Chapter Two
Notes: Despite that this fic was started upwards of five years ago and no one knew the name of Deathly Hallows, I integrated Bill and Fleur's kids and Teddy Lupin because they're the only thing I actually liked about the epilogue.
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Charlie Weasley found his daughter curled up on his couch in their small house in Romania with Teddy Lupin and raised his eyebrow at Teddy's current head of hair: a bright blue mohawk. For a boy, he could apparently gossip very well according to Sanna. He leant on the doorway, observing. He was good at it, after all it was practically what he'd spent his life doing. Observing and caring for dragons. Now he had a different type of dragon to look after, and Merlin, was she a fiery one. Sanna noticed him first and grinned.
"Daddy." She jumped up and wrapped her arms around him. She rested her chin on his chest and looked up. "How was Uncle Bill?"
"Bill was fine, so were Fleur and the kids. Ginny and Sylvie were there when I showed up." Sanna glared at her father. "What? I didn't know they were going to be there, did I?"
"I suppose not. How were Ginny and Sylvie, then?" Sanna asked, moving back to the couch and propping her legs up onto Teddy again. Charlie settled himself into his favourite chair with a sigh. He should not feel this old.
"Gin's good but apparently Orion was disgruntled that Sebastian got accepted to Hogwarts this year and he didn't."
"He's 9, Dad. Bastian's 11."
"You try telling mini-Malfoy that. He's growing up just like his dad, that one." Sanna laughed. The infamous rivalry between the Malfoys and the Weasleys didn't last very long after Draco started 'courting' Ginny after the war. Her brothers had been less than happy about it but there wasn't much they could do. The two had fallen head over heels for each other and there wasn't a thing to stop them. Even Grandpa Arthur had folded once Draco came to him to get his permission to wed Ginny. The boys had fallen into line soon after that, especially Ron, who was obsessed with newly-born Sebastian.
"You didn't say anything about Sylvie," Sanna reminded him.
"She wants you to come over and have a tea party with her. She promises if you bring Teddy again, she won't try and put make-up on him." Teddy glared at Sanna as she giggled. Sylvana Malfoy had been quite put out with Teddy, who had come with his normal black hair but kept changing it to the wrong colour when she tried to put make-up on him. Let's just say that bright blue make-up does not go well with burgundy hair. "So are you ready to go on camp?"
"Completely. I can't wait. You, Teds?"
"Ecstatic," he said dryly. Sanna knew despite the sarcastic tone, he really was excited. They'd gone last year and had a blast.
"Oh," Sanna said, reminding herself. "Harry called in via the Floo. He wanted to ask you something about some rare fruit that Pansy's got a craving for. Apparently Ron told him you could help him out." Charlie still couldn't believe that Harry Potter, the boy-man that lived, saviour of the wizarding and muggle worlds, was married to a viper like Pansy Parkinson.
"Pansy Potter, indeed," he muttered under his breath.
"Oh, come on, Dad. You have to admit, Nessa and Toby are gorgeous." Being the eldest Weasley grandchild came with the privilege of lording it over her cousins and cooing at all the babies. Thought it didn't stop Grandma Molly from cooing over her. Surely a freshly-turned sixteen year old was not meant to be cooed over.
"I just don't know what he sees in her."
"I think it was mutual amazement that they had such fun bickering and sniping at each other." Sanna had never met a couple that argued so much. They never really meant it but it was amazing what accidentally came up at their dinner table. Charlie hadn't accepted an invitation since he spit his wine all over Harry when Pansy sniped about his habits in the bedroom.
Sanna's giggling was interrupted when there was a call from the kitchen. "Charlie? Sanna? Teddy?"
"Ah, mum's here," Teddy sighed. Sanna nudged him with her toe as Charlie hauled himself from his chair to go meet Tonks.
"Be nice to your mother."
"I love my mother, but I'm devastated at being denied your company."
"Oh, save your charms for Victoire." Teddy spluttered and glared at her. Victoire, Bill and Fleur's oldest daughter, was two years younger than them and inherited more than just a little of Fleur's veela beauty. Sanna had demanded that Teddy had dibs on her, even if he denied all interest.
"Wotcher Sanna."
"Hi Dora." Sanna refused to call Teddy's mum Tonks because she was technically a Lupin and it was just weird. Today she had her natural black curls on and her big blue Black eyes. Sanna knew Uncle Remus loved it when Dora didn't Transfigure herself into someone else. It must be a stay at home day, then, because usually Tonks matched her hair to her wardrobe and she was wearing her new Weird Sisters tee that Charlie had gotten her last Christmas, ripped jeans and Hufflepuff house slippers.
"Been looking after my Teddy?"
"Of course. He's a sweetie, really." Dora laughed and barely avoided knocking over a photo frame as they made their way back to the fire in the kitchen.
"Well, come on, Ted. Let's get moving."
"See you Monday, Sanna."
"Bye Teddy." Charlie slung an arm around Sanna as they waved goodbye as the fire turned green around Dora and then Teddy. The two Romanian Weasleys stood in the quiet for a moment, their thoughts both on other things.
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Monday rolled around soon enough and Sanna found herself dashing frantically around their small home, looking for things she'd meant to have packed two days ago. "Dad, have you seen my hiking boots?"
Charlie sat serenely at the kitchen table, reading the Daily Prophet. "They're on the back verandah." It had been like this for half an hour, Sanna running in and out of rooms. It was even funnier when she forgot why she was there and had to come running back in moments after she'd left. It was like she was moving out of home, not going away to summer camp. "Sanna, love, come here for a sec."
Sanna stood in the doorway bouncing on her toes, eager to get the chat over with so she could finish packing. She had to leave in an hour and she still hadn't showered. "Yes?"
"It's summer camp. If you forget anything, owl or Floo and I'll come and drop it off. It's not the saga you make it out to be."
"Is that it?"
"Nope. You know the rules. No boys. No hexes or curses. Did I mention no boys?" Sanna stopped her bouncing long enough to kiss her father on the cheek.
"I think you did. It'll be fine, dad. Trust me." Charlie was looking rather put out. "Oh, come on. It's not like I didn't go last year. It'll be exactly the same. I promise I'll bring myself back with all limbs attached."
"Aunt Gin could probably fix you up before smacking you one if you didn't."
"The pregnant lady wouldn't hit me. I'm her number one babysitter, remember?" Charlie laughed and shooed her away to continue packing. He sat contentedly, pretending to read the Daily Prophet while worrying about what mischief she'd get up to. She said she wouldn't but she was a Weasley. She'd find it eventually. It was just a matter of when.
The next hour passed quickly for both of the Weasleys and they found themselves Flooing to the Lupins to pick up Teddy. Dora laughed at Sanna's harried look and took a moment to pull her aside and calm her down, flattening her hair and sweeping at the soot from the fireplace. The Portkey was sitting on the table, a smoothed pebble which would take them to the camp.
When they rejoined the group, Charlie was warning Teddy. "Remember, no boys for her. You still have that Beater's club?"
"Never leave home without it," Teddy grinned perversely.
"Good," Charlie muttered. "Good." Sanna punched him. "Ow, what was that for?"
"I will be fine. Stop mothering me."
"But if I don't do it, you'll blame me later for not warning you." Sanna stuck her tongue out at him and he gently cuffed her on the back of the head. "I'm serious, Sanna. Be careful and, for Merlin's sake, if you get caught dueling again, you won't know what hit you."
Sanna hid a smirk behind her hand. She'd been caught dueling at Hogwarts several times to her father's dismay and Remus' because he was always the one that caught her. She straightened her face and reassured him. "Now I'm serious. I'm not going to another planet, I'll be an owl away so just calm down. I swear you weren't this jumpy last year."
Charlie kissed her forehead and ruffled her head. "Brat."
"Woman."
Teddy nudged her and offered up the cloth with the pebble on it. Sanna linked arms with him and waved a final time to her father before touching her finger to the stone and being whirled away.