Date: December 25, 2001
Time: A little after 6 o'clock
Location: The Burrow
Characters Involved: As many Weasleys that come and Harry, if he would like.
Rating: We'll start at PG and see where the craziness takes us.
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Christmas is a time for family and friends. )
They arrived, gift in tow and sat when they were instructed to, smiling and chatting jovially. He leaned over and kissed his wife, giving her the look he did rather often... the look that said that he just knew he was the luckiest man in the world.
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The gift was there, the chatting was happy and jovial. She slipped her hand on his as they watched the Weasley family joining up.
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She released Arthur's hand for a moment as she began to serve him, passing each item to Charlie as she finished piling things on her husband's plate. She always served herself last, and she wouldn't be persuaded otherwise. It took her minute to find something to say, and she bit her lip lightly as she thought.
"How was everyone's Christmas?"
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As the plate piled higher, Arthur's smile widened. Aside from presents, the food was the best thing about Christmas. He sometimes wished she would not serve herself last, but he had learned not to argue years ago.
"Yes, how has Christmas been so far?"
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"Christmas was nice, actually." he said with a nod around mouthfulls of food. "We spent the morning with Katie's parents and her brothers. It was lovely, really... aside from Brian." he chuckled. Her older brother was still obviously ticked off at him, and made it very clear during their "talk".
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She chuckled as she watched him hork down his food. It wasn't as if he never had an appetite, he was usually long done before she was. She had noticed that. She settled in to her dinner with a small smile, "Yes, we have breakfast and this morning with my family and tonight with you. We had last night to ourselves, so it is a very good Christmas. We kind of got a little bit of everything."
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Besides, Katie had a point, as Molly highly doubted any of her sons (Arthur included, for that matter) would allow any young man to run off and marry Ginny without permission or their blessing and let him escape unscathed. However, it wasn't her place to say anything, and she wasn't going to, though she was beginning to wonder if perhaps now would be a good time to give their little announcement and get it over with. That would certainly fuel some dinner conversation ( ... )
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He continued to shovel food in his mouth as he listened to his wife speak the nearly choked when she said they had an announcement. He looked up mouth still full of food, then nodded and finished chewing slowly, "Yes we do. Your mother and I have been thinking and discussing and we were thiking about expanding the family."
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"Seven children aren't enough?" he sputtered. "Merlin, Mum and Dad... can't you just wait a while for grandchildren?" Charlie wasn't angry, per se, but he had to admit it was a terrible idea in his opinion. His parents had struggled for years to get all the children raised and provided for. And while he loved his siblings, even he himself had struggled for them, sending a good chunk of his paychecks home for years to try to help provide for them. He never looked at it as a burden because he loved every single one of his siblings dearly, but at the same time his parents were getting on in age. Was it safe for his Mum to even be thinking this?
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"You have talked to your doctors to insure that you can do this safely, right?" she asked, looking at Molly and Arthur. She didn't seem too shocked, her parents had talked about it too and decided against it, but they still had a 14-year-old.
That and she wasn't surprised, because she had gotten the feeling that Molly suffered from empty-nest syndrome rather horribly just from her overreaction to her and Charlie getting married and how she went on about how her children were inconsiderate and ignored her. She hoped they were doing it for the right reason.
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"We are serious, we went through the percautions. Now we just wait." He smiled and squeezed Molly's hands, not wanting to add anything more. He didn't want to stay silent, but there wasn't much he would be able to add.
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However, the announcement itself was met with less relief. His initial reaction instead was confusion, and then shock. Another child? His parents were seriously intending to have another child, at their age, more than two decades after their last? When they finally had some peace, some spare time, some money to save and use for indulgences?
He'd known his mother was lonely, and impatient at how long it was taking for her children to start providing her with grandchildren, but was this the answer ( ... )
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