Here's the second part. It's the same day, but Lily and Alice's point of view.
Enjoy these two girls out for the day.
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Lilly greeted her friend, "Alice, how are you?"
"I'm great. You?" They hugged.
"I can really use this day off, but I'm so worried about the boys."
"They'll be fine. I'm not worried about Frank and Neville at all. At least, not much."
"I don't know, I'm thinking I should have gotten James's mother to come watch Harry. It's not to late. Maybe I could at least arrange for her to check up on him."
"Lils, you really do need today, don't you? Come on, once we get there you'll stop worrying and enjoy yourself." The two of them Disapperated.
They were standing just outside the spa place when Lily said, "Be right back," and Disaperated.
Alice groaned.
Lily appeared just inches from James. "Don't forget to heat his bottle for 4 minutes, don't let him drink it too quickly. He has to take his nap, but don't let him sleep too long or he'll be cranky, but make sure he gets enough rest otherwise he'll be cranky anyway. And—"
"Lily, I can handle anything." He flashed her one of his most charming smiles, the smiles she had been impervious to when they were younger. It failed him again now.
The Potter charm, she thought. She'd managed to resist it long enough in Hogwarts and she wasn't going to let it get her now. "If there are any problems, James, don't go to your bachelor friends. Go to Frank. Alice tells me his very good with the baby. They named him Neville. Isn't that a sweet name? Not as sweet as Harry, though of course."
"Go on, Lily. You'll miss your appointment."
"Spoil sport." She disappeared with a pop of air and reappeared next to Alice. "Sorry, won't happen again."
"It better not. You need to relax. Let's go inside."
They went inside, gave their names, and sat down in the chairs. Two beauticians put
"How come you aren't worried about Frank and Neville?"
"Do you remember a few weeks ago when we were at St. Mungos for check ups?"
"Yes."
"Well, don't you remember passing that poster that offered seminars on baby care for fathers-to-be?"
"Yes! I tried to get James to go but he kept making excuses."
"Well, I got Frank to go and I'm glad I did. Did you know James's dad was heading the class?"
"Really? Actually, I think that does sound familiar."
"This isn't helping you relax. Here, how about we discuss something else?"
"Okay. What do you want to discuss?"
"Something relaxing. Nothing about husbands or sons or work or Dumbledore."
"Alice, that's all life has been for so long, what else is there?"
"Don't cry, Lils. It'll mess up your mask and your skin won't get rejuvenated. There's Dreams. Dreams of a better tomorrow. A better one. Let's talk about those. Huh? Something bright and happy."
"Happy? Sometimes, I pick Harry up out of his cradle and I stand there and I rock him and I tell him about what it's going to be like, you know, when the war is over. I tell him about how he's going to have lots of friends and he'll go to Hogwarts. He'll get to know Dumbledore and all the teachers. He'll take tests, make friends, get in trouble, fall in love . . . he'll live. Alice, even if we, James and I, don't survive this war, we're going to make sure that Harry does survive. Dumbledore has been dropping hints. James and I are talking about going into hiding if things get worse."
"Us too, Dumbledore has been saying things in that roundabout way of his. I do the same thing with my Neville, Lily. My baby. If anything ever happened to him I'd die. I know he'll be great some day. I can see it. Someday our boys will grow and become men. They will live, because we're here to protect them."
"What color, ladies?" asked a voice, the girls couldn't see who because they had cucumbers on their eyes.
"What?" they asked.
"For your nails."
"How about red and gold?" asked Lily.
Alice smiled, "For our boys."
The voice set her wand to paint the ladies' nails and moved on to the next costumers.
"Are you scared?"
"Yes, you?"
"Yes."
They were silent for a moment. Really what was there to say?
"They'll be okay, I know they will," said Lily. And she meant it.
"Funny, isn't it? The boys having the same birthday?"
"Yeah."
"Hey, I know it's a long way off, but what do you think to in 11 and a half months—"
"—having a joint party for Neville and Harry! I think it's great!"
They moved on to happier things, discussing party ideas and who to invite. "Well, there's the Bones's."
"Yes, don't they have a little girl?"
"Yes, only 2 months old."
"Really? I wonder which of our sons will be marrying her," joked Lily.
"Definitely yours, you said he looks just like James and we both know what a heartbreaker he was."
"I thought you said Neville looked just like you. You're pretty."
"But what boy wants to be pretty?"
They laughed. It felt good. They needed to laugh.
"Who else?"
"I suppose we have to invite James's friends," Lily said dully.
"Come on, you know they're alright," Alice said cheerily.
"Remus is okay and Peter goes unnoticed but Sirius is a bit rowdy."
"He's funny. You know the party never starts until he gets there."
"That's the problem. This is going to be the birthday party for a pair of one year olds. Not James's bachelor party."
Alice laughed, though it was more like a giggle. They had had such fun crashing that party. [A/N: Do I smell another story?]
Someone came and cleaned the mad masks from their faces; their skin was now as soft as the skin on their sons' butts.
"I guess our four hours are over?" Lily asked, a little disappointed.
"Not quite. What to go and get some ice scream?"
"Sure!" She giggled most uncharacteristically. "We sound like schoolgirls."
"You're right. Come on."
They went to Florentine's ice cream shop and ordered hot fudge sundaes. Old Florentine's son had graduated a couple of years ahead of them.
They took their time eating and finally decided that their vacation from worry had to end some time and that it was time for them to go back to their husband's and sons.
"I've left James with Harry long enough."
"And I'm sure Frank misses me. I want to see my Neville again."
They did stop and show each other pictures of Harry and Neville before Disapperating.
She appeared in her doorway and saw James asleep with Harry in his arms. Their son. They had a son. She got an idea and walked over to the couch, kissing James until he woke up.
"So how was it?" she asked, he'd sure tired out quickly.
"Oh, great. A piece of cake," he grinned cockily.
She looked down at Harry, then back to James. "So you want another one?" she asked mischievously.
"Er, not quite yet," he said nervously.
She grinned and kissed her husband passionately again before taking her son in her arms.
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I really hope you liked this. If you did, please review it and make me feel special. I feel un-special right now.
Okay, other possible stories for me to do are:
James's bachelor party James and Lily's wedding The day James and Lily met Harry and Neville's 1st birthday partyIf you are interested in reading any of these, please let me know because I've got ideas for writing them.