AUTHOR'S NOTE: SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO POST. I PROMISE ON THE GRAVE OF JOHN LENNON THAT ILL BE MORE CONSISTENT. STILL I HOPE MY PREVIOS CLIFFHANGER LEFT YOU RIDDLED WITH SUSPENSE!
Harry was shocked. he felt as if a bludger had collided with his stomach and knocke the wind out of him.
Without noticing he let his mouth hang open. Demtra in a grimly playful gesture reached over and closed it.
"What?"
Demetra looked into his eyes and sighed"When you left i needed something to take distract me. I was staying at headquarters and they kept going on about finding Malfoy and sdomehow reqruiting him, because they could trell that he was powerful, but fearful of the dark lord. I asked if i could take the mission. They said no." She gave him a halfhearted sly smile,"so naturally i went anyway. I ran away and using the tips the Order had compiled i found him,and"she sighed gesturing to her stomach;"he found me."
"You mean?"
"he raped me, yeah" Demetra replied in a no nonsense manner,"It must have been the best bloody revenge he ever had. Revenge for all those times I cursed and hit him. The sodding git is lucky that he wiped my memory, because i honstly would have killed myself if i had to l.ive with the memory of ,that."
Harry suddenly had a quiet appifany"But Demetra, if he wiped your memory then how do you, know he ..."
"When the order found me,with Malfoy long gone of course, they did a medical exam and found out I was pregnant. I had bruises in all the right places and besides, it was a full 2 months since we.." It was her turn to trail off now and she looked away and set to fiddleing with the end of her braid. Casting around for a brighter subject Harry said"So have you been going to Hogwarts,then?"
"oh yes, the staff have all been great about,me. Oh and earlier this year a quidditch scout came to our first match and drafeted me onto the Chudley Cannons."
"Demetra,its what you've always dreamed of!"
She smiled grimly"Yeah but as soon as i started to, you know show,"she indicated the bulge under her dress"They withdrew their sponsor ship. Just as well, i doubt the make a broom big enough to fit me." She laughed but it made a hollow gloomy sound as it echoed against the bedroom walls."But enough about me,whats up with you ,Potter?"
"I've found all 4 horcruxes." He said casually leaning back. He immediately searched her face for a reaction, he craved to shock her as much as she had shocked him. And indeed it was his turn to close her gaping mouth. With a smile he started on an hour long description of his horcrux discovery.Demetra as always was the perfect audience, she gasped and laughed in all the right places. When he had finished she cast a look at the stars outside the window.
"I'd better go, i'm catching the train back to Hogwarts tomorrow morning. Accio cloak!"
Her black cloak zoomed toward her. As Harry helped her into it he asked"who are you staying with tonight?"
"I'm staying at uncle Remus's. He keeps badgering to live with him and(she added jokingly) Auntie Tonks when the baby is born but as i told you, I can take care of myself."
They walked out of the burrow and down the hill a little.Harry said"How are you getting home?"
"portkey"she replied gesturing to an empty soda bottle laying right in front of them on the lid of a trashcan.She reached out her hand,"it was good to see you again ,Potter, I mean Harry." Ignoreing her attempt at a handshake he took her hand and pulled her into a hug. For a glorius moment it was as if they were 16 again. That moment was shattered by a sudden pressure below Harry's ribcage. He recoiled looking at Demetra in a puzzled way. She was laughing so hard she had to grip the trash bin for support. Touching her belly she said"the baby just wanted to say hello." And with that she touched the bottle and was once again out of Harry's life.
AUTHOR'S NOTE; I BEG YOU ALL TO EXCUSE THE TYPOS. UNFORTUNAELTY I AM ON PROBABLY THE ONLY COMPUTER IN THE WORLD WITHOUT A SPELLCHECK. I JUST HAD TO GET THIS STORY POSTED TO AS NOT TO LOOSE MY REVIEWERS. KEEP READING, THE FINAL FACEDOWN IS COMING SOON.