Silver In The Wrath
Chapter 02 - Back to Hogwarts
GoddessOfMars2
A/N
Still haven't found my Muse for Requital... this is just a pastime... I know it's horrible in quality... meh.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but a journal that's filling up faster than and EMO kid's need for TBS and MCR bootlegs.
"Hey Gin, what's your work schedule like next week?" Ron asked while he brought Tea over and set it down besides his sister, Hermione accepting the other mug in his and and then taking a small sip to check for sugar vs. milk balance, she smiled in satisfaction.
"I don't know, why? Is there anything you need me to do?" she asked, her attention placed on the actions of her Daughter elevating a toy seeker in the other room and flying it at her cousin.
"Well..." Ron hesitated
"Oh come on Ron!" Hermione interrupted "Ginny's your sister you twit!" then turning to Ginny "Ginny, would you be able to take Kevin to King's Cross station next Tuesday? It's just that Ron was called for Order Duty and I have some really interesting leads on the Mackenzie case at the archives"
there was a silence, Ginny still only paying attention to her Daughter in the other room. Then she tore her eyes away from the flying toys and asked "What Mackenzie case?" appearing to have totally missed her brother's request.
"Oh, nothing special really, just another death eater family suspected of knowing the location of the Hufflepuff Goblets" Hermione tried to say, with ease, but the itch to research and find out just nagged at her insides. Ginny could tell.
"oh cool" she replied, her attention nodding off again
"Ginny?"
"yes?" she asked her brother
"so... can you take him?"
"who?" she asked
"Kevin!" Ron snapped
"hu?" Ginny turned back to her brother, looking at him for the first time fully since he brought her her tea
"we wanted to know if you could take him, you know to King's Cross?"
"Oh!" she got it "how come he's not going with mom? Doesn't she see them all off every year? I mean, what about Damien and Eric? And Fleur has Bianca... how are they all getting to the station?" Ginny didn't quite get it. Ron looked at his wife for some help
So Hermione said "we just wanted him to be seen off by his favorite aunt"
"bullocks" was all Ginny managed. "what is this about?" she was growing suspicious... what were they up to?
There was an even longer hesitation, and then "I just... just thought it would be nice... you know... to let Ruby see what it's like at King's Cross... I mean she hasn't been there since she was a baby, and I'm sure she cant remember any of that.. and Gin, she's almost 11, she would be going next year if you weren't so anti-" but Ron was cut off.
Ginny felt her ears turn red with fiery-red-hot anger, her lungs turn to liquid gas...
"cant really call this a war, can you Gin?" his voice smiled at her, even though she could not see it.
They were laying under a tree, it's leaves green and full of the life of spring. Her head lay sleepily on his torso and he played with her hair.
She closed her eyes and smiled back at him. It was not often enough that they could steal these moments. She made a satisfied sound, and he laughed at her.
"what was that for?" he asked lazily, her lips giving her away with a smile. She took in his scent, so intoxicatingly male she just held her breath in while feeling his chest rise and fall underneath her with amusement.
He stopped laughing and looked up at the sky, she did not see it but his eyes turned serious for a moment, contemplating something.
"what are you thinking?" she asked
"oh, just Hogwarts" he said in a tone she knew carried more meaning than it intended to show
She lifted hear head from his chest, placing her weight on her elbows, "we haven't been there in years!" she said playfully "what are you doing thinking about it now?"
He just looked at her, his eyes bright and loving. They were in their early 20's, his parents were dead, hers were alive, their friends -some injured, some whole-, lives had changed, people had changed, sides were taken, and all for the sake of this war. This silly silly war. "wanna go?" he asked her finally, and she realized she was day dreaming
"go where? Hogwarts?" she wandered
"yeah, why not? Not like anyone's there" he shrugged his shoulders
she smiled at him as if he were a child, he was sure acting like one "and how" she asked, straddling him and pulling him up to a sitting position by his T-Shirt "do you expect us to get into a locked castle?" she brushed her lips on his, teasing him with something she thought would interest him more at the moment than the castle they both grew up in
He pulled away from her kiss, not deepening it and said "i know a way" a pulled her up, carrying her like the bride he'd planned on making her in just a few short weeks; and once she realized what he had done she was too late, and that feeling of assisted Apparation took hold.
Off to Hogwarts we go.
"Ronald Weasley!" she steamed "How. Dare. You!"
and then Ginny got up, knocking her chair to the floor, her tea spilling all over the wooden kitchen table.
"Ginny!" Hermione exclaimed in surprise as the whole thing went down
"No! I will not allow it! My daughter will not attend that horrible school in that retched building and those horrible little children! I do not believe in their teachings, and she shall not have anything to do with that institution! Do we have an understanding dear brother" she hissed rather than yell the last few words, and then she left the room, went into the living room and asked Ruby to pack up her things, they were going home.
"mommy?" the girl asked as she was being tucked into bed a few hours later
"yes?" Ginny asked in response
Ruby hesitated. Her mother had been in a bad mood all day. She wanted to ask about the man in the hospital again, see if her mom would give her more answers. She wanted to know more about him. What was wrong with him? Did she know him? But she knew better. Oh yes she knew better.
"nothing." she said finally
"good." Ginny smiled, kissing her daughter on the forehead "goodnight my little quaffle"
"good night" Ruby said, turning onto her side and closing her eyes.
The child with red hair highlighted by blond did not wake lazily the next morning, but was rather childishly nudged awake by a man twice her hight.
Ruby opened her eyes, they were hazy, barely focused in the blurriness of sleep.
"Come on Rub! Get out of bed! I've got a surprise"
The girl blinked and sat up in her bed, rubbing her eyes and looking up at her father.
"Daddy?" she asked with a yawn
"come on sweety, we don't have much time before mom leaves" he urged
Ruby, finished rubbing her eyes and blinked, looking up at her dad. Harry flinched.
"What's wrong daddy?" she asked
"open up" he ordered, trying to pass his uncomfortable smile off as authentic. He opened her bedside table and pulled out a vile of liquid. Ruby drank from it, smacking her lips as she sometimes did. "ok, now out of bed and dressed with you!" he ordered playfully, his smile becoming genuine again. "then come downstairs to say goodbye to mommy"
Harry kissed his daughter on the head and made his way downstairs to the kitchen.
"ok Harry, I left the ingredients for the fresh batch of Ruby's potion on the counter by the chicken" she said while bustling around trying to look for things.
"chicken?" Harry asked, confused
"yes, chicken" she said, leaving the room into the next, and then returning "mom left instruction on how to cook it, so no more muggle take out... or trips to some fancy magical restaurant" she attempted to pull on her shoes, frustrated, she threw it across the room and slumped down on the floor.
"accio shoe" Harry muttered, holding out his hand. Then walked over to the woman, sitting by her on the floor he took her foot in his hand, slowly slipping the shoe on "like Cinderella" he said, smiling up at her. She looked at him, their gaze locked.
"ok! Ok! I'm ready!" came a small voice from the door. Harry got up slowly from the floor, helping Ginny up after him. Then over to his daughter. "say goodbye to mommy" he whispered in her ear.
Ruby went over to her mother, hugging her at the waist and then letting the woman out of the death grip just long enough for her to bend down and give her a kiss "bye mommy! Have fun.. i mean..." she stopped "do good work!" the girl nodded her head in triumph and both the adults smiled.
"ok, I'm off" Ginny said after the moment had passed. She flung on her cloak and picked up her purse. With one last glance at the man and her daughter she evaporated into thin air.
It was then that Harry smiled down at his daughter and she looked up at him with a smirk "so... what's the surprise daddy?" she asked with glee
"oh, nothing special" he said with mock innocence, reaching into his robe pocket, and pulling out a long slender case, she looked at it, her eyes widening as she took it, ripped off the paper wrapping and opened the box... inside there was a slender black wand handle, and she looked up at her father with confusion.
"now what do you say we go over to old Olivander's to fill that handle with a wand and then grab some ice cream for breakfast?"
that suggestion was followed by nothing else than a screech of joy erupting from one very happy 10-year-old-girl.
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