He loved her more than he knew, but he knew when she looked into that watch of hers covered in amethyst and diamond that she was given years ago, it was not his face she saw in the enchanted jewelry, but rather the face of her now husband Draco Malfoy. And to think he even went to the wedding-the wedding of the only woman he ever loved to a different man (who didn't deserve her). He remembered when he first met her. She was beautiful and kind and captivating and he wanted to be surrounded by her angelic presence all the time, but then as her bodyguard he watched as she fell in love and almost killed herself for her worthless god brother. Only because he was too much of an idiot to just leave well enough alone and he never got what she saw in him, but they worked well together. Even he had to admit it. They were a regal, beautiful couple, too good to be touched by the world. And they were now expecting their first child. He read the article disgusted.
"Draco thinks its a girl, but I know it's a boy! We will find out in a few months."
He crumpled it up and threw the paper in the fire and Tom chuckled.
"You got to get over her. She;'s about to be a mother to the Malfoy heir. She's been in love with that bloody git for most of her life. They have been betrothed since they were born and now they're secure. They've got a little one on the way and with no time wasted. Let it go."
Charlie took a long sip out of his drink and shook his head. " I just can't."
"She came to you when she first got home and you told her you weren't the marrying type. Why?"
"Because she's in love with Malfoy. Always has been. She was miserable without him."
"Successful Muggle doctor with all of the money in the world, nicest houses, nicest clothes, nicest car thing, and as vibrant as ever when I saw her and you call that miserable? I call that well off. Now with them two joined up they have double all of that and then some. They'll own the world them two. Wouldn't surprise me if that boy was minister one day."
"Enough about Malfoy" Charlie said " I really can't take it anymore. Sitting around doing nothing. Being this part of the ministry, that part of the ministry, meanwhile hearing rumors of Malfoy climbing the latter and seeing Verina waddle around Diagon Alley next to her equally as big cousin."
"Oh her? She gave birth to a girl last night named that baby Seriphina-Katherine Verina Obolesnky-Zabini got more names than she weighs."
"What are they calling her?" Charlie said in even more disgust
"Katie" he said shrugging and handing Charlie the other part of the paper.
"Even their baby is bloody perfect silk nappy and all." he grumbled
"It's in that family. Listen you need to step away from them. Your sister is having a baby right? Well that baby will be next weeks news or whenever that thing decides to arrive and so forth. They're a famous generation and your sitting here wasting away in my pub working for the ministry. Why don't you go back to Romania for a while You don't have to train to teach others how to do it right. Take the job they offered ya. It pays a might well."
Charlie did have to give him that. They would double his salary and pay his housing. He thought about it a moment. " I think I just might."
He walked out into the cool night air and breathed in heavily.
He was headed to Romania he supposed, wounded and all, to teach little gits how to tame dragons.