Six Years Later (2004) \\ The Beginning of Forever and Always \\ WICELA

Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J. K. Rowling. The only thing I own is the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies.

When Bill Weasley looked at his daughters, he could only smile. Victoire, four years old, and Dominique, two years old, were at the time the best of friends, but that wouldn't be for long. Just like he predicted, the two started fighting. Most girls with their age it ended in the youngest crying and the oldest being angry, but with his girls, Do always made Vicky cry.

"I HATE YOU!" Vicky said, with her arms crossed.

"Pfleuh!" Do said back.

"Daddy! Do is teasing me!" Vicky run to him the minute she realized he was standing there too. Bill laughed and raised the kid in his arms.

"Really? What did she do?"

"She…she…she slapped me!"

"Nooo, she didn't!"

"Yes, she did and I hate her!" The blond-haired girl cried a bit louder when they suddenly heard the sound of a big plop.

"IS THAT TEDDY?" She shouted immediately, knowingly that the plop meant that someone apparated into the house.

"Lemme go, lemme go dad!" Bill let her go and laughed when she was running into the house. Turning around, he saw the daughter who looked a lot more like him, standing there, watching him with curious eyes.

"No more hitting, Do, okay?" Do nodded, but Bill wasn't sure if she really understood him. Dominique had his red hair and the temper he inhered after the werewolf-attack. Thereby, Victoire was like a princess, so it wasn't really like she didn't deserve it. Do sat there at the beach, playing with the sand and Bill sat down next to her. Of course someone had to look after Do, but he liked it. It was so quiet, so peaceful seeing her.

"She's so big already, isn't she?" Andromeda Tonks — who, unlike her daughter, didn't want to be called Mrs. Tonks — was standing next to him, laughing.

"I was in doubt if I should bother you, but then I realized that between now and two seconds Teddy and Victoire will join Dominique to bother your peace." Bill grinned and stood up.

"You're probably right, unfortunately, but I'm touched." She laughed and winked at him.

"There they come!"

"So old already. Like you said, Do is big too. My little girls are four and two. Time flies…"

"Teddy is six and already asking the first questions about his parents. Harry told me when he heard the first one, he didn't know what to say. I said to him: 'The truth, obviously!' But it's harsh and can be so damaging for a little boy. Children are amazing and their innocence is what keeps them alive, but he and Nymphadora are so much alike. It's just so hard, I'm not only doing this without Dora, but also without Ted. I'm so glad to have you and Harry…" He hugged her and she smiled.

"After dinner he's supposed to go to Harry, it's his weekend."

"I remembered." Fleur joined them and laughed while she saw the children playing and fighting.

"See you soon!" Andromeda said and she plopped.

"George made a bet with Ron about Teddy and Victoire." Fleur told him, while watching Teddy hugging Victoire, after Dominique slapped her.

"Seriously and what does this bet contain?"

"Every now and zen zey put money in zeir betting pot when zey will get togezer. Ron thinks zat zey won't get togezer until Victoire's last year at 'ogwarts, while George thinks it will be in Teddy's last year."

"And what do you think of this?"

"I think it's cute. I mean, see zem playing zere…it's just really cute and Teddy is a good guy!" Bill snorted.

"You don't know that, he's bloody six years old, how is it able for him to not be cute?" She laughed and kissed him on the cheek.

"Don't be the worrying father already, it will be time for zat in ten years or zo."

"I bloody hope so!" Although that was the truth, Bill couldn't watch Teddy without being a little bit scared. He had heard of the betting pot before and he had laughed about it. It wasn't until now that he realized someday it could be actually true.

"Perhaps it's good zat George iz doing zis, Bill. 'e was zo much like 'is old-self when 'e said zat." It was like she red his mind.

"Do you think we moved on to quickly? With Victoire? Do you think it was right?" Fleur looked at the beach, while she was still thinking about it.

"I don't know. I mean, it iz two years after the war zat Victoire was born."

"And at that time George wasn't able to find, Ron and Hermione already in a mental breakdown and Harry drunk at a bar. The only ones moving on were we, Charlie, Percy and Ginny, I suppose."

"You are zeir example, Bill, and I think it's good what you did. You lived your life back zen and look at zem now! 'Arry isn't zat much drunk anymore, George 'as returned and Ron and Hermione…well, how are zey actually?"

"Dunno, still broken up I suppose. It's killing Ron, I know that. That girl is the love of his life, I'm sure of that, but I think they don't know how to live a life without being afraid of losing each other."

"Zey will be alright. If zey really are meant to be, zey will find each other eventually."

"Since when did you became so smart?" Bill laughed.

"'Ey, I'm a Triwizard Champion, remember!" Fleur laughed back.

Teddy was a good boy, Bill thought. He knew the day like yesterday when Andromeda invited Harry and Ginny and Fleur and him over. She had panicked because she was afraid she couldn't raise Teddy on her own. "If Ted was here, he could've helped me so much and we could be the best grandparents Teddy could ever wished for, but I can't do this on my own!" Nobody had ever seen a woman so much like Bellatrix Lestrange crying. For the first time in a while, Harry wasn't drunk and when he had looked at the little boy, he said: "Of course we won't let you do this on your own. We will help you in every way we can! I'm his godfather for Merlin's sake!" Andromeda had laughed and suddenly looked at Fleur. "It's because you're pregnant, that I called you two. I don't know if you would like to babysit Teddy for a while, but I thought it would be nice for Teddy to play with another kid." Fleur had tears in her eyes — partly because of her hormones, of course — and answered for both of them that they would be honored. "I think it's better if you two babysit Teddy more often than Harry and I. Harry, you are still to many times drunk and that's not a good influence. Maybe after some time, you can be the best godfather ever." They had left quickly after that, but they all knew Harry was dealing with this feeling of guilt. Soon after that meeting, Harry had stopped drinking and Teddy had actually helped him getting over it.

"Will there be a day that we will sit here and won't think about everything that happened in the war?"

"Well, perhaps after fifty years, when we're sitting 'ere, watching a bunch of little blue, purple and blond-'aired monsters playing with zeir little red-'aired cousins. We, old and grey, reminding Victoire and Teddy about the times we zat 'ere seeing playing zem like that. Perhaps zen?" Bill laughed.

"That sounds almost like Ron. After fifty years they will be fifty-six and fifty-four and if they're with little kids at that age, they must have done something completely wrong."

"Eulgh, it iz creepy to only imagine Vic fifty-four. I mean: I'm not even fifty-four!"

"Thank Merlin, you aren't!"

"Bill, you know, we will always 'ave each other, you know. No matter what."

"Yeah, I love you too."