A/N: OK, just to let you know, the writing in this chapter is some of my worst, but I like the plotline I came up with. I may actually turn a bit of it into a fic- hope you like it to! As always, thanks to all of my lovely reviewers!
Nightwing509: I like George's family, they're fun to write. I'm just writing Harry and Ginny's family as I write this (I think everyone knows that who it'll be, don't you?), and they should be pretty interesting.
Hermes09: Thanks for the review.
Dr. Demonic: Thank you for you review. Thank you for the recommendations, but just one quick thing: I am Canadian, our grammar and spelling are almost the same, so that some things are just slightly different, thus looking like errors. This explains probably most of the spelling errors you see, because I run spell-check and grammar-check, but set to English (Canadian). The grammar, however, is entirely my fault, I can't sort out 'too' and 'to' to save my life and my beta reader and I just broke up. Wow, that was long, wasn't it? I won't bore you any more with my rambling.
Emutet: Thanks for the review! Ron's chapter I really like and Ginny's is still in the process, but should be pretty good.
I look across the room to see one of my favourite couples in this world by the fireplace, bickering as their children hover around them, mixed in with Ginny's making the largest group in the room. The children aren't even mildly disturbed as their bushy-haired mother snaps back and forth with my youngest son, of course they'd be used to it by now, Merlin knows the rest of us are. I mean, we all see that at the base of all the fighting in Ron and Hermione's marriage, there is a good deal of love. We always saw that, I think, it just took them a while longer than the rest of the world.
She works as a Healer and he's an Auror, and they're two of the busiest people I've ever met. They married after they were both very secure in their careers, and are still very secure in them. I think family life has always been a bit more hectic than Hermione thought it would be. Parenting books don't tell you about the times you start crying right along with your baby, or the times you're so angry at your six year old that you almost pull you hand back to whop them across the face but stop and put on your reasonable Mommy face at the last second. Ron was far better suited to be a parent of five, but ever since they became a couple when they were eighteen and a year out of school, they've made up for each other's faults.
They spent a long time trying for a baby, finally, finally, nine years ago they had their first son, Dayshaun with his Weasley hair and studious ways he's one of the best behaved children I've ever met. Though he has in the past year had a minor rebellion, absolutely no one is allowed to call him Dayshaun, it's only Shaun. He'll let his godfather, Harry, call him Shaunie, but very, very rarely. There has been some controversy over the fact that Harry is godfather to all five of their children, but Hermione told all the nagging brothers that they weren't doing it because he was Ron's best friend, they were doing it because he was her only brother. It brought her to tears and Harry hugged her very tightly for a very long time after she said that. Hermione's parents died when she was sixteen in an attack on her house, Harry blamed himself, as always, and Ron, Hermione and Ginny pulled him out of it. Since then, Hermione has found a family in Harry, Ron, Ginny and the rest of the Weasley clan, as well as her own ever growing brood.
Their next daughter was born two years later, Valora, such a sweet child, but already showing her father's disposition towards schoolwork. I think Hermione's quite prepared to rip her hair out over that one. But, of course, Valora's hopeless on a broom, despite the hours spent with her father, godfather and aunt, zooming about the back of the Burrow, but in Valora's case she always zooms into things. So she and her mother have cheerfully taken up sitting on the ground with hot apple cider and chocolate as the rest of the family zooms about, we only need two more kids, seeing as Valora doesn't play, and we'll have five entire Quidditch teams, Ron keeps saying. Valora also hates her name, Valora Ginevra Weasley, she says it's to long and flowery, so most people call her Val, and her father calls her Lora, as do all of her siblings, though her mother stubbornly clings to Valora, frequently shaking the roof of the house with screams of 'VALORA GINEVRA!' that scare most of her children and definitely her husband into a hasty retreat to Potter Manor, which is very near where they live. We all know and tremble at Hermione's angry voice.
Then comes darling little Damon, Ron's clone in every way except for the fact that he's got his mother's brains. At four he's already showing a mad tendency to spell things perfectly, and he only wanted books for Christmas, which he got in large numbers.
Lily is their youngest daughter, the look on Harry's face that day at the hospital was so amazing when Ron came out of the room cradling the little redhead, "Harry, I hope you don't mind, her name's Lily, we just thought because..." Ron stuttered out. That was only the second time I'd seen Harry cry in my life, but as he held that baby for the first time, the tears were softly, slowly pouring down his cheeks, all he said to Ron and Hermione later was "Thank you," and they understood, I think. They just know each other so well. Lily herself is a lot like her namesake, quiet, but with a wild side that you'd never expect, and a contagious laugh, when Lily's laughing, she's just so happy that everyone around her has to laugh. Even on the hardest days of our lives, she's just a little drop of enthusiastic sunlight, 'Gamma, can Yiyee fix it?' she'll ask in that sweet baby voice of hers.
Then there's Reid, who isn't their son at all , he's Harry's cousin Dudley's. Essentially, it comes down to this, Reid is a wizard, Ministry officials went to tell him, he said he wanted nothing to do with the kid now, gave him up for adoption, Hermione has a very soft heart under all those books and begged at pleaded with Ron until he agreed that they could definitely have just one more. Reid is actually very asthmatic and always will be, and severely allergic to nuts, dogs, cats and he's dreadfully lactose-intolerant, he also went hungry for the five months he lived with his parents, so now, even after seven months with Hermione and Ron, he's still very underweight, and has just taken up residence in his mother's arms, sucking on his thumb and preparing to settle down for a nice long nap.
She and Ron have apparently made up as Ron has just kissed Reid on the forehead and pulled Hermione into an embrace with him in the middle. I can make out his mumbling 'I'm sorry' into her hair as he always does before giving her a chaste peck on the cheek and picking up Lily and Damon, who are running circles around the couple and swinging them both around.
"Put them down, Ron!" Hermione says, an all-to-familiar worried look on her face, every woman in this room has sported it at one time or another.
"Don't worry, sweetheart, I've got them," he says, and they're off again, but we all know, that beneath all that, the worrying, the fighting, the plain bickering, there is a lot of love in that household.
Nightwing509: I like George's family, they're fun to write. I'm just writing Harry and Ginny's family as I write this (I think everyone knows that who it'll be, don't you?), and they should be pretty interesting.
Hermes09: Thanks for the review.
Dr. Demonic: Thank you for you review. Thank you for the recommendations, but just one quick thing: I am Canadian, our grammar and spelling are almost the same, so that some things are just slightly different, thus looking like errors. This explains probably most of the spelling errors you see, because I run spell-check and grammar-check, but set to English (Canadian). The grammar, however, is entirely my fault, I can't sort out 'too' and 'to' to save my life and my beta reader and I just broke up. Wow, that was long, wasn't it? I won't bore you any more with my rambling.
Emutet: Thanks for the review! Ron's chapter I really like and Ginny's is still in the process, but should be pretty good.
I look across the room to see one of my favourite couples in this world by the fireplace, bickering as their children hover around them, mixed in with Ginny's making the largest group in the room. The children aren't even mildly disturbed as their bushy-haired mother snaps back and forth with my youngest son, of course they'd be used to it by now, Merlin knows the rest of us are. I mean, we all see that at the base of all the fighting in Ron and Hermione's marriage, there is a good deal of love. We always saw that, I think, it just took them a while longer than the rest of the world.
She works as a Healer and he's an Auror, and they're two of the busiest people I've ever met. They married after they were both very secure in their careers, and are still very secure in them. I think family life has always been a bit more hectic than Hermione thought it would be. Parenting books don't tell you about the times you start crying right along with your baby, or the times you're so angry at your six year old that you almost pull you hand back to whop them across the face but stop and put on your reasonable Mommy face at the last second. Ron was far better suited to be a parent of five, but ever since they became a couple when they were eighteen and a year out of school, they've made up for each other's faults.
They spent a long time trying for a baby, finally, finally, nine years ago they had their first son, Dayshaun with his Weasley hair and studious ways he's one of the best behaved children I've ever met. Though he has in the past year had a minor rebellion, absolutely no one is allowed to call him Dayshaun, it's only Shaun. He'll let his godfather, Harry, call him Shaunie, but very, very rarely. There has been some controversy over the fact that Harry is godfather to all five of their children, but Hermione told all the nagging brothers that they weren't doing it because he was Ron's best friend, they were doing it because he was her only brother. It brought her to tears and Harry hugged her very tightly for a very long time after she said that. Hermione's parents died when she was sixteen in an attack on her house, Harry blamed himself, as always, and Ron, Hermione and Ginny pulled him out of it. Since then, Hermione has found a family in Harry, Ron, Ginny and the rest of the Weasley clan, as well as her own ever growing brood.
Their next daughter was born two years later, Valora, such a sweet child, but already showing her father's disposition towards schoolwork. I think Hermione's quite prepared to rip her hair out over that one. But, of course, Valora's hopeless on a broom, despite the hours spent with her father, godfather and aunt, zooming about the back of the Burrow, but in Valora's case she always zooms into things. So she and her mother have cheerfully taken up sitting on the ground with hot apple cider and chocolate as the rest of the family zooms about, we only need two more kids, seeing as Valora doesn't play, and we'll have five entire Quidditch teams, Ron keeps saying. Valora also hates her name, Valora Ginevra Weasley, she says it's to long and flowery, so most people call her Val, and her father calls her Lora, as do all of her siblings, though her mother stubbornly clings to Valora, frequently shaking the roof of the house with screams of 'VALORA GINEVRA!' that scare most of her children and definitely her husband into a hasty retreat to Potter Manor, which is very near where they live. We all know and tremble at Hermione's angry voice.
Then comes darling little Damon, Ron's clone in every way except for the fact that he's got his mother's brains. At four he's already showing a mad tendency to spell things perfectly, and he only wanted books for Christmas, which he got in large numbers.
Lily is their youngest daughter, the look on Harry's face that day at the hospital was so amazing when Ron came out of the room cradling the little redhead, "Harry, I hope you don't mind, her name's Lily, we just thought because..." Ron stuttered out. That was only the second time I'd seen Harry cry in my life, but as he held that baby for the first time, the tears were softly, slowly pouring down his cheeks, all he said to Ron and Hermione later was "Thank you," and they understood, I think. They just know each other so well. Lily herself is a lot like her namesake, quiet, but with a wild side that you'd never expect, and a contagious laugh, when Lily's laughing, she's just so happy that everyone around her has to laugh. Even on the hardest days of our lives, she's just a little drop of enthusiastic sunlight, 'Gamma, can Yiyee fix it?' she'll ask in that sweet baby voice of hers.
Then there's Reid, who isn't their son at all , he's Harry's cousin Dudley's. Essentially, it comes down to this, Reid is a wizard, Ministry officials went to tell him, he said he wanted nothing to do with the kid now, gave him up for adoption, Hermione has a very soft heart under all those books and begged at pleaded with Ron until he agreed that they could definitely have just one more. Reid is actually very asthmatic and always will be, and severely allergic to nuts, dogs, cats and he's dreadfully lactose-intolerant, he also went hungry for the five months he lived with his parents, so now, even after seven months with Hermione and Ron, he's still very underweight, and has just taken up residence in his mother's arms, sucking on his thumb and preparing to settle down for a nice long nap.
She and Ron have apparently made up as Ron has just kissed Reid on the forehead and pulled Hermione into an embrace with him in the middle. I can make out his mumbling 'I'm sorry' into her hair as he always does before giving her a chaste peck on the cheek and picking up Lily and Damon, who are running circles around the couple and swinging them both around.
"Put them down, Ron!" Hermione says, an all-to-familiar worried look on her face, every woman in this room has sported it at one time or another.
"Don't worry, sweetheart, I've got them," he says, and they're off again, but we all know, that beneath all that, the worrying, the fighting, the plain bickering, there is a lot of love in that household.