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.


The next few months went by quickly. Harry's leg healed nicely and Ginny's tummy had expanded to fit their new son. At just one week shy of the due date, Ginny and Harry had still not decided on a name. Which is why they were sitting at the kitchen table pouring over a huge book of baby names to find something they both liked. They were already up to the W's without any success except for agreeing on Nathaniel for a middle name.

"Wesley?" Ginny asked. Harry made a disgusted face in response.

"Win?" Harry suggested. Ginny gave him a look of disbelief and snorted. "What? I think it's nice. Win Potter." That just made Ginny burst out laughing.

"You sure do think highly of yourself don't you, Mr. Potter?" Ginny said after she sobered up. Harry just pouted at that and went back to looking through the books.

An hour later they had reached the Z's and had almost given up hope. Ginny skimmed the page muttering the names as she read ("Zachariah, Zacharias…") and gasped. "I think I've found it."

"Huh?" Harry looked up startled.

"Well when I said the name he kicked. That's got to be a sign right? I think he likes it." She was grinning now, obviously excited. Harry couldn't help but grin back. It was contagious.

"So what is it?"

"Zachary. I like Zachary Nathaniel the best. I know it's long but I really like it and little Zach does, too. He keeps kicking!"

"Well who can argue with that logic? I love it. Beautiful." He murmured before he leaned over to her and kissed her soundly on the lips before moving on to kiss her tummy. "Shall we go celebrate?" He then asked, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. He then helped Ginny out of the seat and led her to the bedroom.


The next day the expecting parents awoke to the smell of a large breakfast wafting through their room. Ginny gave Harry a look that clearly said, "Go see what's going on," and so he obeyed and went to go check it out.

He walked into the kitchen and smiled at the sight that greeted him. All the Weasleys, minus Molly who was cooking breakfast, were crowded around the kitchen table deep in conversation about something. Seeing that no one had noticed him and curious about what they were discussing, Harry crept closer so he could hear some of the conversation.

"…they'll never know what hit them."

"This is such a great idea. Okay so who's going to wake them up and bring them breakfast?" Fred asked.

"Oh I will!" He heard Hermione exclaim.

"Okay so while you bring them breakfast, stall them and we'll set up for the baby shower. We need to decorate, get food, drinks…"

Harry had heard enough and crept silently back upstairs. /So they planned a surprise baby shower for us. I think I'll keep it a surprise for Ginny. I can tell her to go back to sleep and then everything will be fine. She'll be so happy./

"So who's downstairs?" She asked as soon as he got back to the bedroom and closed the door.

"It's just your Mum. She's making us breakfast in bed. She wanted to surprise us I think so we don't want to ruin it. Let's go back to sleep, shall we? It's only 7."

"That's so nice. Okay I'll go back to sleep but first I need to use the loo. Zach is using my bladder as target practice for his feet again." Harry helped her out of bed and towards the bathroom and then back to the bed when she was finished.

"I can't wait to meet him!" Ginny exclaimed looking not in the least bit tired anymore. "Can you believe it? It just a few days we're going to be parents."

"It's incred…" The rest of his answer was cut off by a knock on the door. "Come in." Harry answered.

Hermione bounded into the room with two trays filled to the brim with food. "So Mum thought it'd be nice if we made breakfast in bed for you two. You know because in the next few days you two will be exhausted. We thought you should just relax a bit today and enjoy being pampered."

"That sounds wonderful, Hermione, truly wonderful. Thanks" Ginny said, taking the tray from Hermione. She began to eat and eat until both trays were almost bare. Then they just talked for about an hour before Hermione announced that they should go get dressed and meet her in the living room for more pampering.

Harry knew exactly what was to come but just went along with it and got dressed and helped Ginny down the stairs. When they got down, people began to jump out from various hiding spots around the room and yell "SURPRISE!"

Ginny was indeed very surprised. In fact, she was so surprised that her water broke.

"Oh no." She gasped. "My water just broke!"


A/N: So here it is another chapter...Finally. lol. It's my fault I didn't know what to do and I didn't feel like writing out a whole pregnancy. That would've been to drawn out. I like how it is now. There's probably going to be one chapter left and then maybe an epilogue but I dunno. So obviously next chapter is labor and stuff.

Thanks so much for all the reviews and to my muse Kelly who actually didn't push me to write this. I motivated myself. Go me!