A/N: THANKS TO THOSE WHOM REVIEWED! BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Well, enjoy chapter nine, and I'll see you at the end of this chapter! MWAHAHAHA!
PS: does anyone read the songs in the beginning of the chapter? I just want to know! Well, if you haven't been reading the songs, I suggest you go back though the chapters and check them out!
Full Summery: After being accused a murder right after the Tournament, Ron 'runs away' to America, hoping to start over anew. But three years later, his wife is struck by a curse that will end her life in one year. There is no cure for the curse, except a powerful potion. But no one knows how to brew it, well, except one. So leaving his wife at a famous wizard hospital in California, Ron and his two year-old Daughter go to England, where the only man who knows how to brew it lives. And that man is Severus Snapes, Potion Professor at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So here are the big questions: will his family and friends accept Ron again? And will his wife's life be saved?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any song/ quote that I will use. They belong to their respectable owners/ creators. But anything that I have made up belongs to me!
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I'm living with false hope, and my eyes
Just wanna see a ray of light
I'm gonna find it in my fairy tale
I hear, long forgotten broken toys
Tell me ancient lies of a boy
I will sing of them in my fairy tale
I was just a silent girl
Always dreaming of a little angel
Close to my reality
Sing, la la la ...
The midnight sun hangs in the sky
Show me your smile, my little angel
Hear me, my fantasy
Sing la la la...through the night
See, how my flights of imagination
Help me discover comprehension
I can find it in my fairy tale
I know, only a man can dare to dream
Nothing is really as it seems
Keep on telling, your own fairy tale
Now wake up, my silent girl
Take to flight, like a foolish angel
Sing me your fantasy
Sing, la la la....
My midnight sun hangs in the sky
The first and last wondrous invention
Show me the horizon
Sing, la la la....
The summer is here, we kiss and fall in love
But we've got to go, leaving nothing here
I wanna share the memories of long forgotten love
I was just a silent girl
Wishing for better understanding
This is my melody
Sing, la la la ...
My midnight sun hangs in the sky
Help me to tell my history
With painted scenery
Sing, la la la ...
In my fairy tale
I'm living in my fairy tale ...
-Fiction by Yuki Kajiura
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Wind
Chapter Nine: Fiction
"The potion is going quite nicely. In a few days you should be able to move around normally." Severus informed Layla as he looked through her charts.
"So it is working?" Layla asked eagerly.
"Yes. But still, don't work too hard and such. You are still sick." The potion master warned the seventeen year-old. "Now, I will be seeing you in two months again." Severus turned to Dr. Ni. "And if anything happens that's out of the ordinary, contact me please." And with that he left the room.
The doctor turned to Layla and Ron. "Well, you are free to go, and remember if you get sick come right back to the hospital, this is flu season after all."
"Don't worry, Doc. She'll be fine." Ron assured him as he helped his wife up from the hospital bed and on to an enchanted wheelchair, she still cant walk yet.
"Are we going home now?" Layla asked sleepily as they entered the parking lot. Going home by floo is out of the question, and aparating (sp?) will be too much for Layla to handle, so they were heading back by car.
"Yes we are, back to the Estate." Ron replied. They planed to stay with her parents until the end of February (it was still early Feb.) then they would go back to their manor, which was in a wizard/ witch neighborhood, and the Estate was nowhere near civilization (The Glory family was like the American version of the Malfoys, but no where as mean and evil as them), by the way. Their home was small compared to Layla's childhood home by the way, even though it is pretty big.
Ron can't drive, so they have a chauffer to take them places. The chauffer opened the back door, and Ron helped Layla into the Mercedes before getting in himself. As soon as everyone was ready, the car started and left the parking lot and into muggle L.A.
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Two weeks later...
"So, how are things at home?" Teddy asked as he poured himself another cup of coffee. They two best friends were eating lunch at a nearby café. Both of them were on their lunch break from work. The L.A magical government building, where Ron worked, and the hospital where Teddy worked were close to each other.
(Ron worked for the state of California's magical communities, but the main building was in Sacramento, so Ron just work in the southern California part)
"You mean, my in-laws home?" Ron said, drinking his drink. "It's okay so far, I mean, once you learn to tune out you mother-in-law's nagging then life is okay there. Layla can finally walk now, Amory is happy that her mom can join her in the gardens." Ron took a bite out of his steak.
"Hey, wasn't Elaine and that Rick guy joining us for lunch?" Teddy asked as he ate his food.
"She called, the meeting with the baker who was going to make the cake ran a bit long, and all the cake samples made her and Rick full." Ron replied.
"I see. Man, what am I going to get her for their wedding presents?" Teddy pondered as the two continued their lunch.
"Well, me and Layla are getting them a set of drinking glasses, maybe some other things, but Layla is the maid of honor so probably we don't have to give a lot" Ron replied. He finished half of his lunch when he noticed the time. "Crap, I have a meeting with two minor quiditch teams that want to trade players in half a hour." Ron took out some muggle money and placed it next to his plate and asked for a box for his food. As soon as his food was boxed he bade goodbye to his friend and left.
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The very next day was busy for all four friends. Ron had two meetings to attend for his job in the government, and one meeting to go to for his part time as an Auror. Teddy was about to do his first operation, and that just made him very nervous. As for Elaine and Layla they went to go find the prefect wedding dress for Elaine and the right brides maid dresses for the Layla and the other girls.
The two best friends were in a muggle wedding gown shop. The prices were a bit on the high side, but Elaine came from a rich muggle family (she is a muggelborn, but she ahs a total of five other witches and wizards in her family, all her close cousins). Her father was a well-known businessman in muggle L.A and her mother was a soap opera actress since, like forever.
"Remember your wedding dress, Layla?" Elaine asked as they looked through the many dresses. "It was the most beautiful bride's dress I have ever since in my whole life."
"Yeah." Layla replied, feeling the fabric of one dress. "It was costume made by a designer for New York, and the fabric was from France and the bedding done in Milan."
"You looked like a Queen." Elaine commented, looking at a price tag.
"I felt like one." Layla replied, dreamily. She had given birth to Amory only a few weeks before the wedding, and she was fit, thin, and had her figure back. Hell, she still can fit in her wedding dress even now. Her and Ron planed to renew their vows on their fifth anniversary by having a small ceremony, and she plans to wear her wedding dress on that day.
(A/N: Amory was born early June and Ron and Layla were married on the last day of June)
"Oooo... this one looks nice." Elaine pulled out a creamy white spaghetti strapped dress that was laced, long and flowing.
"Oh my.... that would look so good on you!" Layla exclaimed.
"I'll try it on after I find two more." Elaine told her. And with the help of an assistant, they found two more, and Elaine went off to the dressing room. Layla and the assistant, Mary, sat in awkward silence. Mary was about 23 year old and looked at the 17 year old.
"Isn't your friend a bit too young to marry?" Mary asked.
"Her and her fiancé wants to get married before college." Layla lied. In the muggle world 17 was too young to get married, and 15 was way too young to get hitch. But in the Wizardry world, if you were over 15, then it was okay, because the legal age was 15 (as in England it is 17).
"I see. And you?" Mary asked.
Layla smiled to herself. "I was married at 15, it was an arranged marriage." Well, half of it was true.
Mary stared at her but turned her attention to Elaine who had just stepped out. "What do you think?" she asked, wearing the third dress.
"I like it, but I would go with the second one." Layla said, and Mary agreed.
"I see, well the second one it is!" Elaine went back into the dressing room to put on the dress to get it fit. Soon after they found the right dress, the two headed to find the perfect maid of honor dress and the bride's maid dresses.
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Later that day...
"Good evening Mrs. Glory." Teddy greeted as he entered the drawing room.
"Oh, good evening to you, Teddy." She smiled. "Come in, have seat and drink some coffee with Me.," she offered. Teddy took a spot on the sofa across from Mrs. Glory. "I heard from the girls that today you preformed your very first surgery. Did it go well?" she asked as she poured him a cup of coffee.
"It did, and the patient is on his way to recover, I'm glad to say." Teddy drank some of his coffee. "Mm, this is really good."
"Thank you, I got a bag of it during my last trip to Hawaii." Mrs. Glory replied. "Now, what brings you here tonight?" she asked, setting her cup on the table.
"I'm here to see Layla."
"I see, you can go, but she might be asleep. Amory also might be in the room too." She poured herself another cup and Teddy stood up to leave. "It was lovely to speak with you again Teddy. You are such a fine friend to Layla and a good godfather to Amory." She said with a soft smile.
"Thank you, Mrs. Glory." And with that Teddy left and headed to the wing of the estate where Layla stayed. Ron had sent him to check up on his wife and kid, the meeting was running a bit long then expected. Moments later Teddy found himself out side of Layla's room and turned the knob.
Just as Mrs. Glory thought, she was asleep, but Amory must have gone back to her own room. 'She seems okay.' He thought and was about to close the door when he noticed that there was a book lying next to Layla wide open. He walked up to her bed and picked it up. Teddy was able to see that it was a photo album, and not wanting to disturb his friend, he walked out and sat himself on the floor in the hallway and opened up the book again.
It was an album that contained ALL of their pictures from W.A. he flipped through the pages remembering what happened before and, or, after the picture was taken. He continued to look until he suddenly stopped. The picture included all four of them, and also, it was Ron's first picture in the whole album. He was giving Elaine devil horns while she tried stomp on his foot, Layla was right next Elaine and Ron was right next to him. Teddy looked closely at the picture; you can see that Ron kept looking at Layla while she tried not to look at him at all. The people in the picture noticed Teddy and waved. Teddy remembered the day before this picture and what happened after it was taken.
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Flashback to the day before the picture...
(A/N: hey, Flashback! Like that one Asian Kung-Fu Generation song, Flashback! ...okay, back to that fanfic!)
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Teddy had just got back from the first dueling club meeting of the year (for sixths and sevenths year students) and was going to a empty classroom so he can do his homework in peace, this first week was killing him. After an hour or so alone, someone entered the classroom. Teddy looked up from his papers and books to see one of his closets friends, Layla Glory.
"Sup' Layla." He greeted.
"Hey, can I talk to you?" She asked. "I need some advice."
Teddy arched his eyebrow. "It's gonna be a girl thing huh? Why don't you go ask Elaine for help?"
"Well, if I ask Elaine, she might make it obvious to the whole school and such, well you know how she is..." Layla reasoned.
"Well, no I don't know how she is considering I'm not friends with her." Teddy pointed out. "Well, what advice do you need, my pal?"
"Well, I um... there's this guy..." She began.
"And you like him?" Teddy questioned.
"Yeah, but I'm not sure he likes me... he might think of my as a good friend..."
Teddy sighed. "I see, what makes you think he doesn't like you?" he asked, taking a seat on the ground, and beckoning her to sit on to floor too, which she did.
"Well, there was this one time when I dropped my quill and we both bent down to pick it up and we touched hands by accident, but he pulled his hand away from me as if I was giving him a rash or something...." She said, with a hint of worry in her voice.
"Well, who ever this gut is, it's either his first time touching a girl and it feels bad to him, so he might b... well, gay, or... he likes you too, but also thinks you don't like him..." said Teddy.
"Really? So, he might be gay or he likes me?" She asked. "How do you know this?"
[1] "Well, I touch enough women to come up with my educational guess." Teddy replied in a deep, suave voice. Layla just stared at him, complete clueless. "Oh, this is the part you say, 'Oh, Teddy, you perv', and smack me or what ever you girls do when a guy says something like that." Said Teddy, returning back to his playful tone.
"Oh...TEDDY YOU SICKO!" Layla bellowed and smacked him hard on the back [1]. When she realized that she hit him a bit too hard she exclaimed, "Oh my... I'm soo... sorry, Teddy!"
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End of Flashback...
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The very next day Elaine exclaimed she wanted to take a picture, so she rounded out Layla, himself, and Ron that Saturday, in the hang-out room (Common Room) of dorm building B (That's the dorm building the four lived in.) and took out her wizard camera and took pictures. As Teddy remembered, after the little photo session, Ron pulled Layla aside, and confessed his feelings.
"Good times..." Teddy thought out loud. He heard foots steps and turned his head to see a tired Ron walking his direction. "Yo."
"Hey.... Why are you out side me and my wife's room and holding her photo album." Ron questioned as he stood outside the door.
"Remembered, you called and asked if I can go and check up on her, which I did. And I saw the album and I looked through it." Teddy explained.
"I see, well hand it over." Ron held out his hand, and Teddy gave him the book. "Night, Teddy."
"Night, Ron." Teddy said good-bye before he apparated (sp?) out of the estate lands.
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A/N; well.... Please review!!! And sorry, if I don't updated so much between now and mid October! I'm going to be a freshman in high school, which starts Aug. 30, so I'm going to be busy. But don't worry; I will finish the story... no matter what!
[1] From the part when you see the [1] sign to the second [1] sign, is a part that is very similar to a scene in Fruits Basket, episode three. From what I remember it went like this:
Shigure S: Well, I have felt enough women to say so...
Kagura S: huh?
Shigure S: Oh, the is that part when you say, "Shigure! You perv!" and slap whatever and me....
Kagura S: Ohh.... SHIGURE! YOU PERVERT! And she hits him repeatedly with a very big fist
Yup, ...man that is one funny anime... (Quotes favorite quote from Shigure S.) "High school girls! High school girls! All for me! High school girls!"... BWHAHAHA! Well, please review! And check out my other stories on !!! ... Or FEEL THE PAIN OF MY BACK BRACE!
-LalathePanda
PS: sorry if this chapter seems rushed!!