Aki- Next chapter. Just so you know, these are not in chronological order, just to keep you from being confused. Particularly 1,2, and 3 which are in opposite chronological order actually. They progress by theme rather than time. Also, if this chapter is a proof reading fail, that's because I was a bit sick today and had attention fail.

1

Audrey is a muggle. Of course, for most of her life she didn't know this. She didn't know that magic really existed. That was until she met Percy. Percy with red hair and horn-rimmed glasses and who was little bit too serious about almost everything. Percy, who turned out to be a wizard. And suddenly the world that she thought she had mapped out over the last twenty-two years of her life was torn down and reassembled into a sort of dream world. It was like something she had read out of The Lord of the Rings or King Arthur stories. And as scared as Percy was over telling her the truth about it, she was never more thankful… for one, he had given her back a piece of the fantastical that lives between dreams and the storybooks of children. Even more, he had trusted her with it. She knows what that means.

2

"You shouldn't be with me."

Her heart sinks when she hears this, because they've been seeing each other for a couple months now, and she thought it had been going well. This sounds like a break up speech.

"I— I don't deserve you." He says this, and while he is serious about everything, he is even more serious about this. He looks like he is about to cry. "I'm not a good person."

She takes a step closer to him. "Percy…" she says. She reaches out a hand toward him, but doesn't touch him. "I don't believe that."

"I betrayed my family. Abandoned them for my own ambition. I'm not a good person." He says this like it is important for her to know the truth. Audrey doesn't know the details but she knows now that she loves this man, because here he is broken up and she can see inside. He just needs to realize that she never asked for perfection.

3

Audrey studied literature and psychology in college. She wasn't sure what she was gonna do with it. And that's how she ended up working in a tea shop in London, sharing a cheap flat with two other girls. It felt completely backwards, doing all that studying and ending up working a menial job with little money and no connection to her interests or expertise.

And then one day a guy about her age, a freckled ginger four-eyes, sits at one of the table she's waiting. He orders peppermint tea and then drinks it while reading the newspaper. He wasn't particularly chatty or distinguished looking or kind. She would have forgotten him, really, but he came back the next day and then next… ("he always asks for you," her co-worker whispers to her behind the counter and Audrey glances over her shoulder to see that maybe he isn't so intent on his paper all the time)

She might not like being a waitress, but looking back on it, she thinks it's not that bad.

4

The first time Audrey was introduced to the Weasley family in full was shortly after Percy proposed and had told her the truth about magic. Audrey, the only child of two only children, needless to say, wasn't used to what she was about to be in for when she came to 'the Burrow' for a full-fledged family dinner.

And when she came stumbling out several hours later, into the evening air, Percy holding onto her elbow, he asked, "So?"

"I—I've never seen so much red hair in my life."

5

Of all the many in-laws Audrey inherited by marrying Percy, Hermione was easily her favorite. She was hardly perfect, but she was nice enough. It was just nice to have someone to talk to who would not take for granted all the things she didn't know about the magical world and could explain them with some accuracy to her. It was also nice to have someone on her team to translate the muggle world back to them. It was good companionship, having a women she could talk to about variety of problems including magic, husband, and children related.

When Audrey was overwhelmed with the insanity of the Weasleys and the magical world, it was nice to have someone who she could talk to that was a reminder her that she was indeed sane.

6

Being a single muggle in a family of a wizards has its downside:

"What do you mean 'what's the purpose of a rubber duck'? It's a rubber duck. It doesn't have a purpose!"

7

Cooking is fun, but baking is where it's really at. It's one of Audrey's favorite habits, picked up from the summer days she spent at her now late grandmother's house. Be it pies, cakes, cookies…whatever you could stuff in an oven. Then when you were done, you got to eat it (and, y'know, share it with friends and family). Of course, when she meets Mrs. Weasley, her mother-in-law, and sees how she waves a wand and suddenly things are boiling and spoons are stirring and think that her passion and talent is useless and underrated with her new family.

She doesn't let Percy help magically cook at home.

8

Audrey hates feeling this way, but she feels extremely out of place among her in-laws. She hates feeling this way, because they have accepted her and no one is intentionally trying to make her uncomfortable... but she can't help it. They are witches and wizards, and that's so normal to them. But to her, that is amazing and out of the ordinary and something, sometimes, she can't really believe.

9

Audrey and Percy were blessed with two beautiful daughters. The elder they named after Percy's mom. Molly was a spunky, strawberry blonde girl. She charming in a way that Percy never was, having the right type of social graces. Audrey was sure that Molly would grow up to have all the boys chasing after her and probably giving her father a heart attack. Lucy's name, two years later, was Audrey's choice, after the little heroine in The Chronicles of Narnia. She had flaming hair like her father's family and bookworm habits. She would be a smart one.

And then there were moments when there were little girls, crawling all over Percy's lap as he would be sitting on the couch after work, and she could just learn against the doorway and watch because she realizes there is nothing more that she needs. Her world is perfect.

10

The worst argument of that Audrey and Percy had was before Molly was born when Audrey was worked up in a pregnant hysteria.

"But Sweetheart, I thought we decided that you were going to have the baby at St. Mungo's," Percy said in a calm civility as they stood in the middle of the sitting room of their London flat.

But Audrey wouldn't hear it. She was red-faced, angry, and crying. "No," she said, waving her hands useless by her side, her baby bump greatly protruding in front of her. "I changed my mind. I wanna have the baby at real hospital where they know what they are doing!"

It's not that Audrey doesn't trust magic, it's just not something she understands nor can find logic behind. She doesn't want this mystical thing she can't quit truly comprehend to fail her at the most important moment. For all she knows, it's all just a dream that could disappear in a second and if she told anyone about it, they would think she was crazy.

And more than that, that maybe one day Percy would realize how normal and boring she was and leave, because she was not part of this special secret world he lived in.

But then Percy takes her in his arms and tells that they can have the baby wherever she wants, but, please, just don't get so worked up—for the baby. And he leads her over the couch and offers to make her some decaffeinated tea or a shoulder rub or those sandwich pickles she had been craving (and she can even eat them straight out the jar with one of those little lobster forks even though that is not what they are meant for).

And Audrey realizes that Percy leaving her is suddenly not something she should be worried about.

Aki- hehehehe.... crazy pregnant Audrey.

Next chapter--- Rose Weasley