28 : Children
Title: Children
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Harry Potter / Ron Weasley
Prompt: Children
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Written for fanfic100 and posted at harryron.

The one hundred stories are inspired by Broke Back Mountain.

Ron looks back on one hundred memories of his life with and without Harry.

Enjoy.


Children
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The years passed.

My Charlotte – Charlie for short – was born, followed by Harry's Philip and, at long last, my son, Teddy.

I loved my girls, I did, but all of my brothers had boys, and they teased me about living with five women, so I can't deny I was stoked.

Especially as Hermione assured me that that was it.

Five was more than enough.

As it was, I kid you not, we had a timetable for the bathroom.

And, later that year, possibly an even prouder moment, when we all took Kate to King's Cross and saw her off to school.

Harry and Ginny came with, with their two, and Hermione cried.

And it was twenty years since we met on that platform.

Life was good.

So, you'd hope I was happy with my lot.

You'd hope that, at the end of each Quidditch season, when Harry and I went off for a week's fishing, that we actually caught some fish.

But we never did.

We never spoke about it, and I was used to the tension building through the year, like an itch under my skin.

Harry's dangerous Quidditch skills were legendary, and only I knew that he threw himself around like that on his broomstick because it was the best outlet to stop him falling on me.

We waited all year for that precious week, when we could be together.

When, the instant we reached 'our' cottage, I could taste him again.


My Big Damn Table.