Ava P.O.V - 19 years later.
It's been years seen the battle of Hogwarts and everything is back to normal, well, normal as it can be anyway. Dad set everything right with everyone he had upset and explained everything to them. There were still a few people who didn't believe him, so dad showed them his memoires of him and Dumbledore talking in his office, after that, people slowly started to believe him.
McGonagall became the Headmistress of Hogwarts and offered dad back his job as potion master. Dad was more than happy to accept it. One, because dad loves teaching, although, you wouldn't know that he did by the look on his face, and two, he gets to see his grandchildren and the rest of the children everyday.
Me and Draco both became Auror's alongside Harry, Ron and Blaise. It's a challenging, but fun job, we have become very competitive about it. We all try and out do each other. You know, like, who can catch the most bad guys, and see who could get them to confess the quickest. Harry is in the lead for most bad guys caught and I'm in the lead for most confessions.
Me and Draco are just driving home after another busy day at work. He's in a mood with me because I got a bloke to confess in 5 minutes after Draco shouted at him for 2 hours. I did try to tell him that he doesn't need to shout all the time. Talking to them works just fine, not all the time mind you, but 9 times out of 10 it works.
I pull into our drive way and pack the car. It was so funny watching Draco get into a car for the first time. He had no idea what to do, then as soon as the car started moving, he held on the door handle for dear life. I had to pull over the car because I was laughing so much. He just playfully punched me in the arm and told me to shut up.
We get out of the car and walk through our front door only to hear our children arguing about a potion book. Me and Draco have two children. Danielle, who's 12 and is about to start her second year at Hogwarts, then there's Jayden, who's 11 and is about to start his first year at Hogwarts tomorrow. He's excited and nervous at the same time.
My dad looks after the kids whilst me and Draco are at work and sometime Sirius pops over with his wife and daughter, Mia. She only 5 and definitely a daddy's little girl. After the war, Sirius had a proper trial and was found not guilty and cleared of all charges. He's finally a free man.
Sirius met his wife when he started working in The Three Broomsticks. It's the only job he could find at the time, but he took it because he wanted something to do because sitting around the house was driving him mad. He had only been working there for 4 weeks when he thought about quitting, but that all changed when Kimberly started working there. They clicked straight away and after a few years of dating, they decided to get married.
I tried getting my dad to meet someone new, but he point blank refused. He said that it would feel like he's cheating on mom, which is kinda silly and kinda sweet at the same time. I tried telling him that mom would want him to move on and find someone else, but again, he point blank refused, so I just gave up trying, but he seems happy with his life and he loves being around the kids, even if they annoy him sometimes.
Me and Draco walk into the living and see Danielle and Jayden fighting over his potion book. Sirius and his wife are trying to break it up whilst Mia cheers for them to keep going. I smile to myself. She's a little cutie. I miss my babies being that small. I look around but I can't see my dad, maybe he's in the kitchen or something.
Draco clears his throat which makes everyone stop what they're doing and look at us.
"Mom, dad" Daniella and Jayden grin, running over to me and Draco and hugging us tight. We smile and hug them back, this is the best part about coming home.
"Uncle Draco, Auntie Ava" Mia shouts, climbing on the chairs and diving on Draco's back. "Can I colour your arm?"
Draco chuckles. "Of course, princess" Draco gently puts her back on the floor and she rushes over to her bag and pulls out a pack of felt tip pens.
She grabs Draco's hand and makes him sit down on the chair. He pulls up his sleeve to reveal his Dark Mark. She doesn't know what it really means, but ever since Draco told her that he hates it, she's started to colour it in and make it look pretty with love hearts and flowers.
She also knows about dad's Dark Mark too, but again, she doesn't know what it means and thinks they got matching tattoos, I mean, in a way, they kind of did. My red Dark Mark is still on my arm and it's still red as the day as Bellatrix gave it to me. I told the kids what happened when they were older enough to understand. They started crying when I showed them, which broke my heart.
It took me forever to get used to it. I would always wear a bandage and long sleeve tops, but then Hermione showed me how to cover it up with make-up and everything changed. I could even go swimming thanks to waterproof foundation, so I haven't missed out on anything with the kids.
Just then dad walks into the living room and smiles when he sees me stood there. "Hey dad" I say, giving him a hug. "Have the kids been good?"
"Yes, they only started playing up 10 minutes before you walked through the door" he says, pulling away from me. I look at Danielle and Jayden and see them standing their with an innocent look on their faces. "Don't fall for that look, Ava, they are devils" dad says, before tickling them, which makes them laugh.
"There" Mia says, putting the lid on her pen. "Do you like it?"
I look at Draco's arm and see that his Dark Mark now has pink and red love hearts all around it.
"I love it" he say, kissing the top of her head. "Thank you, princess."
Just then we hear the front door opening, which makes me frown. Who's just letting themselves into my house? I go to check and see Harry and Ginny walking in with their three children following them. Of course, I should have known it would be them.
"Oh please, come in" I say. "It's not like you need to knock or anything."
"See Gin, I told you Ava would be fine with us just walking in" Harry smirks. I roll my eyes before giving them all a hug. We walk into the living room and Lily, that's Harry's youngest daughter, runs over to dad and hugs him tight.
"I've missed you, grandad" she whispers. All the kids call dad grandad since that's what he's like to them. Although, it wasn't always like that. They were a little bit scared of him at first, but that's only because of the stories they had heard about him, but dad sat them down and explained everything to them, and they came round pretty face, which made dad happy because he didn't want the kids to be scared of him.
"I've missed you too, flower" dad says, pulling away before shaking hands with Albus, who is Harry's youngest son. He's also starting his first year at Hogwarts tomorrow.
I look around and see James, who is Harry's oldest son, and Danielle trying to sneak off upstairs. They are the best of friends and both pranksters. They have gotten good with their pranks over the years, but that's only because Fred and George have been teaching them a thing or two. Dad is forever telling them off at school.
"And where are you two sneaking off too?" I ask, which made them stop in their tracks. They glance at each other before looking at me.
"We were just going to my room, mom" Danielle says, smiling.
"Yes well, if we hear a bang then we know who's to blame" Draco says.
"We're not going to blow everything up, dad."
"Oh really? I remember you saying that last time, and next thing we know, we have no toilet."
They snorted with laugher and high fived each other, but stop when they see Draco rising his eyebrow at them.
"We pinky promise that we aren't going to blow up the toilet" James says.
"Yeah, we are going to blow up the bath instead" Danielle says, before grabbing James's hand and running out of the room. We can hear them laughing as they ran upstairs. It's a good job we have magic to fix things, or we would have no money left with the amount of times we need to replace things that they have accidentally on purpose blown up.
"I better go and check on them" Sirius says, standing up.
"No you won't" Harry snapped. "You want to help them, not stop them."
Sirius fake gasps. "I'm offended that you would think I would do such a thing."
"You helped them blow up the toilet" Kimberly pointed out, smiling fondly at her husband.
"Yes well, you have a point there" Sirius says, sitting back down.
"Silly daddy" Mia giggles, as Lily put her hair into piggy tails. Lily is the closest to Mia out of Harry's kids. I mean, James and Albus will play with her every now and then but only for a few hours, whereas Lily will play with her all day.
I was about to go into the kitchen when there was a knock on the door. "I'll get it" I told everyone, before walking over to the front door and looking through the little peep hole on the door. I smile when I see Blaise and his wife stood there with their daughter, Renee. And Goyle and his wife stood there with their two sons, Seth and John.
I found out from Draco that Crabbe died in the room of requirement in the battle of Hogwarts. He was the one who started the fire and turns out that he couldn't control it and he fall in and couldn't get back out. I cried for hours when Draco told me. I know he was a jerk to everyone but he was one of my best friends and me and the boys all miss him.
I open the door and see all their smiling faces looking at me. I smile back and move out of the way so they can walk in. "Auntie Ava" Seth says, taking off his shoes. "Is Danny upstairs or in the living room?"
"She's upstairs in her room with James."
He grins. "Can I go upstairs too?"
"Of course you can. I will call you when dinner is ready."
He nods, gives me a quick hug then rushes off upstairs. Out of all the kids, James, Danielle and Seth are the closest by far. They even call themselves the three musketeers.
I go to close the front door when I hear someone shouting. I open the door and see Ron and Hermione getting out of their car with their two kids, Rose and Hugo. Then I see another car pull up and see that it's Fred, his wife and their son, Ben. And in the back seat is George with his wife and their daughter, Lizzy.
"Hey" I say smiling as they all get out of the car. "We have a full house."
"Perfect" Fred grins. "I love a full house."
They all walk into the house and straight into the living room. I look down the street just in case anyone else to turning up but I don't see anyone, so I close the door and walk into the living room where I see all the kids talking and laughing together, and all the adult talking together.
Something I still find it weird that we all had kids around the same time. Half of the kids here are starting their first year tomorrow and the other half are starting there 2nd and 3rd year. It's only Lily and Hugo who have to wait a little longer before they can go to Hogwarts, but I'm glad that we had kids around the same time because now they get to grow up together.
It's later in the afternoon and everyone is still here. Narcissa and Lucius turned up a few hours ago with their baby daughter, Annabel, she's only 12 weeks old and I haven't put her down. I miss Danielle and Jayden being this small, I mean, don't get me wrong, I love how they have grown up but I just wished that they could have stayed babies for a little longer.
After the war, Draco and his parents were taking to the Ministry of Magic so they could talk about their involvement with Voldemort. They explained everything to the minister and were cleared of all charges against them. Their story was in the newspaper for everyone to read so people knew that they weren't really on the dark side.
We had to keep Fred and George away from James, Danielle and Seth before they made plans to blow up the house or something. Dad and Sirius cooked us all a nice dinner. We could hear them arguing in the kitchen, which was fun to listen too. They are worse then the kids sometimes.
We are all sitting in the living room when we hear a bang from upstairs. "That was nothing" Danielle shouts.
"Yeah, no need to come up and check" Seth added.
"We broke Danielle's bed" James laughed.
"James!" Danielle and Seth shouted together.
"I'll go and see what they are up to" Draco says, standing up and walking out of the room.
"Wait for me, uncle Draco" Mia giggles, running after him. She's such a nosy little girl. I smile to myself but it soon turns into a frown when I notices that my dad isn't in the room. I get up and walk into the kitchen and see him sitting at the kitchen table.
"You ok, dad?" I ask, sitting down next to him.
"Yeah, I'm just thinking about your mother. She would have loved all of this, everyone together like this" he says, before looking at me. "What did she say to you when you saw her?"
"I've already told you."
"I know, but I just like hearing it."
"She told me to tell you that she loves you and that you're doing a great job rising me, and you really are dad, I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for you. You really are my rock, dad, and I don't know what I would have done without you."
Dad looks at me and tucks my hair behind my ear. "You really have grown up to be an amazing women, Ava, and an amazing mother, not only to your children, but to everyone else's too. I'm so proud of the person you have grown up to be."
"Thanks dad" I say, giving him a hug. "I love you."
"I love you too, my Ava."
I smile to myself. I love hearing dad say that, I mean I loved hearing him say it before, but now when he does say it, I hear my mom saying it too.
"So" I say, pulling away from dad, "what were you and Sirius arguing about earlier?"
"He was trying to take over everything when I had everything set up in order."
I snort a little. Dad loves to be organised. I remember when I was little and dad was teaching me how to brew potions, I would just pick up any random vial and he would smack my hand away and tell me to go in order or it messes everything up.
"I can see why that would be annoying" he nods. "Is it weird being friends with him?"
"We're not friends" dad snaps.
"Really, dad? You're going to say that after all these years of being around him."
"Yes, yes, I am."
"Aww, Snape, and I thought you had grown to love me" we hear from behind us. I turn around and see Sirius stood there in the door way. Dad groans and rolls his eyes.
"Of course not!"
"You liar!" Sirius smirks. "You looooove me."
"You're so childish."
"Ahh, but that's why you love me."
"If dad loved you because you're childish, then he would have loved you years ago" I say, grinning.
"Oh well, the cats out of the bag now. Ava, me and your father have been in a relationship for years, but we didn't know how to tell you, isn't that right, babe?"
"Of course, babe" dad says, rolling his eyes. I sit there smiling.
"And when were you going to tell me?" we look and see Kimberly stood behind Sirius with her arms crossed.
"Busted" I snigger, which made dad nudge me in the arm.
"You know I'm joking babe" Sirius smirks, putting his arm around his wife.
"I dunno, I've seen the way you are with each other. You've seen them too, haven't you, Ava?"
"Oh yeah, always fighting like an old married couple."
"Who's fighting like an old married couple?" Harry asks, walking into the kitchen.
"Dad and Sirius. Did you know that they are in a secret relationship?"
"They are?" Harry frowns, which makes me snort with laugher. Even Kimberly smirks.
"Yes, spread the word" I say quickly.
Dad glares at Harry. "Don't even think about it, Potter."
"Oh, dad called you Potter, now you're in trouble" I say grinning.
"What the hell did I do?" he huffs. "I only came in here for a drink."
"You're not in trouble, Harry" dad assures him. "Don't listen to Ava, she's just being stupid."
"Nothing new there then" Harry smirks.
"Jeez, love you guys too."
Dad smirks whilst Harry laughs and he walks over to the fridge to grab himself a can of coke. He pulls out his wand and waves it over the coke, making another one appear next to it. I look at him with raised eyebrows.
"What?" he frowns. "I didn't want to waste your cans of pop."
I smile at him. "That's sweet of you, but you don't need to worry about that. There's a charm on the cans so that when you take one, it will replace itself."
"That's an genius idea."
"It was Draco's idea. He was sick of spending a lot of money on cans on pop so he put a charm on a crate of pop a few weeks back."
"I'm going to tell Ginny that we are doing that when we get back home" Harry says, before he walks out of the kitchen. I smile to myself and flick the kettle on. I grab me a cup and grab one for Sirius too since he always asks for one when he sees the kettle on.
"Ahh" he smiles, "you know me so well."
I smile at him, before looking at dad and Kimberly. "Do you two want a cup of tea too?"
"I would love one" dad said. "Yes please" Kimberly said, but they ended up saying them together. I grab them a cup out of the cupboard then walk over to the kitchen door and pop my head around and glance into the living room where I see all the adults talking and all the kids colouring.
I look around but I can't see Draco anywhere. He must be still upstairs with James, Seth, Danielle and Mia because they aren't in the living room either.
"I'm making a cuppa, who wants one?" I ask.
"Me" all the adults say.
"Kids, you want some pop?"
"Yes please" they all answer. Bless them. I walk back into the kitchen and see that I'm now alone. I'm waiting for the kettle to boil when I see Draco walking into the kitchen. He smiles and walks over to me.
"How did they break Danielle's bed?" I ask, hugging him around the waist.
"They were seeing if they could touch the ceiling by jumping on the bed."
"You know, I think we should put a charm on her bed so that they can jump on it without it breaking."
Draco laughs. "Way ahead of you, Mrs Malfoy, I've already put one on there and now Mia won't get off the bed. I've also put one on Jayden's bed, and the beds in the guest bedroom since that's where the kids sleep when people stay over."
"Good thinking, Mr Malfoy" I say pulling away from him and going on my tiptoes so I could give him a kiss.
"Ewww, mom, dad!" we hear someone say. I pull away and see Jayden stood there with his hand over his eyes. "Can I look now?"
I laugh a little. "Yes, you can look."
"Ok, good" he says, removing his hand. "I just came in here to ask if we could have some popcorn because me and the others want to watch a film?"
"Sure, I'll make you some" Draco says.
"Thanks, dad" Jayden says, giving him a hug before he walks back into the living room. Draco smiles and grab a popcorn packet out of the pantry and throws it into the microwave. We tried making popcorn with popcorn kernels but we always ended up burning them so we now just buy the packets, plus it's easier.
Once the kettle is boiled, I make everyone a cup of tea, then put them on a tray with some biscuits. I take them into the living room and put the tray down on the coffee table. The adults grab their cup and a few biscuits. They all have their own mug since half of them have sugar, half of them don't, a few don't have milk and some do, so this way is definitely easier when it comes to whose tea is whose.
I walk back into the kitchen and see Draco putting the popcorn into a large blow. He also grabs the kids a chocolate each. I walk over to the fridge and grab them a can of coke each, then walk into the living room.
"Popcorn" Mia cheers, clapping her hands, when she sees Draco walking behind me.
I put on the film, which ended up being Shrek, and sit down next to Draco. I look around the room and see all the adults cuddling with their children. I smile when Danielle and Jayden sit down by me and Draco. I couldn't think of anything better than this.
