Disc.: I created the plot, and I admit it.

An Epic Epilogue

Lily felt as if everything on her weighed a ton. She could hear the soft whispers of voices just beyond her reach. It was warm, almost too warm, and she wanted to tell the people to quit whispering. She needed them to speak up so she could make sense of things. She struggled with very heavy eyelids as she fought to regain consciousness.

"Scorpius?" Lily said in an unfamiliar, raspy voice. She was so thirsty, her mouth felt like it was full of cotton and her throat felt like sand paper. "Scorpius?"

"Hey, baby, I'm here," Scorpius said quietly as he touched her face gently. He stroked her cheek for a minute. "You gave us a right terrifying scare. I should tell your dad that you're awake, love."

"Bean?" Lily said as her hand automatically went to her stomach. It felt like an old, empty balloon. Pain shot across her at her stapled wound and she gasped, Scorpius pulled her hands back.

"Bean is ok, Lily," Scorpius breathed excitedly in her ear. "Perfect. Wonderful."

"Is… anything wrong with…" Lily struggled to form the words though her voice was stronger. Tears welled up in her eyes.

"Perfectly healthy, Lils," Scorpius said. "See for yourself."

Lily watched as Scorpius took a tiny bundle from his grandmother and brought it to Lily's arms. He tucked the small baby in, careful to mind Lily's wound and to support Bean's head. Lily looked down at her child in awe, a tuft of strawberry blond hair peeked out from under a white cap. It's eyes were closed tight as Bean slept. The baby's mouth was puckered slightly and Bean made a few sucking motions.

"Oh, Scorpius," Lily breathed as she kissed her baby's face gently. Tears spilled down her face.

"Lily… we have a son," Scorpius said thickly. Lily looked up at him through her watery gaze, not surprised to find Scorpius crying too. It was the perfect moment.

"Welcome to the world, Theron Colton Malfoy," Lily breathed after a moment. The baby stirred, opening his big blue eyes and looking right at his mother.

"Theron?" Scorpius asked. The baby looked at him.

"It means 'untamed', and I truly believe Theron will be untamable, as everyone has said," Lily said. The baby stirred and turned towards Lily, drawing one of his fists to his mouth.

"Wow, look at that," Scorpius said quietly. "He knows your voice."

"Yours too," Lily commented as the baby made a tiny crying noise.

"Sure, he knows me so he cries," Scorpius teased in a slightly loud whisper. Dr. Schmidt walked in, grinning as the family had itself a little reunion.

"You two gave us a scare there for a minute," Dr. Schmidt said. "Thank GOD it was just the monitors unhooking themselves. I swear that little boy of yours is trouble, and born on April Fool's Day, at that."

"Today is April Fool's Day?" Lily asked laughing.

"Well, yea, though it's more like April Fool's early evening, now, why?" Scorpius asked. Lily laughed.

"My Uncle George, the one that owns the joke shop, was born on April the first, too," Lily laughed. Scorpius laughed and groaned all in the same breath. He turned to his son.

"Son, now don't give your mother and me the hard time that your Great Uncles George and Fred gave Great Grandma Weasley," Scorpius said. The baby made a grunting noise and Lily laughed harder.

"We're screwed," Lily laughed.

"We certainly are," Scorpius said shaking his head. "So, I have a son named Theron Colton Malfoy? What a long, complicated, but sophisticated name."

"We can call him T.C. for short," Lily assured him. Scorpius grinned.

"I like that. The great T.C., stopping in from his rather hellish birth from the beautiful and intelligent mother, Lily Luna Potter," Scorpius teased. The baby fussed.

"Should I feed him?" Lily asked. Dr. Schmidt nodded.

"They've been feeding him formula in the nursery, but you should be fine to try breast feeding now," Dr. Schmidt assured her ash he poked around on her midsection. "I'm happy to say that you will pull through this spectacularly and T.C. is perfectly healthy and normal."

"How much does he weigh?" Lily asked as she positioned the baby to feed.

"Eight pounds, four ounces," Scorpius said chuckling. "Could you imagine how much he'd weigh if you had gone to forty weeks?"

"Yes, and the poor guy's head was already too fat to fit down you birth canal," Dr. Schmidt said. "The umbilical cord slipped by and begun to tear the placenta away from the uterine wall, so you lost a lot of blood. We gave you three or so pints, to replace what you lost."

"Thank you Dr. Schmidt," Lily said as the man nodded and started heading out the door.

"I'm just glad that all of the surprises that I am going to be here for are done," Dr. Schmidt said grinning. "You two have a lovely baby. Congratulations, you two."

"Thank you, doctor," Scorpius said. Lily's eyes were already back on her baby. Lily and Scorpius were in love, with each other, certainly, but now with this new little helpless being.

It was late, but it didn't matter. Lily lay in her bed, cradling Theron in her arms. His eyes were closed and he was nearly asleep, having devoured his middle of the night meal. Lily hesitated as Scorpius rolled over, looking at her sleepily. He looked at the two, mother and son, before he touched his son's cheek.

"Why didn't you wake me?" Scorpius asked sleepily.

"You have work in the morning," Lily said as she adjusted the baby over her shoulder to burp him. "Plus, I was just thinking."

"What were you thinking about?" Scorpius asked as he grabbed the wipes and the diapers off the side table, taking the now drowsy baby. Theron yawned with a slight squeak as Scorpius changed his diaper.

"Um… I don't know if I want to talk about it," Lily said quietly. He looked at her curiously.

"You can't say something like that and then not want to tell me about it," Scorpius said as he snapped the tiny snaps of Theron's footie pajamas. He climbed out of bed and carried the infant into the other room, tucking him in the cradle. Scorpius came back into the room, looking at her.

"You'll laugh," Lily said.

"I promise, I won't laugh," Scorpius said as he climbed back into bed. He looked at Lily purse her lips together as if she intended on keeping her secret. "How about I guess?"

"You'll never guess," Lily said smugly.

"Still, humor me," Scorpius said.

"Fine, try to guess," Lily said crossing her arms.

"Ok, this is about Theron," Scorpius said. Lily hesitated.

"In part," Lily said.

"And your job," Scorpius said. Lily rolled her eyes.

"Somewhat," Lily said.

"You don't want to go back to work, at all," Scorpius said smugly. Lily's eyes widened, surprised that he had, indeed guessed enough of it.

"I just don't know that six months will be enough time with him," Lily said quickly. "I mean the past four have sped right by, and if I take the Hogwarts job, I'd have to go settle in at the end of the month."

"Well, you know, you'd not have anything to worry about if you were Mrs. Scorpius Malfoy," Scorpius joked. "I mean then the decision would be easy. You'd be my wife; you'd know everything that I do at work, within reason of course, and you'd have no reason to work."

"Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at," Lily said quietly as she focused on her hands.

"Wait, you want to get married now?" Scorpius asked slowly.

"Kind of, yeah," Lily said. She remained with her eyes averted.

"Well, if you want to so you don't have to go back to work, you know I'll do anything you want to do. Whatever makes you happy," Scorpius said quietly. Lily looked up at him in horror.

"I don't want to get married just because I don't want to go back to work," Lily said frowning.

"You don't?" Scorpius said with guarded excitement. "Why do you want to suddenly get married?"

"It's not suddenly," Lily admitted as she looked back down at her hands.

"The delivery room," Scorpius said as his eyes widened. "You were hinting towards it, weren't you? When you threatened that if I got you pregnant again and we weren't married. I forgot about that."

"I didn't," Lily said. She dared a look at him. "I kind of thought you would have asked me by now."

"Lily," Scorpius said grinning. "You aren't kidding, are you, because that would really break my heart?"

"No," Lily said. He cheered and jumped up. "Where are you going?"

"I'll be right back," he said breathlessly. She heard the front door open and she curiously wondered where he had gone. She pulled her blanket straight across her hips as Scorpius appeared in her door way.

"Where did you go?" Lily asked.

"Shh," Scorpius said as he ran across the room to her, pulling her up off the bed by the hand. He kneeled before her and held up a box to her. "Lily Luna Potter, I have loved you for more years than should count, but the one thing I always wanted and feared I'd never have was you eternally mine. Will you do me the great honor of becoming my wife?"

"Are you asking me to marry you?" Lily asked suddenly. "Here? Now?"

"Yes, Lily, I am asking you to marry me," Scorpius said as he held onto her hand and held up the box. "I love you."

"I love you, too. Yes, yes I'll marry you, Scorpius," Lily said excitedly. Scorpius jumped up and embraced her, crushing her lips below his.

"You have made me the happiest man, over and over again," Scorpius said as he pulled away. He flipped the box open and nervously slid the ring on her finger.

"It's so beautiful," Lily said as she looked at the ornate ring.

"I picked it up several years ago, when we first started dating," Scorpius said. "I saw it and knew that I had to have it, just in case you ever changed your mind and agreed. I couldn't think of it being on anyone else's finger."

"It's perfect," Lily agreed.

"So, we have some choices to make, don't we?" Scorpius said as he effortlessly pulled her back into bed.

"Choices?" Lily asked.

"Well we can't very own two apartments, unless we expand it to be one great one," Scorpius said as he tucked Lily against his body, it fitting perfectly as if Lily and Scorpius were made for each other.

"I was thinking a little house outside of the city, so Theron could have somewhere to run and play when he gets a little bigger," Lily said.

"Oh, so my Little Lily is going all white picket fence on me," Scorpius teased as he pressed his lips to her hair. "It's cute."

"Very funny," Lily laughed.

"Next you're going to tell me that you want to have more kids with me, too," Scorpius laughed.

"Not right away," Lily said hesitantly. Scorpius froze for a minute, a smile crossing his face.

"You want to have another baby with me?" Scorpius said grinning.

"Quit grinning like a Cheshire cat, Score," Lily said rolling her eyes. "One step at a time."

"So, marriage, Lily?" Scorpius said.

"Yeah," Lily said. "I kind of like the way Lily Malfoy sounds."

"Then a house in the suburbs?" Scorpius asked.

"With a white picket fence," Lily confirmed.

"And eventually another baby?" Scorpius asked.

"I was thinking, if the baby is a girl, we'll name her after our mothers," Lily confirmed. "Infamy Ginevra Malfoy, I think."

"Pretty," Scorpius said.

"Mmhm," Lily murmured.

"Our families will be happy," Scorpius said sleepily.

"Who would have ever thought," Lily yawned. "With the way our fathers went on in school, I bet no one ever thought it was possible, even with a Potter being a Slytherin."

"Amazing isn't it?" Scorpius said as the two of them drifted back to sleep. "A Malfoy and a Potter fell so completely in love."

A/N: And so my friends, that is all she (erm, I) wrote! We made it to 500 reviews and surpassed that (congratulates to Bookworm2009 for getting #500). I have really enjoyed writing this; I have enjoyed reading the reviews just as much. I am going to take off the next couple of days from writing (I will reply to reviews), in preparation of NaNoWriMo. I may or may not post that story under my fictionpress account (the link is on my front page). You guys were fantastic. I will close the poll now so you can really see that you guys voted for Lily and Scorpius' baby's name. Thank you so much for sharing this experience with me and I will be back in December with a new fanfiction so be sure that you stay vigilant. To all my readers, Happy Halloween, and to my American readers Happy Thanksgiving (since I won't be around in November).

Oh, and I might… might… might… post the chapters that were cut… but probably not. They were good, but this story is done (though it could go on from there). I mean, I could talk about what happens next, or even the next generation from that, but yeah. For now, this is…

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