Third Interlude

"Your mum was nice," Bill stated. Cody snorted. "What? She was."

"You're a brown-noser," Cody laughed.

"That's the cauldron calling the kettle black," Bill huffed slightly. "'Mrs. Weasley, your pie is amazing! I've never tasted such a good pot roast!'"

"It was very good pot roast," the brown haired man sniffed, and he placed the bowl of leftovers his mother had sent with him in the refrigerator.

"You're a fruit," his lover teased.

"Hello, kettle, you're black," Cody mocked as they walked into the living room. The Weasley laughed. "You're not that funny, you cheesecake."

"You're kind of mean when you've been around your mother," the blue-eyed man grinned.

"It's her cooking. And her questions," Cody nodded, and he sat on the couch in front of the muggle telly that he'd persuaded Bill to let him keep.

"Yeah, the questions were annoying." Cody rolled his eyes at his boyfriend as the red head threw himself onto the Gryffindor-red couch beside the other man.

"Your hair clashes horribly with this couch, you know," said the brown haired man as he ran his fingers through Bill's hair.

"I figured," the eldest Weasley child replied. "You want to shag?"

"Nah. I'm never in the mood after I visit mum. She always has questions that make me think."

"Which one are you thinking about?" Bill's head found its way into Cody's lap, and he looked up.

"You were in the loo…she asked if there was a way for wizards to have children together. I said yes, and she demanded grandchildren," the green-eyed wizard replied, stroking Bill's cheek.

"Oh, Merlin. Don't say 'grandchildren' around my mum," Bill groaned. "She's going absolutely bonkers over Percy and Oliver's."

"Oh, I know, but I'm really mum's only chance for grandchildren since Jonathan is muggle," Cody told him, know that the redhead knew about his younger brother being gay.

"I always wanted children. I figured I'd have seven like mum and dad," the Weasley kissed Cody's hand when it brushed past his lips.

"Could you imagine taking care of so many?" the brown haired man asked, resting his hand on the other curse breaker's stomach.

"Well, I helped out with my brothers and Ginny before I went to Hogwarts. They were all born by then, and I helped in the summer, too."

"The teachers would go nuts when the first turned eleven," Cody grinned. "Get McGonagall and Snape back, finally."

Bill chuckled. "Could you imagine if we got a Fred and George, though?"

"Oh, Merlin," Cody's face took on a mock look of horror.

"Do you know how many people would be in our family if each of us had seven children? That's forty-nine kids, plus their parents, and grandparents," the blue-eyed wizard pondered.

"They'd never get any privacy," Cody nodded.

'We'd have to move out of the flat," Bill said.

"We should probably get married first," Cody's hand took Bill's.

Bill looked up sharply. "Is that a proposal?"

"I was going to wait…" the brown haired man said, and he picked up his wand. "Accio engagement ring."

The accio'd object flew from where it was hiding, and landed in the older's hand. The ring was simple, a gold band with a medium sized amethyst set into it.

"It's your birthstone," Cody held it out to him. Bill gaped at him.

"We've only been dating for seven months," the Weasley stated.

"Percy and Oliver eloped after dating for four months," Cody pointed out. "And we don't have to get married right away."

"All right. We'll get married," Bill grinned at his lover. Cody's face lit up and he kissed the other curse breaker.

"Our mums are going to go bonkers," Cody stated.

"Oh no. Mum missed out on planning Percy's wedding...she's going to be even worse for ours," Bill said, slightly terrified, as visions of getting fit for dress robes and picking flowers, and such ran through his head.

Cody just laughed and slipped the ring onto Bill's finger.

"It's not funny, you know. She's going to make us taste a million wedding cakes, and send invitations to family we don't know, or like. Mum'll make us stand perfectly still while we're getting fitted for wedding robes... while at the same time asking about flowers, and hors d'oeuvres," Bills said, sitting up. "Percy didn't elope because it was romantic; he knew what mum would do!"

The older man only laughed harder as Bill glared at him. Angrily, the Weasley took his fiancé's wand and hit him on the arm. The green-eyed wizard yelped and dove at his boyfriend.

The red-head couldn't dive out of the way in time and Cody landed on top of him.

"Ow, ow, ow," Bill gasped as his lover sat on his stomach. "Code, I can't breath."

The Slytherin chuckled. "You weren't complaining last night."

"Last night you weren't fat with your mother's cooking," the Gringotts employee gasped as the other on his stomach bounced lightly.

"Well, now, that's just mean," Cody panted. He grinned evilly and bounced harder than he had before.

"Oof!" Bill gasped and his eyes went wide.

"Apologize," Cody jumped up again. Bill groaned as his lover landed on his stomach once more.

"I'm sorry."

"Sorry for...?" the brown haired man raised his eyebrow. He bounced.

Bill 'oomphed'. "I'm sorry for calling you fat."

Code smirked. "Now apologizing didn't hurt, did it?"

"Yes," Bill groaned. Cody laughed and kissed his fiancé.

End Third Interlude