the_debt_of_time

"Aguamenti!" She aimed her wand at the bed and watched as the men jolted awake,
coughing and squirming in a tangle of limbs as they fought against her attack. "Get up, all
three of you!"
Sirius glared at her as he pushed his wet hair off of his face. "Go away, Evans."
"No." She approached the bed, smacking Sirius in the back of the head before
turning her glare toward Remus and James, who both looked painfully hungover. "You
are not the only ones who are sad, but you are the only ones drowning in it, and I will not
let my family be destroyed like this!"
"Lils.. ." James groaned, rubbing his forehead. "Can you at least find us a Sober-
Up Potion before you start screaming?"
"Sober-Up Potion?" she asked incredulously. "I'm pregnant, you idiot!
How's that work for a Sober-Up Potion?"
As it turned out, it worked quite well.
"You're... You're.. ." James stared at her with wide, red-rimmed eyes. "You're
pregnant? Are you...? Are you sure?"
Lily nodded, her anger dissipating as tears filled her eyes. "Alice and I did the charm
about an hour ago. She's pregnant, too." She stared at James, watching with butterflies in
her stomach as she waited for any reaction. When he jumped up from the bed and pulled
her into his arms, she let out the heaviest sigh of relief and then promptly began to cry.
"Not that I'm not thrilled, because I absolutely am," James said, smiling as he pulled
away from her, "but I thought you were on the potion?"
"We thought so, too," Alice said with a chuckle from the doorway. "Lily made a
three-month batch during her hen night. We must have had too much to drink and forgot
an ingredient."
"You were both in the Slug Club, though," Remus said, finally speaking after the
shock of Lily's news began to wear off. "I've seen Lily brew a Pepper-Up Potion in her
sleep. Literally." He smiled at the memory. "Are you—Wait, did you say you brewed the
potion at your hen night?"
"Yes. Why?" Alice asked.
Remus's eyes widened as he turned and stared at the witches' still-small stomachs.
"Oh, shit." When everyone turned and stared at him, he fumbled over his words. "Oh,