Yet another one written for a drabble challenge at sorting(underscore)(underscore)hat on livejournal. The requirements were: 250 words and the words coke, thestral, green, and broken. Set post-Hogwarts and post-war. References to character death. Neville/Luna.

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Sitting on his back deck, in America, Neville Longbottom watches his children—three beautiful little girls that look everything like Luna and hardly like him—running and playing tag. It has been twelve years since the war against Voldemort ended, since his classmates sacrificed themselves to defeat Him. Thinking of Harry and Ginny makes him sigh as he sips from his coke.

Despite the distance and time that separate him from his native land and youth, he can remember the times he shared with his friends now departed. He remembers stuttering as he asked Ginny to the Yule Ball after Hermione had turned him down in his fourth year. Wincing, he recalls spending most of the evening stepping on her feet because he was nervous and she looked so pretty. He knows he had fun that night, even if she had spent half of it staring at Harry in his bottle green robes.

From his fifth year, he remembers the thestral ride to the Department of Mysteries, the ensuing skirmish, and his broken nose. This leads him to think of Bellatrix Lestrange. He scowls and thinks of her fate; killed in one of the many battles at Hogwarts. Killed at his hands. The only life he’d ever taken.

After it was all said and done, mass memorials held, he had worked up the courage to propose to Luna. She surprised him by saying yes. When she was pregnant with Elaine, their first, they’d decided to leave Britain and start anew.