Draco's recovery wasn't nearly as fast as he hoped. In the end it took another week before he was allowed back at work. Another one after that before he was allowed back on field missions. Molly sensing the sadness in our house hold from the accident decided she could cheer us up. She sent letters to the whole family inviting us all to the burrow to all hang out and have some fun.

  "You ready?" I ask Draco as I step into the bathroom. I see him standing shirtless in front of the mirror. His eyes are fixed on the three deep scars across his chest. His face is tense and unreadable. His eyes meet mine as he moves to grab his shirt from the sink. "Draco." He avoids my eyes. I step towards him placing a hand on his shoulder. He sighs.

"I don't know why it's affecting me so much," he says softly, "I knew this was the reality of being an auror. I knew I could get hurt."

"You knew you could- you didn't think you actually would," I tell him as I move my hand down to take his hand. Clutching it tightly as he moves back to look at me. "We never expect to get hurt. But it's not a bad thing completely. It puts things in perspective." He sighs as I let go of his hand allowing him to button his shirt up. He moved quickly as if to hide the injury from my eyes. I place my hand on his check tilting his face to look at me interrupting him again. "Dray I love you more than anything else in this world."

"I know," he says softly. His eyes not meeting mine.

"I'm right here," i assure him, "neither of us are going anywhere. Okay?" He nods. I lean in pulling him into a deep loving his. One of his hands moves to my waist deepening the kiss as he slightly pushes me towards him. As we pull apart he fixes his shirt making it look neat. Then turns to his hair. It's hanging down to his jaw now. He starts to mess with it in an attempt to style it in anyway. It's getting to a length he doesn't know how to deal with. I chuckle at him.

"It never stays right," he sighs as it falls once again. I smile as I look at his reflection in the mirror.

"I think it looks nice," I tell him. He looks over at me and smiles. "Are you ready?"

"Not at all," he says to me as he turns to the sink full of bottles and things to fix his hair and such. I sigh moving to sit on the edge of the tub as I watch him work through his process. I've married a man who takes four times longer then me to get ready. It's actually amusing how long it takes him to get ready versus any other man I know. Then again Harry now is starting to reach the same level of him. I mean they both take forever with all the things for their hair. Ironic seeing as Harry still leaves with the messiest hair and Draco's just falls back into its place. Finally he gives up tossing everything down in defeat. I give him a soft smile. "Can you help?" I nod moving towards him. I run my fingers through his hair styling it as neatly as he so desperatly wants. As it stays I feel him smile. I tilt my heading looking at him as I pull my hands back from his hair.

"What are you going to do if we have a daughter in the future?" I ask him, "you can't even style your own long hair." He crosses his arms over his chest in a slight pout.

"They have spells for that," He says to me, "plus you can do the hair. I'll teach them how to ride brooms-"

"You'll teach them to fall off brooms," I tease him. He looks at me clearly not amused.

"Ironic is you've fallen off how many times now?" He asks me. I roll my eyes as I take his hand.

"But I'm the pro one here," I tease him, "now can we go? We are going to be late because you don't know how to manage your time while getting ready." He smiles at me amused at the jab.

"Fine lets go," He says to me, "but next week my mom is coming over for dinner and you have to bring Teddy so she can see him." I smile at him.

"Of course," I say to him, "I'll get Andromada to come over too. She'd love that!" He smiles and starts leading me out of our room. We get downstairs to see Finn with two other house elfs sitting on the couch. They've been here before but their names slip my mind. It takes a few mintutes before a recognize them as Winky and Kreacher. I smile at them before waving. "We'll be off Finn don't wait up!"

"Bye Masters!" Finn calls off. Draco waves to them as my eyes catch the clock sitting on the wall. I detour for a second to look at our family clock. Draco and I's hands sitting on the home spot. I smile then look over to Draco.

"Ready?" He asks me. I nod. He holds on tightly and apparates us. Soon the dark colour palatee of our house is replaced with the bright colours of the burrow. The living room was already filled with people just furthur proving how late we are compared to the others. I smile at them all. Teddy runs to Draco and I and jumps at me. I move to catch him pulling him into a tight hug. 

"Teddy baby hi!" I say to the boy. I hold him in my arms as I tickle his sides. He laughs squirming playfully as Draco laughs at us amused with the two of us. Suddenly as I pull back Teddy launches at Draco. He catches him but you could tell the sudden movement hurt him. I look at him extremely worried but he smiles.

"I'm fine Love," He assures me as he plays with the toddler. I nod. Ginny steps towards me and places a hand on my shoulder.

"You good?" She asks me. I nod to her as I look to Draco playing with Teddy. The small boy giggles loudly agaisnt the loud lively house. I look back to Ginny.

"I'm good," I tell her, "just a little sore from trainning. They are busting are asses to get ready for championships."

"Makes sense i mean its a huge thing," She says to me as we move away from the middle of the living room to the kitchen where Hermione and Angelina are sitting. "I'm excited for you! A friend of mine in something so cool- you've got us all tickets right?"

"A private box," I tell the girls as we sit down, "everyone has a ticket if you'd like to go." Angelina smiles brightly at me as Hermione looks out to yard. "Enough about me how is everyone else going?"

"Hermione got a promotion to lead the Being Divisons," Ginny announces for her. I smile brightly at Hermione as she beams proudly.

"Thats amazing!" I say to her, "and all right before you big Febuary wedding?" She nods at the new date. They were having some trouble with everything but finally they settled on Febuary 19th on the day they should get married. 

"I never realised how stressfull weddings were," Angelina says, "but sitting through everything with you three has really just made me realise I want a small wedding." I look at her with a slight smirk. 

"I'm sure Molly would love that," I say to her with a slight laugh. Hermione and Ginny both laugh with me as Angelina looks smugly at us.

"Actually Molly understood," She says to us. We all look to her in disbelief.

"Wait a damn second does that mean!" Ginny exclaims. Angelina shushes us all as we start to question her. Our voices drop. 

"He proposed last week," She tells me quietly, "but we were going to announce it tonight." The three of us girls sequeal at the news. "Listen I want you all to know we aren't doing anything huge. No bridal party no big fancy reception just the family, a few friends, and then we'll all just have some drinks and dance. Not a huge deal." We nod understandingly. "I mean there are going to be so many weddings in such a short time I mean Hermione its you, then Ginny, then me, then I'm calling it now Percy and Audrey are going to get married soon." It makes sense she doesn't want anything big with those circumstances. I mean hell its a lot happening in such a short time. 

"All the other kids are off getting married or getting close to and what has Charlie done?" Ginny starts, "he got a new dragon. He's living his best life."

"Charlie doesn't need anyone," Hermione says, "I respect that."

"At one point he did have someone," Angelina says quietly, "some old trouble maker but she passed during their seventh year." I look at the girl nodding. I remember him telling me about some girl he dated who died when he was in school. He used his expirence to help me with losing Fred. It helped more than he would ever actually understand. 

"I don't think thats way he hasn't dated anyone," I tell them, "he really is just happy where he is." The nod understandingly. Charlie wasn't even here. In fact he's at work enjoying his time. Wide smiles all the time from him. I understand though. Its his dream job and the life he sees for himself is just that- himself. 

"Hey ladies,"I hear a soft voice say. I look over to see Audrey and Percy walking in. "How are you all doing?" Percy asks us.

"Great," Angelina says to him with a slight smirk, "life is really good when you aren't balding."

"Low blow," He says to her with a smirk, "honestly my balding just proves that Mr. Georgie boy is next."

"Um well actually Bill, Charlie, and Arthur aren't really balding so that doesn't mean anything," Hermione says then looks over to me. 

"My husband has the best hair genetics," I say to them, "I mean have you seen Lucius' hair? I mean he's got a good hairline. I'll be fine."

"Percy come help us!" Bill yells. He moves off going to help his brother as Audrey sits down beside me. Ginny soon moves off at her mothers request taking Hermione with her as a buffer with all of the wedding things. A nice way to push any bit of nagging oover to Hermione. Angelina heads off when George offers to show her where they all practiced flying and she leaves. Meaning Audrey and I are alone in the kitchen as the sounds and actions of the spells working on the food move around us. 

"Audrey I absolutely adore your new hair cute," I tell her noticing the couple inches taken off from it, "you look great!" She smiles.

"Thanks so much," She says to me then looks around a second before moving her eyes back to me. "Listen can you keep a secret?"

"Of course," I tell her. She moves closer to me. Dropping her voice.

"Listen," She whispers, "I have a bit of a issue. Percy and I went to diagon alley before to pick something up for your mom. I got a potion for myself- something personal that I need to take. Can you keep them off my case for a moment?"

"On it," I say nodding as I move with her into the living room where everyone else seems to be gathered. She slides off and I follow. Towards the bathroom once there instead of letting go she drags me inside. She sits down a little clear potion onto the counter. As she looks over at me I look over the potion. "Are you-?"

"I don't know," She says to me, "thats why I'm taking it." She looks down at the bottle in a layer of fear. I place my hand on my shoulder as she looks to me. "We aren't even married. I don't know what we are going to do."

"Times are changing," I tell her, "weddings are as mandatory to start your life. But there are options if you don't want to have a baby." She looks down. She takes the saftey pin from the top of the potion lid. Then she pricks her finger letting a drop of blood fall into the clear liquid. She looks to me almost immedtiatly. 

"He cares what others think," She tells me, "Imagine what people will think of Perfect Percy and his bastard baby!" I shush her as I place my hand onto her shoulders.

"He loves you Audrey and he will adore the baby," I assure her, "I promise you that he'll be there. He made that mistake once and it eats him up inside all the time. So if you are he will be here and you will have an amazing father to your baby. And if some how he decides to step away from you I will kick his ass so fast." She chuckles. I smile at her. "Even without getting married you have this whole family here for you." She starts to tear up as she moves capturing me into a tight hug. I stroke her back comfortingly. Its a cute moment. As she pulls back she looks nervously back to the potion to see its turned into a gold. Meaning shes pregant. "Oh Audrey congratulations." She hugs me again. 

"Thank you," She says to me. 

"Anytime your family," I say to her as I pull back. I move towards the door. "Should I get Percy?"

"Please," she says to me. I nod leaving the bathroom and moving towards the livingroom. I see Percy talking to his father. I step up placing my hand onto his arm. 

"Audrey needs you," I whisper in his ear, "bathroom- she isn't feeling well." He looks between is father and me. Apologizing to his da before he moves off. Ron pulls Arthur away after a second to help with some fire Ron had started trying to impress hermione. I feel an arm snake around my waist. I look up to see my husband. I tilt my head up and he connects his lips to mine. Its soft and nice. He pulls back seeming satisfied.

"Where were you?" He asks me as he snuggles into the crook of my neck, "you missed Molly asking a hundred questions to Harry, Ron, and I about work.. She grilled us." I smirk at him.

"Aw the big bad Malfoy was taken down by Molly," I tease as he turns me to face him. I reach my hand up to cup his cheek. 

"Yeah I'm not afriad to admit that," He says to me, "Shes bloody scary when she needs to be." I chuckle nodding in agreement. Molly starts to usher all of us outside to the table set up. The chill december air hits us all until we move into the enchatment. Suddenly its nice and warm. Draco moves to sit beside me in the table arangement. On my left is him, my right is Fleur. Across is Audrey and next to her on her left is Percy. The two seem bubbly. I assume he took it well. Molly allows everyone to start at the food. I pile my plate as Fleur eyes me.

"Why do you seem so amused?" She asks in her thick accent. 

"You'll understand soon enough," I tell her with a smile, "its absolutely amazing to say the least." She nods then looks over to Victoiree who seemed to be having a hard time. I smile politely then look back to my plate. As always its amazing. The dinner is mostly just smile side conversations. Draco is talking to George on his right about some products at the shop, I'm talking to Fleur and Bill about toy brooms and training the kids on them. Harry thought the toy brooms were appropraite. Its a slight buzz of many different conversation until Percy stands tapping on a glass to get attention from everyone. All eyes land on him as he beams at the group. 

"Hello everyone," He says to us all, "um this is rather early and a little out of order compared to everything but I want everyone to know Audrey and I are very happy. We have learned that she is expecting!" Everyone cheers at the announcement. 

"Two months along," She adds then looks to me with a smile. The gold tint in the potion was an indactor of two months preganat. 

"Thats amazing!" Molly says, "I'm excited to have another grandbaby." As everyone enjoys the announcement Draco leans into my ear.

"You knew," He says. I nod. He chuckles. "Well at least they will leave us alone for a bit."

"No they won't," I say to him chuckling. We continue to eat and enjoy ourselves for a while. Until finally we head back inside. Harry siezing my arm pulling me towards Ron and Hermione. Draco follows. "What?"

"You have championships!" He exclaims, "We wanted to give you something as a goodluck charm."

"What?" I ask them. Hermione hands me a box and I smile brightly.

"Well I reckon you should open it," Ron says to me. I comply moving to pull open the box. Its a small ring that had a little C on it. The others show their hands to reveal matching rings. Even Draco. I look at them slightly confused.

"Hermione's idea," Draco admits, "all of ours have our first intial. Its something like a friendship bracelet."

"Well it is a meaning that we have all been in your life for a while now," Hermione says, "and this is just us being together. No matter where or what we all have these rings." I move hugging them each. Its sweet. I love the gesture. 

"You all are way too good to me," I say to them with a big smile. It was a nice change of pace the family dinner. A way to see people not care what others think and families starting. More my people are absoluely amazing to me.

Harry moves towards me resting his arm on my shoulder.

"After next week you are going to have a championship title," He says to me. I smile widely.

"I'll try," I say to him.

"You've got this," Hermione says to me smiling, "if anyone can do this you can."

"Well I guess we'll see," I say to them. One more week until the match of my life. Perhaps I'll leave with a title. Or maybe I'll just have a good time playing the game.

Til then I suppose.

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Next chapter be the championship game.