Title: Not Alone, Never Alone
Author: The Original Horcrux
Pairing: Neville/Luna
Rating: T (for violence and coarse language)
Date: 17/04/12
Words: 2,278


The Epilogue Part 1
3 years later...

I brought my baby girl up to my chest. She was absolutely perfect in every way possible. Ten fingers, ten toes, a cute button nose and the most beautiful blue eyes.

"She's beautiful Luna" Neville said, sitting down beside me and kissing my hair softly and wiping away a tear that had escaped from my eye at the sight of my child. Now I really felt like I was complete. I had a husband, and our daughter completed the family. The sound of raised voices was heard from outside the ward we were in, followed by the angry whisper of the Healer.

"Alright you can go in!" she said softly "but keep it down, Mrs Longbottom is very tired. Très fatigue." I heard her add in French for Fleur's benefit. I heard the voice of Molly Weasley shushing everyone, before the Healer opened the door. A smile spread across my face as I saw Aline enter the room first, followed by the Weasleys, the Potters, My father and Andromeda and Teddy, his hair bubblegum pink like Tonks' was when she was excited or happy. Of course, as soon as the door was shut the Healer's order to stay quiet was ignored, by adults and children alike. George and Angelina's two year old twins, Roxanne and Fred, burst into shouts of excitement and attacked the bed, scrambling onto it and bouncing up and down on the end, before crawling up to get a glimpse of our new baby. The other adults crowded around my bed, cooing at the beautiful girl in my arms. A heavily pregnant Fleur put two-year-old Victorie on the bed next to Fred and Roxanne and let her hands rest on her stomach as she jabbered away about the best way to get babies to sleep. Soon, my legs were squashed by children as Teddy and Lucy, Percy and Audrey's three year old daughter joined Fred, Roxanne and Victorie.

Neville helped me prop myself up on my pillows as my dad broke through to the front of the throng of people milling around my bed.

"I'm so proud of you Luna" he said, his eyes filled with tears at the sight of his granddaughter. He kissed my cheek and stroked the baby's hair and tickled her stomach lightly. She caught hold of one of his sausage like fingers with her tiny hand. This was too much for dad. He broke into tears as my daughter looked up at him with her innocent baby eyes.

"Can I hold her?" Aline voiced timidly from behind Fleur and Bill.

"Sure" I smiled, passing her to Tweedle-dee and leaning back on my pillows.

She was passed from Aline, to Fleur, to Molly, to Dad, to Audrey, to Angelina and so on, around the circle, before finally, Ginny handed her back to me.

"What's her name?" Lucy chirruped from her position next to Victorie on the bed. Then it hit me that we hadn't named our child.

"I don't know" I said, looking down at her and smiling slightly "We haven't really thought about it, what do you think Lucy?"

"Call her Lucy!" Lucy said and everyone laughed.

"As much as I love the name Lucy" I said kindly to her "I think it'd get too confusing to have another Lucy, don't you think?"

"Yeah, I guess" Lucy said, looking around at everyone else. Her eyes rested on Teddy, who was staring at Victorie as she fiddled with one of her blonde plaits.

"Call her Teddy!" she yelled and laughter ensued again.


After asking everyone for at least two names, visiting hours were over and they were told that they needed to go.

"Bye Luna" Aline said, winking at me as she walked out with the rest of my visiting party. I waved back as I leant down to give Teddy a hug before he ran off to join his grandmother. The door swung shut, and we were left in silence once more.

"So" I said, adjusting the baby in my arms "Did you like any of the names?"

"Did you?" He asked, throwing the question back at me.

"I liked Amélie, Elladora and Josephine, but I feel like we should call her Abigail after Abi" I waffled, trying to keep my voice steady as I mentioned my dead best friend

"Can we call her Alice?" he asked me softly, stroking her hair. It hit me like the Hogwarts express. Of course he wanted to call her Alice, after his own mother. The best thing was, It tied in with my seventh year at Hogwarts too.

"Of course we can call her Alice" I said, kissing him on the cheek.

"You get to pick the middle name" he said, relieving me of our new baby Alice.

I laughed and immediately said "Josephine"

"Alright," he said, handing Alice back and waving his wand. A birth certificate and quill appeared out of thin air and he began to write down Alice's details.

Name: Alice Josephine Longbottom
D.O.B: 12th March 2003
Time of birth: 3:47pm
Mother: LONGBOTTOM, Luna Olivia
Father: LONGBOTTOM, Neville Frank
Siblings: None

"Done" he said with a flourish "everything else will be done by the Healers" he flicked his wand again and the paper disappeared into thin air. He sat down on the bed next to me. It was perfect. We had our little family, Neville, Alice and I.

"So" said Neville as my eyes drooped closed. I'd had a very exhausting day and a half, what with having a baby and about fifteen plus visitors at once. I felt Neville lift Alice out of my arms and help me to lie down. Within seconds, I was asleep.


Neville was an amazing father, the way he was with Alice was the way I'd only seen him with one other person, me. Alice was his little jewel, his first daughter, who no doubtedly would have him wrapped around her finger for the rest of her life.

When Alice was six weeks old we took her back to St Mungo's to meet her grandparents. I had fallen into the role of motherhood quite well actually, so well that my body clock automatically woke me up at six thirty, two minutes before Alice woke up. When she started to cry, I would get up, change her nappy, feed her and sit outside with her, watching the sun rise over the huge oak tree that sat in our front yard, until Neville woke up.

Under no circumstances was Apparating with a baby allowed, so Neville and I had to take muggle transport to St Mungo's that day, after ruling out the Knight Bus as it was much too dangerous for a newborn like Alice to be riding on. I was worried, of course, that I would leave her somewhere as I'd never been outside with her before, everyone else had come to visit me.

After making sure that Alice was still inside her baby cradle when we got off the bus outside St Mungo's I relaxed a little, knowing that we were at our destination. This was only the fourth time I'd been with Neville to visit his parents, the first time was when we'd first started dating, the second when Neville told his parents that we were married and the third to tell them that I was pregnant.

"Names?" the bored witch at the desk asked.

"Neville, Luna and Alice Longbottom" Neville stated and the witch looked confused.

"Where's the third one?" she asked and I bent down, taking Alice out of her carrier and showing her to the lady behind the desk, who's expression immediately changed from boredom to excitement.

"Oh, she's adorable!" she cooed "How old?"

"Six weeks" I replied, smiling.

"Oh, how cute!" the lady smiled back "have you brought her here for a check up?"

"No" said Neville "To introduce her to her grandparents"

"Oh of course!" said the lady "go right on up Mr and Mrs Longbottom."

"Call me Neville" Neville said to her as we walked out of the reception, "Mr Longbottom is my dad."


"Mum, Dad, you know how we told you that Luna was going to have a baby?" Neville said slowly as we sat down in the chairs next to their beds. His mother nodded eagerly and his father leaned forward expectantly.

"Well, this is Alice" He said, lifting her out of the baby carrier and cradling her in his arms. Neville's father pointed at his wife and Neville laughed "Yes dad, we named her after mum"

Neville's mum held out her arms and Neville moved to place baby Alice in them.

"Wait" I said "She won't drop her will she?"

"No" Neville laughed "Have a little faith Luna, she Held me without dropping me when I was little."

"Whatever" I murmured, as Neville placed Alice in her grandmother's arms. Frank came over to sit next to his wife as she held Alice so naturally. I looked up from my daughter to see that both Frank and Alice were crying silent tears of joy. Neville wrapped me in his arms in a happy hug when his father raised his head and said one word,

"Proud"

Neville's reaction was instantaneous.

"He spoke" he said incredulously, turning to me and shaking me by the shoulders "Luna, he spoke!"

"I know!" I said happily, hugging him as Frank smiled at his son, opening his mouth again.

"Beautiful" he said, pointing at me and then at Alice "Beautiful Girls."

"Oh my god, he spoke again!" Neville said, tears of happiness streaming down his face. "I can't believe it! All my life I've never heard him speak, and when he sees his first grandchild he talks! Luna this is amazing!"

I felt tears of happiness leaking out of my eyes at the sight of Neville being so happy. I couldn't believe it, they were speaking. The last times that I'd been here, they'd just nodded approval at my marriage to Neville, or excitedly touched my swollen belly when I'd told them I was pregnant, but they'd never actually spoken before. It was amazing. Neville handed Alice back to me so that he could hug both his mother and father. When he'd broken apart, mopping his eyes his mother spoke, like his father, only one word.

"Family" she said, pointing from herself, to Frank, to Neville, to me and to baby Alice. This was too much for Neville, he just sat there and cried his eyes out while I sat there smiling like an idiot until the healer came around.

"Ah, I see that you've found we've been making excellent headway with your parents, Neville" she said as Neville attempted to mop his eyes again. "Oh, and congratulations on your baby, Healer Miller from maternity told me that she was quite a difficult birth"

"She was" I replied, remembering the nineteen hours that I was in labour for.

"The best thing is, If you decide to have another, It's half the time that your first took" the healer said, smiling kindly at me.

"Thank you for everything" Neville said, getting up and hugging the healer.

"Thank me later Neville." She replied "We've only just discovered this cure, the treatment should take about a year and then they'll be right as rain."

"Are you joking?" Neville said "I'll have my parents back!"

"Yes, you will have your parents back." the healer said, before she was engulfed in another hug. I hugged baby Alice and Frank and Alice hugged each other. We were going to be one big happy family.


AN: Again, this is not the last chapter! There is still an eighteen years later from the second battle to come and you'll get to meet all of Luna's children, as well as some others that weren't scripted in the epilogue. Hang in there because the chapter's been written and I won't be long before it gets put up. Remember, 1 week or 10 reviews, whichever comes first. I love you all.

So what did you all think of Baby Alice?

Oh, and who wants to guess how many children Luna ends up having? Closest person to the amount or anyone who gets the exact amount will get an extra special shout out in the next chapter!

Until Next Time

~The Original Horcrux~

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