Hey everyone. This story was brought to you by the Are You Crazy Enough to do it Challenge on Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges. I wrote a Crossover story between Harry Potter and Jericho. I wrote for the prompt of I can't be who you want me to be. I hope you enjoy Overheard Conversations.
"I can't be who you want me to be," Ginny hears the voice of a man shout at someone. "And the fact that you think I can is more upsetting than anything else. Don't you understand that?"
Hearing the last refrain of the argument hanging dead in the air as though the person being talked to didn't know how to answer Ginny can practically hear her own voice voicing that same question. Not to her husband Harry. Harry had understood what her motivations were. He didn't question why she wanted to come to the Americas. He explicitly understood her wants and needs. But with her mother who didn't want her to come the Americas.
"I do understand," a female voice answered. "But you have to understand that I can't sit around here waiting to hear if you're coming back to me or not. It's not fair to me. Don't you understand that?"
She also understands were the other part of the argument is coming from. Ginny had had this conversation with Harry before on several different occasions after the Second Wizarding War. Harry always felt he needed to play the part of the hero which upset her to no end. Especially once the children came along. Not knowing whether she would have a husband and her children a father from one moment to the next. She could totally sympathsize with the conversation going on here.
"Emily, know the people of this town look to me," the male voice comes out sounding much harsher than Ginny believes he means to be. "They look to me to keep us all safe."
"Can't they look someone else for a change now?" asked the female voice, Emily's voice. "Jake there are other people in this town capable of leading everyone besides you."
"You don't understand, Em..."
"No you don't understand Jake and I don't think you ever will."
Ginny watches as a blonde haired woman walks down the street outside of the grocery she'd ducked into to do a little shopping. She can understand the slump of the woman's shoulders. The level of defeat that she sees is one she felt the last time her and Harry talked. Harry had volunteered to go help train Aurors in a wizarding community in a city called Denver while she and the children went on to their new home in Jericho. Their last conversation had gone much the same as this Emily's had gone with her Jake.
"Can I help you?" a voice asks breaking her thoughts.
Ginny blinked and then realized that she'd been staring out the window. The voice had been that of Jake, who she now recognized as the brother of the deputy mayor of the town. "I'm sorry," she said trying to keep voice low so as not be overheard. "I couldn't help but hear your argument with your girlfriend. You might want to go after her. You don't want those to be the last words she will ever speak to you. Take it from someone who knows these things."
Jake Green blinked a few minutes before taking the advice the woman in front him had given him. He didn't know why he was listening to her but something deep down was telling him this woman was right. He'd and Emily would both regret it if her last words to him were about him not getting her.
Ginny watched Jake Green walk away hoping that he and Emily would be able to patch things up. And hoping more than anything that he'd find someone else to take whatever mission they were talking about.
I hope you all enjoyed Overheard Conversations.