a/n: Hello everyone... Beth you get your answer this chapter about the whole Harry and Cho date thing. And the last chapter title was more BV exasperated w/ all of Harry and Cho's crap. So more funny twist of words than literal.
You'll all be very proud! I have to go to "camp" tomorrow and won't be home till Friday so I wrote really fast and put this beauty up. (at 11:00 pm. when I got to get up at 7:30 and I like my beauty sleep!) So long for now and happy reviewing!
Chapter 9
These Are The Special Times
"Bridgette!" Marlene Reinheart shrieked as she saw Cho and BV getting off the train in Vienna.
"Hi, Momma!" BV screamed back running into her mother's arms. "Oh and is it alright, I brought Cho home for the holidays?"
"BV!" Cho scolded, "You didn't tell her. Mrs. Reinheart, I am so sorry if only I had known…."
"Cho, Cho!" Marlene said attempting to pacify Cho, "Cho honey, it's alright, BV's allowed to bring you guys home anytime she wants!"
Cho blushed, "Oh alright, sorry."
"So, Cho how have you been sweetie?" Marlene asked as she took them outside where her car was.
Cho tilted her head from side to side, "Alright, and yourself?"
"Quite alright, I enjoy being a grandma all the time, little Noel is getting so tall!" Marlene gushed.
"Tall?" BV said bewildered.
Marlene looked at BV puzzled, "Yes, tall, all little ones get tall at some point or another, but she's extremely tall for her age, but that's no surprise!"
"Because BV is tall for 16." Cho said.
"Exactly!" Marlene said as they got in the car and began to drive. Cho was simply amazed at the somewhat mild winter. Then she watched as the city turned to country. Then out of the trees appeared a huge manor styled house.
"Whoa!" Cho said in awe, "That's pretty big!"
"Yeah." BV said smiling at Cho.
Marley chimed in, "A little too big, actually! And Bridgette, honey, look."
BV looked out the window and saw in the distance a small blonde girl racing towards the car. "MOMMA! MOMMA!" 15 month old Noel Leigh-Anna Reinheart shrieked.
"She is so cute!" Cho babbled, "She's only what, 15 months now?"
"Yeah, she is really tall!" BV commented as she moved towards the door, and without any warning BV flung the car door open. "Noel!" BV screamed running towards her daughter.
"Only, BV!" Mrs. Reinheart commented to Cho.
Cho smiled, "But she has every right to run towards her."
"Yes, it's been heartbreaking to hear Noel ask almost every night "when is momma coming home?" I couldn't deal with it too much longer, then the look on Noel's face when you had to say not for a few months or five weeks or something. It made my soul cry." Marlene said as she parked the car in the driveway.
"I can only imagine!" Cho sighed as she pictured Noel's face in tears. It broke her own heart!
"Cho! CHO!" Noel shrieked as she saw Cho.
Cho leaned down, "Hi Noel."
"You remember me?" Noel chirped.
Cho nodded benevolently, "Yeah, I held you a few months ago, but obviously I don't have to hold you any more!"
"Nope, I's walk now!" Noel said proudly.
"I see that Noel!" Cho beamed then she asked, "hey Noel where's mommy?"
Noel turned around and looked for BV and couldn't see her. Noel turned to Cho her eyes began to water, "Where Momma? CHO!" She whined. Cho thought BV was on the steps but obviously she wasn't.
"BV!" Cho called out.
"Yes?" A voice right behind her said.
"OH MY GOD! BV NOT FUNNY AT ALL!" Cho said taking deep breaths. Noel was in a fit of laughter. "Scare us a little more, why don't you BV!" Cho scolded.
"I could," BV said thoughtfully.
"Oh just quit it, BV." Cho said as they walked inside.
That Night
"Hey, Cho." BV said as she tied off the end of her braid.
Cho looked up from BV's vanity, "Yeah?" Cho responded.
"I just realized something." BV said turning off her light.
Cho lay down on the inflatable mattress BV's nurse, Hillary, pulled out for her, "What?"
"You never told us how that date with Harry went!" BV said.
Cho grimaced in the dark, "Oh that…."
CHO'S FLASHBACK
"Hey Cho." Harry said awkwardly as he handed her some flowers.
Cho smiled falsely, "Oh thanks!" The couple walked over to Hogsmeade just to stroll the day away. There was an awkward silence between the two. At lunch Harry finally spoke:
"So, Cho how is Quidditch going for Ravenclaw." Harry asked.
"Really good!" Cho chirped as she launched into a long discussion with Harry about who would get the Quidditch Cup that year. At the end Cho said, "You know, Harry, there's one thing we've got in common and we just used it all up, Quidditch."
"Tell me about it! No offense I just find it so hard to find anything we both like!" Harry exclaimed.
"Well, on that whole 'no offense' quote. No offense to this, but we both have one more thing in common! We're both here because we're trying to shut BV up! You're here because she said to wait and try me once again. And I'm here because I like you, but for all the wrong reasons!"
Harry raised an eyebrow, "How so Cho?"
Cho sighed, "I really did like you but the more I looked, I saw that whole we've got nothing in common theme! And then I realized I asked you out on this date just to make BV happy! And in a sense I was jealous."
Harry asked bewildered, "Of what?"
"You and Hermione. How you fawned over BV all the time. I was so angry with BV, she couldn't see that you really cared about her! And she couldn't give a damn. I hate people that are so pretty and can pick and choose who they want to date!'
"Cho." Harry mumbled, "It's a little different with BV, it's not she doesn't want to, it's more she can't."
Cho took her turned to be surprised, "Why?"
"She's afraid to love again." Harry whispered, "So it's not she doesn't like me, it's she's afraid to come too close. She thinks I'll die cuz as she said, ' everyone I love dies on me!' so that's her mind set!"
"But that's not true!" Cho said, "If that were the case, Noel wouldn't be here!"
Harry shrugged, "That's what I said!"
END OF CHO'S FLASHBACK
"It went alright" Cho said in a kind of daze.
BV stared at her, "Quit lying, Cho, it was a disaster. Wasn't it?"
"Yeah." Cho sighed giving up, "We have nothing in common but Quidditch."
"Too, bad, you two were always so cute together!" BV said fondly.
"BV SHUT UP!" Cho exploded she had enough, "ARE YOU THAT THICK, REALLY?"
"Cho what are you going off about?" BV said genuinely confused.
"BV! We were never a good match! We had nothing in common except knowing Cedric and Quidditch! I was looking for all my answers from him and some of them he had no way of knowing!" Cho fired at BV.
BV frowned, "I'm sorry, I guess I never saw it that way." The silence lay for a few minutes then BV asked, "Cho, you said you needed some answers from Harry,….. like what?"
"Like did Cedric mention me before he died, did he go down fighting or just give in. Things like that." Cho said quietly.
"Oh." BV said even more quiet, "Well good night Cho, I'll see you tomorrow morning."
"Night" Cho said.
CHRISTMAS EVE
"Momma! SANTA'S COMING!" Noel shrieked running around the house.
BV smiled, "Yes, and he's gonna leave you a lump of coal!"
Noel perched her head to the side, "Why?"
"You haven't been a good girl!" BV taunted.
"GAMMA!" Noel shrieked, "I'S BEEN A GOOD GIRL, RIGHT!"
"Yes, and Santa won't bring you a lump of coal!" Marlene said glaring at BV.
Cho came down and smiled at Noel. Cho wore her traditional Christmas eve night gown. Soi had hers on over in England. It was a tradition the two shared once they meet. Cho had a long red silk gown with thin spaghetti straps. Soi had the jade green Capri length gown with a v neck line and long sleeves.
"Pretty dress." Noel said looking at Cho. Cho smiled at Noel in her little red velvet dress and her hair in pig tails with ribbons in them. "We's gonna sing!" Noel chirped. Cho looked around puzzled and saw a grand piano in the corner of the living room.
"Wow!" Cho gasped.
Marlene looked at Cho, "You play, honey?"
"Sorta. I'm more a singer, BV I didn't know you play." Cho responded.
BV smirked, "Sorta, I'm more a singer."
"Oh be quiet! So who plays?" Cho asked.
Marlene opened the piano, "I do, ready girls. Bridgette which song?"
"Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella?" BV asked.
"Sure, grab the book, Cho honey if you want you can look through all those books in that box, I can sight read any song in them." Marlene suggest.
"Alright, thank you." Cho said meekly as she began to page through the first book in the box. Then the piano started and she looked up. "Are you improvising?" Cho asked.
"Mom is really good at that, is that okay?" BV asked.
Cho smiled, "No problem it sounded so pretty and complex. I found it amazing she could sight read something so difficult!"
"Sorry, yeah I improvise a lot!" Mrs. Reinheart said as she began again. Cho began to leaf through the book until she heard BV sing. The song was so familiar to Cho but she couldn't put a finger on where she heard it before. Until the chorus:
"Christ born tell the folk of the village, Jesus is sleeping in his cradle. Ah, Ah, beautiful is the mother. Ah, Ah, beautiful is her son." BV sang.
"Fleur sang that to you." Cho commented remembering the first time she heard the French part veela sing that same exact song.
"Actually no, not really. My mom lived in France as a child." BV explained.
"Oh, really, what part. I travel down their a lot!" Cho exclaimed all excited.
Mrs. Reinheart said, "Down in Providence. A little outside of Nice."
"Oh la la!" Cho said with a horrible French accent.
"Yes, I know, now Miss Cho, what are you singing for the night?"
Cho handed Marlene her book, "Oh Holy Night."
BV covered her ears, "OH CHO, PLEASE DON'T!"
"Bridgette that's highly rude!" Mrs. Reinheart snapped at her daughter.
BV winced, "It's not that she's gonna make me cry!"
"That good are we, Cho?" Marlene asked looking at Cho.
"I don't think I am." Cho said.
BV curled up, "Yeah, you are. Just go, you'll see!"
Cho sang and did a great job and it was silent.
"Wow!" Noel chirped, "That was good."
"Really good." Marlene said breathlessly.
'Thank you." Cho whispered as she left as mysteriously as she came down.
CHRISTMAS DAY
"MOMMA!" Noel shrieked, "SANTA CAME! SANTA CAME!"
"What's she screaming about?" Cho grumbled.
BV muttered something and Cho smacked BV's face with a pillow. Then Cho chirped, "Oh Noel said Santa came! Got ya!"
"Smut up" BV mumbled throwing her pillow over her head.
"OH... Shut up! GOT YOU!" Cho teased, "Only one problem it's CHRISTMAS! WAKE UP!" Cho said jumping on her.
"Fine!" BV grumbled as she rolled out of bed and placed her dressing robe on.
"THERE YOU GO!" Cho sang in a loud, obnoxious sing-song voice.
BV glared at her, "Shut up or we'll eat you for dinner!"
"There's not enough fat or meat to eat!" Cho smirked.
BV smiled, "True, gotta fatten you up!"
"Let's go." Cho said smiling at her friend. They went down the stairs and there was Hillary in a nice velvet dress and Marlene in her long red satin dressing gown.
"Morning, my dears!" Marlene said as she looked down at Noel bouncing around waiting for Momma so she could open her presents.
"Alright, Noel, Grandma says it's good to go." BV said as she sat down on the sofa. And with that Noel was tearing into her presents with Hillary's help.
Noel screamed, "MOMMA! I'S GOT THE LACY DOLL!" BV smiled totally clueless about the Lacy doll.
"She saw it at the store the day before you came home and absolutely adored it." Marlene explained sitting next to her daughter. "It reminds me of Rebecca, your first doll."
"Yeah she does." BV replied watching Noel smile at her new dresses and play outfits. Half way through Noel stopped and looked at the other piles she got up. She walked right to Cho's pile. She picked up a bright colored one and handed it to Cho.
"Open!" Noel commanded. Cho smiled and saw it was from Nakago, her soon to be brother in law. She began to unwrap it and once she caught a glimpse her heart stopped.
"No way!" Cho said as she folded the paper over.
BV now interested, "What?"
"Can't be," Cho said opening the present all the way, "It has to be a British rendition." Cho then pulled out a long red kimono.
"Nah, that's an original honey." Hillary said, "I've got one just like it. Look on the tag." Cho flipped it over and saw it was an original.
"Wow!" Cho said in total awe.
"How'd he get one?" BV asked.
Cho smiled, "When Soi was away, she lived in China and Nakago was her neighbor. He moved over here when he was 19. And he goes back every summer."
"Impressive!" BV said in amazement.
"Yeah! I've always wanted one too! Lauren always said not till I was 18, which is next month, but still!" Cho fawned.
"Yeah!" BV said.
Marlene picked up a small box, "Well since were on big wow's! Here Bridgette."
BV picked up the box and began to unwrap it, inside lay a small jewelry box, "Mom, you didn't!" BV said as she opened the box to see a small silver chain and at the end a large ring with a sapphire in it.
"You know all about that huh?" Marlene asked smiling at her daughter.
BV gasped, "Yeah, it was Pierre's birth ring, I lost mine when I was 5, it fell into the rivers in Vienna."
"So I promised to get her another one but I never did. So that Bridgette knows her brother is above and protecting her." Mrs. Reinheart said all misty eyed.
"And I know he's smiling down on me from heaven." BV said as she placed the necklace on her neck.
POST BREAK: Train back to Hogwarts
"Oh my god! Aphrodite!" BV shrieked after seeing the huge grin on Andrea's face.
"Hey BV!" Andrea said hugging her tightly, "It's gonna be alright!" She whispered into BV's ear.
"YES!" BV cheered as she hugged Andrea tighter.
Andrea said, "Momma and Papa really know me, and know me well. HEY CHO!"
"Hey A!" Cho said as she pulled her stuff out of Soi's car. "How is oh what's his face, Ryan?"
"He's wonderful. He's so super sweet. And guess what! After closing night, Christmas eve, you know with the whole ballet! Momma let me be the Snow Fairy this year! And Ryan got me 2 dozen red roses! He's so thoughtful!" Andrea gushed.
"Good!" Cho said with a satisfied look on her face.
BV nodded, "Yeah, he sounds great but tell us more on the train."
"No problem!" Andrea said as they boarded the train.
They took their compartment and sat around talking about their winter breaks. And at the end BV glanced down at her necklace. For her it was a strength, a strength to help her beat Roger. And for more things than she knew at that moment.
"Wonder what'll happen this term?" Andrea said, "If Rhonda will talk to you BV."
"Hope so!" BV said as she put her robes on. "And our little bride's wedding is nearing ever so close!"
"Yeah, but let's see what happens with you and mister Potter!" Cho smirked.
"That's the last of my concerns right now!" BV said not knowing how right she was.