CHERISH

Chapter 6: Christmas at the Burrow

Harry and Tonks aparated back to the Burrow right after getting their bags and saying good by to Chris and Megan. They made promises to stay in touch, and Chris said that they might be coming with his mother and aunts to England to help them get settled, and help out with the teaching. They also asked that they don't mention any of this to any of their friends about them coming to the school to teach, make it a surprise. Harry and Tonks agreed to this readily, and then made the jump back to England, Ottery St, Catchpole to be exact.

It was the middle of the night when they got there, so they decided that they would sleep in the living room on the couch, since no one was up yet. It was December 23rd, and they were expected sometime that day. They weren't surprised that no one was up, so they settled in on the couch, and were fast asleep rather quickly. They were both dreaming of each other, and what their children were going to be like when they were born.

They both woke up in the morning to the squeals of the youngest Weasley coming downstairs and seeing them asleep on the couch. "When did you two get here?" She hugged Harry and Tonks close, or as close as she could with Tonks, considering her condition. They both smiled at Ginny and began with their story.

"We got here around 2 this morning, and everyone was asleep. So we didn't want to wake anyone up, so we just fell asleep on the couch. How is everything going around here Gin?" Harry had a chuckle at the red face that Ginny had for the thought of them and what they might have done on the couch before going to sleep. "Don't worry Ginny, we just went to sleep last night, we were both knackered from travealling by aparition.

They smiled at Ginny and asked who was all here. She told them that the whole family was pretty much here, all but Percy that was. They walked into the kitchen and sat and had breakfast with the rest of the early risers of the household, and related what the cruise was like. How they had a wonderful time, and met some really interesting people. How they had dinner with the captain on the first night, and met one of the kids of the Charmed ones and his wife. What he didn't relate was that the Charmed Ones were going to be coming to Hogwart's to teach DADA once Tonks went on maternity leave.

The next morning found it to be a white Christmas in England, and they were all enjoying themselves with opening presents and having fun. At dinner that night, they had a big feast prepared by Molly and some of the other ladies, and were full of it by the time Desert came around. No one was surprised that Ron wasn't to full for desert, and they all had a laugh as they ate their desert and drank pumpkin juice to go with it.

The rest of the holidays went quite quickly, finding them playing a bit of Quidditch when they could, Harry and Tonks spending more time alone together. They also went and saw a couple of the houses that Harry had inherited from Sirius, and had a good cry over the loss, but also a good laugh at some of the traps that were obviously set up by the Marauders to get unsuspecting visitors. They had a good time going over what they were going to be doing once Harry got out of school, and how many more kids they wanted to have. Tonks was getting quite big, so they went to St. Mungos to check on how many children she was actually carrying, and were surprised to find out that they were going to have ... (Sorry that's the big secret, you will find out next chapter, which I decided is going to be the last chapter, and that I will probably do a sequel that has the Charmed ones teaching and all.)

A/N: I am so sorry for the length of this chapter, and the next chapter is probably going to be fairly short also because it is going to be the one where the baby(s) are going to be born, and a short epilogue to the story. I hope that you have enjoyed this story, and I am sorry that I got your hopes up for a Charmed/Harry Potter x-over, I will be doing a sequel to this story eventually which will have the promised crossover and them teaching the students. I am going to keep this story to what I originally planned, and have it end when the child is born. Please if your going to flame me on this, at least I didn't abandon this and not finish it. Thank you and sorry that I took so long to update.