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Truth or Dare

The meal that followed was one of the best Harry could ever remember having. That was probably due to Ginny sitting next to him and stroking his arm at odd intervals. Cat was chattering away, and about half-way through the meal, she looked up and her eyes caught Harry's. Her head tilted questioningly and he knew she wanted him to express to her how he felt about Sirius being her step-dad. He wanted a full explanation, obviously, but other than that, it didn't really bother him THAT much.

He gave her a small nod and a smile and he saw her let out a sigh and return his smile. Ginny had obviously noticed the exchange, as she gave him a grin and rested her hand on his leg. He knew his smile was in danger of becoming extremely goofy, so he turned his full attention back to his food, and began to pick up the conversation to his right.

Fred and George were talking excitedly, and their conversation was obviously important.

"The games ready," Fred started.

"We should ask Cat if she could…"

"…Get the others to test it? Yeah, she's great at that …"

"… Type of thing? Certainly. Do you remember that time when she …"

"… Convinced us to learn the Macarena? How could I forget?"

"I hope the others aren't too opposed to Truth or Dare."

"We'll have to get mum and dad out the way, though."

"Of course." George finished. They then joined in Charlie, Bill and Fleur's conversation on baby names, inserting crazy ones here and there, like Tortoise, Rex or Spock (Harry wondered who'd let them watch Star Trek).

After desert, Fred and George held a quick whispered conversation with Cat, before she went round, saying something to everyone but Molly and Arthur. When she stood next to Harry, she whispered simply, "Come back down at 10 o'clock or I'll come and find you and bring you down in your most embarrassing underwear." She smiled at him and was gone a moment later.

He wondered over to Ron and Hermione. They were laughing; Hermione even had tears in her eyes, about something Ron had said. Harry decided to broach the subject of Sirius and his mysterious step-daughter.

"Hey, you two," he began, causing them to turn and look at him with bright smiles. "Can you believe that Cat told us who her step-dad was?"

"She did?" Hermione asked, too curiously to be lying.

Ron looked just as puzzled. "Of course she did," was Harry's bewildered response. "Just after she told Moony she was his goddaughter. I asked her what was going on and she said…"

"Well there's your problem," Hermione replied with a condescending smile that Ron had once, when he was very drunk mind, admitted to finding sexy. "She said it in parseltongue."

A gasp behind Harry alerted their attention to the fact that someone was listening to their conversation. Harry turned round to see Ginny with her eyes beginning to well up. She turned round and ran from the room and Harry followed without hesitation. No one seemed at all puzzled by this, as though they had been expecting it, and no one else tried to follow.

She stopped in the garden and Harry caught up with her wordlessly and pulled her into a hug. He kissed the top of her head, revelling in the feeling of being close to her. He knew that it was probably very insensitive to enjoy hugging her as she steadily soaked his shirt in tears, but he knew that she wouldn't want to be close to him again.

When she calmed down enough, they sat together and looked at the stars that were beginning to come out. Finally brave enough, Harry asked, "Why did you cry?"

Ginny looked at him, her chocolate brown eyes shimmering with tears she had left to shed, "Because I understood her. I couldn't speak it when I started Hogwarts, I couldn't speak it in second or third year, last time I saw a snake, but I can now."

Harry gathered her up again, forgetting that she wasn't single, or with him. His only thoughts were that the love of his life was upset and he would do anything in his power to make her smile.

Looking at his watch, he realised it was 10 o'clock. Maybe a game of truth or dare would be exactly what Ginny needed. "Gin," he said into her auburn curls. "The game's starting. I wouldn't have said anything only I think its truth or dare."

Ginny escaped the hug and gave him a small watery smile. "Thanks," she said, as quietly as Harry had, as though the peace of the moment would be broken if the more than whispered. Grasping his hand in her own, they headed back into the living room of the Burrow, questions about the snake language left outside.

They were the last to arrive, everyone else seated in a circle. There was Fred, George, Ron, Hermione, Cat, Tonks, Charlie, and Remus. Harry sat down between Cat and Tonks, and pulled Ginny down next to him. George pulled out a stone from his pocket and said four words.

"Let the game begin"

A/N I was going to include the next chapter in here, but it's been so long since I last updated that I thought I'd update sooner. PLEASE REVIEW! Please!