-Chapter 33-

Wednesday night Ginny and Hermione went to the Burrow. Ginny's brothers (minus George who went ahead to check on the reservations) and Harry were already there, hooping and hollering. Hermione took Percy aside and told him that he had better stay sober and she would kill him if anything happened to Ginny. After a round of kisses and stern talks from wives to husbands the stag party Flooed to the Leaky Cauldron then hailed cabs; Ron, Charlie, and Ginny in one, Bill, Percy, and Harry in the other.

Charlie and Bill told the drivers where to go and the two cabs headed into the city. They pulled up in front of a night club that was across the street from a hotel, George met them outside.

"Charlie you need to hurry up and find a woman so we can make sure we get another one of these after Ron's!" George said when everyone went inside.

"Hey, what if he doesn't want a woman?" Bill asked, nudging Charlie in the ribs.

"Okay, fine! Charlie, you need to hurry up and find a man so that…wait that wouldn't work out for us! Damn!"

"Oh shut it, George!" Charlie howled.

"Well which is it, Char? We gonna get to do this again or are our wives gonna be taking you out?" George kept on.

"…I dunno. Can we not talk about this? Come on, lets just get our drink order in before it gets too crowded."

"Charlie!" Ginny squealed. "Seriously? Are you gay?!"

Charlie turned bright red. "Kind of, yeah."

"You git! Here I thought I was the only one! Do you know how much easier my childhood would have been if I had known that?"

"So does this mean we don't get to have a stag party when you meet a guy?" George nudged Charlie.

"Nah, we can. I still appreciate the female form."

George let out a whoop and took a shot of whiskey.

"Hey, hey wait! George you owe me ten Sickles!" Bill laughed.

"You made a bet on whether or not I'm gay!?"

"It was years ago…the important part now is that I won!"

"You're both completely off your rockers, you know that?"

"Come on, Ginny!" George yelled as he lined up shots on the bar.

Ginny took three shots in a row and the men hollered. Loud music started blaring and the club filled up. They all settled around one of the stages, pushing Ginny up front.

"God Hermione would kill me if she were here right now!" Ginny yelled to George as she tossed some of her Muggle money onto the stage at one of the dancers who smiled appreciatively and tucked the money into her bra strap.

"Just enjoy it, Gin!" he yelled back as the dancer crawled off the stage and straddled Ginny's lap.

"Whatcha here for?" the dancer asked, grinding her hips into Ginny's.

"Stag party. I'm getting married on Saturday."

"She's a lucky woman, you're pretty cute. I've always had a thing for redheads." The dancer winked and ran her fingers through Ginny's hair causing her to shiver. Someone called from the other side of the stage and the dancer got up off of Ginny's lap. "Enjoy yourself tonight," she said before kissing Ginny's cheek and hopping back up on the stage. Ginny took a shot after shot of whatever it was Charlie was handing her. A few minutes later the dancer returned and straddled Ginny again.

"I'm out of money," Ginny slurred when the dancer started slipping her fingers through her hair.

"This one's on me."

"Be careful," Ginny said when she felt the woman's hands move down her neck, "I don't want to get in trouble. My brother is watching to tell my fiancee..."

"Don't worry about a thing, I'll be on my best behavior."

Ginny smiled and her brothers and Harry crowded around her and the dancer, cheering and handing Ginny more shots.

Somewhere around midnight they all staggered out of the club and across the street to the hotel. Percy got the key to the suite they had booked and everyone stumbled into the lift. Ron turned green when it lurched to go upwards. When they got to the suite they opened up the mini-bar, two of the dancers from the club came up to the room at Geroge's invitation, the one Ginny had gotten her lap dance from and another. After another few hours of drinking everyone passed out all over the rooms. Ginny was in one of the beds in the bedroom and Percy in the other, Harry and Charlie were on the couch, George and Bill were each in an overstuffed armchair, Ron had somehow ended up laying across four barstools.

Ginny awoke to a loud crash followed by Ron swearing and the rest of her brothers yelling at him for making such a noise followed by a series of moans and groans about the loud noise everyone else was making. Ginny groaned then rolled over to look at the clock.

"Noon…" she muttered. "Want more sleep…"

"Nope, sorry Gin," Percy said chipperly. "We've got to try and clean up a little then be out of here. Check-out time is in an hour."

"Cleaning is for the maids." Ginny put a pillow over her head and attempted to go back to sleep.

"Come on sis, get up!" Percy pulled the blankets back and Ginny screamed then clutched her head and groaned.

"You're a complete pain in the arse!"

"I know, get up."

Ginny staggered into the room where the rest of her brothers and Harry were clutching their heads and groaning. Bill passed around a large bottle of hangover potion and after a few drinks everyone started feeling somewhat better.

"Good party," George said, looking around. There were empty bottles everywhere. "Wonder what time the girls left."

"Right before you all started passing out," Percy said as he picked up the throw pillows off the floor.

"Anyone gonna be in any trouble when our wives interrogate you, Perce?" Harry asked.

"Nope. Although that one dancer did make a ton of passes at you, Gin. You were too drunk to care though I think."

"Whatever, as long as I kept my hands to myself."

"You did, don't worry. Come on, let's get out of here."

The group took cabs back to the Leaky Cauldron. Everyone Flooed back to their respective houses, Charlie to the Burrow since he was staying there until after the wedding. Ginny followed Harry to Grimmauld Place. Ginny was met by a sly-smiling Hermione.

"So are we still getting married?" Hermione asked.

"Percy said everyone behaved themselves. I'll have to take his word for it since I don't remember much after we left the club. Can I go up and sleep now?"

"Of course, love. You're not sleeping for more than a couple hours though so you'll sleep good tonight."

"You sound like my mum."

"Well I am one so it all works out."

"Yeah, but you're a hot mum. There's a difference, see?"

"Go up to bed, Gin." Hermione smiled.

Ginny awoke a few hours later to light kisses on her neck and Hermione's hands roaming under her shirt.

"I like this alarm clock…" Ginny moaned as Hermione bit down on her neck.

"Good because starting Sunday morning you get to wake up to it every day for the rest of our lives."

"You got time for a quick one?" Ginny smiled.

"I wish, love. But right now I've got to get ready to go to the Lovegood house with Luna. My party won't be anything like yours, I just asked for a simple little gathering. All your brother's wives will be there. Fleur and Angelina are bringing the babies. Willow and Aislin said they might drop in, too. I'll be back sometime this evening."

"Speaking of my brothers and their mates. Charlie's gay."

"You didn't know that already?"

"How did you know?!"

"He asked me what my dress looked like and told me the perfect style of shoes that would go with it."

"That would give it away, yeah."

Ginny crawled out of bed and headed downstairs she fell onto the couch next to Harry.

"You get some sleep?" he asked.

"Yeah, a little. You?"

"Yeah."

"Something wrong, Harry?"

"Trying to figure out what to use your room for when you move out," he smirked.

"Love you too, Harry."

Hermione came downstairs with Luna and they Flooed away to the Lovegood House although when they got there they just Flooed to the Burrow to meet the other women and walked over to Hermione and Ginny's newly finished house.