Chapter 10 You and me and baby make 2 or is it 5.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and his world belong to J.K. Rowling's and she has not given it to me so, I write this for fun not money.
A/N: I am working a little faster as I am slowly organizing my work and personal time. I am giving a little time each night to this story, even if it is just 10 minutes or so it should allow a chapter a week closer to what I normally write. Though I will not push beta, Aleeta6 as she has a life and am grateful for the help I get from her.
A reminder Luna is in Frank Longbottoms body and Neville is in Alice's.
Frank walked out to his wife and sat down on the bed holding her hand. Poppie walked up and cast the muffliato so no one could hear them. "Alice, Frank it is strange, and I have heard of it, but never seen it before, you have a very rare thing going on. Alice you are still pregnant, it is just that we check for consciousness to determine if a witch is pregnant and with how many children. The mother and babies souls are too close to tell that way until birth causes them to develop separately. But they are separate consciousnesses occasionally a mother and child's consciousness are also very closely connected. It seems at least right now your's and your child's are closely aligned. So closely in fact that if a person doing the check is not careful they would miss the second one."
Alice and Frank stared at one another then started laughing in relief, "Thank you Poppie, can we come to you instead of the people at St Mungo's."
"I was going to tell you to do that including delivery. Here is a special port key that will safely bring Alice here when the time comes."
"Thank you so much Poppie."
"I need to talk to James and Lily. I want you to stay here tonight, and we can go to breakfast in the morning with the kids in the great hall. I think you would enjoy that, then you can go back home."
Poppie went to talk to James and Lily. In the meantime Frank and Alice talked. "Luna, I am still alive in the old time line so I may make it back as well, if we can just figure out a way. Maybe we should talk to Dumbledore?"
"I am not sure Neville, we may want this to play out for a bit longer, though I think he may be suspicious already. He is looking at me strangely and said I seem different. But he still asked James and I to join the Order and of course he wants you to join as well. We know your father, mother, James and Lily were all in the order before so we will just have to follow this path."
"It may be the best way for us to find a way home."
The next morning they had breakfast in the Great Hall but sat at the teachers table, they said goodbye, as they said goodbye to James and Lily they were invited over for supper. As they seemed to have a lot more to share now and James wanted to talk to Frank about the invitation Albus had offered, they accepted the offer.
After flooing it home Alice took a nap, Neville was taking a lot out of her. Frank went about setting a new wards on the house. Luna was not going to allow Voldemort an easy route to Alice and her. Luna knew that Alice and Frank had escaped 3 time from Voldemort himself and more from Death eaters, she was going to make sure they made it through if they were still in these bodies when it happened, she also would not allow her and Neville to be cursed to insanity, if she could help it.
Luna knew it was after the first fall of Voldemort that Bellatrix and her buddies had attacked Frank and Alice, but she was not sure what she would do maybe try and go to some other country for a few months after Harry took care of Voldemort.
Alice woke up and took a shower and went looking for Frank she found him in the kitchen sitting at the table reading a book called "Offensive light magic to defeat the darkness". It was by some up and coming wizard by the name of Gilderoy Lockhart. "It is funny, I have no idea of how he made such an impression on everyone. We know he was an idiot, but this book is the worst one I have read."
"He must have improved his fraud as he went. We are supposed to be at James and Lily's in an hour, you better get ready." Luna went up for a quick shower and when he came back down found Neville crying in the living room.
"Are you OK? We can cancel if you are not up to it."
Neville ran and grabbed Luna, "I don't want us to end up like my parents, I want to go home. Listen to me I am being such a wimp, I need to be brave like my dad."
"You have handled more than your father, you have been forced to live as another person and were hurt fighting the worst dark wizard of the age. You destroyed the last horcrux, you were beaten in school and stood up against Voldemort and his minions even when you couldn't directly fight back. You will be facing him again and did you ever think it was you that faced him before, since if we are in the same time line it was you and I that went through this before."
Neville was now bawling, and Luna held him, she patted his back and almost lost it herself, she needed to hold herself together. Even the toughest person has a breaking point and Neville had reached his, she knew her time could come, and she wouldn't know for sure until it happened. Of course Neville was pregnant and wasn't used to female hormones let alone the ones that rushed through him now.
Alice got a hold of herself and settled down, "You need to get ready and I wouldn't think of backing out on Lily and James. We share so much with them. Our kids will grow together even if we don't know about it." Neville gave Frank a watery smile and headed toward the bathroom.
When they were ready Frank and Alice apperated outside of James and Lily's cottage in Godric's Hollow. Walking up the front walk of the cottage Lily was just letting out their cat snitch, it was a black cat with a white "P" on its chest. Alice saw it and grabbed Frank's hand. "It's OK it can't be the same cat." Lily gave them both a bright smile and lead them into the house and into the small sitting room off the entryway.
"We are so glad you came, I hope you don't mind I am running late making dinner I am going to go into the kitchen and put on the finishing touches."
"I will join you Lily." Alice and Lily went into the kitchen.
"Would you like a Fire whiskey Frank?"
"Just a butter beer would be fine."
"Always the one to keep a clear head, in these times even though I need the escape, I think maybe I will begin try and do that as well."
Frank broke the the subject of Albus' question. "What do you think of Professor Dumbledore's question?"
"We are in troubled times, our wives, our coming families and ourselves are all in danger, the future itself is in danger. I am going to join as is Lily, but we will see how involved we will be since Lily is expecting. What are your plans?"
"We are going for it, we figure we need to help stop Voldemort or we will not know the freedom we know now in the future."
"I think you are correct, we can't let this go on but we are Aurors."
"The more reason we will be able to help, and you being a Marauder should help as well, you have a particular set of skills that could be useful. By the way, how did you slip out from Voldemort the other day, I know you dueled him to a stop but how did you get outside without getting killed?"
"I used a stink sap dungbomb that Sirius, Remus, Peter and I have been working on."
"So the Marauders saved you, good friends stick together. That is exactly what I am talking about, you all should be in this thing that Albus is planning."
A strange look crossed James face. "You know the reputation the Black family has and Remus has his own problems, Peter well I don't think he would be much help."
"Not our decision anyway it is Albus' decision anyway."
"Dinner is served boys." Lily had entered the room unnoticed by the men.
"Frank, Lilly has made a wonderful dinner of baked chicken, vegetable medley, and a wonderful pudding. It was nice to have a simple quiet supper with friends. In the end Alice invited them over to their house for supper.
A/N. This chapter was was difficult for me to write, not sure why it seemed like a good idea but I don't feel at this point that it is really needed. I had plans for it but don't think I accomplished it, and in the process it became muddled.
Next chapter is about half done I hope to start posting on a weekly bases as my big work project has gone to production, so I feel more like being on the comp at home.