I'm soooo sorry! I have been a very bad writer : (

Because I know the irregular updating has reached the point of being a bit ridiculous, I'm putting this story on hiatus. I plan on finishing next break I get from school! So, here's a chapter and an apology.

Seven and a half months away from popping this thing out, I can't believe it. I am so epically screwed. Ginny's brain grumbled as she watched her feet guide her out of St. Mungo's. Her disguise in place, and still looking smashing in the hat, Ginny wasn't looking and plowed right into an older woman.

"Oh, gods! I am so sorry, I wasn't looking--Teddy? Teddy's grandmum?" Ginny asked in shock, the little boy looking at her could have been anybody, but Ginny instantly recognized the look he was giving her.

"Ouch, don't worry about it dear, should have been paying better attention." the grandmother responded, looking at the girl slightly confused as to the costume.

"No, no, it was completely my fault, I'm a bit out of it. And you with your--oh! Your foot! What happened?" Ginny asked concerned, just now noticing the large cast that surrounded the older witch's right foot.

"Well, I sort of dropped a spell on it…" she explained looking embarrassed.

"Gran used swears!" Teddy reported, looking positively delighted.

"Oh, that's awful! How would one drop a spell on her foot, exactly?" Ginny asked, not only concerned for the older woman but for her own self, she seemed so accident prone that it'd be good to be able to watch out for…spell dropping.

"Well, that's a long story," the grandmother sighed as she watched her grandson climb the nearest statue. He had so much energy, he was hard enough to keep up with. "I won't be able to take this blasted thing off until Tuesday, and that won't make keeping up with Teddy any easier…"

"I could take him," Ginny spoke before thinking, instantly regretting it, but there was no going back now. "I know Harry's got to work all the time, he could stay with me up until you're ready, I know where his muggle school is."

The Tonks' had made sure their daughter had gotten an education that made her understand the muggle side of things, and control her shape shifting powers a bit better and more importantly when to use them, and the grandmother had made sure her grandson too mastered this. It was one of those little life lessons that made her extended family hate her even more.

"Are you sure?" the older witch asked, just to be polite since she had already decided that Ginny's idea was absolutely genius and would give her a much needed break.

"Uh, yeah, totally. You can come by later and bring his things, I can take him now if you'd like."

Stop taking, stop talking, you're an idiot, stop talking.

"Sounds perfect! I'll come by at eight and help get him ready for bed." the grandmum beamed, Ginny just gave a little smile that was painfully forced.

Teddy looked over at Ginny, watched her a bit. Harry had told him that he and Ginny were dating awhile ago, but now he had mentioned that they were not. He'd said it very casually, but he hadn't looked Teddy in the eye when he'd said it, so Teddy knew something wasn't quite right.

His grandmother filled Teddy in on the plan, that he would stay with Ginny in her apartment, and she would take him to school, since it was August already and school was in full swing. Harry was working too much for that, taking care of things like school and making sure Teddy ate his vegetables, and the other Weasleys all had their own children or were too busy.

"Besides," Ginny winked at him, "I'm more fun than the rest of them anyways."

Teddy had grinned at that, mainly because it was true.

They started their extended weekend together doing anything that involved Ginny not having to think about the doctors visit she had just had. They explored Diagon Alley, taking in every store they could, exploring shops and not blowing them up this time. They went to a park, and played with a few dogs the owners had brought with them to stretch their four legs.

"You have a great son," one of the dog owners had complimented Ginny as the pair watched Teddy and the Great Dane play tug-a-war, Teddy lifted off the ground.

"Thanks, but I can't take that claim, I'm just a family friend." Ginny smiled back. And she would have smiled at this dog owner even if he hadn't been complimenting her. He was tall, much taller than her, and his blue eyes made her heart skip a beat, especially since they were off-set with dark brown hair. Ginny was a sucker for the dramatic look.

"I'm Chris by the way," the man said, extending a hand to shake, which Ginny took, hoping he didn't notice how willingly she was to hold it.

"Ginny, and he," Ginny pointed to the small boy who was now riding the dog through the park, "is Teddy."

"Would it be a terrible idea if I got your number? Or, if you don't live muggle at all, sent you an owl?" Chris asked, not sounding nervous at all while Ginny was sure that she could never approach a handsome stranger like this without running the very real chance of wetting herself.

Politely decline, there is no need to pull this handsome stranger, er, Chris, into the mess that is your life. Now, go get Teddy and head out of here.

"Got a pen?" Ginny asked, grinning back.

And that was one of those moments that, to an outside viewer, would seem like Ginny had completely separated from her brain, common sense, and reality, when in fact she had just ignored one of the few times that her brain was right.

"Who was that? A friend of yours?" Teddy asked as the pair left the park.

"Not yet, but he could be." Ginny answered, ignoring her own reality once again.

"Friends like you and me or friends like you and Harry?" Teddy asked a bit skeptically.

"Harry and I… aren't the same kind of friends we were." Ginny answered, not looking forward to this conversation.

"So now you're going to be friends with that guy like you and Harry were?!" Teddy asked, obviously outraged. "Just because he has a cool dog?!""It's just one date! Nothing is set in stone!" Ginny cried, suddenly feeling the need for this eight-year-old's approval. "And the dog has nothing to do with this! Although, it was cool."

"What am I gonna tell Harry?" Teddy sighed, resigned.

"You don't have to tell him anything." Ginny insisted, not wanting Teddy to bring the fact that what she was doing was an incredibly bad idea to her attention just yet. "In fact, if you don't tell anyone, not even your Gran, I have an entire drawer of candy back at my flat, and I will leave you and the drawer all alone, no questions asked."

Teddy thought for a minute, considering his options. "An entire drawer?"

"The whole thing."

"Well, I don't have to tell Harry everything…"

Andromeda Tonks walked up to the door of Ginny Weasley's flat feeling like herself more than a grandmum for the first time in a long time. With a happy sigh, she set the heavy bag of Teddy's things on the step and knocked, not sure what she was expecting.

Well, she was sure it wasn't what she got.

"Thank Merlin!" Ginny breathed out as she ripped the door open, a background of chaos framing her exhausted body. "We've been playing some horrid game, he just keeps running away from me!"Is it tag?" Andromeda asked, amused.

"It can't be tag! Tag is friendly! Tag doesn't break lamps!" crash "And plates. Oh, well. I'm a witch, what's the big deal? Things break, it happens, come on in, tell him if he doesn't bathe I will put him in my oven, because I will, but when I tell him that he just laughs."

Ginny led the older woman into the wreck she called home, Julio now in the young boys arms.

"I just don't know what happened!" Ginny complained, carrying in the suitcase, "Usually Teddy and I get along so well--""Teddy!" Andromeda cut through Ginny's words with her "mum" voice, and in a flash, the young boy was at his grandmother's side, "Have you had candy?" she asked, an eye brow raised as she scrutinized his face.

"Uh, no." Teddy answered, pointedly looking away.

"Teddy," Andromeda started, her voice warning.

"Okay, maybe a little." Teddy admitted, now looking at his shoes.

"You--no!" Ginny gasped, she hauled herself as fast as she could to her kitchen where she then pulled open one of her drawers, which she then dug through with wild eyes. "All of it?!" she asked, "You ate all of it?!"

"I didn't think it was that much!" the young boy defended.

"You're going to be sick!" Ginny insisted, still in shock. The drawer had practically been overflowing.

With a remorseful look, Teddy nodded, looking a bit greener around the edges as the conversation went on.

"Come on, Teddy," his grandmother sighed, "I'll get you into the bath so Ginny won't drown you." with a remorseful look, Andromeda mouthed the words 'I'm sorry,' to Ginny, who just nodded and brushed the words away.

Seven and half months away from this, from hidden candy stashes becoming someone else's binge, from forcing some to bathe before they throw up, from dealing with people who throw up…

Ginny sat herself down at the kitchen table. Maybe, if she could survive Teddy, she could survive being pregnant. And the side effects of pregnancy. And the after effects of pregnancy.

Oi, this is far too much work.

Luckily for Ginny, Teddy just conked out, crashed, really, after his grandmother convinced him to bathe and brush his teeth.

"I really can't thank you enough for this," Andromeda said for the billionth time as Ginny said her goodbyes to the older woman right in front of her apartment door. "And I do hope Teddy behaves himself. I don't want him to be so bad you send him back before this blasted cast comes off!" she added with a nervous laugh.

"No need to worry, I'm not going back on my word, he'll be my problem till the cast comes off, then he'll be your problem once again." Ginny responded, smiling a bit.

With another nervous laugh, Andromeda Tonks said her goodbyes, with another three thank yous and a hug for good measure, she went back into the elevator that she had been in less than an hour before.

Ginny sighed, preparing herself to go and deal with another one of life's little curve balls it was constantly hurling at her. Ready for bed all ready, Ginny turned the knob, when the expected did not happen.

"Teeeeeeddddyyyy!" Ginny called through her door, "I need you to get up, I locked myself out…"

In her mind, Ginny could vividly see her keys, sitting on her end table, next to the couch Teddy was sleeping on, the keys that were sitting next to her wand.