| Firecrab
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Chapter Eighty – Nine
The last match came, Ginny scowling at Ron from across pitch, Harry rolled his eyes, the whistle blew and the game had begun. He watched her fly, he’d never done it closely before, she was amazing in the air and it took a toll on him to pull his eyes away from the focus of her to search for the snitch. They needed at least seventy point’s before he caught it to win, his eyes latched onto the Slytherin seeker flying around aimlessly, he saw the snitch far away in the opposite direction, watching it from the distance flying around until it disappeared again. He watched her and Abi working together to score again and again, then Slytherin once, they needed twenty more points, and he would have to risk the wait for it.
Ginny caught the quaffle again and out manoeuvred three Slytherin’s, a bludger and a beater swinging at her to score. Just ten more and he could get it. He looked up seeing it; he would follow it waiting for them to score. He felt the other seeker on his tail, but there was no way he could keep up with the firebolt now Harry had the lead. There was a thud and a cry out below as he flew into the clouds, he heard them say Gryffindor seventy and followed the snitch loyally as it took a dive back to earth
He glanced down for a second seeing red, the red he recognised, it was Ginny’s red. It was on the ground, it wasn’t right. He heard them call out for him, shouting “Harry”. He was about to turn off course, Gin would kill him if they lost. Demelza scored to bring the gap they needed. The snitch was going to do what it did his first time on a broom, strangely appropriate, it was heading for the stands, straight for the crowd and he followed it. He kept going, he reached out and grabbed it leaning forward clutching it in his hand and pulling into a swerve next to a Hufflepuff’s face. He pulled down to the ground, landing into a run catching up easily with the stretcher.
“And Gryffindor has won the Cup with a brilliant catch from Captain Harry Potter” He heard Luna’s voice on the microphone, “But I do hope Ginny’s ok, she’s my friend you know”
Ron was there, Hermione and Draco as well, McGonagall levitating the stretcher.
“She’ll be ok won’t she?” Asked Hermione,
“She’ll be fine, not that Harry cares” Said Ron,
Harry ignored him, “What happened, I couldn’t see anything, I was in the clouds and then she was down”
“A Slytherin got her with a bat; she didn’t even have the quaffle” Said Draco,
“You were too busy playing the game then watching her”
“Ron I suggest you shut you mouth right now” Said Harry, his fists clenching and unclenching angrily.
“Says the guy who cares more for the win then his girlfriend”
“I know Ginny better then you ever will, when she wakes up the first think she’ll say will be ‘did we win?’, she won’t want you here by the way, so your better off complaining to Amy then hovering where your not wanted” He replied as they entered the hospital dorm.
“She’s my sister, I’m staying”
“Will you behave like adults, you are the head boy, you are Harry Potter, there is someone you both love who has been injured and your bickering like children” Said Professor McGonagall sharply,
“Sorry Professor” muttered Harry lifting Ginny off the stretcher to place her on the bed,
“Who hit her?”
“Xavier Randolph, sixth year, he’s build like a ten year old, small but with a massive punch behind his whack” Said Draco, watching Harry stroke her hair affectionately.
Madam Pomfrey was rushing over to diagnose her,
“Well she’s got a fractured skull” she poured out a glass of Skelegrow, “It was lucky she didn’t hit the ground too hard or it might have -”she stopped her self, pointed her wand again and her wide-eyed face went unnoticed. Bringing her thoughts back she lifted Ginny’s left arm touching it with her wand and then her right, “This ones broken” she waved her wand, muttered something and a bandage appeared wrapping itself around the arm with ease. Harry watched Ginny’s eyes flicker and smiled, “Urgh” she groaned raising her good arm to her head,
“Gin” he said quietly,
“We won right” she said opening her eyes wide “Cause if you left the snitch to help me I’m going to kick your butt when I don’t have a head ache”
“We lost, I’m sorry” he shrugged,
“Harry!” She hit him with her good hand punching his arm,
He laughed “We won silly” he put a hand on her shoulder gently when she tried to sit up “you need to rest, we can celebrate later”
“Like people want to know that”
Ginny looked at where the voice had come from “Oh it’s you, disappointed I’m not dead?”
“Concerned that you’re hurt actually”
“That’s a surprise, are you sure you weren’t hit over the head with a bat?”
“If you don’t want me here just say so”
She went to say something but Madam Pomfrey shoved a glass of Skelegrow into her hand “Drink”
“I forgot how gross this stuff tastes” She muttered leaning her head back to down the glass.
“You get used to it” Harry said with a grin, Ron, Hermione and Draco looked on as McGonagall was taken to one side by Madam Pomfrey.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, my readings are never wrong; the spell picks up on everything”
“Well I suppose we’d better have words with them” McGonagall said,
“Miss Granger, Mr Malfoy and Mr Weasley, would you leave Miss Weasley to rest”
Draco and Hermione nodded and made to move but Ron stayed put “What about Harry?”
“I would like to speak to him about a matter of a private nature” Harry looked at her wondering what was going on; there was something they weren’t telling him. He looked down to Ginny who shrugged.
Ron left reluctantly following Hermione and Draco out, the two women turned to the couple, Harry thought it was slightly ominous but wanted too know,
“Mr Potter, Miss Weasley” Said Madam Pomfrey “You are both responsible adult’s, in a relationship but sometimes accidents can happen” Harry didn’t say anything, Ginny looked up to him and saw what was in his head – he figured it out quickly. It was her with a baby in her arms only the baby was not Nehelenia, the voice coming through was Draco’s, “Baby, you got a kid!?”
Ginny gasped, “What?” she stared at him,
“Ginerva your pregnant” Said the professor, confirming his thoughts
Harry sat on the edge of the bed, searching for her hand; she took it her eyes closing. She felt his lips brush against her forehead and opened them. “How long do you think, how do you know?” She asked,
“I use a spell to check for injuries, for anomalies in a persons body, that’s how you find a broken bone or in this case -” she let the sentence hang. “I would say about six weeks or a little more”
“We’ve all way’s been careful” she said thinking about it, Harry hadn’t said anything, his eyes were looking at the wall unfocused, he let her see his thoughts – “Oh” she said seeing the image, “Right, not always then” He blinked and came out of his daze, she squeezed his hand asking, “Are you ok?”
McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey looked at each other, at him frozen in his seat “We’ll leave you to discuss it”
He woke up from his trance “I’m ok, how about you?”
“Ok, I guess, I mean I think we’re ok” Her hand wandered over her stomach “I didn’t notice anything different, I just though I skipped, it’s not like it hasn’t happened before; it never crossed my mind that I was-”
“- But this is a good thing right, or at least until Ron finds out or your mum, oh crap, now your mother will really kill me”
“She won’t”
“This might just make Ron snap for good”
“I don’t care about Ron; I care about this, about us”
“I do to, but this will affect more then just us”
“This is our baby” she said defensively “Ours, nothing to do with anyone else”
“I know that, but he or she is going to need a family behind it, we can’t do it alone Gin, growing up without a family is the worst thing you could ever put on a kid, I was lucky you guys accepted me as one of your own after living with the Dursley’s”
“Don’t say it like that, now you make it sound like you’re my brother, not my boyfriend”
“What do you want me to say Gin?”
“Just that you still love me, you still want me and to hold me, just hold me please”
He wrapped his arms round her delicately; he leant down and kissed her softly, “I love you, I want you, I want you both” he paused and then spoke again “Gin, you know this is more of a reason for you to stay here when school starts again”
“Don’t start that again” she pulled away “If anything this is another reason for me to stay with you”
“What so there’s now another life at risk for me to worry about?”
“Harry” She mumbled but her thoughts we’re floating around her head for him to see
“No Gin, - No, don’t you dare try and make me feel guilty about that” he stood up “I’ve been ripped apart by it for as much as I can stand” he said angrily seeing the thoughts running round her head, Voldemort’s hand around her wrist, staring into red eyes in Harry’s face, the scream as he fell to the floor in the middle of the common room, and seeing Voldemort standing in the manor’s study as he pointed his wand and she was thrown with the couch across the room.
“I’m sorry Harry, I can’t help it. I just want to be with you” She watched as he groaned in angst, pacing and holding his head, “I trust you with my life and our baby’s”
“Trust me to make the right decision that you will both be safe as long as you come back here”
“I’ll do it” she said in a small voice “We’ll stay here”
“Thank you” he said sitting down next to her again, “I’m sorry, I got mad about it…we’ve just found about something life changing and I’m not helping the situation”
“It’s only because you care so much, I know that”
“I’m still sorry”
“Don’t be” she cradled his cheek in her hand, “I love you Harry – knocking me up isn’t going to change that” she grinned, “If anything it makes me love you more”
He rolled his eyes and smiled “Trust you to say that”
“Yeah, yeah, just kiss me will you”
He did as she asked; “Now you have to rest” He stood up, moving as if to go, he needed to clear his head, to think about this all. It was so much to take in, and they would have to tell people, accept there congratulations or disapproval.
“Sit with me”
“I’m not going anywhere” he pulled over a chair. She reached out for his hand turning to lie so she was facing him.
“So me coming back here, means you’re not going to be able to stop him in the few months before school starts again?”
“I hadn’t thought of it like that, but it’s not going to be easy to bring him down, we don’t know exactly what he knows, we need to get close enough to figure stuff out and the only chance we’ll have is when we start training at the ministry”
“After summer, by which time I’d be about four months, showing quite a bit and going back to school – it’s going to be fun, I’m going to be the first pregnant student Hogwarts has ever had and I’ll only have Luna that will talk to me because you’re all going to be busy fighting”
“But the order” it took him a long time to figure it all out, it was still churning over “The order are already in the ministry they can do stuff, I might not even be in danger or have to do anything”
“But he picked you out from the beginning Harry – he wanted you in prison so you couldn’t stop him, he thinks you’re a threat he wouldn’t be worried about anyone else”
“We’re in a right mess aren’t we?”
“Yep, but it will work itself out and we’ll have a baby at the end of it all”
“The light at the end of the tunnel” He said smiling.
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