A/N I'm sorry for my very late update, I just got very addicted to challenges which I haven't posted yet. This story is coming to a close so hopefully you'll read my other stories.

Disclaimer: I do not reside in Edinburgh so anything you recognize is not mine.


I walk down the stairs to see Teddy curled up in Hermione's arms as she's reading to him.

"Funny, I though you'd read him Hogwarts, A History first," I tease.

"Ha-ha, very funny. No I think that The Faraway Tree is a good start, it was the first book I read."

"I see. Well sorry to cut you're reading time but we should really go to The Burrow."

"I don't really want to."

"Why not?"

"Because they're all apposed to sex before marriage, but 'they' I mean Molly."

"Well we'll have to face them some time."

"Ok."


Hermione walks through with me holding Teddy right behind her. We smile at everyone and take the last two seats and place Teddy in his high chair. Molly take Hermione into the next room and the table falls quiet. Fred and George pull out 10 extendable ears.

"Mrs. Weasley I understand your concerns but trust me everything is fine," we hear Hermione whisper.

"Hermione, please, call me Molly or mum. I'm just trying to make sure that you aren't being pushed into things dear."

"Please, do you really think that anyone would be able to push me around in a relationship. Lets be realistic here, I'm very stubborn. If I don't want to do something I won't and I think I know enough spells and jinxes to keep people out of my pants if and when I wish."

"Hermione dear, I'm just trying to look out for you. Sex is a very big deal I don't want you just going around."

"I'm not going to 'just go around' it was with Remus."

"Your first time and you couldn't wait till marriage?"

"Remus wasn't my first Molly."

We hear Molly gasp.

"So, should I leave or should I stay?"

"Stay Hermione. I said I accepted you together and I do."

We quickly put away the extendable ears and act like we haven't been listening the hole time.

"We knew you were listening."

"Hermione, why do you think the worst?" George says taking offence.

"Because I spotted the ends of the ears."

We all stare at our feet.

"I don't care, really."


Molly and Arthur are sitting in one couch, Harry and Ron are playing chess on the floor while Ginny watches, Bill and Fleur are curled up on another seat and Fred and George are talking quietly in the corner. I'm sitting on a chair waiting for Hermione to get back form changing Teddy. I get up and walk into the hallway.

"Teddy, could you just stay still for a moment please?" I hear Hermione asking with a cheerful voice.

I keep watching my girlfriend and my six month old son and what I hear next astonishes me.

"Da," I hear Teddy say.

"Teddy! You just said your first word oh-oh, can you say it again?"

"Da!" he says happily.

"Oh, where's your dad, lets go and get him."

"No need Mione."

"Da! Da!"

We both stand there, proud. Hermione finishes changing him and gives him to me.

"Da, Da. M-mi, Ma! Ma!"

"Did he just call me ma?"

"Yes Mione."

"Oh Teddy, sweetie now I'm Mione not your mum."

"Hermione, please you may as well be his mum. You treat him like he is yours so you deserve the title, at least a hole lot more than Dora does."

"Ok, but only if you're sure?"

"Trust me Mione. I'd love for him to call you-"

"Ma! Ma!"


After a few hours we decided it was our time to leave. We only stayed so that Molly could coo over Teddy and his ability to now speak. We bid everyone goodbye and apparated home and put Teddy into his cot as he was fast asleep.

"Remus?" Hermione called once we'd made it downstairs.

"Yes love?"

"Do you love me?"

"That seems like a silly question but yes, of course I love you. Why?"

"I just needed to make sure you felt it too."

"What the love or the something more?"

"The something more, you feel it too?"

"Of course which is why I want to do this."

I bent down on one knee and took her hand.

"I owled your brothers to make sure they would support us and they did so. Hermione Jean Tulip Granger will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?"

Hermione giggled a bit and thought to herself 'Always the proper way, Remus' noting the uncertainty in Remus' eyes she answered, "Yes! A thousand times yes!"

I put the ring I had chosen on her ring finger. It was a Aquamarine set in white gold with a small diamond to each side of the aquamarine. Aquamarine is Hermione's favourite colour. I picked Hermione up in my arms and gave her a very passionate kiss.

"I love you Hermione."

A/N I'm not very good at endings sorry. Just the epilogue left which shouldn't take me very long as it won't be very long. To see the ring go to:
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