Paisley and a Mothers Past by Nikinoks
Chapter 1 - A perfect life
Down by the lake in an area of land with a magical house named the Burrow, a young, eighteen year old witch with fiery red hair and beautiful features lay down, her feet in the water, her eyes closed as she breathed in the delicious late summer air. 'Life is perfect' she thought, 'Engaged to be married, the Dark Lord gone, and a great family, what could go wrong?'.
She heard footsteps approaching but kept her eyes closed, someone lay down beside her and put their arm over her stomach, pulling her to them.
"Hey Baby." The voice of the man there said, Ginny giggled and opened her eyes, she turned her head to face Harry Potter, saviour of the wizarding world, twice, one of the most famous, probably the most famous wizard in the world, and her fiancée. He lie on his side, one arm over Ginny's waist, keeping her to him, and the other brushing the fiery halo from the womans face.
"Hey." Ginny replied softly with a sweet smile. She reached her hand up and stroked his face, just staring into his eyes. They leaned in to kiss. Closer, closer...
"Auntie Ginny!" Came a little girls scream, Ginny groaned and banged her head on the ground hard, Harry just chuckled and got up, helping Ginny up also, but before she was off the floor, a tiny red head bombarded her in a hug, Ginny 'oof'ed and hugged the three year old back.
"Hi Lory." Ginny said to the girl with a grin, as much as she denied it, she loved her two nieces and nephew.
"Daddy said you'd be down here, and, and said that I could show you my new toy! Look!" Lorraine, Charlie and his wife, Jade's daughter, excitedly pulled a muggle Barbie toy from her bag, Jade was a muggleborn witch, and she tried to keep to the muggle-way in everything, meaning that when Arthur had first gone to the couples house, he had asked so many questions and marvelled at everything in site, that he annoyed the couple terribly and they would've thrown him out had it not been for Molly.
"Wow, she's very pretty." Ginny complemented, Lorraine nodded and excitedly pulled the toys accessories out of her bag and showed Ginny each.
Harry watched as Ginny played with her niece, knowing that someday, that would be their child and Ginny his wife. He couldn't wait until that day.
A little while later, Harry looked down at his watch, they had been outside for quite a while he realised, it would be dinner soon.
"Hey, maybe we should head back, it's nearly time for dinner." Harry suggested, Ginny and Lorraine looked up and Ginny nodded.
"Sure, lets just clean these toys up, wouldn't want to lose them now would we?" She asked her eldest neice sweetly, the girl shook her head and helped Ginny put the small accessories back into her little 'Blue's Clues' bag. After everything was packed up, they stood and Harry picked up Lorraine and grabbed Ginny's hand before going over the hill and back to the house.
"And she finally comes home!" Ron exclaimed jokingly as the three walked in the door, Harry put Lorraine down and laughed as Ginny threw a bread roll at her youngest brother, who was already at the table with some paper work in front of him.
"Hurry up and get cleaned up you three, dinner will start soon." Molly said, ushering them to the stairs. Harry, Ginny and Lorraine went to the upstairs bathroom to wash their hands for dinner. For once, a huge rarity, there was no-one in the bathroom, so they went in and washed their hands.
"Can't reach!" Lorraine exclaimed, Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Then get your stool." Harry replied, Lorraine pulled it out from under the sink and then stood on it, in between Harry and Ginny. Ginny pulled Lorraine's hands into her own and started rubbing the soap into the girls hands, Harry joined in a moment later.
Ginny loved the fact that Harry was so good with children, she let him take over washing the soap off of Lorraine's hands and went downstairs, thinking about her future with Harry.
"Hey Gin, where's Lory?" Charlie asked as she came down the stairs.
"Oh, she's upstairs with Harry, he's just cleaning off her hands." Ginny explained, Charlie nodded as he saw Harry appear from the stairs with Lorraine, who ran back to Charlie and Jade, who were sitting on the seatee.
"Dinners ready!" Molly exclaimed, the family all trooped into the garden to eat because there wasn't enough space in the kitchen for them all.
Throughout the delicious dinner, it seemed that Jesse, Bill and his wife Michelle's eighteen month old son, was having an incessant conversation with himself, Lorraine and Mazie, Fred and Alicia's three year old daughter, were both playing with toys rather than eating, and the adults all talked happily to one another.
After dinner, the kids went to bed and the adults stayed up and talked through the night, Hermione was telling Ginny about her teacher training in the muggle world whilst Ron and Harry were discussing their auror training. Ginny wasn't so sure of what she wanted to do, though, she had never told anyone about it, not even Harry, she was interested in the fashion career, she loved the flashy clothes and things that models got to wear and she loved the idea of someone wearing her designs and walking down a catwalk. She knew it was a longshot, but it seemed worth a try.
She went to bed that night with a content smile on her face, she was finally happy and living her own life, not one in the shadows of her brothers.