A/N: EEKS! I'm so sorry for the LONG update! I've been UBER busy with school, church, piano lessons, and much more! Plus, my dad was changing the internet server and my access was gone for a WEEK! Oh woe me! GAH! I should be studying right now, I have four tests tomorrow (which is Friday), but here I am on my computer, writing this lovely story for you crazy dudes! NYAHAHA. Insert sweat drops from readers , well, anyways, listening to Radiohead's Hail To The Thief, I a writing mood, so HA! Well, stop reading my ranting and go read!
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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Never seen a blue sky
Yeah I can feel it reaching out
And moving closer
There's something about blue
Asked myself what it's all for
You know the funny thing about it
I couldn't answer
No I couldn't answer
Things have turned a deeper shade of blue
And images that might be real
May be illusion
Keep flashing off and on
Free
Wanna be free
Gonna be free
And move among the stars
You know they really aren't so far
Feels so free
Gotta know free
Please
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seemed
I'm so free
No black or white on the blue
Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream you know
That's never ending
I'm ascending
-Blue, Cowboy Bebop
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Wind From Tomorrow
Chapter Twenty: Blue
Harry looked into the window in the door. As usual, Ron was in the room, faithfully sitting next to his wife's bed. It was the morning of the eve before the day Layla got hexed. Everyone was nervous, everyone was scared. Harry stood at the door, not really wanting to go into the room. He had no idea how to comfort his best friend, no clue on what do to. Sure he had seen a lot of deaths, more then most people, but most of the deaths were not predicted, they just happened. With Layla, there was a chance that tomorrow she might not be alive. Everyone was expecting both, trying to think of the chance that she might live, and preparing him or herself if she doesn't.
Harry knew how much she meant to him. From all the stories he's heard about the two, it seems that they were perfect for each other. Layla was there for Ron, especially in the beginning when he 'ran away', even thought she didn't know about his circumstances. And Ron, he was there for her, even now, especially now.
"Harry?" he turned around, to see Luna.
"Hey." He greeted. Luna gave him a small smile and walked closer to him. She turned to the window.
"You're afraid?" she asked. Harry nodded. "You wont lose him."
"What do you mean by that?" Harry asked.
Luna tore her eyes from the window. "I mean that you are afraid that if Layla dies, you will lose Ron. You've just found your best friend, and you might lose him again. He won't leave, and she wont die." she answered the last part in her usual dreamy tone. Before Harry could ask his girlfriend how she knew, Luna said that she was going down to a local café with Elaine to get drinks for everyone, try to calm everyone's nerves. When Luna disappeared behind the elevator's doors, Harry took a deep breath.
DING. DING.
Harry looked up at the clock. The long hand was on the nine. Harry knew that when it became total darkness outside, everyone will find out if Layla lives or not. If she doesn't fall into a coma that night, she lives. But if she does fall into a coma that night, there's nothing left to do but to wait for her death.
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For the next long and agonizing hours, everyone came to the hospital. Ron didn't leave the room, and hardly anyone came in. Ron sat in the hospital room, with only the sounds of the clock and the machines run on magic. It was five in the afternoon, in a few minute, Layla was to be taken to the lab to get tested to see the amount of energy in her body. Layla woke up every now and then, but the two would just keep silent, enjoying each other with out a word until she fell back asleep.
About an hour ago, Amory came into the room. With her mother sleeping most of the time, and her father in what seemed like a trance, she fell asleep in a chair at the corner of the room. She stayed asleep for a while until she woken up by the noise of people in the room. It was Dr. Ni, Professor Snape and two nurses; they came to take Layla to the lab. Amory stood up from the chair; clutching the teddy bear Teddy gave her. Her eyes followed the bed was it was wheeled out of the room. Amory's eye then went to her dad. Ron still sat on the chair and didn't move.
Amory slowly went over to Ron. "Daddy?" she asked, in a soft childish voice. "Are you okay?" her question was so innocent. Ron lifted his head and saw his daughter. He nodded his head. Amory raised her bear and held it in front of her dad. "You need this more." Ron smiled at his daughter and took the bear. "Mommy is gonna get better, don't worry."
"Thanks." Ron smiled. He loved his daughter's optimistic view of life, maybe because she was still a kid.
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"All done." Snapes said as him and Dr. Ni stepped out from behind the curtains.
"What did they say?" Layla asked as she opened her eyes.
"You're... you're at the borderline. 41 percent." Dr. Ni replied. "But, from what these reading says, you will live. Severus will get another batch of the potion, it would probably help."
"But, this is the borderline. Your energy might drop anytime, and go below 39." Snapes added.
"It that chance high?" Layla asked.
"Not really. But it's is still something to be concern about." Dr. Ni helped Layla off the examination table and back to the bed. "We better send you back, you'll be in a deep sleep around midnight." Dr. Ni looked at Layla. "Don't worry, you wont be in a coma, hopefully." Layla nodded just as the nurses came in.
"Thanks." Layla said as she was being wheeled out of the room.
When Layla was already in the hall, Dr. Ni turned to Snapes and asked, "Serveus, do you think she will survive?"
Snapes looked at the doorway. "We will find out tomorrow." He replied before leaving the room himself. Dr. Ni took a deep breath and then left the lab too to go tell her family about the test results.
He walked down the corridor until he reached the elevator. He waited in the small room for what seemed forever until he reached the seventh floor. When the doors slid open he stepped out, with a firm grip on his clipboard, and walked down the hall to the private waiting room were everyone waited. Dr. Ni pushed the door opened and every face in the room turned to him. He explained the results to them.
"So, she's going to live?" Elaine asked.
"Most likely, but it is borderline. She will be falling into a deep sleep at midnight, instead of a coma, and if she wakes up tomorrow morning, she lives, doesn't... then, well you know what then." Dr. Ni replied. After a very uncomfortable silence, Dr. Ni permitted everyone to go to Layla's room, were Ron and Amory were already there, by her bedside.
"You're going to live!" Teddy exclaimed merrily as he hugged the somewhat happier Layla. She just smiled at him.
"So optimistic." Percy muttered from the corner. Charlie caught this, since he was standing next to his brother and smacked him on the arm. Percy didn't say anything after that.
The whole Weasley family, Layla's parents, and all their friends, stayed in the room, and never left. Around Midnight, Layla fell into a deep sleep. Amory was sitting on Ron's lap as she watched Layla close her eye. To Amory, her mom was just going to sleep; she didn't full understand the situation. After Layla fell asleep, everyone either stayed in the room or went back to the waiting room, to wait for the next morning.
Around one in the morning, Amory woke up and carefully slipped off her sleeping father's lap. She slipped pass the slipping relatives and friends and then out into the hall. She didn't know why she left the room, she had no business in the hall, and she was only four years old. But she couldn't sleep. At home, when she couldn't go back to sleep she would normally go to her parent's room, but this wasn't home, this was a place white walls, sad faces, sick people and awkward silences.
Amory wandered down the hall. There was hardly light since it was nighttime. Soon, she became tired and wanted to go back to her mother's hospital room, but she was lost. She opened doors, but found nothing. After what seemed forever she gave up and sat on the floor and began to cry. Amory was just a four-year-old girl; it was natural for her to cry in a time like this. As she cried into her arms, she heard a faint sound, like singing.
"Mommy?" She asked out loud. The voice sounded like her mom, when she would sing her to sleep. She got up on her feet. "Mommy?" She asked again. She turned her head both ways before walking towards the singing. She walked and walked and walked until she stood in front of a door. She remembered this door! It was her mother's hospital room! If she heard her mother singing then she was awake! Amory pushed the door opened with a happy look on her face expecting everyone to be awake and happy that her mom woke up.
But that wasn't the case when she opened the door. Everyone was still asleep, just the way she left him or her. The huge grin fell off her face and she slowly walked over to the sleeping form of her father, climbed his lap as carefully and then fell asleep to the memory of her mother's lullaby.
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Ron's eyes slowly opened to the warmth of the sunlight. He felt Amory sleeping against his chest. He wrapped his arms around his daughter as he glanced at the clock; it read 7:27 AM. He then looked at the sleeping form of his wife on the hospital bed. Ron was about to fall back to sleep, when he saw something. Layla slowly sat up, awake.
"Layla!" Ron exclaimed.
Layla turned her head. "I'm alright?" She said softly. Amory woke up to the sound of her mom voice. When Amory screamed out joyfully "MOMMY!" Everyone in the room slowly woke up to the scene of a mother and daughter hugging, and a happy and relieved father.
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A/N: THAT"S THE END! Well, last chapter... I'll post up the epilogue soon! Here are a few things I want to apologies for:
Sorry for Layla's condition and sickness was confusing, to tell the truth, I was making up the stuff about the hex as I typed! Sorry if I made you all confused!
I'm so sorry if this chapter and many others seemed to short and was rushed! I know is suck with writing, but I'm so happy that you guys still decided to still read!
I'm UBER sorry for ALL spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes! I'm SO SORRY about that!
Well, now that is cleared, this is my plea: PLEAE VOTE ON MY NEXT FANFIC! To lazy to go back to the chapter labeled The Poll to view the choices, well here they are!
Title: Loups Sous le Clair de lune (Wolves Under The Moonlight)
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Pairings: Remus Lupin/ OC
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Miakoda Orson seems to have been forgotten among her peers at Hogwarts. She is quiet, soft spoken, and a HufflePuff. When she is failing Charms, the professor assigns her a tutor, who just so happens to be Remus Lupin, the third Marauder. Soon, she finds herself falling for the Gryffindor, but when she finds out he secret, she is forced to face her blood-stained past, but she wont be doing that alone.
Title: Pretend To Be Nice
Genre: Romance/ Humor
Pairings: Lily Evans/ James Potter
Rating: PG
Summary: It's the final year of Hogwarts for the infamous Marauders! Will this be the year that James will win newly appointed Head girl, Lily Evans, heart? Or will he fail miserably while his three best friends watch and mock him from the sidelines? A story based on the Josie and The Pussycat song; Pretend (to be nice).
Title: Hot Gimmick
Genre: Romance/ Humor/ Drama
Parings: Hermione/ Draco, Hermione/ Harry, and Lavender/ Ron (minor)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: a story based off the UBER cool manga: Hot Gimmick! Takes place in muggle America! When Hermione's younger sister, Lavender, is "late", Hermione rushes to the convinces store to get a pregnancy test, but to her misfortunes, she runs into her childhood bully, Draco Malfoy! So, now he is blacking mailing her into becoming his "personal" slave! Oh no! How will this pretty bookworm get out of this mess? Can she count on her childhood crush, Harry Potter, to save her, now that he has come back from England? OH GAWD! THE TWIST AND TURNS!
Title: Simple and Clean
Genre: Angst/ General
Paring: none
Rating: PG
Summary: Severus Snape was taking a midnight stroll around a muggle park when he bumps into a fourteen-year old runaway by the name of Mirielle Bouquet. He is startled when she tries to sell herself to him for money, and when she past out of exhaustion he has no choice but to take her back to the Snape Manor. Soon, our favorite potion master finds himself adopting the poor girl, finding out she is a rare type of mage, and other messes I could think of for him. Hmm... Mr. Snape, what have you gotten yourself into?
Okay, this is how it works:
1st place: the story that gets the most votes will be the one I will start and finish first.
2nd place: the story that gets second place will be the story that I will start after the 1st place winner.
3rd place: the story that gets third place will be the one I start and finish after I finish the second place one.
4th place: the story that gets.... Screw it... you know what happens.
PLEASE VOTE! I beg of you! last chance to vote is when I post up the epilogue! Once posted, NO MORE VOTES! Hot Gimmick is in the lead, I also asked my friends at school to vote. So... GO OUT TO USE THE POWER OF VOTING! NYAHAHA... well, thanks a bunch and sit tight for the epilogue!
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