A/N: sorry this chap is kinda short, but theres still more to come!
Disclamer: I own nothing below...
Chapter Three: Disbelief
I'm not sure how long I sat there in my trance-like state. I do know however, that I wasn't until a head appeared in my fire burning in the living room later that day that I moved. I sprung up and ran over to it. Deep down in my heart I wanted it to be Harry's face in the fire. However, it was Charlie, my second oldest brother who was there.
"Hey sis, what are ya doin' tonight?" he asked in his distinct voice that seemed to never know sadness.
"Can you come over?" I asked. He had to have seen the hurt in my eyes because he replied in a voice completely different to his previous.
"Sure thing, I'll be right over," he said before disappearing from the fireplace. Luckily, Charlie was spending the summer home from Romania, so could apparate to my apartment door very quickly. This time however, he seemed to have broken his record, if that was even possible.
As soon as I had stood up from talking into the fire, I heard a pop outside my door. Moments later, he was tangled in a hug he probably thought would never end, it lasted so long.
"What's up Hun?" he asked, a look of worry written on every square inch of his face. He looked around and then asked, "Where's Harry?"
Once again, I stared down at the hard wood flooring when I answered with the single word, "Gone."
"GONE?" He yelled, bewildered. "HE LEFT YOU? OH BOY, YOU JUST WAIT TIL I GET MY ON THAT BLOODY…THAT FILTHY LITTLE…FILTHY LITTLE---"
"CHARLIE!" I screamed, cutting him off. He could only stare at me in shock. "It's my fault." My brother's eyes grew as big as plates and his jaw came down to only millimeters off the floor at this.
"What? How?" he asked, voice very low. I then proceeded in telling him the story of what happened at the bar and going home with some strange guy. Then I told him Harry's reaction and how he left to go and stay with his teammate, Oliver Wood.
Charlie did something then that he hadn't done in as long as I could remember. He wrapped me up in the biggest, longest hug anyone has ever seen, nearly suffocating me. No lie, we had to have stood there in that same position for ten minutes. When he finally released me, his eyes were red with tears.
"I'm staying here," he said abruptly. "You aren't going to face this alone."