Epilogue: Yeh Tera Ghar, Yeh Mera Ghar

A/N : The title of the epilogue is the beginning line of a Hindi song, which means "This is my home, this is your home."

After 5 years:

Hermione had set the dining table and as she did so, she glanced at the clock in her living room, which was a replica of the good old Weasley clock. Her clock consisted of five hands: Ron, Matthew, herself, and her 3-year-old twins, Maya and Michael.

While hers and the twins hands were pointing towards 'Home', Ron's was (still) pointing towards 'Work' and Matt's was at 'Play'. He had just left to a friends place. He had become pretty outgoing and had a good friend circle. In fact he was a very popular kid in the locality. Maybe that had something to do with his easy relationship with Ron, which was a mix of friend, father and brother. Ron and Matthew talked a lot and about everything on the planet. In fact, for about a year or two after her marriage with Ron, Matthew was happy and content just talking to Ron and did not prefer to go to friends. After a discussion, Hermione and Ron told him to try to make more friends. First, he was reluctant to do so, but now he was the star of his friend circle.

Hermione sighed and thought back to the time when she felt about the possibility of Matt feeling out of place in the Weasleys. Then, Ron had told her, "Hermione, do you think being a Weasley is just having red hair? No, 'Mione. Even if Matt is not Weasley by blood, he is a Weasley by heart. Everybody loves him and believe me, I have totally forgotten about him not being a Weasley, until you just reminded me."

Hermione just fell in love with him all over again, then. It was things like these that made her love him more and more. It was times like these when she thought back to Hogwarts days and realised that Ron was always meant for her, then and now.

A sudden movement in the clock hands brought her to the present. Ron's hand was now between 'Work' and 'Home' and now…

"Hello, my family…huh nobody here?"

"Well, what about me, mister? Am I nobody?" Hermione said, with a look of mock anger on her face.

"Oh, Oh, Of course not.. you, my dear, are my everything," Ron said, coming close enough to kiss her.

She gave him a quick kiss and said in a bussiness-like tone, "You are late. The twins have been waiting for you. They are feeling so sleepy, just see that. But they refuse to sleep without you."

All this while, Ron was pouting over not receiving a more romantic welcome. But when Hermione pointed towards the twins, he looked at them with a look of adoration which immediately changed to an apology.

"OK, I'll freshen up and change. You just take them to their room. I'll be there in a jiffy. I'll see you after my 'ritual'."

Ron's 'ritual' involved rushing home from work, freshening up immediately and tucking the kids, mostly the twins and sometimes Matthew, to sleep. This was a daily thing, which was not be missed, followed strictly by Ron, place no bar. Although Matt now insisted that he was too old for such things, everyone knew that he enjoyed it. He worshipped his 'Dad' a lot and Hermione was proud of it, although she sometimes did feel left out. But she got over it immediately. Matthew was happy, and it was not like he did not love her at all. He did love her a lot and had different way of showing it to her.

After two years of their marriage, Ron and Harry had quit Auror job and both had bagged jobs at Hogwarts. So had Hermione. Hermione was Prof.Granger for Muggle studies, Harry was Prof.Potter for Transfiguration and Ron was Prof. Weasley for the DADA. Of course, alternately they also handled Quidditch as a hobby. Since they were top-notch Aurors, they were allowed to quit only on the condition that they enrolled in Auror Reserve, which was for really high-intelligence and time-consuming crimes.

Part of the reason in both of them quitting Auror job was that at that time, both Hillary and Hermione were pregnant. Harry and Hillary had got married the same year as Ron and Hermione. Theirs was a Christmas wedding. After their wedding, Ron and Hermione had both bought a cottage, a nice spacious one, 'Chalet', in Hogsmeade village. Close to Hogwarts, and close to all basic necessities. Of course, what else could compete with Honeydukes and Flourish & Botts?

Hermione remembered the time when she and Ron were planning on having children.

Flashback

Ron was in a particularly romantic mood today, and he was humming away as his head rested on Hermione's lap. He had his eyes closed and so, he could not see Hermione smiling at him, as she watched him.

Ron opened his eyes and said, "'Mione, Don't you think Matt needs someone new to play with?"

Hermione was caught off-guard with his question. "What do you mean? He has just got new friends to play with. Let him get adjusted to them first. Then let him decide."

"But then if we leave it to him to decide and he really does,it mighttake us too long to get someone."

Hermione had no clue whatsoever about what Ron was going on about.

"Too long? How long? What do you mean?"

"I mean , maybe about nine months?" Now Ron was looking at her, with a mischevious expression on his face, as he raised his eyebrows suggestively.

Maybe, it was a just a bad day, because, Hermion had not yet caught on. And that was why she looked clueless. Seeing this expression, Ron's smile faltered and he said quietly, "You know, 'Mione for a smart witch like you, you are pretty daft!"

"Just what do you mean by that?"

"I mean, 'Mione my dear sweet daft darling, I was talking about having children?"

"Children?"

"Ye –es, children!"

"But, Matthew…children…what if"

Ron had immediately understood what she was talking about.

"Hermione, please tell me you are not thinking that after we have our child, I am going to neglect Matt. Because, there is not a chance in hell that that is going to happen."

Hermione was looking at him silently.

Ron continued. "'Mione. I understand your worry about Matt. It is very natural for you. But please trust me on this, love, I love you and I love Matthew. Nothing and I mean nothing is going to change that for me. But, if that still does not convince you, then it's better that we don't have children at all, because I know for sure, and I swear by Merlin, there is not a chance in hell that I am going to neglect Matt or lessen my love towards him."

It was as if Hermione had been waiting all her life to hear him say just that, because when Ron shifted his side of the bed to sleep, she pulled him back into an embrace and said, "OH, Ron! How do you manage to do that? Go from all romantic to mischevious to serious and then irritate me and then make me fall for you again?"

Ron pulled back to look at her and said, "Umm…Animal Magnetism?"

Hermione laughed and then said, " I am sorry I ever doubted you. But…"

"Shh 'Mione! I understand."

End Flashback

A chime from the clock broke into her thoughts and she wondered where Ron was. Today it was taking him unusually long time to put the kids to sleep. So she went to check in the kids room when she saw the most breathtaking and cutest scene she ever saw and doubted will ever see anything cuter to compete with what was in front of her eyes.

The twins Maya and Michael 'Mike' had the whole room in disarray and their blankets askew. They were running their toy cars and making dolls sit on their father's stomach. And their father? Their father was in sleeping across their beds, sleeping like a baby with a faintest sign of a smile on his face.

Hermione's heart fought between amusement and wonder. While she wanted to 'awww' over the whole scene, she also wanted to let Ron sleep. Maybe, he did have a hard day today. What did he do? She'll ask Harry tomorrow.

Presently, she placed a blanket on Ron who immediately snuggled into it. Suppressing a giggle, she took the kids to her own room, after putting of the lights and slipping out of the room, without saying anything.

THE END

A/N: I want to thank all the reviewers for giving me their reviews. And I am truly sorry for not updating for so long. I hope that the story has been worth the wait.

I know that the "Animal Magnetism" line belongs entirely to JKR. I couldn't resist using it. Kudos to her beautiful sense of humor.

I know you guys must be surprised that I made Harry the trabsfiguration professor. I thought that he wasn't that bad at Transfiguration at school and if he is an Auror, he has to be good at it. And…come on… Give the bloke a chance! Also, I guess, Ron looked a little OoC, but I think seeingevil everyday does help you realise the value of goodness in the world. Mind you, we are talking about a mature young man who has seen the worst of the world, not a seventeen year old teenaged boy who has tendency to blow off his handle time and again.(Personally, I think if short temper is indeed a part of Ron's character, it just increases the cuteness in him)

I want to apologise to the readers for taking so long to finish the story. I do have some more ideas in my mind, but I will be working on them after July. Please tell me if I should write more. I do want to. Maybe I'll try shorter ones next time. I guess Harry is upset that he didn't have much of a role. So maybe next I'll try bringing him back in focus.

For now, Phir Milenge! (See ya soon!)