American Teen-the Sequel

Three Becomes Five

*Warning-if you get triggered with mentions of difficult pregnancies that result in a loss of life, please skip this chapter.*

After the wedding, it seemed like everything in my life was finally going well for once. There was no imminent threat of death or torture. No looming catastrophe in the distance. It was peaceful. Well, as peaceful as it can be when you have a toddler who's also a metamorphagus and a husband who runs a joke shop. 

"George! Where's Teddy?" I called out. I looked in Teddy's room and he wasn't there. 

"I thought you had him?" I heard George respond. The color drained from my face. 

"WHAT! GEORGE? DID WE LOSE A CHILD?" I ran into our bedroom. I was frantic. George was just innocently standing there. So immediately I was suspicious. This man is never innocent. That's one thing I've learned in the past few years. 

"George. Did we lose Teddy or do you know where he is?" 

"No idea" Luckily, Teddy has yet to grasp the 'stealth' part of pranks. I heard him giggle from somewhere in the room. 

"George. What did you do to the baby." It wasn't a question. It was a command. If there's one thing George has learned in the past few years is that I will always figure out what's going on, so it's better to just tell me. He walked over to the bed and pulled off a hat. Teddy was revealed. 

"It's a redesign of the headless hats Fred and I created. It just so happens that I made the spell a little too powerful and it made Teddy completely invisible." I shook my head. I've told him a thousand times not to test products on the child. He doesn't test dangerous ones, but he obviously doesn't understand that letting a toddler roam around invisible is not a best case scenario. But it's hard to be mad at him now that he's finally happy working the joke shop again. 

It took a long time for him to be able to come work at the shop. It was always Fred and his dream, and with Fred gone it just served as a painful reminder. I pushed him to keep opening the shop because I knew how much he loved inventing. He eventually reopened it after he was admitted to St. Mungo's and got the idea to develop some products to help with people struggling after the battle. 

I helped him a lot with this since I was trained as a healer. Together we created Cheering Chocolates, Nightmare Nougats, and Memory Mallows. He then also created Silent Sparklers and Trigger Talismans to help. He was also very open about his experience. The Daily Prophet interviewed him after he reopened the successful shop and he spoke about the importance of getting help if you need it. How it's stronger to admit that you can't do it alone than to suffer alone. I had never been prouder of him. 

"What have I told you about testing products on Teddy?"

"Ok ok you told me not to do it, but hear me out. It wasn't dangerous at all." 

I sighed. "We're creating a monster. He'll blow up Hogwarts within his first year."

"If he does that, I'm buying him this entire country." George said. Each day Teddy was showing great promise as a future prankster. It helped that he was spurred on by George and I. Mostly George. He stayed with George in the shop most days while I went to St. Mungo's. At home he witnessed every single prank George and I pulled on each other. In fact, we were even using Teddy as an assistant now. I thought about his biological parents. Tonks was probably loving this. She was...a disaster in school from what she told me. But Remus is probably having a heart attack. I had heard a little about how he was adventurous and pulled pranks in school, but as he grew up he became more jaded and serious. I remember Sirius telling me one time that he was happy Remus had Tonks because she brought out the playful side of him again.