Hey! Anyway, this is a chapter with a great deal of dialogue, so sorry for that. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter, I think you might find the scene with just Harry, Ginny and James quite cute.
Please excuse some grammar and spelling, I am also thinking of replacing older chapters so they make sense.
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Chapter 12 Life Goes On
"Can I help you, Mr Potter?" A nurse asked Harry in the reception area of St Mungos.
"Yes, I think you can. It's my wife, Ginny, she's due next week but her waters broke and I think she's in labour." Harry told her in a panicked voice.
"Okay, I'll get the porter to take her up. Mr Potter, why don't you contact your family of hers and notify them? Oh and stay calm, she'll be in good hands. Healer Chang will be tending to her." the nurse comforted Harry.
"Thank you, I will floo home and alert everyone." Harry rushed off to the fireplace after kissing the forehead of Ginny, "It'll be all ok, I'm going to tell your parents."
"Harry, what's happened, have you and Ginny split up?" Molly Weasley hugged her son in-law.
"Ginny's in labour, can you come to the hospital?" Harry told her.
"Sure love, I'll go and get the rest, you get back to Ginny" Mrs Weasley then shouted: "Arthur! We're about to have another grandchild, get downstairs!"
"Well I'll be going, see you there." Harry returned quickly to the fireplace.
"Harry you're just in time, she's quite far on." Cho told him.
"HARRY POTTER, get your puny little arse in this room, so I can hold your hand!" Ginny screamed.
"Are they always like that?" Harry asked Cho.
"Unfortunately, they're very hormonal!" Cho and Harry laughed.
"I MEAN IT POTTER, IF YOU DON'T GET HERE RIGHT NOW, THEN I'LL FILE FOR DIVORCE!"
Harry rushed over: "Ginny, cool it, I'm here." he said "I'm always here, just push, it'll be all ok!"
"Good, I feel like I'm having a boulder not a baby!" Ginny told him and Harry chuckled.
"Ginny, only you could joke about this, I'll just go and update the family." Harry kissed her hand "They're all here, that kid has a hell of a lot of aunts and uncles."
Harry walked out of the door: "She's nearly there and Cho said she's doing ok."
"Harry!" Hermione ran over to him, "You're about to be a father!"
"I know, and I'm not even 19 yet! Anyway, I'm going back in, Ginny's already trying to kill me!" Harry returned back to the room.
"Harry, we're ready for the final push!" Cho told him. He looked at his watch, half eleven at night, so much for a nice night in his own bed.
"Ok, Gin love; please just do this, the harder you push, the less time it will take." Harry stroked Ginny's hair. It was damp with the birth; her face was tear-stained and red.
"I know Harry, it's not as easy as you thi-" At that moment Ginny screamed in pain, and Harry could hear the tiny cry of his baby.
"Harry, you are a father to a healthy bouncing boy." Cho announced as she handed him in to his arms: "Why don't you take him to see your family, while I clean up Ginny?"
"Sounds like a plan, I'll be back in a minute." Harry left the room again.
"It's a boy, born four minutes ago." Harry said to the anxious and eager faces in the waiting room.
"Oh Harry! And exactly a year after the war!" Mrs Weasley and the rest of the family surrounded him, with some peeping over others to get a glance at his son.
"Harry, he's beautiful." Hermione admired the tiny child Harry was holding.
"Yeah, I know. Cho just used a spell to clean him up. Mrs Weasley, do you mind taking him for a moment? I wondered whether I could have a word with Ron and Hermione?"
"Sure Harry, you don't rush back mind, you've had a busy day." Mrs Weasley took the bundle from his arms and cooed at the baby's face.
"Guys, I wondered, well whether you would do Ginny and I the honours of being godparents?" Harry asked his two best friends.
"Harry we would love to!" Hermione said, "I mean, Ron and I are really grateful you chose us."
"Yeah Harry, I mean, you have definitely made the right choice." Ron patted his shoulder.
"Thanks guys, guess I should be getting back to Ginny." When the three friends returned to the waiting room, Harry took his son from Molly and went through to Ginny.
"Ginny, you look tired" Harry greeted his wife.
"Shut up, course I look tired. Now, give me my son!" Ginny demanded.
"Oh okay, here you go." Ginny took his son and wrapped him in her arms. Harry climbed onto the bed and put his arm around his wife.
"He looks like you." Ginny said quietly. She was right though, the baby was small and had tufts of jet black hair. His nose resembled his, although like all babies, his eyes were a cute baby blue.
"Yeah he does, I think he's already handsome." Harry agreed with his wife.
"Just like his father." Ginny smiled at the face. Tears were running down her face and Harry noticed he was crying.
"Gin, what's wrong?" He pulled her closer to him on the hospital bed.
"It's just that, well Harry we're still teenagers, I mean, can we really cope?" Ginny looked at Harry. He looked at her through his glasses and brushed his hair back with his hand. "Ginny, we may be teenagers, but no matter how old you are, I don't think parenting gets any easier. Plus, we're the only parents this little guy's got, and I want him to have the one thing I wanted more than ever when I was a child: a mother and a father."
"You're right, I love you Harry Potter." Harry grabbed his wife being careful of the baby and kissed her.
"I love you too Gin, now even though Baby is a highly appropriate name and it is quite cute, I think it might be better if we thought of a name for this guy." Harry smiled.
"Yeah, and I've been thinking of one, and I think it suits him." Ginny told him.
"Go on then, spill Gin." Harry replied.
"Well you might not like it but I do. What do you think of James?" Ginny asked her husband.
"James Potter. I think that is a fine name. But I have one more addition to it." Harry loved the name, after all, the boy Ginny was holding reminded him of his father.
"What?" Ginny asked.
"Well, if we are going to commemorate one marauder, we might as well add another. This little guy is called James Sirius Potter."
"Perfect." Harry slipped off the bed as Ginny spoke. She cradled James for a while, while Harry dozed off. Eventually she put James in the crib and slept.
Hope you enjoyed this, I wrote it while listening to Harry Potter in 99 seconds. Anyway, the next few chapters are just going to be Harry, Ginny and James while they get used to being a family. Oh, and even though there's tons on this website, I can't find a good fanfic to read! Please help and leave suggestions in my reviews!
Will update again soon, please review!
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