Tom Returns Chp.8 Surprises, of All Sorts

Hermione, Ginny, and Luna all stepped into Victoria's Secret and walked separate ways. Ginny decided to walk over to the Christmas present section. They had put up a special section for the "Christmas goodies" and had them all hanging on the wall or lying on a table. Ginny saw immediately what she wanted. She walked over and grabbed her size and headed off to find Luna and Hermione.

Luna walked around the store until she found the "Christmas goodies section". She looked over everything and didn't see anything she liked until she came to a very cute lingerie outfit and picked it up hoping that Hermione and Ginny would approve of it. Luna had been thinking about the one thing she really wanted to give Ron for Christmas but wasn't sure if she was ready or not. She just had to make up her mind by tonight. Luna turned and walked away looking for Ginny and Hermione.

Hermione walked around looking at two piece lingerie because she knew that those were a lot more comfortable. Then from across the store she caught a glimpse of Luna's blond hair. Hermione headed over to where Luna was and stopped when she saw the perfect pieces for tomorrow night. She quickly grabbed them and looked around for Luna again.

Hermione walked up behind Luna and tapped her on the shoulder. Luna jumped a little when she felt someone tap her on the shoulder.

"No need to be so jumpy Luna."

"I'm sorry Hermione but you scared the bejeberz outta me."

"Bejeberz, that's a word I haven't heard in a long time."

"Well sorry but I like that word." Luna said in a childish voice.

"We need to find Ginny and then we can share our finds."

"I'm right here you two."

"Hi!" Hermione and Luna both said in unison sending all the girls into a fit of giggles.

"Come on you two lets share." Ginny said looking anxious to see what the other two girls had picked out.

Hermione held out hers which was a two piece set that had a strapless lacy red bra with white fuzz going over the top of it. It also had a bikini cut panties that had the white fuzz where the straps should have been. Ginny held out hers which was a red lace teddy with the white fuzz going over the top and around the edges on the bottom. Luna had picked out an outfit similar to Hermione's but instead of the bra having not been strapless the straps were the white fuzz just like the bikini cut panties.

The girls all looked around at their different picks and knew that all they had left to do now was try them on and using them for the job that they were buying them for. Ginny and Hermione wondered why Luna was buying one but they both thought they knew. All three of them walked over to the dressing rooms and tried on their outfits for Christmas Eve night.

All three girls paid for their outfits and headed back to the Hogs Head to meet all the guys. By the time the girls got to the Hogs Head the guys were sitting at the table and laughing constantly. The girls knew that they were drunk and they quickly said a sobering spell on them and left to head back to the Burrow.

Draco and Ginny went strait upstairs when they got back at the Burrow because they had a few more presents to wrap. Ginny pulled out the outfit that she had had wrapped at Victoria's Secret and put it with the pile of wrapped gifts. At the same time, Hermione and Luna were both laying theirs under the tree and heading back into the kitchen to help Mrs. Weasley prepare Christmas Eve dinner.

Harry and Ron sat outside on a bench and started talking.

"I think I'm going to propose to Luna on New Year's Eve."

"Thas great Ron. Have you bought the ring yet?"

"I have it upstairs in my room. I just don't know because lately everyone's been getting engaged and I don't want Luna to think that I'm just trying to keep up to speed with any of you guys but I love her so much. I've wanted to marry her since the end of last year but we were only in sixth year so I didn't propose."

"Ron if she has any doubts and you tell her what you just told me then you won't have to worry about it. If she loves you Ron then she won't leave you over something like that."

"I know that Harry but I just don't know if I should propose or not. I really do love her and I want her to be with me for the rest of my life. I want to have a family with her but I don't know if she wants the same thing."

"Don't worry Ron, she'll tell you if she isn't ready to get married yet. I mean you're only seventeen and she's what sixteen?"

"Yeah she's sixteen but Harry in a year we're going to have jobs and my parents were married when they were fifteen and sixteen and they are a perfectly happy being married still. I dunno but I'll decide soon. I just hope I make the right decision."

"I don't think that you need worry about your decision being wrong Ron. I've seen the way you two look at each other and it's the exact same look that Draco gives Ginny and vice versa."

"Don't remind me. As much as Ginny thinks that I support her and that prick Malfoy, I don't and I probably never will. The only reason that I don't show it is because I know that she loves him and he loves her. I swear to god though that if he ever makes her cry I'll kill him."

"I know you will Ron and I'm pretty sure he knows it to."

"Boys it's time to come insides. Dinners ready." Mrs. Weasley shouted from the front doorway.

Everyone piled into the Weasleys dining room and sat down next to their other halves. Mr. Weasley said the prayer and then the table became a whole mass of hands passing dishes back and forth. When everyone finally stopped passing dishes Mr. Weasley started talking about Harry and Hermione's wedding plans. He asked about when it would be and about who was going to be the best man and maid of honor.

Ginny sat at the table listening to her father rant and rave about Harry and Hermione's wedding but not once did she ever hear her father say a thing about hers and Draco's wedding. Harry wasn't even a true Weasley yet her father cared more about his and Hermione's wedding then about his own daughters wedding. Ginny was so mad at her dad that she cold feel the heat rise in her face. Draco leaned over at the exact time that Ginny pushed out of her chair and turned quickly. She walked out of the house slamming the door behind her; never noticing that she had elbowed Draco in the eye.

Mr. Weasley sat staring at the door in shock. He hadn't even spoken a word to Ginny at dinner so he had no idea what had happened. He looked around the table and noticed that Mrs. Weasley was pulling out her wand and walking over to Draco. He had seen Ginny elbow Draco in the eye and assumed she hadn't even noticed that she had done that because she never even lost her pace.

Ginny ran as fast as she could to the end of the Weasleys land and sat, staring out at the lake where she had spent so many days fishing with her brothers. Now she was losing her family instead of gaining one person into it. She had thought her parents would be more understanding then Draco's but she had been wrong. His parents had surprisingly welcomed her with open arms and yet her own father was happy about her brothers' best friends wedding. It wasn't like she didn't love Harry just like a brother but she just figured her family would be excited about her wedding more. Ginny sat staring out at the lake with memories of her childhood, Draco and her, and what her life would be like when she and Draco had children and everything. Just then she felt a hand wraparound her waist. She didn't even need to ask who it was she could tell by the warmth that radiated threw her body that it was Draco.

"I'm sorry about your eye Draco."

"That's quite alright love. Your mother is a very good healer, you know."

"Well she ought to be with having had seven children."

"I guess. Why'd you leave so suddenly?"

"Didn't you hear my father in there Draco? He didn't even notice me or the fact that we were getting married. The only thing he ever talks about is Harry's and Hermione's wedding."

"You knew it was going to happen Ginny before you even brought me home for the Christmas holidays."

"But Draco your mother welcomed me with open arms and yet my father can't seem to stand the idea of us together. I thought you said that the talk went well?"

"They did. I got him to agree to let us get married and to walk you down the isle; but I never did get him to agree that he was okay with it."

"I don't want him to." Ginny practically mouthed but was loud enough so Draco could still hear it.

"Gin come on he's your father. Don't you want a father daughter dance?"

"As far as I'm concerned I don't have a father anymore. A father would be happy his daughter found true love, a father would be happy his only daughter was getting married, and a father would want to come to her wedding and not have to be persuaded by her fiancée. All we're doing is staying the rest of the holiday and then we're going back to Hogwarts and I'm not coming home again."

"Love I don't think that's a good idea."

"Draco at this point I'm done letting people run my life; so if you don't support me then don't marry me."

"Wha.Ginny you know that's not what I meant but if you're going to get pissy with me over your father then I'll just leave." Draco stood up and turned to leave but he felt Ginny grab his ankle and he turned back around.

"Please don't leave me Draco. I'm sorry but when your own father doesn't even want to come to your one and only wedding how would that make you feel?"

"The only reason my father is okay with you joining the Malfoy's is because you're a pureblood and Tom insisted that he not pitch a royal fit about it because of your "gift"."

"Oh." Was all Ginny could manage.

"What do you say we go inside and have a talk with your parents?"

"Sure" Ginny said in a quiet whisper while lifting her hand up towards Draco's outstretched one and he pulled her up.

Draco and Ginny walked back towards the burrow hand in hand and walked in the front door. Draco walked over to Mrs. Weasley and asked if she and Mr. Weasley would talk with him and Ginny later that night. She agreed and went to tell Mr. Weasley.

Everyone gathered in the living room and sat down to open Christmas presents. The Weasleys like some other family's opened their presents on Christmas Eve and opened their stockings the next morning. Draco sat in a chair and Ginny sat on the floor with her back between Draco's legs. Ron and Luna sat the same way that Draco and Ginny did and then Harry and Hermione were both sitting on the floor with Hermione in Harry's lap. Charlie, Bill, Fred, George and Percy all sat on the two couches in the Weasleys living room. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley stood by the tree waiting to hand out presents.

Everyone sat down and waited while Mr. and Mrs. Weasley passed out presents to everyone. When everyone had their presents and had finished opening them Mr. and Mrs. Weasley called Ron, Luna, Harry, Hermione, Draco, and Ginny into the kitchen. There was one last present they had to give their children. However what the couples didn't realize was it was a very large present.

All the couples stood there in shock listening to hat the elder Weasleys had just said. If they all had heard this correctly they now owned a house! Draco stood with his arms wrapped around Ginny and Ginny had her mouth wide open. Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco and Ginny all owned a house together. Once Ron got married his wife would also have some ownership of the house. They were going out to see the house in a few days and they weren't allowed to move in until they graduated. Ginny was graduating from Hogwarts and would not be able to have a job for another year at the Ministry or Hogwarts and those were the only two places that she wanted to work.

Ron stood with Luna next to him and his arm draped around her waist. He was fiddling with the box with Luna's engagement ring in it and was still trying to decide if he would propose on New Years Eve. Now that the main thing that was holding him back from proposing was taken care of the only thing holding him back was fear of rejection.

"Mum, didn't you have a surprise to?"

"Yes well we need to go back into the living room for that. It's a gift for the entire family."

"Love what gift? I don't remember anymore gifts." Mr. Weasley whispered into his wives ear.

"That, is because you, Mr. Weasley, don not know about this gift."

"Oh!"

Everyone walked into the living room and sat on the couch with the girls sitting on the guys' laps. Mr. Weasley walked over and sat next to Fred, George and Percy. Bill and Charlie sat across from them on the love seat with Bill's wife sitting nicely next to him. Charlie was going to spend Christmas with his girlfriends' family but his mum had told him she had a gift for the entire family and he had to be there.

"Well what is it?"

"Oh be patient Ronald, really, always so dramatic."

"Come on mum, you can't just keep us wondering. I mean you must have done a good job of hiding it if dad didn't know about it." Everyone laughed at this knowing that no one had ever been able to keep a present hidden from him. This would be the first year that someone had kept a present from him.

"Alright, alright Ron." Mrs. Weasley said taking in a deep breath before she continued with her present. "I found out three weeks ago that.I'm pregnant. I'm really not sure how it happened. ."

"Mum if I'm correct you told us that when a man and woman love each other so much that they decide."

"Oh Fred!" everyone in the room burst out laughing; except one, Mr. Weasley.

"Dad what's the matter?"

"Nothing Ginny, I just wasn't expecting that I mean your mother is 48 and having another child. I thought we were done when we had you."

"Gee thanks, you make me feel so loved!"

"That's not what I mean Ginny and you know it."

"Hunny aren't you happy, we're going to have another little wizard running round the house."

"It's a boy?"

"Yes!" Mrs. Weasley squealed with delight.

"Oh great, another one!" Ginny said letting out a fake breath like it was a horrible thing.

"Hey at least we won't have to put up with this one like we had to put up with Ginny crying all the time. I always did wonder what you two did around the house when we weren't home but I guess I should've known you having seven kids."

"And let's not forget an eighth on the way!" Mrs. Weasley said.

Mr. Weasley now stood in the corner looking at his wife and praying to the gods that having another child would not be too much on her. It was dangerous for a woman to have a child at the age of 48. The one thing he was thankful for was the fact that he now had enough money where he could give this child the best and not worry about having to scrounge up money anymore just for school books.

Mrs. Weasley looked around the room and noticed all the sleepy eyes staring and people yawning. She decided it best if she sent them to bed and because she knew that the couples probably wanted to chit chat before drifting off to sleep in each others arms. She knew that all three couples slept together even though she had two beds in each room because every morning she would peak in and find Harry and Hermione entangled in each other. Ron and Luna would be sleeping with Luna's backside pressed up against Ron's chest, both of them lying on their side. Then she would peer into Ginny's room and find her daughter with her head resting on Draco's bare chest and the sheets pulled tightly over their bodies; of course none of the couples knew she peeked into their rooms every morning but she still did, just to make sure everything was alright. Everyone went upstairs to bed and the couples went their separate ways.

Hermione gave Harry his gift. Luna gave Ron his gift and Ginny gave Draco his gift. All three guys sat on their girlfriends' bed and un wrapped the gifts. Harry looked at Hermione and threw it at her.

"Go put it on, I really don't want to waste time."

Ron looked up at Luna with astonishment on his face. He thought for sure that the last time, also the first, would be the last until they were married. Luna knew what he was thinking so she walked over to him picked up the outfit and walked into the bathroom.

Draco look at Ginny and smiled at her.

"You know red really isn't my colour but I bet this would look gorgeous on you. Or better yet maybe on you then off you and then on you and off you again. Then I can un dress you and dress you back up. Oh the fun times!" Ginny smiled at Draco and grabbed the outfit, turning on her heal she headed for the bathroom.

When all three girls were standing in the hall outside their bedrooms, outfits in hand, they all switched back to theirs. They had switched that way the guys thought they were going to be wearing something different and ended up surprised when they saw what the girls were wearing. The girls walked into the bathroom and one by one changed. They all grabbed a bath robe and pulled it around themselves. Hermione put silencing charms on all the rooms so that nothing could be heard and they all went their separate ways.

Mrs. Weasley closed her bedroom door back and chuckled to herself. She had seen the girls walk into the bathroom one by one with their "outfits" and knew exactly what they had bought them for although she couldn't figure out Luna's. She had over heard Luna, Hermione, and Ginny talking and had heard Luna say that she wasn't going to have sex until she was married. Mrs. Weasley wondered why Luna had bought her outfit but assumed that it was just to put on a show for her son.

Luna walked into Ron's bathroom and was surprised when she closed the door behind her and turned around to have Ron's lips conceal around hers. Ron grabbed Luna and picked her up; she rapped her legs around his waist as she felt his hand roam over her body. He walked over and lay her down on his bed crawling over her not once breaking the kiss. He pulled one of his hands back and fiddled with the ring in his pocket. He broke the kiss and stood up.

"What's the matter Ron?" Luna asked while she tried to catch her breath.

"I have to ask you something. Come here." Ron sat down on a chair and pulled Luna into his lap. He pulled the ring out of his pocket and looked up at her.