A/N New chapter. Hope you like it!
Ginny hugged Gary tightly and begged him to forgive her as soon as she saw him. He had been sleeping at the time and was caught off guard by the sudden frantic awakening and shaking. He began to cry out of surprise and shock but gradually began to soften his cries as he was now crying for another reason. He whimpered as he tried to get closer to her. She had come back.
"Oh Gary! I'm so sorry!" She whispered into his ears as she hugged him. "You're not ever going to forgive me for this are you? You know what? I'll make it up to you- whatever it takes. I'm so sorry! You missed me haven't you? I love you I love you I love you so much! Please forgive me!"
An hour later, she let Gary go back to sleep again. She wondered why he was so sleepy and later found out when Hermione explained how he had had trouble sleeping since she had gone for the past two days? Three days? This made her feel worse than she already was for leaving her son. She had to make up for it now, even if it took her the rest of her life to do so.
She sat herself down on the living room sofa with Hermione who was looking at her cautiously, as if studying her. When was the last time she had sat here? It seemed like years ago.
"So what are you going to do now?" Hermione asked her, even though she had asked her this during their early interminable-like conversation. "Are you sure he's left all his money to you? Do you have any evidence? I'm worried about what Draco might do. He might use it as evidence or something against you, but I doubt it. He knows you've got nothing to do with the murders, he's told me so."
"Branni's said that he's already transfered it to my account, I just need to sign the agreement papers or something at Gringotts." Ginny told her. "And how do you know about the murders? Did Draco tell you?"
She nodded, albeit hesitantly.
Ginny sighed.
Hermione continued to stare at her. "So with Branimir gone, what are you going to do now?"
Ginny raised her shoulders then let it sink down. She honestly didn't know.
"Blaise has spent ages trying to find you." she added, looking at her as if to see her reaction.
Ginny raised an eyebrow. "No way."
Hermione smiled. "He's going to be here soon. He's been stopping by everyday to update on his findings and to see if you were back yet. He was tipped off yesterday that you were in Russia or something. Were you?"
Ginny shrugged. "To be honest, I don't know. I used a portkey and found myself in a cave, that's all. And Branimir was there. We talked and stuff."
Hermione raised an eyebrow. "I have a feeling that you don't want to elaborate on 'stuff'"
Ginny blushed. Does she know? No point wondering. She knows me well enough to figure me out.
"Oh! I've got to go to a meeting right now- would you mind looking after the kids?"
Ginny smiled. "After everything you've done for me? Of course!"
Ginny watched as Hermione left the room to change before coming back to pick some things up on the table. She sighed heavily as she watched her. It felt as if Hermione only got more beautiful as time went by, and she was just getting ugly. Everything just seemed to go well for her, which in a way seemed unfair, but then again, Hermione had saved the world so life was probably paying back its debts to her. Fuck. Wasn't life just so unfair?
"Actually Ginny, would you like to go outside with the kids after my meeting?" Hermione suddenly asked. "It's been a while since we've all hung out together."
Ginny nodded. "Sure."
"You can then go sign the papers and everything." She said, before adding, "and maybe even buy me a present." She winked.
As soon as Hermione left, Ginny walked back to Gary's room to watch him sleeping. Why hadn't she done this before, now that she thought about it? She felt as if she had been wasting all this precious time away from him. Watching him sleep gave her this feeling like no other. Every light snore he made sounded beautiful and acted as if it were a lullaby. Soon, Ginny felt her eyes start to close and fell asleep with her head rested on his bed.
"Mmm?"
"Mmmmm?"
"Mmmmuuuu?"
"Mum?"
Ginny opened an eye and saw Gary's blue eyes right in front of hers. She smiled and kissed his nose. "Are you awake now?" she asked him.
He laughed. "No- you!"
She brought him into a hug and kissed his hair, taking in the smell that she couldn't quite recall. Seemed familiar, yet she couldn't remember. Who cared what the smell was? As long as it was Gary here with her, she couldn't care how he smelt like. "You smell so nice." she whispered.
He laughed again and hugged her neck. He seemed really glad to see her again.
"Mummy! Look!" he said, pointing towards the window. "Look!"
It took Ginny a while to do so and when she did turn around, she realised that an owl was pecking at the window. Why hadn't she heard anything? Oh right. Gary! She loved Gary too much to realise anything else!
Instead of releasing him from her hug and placing him on a bed or something like she usually did, she picked him up as she stood up and held him on his hips as she made her way over to the window. She let the owl in and found that it was a letter from Blaise for... it didn't say. There was just a blank space.
"Hey Ginny!" she suddenly heard come from all the way down where there was a pathway that led to the Krum's garden slash park.
She looked down out the window to see who it was, only to find that nobody was there. She heard a gush of wind and suddenly saw Blaise standing, or rather, sitting on a broom in front of her. Looking at him, she had never seen him so happy before. He was like a little petulant boy who had just been given the sweetest lollipop ever.
"Merlin! Granger's- I mean Hermione's told me you've come back! I just got the news! When did you come back? Why didn't you tell me? I didn't here anything from you!" he quickly said, before suddenly looking furious. He appeared to want to yell at her but the appearance on his face disappeared when he saw Gary.
"Gary!" he smiled.
"Daddy!" Gary squealed.
Ginny looked at her son with a bewildered look on her face. Did Gary just call him 'daddy'? Her heart picked up pace and she felt blood rush to her face. What was that all about? She held Gary closer to her.
"Look what I got you!" Blaise took a teddy bear out from behind him and passed it to Gary. "I bought it from a muggle store." he mumbled to Ginny.
Ginny looked at him with a smile, a curious smile. He had changed so much it was hard to believe he was even himself.
When she put Gary down on the table in front of her, he crawled over to the far side so that Blaise couldn't see him anymore. The look on Blaise's face changed when it seemed as if it was only Ginny and himself alone in the room.
"I need to talk to you." he said. "Alone."
"I can't now-" Ginny mumbled. "I'm going to go out later with Hermione and the kids."
"Then after?" the tone of his voice changed.
"What's the matter with you? One time you're happy- then the next you're like-"
"Let's not argue in front of our son." he interrupted. "I don't want such an influence on him."
"He's not your son." Ginny said with assurance, much to her own surprise. She saw that it was not only herself in shock but Blaise too and suddenly felt sorry for what she has said. "I mean- we don't know if he's your son yet. Sorry for being so rash."
He looked at her in the eye. "And who was the one who went on about him being our son?"
Before she could say anything, Hermione's voice interrupted her.
"Hey Ginny? Is Blaise there with you?" her voice called out.
Looking around, Ginny saw that her voice was coming out of some charmed phone.
"I cast a spell on him so that he could seep through the protective spells around the house. Could you bring the kids out with you to Gringotts? Blaise can come too if he wants."
The phone hung up.
"You coming?" Ginny asked.
Blaise nodded.
an hour or so later
Ginny finished signing the papers on the finalisation of the money transfer and walked out of Gringotts to get over to Gary and the rest and saw that Blaise was attempting to flirt with Hermione. This infuriated Ginny but she managed to keep her cool. Flirting was a natural trait of the Zabini's, a little wouldn't do much harm?
She then watched as Blaise picked Gary up from the ground who had just been pulling at Viktoria's hair. He gave him a kiss and this softened Ginny.
"Hey! It's done!" Ginny called out.
"That's great" Blaise said as she got to them.
"So where shall we go?" Hermione asked. "I really haven't got a clue."
"Did the meeting go well?" Ginny asked, instead of answering her question.
She saw Hermione's face turn a shade darker if that was possible. It was as if something bad had happened, but she didn't want to talk about it.
"We can go to some muggle thingy." Blaise said. "It's called a circus I believe. They do all this weird magic thing."
Ginny was confused and she saw that Hermione was trying to suppress a laugh.
"You serious?" Hermione asked.
"What's a circus?" Ginny asked.
"You'll see." Hermione said. "I'm sure the kids will love it."
half an hour later
Ginny watched as the 'magician' did what was apparently magic with a smirk on her face. She seriously couldn't believe that muggles were this stupid- in the sense of what they thought was magic of course.
Hermione was sitting on the far left of her with the twins in between them and Blaise was sat on her right with Gary sitting on his lap.
There was a sudden loud pop and a lion appeared out of no where and appeared to be flying.
"Wow! Muuuumm! Look!" Gary said through laughing. "Look!"
Ginny gave him a kiss. "Are you enjoying this."
He nodded.
As they continued to watch, she felt Blaise slip his hand onto hers. She almost snatched her hand away but she didn't. She didn't know why, but she just didn't. Branimir suddenly popped in her head and she felt guilty, as if she were cheating on him. Blaise leaned over to her so that he was close enough to whisper into her ears.
"Ginny. You know. I never felt like this before." he whispered.
Oh no. she thought. Is he going to tell me he loves me too?
"I never felt like this for..." he continued before pausing. "I mean, I never felt like I belonged before, that I was part of something, part of a family." He looked at Gary. "He's really changed me as have you. Thank you."
Ginny blinked. She hadn't expected him to say that. She was about to say something when water sprayed all over them. The water show bit of the show was beginning. When she looked over at Blaise, he was looking away now at the show.
Her heart suddenly felt as if it were tightening and suffocating. She missed Branimir already. She missed him a lot. When she tried to move her right hand, she realised that Blaise was still holding onto it- gingerly- as if she were a fragile piece of glass, yet, he was holding onto her firmly. Family... she thought. Am I starting to feel part of a family again?
Time went on...
It was late at night and Ginny was crying herself to sleep. Where the hell is Branimir? she thought as she shoved her pillow on top of her head with her face against the bed sheets. I'm going to fucking kill him if he decides to come back! I fucking miss you! Merlin! I fucking MISS YOU! COME BACK!
She pulled the pillow from on top of her bed and almost threw it aside when she remembered that Gary was sleeping. She placed it back to its rightful place and sighed, suddenly thinking about Hermione. She hadn't been eating much lately nor been around the house much. She had had a lot of meetings too. Krum was away on some world tour and hadn't been here when she had come back. Was that it? Was that why she was all over the place? Should she move out soon? She had a lot of money now after all and everything...
She turned herself over and could see Gary sleeping from where she was. Moonlight spilt all over his body all of a sudden and she found herself looking at an angel. The night angel. Was that what Gary was? He was much more calm at night. Gary... What have I put you through? Do you really think Blaise is your dad?
They had spent almost everyday since her return together and Blaise insisted on having to spend almost every second he could muster with him. He had been sweet... nice even when with them. It was almost as if they really were a family.
Putting her thoughts onto family, she suddenly remembered that the results for the test was out in three days!
Merlin! Merlin! she didn't want to think about it. She didn't want to think about who the father of Gary was, because if she did so, she felt that it would be unfair on whoever she had thought wasn't the father. She didn't want her hopes up too much.
There was a sudden pecking on the window. A gentle pecking. What is an owl doing here so late at night? she thought.
She got out of bed and walked over to the window and opened it to find that it was the same owl from the day when she had came back. A letter with Blaise's name for... it didn't say.
"Boo!"
She almost screamed but a hand covered her mouth. It was Blaise... on his broom.
"What are you doing here?" she hissed when he dropped his hand from her mouth.
"I came to say hello! We were going to hand out remember? I never managed to get you alone after the Gringotts thing you had!"
"At this time? It's supposed to be everybody's bed time!"
"But you're not sleeping. It's obviously not your bed time!"
He has a point there... "What are you doing here at this time?" she asked him.
"I came to see Gary. I was worried about him." he said. "Actually, I came here every night to check up on him ever since you disappeared. I was worried something might happen to him being around Granger and her lot."
"Creeper much." she muttered. "And it's Krum by the way. You keep forgetting that."
"I cant lose a habit I can't shake can I?" he said. "I can call her Granger all I want. She seems to prefer it anyway."
Before she could comment on what he had said, he suddenly offered his hand to her which came to her as a surprise.
"What?" she asked.
He retracted his hand and she suddenly had a feeling that he was checking her body out. Even though she had her clothes on, she covered her privates.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing?"
"Watch your language young mother." he said. "Not in front of our son!"
"I don't like people checking me out like that." she glared at him.
"You're in your night clothes. You can't go out like that. Get changed." he paused for a moment before adding. "I think you have lovely tits."
"I don't like being told what to do- and don't comment on my boobs like that you pervert!"
He covered her mouth again- with a finger.
"You're going to wake Gary up." he said with a smirk. "Get changed. You're going out on a date with me."
"Says who!"
He gave her a wink. "You know you want to!"
For some reason, she did change in the end, after some coercing back and forth. When she changed, she walked back to where the window as and saw Blaise offer his hand again.
"Jump." he said.
"You crazy? You want me to do some suicidal act?"
"Just do it!"
For some reason, she did, and she found herself falling until... she landed on a broom.
"Gift for you." he said. "It's the latest edition. Come on!"
He grabbed the front of her broom and flew off. Ginny felt like she was going to fall off soon as she had been caught off guard but soon found her balance and grip and shot past Blaise.
"I see you still have those skill!" he said.
The stars above them were in their many legions but were not shining brightly or anything. They were rather dull and only seemed to be like bits of metal pieces scattered across some tattered black piece of forged sheets. The wind suddenly past her and it was cold. This didn't seem much like the romantic date anybody had seen in the pictures but who cared? It was better to live life in reality than some imagined world.
When Blaise finally got to her, she found that he was looking into her eyes.
"Feels nice to be back on a broom yeah?" he asked.
"I haven't been on one since forever." Ginny muttered. "I miss the feeling of flying. Did you know that I had first kiss on a broom?
"There's something about you." he suddenly said as they flew together towards no where. "You're different. Not only are you beautiful, you've got a nice figure even after giving birth."
Ginny flew closer to him so that their thighs were touching. She leaned towards him and she could see that Blaise was preparing for a kiss. She wanted to laugh but instead whispered into his ears "You seemed to have lost your touch. I'm not going to fall for that."
"Oh really?"
She nodded.
They ended up playing a childish game of tag through the late night to early dawn and watched the sun rise together when the time came.
"Merlin, that's beautiful." she whispered.
"Just like you, only you out do it." Blaise had managed to hear what she had said.
She turned to face him. "You have really lost your touch. I'm telling you, it's not going to work, whatever you're trying to do. If you think that you love me, you don't. You're just confusing the love for a family with your love for me, which you don't have."
He frowned. "All right. You got me. I do love you, but I'm being honest! I fucking love you!"
"I can prove to you that you don't!"
"How?"
Ginny flew over to him so that their thighs were touching again and leaned forward to kiss his lips. When they touched, she suddenly saw Branimir and deepened the kiss which Blaise willingly accepted. They went crazy for a while and only stopped when the sunlight caught her eyes. She saw that their brooms had acted like a table for them to lie on and saw that Blaise was on top of her. She pushed him off.
"See? I do love you as you do me." Blaise said, looking at her longingly.
"I don't." Ginny insisted. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it wasn't you who I saw when I kissed you. You may love me, you may not, but I don't love you."
His eyes turned a darker shade. Those last five words really had hurt him. "You lie. Who did you see?"
"Your brother."
Ginny wondered if she really did see a tear form in his eyes, but she felt a sudden anger that she couldn't care if Blaise was hurting or not although she knew she would regret this soon. She passed the broom she was on over to Blaise before jumping off.
"What are you doing? Are you mad?" Blaise asked as she fell.
He flew after her and tried to grab her hand by reaching his hand out for her. Just as he was about to catch her hands, she Apparated quickly and found herself back in her room at Krum mansion. Why hadn't she gotten hurt from the protective spells? She had a special spell on her to repel them, a spell casted by Hermione herself. She wondered if Blaise had crashed on to the ground or not since she had Apparated almost at that point. She wanted him to wake up, even if he had to get hurt.
As she was about to shut the window she could see Blaise flying aimlessly around and looked as if he was hurt, physically. He had managed to come back, but couldn't see where the house was. The spell Hermione had casted on him was one that only lasted a certain number of hours. She sighed.
Did I really mean to hurt him like that? She thought. Will he treat Gary differently after what I had said? What I did to him?
She felt herself sink down to the ground and soon found herself curled up in a ball. She heard footsteps outside, Hermione's footsteps. She had just gotten home from wherever she had been.
A/N Was it good or bad? Flames and reviews both accepted! I probably made mistakes here and there... sorry for that!
