Regulus found it easy in the weeks that followed his argument with Hannah to put off any thoughts about Horcruxes and Lockets. Instead he put all his energy and efforts into getting back into Hannah's good books. One the first day after after he had shown up at the Bakery he had cooked her dinner (without the help of the still ill Kreacher as well, maximising the achievement of it), One the second day she had arrived home from work to find the flat find the roof had been enchanted to look like the stars, On the Third day she had received a bunch of her favourite flowers at work, twice. On the fourth day she woke up to breakfast in bed. On the fourth day he arranged for someone to look after the bakery and took a port key with her to Morrocco Where they went on a Camel ride in the desert.

After a whole two weeks of surprise gifts and romantic gestures he was pretty confident that she had forgiven him but instead of focusing his mind on what he needed to do he just found himself enjoying life. He found that Hannah's cheerful smile had the same power over him as it had when they had first met and it's appearance drove all other thoughts from his mind. One thing that added to his happiness was the improved health of Kreacher, who was now back serving the house of Black with as much zeal as ever, although he was under strict instructions to stay hidden, Lord Voldemort had assumed the elf was dead and Regulus worried for Kreacher's life if this assumption was to be rebutted.

Not all things in his life were pleasant. He still had to do his Death Eater duties to keep up the cover but as he had been asked to spy on a friendly old wizard who worked on the paper it was easy. What was harder was having to feed false information to the Voldemort to hide that fact the man was communicating with top aurors to help bring Voldemort down.

Another issue of unpleasentness came every few days in the form of owls from Thomas who seemed determined to help Regulus by telling him to go to Dumbledore. Another source of dismay was the fact that Dedalus Diggle had told Thomas about him and Hannah, Regulus had assumed the small man had kept it to himself and nothing would come of it but Thomas was now threatening to send Diggle to Dumbledore "It's for your own good mate", was how Thomas had concluded the last letter. Regulus would have been lying if he said he never considered going to Dumbledore, telling him about the horcruxes and then going into hiding. But Regulus wasn't sure he could trust the old wizard who had never shown any liking to him while they were at Hogwarts. He also reckoned that Dumbledore would not trust him, Sirius knew his affiliation with Voldemort as had surely talked about it with the leader of the Order of the Pheonix. Regulus also reasoned he couldn't be sure that the locket was a horcrux. However on this point he knew he was kidding himself, the more he thought of it the more assured he was that the Locket in the cave held part of Voldemort's soul. Regulus had now taken to burning Thomas's letters without reading them, making it easy to keep such thought from his mind.

He had also had to have a frank talk with Rita whose advances had become more and more obvious and it made him uncomfortable. He still cringed as he remembered how she had screamed at him in the middle of the office when he told her it was over. In hindsight telling her in such a public setting probably wasn't the brightest idea he had ever had. Another source of misery was his family; Bella nagged him about increasing and improving his service to the dark Lord, his mother lamented of his lack of girlfriend and he received daily owls from Nana Melania who warned him to keep his relationship a secret for his own good. "Does she think I am stupid?" he asked himself every morning.

He had gradually been showing Hannah more and more magic. At first her reaction had been fear but now she was less surprised and quite enjoyed the fact that she no longer had to do dishes as she just got Regulus to wave his wand. At times Hannah found herself watching in awe of his powers and how easily he wordlessly cast spells.

Their lives fell into a pattern of work, romantic surprises and enjoyable conversations, which were only interrupted with the arrival of Hannah's mother and her half-brother Landon in London at the end of September.

Landon was now two and cuter than ever while her mother was as loud and brash as Regulus had remembered. Any heart break he may have caused her daughter was soon forgiven when she saw that Regulus's attractiveness had only grown since she had first met him and as she saw the size of his flat she concluded that they were indeed a perfect match.

For the week that they had visitors Hannah and Regulus faithfully and patiently visited the numerous tourist attractions that they were dragged to as well as the numerous muggle shops which Regulus found tedious, with the exception of electronic shops which contained televisions, video players and other things that amazed him.

On the fourth day there was little left to see or do that interested Hannah's mother, and weary from pushing her two year old son around it was decided that they would spend the day in the flat. After a late lie in and brunch Hannah was called away to deal with a problem with the bakery leaving Regulus alone with Rhona and Landon. It was only five minutes after Hannah left that Rhona asked a question which had obviously been on her mind for a lot of if not all of the visit.

"So, what are your intentions with my daughter?"

Regulus looked up her from where he was sitting on the floor playing with Landon, she was casually sitting staring at the tv but there was no doubt in his mind that he had said it. "Errr."

"Well, do you want to get married. Not necessarily to Hannah, but in general."

"Yeah, I suppose so."

"And you want kids? I mean, you're so good with Landon…."

"I have never thought about it before but yeah, I guess I would like being a dad one day. I mean we are still young, so not now."

"uhmm," she mumbled.

The next morning Rhona packed her things and headed on the train back home, Regulus and Hannah had waved her goodbye to them at the station and made it back to the quietness of the flat. Hannah collapsed on the sofa.

"Oh my, it is so quiet."

Regulus threw himself down beside her and wrapped his arms around her, he breathed in the scent of her hair, it smelt like her peach shampoo which made him smile.

"Stop sniffing my hair you weirdo."

Regulus grinned wider and chuckled; "You are right, it is eerily quiet. One of them is particularly noisy, with all the toys and the food throwing."

"Yeah, poor Landon, he never gets a break from my mum's antics..." They both sat smiling in unison on the sofa for a while. It was one of the few times in recent years that Regulus had felt truly happy and at peace, he sat mesmerising on how perfect things were, so caught in his thoughts he barely registered when Hannah whispered to him; "I have something to tell you."

"Hmm?" he thought absentmindedly.

"I think I might be pregnant."

Duh Duh Duh!

Yeah, not sure if i like what i did there, but the story will move pretty quickly from here. Please let me know what you think?