Six Years Later (2004) \\ The Beginning of Forever and Always \\ WICELA

Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J. K. Rowling. The only thing I own is the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies.

"Molly, please finish your breakfast, I need to go to work!" Percy Weasley was late and that was not his thing. Everything and everyone wasn't helping this morning.

"No hun-ry." His two-years-old daughter answered. Percy sighed. Why wouldn't she just eat?

"Perce, the Department of Magical Transportation can miss you for a few minutes." His wife Audrey smiled.

"No, they can't and Molly need to eat faster!"

"She's just a kid! You can't give her a plate with food and expect her to just eat it! You need to feed her. I'll do it, you just go to work then!" Audrey sighted. She smiled to him, but Percy realized that her eyes didn't smile with her. She was regretting it already, wasn't she? He was a big, big mistake. Their life was a big mistake and Molly was the biggest mistake they'd made.

"No, no, I can do it! Alright, I do it. I'm sorry, I'll do it. I need to learn it sometime." Percy tried to smile back. Audrey laughed, for real this time and gave him a kiss.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course I am."

"Well, I'll be going then."

"Okay, how late will you be back?"

"Dinner time, my turn, so you'll be back at six, okay?"

"I hope there won't be too much of work then."

"You can do this, Perce, just believe it." Percy sighted. He wasn't that sure as his wife about this. This morning, this day, was just like every other day. He didn't know how to raise a child. He didn't know how to look at his brother and he didn't know what to say to everyone. However his mother claimed to be glad he was back, he knew not everybody in the family was as happy as her. George couldn't look him in the eye. He didn't even saw him. He knew that, because George used to talk to him only when Fred was with him. There were so many differences between the three of them and with a joke, the twin could handle him. Now was Fred gone and George had to look at him at his own. Percy knew it was his fault. From the moment on he raised the body of his dead brother to the moment George walked to him to see who he was carrying, he knew that George would blame him. Maybe he wouldn't say it out loud, but he would think it. And sure he wasn't the only one. It was the truth. Fred was dead and it was his fault. He was joking, Fred didn't watch his back for a second and he was killed. It was his fault. Why was he the one who lived? Why was Fred the one who died? He wasn't worth it. If it meant he would be dead instead of Fred, he would it. Over and over again. It was the guilt and the pain that was killing him. He had never made a mistake in his life before, but the minute he had left Hogwarts, everything went wrong. His study, his internship and his life after the war. Audrey was already giving up on him. He had felt it, she was pulling away. They had fights, huge fights, but suddenly, the emotions took over and their passion took over. Audrey left him that morning, but came three months later back. Crying. Panicking. She was pregnant. They organized the worst last-minute wedding ever and when they announced their pregnancy to the whole family, everybody knew what really had been going on. This is wasn't his style. This wasn't the way how he planned things, how he lived his life. If Fred would've been there, he and George would be laughing at him, but the problem was that George couldn't even make a joke about the whole thing when he heard. Everything had been a rush. Molly was born and they were married and everything was just screwed up, because Percy realized he couldn't organize his child. Somewhere he knew Audrey didn't like this. Somewhere he knew that Audrey would've left him if she wasn't pregnant. She wouldn't have come back.

"Oooooopen your mouth, Molly!" He looked at his child and tried to guess what she wanted to hear.

"Aaaaaaah!" She cried happily.

"Vroooom! A broom is coming!" He brought the spoon to her mouth and when he put the spoon in her mouth, she closed it and he pulled the spoon out of her mouth. It actually worked. There wasn't much food on the spoon left. He tried it a few times again and it worked.

"Let's bring you to Nana then!" Percy stood up and spoke a cleaning spell over Molly. He picked her up and used the fireplace.

"Percy? Lovely to see you, my dear. I already wondering where Molly was!" His mother smiled at him and hugged Molly.

"I-I…euhm…I fed her this morning." The minute he had said that, he realized how stupid it sounded, but he was somewhere proud of himself for this stupid thing.

"You did?" His mother smiled at him.

"Yes, Audrey had to go and I-…euhm…wanted to help out. For once."

"Oh Perce, it isn't you never help out!"

"Yes it is! I never help her with Molly, because I'm afraid I do something stupid! I don't know how to raise a child!"

"Did you really think I knew how to raise a child when Bill was born? And then Charlie? With you, you can say I finally knew the drill, but then Fred and George came along and pushed me that hard that I had to learn the whole educating kids thing in a new way. Ron was more like you, thank Merlin and then Ginny of course, who is as a girl totally another story. What I wanted to say: I have seven kids, but even when the last one was born, I learned new things. I didn't know how to raise a child too, but I don't panic! I followed my heart! You should do too." A tear fell from his eye and Percy looked up.

"Thank you…" He said.

"No need for that, Percy. I'm your mother, your family. Families always stick together."

"Welcome home!"

"Percy? Is that…do I smell dinner? I thought it was my time to cook?"

"Yeah, well, I realized you always say that and you're always the one who cooks. I decided to cook this time, sit down. And by the way: you're way to late to cook. I thought you said I should be here at six and it's eight already!"

"Yeah, sorry about that, but I thought your department was busy too, today, so I thought you wouldn't mind?"

"I stayed home. Or actually, at my parents. Spend the afternoon talking with my mum and playing with Molly. She's staying, though. I thought we could use a night off."

"Percy…you shouldn't have done all this…" 'All this' was a clean house and a table with a romantic dinner. It his time, to finally show his wife that he was ready to become a good dad and husband. It was time for his wife to see that he was happy with her and that she eventually didn't leave him.

"We can do this, Audrey. Everything. We can do it all, as long as we are together."