Written for The Game of Life Challenge and The Pregnancy Challenge/Competition.

Daphne sighed as she watched the wave's crash onto the beach. Though her gaze was on those waves as they seemed to be in a one-sided fight with the sand, her mind was elsewhere. Specifically on Ron Weasley, a man who Daphne pretended that she didn't care about at all and she could almost make herself believe that.

"What are you doing here, Greengrass?" he asked, as they found themselves sitting next to each other at the same crowded bar in downtown Muggle London. After the war, she had gotten an apartment here, a job at the local bookstore, and was going to pay for her own education as soon as she earned enough and got the necessary diploma to go to a Muggle university.

Daphne was not the Slytherin daughter her parent's had wanted. That was Astoria. She had tried, of course, forcing herself to be around Pansy Parkinson and her gang for years before she broke herself free. She was still a Slytherin however, and she still had her pride. It had gotten her everything she had so far.

"I live here," she said, affecting some arrogance into her voice. She lost it as she continued, "I'm trying to prove my parent's wrong." She said it so softly, she was just as surprised that Weasley had heard her as the fact that she had said it at all.

Daphne was not one to say whatever she was thinking, and she was not one to let anyone know anything about her.

"Really?" he said, a shocked laugh clearly heard in his voice. "I never would have thought that."

"Why not?" she asked, challenging him. "What makes you think that you know me?"

Every other interaction Daphne had ever had with the Weasley boy was nothing more than having to sit next to each other for a class or stand next to each other in a line. Honestly, she was surprised that he knew who she was. But Weasley was one of the most popular boy's at Hogwarts, as well as a Gyrffindor, and so Daphne had noticed enough about him where she could honestly say that one of Ron Weasley's character traits was a "huge temper".

So she waited for the sputtering, the narrowed eyes, and the accusations of how she was a Slytherin and how she wasn't perfect, so that automatically meant that she was a Death Eater in training, despite the fact that she, along with Theodore, Tracey, and Blaise, had fought in the Battle of Hogwart's, just like Weasley and all his friends. They were the only Slytherin's who had.

She was surprised when all he did was smile softly and nod. "Nothing," he said. "I don't know anything about you at all."

For a minute, they sat in silence and sipped on their drinks, as they tried to think of what to say.

Finally, Ron just stated talking. "My name is Ron Weasley, my best friends are Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, I'm an Auror, but I'm seriously debating quitting to help my brother George run his joke shop. I've never told anyone that last one before," a sheepish smile on his lips as he told her that last line.

Daphne gazed at him with wide eyes as she tried to comprehend what just happened.

Ron Weasley, who hated Slytherins, had just told her something that he had never told anyone before because she had a good point.

Daphne was now almost positive she had died at the Battle of Hogwarts and that this was just some sort of heaven.

It was a very odd heaven.

"My name is Daphne Greengrass, my best friend is Theodore Nott, and I'm studying to get my diploma to get into a university and to get an English degree," Daphne said, the smile echoed on her face. She held out her hand and Ron took it.

"Nice to meet you."

Daphne stood up and walked towards the water, letting it lap her toes. Her brown hair, though tied in a messy ponytail, was blowing in the wind. Her forest green eyes stared straight ahead, just waiting for Ron to come.

After only a few more minutes, he Apparated to her spot.

"You wanted to see me?" he asked, his voice low and it sent shivers down her spine. She didn't turn to look at him.

"Yeah," she responded.

"Why?" he asked.

Daphne took a deep sigh. "A few days ago, I was in Diagon Alley, just looking at some items. You know that I can't afford anything. Getting drinks at the bar a month ago nearly wiped me out, and you paid for most of them."

The fact that he also paid for the hotel room they went to after they left, too drunk to Apparate and the bar not being connected to the Floo Network, was left unsaid.

As well as the acts they did in it.

"I was looking at this rather nice Remembrall, and it clouded over. So I thought all day about what I could be forgetting, and then it hit me.

"I was late."

She let that linger, and it took Ron a minute to take in it she assumed. She knew it took her longer. He made a few choking noises before he finally managed to get out, "Are you . . .?"

"Yes. I did the spell, and I went to a doctor. I didn't need them to tell me, but they told me how far along I was. A month. It's been a month since we had sex, and believe me when I say you are the only man I've been with."

She hadn't told him that when they had been together, but she knew that he had figured it out, just like she figured out she was his first.

"I don't doubt you," he said. She felt him right behind her, and wondered that if she leaned back, he would let her lean on his chest.

"I want to be there," he said. Daphne closed her eyes. "That is, if you want to keep it. If you don't, I'll pay. I know you don't have much."

Daphne wondered what he would do if she turned around and kissed him. She wondered what he would do if she broke into tears.

"I want to keep it. I know there are many reasons I shouldn't, but I do. And I want you to be there."

"Okay," he said. She was so glad for him in this moment, so glad for his acceptance for what she wanted.

"Do you want to get something to eat?" Ron continued speaking, hopefully to stop this awkward moment. They were now forever tied with this child, so Daphne knew that they needed to figure out how to act around each other.

Daphne smiled, tears in her eyes, and nodded. "You know what? I have a craving for blueberry pie."

Ron laughed.

I'm really developing a soft spot for this pairing, and I hope you guys are too. :)