A/N: Yea! I love this chapter, even if it is kinda predictable (plus people already know the.... well, I must leave some surprises). R&R!!

Chapter 11: Victory

Molly hurried to her side, grabbing her elbow.

"Ez ok," said Fleur, looking strained, but her breathing evening out.

"Fleur how long?" asked Molly helping her daughter-in-law up out her chair to the guest Bill's old room on the first floor, the others following behind them.

"About three hours since zee pains began and now ze are every 5 minutes." Fleur lay back against the pillows and Bill pulled up a chair at her side, grabbing her hand. Molly shooed everyone else out of the room except for Ginny, who apparently was needed to help.

"I'll send Ginny with news," cried Molly to make everyone leave. All took their original spots in the living room and Harry pulled Teddy into his lap already thinking of Fleur as his sister-in-law giving birth to his niece. He was worried and felt like he needed Ginny next to him to calm him down. No one did that like her. He put his chin on Teddy's head. Across the room, Arthur looked worried.

"She is three weeks early," he said, wringing his hands. "I wondered why she looked like she was in pain every couple minutes earlier, but I figured it was the baby kicking. That little girl is going to be a fighter, I can tell."

"When was Fleur due?" asked Harry not really knowing that much about the actual birthing process.

"January 15," replied Minerva, looking up at the clock as Fleur yelped from the other room. "They are every three minutes now."

"What does that mean?" asked Harry, letting Teddy so the little boy could totter unstably across the room to Hagrid, his new favorite playmate. Teddy liked Hagrid's beard and big pockets which held all kinds of wonderful surprises. With each one Hagrid gave to Teddy, Teddy took it back to show Harry. "Wookit!" Teddy would cry with each little trinket.

"Well the closer a woman gets to giving birth, the closer together her contractions are, so Fleur is getting closer, but labor can go on for hours and hours; sometimes more than a day." All murmured conversations were cut short when Bill was suddenly pushed out of the room by Ginny and Molly.

"William Arthur Weasley!" cried Molly when he tried to turn back into the room. "She will be fine and doesn't need you there to protect her every minute of everyday. Let the poor girl give birth without you asking a question every five seconds!"

"But what if she needs me?" asked Bill, as Molly closed the door in his face, leaving Ginny and Bill in the hall.

"Then we will come get you." Said Ginny calmly, steering Bill onto loveseat with Harry. "Honestly Bill, she will be fine. We're going to put a Muffliato spell on the room so you guys don't have to hear what is going on and so we don't wake the neighbors. Harry, keep him here, ok? He really doesn't need to be in there with Fleur while she is going through this. If she is begging for him, we will come get him."

"What is going on with Fleur, Ginny?" asked her father.

"She is about 7 centimeters dilated, so it will probably be at least another hour. Sit tight everyone. Mum is trying to remember as many anti-pain spells as she can. Dad, you have any ideas?"

"Well the one I remember the medi-witches using the most was "Epiduium"; try that one."

"Thanks, Dad," replied Ginny and after throwing a wink over her shoulder at Harry, she went back into the bedroom. All of a sudden, the male Weasley population present turned on Harry.

"So, Harry?" asked George, smiling knowingly. "What is going on between you and my baby sister?"

Crap, thought Harry, I didn't have to deal with all of them last time, just Ron. Did Arthur and Molly even know that we were going out? Harry genuinely didn't know who knew that they had already gone out once.

"Um, so you know that me and Ginny were together in my sixth year-"

"What?!" cried Bill, Charlie, Percy and Arthur, rising from their seats. George looked like he was going to bust a gut trying to stop from laughing, as he was the only one who knew about the pair during their Hogwarts years. Charlie cracked his knuckles menacingly. Percy and Arthur simply glared and Bill crossed his arms, towering over Harry.

"Well, in my sixth year, Ginny and I went out for about three months before I broke up with her so that I could go hunt Horcruxes without her being attached to me. I swear, I only broke up with her for her own good! I didn't want her to get hurt."

Arthur and Percy sat down again. Harry took that as a promising sign and continued talking.

"Well right before we came here, we discussed our relationship and decided to be together, but not actually date until after the war." It was actually more serious than that, but Harry wasn't exactly in the position to tell them until he had Ginny to protect him. Bill and Charlie finally sat back down and Harry breathed a sigh of relief. Arthur looked as though he were about to start lecturing Harry when Ginny suddenly popped her head into the room.

"Fleur is ten centimeters!" she exclaimed, not noticing how her brothers were glaring at Harry. Harry noticed that she had taken off her gloves and saw her engagement ring completely exposed on her hand. His eyes widened at the sight of it and he noticed out of the corner of his eyes how Minerva choked on her tea when her eyes skimmed over Ginny's hands. Ginny noticed too and quickly folded her hands behind her, promising herself to take off the ring when she got back in Bill's bedroom. "Mum is having her start to push. Bill, I hope you have a name picked out for my niece!"

Ginny hurried back into the delivery room. Minerva suddenly got up and motioned for Harry to follow her as everyone started discussing names. Harry followed her, leaving Teddy with Hagrid. Once they were in the little used sitting room that had been the scene of the Scrimegour incident before his "seventh year".

"Potter," began McGonagall with her hands on her hips. "Was that an engagement ring on Ginerva's ring finger?"

"Yes ma'am." Replied Harry, confidently, looking her directly in the eye.

"And I assume you asked her to marry you?"

"Right again."

"And you did it out of love, not because of the war, or because you got her pregnant?"

"Yes," said Harry.

"And I am invited to the wedding, whenever it is?"

"Of course, professor."

McGonagall smiled through pressed lips, making Harry smile too.

"Good, then. Best of luck to the both of you. And Potter, it is good to see you again." Minerva left the room to rejoin the others as Harry realized that that was the first conversation he had had with his favorite teacher since the Battle of Hogwarts almost two years ago. Looking back, he wished he could have spoken with her more, gotten her advice, maybe even asked for a story or two about his parents. He still could, he guessed, but not now. From the other room, he heard Ginny cry out.

Racing back in, he saw Ginny jumping up and down and squealing, hugging every person closest to her. When her eyes lit on Harry, she all but jumped into his arms.

"She had it! Fleur had her baby! 7 pounds 13 ounces! A beautiful baby girl!" Ginny yelled loudly while Arthur pulled out the champagne, Percy put on some music and Hagrid blew trumpet-like into his hanker chief. Everyone rushed into Fleur's room and huddled around her as Molly handed the little baby girl to the new mother.

"There we are," she said, setting the baby in Fleur's arms as Harry got his first look at his future niece. The little girl had bouncy curly red hair and dainty features, even minutes after birth. Her small cheeks and rosebud lips were pink and her lavender eyelids were closed over her eyes. Fleur cooed softly to the tiny person while Bill looked shocked, reaching out and stroking the head of his daughter. All of a sudden, one of the baby's tiny hands reached out and grabbed Bill's finger, tightly keeping him in place. Bill gulped down a watery chuckle, looking at his family and closest friends.

"She's strong," he smiled as Teddy entered the room, led by curiousity. Harry watched closely as his godson went to Fleur's bedside and stood next to Bill, glancing between the new parents and the new baby. Bill smiled when he saw Teddy there and lifted him up to see the girl.

"Unca Bill, wha her name?" asked Teddy, wondering about the baby.

"That is your new friend, Victoire, Teddy," said Bill. "Her name means Victory."

"Hi Vikki!" cried Teddy reaching out towards his new playmate. Victoire's arms waved in front of her, towards the sound of the new voice, making people laugh.

"She likes her name s already!" cried Ginny, from Harry's side. Harry wrapped an arm around her and whispered in her ear.

"This is what I want with you someday," he murmured softly. "A family that we can call our own."

"I do too," whispered back Ginny, smiling. Her father waved his wand and glasses flew into everyone's hand.

"To Bill and Fleur! To Victoire, my first granddaughter!" he spoke, meaningfully, as everyone raised their glasses in the air. "To Victory!"

A/N: Victoire's name actually does mean victory in French and I thought it was appropriate in the current situation, even if it wasn't what JK intended. I will be working on future chapters tomorrow and should have another one up by Sunday. Watch out for it! Oh, and I am still debating sequel/no sequel and I need some hints. I can write up until Ginny gets on the inside, but after that, if you guys want a sequel, oyu have to tell me. I've gotten a couple reviews about, but you need to make your voices heard! I really want to write a sequel, but if no one will read it, then I don't see a point in writing it. Review button this way....

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