PART 2! I should have waited for some reviews, as I usually do, but I couldn't!

ooooo note: I love Remus and Tonks and Sirius too much for them to be dead... so they aren't. It matters! Or at least, it will. But Teddy still spends a lot of time with Harry :) Teddy would be about 1 1/2-2 around this time I think... ah well.

HEEEEHEEEE I can't even contain my excitement!

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Fred was pretty sure he was going to pull his hair out. He had managed to get his flat cleaned...sort of. There was still a mess of parchment on the table because he had gotten an idea for another product while cleaning and had to jot it down. He, of course, had then gotten distracted trying to figure out a way to make it work. He had sort of left the ink and quill and parchment on the table with a couple ingredients he was testing. Woops.

Hermione would be there soon but he was so far from ready. His shirt was a mess and so was his kitchen. Thankfully, he had pulled his hair back into a ponytail before he started. He would need to change clothes before she got there because currently his t-shirt and jeans were a fright. He had flour everywhere and sauces and he had made a mess of the actual food. It hadn't turned out quite as he had planned.

He had meant to make pasties with a salad but he had burnt the pasties and he had forgotten to get the ingredients for the salad. He had managed to make eccles cakes for dessert. They had turned out well. He should have found a proper recipe but the inventor in him had gotten the best of him. He had decided he would be fine. He was wrong. He was trying to figure out a way to salvage the food when there was a knock at the door.

He cursed on his way to the door.

He opened it. "You could have apparated," He started to say but he stopped when he saw Hermione with a very blue hair child.

"Not with Teddy." She smiled. He stepped aside and they came in. Teddy was holding a stuffed wolf and was looking up at Fred with smiling eyes. Fred had given him the wolf as joke before sending him home to his father. Teddy ran up to Fred and hugged his legs.

Fred laughed and picked him up. He led them into the space and sat with Teddy on his lap. Teddy was laughing while Fred bounced him on his leg.

"I would have owled ahead about Teddy but Harry and Ginny were busy and Remus needed someone to watch him. I hope you don't mind." Hermione said sitting down next to them. She ruffled Teddy's hair. He was happily making hi wolf 'run' wile he bounced.

"Of course not! We always have fun, don't teddy boy?"

Teddy looked back at him with a big grin. "Yes! Fred and Teddy a'ways have fun!"

Teddy was quite the talker. He spent most of his time around people which had led him to be very vocal and very open. It helped that Hermione constantly read to him and worked with him on his vocabulary. He had once laughed at her and told her that he was still too young to be expected to speak perfectly.

"I'm simply encouraging excellence!" She had huffed back.

Fred sat Teddy on the floor and walked to the back room quickly. He came back with a couple pygmy puffs. He sat the colorful puffs down next to the boy.

"You've got to be gentle with them." Fred warned before Teddy played with them. He went to the kitchen which luckily opened to the living room. He could see Teddy playing. Hermione followed him in. "You look nice." He smiled at her knowingly.

"You picked it out. I didn't know you had an eye for clothing, considering..." She looked him up and down.

"I've lived with Gin long enough to know a thing or two about clothes." He chuckled. Ginny often dragged him shopping with her. She was torturous, that one!

Hermione did look good though. The white silk of her blouse wasn't particularly tight but the fabric draped over her softly. It was tucked into the trousers he had chosen which molded around her butt and thighs and had a dynamically straight line that led down to the round toe of purple pumps. He didn't quite like the fact that she had smoothed her curls and pulled them back into a ponytail. He liked her hair wild. He was tempted to pull it out and run his hands through it until it was crazy again.

"She does have an eye for clothes." Hermione leaned on the counter opposite him. "So, what are we having."

"At the present moment, burnt pasties, an invisible spinach salad and mediocre eccles cakes." He said with a chuckle.

"Fred, you're incorrigible." She laughed heartily and leaned down to take off her shoes. She handed him the heels and shooed him out of the kitchen. "I'll cook; You entertain Teddy."

He sheepishly left her alone. He had meant to cook for her and let her relax but alas, that was not to be. He sat with Teddy and the pygmy puffs. Teddy was mimicking the colors with is own hair. Fred laughed and picked him up and led them to the table. He had an idea and he figured the little one could be of assistance. They worked together while Hermione busied herself in the kitchen. Fred found himself watching her more than he ought to.

Her brow was furrowed and she bit her lip as she chopped and cooked. She was moving quickly and efficiently. He thought it was cute. They both worked and did their things. Before they knew it the food was ready and Fred had figured out what he was going to do about his new idea. They sat down in the living room because his kitchen table was still overflowing with parchment.

"Hermi-mi, it's nummy!" Teddy said munching on his own food, which had been cut into little bites by Fred.

"It really is delicious. Well done, Love." He said as he popped a bit in his mouth. Hermione had made Ravioli with mushrooms, brussel sprouts, and bell peppers.

Before she could thank them, Teddy spoke again.

"Papa calls Mum tha'."

"Calls her what, Ted?" Fred asked curiously.

"Wuv."

Fred froze. He hadn't realized he had been calling her Love. Hermione flushed and stuffed a bite into her mouth.

"Teddy, eat up. It's almost time for bed." Fred said quickly. He was in deep trouble. He was going to pretend he hadn't said it. Just pretend nothing happened!

They ate quickly and tucked Teddy into Fred's bed but not without a bedtime story and cuddles. They laid down with Teddy between them and waited for him to fall asleep. He clutched his wolf and Fred debated talking to Hermione about things but he dozed off and Hermione couldn't seem to stay awake any longer either.

They didn't hear the pop that announced Remus and Tonks.

They stood in the door of the bedroom and smiled. They're son was soundly asleep between Fred and Hermione, who happened to be holding hands, his head against Fred's chest. Fred's head was awfully close to Hermione's. They wrote a quick note, left it on the bedside table and carefully extricated their son from his sandwich. They wouldn't mention that Hermione had shifted into Fred's side and tucked her head under his chin. No one would hear of this... except maybe Harry and Ginny. And if they chose to share it, that was their business.

HEEHEEHEE! Percy is next!

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