AN:

thank you my beta...lets hope there arent any more typos.

Thanks for revieiwng; Viktor Krum Lazyllama, ebbe04, dolphinz, Arai Deloncray, unbeautiful.

Thanks to Aria deloncray, dolphinz and unbeautiful for requesting and reading He Forgot His Rat.

I hope this chapter is sufficient.

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Chapter 22: Quidditch!

The inhabitants of the Wood tent had gone to the pitch at 4:30. They were situated in the top box as they were guests of the players. Hermione didn't mind being up there really, but something told her something was going to happen and she was dreading it. She hoped that it wouldn't have anything to do with Oliver. She didn't want him injured or anything. Oh no, not her Oliver. Her Oliver? Maybe she has finally gotten over Ron. Or was she merely finding another guy to cover up the hole Ron had left. Oliver was a nice man, she liked him, no wait, she probably felt more but doesn't want to say it. She could see it in Oliver's eyes, she could see that Oliver really felt something more than just like for her, but she didn't have the guts to look back at him the way he does with her. As she sat down on her chair she watched as Helen talked with Sarah while Tom and Victoria were fiddling with their binoculars. She looked out in the pitch and she felt a chill as she clutched her arm. Her thoughts how ever were interrupted as she other top box ticket holders passed by her.

Wood's family and guest were situated to the nearest wall of the top box. Hermione was sitting on the very last seat of the row and could see the pitch down below just by looking out to her right. She was slightly unsettled by this but didn't want to say anything as she didn't want Oliver's family to think that she was some prissy, high maintenance girlfriend. She looked at the people going to their assigned seats and found that the Potter family was also in the top box. Then there were the politicians and she even saw McGonagall who greeted her. "Oh Hermione! How is my studious Head Girl?" McGonagall asked as Hermione made her way to the older woman. She gave McGonagall a hug and accommodated the older' woman's question. When it came to her asking Hermione who she was with, McGonagall had squeaked and "oh" and told Hermione that she was happy for her. This was interrupted by the Ministers coming to the top box. Hermione looked to see Cal who was inching at the very last of the line up as she stood with Percy. When the pair got there Hermione had smirked at Cal who was flushing at what Percy had whispered in her ear. Hermione raised an eyebrow at her housemate who nudged to the side away from the older adults. Cal then said one thing "You're maid of honor and don't argue with me" at which Hermione shrieked and hugged the other woman. Hermione then grabbed Cal's hand and looked at the ring. Cal just smirked and shook her head as to signal not to say anything anymore and left Hermione to greet Professor McGonagall. Hermione looked oddly at them and shook her head as she headed back to her seat to chat up with Helen maybe.

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Earlier…

Percy took Cal's hand as they walked to the pitch. In front of them were Arthur and molly talking animatedly with Jerome and Jullietta. Percy then leant in to whisper "It's like a sign isn't it". Cal just nodded her head as she watched their parents talking. Jackie had run further to meet George who was already by the entrance of the pitch leaving them alone to talk quietly. Cal looked at the ring and smiled. It was the first time in a long time that she felt that she was content. Maybe the unexpected pregnancy was a sign for her to finally settle down. She looked up at Percy who was smiling at her. He then said "If there was any trouble Cal, just say my full name…."

"And that is?"

"Percy Ignatius Weasley. If anything happens and I can't function, say it okay?"

"Perce what do you mean?"

"Nothing," He whispered as he kissed her forehead. She heard him mumble things but didn't get a whiff of what ever he said. "Hmm?" she asked as they stopped walking. He just smiled and shook his head as he turned his attention to the politicians waiting in a tent just by the pitch. "Well gentlemen and madams, lets go to top box here is the private stair well for you to use" he flicked his wand and a door opened that revealed a staircase. Cal looked at it oddly. After the entire crowd of politicians went up with the aurors following them, Percy and Cal headed to the normal entrance and waited in the short line that was there already. Almost everybody was already in their seats and Cal was amazed at how this world cup was being held. There was no traffic, no problems. She felt bad for blowing up on Percy a few weeks ago.

After talking to Hermione Cal had gone over to Percy who wanted to introduce someone to her and to her delight it was her summer tutor when she was teenager. Professor McGonagall. She gave the older woman a big hug that startled Percy in the process.

"Callista! Dear how have you been? I heard you had a book out already and my my, haven't you grown into a beautiful woman!" exclaimed McGonagall. Cal just smiled at the older woman and told her about her work and such. McGonagall then gasped as it dawned on her. The girlfriend Percy was trying to introduce was Cal. "Oh! Mr. Weasley is she your girlfriend?" asked McGonagall and Percy nodded as Cal took his hand and smiled at him. McGonagall then smiled even more revealing the age lines in her face.

"Dear me, if you two ever had children they'd probably be the smartest children! My top student and my summer student!"

"I was wondering, Cal had said earlier that she had been sorted"

"Ah yes, for kicks. When she was 13, she was brought to Hogwarts, her mother was trying to force her into going to school there. But I found that she didn't need to go, dear me, she even sat in your fourth year class!"

"The girl who knew the 6th year stuff! Yes I think I remember. Wasn't she with her little sis….Merlin that was you!" said Percy as the memory dawned on him. She was the girl he treated so badly because she was younger than him. He felt his tummy twist uncomfortably as Cal's face became sour, he thought that she hated him now.

"You'll still marry me right?" asked Percy as Cal started to smile. "Course why wouldn't I? I just have to make sure our kids don't turn out as rude as you!" said Cal as she smiled at him assumingly forgetting that there was an older woman smiling from ear to ear at what she heard.

"Our parents don't know…"

"Ah yes yes, don't worry. Well my back hurts, I dare say the students keep me on my toes." said McGonagall as Percy helped her to her seat. He then turned to Cal who was smiling even more. When they got to their seats Percy had left Cal alone as he was called by Mordecai Brown. Cal was bombarded by Paullina who was sitting alone as her parents were socializing with the other Politicians.

"So, I know something is up."

Cal frowned and shook her head. "Rii-ght, spill Callie." Cal just flashed her hand at Paullina who grabbed it like a cat and smiled. "Mama and Papa don't know. Oh you're dead."

"Shut up."

"Well, why marry him?"

"Err…long story"

"Yes and I know it's not that long…"

"……"

"Oh god! Are you? 'Cuz you would never! You've only been seeing him for like, a month!"

"Paullina…"

"Can I be god mother?"

"Maybe, now shut up." Cal said as she saw her mother and father come back to their seats which were just a row above her. Cal sighed; this was going to be a long game.

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Oliver and his team mates sat in the entrance dock. He wasn't really nervous. It was do or die and if they didn't pull their weight in this game, it could be a disaster. The usually loud beaters were subdued by the tension of the upcoming game. Oliver had been in the last final four years ago and wasn't worrying. He somehow felt odd, as there was Hermione to greet. It was a tradition for the players to go up to the top box and wave to greet their other halves as a good luck wish of some sort. Or was it because people die in this sport and this might be their last game. He really didn't know, but he hadn't told Hermione about it and he was dreading that she might not like being put in the spot light.

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"Are you sure you want to go through with this?"

"Yes."

"There kill off the marker."

"What about Mr. Weasley?"

"He'll come here and check it himself. He's too much of a perfectionist to let this be handled by lower workers."

"I don't know. What if we get caught?"

"It's our only chance, if we don't do this, our loss to that Potter would just sting even more."

"But, it's like we're asking for a storm to come to us"

"We are the storm, that Potter will know that he isn't invincible and many were left parentless because he and that mudblood killed them"

"I'm not -"

"Are you in or are you out? Narcissa wants fresh air, and if she gets wind of your faltering, she'll kill you."

"Not to mention you miss your boyfriend"

"He will reward me with love and that is all I need. Now will you do it for you parents?"

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Percy was having a conversation with the head of security from Spain when he was interrupted by a member of his team. Percy had then quickly excused himself and headed out of the top box. As he passed Cal who asked him where he was going, he squeezed her hand and gave her a soft kiss saying he'll be right back and left.

Cal huffed and sat on her seat not really wanting to be there alone. Well she wasn't for long because Arthur sat in Percy's seat and talked to Cal. She shifted in her seat as to look at the older man who was smiling knowingly at her. "When all is well, and everything is done, I'll welcome you to my family, officially that is, you are already welcome in my family!"

"Mr. Weasley we didn't mean to-"

"Callista my dear, I only hope that you two will be happy"

"Thank you sir"

"Give me a hug before I go again. Dare say there are a lot of politicians here. They all want to meet other politicians"

Cal leaned in to hug Arthur before he left. Not long after Percy came back with a gash on his face, adding more pity to his already gashed face. "Percy!" exclaimed Cal as Percy sat back in his seat with a cloth pressed to his face. "What happened!" Cal exclaimed as she took out her wand. "A marker was misaligned and cut from the circle. Found it and fixed it. Aurors are looking for anymore and are fixing it themselves. One of my team, Morin, made a tent fall on me. She's a bit clumsy."

"Let me take a look at that."

Percy took off the wet cloth pressed to the bleeding cheek. Cal huffed and muttered a healing spell, one Percy hadn't heard of before and the wound was cleaned and healed. "There, no scars"

"Why couldn't you do that last night?"

"I didn't have my wand with me last night."

"In that case, thank you" Percy said as she gave her a peck on the lips.

After 10 minutes everybody was settled in their seats and Arthur opened the pitch for the games.

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Oliver stood behind Eva as they filed out in twos onto the pitch dock. He breathed in slowly and closed his eyes praying to god that he would be safe this game and that everyone else in team was going to be safe. He prayed for a safe evening. When they heard Arthur open the games Coach Millard then told them to mount their brooms and when the dock door opened the England team flew out to do their first lap around the pitch going a level higher each lap and eventually reaching the top boxes where they greeted their other halves with a wave, smile or flying kiss. When it was Oliver's turned to do so, he flew right beside where Hermione was and took her hand and kissed it then flew away. The crowd roared as he did so and his image was emitted on the floating screen in the middle of the pitch. Hermione was blushing slightly as he did so and awkwardly tried not to look at the screen while her face was flashing on it.

When Spain came out they did almost the same thing but when it came to Castel's turn he flew just above Cal and Montilla's girlfriend as he nodded at the two women. Oliver could see Percy's annoyed face as the Quiddtich player hit on Callista. Oliver had somehow gotten rumors that Cal was supposed to marry Castel in an arranged marriage but had forcefully turned it down years ago, almost getting herself cut from the will of her mother. He stifled a laugh as he watched the whole thing on screen. He thought that Castle probably didn't know that Cal was marrying Percy.

Brian Dukes and Mikhail Verde met in the middle of the pitch, shook hands and went back to their spots. In a simultaneous horn blow and whistle of the referee the Quaffle was thrown up in the air and Dukes and Castel went in for it. Dukes getting wind of the scare tactic of the Spanish chasers had gone for the bluff and had gotten possession of the ball. It was passed around, but Verde of Spain as a formidable keeper.

15 minutes later Oliver found himself being rammed at by Castel with almost the same precision as Cal had when she showed him that matador trick a week ago. One of the beaters of course was always on guard for these specialty moves of their opponents and had kept their keeper safe from it. Oliver didn't believe Cal when she said that every single player in the Spanish team knew that move, but after 15 minutes of playing against the team, Oliver had concluded that Cal wasn't lying. Thank Merlin his team was ready and had a few tricks up their sleeves.

An hour later, 30-30 Spain: England. Usually by now, the teams would be 50 points up or 50 points low. This was yet to be the most intense game yet and the commentator concluded that this was merely a continuation of the preliminary games of England against Spain. In which Spain only won due to the fact that their seeker got the snitch before Creegan did. The commentator then starting drabbling about the battle of Trafalgar but stopped when someone in the background said "You arent BINNS!"

10 minutes later, England was up by 10 points but now the Spanish team had pulled a multi front attack on Oliver and if it had not been to his team he'd be bloody impaled into the hoops much to their dismay a quaffle got past the goals and an ear splitting roar came from the crowd as now both teams were tied again.

20 minutes later the crowd found themselves shouting and cheering on the seekers as they raced for the snitch. Harry was howling "BLOODY CREEGAN! THERE YOU IDIOT!" along with his wife and his daughter. Hermione who was nearer to the front was cheering as loudly as she could when she felt something twinge in her. She looked at Harry who also stopped cheering to clutch his right arm. Percy saw this and looked at them then what they were looking at. Arthur Weasley who was sitting in front was cheering when Percy had suddenly felt something was wrong stood up to go near his father when one of the bludgers suddenly headed towards Arthur. He lunged in front to push his father down.

As they both fell Percy saw it slow motion. As Paullina ducked screaming and Callista was blasting out spells at the rogue bludger. Just then the bludger exploded right in front of Cal who was thrown back unconscious. Percy looked beside and saw that someone who was the referee had headed towards Hermione, as Hermione now wandlessly cursed the referee, who Percy concluded wasn't the referee at all. A few red blasts had come from the stands and all aimed at Harry and Hermione though everyone else concluded that it were for the ministers.

Percy had stayed on top of his father protecting his father, the Minister. When he looked up again after the blasts he saw Harry groaning hunched on top of his family as Ginny shouted "He's bleeding, HARRY!" and then he looked around and saw Helen clutching Victoria in her arms were under Thomas' protection. He was checking where Hermione was to see that Hermione wasn't on the top box anymore. He looked up to on the screen Oliver doing a wonski feint following a person falling off the box.

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Hermione stood there frozen at what had just happened. An assassination attempt. But Why her? Why Harry!. Then it dawned on her. They wanted to kill off the founders of the new Azkaban system. They wanted to make the system invalid, the walls needed to be left alone for 10 years before her magic and the other 4's will be forever absorbed. Who ever found out how to cancel the system was bloody brilliant but now how to save the people around her. As she watched the referee go up to her with madness in his eyes she felt like her life was going to end now and make all of her sacrifices worth nothing.

He directed his wand on to her and all Hermione could do was to push Thomas down to shield his family and for her to put up a protection spell on herself as she got full blast of the spell. She felt it hit her and she couldn't feel anything and with out warning she fell from the top box. The last thing she saw was the referee who turned out to be Parkinson's younger brother aiming something at her before he himself was hit with a spell that came from the top box. When the spell hit her everything went black.

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Oliver saw the referee go up and the bludgers suddenly change course. He had a feeling something bad was about to happen. Just when Creegan caught the snitch and the crowd shout in triumph he saw the bludger aim at the politicians and the referee target Harry before he went to target Hermione. With out thinking of the consequences, he rode his broom as fast as he could to the top box, but the sight of Hermione putting a protection spell on her and his sister's family as she got hit with something powerful enough made his stomach twist. She was standing too near to the side, and as he expected, she fell to her side and had a rapid descent to the ground. Oliver pulled his broom down as he attempted a wronski feint to save Hermione. He pushed his broom to the fastest speed it has ever gone and just 10 feet before hitting the ground he had saved Hermione. She was unconscious as he held her near his chest trying to wake her up.

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Percy bolted from where he was, asking his dad if he was ok then making sure his brothers were there to protect him before he went to the wreckage of wood where Callista was under. He dug furiously even if he was bleeding from a scrape on his arm he didn't even notice was there. Paullina then got up from her spot dug with him and soon they found Callista unconcious. "CAL!" shouted Percy as he shifted her but that he couldn't. He shook her conscious but to no avail she was still as unconscious and barely even breathing. Panic crossed his mind as his eyes trailed down to her abdomen where a sharp panel of wood had impaled Cal.

Paullina wailed hopelessly as she forgot about her groaning mother when she saw her sister's state. Cal was bleeding so much. "Oh god she's pregnant, Percy we need to get her to a hospital!"

Percy placed a hand on Paullina's shoulder as he mumbled some words. Something happened and Percy had apparated out of the stadium, with him he brought the politicians and their guests. It was a safeguard system they had put up. If ever danger was going to happen the Politicians would be transported to a safe point, only Percy, the head of the Auror department and the ministers knew where.

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"Hermione..HERMIONE!" he struggled as he flew up from his descent. He placed his hand on her chest to see if her heart was still beating and it was. She's just unconscious. He looked up the screen to see the camera bubble still floating to see transmit the chaos of the top box and the other sections as well. When the top box came about he saw Percy digging a the back with who he knew was Montilla's girlfriend. After which Percy kneeled there holding someone as he bent over the person clearly panicking. He caught the sight of the straight long dark hair of the head and gulped. He looked closer to find a limp pale hand on the floor as Montilla's girlfriend wailed in hopelessness. Was Callista dead?

With in a second every single politician in the top box disappeared and worry leaked into Oliver's mind. What was he to do now, where was her going to take Hermione?

Thinking quickly he shouted at all the players on the field to follow him. They all went to one direction, the safe point given to them by their coach earlier that day. The team's safe point if anything ever happened. Holding Hermione closer to him as they flew past the top box he now wondered if Hermione was okay and wondered if she would live through this.

AN:

Did i leave u hanging? lmfao. my beta said so...hahhahahaha Friday update "The ending...aka the Closure" so i decided to change the chapter title.

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