Nine Months

By: Simplistic (infinitesimal)

Authors Note: This is going to be nine chapters long, one for each month of Lily's pregnancy. Each chapter is going to be relatively brief. I'm posting this over on as well, so don't worry, I'm not ripping off her stuff. We are one in the same. For heavens sake, review, people! I've got over five hundred hits and FIVE reviews! Get your lazy arses down there to that pretty blue box and drop me a line! 3

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"James," Lily said, one hand on each of his shoulders, looking him directly in the eyes. "I think I'm preggers."

James blinked once, twice, thrice. He opened his mouth to speak and choked a bit instead.

"I'm sorry, you're what?"

"Preggers," she repeated calmly. "Knocked up, bun in the oven, the stork came to call-- you know. Pregnant."

"Pregnant." James repeated. He squinted up at her, looking quite uncomprehending. "As in…"

"A baby, yeah."

"You mean-- that-- wow. A baby?"

"Yep," Lily replied, rolling her eyes. "Those are the little pink squirmy things that live for nine months in here."

She took his hand and placed it on her belly, quite as small and flat as it had always been. James's bright hazel eyes slowly moved downward to observe his hand on his girlfriends stomach with intense concentration. He couldn't, for the life of him, imagine a little pink squirmy thing being able to fit in there.

"Aren't you a bit… small?" He said, not looking away from her belly. He moved his hand experimentally, feeling for signs of life beneath the surface.

"Hogwarts may be the best school in the world, but it is sadly lacking in sexual education." She sighed, and sat down on the coffee table in front of him. He continued to stare at her stomach in wonder.

"It's not sex I'm confused about," he replied. "I understand sex. I like sex. What I don't understand is how a baby could possibly fit inside of a hundred pound woman."

He prodded her stomach again, eliciting another eye roll from Lily.

"As thrilled as I am that you understand and enjoy sex, I'm afraid you've completely missed the point-- sexual education is more about understanding the repercussions of sex."

"Repercussions?" James said, smirking a bit. He finally moved his eyes up to meet hers, his hand remaining tenderly curled on her abdomen. "What bad can possibly come from shagging?"

"Being pregnant at eighteen, for one." She replied, for the first time appearing to lose a bit of her cool. Her bright green eyes widened, giving her the look of a frightened doe. "Being pregnant at eighteen in the middle of a war, for another."

James felt a jolt somewhere inside him; his heart contracted painfully. Was this what she had been worrying about these past two weeks, crying herself to sleep when she thought he wasn't listening? He looked down at his hand on her flat little stomach and realized with a pang that he was already attached to it; this tiny little being that hadn't even begun to breathe, or think, or love.

"A baby," he repeated. His eyes rose to meet hers, a smile forming on his face. "Tell me again, what bad can possibly come from shagging?"

"Incorrigible," she muttered, laughing. She shook her head, but he could already see her shoulders relaxing a bit.

"A baby," he said, and a smile bloomed on his face so dazzling that she couldn't help but smile back. "This is…"

"Weird?"

"Well yeah, but it's also--"

"Insane?"

"Well… yeah, but it's also--"

"Sort of a miracle?"

James laughed and they kissed, his hand still resting lovingly on her stomach.

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