At about five that evening, Harry finally walked through his front door, only to be knocked to the floor by Charlotte. "Uncle Harry!" she yelled in his ear as she wrapped her arms tightly around his neck. "Me, mommy, Aunt Ginny and Aron have been waiting for you to get home!" An inquisitive look crossed Harry's face as Ginny and Elian walked into the foyer.
"About time you got home, Mr. Potter." Elian said, helping Harry to his feet. "So, how'd it go?" Harry looked over at Ginny angrily, who held her hands up. "Gin didn't tell me." Charlotte looked up at her mother, who now had a very forlorn look on her face.
"Who told you?" Harry asked setting Charlotte down. "Did Dra-" Elian quickly covered Harry's mouth with her hand and nodded. Harry looked at his sister in surprise, then pulled her hand away from his mouth. "What the hell did you do that for?" he asked, causing Charlotte to cover her ears and say "Uncle Harry's cussing…" Elian giggled.
"No he's not. What he said isn't really a bad word, it's just a very bad place." she explained to Charlotte, while thinking. 'And somewhere I hope your father doesn't end up…' Ginny lightly placed her hand on Elian's shoulder.
"Well, Charlotte, go get ready, do you remember what I promised you?" Ginny asked her neice. Charlotte's face lit up with excitement and she quickly ran out of the room. Harry looked at Ginny. "I promised her that when you got home we'd all go out to dinner." Harry sighed heavily.
"I sorta wish you hadn't done that. After today all I want to do is go to sleep." He said as he stifled a yawn. "But, I have to keep my wife's promise to our niece." Ginny and Elian nodded in agreement. "Well, we'd better get ready too." With that Harry, Ginny and Elian walked out of the foyer.
Across town at Kat's house, Draco sat in the living room with a sobbing Kat. "How can you just go back to her! I thought you wanted to get away from her and her two stupid brats!" Kat yelled at him. Draco stood up and slapped her across that face.
"Don't ever call my children brats again…" Draco said in a calm voice. 'You'd better contact me soon, Potter. I don't know how much more of her I can take.' he thought as he walked out of the living room.
"Draco! She won't take you back! You know it!" Kat yelled after him, her only reply was as the slamming of the front door. 'Damn him… damn him to hell!' she thought as she stretched out on the couch.