Here we go folks the final Chapter ! Sorry it took a while but I hope you enjoy, please review if you can :) Don't worry there wil be plenty more action of Ivy and Co. in another installment. x
Chapter 11
We flew to The Burrow the next morning, George on his ancient Cleansweep 5 and me on my shiny Meteor. "why do you always insist on getting up"
"because we have things to do and people to see" I teased,
"but that's no fun at all"
"just think about all the fun we can have on our honeymoon"
"don't mind if I do" he said pulling up beside me and somehow managing to kiss my cheek, "did I ever tell you how much I loved you? " I smiled at him,
"you may have mentioned it once or twice" he replied grinning. His ginger hair tousled by the wind and his green eyes glimmering in the spring sunshine, "good, good, just checking, but if you want to hear it again you're going to have to beat me there" he suddenly bashed into me as if I were a Slytherin in a Quidditch match forcing to me to spin around a few times and called "ADIOS MY LOVE" as he pulled ahead, landing a few seconds a head of me. "You dirt little cheat" I muttered as I touched down beside him. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that"
"I love you" I said grudgingly, I didn't like being beaten, but I still kissed him with a smile spread across my face. I let my hands gently snake their way up his chest, feeling the muscles rippling with every breath he took. He let his hands slide over my hips and fiddle with the waistband of my jeans, I could feel a naughty smile spreading across his face until someone coughed behind us – I couldn't see George kind of blocked the view – and I peered round my husband to find Bill looking at us disapprovingly " Other people live here you know. Also I am amazed that you got up. Again."
"We have two whole weeks with no getting up to do my dear brother, so please be on your merry way "
"tough luck my baby brother, there is no way I am missing Ruby on a broom for anything"
"She's not that bad" I said defending my best friend, however I didn't sound too convincing. "Ivy, Ivy, Ivy she can barely look at the things and besides I'm not going anywhere unless you want me to tell the world about your sex life, I wonder what would happen if I bought it up at dinner. Mum and Dad wouldn't quite know what to do"
"William Arthur Weasley " I growled, George had his hand firmly on my shoulder, "you wouldn't dare" I then hissed at him,
"Just watch me my dear sister-in-law" A huge grin spread across his face. What was it with the Weasley brothers and winding me up? Luckily for Bill the DA came swooping down in a quite impressive 'V' formation, well that's if you don't count Neville – and the fact that most of them aren't fantastic flyers, before I had time to do anything to him.
"Hullo Ivy "Harry grinned and he lead them down the drive, behind him the girls fussing over their windswept hair, Neville and Hermione (the one thing she disliked the most was flying, I was going to teach her properly one of these days) looking a little green and Luna just gazing off into the distance as she always does. "You made it" I beamed back, as they all gathered round, "excuse me" Neville groaned as he dashed towards the house, getting greener by the second, Harry shook his head muttering "All that work for nothing, I told him he didn't have to but no, he flies anyway"
"Wait till I'm through with him Harry, he'll fly as well as you or I, I'm not Captain for nothing you know"
"really, you sure you want to waist you time on him" he said amazed,
"if he's willing, anyway that's for another time. Right listen up people, here's what we have to do". A whole bunch of eager faces turned to me. "We're going to be teaching Ruby how to fly" most of them groaned, knowing of Ruby's aversion to flying, "hey come on, we've faced worse, I mean do I even have to mention Umbridge"
"she has a point guy's, this should be a walk in the park" Fred piped up strolling towards us
"So who's in" I asked and everyone raised their hands, smiles spreading across their faces, clearly amused by the thought of Ruby on a broom. Sadly Bill was right, this was too good to miss. "Good" I smiled back, "now I need you to all spread out around the meadow, Harry, Ron and uhhh take Neville too when he gets back, you can take the North boundary, she'll make a run for it and I need you to stop her for me"
"Ivy, which way's North?" Ron asked, a confused look on his face, I forgot most people couldn't tell which way was which without a compass, "the far end just as the trees start into the woods"
"Right you are" Harry said dragging Ron of and grabbing Neville as he came staggering out of the door clutching his stomach. "everyone else just spread out and hide, she can't know our there" I instructed as they meandered off to where they should be.
"you sure you really want to do this" George whispered in my ear as he gently wrapped his arms around my waist, "she'll be stroppy"
"that will make it all the more fun and she will learn to ride the broom even if it's the last thing I do" I said smiling, as I turned around and wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled his head down slightly so that I could look him in the eye, "besides you can try out that new potion" I managed to say as his beautiful eyes turned my legs to jelly, "now why didn't I think of that" he teased, before kissing me,
"yeah why didn't you, I seem to be the one doing all of the work around here"
"ohh are you sure about that" he said sweeping me off my feet and into his arms as I screamed for him to put me down which gradually evolved into laughter. He finally put me down and I gave him one last kiss before handing him a bottle of water, "you might need this" he took it from me with a familiar glint in his eye that he got when he was up to no good and before he had time to kiss me again I skipped off teasing him, throwing him grins over my shoulder.
From my position in the meadow I could see Ruby come out of the Kitchen to look for Fred, he calmly approached her and said something that I couldn't quite here from this distance but I could tell the subject by her reaction her muscles suddenly contracted and she was in a stance as if she was ready to pounce. George gingerly handed her the bottle of water obviously trying to 'calm her nerves' and reassure her, she gulped down the water and then looked over in the direction of the drive calculating her chances of escape. Fred noticed this and took hold of her arm and motioned for George to do the same and they simultaneously lifted her up kicking and screaming towards where I was standing, a triumphant look on my face. Let the games begin.
"Freddie, please don't make me, you didn't know me before I was panther, I tried flying, please Freddie, dont make me do it again." She pleaded with her husband, pouting, "Pretty please, just ask Ivy"
"No chance Rubes, sorry, Ivy did warn me though" he smiled
"Freddie" out came the puppy dog eyes but luckily they didn't work on George who plonked her down with Fred who had somehow managed to still pay attention to the task in hand, he then handed her his Cleansweep 5. "It's the best and safest broom that I have ever had the chance to ride" he reassured her as she started to turn a little green "Right, get on." I instructed and I couldn't help but smile, but got rid of it pretty fast, I wouldn't be much of a best friend if I didn't . However as she swung her shaking leg over the hovering broom Fred couldn't help but chuckle and she flashed him a deathly stare which caused her to loose her balance, shriek and fall straight off which caused my dear husband to laugh, I glared at him too, he wasn't helping. She then growled and tried to transfigure but ended up as a toy poodle. "Well that works" he chuckled,
"well done you" I whispered in his ear as he bent double laughing.
"What works?" Fred snapped at him,
"Oh, new product inspired by your wife, Animagi can't control their transformations for a few hours and others just change into random animals." He chuckled, as Ruby growled once again. "I once mauled a woman to death as a toy poodle" She then said calmly as she transformed again, a smug smile on her face, "Give me the antidote!". It was George's turn to change colour as he threw her the antidote.
Fred was smiling watching all of this happen, clearly pleases that he wasn't the current target, she would give him hell for this later. But he might not mind that. Ewwe I really didn't want to be thinking about my brother-in-law and best friend like that, I had enough of that yesterday. "Whatever, get on the broom" George said laughing, clearly having overcome his momentary scare. Ruby threw her leg over the broom once again and started swaying slightly and breathing rapidly, for a Vampire Halfling she could be a wimp sometimes, Fred went over to check she was ok and she lent back to look at him and managed to flip the broom upside down, whilst still hanging on. But she had broken his nose. "Ah shit Rubes, ouch" he moaned pinching his nose to find where is was broken, Ruby let go of the broom and flipped over so she was the right way up, rushed over and fixed his nose for him "I'm sorry" she whispered, "but I did warn you"
"Indirectly" He protested,
"I became an Animagus so when my friends flew places I could keep pace." He smiled and laughed before hugging her, "Ruby, please get on the broom, I am going to teach you to fly if I lose limbs doing it."
"The way this is going that's a certainty." She joked, before suddenly transforming into a Cheetah and bolting for the forest, thank you Alice. Luckily Harry, Ron and Neville had been paying attention as they managed to grab her, and drag her back as she transformed back, yelling and pleading, "please dont make me, please. I can't do it. "
"Sorry Ruby, we're under strict orders." Harry apologised
"You got the DA to surround this so I couldn't escape!" Ruby exclaimed, as heads popped up and people started to laugh. "Ivy, come here" she ordered and out of the corner of my eye I could see George tense up, ohh dear this would get interesting. Ruby hissed at him and I swiftly and effortlessly jogged over to her before she could hurt him.. "Get me that bloody broom." She barked still glaring at George. I dashed over jumped on an flew back handing it to her, picking my Meteor up. She got on and suddenly soared upwards – I'll give it to her, the girls got guts – screaming like a banshee "YOU'D BETTER BE BLOODLY FOLLOWING ME IVY!".I pushed off and levelled off with her before she knew what was happening, "Right that was good, now you just have to try and go forwards, lean forwards gently." I encouraged, she nodded and inched forward slowly, trying not to look down with a look of shear terror on her face. She lent forward a little more and stared to turn, GO RUBY GO" I shouted proudly. Before I knew it she was flying tentative circles around George who suddenly shouted , "WANNA RACE MORDEN"
"Idiot, I'm not Morden anymore, I'm a Weasley now." She teased,
"Right it's on Weasley" a smile spread across his face
"Bring it Weasley" she mocked playfully. I quickly landed and dashed over to him, and placed my hand on his arm a worried look on my face, "Last time you raced someone who wasn't human you dislocated your arm, be careful"
"it's fine honey" he whispered to me, letting his hand glide delicately across my cheek, before adding "I will, she's a newbie, no match" for the sake of everyone else.
"Don't push yourself" Fred chuckled to his wife,
"I won't, 5 times around the Burrow?" she grinned cheekily before setting off. I passed George my broom he needed all the help he could get, she may be a newbie but she was immortal. Despite her head start he was quickly, without effort on her tail . Every now and then she made a little squeak and swerved around slightly but George had nearly lapped her on the 3rd lap. I couldn't take my eyes off him, his gorgeous ginger hair glinting in the sunlight, blown back off his face by his speed. My husband. My love. Much to my delight he landed before Ruby and immediately stuck his hand out "Oi, Ruby, hand it over" he demanded, as she pulled up next to us,
"Here you go, you might want to enlarge it" she laughed as he did so, his jaw dropped open and he ran over to his sister-in-law and lifted her up into a hug , a funny sight if ever there was one! Her stomach was practically levelled with his face. "Ok, Georgie boy, you can put me down." He suddenly went tense,
"What did you call me?" Ruby quickly wriggled out of his grasp and hid behind her husband as George ran at her, skidding to a halt in front of his twin who had a serious look across his face. He then took one look at George and burst out laughing. "She-called-me-" He puffed,
"I heard" he grinned. As the DA emerged from the trees I dashed over to my husband and pulled him towards me, wrapping his arms tightly around my waste before looking up at him. "I love you, don't ever do anything stupid like that again. Please, at least promise not until you can't hurt yourself"
"I love you too, and I promise"
"good, " I smiled before my legs went all wobbly and he laughed, "just kiss me you dofus" I whispered and he did.
Things were perfect.