Disclaimer: I really don't own harry potter, so, you sue me, I hunt you down. k? read on! (that was a joke)
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and with a pop, I was gone.
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As I apparated into a small side alley, I realized something. I had know idea how to get into the wizarding part of louisiana. I then sat down on a bench that was conveniently located on the side of the alley. When I once again looked at luna's note, the words disappeared off the page, and new ones took their place.
Hermione,
If you are reading this, You have decided to come and visit. Unfortunately, you cannot directly apparate into triagon alley. Yeah, i know. Weird coincedence. If you are sitting on the bench, there should be a brick wall with a wanted poster on it. Press the third brick on the left side of it, and the wall will open. Then you can apparate directly in front of our house. Good luck.
Luna
I then followed her instructions, and was amazed that triagon alley looked exactly like diagon ally at night time. I found that everyone stared at me, probably because I was wearing muggle clothes, and had dark rings under my eyes. I also saw a few children wearing school uniforms. They must attend some sort of wizarding school, I thought to myself. It reminded me of my days at school. Harry, me, and r-
I stopped myself, pushing away thoughts ron. I then apparated to the front of luna and neville's house.
"Hermione! What are you doing here?" Neville said, getting up from his plants and walking over to me.
"Hey neville! Luna didn't tell you I was coming?" I said just as a heavily pregnant luna walked out of the house.
"Oh, sorry hermione. I dozed off and completely forgot to tell him." Luna said, rubbing her belly.
"Oh it's quite alright, luna. How are the twins?" I said, putting my hand on top of hers, that was resting on her stomach.
"They're kicking the heck out of me. I'm due next week, and I can't wait to have these two out of me. Did I ever tell you the sex of the babies?" Luna said a huge smile immediatly spreading across her face.
"No! What are they?" I said, curiosity in my voice.
"Both girls." Neville said, going to stand next to his pregnant wife.
"AWW! Have you picked out any names yet?" I said.
"Hermione, I know you didn't come all the way here just to ask about the babies."
"You're right luna, that's not what I came here for. I need someone to talk to."
"Well come on into the house. We can talk in the living room." Neville said, pointing me in the direction of the living room. As we all sat down on their tiny couch, neville immediately tensed up.
"Umm... It's about ron and me." I said, looking sad and embarassed.
"And that's my cue to leave." Neville said, slowly getting up.
"And why is that, mr longbottom?" Luna said, looking curiously at neville.
"Well, Hermione is obviously here for emotional support, and I'm afraid I can't offer any. I think this kind of a girl talk anyway. After all, you did write that lettter only addressed to Luna." He said, making his way out of the room.
I was about to ask neville how he knew about the letter, until luna started to talk.
"What about you and ron?" She said, giving me a look that said 'Get on with it'.
"Okay, I'll start from the beginning. Yesterday when I came home from work, All of my stuff was gone, and ron said that we needed to talk. He said that thiongs weren't working out, and asked me to leave. Then, Lavender came in and asked ron if she could start unpacking. So then I ran towards the kitchen, but ron stopped me. A bunch of other stuff happened, and ron dragged me out of the apartment by my hair," I said, rubbing the spot on my head where ron grabbed me. "It was raining, and I started walking down the street. Then, I sat down on the curb as harry pulled up in his car. Then he picked me up, and brought me to his house."
"How nice of harry, Him and his 'saving people' thing." Luna said, interrupting me.
"That's exactly what I told him. Anyway, I got mad because he kapt telling me everything was gonna be okay, and ran out onto the street. Then, Draco, of all people, walks up to me and asks if he could fix my nose," I said as luna looked at me confused. "Don't ask. Then, he took me back to his apartment which happened to be right next door to my new one. He fixed my nose, and then asked me why I lived next door. I was still crying at that point, and I asked him why he cared. Then he said some stuff and then he... he kissed me. I told him he wouldn't to be with me, and ran down the street,
where I talked to my mother. She told me not to give up on all men, and then I went back to the apartment. Draco apologized and now we are friends. But, he told me that he would wait for me until I was ready to become more than friends. Then, I came here." I said, finishing my tale.
"Wow hermione. That's kind of, well, jacked up." She said, looking at me with understanding.
"Yea, I know it is. Then yesterday I saw ron and lavender, and she kissed him trying to make me mad." I said, remembering the worst day of my life.
You treat me just like another stranger,
well it's nice, to meet you sir,
I guess I'll go.
I best be on my way out.
"Listen hermione. You don't need ron. He wasn't good enough for you anyway. And as for draco, I think you should go for it.
Draco does lie, but not about his feelings. I think that he is genuinly falling for you." She said, putting her hand on my knee.
"But, what if he's just like ron?"
"Hermione, no one is like ron. The war softened draco. Go for it, hermione. You only get one chance at love." She said, her face immediatly glazing over as a wince of pain shot through her face.
"Um, hermione, do you mind if we finish this conversation elsewhere?" luna said.
"Like where?"
"The hospital."
"Why? What's wrong luna?" I said, not bothering to hide the worry in my voice.
"I think My water just broke." She said looking down at her soaked sweatpants. "Yep. the babies are definitely coming."
"Oh my gosh luna! What do we do?" I said, pacing around the room.
"Calm down, hermione. You are panicing more than me, and I'm the one in labor." She said, rubbing her stomach as a second contraction made its way through her small body.
"Neville?" Luna called.
"Yes, dear?" He called back.
"Grindilows are gold." She said, as I looked on in confusion.
"That's nice, honey. WAIT, WHAT? OH MY GOSH!" He said as we heard him run through the house.
"What did you just say?" I said.
"Oh, it's our code for- argh!" She said, gasping as pain once again shot through he features.
Neville then came in with a bag, camera, and pillows in hand.
"Okay luna, let me just call the hospital." He said, stepping over to the fireplace. Two minutes later, A small female nurse came out of the fireplace. She then used a spell and made a wheelchair appear.
"Okay Mrs. Longbottom. You're all set. If you would just come sit in this chair, We can be on our way." The nurse said, pointing to the chair. As luna slowly sat on the chair, I followed reluctantly behind them as they all stepped into the fireplace one at a time.
The hospital was cold, and smelled very much of cleanser, which made my nose burn. They soon admited luna, and the longbottoms were now in their room, getting through the first hour of labor. As I walked in and saw luna crushing neville's hand as she was riding out a contraction, I couldn't help but giggle.
"This isn't funny hermione. How would you like to come over here and having YOUR hand crushed!" Neville sais, smiling just enough to let me know he was joking.
"Hermione, be a dear and call harry and ginny. Ginny and I promised each other we would help each other when are babies are born,
and I don't intend on breaking that promise. Neville!" She said, telling neville to hold her hand. Two seconds into a contraction,
neville's hand cracked sharply, and he winced in pain. When luna let go of neville's hand, 2 of his ringers we bent in weird directions.
"Um, neville, I think I just crushed the bones in those fingers." Luna said, pointing to neville's fingers.
"Wow. You weren't kidding when you said you were having your hand crushed.I think you should go have that looked at." I said.
"Yeah." He said, walking out of the room and toward the door, as I called Ginny.
"Hello?"
"Ginny, it's hermione."
"Hermione! Oh thank gosh. Harry and I are so sorry for making you mad."
"It's okay ginny. I think i'm alright. Anyway, Luna is in labor, and wants you here."
"Really? Okay, we'll be there in 10 minutes! Harry! Hurry up! We have to get to the hospital!" Ginny said, the last part meant for harry. I heard him ask if it was her going into labor.
"No, Harry! It's luna! Now get your butt in gear and let's go! Bye hermione!" She said, screaming on the phone.
"Okay Luna, They will be here in ten minutes. Meanwhile, Since neville is, um, unavailable, I can hold your hand." I said, walking over to her bed.
"Are you sure?" She said, not wanting to break MY hand too.
"As sure as sure can be." I said, Luna immediatly grabbing my hand as her contraction monitor went off. I sat there, silent screaming, as Luna was slowly cracking my finger joints. When she finally let go of my hand, I gave her a slight smile, turned around, and started mouthing words like 'oh my gosh' and 'ow' until luna spoke.
"Are you alright hermione?" She said, looking at my now red hand.
"Fine." I said, my voice going higher 3 octaves.
"Hermione, tell me the truth." She said, giving me a knowing glance.
"Okay. OW! That really hurt! How is such a small person like you able to be so strong?" I said, rubbing my hand.
"See, now there's the truth. I'm so strong because in the months before I was pregnant, I spent most of my time pulling weeds from the garden surrounding my house." She said, flexing her arms in moch strength.
I was about to comment on her little hand flex thing, before the doctor came in and examined luna for the third time. "9 centimeters. Give it another half hour, and then I think you'll be able to start pushing." The doctor said, taking off her gloves and walking out of the room.
"Oh thank god. I thought this would never end!" Luna said, rubbing the spot where her babies kicked her.
"It'll all be worth it in the end. Speaking of babies, have you decided what you are going to name the girls?" I said, curiousity filling my voice.
"Well, Neville and I decided to name them Aislyn Nevaeh, and Anna-belle Morgan." She said, beaming with joy.
"Those are beautiful Luna. Why those names?" I said.
"Well, aislyn because I always loved that name and because it is so unique, Nevaeh because my mother's middle name was nevaeh, Anna-belle because that was neville's mother's middle name, and Morgan because HE has always dreamed of having a little girl named morgan." She said, pointing to neville as he came in with 2 splints on his fingers.
"Hey! But you have to admit, they are some really pretty names for our really pretty girls." He said, talking to luna's stomach.
"Luna! How are you doing?" Ginny said, walking into the room with harry right behind her. When luna and ginny were completely immersed in their conversation, Harry came and stood by me.
"Well hey best friend." He said in a poor attempt to make me laugh, but I did crack a small smile. "Ha! I still got it. So, how are things going?" He said, trying to ease the tension in the room after the girls had stopped talking.
"Hey! There will be NO awkwardness in this room! Hermione, go ahead." Luna said after I didn't answer harry.
"Um, fine. Luna's 9 centimeters and she crushed 2 of neville's fingers."
"Actually, I was asking about you."
"Um, fine. Better, actually. Draco lives next door to me now, and he is actually a pretty good neighbor." I said, smiling at the thought of draco kissing my hand.
"Malfoy? Nice? Sure." Harry said, not believing me.
"Well he has helped me more than you have mister best friend!"I said, getting angry.
He immediatly raised up his hands and said. "Sorry hermione. Didn't mean to make you mad. Again. It's just that, well, I was under the impression that malfoy hated us. And most of all, you."
"Well, I-" I started to say, being interrupted by three doctors entering the room.
"Okay mrs. longbottom. It's time to start pushing." One of the doctors said, putting on gloves and walking over to luna.
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(Luna pov)
"Okay ms. longbottom. It's time to start pushing." The doctor said, putting on gloves and making her way over to me. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! I thought to myself.
"Okay, Luna, Is it?" She said as I nodded. "Hold your knees to your chest, and start pushing on your next contraction. Mr. longbottom, if you could hold on of her legs and hold one of her hands, I'm sure it would make your wife feel a bit better." She said.
"Um, okay." Neville said, pulling my knee to my chest, and grabbing my hand with his good one.
"Um, doctor, When am I supposed to push?" I said, trying to buy myself some time to think.
"On your next contraction, dear." She said, prepping me.
You can do this luna, I thought to myself. I swallowed the spit I had in my mouth, as I felt another contraction about to come on.
"Okay luna! Push!" She said, as I started pushing. "One, two, three, four, fi-" She said, as my yelling interrupted her.
"AHH! I HATE YOU NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM! YOU DID THIS TO ME! YOU BASTA-" I said, breaking off my sentence as The contraction left. "I'm sorry sweetie. Just the pain talking." I said, pulling neville closer to me as he kissed me on the lips.
"Push luna!" The doctor said, once more trying to get the baby out.
"ARGH! HURRY UP AISLYN!" I said wanting to hold my baby girl.
"Push baby!" Neville said.
"SHUT UP!" I said, giving on last push to bring our little girl into the world. There was a loud cry as the doctor placed my baby on my chest. My baby. My little girl. The doctor then handed her off to a nurse to be weighed and measured. I then realized I still had one more thing to do.
"Okay luna, time to bring baby number 2 into the world." The doctor said, prepping for the birth of my second child.
"Anna-belle, you mean." I said, not wanting my baby to be called 'number 2'.
"Anna-belle. Get ready luna! And... Push!" She said.
I pushed four more times before the baby was even crowning. I pushed for the next 4 minutes, until a small cry was heard from the end of my bed. Then, neville cut the baby's cord, like he did the first, and the baby was off to the nursery. *Wait, why does it still hurt? Didn't I just give birth to two babies? Why does it still hurt?* I thought to myself.
"Oh my gosh." The doctor said, looking at my birth canal.
"What?" I said, trying to sit up a little more.
"Nurse, get another cart ready. There's a third baby!" The doctor said, speaking to the nurse.
"Wait, WHAT? DID SHE JUST SAY THERE'S A THIRD BABY? YOU MEAN I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN? NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM, I'M SO GONNA KILL YOU!" I said as the doctor started to prep me. Again.
I Pushed the longest this time, almost 6 full minutes. I then took all the strength I had, and put it into a last, and final push. Then, There was a very small cry, as we all looked at the little mystery baby in the doctor's arms.
"Well? What is it? Boy or girl?" Harry said, finally speaking from his and hermione's place in the corner.
"Yeah Luna. Boy or girl?" Ginny said from somewhere beside me.
"Well?" I said, as the doctor looked at me and spoke.
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Cliff hanger! Oh no! Sorry it took me longer to update, but i'm kind of trying to juggle homework and family at the same time. So, forgive me. I haven't made up my mind on whether the baby is a boy or girl, so i'll let you decide. Send me a review with a boy's and a girl's name, and I'll use the names from the first person that sends me a review. Hurry! U need to continue this story and I can't without your help! REVIEW! - Nikki a.k.a.- twipotterfreak28
P.s.- I'm from louisiana, and we are not all rednecks. If you know what that means. And no! We do not all have cajun accents! kk!