A.N./ Hey everyone! Wow! Now on to Ch.3!!!
Chapter 3
So Harry was once again ticked off because Dumbledore was once again protecting Harry and wasn't letting Harry fight his own battle. Of course Ginny was about to kill Harry because he was driving her up the walls. He was so bored and he was making Ginny's summer a living hell. Thank Merlin his birthday was just in a few days and the excitement of his birthday and what presents would be. So Ginny decided that Harry bugging her about his present was better than him complaining about Dumbledore.
"Come on Gin!" He pleaded with her and she rolled her eyes at him.
"I swear Harry! If you don't leave me alone about it, you won't get anything period!"
"You wouldn't do that to me!" Harry said with his eyes about to pop out of his glasses.
"I would if you don't leave me alone!" She shrieked and Flooed home.
"What's up with her?" Harry said asking himself.
"Well you've been driving her bonkers, honestly I don't see how she can put up with you." Susan said walking behind her older brother with little Breeanna on her hip.
"No one asked you," Harry said turning around to sneer at his younger sister.
"Aww, how cute! You share Draco's sneer."
Harry looked insulted and Susan began to giggle, "Where's Bella?"
"Not here."
"Then where is she?"
"St. Mungo's, Roselyn had a doctor appointment."
"Darn. When will she be back?"
"I don't know!" Harry yelled in which is scared Breeanna and she began to cry.
"Now look what you've done!" Susan said yelling at Harry and then walked into the living room to try and calm down the little baby. "Shh, don't worry about him. He's just a big bad mean old man. When he's old and crippled you can push him down the stairs and I'll turn my head away and act as if I hadn't seen a thing, okay?" Susan said in a baby voice.
"Ha, ha. You think you're so funny," Harry said rolling his eyes at his twin sister.
"I am," she said as if she was stuck up. "After all, I have to have a sense of humor to be related to you."
This really ticked Harry off and he stomped upstairs to his bedroom to sulk.
"What's up with Harry?" Bridget said coming downstairs still in her pajamas.
"Just being his usual self, stupid."
"Ah," Bridget said knowingly. "Still sulking around about Dumbledore's decision."
"Yes, and driving Ginny bonkers."
Bridget began to scowl, "Yeah and guess who she come to complain to."
Susan began to giggle, "You poor thing. Why aren't you dressed yet? I thought you had a date today with Oliver."
"It's not a date," Bridget said rolling her eyes at her older sister. "We're just friends."
"Okay then when are you suppose to go on this 'friend' thing with Oliver?"
"An hour or so."
"An hour or so to what?"
"I think we're leaving about noon."
There was a knock on the door, "Well I'm sorry to be a burden of bad news baby sister, but it is noon now."
"What?! Stall him!" She began to stomp up the stairs and Susan giggled once again.
Susan opened the front door, "Hello Oliver."
"Hey Susan…where's Bridget?"
"Still getting ready, she over slept." Susan said lying and then realized she shouldn't be lying in front of a baby…but then again Breeanna was too little to know any difference. For all Breeanna knew they could be talking about that odd smell that was coming from upstairs.
"Great," Oliver said sighing. "You have any idea how long it'll take her to get ready."
"Nope, but if you want you can keep Breeanna and me company in the Family Room."
"Okay, got nothing better to do." He said shrugging his shoulders.
Susan sat down in the armchair with Breeanna in her lap, but Breeanna didn't want to sit with Susan…she wanted to play with Oliver.
"Aaaah! Aaahhh!" The baby groaned trying to reach over at him.
"No, he doesn't want to hold you." She said in a baby voice to Breeanna.
"Actually, I wouldn't mind."
"But you've never asked to hold Breeanna nor Roselyn."
Oliver blushed, "I was afraid I'd break them. They were so little when I first saw them, but now obviously their trying to talk now…so I'm guessing she's old enough where I won't break her?"
Susan chuckled and handed Breeanna to Oliver and the baby began to gurgle. Oliver began to throw her up and down and she gurgled until you hear Oliver gag. And then Susan laughed until her side hurt.
"You know Oliver, you're not suppose to throw a baby up and down after they've eaten?"
Oliver handed the baby back to Susan and he pointed his wand and said a simple charm to clean himself up. "Yes, I know that it's not wise to throw a baby up and down after they've eaten. But I wasn't aware that you'd fed her yet."
"I need to clean her up, do you want to hold her then?"
"And get thrown up all over again?" Oliver asked looking shocked and outraged, "You're crazy! I'll wait for Bridget and then we're out of here."
Susan nodded knowingly, "You take care of her."
"Always."
"No I really mean it, Wood. I know how you feel about her."
"What are you talking about?" Oliver said acting as if he didn't know what she was talking about.
"I know about you feelings toward…"
"Toward what?" Bridget said walking down the stairs looking marvelous. Her dark brown hair was in ringlets to a bit below her shoulders. Bridget had an off the shoulder sleeved dress, it was tight fitting in all the right places, and pleated out at about her thighs. Bridget had some beautiful sexy shoes. Susan looked from her beautiful baby sister to the man beside her that was drooling.
"Toward Rocky Road ice-cream!" Susan said really enthusiastic, and both Oliver and Bridget looked at Susan oddly.
"You like Rocky Road?" Bridget asked and Oliver nodded even though he was lying. In face Rocky Road, was his least favorite. "Me too!" Bridget said with a smile that made Oliver smile, "Let's go!"
After they left there was a chuckle behind Susan and she turned around to see Adora, "You know you are too sneaky."
"I know," Susan said shrugging and setting the baby in the playpen.
"You know it's not time yet."
"Aww, come on Adora!" Susan whined, "It's so obvious!"
"I know it is. It's obvious to you, me, and everyone else in the Wizarding World."
"Yes to everyone else but them. There is a certain time when they'll find out and only then can they find out. It's the way, and you know it."
"Yeah," Susan sighed. "But 'the way' is so stupid."
"Is it now?" Adora said with a look that Susan didn't like, she knew it meant something. "It was like that for all of us. Harry never saw Ginny as more than Ron's little sister until the time was right and he knew she was the one. I've liked Ron since first year and he liked me too. Ronald wasn't able to realize it until I was with Victor. I wasn't able to realize that I truly liked him until the summer when I was with Victor. Then there was you…."
"What about me?" Susan asked narrowing her eyes.
"Draco and you, how you denied your relationship."
"Yeah, yeah;" Susan said rolling her eyes. "When will Bella be getting back?"
Adora looked down at her watch, "About an hour and a half."
"Blah!" She yelled, "When she gets back tell her to come by the house."
"Gotcha!" Adora said sitting down at the loveseat and opening up a book to start on the homework they were assigned over the holidays. Well, actually to finish. She'd done all the other assignments. Susan chuckled when she saw Adora stick her nose back in the book and Flooed home with Breeanna, and the diaper bag.
"Honey is that you?" Came Draco's voice from the kitchen.
"Yeah," Susan said putting Breeanna down in Breeanna's playpen at the house.
"Where have you been?" Draco asked walking into the living room.
"Waiting on Arabella to get from St. Mungo's with Roselyn."
"What's wrong with Rose?" That was Draco's nickname for the baby.
"Nothing, she just needed her a checkup."
"Oh," Draco said nodding his head. "You might want to sit down."
"Why?"
"Because it looks like I won't be able to be here for your birthday."
"Why not?! My birthday is tomorrow! Why can't you be here?! Harry and Adora are here!"
"They might be called out too."
"WHY?!"
"They've found Voldemort's lair, we're going in."
"Tomorrow?! Why can't you guys wait until the day after tomorrow."
"Susan I don't know, I don't make the orders I just follow them."
"Well damn it it's not fair! My life is never fair!" Susan yelled.
"Quit being a baby Sadie! I'm doing this to protect Breeanna, you, our future children, and our future grandchildren! I'm doing this so we can actually live a life without watching our backs for Voldemort! Since he loves to stalk and kill you family!" Draco yelled so loudly that he got Breeanna crying and Susan raced over to the baby and placed her in Draco's arms.
"You take care of her! I'm going cry my eyes out in a long hot bath and don't you dare even think to come and disturb me!" She screamed back at him and stomped the stairs.
Breeanna was crying and screaming her little lungs out and Draco just stared at the baby trying to figure out what to do. He'd been gone a month on expeditions for the Order and he was completely dumb founded, but even before he left Susan really took care of the baby most of the time and now he was dumped with the baby and he was clueless.
Draco looked up at the clock in front of him and was amazed by the time, "Maybe you're hungry." He said shrugging and carrying the baby into the kitchen and setting her down in the highchair. Draco took a bottle out of the fridge and tapped his wand to it tree times and handed it to Breeanna and she began to suck on her bottle, "Hmm. Not bad," Draco said raising his eyebrows and going over to the kitchen cupboard. To get some baby mush food.
"Mashed peas," he opened it up and made a face. "She actually feeds you this horrible smelling stuff? No wonder your diapers smell horrible."
Draco got the baby spoon out of the silverware drawer and sat in front the highchair and fed Breeanna the mashed peas.
Susan entered the kitchen thirty minutes later and about fell to the floor laughing at the scene that she saw. The mashed peas that Draco had tried to feed Breeanna were all over the kitchen walls, highchair, Draco, and Breeanna. The baby was now sitting on Draco's lap babbling happily and Draco looked absolutely miserable.
"How cute!" Susan giggled as she a quick charm to clean up the mess and took the baby from Draco. "She gave you problems when you were trying to feed her?"
"Yes," he pouted. "When she would eat it, she'd spit it back out at me like two seconds later."
"Did you do the airplane?"
"Airplane?" Draco asked as Susan bounced the baby on her hip.
"Yes the airplane! That's the only way she'll eat her baby food is when you fly the airplane."
"What airplane?"
Susan put the baby back in the highchair, took the spoon from Draco, and got another jar of mashed peas. Draco got up from the seat and let Susan take it. Susan did airplane noises and acted like the spoon could fly and the baby gurgled. And to Draco's surprise the baby took the food willingly and didn't spit it back out.
"Hey! That's not fair!"
"Not fair?" Susan chuckled while she finished feeding the baby, "I just have the mummy skills."
Draco nodded, "You're right. You're the perfect mummy, and for being the perfect mummy we're going out for dinner tonight."
"Okay!" Susan squealed, "What should I dress Bree up in?"
"Her pink pajamas."
"Pajamas? I thought you said we were going out?"
"We are…as in you and me."
"What about the baby?"
"Bella said that she'd baby-sit, as she knows I most likely won't be here tomorrow for your birthday. So tonight's dinner will be a perfect mummy/birthday dinner."
"Okay," Susan nodded. "But before I get dressed I want to know what time we'll be picking the baby up."
"She's staying the night with Roselyn tonight."
"Oh she is?"
Draco nodded, "Tonight is mummy/daddy time only. Got it? And no talk about the baby, got it?"
Susan nodded smiling, "Got it."
Three hours later Draco seriously regretted taking Susan out to dinner without the baby. All she would talk about was the baby or wonder if Bree was okay. She'd must have called Arabella twenty times in the last hour by Floo to make sure the baby was okay and if Arabella was really sure that she could take both Roselyn and Breeanna."
"Maybe we should have just brought her with us," Draco sighed as Susan sat down back in her seat.
"Why do you say that?"
"Well Sadie, you've been back and forth about twenty times to check on Bree. Arabella and Sirius know what their doing. Not only do they have a baby of their own, but they also took up babysitting duties when your mum and dad wanted to go out."
"I guess you're right," Susan sighed. "It's just her first time away from us since we took her from your father. It's a bit hard for me to be away from her, I promise Catarina every night in my prayers that I'll keep her baby safe from harm and that I'll do my best to raise her right."
"I know and you're a wonderful woman for that," Draco said kissing the top of her hand. "Now can the rest of the dinner be focused on just you and me, and let us have a fun time without the baby for once."
"I suppose," Susan said sighing.
Meanwhile…
"Harry?" Came a sweet voice at his door that he knew only too well.
"Come in Ginny," Harry said as he was packing the last things in his bag.
"I heard that you guys might be going out tomorrow," Ginny said sitting down on Harry's bed.
"Your dad tell you?"
"No."
"Then who?"
"Fred and George mentioned it at dinner and dad had a grave face about him and mum scolded the twins as usual."
"So what are you doing here?" Harry asked with his back still turned to her.
"To bring you your birthday present of course," she giggled. Harry nodded but he didn't turn around much to her disappointment. "Aren't you going to even look at me?"
"I'm afraid I can't."
"And why the bloody hell not?!" Ginny yelled with her redhead spitfire attitude blazing.
"Because," Harry sighed now turning around at her. "I'm afraid that if I look at the beauty that you are I'm not going to be able to leave you tomorrow, and now I've proven my theories true."
Ginny giggled and patted the space of Harry's bed beside her, "Sit." She ordered and he obeyed, "Open." She handed him a little box and he opened it.
"Ginny!" Harry gasped as he looked at the present staring back at him, "How…how?"
"I had some help from my Muggleborn friend, Jenna Robinson. I got three Wizarding portraits from Bridget and put them all together with Jenna's mum's computer."
"Wow," Harry gasped again as he looked at the picture sitting in the picture frame. It was the best picture Harry could have ever asked for. There was Lily, James, Narcissa, Remus, and Catarina there. Then there was also Sirius, Arabella, Anthony, Adora, Ginny, Bridget, Oliver, Ron, Ginny, Roselyn, Susan, Draco, Breeanna, and the rest of the Weasley family.
"You don't like it," Ginny said fallen sadly.
"No, no." He said pulling her close and kissing the top of her head, "I love it Ginny! This is the best gift I've ever gotten."
"Sirius," Arabella mumbled rolling over later that night in their bed.
"Yeah love?" He asked as he mumbled back to her.
"Can you do me a favor?"
"Anything."
"Can you get up this time and feed and change Roselyn? I'm so tired with watching both babies. If you get Roselyn, then I'll get Bree."
"No," Sirius said kissing the top of her head and her lips. "I'll get both babies, you rest."
"Thank you."
"I should thank you the rest of my life for bringing our beautiful baby girl into this world." He smiled at her and she smiled back. As he left to feed and change the babies, Arabella drifted back to sleep.
July 31st, 1997; 4:30a.m.
"Harry!" Sirius said shaking his nephew lightly, "Harry come on wake up. We've got to leave."
"Give me ten minutes."
"No, we're leaving in five."
In five minutes, Harry was sitting in the Family Room actually waiting on Sirius. Five minutes later, Sirius bound down the stairwell.
"So I thought we were leaving in five?" Harry chuckled.
"Well looks like you were right, ten. Besides I needed to kiss my baby and wife goodbye, don't know when I'll be back."
"Don't you mean we?"
"No, I. You'll be back at least by August 31st."
"Why only one month? Besides I thought Dumbledore was taking me out? Then all of a sudden I get warned that we're leaving today."
"I had a chat with Dumbledore and the rest of the Order. As the prophecy says you'll be the one with Voldemort in the end, they agreed with me that you should come along."
"Thanks Sirius!" Harry said smiling from ear to ear, "Well I knew that if we didn't have you coming on orders then you would sneak out and get there on your own and probably get in a bloody lot of trouble. So this way is easier for the Ministry and the Order." Sirius pulled out his pocket watch and sighed, "Come Harry, we've got to get going."
On July 31st, Susan spent her birthday with her daughter, sister, cousin, and two aunts. Susan was a bit down as she was suppose to celebrate her birthday with her twin brother and husband. Later on Ginny, Hannah, and Colin all showed up to try and cheer Susan up and they did a pretty good job.
Even when they all left and Ginny, Colin, and Bridget all talked alone. Ginny told her best friends of how she just got a bad feeling about Hannah and that she felt as if that no one should trust her.
Bridget began to get concerned because Ginny is usually right on the ball, but Colin told the girls that the only reason they felt like that was because they knew how much of a slut Hannah was. And when Hannah wanted a certain guy she went all in and usually got what she wanted.
Days turned into weeks, and everyone that was a part of Bridget's life started to see a change in her. It seemed as if Bridget and Oliver's friendship was finally evolving, but neither would admit it as they were both a bit shy when it came to that topic.
"We're almost there," Sirius whispered to the fellow Order members that were following him. And before Harry knew what was happening, he came face to face with Lord Voldemort himself, again.
"Aww, wee little Potter. Try to come defeat me, yet again?" He cackled with his family around. As far as Harry could tell Autumn hadn't lost the baby fat yet and the baby looked just like Autumn, except she had Draco's gray eyes and white blond hair.
"Yes and I have also noticed you haven't been able to defeat me neither. As a matter of fact you weren't able to even kill me as a baby or a first year. Tisk, tisk; losing your touch old man."
"How dare you mock me!"
"You know me, full of love and always cynical." Both wands were drawn and Avada Kedavra was thrown by both. One spell hit the wall, but the other hit straight on and a single lifeless body hit the ground with a thud.
