Duckie

A/N: this is a spin off of an inside joke with my guy friends… dedicated to them!

well here's the story…

"Hey Duckie!" (A/N: according to my friend duckie is a term for terminal affection… i.e. sweetheart)

Cho, now a woman of 22 years, felt a strong pair of arms wrap around her. She felt the warm breath of the person on her neck as she turned around and kissed the waiting lips an inch away from hers. "Hi to you too, Harry."

Cho and Harry had gotten together again when they ran into each other at the Three Broomsticks the year after Harry's graduation. They had drunken butterbeers together as they caught up on the past two years. Harry had said he was going to teach while in training for an Auror, and Cho had gone into Muggle Relations. They had both realized that they still liked each other, even after their single horrific date back in Harry's fifth year. Being older, they had eventually had confessed to each other a few weeks later. Now, three years later, Harry had finished his Auror training, they were living with each other, and they were engaged to be married in a couple months.

Cho's thoughts of the previous years were suddenly interrupted by Harry saying, "Cho?"

She was jolted back into the present world, and replied, "Sorry. I was just thinking about how we got back together…"

Harry responded with a grin, "Fairy-tale-like, really."

Cho began to sink back down into her thoughts. "Yeah. Fairy-tale-like indeed."

There was a silence that wasn't usual, as both remembered their greetings.

Then, "Cho Potter. I like it. You're my princess, always."

Cho brightened and came out of her reveries as she responded, "Yeah. Me too… Mrs. Harry Potter."

On their honeymoon

"Finally! I finally get to get my hands on you, Mrs. And I mean it when I say Mrs."

"Ha ha. Very funny Harry. Just absolutely charming." Cho responded dryly.

Suddenly, Ron Weasly apparated breathless into the cruise line room. "HARRY! HARRY! YOU… Oh… am I interrupting? I'm terribly sorry…" He had walked, or rather appeared, into a scene involving lips, tongues, and hands up shirts. (A/N: I won't say more) "Uh… Harry?" Ron asked this as he turned his famous tomato-red color.

Harry looked up abruptly. "Oh, uh… hey Ron…" He turned almost as red as Ron had, as did Cho. "I'm kind of busy... on my honeymoon… what is it?" he inquired of Ron as he withdrew his hand slowly from under Cho's shirt.

"I know… I'm terribly sorry, again, but there's been a crisis at work. You've been sent to come immediately. It involves… Voldemort." Ron still hadn't quite gotten used to saying the name.

"WHAT?! Voldemort… I thought I, or rather we, defeated him years ago. In our seventh year, remember?"

"Yes well… evidently…" Ron heaved a huge, burdened sigh. "Evidently we… or you didn't… quite defeat him. He had about half a millimeter's worth of life left… but obviously it was enough. He's gained his strength back with a potion only known to a few people. The potion was thought to have died out because you needed the blood of a Lovegood… and everyone thought they had been killed. Obviously they forgot Luna. Remember her?"

Harry realized the gravity of the situation as his face fell. He looked at Cho with despairing eyes. He sighed, less out of stress like Ron, and more out of missing his night. "I am so sorry Cho. We'll need to plan another honeymoon. Come with me for now and you can stay at our new house… promise me you'll stay there."

Cho's eyes had gotten glassy but she nodded. Neither can live while the other survives… the words of the prophecy Harry had told her about suddenly came back to haunt her. Cho's eyes grew wide and attentive.

"HARRY!! You can't go… I... I just… I just… remembered your prophecy! You're going to leave me! Noooo!" She had a

bit of trouble choking this out, as she had started sobbing uncontrollably.

Ron stared at the weeping form of Cho as Harry tried to comfort her. He too suddenly remembered the prophecy Harry had told him about…

flashback

"There. You're gone forever, now… And I can live! You can't come back… and I won't be fighting you again!" Harry laughed almost maniacally.

Later Ron asked him what he had meant when he defeated Voldemort. Harry laughed, and told both him, Hermione, Ginny, and a few other people who had fought with him, about the prophecy…

end flashback

Ron shook his head to clear his thoughts, as he brought himself back to the present. He remembered that Cho had had a few drops of Seer blood in her which enabled her to not really See… but remember things at the right times. Harry had suddenly gotten both a grave and terrified look on his face, but he tried to comfort Cho nonetheless. "Cho…? I need to. It's part of my job. Promise me that you'll keep yourself safe, at least."

"Promise me you'll never leave."

"I won't. Ever. I wouldn't leave you ever in the entire world." Harry got tears in his eyes, thinking of leaving his princess, as Cho glanced at him, saying, My little Seer blood is a lot more truthful than our old Professor's, and you know that. Harry continued after wiping his eyes. "Well.. maybe your Seer blood has said I will physically leave you, but as long as you remember me and love me… I will never be gone."

And with that, he Apparated.

Cho stood alone in their master suite on the cruise ship, tears waterfalling down her face.

(AN: Is waterfalling a word? My computer says no…)

Three months after Harry has been sent away

Cho went to get the mail. There had been occasional letters from Harry when he could, but that was rare. Now, as she leafed through the stack, she noticed his untidy scrawl. She quickly read over the letter, which was dated a few weeks ago:

My Duckie, Princess… my Cho,

I fear that we still have not entered the fiercest part battle yet. I still have not seen a hair of Voldemort himself. (Cho shivered at the name). This very well may be my last letter in a while… but do not despair I shall return.

Yours always,

Harry

Cho cried yet again at the thought of Harry, but she continued to look through the mail.

"Oh no," she whispered. An official-looking envelope had fallen into her sight. It was black, with the customary silver writing. "Oh no. It… it's happened."

She ripped open the letter, but the letter only confirmed her fears with the first sentence, Mrs. H. Potter. We are extremely sad to inform you of the death of the former Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter…. she knew that the end had come. She knew that the prophecy had been fulfilled. She felt that she couldn't go on. An echo of Harry's words three months ago filled her mind. "as long as you remember me and love me… I will never be gone… never be gone…never be gone…" Cho gave a tiny smile through her tears, lighting up her face. For once in her life, Cho was thankful for those few drops of Seer blood. Those few, tiny little drops distributed throughout her… They had allowed her to strengthen, allowed her to live. Even with the dreadful thought of how similar it had been to Cedric, how both of her true loves had died at the hands of Voldemort... she had the strength to go on.

Ok wow that was interesting… not only for you guys (if there's anyone even reading this!! tear tear) I had no idea how that was gonna come out… and I know it sux and the ending is cheesy, (yeah yeah she and the rest of the world should be all upset about voldie but I can't make it too long! It's only one chapter…)

maybe when I get a chance (ok once summer comes and even then… wow that's a long time!) I'll re-write it as a normal fic! But rite now I have so much hw and chores and activities and stuff so that if I ACTUALLY get ppl to read my story I don't make them wait days and days and weeks and weeks and months and months… ok you get the point

but yah maybe once I get more time I'll write a new (and real) fic! That is… if I can ever come up with an idea that's not similar to anyone elses! Tell me what you think…

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happy reading anyway