Chapter Ten: The Wedding and Battle

Today's the day that little William gets married. It is a lovely day. Seriously, it is. Mum is working the boys to death while Fleur clings to me and makes me persuade her to marry Bill. All is well at the Weasley abode. Although all is well, everyone is not well…making it not all is well. According to Charlie (yes, he has came back. I swear I didn't know he had gone) Bill had gone ballistic and was starting to sweat like hell. According me Fleur was going ballistic herself and was beginning to tear up again. This is what future sister-in-law's live for…maybe.

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I had my dress on, my bouquet in my hand, my hair done, my shoes on, and the only thing missing was… me. The person that was being sarcastic this morning and goofing around had fled and was being replaced by this person who was serious and was scared. Even though it isn't my wedding, I was nervous and was starting fidget. I peered out the back window and saw Harry or should I say 'Cousin Barny'. He had obviously taken Polyjuice Potion, but the dead give-away was that he sat near Ron and Hermione. I smirked as I saw that Fred and George sitting next to future French in-laws. What if their secret girlfriends Alicia and Angelina find out? Uh-oh…

Fleur and her father started walking in front of us and we followed. Fleur didn't have a flower girl in front of her to lay the flower petals in front of her so, they magically appeared. I tried not to look at anyone as I walked down the aisle or else I would trip. I think so far I am doing great in these heels. I kept taking in breaths and exhaling. I could already hear Auntie Muriel starting complain and gossip and such. Finally, we made it to our places and the minister began. Then, I heard Auntie Muriel complain about my dress. I knew it was coming so I flashed a grin over there at 'Cousin Barny'. He flashed one back. Sorry, but I can't help but flirt with him.

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At last, we were at the reception and it was going off with a bang. Everyone was laughing, dancing, and drinking (even me…but it was only champagne). I was currently dancing will Bill and he were looking as though he was in heaven. I couldn't help but tease him as he teased me about how much fun I was having. I have to admit, my premonition on how the wedding was going to be was very different from right now. In my mind it was playing out badly: Harry found out about earlier this summer, he wasn't here, and I still hated Fleur to the pinnacle of things. But, again, all is well. Nothing like that is happening, thank goodness.

After finishing dancing with Bill, I moved on to the twins. Crazy dancers they are, they made me have more fun. We got goofy and crazy on the dance floor, not caring who watched and wondered. But, I couldn't help feel as though someone was watching me during these times of dancing. Every time I looked around, there was no one staring at me. As the song ended, I still felt like someone was staring, but I shook it off and called it paranoia. I said to myself that I was just paranoid that someone could see an 'X' along my back.

When I was finished with the twins, the one and only Lee Jordan asked me my hand in dancing while I was talking to Luna. I said yes since it didn't seem as though I was getting off the dance floor anytime soon. Another crazy song started to play and we started dancing crazy to that one. Again, I felt staring. I kept shaking it off as I laughed at a goofy expression Lee put on his face. He is a crazy bloke. The song finished and another song we thought we could have fun with started and we said, "Hey! What the heck!" And we started dancing crazy again. The second song continued in our dance and I could still feel the staring I looked at the stables and caught him out the corner of my eye, watching. It was Cousin Barny. Well, I don't have a problem with him staring. Stare on!

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Right now I was sitting down and gulping down another full glass of champagne. I wasn't drunk…yet. Tonight I had planned on getting fully drunk. Why? I dunno. Just to get drunk. Tonight is full of celebration, so why not celebrate with and get drunk and be gay? But the real question is why not? I'm sure you're confused at the moment, and right now I am too. Why was Viktor Krum arguing and about to get into a fight with Mr. Lovegood? Why aren't Alicia and Angelina here to stop Fred and George from flirting outrageously bad with the French in-laws? Why hasn't Cousin Barny came over here to ask me to dance? Why is he talking to crazy Auntie Muriel? Why are so many questions going through my mind? These are the question that are floating around in my head and won't get out. People, I think I'm finally beginning to get a little tipsy.

Just as I started to get up and dance by myself, a patronus came out of nowhere and started to talk in the voice of Kingsley: "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming." That's when everyone started to panic. Even I started to panic. Here I was just starting to get a little tipsy when Death Eaters are about to come. It was great timing, really.

There were a series of *pops* going everywhere. Death Eaters were coming in and people were going out. There were screams of men and women alike trying to flee the place. I was being pushed and shoved out of the way. Things were getting very chaotic as the scene played out in front of me. I started to feel dizzy and I out the corner of my eye I saw the Golden Trio apparate out. It was nice of them to go when we need them the most, no?

I blinked and shook my head. I slowly pulled out my wand and looked around. The Order was here and spells were going everywhere. I blinked as I saw the two people that I would least expect. Alicia and Angelina; they were battling some death eater. A smile slowly started to spread across my confused face.

I kept looking around. I saw more people appearing and they seemed to be my age. I blinked again, trying to make them out clearer. There was a plethora of them. They weren't coming in with *pops*. They were coming in with clods of smoke, dissolving in, and creative stuff like that. It surprised the crap out of me. And the most amazing things they were doing came out of their hands or out of thin air; they had no wands to perform magic with.

One by one the Death Eaters started to fall and I just stood there looking at a hellish battle fold out before me. The death eater that Alicia and Angelina battled finally fell with what seemed to be with silence compared to the other noises in the tent. And more came down like the one they were fighting. Finally, there was only a few battles going on and the people who were fighting them were the strangers that came to help us.

One fight seemed to be taking a turn for the worse. It was between Lucius Malfoy and a dirty blonde around my age. Mr. Malfoy seemed to be fighting easily with a flicker of his wand while the boy seemed to be struggling. That was when I decided to step in. I stepped in front of the blonde and started shooting spells at the oldest Malfoy. He looked surprised that I stepped in and fought him with the furious passion. I heard my name be called as I sent my 'famous' Bat Boogey Hex towards him and the 'Stupefy' spell as well. Just as I smiled I felt someone grab me by my arms and jerk me to face them: "'Ello pretty. Have a nice time?"

I gasped as I realized who it was. I tried to pull away from her but she just laughed manically. I looked around for someone to help me. My fear had washed over me and had taken over and I let it. Flashes of what happened in the forest came back to me. My fear deepened as I imagined her taking me to Tom. She making me face him like I had to do with the diary. I can imagine him making me do what he wants me to do. As I realized what could happen I felt my eyes sting and me frantically struggle. She just laughs as I do this. She's enjoying the frantic, helpless look.

I looked behind me to see the battle had once again started. This time, the death eaters fought more intensely, but so did the strangers. They had gotten used to it and had observed what the death eaters did and were doing the same thing. I reached for my wand to disarm her when a scream erupted from Bellatrix herself. I never thought I would see my torturer scream, falling to the ground with pain. I slowly let go of her hand as she laid there. Suddenly, I looked at the person who was behind her.

The dirty blonde.

I looked at him and smiled. He nodded and went somewhere else to help a fallen warrior. I stood up shakily and looked around me at the scene. Only a few death eaters remained and they were trying to leave themselves. They, like us, were trying to get their injured to safety. I also saw a few lucky people who haven't gotten touched battling. I looked over them and saw my mother helping Fred up. I hurried over to where I saw her. I sat down on the ground next to her and helped her try to get Fred up and into the house. That was where the last of the protection was.

We got up, mum on one side and me on the other, and carefully walked towards the exit. We were yelling commands to each other on the way. We were dodging spells and casting them at the same time as the battle seemed to become fresh and anew. My mother and I lazily went across the yard and into the Burrow. Entering the kitchen, we found others sitting at the table and treating the wounded and vulnerable. Among them I found the blonde that had helped me earlier. I left the side of Fred to go thank him.

"Hey."

"Hi," he answered while saying a spell unrecognizable and instantly healing a deep cut.

"Um, thanks for helping me. Bellatrix is a nasty beast."

"Beast?" He laughed. I just blinked and blushed.

"I'm sorry. It's just I gotta get used to, um, the accent of you Brits."

"I knew it," I gasped, "You did come with Alicia."

"Well aren't you smart," he flashed me a gorgeous grin that I couldn't help but flash back.

"Thanks. SO, I was wondering how many of you are there."

"Um, there's around fifty of us. Alicia was totally hoping for a hundred. But, there are strict parents back home, so yeah. I guess that's what happened."

"Wow. Fifty, you say? We don't even have that many Order members."

"Order? Oh, that Order Alicia was talking about. That Dumbledore invented, right?"

"You know about Dumbledore?"

"Yeah, the way she describes him he sounds like Santa Clause."

We both burst out with laughter when I heard myself sound off a quiet scream. I felt myself fall forward. It felt like someone was dragging a knife along my back…like before. Tears hurriedly fell from my eyes as the blonde, who I haven't even asked his name yet, held me and called for help. I heard my mother asked can I hear her. I nodded my head. I heard the blonde say: "She's blending really bad on her back." And all I could think was: Oh no, I've ruined the dress. Fleur is going to kill me. That was when I blacked out.

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I slowly opened my eyes and yawned.

'That was a nice little nap,' I thought.

I stretched to feel a sharp pain go throughout my spine. I closed my eyes and bit down on my lip to stop some of the hurting. I opened my eyes once again to see what it seemed to be a million eyes peering down at me. I jumped once I saw the faces of people sighing and smiling. Then, I saw my mother rushing to me. She hugged even though it felt like she practically jumped on me.

"Yes, mother, I'm fine."

"Oh, that's so good to hear. I couldn't have stopped that bleeding if it wasn't for Shantrel."

"Who?"

"Oh, this American girl. She was an angel from the heavens she was. Shantrel, dear? Come here."

From the circle that surrounded me emerged a girl that had green hair that looked as though it came from the leaves outside. She smiled and waved as she came over and sat on the other end of the couch. That's when I realized I was on the couch…in the living room. I blinked and looked back at mum.

"Is Fred okay? The others? Are they all okay? Is the fight over? Where are Hermione, Ron, and Harry"

The pulled me back down and laid a cold towel on my head. "Oh slow down, Ginny. Yes, yes, yes, yes and we don't know. You've slept for a good two hours. It's two o'clock in the morning it is. The whole Order's here, safe and sound. They've had to pitch tents outside for the night. Their trying to get the protection spells back up."

"We're sorry for that again Mrs. Weasley. We were trying to see how your magic works. We never really used wands before…" a girl with a thick Spanish accent said.

I looked over to where the voice came from and saw a girl with Spanish looks to match her voice. "Hola. Me llamo Mercedes. ¿Como estas? Or if you don't know what the hell I'm saying: Hi, my name is Mercedes. How are you?" That was when a bunch of people started laughing. I took the towel off and saw that there were many different people.

"All of you must've come with Alicia, I'm assuming."

"Of course, Ginny. Didn't we already discuss that before?" I looked over to see one of my favorite blondes already.

"Hi, um, I'm sorry I didn't catch your name before."

"Eric, Eric Strayer."

"Well, thanks Eric, for you know, holding me up when I fainted."

"Hey, no problem."

Eric flashed me one of grins he gave me earlier and then suddenly I heard wolf whistles and laughs erupt. I couldn't help but go that famous Weasley red. I heard someone go: "Hey! She's turning red!" That's when I turned redder and there was more laughter. My mother interrupted, thankfully, and shooed everyone out. She looked at me and kissed my head, telling me that she will explain everything when I wake back up. She wanted me to get some more rest and so, I did.

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A/N I'm back!! The next chapter is the last. I ended it because I couldn't write it anymore. I hope the ones thaat read enjoyed!!