Title: The Secret
Author: SweetAsheyPie
Summary: Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are involved in a serious but secret relationship. A night of passion leads to Ginny becoming pregnant and changing the two lives forever.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter (and associated characters, likenesses, concepts, etc.) belongs to J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, Scholastic, Inc. AOL/Time Warner, Inc., among others. I make no claim, written or implied, upon Harry Potter. No money is being made and no infringement or disrespect to the creators / copyright holders is intended.


Chapter 2

Harry looked up from his painting when he heard the distinct 'pop' of someone apparating. He walked into the living room from his studio to find Hermione and Ron hugging. He shook his head and muttered something about newlyweds and coughed to get their attention. They looked up and broke apart, blushing.

"Uh… we made up!" Ron said cheerfully. Harry chuckled.

"Ron, can you get us some tea." Hermione asked sweetly.

"Umm sure. I'll be right back."

"Thanks sweetie.

"Look Harry, Ginny told me all about your relationship. Now I can't say that I'm happy right now because I'm a little angry that the two of you kept this all from me, but I can say that I will be very happy once you give me a day or two to get over the anger."

"Okay. Thanks, I think. You took Gin to the healer's right?" Hermione nodded. "Well what happened. Should I just go over and see her. Does she need anything?"

The heard footsteps coming back toward the room. "Just go see her. Hurry before Ron comes back. We're going to go back to our place. See you later Harry." She gave him a quick hug before he disapparated.


Harry appeared in Ginny's apartment and looked around to see her sitting on the couch just staring into the fire.

"Gin?" Harry called to get her attention. She gasped and looked up, eyes wide with fear.

"Harry, don't do that. You scared me."

"I'm sorry, love, but you were just staring into the fire. You didn't even notice me apparate in."

"Well I have a lot on my mind." She snapped. Harry backed up a little.

"Woah! Calm down. I didn't do anything."

Ginny sighed. "I'm sorry I just…I don't know."

"Well, what happened at the healers? And why did you tell Hermione about our relationship? You were the one that told me not to tell her everything."

"I had to. She was with me at the healer's. He told me something…big."

"What could it be that you had to tell her about us? It's not an STD right, because I know I never had one of those."

"No," she laughed, "no, I never had one either. Maybe you should sit."

"Okay…" He moved to sit next to her. "Is this better?"

"Yes," Ginny looked very tense and had her hands folded in her lap and was fidgeting.

"Ginny look at me. Whatever is going on I'll be there for you. I love you, you know that. So, just tell me."

"I'm pregnant," She blurted out.

He just stared at her for a moment before putting his arms around her and kissing her hard on the lips. He pulled back and smiled at her.

"You're obviously not angry."

"Well, Gin, if you thought I'd be angry you don't know me well enough. I'll let that slide though because you are a little worried. I can tell."

"Yeah, how can I not be worried. Have you even thought about my parents reactions? Not to mention my brothers." Harry paled.

"Oh no. I never thought about your brothers. Damn. They won't like me anymore. They will refer to me as the bastard that knocked up their sister."

Ginny laughed. "Oh Harry, you are so melodramatic. I am mostly worried about Ron, but Hermione said she can take care of that by with-holding sex."

"Oh she's evil." He laughed.

Harry kissed Ginny again. "I am so happy. I have always wanted kids. It is a little early and unplanned but I'm still overjoyed especially since you are the one that is giving me a child. Ginny I love you so much." He put his hand into his pocket and took out the velvet covered ring box. "Ginevra Weasley, will you be my wife, my lover, my family? Will you marry me?" He opened the ring box and Ginny gasped, tears streaming down her face. She nodded.

"Yes, Harry Potter, of course I will. I love you too." He slipped the ring onto her finger.

"Harry, this ring is gorgeous. I love it so much!" She gushed.

"My father had given it to my mother. It was their engagement ring too. I thought it would be good for us."

"It's perfect." She whispered.

Harry leaned forward and began a gentle kiss that soon became very heated and passionate and left them both gasping for air. Harry placed his hand onto Ginny's tummy.

"So there's really a child growing in there? Our child."

"Yes Harry, that's what the healer said."

"Are you happy."

"I'm still a little worried about my family's reactions about all this but yes, I am happy."

"When should we tell your family. The sooner the better I think. We don't want to wait until the kid is a year old now do we?"

They laughed. "We are definitely going to tell them everything this weekend. Friday maybe?"

"Okay, so that gives us 3 days. We can prepare how to tell them between now and then. We must be prepared."

"Yes. That will give us enough time."

"Look Gin, I have to go. You better go to sleep. You must be exhausted. It's already sunrise here. You should call out sick for today. There's no way you're going in now."

"I will, I already had planned to."

"Okay, good. I really need to go now. I have to do a lot of things and get up early for a gallery thing tomorrow. I love you. Be safe and fire-call or owl me if something happens or anything. Bye" They kissed and Harry apparated away.


Harry arrived back to his apartment and headed straight for his bedroom. He was exhausted even though it was only 8pm there. He crawled into bed and closed his eyes willing himself to fall asleep but he was thinking too much. His mind kept on going over everything he needed to do.

He needed to send notice that he'd be moving, tell Ginny he'd be moving back to England, search for a house, tell the gallery owner he was moving, and find a gallery in England to display his work.

He then started to think about the Weasleys' reactions to all of the news they would tell them. "Should I put an armor spell on myself just in case?" When he finally fell asleep it was 3 a.m.


AN: Yay! I finished Chapter 2 in just a few hours. Kelly (Thank you!) told me I had to have it done by 11pm and I finished at 9pm Yay! me. I hope you like it and aren't disappointed that Harry didn't freak out. But I wanted it to be sweet and romantic and if Harry freaked out I wouldn't know how he could propose so this was the best thing to do.

AN2: Thank you for all the wonderful reviews. They made me want to write :)

Response to review from harrypotterluver: I double checked my sources and Ginny's name is definitely Ginevra. (Ginny Weasley's first name is Ginevra and she is the first female Weasley born for "several generations," says JK. - from mugglenet)

Next chapter: The Weasley's reactions!

Poll: Should the Weasley boys punch Harry?

Yeah!

No, they should get angry with him though.

Only Ron should.

No, the twins should end up pranking him.