You Know You Are Loved When A Gryffindor Loves You

7

As the ice of January turned to the wet sludge of February, the girls offered to sit the three children for Severus and Harry while they went to a frozen Paris to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary although they didn’t see much of the city as it was shrouded for the most part under thick louring cloud and freezing rain. They didn’t care spending a large amount of the time in bed or in the shower, or laid out across the floor/desk/sofa and shagged each other silly for forty-eight hours re-establishing their bonds and re-iterating their love for each other. They managed to do some shopping and bought presents for everyone and themselves, landing at the airport laden with packages and parcels.

The spring eventually started to show itself and the ground softened as bulbs sprang to life in their gardens. Severus took delivery of a large greenhouse that he installed behind the house well away from the main grassy area that aproned all three houses. Ginny was amazed as she spotted Severus tinkering about inside. “Oh, wow, you garden?!”, she exclaimed, and Severus laughed, “I only had a teeny little yard in Manchester but you saw how I had it. It didn’t get like that on it’s own”, and the girl reddened, “I thought perhaps it had been like that when you moved in and you just maintained it”. Severus showed her the scrapbook he had kept and she took careful note of the varieties of plants he had grown. “I want to try fruit and veg in our plot and maybe a little orchard. I fancy apple, pear and plum trees and I’d love to try a grapevine in a little hothouse. Neville told me they aren’t so difficult to grow in this climate if kept under glass”. And that was it. The two resident gardeners were often to be seen with their heads together and shared watering detail and other chores companionably.

During the Easter holiday, the six decided to throw a humdinger of a party. They hadn’t done anything by way of a house-warming and if they left it any later then they would be too caught up in the new school, but this way all their friends from Hogwarts were free to visit and the farm was host to many visitors over Easter weekend itself. Draco was delighted to see Blaise and Pansy and the newly freed Vincent and Greg who he hugged with main force. Harry rushed into the arms of his godfather Remus and his new amour Nymphadora Tonks and was surrounded by various Weasleys and their offspring. He was delighted to see that both Fred and George had boyfriends with them. Severus welcomed Steve and saw the glint in his eye as he introduced his new love, an older chap called Malcolm, another biker, nothing new there. Matt and Jon also were there and were amazed at the spread they all shared. Ron and Hermione were chuffed to bits when half of their seventh year pals arrived and sat them all down to exchange news including Susie and Hannah who had been an item now for some years and their delight knew no bounds when Minerva appeared along with one of her daughters. Poppy and Viola put in an appearance for the main event and were warmly received by all. Poppy ruffled Harry’s hair while holding his youngest daughter, “So, Harry, the golden trio is still together, why am I not surprised?”, she grinned wryly, “I must say, you look well set up here”, as Harry showed them round and re-introduced the children that she had delivered.

And a joyful time was had by all.

Somewhere in the proceedings, Ginny pulled Hermione to one side and asked the question she had meant to ask for nearly a year now. Hermione’s eyes went big and round, tearing at the corners as she shyly accepted. That night at the main party, Harry leapt up and announced the news to cheers from the assembled company who congratulated them both from all sides and they led the dancers on the improvised dancefloor set up in the giant marquee that had been set up in the large area of lawn between the three houses.

As they held each other close, Ginny whispered, “I want to call in Draco’s favour”, to Hermione’s squeal of delight. “I didn’t think you’d wait long”. Ginny blushed and held her fiancée close, “Well, it’s best if we have ‘em reasonably young, but shall we leave a bit more of a gap than the boys did?” This made Hermione giggle, “Sure, I’m not ready yet and I have more exams next year. Let’s take our time. You know, we may end up having more twins?” Ginny just giggled, “Knowing our luck and my genes”, and they kissed each other senseless as they danced. Severus remarked, obviously a little squiffy, “What the hell took you so long?” and grinned lopsidedly at his friends. Ginny batted his arm, “One has to wait for just the right time, you know”. Hermione rejoined with, “Aye, just like you two did”, and rolled eloquent eyes to a bark of laughter from her ex-teacher, then she beckoned him forward with a crooked finger, “We want to call in the first of the boys’ favours too, after we’re wed”, she whispered and Severus hugged the pair of them spontaneously, “Good luck, ladies. Parenthood is truly a blessing that I thought I would never enjoy, but now those kids are the light of our lives”.

Harry came over at the sound of his beloved’s laugh and was inducted into the secret and hugged the two girls. Ron and Draco were next to join the charmed circle and Ginny shyly asked Draco. He grinned widely, “Girls, you are more than welcome to a share in my genes, so long as I don’t have to actually do the deed”. Ginny swatted him, “Eeewww, prat, no. Just the product, if you please. But we have to keep the students coming to the new school”. Ron giggled and hiccoughed, “What about mine, ‘Mione?” She laughed, “In a year or so, we’d like a bit of a gap, please, but don’t worry, we’ll have need of your, erm, stuff, thingy, sperm”. Ron got his friend in a gentle headlock, “Don’t be so modest, it’s spunk to you, fine manly spunk”. Hermione tickled her way out of the grip that made Ron twitch and shriek like a girlie, “Oh, very fine and manly, I don’t think”, she said and all six laughed.

Severus pulled Harry to him for a slow dance later in the evening, “So, my Harry. A whole tribe of us at long last. Six of us and a minimum of nine kids, possibly eleven. Hell, that’s a footie team never mind a quidditch team. Molly will be overjoyed. This is brilliant isn’t it?” Harry looked up into the flushed and happy face of his beloved and smiled, “Yeah, my Severus, brilliant. Who’d have thought it all those years ago up there in the Astronomy Tower. Us just getting started on our clandestine affair. Voldie still alive, Dumbledore mad at us, Ron not even kissing Draco and Hermione going out with Susie. And here we all are. I’ve never been so damned happy in my whole life”. Severus held him close, a blissful smile on his face, “Aye, me too. Me too. From lonely old bachelor to having a whole tribe of family around us, a new life in front of us and people we love and who love us all around. I can truly say that I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever be this happy. It’s all your fault you know”, he kissed his husband slowly and passionately. “Thank you Harry, for giving me a life I never thought possible. I love you so much”. Harry clung to the love of his life and the rest of the sounds in the marquee spiralled away until there was just the two of them gazing into each other’s eyes oblivious to all others. ‘Me too, Severus, me too. I will always love you, no matter what’. No words were needed, just the bubble re-asserting itself and the love it held, then they smiled and kissed once more, deeply, tongues joining in, lost in the bond-bubble, the ecstasy suffusing every cell.

Together forever.

The Absolute End


fanny = English: vagina rather than the U.S.: backside

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