Chapter 12

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Before even Teddy could start crying Hermione was sobbing nonstop for the past twenty minutes and her mother really wanted Harry to get home ASAP. She couldn't handle Teddy and Hermione at once, now that Teddy was trying to stand up taking support of the furniture around and walk there were more chances of him to fall and hurt himself. Just then Harry appeared in the chimney with all the green flames around him, surprising Teddy making him fall on his butt, and start crying. Harry rushed to take him but Jane was closer, she told Harry to go upstairs and take care of Hermione. Without knocking on the door Harry went inside to see Hermione sitting at the window with a napkin and sobbing. He reached her and wrapped his arms around her, "darling what's wrong?" he whispered resting his chin on her small shoulder. "I don't want to leave Teddy alone." Hermione managed to say in between her sobs. Harry turned her so she could face him and lifted her chin to look into her eyes, they were swollen and red showing that she had been crying for a long time. She buried her face in Harry's arms and tried to calm herself down. "Am I being silly? I know Mom, Dad and Kreacher will look after him…but am gonna miss him too much…I want to see him every day I want to see all that he learns…he has also started to walk…almost walk…he even tries to talk to us…I want to hear his first word and everything he does Harry!" Hermione stomped her foot like child, and sat on the bed, wiping her tears. "Your right Hermione…" Harry said with a sigh, "even am gonna miss him way too much…but why waste our time now? Instead of crying over not being able to be with him let's spend our last two day together having fun, even your parents are going to miss you. Go wash your face and come down I'll make some tea for all of us. Even Teddy would like to have some." Harry said with a wink. Hermione shook her head and pointed her index finger while scolding him, "Harry don't give him too much of tea, he wrinkles his nose when he has to drink milk…you better not mess with his eating habits." Harry raised both his arms to show his resignation and nodded; Hermione laughed at his childish behavior and pushed him out of her room.

The couple was to leave within two day for their final year at Hogwarts, both dreading the fact that Teddy would be all alone. Not exactly alone but not with them either.

Just a few days back they had met up with their other friends along with Ron and Ginny there was also Neville, Luna, Dean, Seamus, Lavender, and even Cho. Some of them were surprised to see that Harry and Hermione were together now but most of them knew the two would end up together. When at first Harry was with Ginny, Cho had just a little bit of hope that maybe just maybe they had some chances…but when she got the news of Harry and Hermione being together…she simply shook away all her hopes, knowing that there was no way she could compete Hermione in any way. During their reunion Cho and Hermione were having friendly conversations which surprised Harry…he knew Hermione was not the one to act all possessive but was not expecting Cho to not hold any grudges against Hermione for the first and last messed up date. Hermione didn't speak to Harry about her insecurities, not willing to put a sour spot in the friendship of his and Ginny's. Everyone was looking forward for a new term to start. Specially Harry, Ron and Hermione, with Harry and Hermione being head boy and head girl and Ron the captain of the Quidditch team. They were hoping for the year to be nothing less than fun!

When Hermione came downstairs she saw her mother assisting Teddy while he tried to stand, and Harry was in the kitchen pouring three cups of tea. She went near him, when he had set the kettle down she wrapped one hand around his neck and with the other in his messy hair pulled him down for a steamy kiss. When they heard some loud clearing of throat they pulled away and tried to straighten themselves. Hermione took hers and her mother's cup and headed to where she was sitting on the floor with Teddy. Harry joined them after her cleared the kitchen counter, when Harry sat on the couch Teddy rushed towards him crawling as fast as he could. And made a puppy dog face so that Harry would give him some tea, Teddy knew that Harry would not deny him anything and thus he took complete advantage of it. Hermione was staring at Harry with a pointed look. And Harry too gave Hermione a similar puppy dog face. Hermione groaned and said, "You two are going to be the death of me." Then she called for Teddy knowing very well that little tea would never be little for her two boys. She smiled thinking how these two men she thought were hers. Teddy went towards Hermione and pouted once again, she grinned at his smartness and pulled him on her lap giving him little sips of tea. Every time Harry saw Hermione and Teddy together it created a weird feeling in the pit of his stomach, there was this anticipation he had of a similar scene only instead of Teddy she might be holding their child, not that Teddy was not his son…just that the anticipation of the two of them going that far to have their own child or maybe children, was making Harry feel above the sky. Hermione too noticed the way Harry looked at them; at first she thought that it must be just to see how she handles him but the intensity of his stare was always more than a random look. Even now she could feel him staring at them, probably with a smile on his face? She wondered and looked up but was disappointed that he was busy with his cell phone. "Am sure you're going to miss your cell phone too Mr. Potter." Hermione said in a mocking tone which made Jane look at her over the brim of her cup. "Why, yes Ms. Granger…it has proved to be very useful for us in the past month or so…would you deny that now?"Harry stood up tucking the phone in his pocket and went to sit beside Hermione and Teddy. "Unfortunately I don't miss "things" Mr. Potter I am fonder of the people around me." Hermione retorted immediately. Now smirking mischievously Harry asked raising an eyebrow. "Oh my my…I guess I made a mistake in judging you then…tsk tsk" Harry rubbed his chin, pretending to be in deep thought and asked, "how about we leave all your books Ms. Granger? They are unnecessarily heavy and of course we could share mine, it would be convenient too don't you think?" At this even Jane nodded in approval in Harry's direction getting a wink from him in return. Now thoroughly annoyed and lost at the battle of words, rather lost at the intense stare Harry was giving her, sending waves of shiver down her spine one after the other, she chose not to reply. Sensing the three kids needed some time for themselves Jane got up taking everyone's cup and announced, "Am going out at the clinic and later at the market with your dad if you need anything just give a call." Quite subtle in her act she left the house in less than ten minutes winking at Harry behind Hermione's back.

The moment they heard the door click shut Hermione and Harry looked at each other simultaneously and Harry pulled her with such force she almost fell on his lap all the while holding teddy firmly so that he doesn't get scared with the sudden jerk. Harry kissed Hermione hard and rough, all the intensity of his stare coming into that kiss. Hermione tried holding teddy and pulling Harry closer at the same time. When she realized that teddy was probably watching she pulled away blushing furiously, playing with Teddy's small fingers she said in a voice barely audible, "Harry we should stop kissing in front of teddy." Harry leaned forward and sucked her earlobe igniting a muffled moan from Hermione and whispered, "We will stop kissing when he starts talking." To see whether he was being serious she turned to look at him and was met with his very serious expressions. Before Harry tried to do anything else Hermione got off with teddy but Harry pulled them onto his lap and kept a firm hold so that Hermione could not escape. Teddy was giggling with all the jerks he was getting. Harry then started kissing the back of Hermione's neck, "Harryyy!" she moaned softly in resignation and a tiny bit of complain in her voice. At last Harry stopped his cruel ministrations and turned Hermione so that she and Teddy were facing him sideways. Harry had to try something and he felt like he was running out of time as every day of leaving teddy grew closer. "Teddy…" Harry started slowly looking at him, "ask mom…why she is being so shy...when it's just you and me around?"…. Teddy was more interested in Harry's watch than his question, but a very surprised Hermione was looking at Harry's face, when he looked up at her she averted her gaze downwards staring intently at the way Teddy was fidgeting with the belt of Harry's watch. Her blush rising with every passing second and her lip was suffering the assault of her nervous chewing. Their heart beating faster as the time passed. When at last she found her voice and Gryffindor courage she replied too softly to be heard, "Teddy…tell dad that…" she looked away from the two of them hiding her face with her hair. Harry pulled her closer so that she looks back at him and prompted, "That…" now Hermione needed efforts to breath she tried to look at Harry but failed badly. When she did look up it was still not directly into his eyes. "Harry…" Hermione stared and once again he prompted with a small, "hmm?" irritated she looked into his eyes, hers begging to let her off the hook, "Please!" she said but knew Harry would not mercy her….this time… "Please...what?" he asked evenly. He saw how Hermione's chest rose and fell with her labored breathes but was not giving up. He left her loose resting one arm over teddy's back and the other on the arm of the couch. Giving her complete freedom to walk away physically but held her in place with his eyes. "Alright I don't know why I am being so shy with you but….I really don't know what has got into me….Goodness Harry will you stop staring at me with such eyes?" flushed Hermione bit her lower lip tucked her hair behind her ear and leaned to kiss Harry into a sensual breath taking kiss. Harry gripped Hermione's waist to keep her from grinding above him, they took all the time they needed to convey all their emotions and desire in that lip lock. When they broke apart Hermione sat beside Harry with a satisfied sigh and teddy crawled into her lap. The pair sat holding hands and blushing furiously. Harry got up turned around and kissed Teddy on top of his head and said, "I love your mom very much Teddy, tell her to never leave us…there is no way we would ever leave her." He ruffled teddy's hair and turned to leave."Teddy, daddy doesn't need to worry about me leaving him or you…you two have me wrapped around your fingers. Tell him teddy that mom wants to come home…" Hermione trailed off wondering if she is taking things too fast. She got up and reached where Harry was standing grinning and speechless, she handed Teddy over to him when harry said, "Soon Hermione…I'll take you home." There was an unspoken promise in his voice and eyes. Hermione nodded and went in the kitchen to look after Teddy's dinner. The doorbell rang and harry went over to open the door to let the Grangers in, as soon as Teddy saw Mr. Granger he leapt into his arms, smiling Jane rushed to see Hermione in the kitchen when their eyes met Hermione blushed and went over to hug her mother, and softly said… "I love him so much mum…" Jane held Hermione's face in both her hands looking into her daughter's bright eyes and a smile she could not contain. Harry was looking from a distance and had a proud smile on his face both Hermione and Jane turned to look at him smiling Jane shook her head and everyone got back to their respective work.

After dinner Jane and Harvey went with a sleeping Teddy in his room and Harry and Hermione had just finished clearing the kitchen. They were standing against the counter facing each other. Hermione was spinning Harry's cell phone on the counter when she absentmindedly unlocked it not really knowing what she was going about. She was surprised to see an image of hers and Teddy looking back at her. The one which harry must have taken before she accused him of ignoring her, she thought. She turned to look at harry who was staring back intently gnawing her reaction. Before Hermione could utter a word he pulled her by her waist and kissed her deep and hard. Hermione heard her parents descending footsteps and she pushed him away before running out of the kitchen. But not before the pair didn't witnessed the hunger in the other's eyes.

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