Chapter Twenty-Eight:

She writes out her list for the next day and goes to take a hot bath, to relax. It was a long day for her and she has another coming up tomorrow.

Hyla goes to sleep after kissing the moving picture of Charlie and sighing. In the morning, she gets up and dresses in jeans, a tee shirt and sneakers. At breakfast, she sees that Harry and Hermione are here, up and dressed the same way. Harry swallows his bite of food

"Before you ask, Hy. Yes, we are helping today. Our class list has Fridays completely free. Mum and Dad are helping also. Arthur took the day off to help as well." She nods and swigs down her chocolate milk.

Some things never change. She and Remy were the chocolate freaks growing up. Mum had to lock the stuff behind a door guarded by Cerberus. She would have Remy sniff it out for her, but they could never get past Mum's pet. Grandpa and Grandma would always have a small bit for them though.

Remy and Uncle Siri come to help with the set up also. Hyla had found a large ballroom with black and white checkerboard squares on the floor, it is near the King's Cross portal and was fairly inexpensive to rent for the weekend.

Charlie, the twins, Arthur, Bill, Jane, Piper and Rey all meet them at the station and follow Hyla over to the ballroom. "Oh, my god! This place is gorgeous." Piper gasps, her mouth hangs open.

"Nice choice, Honey." Charlie loops his arms around her waist. "Okay, let's get hopping." He calls to the others. Both twins go around the room hopping up and down as they work. While everyone else is laughing at them, Jane and Piper are shaking their heads in shared misery.

The four Weasley brothers hang the icicle lights from the ceiling, while Sirius and Remus help Arthur set up the banquet tables. Harry goes around and places the street lamps, after Hermione turns them white. Piper and Rey help Hyla arrange the smaller decorations on the tables. Hermione dresses the chairs and places them in the middle of the dance floor to be placed later.

Hyla asks Hermione to fold the napkins for the settings. It is something that she can do easily and quickly, while sitting down. Hermione's back and ankles were starting to hurt and swell respectively. Mum's thought is that she might be carrying more than one child, but the doctors have not found it yet. It happens occasionally.

Winky and Dobby pop in to set up their serving things. Bella, Alice and Rose stop by to get their stuff set up. Alice sticks around with Bella and Rose tells the group that she will send over the men to help. With their help the place settings are done, chairs are placed and all that is missing is the food, cake, guests and flowers.

Mum tells the Weasley clan that she has dinner for them all at the house, so come on over. They all start popping off in pairs. Hyla stops Charlie from apperating them. "Let me do this." She has him hold her tight and close his eyes. When he opens them, he is in her room. "When you are a full blooded godling, you can fade from place to place. It is how the elder ones keep an eye on the world." She tells him, as she leads him down to dinner.

The table is weighed down with all the food. There is even blood for the Cullens, Alec and Janie. "Alec and Alicia should be getting in around ten tonight." Jane tells the table in her dry voice. Everyone nods and continues eating. At the end of dinner, the poor groom is carted off by his brothers and father.

That night, Hyla shows her sisters, and Hermione, her dress. Jane has blood tears in her eyes when she turns to Hyla again. "It is beautiful, Hy." Rey nods to Jane's words, speechless.

Alicia knocks and enters. "Thought I might find you all in here. My god! I knew I should have made Alec come for Rey's." She cries out when she sees Hermione. It is obvious now that the girl is pregnant. She is only about three months along, but she is starting to show.

"Nice to see you too, Aunt Alicia." Hermione mutters.

"No, I am sorry. It was just a surprise. You are looking good. I would avoid your uncle though, if you want your husband to live for a while longer." She advises as she hugs the girl.

"And why would my niece want to avoid... I'm gonna kill him! Hector James Mars Potter! What in the name of * *^ do you call this?" Harry comes running. He figures that if his oldest brother is screaming his real name, it's bad. Alec doesn't scream. Ever.

Harry looks around the door frame, scans the room and then looks to Alec. "Um. Nice dress Hyla. Hi Alicia, Alec. How was the trip?" Alec starts to growl.

"Why is my goddaughter pregnant? Can you please answer that for me, Brother?" He spits out. Alec is about to pounce on Harry when Jane takes him down. He trembles from the force she used and stares at her.

"Think for a moment you scatterbrained fool. They have been married for almost a year. He is a siren and if you look at her neck you will see a mark. What does that mean to you, Alec?"

When he doesn't answer right away, Jane smacks him. "We are the children of a siren and Veela. Both mark their mates. Harry marked Hermione, thus she is pregnant. It is not a hard concept. Us girls and Dad have known since my wedding. Mum, the Potters, and Rem found out at Rey's. It's old news."

"Alright, so it's not some adolecent stupidity, good." He gets up and dusts himself off. "I guess, I should say Congrats then. And I am sorry to you both for going off like that." Harry nods and shakes Al's hand.

Hermione hugs him. "Hey, you are almost as hard as we are down here." Alec laughs as he feels his neice or nephew's little home through Hermione's abdomen. Harry gathers her near to him and nuzzles her mark. "How many more family members, Mi?" He whines to her.

"Oh, I don't know, quite a bit. The only ones that don't know yet are your grandparents. I am expecting a few nasty owls soon, with Rita's crowing about knowing that we were." She pets his hair and leads him out of the room