Silver In The Wrath

Chapter 01 - A trick of the light

GoddessOfMars2


Dear Daddy,

Mom says we'll be going to visit the hospital again today... and I don't want to. We keep having to visit people that are injured, that yell, that don't have arms or legs. I don't like that.

Maybe when you come back you'll take me flying. I like flying. Something really weird happened yesterday when I asked mommy if the reason I was so good at it was because I go tit from you, she started crying and locked herself in her room. Grandma came over and made me dinner. Isn't that strange daddy?

Hope you're having fun wherever you are, and I hope you come home soon,

Ruby


Ginny wiped her face down, getting ready in the morning was her least favorite time of day... she hated how bright the sun shined on days where she felt there was no justice in the world. Damn the Dark Lord and his silent war.

"mommy!" a voice from the kitchen.

Off to face the day. Ginny inhaled and let out the breath ever so slowly.


"Do you have everything sweetheart?" Ginny asked absent-mindedly

"I think so..." the girl said with wonder "mommy?"

"yes Ruby?" Ginny did not turn to the girl, but kept packing a small bag

"do I have to come with you again?" she whined

"yes." there was no room to argue with the woman, and her daughter knew as much. But she'd been cursed with 50 of the Weasley blood, and so the following occurred

"What if I stay with uncle Ron?"

"no."

"but he has Damien over to play with Kevin!" she whined

"they're boys, it's different" Ginny pointed out "plus they're in Hogwarts, you'll be left out of the loop and miserable because they'll be picking on you" Ginny remembered how horrible her years in her brother's shadows were before she'd joined their ranks as a Hogwarts student.

There were no more requests from then on, Ruby took her bag from her mother, wrestled into her new cloak and walked into the living room after her mother.

"Hold on tight sweety" Ginny said softly as her hand closed on her daughters


Dearest Daughter, I received your letter just minutes ago. Does mom know you're sending these out? Because I'm pretty certain she wouldn't be happy with you using Herbert when she likes to keep him around for emergencies.

Sweetheart, you need to understand that mommys sometimes do thing and we need to just tag along and keep them happy, ok? I know you don't like going to the hospital, but with me not being home, and your mom not being on the same page with grandma and grandpa, and with you not being old enough for Hogwarts just yet... you need to be with her ok?

I'll be home when you wake up tomorrow, and I'll bring Herbert back with me.

See you soon,

Daddy


Ruby read the letter the healer handed her, she was sitting on the rug by the fire in the children's Minor Injury playroom, Ruby liked this part of the hospital, there were lots of kids like her, and she didn't see anything wrong with them at all.

"hey kid!" she looked up, seeing if it was her someone was referring to

"yeah, you" came the confirmation. It was a chubby boy on a couch in the corner, he seemed a little older than her. "come here!" he ordered.

Ruby slit her eyes at him "why? You're being rude to me! My mommy says that I don't have to listen to people that boss me around"

The boy rolled his eyes "just come here!"

Ruby got up reluctantly from her spot on the rug and made her way over to the boy, he looked pudgy, but yet fair, wouldn't hurt him to take that frown off of his face though she thought

"yes?" she asked in the brattiest tone she could master

"why are you always here?" he prodded rudely "i mean, apart from being a bratty little girl nothing seems to be wrong with you"

Rudy huffed "my mommy's a head-healer!" the boy burst out laughing

"she heals heads?" he exclaimed between sneers

"NO!" Ruby said, annoyed "she works on the other side of the hospital with the people from the war"

"what war?" the boy asked condescendingly

"are you stupid?" Ruby asked "the war my daddy is fighting!"

The boy just smiled at her for a while, and then "your daddy? I've heard things about your daddy in Slytherin -that's my house, and no one from my house is stupid"

"what's Slytherin?" the girl looked at the boy

"it's a Hogwarts house! Now who's stupid? Aren't you 9 or 10? don't you know anything? Aren't you going to school in a few years?" he mocked her

"I'm not stupid, but I'm not going to Hogwarts, mom said so."

"oh, really?" the boy mocked

"rally!" she stated

"well I guess you'll be stupid forever, because I'm in first year, and I know more than you, and I also know that you're daddy's an idiot, so even if you went to Hogwarts you'd still have his horrid genes"

Ruby was so mad that

SLAM!

the boy let out a yelp and began crying, clutching his stomach, now fallen to the floor. Two healers rushed in, one of them grabbing her and the other helping the boy up

"he started it" she huffed

"come," the healer holding her back urged "i'll take you to Ginny"


Ruby pushed the slightly opened door the healer told her her mother would be behind, but then paused as she heard crying, it wasn't uncommon to hear crying in this hospital, but this was different, it was her mom crying.

She pushed the door open the rest of the way and her mom rose from the seat she'd pulled up by a bed. Ruby saw the light blew sheets of the hospital bed she had leaned on stained with navy splotches.

"mommy?" she asked

"it's nothing Ruby" she said as she moved in to block the figure laying in the bed out of view

"why were you crying again mommy? You never cry in the hospital, only in your roo-"

"shush Ruby" Ginny prompted her daughter, moving her to the door, and just as Ginny was pushing her daughter out of the room the girl looked over her shoulder to see a male figure laying in a bed, she thought he was sleeping and wondered how anyone could sleep through mom's crying.


Ginny, thinking better than to take her 'delinquent daughter' -as the nurses joked around- back to the children's play ward, stationed her daughter in her office with a box of The Weasley's Wild WonderColors and a pile of used parchment.

It was only after Ginny left, and Ruby had drawn the dragons uncle Charlie had told her about, and a picture of her grandmother as she remembered daddy telling her she looked when she was mommy's age, that she grew tired and decided to go for a walk.

Ruby wandered down one corridor and then into another, following a memo that was lazily flying close to the ceiling, not seeming like it was in great rush to get to it's destination. She tried to catch it, and it fluttered away from her grasp like a butterfly. Ruby didn't even realize how she followed it right passed the room her mom was caught it earlier and she stopped to look at the door.

Maybe it was sheer curiosity, or destiny, or impulse, but she opened the door and walked right in.


Ginny opened the door to her office to find Ruby gone, a healer-in-training passed by at that moment

"She was just chasing a memo last I saw her, don't worry" he said, and Ginny turned to nod in his direction.

"if you see her tell her to come find me so that I can give her her medicine"

"no problem Mrs. Potter"


Ruby stood by the bed that was no longer stained with tears, starring down at a man with silver hair.

She reached out and hesitantly moved a strand of hair out of his face. She looked at the peculiar man, who was he? She wondered.

Ruby climbed up on the bed and sat looking at him, she crawled up closer to his head and after poking him and waiting for a reaction reached for his eyelids.

Slowly and hesitantly she pushed one up and then the other, staring into silvery sparkling eyes. The eyes moved to look at her and she got scarred, letting go of the stranger's face. She kept on watching to see if he will wake, only to see that his eyes still moved under his eyelids. She remembered how her mother told her it means someone was dreaming.

Just as she reached to touch the man's face again Ginny came into the room with a clipboard, dropping it just as she made eye contact with her guilty-looking daughter

"RUBY! get off that bed! Now!" Ginny walked over, not bothering to pick up her clipboard, grabbing her child and marching right out of the door to the man's room.


"mommy!" Ruby cried, her tears staining her dress

"no! Be quiet! You shouldn't have been in there" Ginny turned from the bag she'd packed her daughter, extracting a vile of what Ruby knew to be her medicine.

Ginny turned back to her daughter, and her eyes widened

"wha, what's wrong mo, momm, mommy?" she sniffed, turning unintentionally to the mirror her mother had stationed on her wall.

Ruby watched in horror and amazement how the green-brown eyes she'd known as her own turned silver, then brown, then green leaked in and they brightened to silvery-green only to settle on silver

"come here!" her mother commanded, grabbing her by the arm, reverting her away from the mirror and forcing the medicine down her throat

Ruby looked at her mother "swallow!" the woman commanded, and the girl did, just as she did every day, twice a day.

Ruby looked back at the mirror, her eyes were brown again, like her mother's, with hints of green around the edges, like her fathers...

"what was that silver in my eyes mommy?" Ruby asked curiously

"nothing, just a trick of the light" the woman lied

"but the man in that room... he had the same eyes-"

"no! He didn't" Ginny stated.

And Ruby knew better than anyone, that you don't whine to mom when she's right.

A trick of the light she thought... had to be.


A/N Dont worry, this is just something to screw around will until I find my muse for Draco Requital... I haven't given up on that poor little Death Eater (?) just yet.