Disclaimer- i don't, as you know, own anything HP related, except obvious OC's, JK owns them, not I. This is a mother's day edition for all of you angst-addicts. I'm in the mood, ABBA will do that to you...

As she sat up until after midnight scaning her memory and her books looking for Muggle benefictions, Ruby soon was yawning her head off the next evening(which happened to be a Saturday). I wonder what Mum's doing in heaven right now, Ruby thought. It was an univited thought, that had no business in her mind on a nasty drizzling Saturday, but it was there just the same. She couldn't banish the ones that followed; all the memories of the days after Rowenica's death. They soon weakened her even more than Transfiguration had. She gave up her work because the page had gone blurry from her fresh tears. She sat back against the soft blue chairs of the Ravenclaw common room. They did little to confort her. Soon Terry came downstairs in his blue striped sleeping-robes.

"Rube, what's wrong?" He was obviously touched by the emotional display that she'd forgotten she was providing. She didn't answer; the knot in her throat was so big. "You can tell me, right?" Ruby sat still, eveloped in her grief for her mother's way of demise, grief for the lost times that they'd never spent together, grief for the fact that she couldn't control herself over her emotions. "You're upset abut something right?" Gosh, males are thick, Ruby thought to herself.

"No... kidding," she managed to squeak. Terry looked hurt at this, but seemed to understand that his words had been a major understatement. He didn't know what to do with a mood-striken female so he sat beside her and gave her a big hug. She quieted down at this, and seemed to regain most of her wits which Ravenclaw students were well-known for. She sat there thinking about the last days that she was with her mother and seemed to be comforted by it. "You can go back up now, but by the way, why did you come down anyway?" Terry spoke the first lie he thought of.

"I couldn't go to sleep and decided to sit by the fire and watch the flames," he said, omitting the fact that he'd awaken due to an extreme thirst and came down to investigate when he heard a strange sound while getting a bit of water.

"You don't have to stay down here," Ruby said while begining to gather her belongings. She choked down a sob," My mother told me a good way to go to sleep. You just have to relax your entire body, starting at your toes and working your way up to your head; it generally works." He nodded and started walking back up the boys' dorms' staircase. Ruby headed up the staircase that lead to the girls' dorms.

"Well, good-night Rube," Terry said.

"Yes, good-night." A faint tear glistened on her cheek. As she shut the door that lead into the hallway for her dorm and the others, she didn't hear the absence of another similar door shutting as she was recalling fond memories shared by Rowenica and she. She piled the parchment and books upon the table beside her bed. She slept a nightmare filled night that Saturday/Sunday night: nightmares due to a single thought that had crept upon her unaware. Snakes, and skulls dominated. But that fit of R.E.M. passed blessedly soon, and she turned over to an empty sleep.

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Don't ask me how this happened, I thought, 'Mother's Day, Watssa needs a chapter 10, what would Ruby do?' L.N.I. did the rest, stupid museish muse that gives me ideas from the blue:( Oh well, i probably wrote this horridly, and it's bound to be heading for a rewrite, but I'm sure you angst-addicts might like it. Gaw.