Holiday Escape
"Harry, I think we need to talk."
"Harry isn't here Hermione, please stop calling." Charlie looked up from his book, this was the fifth call this day and if you added it to the other sixty calls this week it came to sixty-five and he was sick of it. Harry obviously didn't want to talk, so far he hadn't gotten any information on what had happened but the look of betrayal and devastation on Harry's face he wasn't inclined to help his sister in law. She must of overstep something rather bad since Harry never got this angry with anyone and he was always willing to forgive once things where explained. This must be bad.
"Can you ple~"
"No, please go away Hermione he will go to you if he wishes to talk." He really needed to pin Harry down when his husband came home, which reminded him he didn't even know where Harry had wondered off too. Shaking his head he went back to his book, some creature which was meant to be dead for over a hundred years was actually eating people in London, wonderful.
Slam!
"Welcome home. All time high, sixty-five times! So what have you been getting up to?" This book was boring anyway. Charlie shifted so he could watch Harry move further into the living room, arms full of bags. Was he wearing his jumper? "More baby stuff?"
"Yep!" That was definitely his jumper it has the small hole that was created by a baby dragon chewing at it. "We never bought any clothes, I mean we have all the stuff needed to care for a baby but we never actually got any decent looking clothes." Bags landed at Charlie's feet as Harry joined him on the couch. Why was he in his jumper? Not that he was going to complain, it was too big and the arms covered Harry's hands, but what caught Charlie's eyes the most was the fact that the baby bump showed so clearly.
"I'll clean this all up later, right now I really want to sit down. This baby is sucking the life out of me!" Laughing Harry wiggled until he sank further into the couch. "Little parasite just loves my bladder."
Laughing Charlie got up to move all the bags into Harry's room; it was where the baby stuff went. "Well I being the most amazing husband in the world made dinner. It's heating up right now should be ready in a few minutes."
"Oh my amazing husband of all time! I'm not moving from this spot! Fetch me my food!" Waving his arms about Harry watched as Charlie did a mock bow and walked into the kitchen. This week wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. The Hermione problem didn't even cross his mind; he never really dealt with her floo calls or her surprise appearances. Charlie was blocking every attempt Hermione made and he didn't even know why he was doing it. Just knowing that Charlie was prepared to stand by him without even having to know made him feel special for once.
"So, are you going to tell me why I am playing body guard or should I just accept that my husband wants me to block his best friend?" Charlie sat down as he handed the plate over to Harry...who was using his stomach to hold it up. "I mean you don't have to I just want to know if you are okay."
"Ginny is staying with Hermione..." Sighing Harry nibbled on his sausage. "She told me that Ginny was so upset over what happened she lashed out. I think she wants me to forgive her but I can't she tried to kill our baby! How can I forgive someone who tried to take an innocent life?" Shaking his head Harry sniffed, he felt rather upset just thinking about it, so far he had managed to ignore the issue but he couldn't help it when he had to explain. His best friend was helping the person who tried to hurt him.
"Oh..." Hermione was helping Ginny? Charlie placed their plates on the coffee table and pulled Harry in for a hug. "I'm sorry Harry, if it's any help I can keep the body guard thing going I believe Hermione hates having to deal with me at the moment." Sniggering he remembered putting the fire out of annoyance the yells of anger from her was amazing to hear. "I don't mind doing it, but does Ron know?"
"Oh, no Ron is off doing that training thing, I really don't remember what it is he kept telling me but I have been awfully scatter brain lately."
Chuckling Charlie gave a nod and kept Harry in his arms. "Don't worry about it, you have your Healer stuff to do and as long as I keep up the blocking you won't have to worry about her for a while."
"I guess it just hurts that my best friend is helping her, I mean Hermione knows how much family means to me I don't think I would be able to stop myself if I lost this baby because of her. I will not lose another person to anyone!" Harry's hand rested on his stomach protectively, Charlie's hand rested over his. The baby seemed to love when they did this; a little kick always came when they rested their hands down. It was like the baby was trying to say hello in its own little way.
"Harry, don't worry about it, you have the entire family here to protect you and believe it or not Ginny isn't as powerful as you think she may be good at some hexes but compared to my Mother she has nothing." Molly wanted grandchildren and if she saw any risk to her family she would go into over drive and at the moment Harry was the main target for the protectiveness. "How about we do something special on my week off? Go on a small holiday to the beach or something?"
Giving a small nod Harry wiggled so he could bury himself further into Charlie's arms, for once it was nice to be protected and now have to be the one fighting all the time. "That would be nice."
"Great!"
"Welcome to your room!" The young woman opened the door and led the two males into the room, it was a luxury tree house with a fancy bathroom, breakfast in bed and dinner in a fancy manor. "I am Lisa I will be your personal assistant while you stay here please call if you need anything from me." Smiling she left the two men alone and went back to her work.
"Charlie?"
"Yes?"
"We're sleeping in a fucking tree house!" Harry couldn't help but move around the room in wonder, currently they stood halfway up the tree and all Harry could think was sleeping in the very comfortable bed. "And we can have a special boat ride around the lake and, this is so cool!" Sitting down Harry watched as Charlie set their stuff out of the way.
"I'm glad you like it!" Charlie was so worried Harry would hate it but maybe staying simple was the best idea, out here they were hidden away from view but they could see everything else. "So what do you want to do today? We have it completely free! I didn't book anything simply because I didn't know when we would get here."
"That's fine how about a walk?" Harry stood up and held his hand out to Charlie. "Come on! I do need to walk about it's the only time the baby doesn't bounce on my bladder."
"I thought walking made it worse?"
"Apparently but I got lucky and got the weird baby!" Harry wasn't going to complain about having to walk a little more than normal he enjoyed walking it relaxed him. "Come o~n! It's nice out too!"
Laughing Charlie let himself be pulled out and towards a pathway.
Collapsing on the bed Harry gave a groan of pain, his feet felt so sore but he wasn't going to complain he got to spend time with Charlie and they didn't do that often. Sure they went out once in a while to a film or dinner but they spent most of their time in the apartment. Groaning again Harry glanced over at Charlie who had decided to flop down on the bed as well. Charlie spoiled him rotten, if he wanted something the male would do what he could to get him it. Charlie really was growing on him.
"Dinner then bed?"
"Dinner then bed." Harry confirmed. "Did you only get one bed?"
"Yeah, they had cots to use but I thought this would be better is that okay?"
"That's fine! Be aware the baby likes to keep me up at night." Apparently he was at the I cannot sleep due to the baby being nocturnal stage, according to Molly anyway and he trusted her since apparently the one who gave her that trouble was Charlie. This baby really was a mix of them both. "Right...pull me up or I'm not moving!"
Chuckling Charlie pulled them both up, five months had passed and he had to admit Harry had really taken hold of his heart, he couldn't say it was love but he felt that there could be a chance, especially with Harry becoming a little bit demanding when it came to hugs and kisses, he liked his cuddles according to Ron. Charlie wasn't going to argue.
"Food!"
"You know you can order in." Charlie read over the room information, eyes catching Harry who was nodding rather fast. "I take that as a, 'I'm really tired and don't want to go out so Charlie go get some food?' nod?"
"Duh."
"I'll get the food!"
"I'll get into bed!" Harry declared as he went to the bathroom, screw it he was on holiday and he was having dinner in bed. "Bring butter!"
Half out the door Charlie paused at the request, Harry hadn't gotten past the butter craving, everything he ate had to have butter on it the times he nearly threw up at the look of those meals. "Okay!" A small cheer could be heard from the bathroom.
Harry quickly pulled himself into the bed and waited for Charlie to get back, this was going to be the first time they slept in the same bed together while sober. Wiggling he pulled the covers up higher he was going to be in the same bed as Charlie! Harry couldn't deny that his body responded to Charlie's.
"I got the food! It was buffet night so I grabbed two of everything." Charlie smirked and placed the food on the serving trays allowing Harry to grab the first plate that looks interesting.
The food didn't actually last that long, between them both they had cleared everything the plates sat stacked on the table near the door. Charlie had soon crawled into bed with Harry deciding that now he was full it was time to have a little sleep.
Both males had started off sleeping with their backs to each other but as they progressed throughout the night Charlie later rolled over and pulled Harry into a hug, his hands resting over Harry's the baby bump held between them. It seemed the baby rather liked having them together for the first time in two months Harry had a full night sleep without the baby kicking him in the bladder.
A/N: o.o Longer than I thought it would be, progression with their love and Ginny has reappeared! Harry is 21 – 22 weeks at this stage.
Quick edit 24/05/2015, there may be some mistakes lingering, I'm getting lazy, editing 13 chapters when hung over is hell.
