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CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND NINE:

The One With the Snowman Abs

After spending the evening with her family and then the night comforting Harry, followed by the funeral for Ted and Andromeda Tonks, Ginny found herself rather looking forward to the girls' lunch. The idea of spending an afternoon with Angelina, Fleur, Hermione, and Audrey sounded fun and honestly, she could use the little break from everything. Ginny stepped out of the fireplace into the kitchen of George and Angelina's house in London, carefully holding the plate of brownies she'd made. Angelina had instructed that bringing chocolate was a must for today's festivities. Angelina and Fleur were already chatting on the sofa when she stepped into the living room.

"Hi, I brought brownies."

"Excellent," Angelina said, taking the plate from her. "Isn't Hermione coming?"

"She is," Ginny assured her. "She had a stop to make first, for a last minute present. Where's Audrey?"

"Should be here any minute," Angelina said.

Ginny made herself comfortable on the sofa. "Where's George?"

"I told him to go bother Fred. Fred wouldn't even hear of us inviting Fiadh today so I told George to go annoy Fred. If we can't invite Fiadh, Fred doesn't get to spend time with her either."

"It's been a few months, don't you think that qualifies as introducing her yet?" Ginny asked.

Fleur shrugged. "Zat depends, I suppose. Angelina says zat Fred claims zey are not dating."

Ginny rolled her eyes. Of course they weren't actually dating, but still, she was starting to be curious about the fae warrior. According to Angelina she was as short as Ginny and beautiful with dark hair and green eyes. She was friendly enough but never really said more than hi and bye when they crossed paths. But so far, only George and Angelina had actually seen her. It was another ten minutes before Audrey arrived with Hermione right behind her.

One everyone was settled, a glass of red wine in their hands with a different assortment of sandwiches and desserts spread around them, did Fleur's nails tap on her glass.

"So," Fleur said. "Are you going to tell us if eet is true or not, Ginny?"

"If what's true?" Ginny asked.

Angelina rolled her eyes. "You know what! The papers have been saying all sorts of naughty things about your boyfriend for months now. Not to mention that calendar… I think that shadow is more than a shadow if you know what I mean."

Ginny blushed. "That's not…"

"You 'ave seen it, non?" Fleur asked.

"Yes," Ginny admitted, her cheeks heating.

Angelina bit her lip. "And?"

"And, Harry's beautiful," Ginny said. "All of him."

Fleur rolled her eyes. "We all know zat he's very attractive, Ginny, but zat's not what we're asking."

"We want to know if he really does have a big cock," Audrey said, putting her wine down.

Hermione choked on her wine, forcing Ginny to slap her on the back.

"What? Why skirt around it?" Audrey asked. "It's what we all want to know."

"I mean if that's what people are saying it must be true," Ginny said, taking a big sip of her wine.

"No," Angelina said, reaching for a brownie. "We know that most of those rumours are just that, rumours. All of the codswallop they published about you and Harry, about Harry being too focused on you to care about Voldemort… it was all crap. But this one rumour keeps cropping up again and again so, ergo, there must be something to it."

Ginny shrugged. "I couldn't say."

Audrey rolled her eyes. "No, you're choosing not to say. Come on, Ginny, we're all women here, give us the dish."

"It is rather a big topic of conversation at school," Hermione admitted. "Ginny's even helped fan some of the rumours."

"Ah-ha! So they are true!" Angelina exclaimed. "Potter has a big cock."

"I don't know," Ginny admitted, finishing off her wine. "He's the only… it's not like I've seen tons of penises and can compare. He looks big to me, but what do I know?"

"According to Theo, he's quite substantial," Hermione said. "In fact he used the words 'massive' and 'ginormous,' but he's a tad overdramatic."

"Wait, Theo knows?" Angelina exclaimed. "Ah, come on, Ginny. You have to tell us now!"

Fleur held her hands out. "Like zis big perhaps?"

"I'm not saying," Ginny said, reaching for a brownie.

Angelina topped up her wine glass. "We'll get it out of you."

Thirty minutes later, they were still prodding her with questions as the wine flowed around the room.

"Oui, ze Weasley men are quite endowed," Fleur said, pouring herself more wine. "We are very lucky women."

"Percy definitely has the biggest cock that I've ever seen," Audrey agreed. "And damn does he know how to use it."

"Can we talk about the fact that I think you two are incredibly kinky?" Angelina asked.

Audrey shrugged. "Are we? I just think it's fun."

Fleur chuckled. "Do you really spank him?"

"Sometimes," Audrey said. "When he's been naughty. Though to be fair, he gives as much as he gets. He seduced me in the stairwell at the Ministry a little while ago and oh Merlin, was it hot. We like to tie each other up sometimes, too. If I want to make him completely mad for me, I stick my finger in his bum."

Hermione choked on her wine again.

"What?" Audrey said, reaching for her own glass. "You want to make your man have the greatest orgasm of his life? You get a finger in there. Trust me."

Hermione's face flushed red as she reached for a brownie. "Erm…"

Audrey only shrugged and leaned back in her seat with her wine.

Ginny wrinkled her nose. "Let's not use names. I'd rather pretend none of you are talking about my brothers."

"Why? They are very 'andsome men," Fleur said. "You should be pleased zey are all so good in ze bedroom. It shows zey 'ave respect for zere women, oui?"

When Ginny only gulped more of her wine, Angelina leaned forward. "So, have you and Harry had sex yet?"

Ginny shook her head. "No."

"Really?" Angelina asked in surprise. "With as long as the two of you have been together and well, with as much snogging as you do, I just assumed… are you worried because of his size?"

Ginny drank more wine before she bit her bottom lip. "Well… I mean, now that I know he's so much bigger than average… a little. Theo always makes jokes about his cock, but I didn't realize that he was actually… will it fit?"

Hermione gave her a sympathetic look. "Vaginas are made to stretch out, Ginny. A woman's vagina can expand up to two hundred percent when sexually aroused. We were made to fit babies out of there. Fitting won't be a problem."

Ginny frowned. She knew that, logically, but part of her still thought about what had once been inside of her; what Tom had done to her while he taunted her. She would never forget that feeling of being torn apart; how horrible the pain had been.

"Well, yes, but… won't it hurt?"

"A little," Angelina admitted. "But it won't last long. Then it will be fine."

"Better than fine," Audrey said. "Once he's inside of you, ducky, you won't want him to leave."

Ginny blushed. "Well, that's… hmm."

"Hermione and Ron are clearly having lots of sex in the head dormitory, are you not?" Angelina asked, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Ron and I are Head Boy and Girl," Hermione said, finishing her wine.

Audrey smirked, topping up Hermione's glass. "So, you're doing it all over the suite then?"

Hermione's cheeks flushed as Audrey conjured parchment and a quill while Fleur opened another bottle of wine, topping up everyone's glasses.

"Percy's is more like this," she said, drawing a stick figure before taking her time to draw a rather impressive cock on the parchment.

"Ooh la la," Angelina replied, leaning closer to look at Audrey's drawing. "George's is more like this."

Ten minutes later, the five of them were laughing as they each took turns drawing cocks with zero artistic talent. When Ginny finally started to give Audrey some instruction, they were all clearly on their way to getting sloshed.

"Hmm… maybe just add just a little bit more — no! Too long! It does NOT go all the way to his ankle. Not even when he's hard!"

"Okay, so it's not another arm," Audrey said, using her want to erase her work. "Where exactly about then? Like mid thigh or what are we talking about? It was described as a python in the paper."

"No," Ginny said, taking the parchment from Audrey. "I will add more detail. It doesn't go to his knee either! Merlin!"

"Can you add girth?" Angelina asked. "I'd like to see you make it more oval."

Ginny bit her bottom lip as she started a new drawing and started to add circles around his stomach.

Hermione frowned. "Are you drawing a snowman?"

"No!" Ginny exclaimed. "These are his abs, Hermione. Ab-doma-domin-nal muscles," she stuttered, gulping more wine. "He has like a ten pack."

"I don't think that's physically possible," Angelina said, wrinkling her nose. "But you're right, those abs of his are definitely well defined. Ooh, let me grab the calendar!"

"Fine! Make it a twelve pack then," Ginny said, adding more circles. "Oooh and his arms. When he flexes, they have lines like this. He's so fit."

"That looks like a waffle cone?" Audrey said, squinting.

"I think she needs to slow down. She's very tiny, oui?" Fleur said, looking worried. "Should we get Ginny some water?"

"No, not yet," Angelina interrupted, returning with the calendar and flipping it open to Mr July. "I'm really intrigued on where this drawing will go."

"Calves! They're so hard and lovely," Ginny sighed. "He has very pretty calves. Another parchment please! I need to draw him from the back! He has such nice shoulders and the best arse ever."

"Wait!" Hermione protested, drinking the rest of her wine and pointing with her empty glass. "That is not true. Ron has the best little bum. It's even freckled and the right cheek has way more freckles and it's so pretty. It really is the best arse, not Harry's."

"Agree to disagree," Ginny said as she continued to draw.

Angelina pointed to the photo of Harry in the calendar. "We want to know about this, Ginny. You know, George's is quite lovely. It points a little to the left, but I like it," Angelina said.

"Percy's is completely straight," Audrey said. "But he's quite thick."

"Bill is very long," Fleur said. "He points to ze left too and his balls hang a leetle low. He is perfect."

Hermione blushed. "I can't believe that we're having this conversation."

Fleur raised a perfect eyebrow. "I highly doubt zat Ron is anything to be embarrassed about considering his brothers are all so lovely and endowed. You did just say zat he has a very nice derrière, oui?"

"Of course not!" Hermione exclaimed, downing her wine. "I mean, yes, he has a great arse and his cock is very long and there are some lovely freckles that I… I shouldn't be saying this."

"No," Angelina insisted, refilling Hermione's glass. "Tell us more about Ron's long, freckled cock, Hermione."

Ginny hiccupped. "Harry doesn't have freckles on his cock." She added more lines to the parchment. "He's here."

"Mid-thigh?" Angelina exclaimed. "Damn."

"We really shouldn't be doing this," Hermione said. "It's wrong."

Audrey shrugged. "Men definitely talk about us. Why can't we talk about them? Besides, I love my man's cock. I think he'd be okay to hear me say that. But come on, Ginny. Tell us the truth, does Harry really have a massive cock?"

Ginny drank more of her wine and shook her head.

Fleur spaced her hands apart. "Bill's is zis long."

"Ron's about the same," Hermione said, before her cheeks heated.

"George isn't that long," Angelina admitted. "But trust me when I say I am never disappointed." She spaced her hands out and the women whistled.

"Is Harry about that big, Ginny?" Audrey asked.

Ginny shook her head. "No, longer." She hiccuped. "I mean… whoops."

Angelina's eyebrow rose. "We're talking hard, right?"

At Ginny's shrug, she gasped.

"No wonder he always was so private in the change room! Are you telling me he's packing twenty centimetres in his trousers?"

"No," Ginny said, shaking her head. "Definitely not." She spread her palms out again.

Hermione reached for a brownie. "Technically if her drawing is anatomically correct that would be closer to twenty-one."

"Er," Ginny said. "Actually it's a bit more…"

"Merde!" Fleur exclaimed. "You lucky woman!"

"So everyone keeps telling me," Ginny said. "But he's my only experience with that. I touched Michael there before, but it was over his trousers and I didn't choose it and he felt big at the time."

"At ze time," Fleur interjected. "But now would you say he's big in comparison to Harry?"

"Well, no…" Ginny admitted.

"Darling, that's like twice the size of your average wizard," Audrey told her.

Ginny's eyes widened, her half-empty glass halfway to her lips. "What? No… that can't be true!"

"Oh, it is," Hermione assured her. "I've only seen Ron and Viktor's, but Ron is longer than Viktor was and I thought Viktor was impressive at the time."

"Was he not?" Fleur asked. "He was very handsome."

"Oh, he was," Hermione assured her. "But now that I know he was only a bit above average, it makes Ron seem that much more impressive. Of course, size is hardly a factor. It's all about how your man uses it."

"I only just fit my fingers all around him," Ginny said, looking through the hole in her small hand like a telescope. "I use both hands. He likes that."

"Does he?" Angelina teased.

"Yup, yup," Ginny said. "I like to use my hands, but my mouth is more fun. Does it make me a scarlet woman because I like to have his big cock in my mouth?"

"No," Audrey said. "You love him and you love to give him pleasure. There's nothing wrong with that."

"Theo gave me advice on how to fit him in there. It's all about breathing and the right angle. It drives Harry mad."

Fleur's lips curved. "I can imagine."

Ginny leaned back in her chair. "He likes to give me pleasure. He has the most talented tongue. He makes me come a lot. A lot, a lot." She drank deeply from her glass, before eyeing the group. "Is it usual for blokes to want to go down on you so much?"

"How much exactly?" Angelina asked, her eyes twinkling.

"Every day if I'd let him," Ginny admitted. "Definitely three to five times a week."

"Damn," Audrey said. "And I thought Percy was generous."

"Well, they're also not having sex," Angelina said. "Men tend to not go down on us as much once they can start shagging us."

Ginny's eyes widened. "I don't want him to stop."

"With as much as Harry seems to like doing that, Ginny. I don't think that you have to worry about him stopping," Audrey said.

"He does this thing with his tongue," Ginny said. "I don't know, it's like he curls it inside of me and I just lose my mind. I want him to do it to me right now. I'm gonna go find him."

"No," Hermione said, grabbing Ginny's arm. "You're going to stay right here while we find you a sobering potion."

"Aww, that's not as fun," Ginny said.

"We have some in the kitchen, I'll get it," Angelina said.

Ginny slowly stood up. "I'm going to use the loo."

"Need help?" Hermione asked.

Ginny rolled her eyes. "No."

She carefully left the living room, moving out towards the bathroom. When Angelina left the kitchen, she made a beeline for the back door, but Fleur was coming towards her. Ginny turned at the last minute and hurried into the bathroom. She'd only stood in the middle for a moment before deciding the window looked easy enough. She used the sink as leverage and carefully climbed out of the window, toppling into some fresh snow and making herself giggle.

Ginny stayed low as she snuck around the house and before she could change her mind, she threw her wand out towards the street and summoned the Knight Bus. She paid the conductor, thanking him for drying and warming her with a quick charm and ten minutes later was stumbling up the drive to Black Cottage. She tripped on the stoop and rang the doorbell, a goofy grin on her face.

Harry was lying on the sofa reading a Quidditch magazine when the doorbell went off. The last person he expected to see when he opened the door was his girlfriend, especially because she fell into his arms, tripping over the doorframe.

"Ginny! What are you doing here?" he asked, jumping to his feet.

"Missed you," she said, wrapping her arms around his waist and tilting her head back to look up at him.

Harry's lips curved. "You did, eh?"

"Yeah," she said, hugging him tightly. "You smell good. Like Harry."

"Erm, thanks? You okay?"

Ginny rubbed her cheek against his jumper. "Soft. Can we take it off?"

Harry pushed her away from him enough to look into her eyes. "You're sloshed."

"Nuh-uh," she said. "Just a little buzzed. I blame Audrey. She wanted me to tell them about your big cock, but I didn't wanna."

"My…" Harry's face flushed. "Let's get you back to the Burrow."

"Noooo," she pouted. "I don't wanna go home. I want you to do that curl tongue thingy to me. You know the one, the one that drives me absolutely mad."

Harry kissed her forehead. "Now that wouldn't be very nice of me when you're in this state."

"Not in a state. Please use your tongue on me, Harry. Please."

"Shh," Harry said. "Zee's just upstairs putting the twins down for their nap."

Ginny slid her hands under his jumper. "Let's go have a nap in your bed. A naked nap."

Harry attempted to disentangle himself from her hands. "Ginny, you are sloshed."

"Am not," she said, unbuckling his belt. "Take off your jumper so I can prove to Hermione that your abs aren't snowmen."

"What?" Harry asked, bewildered by the sudden turn of conversation.

"I think Hermione was drunk," Ginny said, lifting his jumper up enough to run her fingers over his abs. "They're perfect. Not snowman-y at all."

Harry made to grab her hands again. "I don't know what you're talking about. Ginny… Merlin, stop it."

"Having trouble there, Harry?" Zee asked, leaning against the doorjamb of the living room in amusement.

"Yes," Harry said, finally clasping his girlfriend's hands in his own. "She's completely sloshed."

"Not," Ginny said. "Hi, Zee."

"Hi, Ginny."

"Do we have any Sobering Potion?" Harry asked.

"Don't need it," Ginny said. "M'fine. We were drawing cocks."

"That sounds… strange," Harry offered.

Zee chuckled. "How did she get here?"

"The Knight Bus."

"Merlin, she came on that mad drive and didn't vomit? Props to her for holding her liquor."

"She was supposed to be having lunch at George and Angelina's," Harry said.

"Did have lunch," Ginny said. "Then I counted your abs. He has twelve."

Zee chuckled. "Does he now?"

Harry blushed. "No, I don't have twelve — Ginny!"

Her hand had crept around to squeeze his arse and he jumped.

Zee bit her lip. "She was coming to stay with us for a few days anyway, right? She's only a few hours early. Why don't you tuck her into bed and let her sleep it off?"

"Right," Harry said, dragging his fingers through his hair. "And by bed you mean…?"

Zee's brown eyes met his. "Your bed, Harry. Then you can get back down here and help me with dinner."

Harry nodded as Ginny's hands continued to roam over his abs. "Okay."

When Ginny only touched him more, he scooped her up into his arms.

"Okay, enough of this. You're going to bed."

"Beds are nice," Ginny said, sucking on the side of his neck.

Harry carried her up the stairs and gently sat her in his desk chair as he moved to turn down the bed. He'd barely gotten his hands on the duvet before Ginny's hands were on his zipper again.

"Ginny…"

"Right, me. Not you," she said, pulling her jumper over her head and revealing a silk and lace bra in bright pink.

Harry was pretty sure that this was how he was going to die. "Yes, later. Not now."

Harry attempted to put her jumper back on, but Ginny wiggled away and stripped her jeans off. The sight of the matching pink knickers made him close his eyes. His girlfriend was standing in his bedroom in nothing but pink undergarments.

"Ginny… let's put your clothes back on," Harry began.

Ginny crawled onto his bed, kneeling in the centre, her tongue trailing across her bottom lip. "But how are you going to do the tongue thing if I have clothes on. I'm helping."

Her fingers pushed her knickers down and Harry groaned. He was definitely going to die.

"Ginny, no, stop."

"Don't you want to?" she asked, her voice uncertain and nervous. "Did you lie?"

"What?"

"You said you liked it," she whispered. "Don't you want to eat me out?"

Harry was pretty sure that this was hell. Ginny was kneeling in the centre of his bed with her knickers at her knees and her bra making her breasts look more enticing than they had any right to look. She was sloshed and it would definitely not be appropriate for him to touch her in this state.

"No," he said, cupping her cheek and kissing her. "I always want to eat you out."

Her smile was infectious. "With that curled tongue thing-y."

"Yes," he said, kissing her again. "But Zee needs my help downstairs and it wouldn't be fair to rush things, right?"

"Mmm," she said, taking his hand and putting it between her legs. "But a little rushed would be okay."

Harry groaned, she was so wet. He slid his hands down her back, cupping that perfect naked arse as he pushed her down onto the bed. "Ginny, I love you, but you need to sleep, okay?"

He carefully extracted his hands from her, tugging her knickers back up into place and wrapping her up with his duvet. He kissed her forehead.

"Nap. When you wake up, we'll discuss my curled tongue thing-y."

"Promise?" she asked, her eyes already drooping.

"Promise," he assured her.

She smiled sweetly before she snuggled into his pillow. "Okay."

When she let out a small snore a moment later, Harry finally expelled the breath he'd been holding. Holy fuck, he was harder than hell. He carefully climbed out of his bed, closing his bedroom door before heading into the bathroom. There was no way he could go downstairs and face Zee until he dealt with this problem.

He didn't even have to think of anything other than Ginny in his bed and he came in record time. He cleaned himself up and washed his hands before making his way downstairs and wondered just what exactly his girlfriend meant by having spent the afternoon drawing cocks.

~ ASC ~

Zee was trying to not think about the fact that she had just let her son go upstairs to put his girlfriend to bed. She was trying to be okay with it. She was okay with it, of course, but part of her brain was also telling her that Ginny was very sloshed and had clearly been trying to get Harry to kiss her. But Harry hadn't, she remembered.

"Sorry about that," Harry said, startling her out of her thoughts. "She wasn't interested in going to sleep."

Zee snorted. "I noticed that. You better contact George and Angelina and let them know she's here."

Harry pulled out his mirror as he sat at the kitchen table. It was only a moment before Hermione's face appeared. "Hey, Hermione."

"Harry!" she exclaimed. "We were just talking about you."

"Oh?" he asked hesitantly. "About my snowman abs?"

Hermione giggled. "Well, they did look like globes!"

"I bet," Harry said. "Look, Ginny's here with me, okay?"

"Oh, thank goodness," Angelina said, appearing in the mirror. "I was about to send out a search party! I was going to get her some sobering potion and she snuck by me."

"She's here and she's sleeping it off."

"That's not what she wanted," Hermione said, hiccupping. "She said she wanted you to do this thing with your —"

"Got it," Harry interrupted, his face flushing. "You lot have fun."

"Wait! Harry, do you really have twelve abs?" Hermione asked, her brow furrowing in confusion.

"No," he said, trying not to laugh as he closed the mirror. "Merlin, they're all sloshed!"

"Sounds like they're having a good time," Zee said.

Harry nodded. "Ginny said that it was Angelina's idea. She wanted to have a girls lunch with Ginny and the wives and girlfriends. Apparently they want to get to know Audrey better."

"That sounds lovely," Zee said. "I think they're enjoying themselves."

"Yeah. Zee, about Ginny being —"

Zee held her hand up to stop him. "Yes. She can stay in your room with you while she's here."

"Really?"

"Yes," Zee repeated. "I'm not an idiot and I'm well aware that whether I let you share a bed or not, you will find time to be together. I know that you love her, sweetie, and I know that what you just did, with her throwing herself at you, had to take a lot of restraint. I'm proud of you for that, Harry."

Harry rubbed his hand over the back of his neck. "She was sloshed. I mean, her eyes were all glazed over and… I wouldn't do that to her."

"I know," Zee said. "But I'm still proud of you for showing restraint. The rules are this, the door can't be locked."

"Zee I'm… I'm still a virgin," he admitted, his cheeks flushing.

Zee nodded. "Yes. And for the three days that Ginny stays here, you can continue to be one. Understood?"

Harry dragged his fingers through his hair. "Understood."

"Good," Zee said. "In the meantime, can you start peeling potatoes while I start the cornbread?"

"Grandma's not going to make it?"

Zee kicked him lightly in the shin. "Just because Grandma's in England doesn't mean my cornbread is suddenly second rate, mister!"

"Didn't say it was," Harry said, reaching around her for a potato. "I only implied it."

"Brat," Zee said affectionately. "Fine. I'll have her make it. But you can still peel potatoes."

Harry kissed her cheek. "You're the best, Zee."

"Don't you forget it," she said.

It was only a few minutes later before Colt and Flo came in through the back door. Colt slapped Harry on the back before he took a seat at the kitchen table. They had spent the day organizing the last of their assets. Flo immediately started making cornbread as she talked about how they still had presents to wrap up for Christmas.

"Misha said that he had a meeting in Ireland," Colt said. "What's that about, Zahira? He don't work in Ireland."

"I don't know, Grandpa," Zee said, grabbing him a beer from the ice box. "You'll have to ask Papa when he comes back."

"Where's Grandmama?" Harry asked.

"She was talking to the Daily Prophet about a story she's working on," Zee told him. "They said that they would be back for dinner. Ginny should be awake by then."

"Ginny's here?" Colt exclaimed, his grin widening. "I've missed that girl! Where is she?"

"Sleeping," Harry said. "She was having lunch with her brothers' girlfriends and they had a little too much wine."

Colt chuckled. "Girl has to learn to hold her liquor better!"

"She's only sixteen," Flo scolded.

"Which is old enough to drink," Zee said. "She'll be an adult in the summer."

Flo scoffed. "I was much more responsible at her age. I made better choices. And don't say a word, Colten Raleigh Jackson, because you weren't one of them."

Colt grinned. "She loves me."

Harry grinned as they continued to bicker while Harry peeled potatoes, Zee breaded chicken, and Flo made cornbread. When Mina and Leo stirred upstairs, Harry volunteered to go up and get them.

He made his way up to the nursery, lifting Mina up first as she seemed to be making more of a fuss. He kissed her cheek.

"What's wrong, Mina? Didn't you have a good nap?"

He realized she was wet and grimaced slightly before he put her on the change table and got to work. He'd just put her back in the cot so that he could change Leo's nappy when he saw the shadow in the doorway. His girlfriend was leaning against it wearing her jeans and one of his jumpers, her hair in a messy bun on top of her head.

"Hey, Gin, you feeling okay?"

Ginny nodded, biting her bottom lip. "Yeah. It took me a minute to figure out where I was. Need any help?"

"You can grab Mina before she makes a fuss again. Leo needs his nappy changed."

"You have no idea," Ginny muttered, cradling Mina to her chest.

Harry's eyebrow rose. "No idea about what?"

"How sexy it is to watch you expertly change a nappy," Ginny admitted.

He smirked. "In that case, watch and learn."

Harry struggled a little as Leo attempted to escape, but it only took him a few minutes to deal with the soiled nappy before he picked Leo up into his arms and then leaned over to peck Ginny on the lips.

"Grandma and Grandpa are downstairs."

"Oh? I look a mess," she admitted.

"You look beautiful," Harry told her. "You can go home after dinner to get your things if you want. You're still staying with me for a few days, right?"

"Absolutely," she said, kissing Mina's cheek.

When the two of them came downstairs with the twins, Colt jumped to his feet.

"There's that beautiful girl!"

Ginny smiled as Colt engulfed her in a tight hug. "Hi, Grandpa."

Harry put Leo on the ground as he watched Colt and Flo greet Ginny and he couldn't help but smile. She really was amazing and having her here, with his family, only made her that much more so. She was his past, present, and future and he couldn't imagine her anywhere else.

~ ASC ~

Neville was happy that Hannah had agreed to come home with him for Christmas. He wanted to make sure that she had the best Christmas he could give her as they talked about getting a big tree and decorating the house for the holidays. His grandmother always left it up to him to get the decorations started and he'd always enjoyed coming home and getting ready for the holidays.

They spent the first night talking to his gran about their plans to decorate, but it was put on hold for the funeral of Ted and Andromeda Tonks. When they returned, Neville and Hannah talked about getting a tree the next day. When he woke up the next morning, he went down the hall to the room Hannah was staying in and found her sitting on the window ledge of her room, nervously biting her nails.

"Hannah?"

Hannah turned to look at him, her eyes wide. "Hi."

"Hey. Did you sleep okay?"

"Yes. Neville, this room is beautiful. Thank you again for letting me stay here."

He smiled as he moved into the room to sit next to her on the window seat. "You okay?"

Hannah twisted her hands together nervously. "Neville… as much as I want to spend Christmas with you, I… I can't abandon my mum for the holiday."

"Hannah…"

"No," Hannah said, quickly. "Listen, I know what you think of her and I know that she can sometimes be a little intense, but she's all alone, Neville. I can't ask my mum to spend Christmas all alone. I can't do that."

Neville reached for her hands. "Hannah, you don't have to do that. You don't have to go spend time with someone who hurts you."

Hannah shook her head. "She won't, I mean… it's Christmas."

Neville nodded. "I know. Will you stay today and help me decorate at least? Then we can go together. We'll invite her here to spend the day with us."

Hannah's eyes widened. "Oh, no. Neville, I couldn't ask you to do that. I think it should just be the two of us."

"You don't want me to come?"

"It's not that I don't want you to come, it's just… I think it would be better if it was just me. Mum and I really need to talk."

Neville kissed her fingers. "Okay. But if you change your mind, I'll be here."

Hannah leaned in to kiss him. "I love you, Neville Longbottom."

"I love you, too, Hannah Abbott."

He kissed her temple as he held her close, inhaling the scent of her hair and wondered if letting her go off alone was really the best choice. The problem was, he knew that she had to do this. Her heart was too big not to.

They ate breakfast with his great-uncle Algie before Hannah packed a bag and told him she'd see him back at Hogwarts before she pecked him on the lips and headed off to Apparate. Neville rubbed a hand over his heart as he watched her go.

"You should be going with her," Augusta said from behind him.

"I know," Neville said, watching the snowfall out the window. "But she needs to do this on her own, Gran."

Augusta pursed her lips. "Her mother is toxic. That sweet girl deserves none of that bullshit."

"I know, Gran," Neville repeated. "But I don't think that we can just tell her that. I think she has to figure that out on her own."

Augusta scoffed. "That girl's going to get her heart broken."

Neville was afraid his grandmother was probably right. "I'll be here for her when she needs me to be."

"You're extraordinarily like your mother sometimes," Augusta said quietly. "I used to think she was too soft, but I was wrong. Having her heart only makes you stronger."

Neville tapped his fingers on his knee. "Thanks, Gran. We'll go see my mum and dad on Christmas day again, okay?"

"Yes," she said. "Hopefully by then your Hannah will have returned to us. In the meantime, you need to go out and find us a tree. Algie will get the ax ready."

"I'm on it, Gran," he said, standing and kissing her cheek. "We'll find the perfect tree."

"I have no doubt," she told him. "By the way, Griselda is coming over for tea tomorrow afternoon. Make sure you stop in and say hello amidst your greenhouse time."

"I will."

Then Neville headed outside to find the perfect Christmas tree and tried not to worry about how Hannah's meeting with her mother was going to go.

~ ASC ~

Harry was looking forward to having Ginny spend a few days with him. Even though it had only been two days since they'd left Hogwarts, Harry wanted to spend every waking moment with the girlfriend he'd missed with the potion fiasco. He'd spent his first evening home enjoying dinner with Colt, Flo, Sorcha, Misha, Zee, Mina, and Leo. Remus came by just as dinner was finishing to go over last minute stuff from the funeral. The funeral for Ted and Andromeda had seemed to go by quickly and then Ginny had stumbled into Black Cottage the next afternoon completely sloshed.

It seemed like his holidays were off to an interesting start. After seeing Ginny back off the Burrow after dinner to gather her things, Harry headed to Wrexham with Remus to check on Tonks. According to Remus, she had opted to stay home from work and Charlie had gone over to stay with her for a second day while Remus took care of the aftermath of the funeral arrangements. Harry and Remus arrived at the same time to find her curled up on the sofa, her head in Charlie's lap and Aydin asleep in her arms.

"Hey," Charlie said. "She's been out about an hour. We watched some films and she ate. I went and picked up takeaway from that Thai place she loves."

"Thank you," Remus said, looking down at his wife.

"If you need me for anything else, just ask," Charlie said.

"I will," Remus told him.

Charlie carefully stood up as Tonks sighed and then he slowly lifted his sleeping daughter out of her arms. Tonks woke at the movement and sat up.

"Sorry, Dora. Aydin and I have to get home. It's time for this little monkey to get to bed." He bent down to kiss her cheek. "I'll be at the Burrow if you need anything, okay?"

Tonks nodded and hugged him tightly before she kissed Aydin's cheek and wished them off. When they left, Harry moved to sit on the sofa and opened his arms up. Tonks snuggled into them.

"I'm sorry, Tonks."

She nodded, but didn't say anything.

Remus ruffled Harry's hair. "I'm going to draw you a bath, Nymphadora."

Harry kissed the top of Tonks' head. "Zee said that they saved two witches and two babies. Andy would have been so proud of that."

"I know," Tonks whispered. "They were heroes."

"They were also kind of awesome," Harry said. "Whenever I was sick, Andy always took care of me because Uncle Sirius would panic."

Tonks smiled. "Mum was great when I was sick. Dad used to sleep in my room, curled up in the most uncomfortable chair in the world until I was better. He used to do these light shows with his wand and tell me about the stars… it's just not fair and I know you understand that better than anyone."

"Life sucks," Harry said.

Tonks chuckled. "Yeah, it does. I wanted them to get to meet Teddy."

"Teddy?"

Tonks took his hand and put it over the bump of her stomach. "That's what we're going to call him. Teddy. Well, Edward after my dad. We were going to tell mum and dad during our weekly Sunday dinner, but…"

"Teddy," Harry said, a big smile on his face. "It's perfect." He rubbed a hand over her stomach in awe, taking his hand away. "Wow, that's… was that him?"

Tonks smiled. "Yeah, that was him."

"It felt like bubbles under your skin… it was weird."

"Trust me, it feels even weirder knowing it's coming from inside of you," Tonks assured him.

"Bath is ready," Remus said, leaning against the door jamb.

Tonks carefully stood up and moved into Harry's arm for a tight hug. "Thanks, Harry."

Harry watched her head off and exchanged a look with Remus. Despite the tragedy, he knew that Tonks was going to be okay and he couldn't really ask for much else. He knew exactly how hard it was to lose one's parents and he knew that moving on from that was even harder.

"Need me to stay longer?"

Remus shook his head, wrapping his arms around Harry. "No, we'll be all right. Thanks for coming."

Harry bid his father goodnight before he stepped into the fireplace and disappeared into the green flames. He was glad that he had Ginny coming to stay with him. It would help take his mind off of things. He could really use that.

~ ASC ~

Ginny had just finished packing up her things when she saw her mum hovering in the doorway of her bedroom. Ginny carefully closed her bag before she turned to give her mother a smile.

"I'm all packed."

Molly pursed her lips. "Ginny, with the funeral and everything going on, we haven't really had much time to chat about you staying with Harry for a few days."

"Was there something to chat about concerning it?" Ginny asked.

Molly gave her a look. "I was under the impression that Zee turned the spare room into the nursery for Mina and Leo."

"She did," Ginny said. At Molly's look, Ginny sighed. "Mum, Zee gave Harry and I the speech."

"So, she's letting you sleep in his room?"

"Yes," Ginny answered.

Molly moved into her room and closed the door behind her. "Ginny… are you having sex?"

"Mum!" Ginny complained, heat rising to her cheeks.

"A mother worries about these things," Molly insisted. "You've just told me that you're going over to your boyfriend's house where you will be staying in his bedroom. In his bed. How do you think I should react to that?"

Ginny tucked her hair behind her ear and sat on her bed. "Mum, you can trust me."

Molly moved across the room to sit next to her daughter. "I do trust you. I love you and I know how much you've struggled these last few months. But I also remember what it's like to be sixteen and to be madly in love with my very fit boyfriend."

Ginny smiled and rested her cheek against her mum's shoulder. "We haven't, Mum. We're not ready."

Molly expelled a slow breath. "I don't know how I feel about you two sharing a bed. When he comes here, he will be upstairs with Ron."

"I know," Ginny said. "Zee was against it at first as well. I was going to room with her, but she changed her mind."

"Why?"

"Harry didn't say," Ginny told her.

"Ginny, you have been brewing the contraception potion like I taught you, right?"

"I haven't started brewing new ones since before the potion, no. Harry is taking one."

Molly's eyebrow rose. "What?"

"He just brewed his own and said that he wanted to make sure that we were both safe for when the time came."

Molly's eyes softened. "Every time I think that boy can't possibly get any sweeter…"

Ginny smiled. "Mum… we're not ready, but when we are, we'll be safe. You can trust me."

Molly kissed her cheek. "I do trust you and I trust him. I just worry. You're my baby girl and after all you've been through and…"

"When it happens, Mum, I'll tell you. I promise."

Molly hugged her close to her chest, kissing her temple. "I love you. You have fun at Harry's."

"I will," Ginny assured her. "Zee's American grandparents are there and her parents. They're all staying next door in her old cottage. Trust me, it will be a house full."

"Well, it sounds like you'll have a good time then. Harry will be coming to stay here until Christmas Eve, right?"

"Yes, Mum," Ginny said. "And Theo will be coming the day before Christmas Eve. We want to help make Christmas for the witches, wizards, and babies that the Tonkses' saved."

"That will be lovely," Molly assured her. "I'll see what we can pull together here. Go. Head on back to Harry's before he sends out a search party."

Ginny kissed her mum's cheek again. "I love you, Mum."

Molly smiled and shooed her off. Ginny grabbed her bag and just made it to her bedroom door when Molly said her name. She turned to look back at her mother.

"Ginevra, let's just keep the sleeping arrangements between us, shall we? I don't think your father would approve."

"Thanks, Mum."

Then she headed down the stairs to the fireplace, eager to spend some time with Harry.

~ ASC ~

When Harry returned to Black Cottage, Ginny hadn't returned yet. He found Zee sitting in the living room with Misha.

"Where is everyone?" Harry asked.

"Mama, Grandma, and Grandpa went next door to settle in for the night and Papa just helped me put the twins to bed. How's Tonks?"

"Okay," Harry said. "Uncle Remus was drawing her a bath."

"Good," Zee said. "He'll take care of her. Papa was just telling me about his meeting in Ireland."

"Oh yeah," Harry said, sitting next to Zee on the sofa. "Grandpa mentioned you were going there for something, but you didn't say what."

"I vas vorking out some details," Misha told them.

Harry raised an eyebrow. "Details on what?"

"I have decided to retire."

"What?" Zee exclaimed, her eyes wide. "But, Papa, you love being an Auror!"

"Da," Misha said. "But I have been vith the Kremlevskiy Magicheskiy Komitet since I vas eighteen and serving as Head Auror for the last ten years has been a privilege. But it's time for me to take on less stressful vork and less field vork. As Sorcha likes to tell me, I'm not getting any younger."

"So, you decided retirement was the answer?" Zee asked. "Papa, you'll be bored within a week."

Misha chuckled. "Da. I am not ready to retire like that, it's true. But I am looking for a change. I have promoted Stepanchikov to take over for me. I trust he vill do a great job and I have resigned. The meeting in Ireland vas about a new job."

"What kind of new job?"

"I've accepted the post to run a division of the Magical Intelligence Agency."

Harry's eyes widened. "Really? You're joining the MIA."

"Da," Misha said. "It is mostly all office based, much to your mama's delight, but it also includes a lot of training and I vas asked to be a handler to a specific team of Aurors by D'Estienne d'Orves voo I vorked vith in Moscow years ago. I vill also be teaching in the boot camps."

"Like for the Academy?"

"Exactly, Harry. I vill be teaching stealth, duelling, and detective vork. I am looking forward to the new challenge."

"Wow," Zee said. "Papa, that's great! Wait… if it's in Ireland, does that mean…?"

Misha took her hand, kissing it. "It has been too many years that I've lived apart from my daughter. Sorcha and I are looking for a new home here to be vith you and our grandchildren."

Zee threw her arms around her father. "Papa, that's great news! When do you start?"

"Da," Misha agreed. "I think so and I already started a few veeks ago, unofficially of course." He winked at his daughter before reaching for the vodka he was drinking. "Sorcha can vrite from anywhere and my family is here. You know how heartbroken I vas vhen you took the job here in England."

"It's not like I was living at home before that, Papa. I was travelling all around the world."

"Bah! You vere still far avay."

Zee's eyes softened as she kissed his cheek. "Papa, this is the best Christmas gift you could have given me. I will love having you and Mama in the same country again."

"Me too," Harry said. "And working for the MIA will be really cool. I didn't know that they ran the Academy."

"They don't run it, but they are involved in a great deal of it. Have you finished your application yet?" Misha asked.

Harry shook his head. "No. It's not due until February."

Misha nodded. "Da, but you must get it started."

They all looked up when the fireplace lit up and Ginny stepped out. Misha stood up when she did.

"I should head back next door. You two have fun. Goodnight, Zahira."

Zee stood up to hug her father tightly before Misha squeezed Harry's shoulder and winked at Ginny before taking off.

"I didn't mean to run him off," Ginny said, adjusting her bag on her shoulder.

"You didn't," Harry assured her, taking her bag. "He was just leaving."

Zee clapped her hands on her thighs before she stood up. "Well, I think I'll head upstairs and soak in the tub with a good book before turning in early. Harry, make sure everything is locked up before you turn in. Goodnight."

"Goodnight," Harry said, smiling when she kissed his cheek and squeezed Ginny's arm before heading upstairs.

"And then there were two," Ginny said.

Harry's lips curved. "She's just giving us some alone time. With everyone coming home for the holiday, the house has been quite crowded."

"I noticed."

Harry took a step towards her and pecked her lips. "Hi."

"Hi," she said, looping her arms around his neck. "So, what are the big plans for the evening?"

"Big plans?" he asked. "Was I supposed to have some?"

Ginny smiled. "No."

Harry slipped his arms around her waist. "I was actually thinking we could curl up here and watch a film."

"Oh?"

"Yeah," he said. "Every time we do it, it's always a bunch of us and I think we should do one, just you and me. Have ourselves a proper date. I'll get some snacks and we can wrap up in a big blanket and just relax. What do you think?"

"That sounds perfect," Ginny told him. "What film?"

Harry gestured to the stack of movies on the coffee table. "Zee suggested those. They're all some of her favourites apparently. Though she keeps hinting quite strongly that we need to watch something called Naughty Dancing."

"Do you mean, Dirty Dancing?" Ginny asked, holding up the VHS tape.

"Must be," Harry said.

"Hmm," Ginny said, turning the tape over her in her hands. "It sounds fun."

Harry shrugged. "Could be. I could go for something more action based."

"I think a love story sounds nice," Ginny said. "Perhaps we can watch an action one later?"

"Deal," Harry said, kissing her.

"Why don't I go upstairs and change into my pyjamas and you can make us some snacks?"

"Pjs?"

"Yes," Ginny said. "I want to be comfortable. You can change too."

Harry nodded. "Okay, yeah. I'll um… I'll wait for you down here."

Ginny grabbed her bag from the floor and pecked Harry's cheek. "You're adorable when you're flustered."

"I'm not… never mind."

Ginny winked at him and hurried up the stairs. Harry headed into the kitchen to see what kind of snacks they had and couldn't quite stop his mind from wandering to the fact that he and Ginny were going to share a bed tonight. On purpose. When his cock twitched he rubbed a hand over it.

He had a feeling it was going to be an interesting night.

~ ASC ~

Interesting wasn't quite the right word. Once Harry managed to get over his nerves, he and Ginny were cuddled on the sofa as Harry used his wand to display the movie on the wall. They snacked on popcorn and liquorice wands with pumpkin juice between them and watched the love story between Baby and Johnny take place. When they reached the love scene, Ginny rested her head on Harry's shoulder.

"That's so beautiful, how he treasures her."

"Yeah, it is," he agreed.

"You make me feel like that," she whispered, her brown eyes on his. "Like I know you would never hurt me and that you would give me the world if I asked."

Harry's lips curved. "I would definitely give you the world if you asked. Do you want the world?"

She grinned. "Not today. Ask me again tomorrow."

"Noted," he teased as they turned back to the film.

By the time it ended, they both decided that it was time to head up to bed. Ginny put their snacks and drinks away in the kitchen while Harry double checked the Floo was locked and the house sealed. Then he took her hand in his and led her upstairs to his bedroom.

Harry dragged his fingers through his hair nervously. "Er, so the bed is just… there."

Ginny moved over to her bag to grab her toiletries. "Why don't you turn the bed down? I'll be back in a few minutes."

Harry watched her go, wiping his sweaty palms on his pyjama pants. He had no idea why he was suddenly so nervous. It was just Ginny and it wasn't like they hadn't slept together before, it was just that it felt very different when they were making a conscious effort to go to bed together. He moved to turn down the bed, remembering how she had knelt on it earlier with her knickers at her knees…

"Don't you want to eat me out?"

Merlin, just remembering her words made him harder than a rock, but this was different. Zee was only down the hall and so was Mina and Leo. He turned down his bed before moving to look out the balcony in the back garden. He could see the stars in the dark winter sky over the trees. He heard Ginny come back in and he turned around to do his own nightly ritual. He took an extra few minutes to have a wank and cleaned himself up before returning to his room. Ginny was already snuggled under his covers.

Harry closed his bedroom door behind him before he moved to the bed and crawled in next to her, smiling when she lifted the blankets. He made himself comfortable before he put his glasses on his night table and turned on his side to look at her.

"Is this okay?"

"What? Being in bed with you?"

Harry nodded. "I know we didn't really talk about it first and… it feels different."

"It does," she agreed. "Are you okay with it?"

Harry walked his fingers down her shoulder over top the blankets. "There's no where else I'd want you to be."

Ginny reached out to trace his face with her fingers. "Mum stopped me before I came over to question me about my contraception potions. I think people are starting to question our motives."

He smiled. "I love you. I don't need any other motives."

"Me neither," she said, leaning in to kiss him.

The feel of her lips on his made his heart soar. His hands slid under the covers to hold her as his mouth met hers for a long, fevered kiss. He could taste her minty toothpaste and the strawberry chapstick she was wearing, but he only deepened the kiss. Ginny's mouth moved over his jaw as her hand slid over his chest and under the tee shirt he wore before she kissed him chastely on the lips.

Harry rested his forehead against hers. "You're right. We should sleep."

Ginny kissed his cheek before she snuggled herself into his arms. "Goodnight, Harry."

Harry's fingers began to stroke her hair as Ginny's cheek rested against his chest. "Goodnight, Ginny."

But his eyes stayed open as he played with her hair until he heard her soft even breathing and then he finally closed his eyes, a smile on his face.

End Author's Notes:

Thanks to Sam for letting me idea bounce.

Thanks to my lovely ASC readers who came up with the cock sizes of my characters which inspired me to write this scene — you know who are you.

Thanks to celtics for helping me with my awkward Hinny fluff and inspiring me to write some really naughty Hinny smut in chapter 310 ;)

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