TUESDAY

"Why?" Victoire moaned.

"Because they're our parents," Rose reminded her.

"I came here to avoid them not have dinner with them," Victoire complained.

"It is only for a few hours Victoire," Dominique said frowning at her sister.

"How many are we cooking for?" Lily called from the kitchen.

"Sixteen," Rose told her. She turned to Scorpius, "Scorp, help me with the charm work?"

Scorpius blinked in surprise. "M–me?" he stammered.

"Yes you," she said impatiently "you're the only one who knows how to do this." Scorpius followed her over to the table like a lost puppy.

"Alright troop," Victoire said addressing the others "everyone behave whilst the 'rentals are here and then after that we hit the liquor."

James and Teddy laughed. "Knowing mum she'll do a room inspection," Hugo told them. This stopped James and Teddy's laughter instantly as their room was a bombshell's laundry room.

Victoire rubbed her temples. "This is going to be one hell of a night," she said.

Scorpius popped his head around the wall and said, "My parents are coming by the way."

"Eighteen," Lily grumbled.

"Kill me now," Victoire groaned.

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Dinner had been delicious thanks to Lily, Rose, Dominique and Teddy's cooking skills. At the table were Teddy, James, Albus, Louis, Hugo, Scorpius, Lily, Rose, Dominique, Victoire, Hermione, Ron, Bill, Fleur, Harry, Ginny, Draco and Astoria. It was quite a gathering that Rose and Scorpius catered for very well with their excellent charm work. Everyone had now resorted to memories of Hogwarts and other memories.

"Oh gosh do you remember always looking carefully around the greenhouses whenever we were near them because Professor Longbottom always lost his toad and would award house points for its return?" Rose asked.

"Got a nice haul of points from that," James nodded.

"Yeah, that was because they were the only points you got." Lily teased.

"Spot on," James grinned.

"I'm sure your brother received house points for other things," Ginny said giving her daughter a look. Teddy and Victoire snorted.

"Yeah okay," Victoire laughed.

"My favourite Hogwarts story was when Louis sent us a letter home in his first year–"

"Dad don't!" Louis protested.

"–and told us that he wanted to be a Bigfoot hunter." Bill finished. Everyone burst out laughing except for Draco who looked like he really didn't want to be with such commoners.

"You retard," Victoire said as she hooted with laughter.

"I think a Bigfoot hunter is cool," Hugo said, backing up his mate.

"Thank you," Louis acknowledged.

"You know what was quite a moment," Hermione said "when we heard that Scorpius was the first Hatstall in 64 years."

"That's because there's probably something wrong with his brain," James snickered. Draco gave him a look.

Scorpius rolled his eyes and then asked Hermione, "How did you know that?"

"Oh Rose and Albus told us," she replied. Scorpius turned to look at the both of them and raised an eyebrow.

"I'll never forget our first class together," Albus said to Rose and Scorpius "it was charms. We were learning Wingardium Leviosa, Scorpius and Rose were sitting next to each other. Scorp was flicking his wand wildly and Rose stopped him and said, 'Stop, stop, stop, you're going to take someone's eye out – it's SWISH and FLICK.'"

Ron and Hermione shared a look between them and then they looked at their daughter. Draco didn't look at all pleased.

"And they've been fighting ever since," Albus said with an affectionate smile for the both of them. He then laughed and said, "I remember Rose coming up and saying to me, 'How is he your friend? He's so obnoxious!' and the Scorpius came up to me later on and said, 'How is she your cousin? She's so annoying!'"

"Well she is!" Scorpius exclaimed.

"Well he is!" Rose told him.

"Children, please." Victoire said "Mummy has a headache."

"I remember this particular time," Hermione began "When Rose was seven years old there was a spider on her shoulder. She ran into our room where Ron snatched it with his bare hands and stomped it to death. I commented that Ron was getting over his fears and he replied, 'I'm not, but it was on my Rosie.' That's one of my favourite memories."

Rose shuddered, she hated spiders. "Why did you kill it?" Hugo demanded "I would have made it my pet!"

"We would have called it Lipsy!" Louis agreed.

"What is wrong with the both of you?" Victoire asked in disbelief.

"There was this one time," Ron started.

"Dad!" Rose and Hugo protested.

"What? It's a good story, Harry and Ginny would remember it too." Ron justified. "Hugo was a bit more than a year old and we had him over at Harry and Ginny's and he spoke his first word."

"I remember," Harry laughed, Hermione and Ginny smiled as well.

"It was 'Ginny'." Ron told them.

"I've never been a prouder Aunty," Ginny laughed.

"And Rose's first word was 'George'," Ron added.

"Tell your father about those Muggle competitions," Hermione smiled to her daughter and to her son.

"Mum!" Hugo and Rose both exclaimed.

"What muggle competitions?" Ron frowned.

"You tell him," Rose said to her brother.

Hugo shook his head but still grinned. "When Rose and I were in our early teens we would enter dad's name in muggle competitions."

"It was you two?" Ron gasped.

Hermione continued, "They loved seeing the delighted but confused look on Ron's face when electric mixers, DVD players and popcorn machines would appear on our doorstep addressed to Ron along with a congratulatory note. I eventually realised but never told Ron, it was too funny."

Everyone doubled over with laughter, even Draco Malfoy cracked a smile.

Finally Harry said, "Do you remember Oliver Wood?"

"Of course!" Hermione, Ginny, Ron, Draco, Astoria and Bill all said.

"Well he had seven children," Harry laughed "enough for his own Quidditch team." All the adults laughed at that.

"That would be a leading team," Ron noted.

"Ah Quidditch," Victoire sighed "such a good sport, such a good sport. We should have played professionally Jamie."

"I would have loved to play with you Vicki," James said sweetly.

"Watch it," she warned "I'm still quite competent with a club."

"We always used to wonder if Quidditch was the only thing that kept you two together," Scorpius mused.

"Oh there were other things too," Victoire grinned.

"Besties," James agreed in his best girlie voice.

Victoire laughed. "I guess out of the entire family we were the only nonconformists that knew how hard it was to pretend to be mature."

"True," James counted.

"Rebels," Victoire said, mimicking James' girlie voice, he laughed along with her. What made everyone else laugh was that no one disagreed with them. Vic turned to her mother. "And you didn't want to send us to Hogwarts, pfft!"

"Beauxbatons would 'ave been just az good," Fleur told her.

"Their uniforms are tighter than Rose's homework schedule," Victoire jeered.

"And that is tight," Albus regarded.

"Hey," Rose frowned "I would let you copy my homework."

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," Hermione and Ginny said at the same time.

"Hear what?" Albus and Rose said together. They smiled.

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Bill and Fleur had gone home much to Dominique's dismay and Victoire's delight. Louis was curled up on the couch next to Hugo, asleep. Victoire and Scorpius were sitting on the large couch chairs with Ron and Harry playing the quiz in the Daily Prophet Hermione, Ginny, Astoria and Draco sat at the kitchen bench with cups of tea while Dominique, Rose and Lily washed up.

"Are you still painting Astoria?" Ginny asked.

"Oh yes," Astoria nodded "professionally."

"Portraits?"

"Mostly," she agreed.

"Hermione," Ginny said "we should really have a family portrait done."

"I've been saying it for years," Hermione agreed.

"We might want to wait until the Malfoy's join us in that portrait," Lily muttered. Rose scowled at her.

James and Teddy were in their room. On Teddy's bunk.

Teddy's mouth found James' bottom lips and they bought fought a silent battle to win. James' hands went to Teddy's shirt and he looked up for permission. Teddy nodded hastily. James began to unbutton the other man's shirt and pulled it off. This was another moment that James had dreamed about and yet this was still a million times better. He ran his hands down Teddy's chest; Teddy closed his eyes and sighed. It felt so good to be touched by James, finally after all this time. Teddy couldn't wait anymore and his hands undid James' shirt as well. Once it was off Teddy kissed down James' neck trailing down his chest. For the first time they pressed their bare chest together.

James tensed. "Off," he gasped. Teddy immediately moved himself off James. James closed his eyes and counted his breaths to ten and then opened his eyes again. "Sorry," he said, blushing "I'm just trying not to get hard."

Thoughts filled Teddy's mind. A shudder rippled through him. "Great, now I'm the one who has the problem."

"Sorry," James said again. After a few minutes they resumed snogging. James straddled Teddy's left thigh.

Back outside the adults were saying their goodbyes. Draco was eyeing over the list on the fridge. "I like rule number four," Draco said.

"Oh hush," Astoria said giving him a small smile "let them be."

"Where is your brother?" Ginny asked Lily.

"In his room," she said giving her mother a kiss on the cheek.

Ginny sighed, "Why is he so anti-social? He doesn't take after me that's for sure."

Harry frowned. "I'll go and say goodbye," he told Ginny as he walked over to the corridor.

Victoire gasped. "No!" she exclaimed. Harry jumped in surprise. She struggled for something to say. "I think they're asleep. You can't wake them up!"

Harry looked at their door. "Their light's on," he told her.

She knew that if she persisted he would become suspicious. "I–I guess they're awake then…" she stammered weakly. Harry walked to the very end of the corridor.

"Fuck!" Victoire hissed.

"Victoire!" Ginny looked at her sternly.

Harry turned the handle of the boys' door and opened it to find his son and his Godson without their shirts on, entangled and snogging. Teddy and James broke apart and looked up. Their mouths dropped open in horror and Harry's eyebrows rose in surprise.

"I…ah…" Harry searched for the right words "I–sorry." He reached for the door handled and pulled the door shut.

"Dad, wait." James called out but his father had already closed the door "Fuck!" They both look for their shirts.

Harry walked down the hall. Victoire had a look of dread on her face. "Please don't be angry with them," she pleaded Harry.

"I'm not," he said honestly "not at all."

"You aren't?" she asked, shocked.

"Harry what's wrong?" Ginny asked.

James and Teddy burst out of the corridor. They were panting and buttoning up their shirts. "We can explain," Teddy said.

"Explain what?" Ginny frowned. "James, Harry, Teddy…what's going on?"

Everyone looked at them expectantly. Teddy and James looked at each other and the back at Ginny. "I…we…" Teddy tried to find the right way to phrase it. James had other ideas; he was a big believer in short, sharp and sweet.

"Fuck this," James mumbled. He turned around and kissed Teddy. He made sure it lasted a good eight seconds so everyone got the message. They broke apart and the room was silent. All that could be heard was Hugo and Louis' snoring.

"Oh come on!" Victoire exclaimed. "Was I the only one who figured it out?"

"Of course not," Lily rolled her eyes.

Albus spoke for the both of them. "We knew about James, but not about Teddy."

"How did you two know?" James cried.

"You're our brother," Lily told him "we could tell."

Teddy suddenly felt a weight on his chest as he turned to his Godfather. "Harry," he said with a constricted voice "you're like a father to me. I respect and look up to you, I always have and I always will. And I'm in love with your son and I'm worried that you'll think badly of me because of that. Please tell me that you're okay with this…I need you to tell me that you're okay with this."

Teddy didn't even have to wait for Harry to think. "Of course I'm okay with it," Harry smiled. "I couldn't imagine James being with a better person." Teddy sighed, relieved.

"Mum?" James said, looking worried.

Ginny smiled. "James, I don't mind at all." she said sincerely "In fact I couldn't be happier."

"Thanks mum," James said.

"Do you need a hug?"

"Mum!"

"Just asking," Ginny laughed. She walked forward and kissed both her son and Teddy on their foreheads. "We'll talk more later."

With that everyone left. "Well," Victoire sighed "I'm hitting the liquor."

"I'm going to bed," Rose announced "I'll see you all in the morning."

As Rose left for her room Scorpius asked, "So…are you guys allowed to sleep in the same room?" he gestured to the rules on the fridge.

"Tell you what," James said "if you let us sleep in the same room then we'll let you sleep in the same room as Rose."

Scorpius' mouth gaped. "But that's totally different!"

"I used to use that excuse too," Teddy said gravely.

"But I don't even like her!" Scorpius exclaimed in argument.

James rolled his eyes. "Yeah," he snorted "and we're straight." With that Teddy and James left for their room.

"But…but I don't," Scorpius grumbled to himself.

"I believe you," Victoire said as she took a large sip of a Firewhiskey bottle "here, this helps." Scorpius took a large gulp and his bottom lip trembled once he had swallowed it. "I understand," Victoire nodded sympathetically "tell me all about it."

"Well it all started…"