A/N: Well, as you can tell by the title of this story, it's time for WD:V. That doesn't mean that Heart is complete, well it does, but it's complete as for now. My muses are stirring, but they don't want to write the teenies. So, Heart is on the shelf for now and one day, hopefully, I will go back and finish the final chapter, which really was all we were waiting for. If you'd like to see the final chapter in its unfinished form, there are bits and pieces of it floating around on the WD list.

So what has happened since we left Harry and Pansy in the Astronomy Tower? In the final chapter of Heart our teens were "leaving". In honor of all the 7th years had accomplished the school held a final goodbye ceremony wherein speeches were made and tears shed. During the ceremony, in which much of the cast of the previous WDs assembled, Hermione made a final speech. As she made her way from the platform, the Great Hall began to shake. The heavy oak doors at the back of the Hall splintered and flew inward, causing those assembled inside to panic. In the ensuing panic, Hermione fell from the steps. We return to her in just a bit. Meanwhile the Weasleys, some of them are there, not all, begin activating the port keys they had previously charmed for just such an occurrence. These allow Emily, Rose, Narcissa, Molly and the babies/toddlers who were there to get out and to safety. A port key had also been designed for Ginny, seeing as she is six months pregnant and the only way she was going to be allowed to attend was under the condition she carried such a device. Unfortunately, hers malfunctions. She's stuck there.

By the time this is all happening, Voldemort and the Death Eaters have infiltrated the Hall. Ron has gone after Hermione, who has broken her elbow, the elder Weasley men are doing their damnedest to get Ginny to safety and Harry, of course, is all ready involved in fighting. In addition to the many seventh years, family and friends who are fighting there is a large contingent of Aurors, Unspeakables and members of the Order, tipped off that an attack was likely to occur thanks to Rose's visions and the prophecy (remember that old thing?)

I don't write fights well, if you want glorious fight scenes I can point you to a few authors including StrangerWithMyFace and Dragonfire. In short, there was a lot of fighting ;) Hermione's pretty much out of the fight as it is her wand arm that is injured. Ron is doing his best to cover Harry, his brothers' and his father's behinds while at the same time making sure Hermione doesn't do anything stupid like try to fight with a broken wand arm. Neville and Lavendar are also fighting, but they get separated at one point. Neville is placed under Cruciatus Curse by a random Death Eater when he throws himself in front of Lavendar, at whom the spell was aimed. Harry and Pansy are fighting alongside Sirius and Remus.

To make a long story a little less long, Voldemort is finally defeated when, after most of the DE are stunned or dead, the rest of the group turns their wands on him. Harry finally manages to take him down using a long forgotten curse found by Hermione in an ancient tome. Unlike in some other stories, Harry doesn't die, doesn't lose his powers, and Dumbledore doesn't sacrifice himself to kill Voldemort. This is a wm_law story. Endless fluff and the good guys don't die! How else would we have lots of babies??

So, this is now a number of years later. Neville is alive, if I killed him I'd have to answer to SWMF, and he and Lavendar are living in the States, where Neville works as a Professor of Herbology at the wizarding university in Salem. There were lots of marriages and even more babies—so many I needed a chart to figure it all out. This chart is available here: http://www.geocities.com/wm_law2003/babychart.htm (you may need to cut and paste this link.)

I think it should be fairly easy to figure out Paradise as it is written. If you have any questions, please email me or leave your question in a review. Paradise was going to have a plot, complete with evil baddies coming back from the dead but for now it will be a series of vignettes about our WDers lives. Basically, expect more fluff and sugary sweetness than a room full of cotton candy.

Now on with the show!

Just Another Day in Paradise

Well, it's ok, it's so nice

It's just another day in paradise

Well, there's no place that I'd rather be

Well, it's two hearts and one dream

I wouldn't trade it for anything

And I ask the lord every night

For just another day in paradise

Phil Vassar, Just Another Day In Paradise

Chapter One: All That Jazz

"Do you two have to do that here?"

Rose Smythe Black lifted her head slightly to see her ten year old daughter Gabrielle standing in the doorway to the kitchen, a disgusted expression on her sweet face from finding her mother and father snogging in the kitchen.

"Well, Gabby, where do you think we should do that?" Rose's husband Sirius asked while grinning at Gabrielle who was now staring into the refrigerator, her back to her parents.

"Ew, nowhere! You are my parents!"

"Well, Gabby, luv, how do you think you and your brother and sister got here?"

"Daddy! Oh, that is so gross!" Gabrielle looked over her shoulder to glare at her parents who were in their original position against the cabinets, her mother leaning back against her father, his arms wrapped around her. "Just don't do it where we can see you!"

"Gabby, why are you still staring into the fridge? Nothing is going to come out and say 'Eat me, Gabby!' and if it did, I don't think you'd want to eat it."

"Mum," Gabby said in that way of pre-adolescents where one syllable suddenly becomes four. "I'm just looking for an apple."

"Sweetie, they are in the same place they always are," Sirius told her as he began kissing his wife's neck again.

Gabby closed the refrigerator, an apple in one hand and a bottle of water in the other. Flipping her dark hair over her shoulder, she shook her head in distaste. "Mum, Daddy! Ew, I really do not need to see this. I'm going back outside." She paused and looked back quickly, covering her dark blue eyes when she saw them kissing again. "When are Harry and Pansy getting here again?"

"Four," Rose smiled while looking at her daughter's scrunched up face. "You have a few hours to play yet." Gabby nodded and then went outback to join her twin brother Evan and younger sister Sierra who were playing Quidditch in the backyard. They still lived in Notting Hill, but there were special charms over the house so the children could fly around in the backyard without the neighbors noticing. Harry, Rose's nephew, and his wife, Pansy, were coming over for dinner later that night. They'd be bringing their son, Jaime, who had just turned four that year. Pansy was pregnant again and due in just a few months so excitement was high.

"Sirius," Rose tried to ask her husband if he had found the booster seat in the attic, but she found herself incapable of speech as Sirius' hand was pressing her hips back against his, his tongue circling her ear.

"I've missed you," Sirius whispered against Rose's neck as he slowly turned her around. Sirius had just returned from a weeklong trip to Sedona Arizona where a new wizarding school was being set up. His position at Hogwarts made him the foremost expert in security for schools, and he was often called in to consult in the construction of Ministry buildings and even the new wizarding prison being built off the coast of Ireland. Unfortunately, it also pulled him away from his wife and three children. He had returned home earlier that day and had spent most of the morning with his son and daughters. Now, however, he was very focused on his wife, or more specifically, his wife's mouth.

"We really should move this upstairs, Sirius. The kids could come in at any moment," Rose whispered against his lips. It had been over ten years since she and Sirius had married. Rose was nearing 39 and Sirius was close to fifty, but due to the fact that she was a witch and he a wizard, Rose looked to be only about 35 and Sirius closer to 40. However, as Rose often pointed out, he still acted like he was seventeen. They both still behaved like newlyweds, which caused their children endless embarrassment. Evan and Gabby were ten, Sierra almost seven, and all three had many a times walked in on their parent's snog sessions. However, for all their embarrassment, Rose had heard Gabby telling one of her girlfriends that she liked how her Daddy still loved her Mum enough to kiss like that. Gabby had said that she knew her parents would be married forever as long as they still liked to kiss.

Rose loved her children just as much as she loved her husband and was glad that even when her children started boarding school in September, she would still get to see them every day. Evan and Gabrielle would indeed be starting Hogwarts in the fall. They already spent most of their time there as it was, as their parents both worked at the school and they grew up within its stone hallways, even taking their first steps in the headmaster's office. Sierra would continue going to a school only minutes from Hogwarts where she would again join her cousins, Seraphina, Sheridan and Edward, as well as her other friends, some of the Weasley children, the Malfoys, and the Lupins.

Sirius pulled his head back from Rose's collarbone and smiled suggestively at her. "Then by all means, let's take this upstairs." Sirius swung Rose into his arms and settled her against his chest. "The kids will be outside for hours if we let them."

"Hours?"

"Hours," Sirius repeated as he bent his head down to kiss her again before carrying his wife up to their bedroom.

***

"Daddy?"

Sirius looked up to see Sierra hanging over the edge of his desk, her face now just inches from his. He smiled, "Yes, S.Q.?"

Sierra Quinn, or S.Q. as Sirius affectionately referred to her, kicked her feet up off the floor causing her to tilt further onto her father's desk. "Is Mummy still sleeping?"

"Yes, she's taking a nap before Harry, Pansy and Jaime get here. What can I do you for?"

"Um, nothing."

"Nothing, huh? That's why you are literally hanging onto my desk when your brother and sister are outside having fun?"

"Well," Sierra took a deep breath, "IwannagotoGinny'sdoyouthinkIcan?"

"What was that again?" Sirius laughed as he once again realized how alike his wife and Sierra were, not only in looks but personality as well. She had inherited her mother's light brown hair, already streaked with blonde from her time in the sun. They both had the dark, almost emerald, eyes that Lily and Harry shared as well. Plus, she had her mother's habit of speaking very quickly when she didn't know what his reaction would be and smiling at him in a way that he'd agree to anything.

"Can I go to Ginny's and Draco's house?" she asked with a shy smile.

"Now?" Sirius looked up at the clock, it was only an hour and a half until Harry arrived.

"No, Sunday."

"Sunday is your mum's birthday. We are having dinner as a family. Harry and Pansy are staying. Uncle Remus and Uncle Severus are coming along with Aunt Narcissa and Aunt Emily and all your cousins. Besides, I think Ginny and Draco are coming too. If not, we can always owl them and ask if you go over next weekend." Sirius raised an eyebrow, "Why this sudden desire to go visit them, S.Q.? Could this have anything to do with Darius?"

"Daddy! I want to go see Ginny, Vicki and Gwenny, not Darius!"

"Sure, Sierra. We'll send them an owl and set up a time. But not Sunday. Your mum will want you here will all of us, ok shortie?"

"I guess so. Mummy's been sleeping a lot recently," Sierra whispered conspiratorially.

Sirius looked back up from his papers, a bit concerned about what his daughter had just said. "What do you mean?"

"When you were away, Mummy was sleeping a lot. She didn't want to get up and she'd be sleepy all day. She was even taking naps. Evan and Gabby think she's sick."

"Really? I'm sure she's fine, but I'll take care of it," Sirius responded, trying to sound reassuring but he didn't like to think that his wife could possibly be sick and not have said anything to him. "I have to go wake her up…"

"I'll do it!" Sierra pushed off his desk and started to run up the stairs. Sirius jumped out of his chair and scurried around his desk, just managing to catch Sierra around her waist before she started up the stairs. "Daddy!"

"I'll wake her up, shortie," he said as he set Sierra back onto her feet. "You," he said tapping her on the nose, "go out and tell Evan and Gabby that they've got an hour before they need to come in and clean up." Sierra shot him an unpleasant look, another thing she had in common with her mother, before running into the kitchen and out the backdoor. Sirius looked up the stairs and frowned. 'Why didn't she say anything to me?'

***

Rose was having a wonderful dream when she felt something tickling her. She groaned as she opened her eyes to see Sirius peering down at her, his dark hair dropping into her face. "What time is it?"

"Harry'll be here in a little more than an hour," he sat back on his heels and frowned at her. "Why didn't you tell me you were not feeling well?"

"What? I feel fine," Rose sat up as well, rubbing her eyes slightly and trying to come fully awake. "What makes you think I am not feeling well?"

"Sierra said you spent most of last week sleeping."

"Sirius! Sierra has a way of embellishing things."

"Evan and Gab noticed it too she said."

"Fine, I was tired last week. You try managing a house, grading exams and running after three children that all somehow managed to inherit their father's unnatural energy and penchant for mischief. It wears you out!"

"Are you sure that's it?"

Rose shook her head at her husband. He always got like this when he thought she was sick. When she was pregnant with Sierra, a tough pregnancy by any standards, he had hovered and barely allowed her to get out of bed. She still grew annoyed when she remembered how he insisted on carrying her practically everywhere for a week. "I'm fine, Sirius. If I thought it was anything, I'd go see Ginny."

"Well, you can ask her when she comes over Sunday.

"Are they definitely coming?"

"I think so. No matter, we'll be owling here anyway," Sirius called as Rose walked into the bathroom. "Sierra wants to go see Darius, although she claims she only wants to go see Gin and the girls."

"So, she is now crushing on Darius. I didn't know she had moved on from Ragan."

Sirius got off the bed and joined his wife in the bathroom, perching on the sink as she stepped into the shower. "Well, at least she's consistent and keeping it in within the family," he laughed. "Although, if she moved on to the Weasleys she'd have a lot more options."

"Yeah, but then she'd have to compete with Sheridan who's convinced she is going to marry Freddie or Daniel."

"A Snape marrying a Weasley? What would the world be coming to?" Sirius laughed, imagining that wedding reception.

"I think that argument ended when Ginny married Draco, or perhaps when Harry married Pansy. Nothing else will surprise me," Rose laughed. She stuck her head out of the shower and grinned at her husband, "So, you wanna wash my back?"

***

"So, Sirius, how was Arizona?"

"Hot," Sirius laughed. "God awfully hot."

"Well, I guess Arizona is just not conducive to those leather pants of yours," Rose laughed as she and Pansy brought a bowl of chips into the den.

"Pansy, how are you feeling dear?" Sirius looked concernedly at his godson's wife, who had been like another daughter to him since before she married Harry. Since Pansy's parents were both dead, she looked to both Sirius and Rose as stepparents, similar to the way Harry treated them.

"It's getting better," Pansy sighed. "The doctor says my sugar levels are good and as long as my blood pressure remains low, I will probably be able to avoid the bed rest I needed with Jaime. That I would rather do without. Rose, as you probably remember, it is not the most fun in the world."

Rose wrinkled her nose at the memory. The three months she had spent in bed were the most boring of her life. "Fun, exactly the word I'd use to describe it," she replied sarcastically before standing up. It was if all the blood rushed out of her head; she grabbed the edge of the sofa to steady herself as Sirius and Harry both jumped up.

"You're fine," Sirius growled, "that's what you said, right? You don't look fine!"

Rose spun around to face her angry husband, and again a wave of dizziness overtook her. Thankfully, Harry was still supporting her so she didn't fall. "You want to know what is wrong?"

"Yes! That is why I bloody well asked!"

"Fine! I think I'm pregnant!"

"What?" Sirius asked as he sat heavily on the arm of the sofa.

"I think I'm pregnant," Rose repeated as Harry moved away from her to help his own wife up. They quickly left the room so Rose and Sirius could talk. "I wanted to take a test to be sure, and I bought one, but we tried for so long after Sierra and just gave up when it looked like it wouldn't happen again. I was scared that it would be negative. It was so easy with Gabby and Evan and Sierra, even though the doctors said there was nothing… What if it is negative?"

"Rose, you should have said something," Sirius said softly while running his fingers through his hair.

"That's not it. What if I'm not pregnant and this is the beginning of the change? I always hoped I would get pregnant again and what if I can't, really can't again?"

Sirius held out his arms and his wife collapsed against his chest. He wrapped his arms around her, his thumb making small circles on her back as he thought about what she had just said. He knew that she had always wanted to have another baby but when she had dropped the subject a few years back, he figured she had just moved on. After Sierra, the doctors told them to wait a couple of years before trying again, and when they started trying, nothing had happened. The doctors could find no medical reason, so Sirius just took it as not fated. "Rose, we'll never know unless you take the test."

"I know that rationally, but at first it was just that I wanted to be able to think I was pregnant again for a little while and then I started to become so attached to the thought that I was…"

"Rose," Sirius lifted her chin and wiped away her tears with his thumb, "sweet, let's take the test. Just do it, then take it from there." He attempted to turn her around and push her up the stairs, but she was quite intractable. He finally settled for picking her up and carrying her up the stairs, much as he did earlier, but this time they walked past the bed and into the bathroom. Sirius let her down and then wandered back out into the bedroom to shut the door. When he came back, Rose told him they had to wait three minutes.

Rose sat down on the bed, staring at the bathroom door. Sirius sat next to her and she laid her head on his shoulder and took his hand. "I'm sorry for lying earlier. I just, I didn't…"

"I know. Don't worry about it, Rose. How long has it been?"

"One more minute."

"Gin could have been here by now and already done the test," Sirius complained.

"Yes, I know."

"Dad, Mum, you in there? Mum, Dad, what's wrong?" Evan was heard calling from the other side of the bedroom door. "Mum, Dad?"

"Let him in, I'll go check," Sirius said as he stood up and walked slowly into the bathroom.

Rose went over to the door and opened it to find not only Evan, but also Gabby, Sierra, Harry, with Jaime on his hip, and Pansy standing in the hall. "Guys…"

"We were concerned, Aunt Rose."

"I tried to keep them downstairs but they wouldn't listen," Pansy apologized before a wide smile overtook her face and she pointed behind Rose.

Rose turned around then and found Sirius standing behind her, an even larger grin on his face then was on Pansy's. "Is it…"

"Positive."

"Really?" Rose screamed and jumped into Sirius' arms. He spun her around in a circle in the middle of the bedroom as Harry and Pansy both whooped it up, the kids just staring at them.

"You mean, Mum's having another baby?"

"Yes, Gabby, that's exactly what this means," Harry laughed as Jaime started to giggle.