I think I wrote this one pretty quick. Go me! Yay! I hope you like this chapter. It was a bit difficult to write and get all the stuff in it to make sense. Well enjoy! Think of this as a very belated Valentines Day present!

Disclaimer: All the things in this disclaimer are disclaimed and the same with the story; because I have to disclaim everything because everyone has claim on something. So why should I disclaim, oh I wish I could claim, and then others would have to disclaim my stuff. I wish I could find whoever claimed my brain. Harry Potter: no mine. :P

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Chapter 13 If I Never Knew You

"It's wrong."

"I know."

"Then why?"

"Because I can't help myself."

"Then you ought to learn some self control."

"I have self control."

"Yes, I'm quite sure of that." she rolled her eyes and glared at him.

"This is all your fault!"

"My fault!"

"Yes, I'm glad you agree."

The nerve of him. They were on duties yet again and he had pushed her into a classroom, just like he had several times before. Well, she couldn't call three times several per say, but she knew that they couldn't keep this up any longer. It wasn't right.

"Don't try to blame this on me. I'm leaving to finish rounds, you may go back to your common room if you like, I'll finish-" she began to say but was cut off by his lips pressed against hers, yet again. However this time she did not give in to their passionate fire but turned from it, disgusted with herself. Pushing hard against his chest she strode out of the room.

"Hermione? Hermione?" a voice called as someone shook her.

Hermione jerked her head up and rubbed her eyes. Above her was an amused looking Josh holding two steamy cups of coffee.

"Hello sleepyhead." he laughed handing her a cup of coffee.

"Mmm…thanks" she said taking a sip.

Her boss had called the whole team in early that morning, there was trouble in the company and everyone was needed to help sort it out. It was now 1 a.m. judging by the digital clock on her desk. Needless to say a cup of coffee was exactly what she needed.

"No problem Hermy." he said taking a sip nonchalantly.

"Hermy!" Hermione exclaimed now slightly more awake.

"Yeah, I was thinking of funny nicknames to call you and Hermy popped right into my head." he laughed

"Well you can pop it right out of your head; you can't call me that." Hermione told him.

"Well…I rather like the name, and there isn't anything you can do to make me change my mind, Hermy" he smirked.

Groaning at the use of her 'nickname', Hermione tried to think of something, anything she could do so that he wouldn't call her that.

"Please Josh, come one, don't use that name. I'll do anything you want, just don't call me that!" she pleaded.

"Anything?" he said, his eyebrows rising.

"Within reason." she said sternly.

"Get you mind out of the gutter, I was thinking more along the lines of a date." he laughed and then smiled.

Hermione froze. A date? Why would he ask her out on a date? They were just friends. He was cute though, she couldn't deny that. His brown messy hair and blue eyes that you could drown in. He was every bit, very, very good looking. She couldn't say she hadn't been attracted to him when they first met, and what would one date do?

"Alright fine. Just no more Hermy, got it?" she told him.

"Got it, now let's get to work Herm…ione." he said teasing.

"You're pushing it." she told him whacking his arm lightly.

Harry paced anxiously around the waiting room in St. Mungo's awaiting the healer to inform him on his wife's condition. He looked at Ron who was currently comforting Luna and at Draco who was mumbling incoherent words to himself. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were due to arrive soon, along with many of the other Order members whom Draco had contacted in desperation. This would be a great time to tell them about Hermione as well, but right now his main concern was for Ginny. Ron looked up at Harry, worry etched in his face as he wrapped a comforting arm around Luna.

Harry didn't know much about what had happened to Ginny; after he had flooed in with Ron and Luna they had rushed to the information desk asking about Ginny; they had been directed towards a waiting room on the ground floor, which was for magical object accidents and/ or regular illnesses and ailments. Draco was sitting on the sofa with his head in his hands when they had arrived. Draco told them that he and Ginny had been talking and she started to get pains in her stomach then she passed out and blood was trailing out from under her. However, the nurse wouldn't tell Draco what was wrong because he wasn't family.

So they sat there in a thick silence surrounded by others awaiting news about their loved ones when many of the fireplaces became active and flames grew as people began to emerge. First out of the fireplaces were Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, and then came Lupin with Tonks, Dumbledore, McGonagall, and the other Weasley children.

Harry and the others stood up to greet the rest of their friends and family.

"Harry? Harry! What's happened?" Mrs. Weasley cried out to him over the many questioning voices of the Order.

"I'm not sure, they aren't telling us anything yet. Draco was the one who brought her here." Harry told her his voice starting to brake off. All the eyes of the older Order members turned to Draco in question. Draco then began telling the story, yet again, of what had happened and what he knew so far.

After he finished the Order took up seats in the waiting room, each silent with worry, except for Mrs. Weasley who had begun to cry.

Healer Serrano, a young woman with shadowed green eyes, walked into the room and immediately all of the occupant's eyes landed on her. She walked towards Harry; he tried to take deep breaths to calm himself as he stood up, as did several of the order members.

"Mr. Potter, I'm Healer Serrano. Would you please follow me?" she told him motioning for him to follow. However many of the order did as well.

They all ended up in a corridor following Healer Serrano, she turned to talk to Harry and was surprised to find almost fifteen people behind her.

"I will have to ask that only immediate family stay behind, the rest of you will be notified shortly." she informed them.

All the Weasley's stayed on the spot until Molly, realising that his would still be too many, shooed her sons back into the waiting room. The only ones who remained were Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Ron, Luna and Harry.

"Now I am pleased to say that Ginny will recover, although she gave us a right bit of a fright a few minutes ago. I am also happy to say that the baby has survived as well. You may see her if you wish, but she needs rest so do not ware her out." the Healer recited to them, not noticing the shocked expressions on her audiences faces until she finished.

Ron's jaw dropped and he began to gap like a fish, Luna put her hand over her mouth in shock, both Mr. and Mrs. Weasley's eye bulged, Harry froze in shock. The Healer looked at all of them expectantly and was bemused by their expressions. Harry was the first to recover.

"Baby? What baby?" he asked in shock.

"Don't you know Mr. Potter? You're wife is four months pregnant." the healer said confused.

"Ginny? Pregnant? Baby? What?" Harry began to stutter.

"Yes, well there were some complications with her pregnancy but she should be alright as long as she isn't put under excessive stress and gets a lot of rest."

"My baby is pregnant?" Molly asked excitedly.

"Did you know about this Harry?" Arthur questioned his son in law.

"No, she never said anything. Luna did she tell you anything?" Harry looked at Luna.

"She never said anything. She looked a little worn but she just said it was all the excitement about finding Hermione." Luna said then covered her mouth in a gasp.

"WHAT!" yelled Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.

Hermione was angry, no she was past anger, she was furious. Her boss had crossed the line with her. Alana was a strong-jawed woman with light blue eyes and blonde hair pulled back in a professional ponytail twist; she was a perfectionist, someone who Hermione had never gotten along with from the first day. She was a cold person, and when you thought she would warm up to you eventually it would just get colder. Alana, seemed to dislike Hermione very much, and right now she was on Hermione's very last nerve.

"Do it over."

"Excuse me?"

"Did I stutter? I said do it over." Alana said dismissing Hermione with a wave of her hand a reaching for her cup of coffee.

"What's wrong with it?" Hermione asked testily trying to control her anger.

"I don't think you calculated it right."

"But I triple checked the numbers and the facts; I've been up all night and I've just put away the files." Hermione told her.

"Do. It. Over." Alana said with a told of finality in her voice.

"I've been here for over 20 hours; I'm exhausted. I can't redo it; it will take forever."

"Then go home. We don't need your contributions here. But you will find that you won't last very long in the area if you don't put in the effort." Alana said warningly.

"The effort! I've been here longer then anyone, with the exception of Josh and Sam. We all worked on this and both of them have gone home. I can't finish this on my own." Hermione informed her with a slight plead in her voice.

"I will not hand in second rate work to my head of office. You don't want to mess with me Hermione, I can make life in this office very difficult for you." she threatened.

"What are you talking about?"

"You come in here and you think you can take credit for everything, and you take Josh. You selfish hussy; I suggest you get back to work."

Hermione stood gaping at Alana as she smirked and took another sip from her cup. Hermione was in such a rage she saw a light flicker in the distance; she could feel her anger rising and she couldn't stop it.

"Josh and I are just friends. The paperwork is sound." Hermione said in a tone barely concealing her anger.

Alana picked the file up from the desk and tossed it at Hermione as she used quick reflexes to grab it.

"Fix. It." Alana said with an eyebrow raised.

Alana's cup shook in her hand and exploded in little shards which ricocheted off the walls and hit Alana as the hot coffee splattered all over her new purple tweed outfit. Alana screamed out in pain and surprise as Hermione rushed out of the office holding the file to her chest. What had happened? She didn't cause the cup to brake; but then how come it felt like all her anger boiled up and attacked Alana. No, that was…crazy? Insane? She was sleep deprived. She just needed to go to bed. Yes, sleep would help.

Hermione walked into Alana's head of the department's office and dropped off the file in the IN box and wrote her, Sam, and Josh's names on a post-it note and stuck it on top to show that these were their findings; not Alana's. Hermione walked towards the bus stop and waited to go home.

"Why didn't you tell me Gin?" Harry asked sitting on his wife's bed holding her hand tightly and playing with her hair.

Ginny sighed and tried to sit up, but Harry pushed her down telling her that she was supposed to rest.

"Fine, alright I'll rest. I'm sorry Harry, I am. I didn't mean to keep it from you; but there was never a good time to tell you. We were all so caught up in Hermione and I didn't want to be a burden, or have you worried about me, thinking I couldn't take care of myself." she told him sadly.

"Ginny, I love you, and you matter more to me then anything else in the world. What if I had lost you? What if Draco wasn't with you when it happened? What if we had lost our baby Ginny?" Harry asked her holding her arm tightly to his chest.

"Harry…" Ginny began softly.

"I can't lose you Gin. If you had…if I had lost you, I would have died. I need you. You almost took yourself away from me and I just want you to promise me, that you won't keep something like this from me ever again." he told her.

"I'm sorry, I promise. Never again." she said smiling while giving him a quick kiss.

"Now should I let the angry mob in?"

"Angry mob?" Ginny asked confused.

"Well normally everyone would just be upset that you kept this from us and didn't take care of yourself. Yes your mom is still going to lecture you; no getting out of that sweetie," he said kissing her head affectionately, "but well Luna accidentally let slip about Hermione."

"She didn't!" Ginny gasped shaking her head, "oh god, what if they are all mad? They must really hate us now. Are they going to forbid Draco from seeing her again? Oh this is all my…"

She was silenced by Harry's lips. They shared a kiss for awhile when Harry pulled away tucking a stray strand of hair behind Ginny's ear.

"You remember what the Healer said don't you? No excessive stress; and I'm going to make it my point that you aren't stressed at all. Yes they are a bit miffed, but everyone is taking the mickey out of Draco and Ron right now. Don't worry; they already did me and by the time they get to you they will be calmer. You should have seen your mom when she found out though Gin, she was about to murder Draco. I hate to see what the twins are going to do to him." Harry joked.

Ginny let out a small giggle and smiled at her husband. He could always make her laugh, even when she didn't want to smile.

"Hey Harry?" Ginny whispered.

"Yeah?" Harry asked.

"We're going to have baby." she whispered smiling. He smiled at her.

"We're going to have a baby." he whispered back pulling her into a kiss.

Hermione pulled the covers around her and bundled herself snugly in the blankets. She laid her head on the pillow and quickly drifted off.

She walked quickly towards a tree outside in the courtyard. Very rare was it that this tree would be unoccupied, especially since it was only early October and there was very little cold weather still. However, it was going to rain soon so most students had vacated the grounds in search of shelter. She sat down and sighed in confusion. Why was she feeling like this? What had changed? She heard a twig snap and whipped her head around.

"What do you want?" she asked bitterly.

"It's going to rain soon."

"I don't care."

"There will be thunder and lightening. You don't want to get struck do you?" he taunted, "then all the bookworm stuff you have been doing over the years will be for nothing."

"Why are you acting like this? One minute you hate me, the next you act like you might care."

"I don't know; why did you care in the library? Or when I was in the Room of Requirement?" he asked her.

"It was the right thing to do." she said.

"Really? Wow, Miss Goody two shoes plays around with the devil and still comes out a Saint." he goaded.

"Go away."

"Like I said, it's about to rain, you wouldn't want to catch a cold." he told her.

"As I said before I don't think that is any of your concern."

Thunder sounded above them, Hermione jumped at the sound. Rain began to slowly fall and steadily got heavier. Hermione felt herself become soaked as she stood up but instead of heading toward the castle walked away from it.

"Oi! The castle is that way Granger." he called out and she rounded on him.

"I know very well where the castle is, thank you."

She felt hands reach at her from behind and grab her wrists, spinning her around and pulling her in towards a chest. It felt warm but she knew what happened to people who gave in to feelings, especially these dangerous feelings, so she tried to pull away.

"Let me go." she told him.

"Why must you be so difficult?" he asked.

"Why must you be so confusing? One minute you're half decent, the next you're an ass. Who are you? I don't even think you know!" she yelled as he held her tight.

"I wish things were different. Things would be easier." he sighed, holding her more loosely slowly letting go.

"Things would be easier if I never knew you!" she glared, pushing him away and taking off towards the castle, "Jerk!" she called back to him.

The boy stood out in the rain as Hermione took one last look at him and disappeared behind the doors. Her words ringing in his head 'One minute you hate me, the next you act like you might actually care'; 'Who are you? I don't even think you know!'; 'Things would be easier if I never knew you!'

Authors Note: Hope you liked it. Review please! Please! Please! I got this one out pretty quick, I feel proud. Now I'm off to do science homework. Later readers!