Hey Lovelies! I'm soo sorry! I know it's been over a week, and I have no excuses except that life happens some times! Anyway this one is Andi and Cissa and a nice chat! This is titled Who I Am, like the Jessica Andrews song, because the Black family seems like one that always knows just who they are supposed to be anyway! Enjoy!

Chapter 11 – Who I Am

Mid-November saw the first snowfall of the season and Harry insisted on going to Andromeda's early that Saturday so that he could take the four and a half year old out to play in the snow. When they arrived in their usual style of not knocking and letting themselves in Harry started to second guess his decision to come early.

It was one thing to know that Kingsley and Andromeda were together. They had been for over a year now. But what they didn't realize was that he had practically moved in. Their sudden appearance in the front hall was expected by both Teddy and Andi, but the Minister, who was walking around in only a pair of sweatpants and his socks was not aware of the fact that the Potters never knocked.

Cissa was the first to speak, always the one with the most poise in an awkward situation, though she was doing her best not to laugh at the surprised look on the man's face. "Good morning Minister." She couldn't help the playful dig that using his title caused.

He was relatively flustered for a moment, but then he smiled back at her. "Good morning Lady Potter, Harry." He nodded to the younger man and turned over his shoulder. "Andi! Your sister is here!"

There was a scraping noise from the kitchen and then the sound of Teddy running down the hall towards his Aunt and Uncle. "Uncle Harry!" He launched himself at his uncle, at the same time that he morphed his features into the perfect blend of Harry and Cissa that he had mastered over the last year. "Can we go play in the snow?"

Teddy was more than a little excited about the abundance of the fluffy white mounds outside. The last winter was cold and rainy, and he had been too young to really appreciate it before then.

"Yes, Buddy." He looked up at Andi, who was frowning slightly at the idea, "But I think you might have to talk Grandma into it."

Teddy turned his version of Cissa's icy, blue eyes on his grandmother and gave her a look that he had seen his aunt use more than a few times to get her way. "What do you think Grandma? Can Uncle Harry and I go out and play?"

Andi tried to hide her grin as she shook her head. "Not unless you can convince Kingsley to go with you. I want to talk to Aunt Cissa by myself." She winked at the toddler and he wiggled his way out of Harry's arms to stand directly in front of Kingsley.

With the biggest puppy dog eyes Harry had ever seen the little boy looked up at the Minister of Magic. "Grandma says I can't go play in the snow unless you come too." He stuck out his bottom lip in a fake pout and all four adults did their best not to smile. "Will you please come play with me?"

Kingsley pretended to think it over and then he crouched down in front of the little boy. "You're going to have to let me put some other clothes on though. I think I might get pretty cold without a coat."

"Okay!" He started to break for the door but Kingsley caught him by the arm.

"Oh no you don't. You have to have snow clothes too. Come on, up to your room, I'm sure your Uncle will help you while I change." He looked at Harry who nodded and the three of them disappeared up the stairs.

Andi and Cissa were left chuckling in the front hall and the brunette took her baby sister by the arm. "Come on. The kettle is still hot I'll make us some tea and then heat some hot chocolate up for them. Teddy, and I dare say Harry, are going to want it."

"I have no doubt that he will gladly accept hot chocolate. He was trying to get Kreacher to make him some the other night, but he settled for coffee."

Andromeda laughed. "I can just see that argument happening."

"Yeah, it was incredibly entertaining. I laughed so hard I got the hiccups and I have to say, I forgot how bad those can hurt when you're six months pregnant."

"Yeah I'd imagine!" She thought back, "I don't think I remember ever having the hiccups when I was pregnant with Dora. Did you have them with Draco?"

The blonde nodded. "A few times actually, and then he would get them, which I think was worse. I'm glad this little one didn't get them last night." She rested her hand on her stomach just as the kettle whistled and Andromeda went to get it.

"Hey," Kingsley poked his head around the corner, "I just thought I'd let you know we were headed to the back yard." He looked at Cissa, "Harry seems even more excited than Teddy."

"He is. I wouldn't go out and stand in it with him while it was falling and I think it broke his heart for a minute."

The other two shook their heads chuckling at the thought and then Kingsley slipped out the back door. "He's good with him."

"Hmm?" Andi looked up from pouring her cup of tea. "I'm sorry?"

"Kingsley, he's really good with Teddy."

"He better be." She smiled and pulled something out of her pocket, sliding it across the table to Cissa.

She caught it under her hand and when she lifted her palm up off of it she smiled. "Did you steal this from his pocket, or did he ask?" She picked up the pretty platinum and diamond ring and held it up in front of her.

"He asked."

"And…?"

"And I said yes." The older sister blushed a little bit as she answered. "That's why he was here this morning. He last weekend, and he moved in yesterday."

"Oh Sweetie that's wonderful. I'm so happy for you!"

"Thank you." She took the ring back from her and slid it up her finger. "Teddy seems okay with it. He likes him living here, but I think he's too little to really understand what's going on."

"As long as he's okay with him being here all the time I don't think it's really going to matter all that much in the end." She chuckled to himself. "You just made the Minister of Magic a grandpa."

Andromeda laughed. "Yeah well, as long as I don't make him a father we should be alright. Could you imagine me having a baby younger than my grandson?"

"I'm not too far behind you. Draco and Hermione are getting married next month and I wouldn't be surprised if I have a grandbaby of my own that's close in age to my son."

Andi shook her head slowly, "I think they'll wait a couple years. Let it just be the two of them awhile longer. They'll have that little one to spoil, they won't need one of their own yet." She grinned at Cissa, "Unless you and Harry are thinking about more than one?"

Cissa shook her head. "Let's get this little guy here first."

"That wasn't a no…"

She looked down at what was left of her lap, hiding her smile. "We've talked about the possibility… Who knows, maybe, maybe not…"

"Look at me." Cissa raised those icy eyes to meet the warm brown ones across from her and Andi smiled. "You know. If he asks you for another one you'll do it."

"Like I said let's get this little man here first."

Andi shook her head but let it go. "Does he have a name yet? Last time I asked you guys still hadn't decided on one."

"He does. We settled on a name this week actually, but we aren't telling. We're going to wait until he gets here and tell everybody at once."

Andromeda nodded. "You have to uphold at least some of the Black family traditions right? No babies officially named until they are born, like dad always said, 'We had to see you girls before we knew whether or not we were right.'"

"Exactly." Cissa smiled at the reminder of her father. "That's not the only tradition we are keeping either." She raised her eyebrows at her sister over her cup.

"He agreed to that?"

"He did. There are some of the traditions that we both agreed to keep, and that is one of them."

"Just don't pick something that my poor nephew is going to get made fun of for his entire life."

Cissa rolled her eyes, "Says the woman that named her daughter Nymphadora."

"Nymphadora was better than Druella!"

"Druella is your middle name! And it's not that bad!"

"Says the girl that not only is prettier than the rest of us, but also got the pretty names." Andi shot back with a smirk.

"Andromeda is a very pretty name, and a strong one."

"Narcissa Elladora Potter. You got two of the prettiest names our parents could come up with, you don't get to make fun of my choices!"

"I wasn't!" She laughed, "I was merely suggesting that I understood where your daughter was coming from. None of us go by our full names all the time. None of the girls anyway, you had to know she was going to change it?"

"I did." The brunette conceded. "But it was a piece of you guys, a piece of my past, and I couldn't break tradition just because they blasted me off the tree. They never actually disowned me you know?"

"I know. Bella stopped that. She always thought that one day the three of us would find peace again." She paused and the silence weighed on them for a moment. "At least you and I got to be sisters again."

"We were always sisters. War just got in the way of that." She reached across and grabbed Cissa's hand. They sat there in the silence that had once again overtaken them until they heard the back door open.

"Grandma! Aunt Cissa! Come see the snow man we made!" Teddy came running into the kitchen leaving wet, muddy footprints in his wake.

"Teddy! Look at the floor!" Andi scolded the little boy as she scooped him up and Cissa whisked away the mess. "You should have taken your boots off at the door."

"Sorry…" He mumbled looking down. Then his head shot right back up and he swiveled in her arms to face his aunt, "Will you come see though?"

Both witches laughed and headed for the back door. "Of course little man." Andromeda looked over her shoulder at her sister. "We'll all go together."