Hello my wonderful people, I'm back with a new fic, I've done a Harry potter/Doctor who xover and I'm almost finished my Dr who fic, now here's a hp fic! Happy New Year, here's to a great 2013! Disclaimer: Nothing you recognise is mine. Sadly.
Grief
"Dinner!" Mrs Weasley called, half heartedly. Ron, Ginny, Mr Weasley, Harry and Hermione (the last two had been staying at the burrow to help the Weasleys with their grief, the rest of the Weasleys –bar George- were living in their own house) Came into the kitchen and slumped down onto their respective chairs at the table.
"Will someone please go and get George, I know he's upset, we all are, but he needs to eat." Mrs Weasley said
"I'll go." Ginny said, walking out the kitchen and up to Percy's room; George had been sleeping and just generally locking himself in there as his own room reminded him too much of Fred. Ginny knocked softly on the door and took a deep breath, she knew that all her brothers would do anything for her- apart from stop teasing her and her boyfriends-though the latter doesn't happen that much now that Harry was her boyfriend again. "George… Can I come in?" She asked softly, there was no reply just the sound of George sniffling. "I'm coming in." She told him, then went into the room to find her brother sitting in the middle of the bed, wrapped in the blanket with tissues surrounding him, if Ginny hadn't have known any better she would have thought he was sick but the red rims around his eyes told her different. Ginny took in a deep breath, George looked so much like Fred it had been hard to look at him for the first few weeks but she was toughening up now, Harry was helping with that- if there was one thing Harry knew how to do it was how to grieve.
"Come on George, Dinner's ready." She told him
"Not hungry." George muttered in a strangled, croaky voice.
"George, you need to eat."
"Not Hungry!" He replied back, his voice stronger and angrier
"George, it's been a whole month and you've been living off junk food you found in the cupboards when you snuck down at night" George looked at her, eyes filled with animosity, "Now don't look at me like that, you're not your usual self, we know when you're up to something now, we're worried, come eat with us."
"I'm not hungry, go away!" He snapped, throwing a pillow at her.
"George." Ginny pleaded softly
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" he screamed
"Please, we're all grieving him… please… I know it's hard for you, losing Fred… but we all lost him" a single tear rolled down Fred's cheek, he disappeared under the blanket and started silently sobbing, the only way Ginny could tell was the blanket shuddering on his shoulders. She went back downstairs; Harry got up and hugged her.
"I couldn't get him down." She sniffed
"It's okay, he's lost a twin, he's never gone a day in his life without Fred," Mrs Weasley started to cry, Hermione handed her a tissue, "Mrs Weasley, would you like me to take his food up to him? I suppose he just wants to be alone, he'll talk when he's ready."
"If you think it'll help, dear." Mrs Weasley replied
"It's worth a try."
Harry made his way to Percy's room and knocked softly on the door.
"I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE!" George screamed, his voice strangled from crying
"It's Harry, George. Can I come in?" Harry said, George didn't answer, Harry let himself in, Harry noticed that there was a picture of Fred and George in the joke shop laughing and smiling, it was on the floor and crumpled up.
"I brought your dinner for you." Harry told him
"Not hungry."
"Yes you are, I know you don't want to talk to anyone, I understand but you do need to eat." He avoided the classic 'it's what they would have wanted' speech because he'd had that before and it didn't make him feel better at all.
George took a deep breath, "Thank you." He said quietly
"No problem." Harry replied then awkwardly left the room, shutting the door behind him.
Back downstairs Harry told everyone that he had left the food for George and that was all they could do, they ate their food and all went their separate ways from there.
Harry and Ginny were sitting by the pond in the Weasleys back garden.
"I miss Fred." Ginny said, a tear rolling down her cheek. Harry wiped it away, and kissed her where he had just wiped away the tear.
"Everyone does, Gin'. At least he didn't die in vain."
"Yeah. It really is over now isn't it?" Ginny said in wonder
"I suppose so." Harry replied
"Wow."
"I know!"
They sat in silence for a while longer and then Harry said, "You know, now it's all finished, no more Tom Riddle, I want to find out more about my family."
"That's a good idea; I'll help you if you want."
"Thanks, I'd like that."
"Where will you start?"
"Well everyone who actually knew my parents is dead, apart from your parents I suppose."
"Well it's a start, what about your mum's friends?"
"Her closest friend was Professor Snape, He's dead too."
"Oh." They lapsed back into silence until Molly shouted them in.
"Mum," Ginny complained as they walked into the kitchen "It's not that late and I'm 17 now, why are you calling me in?"
"Well, we have a visitor." Mrs Weasley told her
Just then Mrs Tonks came into the room with a little baby with a tuft of blue hair on his head.
"Andromedea!" Harry greeted her
"Harry," She acknowledged him "To the best of my knowledge you are my grandsons godfather."
"That's right."
"My apologies if this isn't good timing, I didn't come and find you straight after the battle, and I thought I'd give you a month or two."
"What do you mean?"
"Well since you're his godfather you'll take him in, yes?"
"I'd love to! But I don't even have my own house…"
"It's okay dear; we have plenty of empty rooms…" Mrs Weasley said, her tone getting sadder as she finished her sentence
"Thank you Mrs Weasley."
"Oh, please dear, call me Molly."
"Thank you… Molly."
"Well I'll leave him here then, I trust you won't mind me visiting?" Andromedea said
"Of course not." Harry told her
"His things are in the hallway."
"Thank you." Harry told her
"No, no, Thank you Harry dear. Well good bye."
"Good bye."
After everyone had said their farewells Mrs Weasley and Ginny helped Harry set up a bed and crib up in Charlie's old room, him being back in Romania, he wouldn't need his room. Later that night, Teddy was asleep and Harry and Ginny were sitting on the bed beside the crib.
"Well this is nice." Ginny commented
"It's like the silence after the storm." Harry replied, tiredly, Ginny laughed
"Well having a baby is going to slow down the search for your family history."
"Yeah, it is. But I promised Lupin I would be his Child's godfather and by Merlin I'll be a good one, I'm not letting any child have the upbringing I had if I can help it."
"Of course you'll be a good godfather Harry, I don't doubt it. And I'm sure Mum will look after Teddy if you want to go and do some family research."
"I'll ask her tomorrow." Harry replied, and then he flopped back onto the bed and closed his eyes.
"I'll leave you to get some sleep." Ginny said getting up, she leaned over and kissed him and left before they got carried away with a sleeping baby beside them.
Before Harry went to sleep he thought of the Weasleys, they were that family he'd never had and always wanted, and now with Ginny and Teddy he was getting his own family. He thought of George too, he'd lost pretty much all his family but he'd hardly known half of them and then George had never gone a day in his life without Fred, which must be hard.
And just to thank those people who have reviewed my Crossover fic, It's now finished and I'm grateful to all of you who have stuck with me through it, I'll be focusing on my doctor who fic and this one, from now on xoxo
