Being Parents

New Friendships

 

Harry sat on a chair next to Ginny's bed, holding her hand. He had been there for almost one hour watching her breathe. Never had he thought of how reassuring it was to simply hear her inhale and exhale. His heart rate had already gone back to normal from the accelerated state he was back in the heat of battle and when Seamus told him where Ginny was. He was smiling self-consciously to his wife. She was pregnant; he would be a dad again. The funny thing was that it would be him to give her the news instead of the normal way these things usually go. For moments, he was worried about Teddy's reaction to a new addition on their little family, but he was sure Teddy loved James and would certainly love any other sibling he and Ginny were to give him.  

Ginny shifted on the bed and Harry snapped out of his own mind and turned his gaze to her face. Her eyes were threatening to open and he held his breath with the anticipation. Ginny pressed his hand and Harry got up to his feet to get closer to her. 

"Ginny, sweetheart?" He called out, tightening his grip on her hand.

"Harry?" She answered with a tired voice.

"Thank Merlin!" Harry gasped, bringing his fragile Ginny to his chest and embracing her softly, afraid she could break at any minute. "Oh, Ginny, for a moment I thought I had lost you!"

"Stop being such a baby, Potter!" She scolded with a big grin. There's old Ginny. Harry grinned back and pulled her to a passionate kiss.

"Speaking of babies," Harry started once they had parted. "I have something to tell you, Gin."

"Is everything alright with James?" Ginny sat up in her bed in alarm.

"Yes, he's fine." Ginny sighed in relief. "Honey, you're pregnant!"

"I - what?"

"The Healer told me. You're pregnant! We're gonna have another baby!" Harry commemorated.

"Really?" Ginny laughed and started to cry at the same time and Harry hugged her again, this time more tightly. He drew several kisses on her head. "I love you so much, Harry!"

"I love you too, Gin!" They kissed again and then kept staring at each other's eyes with their foreheads glued for what may have been a century, for all they cared. But the question couldn't be skipped forever. "Harry, what happened today?"

The Head Auror sighed and took his seat back, grabbing Ginny's hand. "It all started when Kelly was attacked at the Ministry..." Harry told her everything that happened until the moment he arrived at the site and Ginny told him about how she didn't go to the Leaky but went to Madam Malkin's instead and how everything went down with the hooded man. 

"Harry, there's something you're not telling." It wasn't a question.

"Someone died, Ginny." He simply said, making Ginny gasp. She only mouthed the question, but Harry heard her just fine. "Robins Maxwell."

"Merlin! Isn't he Tobias' father?" Ginny asked with tears in her eyes. Tobias, Robins' son, was a seven year old boy, a recent friend of Teddy's. They had become friends when they found out their daddies worked together against evil, on Profession Day. Penelope had actually come to talk with Ginny at the end of the school year the previous week, saying how Teddy had obvious interests with fighting bad guys that probably came with his home example.

Harry sadly nodded, with tears coming back to his eyes. "I sent Bernard to tell Heather the news. I can't face her, Gin! Not when it is my fault! If you had seen Ben. So lost. I thought: if it were Ron lying moveless on the ground?"