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Chapter Ninety – Three
“So Harry, what’s going on?” Draco said bottle in hand.
“What do you mean?” Harry asked back, Hermione had gone home, Ginny was asleep it just left him to be interrogated, they’d been talking for how long and now it came to this -
“You and Ginny, you’re all like secretive about something”
Harry laughed “Nothings going on”
“Come on, I’m not stupid Harry, you too are smiling and whispering about something are you engaged and not telling?”
“Nope”
“I should let you know I was taught to pick out liars as a death eater, I know when people are lying to me” he grinned,
“You know I’m lying but you don’t know what it’s about” he chuckled taking a sip of his drink,
“There’s not that many possibilities” Draco said with a shrug “Engaged, secretly married, knocked up, planning to run off together, planning to murder Ron”
“Murdering Ron would be something me and Gin would be smiling about?”
“Yeh well maybe not that one – I’d be smiling though” he joked and Harry laughed shaking his head,
“I could smile at that too after today; its going to be fun tomorrow night isn’t it”
“Oh yeh, like feeding blast ended skrewts fun”
Harry swore annoyed with himself, “I guess only Amy can get though to him now” He wished he’d just kicked him out and left it at that.
“She’s good at that, very persuasive, I think she’s probably denying him a lot more then we think with this agreement they got going” smirked Draco and Harry laughed,
“You would know” Harry smirked,
“Ha, ha but I was never denied anything”
“Why when boys talk does it always turn to sex?” Said the voice from the doorway, Ginny was standing there smiling arm’s folded, glass of water in hand, leaning against the frame, Draco’s face was smirking and Harry was struggling to find something to say.
“It just does”
“Of course” She said and put the glass down on the coffee table. She walked slowly over to him, removed the bottle from his hand and sat on his lap, her back to Draco, her legs either side of Harry’s,
“Now, I just can’t see the fascination with it” she said and took a sip from his bottle smiling sultrily to Harry before handing the bottle back.
She put her hand to his collar bone, running along it with her fingertips, the other clutching at his hair, placed at the back of his head,
“I mean” her face leaned in closer to his, her hand moving down slowly, Draco was still sitting opposite trying not to laugh, “It’s just sex” she pulled away her face from Harry, keeping her hands on his thigh and back of his head turning to Draco
“Right Draco”
“Erm… yeh… right…” He stumbled and Harry laughed quietly,
“That’s not nice Harry” she said her head turning back to him, her hand at the top of his jeans and he gulped, wondering why he was nervous.
“And you’ve got to be nice or you don’t get anything” She grinned leaning in a little, “Anything at all” she whispered, moving in for a lingering kiss before standing up and leaving him in shock.
“Night Draco” she smirked at his expression across the room, and left. Harry sat in surprise, got the message and stood up “Night” he grinned before basically sprinting from the room and up the stairs after her.
*****
Harry woke up, the bed was empty beside him and he rolled over. She was standing in front of the mirror poking her belly in her underwear.
“Gin, what are you doing?”
“Looking” she turned to the side, there was the slightest of curves “He’s getting bigger”
“Isn’t that a normal thing for a foetus to do?” He grinned, and she stuck her tongue out at him in the mirror.
“It’s just seeing it happen” she said, and he stood up walking up behind her, wrapping his arms round her so his hands rested on the curve, hers on top of his and his head perched on her shoulder.
“If he’s noticeable to me”
“He or she is not necessarily visible to everyone else, just nick a couple of my t-shirts, you wear them anyway, or we could just tell them if you’re that nervous, Draco nearly got a guess in there last night”
She turned in his arms “What do you mean Draco nearly guessed?!”
“He knows we’re hiding something, he was trained to know when someone’s lying, the whole death eater experience, he just doesn’t know what”
He didn’t mention it was one of his guesses or she’d be even more worried. It was at that moment he was glad they had an en suite bathroom, as he led her there to throw up.
“Being anxious isn’t going to help” he said stroking her hair,
“Says Mr Expert on the subject of morning sickness”
He smiled, only to grimace as she leant over the toilet again. She wiped her mouth with tissue he handed her, drank some water from the glass he held, and he sat on the edge of the bath watching her brush her teeth.
“If you think we’re ready to tell”
“Not yet, otherwise mum will want me to move back in, let her get used to the idea I’ve gone, or we’ll both end up back at the burrow, with separate rooms and a measured distance of three feet between us at all time”
“That’s a bit of a redundant idea, I mean the damage is done” he grinned,
“Won’t stop mum, she’ll end up convincing us both he’ll turn into triplets if we kiss each other again”
*****
Harry sat down, Ginny sat beside him, Draco and Hermione on the couch opposite, Kreacher lead Ron and Amy in.
“Hi guys” smiled Amy brightly, Hermione and Ginny smiled back on the thought that she was at least trying to make amends and Draco and Harry smiling just because she seemed to have the same influence over them as she did with everyone.
‘You couldn’t be mad at Amy for long; just the same as Ginny or Hermione, they were just people that were easy to forgive anything’. – Scratch that thought Harry, ‘they were girls they could get away with anything’
Ginny turned to him smiling ‘Don’t you know it’
‘I need to make my thoughts less obvious’ he grinned, his attention going back to the room, talking with them.
“So Ron, you ready?”
“Ready?”
“For all the grovelling you have to do” Said Ginny, “You’ve been a prat, and we’ve lived for it for the first half of this year and all of the last one but I for one am not doing it anymore”
“Yeh, yeh” he said muttering to himself,
“Ron” said Amy as if telling him something unspoken, Harry and Draco shared a look, and Ginny started to laugh hearing his thought from what they’d said the night before.
“What you laughing about?” said Ron angrily, Harry nudged her gently with a smile on his face, Draco catching his eyes again and understanding as he smiled to.
“Sorry” Ginny snickered, “I’ll stop in a minute – you really shouldn’t think like that with me around” She said smiling.
“I’ll try not to next time” he grinned, “Sorry Ron, that was rude of us, would you like to know what we were thinking – be warned you might not like what you hear about your sister” Harry lied,
“No thanks” said Ron considering it “Your weirdness is your own”
“Wow, what happened to Ron Weasley did you make a clone over night Amy?” Asked Ginny,
“Hey I didn’t come here to be picked on, tell me what you want me to say and I’ll say it so we can get back to normal”
“That’s what you don’t understand Ron, nothing can ever be normal between any of us again and it’s because of you” Said Hermione taking a deep breath.
Ron sighed
“Well I’m sorry about that, but can it get to a stage we’re we can be friends and not told we’re nothing to people” he said looking at Harry, “Or told we’re hated by the people we love” he looked at Ginny, “Not made to feel like crap cause they’ve fallen for someone else” he said to Hermione “And not replaced by someone they’ve all hated for six years and who’s suddenly become the good guy” he said to Draco.
“We’ve only ever said those things because of what you’ve done to us” Put in Hermione “You hurt all of us Ron, you hurt me, and you broke my heart” She looked at him more in pain then anything else, but she wasn’t crying she was just squeezing Draco’s hand.
“And he’s the cure for that then?” Ron asked, looking at Draco
“Yes and now I’m over you, apart from this mess, I want to know why you can’t deal with the fact I’ve found someone else when you didn’t want me anymore”
“It’s that thing where if you’ve lost something you don’t want anyone else to have it”
“You didn’t lose her though Ron” said Draco, “You left her”
He let out a grunt,
“You did” Said Draco, “And now though you don’t like me, Hermione does, we’re together and we’re happy”
Ron sighed and nodded, “Right, so who’s next for me to unoffend?”
“Why don’t you try your sister?” Said Amy folding her arms giving him a look,
He sighed and then with considerable effort started his apology with “So Ginny…”
“Yes Ronald” said Ginny,
“I’m sorry”
Ginny sighed “For what exactly?”
“Everything”
“I’m after specifics here and there are a lot”
“For being consistently on your case about Harry, for saying I didn’t care about you and that argument we had about family, and I’m sorry that I said those things about Harry that made you upset”
“What did you say?” asked Harry,
“You’re not going to be happy”
“Try me”
“When you we’re in that coma, the first time ever and I was still all cut up about the fact you and Gin were together – I kind of said that I was only mad you were hurt because I hadn’t done it myself”
Harry’s fists clenched “Ok”
“And the other times that you don’t know about during the holiday’s where I was as bad as Dean and said you’d only hurt her, and that you didn’t really like her” He said quickly,
Harry’s jaw tightened,
“Harry its ok” Said Ginny she didn’t need to hear his thoughts, she could just feel the anger radiating off him. Her hand went to his cheek and she looked into his eyes “He’s saying sorry, and I didn’t listen to him anyway did I” she smiled softly and he relaxed a little,
“I’m sorry mate, I really am, I never meant any of it, I was just …mad”
Harry sighed and rubbed his forehead “You’ve really messed stuff up between us”
“Yeh I got that much” Ron said with a small smile, “I’m an idiot I know that, but I’ve got a good influence now” he said with a smile to Amy, he held out his hand to Harry,
“I’m sorry Harry, I screwed up, and I’m trying to be better at stuff”
“You say that every time Ron” Harry looked at him and at his hand “Every time you changed your mind about me and Gin, every time something happened you couldn’t cope with, it was sorry I’ll do better next time”
“You’re my best mate; you’re part of my family”
“You sure you want that association Ron”
“As much as I’m feeling like a fool saying this in front of people” he paused “I love you Harry, you’re my brother, I might not like you and you might not like me sometimes but we’re brothers for life”
Harry stood up and shook his hand, somehow it became a brief hug and then a knowing grin to each other that they we’re back to being friends.
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