Hi guys, sorry it's been so long! I have been trying to write but then I feel guilty for not doing my assignments. But when I do my assignments I feel guilty for not writing, hence the update when I have a presentation tomorrow. Its only a short chapter but it's something at least. Hope you all enjoy it. Remember reviews are love.

Chapter 33

Charlie's POV

I took Alexis's hand in mine and led her inside into the kitchen.

"Everyone, this is my girlfriend Alexis Fuller. Alexis this is everyone," I grinned.

There was silence. It would have been possible to hear a pin drop. I know for a fact that you definetly would have heard a fork drop, Ron was already trying to get into the food and dropped his fork at my announcement. The silence lasted for what seemed like forever, the fadces of my family and their significant others were expressionless.

"Hi," Alexis said meekly, breaking the deafening silence.

There was a high pitched squeal as Katie pushed back her chair and ran to greet her old friend, throwing her arms around her.

"Alexis Fuller! You are the biggest bit…" Katie began, stopping as her eyes fell on Lucas on Alexis's hip.

Katie's eyes widened before she squealed and hugged Alexis again. By this time the entire family had gathered around, hugging Alexis in turn. Mum had somehow managed to steal Lucas away almost immediately.

"Alexis, my very own knight in shining armour!" Fred said, picking her up and spinning her in a circle. "You are AMAZING! Since when could you cast shield charms? You could never even shield yourself from Gred and I and then you managed to shield me! You literally saved my life, I am eternally in your debt."

"Charlie, why didn't you tell us you found her? How long have you been hiding my best friend from me?" Katie asked.

"Relax Katie, I only found her today," I told her, "if I had found her earlier I would have told you already."
"Alexis, would you like to explain this whole child situation?" George asked, nodding at Lucas.

"And where have you been?"

"Alright, everyone, how about we all sit down and have dinner and I'll explain everything."

Everyone sat back in their seats, mum still holding Lucas and started eating as Alexis filled them in on what had happened since she left.

"So, I hid out at my parents place before I bought an apartment. I got a job working at a muggle supermarket. I tuned into Potterwatch as often as possible and as soon as I heard about the battle at Hogwarts, I was there. I miraculously cast a shield charm and saved Fred's sorry ass."

"See Hermione, I told you it was her," Fred interrupted.

"I thought my charm didn't work, I thought you were dead until I got home. I cast my first killing curse at the death eater that I thought had killed you."

"You cast an unforgivable curse?" Bill asked, shocked.

"Yeah. More than one actually," she replied, not meeting Bill's eyes. "it wasn't until later that night when listening to Potterwatch that I knew my shield charm had worked. Anyway, after the battle I kept seeing all the notices about how many children had become orphans during the war against Voldemort and decided to adopt one. I didn't even make it past the first room. I knew as soon as I set eyes on him that he was the one I was going to adopt."

"But you're so young Alexis, you haven't even lived yet and now you have lost so many opportunities because you have a child to look after."

"It was part of my original plan Molly but things changed. I wasn't doing anything that I had planned to do and I wasn't going wait around for something to happen. Anyway, that's pretty much everything, until this afternoon when Luke and I were getting ice-cream and Charlie just happened to walk by a see me."

"So what job are you going to apply for at the ministry?" Bill asked.

"What are you talking about Bill? Alexis wants to work with dragons, not at the ministry," I told him, I honestly thought that Bill knew Alexis better than that.

"I don't know yet Bill. I haven't really thought about it too much."

"Lex I thought you wanted to work with dragons."

"I do Charlie, but things have changed, Lucas is my priority now. I can't go and do something dangerous just because I want to, I need to be there for him."

That's when I realised that Bill knew Alexis better than I did. I had always thought that eventually she would be working with dragons alongside me in Rom… That's when it hit me. She won't even be in Romania. If she plans to work for the ministry she will be here.

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Quote of the day: "There are nerds sitting beside me. Oh, I don't mean you, I mean the lollies." Elliroc.