A/N: Ginny's P.O.V.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

It was Sunday dinner at the burrow, two years after the war. The entire Weasley clan and extended clan were sitting around the table chatting when a knock sounded on the door. Mum went to answer it. She greeted the person at the door and led them into the room. Andromeda Tonks entered, followed by her grandson. "Teddy why don't you go upstairs and play with Victoire and Uncle Bill?" Mum suggested. "Otay gwandmum Weasley."

She smiled at him. "Hey Andromeda." I greeted and the others followed suit. She smiled. "I hope I'm not intruding but I just found out something of extreme importance that concerns all of you." I frowned. "Urgent how?" Harry questioned. "Not a bad kind." He visibly relaxed and I squeezed his hand.

"I've been noticing things about Teddy lately. Certain mannerisms and such. I decided to take a look in the vault of things that Nymphadora left him and to my surprise I found a letter addressed to me in the middle of her vault. Naturally, I opened it. Perhaps I should read it to you." I scrunched my eyebrows together, not seeing how we had anything to do with this.

"Please go on Andromeda." Dad encouraged. She took a deep breath. "Dear Mum, if you're reading this now then that means I am gone. I'm so sorry for that and know that I didn't want to leave you or Teddy as I love you both very much. I know that you know that Remus and I did not love each other. He was still in love with Narcissa…"

There was a collective gasp. "Narcissa Malfoy?" Hermione questioned. She nodded and continued. "and I was still in love with Charlie." I smiled sadly at my older brother. I had known this; I was the only one he'd confided in. Although I knew Mum and Dad had known too.

"Well as you know he came back to England to help the Order and I went to see him one day. I told him that Remus and I weren't in love, that I still loved him. We talked a lot and talking led to other things, I'm sure you can understand what. Remus and I had only made love on our wedding day in order to ensure we would be properly married. When I found out I was pregnant a couple of months later both Remus and I realized he wasn't the father. Charlie is."

I gaped at her. Charlie's a dad! To Teddy! Charlie wordlessly gestured for her to go on. "His legal name isn't Edward Remus Lupin either, I registered him as Edward Charles Weasley. There are two more letters attached, one for Teddy when he's of age telling him how much I love him and one for Charlie explaining why I didn't tell him sooner. Please perform this spell on Teddy: metamorphigus retractus. It will show you what he actually looks like and prove this. Lots of love, Dora."

Andromeda pulled out a picture of a little boy with Auburn hair and grey eyes. He looked like the perfect mix of Tonks and Charlie. "I took this two days ago. This is what Teddy really looks like." I looked over at Charlie. He looked stunned and there were tears in his eyes. We sat in stunned silence until Ron, true to form, broke it. "But didn't Tonks have blue eyes? Charlie does too so shouldn't Teddy have blue eyes?"

"Nymphadora's eyes weren't blue." Charlies voice cut through the quiet at the table. It was the first thing he'd said after he found out. He pulled a picture of a gorgeous woman out of his wallet.

"She hid her looks because she learned early on that her looks pained her mother. She was the perfect mix of her aunts. She had straight black hair, a fair complexion, heavily lidded lashes and steel grey eyes. She hated the look of hurt and anger that would flash through her mother and father's eyes respectively so she changed her looks. Implemented more of her father's genes, turned her hair chestnut brown like her mothers. And then while we were at Hogwarts she went through a rebellious phase and the pink stuck. She never showed her real self to anyone after that. No one, that is, except me."

Tears were flowing down Andromeda and Charlie's faces, neither of them realizing they were there. He looked around at everyone for a moment. "I…I can't". He strode out the door. Mum stood up to go after him but Dad put his hand on her arm. "Let him be Molly." She nodded wearily. I stood. "I'll go." Dad nodded at me, his eyes conveying what his mouth wasn't. Help him Ginny.

I found Charlie under our old tree out back. It was where all of us went when we needed a refuge from the world. I placed my hand on his shoulder. "I just want to be alone for a little while Mum." "I'm not Mum." He turned around. "Gin? I thought for sure that Mum would have come barrelling out here." "Dad stopped her." I answered with a humourless smile. "Why?"

"Because she's not who you need right now. You don't need someone to tell you that you have to do the right thing and take care of him because he's your son. You need someone to understand that it hurts. That you loved her so deeply and now she's gone and all you can see in his eyes is her. And you remember how much it hurt her when her mother looked at her like that and you hate yourself even more. You need someone to understand that ten minutes ago you were just Charlie Weasley and now you're a father. You've only just started grieving, that this is the first time you've talked about her in years. But most of all you need someone to just be there for you. Someone to let you be weak for once in your life because if you don't let it out it'll only hurt worse."

He looked up at me. "I have a son." He whispered. My heart sank for him. "Oh Charlie." And then I was hugging him and my older, tougher brother was crying on my shoulder. I held on to him as he sobbed, whispering words of encouragement in his ear. I felt something warm drip down the side of my face and I realized that I was crying too. A while later, he pulled away and wiped his eyes. "Thanks Gin." I smiled. "Anytime." He threw his arm around my shoulder and walked back into the house.

Talking stopped the moment we entered the kitchen. I squeezed Charlie's hand and sat down next to Harry. He cleared his throat. "Sorry about that. It was a lot to take in. Teddy is my son and I will raise him and love him and take care of him. Nymph…" his voice broke. "Nymphadora and I bought a house together when we were seventeen and neither of us stopped paying the rent. I'm going to move there with Teddy, and Andromeda if you'll accept. Magical Menagerie is in need of a new owner and I've actually already taken that position. It's right beside your shop little bro, we'll be neighbours." His gaze fell on George.

George grinned. "The more the merrier. I can't promise not to prank you though." Charlie rolled his eyes. "And there is one more thing that I need to do". He turned to Harry and I. "Harry, you will still be godfather, it's what she wanted and I agree whole heartedly with that decision." Harry beamed at him. "And I'm making Gin his godmother." I beamed at him, tears threatening to fall. "I'd be honoured to."

"Nana?" A soft voice called. Teddy stood in the kitchen, looking exactly as he had in that photograph. "Yes love?" "Uncle Bill said that he was really my Uncle and that my Daddy is a Weasley. Is he here?" Charlie moved closer to the little boy as Andromeda nodded.

"Hey Teddy." Charlie spoke softly, so as not to scare him. Teddy tuned, his grey eyes widening. "Daddy?"