The actual day of Lily's birthday was uneventful. I went over after work, which was a good compromise. They got to eat dinner just as their small family unit, and I was able to join them for cake and presents.

I came through the door, after a long and stressful day. "Sadie!" Lily said, running as I came in the door.

"Hello." I said, hugging her tightly. She was in her favorite dress, a purple one with white pocka-dots and a white sash. "Happy birthday!"

"Thank you." she said, and grabbed my hand, pulling me into the kitchen.

"How's your birthday been so far? What's it like to be four?"

She just smiled. "Good." she said.

Harry stood in the kitchen, putting the candles in a cake. He kissed my cheek.

"Papa, can I show Sadie my presents?" she asked.

"After our cake, love." he said, patiently. Al hovered around too. "You do have one more present to open."

She smiled and I helped her back to the dining room table. Harry brought the cake in for her and we sang to her, wishing her a good birthday. She blew out her candles, and we ate the cake. It was chocolate, of course, with white icing.

Then it was time for me to give her my gift, so we went in the living room, on the couch. We didn't have to pull it out because we all fit on it, this time. I handed her my present, that Harry had helped pick out the week before.

She took the paper off of it, and took out the pots of paint. "Wow- more paint?" she asked. "Thank you, Sadie."

"There's more in the bag." I told her, nudging her playfully.

She dove back into the large gift bag, it was half as big as she was. I waited for her to pull out the dress I had picked out for her. I picked the dress out all by myself- only getting Harry's approval. It was a beautiful, rich shade of cranberry that did not class with her hair. I thought it would look really cute on her. "I love it!" She said. "Papa, can I wear this to my party?"

He nodded. "That's a great idea, Lily." he said. It warmed me up on the inside to think she liked it enough to wear to her party.

"Thank you, Sadie." she said. I leaned in and hugged her. "Oh, I have to tell you why I am thankful for you. I am thankful that we met you." she smiled. I hugged her tighter, wanting to tell her how much I loved her. She was such an amazing little girl.

Soon it was time for her to go to bed, so we said good night, and I hung out with Al downstairs.

"I brought you something." I told him, summoning my bag.

"It's Lily's birthday." he said.

"I know." I pulled out a coloring book and brand new pack of crayons. "Lily might be the artist in the family, but you should be able to color if you want."

"You remembered?" he asked, his eyes wide in surprise. Of course, I remembered. The first night I had met him, the first night I had met Harry, he had colored and talked about how Jay said he was too old to color. Well, Jay was now plenty far away and he deserved a little freedom.

I nodded. "Yeah."

He grinned, and I could see how happy he was radiating off him. "Sadie, you're the best."

I just laughed. "You're not so bad yourself." I told him, joking.

He smiled. "You should move in with us." he said. "That would be so cool."

"Oh, Al." I sighed. "It would be cool, but not yet."

"Why not?" he asked. "You're here all the time anyways."

"I know. But there's the whole situation with Teddy that I want to get fixed, and I haven't really been going out with your father for that long..."

"I feel like you have." he admitted.

"I will move in eventually, Al." I said. "But some things need to be sorted out first... Plus I know you guys need time with your father alone sometimes, so I like the way things are now. How I'm here part of the week and at my flat for the rest of it."

He nodded. Harry came downstairs from putting her to bed, and looked a little tired. He started cleaning up, and I got up and helped him. Al went upstairs, and took the coloring book I'd given him with him.

"Ready for Saturday?" he asked. The party was Saturday, only two days away, now.

"I think so." I said, but really, I was nervous. It was the first time I would be around the whole Weasley family now that we were 'out' to them. "I'm nervous, but how bad could it possibly be?"

"You're right." he said. "Everyone will be on their best behavior. And they're nice people, really."

I nodded. "What time would you like me here Saturday?"

"Come Friday night." he said. "Ginny's taking the kids for Friday night to celebrate with Lily, and we can spend some quality time together before I feed you to the sharks- I mean, the Weasleys come."

We both laughed and I shoved him. "Sure." I said, smiling.

"And I need you to figure out where you want to go for your birthday, because I need to get that sorted out." he said. "I mean, I know where I'd like to take you, but if there's somewhere you want to go, I'm all for it."

"Where do you want to take me?" I asked.

"It's a surprise." he smirked. Bugger.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because it's fun that way. Anyways, then I've decided. We're going to the surprise location. You're going to have a great time."

"What do I pack, then?" I asked. "How will I know what to bring?"

He just smiled. "We'll figure it out." he teased.

"Oh?" I asked.

"Or I could just pack everything for you."

"How would you know what to pack?" I asked.

"If you'll remember, I was married for ten years." he said.

"Fair enough." I said. "And my mother will have a birthday dinner for me on my actual birthday. So we will have to go to that."

"What day of the week is your birthday on, a Thursday?"

"Yes."

"Well, I'll have Al and Lily..." he said. "So..."

"They can come." I told him. "I would like that."

"Are you sure?" he asked. "Your mum wouldn't mind?"

"No. She loves kids." I said. "Please, if it doesn't make them uncomfortable, please bring them."

I leaned my head against his shoulder and just laughed. "All right." I said. "I'm quite exhausted. I'm going home now, but I'll be back tomorrow night."

We kissed, and went our separate ways.

We spent Friday night together, and I continued to try and find out where we were going for my birthday. He wasn't budging and I knew it was useless, but it was still fun.

Saturday morning we got up bright and early. Thankfully, it was still a little warm out and people would be able to go outside once Harry set up some warming charms.

I was working on the inside, putting up streamers and a Happy Birthday Lily banner. It was only ten o'clock, and a little chilly, so I was still wearing sweatpants.

There was a knock on the door, and Harry came in to open it. On the other side of the door, Ginny stood.

There were no kids by her side, so I was a little nervous. Was something wrong with Lily?

"Come in." Harry said, moving aside and letting her come in. "What's the matter?"

"Can I talk to Sadie?" she asked. She didn't sound angry or annoyed, just weary.

He looked between us, and wanted to know what I thought. I just nodded. "Okay."

"Upstairs?" she asked.

I went upstairs quietly, and she followed me. I knew the bedroom was a mess, we hadn't bothered to make the bed, and I knew our clothing was everywhere. I sent a charm for it to clean that stuff up.

"It's fine." she said. There was something wrong with her, I could tell. "You're a Healer, right?""

I nodded. "Yes..." I said. "I'm a pediatric Healer."

"Can you heal adults?"

"To a degree." I said. "Why?"

"I'm miscarrying." she said.

"Oh." this suddenly meant a lot more to me. "I'm so sorry."

She wouldn't meet my eyes and shook her head. "I've been through it enough, but it never stops hurting." she said. I could see so much raw emotion in her, it was strange. It brought a lot of emotion into me as well.

"No, I'm sure it doesn't."

"The only thing is, the party starts in two hours and I don't have time to see my Healer and I don't want to miss the party, it's Lily's day, so I was wondering if you could do anything?"

I nodded. "Yeah, of course. I'll go get some pain medicine, and a blood replenishing, and maybe Pepper Up potions from my flat. Just give me five minutes."

She nodded. I Floo'd home from the fireplace in his bedroom and immediately picked up my bag of potions and Floo'd back. She sat where I left her.

"How far along were you?" I asked.

"Eight weeks, three days." she said. "It's usually when I miscarry... sometime between eight and nine weeks."

That was actually pretty late in the pregnancy to miscarry, so I felt bad. I knew how terrible it was to lose a pregnancy at four weeks, I couldn't imagine eight weeks. I handed her the pain potion and told her to take half and save the other half for later. Then the blood replenishing potion, and finally two vials of Pepper Up potion.

"How do you feel now?" I asked, after I'd given the Pepper Up a few minutes to work. I could see the color return to her face, which meant something was working.

"I'm sorry I had to come bother you." she said. "But I really appreciate it."

I nodded. "Yeah, don't worry about it." I said. "Please, it's totally fine."

"And, please don't tell anyone about this." she said. "I didn't even tell Dean, because he takes it way too hard..."

"Your secret's safe with me." I told her.

"Thank you." she said, and I could tell she was honestly, very grateful. I nodded. "I'll make sure my family isn't too hard on you today."

"Thanks."

We walked downstairs, so she could leave and come back when the party started. "I'll see you later." she said, and I shut the door behind her.

Harry came in as soon as she was gone. "What was that about?" he asked.

"Long story." I said, dismissing his concern. "Everything is fine. Don't worry about it."

"No, seriously?" he asked.

"No. I told her I wouldn't tell anyone and I won't. Everything's going to be fine."

He shrugged, and let it go. I went upstairs, washed my hair quickly, and put on my dress. About an hour later, Hannah showed up with food and I helped her set it up.

"Long time, no see, stranger." she said, laughing at me. "How have you been?"

"Great." I told her, as I helped her set out plates. "Got promoted at work... How have you been?"

"Fine, fine." she said. "Everything's good with you and Harry?"

I nodded. "Everything's going wonderfully." I said. "Yeah."

"Good. I'm glad. Stop by the Leaky sometime, you haven't been by in ages."

"I know." I said. "Because once I got promoted, I now work normal people hours and have energy to make food. And it's a bit harder for me to go out in public, now, you know."

"True, true. Well come over for dinner or something, at least. Doesn't have to be out in the pub."

"I will." I said.

"How have your parents been?"

"Really good." I updated her. "You know. Just enjoying themselves."

I was running around, doing last minute clean up stuff when the kids got there. Lily came in first, wearing the dress that I had bought her. It looked really nice on her, I thought. "Hi, Sadie." she said.

"Hello, Lily." I said. "I like your dress."

She just smiled. "Will you plait my hair?"

"Of course." I told her, having her sit on the couch. I said hello to Al and Ginny as well. She said Dean and Margot would be coming later.

I realized that today was the first time I had ever seen her without Margot. It was kind of strange to see her with just her kids with Harry. I plaited Lily's hair- it had grown since July and was now easier to be braided. "There you go, Lily." I said, helping her up. "Are you excited for your party?"

She nodded. "I am."

"Good." I told her, and lead her outside where Al was setting up some fairy lights and Harry and Ginny were talking. The party would start in about ten minutes, and I knew some people would be arriving any minute. I took one last second to compose myself and put on a happy face, before joining Harry and slipping my hand in his.

Author's Note: Thanks for all the super nice reviews, everyone. They were awesome and made me smile. So, what'd you think of this chapter? Got some action in there with Ginny. Anyways, let me know what you think! I have some time off from school in the next two weeks and will hopefully be updating a little more frequently for the time being. But please, keep reviewing. I appreciate all the support so much