Oliver sat down next to Ginny in the back room. "So, you don't mind that I said I was Kallie's dad? I mean, I was probably in Puddlemore then."

"Okay, where were you at the end of last July and the beginning of last August?" Ginny asked.

Oliver thought for a moment. "Umm, I was in London visiting Harry and Hermione. Sirius was about two months old and I was visiting my favorite godson."

"Okay, you were around when I got pregnant. I have another question. What was your role in the battle the night Voldemort died? I remember you being there but I don't remember very much of what happened because Lucius Malfoy attacked me and knocked me out."

"Well, do you remember where the fight was?"

She nodded. "It was in the Great Hall at school. I remember afterwards the room was a mess."

"Okay, so you remember that the Death Eaters stormed the Great Hall, Dumbledore got all the students out except you, Ron, Harry, and Hermione."

She nodded.

"And the members of the Order of the Phoenix were there already."

"And it was a huge battle. I remember most of it except the part where Harry killed Voldemort."

"What's the last thing you remember?"

"I remember Malfoy sneaking up behind Harry, I screamed, he turned around, and I woke up the next morning in the hospital wing."

"Then you need some major details filled in," Oliver said. "Get comfortable because this is going to take quite some time."

Flashback

Lucius Malfoy hurled four curses at Ginny Weasley in about thirty seconds it seemed. She fell to the floor unconscious. Bill Weasley yelled, "You fucking bastard!" and flew at Malfoy screaming, "Avada Kedavra!" Malfoy fell to the floor, dead.

Then all hell broke loose. Bellatrix Lestrange rushed at Bill to kill him but Oliver Wood killed her first. Bill looked at Oliver, "Thanks, man." Oliver spun around and killed a man attacking Harry. Then they looked up to see Pettigrew attacking McGonagall. Professor Dumbledore swore under his breath and attacked Pettigrew, killing him. Lupin who was standing next to Oliver and Bill said, "I've never seen him that angry before."

Then Voldemort and Harry began circling. The room went deathly silent. It seemed as though Voldemort and Harry were both waiting for the other one to make the first move. It seemed like an eternity before Harry finally pointed his wand at Voldemort and yelled in the loudest and angriest voice anyone had ever heard, "You killed my parents; I hate you! You destroyed the lives of hundreds of innocent people; you deserve death! Other people might be more lenient with you but I will not be. AVADA KEDAVRA!"

At that same moment, every other member of the Order of the Phoenix pointed their wands at the Death Eaters and killed them in the exact same way Harry had killed Voldemort. Oliver and Bill rushed to Harry's side followed closely by Lupin and Tonks. Harry looked at Tonks and her magenta hair in its Shirley Temple curls. "We did it. It is over. We really did it and it's really over."

A minute later, Professor McGonagall had Harry enveloped in a huge hug. They were both crying tears of joy and grief, joy that Voldemort was gone and grief for those who had given their life in the fight. Oliver saw the Harry was clinging to the woman's robes as if for dear life. When Harry let go of his teacher, he fell into Mrs. Weasley's arms and then hugged Tonks again. Then, he kissed Hermione and looked her in the eye. "I know this is kind of a bad time, but Hermione Jayne Granger, will you marry me?"

Hermione stared at him in shock and then kissed him for a full two minutes. "That meant yes," she said. "Now, let's get this place cleaned up."

Harry nodded. He and Bill carried Ron up to the hospital wing while Fred and Charlie took care of Ginny. George had to hobble up between Lupin and Wood since his leg had been broken. Finally, all the dead had been taken to someone who would see that the bodies were returned to the families and all injured were in the hospital wing. Harry, Oliver, Charlie, Fred, and Bill were just standing around the hospital wing waiting. Professor McGonagall looked at them. "I'm going to spend tonight with my husband, so if you five want my rooms, they're yours. Harry, I know you are not ready to go back to your house. Hermione wants to stay here with Ginny, so you don't have to worry about her."

"Thanks, Professor," Oliver said.

"Yeah, thanks," Bill said. "We'll take you up on that offer, if you don't mind us conjuring up more beds in your room."

She laughed. Then she smiled and nodded. "Go ahead. If you need to make the room bigger, have fun."

Bill smiled his thanks. "Oh, professor, one last question."

"What is it?"

"Can I have Angelina in there? Can Fred have Katie in there? And can Charlie have Maya in there?"

She moaned. "Go ahead. Oliver, Harry, if you want to sleep in my office, it is there."

Harry said, "We will. We wouldn't get any sleep in the other room anyway."

Oliver nodded. "What with all the celebratory sex and all, we'll be glad to have your office because some of us actually want to sleep."

Harry walked out of the room saying, "I could sleep for twenty years if I wanted to."

End Flashback

Ginny looked at Oliver. "You saved Bill's life? Without you, I wouldn't have my oldest brother." She kissed his cheek. "Thank you. And thank you for saving Harry."

He smiled. "You're welcome but just so you know, it was part instinct. And I wasn't about to let them kill my best friends."

Oliver was amazed that she was just warming right up to him. He put his arm around her shoulders and she rested her head on his shoulder. "You're amazing, you know," she whispered. "You saved my brother's life, you saved Harry's life, and you claimed to be Kallie's father just to help me. Oliver, you're an angel and the best thing that's ever happened to me."

Oliver kissed the top of her head. "Ginny, you know I just did that out of instinct."

"Yeah but it was still amazing. Don't discount yourself."

He smiled. "Your brothers are trying to set the two of us up, you know."

She nodded. "I know. Fred told me."

"Do you mind?"

"Do you?"

"I asked first," Oliver, insisted.

"Not really," she said shyly.

He kissed her on the lips. "I don't mind either."

Ginny put her hand on Oliver's shoulder cautiously. "Oliver, we need to take this slowly. I mean, I cannot just go out there and do whatever I what to. I have a daughter to worry about. Kallie's the most important thing in my life."

Oliver nodded. "I know. I know how important your daughter is to you. In addition, I need to move slowly too. I have not been in a serious, long-term relationship since my seventh year at Hogwarts. Moreover, I am making a ton of changes in my life. I am quitting playing Quidditch professionally and I have been doing that for eight years. I am starting a new job, well, so are you but the point is I understand. We need to go slowly so no one gets hurt."

Ginny smiled. "Good, I'm glad you get it."

Fred walked in. "Are you two done in here yet? I want to blow something up. I haven't gotten to blow anything up in ages."

Ginny jumped off the crate she and Oliver were sitting on and patted her brother's shoulder. "We're done. I'm going back to work."

Oliver and Ginny walked back into the shop. Oliver hugged Ginny. "Well, I'll see you at dinner tomorrow night."

"Okay," she said. "Just to warn you, McGonagall is coming to dinner. She's bringing my teacher's manuals over and dinnertime was the only time that worked for me, so we asked her to stay for dinner."

Oliver smiled. "Okay, well, good-bye."

"Good-bye."

Fred walked back into the shop about an hour after Oliver left. "You want to know something funny?" he asked his little sister who was ringing up a customer's order.

"Could you wait until I'm done here?" she asked.

"Sure," Fred said, sitting down on the counter.

When the line of customers had bought their purchases and left, Ginny looked at her brother. "What's your news that is so urgent you had to interrupt business?"

"Do you know who Oliver's last serious relationship was with?"

Ginny shook her head. "But I think you're going to tell me."

"Katherine Theresa Bell," he said.

"Katherine Theresa Bell," she said slowly. "As in Katherine Theresa Bell-Weasley more commonly known as Katie Weasley, once Bell? As in, Oliver's last serious relationship was with the woman you're now married to?"

Fred nodded. "That would be correct, my lady."

Ginny shook her head. "Whoa, that had to have been an interesting relationship."

"Oh, it was," Fred assured her. "Ollie is two years old than her and they started dating when he was a fifth year and she was a third year. They dated for two glorious years and then broke up because all they did was play Quidditch and fight."

Ginny laughed. "Surely they did more than that."

"Well, they also enjoyed making out on the couch in the common room," Fred joked. "But that's about it. They just played Quidditch, made out, and fought. It was a pointless relationship. I was so much better for Katie."

Katie walked into the shop just then. "I have two things to say. One is a question and the other is a statement. The question is who were better for me than?"

"Oliver Thomas Wood," her husband replied.

She smiled. "Okay, Fredrick, think what you want."

"What's your statement?" Ginny asked.

"Its closing time," she said pointing to the clock on the wall.

"I'll close up," Fred said. "Ginny, you go home."

Ginny hugged her brother. "Thanks. Katie, good luck with this idiot."

Katie hugged her sister-in-law. "Don't worry, Gin, I'm used to him. I can control him no problem. Remember, I am the mother of his children."

Ginny laughed and walked out.

Ginny walked into the Potter flat to see Harry sitting on the floor with Sirius on one leg and Kallie cradled in his leg. Lily and James were play around their father. James looked up when he heard her come in. He jumped up and ran over to her. "Auntie Ginny! Auntie Ginny!"

She picked him up. "James! James! How was your day?"

The little boy smiled. "I had fun! Mommy helped Lily and I make biscuits! They're very good biscuits too."

Harry laughed. "The kid has no ego problems."

Ginny walked over to him and set James down next to his father. Then Harry handed Kallie to her. "She misses you when you're at work, you know," he said.

Ginny sat down on the couch with her daughter. "I know but we need the money. I can barely afford to pay my rent to you and take care of both Kallie and myself."

Harry smiled. "If you want me to lower your rent for the next month, I will. Ginny, you are leaving for Hogwarts in a month. Calm down. Do not put yourself under so much stress. It is not good for you. Kallie needs you healthy."

Ginny smiled. "All right, I'll try."

"You'll do more than try," Harry said. "I've arranged it with Fred. You are starting at nine and coming home at five, no more of this seven to six or seven stuff. I want you healthy and strong."

Ginny kissed her daughter's forehead and nodded. "I'll try to take care of myself better, for Kallie's sake."

The next morning, business was slow and both the twins were in Hogsmeade, so Ginny was having a quiet morning. Suddenly, Michael Corner walked into the shop. "Hey, baby," he said haughtily. "You want me?"

She cringed. "Michael, go away. Just leave me alone. I don't want anything to do with you."

"I have one question for you, babe," he said, trying to sound suave. "Is Kallie my daughter?"

"No," Ginny said hesitantly. "No, she's not."

"I don't believe you," Michael said. He grabbed her and shoved her against the wall. His hands were everywhere on her body. He was groping her and reaching up under her shirt.

Tears were pouring down Ginny's cheeks. If only Fred or George were there, they could protect her. Oliver, her mind cried out. Oliver, I need you. Oliver, help! She was crying out in her mind desperately for Oliver to come and help her.

Oliver was sitting in his living room reading The Daily Prophet when he heard a loud POP. He looked up. "Oh, hello, Professor McGonagall," he said calmly, as if people just popped into his living room every morning at noon precisely.

"Wood," she said with a smile on her face. "So, you're coming back to teach with us now?"

He nodded. "I guess I am. It is a lot better for me than playing Quidditch. So, why did Professor Vector leave?"

McGonagall shrugged. "I guess age. She did not really say. She just handed in her resignation to Albus at the end of last term." She handed him a package wrapped in brown paper. "These are your books. There is one book that Professor Vector took with her when she left; it is the seventh-year book. You'll need to pick it up from Flourish and Blots soon."

Oliver nodded. "Thank you, Professor. I'll do that."

"Well, I may see you at the Potters' when I take Ms. Weasley her books this evening. In fact, I will since Albus and I have also been invited to dine with them."

"Well, then I'll see you then."

"I'll see you there; good-bye, Wood," she said and then disappeared with a loud POP.

Oliver then left for Diagon Alley. He wanted to get that book as soon as he could.

Michael was trying to force himself on Ginny. "Oliver!" she screamed. "Oliver, help me!"

Michael bit her neck. "Shut up, whore. He is not coming to help you; face it. That is all I want out of you. I don't care about Kallie; she probably is Wood's daughter what with the way you're crying out for him now."

"Get away from me, Michael!" she screamed as he ripped her shirt off her body. "I'm not a whore!"

"Oh shut up!" he yelled, pushing her down to the floor.

Oliver walked out of Flourish and Blots with his book. He decided to stop in at 3W to see the twins and Ginny. However, as he walked by the shop he saw that it was empty. Then he heard a woman screaming. He knew instinctively that it was Ginny. He walked into the shop and saw a man's arm throwing a woman's skirt over the counter. Then he heard a man's voice scream,

Oliver grasped his wand firmly in his hand. He was filled with wrath. "She is not a whore!" he yelled.

Michael stood up. "Oh look, it's the father of the whore's brat."

Oliver grabbed Michael and threw him on the floor. Then he kicked him across the floor. "Leave now!" he bellowed. "Leave Ginny alone. She is not a whore. She is a good person. The only reason she had sex with you was because you got her drunk."

"Oh yeah? Why'd she have sex with you?"

"She was so torn apart by your actions that she came to the Potters' looking for Hermione. They were not home but I was babysitting Lily, James, and Sirius. They were all in bed. She told me what had happened and she told me that she felt like she was not worthy of being called a woman anymore. She asked me if people would ever consider her a woman after what you did to her. I took her into Harry and Hermione's bedroom and proved to her that I still consider her a woman."

Michael stared at Oliver. "You think she's a woman?"

"Yes, now leave."

Michael gave Oliver a strange look. "I have one last question. Is Kallie my daughter or yours? I don't really care but I want to know."

"She's my daughter," Oliver said firmly. "I don't care whether she is my daughter by blood or not, I love that girl. She is my baby girl."

"Okay," Michael said. "Then I'll leave Kallie and Ginny alone." Then he walked out the door.

Oliver picked Ginny's clothes up off the floor and went to Ginny. Trying to avert his eyes, he handed her the clothes. She dressed quickly and then fell sobbing into Oliver's arms. Oliver wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to his chest. He let her cling to him sobbing for a long time. He just rubbed her back and let her cry. Her arms were wrapped around his neck. He felt she was clinging to him for dear life. "Oliver," she said after a long time. "Oliver, do you really think of Kallie as your daughter or do you just say that to make Michael leave me alone?"

Oliver pulled back away from her. "Gin, look me in the eye. I want to tell you something. Your brothers are my friends; you are my friend. I care deeply about you. I want to grow closer to you." He kissed her forehead. "Gin, I don't know you well enough to say whether or not I love you but I do know this. Your daughter needs a father; we are both going to be at Hogwarts next year. If nothing else, I'll be Kallie's surrogate father and maybe more."

Ginny smiled. "You're amazing, really amazing. Oliver, what would I do without you?"

Then they kissed.