Epilogue 2:

It was cold outside as Ginny Wesley looked out the window at the snow-covered grounds around her family's home at the Burrow. She was in her room, sitting on her bed and looking out her bedroom window. She sighed as she thought of all her loved ones. Bill and Fleur would be coming over the next day with their young son Sean. Ginny smiled at the thought of her little nephew, she really loved spending time with him and imagined what it would be like to have children of her own. Ron and Demelza were spending Christmas with Demelza's parents, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, and Harry, were all spending Christmas with their in-laws as well.

She lay down on her bed and looked at the wall, which was decorated by a fairly large poster of the current #1 contender for the heavyweight boxing championship. She gave a love struck sigh as she looked at Sean's image and wondered what it would be like to touch his newly developed body.

Her eyes scanned her walls and looked at some of the newspaper and magazine articles Bill had sent her. One was an interview he had done with a Muggle magazine called "Sports Illustrated" entitled "Slaughterhouse Five, Ten Rounds With The Slaughter Man," one of the newspaper articles from the Olympics said "Irish Phenom Wins Gold," and another more recent one read "Slaughter Man Tearing Through Competition."

She then looked down at the iron crucifix around her neck and wondered how much longer she would be wearing it. She remembered Richard wishing her the best in the future and with Sean, but to consider him an alternative to being single if it came to that. Ginny decided that her time would be better spent outside of her room, and she made her way downstairs to where her Mum and Dad were.

They both greeted her joyfully; they loved having their little girl home for the Christmas holidays.

"How are you dear?" Mr. Weasley asked.

"I'm okay," Ginny answered with a slightly wistful voice.

"You were thinking about him again weren't you?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she gestured to the crucifix around her daughter's neck.

"Yes," Ginny answered honestly, "I hope that he is having a Merry Christmas wherever he is."

"Bill tells me that Sean is doing very well," Mr. Weasley said, "and that he will soon be fighting for a championship."

Ginny smiled at that, she was very happy for Sean's success and hoped that whatever came, he would be happy. There were times when she thought that he would forget about her and that she would be wearing his crucifix forever. She made a decision inside that she would wait until after he retired from boxing, and if he still hadn't shown up, as much as it would break her heart, she would move on and find someone else, Richard Cootes if he was still on the market. But inwardly, she knew that she could never love another man.

She often thought back to the moment they shared in the garden at Hogwarts and when she told him goodbye before the start of her sixth year. His image was stuck in her memory; she could remember every detail of his hair, his eyes, and his body. She looked at the Christmas tree that her parents had set up in the main room and was grateful to be with her family. She sat in the living room with her parents for a little while. The three of them just sat and enjoyed each other's company, grateful that they had all survived the events of a few years back, and that they could be together in this time of great peace.

After a little while, Mrs. Weasley's eyes wandered over to the window, and then she saw something. She could faintly make out a figure in the distance walking towards the house.

"What the devil!" she shouted causing alarm in her husband and daughter.

"What is it?" Mr. Weasley said after he had recovered from his initial surprise.

"There's someone coming toward the house," Mrs. Weasley answered.

"Is Bill coming early?" Ginny asked.

"It's not Bill," Mrs. Weasley said, "he isn't coming until tomorrow, and he's bringing Fleur and the baby with him…this person's alone."

At this point, Mr. Weasley and Ginny both came to the window and looked out at the horizon. They could see a figure with a duffel bag over one shoulder and dressed in a black stocking cap, a pair of gloves, long pants, waterproof hiking boots, and a fleece coat, moving closer to the house.

"Ginny dear," Mrs. Weasley said, "would you mind walking ahead a little and finding out who this person is? Your father and I will prepare a room for if he needs a place to stay the night."

Ginny nodded and went to get her hat, coat, and scarf. She put on her coat, then her scarf, and lastly her hat and made her way down the stairs. Ginny then opened the door and was off.

It was cold outside and snowflakes were gently falling around her, but Ginny had been through worse, and the stranger was stopped about ten yards from the house when she got outside--then her eyes adjusted and she could see who it was, she could tell by the eyes.

Ginny froze in her tracks as she moved about five feet away from the house and the stranger walked closer, he put his bag on the ground and removed his stocking cap to reveal a short crew cut of dark blonde hair, which accompanied a pair of Prussian blue eyes.

"Sean?" she asked with disbelief to the stranger in front of her.

The stranger's face brightened a bit as he simply answered, with a deep Irish accent, "Hello Ginerva."

The two of them stood motionless for a few moments until Sean began walking closer towards Ginny. When he was a few steps away from her, Ginny jumped forward to close the gap between them.

Sean caught her in the air and spun her around once, ending with Ginny's back to the Burrow. Ginny laughed happily as Sean gently placed her back on the ground. Sean did not release his grip on the beautiful twenty-year-old woman in front of him but wrapped his arms around her slender waist. They both looked into each other's eyes as snowflakes gently fell around them, neither one of them wanting to look away.

"I must be dreaming" Ginny said to Sean in her cute English accent.

Sean looked straight back into Ginny's beautiful brown eyes and responded in an uncharacteristically upbeat voice with "if this is a dream, then we'd better make the most of it."

Ginny sighed gently and then got a look of pure love on her face as she wrapped her arms around Sean's neck. They both knew what they wanted to happen next, and they both knew that the other wanted the same thing. Their lips slowly came closer together until there was no space left between them.

Mrs. Weasley had come downstairs and could tell that the stranger was Sean O'Sullivan. She could tell that the two of them were entirely focused on each other and nothing else. She couldn't help herself and looked out the window. When she saw Ginny jump into Sean's arms, Mrs. Weasley thought that her own heart would jump out of her body from joy.

When they started kissing, she turned around and said as loud as she could without disturbing the young people outside, "Arthur! Come quick!"

Mr. Weasley came downstairs in time to witness the last ten seconds of the kiss. "Is that Sean?" he asked his wife.

"Of course it is" Mrs. Weasley answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, "and I'll bet he is a great kisser."

After she finished saying that, her husband surprised her and spun her into a dip before planting a big kiss on her lips. "But not as good as me, eh Mollywobbles?" Mr. Weasley said with confidence as he broke their kiss.

"Of course not darling" Mrs. Weasley said with a big smile on her blushing face.

Ginny poured all the passion she could into that kiss, Sean's first, and Sean did his best to respond. He had never kissed a girl like this before, and he knew that he never wanted to kiss another one besides the one in front of him. Ginny on the other hand had kissed a few guys, but this one was different. The ones in the past had been adolescent flings with nothing truly enduring involved. But here and now, as she passionately kissed the young man in front of her, she knew that she wanted this to last forever.

After about fifteen seconds, they slowly came apart. Ginny got a big smile on her face and bit her bottom lip. Sean maintained his usual face, but Ginny could see that he was being sincere, and didn't care if his face didn't look exactly the way she had dreamed of her Prince Charming's face looking.

"It's cold out," Sean said, "you should probably be getting inside."

Ginny just smiled and simply said, "I don't feel the cold."

Sean maintained his serious and sincere expression when he said, "I never stopped thinking about you Ginerva. I would have come earlier, but I wanted to wait until Christmas."

Ginny looked back at Sean and simply said, "you have given me the best Christmas present I could have hoped for…just please tell me that you will be staying for at least a few days."

Sean smirked and answered, "I plan on staying for at most two weeks, depending on your mother making good on her offer."

Ginny smiled, "she'll want you to stay forever." The two of them smiled at each other and then came together for another tender and passion-filled kiss. After they came apart for the second time, they turned around and saw Mr. and Mrs. Weasley watching from the front window.

Ginny blushed, and Sean did so also for the first time in his life. Mr. Weasley opened the door and invited them in, "we have prepared a room for you Sean," he said in a kind and welcoming voice.

"Thank you" Sean said as he picked up his bag and hat and walked into the Burrow.

Mrs. Weasley sprang at him, nearly knocking him off his feet, and gave him a kind of hug that he vaguely remembered receiving from his mother many years ago.

After she had gotten over the pleasant surprise of feeling Sean's new muscular physique, she spoke, "I am so glad that you are here," she said to the chiseled young man in front of her. "I will show you to your room, how long are you going to be staying?"

"I was thinking of two weeks if that's okay," Sean said.

"Stay forever" Mrs. Weasley answered. After hearing this, Sean turned to look at Ginny who merely gave him a wink, which he returned.

Christmas that year was wonderful, Bill arrived the next day and he and Sean had a great time together. Sean especially enjoyed seeing and spending time with his godson. Although it was winter, Sean strived to keep up with his training. Ginny insisted on helping in whatever way she could. She ended up helping by cheering him on when he did his sit-ups, and by sitting Indian-style on his back when he did push-ups; Mr. Weasley even did that once and everyone marveled at how strong Sean had become.

The highlight of the holiday season was on Christmas day when the Weasleys were pleasantly surprised to find gifts for all of them from Sean in his duffle bag. Mr. Weasley received a book about airplanes and other aerospace technology, which thrilled him to no end. Mrs. Weasley was given a cookbook full of different Irish dishes, with a handwritten recipe for Irish stew inside from Sean himself and a humorous note reading "this will put some hair on your chest."

Fleur received a ruby sapphire to be placed in the center of the jade shamrock Sean had given her back at her wedding. Sean gave Bill a steel bar with a high-tension spring in the middle that, when bended, helps strengthen and tone the upper body, to help Bill get stronger. Bill joked that with this he could be as strong as Sean…in about two hundred years. Sean gave his godson Sean William a beautiful picture book of the many wonderful sights of Ireland.

But the greatest present was for Ginny, it was a small box, and Sean asked Ginny to stand up so he could hand it to her. As Ginny unwrapped it, Sean dropped to a knee. She saw a velvet box and opened it to reveal a beautiful silver ring with a band in the Celtic knot pattern and a brilliant red ruby, which matched the color of her hair, in the center at the top.

Tears of joy welled up in Ginny's eyes and there were several audible gasps around the room as she saw the present and realized what it meant.

"Ginerva Molly Weasley" Sean said, "I have loved you since the moment I first saw you, it has taken me this long to realize and accept that. You're the only woman that I want by my side for this life and the next. Will you marry me?"

Ginny looked past the ring and into the hopeful and sincere eyes of Sean O'Sullivan. "Sean," she said with lots of emotion in her voice, "of course I will marry you." Sean then stood up and put the ring around her finger as the rest of the family cheered and urged them on.

Ginny got her wish to live happily ever after with her handsome Knight. Sean and Ginny were married outdoors in front of the Order Monastery on the Cliffs of Moher in a traditional Celtic/Christian wedding a few months after Ginny accepted Sean's proposal, with Sean's Sagart performing the ceremony. Despite Sean's being Irish and Ginny's being English, they were very accepted in Sean's native land and got along great together—although it was always interesting during the Quidditch World Cup.

There were of course hardships, but they faced and came through them together. Sean ended up taking Ginny on a wonderful honeymoon around Ireland, and then to Thailand, one of the places where he had spent his training, and the two of them had a wonderful time. Sean even participated in a few Muay Thai fights while in Thailand…the Thai people loved that a European boxing champion, by this time Sean had won his first Heavyweight Championship, humbled, respected, and excelled at their sport so much and cheered him on.

After the honeymoon, the two of them went back to Sean's house in Blackrock. Sean still had a ways to go before reaching his goal of fifty fights, and Ginny was behind him all the way. She would sometimes accompany him to the gym when he went to train with Sal, and would exercise with him in the morning; Sal would often compliment Sean on his good taste in choosing a wife.

Right after the honeymoon was over, Ginny announced her first pregnancy to Sean. He couldn't have been happier, but a little nervous at becoming a father.

Ginny wanted their children to love their Celtic heritage as Sean did. Ginny herself learned to understand Irish Gaelic, but she could never get the pronunciation right, and when the children came, she and Sean agreed that Ginny would speak to them in English and that Sean would speak to them in Irish Gaelic…resulting in their children being bilingual from a very young age.

They gave their children, for all of whose births they returned to the cottage in the cliffs, Celtic names. Their first-born, a son, they named Kellen, a Celtic name meaning "mighty warrior", their second child, another son, they named Dillion, a Celtic name for "faithful", and they named their daughter Allena, a Celtic name for "beautiful." They all lived in the cottage, which Sean had designed to be a three-bedroom, and were often visited by Bill, Harry, Hermione, and many others of their friends.

The children were educated inside the monastery while Sean would be training in Blackrock, for which time floo powder was very welcomed, or on the monastery grounds to teach Knights and new recruits how to fight. By the time Sean was thirty-five, he won his fiftieth fight with a KO in the third round. He had announced his retirement sometime before the fight, and had insisted that it be in Ireland. After the fight was over, he brought Sal, Ginny, and his and Ginny's children into the ring and walked around it in a victory lap while waving the Irish flag with one of his children each holding a championship belt and the entire crowd chanting "Laoch!" over and over again.

After he retired from boxing, Sean gave his house in Blackrock to his trainer Sal and permanently moved into the cottage in the Cliffs of Moher, never leaving except for trips to the city, for which he kept a house rented in Dublin where they could use floo powder to travel to. The O'Sullivans had ideas for a wonderful life in the cliffs until the children would go into the city for University studies.

However, a big change occurred the summer after Kellen turned eleven when a mysterious owl arrived at their house with a letter. It had a seal that was very familiar to Ginny, and was addressed:

Kellen O'Sullivan

The Cottage in the Cliffs

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

The End

Author's note: That's the story. If you liked this one, then you can read the sequel "Harry Potter and the Great Abomination."