Epilogue

June seventeenth was a very important day for Hermione Granger-Weasley. Unfortunately, it wasn't important enough for her to have a day off from work.

"I brought you lunch," George appeared from the back room. "Figured you might be hungry and that lazy no good husband of yours is slacking."

"Thank you George, I don't think I'm the one who's actually hungry."

Hermione tried to scoot the stool as close to the counter as she could but the growing midsection of hers prevented it, and like most of her meals she was forced to hold the plate so she didn't drop anything off it onto her.

"Well, little George junior is growing very quickly."

"Don't be ridiculous, you know we're naming him Merlin."

The pair laughed as Hermione munched on the sandwich her brother in law had brought her. After she was finished Fred walked back into the shop.

"There's my beautiful wife! I have a gift for you."

"Is it food?" Fred shook his head no. "Then George is the better husband today, sorry."

"I brought you something much better." Out of the bag Fred pulled a lovely oak jewelry box. "I thought with all the jewelry you've been collecting it would be good to have a place to put it all." He also pulled out an envelope. "And this."

When Hermione opened it there were two pieces of paper inside. "Deeds?"

"Remember that house we were looking at in Hogsmeade when we found out you were pregnant?" Hermione nodded. "Well the price dropped and I bought it,"

"What's the second deed for?"

"The site in Hogsmeade that we are opening our new Weasley Wizard Wheeze's shop, and since you are now a Weasley and married to one of the founders of the lovely aforementioned shop, you get to co-own this particular store with me."

"This is a lovely surprise, thank you."

"We can start moving our things in as soon as possible, but you're not going to be touching anything so actually it's me and my brothers that will be doing the meaning."

Hermione smiled. "Can I at least see the place? I'd love to start changing the wall colors to the nursery."

When Hermione got to the house she instantly felt at home. Past the mud room the house opened up into a larger sitting room with a large fireplace, farther into the house was a large kitchen with a marble island piece and a connected dining room, there was a door in the sitting room that led to an office space that Fred would use for work. Upstairs there were three bedrooms: the master room where they would sleep which made a walk in closet and its own loo, a second bedroom which they would use for a nursery, and a third room which Fred had promised would be Hermione's own library.

They had agreed to bring most of Hermione's furniture since Fred didn't want to strand George without anything in the flat, but everything for the baby would be brand new. When Hermione walked into the empty room the white walls held promise. They didn't know whether they were having a boy or a girl so they pick an ambiguous color, the obvious choice was to go with red for Gryffindor but it seemed a bit too bold for a new baby so instead they chose a light green, seafoam it was called. The color looked great and they both liked it, so Hermione pointed her wand at each wall and muttered an incantation splashing the walls with color. The ceiling she made look like a calm night sky, the stars would always be out and the constellations would change according to the time of year, and every once in a while there would be a shooting star for the baby to watch zoom through the room.

It was perfect. At least up until the part where Hermione's water broke.

"Fred, I need to get the St. Mungos NOW!"

Within a few short minutes the pair was in the hospital and being taken up to the delivery ward. Fred shot a patronus to George who would tell the rest of the family, who would then make their way to the hospital and hover in the corridor.

Hermione was screaming in pain, the mediwitches were trying their best to ease it, but for some reason her labor was accelerated and there was no time for potions to dull it. She could hear Molly outside the door, frantic about her first grandchild and from what she would hear even Charlie made the trip out to see them.

Hours later Hermione finally was able to rest, the labor was over and she was a mum.

"Dad, do you want to cut the cord?" Fred raised his wand and gently sliced through the umbilical cord. "Congratulations you two, it's a girl."

After a few quiet moments together as a family, the rest of the Weasley's were allowed into the room. Racing over to the bed everyone congratulated Fred with a hug, Hermione with a kiss on the forehead, and the baby with a smile and soft touch on the cheek.

"She's beautiful," George was wiping tears out of his eyes. "What did you decide to name her?"

"Everyone, may I introduce our daughter: Persephone Grace Weasley."

"She's cooing so much Mione, do you think she's getting ready to start talking?"

"Merlin Gin, she's only six months old give it six more and then maybe she'll start saying her first words."

Persephone was bouncing on her mum's knee smiling out at Ginny who was making faces and tickling her tummy but it was the shine coming off of Aunt Ginny's brand new engagement ring that really got Persephone's attention.

A few months after the baby was born Harry finally proposed to Ginny and they planned a proper wedding with everyone in attendance the first time.

"I still can't believe Fred wanted to name your child after Percy, after all the times he made fun of him for being a prat."

"He did save Fred's life Gin." The clock chimed making Persephone giggle. Her spoon glinted as she watched daddy's spoon move from work, to travelling, and finally to home.

"Hello to my two favorite ladies, and Gin." Kissing his wife and daughter Fred made his way upstairs. "Mum's expecting us for dinner, it's Sunday and she's making toad in the hole!"

The little group made their way to the fireplace and flooed over to the Burrow where everyone was excited to play with the baby and help give Hermione a rest.

Weekly dinners were becoming more crowded as time went on, first the baby, then Charlie moved home permanently, then Angelina started joining, followed by Luna, and Charlie's new girlfriend Marisa after a few months. In the nicer weather the tables were just moved outside into the fresh air where there was enough room to move, but in the winter months and when it rained there wasn't much they could do.

"Why don't we just make an addition to the house for a bigger eating area? It gets us all out of mum's kitchen and enough room to eat together."

It took a few months, but Arthur, Bill, and Charlie all managed to build an add on. They kept the original dining room for smaller meals, but the room where the weekly dinner would be was just through a door and almost as large as the Great Hall. Dinners were less cramped after that.

One night, after putting Persephone to bed, Hermione and Fred laid wrapped in each other's arms happy for the peace and quiet.

"I can't believe we have a baby." Fred whispered into his wife's hair.

"I still can't believe we're actually married. I still think you tricked me."

"You didn't argue though, so you didn't mind too terribly."

"That you know of."

The banter was lovely, it wasn't something they got to do often anymore and with their wit they could have gone on all night.

"I love you so much Fred, I don't know what I would do without the two of you."

Her breathing evened out and she began mumbling incoherently, so Fred knew she was asleep. "I love you more each day, love."

After a few moments he followed her and slept soundly together, happier than they had ever been.

A/N: I have to say, I really like how this story turned out. And I couldn't really think of the female version of Percy so I just took the first feminine sounding name I could think of that even remotely resembled it. Please let me know what you thought!