Chapter 56 Time
'Oh my gosh Cho, who took care of you the last two weeks?' Marietta asked in pure horror when she saw her friend as she returned from her holiday with her parents.
'I did myself,' Cho said weakly.
'You look like…'
'Crap?'
'Did you eat at all?'
Cho found that hard to remember. She mostly laid on bed.
'I think so,' she answered finally.
Marietta stamped out of the room.
'What are you going to do?' Cho asked.
'Writing someone! And get you some food! Oh and say cheese,' he friend appeared around the corner and made a picture of her. Cho lifted up her hand in defense but dropped it again, not power left in her.
'Gee Mar, you don't make pictures of me in this state!'
'You need food!' she said again and ran downstairs. She came back late with all kinds of Christmas leftovers.
'What did you do these past weeks?' she asked.
'I slept a lot.'
'And cried a lot, your eyes look horrid, have you been outside at all?'
'Euhm…no I don't think so…'
'Have you spoke to anyone?'
'No.'
'Have you been out of your room?'
'Euhm…'
'Cho!' Marietta called out shocked.
'I just wasn't…feeling well…'
'Cho, Cedric is just gone for awhile, he is not dead! It's like you're grieving,'
'Well imagine how bad it would be if I actually was…' Cho tried to joke.
Marietta shook her head. 'You should never be left alone, you wouldn't survive.'
'I would survive…'Cho answered shrugging.
'Eat.' Marietta ordered. 'And go take a shower.'
Co obeyed her friend and went to the bathroom after she had finished every last bit of her food under the strict eye from Marietta. She did feel a little bit better again now.
'And now we will go outside and you didn't even opened your Christmas presents yet!'
Marietta forced her to do everything that she hadn't done the past two weeks in one day. She also had to open her presents. Cedric's present was a beautiful clock. It was a special one. One that would count the days of how long they had been apart and how long they still would be. The last one stood on unknown and Cho found that very depressing. That night she slept good again though, for the first time. Because she knew form tomorrow Cedric would be home and they could write letters again. Plus she had eaten well for the first time in two weeks and that helped her sleep. She had put the clock next to her bed and tried not to look at the horrible high number that counted the days that they had been apart. Though when she woke up the next morning the clock had changed. It didn't say unknown any longer at the date of when they would meet again. Today's date was on it and it was counting the minutes it would take for them to see one another again. Seven more minutes? How was that possible? Cho sat up and grabbed the clock staring at it. Six more minutes. Her heart started pounding and she jumped out of bed and wanted to leave the girls room till she noticed it was empty. The other girls hadn't returned yet and Marietta already must have been up. Five more minutes? If she would leave this room would she make it longer or shorter? Four more minutes. Cho tried to keep her hands from shaking and she sunk back on the bed. Three more minutes. Two… She lifted her head. Did she hear something in the commonroom? One more minute the clock said. Cho stood up again. To open the door, to peek, but then suddenly the alarm went off, the clock started ringing and at that moment the door swayed open. Cedric, all bewildered, his hair in every direction started at her as she shrieked and dropped the clock on the bed who would stop making such an annoying sound.
'CHO CHANG YOU CRAZY PERSON!' He yelled and she got grabbed. Grabbed and pushed against the wall and she could feel him again. She could smell him again and she could taste him again. His lips were on hers and she clenched her fingers into his messy hair as if she was about to suck the life out of him. He kissed her so hungrily, so full of passion that Cho forgot every pain she had. Everything left her body as if it had never been there. And they wouldn't stop. His gasping continued and she joined as she needed to take a new mouthful of air to kiss him. To make up for all those days they hadn't kissed. It was only a matter of time before clothes got ripped off. Cho made sounds of pure happiness though she wasn't sure if she was crying or laughing. She knew he was crying because she felt his tears on her cheeks. He hands were in her neck and on her face, stroking her, holding her, making sure she wouldn't escape. Then he took his wand without breaking the kiss and swayed to the door who would make a loud click as sign it was locked and he dropped his wand out of his hand and laid it on her back. That way they fell together on the bed. There was no time for being gentle. Who knew how little time they had? Cho moaned as she felt him inside her, when he started moving with everything that they had not been able to give the last few months. His ragged breathing was on her lips, on her skin, in her ear. She would answer it with her noises of pleasure. He kissed her as much and as long his breathing would allow. And Cho pulled him so tight that she got all light in her head. And finally when both their screams got muffled against each other's shoulders they could relax. Though neither of them would lose skin contact for even a brief moment. The sweat on their bodies, on their forehead got kissed away by on another. Cho snuggled against him and she felt his strong arms wrapped around her.
'Cho,' he breathed content. 'Cho…'
She kissed his shoulder just as satisfied.
'Why did you come here?' she was able to ask.
'Silly, I was planning to come when I was done with the mission all the time, but I didn't want to disappoint you if something might come in between so I didn't tell you till Marietta told me you had freaked out,' he said, his voice getting filled with pain.
'Marietta?' Cho asked not understanding.
Cedric searched next to the bed with his hand between their traces without letting go of her and finally he came with a sheet of paper. Red.
'This is a howler,' Cho said.
'Yeah, she was pissed…she was right to be…' he looked at her stroking her hair with this worried look.
Cho started to read and could imagine how the letter had screamed himself towards Cedric.
IF YOU DON'T STEP BY RIGHT NOW I WILL PERSONALLY COME AND GET YOU! CAN'T YOU SEE WHAT YOU DO TO HER? TWO WEEKS SHE HAS SAT HER ON HER OWN! LOCKING HERSELF UP IN HER ROOM, BEARLY EATING! YOU LITTLE…
Cho gave the letter back. She didn't want to read further.
'She should have talked to you like that,' Cho said.
'She should.' Cedric said, kissing her cheek again, again and again. Then Cho noticed the picture Marietta made between the papers.
'She send you this?' Cho asked shocked. Seeing how bad she had looked for the first time. Her unwashed hair hanging next to her pale face that was to thin from the bad eating and with eyes that were too red from crying. Cedric looked at it.
'I will never forgive myself that…'
'That wasn't your fault I was just…'
'Shh…it is alright…'
He kissed her lips. 'I love you so.'
'I love you too.'
He smiled and cuddled her. The sunlight warming their bodies as he pushed her naked body between the sheets and started to kiss her neck.
'I missed you so,' he whispered.
'Don't go. Stay. Please?' she felt Cedric chest cringe.
'For now. I'm all yours.'
Cho hugged him close. 'What did you do with Dumbledore?'
Cedric bit his lips.
'You can't tell?'
'Well…'
'I'm your almost wife, doesn't that count for anything?'
'I suppose so…'
'You suppose so?' Cho tensed.
'Hush baby, you're so sensitive,' he smiled and Cho grumbled.
'Dumbledore thinks he knows a way to defeat you-know-who,' Cedric whispered finally.
'WHAT?'
Cedric chuckled.
'How?'
'I can't tell you that yet, you will have to wait till you're from school,'
'But…'
'Just very few people know it Cho, my love, only Harry and I do…'
Cho didn't like this at all. 'And probably Ron and Hermione too in that case,' she said.
Touché. Cedric looked doubting now.
'So why can't you tell me?'
'Well…I will have to ask Dumbledore, you're right I want to be able to tell you, no secrets.'
'No secrets.' Cho agreed.
Cedric kissed her head.
'You broke the mirror.'
'Yes,' Cho looked ashamed down.
'Did you hurt yourself?'
'N-n-n…' Cho couldn't get the lie over her lips. Not today.
She heard Cedric sigh. He would twirl together with her in the blankets.
'My love you are so dangerous when you have your thoughts for your own,'
'I know! It surprised me too,' Cho said.
'Don't think that I was doing so well without you,' he said kissing her forehead.
'Oh but that was sort of my point, I thought you were doing pretty well!'
Cedric rolled his eyes dramatic.
'I almost got kicked out of the order,'
'You did?' Cho asked surprised.
'First they thought I wrote you too much letters and that I would give away their position, on top of that I couldn't think of anything else then you so I wasn't really paying attention when they had something important, I am placed on the ministry to keep an eye on some death eaters and I couldn't even do that right because I would write your letters during working time,'
'You shouldn't do that…'
'And you shouldn't starve yourself,' Cedric said waving with the pictures.
'Give me that,' Cho tried to grab it but he held it above his head seriously not teasing.
'No I will keep it,'
'Why on earth would you want to keep that horrid picture of me? I look like Bellatrix Lestrange when she was in Azkaban!'
'Because I need to remember myself what I'm capable of doing to you,'
'No there is no need for that,' Cho said stubborn and tried to grab it again.
Cedric shook his head and made sure she couldn't grab it and stood up. Cho squealed unhappy as he let go off her.
'Don't go! I'm sorry don't go!'
'Cho!' he said tortured. 'I won't!' he would stare at her for awhile and she could read the question in his eyes: 'What did I do to her?' So Cho quickly put on a brave face and tried to smile as he took the other picture from between his clothes. The one where she was all pretty and smiling and looking over her shoulder happy. He would sit on the bed again and hold the two pictures together.
'You see?' he asked. 'This is what I did to you with my absence, from this to that,'
'You think I'm ugly?' Cho asked pouting.
'Sweetheart please, of course not, nobody can be so unhealthy as you and still look pretty,'
'You think I'm unhealthy?'
'Baby you have been starving yourself haven't you?'
'I just didn't feel like eating…'
'That sounds pretty unhealthy to me,'
'So you will stay with me till I'm healthy again?' Cho asked hopeful.
Cedric looked sorry.
'You can't stay can you?'
'Just today…You have school and I have work.'
Cho looked down. He lifted up her head with his finger.
'But Cho, let's make it a day to hold on to the rest of the year alright? Where we can get strength from thinking back of it,'
Cho nodded agreeing.
'Please my little beauty,' he said as he put his hands on her cheeks. 'Smile for me,'
'I don't feel pretty,' Cho said.
'But you are pretty!' Cedric smiled. 'I just tore the clothes from your body woman, so pretty you are,' he joked. Cho started chuckling and Cedric looked victorious and overloaded her with kisses.
'Mine,' Cho said and cling on to him.
'Mine,' Cedric snickered and made them disappear under the white sheets.
