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August, 1988

Lily wanted to make this the best birthday party for Harry, though her and Molly had both planned a joint birthday party for him and her daughter Ginny since their birthdays were so close together. A few days earlier they went over to Longbottom Manor, where Neville had celebrated his birthday with Augusta's annual photo shoot with the Boy Who Lived. Lily couldn't believe how Augusta treated her grandson's birthdays, though she knew that Neville would much rather have a quieter get together with friends and family rather than have a large affair. Lily knew that Sirius would never make a big production out of Harry's birthday, if he was the Chosen One. Then again there would have been a very good chance that Harry would have been sent to live with her sister Petunia and she would have ignored Harry's birthday all together. That was the reason that she secretly didn't want to have Neville join in their joint birthday party, she knew that Augusta would take it over and overshadow both Harry and Ginny, even though Neville was a good kid who needed to have playmates his own age. Lily knew that her kids, the Weasley kids and even Luna were a good influence for him, since he seemed to take his fame in stride. It was his grandmother that wanted him to be treated as someone special because of his fame. Lily decided to invite Neville, hoping that after all of the children's birthday parties that he attended, that not all birthday parties are like his where his grandmother plans a party for the press. At the party both Harry and Ginny were given two little birthday crowns to wear and Lily thought about how cute they looked together, almost like her and James when he was healthy. She wondered if Severus was going to come by and at least bring over their presents, since he was getting better at spending time with Jamie and Harry since school got out. Of course, the older Weasley kids weren't too happy about having one of their teachers visiting them over the summer. Of course Severus only stayed for a few minutes, since he didn't feel that he would be welcome at a kid's birthday party, only long enough to give his regards to Lily and Molly and to drop off his presents for Harry and Ginny. Lily greeted him with a peck on the cheek that luckily none of the kids noticed. Molly noticed this though and wondered why Severus Snape would even appear at this party, she thought that he didn't even like James but then she didn't truly know what she would do if she were in Lily's shoes. Of course Molly didn't see that Arthur took two of their guests to his shed to show him the muggle inventions that he was tinkering with, since they were muggleborns who hadn't started Hogwarts yet. The oldest one was Luna's friend from art camp. He was in the photography classes, while Luna was in the painting classes. Once they were discovered to be missing, the Weasley kids had an idea where the two brothers went, since they were very familiar with their dad's fascination with muggles and how he wouldn't like anything more than to show off his finds to the two young muggleborn wizards. Arthur even tried to show Lily what he'd been tinkering with, once he found out that she was muggleborn. Once Ron had rescued the Creevy brothers from his father's clutches, it was time for the birthday cake and for the two birthday kids to open up their presents. While both Harry and Ginny opened up their presents, both Lily and Molly snapped picutures of them with their respective pile of presents. Lily to show James later on when she visited him at the nursing home hoping that he would at least recognize their son. Afterwards when the kids were settled in with their cake and ice cream, the parents watched them and talked among themselves, with Lily hoping that she wouldn't have to hear about one of Neville's accomplishments are how his own birthday party went. Though right before the cake and ice cream Molly had to get up and "rescue" the Creevy brothers from Arthur's questions and his showing off of his muggle things in his shed. Lily smiled remembering her first reaction when her friend's husband wanted her to see his shed, she thought that he had other things in mind other than showing her his muggle treasures, since he knew that she was muggle born. When Luna started to bring both Colin and Dennis Creevy over to The Burrow to play, after getting permission from Molly, Lily remembered the looks of amazement on their faces when they were introduced to the wizarding world. As each of Harry's and Ginny's presents were opened the Creevy's were still amazed at the wonders of the wizarding world since most of their presents were from the wizarding world. Harry was still a little disappointed that his dad couldn't come to his party, but was satisfied with the plan to swing by the nursing home, showing his dad all of his gifts and giving him an opportunity to tell him about his party. Now, James had stepped up to a full communications board with the alphabet on it, that he could type out short sentences on. After the party Lily gathered up her children and took them straight to Sunrise to see James. The past few months had been hard on Lily she still met with Severus once a month just to get away from the kids for a while. After their snogging session after James's birthday party she only met him in public places like restaurants or tea rooms to keep her from the temptation of snogging Severus while she was still technically married to James. When Lily arrived at the nursing home with Harry and Jamie, she was relieved that Harry and Ginny's birthday party had gone well. When they got to the community living area, Lily and the kids went up to James to tell him about Harry's birthday party even though they were disappointed that he couldn't come to it, but they understood why he couldn't come.

"Hi dad, today's my birthday and we had a party at the Burrow with Ginny since her birthday's next week and the adults thought that it would be cute if we had our parties together. Luna even brought her new muggle born friend and his brother that she met at art camp this summer. They were so excited over every little thing in our world," Harry told his father wondering if he even knew that today was Harry's birthday.

James looked at him as if he knew what Harry was talking to you, but when Lily and their kids weren't even aware if James even knew what day it was.

Almost a minute later, James decided to type out "Happy birthday, Harry," on his board which let his family know that James was aware that it was Harry's birthday, of course he was still learning how to use the alphabet board when it was Jamie's birthday, so he couldn't wish her a happy birthday then.

The whole family including Sirius, Remus and even Severus were excited when James started to use the alphabet board. When they returned home after visiting James and going to Harry's birthday party Lily was surprised to find Severus waiting for them on the front porch.

"What are you doing here? I thought that you had already gone back home," Lily remarked after seeing him on his front porch, while Jamie ran up to him and Harry tried to stand apart from them.

"Hi guys how did your party go Harry?" Severus asked him.

"It went okay, but why didn't you stay too long for I'm sure that everyone would love to meet mum's new boyfriend," Harry answered him sarcastically.

"Harry how could you say something like that, you know that I love your father and wouldn't do anything to hurt him. I want you to apologize to him right now for being rude," Lily reprimanded her son.

"I'm sorry that I thought that my mum would try to replace dad while he's still alive," Harry told Severus though he still thought that Severus wanted to replace his dad.

"What are you doing here, Uncle Severus anyway?" Jamie asked him.

"Since I knew that Lily probably didn't want to cook after spending all day at Harry and Ginny's birthday party so I decided that I would take the three of you out for the evening," Severus told them while Harry looked sullen about this while Jamie and Lily were excited about it.

"Let me go inside and put up Harry's presents or do you want to go inside and see them," Lily answered him trying not to sound too excited at the prospect at seeing Severus again. "I think that we've had enough excitement for the day, but we can get take away and eat it here, plus maybe get a couple of videos from the video store for them to watch. I do appreciate the thought though and you're more than welcome to join us," Lily answered him but still giving him an opportunity to spend time with her and her kids.

Severus was disappointed that he didn't get to go out with Lily and her kids, but he realized that it was for the best since they spent all day at the Weasleys which probably wore them out but he was still going to spend time with her them though.

"You can go ahead and pick something up at McDonald's, I'll go ahead and ask the kids what they want and give you a list so that you'll remember our order," Lily told him trying to sound helpful.

About an hour later Severus returned with their food and two videos, The Shaggy Dog and The Shaggy DA and Lily grabbed the food from him setting it on plates and calling the kids to dinner. When they entered the dining room, they were not too excited to see Severus since they thought that he was only being nice to them in order to get closer to their mum. They did enjoy the food though, since Lily only let them have McDonald's on special occasions. They even enjoyed the first movie that Severus had brought, since it had reminded them of Sirius who they wished could be there instead of Severus, but he had to work. Of course their Uncles Sirius and Remus would come by tomorrow to spend the entire day with them since they didn't have to work that day since Sirius was on duty and Remus was working on the edits on his book that was scheduled to come out around Halloween. Of course the kids loved the first movie, even suggesting that they might want to watch it with Sirius again, since it was about a boy who could turn into a dog though not at will like their Uncle Sirius could. Due to the long day that they had at the Burrow, the kids immediately fell asleep right after the first movie, with Lily wondering if Sirius and Remus would like to watch the second movie with them tomorrow night, since she was working the afternoon shift at the hospital tomorrow. Severus moved to pick up Harry and tuck him into bed, while Lily did the same thing with Jamie. Severus noticed how peaceful the kids looked while they were sleeping and wondered if he would ever get to marry Lily and possibly have his own children with her. Without Severus noticing her after she got Jamie in bed, she noticed Severus watching Harry sleeping in his own bed.

"He looks like a little angel when he's sleeping but too bad he's not like that all of the time," Lily whispered to him remembering all of the times that Harry had gotten into trouble, just like his father when he was younger.

The two of them walked back to the living room together, intending to watch the second movie on their own, since they wouldn't be there to watch it with the kids tomorrow. When they were alone, before Lily could pop the video in the VCR, Severus leaned over and kissed her. Lily deepened the kiss and they spent the next few minutes making out on her couch. They even started to explore each other's bodies. When he started to try to undo her bra, she immediately pulled back and suggested that they just go ahead and watch the second movie. Severus reluctantly agreed with her, since he felt that she wasn't comfortable snogging on her couch with her kids upstairs, since they could come downstairs and find them like that. Lily immediately went over to the VCR, and popped the video in there for the two of them to watch. Sometime before the movie was over, Severus feel asleep and after the movie, Lily didn't want to wake him so she transfigured the couch into a bed and covered him up with a blanket before giving him a kiss on the cheek and going upstairs to her own bed. The next morning Lily went downstairs to check on Severus and to direct him to her bathroom, where he could use the shower in private after she used it of course. She even gave him some of James's old clothes that he could change into, so it would look like he didn't spend the night there. A few minutes later Remus and Sirius came by to pick up the kids for that day's outing when they were surprised when Severus happened to come down the stairs. He was surprised to see both Sirius and Remus standing there, with Sirius looking like he wanted to hex him into next year.

"What are you doing here, Snivellius?" Sirius asked him daring him to answer him.

Lily saved him when she walked into the living room after waking up the two kids. "Well Harry and Jamie should be down in a couple of minutes after they get dressed. I'm sure that they would be excited to see the two of you, since they missed you yesterday," Lily informed both Remus and Sirius who was still glaring at Severus.

"Of course we would of spent the night if we had known that you were planning to have a sleepover party with him," Sirius told her sarcastically while glaring at Severus.

"We didn't do anything, he just fell asleep on the couch, while we were watching a movie and I didn't feel like waking him up and sending him home. Besides its none of your business if I have overnight guests over or not," Lily informed the two of them.

"It is so my bloody business since you're still married to James and he's my best friend," Sirius protested at what she told him about her personal life.

Though both Remus and Sirius seemed to believe what she told them about Severus, since they've been known to fall asleep in front of the wireless before, until Harry and Jamie came downstairs.

"Mommy do I get to pick if I get a baby brother or sister?" Jamie asked her mom.

At that question Sirius looked like he couldn't decide if he wanted to hex just Severus or both Severus and Lily at the possibility that Lily would even have another kid by someone other than James.