Author's Note: This is my first post and I am very nervous about it. Please be warned that there is talk of abortion in this one. Please be kind.

Author's Note II: This will be a series of 10 drabbles written for the Ultimate Pairings Challenge on Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges forum.

The characters do not belong to me, but to JK Rowling.

Endings

Prompt: Ending

Pairing: Percy and Penelope

It felt like his world was ending.

Percy stood outside Oliver's flat, head pressed to the door, desperate for his best friend to open up. Only Oliver was not home, he was on a road trip with Puddlemere. He pointed his wand at the door and undid all of Oliver's wards and let himself into the flat.

He collapsed onto the sofa and let the tears come.

It had not been so many days ago that he had walked out on his family. It had been a mistake, he'd known it almost instantly. But, damn it, Dad was wrong too. Percy was more than just a pawn in Fudge's new vendetta against Dumbledore. Or, at least, he had a chance to prove that he could be more than just a pawn.

He had gone straight to Penny's after the fight with Dad. He had been so angry, madder than he could ever remember being. Penny had been quiet all through his long tirade about how unfair Dad had been, how he deserved a little bit of credit for all the hard work he put into his job. But even from her, he kept his secret fear: that he had lost his family in one instance of rash words.

Then she had said the most unimaginable, the most magical words: "Percy, I'm pregnant."

His despair had turned instantly to joy. Becoming a father, especially at 19, had never been a part of his plans, but from the moment she said the words his plans were inconsequential. He was going to have a baby. Him and Penny, they were going to be a family. He remembered what it felt like to smile so stupidly as he had in that moment.

But he should have paid more attention to what she was saying next.

"The timing is all wrong," she said. "You see that, don't you? I mean, I just started my internship with the Magical Law Enforcement Office. I don't want to give up all that I've worked for."

"We'll work something out, Pen," he had told her. He tried to hug her, but she stopped him.

"Oh, it's that easy, is it? You just took this great promotion, are you going to give that up to stay home with a baby?"

"Yeah, maybe," he had laughed, but the idea had struck a cord in him. His whole world had shrunk down to the size the baby growing in his girlfriend's womb. Unexpected, yes. But not unwelcome.

Then…Today, just minutes ago, it was all over. His happiness, the future he had only just begun imagining for himself, his little family…all gone.

"Percy, the pregnancy is over," she'd said awkwardly.

"What?" he'd asked dumbly. "Oh, Merlin, Penny. Was it a miscarriage?"

He'd been sad, but hopeful at the same time. He'd wanted this baby, but these things had a tendency to work out the way they were supposed to. They could try again. Do it properly this time.

"No, Percy," she'd said, he keyed in on her voice. It was strange, rather strangled. "I terminated the pregnancy."

"What?"

He couldn't seem to understand what she was saying. He didn't understand the words. 'Terminated'? He couldn't grasp that word.

"An abortion, Percy," she whispered the word. "I just…The timing was wrong, all wrong."

That word he had understood. It'd hit him in the chest so hard that it had been hard to breathe. He'd stared at this woman that he loved, that he wanted to marry and felt such hatred for her. His hands had been shaking as he'd clutched at his hair. How dare she? How dare she terminate something that he had loved?

He had spun on the spot and Disapperated to Oliver's flat. He didn't know where else to go. His family was lost to him.

Now he was alone, sobbing into his friend's sofa and all he wanted was his mummy.