Hey Lovelies! So update time! This one is "My Sister" by Reba McEntire, because I love the exchanges between Andi and Cissa in this one! I hope you all enjoy reading this one while I finish writing the one where we go to see Lucius... Happy Reading!

Chapter 6 – My Sister

The month between when Cissa sent a letter requesting a meeting with her ex-husband and the date that it has been scheduled for seemed to fly by, and in the midst of it they made the official announcement of the pregnancy to all of their friends at Andromeda's birthday in the middle of August.

They were sitting around the table, after everyone had sung and cake had been passed out when Cissa leaned over to her older sister and whispered in her ear, "Can I ruin your birthday by sharing a secret?"

Andromeda smiled, "Really? You found out for sure then?"

"We did, the day after Harry's birthday in fact. I'll be fourteen weeks this coming week, so if you don't mind us crashing your birthday party, we'd like to share with everyone?"

"Of course!" She hugged her awkwardly as they were sitting side by side. "I take it you already told Draco?"

"Yeah, I has to run out of the room so I didn't vomit on them the morning he and Hermione officially told us that they were engaged." She looked down the table to where the two sat talking to Neville and Luna and smiled. "Not exactly how we had planned it, but it all turned out okay."

"Well then by all means, go ahead and ruin my party! I didn't want one anyway."

The blonde nudged her sister gently on the arm, "Yes you did. You always want a birthday party."

Andromeda just smirked at her as Cissa turned to her other side to face her husband. "Hey you…" She touched his arm to get his attention. He had been talking about the new defense professor with McGonagall and the Headmistress did not look like she was very happy with how things were turning out.

"Yes dear?" He finished his conversation with Minerva and turned to face her, surprised at the wicked grin on her lips. "Are you plotting something that I should know about over here?"

"Yes actually." She laughed softly, "Andi said that we could crash her birthday with our news."

"Really?" He suddenly got nervous at the thought of telling the rest of their friends.

"Whenever you're ready."

"Are you ready?" He looked at her with all seriousness, and she nodded. "Okay, well do you want to tell them or do you want me to?"

She leaned over and kissed his cheek, "I'll do it. Just get ready for any reaction."

"Everyone here will be thrilled." Andromeda's whisper reached her sister just as she prepared to stand up. She squeezed Harry's hand once and then rose to her feet.

"Excuse me everyone." They all turned to look at her. "This summer has been one full of surprises. The first of which being myself becoming the Lady Potter."

"Potter-Black." Harry pointed out with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes dear." She rolled her eyes and kept going. "What I was getting to was the fact that life throws things our way that we never expect. People that we never expect, and for that I am eternally grateful." She paused and looked around the room at all of the people that were once considered her enemies. They now stood by her as her friends.

Tears were welling up in her eyes and she was fighting to get the rest of this out. "What I am trying to say is that wonderful things can happen when we least expect them." Her eyes rested on Harry and he smiled encouragingly at her. Her hand drifted to her stomach and the bump that was already noticeable if you knew to look for it. "And the last thing we expected was a baby, but we are getting one anyway. I'm pregnant."

For a moment there was silence and then Neville gave a hearty, "Congratulations!" which prompted responses from the rest of the group. Cissa was engulfed in hugs and so many kisses to her cheek that she was sure it would chap. As all the chaos died she looked up to find her son standing in front of her.

"Hey Mom." He opened his arms and she went willingly into them. "That went over surprisingly well. Everyone seems thrilled." He chuckled, "Well maybe not everyone, McGonagall said something about barely getting rid of one Potter before she found out about the next. I think she was joking though?"

Cissa laughed as she pulled away from him, "She was. She said she was happy for us. And that she was thankful she was Headmistress and not a teacher anymore. Two generations of Potters were enough. Hopefully she won't see a whole lot of this one in her office." Her hand lay protectively over her little bump and Draco looked down between them.

"You know, I was kind of up in the air about you two having a baby, but it seems right. You are an awesome mom, and I'm glad that somebody else gets to have that experience as well."

"What experience is that?" Hermione and Harry had joined them.

"Apparently having me as a mother is an experience in and of itself." She smirked at Draco and his ears went red.

"I meant it as a compliment."

"Well it's a good thing she's standing so close to you or I'd box you around the ears! How can you say something like that? Who would normally take something like that as a compliment?" Hermione laid into him, but Cissa stopped her before she could really get going.

"It's okay Hermione. I know what he meant, and he's right. Having a lioness for a mother is sure to be an experience for any child." Her smirk was once again directed at her son as she noticed him relax from Hermione's scolding at her soft words. "I can only hope that it will be a good one."

"It will be." Harry kissed the side of her head. "Are you ready to go, I told Andromeda that we would take Teddy off of her hands for her birthday and it's getting close to his bed time?"

"Yeah I'll just go say goodbye to my sister, you get him ready to go." She stepped away from the group and pulled her sister away from Kingsley. "Hey, Harry said we are taking Teddy, so I think that we are going to get going and put him to bed."

"Oh great. Thank you for that by the way." She smiled.

"No problem, I'm just going to expect you to return the favor one day."

"Of course." The brunette's gaze shifted across the room to her grandson, who was being corralled by Harry into his shoes. "He's going to make an excellent father."

Cissa smiled as she watched her husband interact with the four-year-old. "He's nervous, but I remember feeling the same way. It's a different nervous for me this time around. I mean, I know that I can keep a child alive and they turn into halfway decent adults."

"Cissa!" Andi bumped her shoulder lightly, "That's no way to talk about your child!"

The blonde shrugged with a grin, "He's used to it. No, what I meant was that Harry is worried he's not going to know what to do with a baby, how to act. I already know how to do that. I'm worried that I'm worried that the baby is going to find out about the past, and hate me. Or worse hate Draco." She shook her head, "I don't think I'd know what to do if my child actual hated me…"

"That baby is not going to hate you." Andi took ahold of Cissa's shoulders and forced her to face her. "It's going to love you. You are its parents and you are both so much in love with it already. I can see it in your faces. Sure, one day it will find out about the past, one day it will ask questions, but you'll be right there to answer them. You're never going to lie or try and hide what the past holds, it'll have nothing to hate you for."

Cissa wrapped her arms around her big sister and held on tightly for a moment. It was a longer display of affection than either one of them usually showed the other. "Thank you." There was a sob to her words as she let go of Andi. "I guess I just needed somebody to tell me that I'm not a monster. That this baby isn't going to grow up with the same scars that we did, that Draco and Harry did, I don't want anything to hurt it."

"And that is what makes you a wonderful mother." She kissed her cheek as Harry, now carrying Teddy, joined them.

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah." She returned the kiss to the cheek before turning her sister over to Harry and Teddy.

"Bye Andi. Happy birthday."

"Thank you." She kissed the toddler's forehead. "Be good. I love you."

"I love you too Gramma." Harry stepped into the Floo and called out for Grimmauld Place.

"Bye Sis." Andi waved as Cissa sent one last glance her way and disappeared after the boys.

When they had successfully gotten Teddy wound down enough to sleep and had then settled into bed themselves Harry wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close. Her back resting against his chest and his hand on her bump, "What were you talking to Andi about?"

"Hmm?" Her sleepy response came after a few seconds.

"Before we left, you were talking to Andi about something, she said that's what makes you a wonderful mother. What were you talking about?"

"Draco, and the baby, and you and I. How I couldn't bare it if anything happened to the baby, how I don't want it to be hurt by our past." She rolled over to face him. "I don't want our baby to grow up the way we did, too many emotional and physical scars. But Andi was right we aren't going to lie, and we aren't going to try and hide the past from them, so they'll have no reason to hate us."

"They?" He raised an eyebrow at her.

"It, they, sorry I got my pronouns mixed up, I wish we knew if it was a boy or a girl. Then this would all be less confusing!" She glanced at him, "What are you looking at me like that for?"

"You said they." He grinned.

"So?"

"They implies more than one. As far as I knew we were only having one child."

She grabbed his hand that was now resting above her tailbone and moved it back to her stomach. "There is one baby in there right now Lord Potter. One."

"Right now?" His grin turned into a cocky smirk.

She rolled her eyes, rolled over and purposefully flipped her long, blonde hair into his face. "Go to sleep Harry."

"That wasn't a no…"

"Go to sleep."