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A/N: Heh heh… that was one long week, wasn't it? Well, I'm actually sick right now, and found the time off of school to write this. So, enjoy!

Meaning of the Lilyflower

Chapter 16: Epilogue

Ding dong.

"James!" Lily called out from her spot on the couch, brushing her long red hair off of her shoulder. "Could you get that, please?"

James popped his head in the room from around the chestnut doorframe. Her heart fluttered; she would never get used to being married to someone as great as him. "Why?" he responded, a teasing smile on his lips.

Lily rolled her eyes and patted her overlarge belly. "Maybe because I'm pregnant and it's Sirius at the door?"

He pretended to think long and hard, tapping his finger to his chin. "True, you make a good argument." The doorbell rang again, echoing off of the many walls of their house. Ding dong!

"James!"

"Okay, okay, fine! Sirius, just Apparate in!" he called, leaving the room and knocking on the door as a cue.

In a mere second, Sirius had appeared and was standing on the plushy carpet in the living room of the Potter's comfy home. Lily was sprawled out on the couch, her legs taking up the whole length. Sirius grinned when he saw her.

"Hey, Lils. How are you?"

Lily groaned, rubbing her belly and picking more soaked hair off of her sweaty, sticky neck; a result of summer heat. "I'm okay, I guess. Living. Seen Remus or Aloe lately?"

Sirius nodded his head. They had broken up a couple of years ago after realizing that it was too dangerous to continue a relationship, and they simply weren't in love as they thought they were before. Even though the break-up had been rough on Aloe and she had turned her full focus onto her job as a caretaker for magical creatures, Remus was living a semi-normal life, despite being a werewolf, and keeping in touch.

"I managed to run into Aloe the other day in Diagon Alley. She said she was doing okay, not exactly great by the looks of it. And she asked how you were. Man, can't that girl just keep in touch by apparating here one day instead of sending me as a messenger?"

"I write letters. She's supposedly really busied with the job these days to answer."

Sirius shook his head. "Who knew that pixies and dragons could pose such a problem?"

"No idea."

"Anyway, how's the baby? A big pain?"

James, once again entering the room, shrugged and continued over to the couch, gently picking Lily's legs off of the couch, sitting down, and replacing her legs on his lap. "She sure is. Asking for this craving and that, yelling, 'James! James!' every other two seconds of her life."

A smile played at Lily's lips as she said exasperatedly, "He meant the baby in my stomach, James."

James shrugged. "Oh, that? It's fine."

Sirius strolled over to one of the single chairs in the corner, sat down, and took his long, woolen coat off, gazing at them with his gray eyes, still as lonely as ever. "So, what's its name? Decided on one?"

Lily and James exchanged a puzzled glance. "We don't have a name yet," Lily answered cautiously. "We don't know whether it's a boy or girl."

Sirius threw his hands up in the air. "How can you not know its name yet? Every baby has got to have a name before it's born! It's like some kind of pre-determined destiny or something!"

Lily kept shaking her head. "We don't know the name yet. We haven't given it much thought."

Sirius sat back in his chair like he was a teenager in Charms class again and huffed, "Frank and Alice had their baby's name picked out a while ago."

James nodded his head. "It's Neville. Neville Longbottom." Ever since Alice had defeated Greyback and forced him to never lay a finger on her again, her and Frank had gotten married and settled down to the job of working for the Order of the Phoenix with Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus. Alice was also now pregnant, her baby due around the same time Lily's was.

Lily cocked her head. "Neville's a nice name. Very sweet, brave, loyal."

"Yeah," Sirius emphasized, tapping his fingers on the arm of the chair. "Which is why you guys should think of something soon. It's June, isn't it? You're due in about a month. That baby's gonna pop out soon, and before you know it, you're going to be stuck calling it Sirius Jr. or something! Not that it's a bad name, or anything," he added quickly.

"Okay, so, fine. Let's pick one out just to get Sirius to leave," James laughed. "How about if it's a girl, we'll call her Lily?"

"James."

"Yes! It's perfect, I know!"

"We're not naming my child after me."

"Our child."

Lily rolled her eyes. "Since you're the brilliant one here, Sirius, what do you think we should name the baby?"

He cocked his head in thought. After a couple of moments, he concluded, "No idea. Hey, I'm not a miracle worker, only the advice column!"

"James? Ideas other than Lily?"

James shook his head thoughtfully. "Not really. I guess I've never given much thought to it either."

Lily shrugged, rubbing her belly, only half covered in a too small T-shirt. "I like Harry."

"Harry? Why Harry?" Sirius asked.

"I don't know. It reminds me of powerful people. Like, it's a version of the name Henry. As in King Henry VIII? It's supposed to mean a home ruler, powerful. This baby should be just like him."

"But… but… Harry? It's so plain."

James chose to ignore Sirius and shook his head, saying, "You do know that we'll love this baby no matter what name it turns out to have. Even Sirius Jr." He pretended to shudder in horror.

Lily shrugged. "Yeah, I know."

"Then why Harry? Why is that name important? The baby will grow and be happy no matter what name it has."

Lily shook her head. "You see, James, it really is important. You taught me one important lesson all those years ago, back in Hogwarts. Our seventh year."

"Really? I did? What lesson was that?"

Lily smiled, realizing that without that lesson, she probably would never be as happy as she was now. Married to James, having the best friends anyone could have, and giving birth to a baby in a few weeks time.

She patted James's arm and answered, "Names really do make a person."

A/N: Ahh, that ending seemed too abrupt. But I'm kinda happy with how this turned out. Not the story overall, but this chapter. It came out longer than I thought it would. FYI, I had those last few lines planned out in my head ever since the story started. It was great to finally write them!

Anyway, thank you to all my lovely reviewers, favoriters, alterters, etc. who stuck with this story 'till the end! You don't know how grateful I am for you guys!

I might write a sequel if I have the time or ideas, so keep checking for that! I'm going to go back and edit each chapter for grammar and spelling, too. In the meantime, my focus will be on The Ultimate Prank War – also LJ, but more humorous. Check it out!

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