Chapter 7: Waiting

Ginny changed the channel again and after turning it off, threw the control across the room, it had been five days since her date with Draco and he hadn't owled. She had, however received an owl from Theus thanking her for everything and telling her how nice it was of her to keep Draco company after he'd been abandoned on his date. He'd then asked Ginny to come to his flat for tea so that she could meet Dan. She'd responded accepting, it wasn't as if she had anything better to do and Hermione's constant prattle about babies was starting to get to her and if she asked for a change of subject, she was treated to a lecture on how the werewolf committee was going.

She'd have to find something to do soon or she wouldn't be able to stay sane much longer. She grabbed her purse and walked out of her flat and headed towards the general direction of Diagon Alley, she hadn't been there in a while and she might stop in on the shop and say hi to Fred.

About twenty minutes later she got to the shop and walked in, it was pretty quiet and she remembered that Hogwarts hadn't let out for the summer yet. "Welcome to Weasleys Wizar- oh it's you."

"That's a nice way to greet your sister." She said laughing and noticed he was hurrying forward carrying one of the twins. "Why've you got Lux?"

"Well, Castor's got a little cold and you know how Angelina gets, so I'm staying in the old flat upstairs with Pollux until Cas gets better." He said placing Lux on the counter where he immediately grabbed one of the fake wands and began playing with it. "But he misses his brother and as he's the more mischievous of two I can't get much work done with him here."

Ginny looked at him and saw how exhausted and upset he really was. "What's wrong, you're not just overworked." She said and reached out to pick up Pollux before he grabbed one of the more dangerous toys.

"It's just I don't like separating them, Angelina doesn't understand what's it like and I know Pollux would feel much better sick with his brother than-" he stopped abruptly and looked over her head at the picture of George she knew lay over the door.

"You've got us." Ginny said and wincing from pain as Pollux pulled her hair, she added, "Besides Lux knows that Castor is fine, look he's having plenty of fun making Auntie Ginny cry in pain," but her words were empty. She could tell the baby missed his brother, normally Pollux was never seen without a smile.

"Thanks," he said taking Pollux from her and disentangling the little boy's fingers from her hair, "what are you doing here?"

"What do you mean, can't I visit my brother?"

"Yeah, I mean, shouldn't you be at work?" He asked walking back towards the rear of the store.

Ginny could've kicked herself, she'd forgotten her brothers didn't know about her quitting her job, "I've got the day off. You know I really should run along this being my only day off this week I have lots of things to do."

"Okay," he said looking at her strangely, "I'll see you around."

"Bye," she said and practically ran out of the store, once out in the street she felt much better, although very stupid for having forgotten the reason Hermione had been her only company this past month.

She walked quickly down the street until she came upon the theatre, she walked up to the announcements board and began scanning it to see if there were any good shows soon, but instead a colourful sign caught her eyes. She scanned it and saw that there were going to be auditions for a play, it said to floo The Fabularum Scriptor before April 8th, 2004. "That's tomorrow!" she said startling a few people walking past. Making up her mind she ran to The Leaky Cauldron to use the floo.

She found herself in an office covered in posters of plays and walked up to the desk directly in front of the fireplace. There was no one sitting behind the desk and it was bare except for a sign that said 'Please Sign In and Take a Seat' and a sign in sheet. She scrawled Ginevra Wesley at the bottom of the sheet and saw her name glimmer for a while when it stopped she sat down on a chair near the seat. She wasn't exactly sure what she was doing there, she tended to act without thinking, but she had to admit it felt good to have something to do, even if it was waiting around till the end of time.

What seemed an eternity later, but couldn't have been ten minutes, a good looking man walked into the room and smiled at her.

"Hello, Ms. Weasley."

She stood up and shook his hands, "Hello."

"I'm David Fay, the director." He said and moved away from the doorway. "Come in."

She followed him into a spacious office and sat down on a chair he indicated. "I've never been in a play before and I just saw the sign a few minutes ago so I don't have anything to read but if you just give me a scene from the play I can do it."

He sat behind the desk and smiled at her as he picked up a large box from the side of his desk. "That's all right that's not how we do things around here." He opened the box and placed it in front of her. "If you'll just place your hand inside this box, it'll test your acting abilities and which part in the play you'd fit best."

She smiled and placed her hand inside of it, immediately a light blue glow emanated from the box enveloping her hand and then all of her, a few seconds later a script appeared under her hand.

"You've got the part!" David exclaimed.

"Which part?" Ginny asked pulling her hand out of the box.

Dave pulled the script out and read the top of the script, "Amelia, you're our heroine!" He handed the script to her and smiled. "I was starting to get worried; we've had plenty of women come try out, but so far nobody had fit."

"Wow! This is so amazing!"

"Yes, I just hope a couple more people come to try out we've still got two more parts to cast." He said standing up she stood up quickly and followed him to a door on the other side of his office, "just memorize your lines and come back on Monday at 8 on the dot. I hate tardiness."

Ginny clutched the script as if he might take it away at any moment and nodded, "I will, thank you!"

"Have a nice day." He said as he closed the door behind her.

She found herself at the end of a very long hallway and she walked down until she reached a set of stairs. She walked down three stories until she finally reached what seemed like an entrance. She opened the door only to find herself at Diagon Alley. She stepped outside and saw that she stood next to the theatre. "That was completely unnecessary," she said and began on her way home.

A/N: Wednesday, April 7, 2004. If you've read my other story then you know that David Fay is a Gryffindor in Ginny's year. This is not that David Fay, I am just horrible with names as you can probably tell from the titles of these stories and the chapters.