Phew sorry about the late update I've been very busy recently what with moving into my new flat!! YAY New flat! I'm so excited! I love it already lol. Anyways thanks for coming back to this story I'm very grateful ;D! This chapter may make a few of you very die hard Hermione fans a little angry but hear me out. I'm working under the impression that even smart people can be thick somethimes, because they can lol it's only natural :) So please don't be angry with me if you don't like my slightly thick Hermione lol because she is still uber smart really! Enjoy xxx

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The Unexpected Baby

Chapter Ten: You're so thick!

"Charlie why are we here?" moaned Bill as he and his younger brothers Charlie and Percy walked in and around tall and rather dusty bookshelves. Percy glared back at his moaning brother as he guided Charlie in the right direction to the books that he required.

"We are here because we need to get some books," he snapped at Bill who had his hands stuffed firmly into his pockets.

"I didn't know you were Charlie," Bill snapped back as Percy glowered at him. Charlie's chest heaved as he sighed heavily and turned to confront his arguing brothers.

"Guys please cut it out! Bill we're here so that I can get some pregnancy books and Percy stop being a git," he said firmly as the other two men stopped bickering. Bill stared at Charlie in a confused manner and asked the question which was burning on the tip of his tongue.

"Why do you need pregnancy books?" Charlie sighed once again and started to walk down the aisles of books. Percy started at once and ran to catch up with his sibling so he could direct him.

"I need them because I know absolutely nothing about pregnancy. I tried to read Hermione's old medical notes on it but they were too difficult and detailed for me to understand. She's 12 weeks pregnant now and I still know nothing about any of it and she'll be going into her second term soon. I also need to know what I'm talking about when it comes to meeting her parents and telling them the news," Charlie explained as they all stopped in a certain section of the Ministry Library. A large amount of these books were pink with frilly handwriting, this was going to get embarrassing. Bill seemed to accept Charlie's explanation and in no time at all the three brothers were knee deep in strewn books.

"Here's one, 'The Big Book of Pregnancy Fact and Fiction'," Bill read aloud as he read the blurb on the back of the large purple book. Charlie nodded his head and Bill set the book in the take-out pile which consisted of only two other books.

"How about 'How to cope with being pregnant,'" Percy read out but a quick shake of Charlie's head told him that the book wasn't for him.

"Oh I was recommended this one when Fleur became pregnant. 'Dad and Baby,' it's a book which tells you all about pregnancy and about what needs to be done when the baby is born and it's specifically aimed at dads!" Bill exclaimed as he quickly set the book in the take-out pile. Charlie smiled happily and continued to read the spines of the many books before him. After a solid hour of searching the men landed at the checkout desk with a total of 7 books all about babies.

"Expecting are we?" the elderly Librarian asked Charlie in a gritty voice as he handed her Percy's library card.

"My first," he answered her with a grin.

"Congratulation," she told him as she tapped the card with her wand and issued him the books.

"Alright so I didn't know half of this stuff!" Percy said in a shocked tone as he read through one of the 7 books. He, Charlie and Bill had landed back in his apartment for a bite of lunch and a cup of tea. While they were there they decided that they should look through the books to see if they were worth keeping for the 3 weeks that they were on loan for.

"What did you find something else?" Bill asked as he too stared wide eyed at the book in his hand. He knew a lot about a witch being pregnant but never in his life had he known some of the things he'd just read.

"Cat faeces are dangerous to pregnant women as it can carry a parasite that can do serious damage to the unborn child," Percy said as he looked at Charlie in alarm. Charlie chuckled, "Don't worry Hermione's cats like to do their business outside so she's in no danger."

"The Julius Potion for depression can harm unborn babies," Bill read as Charlie flipped through his book.

"Dementors have no affect on an unborn child," Charlie mumbled feeling suddenly a sense of frustration. These books were good and had many facts about pregnancy and babies in them but they weren't what he was looking for. Mostly they said what a woman felt and should know about herself during the 9 months but nothing was said about what dad should do. As he tossed aside the book he had been flipping through he suddenly spotted the one titled 'Dad and Baby.' Picking it up he noticed that it wasn't as thick as the others and it wasn't a horrible shade of pink. It actually looked like a book expecting dads would read. He started to skim through it and as he did a triumphant smile started to spread across his face.

"I think I've found it," he whispered causing Bill and Percy to stop what they were doing.

"What?" Bill asked as he closed the ugly purple book he'd been looking through.

"This is the book," Charlie said victoriously as he scanned down the index. He turned to a certain page and he grinned eagerly. "It tells you all that you need to know!"

"Like what?" Percy asked curiously. Charlie remained silent for a moment as he read and then he spoke, "I'm on a part here that talks about when the mum is 12 weeks pregnant. It says here that her morning sickness should be decreasing rapidly now and that due to the increased blood volume in her body she may suffer from light-heads and dizziness. It then goes on to give an 'Idea for Dad,' and it says that because mum is feeling better you should start to exercise with her. Nice quiet walks are the best thing for the both of you and don't forget to hold hands."

"Hold hands?" Charlie glanced at Bill who had a sarcastic look on his face. He ignored it and continued to read. This book had everything he needed, he knew now that he would have no problem meeting Hermione's parents because he would be totally prepared and would know everything there was to know about pregnancy.

'Piece of cake,' he thought happily.

She was dreaming. It was a surprisingly tame dream when compared to the naughty, raunchy, steamy ones she'd been having recently. She was sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall in Hogwarts, this alone made her smile. A single plate, knife, fork and spoon sat in front of her and they were glimmering as always. Looking around she realised she was alone. Suddenly a noise made her turn to look at the table and to her delight it was starting to fill with food. Everything she adored appeared before her. Fresh rocket salad, cottage pie, roast potatoes, summer vegetables, chicken curry with boiled rice, both chunky and skinny chips, lasagne, tuna steaks and not to mention a big pile of chicken drumsticks. Wait…chicken drumsticks? She'd never liked chicken drumsticks, they were too fatty and greasy for her liking. She watched on in horror as more food she totally hated and despised appeared on the table. Rump steak, huge beef burgers, stringy bacon instead of yummy back bacon, fried eggs, lamb chops, duck, venison and tonnes more appeared. Her hand started to drift towards it all, her gaze completely fixed on the things she hated, the food she loved ignored and pushed to the side. Just as she was about to take a big bite out of a drumstick she heard a voice call to her.

"Hermione?" What? She was just about to eat, couldn't she have some alone time?

"Hermione?" She groaned, why did she have to be bothered now?

"Hermione wake up!" She jumped, startled out of her considerably odd dream and met the glittering eyes of Charlie.

"Huh?" she asked rather stupidly. Charlie chuckled lightly and sat down on the sofa beside her. He'd just arrived back from Percy's to find her sitting sleeping with a thick medical text book lying open on her lap.

"So this is what you do with your days off? You read medical text books and fall asleep wherever you want?" the red headed Dragon Keeper asked he as he took the book off her lap and set it aside. Hermione rubbed her eyes and stifled a yawn. What had she been dreaming about? She couldn't quite remember but all she knew was that for some reason she wanted some chicken drumsticks…ewe.

"Sorry I couldn't help it. I didn't sleep much last night," she told him, forgetting to mention the reason why she hadn't slept well was because she'd been having sex dreams about him and various other people.

"I was thinking we should go for a walk. If you get some air about you it might just waken you up."

"That actually sounds like a nice idea," Hermione mumbled as she ran a hand through her partially tangled hair. Charlie grinned and jogged into the kitchen to grab a drink of water while Hermione hauled herself off the sofa and trudged towards her room to get a cardigan. It was the 1st of September and already Hermione could feel the change in the season. Summer was now far behind and autumn was becoming more and more obvious. There was a distinct chill in the air and the night descended earlier each day. As she pulled on her black cardigan she couldn't help but glimpse herself in the mirror. She'd finally put on the standard amount of weight required for her stage of pregnancy and it was showing. She'd already gone up one trouser size and her chest was an above average size for her, they were now more than a good handful!

"Ready?" came a familiarly warm and bright voice from her doorway. Internally she felt a glow spread throughout her. Now Charlie didn't even have to touch her to make her feel all warm and lovely inside yet the reason for this phenomenon was still bewildering to her. One of her theories was that the baby recognised his voice and his touch and reacted to it and her other theory…well she didn't want to think about it.

"Yeah let's go before I decide to sleep again."

Hermione's flat was just outside of Diagon Alley and so the walk into town wasn't very long. They had to walk down several tree encrusted lanes before they reached their destination. As they walked Hermione couldn't help but note the slight change in colour of the leaves around her. While she was admiring the natural occurrence Charlie took this as his chance. He slipped his hand gently into hers. Hermione jumped slightly at the contact and stared down at their cupped hands.

"Charlie wha-?" she began but Charlie winked at her and then stared off into the distance. Her heart thudded as she continued to gawp down at their hands and after a couple of steps Charlie decided to entwine their fingers.

"Oh," she whispered as that glow of heat spread right to the very tips of her hair. Her other theory skipped through her mind but she batted it away as she finally snapped her gaze away from their hands. Ginny, that's who she needed, Ginny would be able to calm her down, explain things to her. How was it that she was able to understand things like Maxo Intrubus Grantibus but couldn't grasp the workings of simple human emotion? What was she a complete idiot?

"So would you like to do a bit of shopping?" Charlie asked as they emerged onto the high street of Diagon Alley. Hermione tugged herself out of her inner critiquing and smiled shyly at Charlie who was staring innocently back at her.

"Sounds like a plan," she told him as she made a mental note to visit Ginny later on.

"Wow Gin you look great," Hermione said brightly as Ginny settled herself into her favourite armchair in her huge house which wasn't that far away from the Burrow.

"Thanks though I didn't think I would be this big at 27 weeks!" Ginny laughed as she threw a blanket over her legs and grabbed her bag of crisps.

"You look pretty normal to me," Hermione told her as she watched Ginny tuck into the crisps she'd been craving. Ginny said something but it wasn't quite understandable as her mouth was so packed with food. She swallowed, laughed and then looked seriously at her pregnant best friend.

"You wanted to talk about something?" Hermione shifted slightly in her chair and gulped, maybe she didn't want to talk about this anymore. No. She had to talk about this; she didn't want to feel like a total moron any longer.

"It's about Charlie," she began and as she was about to continue on Ginny interrupted her. "Are you two alright? What has he done? CHARLIE!" the temperamental red head exclaimed. Hermione gasped and then started to shake her head and hands furiously.

"No! No he hasn't done anything!" she stressed as she heard Charlie make his way from the kitchen to the living room. He poked his head around the door and stared perplexedly at his sister who was raging with so many hormones that she often scared Harry half to death.

"What?" he asked.

"Oh nothing, it's nothing Ginny's just taken something the wrong way that's all," Hermione said in an overly sweet voice which made Charlie smile at her and Ginny to glare at her in alarm. As Charlie left Ginny cleared her throat.

"What was that?" she asked. Hermione, her eyes wide in an attempt at an innocent look, shrugged her shoulders in a very un-Hermione like fashion.

"Alright something's fishy in this house and it's not the smell of Harry's cooking even if he's cooking chicken!" Ginny growled as the Healer before her shifted nervously in her chair. Hermione felt sweat bead on her forehead, Ginny was incredibly menacing when she was hormonal.

"How can Harry make chicken smell like fish?"

"Don't change the subject! What's going on with you and Charlie?" Ginny snapped as she grabbed her glass of apple juice from the table that was beside her. Hermione cringed, she'd have to tell her now, she knew something was 'up' and Ginny was the type of person who wouldn't let you get away without a fight.

"I don't know," Hermione mumbled softly, casting her gaze to the floor. Ginny's eye's softened, Hermione looked confused and frustrated and a little embarrassed to say the least.

"What's the matter?" she asked as she caged up her blazing hormones.

"I don't know…well I do know but I don't understand it if you know what I mean," Hermione told Ginny who was now listening intently to her. Ginny nodded her head and Hermione proceeded to tell her all about the warm feeling's when Charlie touched her and about how it had developed into a warm glow even when he spoke to her. She also told her the baby theory she'd come up with. Ginny was grinning like the Cheshire cat by the end of her explanation.

"What are you grinning at?"

"You mean you don't know?" Ginny asked coyly as she played with a piece of her flaming red locks. Hermione's vacant expression told her everything she needed to know and she laughed heartily at her.

"Hermione you can understand complicated medical procedures but you aren't able to make heads nor tails of this? Sometimes I wonder about you." Hermione scowled at the pregnant witch who chuckled at her.

"Hermione the answer is simple! It's not that baby theory, even though it may play some part in it but it is most likely that obvious answer. Hermione darling you're in love," Ginny told the perplexed Healer in a soothing manner. Hermione felt her jaw drop to the floor and her eyes bulge in response to Ginny's answer.

"Excuse me?" she asked. She was in love? How was that even possible? It was Charlie for crying out loud. She'd gone out with this guy's brother. She'd known him for goodness knows how many years, how could she be in love with the man?

"You heard me. I thought you were. I've been watching you two for a few weeks and it seems to me that you are in the big L! The way you look at him, the way you position yourself towards him, the way you walk just that little bit closer to him than you did before and not to mention all of this glowing warmth that you've just told me about." Ginny watched as Hermione started to furiously process this information in her head. After a couple of minutes she seemed to come up with some sort of an answer.

"That's impossible. I couldn't be in love with Charlie," Hermione said firmly as she got up to leave. Ginny laughed, Hermione did this on certain occasions, she walked away from things she didn't like or understand. Hermione thanked Ginny for her advice and then went to the kitchen to get Charlie. As the pair passed the door to the living room Ginny called out after her,

"You're so thick Hermione!"

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