I used the apparition point to get to his house, and walked up the driveway. I could hear loud music coming from the living room, it sounded like The Weird Sisters. I knocked on the door, really loudly. After no response, I crawled through a bush and got to the open window. Al sat on the couch, a book in his hand. "Al!" I shouted.

He jumped up, looking for the sound of my voice. He finally found it. "Sadie!" he said, running towards me. "What are you doing outside?"

"The door's locked and I can't get in." I told him, laughing. He got it, and ran toward the door. I went inside, and put down my stuff.

"How's Lily?" he asked.

"She's doing okay." I said. "Where's Jay and Teddy?"

"Outside flying." he said. He led me outside, and they were in the back field, darting back and forth towards the ball. When they saw me coming, they both got to the ground. Jay started running towards me.

"Is Lily okay?" he asked.

"She's going to be fine." I told him. Teddy reached me before Jay.

"When will she be home?" He asked, looking really concerned.

"Hopefully, in about an hour and a half. They're just waiting for one more test." I said. "Have you guys eaten lunch?"

They all shook their heads.

"Have you guys eaten breakfast?"

"Chocolate frogs..." Al said. "And some Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans."

"I had a scrambled egg flavored one, that's breakfast, right?" Jay asked.

I grinned and laughed. "I'm not quite sure your father would consider that much of a breakfast." I told them. "Why don't we go inside and get you something to eat?"

They followed me in. The Weird Sisters were still blaring away, and I lowered the volume. "Really, Al?" I asked. "The Weird Sisters?"

He shrugged, and smiled. "Just their old stuff. Their new stuff's all weird." he said. "These records belonged to Papa when he was younger."

"Did they now?" I asked. "Teddy, will you help me make lunch?"

He nodded and came into the kitchen. "What are you making?"

"I don't know what you've got in the house. What do you usually do for lunch?" I asked.

"Usually there are enough left overs from dinner to heat up." he told me. "But last night none of the left overs got put away because Lily had her seizure."

"Oh."

"There's... I don't know, actually. I think Harry should have gone grocery shopping a few days ago." he mumbled. I opened the pantry, and he was right. There were a few boxes of pasta and some canned veggies. I looked through the veggies and found some tomato sauce.

"Pasta and sauce okay?" I asked.

He shrugged. I was getting bad vibes off of him.

"Can you set some water to boil?"

"Fine."

I sighed. I felt like we were in a bad spot. "Teddy, what exactly is it that you don't like about me?" I asked. I think the deliriousness that came with being exhausted made me ask. "I just want to know."

He was quiet, and I thought he might bolt. But he didn't. "He doesn't need you." he said. "He was fine before he had you."

"But he's happy now."

"He wasn't unhappy before." he pointed out.

"I'm not going to steal him from you guys." I told him. "If that's what you're worried about."

"I don't want to talk about it." he said.

"I just... I don't want you to dislike me." I admitted. He sighed, but didn't say anything. I wouldn't push him anymore today.

When the food was ready, I served it to them, then did a few things to tidy up, and set the dishes to wash in the sink. There was a knock on the door, and Teddy went to get it. I heard him talking to a woman, and went into the hall. Molly stood there.

My stomach dropped a little. I wasn't prepared to meet her. I knew she might judge me. My hair was a little dirty, and my clothing was gross. I wished I could run home and shower but she had seen me now.

"Grandma!" Al said, running in and giving her a hug.

"Hello, Al, how are you?"

"I'm well." Jay came in and hugged her as well. She looked up at me.

"Hello." I said.

"Sadie, right?"

I nodded. "Yes."

She came into the kitchen. I was glad that I had tidied up. She handed me a plate of cookies, and they were still warm. "Ginny just told me that Lily was in the hospital." she said. "Or I would have been here sooner."

"It's okay." I said. "I've just made them some lunch and cleaned up a little. They should be home anytime, now. They just had to do one more test."

She nodded, and started doing the dishes by hand. This simple act made me feel useless- I had it under control, but she had taken over. I felt powerless now.

"You're a Healer, right?" she asked. I wondered if Ginny had talked about me.

"Yes." I said. "I'm a pediatric Healer."

"Did you treat Lily?"

"Last time she was in the hospital. But not this time- you're not allowed to when you have a close relationship with a patient. But I stayed over night with them."

"That was nice of you."

I just nodded.

"Is Lily going to be okay?" she asked, scrubbing pasta off a plate.

"She should be fine." I said. "She felt okay when I asked her this morning- her muscles are just a little sore, which is pretty normal. And my supervisor is working on her case, and she's a really fine Healer. She's in good hands."

"Good."

A somewhat awkward silence settled in. I didn't know what to do. I knew if I left the kitchen, I really would be surrendering any power over the household to Molly. Finally, thank god, Harry came in the door, carrying Lily. Molly shut off the water and ran towards them, fussing over Lily. She picked her out of his arms, and brought her upstairs. I watched him greet the boys, and went back to washing the dishes. I washed them by hand now.

Finally, he came in, and wrapped his arms around my waist, and putting his chin on my shoulder. "Hi." he murmured to me. "Why are you doing dishes by hand? You do have a wand."

I sighed. "I was doing them with magic, but someone came in and started doing them by hand." I said quietly.

"Ah." he said, nuzzling my neck. "Was she mean to you?"

"No." I said. "Why?"

"She can be over protective."

"She intimidates me, but she's not mean." I told him. "I'm so tired."

"How long have you been awake?"

"I don't even know what day it is." I admitted. "Since yesterday morning, I think, with like, three hours of sleep last night. Maybe."

"Why don't you go lay down in my bed?" he asked. "I'll take care of Molly, Lily's going to take a nap. The boys are all set."

I just nodded, and leaned up to kiss him. I walked upstairs, slumping down in his bed. I don't think my head even hit the pillow before I was overcome with sleep.

I woke up a little later, to him crawling into bed with me. "Hello." he said, and I heard the clink of his glasses onto the bedside table.

"How long did I sleep?" I asked.

"An hour or so..." he said. "You need more sleep."

"Yeah." I mumbled. "Molly's gone?"

"Mmhm..." he muttered, speaking to my neck. "She took the boys with her."

"Good." I said. We were both too exhausted to sleep, but also to stay awake. I shut my eyes and rested my head on his shoulder. "Lily's asleep?"

"Yeah." I was about to fall asleep, but he sat up. The sudden movement made my eyes shoot open. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"Who was that man you were with this morning?"

"What?" I asked, confused.

"The man you were with at the hospital- tall, blonde hair."

"Keith?" I asked, rubbing my eyes.

"Maybe." he said. "He had Healer robes on."

"That's Keith." I told him. "He's training me. Are you jealous?" I sat up and looked at him. He just shrugged, and looked away from me. "Don't be jealous."

"M'not." he said.

"Yes you are." I poked him in the stomach and he jumped. "He's my trainer, for chrissakes."

He just shrugged. I leaned in and kissed him. "I'm sorry." he said. "I think I'm just too tired."

"Please, please don't be jealous." I begged. "It's so not worth it."

He agreed, and drifted off to sleep for awhile. I did too, but never letting myself fall too deeply asleep so I would be able to sleep later. He shot out of bed. "What's wrong?" I asked. He had to stop doing that.

"I'm late for a meeting. I've got a meeting with people at Witch Weekly to try to stop the article." he said.

I nodded. "Alright." I told him. I rolled back over as he put pants on, and slept a little more. He was still gone about forty minutes later when I got out of bed. I checked on Lily, who was still asleep. I had never been in her bedroom before. I wanted to always leave them some privacy.

I went down and sat on the couch, waiting for Harry. I was starving, but knew he probably was too. Plus there was no food in the house, other than another box of pasta, but there was nothing to put on it. I turned on the telly and watched that for awhile. Finally, he was home.

"Hey." he said. "Sorry it took me so long. I brought food, though."

I took the bag of food from The Leaky Cauldron and took it to the kitchen to put on plates. He went upstairs and woke up Lily, so she could come eat dinner. I put it all on plates and brought it into the living room.

She looked so tired, as he carried her down the stairs. "Hi, Sadie." she said, her little head leaning against my side.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

"Sleepy..." she mumbled. Harry managed to get some beef into her before she said she was full and fell asleep on his lap.

"How did the meeting go?" I asked. I couldn't really get a reading on his emotions- he didn't seem particularly angry or happy.

He sighed. "Well." he started.

"This can't be good."

He shrugged. "I'm just a little aggravated. The editor I talked to... she was pretty honest about it." he said. "Rita Skeeter has been in charge of the whole article, and she did quote me a price for me to get her not to run it this week. However, there's the dilemma that the article doesn't truly belong to Witch Weekly yet. And Rita works as a freelance- she has no contracts with them. So if I pay them off not to say anything, then there's no guarantee she won't just talk it to another magazine and publish it there- then she also has the information that I've paid out Witch Weekly and will add that into the article."

I hated this woman, but I took a deep breath, exhaling deeply. "Do you know what the article says?" I asked.

"No idea." he said. "I wish I knew."

"I mean..." I tried to gather what I was trying to say. "Pretty much everyone important to us knows about us now, right?"

"Yes." he said.

"So no one that we personally know will be affected by the article." I said. "Unless they somehow found out about the pregnancy."

"Could they?" he asked, rubbing his face. His face was getting stubble-y and gross. "I mean, who knew about it?"

"Cor." I said. "And my parents, and my sister."

"And me." he said. "I didn't tell anyone."

"And the Healer." I told him. "But she wouldn't tell anyone because she's a Healer. And she has no idea I'm dating you."

He nodded. "So I don't think they could have gotten ahold of that." I said, thinking.

"Cor wouldn't talk to anyone?" he asked. "You're sure?"

"Positive. She would never."

I was thinking about it- it wasn't something she would do. "Okay."

"How much was it to pay off the article?"

"A lot." he admitted. "They're seeing this as one of the biggest articles ever."

"Wow." I nodded, a little amazed. Why did people really care that much about our private lives? This absolutely stunned me. We were just people, and Witch Weekly was a very popular magazine.

"They said it might even get more circulation than the issue about my first wedding." he told me.

"I never saw that." I said.

"I've got it in the office if you want to take a look at it later." he said. "But it was pretty big. I can teach you how to do some basic glamor charms for when you go out in public and don't want to be... well, drawn attention to."

"How much, really?" I was curious.

"Well, he mentioned somewhere in the 1500 to 2000 galleon range."

My jaw absolutely fell to the floor. That was a ton of money. "Cor's and my flat is about a hundred and ten galleons a month- that's almost two years of rent!" I said.

"And you have an expensive flat- they're much cheaper further down the alley." he said. "I know- it's crazy."

It was even crazier that he could probably pay it. That was a little less than about half my yearly salary. I just shook my head, completely in disbelief. "I can't even understand that."

"Yeah..." he brought Lily upstairs, and put her back in bed, then came back downstairs. I was getting tired again.

"Are the boys staying over with Molly?"

"Yes." he said. "They are."

"Can I stay here?" I asked. "Or would that be weird for Lily?"

"I don't think she'll notice." he said. "Plus, I don't think it'd be weird. She's very fond of you."

I nodded.

"And Teddy's got a few of his mates coming over on Friday night."

"So does that mean you want me to make myself scarce?"

"No." he said, surprising me. I figured he wouldn't want me around them. "I'd like you here. But all of the other kids will be with Ginny."

"Are you sure?" I asked. "Would Teddy want that?"

He shrugged. "He'll be busy." he said.

"I asked him today what it was about me that he didn't like."

"Oh."

"He said that it's that you don't need me."

His face was a little confused for a moment., then he sighed. '"I"m sorry." he apologized. "I will have a talk with him again. I think maybe some time away- while he's at Hogwarts, might do him some good to think about things."

I nodded. "I want him to like me, I just don't think he will."

"Give him some time." he murmured. I stayed over that night, which was nice. In the morning, we both got up really early and sat outside, watching the sun rise as we drank coffee. I was no longer shaky and dizzy from the exhaustion, just a little tired.

And then I left, having to work the next two days

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