A.N./ This chapter will be in P.O.V.'s, first Susan's and then Ginny's. This chapter is my gift to all my readers, as today is my 19th birthday, happy birthday to me and here's your next chapter. Give me a wonderful birthday present by lots of reviews, please!
Chapter 10
There it is again, my alarm clock. Well it isn't actually an alarm clock, it's my baby. Well biologically she's not really even mine, she's my sister-in-law but I'll raise her as mine.
"See if she'll stop," my husband Draco mumbles to me.
I shook my head, "No that's her 'you better come get me or I'll get louder' cry."
Don't get me wrong, I love Breeanna with all of my heart but it's hard, really hard. You know being a teenage mother and bride. Always being in the paper because of my family, being a school prefect too.
Today was a Saturday and oh how I use to love sleeping in on Saturdays, now being a mummy…I'm not able to. I truly miss Cat, Breeanna's mum, and I'm so glad that I'm raising up her baby. I couldn't bare to think about some stranger raising poor Breeanna.
I don't remember my mum or dad and neither will she. I feel connected to her on so many levels. I feel for her and Draco on who their father was…yes was. That's a long story and I'm not telling it now.
I got up from our bed and heard Draco moan, "I have to get her." I sighed, "And get her a bottle." He nodded as he knew I was right.
Being a Prefect wasn't that bad and I actually liked it, when I'd found out who my mum and been, and that both her and my dad were Head Boy and Girl, I always wanted to follow in their footsteps. Adora, however, is Head Girl. But we all knew she'd get it, smartest in our year, perhaps smartest to graduate Hogwarts in a long time.
My family was defiantly different even for a Wizarding Family. I was born Sadie Susanna Potter, but my mother and father were murdered when my twin brother and I were a little over a year old. Mum had been pregnant with our baby sister and she'd been saved, but no one knew that Bridget or I was alive. Only a few select people had even known about Bridget.
Harry had gone to live with our horrible Aunt Petunia, I was sent to a Wizarding Orphanage, and Bridget had gone to live with our grandfather, Anthony Potter, whom everyone also thought was dead. A bit confusing isn't it?
My fifth year at Hogwarts was the most exciting and oddest year of my entire life. That was the year I found out the truth about my identity, that I wasn't Susan Elisabeth Bones, but Sadie Susanna Potter. That year my family found out that I was truly alive and I got to know my twin brother. Found my one true love, then my Aunt Adora, Harry, and I found out that Anthony and Bridget had never actually died. Odd huh?
Trust me my Sixth year didn't get really all that much easy. That year I got married to the love of my life, Draco Malfoy. Began to raise Draco's little half-sister, Breeanna.
I smiled, Breeanna, there she was in front of me with her feet in her mouth. She looked so much like her biological mother, Catarina. Draco's deceased stepmother. I don't want to get into how she was killed, that's a long story too.
Breeanna began to coo in my arms and it was amazing that she knew who I was, the only mother she'd ever know. Draco and I agreed that we'd tell Breeanna about what had happened to her real mummy and daddy when she was old enough to take it in.
Draco didn't agree that we tell her before she went to Hogwarts, but I told him that we couldn't send her to Hogwarts not knowing about her mum and dad. Because there would be some kids parents that remembered the horrible story.
I re-entered the master bedroom with baby Bree in my arms, and Draco smiled at us.
"My two favorite girls," he reached up to take her away from me and I handed her off to him as I left to get a bottle for her.
Being a teenage mother and wife, wasn't as easy as I figured it would be. Draco had joined Professor Dumbledore's The Order of The Phoenix, and when we were away from school Draco was always so busy.
My Uncle Sirius, Grandfather Anthony, and big brother Harry were all mad at me because I had refused to join the order when Professor Dumbledore asked me to join. I had my reasons though and they would never understand. My parents had died helping out the Order and the three of us became orphans, Bree's mum had died helping out the Order, and her father died just because he was evil.
"What took you so long?" My wonderful husband, Draco Malfoy asked me as I walked back into our bedroom with Breeanna's bottle.
"Huh?" I asked stupidly coming out of my day dreams.
"It took you five minutes to get her bottle," he replied frowning at me.
I chuckled, "You know how slow I am in the morning." He nodded and quit questioning me.
"Isn't it great to be home in our little cottage?" Draco asked me, and I nodded. We'd been home for one day today and today was Christmas. "When do we go to your aunt's house?"
I sighed, "Yes Christmas. Um, two hours."
"Go take a shower and start getting ready."
"Huh?" I asked stupidly.
"You always have to take care of Bree, let me for once."
"Sure you can handle it Draco?"
An hour later I heard Breeanna crying her eyes out and Draco trying to sooth her so I wouldn't come in and save the day.
When I walked in the room fully dressed and ready to visit my family, I almost coughed my lungs out with laughter. Draco looked totally harassed and looked as if he needed a break. Bree had been a handful and he looked totally tossed around.
"Love?"
He looked up at me and his eyes about melted me inside, "Done already?"
I took the baby from his arms and nodded, "Is she giving you a hard time."
"No," he lied handing me the empty bottle.
"Go get ready you liar, I need to get her ready anyways. You also need to shrink all the presents down so they'll fit in your pockets. I've got to give her a bath and get her dressed and ready." I smiled at the beautiful baby in front of me that looked exactly like her mother, "Breeanna misses her bestest friend in the whole wide world!"
"Who?"
"Roselyn!" I said happily throwing her up in the air as she cooed at me and gurgled.
"Bestest isn't even a word," Draco said rolling his eyes and walking out of the room.
That was Draco picking on me, he didn't have a good sense of humor but you really couldn't blame him in the house he was raised in.
The plans for the wedding of the century, also known as Harry and Ginny's wedding, was in full swing and would be seen in a few days. Actually eight days to be exact, Harry was a nervous wreck, although Ginny looked fine. But inside she was easily to read, she was as nervous as Harry was.
I noticed that my Aunt Arabella is worried about me, that my powers haven't progressed as fast and as good as Adora's has. Well we all known that Bridget nor I will be as good as Adora, but I'm showing no signs of the Potter seer powers or Evans telekinetic powers. Truth was I was progressing very well but I tried to push it all away. I saw the pain that Adora went through and that was just with the Potter powers.
I was worried about Bridget, she wasn't herself and I knew something horrible had happened. Of course everyone knew that by the way she acted, but I had a feeling on what it was…but the question was who did it? Only time would tell. Bridget had never been the type to be able to keep things to herself and I knew that she was cracking under the pressure.
I wanted the best for my baby sister like any other older sibling did. Harry had of course brought his worries up to me but I told him I didn't sense anything and of course Harry would normally be able to sense Bridget's intense feelings but he was too worried with the upcoming wedding of the century and the fact that Voldemort had a big target on his head.
Of course Harry wasn't the only one out of the Potter clan to have a big, fat target on their head. All of us did, but Harry's was the biggest of course. Adora would be next with her unbelievable seer powers that she possessed. I would be next as I took Autumn Lewis's baby's father away from her and because he'd gone to the 'Good Side' and married a Potter; Draco had only seen his daughter once.
Draco never brought up Desdemona, but I knew that he wished that he has a part of her life. Even though she did have Slytherin blood in her, I knew that she should have a chance to know her biological father. Desi, which was Desdemona's nickname, was just a few days younger than Breeanna. Every time of the month that Desi would be another month older, he'd be a bit moody…even if he wouldn't admit it.
"Staring off in space again?" Draco asked laughing at me.
"Can't help it," I said rocking back and forth with Breeanna in my arms.
"You've been doing a lot of that lately haven't you?"
I nodded, "Lots going on with my family. Harry and Ginny are getting married, Bridget's a total mess…"
He put his finger up to my lips, "Shh! I know we've been over this over and over again."
"Can we just for one day have a nice day without talking about your family, as we are about to spend the whole day with them."
"You make it sound like a bad thing," she said looking at her husband oddly.
"No it's not that," he sighed. "It's just that holidays are so hard for me, you know I don't have any family and you have tons around you."
"We're your family," I said motioning to myself and the baby.
He smiled at me and kissed my forehead, "And I wouldn't have it any other way."
Draco seemed a bit down during the whole Christmas Extravaganza, but then again Adora said that he was always like this after him mum and grandmum's death.Holidays were a bit rough for him, and of course Susan knew that. It was still a bit hard to know that he was as enthusiastic as she would have liked him to be.
Of course Sirius and Draco were ecstatic knowing that it was Breeanna's first Christmas and Roselyn's second. Roselyn's first Christmas had been a bit crazy, as everyone thought Arabella would die and then she came to on Christmas Eve.
I noticed immediately that Arabella had kept David's stocking up and that she kept looking at it longingly. Susan didn't understand how Arabella had been so upset last year, but now raising Breeanna she understood immediately. Susan would have been as torn up as Arabella was if Breeanna had been ripped out of her arms as David had been.
Roselyn and Breeanna had fun on their Christmas day, as the rest talk amongst one another. Mostly the excitement of the upcoming wedding. Surprisingly Bridget looked more depressed than Draco. Adora gave Susan a look and Susan knew it was about Bridget.
Christmas presents were fun opening, especially watching the babies looking confused at their mummies about the wrapping paper everywhere.
The weird thing of it all was when Bridget picked up a small box and unwrapped it to see a sliver chain necklace with a small snowflake charm. A little note fell on the ground and when she read the first two words she threw the present down and stormed upstairs.
I picked it up and read it,
My Dearest Bridget,
I am so sorry for whatever I have done to upset you. I don't know what happened to make you angry at me the first time but this last time is all my fault. Hope you like your Christmas present and think about me as that all I do is think about you.
Love,
Oliver
Ah ha, Oliver. Go figure. I handed the letter to Adora and she nodded after she finished reading it.
Adora walked outside and I followed her outside and she turned to me, "We've got to confront her."
"You ready to push her over the edge?"
"You think we can push her more than she's already ran?" Adora said wriggling her hands, she knew something I didn't and it bugged me. I knew better than to ask because Adora's lips kept shut tight.
"True," I nodded.
"So when will we confront her?"
"After the wedding."
I nodded we couldn't get her all angry about this before Ginny and Harry's wedding. "We'll do it the night of the wedding…after they go on their Honeymoon."
Adora nodded, "Deal."
Ginny's Point of View
I had noticed lately how much different Bridget had been acting, but I've noticed she wasn't the only one that had noticed this. I really haven't said anything or brought it up as Harry and I have been getting ready for our wedding which will be in eight days! I'm so exited. Mum and Bella have been helping me out so much and Bridget does help out every once in a while but I know her mind is off somewhere else.
I really wish things would work out between her and Oliver, they both seem so lost without one another. I wasn't going to bring up the 'Oliver' subject but after she read that letter and stormed off we all looked at one another as Susan and Adora left the room.
"What in Merlin's name?" Sirius asked confused and looking at Bella and me for answers. Although he wasn't the only one looking at us for answers so was Mum, Dad, Ron, Sirius, and Anthony. The rest of my family wasn't here, we'd be meeting up for Christmas dinner, the rest of us were spending Christmas morning at the Black Manor.
"Yeah what's going on?" Harry asked as he looked out the room wanting his baby sister to come back and explain what the hell is going on.
"She's a bit depressed at the moment," Bella spoke up as she picked Roselyn off of the floor. Bree began to cry and so I picked up the other baby.
"Well we got that," Harry said sarcastically.
"Don't you talk to her like that," I growled at my fiancée. I mean really who were they all to get mad at us because we knew something was going on.
"What do you know?" Sirius asked looking at his wife expectedly.
"We don't know the whole story," she sighed.
"Huh?" Anthony asked stunned, yes usually Bella and Adora always knew what was going on and usually I had a bit of knowledge.
"Well what about…"
"Nope," I said shaking my head. "Even your daughter doesn't know everything that's going on. Bridget has put walls up around her so we can't find out what's going on with her."
"Maybe I should talk to her," Anthony said standing up and walking out of the room.
Maybe he was right, Anthony was the only family Bridget had known of for years.
I knew for a fact that it had something to do with Oliver…
"Ginny?" Harry's sweet voice brought me back down to Earth.
"Yeah?"
"Can we go for a walk?"
I nodded at him, "Sure. Let me get my coat."
Five minutes later after we were all bundled up we began to walk around the large Black estate, he grabbed my hand and we walked like that. It was amazing how that he still brought butterflies to my stomach, every single time he touched me.
"You seem a bit preoccupied," he said looking at me sadly.
"Just worried."
"About the wedding?"
I nodded, "What else would it be?"
"Your best friend, my baby sister, you know Bridget."
"Just wish things would work out wonderfully for her, as they have for Susan and Draco, you and me, and most likely Adora and Ron. Just seems like she never gets a break. Hell, she won't even tell me what's wrong with her. We never keep secrets from one another."
"Things are changing Gin. We're getting married, Susan is married, Adora is busy with her Seer powers and is never around, Bella and Sirius are busy with the on going world, and so is Grandfather. She might be lonely."
"But what about Oliver?"
"I don't know. I don't know what happened between her and Neville neither."
I shrugged, "I really didn't like her with Neville."
"Let's talk about the wedding love," Harry said wrapping his big, tight arms around me.
"Ah," I sighed smiling. "Our wedding."
"Well everything is planned and ready, right?" I nodded to his question, "So where should we go for the Honeymoon?"
I blinked, "You haven't planned a secret place?"
He chuckled, "You know me too well don't you?"
I nodded, "Do you think Bridget will be up to the wedding. You know being my Maid-Of-Honor and everything?"
"Merlin! Can we drop the subject of my baby sister for once! It seems as if she's on every one's mind lately. Let's think about how beautiful our wedding will be back here." He took me a bit farther and there we were, in the spot where our beautiful wedding would be. Nothing was set up of course, I knew it would be cold. But then again I think Sirius was going to put a warming charm over everyone so we would freeze to death.
The reception was going to be at a party room at the Leaky Cauldron, I couldn't wait! Colin would be coming over here tomorrow to help Bridget and me to finish the last finishing touches. Then we'd go out and have a shopping day in Diagon Alley, most likely window shopping.
Harry's bachelor party would be tomorrow night at the Leaky Cauldron, all the guys in the family, mine and his, would be going. Plus a few of the guys from school, Seamus, Dean, and Neville. I think Susan was trying to force Draco into going but he refuses.
I think the girls were planning a party for me too. Mum, Fleur (Bill's wife), Stephanie (Charlie's wife), Angelina, Katie, Adora, Susan, Bridget, Arabella, Colin, Janice (another girl in my dorm), and Susan was inviting a few of her friends.
Fleur was due next month and Stephanie had just found out she was pregnant. My already large family was growing so fast.
"Love?" Harry bringing me back to reality, as usual.
"Ready to go inside, it's a bit cold."
"Sure," I nodded.
"Ah ha," a cold cackle came from behind us and I felt myself go rigid. "How is the happy couple? Ready for a little fun?"
