Harry Potter and the Baby

Author's Note

I think that this next chapter will just be to waste space because I'm starting to get Writer's Block with this though the general idea of the story is followed. I'm not giving up though… I'm going to finish this story if it's the last thing I do… Though I can't update because for some reason I can't get to FF.net, I'll still be writing it. After these few chapters are up I may take a slight break since I've been crazed by school all year and have to empty my head to learn more next year. Sigh, How I wish I didn't go to school…

This chapter is rather small but be happy Harry/Ginny Shippers! The breaking up of Cho and Harry, well, sort of—

When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)

With a trembling pen in hand I try the best I can

To write all the reasons I can't stay

And I hope she'll understand I can't leave her like a man

'Cause a man would never leave her this way

A note of things I should've said

Lays beside her sleeping head

As I turn and make my way off in the night

By the time the morning's breaking

My heart will still be aching

Every time I think of what I've left behind

'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes

And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry

And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong

So I don't want to be here in the morning

When she wakes up and finds me gone

It hurts to know how much she'll hurt I've told myself things could be worse

And I've convinced myself she's better off this way

By the time she finds I'm gone

I'll be a long, long way from home

When she reads a note of things I couldn't say

'Cause I don't want to see me leaving in her eyes

And I can't stand to watch her watch me make her cry

And I don't know a right way I can do her wrong

So I don't want to be here in the morning

When she wakes up and finds me gone

Lord I don't want to be here in the morning

When she wakes up and finds me gone

I do not own the lyrics to the song, Tim McGraw does. I do not own Harry Potter, J. K. does. Though sometimes I wonder how it would feel to be her, LOL… ^^

Chapter Three

When She Wakes Up, And Finds Me Gone

Harry thought of the day that he had just had. The Professor's just ignored him as best they could, not going near him or Alex. They didn't make him go to classes, or even say anything about his absence. Students just ignored the fact that Harry Potter wasn't there as well. Though they still saw him as they went to one classroom to another, they just waved at him and continued they're walking.

Harry only spoke with Ron, Hermione, and Cho. Whenever he saw Ginny he would do his best to not be noticed by her. She looked very depressed though. Alex, deciding that today was a bad day, was as fussy as could be. It took all Harry's willpower not to get impatient with her.

Taking her to their own Common Room he took her to her room that evening and gave her a Baby-Safe Sleeping potion. She went out like a light and he sighed in relief. He then waited until Cho had eaten and was making her way to her Common Room that he went wondering for her. Directing her towards his own Common Room and kissing her cheek they sat by the fire and just sat on the couch peacefully. Cho sat on his lap and his head rested on her head.

She fell asleep easily on him as he stared into the fire, lost in thought.

He was thinking of Ginny and how it had felt like when he had kissed her. It was just, well, right. He saw dreams that he never knew he had wanted popping in his mind. A real family, love, and happiness. He felt desire filling him every time he even thought of Ginny.

For Cho now he just felt a sort of emptiness that hadn't been there before. He didn't feel any of these things with Cho, but only Ginny. Thoughts of a real marriage instead of a showy event ran through his mind. The thought of growing old together actually made him happy instead of the dread he had felt inside when he had tried to picture it with Cho. He then came to a conclusion.

He was in love with Ginny Weasley.

Running idea's through his mind in how he was to tell Cho and Ginny Harry stood up. Holding Cho up and then setting her down on the couch he summoned the Marauder's Map and then said the password. Looking around the Map carefully and then let out an "Aha!" of triumph. He had found where the Common Room was. He picked Cho up very carefully.

Carrying her and holding the Map in two separate arms wasn't as simple as it looked. Then adding to that the fact that he had to go up staircases, around corridors, escape from Snape and Filch with his nasty cat Mrs. Noriss. Finally making it and gasping for breath he looked at the Map and then at the portrait of a fair maiden. The plaque identifying her had "Maiden Cathleen Withers" on it. She looked at him in confusion for a second before asking the all-knowing question.

"Password?"

Harry looked at the Map. The tiny speech bubble said 'Galore'.

" 'Galore,' " He said confidently. She nodded and then opened up. He walked inside quietly; knowing no one was there already. Setting her down on the couch, not looking around much, he sighed. He looked around before finding a spare piece of parchment.

Thinking quickly he summoned a quill and ink from an abandoned classroom and when the portrait opened again he grinned slightly. The grin fell as he thought of how he was going to say this. Hand and quill trembling he started writing, trying to write the reasons he couldn't stay. First writing things he should have said and then why he changed his mind. Hoping she could understand why he was leaving her this way he finished the letter and set it beside her head.

Trying to make his way sadly to his Common Room, he thought of how a real man wouldn't leave her that way. Heart paining him he left, not wanting to see his leaving in her eyes. Not being able to watch her cry as her heart broke. Not knowing the right way to do her wrong he shut the Portrait, not looking back because he didn't know if he could leave the next time.

Thing's could be worse Potter. This is best. You would have hurt her worse for not being able to love her right. Harry thought with slight bitterness. This is what's best for her. She's better off this way.

He walked into his Common Room and sighing, laid on his bed.

You don't want to see her heartbroken right? So this is the only way. Only way. Harry fell asleep that night dreamlessly so . . .

Very quick and easy break-up on Harry's account, but next chapter holds Cho's reaction…