Chapter Four: The Calmer of the Two
When the girls got home, Molly went strait to the restroom.
"Where's Mr. Weasley- I mean "Dad". He said that was what he wants me to call him." She added.
Ginny was glad that it was a Saturday, so that her father was home from work when they all got home. She didn't want to tell him, but she needed help from her parents as she had no idea of what to do beyond what Hermione had told her to do.
They found Arthur Weasley in the living room.
"Knock-knock" Ginny said as she entered the living room slowly.
"Oh, Ginny, I was just reading about these muggle things called "Misrowaves."
"Do you mean miCrowave?" Ginny asked kindly.
"Yeah, that. Anyways, they heat up food WITHOUT magic, and they were created by accident!" Arthur said in a flurry of excitement, like he had just found a new planet.
"Uh, dad, I have something to tell you, and you, uh, probably want to sit down before I tell you this." Ginny said in an uneasy tone. Just then Hermione walked up behind Ginny and took her hand.
"What is it? Did Ron get cold feet and run off again?" Asked Arthur exasperatedly. Cause if that's it, HE CAN BLOODY WELL STAY WHERE HE RAN OFF TO!" Arthur finished with a yell.
"Um, I wish that was it, but, um…" At that point Hermione gave Ginny a little push forward towards her father. "Uh," she started and thought to herself to just tell him fast, like ripping off a band-aid. "About 3 months ago Harry and I were, um…" thinking how to tell her father gently that his little girl had sex. "Were together, and now I'm pregnant." Ginny said faster then you could throw a garden gnome.
"What!" He stated, disbelieving. "Ginerva Molly Weasley, you're not even old enough to have sex!" He yelled.
"Dad, I'm 17, kids do grow up, no matter how hard you try dad!" She shouted back.
"Um…" Hermione whispered to Ginny. "Yelling at your father was NOT part of the plan, Ginny." She whispered through gritted teeth.
"Anyways dad, I AM pregnant, and I AM 17," Ginny stated calmly. "And the babies… father just…" She managed to choke out before she collapsed into her fathers arms sobbing. Hermione then walked to the kitchen to help her new "mum" with dinner.
"Oh, Ginny-bean." Arthur said using a pet name he hadn't used for Ginny since she was a small child. "It'll all be okay, I'm just a little disappointed, but I still love you, okay?!" He reassured her. "Now, what we'll do about the baby is talk to your mother, but there are several options: 1, we can keep the baby and you can live with us for awhile until your ready to live on your own, 2, You can put the baby up for adoption. This way the baby lives AND some deserving parents get a baby, AND you don't have to care for it! Or there is this thing that wizards are now doing called an abortion. I personally think it is revolting and horrendous, but I'm not the mother of they baby, and if you chose to do this I would still love you. Anyways, it's where you would go to the doctors or healers (depending on where you go) and they would end the pregnancy."
Ginny looked absolutely appalled at that last idea, but got over this terrible thought and asked her dad, "What would be the best way to tell mum about the pregnancy?"
"She doesn't know yet?! He replied.
"No, um, I thought you would be the calmer one to tell first, and I'm rather scared at what might happen when I tell her." Said Ginny unsure at first, but confidently said.
"Well, the way you told me was rather gently and straight forward, and I think that is the way to tell your mother, only leave out the part about Harry. And I assure you that Hermione and I will not let anything happen to you, no matter how angry Molly gets, and Ginny remember that mum loves you with all her heart, except for the parts of her heart that belong to me, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George…" Arthur began to list a whole bunch of people as he lost track of what he was saying. "But the point is that she loves you like I do, and she'll just be disappointed like me, but will always love you." Arthur said as he remembered the point of his long speech.
The father and daughter walked into the kitchen together, and Arthur gave his daughter's hand a squeeze that said "Go ahead."
"Hi mom, Hermione! Can you two please come to the sitting room?" Ginny asked in a cool voice, as this was the easy part of what she had to say.
Ginny, Hermione, Arthur and Molly walked into the pea green coloured sitting room and across the brown carpet and everyone except Ginny sat down on the dark blue couch that also had darker blue spots on the seats because Molly had gotten it at the Junk shop.
"Ginny Weasley, hurry up an tell us what you got to say, before the rolls burn!" Said Molly with frustration.
This of course just made Ginny more nervous. "Oh, um, well, I'm sorta pregnant." Ginny stammered.
"Well are you pregnant or not?" Molly said, her anger starting to rise.
"Yes, I am pregnant." Ginny said as she started to back away from the couch.
"Well, I knew it would happen to one of our kids." Molly said with a sigh. "You would either get pregnant out of wedlock or one of your brothers would get some girl pregnant. Funny, I always thought it would be Ron, no offense Hermione. But you Ginerva were always the good one." Molly said, surprising the rest of the group by being the calm one. Meanwhile Ginny just stood there staring at her mother in shock.
Then Hermione cut in saying, "Oh, no offense taken Molly…"
"MUM!" corrected Molly.
"Mum, but that's very odd, cause that's what I thought of the situation too: that it would be Ron and I who got pregnant unwed." she added.
"Also I saw that pregnancy test you snuck out of the store. Well Ginny…do you have a plan about were this child will go?" Molly said authorativley.
"Um, I know that I want the baby to live, but I am still not sure where it will go." Ginny answered. "I'm not sure that I could raise a child this soon after…" she trailed off and Hermione wrapped her up in another hug, as Ginny again began to sob.
"Ginny, you can decide specifically what will happen later, but for now, we need to get you to a healer who will keep the baby healthy and help you deliver the child. Um, the Dursely's! We should write them for Harry's health history, which is important for the healer to know the fathers history." Molly said expertly as she had seven of her own children and knew this process like the back of her wand.
At the mention of Harry's name Ginny winced. After they spoke awhile in detail Ginny and Hermione went upstairs to Ginny's room to write a letter to Dudley Dursley to tell him about the pregnancy and ask about the family health history. The letter read:
"Dear Mr. Dudley Dursley you probably do not know me, but Harry did talk about you a bit and I need your help now as I know you are part of his family. My name is Ginny Weasley and I…"
At this point Ginny took a long pause, cried a little, then took a deep breath and plunged on with the letter.
"I was Harry's girlfriend, and before he was… killed he got me pregnant and I intend to have this baby and therefore it is pertinent for me to have Harry's family history."
Sincerely, Ginerva Weasley
After calling Ginny's little owl, Uachaise, and attaching the note to her leg, the girls crossed the hall and knocked on the door of George's bedroom.
As the girls knocked on the door and went in, George hopped off of the bed he was sitting on, and walked over to where the girls were.
"Whadayou wan?" George said in a slurred tone, that Ginny had come to understand.
"Well." Ginny started, "I just thought that I would inform you that there is going to be one more person living in this house."
With this Georges eyes light up, "Mum finally got me a dog?!" He joked. At this response Hermione stepped in and said,
"No she did not, but Ginny is pregnant!" She exclaimed.
"Oh," He said, "Not what I expected, but ok."
As the girls were going down the grey, once white stair way carpet, Ginny suddenly shouted,
"BLOODY HELL!"
What's wrong asked Hermione.
"How in the world am I supposed to tell Ron?" Ginny explained.
"OH!" Said Hermione with a long pause after, as she had forgotten all about Ron. "Can you tell him?!" said Ginny as she looked at Hermione with her big, sad puppy eyes.
"Well I'm pretty sure that it should come from you." Said Hermione firmly. "Um, just do the same thing you did to tell your parents."
When the girls got down stairs, Ron was in the kitchen talking to his mum (who was a bit of a blabber mouth.) Ginny had not walked more than one step into the kitchen, before Ron turned to her and exploded saying
"GINERVA MOLLY WEASLEY! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THIS POOR FATHERLESS, TEENAGE MOTHERED CHILD?" Ron shouted out, and before Ginny had really taken all these words in he continued sarcastically with, "THE CHOOSEN ONE. What?! CHOOSEN TO IMPREGNAT MY LITTLE SISTER!?"
"OH, CALM YOURSELF RON!" Said Molly.
Then without thinking Ron said, "OH, I WISH I COULD GET MY HANDS ON THAT BERK, HARRY! BLOODY HELL GINNY, WHAT KIND OF BARMY BINT WOULD GO AND GET PREGNANT AT YOUR AGE?!"
"THAT'S QUIT ENOUGH RON!" said Molly boiling with rage.
Ron then turned on his heel and stormed out of the house. Hermione and Mrs. Weasley tried to console Ginny. By reassuring her that Ron was her brother and still loved her, and that he would love being an uncle, and that if HE (Harry) were still alive Ron would not have killed him. Hermione finally stopped the tears from coming by assuring Ginny that Ron was usually like that about almost all the decisions she made about the wedding, and then the next day would be fine about it.
As Ginny calmed down, Molly easily rattled off the names of the healers who had given birth to her seven children, saying,
"Healer Wasp delivered your father, and he was still in the practice when I had Bill and Charlie, but had retired by the time Charlie was a year old and suggested that I went to Healer Huffle to help deliver Percy and the twins, but after what your darling brothers George and Fred did to him, well he quit. Um, Healer Brown, who's daughter went to school with you. Um, Laval?" Molly tried.
"No Lavender." Said Hermione with a dark look on her face, as Lavender had been Ron's girlfriend for awhile, really his snogging partner, she thought to herself.
Molly, not picking up on this, continued with her list saying, "Healer Brown delivered Ron and you Ginny. So those healer's were very nice and helpful, and they are familiar with our family. Molly then ended by saying "I'll make an appointment for you to see Healer Brown."