Living up to Family
The Family We Choose – Ch 11.
Harry
He woke up feeling all sorts of warm and happy. Telling the truth to his girlfriend of barely a few months had been liberating to say the least. As she lay on his chest, her hair splayed out in all different directions, Harry thought of how everything so far has went. To be honest he had been stressed out this previous week regarding telling Meredith the truth and frankly it terrified him. He was worried that he would be labeled by Mer as "Freak". The word "freak" still bothers him more than it should. He had mostly reconciled with Aunt Petunia and he and Dudley would catch up once in a while. Surprisingly having an award winning surgeon in the family outweighed the fact that he was a wizard according to Uncle Vernon. Harry and his uncle really didn't speak much. Aunt Petunia had revealed that while she was jealous of Lily and how her pettiness rubbed of onto him, it was really Vernon that stoked the flames of their anger and disgust. Aunt Petunia had recently started treatment for hypertension and would occasionally seek him out to help her navigate the medical jargon. Dudley surprisingly shed most of his weight, while he would never be a smaller man, he could pass as a bodybuilder. Dudley had decided to attend a local college in London while Harry was away in the States and worked his way to becoming a guidance counselor for at risk teens. Harry was proud of his cousin, having long let go of his grudge, Dudley always had the chance to do good and it was nice to see him reach his potential once out of the way of his hovering parents.
Harry broke from his thoughts as the wild mess of hair that was on his chest started to stir. "Good Moring luv!" he said.
"Did I ever mention how sexy I find your accent?" said Meredith in a slightly raspy voice.
"You may have said that a few times last night," as Harry wiggled his eye brows.
"I could kiss you right now, but my breath is probably terrible."
Harry captured her mouth with his and gave her a lingering kiss. "I don't mind," he said.
"You really know how to win a woman's heart huh Harry?
"Not quite a ladies' man as you would think Mer," he responded. "My first kiss back in school was a disaster."
"Oh, please tell. I always need the blackmail," she teased.
"Maybe tomorrow after our shift? I think we both are off tomorrow morning. You're in my service this shift. We also need to talk to Dr. Webber and get this officially out in the open as well."
Meredith paused for a moment before reply. "Harry are you sure you want to tell the Chief? I'm just a little scared of what this means."
Harry sat up straight on the bed with back on the headrest. "It's best we tell him, he's our boss, he's going to find out eventually anyways. Better to hear it from us than Self Righteous Queen Izzy." He paused for a moment. "Plus, I think me telling you about magic outweighs the need to tell Chief Webber."
Meredith giggled, knowing how true it was. "Oh okay then you handsome British man who may have ruined me for all other men. Let's tell him at lunch?"
"You got it luv."
Meredith proceeds to give Harry a quick peck on lips before sauntering off to the shower. God did he love to watch her walk away from him. Even better when she's wearing his old quidditch jersey. Harry decided to pop down to the kitchen to get breakfast and coffee started. This morning felt like a sausage and gravy kind of day. He was almost done gathering the ingredients before the fireplace roared to life and outstepped Ron.
"Harry my parents need to be keyed into the wards," Ron exclaimed.
"Oh, shit you're right. Let me go update the ward book," Harry replied.
These wards that his parents had were no joke. It would've have taken the entire death eater army to just even barely crack the ward stones on the property. Harry went to his study and proceeded to right the entire Weasley family except for Ginny into the Ward Book. While she might be suffering from multi personality disorder, he was not going to chance her slipping into one of her other identities should she recover. As soon as he finished the update, the fireplace once again roared to life as it spat out the entirety of the Weasley Family.
"Harry!" said the Weasley Matriarch as she engulfed him in one of her signature bear hugs. He had missed this. Molly was the closest thing to a real aunt he could possibly imagine.
"It's good to see you Mrs. Weasley," he said as he hugged her back.
"Harry, how many times do I have to tell you. You're too old to be calling me Mrs. Weasley. Call me Molly," she said shrilly.
"Of course, Molly. Old habits are hard to break you know," he replied.
"Lord Potter-Black! Good to see you!" teased Arthur Weasley.
"Lord Weasley, always a pleasure!" said Harry as he teased Arthur back.
Both men laughed and shook hands. Harry eventually greeted the rest of the family that came along. It seemed that George, Bill, and Fleur wanted to tag along to see how Ginny was doing. He led them to the living room and waved his wand as coffee was poured. It was a bit somber of a moment before Harry broke the silence. "The next few things I am going to say will be as Dr. Potter-Black. I am Ginny's doctor and will treat her accordingly. No questions until the end okay?"
Everyone nodded quickly and watched as Harry took in a deep breath. "Ginny was rushed into the hospital by the driver of the car that hit her. According to the driver she had "magically" appeared in front of him. Per Ron, he assumed that she was recklessly apparating long distances to try and find me. We did a tox screen and it showed that she had been consuming alcohol for the last few hours. She arrived with multiple broken bones and a brain hemorrhage. We were able to set her bones and her magic is taking care of that. However, when we were preparing to escort her to the operating room to fix her broken bones she fell into a hallucinogenic episode. We had a quick scan done and it showed that she is suffering from a massive bleed out in the part of the brain that handles and process memories. Thankfully the surgery was a success and were able to drain the excess blood and was able to reduce the swelling in her brain. He bones had also been reset and cast as well in the following procedure. In my follow up after she had woken up, she had no recollection of the last decade. It was almost like she was 11 again. With her permission I used Leglimency to access her mind. Upon arrival I was able to see her mind scape. It had been thoroughly ravished. I saw 3 doors to different parts of her mind. 2 of which were destroyed and one intact. Upon examination of the broken doors I found trace elements of Voldemort's magic. Mostly likely during her exposure with the Diary. The door that was intact led to a room like her room back the Burrow. There I saw glimpse of Ginny's childhood. The magic surrounding the door did not have the taint like the others. I believe that the exposure of the Diary led Ginny to create multiple personas in order to protect her true self. The diagnosis would be Dissociative Identity Disorder, otherwise known as multiple personality disorder."
The family of redheads sat on the couches, mouth agape. It wasn't Molly that spoke up first but George. "So are you saying that her behavior up until now was influenced by ole Moldyshorts?"
"Quite possibly? I am not a trained mind healer nor am I a trained psychiatrist. But between how the mind portrayed itself to me, her periods of psychosis and impulsiveness points in that general direction," Harry replied.
"Do you think that it could come back?" this time it was Arthur that spoke up.
"No idea unfortunately Arthur. She could possibly snap back to her previous personas if the correct trigger is in the environment. The accident could have also destroyed her previous personas as well during the brain bleed," explained Harry.
Molly finally spoke up in a faint sob. "Is there a cure for this?"
Harry looked down at his feet briefly before looking into Molly's eyes. "Unfortunately, not even muggle medicine can fully cure it. We have pills to help her manage, and therapy that she could possibly attend but you would need to find a wizard trained as a psychiatrist. We also both know that the wizarding world is just too far behind in this avenue of medicine."
Molly an Arthur both looked despondent. Their baby girl after all these years, still afflicted by the damn Diary. Harry makes a silent thank you to the dementor that had taken Lucius Malfoy's soul away. "My recommendation, Arthur and Molly, is that Ginny starts taking the muggle medicine I prescribe to her. I can also start putting out feelers to find us a wizard psychiatrist, though I don't have high hopes for finding one soon."
Arthur nodded as he took Molly's hand into his own. "We will go with what you say."
"In a week, once Ginny has been stabilized, I will arrange for my contacts in Los Angeles to transport her to a magical hospital and she can receive further treatment for her injuries. In the meantime, you guys are my guests and I insist that you stick around for the week and take a load off. As you can see, I have plenty of space for guests," said Harry with a bit of a flourish.
"Harry James Potter, you sweet, sweet man…" cried Molly as she once again bearhugged him.
"I also need to tell you all something, and I need you to keep this a secret. No vows or anything but a secret none the less," he said.
"What could possibly be the secret Harrikins?" asked George.
"Well, that would be me." As Meredith walked down the stairs wearing a pair of shorts and Harry's old jersey.
Meredith
Harry had been talking with what she assumed his chosen family and handled breaking the news to them very well. Once he mentioned a secret that they had to keep, she knew right then it was her cue. "Hi Everyone. I'm Dr. Meredith Grey. I'm Harry's girlfriend."
One of the redheads let out a whistle. "Harry you dog!"
He was quickly hit in the back of the head by a heavily pregnant blonde. Meredith looked at this blonde and wow was she drop dead gorgeous. She could feel a slight humming in her head that was telling her to look at this blonde but once she made eye contact with Harry it stopped. Harry narrowed his eyes a bit at the blonde. "Fleur did you just use your Allure on Meredith?"
"Harry, Harry, Harry it was just a bit of a test to see if you two matched correctly," replied the now named Fleur.
"Allure?" asked Meredith.
"Everyone, Meredith here is a muggle. I just told her last night and got a tier 3 approval from MACUSA."
You could see the tension drop from everyone's shoulders. "Yep, Harry showed me some magic. And I got to say, amazing!"
"Harry!" said Molly. "Do you know this means your essentially preparing to marry her?"
Meredith's heart dropped. She didn't realize at all last night what this giant secret meant. The letter did say spouse a few times, but she kind of glazed over it.
"Meredith and I are going to take it slow Molly. One day, one surgery, at a time," Harry said.
"Well yes but, wow Harry. She's a pretty one, don't hurt her, okay?" Molly said as she winked at me.
"Never," he said.
"So can someone please explain to me what this Allure?" questioned Meredith.
Fleur spoke up. "I am something called a Veela, ¼ magical creature. We are being of love and beauty. The allure is an ability we use to ensnare and enrapture men and sometimes a few women. However, it can be used by older and more mature Veela as an ability gauge love compatibility. It would seem both you and Harry are well matched nearly 96%."
"So what does that really mean though?" Meredith asked again.
"It means you could have possibly found the One. Your soulmate, your life partner, your ride or die as the kids say these days," answered Fleur.
"Oh?" squeaked Meredith as she blushed when she saw Harry's goofy grin.
"I would confirm with an Aura reader, but the Allure is never wrong about this."
"I would trust her on this. It's show she found me," said the redhead with a long scar across the side of his face. "I'm Bill Weasley, Fleur's husband."
Bill shook Meredith's hand briefly. When Meredith looked up, Harry still had the goofy smirking grin. He was going to pay for this later she thought to herself.
Harry was brought himself back to reality. "Ron could you please get your family situated in their rooms. Give them full access to everything except for my private study. Meredith and I must get to work the muggle way."
Ron nodded to Harry as Meredith watched the Weasley family start to unload tiny looking luggage cases from their pockets. With a flourish of Ron's wand the tiny luggage's cases grew to their normal sizes. With a swish and a flick, Ron then directed the luggage to their respective rooms and the Weasley clan left the living room to prep for the day. "Harry, get to work. Check up on Ginny, will you? We will be there in an hour or 2 to visit her, but we got to keep up the façade that they had a long flight from London."
Meredith and Harry quickly grabbed their go bags and made way to his car. "So, Harry?"
"Yes Mer?"
"What was that bit of magic?"
"Ahh yes! Welp what Ron did was a series of magic called Charms. The spells he used were Engorio and Wingardium Leviosa. Engorio is what it sounds like, it rapidly engorges or grows any item to the desired size. Wingardium Leviosa is a levitation spell in the Charms family" Harry Explained.
"So, if we ever go shopping, I am going to need you to do that discretely," teased Meredith.
Harry groaned at the thought of shopping. "If you do that for me, I may get myself a set or two of some sexy summer catalog lingerie from Victoria's Secret?"
Never had he agreed to do something so fast. "Yes Dear!"
Meredith chuckled at his easily her Harry could be motivated. "The Weasley family and you are really close huh?" she said.
"We went thru hell together. Mrs. Weasley was the first person to ever how me what love between family could be like. She and the rest of the Weasley Clan are the family that I got to choose and I wouldn't trade that feeling for all the gold in the world," explained Harry.
Meredith held Harry's free hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. "You recall that old gold watch I have on my dresser?"
Meredith nodded having briefly remembered watch. "In the wizarding world, there is a tradition for parents to give their children a watch when they reach the age of their majority. Obviously with my parents having been long gone, Molly and Arthur stepped into that role that night and gave me watch that once was owned by her older brother. To this day, that watch and the memory associated with it, got me through the toughest times in college and med school. It reminded me that I have family so will be with me every step of the way. A family that had also chosen me as I had chosen them," said Harry in a soft and wistful tone.
"I am glad I got meet them Harry," replied Meredith.
"Of course."
Moments later they pulled into the parking lot of the hospital, both knew that today was going to be a long day.
A/N – I am going to end it here. I need some time to think about the next few chapters so an update might not happen for quite some time. Getting the pacing of the fic will be a major problem of mine but hopefully it gives everyone a taste of something from both fandoms. I might do a fluff chapter soon, I think it would be fun to write what a potential girls night with Fleur, Hermione and Meredith would look like. I also have an idea of for a Ron-Centric chapter in the next few updates as well but again updates are going to be a bit sporadic as I figure out what direction I want this to go in. And Yes, Fleur is heavily pregnant maybe 7 months or so? Here is my list of ideas that I have so far in no particular order.
Girls Night (Meredith, Fleur and Hermione)
Ron's Investigation into the black market continues.
Teddy and Andromeda show up. (Might have them move to the states, Andromeda just wants to leave Britain and since Harry is finally settled in a rather permanent position at Seattle Grace it would make sense)
Ginny gets a visit from her family, and they explain to her what happened with Harry present as well.
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