Make Me Happy

Chapter 11: Nobody Wants To Be Lonely

'There you are
In a darkened room
And you're all alone
Looking out the window
Your heart is cold and lost the will to love
Like a broken arrow

Nobody wants to be lonely
Nobody wants to cry
My body's longing to hold you
so bad it hurts inside
Time is precious and it's slipping away
and I've been waiting for you all of my life'

            - Nobody Wants to be Lonely by Christina Aguilera & Ricky Martin

Disclaimer: wo0t.

          "You what?" Harry tried to remain calm. He remembered his reaction when Ginny had gone into labor with James. He hadn't freaked out as expected, but instead he'd remain his usual calm self and went through every stage that he and Ginny learned in their birth classes, but this baby was different… he totally spaced out.

          "Labor, Harry, labor," Hermione was heaving now.

          "Uh…" Harry stared at her.

          "Apparate back to the Burrow and get Molly and whoever else is around, then find my brother-in-laws to help you look for Ginny," Hermione ordered, still panting.

          "But-," Harry cut in.

          "GO!" She screamed.

          Harry disapparated immediately, landing with a small thump on the carpet in the living room of the Burrow. There was no one in sight.

          "Molly! Fleur! Katie! Angelina! Penelope! SOMEONE!" Harry yelled.

          "What is it, Harry?" Katie came running down the stairs with Angelina close on her heels.

          "It's Hermione, she's in labor… At my house."

          "She's vat!?" Fleur exclaimed as she and Mrs. Weasley appeared from the kitchen.

          "In labor! You know, the baby!" Harry was frustrated now.

          "Oh, the poor child!" Cried Mrs. Weasley.

          "We should go!" Katie exclaimed. Harry wanted to scream 'duh' with all his head, but he knew that four women vs. him alone wouldn't be pretty. Not now anyway.

          "Wait! One more thing-," Harry was interrupted.

          "What!?" Angelina exclaimed.

          "It's Ginny. She's missing."

          "Missing!?" Mrs. Weasley shouted.

          "Who's missing?" Fred called as he came bounding down the stairs. "And what is all this racket about.

          "You girls go help Hermione, I'll let everyone else know and we'll go look for Ginny. I'll send Ron to St. Mungo's ASAP!" Now it was Harry's turn to order people around.

          "Wait, who's going to stay with the children?" Katie piped in. At least someone was thinking straight.

          "Fred and George," Angelina offered.

          "Did I hear my name?" The tall red head came into the living room with a confused look on his face.

          "One problem with that," Harry paused as everyone looked at him suspiciously. "Ginny's missing."

          "My sister, your wife, Ginny? Virginia Weasley?" Fred was in shock for a brief moment.

          "My dear Virginia?!" Molly Weasley bellowed and began sobbing.

          "G-G-Gin?" Angelina stammered.

          "But Hermione said you girls have to go help her into St. Mungo's, we'll take care of Ginny. I promise," Harry relayed Hermione's orders to the four women.

          "Someone still has to stay and watch the kids!" Katie said quickly.

          "I will," Angelina piped in.

          The three other women nodded and disapparated immediately.

          "GEORGE! BILL! PERCY! RON!" Harry called still standing in the living room. There was a sound of feet shuffling quickly down the stairs and Bill and George came running into the room no less than five seconds later.

"What was all that yelling?" George questioned as he entered the room.

          "Ginny's missing." Harry said before they asked the question. "Is anyone else home?"

          Fred shook his head.

          "Where's Ron?" Harry asked.

          "Problem: he left in a mad rage because of something you two fought about or something. Didn't tell anyone where he was going." Fred looked at Harry.

          "Well, I vote we look in every Hogsmeade store before we notify the ministry of Ginny's disappearance."

          Everyone nodded in agreement.

          "Everyone split up, that way it's faster." George decided.

          "How will we know if someone has found her?" Fred asked.

          "Uh… Whoever finds her brings her straight back here and leaves a note in Fred and George's shop on the door." Harry didn't care about the stupid details, he just wanted to find his wife.

          Everyone nodded and apparated into Hogsmeade Village.

          "OH MY GOSH!!!" Hermione screamed. What was taking Harry so long? To answer her questions, two of her sister-in-laws and mother-in-law apparated by her side that second and helped her up immediately.

          "To the fireplace," Molly demanded. All three women helped Hermione get to the fire place and Katie went in with Hermione's arm around her neck, clutching floo powder in one hand. She flung the powder on the two of them and screamed 'St. Mungo's!' as loudly and clearly as she could. The two remaining women apparated soon after.

          Molly Weasley rushed up to the nurses' desk in a panic.

          "This woman is having a baby," Motioning toward Hermione behind her.

          "I see that," the nurse said calmly.

          "Okay, well let's see that she gets a room and her own doctor this very minute!" Molly's face was turning red with fury.

          "Molly, it's okay," Hermione muttered. "Hey, Ginger," Hermione tried to smile at her co-worker.

          "We knew we'd be seeing you in here soon, Mione," The nurse smiled politely before pressing a red button on what looked to be a muggle device called a telephone that notified her doctor, Erin Prenice, that she was here and in labor. "How far along do you think you are?"

          "This one's going to be short. I can tell," Hermione let out another moan of pain before a fellow nurse came rushing toward her with a wheelchair from one the white hallway to the left. Katie helped her into the chair quickly and all three women followed behind as they brought her to a nice large room halfway down the hallway.

          As they all helped Hermione into bed, Hermione realized the one person she wanted to see most wasn't here.

          "Where's Ron?" She asked between gasps for breath.

          "Uh…" Angelina responded. Everyone shrugged or shook their heads.

          "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!?" Hermione now looked furious. She was screaming.

          "He should be on his way." Molly smoothed a piece of hair from Hermione's sweating face and took her daughter-in-law's hand in her own. Hermione squeezed incredibly hard as she had another contraction.

          Harry bumped into Fred after an hour of searching Hogsmeade.

          "Any luck?" Fred asked.

          "None," Harry felt like he could crawl into a hole and die. What if he never saw her again? Never got to kiss her again? Hold her hand again? Hug her again? Look at her again? Harry now had tear stains to match Hermione's own as he went into the Hogs' Head to see if she could be there or if anyone had seen her. By now, news had gotten around that Ginny was missing and more than just Bill, Fred, George, and Harry were looking around. Many others were trying to help as well. Harry and Fred decided to round up George and Bill and the four of them disapparated from Hogsmeade Village and back into Harry's house.

          "I looked in every store at least three times," Fred sighed and sat down at the marble kitchen counter, burying his head in his hands.

          "Do we notify the ministry?" Harry's tears were coming in little spurts. No one really noticed.

          "I'm going to go back to work one more time, see if anyone's seen her and check on Hermione at the hospital, I'll get back with you if I get any information." Fred disapparated without any approval from Bill or Harry.

          "Hey, Harry, come here for a minute. I think you should see this," George called from the living room. Harry's heart sank.