The Years Between || G.W

2008- George's POV

***A/N*** hey hey! How are we all today? I loved writing this chapter and I hope that you all love reading it! I'm going to do a Violet POV next, it feels like I haven't written one in a while. I'll see you all soon! Toodles xx

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"Come on big girl, you can do it," I say to Ophelia.

Violet's gone into the shops, leaving me home with the kids. Ophelia is close to crawling I can feel it in my bones, whereas Cassie is perfectly content with lying on her tummy, face in the carpet, mumbling baby nonsense to herself.

"Like dis Leah," Freddie says. He's sitting on the floor with the rest of us, "S'not hard. Watch big brover," He gets on his hands and knees and starts crawling over to me, "Easy," he says again before coming all the way over to me and sitting in between my legs.

"Might be easy for you now," I say to him, "But when you were Leah and Cassie's age you had a hard time keeping that big head of yours off the ground.

Freddie laughs and puts his hands on top of his head, "My head m'not big Daddy! You silly!"

I kiss the top of his head which sends him into a fit of giggles, "It's alright, your Mumma's got a big head too. Why do you think she never wears hats?"

"Mumma says dat hats makes her hair flat," Freddie says, his eyes are fixed on Ophelia as she lifts her head off the carpet and stares in our direction.

"That's what she says, course we're never going to learn the truth now are we."

Freddie crawls back over to his sister and pats her on the head, "Leah got big head, Cassie has very small head."

"Cassie is also a lot smaller than Leah all around don't you think?"

Freddie looks at Cassie, then back at me, "Why Cass not liftin' her head yet?"

"All babies learn things at a different speed, it's not good to rush her you know."

"M'not like it when Mumma rushes me," Freddie nods his head, his now long curly hair falls into his eyes. Violet and I have been on the fence about cutting his hair, the debate between having a presentable looking child or having a kid with the best curly red hair you've ever seen in your life has been a long one, "But Louis' sisters play wif him all da time. I want mine to play wif me now. They booooooorin,"

"How do you think Scorpius feels eh? Hasn't got a sister or a brother to play with him."

"Scorpie got me! Got cousin! Can I play wif Scorpie?"

I reach for the portable house phone that's on the coffee table, "Suppose it wouldn't hurt to have Draco and Astoria over for dinner tonight eh?"

"No dinner, just play," Freddie says, "Come on Leah!" he starts to crawl around the floor again, "One hand, one leg, otha hand, otha leg."

I dial Draco's number, one eye on the phone, the other on the kids in case they decide to start fighting each other.

Astoria picks up after the first ring, "Hello?"

She sounds tired, like I just woke her from a nap.

"Hey Tori, it's George..."

"George! Is everything alright? The kids? Violet? Merlin, I knew we shouldn't have been away from you for so long but Draco is just so busy with work and it's exhausting trying to keep up with Scorpius. Course you know what that's like, with three kids of your own..."