Chapter 22
Sadie Malfoy walked into the little cottage that had been owned by her mother and her father. There was sheets over old furniture that hadn't been touched nor looked at in over almost sixteen years now. Breeanna was squiggling on Susan's hip and Susan turned to her husband.
"Could you please take her? She is driving me insane."
Draco took his daughter from Susan willingly and as Susan began to inspect the house that she had inherited, Draco stayed back to whisper a few words to his baby daughter.
"Don't worry about your Mummy, she is just going a little mad at the moment."
"I heard you," Susan yelled from another room. "If you don't mind, I really don't appreciate you feeding my daughter lies about her Mummy."
With that Susan left her husband speechless and walked back into the room and took their little girl away from her father. "Come here baby. We are going to look through our new house and pick you out the best room in the entire house!" Susan cooed to her little girl.
"What do you mean the best room in the house?"
"Just like I said," Susan said turning back to give Draco a look saying, 'Try me.'
"She doesn't get the master bedroom."
"And why not?"
"Susan!"
"Yeah, yeah."
Touring the little cottage that had been left in Susan's name by her parents was absolutely beautiful and the perfect little house.
Walking into the cottage you first walked into the little hallway, that Susan could see putting a little bench table there, with pictures of sorts. You took a left down the hallway and you would run into a family room. Through the living room you could enter the kitchen with a dinning room and further down there was a little kitchen nook. Up the stairs from the right side of the front door was the stairs to the bedrooms upstairs.
Upstairs there were four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Draco had mentioned to Susan that they could always expand the house, if they needed. Draco had noticed when they got the papers for the house the other day that it did mention that Lily and James Potter had specifically asked when they bought the house to make sure that the house could be expanded.
The first bedroom was painted blue with a Quidditch theme. Susan spoke up while she handed Bree back to Draco, "This had to be Harry's room."
"But I thought you guys lived in Godric's Hollow?"
"Yes and no."
"What?"
"I asked Arabella about it a long time ago. Godric's Hollow had been one of our homes, but after Mum and Dad had Harry and me, well we bounced back and forth from Godric's Hollow to here. Mum supposedly couldn't pick which house she loved more."
"What about the place in Milan, you know the place that Bridget inherited."
"Mum and Dad supposedly stayed there all the time, until right before Harry and I were born. After that, Arabella said we only went to the estate in Milan during the holidays and summer."
"Interesting. Don't you think we should check out the other rooms?"
"Oh yeah," Susan said nodding as she was coming back to her senses.
After leaving the blue room with a Quidditch theme, they entered a room that was lilac. Lilac with stuffed animals around the room. White bows where here and there, and the border was a slightly lighter shade of lilac with white polka dots.
"And this room?"
"I'd say mine."
"Why would you say that?"
"I don't know, I just feel it." Susan said walking around looking at the room, "Besides I don't think Bridget's room would have been finished."
"Why not?"
"Well they died when Mum was six months pregnant. Bridget was born three months early, so I figured that maybe they hadn't finished her nursery yet. You know since they still had three months left until Bridget was to be born, and as Mum had Harry and I as twins…"
"I get it," Draco said nodding his head.
"Next room?"
"Yeah," Susan nodded.
Once they got in the third room, Susan's guess had been right. This room had been half way painted and there was a crib put together but the rocking chair was still in pieces on the floor. A few baby things here and there, but it hadn't been as put together as the other two rooms.
"Bridget's room," Susan said with a sad smile.
The room had been painted a pale pink, the crib had been a mahogany wood color, and so had the rocking chair that was on the floor in pieces.
"I believe the bathroom is the room across from this room."
"Yes."
They entered the bathroom, and it was just your average cute little bathroom.
The master bedroom made tears come to Susan's eyes, the bed was still made. Their things were still on their bedside tables, and Susan could even see her mother's red hair still in one of her mum's old hair brush.
"Wow this place is…"
"Perfect," Susan said smiling.
"Yeah."
The master bathroom was really gorgeous too, it looked like something you would see in a very fancy hotel.
"Wow!" Draco laughed as he readjusted Breeanna on his hip. "That shower is huge!" Draco was talking about the standing shower, it looked as if you could fit like five people in it or something.
"Forget the shower, look at that tub!" Susan laughed as she looked at the huge Jacuzzi tub.
"Rub dub, dub!" Breeanna yelled, which made Susan and Draco laugh at how cute their baby was.
"Yes!" Susan said running to her baby and taking her away from Draco. Susan spun Breeanna around and around, "Yes. Rub dub, dub! What baby wants to get all clean, clean?"
"Me!"
Susan laughed and turned to her husband, "So when do we move in? I mean, you do want to move in here don't you?"
"Of course. This place is a lot happier than the house I grew up in."
"Yay!" Susan said hugging her husband closely and with Breeanna on her hip, hugging daddy dearest. "You really don't mind?"
"No, I like it. It's what a home should look like. Do you mind if we were to change a few things, you know like our taste?"
"Of course," Susan said smiling. "Obviously we don't have three children, we only have one. I would like to turn the other rooms into like guestrooms, okay?"
"Sure, anything you want."
"So when can we move in?"
"Well obviously we can't now."
"Why not?"
"We only have two days left of vacation, and we aren't done on our lease at our flat."
"We don't ever live there anyways."
"Well the lease is up right after we graduate and then we will move all of our things in."
"Okay," Susan sighed.
"What room do you want to give Breeanna?"
"I say let's give her Bridget's old room."
"Why?"
"It the closest of the three to what Catarina wanted Breeanna's room to look like, and during the summer I can transform it."
"Okay, but what happens when we want more kids?"
"We can just move her down in a bigger room."
"Sounds good," Draco said kissing Susan on her lips and then Bree on her forehead. "We have got to get back to your aunt's, correct?"
"Oh yeah, Easter dinner tonight. Then back to our flat, too bad we can't come back to our house."
"We will soon, I promise."
"I know," Susan sighed as Draco kissed his wife again.
"Let's go now."
Bridget was walking around her place in Milan, "Wow!" Bridget gasped, this place was so awesome!
"It's cool isn't it?" A voice asked from behind her, a voice Bridget knew too well.
Bridget turned around and could have screamed, "W…what are you doing here?"
"I heard that you had gotten your folks place in Milan and so I searched for the house they owned, and I found it. So here I am. Did I surprise you?"
"Well…"
"Good I wanted to."
"Blaise what in Merlin's name are you doing here?"
Blaise Zambini got close to Bridget, too close. Bridget started to walk away, but Blaise grabbed onto Bridget's hand…wrong idea. Bridget's telekinetics kicked in and Blaise was thrown across the room.
"Bridget what the hell!"
"Don't you dare yell at her!"
"Get out of here," Bridget yelled.
"I am not leaving you here with him!"
"Wood get your ass out of here! No asked you to be here anyways, aren't you dating Loony Luna anyways?"
"I am not leaving Bridget here with you Zambini, and if my memory serves me correct you are with that slut Hannah Abbott."
"Both of you shut up!" Bridget yelled, "Both of you have a girlfriend and I have a boyfriend. Both of you are trespassing, now get the hell out of here!"
"I will leave as soon he does," Oliver said crossing his arms. "I will not leave you alone with him."
"You can't tell me what to do Wood." Blaise Zambini spat.
Bridget turned to Blaise, "Stay there. Wood come with me."
Bridget pulled Oliver to the kitchen, "What are you doing here!"
"What am I doing here?" Oliver asked totally shocked, "What the hell is he doing here!"
"He found out that I got this house and found out where it was located."
"You mean there isn't any wards on the house!"
"It hasn't been used in many years Wood, so I am guessing that there isn't any wards."
"You need to get some on here."
"I won't be staying here, as I can't move out until I am seventeen anyways."
"Do you know he's a Death Eater?"
"Blaise!" Bridget asked as her eyes bugged out.
"Oh sure you use my last name but you are still first name basis with him!"
"Shut up," Bridget said rolling her eyes. "Now what were you saying about Blaise?"
"Look, get him out of here and Floo to my apartment."
"Won't your girlfriend be angry with you?"
"No, she knows we are just friends."
Sure Bridget was the one that suggested the 'just friends' rule, but hearing Oliver Wood say it was like a knife to the gut. "Besides Luna knows that part of the Order that I am suppose to look out for all of you Potters."
"Fine," Bridget growled. "I will get him out of here and then I will Floo to your apartment."
"Wait, you don't know the Floo address."
"What is it?"
"Here," Oliver said shoving a piece of paper into Bridget's hand. "Place it in your pocket and don't open it until you are ready to Floo to my apartment."
"Fine, will you just leave now?"
"If you want me to."
"I do," Bridget lied and Oliver was gone.
'One down and one to go.'
'What does that mean?'
'Go away Adora, I don't need your help.'
That was just what Bridget needed at the moment was her aunt tapping into her head.
"Blaise are you still there?" Bridget asked leaving the kitchen and reentering the living room.
"Right here my darling," Blaise said pulling Bridget close but Bridget stepped back from him.
"Look I have got to be going, I've got to be at my aunt's house in a little bit."
"Yeah that's a little bit, but what about now?" Blaise said getting close again.
"Get back Blaise…"
"Oh that's right, you are all weird about guys now because of Longbottom."
"DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT!" Bridget yelled as she threw Blaise against the wall again.
"Damn it Bridget!"
"Get out! Get out, damn it! Go back to your slut Abbott!"
"Bridget!"
"I said bloody get out of here!"
Blaise nodded and apparated out of her flat, illegally.
Bridget had Flooed over to Oliver's apartment and it was just like Bridget had always expected it to be.
"Oliver? Oliver are you here?"
"He's in the shower," came Luna Lovegood's voice from behind Bridget.
"Oh, okay I can come back. Sorry Luna, didn't mean to mess up your, well you know alone time."
"Don't worry about it, you can come in the living room with me and wait to talk to him."
Bridget followed Luna and sat across from Luna, "Wait. You aren't angry that I am here to see your boyfriend?"
"No," Luna said smiling from ear to ear. "I don't worry about you and Oliver. Oliver and I have a very healthy relationship, besides you have made it very clear to everyone at Hogwarts and practically the entire Wizarding World that Oliver and you are only friends."
"Yeah, of course." 'That's another stab to my heart.' "So do you have any idea why Oliver wants to see me?"
"Nope," Luna said going into her mysterious stage. "No idea at all."
"Luna, love, who are you talking to?" Bridget heard Oliver's voice coming from another room.
"Bridget is here."
"Oh, okay. Tell her I'll be right in."
Luna turned to Bridget, "Oliver will be right in."
"Uh, yeah. I heard."
A little while later Oliver came out in the living room. Oliver's hair was wet, tight wife beater shirt on and some pajama pants.
"Bridget?" Bridget turned around and felt her heart leap up into her throat, and Oliver went on. "Sorry it took me so long, but I do hope that Luna kept you company."
"Oh yeah, Luna is great. Can we please talk about whatever you needed to talk to me about? I told Terry that I would come by later on tonight after I left dinner at my aunt's house."
"Oh yeah, sorry totally forgot." Oliver turned to Luna, "We won't take long okay?"
"Yeah, I totally understand Oliver. Order business."
Oliver smiled and kissed Luna's forehead, another total stab to Bridget's heart.
"Come on Bridget," Oliver said gesturing for Bridget to follow him.
"Where are we going."
"My bedroom."
"What!" Bridget asked as she stopped in her place, "I am not going to your bedroom when your girlfriend is just down the hallway."
"Okay," Oliver said turning around to Bridget. "We can't talk about this in the kitchen, or the living room because Luna is in there and this is private. Luna trusts me, she knows we are only friends. I have a girlfriend and you have a boyfriend, we are just friends, so what's the problem with me telling you about Blaise Zambini in a room together. It's Order business and Luna can't hear."
"Fine," Bridget growled and followed Oliver.
Arabella sat down at the table with Susan, Draco, baby Breeanna, Harry, Ginny, Adora, and baby Roselyn.
"Where is Bridget?"
"No idea," Susan said shrugging.
"I figured you knew," Harry said with a bit of worry in his voice while talking to Arabella.
"She actually contacted me earlier today," Adora spoke up.
"What do you mean?" Arabella asked.
"Well Bridget didn't do it on purpose."
"What?"
"Well," Adora said speaking up. "Bridget didn't mean to do it on purpose, someone was bugging her and she got all scared. Bridget contacted me telepathically."
"You don't think she is in trouble do you?" Ginny asked worried about her best friend.
"No," Adora said shaking her head no. "I think that if Bridget would have been in any mortal danger, she would have contacted one of us."
"I hope you're right," Arabella said blinking back tears. There was no way that Arabella could handle losing another family member.
"So you were telling me earlier that Blaise was a Death Eater, how would you know?"
"Hello Bridget look at his past and his father."
"So? Look at Draco's past and his father! Draco is a wonderful husband to my sister and a terrific father to my niece."
"Yes," Oliver said nodding to what Bridget had been saying. "But Draco's mother and aunt pulled Draco out of the Death Eater curse. We have proof that Blaise Zambini is a Death Eater, from our spy. I want you to stay away from him Bridget."
"So," Bridget said shrugging her shoulders. "What do I care what you think."
"Bridget we are friends, and I care about you."
"Don't, besides you are with Luna."
"What does it matter!" Oliver said yelling back at Bridget.
"It doesn't! I have a boyfriend and if I want to dump Terry for Blaise I will, got it?"
"Bridget…"
"No!" Bridget screamed and Oliver was thrown back on his bed and his eyes got wide. "Just leave me alone!"
Bridget ran over to the fireplace, threw some Floo Powder in the grate, and yelled, "Black Manor!"
Luna ran into the room to see Oliver laid on the bed with his eyes wide, "What happened?"
"Bridget got angry with me and threw me across the room."
"She threw you?" Luna asked looking at Oliver as if she didn't believe him, "You are just a tad bit bigger than Bridget is."
"Bridget has telekinetics powers and…"
"Oh," Luna's eyes got all misty. "So that is how Bridget threw you across the room."
"Precisely."
There was a noise and everyone turned around to see a very mad Bridget Potter storm into the dining room.
"Sorry I'm late…"
"No problem," Arabella said smiling at her niece. "Just sit down and let's eat."
"Wait it is a problem," Harry said turning to his baby sister. "Why in Merlin's name would you show up so late to dinner without even warning us."
"Do you really want to know Harry James Potter!" Bridget asked standing up and yelling at the top of her lungs.
"Yes!" Harry said yelling back, the rest of the family looked at each other not daring to say a word.
"I went to check out the house Mum and Dad leave me in Milan and Blaise Zambini is stalking me and is there waiting for me! Then Oliver Wood is there to tell me to stay away from Zambini! I am not a bloody child! Then he gets me to go to his house so he can tell me Blaise is a Death Eater to stay away and when he acts as if he actually cares I throw him across the room with my bloody freak-a-zoid powers!" Bridget threw herself down in her seat, "Pass the bloody potatoes!" Bridget threw on a fake cheerful face, "Anyone have any good news?"
"Yeah," Ginny said smiling from ear to ear. "I'm pregnant."
