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Ginny just got back to the house to search for her brother still in a rage. She walked through the glass door quickly as she shouted for him.
"Ron! Ron where are you?!" Her strides took her to the area where the stairs faced the hallway that opened to the other rooms. She heard a small mumble coming from one of the rooms connected to the hallway. She turned to the left and took another left immediately. Her brother was laying facedown on a large bed with his arms on top of his head. She made her way to him and roughly moved him over to get his attention.
"Ron get up you git!" His head tilted looking at her before he replied.
"You're right Ginny I am a git, I mean how did I not see it?! I should have known!" He had pulled himself up throwing his legs to dangle off the bed, his elbows on his knees. "How did I not see it when I came back? I should have known with the way Harry watched her and made sure she was okay." She looked down at him with a sneer, she was disgusted by his reaction.
"Are you feeling guilty Ron?" He looked up at her shocked by the look on her face. "You are feeling guilty because the people that we love betrayed us and went behind our backs together? Are you mad?! They are the ones that should feel guilty Ronald! Not you, not me, them!" Her voice had hit an octave that made Ron close his eyes pinching the top of his nose.
"Look Gin, it's different for me. Hermione...she...she didn't remember. And Harry...you heard him he wanted to give us the best shot we had. I mean...I kind of expected it. Whenever something is wrong, the only way to get one of them back on their feet is to get the other one. I am not so dim witted not to notice that. They have something between them that I could never...I..." He looked down to the floor not able to continue looking at his little sister. "I love Hermione but I have noticed that the love she has for me has always been missing something. She has never been able to give herself to me fully, her heart doesn't belong to me, and it never will. I just needed to see that to know why. To be honest I am somewhat relieved."
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" He looked up at her quickly shocked at her outburst.
"Ginny..."
"No Ronald! You listen to me this is utter rubbish and you know it!" Ron jumped off of the bed towering over her small frame. She was pushing his buttons too far and he was already having trouble with what was happening and she was in no way helping.
"Ginny you weren't there! You don't know what we all went through together! And not to mention when they were by themselves! I get it because they had to rely on one another! They were the only form of comfort each other had! Either way, you knew that something was wrong with your relationship with Harry so just get over it! After everything that he has had to go through he should be happy and he isn't! And you know he isn't happy but you still feel like he should be stuck with you!"
"How dare you! I loved Harry and this is what he did in return! He betrayed me!" Her face was in one of it's cruelest forms as it turned near the same color as her hair.
"Ginny he didn't betray you, all of this happened when none of us were even involved with one another! And either way you practically forced yourself on him when we got back! It wasn't like he had much of a choice! Grow up and get over your obsession with him!" She staggered back a bit at his words, shocked by them.
"I don't have to listen to this, you don't understand and if you aren't going to do anything about this then I guess it is up to me to take care of everything." Her voice was sickeningly sweet as she spoke and he knew that she was up to no good when he heard it. A smirk came to her lips as she looked up at him. "Goodbye Ronald as far as I am concerned we are no longer siblings." She turned quickly her hair flying to the side as she made her way out of the room.
Ron watched her leave with concern, his eyes barely registered the name on the back of her shirt by the time she was out of the room making her way to the front door.
"Shit this can't be good."
Hermione left Harry in the bedroom after fixing his nose for him and holding him for a while till he dosed off. She had made her way back to Teddy's room and picked him up out of the crib and took in his baby scent. She always felt better when she held him close knowing that he was safe and unharmed from the war. He wouldn't really remember anything that happened, he would learn of it but he wouldn't have to remember it from experience. She walked out of Teddy's room and brought him back downstairs to get his bottle and begin feeding him. She had just gotten the bottle to his lips when there was a nock at the back door. She opened it to find none other than Ronald Weasley.
"Look Hermione I know you don't want to see me but it's urgent." He breathed out as fast as he could before she slammed the door in his face. She looked him over slowly before she nodded her head and let him through. He made his way to sit at the table before she had a chance to stop him.
"What is so urgent that you had to come here?" Her voice was cold but at the same time it was soft because of the guilt she felt about her and Harry.
"It's Ginny she...she...something is wrong." He looked up at her his eyes wider than normal.
"Well she came here this morning and already gave Harry a nice punch to the nose that needed repairing." She moved Teddy in her arm to make it easier for him to eat the formula as she sat down across from him.
"Well I suspect that is just the beginning because it seemed like she was out for blood."
"Ginny? Out for blood? I'm sure it's nothing like that." She looked at him in disbelief.
"No Hermione you don't get it. One day when Harry was asleep she took out some of his memories because she had a suspicion about the two of you."
"I do remember her asking me about that once actually, but she never mentioned it again after I told her there was nothing for her to be worried about." She looked down at Teddy feeling guilty once again knowing that what she told Ginny was now a lie. She didn't mean to lie to her but at the time it was the truth because she didn't remember any of it.
"Yes well you see Hermione...um I don't know how to tell you this but...well..."
"Ron just tell me!" He jumped a bit at her tone but proceeded.
"All of the memories we watched when we got to the house today. It was rather easy to tell that you and Harry did have a relationship with one another, farther than even you and I ever had." He looked up at her looking for a shocked look on her face but found none of the sort. "Why don't you look surprised by this?"
"Ron this morning all of it came back to me. I remember everything now so you don't have to try to explain it." She looked at him with a sad smile.
"Oh well that makes this easier then, after we watched them that is when she left and came here I assume but the thing is that, well you see when she came back to the house she and I got into an argument and she kept blaming the two of you. She was saying that you betrayed her and that you two got together behind our backs. I tried to convince her otherwise because I know that neither of you were happy with us and now that I know why I have come to terms with it. Well not really come to terms with it but I understand and I am trying to accept it."
Hermione cut him off quickly, "Ron I did love you, I just didn't love you in the right way and there was always something missing I just didn't know what but now that I remember I know that is because I am already taken, my heart isn't available. I feel positively awful about it and I wish that I could go back and make it so that Harry never took away my memories but I can't." She looked up at him with guilt swimming in her eyes.
"I get it Hermione and it's okay. We just aren't meant for each other and I just didn't want that to be the truth even though a part of me always knew. And it's okay neither of us could have changed the outcome. But Ginny she isn't taking it well at all and she wasn't home last night either. The thing that made me come here thought isn't because of that." Hermione looked at him curiously as he took a deep breath.
"Ron it's alright you can tell me." She spoke quietly knowing that he was worried about what it was he was about to tell her.
"The shirt she was wearing today. It wasn't hers. When she turned out of the room her hair flew to the side and on the back of it, it said Malfoy. I think she went to them last night. I think she is planing something Hermione, and it isn't good." Her eyes were wide and she looked down at the baby in her ams, she removed the now empty bottle from his mouth and held him close to her .
"Do you know what she is planing?"
"No I don't, but it won't be good if it involves that lot." He watched as she looked down at Teddy her stance becoming more protective.
"Harry was worried after she came by. She didn't say anything until after she punched him, and it wasn't something she would normally say. He told me that she sounded just like Malfoy when she finally spoke."
"What did she say?" She looked away from Teddy to Ron her eyes filled with fear.
"This isn't over Potter." Ron leaned back in his chair worry gracing his face.
"What should we do?"
"I...I don't know." A tear escaped one of her eyes as she looked back down to Teddy now sound asleep in her arms. "I don't know."
"Well look who's back so soon and with bags too." Ginny looked up at the taller figure in the doorway watching her unpack her things.
"What do you want Draco?" She stood up and looked over at him with her hands on her hips. He smirked at her with a glint of amusement in his eyes.
"I want to know why you are already back so soon"
"Well I got into it with my brother after looking into a pensieve about Harry and Hermione and I am so bloody pissed off about it all, I just don't want to have to deal with any of them anymore and so I am done with them. I just want to get on with working on our plans and never have to see them again!" She had begun to turn red at the thought of them once again.
"Well I am sure that can be arranged." He replied. "But this will change how everything works out we will have to start from scratch you know."
"I don't care, at least this time now I won't have to keep playing nice with them, and we can just get down to business."
"I agree. Now I have to ask, where is my shirt?"
"I'm still wearing it can't you tell." She smirked back at him knowing that wasn't the answer he was expecting.
"Well that's no fun I was hoping it brought about a fight or something."
"Honestly I don't really give a damn let's just get to work." She sat down and motioned for him to do the same so that they could begin to work on a new plan that would get them what they wanted.
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