Name: Marriage Law

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine. I'm pretty sure the idea isn't even mine.

Summary: The Ministry is now enforcing a Marriage Law. Anyone 15 and over is now given a spouse. Set after OoTP. Sirius lived. It'll be explained.

Notes: Harry defeated Voldemort in the fifth book instead of the seventh in this story. It is a trend in my stories. I need Sirius and Fred and Lupin and Tonks alive. It's just my thing. Ok, so this is going to be the last chapter of the story. I'll do a epilogue, skipping into the future to show you what happened, but I thought that this was a fitting way to end the story :) Thank you to all of my readers/reviewers/favoriters/alerters. You have helped me through this story and this weird ride 3

Pairing: (Main) Sirius/Ginny (Secondary) Ron/Hermione, Harry/Cho, Remus/Tonks

Christmas Break -

Christmas break. It not only meant that families would be getting back together and celebrating with new spouses, it also meant that Ginny would get to see Sirius again. She was happy, happier than she had ever been. She sat with her friends on the train, but it didn't feel the same as it had before. Hermione had Ron, Harry had Cho. Hell, Neville had Luna. And Ginny was alone. But not for long. Soon she would be back with Sirius. Back with her husband.

"Ginny? Earth to Ginny," Hermione said, tapping her best friend on the shoulder.

Ginny opened her eyes. She hadn't realized she had fallen asleep. She yawned and looked at Hermione, who was standing up and smiling down at her.

"We're here. Sirius and your mum are waiting on the platform. Come on," Hermione said, pulling on Ginny's arm.

"Calm down, calm down. I don't feel well, stop pulling on me," Ginny said, standing up and following Hermione out onto the platform. She smiled happily when she saw Sirius and wrapped him in a hug when she got to him.

"I missed you," she said.

"I missed you too. I invited your parents to Christmas at home. They're all rather excited. Charlie is coming up with Denise and Bill and Fleur will be there. I know you dislike her but she's happy to be here." Sirius smiled at her.

Ginny smiled back reluctantly, due to the new Fleur development and went to hug her mother. Molly kissed the top of her head in a motherly fashion and then began talking with Harry and Cho, giving her daughter time to get caught up with Sirius.

"I'm happy to have you home. Even if you do have to go back for two weeks," Sirius said, walking with Ginny towards the exit of the train station, her mother and friends close behind them, chatting happily.

"I don't want to go back all that much," Ginny said, sighing.

"But you have to. Education is an important thing, Ginny."

Ginny looked at him with a crooked smile. "Now you sound like my dad. And I don't like that at all. Not from my husband."

Sirius smiled back. "Fine then. But, you still have to go back."

Ginny sighed. "I know."

Molly busied herself in the kitchen, making preperations for tomorrow nights dinner. It was Christmas Eve and she wanted a head start concidering all the people she would be cooking , Hermione and all of Ginny's sister-in-laws where busy decorating the living room. Cho had dragged Harry away to her parents house for Christmas. Harry wasn't all that happy to be away from the Weasley's, who he concidered his family. But he went along, for Cho.

"So, Ginny, how was the honeymoon?" Katie asked, smiling.

"Wonderful," Ginny said, attempting to hang an ornament on a particularly high branch. She gave up and hung it lower.

"Are you two ever concidering having children?" Angelina asked, throwing tinsle at the tree. They were decorating in a muggle fashion this year, a shout out to Hermione, Penelope and Katie, who weren't spending Christmas with their muggle families.

Ginny dropped the glass angel she was about to hang up and everyone laughed. She blushed slightly and Fleur fixed the angel for her. "Um, maybe," Ginny answered.

"Quit interrogating her. She just got married not to long ago. We all did," Denise, Charlie's wife, said in Ginny's defense.

"We were just curious," Penelope said.

Ginny laughed and tugged on Hermione sweater. The smart witch looked at her and Ginny nodded toward the study, mouthing the words "We need to talk". Hermione nodded and the slipped away unnoticed.

Ginny locked the door behind them and looked at Hermione, who looked confused.

"What's going on? Is everything ok?" she asked.

"Yeah, yeah. Except that I missed my period," Ginny said, her face red and her breathing quick. She looked like she had just had a near death experience with the Night Bus.

Hermione clasped her hands over her mouth. "Did you take a test?" she asked.

"No! I didn't realize I was late until Angelina said that thing about kids. And then I remembered how sick and tired I've been and now I'm freaking out!"

Hermione walked over and put her hands on Ginny's shoulders. "Don't worry, Gin. We'll figure this out. I'm going to go out and buy you a muggle test, ok? They work, trust me."

Ginny nodded. Hermione smiled. "Just wait here. I'll be back soon."

True to her word Hermione was back in no less than fifteen minutes. She hurried Ginny upstairs and gave her the test, telling her what to do and assuring her that she would wait in the hallway. It took five minutes before Ginny came out, tears in her eyes and a plastic stick in her hand.

"It's a plus sign. I'm pregnant."

TBC... kinda