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February 2009

Lee and Adelaine were home when Mr. and Mrs. Jordan appeared in the floo.

"Gramps and Gran!" Ari yelled running towards her grandparents.

But Adelaine and Lee knew something was up.

"Mum, what's wrong?" Lee asked noticing his mom had been crying.

Rita broke down and said. "My dad died in a car accident."

Lee rushed to comfort his mum and soon he was crying too.

"Why is daddy crying?" Ari asked.

"Your great grandfather died," Adelaine told her eldest.

She was really close with her great grandfather so she started to cry too. Adelaine pulled her eldest into a hug. She was holding back tears herself. She always loved Nick.

"So, when's the funeral?" Lee asked sobering up and leading his mum to the couch and sitting her on the other side of him.

"Five days."

"Okay," Lee nodded.

The group had some dinner and his parents left.

Lee and Adelaine began packing for their trip.

"I know you want to go love but is it safe to travel this far when you're pregnant?" Lee asked.

Adelaine nodded and said. "It is, I'm only five months."

"I need my rock there, I don't know what I would do without you," Lee said, wrapping his arms around his wife her stomach in the middle. Their son kicked.

"This is your first trip out of the country and you're not even born, Chance," Lee said his hand on her stomach.

They had agreed on the name Chance Oliver.

-/-/-/-

The family apparated to their house two days later. This is the first time that Adealine and Lee had been here since they were engaged. Rita and Curtis hadn't been here since Lee was born.

"Hi mom," Rita said, hugging her mom.

It was a stiff hug as always.

"Hello Milly," Curtis greeted, devoid of any emotion.

She glared at her daughter's husband.

"Hi Grandma," Lee said, faking a smile and hugging her.

"I see you're still married to the harlot, added an extra brat and another one is on the way," she glared at her grandson's wife and children.

"Adelaine is not a harlot!" Lee exclaimed, glaring at his grandma.

"And I'm not a brat!" Ariana exclaimed, glaring at her great-grandmother.

"You are!"

"I wish you were the one who died not great grandpa Nick!" Ariana yelled.

The next thing everyone knew Milly slapped Ariana across the face.

"How dare you insult my wife and then lay a hand on my daughter!" Lee bellowed.

Ariana cowered next to her mum crying as she comforted her.

"I know grandpa Nick would want us to stay here but I just can't," Lee said, taking Adelaine's hand.

"We're not staying here either," Curtis said.

Rita left with her husband, son, daughter-in-law and grandkids.

"Where are we going now, mum?" Lee asked.

"I know exactly where we're going, honey."

Lee nodded. A few minutes later they reached another house and walked up. Everyone was confused except for Rita. She knocked on the door. A woman who looked quite similar to Milly but much kinder answered the door.

"Little Margie?" she asked.

"Hi Aunt Mary"

It finally dawned on Curtis who this was. He never got his mother-in-law's blessing but her sister had given him her blessing.

"It's nice to see again, Mary," Curtis said, moving to hug the older woman.

Lee was completely confused.

"You don't remember my son, Lee since you met him when he was a few months old."

So, that's why Lee didn't remember her.

"You've grown into a handsome man, you must be in your thirties now?"

"Yes, I turned thirty one in November."

Mary turned to Adelaine smiling.

"This is my wife of twelve years, Adelaine," Lee smiled.

"It's nice to meet you -" Adelaine hesitated because she didn't know what to call her.

"You can call me Mary."

Adelaine nodded.

"Who's this adorable little one?" she said, leaning down to Ariana's eye level.

The usually bold little girl was still timidly cowering behind her mum.

"Come on, sweetie. She won't hurt you," Rita coaxed her granddaughter out from behind her daughter-in-law.

Ariana walked out from her behind her mum, Mary gasped and said. "This is my sister's doing isn't it?"

"It is."

Mary's brow furrowed as she said. "Come in."

The group walked in.

"Who was at the door, mum?" A man around Rita's age asked.

"Marshal?" Rita asked the man.

The man turned towards her and smiled. "It can't be, little Margie."

"It's me."

He walked over and pulled her into a hug. Curtis also remembered having to get his blessing.

"Nice to see you again, Marshal," Curtis said.

"You weren't around when I brought Lee for a visit back in early 1978," Rita said, gesturing towards Lee.

"It's nice to meet you."

"You too."

The introductions continued.

"Let me get some ice for your face, sweetie," Mary said.

"Okay,"

Marshal glanced over at the little girl and said. "This is Aunt Milly's doing isn't it."

"Sadly," Rita said.

"I can see why you left the minute you met Curt."

"So, grandma was always abusive?" Lee asked, putting his arm around his wife and resting his hand on her stomach checking to see if their son was kicking. When she was pregnant with Cedric he had the habit of not kicking for a few hours when something stressed him out but it didn't look like Chance was the same because he was kicking non-stop.

Rita nodded and said. "It started when I found out I was magical."

"They know you're magical?" Curtis said.

"My mum is a squib who hates the magical world."

Curtis looked shocked at his wife and said. "You're not a muggle-born then, you're technically a half-blood."

"I know, don't be mad that I lied."

"Don't worry, I'm not."

Mary brought Ariana the ice and helped her ice the injury.

"How old is your daughter, Lee?"

"She's seven."

"I'm almost eight!" Ariana said, indignantly.

Marshal nodded and said. "My granddaughter is her age."

"Can I meet her?" Ariana asked eagerly.

"I guess so."

Ariana grinned.

"I have plenty of room here for all of you," Mary said.

"You sure?"

Mary nodded.

Mary with hint of teasing in her voice said glancing over at Lee and Adelaine and said. "I don't want to hear any moaning and groaning coming from your room, either."

"It's a good thing you're good at silencing charms, love," Lee whispered to his wife, dodging her playful slap.

"Daddy, what's a harlot?" Ariana asked innocently.

Lee shook his head and replied. "It's a bad name to call a woman."

Ariana nodded.

"I'm going to take a guess that my sister called you that?" Mary asked Adelaine.

"Yes, she did," she said readjusting her youngest on her lap.

"This wasn't the first time either, she called you that the morning after we got engaged just because we've always shared a bed," Lee said, holding his son on his lap.

"You guys got engaged here?"

Lee smiled at the memory and said. "Yeah, grandpa took us to a baseball game and I used the kiss cam to propose. The morning after I had an argument with grandma saying she wanted Adelaine to leave which she did unfortunately. I was missing Adelaine so much so I went to try and grab some drinks but I wasn't of age like I am at home. I ran into some people and we hit it off."

"It's hard not to fall for your charm, Lee, I should know," Adelaine smiled up at her husband.

Lee smiled and continued the story. "During that night, I decided to get a tattoo of Adelaine's patronus."

"You can cast a patronus?"

Adealine nodded and said. "It's a ring-tailed lemur, Lee's is a baboon."

"That's interesting, I never got the hang of that difficult piece of magic. When did you guys learn that?"

"We learned it back in our seventh year," Lee said as his scars prickled slightly.

Marshal nodded and asked. "Do you remember their names?"

"It was over a decade ago, why?"

"No reason."

They continued talking.

"So, what are your children's names?"

"Ariana Charity, Cedric Nicholas, Elladora Leslie and Chance Oliver, " Adelaine said, patting her rounded stomach.

"Cedric, where did you get that name?"

Adelaine smiled and said. "He's named after my honorary brother who died in our sixth year in the Triwizard Tournament."

Mary nodded and said. "Elladora is also quite interesting."

"She's partially named after my god-sister Nymphadora who died in 1998," Lee said.

"Where did you get the name Chance?"

Adelaine smiled and said. "Chance was a friend of mine who interned with me at the paper my sixth year he also died in 1998. As for the middle names Charity is named after a Professor we had in our fifth year, Nicholas is named for his great grandfather, Leslie is my best friend and -" Lee cut her off.

"Oliver happens to be named after the bloke she fancied for two years and her first kiss, Although, I was acquaintances with him. "

Adealine smirked and said. "Are you still jealous that he was my first kiss after all these years. You got me in the end after all. I'm carrying our fourth child."

Lee chuckled resting his hand on her stomach.

It was now later that night the couple was in bed.

"I can't believe my grandma hit our daughter," Lee said, crawling into bed.

Adelaine nodded and said. "I know did you notice how quiet she was most of the day, when she's usually chattering away."

"I noticed it broke my heart," Lee said, pulling her to his chest and resting his hand on her stomach.

The couple fell asleep.

-/-/-/-

A few days later was the funeral. Lee and Rita were blubbering messes as expected but they had Curtis and Adelaine to comfort them.

"Rita?" A voice asked.

She turned to the source of the voice. It was another one of her cousins on her dad's side.

"I can't believe Uncle Nicholas is dead."

"Me either."

There was a tug on her black dress. Rita looked down to see her grandson looking up at her.

"Grama, up," he said holding his arms up.

She gladly picked him up.

"You have a grandson already, you're my age aren't you?" she asked.

"I think we're a few years apart, actually."

Her cousin nodded. "So, what's this little cutie's name?"

"I'm Cedwic," the little boy said, shyly.

"How old are you?"

"I'm this many," he said holding up four fingers.

"He's kind of quiet isn't he?"

Rita nodded and said. "Yes, he takes after my daughter-in-law in that department. She was quiet until she crossed paths with my son at school."

Lee walked over and said. "There you are, Cedric."

"Daddy!" he exclaimed, reaching out to Lee.

Lee took his son from his mum.

"So, this little cutie is your son?"

Lee nodded and told his mum. "I think we're going back to the house, it's been a long day."

"Alright, we'll see you back there."

Lee nodded and walked away holding Cedric. Adelaine and Lee left back to Aunt Mary's house.

"I'm tired, mummy," Ari whined.

The couple went to bed.

July 2009

It was now time for Adelaine to give birth for the last time. She had been in labour for about twenty hours now. After another eight hours, Chance Oliver Jordan was born on July 21st, 2009 at one pm.

September 2012

Ariana was jumping with excitement as she pulled her dad across the platform. Lee was trying not to tear up. He couldn't believe his baby was starting Hogwarts. Adelaine was pushing their youngest three-year-old Chance in his pram. Cedric was reading a book and Ella was walking calmly with them. The train whistled and Ariana said goodbye to her parents and boarded the train.

The End