It was now July, and the family was getting ready for Percy's big day. Andromeda had left Teddy with Minerva and Charlie to get ready. She went to help Molly get a good head start on things.
"Teddy, please stay out of there." Minerva picked up her little brother and handed him to Charlie. "We need to get a move on. Your mother will kill us if we are late."
Charlie kissed her and walked over to the sink to clean up Teddy. "Minerva, we will not be late. Plus, mother has more then enough help already there. Even your grandmother is there helping with the wedding."
"Not the point Charlie." She grabbed their cloaks and her bag that had all their overnight stuff in it. "Your mother needs help with this wedding, and I am happy that I can be a real part of this one."
Charlie helped Teddy with his cloak and then put his own on. "This sister of yours, is going to drive me crazy."
Teddy laughed and nodded. "Yeah, sissy crazy."
Charlie picked him up and met Minerva out front who was impatiently standing on the porch. They all held onto each other and in a moment, they were all in front of the burrow.
There were so many sounds coming from inside the house, Bill and George were outside playing with Victoire. "Bring that little monster here." George called over.
Charlie smiled and walked over to his brother's. "What is it like in there?"
"It is worst then last time; mom and Percy are not getting along at all." Bill replied.
"Maybe I should stay out here and keep an eye on little Teddy." Charlie went to sit with the boys.
"Charlie, come on!" Minerva called over.
George laughed. "Or maybe not."
"You have found yourself someone that is going to be just like mom." Bill laughed at his brother.
"That is not a bad thing." He threw grass at him as he went over to join Minerva.
They walked into the burrow, there were flower arrangements on the table, there was clothing hanging by the window. Percy and Molly could be heard in the living room. "Mom, why did you invite them all! I asked you not to!"
Minerva looked at Andromeda. "Grandmother, what is going on in there?"
Harry looked up at Minerva when she called Andromeda that, it still bothered him that she would address her as grandmother.
"I believe that Molly invited more people than the bride and groom wanted." Andromeda answered as she went back to the flowers.
"This could be a long day. I am going to go and find dad; he may need to break this up." Charlie kissed Minerva before he went to find his father.
"Is Teddy outside?" Andromeda asked as she got up from the table.
Minerva nodded. "Yes, he is playing with Victoire in the field."
Andromeda went outside to see Teddy. That left Minerva and Harry alone in the kitchen.
"Do you need any help?" Minerva sat at the table.
Harry handed her some flowers. "Sure, just make them look like this." He pointed at the big vase in the middle.
A few moments passed. "Minerva, can I ask you something?"
She looked up and nodded at him. "Yes, you can ask me anything."
"This whole mom, dad, and grandmother thing. Was it always that way? Did Remus raise you to call him dad?" This was really bothering him.
"No." She shook her head. "I called him Uncle Remus for most of my life. It was when they got married that I asked the two if them to adopt me. Harry, I meant do disrespect to our parents, I just felt like after all they gave me." She sighed as she seen the look on his face. "Does it bother you?"
"Honestly when I thought that you called him dad from day one, yes." He answered. "Now that I know that you chose to call him that, and that he did not force it upon you." He lied, he wanted to keep things good for Ginny.
"Harry, Remus never once pushed him being my father on me. Once I was able to know who James really was, I had lots of stories about him and Lily." She stopped what she was doing, tears filled her eyes. "I really wish that Remus was here, to help me answer all of your questions."
Harry touched her hand. "He really meant a lot to you."
"He did, dad – I mean Remus was an amazing man and I had put him though so much. I was a handful believe it or not." She laughed.
"You are a Potter, of course you are a handful. He probably knew what he was getting himself into with you." He joked.
Molly stormed in the kitchen. "What will I do with these children."
Minerva and Harry looked over at her. They loved this woman, she was like another mother to them, but they knew that sometimes she could be a little too much for her children.
"Molly, is everything okay?" Minerva got up and gave her a glass of water.
She looked over at them, taking the glass of water. "I am so sorry, my dears. I thought that everyone was outside taking a break." She drank down the water.
"Do not be sorry." Minerva smiled at her.
"The flowers are looking amazing, and you guys have them almost done." She walked over to where the flowers were. "Why don't you two go gather the others and I will finish these last two."
"Gather the others?" Harry asked.
Molly nodded. "Yes, I have tasks that I need to assign to everyone."
Minerva smiled at Harry. "I will check the inside; you can gather those outside."
He nodded at her and headed outside.
Minerva walked into the living room, where Percy was sitting on the sofa. He had a very annoyed look on his face.
"Hey." She sat down beside him. "Are you okay?"
He shook his head. "No, my mother is going to destroy the wedding that Audrey and I had planned."
"How is that?" Minerva asked, as she need to get them back on the same page.
"This guest list, she invited people after we told her that we wanted a very small wedding." Percy threw the list on the table.
"Is that all that is going to ruin your day?" Minerva asked with a soft tone.
He nodded at her. "Yes, that is all."
"You two are in love, right? You two want to be together forever, right?" She picked up the list.
Percy looked at her with confusion. "Of course, we do, we are getting married. I love Audrey more then anything in this world."
"Then what is a few extra people? I mean you two will be so lost in each other, that they will not matter anyway." She smiled at him. "Your mother needs this, she is losing her children, they are all grown up, getting married, having babies. This is the one thing that she wanted to have a little bit of control over, just let her win this time." Minerva passed him the list.
"I guess you are right." Percy had a hard time letting those words come out of his mouth. "I will go talk to her."
"Always love your mother, they are blessings. Percy you never know when you will lose them."
He looked at her and smiled. "You are right. Also, Minerva please stay around. I like you." He went into the kitchen to find his mother.
Charlie came down the stairs, he seen Minerva on the sofa. "What are you doing out here?"
"Just convinced your brother that a few extra quests are not a bad thing." She smiled at him.
"You are amazing, how do you do it?" He walked over to her.
As she went to get up, she felt lightheaded. She almost fell over when Charlie wrapped his arms around her waist to hold her up. "Minerva, are you okay?"
She nodded. "I just got really dizzy for a moment there."
"Sit." He sat her back on the sofa and went to get her some water.
"Thank you love." She took the water.
"Maybe you should go upstairs and lay down for a bit." He looked at her and she was a bit pale.
"I will be fine, I promise. Besides your mom wants us all to meet her in the kitchen. She has some more jobs for us to do." She smiled at him and walked into the kitchen.
Charlie walked behind her, he pulled out a chair for her to sit on.
Molly had assigned them all to a task, most of them were in groups of three or more. Minerva was placed with Ginny and Hermione. They were to get all the name placements ready for the tables in the morning.
Ginny looked at Hermione. "So, when will your big day be?" She laughed.
"Big day? What are you talking about?" Hermione asked.
"When do you think that you and Ron will get married?" Ginny smirked.
"Never, we are happy with where we are as a couple. We do not need marriage to ruin that." She finished up with her batch of names.
"So, what about you? Minerva, you and Charlie ever talk about getting married?" She switched her attention.
"Not really, it has never come up. We are happy where we are as well. Just not ready for that big step. Maybe some day." Minerva smiled, she was beginning to feel tired and lightheaded again.
"You two and your happy where we are thoughts." Ginny laughed.
They had all finished up, and they went to get up to go find Molly. As they did Minerva lost her balance and fell, as she went down, she hit her head on the table.
"Ginny, go get Charlie." Hermione lifted Minerva to the couch.
Molly came in when she heard the commotion. "What happened?" She ran over to the girls.
"She stood up and fell over, Ginny and I were too far away to catch her, and she hit her head on the table." Hermione explained.
"Go get a cloth, also there is a healing potion in the cabinet. You will know which one it is." Molly instructed Hermione.
Minerva opened her eyes; her head was throbbing. "What happened?"
"Stay still, Hermione is grabbing some things that will help." Molly said to her softly.
Charlie came running into the living room, along with Harry and Arthur who were all working together on their wedding task.
"Minerva." He ran over to her.
Hermione had returned with the cloth and the potion; Molly gave it to her and cleaned up her head. "Charlie, take her up to bed. She is done for the night."
He nodded and picked her up. Walking her up to his room, he laid her on his bed. "Minerva, you passed out this time?"
She nodded. "Yes, I did. I think it is the heat."
"No, it is not even that hot out this evening. I think we need to go and get you looked at in the morning." He sat on the edge of the bed.
"Not tomorrow, I will take it easy for the day. I am not going to miss this wedding. Once it is over, and if I am still not well then, we can go get me checked out." She looked at him.
"Fine, but if you start getting worse. We will be leaving the wedding to go to Saint Mungo's." He kissed her head.
"I would not expect anything less." She smiled and laid back.
"I am going to go help Harry and dad, then when we are done, I will be back up." He left the room.
Minerva waited a few moments to make sure Charlie was gone. She then walked out of the bedroom, she quietly walked down into the kitchen. She had to rule one thing out and she needed some tea leaves for it. The house was empty, they were all outside putting some last-minute touches on the venue.
She put the kettle on and searched the kitchen for some tea leaves. She was startled a bit when Fleur came in the kitchen from upstairs. "Minerva, 'ou 're supposed to be in bed."
"Where does Molly keep the tea leaves?" Minerva looked at her.
"Vhy do 'ou need tea –" She smiled at her. "Do you zhink?" Fleur opened a cupboard and handed her the leaves.
She shrugged. "Not sure, that is why I need the leaves."
"Sit, let me." Fleur went over and poured the boiling water into a teacup. "'ere."
Minerva took a deep breath in as she put the leaves in her cup. "Does this actually work?"
Fleur nodded. "Yes, if 'ou know 'ow to read zhem properly. I 'ave found out about both of mine zhis vay."
"Both?" Minerva asked with a smile.
"Yes." She smiled. "Bill and I 're pregnant again."
"Congratulations." Minerva tried her best to drink the tea, but it was so hot, and she was not big on the taste.
"No one can know yet, ve vant to vait until after zhe wedding." She sat beside her.
"Yes, that makes sense. Let Percy have his day." Minerva sipped the tea.
"Drink it faster, before zhe others get in." Fleur was excited.
Minerva finished the last of the tea, she handed the cup to Fleur. "So?"
Fleur looked in the cup and then up at Minerva. "Ve 're going to 'ave babies together." She hugged her.
Charlie, Bill, and Harry all walked into the burrow. "What is the excitement in here?" Bill asked as he looked at his wife.
"Nothing, love. Ve 're just catching up on old times." Fleur smirked.
"What are you doing up? That is the better question." Charlie walked over to Minerva.
"I just felt like having a bit of tea before I went to bed." She sat the cup in the sink.
"Tea? Since when is tea your choice of drink?" He helps her back up the stairs.
Minerva got undressed and laid in the bed, she was excited but not sure if she should tell him yet.
He looked over at her as he also stripped down to his boxers. "Are you okay? You look like you are about burst?"
"Sit." She patted the bed.
He went over and sat beside her. "Minerva, you are acting weird. First you are hugging Fleur, and now this random flash of excitement." "
"There is a reason for all of it. When you left, I was racking my brain on when this had happened before, all these symptoms. I remembered when, it was in Romania. So, I got up in search of tea leaves, I needed to confirm it." She smiled at him.
"Tea leaves? Since when are you about reading tea leaves." He was so confused.
She shrugged. "Not big on it but I know how. I did not need to though; Fleur came down and she did it for me. Fleur has always been big on Divination. She read them, and that is why we were hugging."
"Hugging for what? Minerva I am so lost right now." Charlie looked at her.
"Charlie, I am pregnant again." She beamed.
"You are what? How? When?" Charlie was in shock.
"I am pregnant. So when two people get together –"
"I know how Minnie." He laughed. "I am just so shocked. I thought that we would get married first, have a house, a job. Oh goodness, a job."
She took him by both hands. "Breath, it is all going to be fine. One step at a time. Let's get this wedding over with, we will tell everyone after, we will be fine."
He nodded at her and smiled. "We are going to have a baby." He kissed her.