The last day of October started like any other for the Longbottom household. Alice waking up early to help the house-elves prepare breakfast, Frank being awoken by the smell of coffee and bacon, and little Neville being woken up by his mum right before breakfast was served. Breakfast was eaten while everyone was still in pajamas because with Neville being 3 months old, it is usually a messy time.
A few hours after breakfast Alice started to feel sick to her stomach, so she took a pepper up potion. By dinner she felt even worse, the potion did not affect her. Not knowing what to do, Frank floo called his mother to come watch Neville so he could take Alice to St. Mungos. While there the Medi Witch took several scans that showed nothing wrong.
"There is one last test that I can do if you think there is a possibility you could be pregnant" the Medi Witch began "because I have done scans for all illnesses and they have all came up negative. You are as healthy as can be Alice."
"Please do the test, we have been careful making sure we do the contraceptive charm, but sometimes it doesn't work, or we do forget" Frank replied while Alice nodded along. The Medi Witch just hums in response and does the test with a flick of her wand. Within seconds Alice is covered in a green mist, the positive result the Witch was sure was going to happen.
"Oh!" was all Alice could say. She was scared due to her secrete, but also very excited to have another child. "How far along? When will the child be born?" Alice couldn't help herself asking the questions. The one question on her mind she didn't want to know. For you see, her blood line is tainted. Her great grandfather wronged the Fae in some way and was cursed. The first-born girl of every generation will be born as a Fae. She will grow up with her family but when she turns 18, she must choose: join the Fae community or be stripped of her powers and live in the non-magical community for the rest of her life. Every member of Alice's family carries this curse and seeing as creatures are still seen as dangerous and dark Alice has kept this from Frank and his family. Her biggest fear possibly about to come true, since her older brother has passed from fighting in the war, he will not have the first-born daughter, so that would fall on Alice if this new child is a girl.
**FOUR MONTHS LATER**
February 1881 stars just as cold as the last few months, spring on the way but winter not wanting to let go just yet. Alice is four months into her pregnancy and soon to find out the gender. She was put on bed rest early into the pregnancy because the pain and morning sickness just wouldn't go away. She gave Neville his own personal House Elf, Sweets, who now takes care of him until Alice can again. Her own House Elf, Willow, is helping take of her and prepping everything for the medi witch to arrive. Today is the day she will find out the gender. To say she was scared would be an understatement, she was terrified. Alice has prayed to every god and goddess that would listen to make the child a boy so she would be able to have the child and not worry about their future.
The floo flairs to life and out steps two medi witches, one in a green top to signify she was the one in charge, one in purple to show she was in training. The one in purple steps us, "hello, I am Melody, and I will be preforming your exam today. This is Medi Witch Cheri, and she will be watching and making sure everything goes according to plan, she will also do the same test to make sure my results are correct. Do you have any questions before we begin?"
Alice shakes her head "no this is nothing new to me, I do have a 7-month-old already. It's a little sooner than I thought I would be having another test like this done though" she jokes trying to ease some of her tension.
Melody just giggles and prepares, looking over her notes and practiced the wand movement. "Okay if you are ready here we go," she says before preforming the charm. A light pink glow comes from Alice as she just looks on in horror, her worst fears confirmed. Medi Witch Cheri steps up "now I will be doing the same charm to make sure the results are the same, if not we will need you to come back to the hospital with us so we can do more scans and make sure everything is okay." She quickly does the cham with a practiced flick of her wand, and again a light pink glow comes from Alice.
