A/N: My best friend, Heather, a.k.a., Billi, just totally gave me the idea for this chapter, so if you like, hate it, then don't bitch at me. Lol. Anyways, I wasn't going to take her idea, but I decided to kind of kill the happy mood in the story right now, because there is NOTHING bad happening so far, so yeah, don't hate me. Angst really isn't my thing, but ima try.

Chapter 25

This Never Should've Happened

ONE MONTH LATER

"Ginny? Where are you going?" Harry asked groggily as he felt Ginny's warmth leave his side in their bed.

"To take a shower and get dressed." Ginny replied, grabbing Harry's shirt and slipping it over her naked torso.

"Why?"

"Because Hermione and I are going to have a girl's day." Ginny replied with a shrug. Harry nodded.

"Okay hun. Have a good day."

"Yeah like you're going to fall back asleep now." Ginny teased, walking to his side of the bed and giving him a quick kiss.

"Well I thought I'd try."

"Well good luck with that." Ginny grinned, then went into the bathroom. Harry yawned and stretched on the bed, then rolled over, putting a pillow over his face. He heard the shower start up and Ginny get in it, singing some song. He sighed with a grin. Of course he wouldn't be able to sleep. He stood up, pulled on some flannel pants and went downstairs.

"TOLD YOU!" He heard Ginny call as he descended the steps. He laughed to himself and continued into the kitchen.

"Well, well, don't we look sexy?" Ginny said with a smirk as she came into the kitchen. Harry was standing shirtless at the stove, stirring what smelled like eggs. He turned around and returned her smirk.

"Well I don't know about we, but you do." Harry replied, turning back to the stove. Ginny had on a simple white button up blouse and jeans, yet Harry still thought she was absolutely gorgeous. Ginny rolled her eyes and went up to Harry, wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Hope you didn't cook for two. I promised Mione I'd eat over there. Crazy pregnant lady will kill me if I don't eat." Ginny said with a giggle. Harry sighed.

"Damn. I made these just for you. Oh well. More for me." He shrugged and dumped them onto a plate, Ginny still behind him. She stood on tiptoe and kissed his shoulder.

"See you later." She said dramatically, pulling away. He turned and caught her arms, bringing her into a kiss, then he let her go.

"See you later." He grabbed a fork, saluted her, and left the kitchen. She laughed and apparated to Hermione and Ron's place. She nearly smacked right into her brother as she entered their kitchen. He leapt a foot in the air and jumped back.

"Oh! Sorry Ron. Ron? What are you doing here? Me and Hermione are supposed to be having a girl's day." Ginny said with a frown.

"Yeah, that's not gonna happen."

"What? Why? What's wrong? Why are you all sweaty?" She inquired, noticing her brother's condition.

"Hermione's sick."

"What do you mean, sick?"

"I don't know! She just woke up this morning screaming and I freaked out trying to figure out what was wrong and she just kept moaning about her stomach. She's been freaking out all day, and just now she calmed down, but she's still in pain, and now she's just lying in our bed, not moving except to breathe and staring straight ahead. I don't know what's wrong with her, Ginny! I don't know what to do! She won't talk to me!" Ron was frantically waving his hands around as he talked. Ginny seized him by the shoulders.

"RON! Calm down. Now I'm going to go up there and talk to her, and try to find out what's going—" Ginny was cut off by a long, bloodcurdling scream that was shaky with sobs. Without a second thought, Ginny tore down the hallway, Ron at her heels. She burst into the master bedroom. Hermione wasn't in the bed, but the bathroom door was open. Ginny hurried inside and clapped a hand over her mouth so she wouldn't scream.

Hermione was on the floor, and there was blood everywhere. Ginny could see no sign of wounds, but Hermione's heartbreaking sobs told her all she needed to know.

"Ron! Get Harry! Quickly!" Ginny commanded, falling to the floor beside her best friend as Ron stood stock still in the doorway. "GO!" Ginny screamed at him. He jumped and apparated immediately.

"Ginny! Ginny please! It hurts! It hurts!" Hermione sobbed, clutching Ginny's leg.

"Hold on, honey, just hold on for a minute. I'm gonna go over there and have a look, okay?" Ginny looked Hermione straight in the eyes and Hermione nodded, tears running down her face. Ginny slid across the floor and raised Hermione's nightdress.

She nearly threw up.

Hermione was gushing blood and other bodily fluids as she cried out in pain. "Oh my God." Ginny said softly. "We have to get you to St. Mungos. Come on." She pulled out her wand and wrote 'WENT TO MUNGOS' in the air, right above their heads. She held Hermione tight and apparated them both there.

"HARRY!" Ron yelled as he appeared in their living room. Harry jumped and spilled his breakfast all over the floor.

"Christ! What is it, Ron?" He asked, cleaning up the mess with his wand.

"There's something wrong with Hermione. Me and Ginny were talking in the kitchen, and she screamed, and we ran to my bathroom and she was laying there. There was blood everywhere, Harry. Ginny looked so scared, and Hermione looked so, so, brokenhearted and in pain, and Ginny yelled at me to get you. We don't know what happened."

"Why didn't you tell me right away! We've wasted time!" Harry cried, Apparating at once. He and Ron arrived in time to see Hermione and Ginny disappear with Ginny's message hovering over the place they had been. Harry pulled on one of Ron's shirts and a pair of his shoes, and they both apparated to St. Mungos as well.

"HELP! SOMEBODY! WE NEED HELP OVER HERE!" Ginny screamed as she tried to help Hermione move. Harry and Ron appeared minutes after they had and they both picked up Hermione and held her between them as a few people looked over at them. A lady behind the desk pushed a button and red lights went off down the hallway. She magnified her voice.

"EMERGENCY IN THE APPARATION WARD. NEED HEALERS AT ONCE. EMERGENCY IN THE APPARATION WARD. HEALERS COME AT ONCE." Her voice traveled all over the hospital and within minutes a stretcher suspended in midair came barreling down the hallway with Healers running behind it.

It came to a stop right under Hermione. Harry and Ron lowered her onto it, and it sped off again, the Healers holding onto it as Ginny, Harry and Ron all ran after them. They went through some double doors and one Healer stopped and held up a hand to them. "Nobody is allowed past this point."

"SHE'S MY BLOODY WIFE!" Ron bellowed.

"You may go in, but hurry." The Healer replied.

"Harry, Ginny, call everybody, my family and Hermione's. Get them here." Ron called as he jogged down the hall with the Healer. Harry and Ginny looked to their right and saw a waiting room with a fireplace in it.

"I'll floo everybody. You sit down." Harry said gently as they walked in the room. Ginny was shaking all over. She nodded and perched on one of the small couches. She vaguely listened as Harry flooed her parents, her brothers and their fiancee's/wives, Hermione's parents, and Remus and Tonks.

Harry pulled his head out of the fire and came and sat by her, draping an arm over her. Within minutes everyone was rushing into the waiting room and all gathering around Harry and Ginny. They bombarded them with questions and Harry kept saying he didn't know, while Ginny remained stone-faced and silent.

Eventually the whole lot of them shut up and sat in various places. Mrs. Weasley was trying to comfort Mrs. Granger while Mr.'s Weasley and Granger both sat side by side, not moving a muscle. They had to've sat there for about five hours before they heard any news at all.

Ron came into the room, looking lost and devastated. Molly and Ginny both stood up right away and went over to him, each grabbing one of his hands and letting him rest his weight on them as they helped him over to a couch. Ginny rubbed his back as Molly wrung his hand in hers, all of them waiting patiently for Ron to speak.

"She'd been having pains all day, in her lower stomach." Ron began after a while. Everybody got quite still and focused all their attention on him, even though his eyes were glued to the floor. "She said it felt like someone was twisting her intestines in their hand and yanking on them. Obviously I couldn't really relate cause I've never had that feeling.

"After about six hours, she stopped crying and whimpering, so I thought maybe she had just had really bad cramps or something. I tried to talk to her, but she wouldn't say anything. She just sat there, not doing anything, not saying anything, only breathing. She did keep her hands firmly over her stomach though. Once I asked her if she wanted a glass of juice and she just nodded.

"So I got up and headed to the kitchen, but before I'd gotten the juice, Ginny popped up in front of me, scaring the shit out of me, well, scaring me more than I already was. She asked me what was wrong and I told her that Hermione was sick and then I explained what was wrong with her and she said she'd go talk to her. But before she finished her sentence, we heard Hermione scream.

"We both ran back to my bedroom and then to the bathroom. Hermione was lying there, surrounded by blood. Ginny told me to get Harry as she bent down and pushed Hermione's hair back. I was frozen. My wife was lying on the floor bleeding from no visible cause. Ginny yelled at me and I went without a second thought. I got Harry and when we came back, they had come here, so we came here.

"Hermione looked awful. She was pale and sweaty, still covered in her own blood. They called for help and the Healers came. We went down the hallway, but only I could go on at one point, so I sent Harry and Ginny back to floo all of you. Thank you for coming, by the way." Ron's eyes flickered over everybody, who either gave him nods, small smiles, or tear filled eyes in the case of all the women.

"Anyway, so I followed the Healer back to where they had Hermione. They wouldn't let me in the room she was in, so I had to stand behind glass, just watching as they tried to find out what was wrong with her. She was screaming again. I could hear it though the thick glass." Here Ron's eyes filled with tears and he took a deep breath.

"She was laying down on a table with her head nearest to me. They had finally sedated her and the Healers and assistants were mostly down by her legs, so I couldn't see what was going on. I could see them operating on her, but I didn't know what they were doing. They worked for hours, and then they finally cleaned her up and wheeled her out of the room.

"I stopped the Healer who had actually operated and questioned him. I asked what had happened, and he told me—he said—she—" Ron was having trouble keeping himself together to finish telling them what was going on. He took a deep breath. "She miscarried our child." He finished. He broke down on his mothers shoulder. She held him tightly, stroking his hair and whispering to him, tears pouring down her cheeks as well.

Mrs. Granger had buried her face in her husband's shoulder. He had his eyes shut tight, chin trembling. All the women in the room were crying onto their boyfriend's/fiancé's/husband's shoulders. All the women were trying to comfort their significant others as much as they were trying to comfort themselves, all except Ginny. She sat there in numb disbelief.

Harry had a hand over his mouth, his brilliant green eyes wide open and welling with tears. Ginny sat there, not yet being able to process this information. She couldn't do it. She stared long and hard at her brother's back, hoping maybe he might turn around and say, "GOTCHA!" even though that would be horrible in itself. But he didn't. Ginny got up and left the room. Nobody followed. She walked down to the lady behind the desk and cleared her throat.

"Could you please tell me where they took the woman I brought here?" She asked softly. The lady gave her directions to Hermione's room and Ginny thanked her. She set off down the hallway and finally found Hermione's door. She pushed it open and entered the dimly lit room. She looked at the bed and saw Hermione sitting there, staring at the khaki wall. Hermione turned her bloodshot, swollen eyes to Ginny's.

In that instant, Ginny knew it was true. She felt the pain of the loss and it was so terrible she could barely stay standing. She slowly made her way to Hermione's bed and sat on the edge. Hermione had shifted over to allow her room. Ginny opened her mouth to speak, and it took her a few tries before words came out.

"Hey dollface." She tried to give her a weak smile with quivering lips. Hermione tried to return it.

"Ginny. My baby is gone." Hermione whispered, gripping Ginny's hand.

"I know." Ginny squeezed Hermione's hand and gently laid down on her, turning her head as Hermione's arms wrapped around her. Ginny held her best friend tightly.

"I feel so empty!" Hermione cried into Ginny's hair. Ginny squeezed her and finally let out the first tears.

"I'm so sorry. This should've never happened to you. God I'm so sorry." Ginny bawled. They heard the door creak open and shut, and two more pairs of arms wrapped around them. Ginny didn't have to look to see who it was. Hermione wrapped her arm around Ron's neck and gripped Harry's shirt in her hand as they all wept.

A/N: Holy crap. That was harder to write than I thought. I cried when I wrote it. Please don't hate me. Please review and tell me what you thought of my angst. I've never really written anything with that much angst before, so I hope this was okay. I'm sorry guys! But it will get better, I promise!