a\n: hope you enjoy this chapter and p.s: its dedicated to Ilane, who I am missing her stories being updated very much! Thanks for still checking out mine!! hope you feel better soon! Now, onward with chapter 25:

walking back up to the Burrow things were more quiet.....Arthur was contemplating in his head what he should say next before Livvy spoke.

"Arthur....i think you need to tell your kids."

"I don't know when or what to say."

"Do it now..you don't wanna wait until something happens....you have the kids living with you its dangerous to just let things take their course....your kids would be shocked."

"Yeah, I guess your right....i just want to tell Bill though, just Bill first." he replied as they opened the front door and stepped inside.

"Ok, just Bill first."

When Livvy had left, as did all the other kids..Arthur went upstairs...Bill was putting the kids to bed, and Arthur really just wanted to relax before he had to tell Bill what was happening. Though, as he took in a deep breath, his eldest child walked in and came to sit near him.

"Alright, Dad...I'm gonna go home to Fleur and the brood tonight....you got everything under grip here?"

"Yeah but Bill....i wanted to tell you.....i haven't really been feeling well and I went to St/ Mungos just to get a check-up...they said its still symptoms from the snake attack.....they said it has something to do with my heart." Bill stood and ran his hand over his face. Mumbling something to himself he looked at his father.....

"Dad, don't do this to me....please?" he stared at his father, waiting for the punch-line, but none came."

"Bill, I wish I were joking..I'm not." Bill's eyes were wet with the build-up of tears...but he looked so angered too.

"Dad...no! No what are you talking about? This can't happen...not you...not now...some thing's wrong."

"Bill, they told me, to come into the office tomorrow...i need to be prepped for some kind of surgery......they don't know what else to do and Bill, I don't know what else to do."

"Well, we're all coming with you, we'll all just stay until your dis-charged...you'll need us there and your probably gonna have a lot of treatment and affects and that stuff....I'll just handle telling everyone for you....we can do this, Dad...we'll beta this."

"Bill, you do so much..."

"Dad...don't feel bad..i want to...and I wanna be there for you, I'll tell everyone tonight, I'll go home and owl that we all need to meet here tomorrow.....Dad i love you...just get a goodnight sleep and I'll be back early tomorrow morning."

"Ok...and Bill.....just don't scare them."

"I won't." he replied.....walking out the door. Arthur had been scared before....petrified even, when he lost Molly....but he had to be here for his kids....and that scared him, horribly.

"At St. Mungos the next morning, all of the Weasleys congregated outside of Arthur's room. Ginny was in there with him, while they prepped him for surgery....no one else had been brave enough to try to say anything to him...they were all so scared...even Bill, who had been holding everyone together, couldn't help but break down...he felt like he couldn't do it anymore...and now Ginny was the one trying to be strong for her father and the kids. She grasped his hand as one of the healers slipped in an ivy and Arthur turned his head, cringing. The young healer took it out easily and Ginny glared at him.

"what are you doing?! Do you not even know how to put it in?"

Arthur turned back to her, smiling slightly.

"Ginny shh..its ok." she nodded, squeezing his hand tighter as he did the same.

"OK....we're good I think." the healer replied happily, taking all of the garbage from the cloths and plastic out of the room with him. Arthur looked up at his daughter and sighed. Ginny smiled.

"Your doing great.....that was for pain...and then they're gonna give you an anesthetic in a little while ok? It'll keep you numb during the surgery and then they'll give you one to knock you out when you get in the O.R." He nodded.

"Does it hurt anywhere still? That should work fairly quick."

"Yeah, yeah its working....I'm just tired."

"Go to sleep then....they won't be in for another hour or so...just relax....I'll be here when you wake up." again, he nodded and closed his eyes, his chest rising and falling accordingly. Ginny stared at him for awhile, just holding his hand with one of hers, and rubbing the top of it with her other hand.

"I'm sorry every things been so bad, Dad...... I know its been really hard." She said quietly, as her tears fell...he was already asleep....but she still felt so sorry for everything he'd been going through. Kissing his forehead, she stood and laid his arm down near his side, walking out of the room and to the small waiting room her siblings were in. bill stood immediately as did Charlie, and another person who had not been there before: Remus Lupin.

"He's sleeping,...they gave him a pain medication in his ivy and they should be taking him in, in about 2 hours." bill and Charlie nodded sitting down and Remus walked over to hug Ginny. He held her close and whispered in her ear quietly, "Ginny...I've always been so sorry for what happened..it was my night to guard, but it had been full moon..and Arthur volunteered to take my place." they pulled apart and Ginny smile at him.

"Remus, don't do that.....its fine...he'll be fine....its just been hard with everything." he smiled back...the pained, friendly....understand smile,that had always belonged to the lone werewolf.

"I know...i understand..I'm so sorry Ginny."

"No, no time for sorrys....she's watching him, he'll be fine...umm, Bill....i want to take the kids up to the tea room, wanna come?"

"I'll go." George said quickly, before bill replied, and he gather the triplets quickly. The twins had been left with Kinglsey's mother Anna.

"Ok." Ginny replied, as she walked down the hall with George. He made sure the triplets were talking happily before he turned to his sister.

"Ginny, I was coming from the burrow....i needed to get some of Dad's things....half of the trash can was filled with bloody tissues, you know that? How long has he had this?"

"I don't know, but he talked to me a lot while I was in there....he's in a lot of pain I don't even care about what he did and didn't tell e at this point and just want everything to stoop happening to him."

"not everything bad happens to him...speaking of which, his little girlfriend dropped by, but she went to get some food...she knows how horrible hospital food I and she went to get him some stuff..should e back soon."

"That was nice of her." Ginny replied, grabbing Myron so he didn't start running like he said he was going to.

"Yeah...do you think he like sher?"

"No.....friend yes....Dad would never do anything...not at this point anyway...he's too screwed up because of Mum...i understand....but I feel so horrible I can't do anything."

"We all do.....but hopefully things will work out ok.."

"Hopefully....yeah know George..the healers talked to me in there, and I think we need to round up everyone to go in when he wakes up...they said there;s a chance, once he goes under...he won't come back."