into his body. They lay in silence for several minutes, until a thought occurred to James. 
"Bloody Hell! Are we living together?!" He shouted.
Lily slowly turned to face him with the most fear on her face he had seen since she announced that she was pregnant. "You don't want to." Stated lily.
"No, No! I do! I really do! I just can't believe it's finally happening. I've been dreaming about it since fourth year...can we also get a cat?" He asked hopefully. Lily saw the childlike smile appear on his face and swatted his arm playfully.
"I let you keep Sirius, isn't that enough?" She asked. They both broke out into hysterical laughter and stood up to begin to get ready.

"When we live together properly, in our own flat and everything. We're getting a cat." He said petulantly.
It was getting close to the time most students woke up, and Lily still needed to sneak back. Lily laughed as she pulled on her sweater and began to open the potion beaker resting on the night table. James handed her the measurement vial and she downed it one go.
"It tastes different. Hand me the parchment it came with."
He did as she said, and she began to read.
"Strawberry means first trimester, but I'm done with that...lime means second trimester- and there's definitely some lime...oh! Coconut Lime is quite delicious, actually. Coconut means I'll start showing in about four weeks! That's May!" She said quietly. Lily began to pace again, nervous about her uterus' early decision. James walked over to her and grabbed her from behind, resting his chin atop her head. He laced his arms around her core, and began to speak. "Lils, we'll be fine. We have our prefect meeting with McGonogall on May first. She'll understand. Plus, there's probably some variation on the disillusionment charm we can put on the front part of your stomach...If you really want to." He kissed her cheek innocently, but Lily had other plans in mind. She swung him to face her by his arm and replied with so much fervor, that she pushed him onto the bed. She straddled his core and he pulled her down completely on top of him. He began to rub small circles into her back and she ran her hands though his hair. James flipped them so that Lily was on the bottom and began to run his hand up the front of her shirt. His hand was resting on her slightly swollen abdomen when he felt something and pulled back immediately. He sat up so that he was straddling her and stared at her. "D-did you feel...was that?" He stammered, completely at a loss for words. She looked down and nodded. "I think so." She said quietly, as she gulped and sat up. Lily was less than an inch from James' face in this new position, when she felt it again. They both began to laugh, as James and Lily both felt Lily's stomach. She smiled and ran out of James' bed. She drew back the curtain and galloped over to the middle of the room, James following nervously.
"REMUS, SIRIUS, PETER!" She shouted. All three woke with a start and bagan to sit up. Peter pulled his sheets up to below his arms in an attempt to cover himself, as Remus sat up and Sirius began to walk to Lily. All three stared at James, who was grinning like an idiot. He have then a sympathetic shrug as if to say 'I'm sorry, but wake up!'.
"Wake up wake up!" She said.
"Lily!" Said Sirius. "Some of us need our beauty sleep...and why are you here?" He asked as all three blokes realized her current living situation. They began to chuckle and Sirius started to whistle at James.
"James! And I thought I was supposed to be the dog!" He said in between chuckles.
"It's not like that...all of the time." James admitted.
Lily swatted his arm and shouted in a stage whisper, "Harry's kicking! For the first time! He's kicking!" She said. She began to pull the marauders by their arms as they walked towards her. She places all four hands on her stomach, and put over James'.
"Feel it Feel it!" She said. A few seconds later, they all felt it and replied back in unison. Simultaneously all five spoke.
"You guys! That's brilliant!" Said Sirius.
"Wow, congratulations!"said Remus.
"Dear god!" Uttered Peter.
"I love you." Whispered Lily.
"You're amazing." Said James, with a dumfounded smile.
Lily and James kissed, and began hand in hand to the Great Hall.

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