A/N: I know! It's been a while since I last updated! Sorry!

Disclaimer: I don't own nothing except for Hermiones' future baby brother and a few new characters coming up in this chapter.

~*~ Authors' POV ~*~

It was the day for Hermione, Ron, Harry, Ginny, George, Fred and Mr. Granger to decorate the nursery.

"So…Where should we start?" Mr. Granger asked.

"The floors?" Ginny suggested, shrugging her shoulders.

"Um, right!" Mr. Granger said.

So they grabbed the fluffy carpet they were going to put down that day and started taking measures.

After about 10 minutes of measuring, they cut the carpet to fit.

"Where's the paste?" Harry asked.

"Erm…left it downstairs." Ginny said.

"Oh," Harry said.

"I'll go get it." Ginny and Harry said in unison, blushing.

"No, you stay. I'll get it." Again, at the same time.

Everyone was wide-eyed and Mr. Granger was chuckling.

"How about you BOTH go get it?" Fred suggested.

"No, really. I'll go." Again, in unison.

Ginny went towards the door at the same time as Harry and crashed into him. She was about to fall hard on her behind, but Harry's quick reflexes took action and he grabbed both her arms.

They were looking into each other's eyes and Harry wanted to lean in for a kiss, but he would rather stay alive. Kissing the baby sister in front of her older brothers would not be a good move.

~*~ Harry's POV ~*~

When I grabbed Gin, it felt odd. Like a spark of electricity.

She was still freaked out but soon shook it off.

"You ok?" I asked her.

"Um…Yeah." Then she looked ready to kill. She wasn't looking at me, but at her dear brothers; who were snickering.

"Something funny about your DEAR sister almost falling?" She asked. This isn't good. She has that little sparky tone.

Ron started saying stuff, but it only came out as squeaks.

"NOW REALLY!" I started.

"You are ALL cowards! Scared of your own BABY SISTER!" I started snickering now. Ginny turned and glared at me.

"Wanna take that back?" She asked.

"When hell freezes over." I answered.

~*~ Ginnys' POV ~*~

Oh. That was too far! I went downstairs, grabbed the bucket of paste, and went back into the room we were making the nursery and dumped the paste on Harry.

Everybody stared at me in shock. They obviously still think I've got a crush on Mr. Potter here. The Paste Boy! Not the Boy Who Lived, the PASTE BOY!

Mr. Granger was turning blood red.

"Mr. Granger, you can laugh at Harry now." I said.

"Thank you!" He gasped and started laughing so hard he fell on the floor. I whispered to Hermione, "How old is he?".

"41" She answered.

"Oh. OK!" After he stopped laughing Hermione and Fred went to the store to buy more paste.

~*~ Hermiones' POV ~*~

Oh crap. Holy crap! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! I'm going to the store alone with Fred. Craaaap!

When we got to the store I saw Oliver very mad. "What's wrong?" I asked.

Through gritted teeth he said, "Malfoy! I will be GLAD when I can give HIM detention at school, and take points from HIM!" I giggled and started walking towards the aisle with paste and glues.

As I was walking I bumped into…

"MUDBLOOD! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" Malfoy yelled.

I felt some tears welling up. Obviously a few witches and wizards were in the store because they looked totally disgusted.

"Would you care to repeat that?"

One of them asked. She was shorter then me, but she looked like she was ready to kill. She's got short silver-blonde hair and obviously wearing color contacts because her eyes are purple.

I noticed that she looked A LOT like Malfoy…

"Stay out of this, Helena." Malfoy snarled.

"No. I won't have you calling other people who aren't 'pure' Mudblood!" She whispered.

OK, I'm now confused.

Malfoy was obviously ticked, so he stood high, nose in the air and yelled, "HERMIONE GRANGER IS THE MOST PATHETIC UGLY FREAKING MUDBLOOD IN THE WORLD!"

Everyone looked at him like he was crazy.

I felt tears streaming on my cheeks and saw Fred and Oliver outside, the door was open when Malfoy yelled Mudblood.

Oliver walked inside, followed by Fred, and then Oliver punched Malfoy hard, Fred got the paste, he had my purse so he paid and Oliver steered me out of the store.

Then Helena ran after me and started yelling for us to stop.

I stopped and turned to see Helena running up to me, followed by a few other people.

"I'm so sorry for that! Draco is just a git who thinks it's alright to treat Muggle-Borns like dogcrap!" She said.

"Um…don't mind me asking, but who exactly are you?" I asked.

"Oh! My name is Helena Malfoy. I'm Dracos' little sister. I used to go to Durmstrang, but I got transferred to Hogwarts. I'm a year younger than Draco." She said.

"Oh. Well, I assume you are nothing like Draco then?" I asked.

"That's right. I can't stand the way he treats Muggle-Borns." She said.

I nodded then glanced at the people behind her.

"I'm Josh." The one on the right said.

"I'm Leslie." The one in the middle said.

"And I'm Amber." The one on the left said.

"Hi. Err… I'm Hermione Granger. This is Oliver Wood, and this is Fred Weasley." I said.

"Weasley?" Helena asked.

"Yes." I said.

"Oh, so this is Fred, right? Where's your twin?" Helena asked.

"Probably teasing my poor dear sister at Hermiones' house." Fred answered.

"Oh." Helena giggled. Does she LIKE Fred?

"Well, we got to go." I said.

"Yeah. By the way Wood, thanks for punching Draco. I was gonna knee him in the balls, but punching was fine." Helena said and walked away.

I looked at Oliver who was still ticked at the fact Malfoy yelled out that I was a Mudblood.

"You ok, Oliver? I mean, I don't understand why you're the one so upset, really. You and I never talked when you were at Hogwarts." I said.

"Hermione, nobody deserves what he just did. And I mean NOBODY!" He said.

I smiled and nodded. Fred, Oliver and I walked back to my house.

"Want to help us decorate the nursery?" I asked Oliver.

"Sure!" He said.

I got upstairs and opened the door.

"What took you so long!?" Ron asked.

"Oh, Ron hush." I said.

"We had a little run-in with Malfoy." Oliver said.

"What did he do this time?" Ginny asked Oliver.

"Oh, he just yelled out really loud in the middle of the store 'HERMIONE GRANGER IS THE MOST PATHETIC UGLY FREAKING MUDBLOOD IN THE WORLD!' and then Oliver punched him.

Then we met Helena Malfoy. MALFOY HAS A LITTLE SISTER! She can't stand him. She said she was going to knee Malfoy in the balls if Oliver hadn't punched him." I said.

"HERMIONE ELIZABETH SALLY MARIE GRANGER!" Dad yelled. I guess he doesn't like me saying things like 'balls' in front of him.

Nobody knows my whole name…oh no!

"Aww…Ickle Hermione looks embarrassed that we know her WHOLE name. Which she never wanted to tell us!" Fred said as I turned blood red.

"Come on, guys. Stop teasing Ms. Hermione Elizabeth Sally Marie Granger!" Oliver said.

I smacked Oliver on his arm and hit Fred over his head.

"Ooowww….Mione, that hurt." Fred said.

"Too bad." I said.

"Now, where were we before dear Ginny here dumped the bucket of paste on Harry's head?" I asked.

"Floors. We need to paste the carpet on the floor!" Gin said.

"You dumped paste on Harry's head?" Oliver asked Ginny.

She nodded.

"I thought you were in-love with him or something." Oliver said, knowing it would embarrass Gin.

"I would rather be in love with a human, than be in love with a sport." Ginny remarked.

"Heck, I'm not even IN LOVE with Harry. And I got over that little 'crush' over a year ago." Ginny said.

"You did?" Ron asked.

"Yea. And if you didn't see me as the wicked witch and actually TALKED to me without insulting me, you would have known." Ginny said as all of us started pasting some carpet.

Harry finally came in after taking 15 showers.

"Hey, Oliver. What are you doing here?" Harry asked.

"Bumped into Hermione at the store and e had a run-in with Malfoy." Oliver replied.

I explained what happened again. Big mistake. Saying 'balls' earned me another "HERMIONE EILZABETH SALLY MARIE GRANGER!"

Everyone snickered.

Oooh. I'll get them back…

We were already finished for the day when I remember I had to cook dinner.

"Oliver, wanna stay for dinner?" I asked.

"Sure, if it's no problem." He said.

"Oh, it's not. I haven't started cooking yet. Mom is pregnant so she's not feeling too well." I said.

"Oh…Need any help? I'm good at cooking." Oliver said.

"Sure!" And we walked towards the kitchen when I saw dad looking for something.

"Daddy?" I asked.

"Yes, pumpkin?" I winced when he called me that in front of a guy.

"What are you looking for?" I asked.

"FOUND IT!" He said happily.

"Honey, I have to go into the office, I'll be there all night. Some people lost paper work, and somebody just started a law suit claiming we ruined her taste buds." He said

Then he walked out after kissing me on the cheek.

"Well, let's start cooking!" I said.

We agreed on some spaghetti.

I was cutting some onions when I cut myself.

"Ouch." I muttered.

I saw blood dripping. I have a lot of onion juice on my hands, and some dripped in the cut, it hurt so badly!

"Owwwwww!" I screeched.

"What's wrong?" Oliver asked.

"Nothing…" I said, hoping he would leave it at that.

But he didn't, he saw the blood and dragged me to the sink.

He cleaned my cut and DEMANDED me to put a bandage on it.

I did so and returned to the kitchen.

"Where is everybody?" I asked Oliver, who was the only one in the house.

"Oh, they're all walking around the grounds." He answered.

"Dinner is almost ready!" He said.

"Thanks for making most of it." I said.

"Hey, it was my pleasure!" He said.

"And thanks for punching Malfoy. Um…what he said really hurt. He's called me a Mudblood plenty of times, but he's never done it like that. So thanks." I said.

I looked down and he cupped my chin with his hand and lifted my head so we were looking into each other's eyes (A/N: This is NOT and Oliver/Hermione story! They're just having a brother sister moment here. This is a Hermione/Ron story!)

I had tears welling up in my eyes and one trickled down my cheek. He brushed it away with his thumb.

"It was nothing, Herm. Malfoy is a slimy git. I would punch him again any day for you." He said.

We embraced for a little while.

After dinner Gin started acting sick.

She looked pale and she was really shaky.

"I think I'm gonna go upstairs." She said.

"OK. Me too." I said. We walked upstairs when Ginny stumbled on the wall.

"Oops. Lost my balance." She said.

"Gin, seriously…What's wrong?" I asked.

"Let's get into your room and put a Silence charm on it. I don't want anybody else to hear this." She said. I nodded and we went to my room and put the charm on it.

"OK, let me begin…" She started and sighed. "First, this probably isn't the problem, so don't freak." She said.

I nodded.

"This morning when I was in the shower…"

~*~ Flash back – Ginnys' POV ~*~

I went to go get a towel and find my shampoo and soap.

I turned the water on and the bathroom got really steamy by time I got in the shower. I rinsed the shampoo out and put my conditioner in my hair and started washing my body.

When I got to my left breast, I felt something odd. A…. No it can't be. A lump? Maybe I'm gonna start my period. I mean, breasts get lumps when you're on your period. Even if it were a lump, it wouldn't have cancer, right? I'm only fifteen.

Whatever. So I continued washing bathing.

~*~ End of flash back – Hermiones' POV ~*~

"Gin… You don't think you do have cancer, do you? We should go ahead and have you see a doctor just to have a mammogram." I said.

"No!" Gin yelled.

"I don't have cancer! I don't! I'm fifteen! And… Even if I do, I don't want people to know. They would act like I'm glass. Like I'm fragile. I don't want people acting as if I was to break any second, Hermione. Don't tell anybody…please." Ginny looked at me with pleading eyes and I shook my head. She needs to know.

"I'm calling a doctor and setting up an appointment." I said.

She gave up and nodded.

We were able to snag an appointment for 2:30 PM the next day.

It was a new day, and Gin was going to have some tests done at a Muggle hospital.

"You OK?" I asked her.

"Oh, fine. I'm gonna have my boob squished, why wouldn't I be peachy!?" She snapped.

"Sorry." Gin apologized.

"No need. You're right. But we Ineed/I (a/n: did the italics work?) to know." I said.

"I know. I'm just scared." Ginny said and we told mom we were going to the mall and went to a bus stop.

About 15 minutes later we were at the hospital and Ginny was called in.

"Can she come with me?" Ginny asked pointing to me.

"For the talking, yes. But she can't be in the room when we do the procedure." The nurse said kindly.

We went into a room and waited.

~*~ Authors' POV ~*~

Hermione and Ginny were waiting for about 5 minutes until the doctor came in.

She had waste length auburn hair and emerald green eyes. She looked familiar to Hermione, but she couldn't figure out where she had seen those eyes.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Carter. Call me Stacey if you like. I would actually prefer if you did, I dunno… 'Dr. Carter' sounds too odd…" Stacey said.

"Now, which one is Virginia Weasley?" She asked. Hermione pointed to Ginny and Ginny looked nervous.

"No need to be nervous, honey. I know this is scary, but please try to be calm." Stacey said.

Ginny looked more relaxed and happy at the fact that her doctor was so kind.

Hermione looked around and noticed something sticking out of Staceys' pocket.

"Holy crap! Are you a witch?" Hermione asked.

Stacey looked pale and took her wand out.

"Yes, I am. Now are you two witches?" Stacey replied.

Ginny and Hermione, bewildered, nodded.

"Hogwarts, I assume?" Stacey asked kindly.

"Yes." Hermione said proudly.

"Good. I'm going to be teaching there. DADA… People say it's a jinxed job." Stacey said.

"Oh cool. We're both prefects. But anyhow, that's not why we're here." Hermione stated.

After Hermione and Ginny left the hospital, they realized they had been gone for about 3 hours.

"ICrap/I!" Hermione moaned.

They ran back to Hermiones' house, out of breath they saw a very ticked off Mrs. Granger.

"Hi, mommy!" Hermione said in a baby sweet voice.

"What took you two so long!? And you didn't even BUY anything!" Mrs. Granger demanded.

"We………….were….were….umm… Weweretalkingtosomehotguyswemet!" Ginny stated.

And at that moment, Harry and Ron walked in and Ron paled. Hearing 'hot guys' coming from his baby sister was as bad as eating Dragon dung to him.

"'Hot guys'!?" Ron hissed.

"Oh shush. I am fifteen, and I don't need my older brother acting like I'm five freaking years old!" Ginny said.

And Ginny stormed out followed by Hermione, who brushed shoulders with Ron.

Ron got a dreamy look on his face.

After the three females were out of earshot, Harry laughed.

"You got it BAAAAD, mate." Harry said.

"Say what!?" Ron shrieked.

"You sounded like a little girl shrieking, Ron." Harry said seriously.

"Shut it, Potter!" Ron growled.

"Yea, whatever." Harry mumbled.

It had been three days since Ginny had a mammogram, and the test results were back.

Hermione and Ginny followed the nurse into another hospital room and were told to wait for Dr. Carter.

Stacey came in looking sad.

"Well, as you both know…The results are back. Ms. Weasley…I'm sorry to say this, you're so young…But you do indeed have breast cancer. Now since you are a witch, there are plenty of treatments to receive." Stacey said softly.

Ginny had tears streaming down her cheeks now.

"I'm so young! There is NO BLOODY CANCER IN ME!" She shouted.

"Ginny…" Hermione said softly. "Do you want us to go out side for a little while so you can be alone?" Hermione asked.

"NO!" Ginny screamed and rushed into Hermiones' arms crying her eyes out.

She fell asleep and Stacey said to let her be.

"She's so young. I don't get why good people have to deal with all this crap! It's not fair." Stacey whispered.

"I'll call her mom. She has a Muggle phone number now."

Hermione walked over to the pay phone and dialed Mrs. Weasleys' number.

"Hello?" Answered the kind voice that belonged to Mrs. Weasley.

"Hi. It's uh Hermione. Um could you come to my house tonight? There's something Gin and I have to tell you." Hermione said.

"Of course…" Mrs. Weasley said slowly.

It was later that night and Hermione and Ginny were waiting for Mrs. Weasley to arrive.

"Everybody is out, right?" Ginny asked.

"Yes." Hermione answered as Mrs. Weasley arrived.

They all went up to Hermiones' room and sat down.

"Mum…I went to the doctor a few days ago because of a lump I found in my left breast in the shower. And I got a mammogram…. The results came back. There's cancer. I have cancer, mum." Ginny said, tears falling from her eyes at the look of her mothers' face.

"But, that's not possible. You're fifteen years old. That's rubbish!" Mrs. Weasley said, now crying herself.

She knew it wasn't rubbish, but she didn't know what to say. So she didn't say anything, she just hugged her daughter very tightly.

"Mrs. Weasley, would you like to know the treatment Ginny selected?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, dear." Mrs. Weasley choked between sobs.

"Well, since she's so young, she chose chemo-therapy. It's basically where poisons get pumped into the body and it destroys the cancer. It sounds crazy, I know. But it was the only half-decent one to choose from. Now, the doctor just so happens to be a witch, so normally when Muggles' get the chemo-therapy, you can't have a baby after that, so there will be a spell on Gin the whole time so it wont affect her in that way. Nobody else knows about Gin's cancer, and nobody else is. Now the doctor is going to be teaching DADA at Hogwarts, so Gin will be getting the treatment there. Like I said, nobody can know, Mrs. Weasley, so don't tell anybody without Gins' permission." Hermione said.

"Well, maybe Bill and Charlie." Ginny said.

"Did I hear my name?" Came a familiar voice from the other side of the door.

"BILL! What are you doing here?" Hermione asked.

"We saw the note from mum and wanted to see what was up." Came Charlies' voice.

"Oh…" Ginny said, then tears came down her face again. This time Hermione embraced her.

"Shhh…. Ginny, it'll be all right. You're a fighter, you're going to live through this. You heard Stacey…There's only a slim chance of you dying." Hermione cooed.

Bill and Charlies' eyes grew wide and Mrs. Weasley told them what was going on out side.

Bill hugged Ginny and told her he was there for her, so did Charlie.

"Thanks, guys. Don't tell anybody else. You're all the only ones who are going to know. Not dad. Not Ron. Not anybody!" Ginny stated.

They all mutely nodded and Mrs. Weasley, Charlie and Bill said their goodnights and left.

"Oh Hermione! What am I going to do!?" Ginny moaned and shoved her face into her pillow.

"It'll be alright." Hermione said reassuringly.

"Is it? After all, people have told me that I'm not strong but weak. I can't help but think if they're right." Ginny said.

"NO! It's little spoiled ignoramuses like Pansy who are weak!" Hermione said.

"I guess." Ginny said and got ready for bed.

IThis sucks. Life is a living hell for me! And I can't help but think of….death./I Ginny thought sadly and tears burnt her eyes again.

Ginny fell asleep the moment her head hit her pillow.

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OK! Sorry it took me long for this chapter. Sorry if the HTML didn't work. Sorry to those who said Hermione is too out of character! AND SORRY FOR NOT GIVING BIGGER THANKS TO MY REVIEWERS!

OK, breast cancer is a scary thing. I know how it is to have a loved one have it. My mom had it six years ago, so that's why it's breast cancer instead of any other type of cancer.

Thanks everyone who reviewed.

Really means a lot to me!

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