Chapter 15: You're Home

December 19, 2019; Present

Halfway through her bacon*, Victoire looked up to hear the back door (the one located in the kitchen) open, she heard at least two sets of footsteps as Ginny stood up to see who it was.

"Harry! Percy! You're home! Where's Bill?" Vic heard Ginny murmur from the kitchen. Fleur looked up interestedly as Audrey stood up and walked around the half-wall to greet her husband.

"Hey, Ginny, Bill will be here in a few. Apparently the Goblins intentionally locked someone in a chamber under Gringotts to whom they thought was an imposter. However, Anthony wasn't an imposter and now Bill has to escort the Goblins Gatrov and Gognuk to the Ministry to fill out a few forms."

"Oh… Why, Bill though?" Victoire could practically sense her Uncle Harry shrugging.

"I dunno, I guess Bill was working there the day that it happened," he explained.

"Hey, when you said Anthony did you mean Anthony Goldstein?"

"Yeah, I did," Harry said.

"OK… How was work?" Ginny questioned.

"It was good."

"Hey, Ginny, I got your owl-" at this moment it seemed Lily could no longer contain herself, Daddy's Girl that she is, she flung herself off her chair and ran around the corner as Percy completed his sentence. "-is it true that our kids along with a bunch of people from 1996 are here?" Audrey murmured something no one could here from the kitchen and Percy sighed.

There was a scrunching sound and some chuckling and Victoire assumed that Lily had thrown herself around Harry. "Hey, Lilykins."

Hermione snorted and Harry looked at her as his cheeks burned red. "Lilykins?" Victoire saw her mouth as Ginny tried- and failed- to stifle a giggle.

Percy walked around the corner and though the past Weasleys glared at him (bar Molly I, who sniffled), he smiled at them slightly and drew up a chair in between Molly I and Audrey but before he sat down, he hugged Molly and then turned to Lucy. He was shocked though at what he saw. Admiring her feathers, he smiled and said, "Let me guess, Molly had something to do with this?"

Molly threw her hands up. "Why does everyone always automatically assume that it was me?"

"Was it?"

"Partly," she shrugged. Percy rolled his eyes. The past people were all in shock, they had never seen Percy so relaxed. Molly I had a feeling that Audrey had something to do with that.

Harry, Ginny and Lily came around the corner then too and they all sat down. "Hey, James, Al." If Harry noticed at all that Albus was covered in feathers, he didn't show it besides smiling slightly. Victoire supposed that the smile could have just been from the sight of seeing his sons after a few days. She highly doubted it.