When I awoke the next morning I lay in bed for a while, letting it sink in.

I had found Emily, I no longer had to continue running around the country. I could raise Teddy nearby, let him grow up with an aunt that loved him. He wouldn't have to face the press to see someone else that knew his parents, and he wouldn't have to see the biased gits that had helped kick us of of England to start with.

I smiled and rolled over, watching from my bed the form of Teddy sleeping beside his stuffed wolf. The animal looked more like Padfoot then I cared to think about, but Teddy had insisted on it once he saw it, crying until I bought it and gave it to him.

Slipping my feet from under the covers to the floor, I stood and walked over to the transfigured crib we had made for him. Teddy was sleeping on his stomach, the toy held by one hand while the other hand's thumb was fused to his mouth. I bent down beside the crib and stroked the back of his head, running the hair through my fingers.

He had grown up so fast. If only Remus or Tonks could see him now.

I blinked back the tears that were forming, swiping a hand to get them away.

One of my biggest regrets in the war was that I wasn't there for Teddy's birth or Tonk's pregnancy. I had been camping with Harry and Hermoine that year, and it was only when Ron came back that I found out that I was even going to have a baby brother. The news had us so happy, we celebrated for the entire night afterwards, even letting Ron come back without attacking him too much. Then we had slipped with the Taboo and we had payed the price.

I snapped out of my thoughts, fingering my left arm where the scars still stood red. It had been a cursed blade, so the message on Hermoine's and my arm could always be read. Bellatrix was sick that way.

A sudden whimper made me look down and scoop Teddy up. He sniffled into my shoulder, tiny tears rolling down his cheeks and into the fabric of my shirt and the wolf toy. "Hey, little guy. Did you have a bad dream? Aw." I shhed him and rocked him slightly. "Its all right now, okay? Its all right now." Once he was finished I grabbed the wolf and gave it to him, smiled as he started chattering to it, nightmare forgotten in the light of his old friend. "Come on, cub. Let's see if Aunt Emily is up yet."

I perched him on my hip, reset my glamors, and walked out of the bedroom, to down the hall where I remember Emily saying the kitchen was. Emily was in there, humming to the radio and stirring a bowel of something. When she saw me she smiled sadly.

"Do you know that I woke up thinking I had imagined you?" She laughed slightly but then quickly brightened. "Take a seat and talk. I'm afraid we don't have any food for toddlers." She frowned but I shook my head.

"It's okay. He can eat real people food as long as he just gets small portions. He finished teething almost a month ago. Didn't you, cub?" I held him up as I sat down so it looked like he was standing on my thighs. He giggled and waved the wolf at me. I kissed his nose and transfigured a highchair for him from one of the beads on my braclet. Harry had given it to me for my birthday once he found out that we were going to be leaving to travel. It had come in handy so much. "What can I do to help?" I asked Emily.

She got a box of pancake mix from the shelf and handed it to me. "Please make this and tell me whose kid Teddy is." I froze for a second before taking the box and working. We worked for a few minutes before I spoke up.

"Tonks finally convinced Remus to marry her around June two years ago. They had a beautiful wedding, it was in the forest outside of Tonk's house- just the two of them and family. Not even Harry knew about it before hand. Mind you, though, Siri's portrait sobbed through the whole thing. We kept thinking that the paint was going to smear, but it never did. They were going to go on their honeymoon once the war was over, so the wedding was basically it. Then we went our seperate ways and when we met up again Tonks had given birth to Teddy. A beautiful baby boy with beautiful blue hair." I said, smiling as I rmembered Tonk's brief complaint about thinking her baby was set to have blue hair. I looked up to see Emily smiling. Then she turned sad.

"Ali, not to pry or anything, but what happened? Give the public version if you must, but I have to know. Last I heard Dumbledore had died and Voldemort was taking over the Daily Proffet and The Quibbler. Hell, people thought crazy things for a while. Not even the radio was much help after a while. Fred's broadcast became more and more vague and then he started moving the stations and I couldn't find him again. Not to mention I had to try to find it when no one was around. Only Leah and Sam could help me, and with Sam away for a meeting and Leah constantly moody, it doesn't leave many options. What happened over there, Ali?" Emily asked. I swallowed and looked away from her.

"That's a loaded question, Emily. Are you sure you want to know?" I asked her. She nodded and looked secoonds from begging.

"I don't know if I want to, but I know that I need to. I was going crazy being so far away during the war and now that's its over, I'm going crazy not knowing what happened." She said. I nodded, not noticing my hand was slowing as I thought back.

"After Dumbledore died it was chaos. The funeral was rushed so everone could make it. After it Ron, Hermoine and I were talking about what we were going to do." I began. "Then, Harry came over and told us that he had dumped Ginny. When we asked why he just told us that where things were going, dating the Boy-Who-Lived could be dangerous or even deadly. Then he told us that before he died, Dombledore left him a mission, and he understood if we didn't want to help him with it. Well, we told him that he was talking nonsence and we all said we would help him. Harry said that Voldemort had split his soul into seven peices, and that he had already destroyed one of them, but he had to destroy the rest of them before anyone could kill Voldemort.

"We spent the next summer getting ready, but we couldn't tell anyone about our mission or that we weren't going to Hogwarts in the fall. Everytime someone said something about the future we had to smile and make plans for a future that wasn't going to happen. At Bill and Fleur's wedding," I paused before continuing. "At their wedding, the death eaters attacked. We ran off, going to Siruis's old house. We spent a while there before raiding the ministry, and then we had to camp out in the woods, moving periodically. Then Ron and Harry got into a fight because we were so unprepared and Ron left!

"You got to understand, Emily, we didn't have food or heat. Most nights we were hungry and that got us cranky. Not to mention the Horcrox that we did have turned us all against each other by convincing us of our deepest fears. We couldn't go anywhere because the muggles were convinced that we were criminals, and the magical towns that we might have been welcomed in were swarming with Death Eaters and dementors. The invibality cloak was too small for the four of us, and the Horcrox made sure that none of us could go alone. Then if we used magic we could be caught and changing our apperances hardly worked becuase most of the time enchanment revealiers were placed by Death Eaters in towns.

"Then Ron came back and we got somewhere. We found the sword of Gryffandor and started killing Horcroxes, but we were caught by... well we were caught. They took us to the manor and we got out by luck and Dobby.

"After that it was easy, we raided Gringots, stole a dragon, and escaped to Hogwarts. Once there we had a battle, and well the rest is there. Harry died once more, rose from the grave and killed Voldemort with a simple Expelliamous." I paused. "Em, you have no idea how scary it as to see Hagrid holding Harry. We all thought he was dead, and that meant that not only would we lose our friend, but also the only hope in the war. It was jsut so scary, then he popped back up and we thought we were going to lose him again as he faced off Voldemort, but he managed to survive that too."

We sat in silence for a while before I forced myself to tell the rest of the story. "Then we walked inside, and I saw both Remus and Tonks there, hoding hands even in death. Colin Creevy, the two of them, Sean Michals, Snape, all just... dead. George wouldn't let Fred out of his sight for weeks, not that I blame him. Fred died and then came back. His first words were his new prank idea.

"Then the history books were written and life was forced to go on. I got Teddy and we tried to settle down, got disowned from the family, and got harassed by Rita Seeker and her minions. After that I traveled with Teddy." I told her, she sighed.

"And after all of that, the Golden Trio, never changed their name once." She shook her head. I laughed slightly.

"These things take time, Emily. The ministry finally recognizes werewolves as people rather than animals, lets move slowly into them respecting me too." I smiled.

"I would not have the same patience as you." She said, and I laughed.

"I know. I remember a certain someone telling Hermoine that she should just strip infront of Ron while having her chest read that they would get married." I teased.

"Well it would have gotten them together." Emily laughed. "Besides, Ginny was all for it as well. She just didn't want to be in the room while she did it. She was going to be in the other room doing it for Harry." I laughed at that and just like that we were back to were we had left in school, all thoughts of the war forgotten.