Madison Potter and the Deathly Hallows

20 Years Later Special

20 Years Later Special

May 2, 2011

"Okay, do you have everything?" I asked Caroline as I helped April put on her pink shoes.

"Yes, Mom," she rolled her brown eyes, pulling her red hair back into a ponytail.

"I don't need the sass from you, okay? It's already been a rough day with your father, and I need you to cooperate. If not for me, for your father, okay?" I frustratedly asked her, only to get a roll of the eyes in response.

"Whatever," she said.

Caroline wasn't even the worst one of the kids I was dealing with at the moment— she wasn't the oldest either, but at ten years old she had the attitude of a teenage girl on her period.

"You're such an idiot, Caroline!" My oldest child, Dora, said as she got her converse on.

Dora was the eldest, and she was twelve, and in Gryffindor. She was the smartest in her year, and she was one of the many increase of students at Hogwarts. After the war there had been a baby boom, and George and I had been part of that.

"Uncle—"

"That's enough," I hissed, "now get your brother and stand at the fireplace. Floo to your grandparents house as soon as you get him, okay? April's done here so here she is," I demanded, getting the three year old up and placing her into Dora's arms. "And I mean it, Nymphadora."

"Don't call me Nymphadora!"

I smiled sadly— she was so much like Tonks that it hurts.

With April in her arms, she and Caroline walked to the fireplace and called down for their brother, who soon came in and raced past me, his red hair the only thing I saw. I heard the fireplace roar and then it was just the three of us at home.

I walked into the living room where George was sitting in the couch, his eyes staring blankly ahead at the picture of him and his brothers and Ginny on the wall.

I sat down next to him and wrapped my arms around his waist, which was hard, because I was almost ten days past my due date.

"You should be laying down, Maddie," he told me, his line of sight moving from the picture to my eyes.

"Yeah, but I can't lay down and not be with you when you're hurting," I frowned.

"I'm not hurting— not anymore— I'm just... trying to do this. I'm trying to make this moment last forever," he said taking my hands in his.

"He'll always be with you, you know. He'll always be in your heart," I whispered.

"I know, but it hard to carry on sometimes, I mean, he was my brother."

"Just remember all of the— aghhh!" I moaned.

"Maddie? Are you okay?" George asked me.

"The baby is coming," I said, pain settling inside of my body.

"Lay down, we can't get you to Mungo's right now, not in this condition."

"I should've listened to your mom, I should've been there on the due date. Ugh," I cried out in pain.

Now I don't know if this was the pain talking, or just the fact that I was in labor, but I felt as if time was going by super slowly.

"You're lucky I know how to deliver a baby, I mean, I was there when Neville and Luna had their daughter the day after James was born, and I had to deliver little Alice."

I panted in pain, and all I know is that I was pushing and pushing and soon there was a baby crying.

"It's a boy," George told me as he cleaned him off and swaddled him in a blanket.

George put our son in my arms, and as soon as I saw the tufts of red hair and the bright blue eyes I knew what his name would be.

"William," I looked up at George.

"William," George grinned as he placed a kiss on my head.

"William Arthur Weasley," I nodded.

"We'll call him Bill for short, just like we called his Uncle."

"And I hope that little Bill over here grows up to be exactly like his namesake— brave, intelligent, and everything that his uncle was. Everything that your brother was, George."

"The family's whole again, that missing spot at the table for dinners we have will be filled now," he smiled warmly.

"Well, I can't wait to tell him the stories of his Uncle, and to tell him that he sits in his chair," I replied.

"We lost Bill thirteen years ago today, and thirteen years later from that day, we've found Bill."

1) So don't worry I'm not killing off Bill I just had an idea and I really wanted to write it and I know the writing sucks but I was kind of watching Parks and Rec while writing so I got distracted yikes

2) I skipped the birthing scene because I don't know how one goes through labor and I've never given birth before lol