It was the second time in a week that Rose had been in St. Mungo's. She didn't care for the bright lights and the pristine surfaces that cluttered the maternity ward, but she was thankful that this time, the atmosphere was much more relaxed. It seemed like the false alarm from the previous weekend had calmed them, and everyone appeared to be enjoying the impromptu family gathering as they sat around in groups. Some were just talking, while others played exploding snaps, and Hugo had even brought a chessboard. Lily was currently passed out on a few of the chairs, her head in Lucy's lap, and a handful of others were reading books or magazines. They'd been there for almost five hours already, and Rose had so far successfully avoided Scorpius Malfoy. He'd been there even before she was. It had ruffled her feathers to think that Al had told him first, but she later overheard him telling her aunt and uncle that he had been at Al and Abigail's when she went into labor. She supposed she could forgive that unfortunate circumstance, but holding a grudge about everything he'd said the week before was not something she planned to change anytime soon.

It had plagued her thoughts more frequently than she felt comfortable admitting over the past week. How had she been so unable to form a coherent sentence? She'd had no trouble coming up with all kinds of horrible things to say while she was ranting to Dominique about it later. Her cousin had kindly pointed out that maybe Rose was a better person than Scorpius, and could therefore never say such unkind things to someone's face. This didn't do much to comfort Rose. Especially after she'd received Leo's letter. He had no trouble insulting people, and he was one of the best people she knew. She was also bothered by the fact that maybe Scorpius was actually a little bit right. Maybe she was holding a lot against him without much proof. She'd never thought to reconsider her opinion about him. She thought she'd always been given a slew of evidence to back it up. Had she been wrong about any of it?

"You're going to burn a hole through his skull if you keep that up," Dom hissed at her. Rose blushed to realize she'd been glaring across the room at Scorpius, for who knows how long. He was sat talking to Hugo, Louis, and James. Even if she was possibly wrong about some things, she didn't think she'd ever understand what her family saw in him.

"Why does he keep glancing over here?" she whispered at her cousin. "Do you think he wants to apologize?"

Dom merely gave her an unamused look and turned the page in her magazine.

"You know, with the way you've gone on about him all week, I wouldn't be surprised if you felt differently about him than you let on."

"What?!"

Rose cringed at the volume of her own voice. Thankfully, most of the room either hadn't noticed or ignored her, but a few people glanced over, including Scorpius.

"I can't imagine what you mean. I hate the prick. That's final."

"Can't deny he's a rather fit prick, though."

"Ew."

"Rose," Dom said with a sigh, setting aside her magazine. "Take it from someone who knows what it's like to be completely furious at the person you care for the most in the world."

Rose opened her mouth to argue, but her cousin silenced her with a look.

"It's confusing as hell, but that much emotion doesn't just come from nowhere. Whether you have romantic feelings for him or not, you've got to admit that part of you must care about him. Or at least cares what he thinks of you."

Rose let out a huff and slouched in her seat as Dom went back to her magazine. She cast a sidelong glance at her cousin, thinking over what she'd just said and disregarding the part about herself.

"So does that mean you-"

"I'm not going to talk about Ben."

Rose groaned in frustration.

"Don't you think this has gone on long enough? There's about to be a permanent impression of you on my couch, you're eating most of my food, and we've spent so much time together lately, our cycles are bound to sync up soon."

Dom seemed flustered as she tried to come up with a response.

"Well," she began uncertainly, "if I'm such an inconvenience, maybe I'll just get my own place."

Rose rolled her eyes. "Don't be ridiculous. If you leave my place, we both know where you should go."

"No, Rose. I'm sorry but I can't. Not after what he did."

"But you don't even know what he did! You haven't even tried to talk to him."

"I know what I need to. I'm going to use the loo."

Dom suddenly stood and began walking towards the toilets. Rose gave a resigned sigh and sunk back into her chair. Maybe Lizzie was right about her sister-in-law. Maybe sheer force would be the only way to make Dom see sense. Resolve shot through Rose as she glanced around the room, trying to determine who her greatest ally was. With a sense of dread, she realized her best bet was currently sitting with her current enemy. Bracing herself, she got up and headed towards her cousin. The four boys continued talking as she took the vacant seat next to the person she came to talk to.

"James," she whispered, hoping to go undetected as Hugo held Scorpius's attention. Her cousin turned to look at her.

"Yeah?" James asked.

"Do you know where Ben is?"

James checked his watch to see it was going on one in the morning.

"He should be at my place. He's had trouble sleeping at his without Dom there, so he's been crashing on my couch. Why?"

Having gained the attention of all four boys, she did everything she could to ignore Scorpius's curious gaze.

"Can you go get him?"

Mischief gleamed in James's eyes as Louis's widened in concern.

"Rose, are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Face it, Louis," she almost whined at him. "We're never going to get her to see sense. Ben's always been the only person who can get through to her. I think this is the best shot we've got to get them both in the same place at the same time without fear of her running off."

"You think she won't?" Hugo asked. Rose shook her head with certainty.

"You know how much she loves babies, not to mention this family. I think we can count on her sticking around."

They all shared looks varying from uncertainty to excitement, before James stood and began to walk towards the Floo. He looked around the room and spotted Fred, signalling him to follow. Ben's other best friend made his way towards James as he continued to walk towards the fire, and began questioning him when he caught up. Rose soon found herself approached by Fred's wife.

"Rose, what's going on?" Dani asked in confusion. Rose grabbed her wrist and lead her back to her seat to wait for Dom.

"You'll see. Trust me."

Rose was beginning to feel nervous. James and Fred had been gone for an hour, and Dom was growing suspicious. It didn't make sense to her that James would just leave while his niece or nephew was about to be born. Rose had scrambled to come up with a reason for his absence, and the best she'd been able to do was say that he and Fred had gone to get food for everyone. This had somewhat backfired.

"It would have been nice for them to wait till I got back so I could ask them to get me something. I'm starving," Dom had complained.

Rose didn't have a good reason for why they couldn't have waited till she was done in the bathroom, which only aggravated Dominique more.

"What place takes an hour to prepare food?"

"There are a lot of us, Dom." Dani tried to reason.

"They aren't getting food for all of us, though, are they?"

"Will you stop grumbling?" Rose snapped. "I'm sure they'll have thought to bring you something."

Dom just gave a humph and went back to her magazine. Rose was grateful that Dani had joined them. She normally did a good job of calming Dom down, and she'd been more to handle than usual lately. It was entirely possible that they'd have to hold her down when the boys showed up with no food, and her husband in tow.

As soon as she thought about going to check on them, the flames turned green and Fred came through the grate, closely followed by James. Dom was out of her seat as soon as the floo had lit up. Rose and Dani quickly followed her as she made her way towards their cousins.

"You prats," Dom snapped as they met in the middle of the room. "I hope you brought me something, and not one of those disgusting-"

She continued to rant, not noticing as a third person walked through the flames. James and Fred cast each other nervous glances as Ben began to approach from behind them. Rose watched as Dom abruptly stopped talking when she caught sight of her husband over her cousin's shoulder. There was a combination of fear and longing in her eyes the moment she saw him, and she subconsciously took a step back. Ben looked like he desperately wanted to say something, but was also terrified of saying the wrong thing as his best friends moved aside to give him a clear path to his wife. He approached her tentatively as Dom crossed her arms and shot scowls at her cousins.

"I can't believe you lot. What the-"

"Dominique."

She stopped as soon as she heard him say her name, the anger vanishing, but the frustration not quite gone as her eyes locked on her husband. He stopped a foot in front of her, rubbing the back of his neck nervously as he looked down at his wife. His usually close cropped brown hair had grown longer than Rose could remember seeing it since they'd been out of school, and a few days worth of scruff was on his face. Dom seemed to grow shy under the intensity of his scrutiny. He kept clenching his fists at his side, resisting the urge to reach out and touch her.

"Trying to grow a beard?" they heard her mumble. Ben's lips twitched as if he wanted to smile as he reached up and scratched at his stubble.

"Thought about it. What do you think?"

Dom gave a noncommittal shrug and didn't offer anything else as she looked down and fiddled with her hands. Rose had noticed that throughout the entirety of the time she'd been away from her husband, Dominique had never taken off her rings. Ben followed his wife's line of sight and seemed to notice this as well. He took a step closer to her and Dom looked up at him once again.

"Can we go somewhere and talk?"

Uncertainty crossed Dom's face and she wore her lip between her teeth while winding her arms around her waist, holding herself. She gave a slight shake of her head.

"Ben, I'm not sure-"

"I really don't give a shit if you think it's a good idea or not," he cut her off, his tone more caring than his words implied. "Bloody hell, Dominique. I'm your husband, and you're talking to me. Alright?"

Dom pursed her lips in frustration, but Rose could have sworn she saw an amused glint in her eyes as she gave a curt nod before heading to leave the ward, Ben not far behind. Rose let out an enormous sigh of relief and buried her face in her hands as soon as they were out of the room.

"Dear Merlin I was so terrified that was going to backfire horribly," she admitted.

"It still might."

She looked up at Dani in annoyance, but, despite her words, Rose realized she looked hopeful.

"What took you so long?" Dani asked James and Fred, right as Hugo, Louis, and Scorpius came to join them.

"He wasn't convinced he should come at first," Fred told her. "And once he decided he would, we had to talk him through what he should say. He's nervous as hell, if you couldn't tell."

"What made you think to do that anyway?" Hugo asked his sister.

"I actually ran into Ben's sister Lizzie in Hogsmeade a few weeks ago, and she made me realize that trying to talk Dom into anything was never going to work. I figured it was time I try something."

"Does Lizzie think he didn't do it?" Louis asked, sounding like he wanted to believe the same. Rose shook her head.

"I don't think any of us really think he did it," Rose said. "Even Dominique."

"Well," James said matter of factly. "Those of us who've spent this whole time with Ben know for a fact that he didn't."

"Yeah, well, here's hoping he can convince her of that," Dani said.

"Must you always be such a naysayer?" Rose couldn't help but ask with a roll of her eyes. Dani smirked at her.

"If there's one thing I've learned about Weasleys, it's that they have a tendency to get overly excited. Someone has to keep you lot grounded."

The few Weasleys that were present made varying sounds of protest, but Rose heard Scorpius snicker.

"Have something to say, Malfoy?" she shot at him. He raised his eyebrows in surprise as everyone else grew quiet and watched them.

"Not at all, Weasley. Just amused, that's all."

"So glad we could entertain you."

"Alright, who's up for some exploding snaps?" Fred interrupted, rubbing his hands together nervously. Rose continued to glare at Scorpius while he just watched her indifferently.

"Sounds good to me," James finally said, grabbing Rose by the arm and dragging her towards a group of chairs that were circled around a coffee table. Fred, Dani and Louis followed them, but she was relieved when Scorpius stayed behind with Hugo as Louis got out a deck and began to deal.

"Why do you two antagonize each other so much?" Fred asked, sounding more curious than anything. Rose was surprised with how difficult she found the question was to answer.

"We just always have, I guess. I suppose I'm not entirely sure why."

Dani looked at her incredulously. "Don't you think it's a little immature?"

"You sound like my mother," Rose grumbled. She knew Dani meant well, but her blunt attitude only intensified as she grew more tired, while Rose's patience shortened. Fred reached out and rubbed his wife's back, giving Rose an apologetic grimace.

"Sorry," Dani said, truly looking like she was. "I blame all my rigid attitude on my brood of younger siblings."

Rose chuckled. "No worries. We're all a little on edge."

"Has anyone seen Al lately?" James asked, glancing at his watch. Rose leaned over to catch a glimpse of it as well.

"Is it really after two in the morning? How long does this normally take?"

"Normally it takes a while with the first, but I only know how it works with muggles," Dani commented.

"I think it's about the same," Louis said. "Remember when Victoire had Amelia? It was almost a whole day before the baby was born."

"Are we supposed to stay here all night?" Fred asked in shock. A few cards exploded in front of him due to his distraction.

"You could probably run home and sleep for a few hours if you want," James said, taking his turn. "We can let you know when it's time to come back."

Fred contemplated this option for a moment, but then sagged in defeat. "You're all staying, aren't you?" They all nodded and he slouched back in his chair. "Well I won't be the only one to ditch."

His wife giving him a pat on the leg in sympathy. "Just think of it as practice for when it's our turn."

Rose had to hold in a laugh at the look on Fred's face. His eyes grew to twice their normal size and he stared at his wife as she casually took her turn.

"When will that be?" he asked, a nervous squeak in his voice. Dani just shrugged, continuing to watch the game.

"Whenever you want it to be."

Fred shook his head to clear out the cluttered cobwebs that were fogging his brain. He then looked at his wife curiously before sitting forward and resting his hand on her arm. She finally turned away from the game and looked at her husband in question.

"Really?" he asked, barely above a whisper. Rose could tell that James and Louis were doing about as good a job as she was in their efforts to ignore the young married couple.

Dani shrugged as if it weren't that big of a deal, but the look on her face gave away that she was actually nervous to have this conversation.

"We're pretty well settled now, and we know we want to have a family. I don't see why not."

Fred grinned at her and moved his arm to rest on the back of her chair. "No need to make it sound so romantic."

She rolled her eyes at him before giving him a soft peck on the lips and turning back to the game, a small smile on her face.

"You two done having private conversations in front of us?" James asked, a disgusted look on his face.

"Yes, thanks for asking," Fred said, not looking sorry in the least. Rose just shook her head and chuckled.

"I wonder how all that's going," Louis commented, nodding his head towards the direction his sister and brother-in-law had disappeared not too long ago.

"I don't hear any yelling," James said. "So that's definitely not a bad sign."

Rose looked over her shoulder towards the doors that lead out of the maternity ward, hoping things were going well. She was about to turn back around when her eyes landed on Scorpius. He was no longer with her brother, and was instead sitting with Harry and, surprisingly, her father. She'd never really seen them interact before so she really didn't know what to expect. They seemed to be getting along well enough, as her father was currently doing the talking and didn't seem to be upset about anything. She knew everything that had happened during her parent's time at school and the war as far as the Malfoys were concerned, but her father never seemed more than slightly annoyed by Draco Malfoy's existence. It was possible that he didn't really have a problem with the younger Malfoy.

Scorpius chuckled at something her father said, and his gaze shifted slightly, catching her staring at him. She quickly turned back around, trying to focus back in on her game. Why was she so curious all of the sudden? And why was she second guessing her opinion of him? The late hour of the evening wasn't conducive to any type of logical thought process.

They played what felt like twenty games of exploding snaps before Dom and Ben finally made another appearance. Dom looked like she had been crying, and Ben seemed emotionally exhausted. Before anyone was able to figure out how to proceed, the door that lead to the delivery rooms burst open and Ginny walked out. Everyone was on their feet a moment later and Rose was the first one to reach her aunt, James right behind her.

"How is she?"

"What's going on?"

"Did she have the baby?"

Ginny held up her hands to silence them as a groggy Lily who had just woken up from her nap pushed her way to the front of the crowd.

"Where's my niece or nephew?" she asked, still not seeming to be quite with it.

"Everything is fine," Ginny said in a calm and peace filled voice. Her eyes searched the crowd and she beamed when they landed on her husband. He worked his way around the group and Ginny pulled him into a tight hug when he reached her. Pulling back, she gave him a brilliant smile.

"Would you like to meet your granddaughter?"

The joy on Harry's face was enough to make Rose cry, and she instinctively gripped Lily's hand as she heard her cousin sniffle. Harry nodded and his wife began to lead him back down the hall. She turned back before they moved through the doors.

"Five minutes, than you two can come back," she said looking at James and Lily, who nodded in understanding as their parents disappeared behind the doors. There was a collective sigh of relief as the joy began to sweep through the room.

"I can't believe it's a girl," Lily said as tears welled in her eyes. She moved to hug her brother, who was beaming.

"I know. Watching Al handle this is going to be amazing."

Rose couldn't help but laugh, looking around at the joy on everyone's faces. Her eyes stopped on Dom, who was standing next to her husband as he talked to her brother. She was scanning the room with her eyes and she caught Rose's gaze. She nervously chewed her lip and cast a glance at her husband, as if she were contemplating coming over to talk to Rose, but didn't want to leave Ben's side just yet. Rose was about to make the decision for her and head in her direction, when Scorpius stepped in front of her. She looked up at him uncertainly as he had a hard time meeting her eyes.

"Can I help you?" she asked, trying not to sound too rude.

"Actually, yes."

She looked at him in suspicion, but he seemed sincere.

"I have to leave, but can you tell Al I'll come back in the morning?"

His tone made her feel like whatever reason he needed to leave was actually something important. She had to restrain herself from asking if everything was ok.

"Yeah, sure," was what she eventually came up with. He nodded at her in gratitude before quickly turning to leave the ward, not even stopping to say goodbye to anyone else. She watched him leave and continued to stare even after he'd disappeared through the floo. She barely noticed her brother approach her.

"He's been agitated all night and said something about a letter," he explained. "I'm guessing it has to do with that."

Rose turned to look at her brother, schooling her features into an innocent expression.

"Why would I need to know that?"

Hugo shrugged. "Seemed like you cared."

Rose slowly pushed open the door to Abigail's room, trying not to make too much of a racket as a slew of her cousins tried to push past her into the room. The aunts and uncles had all had their turn to go in, and finally came out to send in all of the cousins. She felt an elbow in her back and closed the door, turning around to glare at her cousins.

"There is a newborn child in this room. You lot need to behave, alright?"

She was met with many sheepish expressions, and amused ones from those that were hanging towards the back and behaving properly. She gave them all one last look before moving into the room. Abigail was propped up in her bed, looking tired but peaceful. Al was sitting at the foot of it as he watched his sister hold his newborn daughter while her other brother looked over her shoulder. Al turned around when he heard the door open, getting up and walking over to greet them all. Rose was the first to reach him and quickly pulled him into a hug.

"Congratulations, Dad."

He chuckled in her ear, pulling back to give her a brilliant smile before moving on to the next cousin. Rose approached Abigail's bed and sat on the chair next to it.

"How are you feeling?" she asked. Abigail gave her a tired smile.

"Exhausted, but it was totally worth it." She looked over at her sister-in-law who was passing the blanket wrapped bundle over to James. "She's beautiful."

"Have you picked a name?" Rose asked. Abigail looked back at her and grinned widely.

"Yes, we have. Al?" she called to her husband, who immediately rushed to her bedside.

"Yes, love?"

Abigail chuckled and grabbed his hand. "Rose asked what we decided to name her."

Al only had eyes for his wife as all of the cousins started to crowd around her bed.

"Her name is Holly Elizabeth Potter," he said with pride. It sounded so perfect that it nearly took Rose's breath away.

"How beautiful," Roxanne said, moving to look over James's shoulder, who turned slightly to give her a better view.

"Rose?"

She turned to look at Al, who was smiling at her.

"Would you like to hold your goddaughter?"

Rose could barely contain the sudden rush of tears as she nodded in shock. James made his way over, depositing the child into her arms. A rush of love threatened to overwhelm her as she looked down at her brand new goddaughter. But she couldn't help but look back at Al and send a nervous glance at Lily.

"Are you sure?" she asked them. Abigail nodded decisively.

"We decided we didn't want to go with siblings," Al explained. "Especially since Abigail has three sisters. They can be aunts and James can be an uncle."

Rose nodded and looked over at Lily, whose smile showed she was perfectly ok with their decision. She looked back down at Holly, kissing her on the head, and feeling certain that she'd never seen anything more beautiful in her whole life.

Holly was passed around to her various cousins before it was time for Abigail to feed her, and everyone seemed to realize just how tired they were from being at the hospital all night. Rose was taking her second turn holding Holly before she needed to be handed over to her mother and wasn't ready to leave just yet, as everyone except herself and Lily headed home. Harry poked his head in as James followed everyone else out of the room.

"I just got off the floo with Ted," he told Al. "They'll be here in the morning."

Al thanked him and Harry informed them that he and Ginny were going to head home for some sleep and would be back in the morning as well. Rose looked back at her goddaughter as soon as her uncle was gone, knowing she was going to have to give her up any minute.

"Does anyone know what happened to Scorpius?" Al asked. Rose responded without even thinking or looking up.

"He left as soon as Ginny told us she was here. I think he got a letter or something so it must have been important. He said to tell you he'd be back in the morning."

She looked up when she finally noticed the silence in the room and found them all looking at her. Al was actually smirking.

"What?"

Lily chuckled. "Told you the two of you could get along if you tried."

Rose just rolled her eyes, deciding it was best not to answer as she handed Holly off to her mother.

"I should probably go," Rose said. "I'll come by tomorrow, yeah?"

"Of course," Abigail said. "We're supposed to be able to head home before lunch time tomorrow, so you can come and help us get all her things packed up if you'd like."

Rose told them she'd be there, and headed out of the room, stopping only a short way down the hall as she heard Al call her name. He followed after her and came to a stop in front of her.

"Can I ask you something that might seem completely random?"

She nodded, curious.

"How are things with Abel?"

Rose was slightly taken aback by this question, but thinking about it, she realized she hadn't seen him much in the past few weeks. And she was surprisingly okay with that.

"They're okay, but I'm not sure it's going to turn into anything serious. Why?"

A satisfied smirk appeared on his face as he started to back away. He gave her a nonchalant shrug. "Just asking for a friend."

Rose had barely processed his words before he turned and jogged the last few steps down the hall and back to the room where his wife and daughter were waiting. She just stood there for a moment, dumbfounded. What could he have possibly meant by that? She shook herself out of her stupor and made her way back out to the waiting room. She'd almost made it to the Floo when she spotted Dom sitting in one of the chairs, her husband nowhere in sight. She stood when she saw her cousin and came to meet her at the fireplace.

"You didn't need to wait for me," Rose said. "What happened to Ben?"

"We decided we need more time."

Rose gave her cousin an exasperated look. "Dominique, I-"

"Rose…"

She was about to continue giving her cousin a piece of her mind, when she realized how anxious Dom looked. The blonde witch glanced around the room nervously before looking back at Rose, her eyes wide in fear.

"Rose, I think I'm pregnant."

A/N: I feel like it's been forever!

I sort of love this chapter and I hope you do to! Let me know what you think. Did anyone guess what was up with Dom? I only dropped a few extremely subtle hints but didn't want it to be obvious. Thanks for all your lovely reviews! I wanted it to be a girl as well. I didn't want to go into detail with why they chose her name in the story, but I wanted to sort of keep with the flower name theme but a little different, and she shares a middle name with her mother :)

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