The next day
"Ginny? Do you know what happened to Blaise?" Hermione asked when she got back home from work. "He was bleeding when I saw him- dried up blood all over him which smelt awful- he said that he wants to die and everything... He mentioned your name! Did you do something to him? He was literally on his knees when he somehow Apparated into my office! I thought I had protective spells-"
"-Did he go running off to you like the sod he is?" Ginny interrupted with a huff.
Hermione frowned at her. "Ginny, whatever it was that you did, I don't like it. He seemed genuinely hurt."
Ginny sighed. "He took me out on a date late last night and I accepted it... I regret that. He kissed me- which I only accepted because I wanted to prove to him that he didn't love me... He's adamant that he does and...I don't know. I fell off the broom he gave me... or rather jumped off... he followed me and I suppose he hit the ground when I Apparated back home."
She saw Hermione's eyes widen. Definitely a bad sign.
"You 'suppose he hit the ground'? You let him hit the ground?" Her eyes dilated with horror. "He didn't even bother to heal himself! He looked really hurt! How could you do that to him!" she paused for a moment to take in everything. "You just made it sound as if his suicidal act is something so ordinary!"
Ginny sighed again. "I just can't forget Branimir." she looked into Hermione's eyes. "Do you think he meant it when he said he was never going to come back?"
"With Draco going all crazy like he is? I doubt he would." Hermione looked her in the eyes. "I'm sorry but I honestly don't think he's worth the wait. Look at what he's doing to you! Your hair is all over the place and you haven't been able to think properly lately!"
Ginny pulled at her own hair and tried to straighten them with her fingers. "I feel terrible. I feel like I've hurt somebody."
Hermione's hands placed themselves on her hips. "Just to let you know- you did."
She glared at Hermione. "You know what I mean!"
The two young women remained silent for a while as their conversation had somehow digressed into nothing. They had left the kids with Hermione's parents, a thing which Ginny hadn't really wanted to do but after the great insistence Mr. Granger had, she acquiesced in the end which was why the two were now home alone.
"You haven't been too happy lately." Ginny suddenly decided to say. "It's been a long while since I got back and... I've noticed. Is it because of... Viktor?"
Hermione didn't say anything for a while. Ginny decided not to press her and waited. They both watched the clock tick and when the smallest hand went around three hundred and sixty degrees, Hermione gave out a puff.
"Well... I'm almost two months pregnant." Hermione mumbled.
Ginny's jaw dropped and she attempted to shut her mouth. "Congratulations!" She said with a mixture of shock and happiness. She smiled. She hadn't been expecting that. She wondered why she hadn't noticed anything. Hermione was probably using a charm to make herself look 'normal'. Every pregnant woman seemed to use the spell these days. It said so in the papers she read the other day.
"And I miss him." Hermione added quietly. She looked as if she were going to burst into tears "It's been so long since we were last together. He isn't replying to any of my letters... patronus... anything, not even his manager or team mates are. He doesn't know yet- that I'm pregnant I mean. I don't know how to tell him. Oh Merlin... I've filed for a divorce."
Ginny's eyes widened. Now that was the Hiroshima bomb to everything they had talked about thus far in the entire time they had known each other. "ARE YOU CRAZY! HE LOVES YOU LIKE CRAZY AS YOU DO TOO! YOU TWO USED TO FUCK EACH OTHER EVERY NIGHT- which I only know because you two always forget the silencing charm...- WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU? Is that why you've gone to all of those 'meetings' to get everything sorted?"
Hermione nodded and slumped onto a chair. "Haven't you seen the pictures in the- in the magazines and papers lately?" she asked quietly. "He's been with some other girls... dirty little whores..."
Ginny frowned. "Hermione. You told me not to believe the papers or anything when I had trouble and fuck knows what. You should do the same too. He wouldn't do that to you. You know that."
Hermione looked at Ginny straight in the eyes. "People change over time Ginny. Not one person ever stays the same. I'm filing for divorce. I want a divorce. I'm getting a divorce."
"Fucking hell, wake up Hermione! This is not the Hermione I know! Pregnancy is making you feel like this. Wake up! You don't want a divorce!" Ginny paused for a moment and looked at Hermione carefully and suddenly Blaise came to her mind. "Are you sure the baby is his?" she whispered hesitantly. "Is the baby Viktor's?" Fuck. She regretted saying that.
Hermione gave her a furious glare. "OF COURSE! I HAVE ONLY EVER HAD SEX WITH HIM! AT LEAST I KNOW WHO THE BABY'S FATHER IS UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE!"
Ginny blinked as did Hermione. If either one of them had been holding something, it would have slipped through their fingers and dropped to the floor with a crash. Did she just fucking say that? Ginny felt like beating the shit out of the fucking pregnant woman but decided against it as it was the hormones that was getting to Hermione. She hadn't meant what she had said. Calm down... Calm down...
"I didn't mean to say that." Hermione said quietly. She looked sincerely apologetic. "I'm sorry... I'm just... tired... Sorry..."
"I know you didn't mean it. Just don't say it again."
They didn't talk to each other for an hour after that. Ginny couldn't believe what was going on. So life wasn't so perfect for Hermione after all. But still... she didn't want them to get a divorce, even if Krum was cheating on Hermione.
Ginny looked at Hermione and sighed. "Don't feel so sad. Whatever it is that he has done, he'll tell you. He's an honest guy, you know that."
Hermione didn't answer her.
"Come on Hermione... Cheer up."
"Leave me alone."
"Come on."
"I said, leave me alone."
"Oh come ooooon."
"LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"Herrrrrmmmmiiioooonneeeeee"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"I'm going to go out."
Hermione grabbed her hand frantically. "No! Don't leave me alone!"
Ginny smiled at her. "You coming then?"
an hour later
They had a fun time, a girls day out. Ginny saw to it that Hermione was happy, and she was- until they bumped into Blaise.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Ginny asked, her arm still linked to Hermione's. "In muggle London I mean." When she looked into Hermione's eyes, she looked away from her. "Hermione... don't tell me you told him where we were."
"I'm sorry... I just felt sorry for him." Hermione mumbled.
Ginny looked back at Blaise and saw that he still had bruises and cuts on parts of his skin that his clothes didn't cover. "Didn't you heal yourself?" she asked, trying to sound as if she didn't care, that she lacked empathy. Fucking retard. Why didn't he bother healing himself? I thought he cared about his body like the retard he is.
"I'd like to try the muggle way. It makes me feel more... human in a sense." he said.
"I'll be leaving now..." Hermione muttered.
"Are you sure?" Ginny and Blaise asked at the same time.
Ginny looked away from Blaise's eyes as they had made eye contact at that moment. Who the fuck does he think he is to be so concerned about her? Fucking man whore. Hermione and her life is none of his fucking business. Get a fucking life Mr. Zabini.
"Wear something warm. You need to look after the baby." he continued when nobody said anything. He sounded fucking concerned for her.
Hermione nodded with a smile then walked off leaving the two alone.
"What do you mean 'You need to look after the baby'?" Ginny asked furiously. "Is her baby yours too?" she added, hoping to get a reaction out of him.
Blaise glared at her in the most angry manner she had ever seen in her entire life that concerned him. "Don't talk like that. You're being a fat ass bitch. She's your best friend!" he growled. "Try to be concerned for her."
"Then why are you so concerned, you man whore? She's my best friend, not yours. Did you or did you not impregnate her?"
"I didn't! The baby isn't mine!" He looked away from her and looked out ahead of him towards where a street lamp was. The light wasn't working well and was periodically flickering. "I was the first person she came to when she found out she was fucking pregnant." he continued. "She thought that you were too busy with your own problems so she didn't tell you and told me instead. She's going through a lot right now you know. I don't want her to get hurt."
"I still don't believe you." Ginny said, angry that he seemed more concerned with Hermione than herself. "I wouldn't be surprised if you did bed her. You probably raped her or something. Dropped some love potion into her coffee? Is that why you've stopped calling her Krum? Has she told you about the divorce? Do you want to marry her or something?"
"Shut up ginger and stop asking me so many questions." he growled, much to her surprise. Out of all of the cruel and degrading things he had ever said to her, 'ginger' had never been part of the list. "That's her business and not ours. I can't tell you anything else, even if you had a wand at my throat. She's my friend too."
"Fine." she sighed, trying to calm down. She didn't really want to have a fight with him. "Did she set me up to hang out with you?"
"Yes. I asked her too."
Her mouth fell wide open. "You're being such an arse."
And then, the usual Blaise came along.
"And you're being such a pretty arse."
Ginny laughed, much to her own surprise. Their argument wasn't supposed to end like this! "You are trying way too hard."
"As are you."
They then walked for a bit and passed by a couple of coffee shops and stores.
"I don't get it." she said.
"What?" Blaise asked.
"After all I did to you, you're still here." she said with a sigh. "Don't you fucking hate me at all? I mean like... I fucking hurt you."
"Why should I hate you?" he asked in a gentle voice. "There's nothing to hate about you."
"But I hurt you! And just yesterday too! Doesn't your arm fucking hurt?"
He looked at her. "It happened yesterday. The day's past. The event's gone. What you did before has nothing to do with what is happening now, today. You know... just get over it. And by the way... I love you."
Ginny laughed again. She was so taken aback and moved by what he had said in the earlier part of his very short speech, she wanted to cry. But he just had to end the sentence like that. So typical of Blaise. "You are one crazy handsome son of a fucking bitch."
"As are you, except, you're the bitch in the sentence." he smiled at her. "I always thought that I was handsome. Thanks for agreeing with me"
She punched his arm. "Don't call me a bitch."
"OWWW!" he grabbed his arm and rubbed it. "That was verbal abuse on my part. You just physically abused me. My arms broken you know. I find that physical abuse is worse because everybody can see the evidence."
"And verbal abuse isn't? It sticks to the person for the rest of their lives! Now that's even worse!"
Ginny's eyes widened when she realised what he had said- she had hit his broken arm. Without thinking, she lifted his arm gingerly and fussed over it. "Oh Merlin! Why didn't you say so? You need to get this arm healed! Where's the band? I thought you said you were going to heal yourself the muggle way you idiot!"
"I love you too."
Ginny looked at him carefully in the eyes and wondered how his eyes could sparkle like that, even when he was in pain. Branimir suddenly came to mind. "I never said I loved you, Blaise."
He looked into her eyes and cupped her face with a hand to get a proper look at her. The gaze he had over her pierced her hard, so hard that she couldn't break off from it. "You have very pretty eyes if you wanted to know." he said. He paused. "Ginny. You don't have to say the words to know whether you love a person or not. You just know. Some people tend to suppress their feelings because they just don't want to admit it."
Ginny shoved his unharmed arm that was cupping her face and pushed him aside. "I'm sorry to break the news to you Blaise, but I don't love you. I love Branimir."
"That's what you'd like to think." he growled. "Everything has to be picture perfect for you! Why don't you want me to be part of your life? What has Branimir done to deserve a better place in your life?"
Ginny glared at him. "You know what Blaise? Just shut up and leave me alone. I've had enough of you today."
He smirked. "Of course- you haven't had enough of me, you want more! Isn't that what you want?"
Ginny glared at him. "I'm being fucking serious. And you know what I mean! Leave me alone now or I'll hex you into oblivion."
She began to walk away as fast as she could but could hear footsteps following closely behind her. He wasn't going to let her go that easily.
"Do you still want the broom gift I have for you?" he asked from behind. "I've got it with me right now- well I had it with me anyway-"
She had a feeling that he was checking her out. And did the 'broom' have any connotations? She wasn't so sure. Luckily, they were just right next to an alley. She could sort him out in there. Ginny stopped walking and turned around to face Blaise who crashed into her from the sudden stagnation. She grabbed his collar and licked her lips flirtatiously.
"I've got a present for you too." she whispered in the most seductive voice she could.
She dragged him over with her into the alley until the were in the far end. She pushed her body against him for a bit and could feel him getting aroused. Men... She kicked him in between the legs then took her wand at and gave him the bat bogey hex.
"What the fuck did I tell you?" she asked. "Didn't I warn you to fucking leave me alone?"
She could feel the tiny side of her sadistic nature, which she could confidently say with no doubt every body had, creep up on her as she tried to suppress her laughter. Suddenly feeling guilty for hurting him, she healed him with some spells before Apparating back home and left him there, wondering if he was going to give up or not. She knew she had hurt him more, physically and emotionally, which she hated herself for, but she felt that he deserved it. And for some reason, she hoped that he didn't give up on her. It would give her a reason to look forward to the next day.
A/N Did you enjoy this one? I'm updating as fast as possible because of the holidays. I have doubts as to whether I can update during that time so I'm writing as fast as I can right now so that I don't have to make up for the sudden stoppage later xp. Have a nice holiday everybody! As per usual, flames and reviews both accepted.