A/N: I thought I would try to get the next chapter out today considering
the fact that this next week is going to be very busy. I have two midterms
and OHS is this Friday!! (I'm excited about OHS, not the midterms. And
don't worry about what it is, its some dorm thing.) So I thought I would
be the nice author and give her readers another chapter, only because you
asked nicely. Sorry if this is not up to par with what you have been
reading, I really wanted to get this to you beautiful readers tonight.
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Harry sighed as he arrived at his aunt and uncles house. This was one place that he really never wanted to visit again. 'Lets just get this over with,' he thought as he entered. He directed the same people that had helped him with his cousin's house to get started. He had brought them all coffee and doughnuts for breakfast in the hopes that they would be inspired to work harder. So far it was working beautifully.
So when six o'clock rolled around, all the painting was done. He stayed for an extra half hour after that to put the finishing touches on two rooms so he could finish them. 'If all goes well, we could be done by tomorrow,' was his last thought as he locked up.
He was in such a good mood that he didn't notice voices coming from his hotel room as he stuck his key in the lock. The first sign that he had of someone else in his room was two six year olds attaching themselves to his legs.
"James! Are you going to take us to the zoo now?" asked Dylan.
Harry just stood their for a few seconds taking it all in. "I take it that you got my letter then?" he asked as his eyes came across Lois/Ginny sitting on his bed.
"Of course." She stood up and crossed over to him. Nicole and Dylan by this point had grown bored and went back to their coloring on the floor.
"So?" asked Harry.
"So what?" Ginny slyly answered.
"Will you marry me?" Harry asked again.
"Are you asking me as James or Harry?"
"Both."
"Mmm, and I thought it was illegal to be married to two different people."
"So is that a yes?"
"No," Ginny answered in amusement as she watched the love of her life (and the father of her children) face fall in rejection. "But this is." She then reached up and gave him a kiss that showed just how much she loved him. They were only broken apart by two hard to ignore, "Ewww!"
"Quiet you!" said Harry. He turned back to his fiancé and asked, "When are you going to get rid of this brown? You look so much better as a red head."
"And what about you? Those brown eyes look like dirt in comparison to the shinning emeralds I'm used to."
"I guess we'll both have to stop hiding, huh?"
"I guess so." They both pulled out their wands and said the spell that would show their true features.
"Mommy?"
They then turned to the stunned children sitting on the ground.
"You guys remember when I told you that I was hiding from my family?" She received two nods before she continued. "Well, I had to change what I looked like so they couldn't find me. I even had to change my name."
Her children looked at each other before Dylan asked, "did you have to change us?"
"No sweetie."
"Then why did you change James?" asked Nicole.
"I didn't. He was someone I was hiding from. It was fate that brought us to the same city."
"What's our real name then?" Dylan asked.
"Well, my name is Ginny Weasley, you are Dylan Weasley, your sister is Nicole Weasley, and this is Harry Potter." She paused before she said, "your father."
Even though Harry knew that he had kids, this still came as a little shock to his system. To actually hear it from their mother made it just a little bit truer.
"So James really is our daddy? We can call him that for real now and not just pretend?" asked an excited Nicole.
"His name's Harry, and yes, if that's okay with him," replied Ginny as she looked up at the raven-haired wizard.
Dylan looked at his mother with a funny expression. "Why wouldn't it be okay, we've been calling him daddy for years."
"Oh really?" Ginny looked at her fiancé and saw what she assumed was supposed to be an innocent look. It wasn't working very well.
"Uh, how about dinner?" asked Harry.
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The next day (Friday) went by really quickly for Harry. He finished his aunt and uncles house two days ahead of what he thought he was going to and meet Ginny, Nicole, and Dylan at a restaurant near the hotel.
It would be just his luck that Ron and Hermione would decide to eat at that exact same restaurant at the exact same time.
"Ginny?" said Ron as he spotted his younger sister.
Ginny turned and said, "Ron? Is that you?"
"Ginny! Oh my gosh!" cried the red head as he engulfed the sister that he hadn't seen in six years in a huge hug.
"This is fantastic! We have to sit together, come on," Ginny said as she pulled her brother towards their table.
"Wait, are you sure? And is there enough room for Herm and the kids?"
"Of course, the more the merrier!" Ginny went over to Hermione and greeted her with the same enthusiasm she had for her brother and then proceeded to drag them and their two children over to Harry and their kids. Who were currently seeing who could blow the best bubbles in their water.
She came up and smacked Harry on his head before he said, "Harry! You should know better then to play with your food!"
"What? Its not food and I wasn't playing. I was, um, help me out here," he whispered to his cohorts.
"Exercising," Nicole said between giggles.
"That's right, I was exercising my lungs. You never know when that particular exercise is going to come in handy," Harry said with a not so innocent smile on his face.
"If I hadn't seen you in six years and was beyond glad that you are still alive, I would be threatening you as only an older brother can."
Harry's eyes grew wide when he heard that familiar voice behind him. He stood up turned around. "Ron."
"Harry."
Harry soon found himself with an arm full of a male Weasley. "I've missed you too," Harry said, a little on the sarcastic side.
"Where've you been?" asked Ron after they were all sitting.
"For the past few weeks I've actually been in England."
"Really, how come you never looked us up?" Ron asked a little on the defensive side.
"I didn't need to."
During this conversation, Hermione and Ginny were trying to hide their smiles. They succeeded in hiding them from the thickheaded red head and no one else.
"Why not? Were you never going to come back? Were you just going to let us think that you were dead forever?"
"No. I didn't need to because I ran into you at Mutt's Domain."
"When did you, wait, how do you know what Sirius and Remus are calling their house? Only my family and their designer know that."
"Ron, I am the designer."
"No, the designer's name is James Evans."
Harry didn't say anything and let his best friend figure it out himself.
"Oh. Why didn't I see it before! Why didn't you tell us before?"
"I was scared. Nothing had changed."
"Then what changed?"
"I had been hiding and running for six years, trying not to let the past catch up to me. When I got here, I was still hiding and running. But the past finally caught up with me and I realized that I had to live with what I did. I had to forgive myself before I could face my family. I just recently came to terms with everything and now I can only hope that everyone can forgive me for what I did," Harry said quietly.
"I think the only thing that they might not forgive you for is telling them who you were when you first arrived. But I think your godfather will be too happy to have you back to even care."
"I just hope he doesn't kill me."
"He might. But only because he won't let you breath when he sees you."
Harry smiled. 'Why exactly did I run away again?' `Because you were scared.` 'Oh, right.'
The rest of the evening the Golden Trio (now quartet) spent catching up on the past six years.
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Meanwhile, at Mutt's Domain, Draco and Seamus were giving their findings to Sirius and Remus.
"So, let me get this straight. Harry and Ginny have been living across the hall from each other for six years. But they don't know who the other person really is. And they have been really good friends for those same six years," asked Sirius
"Yeah, I think that's right," answered Seamus.
"Unbelievable. So where are they now?"
"Well, we tracked Harry to this design firm. Little hard to get information once we got there because we knew that he had changed his name and appearance. But we did learn that there was someone who was working there who is about the same age as Harry would have been, so we think its him," said Draco.
"Wait, what do you mean was working?"
"You'll never believe this. He was transferred to the London branch."
At this news, Sirius sat down hard onto Remus's lap. The shock he was feeling was apparent on his face.
"What about Ginny?" asked Remus.
"She recently asked for a transfer to London. The neighbors say that her and the kids were coming to London for a week or so to see Harry. So she is also in the country right now."
Sirius suddenly asked, "What's the name Harry was going by?"
Draco and Seamus exchanged a look before Draco answered, "James Evans."
A/N: I'm thinking I might have a flashback to before he left, you know, the relationship between Ginny and Harry? And I've also just realized that there aren't much Harry/Sirius interactions. I'll try to remedy that in the future.
Thank you to my Chapter 7 reviewers:
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Harry sighed as he arrived at his aunt and uncles house. This was one place that he really never wanted to visit again. 'Lets just get this over with,' he thought as he entered. He directed the same people that had helped him with his cousin's house to get started. He had brought them all coffee and doughnuts for breakfast in the hopes that they would be inspired to work harder. So far it was working beautifully.
So when six o'clock rolled around, all the painting was done. He stayed for an extra half hour after that to put the finishing touches on two rooms so he could finish them. 'If all goes well, we could be done by tomorrow,' was his last thought as he locked up.
He was in such a good mood that he didn't notice voices coming from his hotel room as he stuck his key in the lock. The first sign that he had of someone else in his room was two six year olds attaching themselves to his legs.
"James! Are you going to take us to the zoo now?" asked Dylan.
Harry just stood their for a few seconds taking it all in. "I take it that you got my letter then?" he asked as his eyes came across Lois/Ginny sitting on his bed.
"Of course." She stood up and crossed over to him. Nicole and Dylan by this point had grown bored and went back to their coloring on the floor.
"So?" asked Harry.
"So what?" Ginny slyly answered.
"Will you marry me?" Harry asked again.
"Are you asking me as James or Harry?"
"Both."
"Mmm, and I thought it was illegal to be married to two different people."
"So is that a yes?"
"No," Ginny answered in amusement as she watched the love of her life (and the father of her children) face fall in rejection. "But this is." She then reached up and gave him a kiss that showed just how much she loved him. They were only broken apart by two hard to ignore, "Ewww!"
"Quiet you!" said Harry. He turned back to his fiancé and asked, "When are you going to get rid of this brown? You look so much better as a red head."
"And what about you? Those brown eyes look like dirt in comparison to the shinning emeralds I'm used to."
"I guess we'll both have to stop hiding, huh?"
"I guess so." They both pulled out their wands and said the spell that would show their true features.
"Mommy?"
They then turned to the stunned children sitting on the ground.
"You guys remember when I told you that I was hiding from my family?" She received two nods before she continued. "Well, I had to change what I looked like so they couldn't find me. I even had to change my name."
Her children looked at each other before Dylan asked, "did you have to change us?"
"No sweetie."
"Then why did you change James?" asked Nicole.
"I didn't. He was someone I was hiding from. It was fate that brought us to the same city."
"What's our real name then?" Dylan asked.
"Well, my name is Ginny Weasley, you are Dylan Weasley, your sister is Nicole Weasley, and this is Harry Potter." She paused before she said, "your father."
Even though Harry knew that he had kids, this still came as a little shock to his system. To actually hear it from their mother made it just a little bit truer.
"So James really is our daddy? We can call him that for real now and not just pretend?" asked an excited Nicole.
"His name's Harry, and yes, if that's okay with him," replied Ginny as she looked up at the raven-haired wizard.
Dylan looked at his mother with a funny expression. "Why wouldn't it be okay, we've been calling him daddy for years."
"Oh really?" Ginny looked at her fiancé and saw what she assumed was supposed to be an innocent look. It wasn't working very well.
"Uh, how about dinner?" asked Harry.
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The next day (Friday) went by really quickly for Harry. He finished his aunt and uncles house two days ahead of what he thought he was going to and meet Ginny, Nicole, and Dylan at a restaurant near the hotel.
It would be just his luck that Ron and Hermione would decide to eat at that exact same restaurant at the exact same time.
"Ginny?" said Ron as he spotted his younger sister.
Ginny turned and said, "Ron? Is that you?"
"Ginny! Oh my gosh!" cried the red head as he engulfed the sister that he hadn't seen in six years in a huge hug.
"This is fantastic! We have to sit together, come on," Ginny said as she pulled her brother towards their table.
"Wait, are you sure? And is there enough room for Herm and the kids?"
"Of course, the more the merrier!" Ginny went over to Hermione and greeted her with the same enthusiasm she had for her brother and then proceeded to drag them and their two children over to Harry and their kids. Who were currently seeing who could blow the best bubbles in their water.
She came up and smacked Harry on his head before he said, "Harry! You should know better then to play with your food!"
"What? Its not food and I wasn't playing. I was, um, help me out here," he whispered to his cohorts.
"Exercising," Nicole said between giggles.
"That's right, I was exercising my lungs. You never know when that particular exercise is going to come in handy," Harry said with a not so innocent smile on his face.
"If I hadn't seen you in six years and was beyond glad that you are still alive, I would be threatening you as only an older brother can."
Harry's eyes grew wide when he heard that familiar voice behind him. He stood up turned around. "Ron."
"Harry."
Harry soon found himself with an arm full of a male Weasley. "I've missed you too," Harry said, a little on the sarcastic side.
"Where've you been?" asked Ron after they were all sitting.
"For the past few weeks I've actually been in England."
"Really, how come you never looked us up?" Ron asked a little on the defensive side.
"I didn't need to."
During this conversation, Hermione and Ginny were trying to hide their smiles. They succeeded in hiding them from the thickheaded red head and no one else.
"Why not? Were you never going to come back? Were you just going to let us think that you were dead forever?"
"No. I didn't need to because I ran into you at Mutt's Domain."
"When did you, wait, how do you know what Sirius and Remus are calling their house? Only my family and their designer know that."
"Ron, I am the designer."
"No, the designer's name is James Evans."
Harry didn't say anything and let his best friend figure it out himself.
"Oh. Why didn't I see it before! Why didn't you tell us before?"
"I was scared. Nothing had changed."
"Then what changed?"
"I had been hiding and running for six years, trying not to let the past catch up to me. When I got here, I was still hiding and running. But the past finally caught up with me and I realized that I had to live with what I did. I had to forgive myself before I could face my family. I just recently came to terms with everything and now I can only hope that everyone can forgive me for what I did," Harry said quietly.
"I think the only thing that they might not forgive you for is telling them who you were when you first arrived. But I think your godfather will be too happy to have you back to even care."
"I just hope he doesn't kill me."
"He might. But only because he won't let you breath when he sees you."
Harry smiled. 'Why exactly did I run away again?' `Because you were scared.` 'Oh, right.'
The rest of the evening the Golden Trio (now quartet) spent catching up on the past six years.
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Meanwhile, at Mutt's Domain, Draco and Seamus were giving their findings to Sirius and Remus.
"So, let me get this straight. Harry and Ginny have been living across the hall from each other for six years. But they don't know who the other person really is. And they have been really good friends for those same six years," asked Sirius
"Yeah, I think that's right," answered Seamus.
"Unbelievable. So where are they now?"
"Well, we tracked Harry to this design firm. Little hard to get information once we got there because we knew that he had changed his name and appearance. But we did learn that there was someone who was working there who is about the same age as Harry would have been, so we think its him," said Draco.
"Wait, what do you mean was working?"
"You'll never believe this. He was transferred to the London branch."
At this news, Sirius sat down hard onto Remus's lap. The shock he was feeling was apparent on his face.
"What about Ginny?" asked Remus.
"She recently asked for a transfer to London. The neighbors say that her and the kids were coming to London for a week or so to see Harry. So she is also in the country right now."
Sirius suddenly asked, "What's the name Harry was going by?"
Draco and Seamus exchanged a look before Draco answered, "James Evans."
A/N: I'm thinking I might have a flashback to before he left, you know, the relationship between Ginny and Harry? And I've also just realized that there aren't much Harry/Sirius interactions. I'll try to remedy that in the future.
