The next day
early dawn
She twisted and turned about on her bed, unable to sleep throughout the whole night. Results day kept screaming inside of her head even though there was still a day left and it was driving her up the wall. She could bet half her life on the fact that she had hardly had a blink of sleep at all. Honestly, did she have to go through this every night?
On the far left of the tent lay Ron, Pansy and Shawn, sleeping soundly, put aside the loud snoring Ron was making. Ginny realised just how much she had missed the snoring as she suddenly remembered how it had been her lullaby before everything that had happened. The far right lay Hermione, whom she had a feeling wasn't asleep too since she saw a blurry light through the translucent bed sheets that were covering her. Her mother was asleep in the middle of the room with her father, who too was snoring like Ron. Probably something he had inherited.
Bill and Fleur were asleep in the tent next to theirs, as was Charlie who had married a widowed witch and had adopted her daughter as his own. She had found this out yesterday during dinner and how much heartbreak it had caused her mother. It was probably because of all the misery her mother had felt and the love she had for all of them that brought her to forgive them and take them back. They were her children after all.
George too was next door. Poor lonely George. He still hadn't gotten over the death of his twin, Fred, which was why he hadn't been going out, or been seeing anyone lately whether male or female as he had said in his very own words that he had 'no time for love'. Fleur had apparently hooked him up with a lot of her friends, but even her part veela or veela friends couldn't bring him to start going out again or bring a smile to his face. She hoped that he wouldn't die alone. George was too much of a happy man to die alone.
She turned around to her left and was surprised to find that Gary was also awake, his blue eyes wide open and staring into hers. He must have just woken up she thought.
"Mum." He whispered, seeming to know that everybody was still asleep.
"Can't you sleep, baby?" she asked, as quietly as possible.
He yawned and shook his head, causing his dark auburn hair that needed cutting, to fall and cover his face. She moved his long tendrils aside and sighed.
She decided to take a walk outside and got up quietly and put her green jacket on. It had been a good idea to bring it with her. She then picked Gary up, who hadn't had much on and wondered what to dress him with.
What's that spell? She tried to remember. That warming spell… Right! She made her way out of the tent before performing the spell on Gary and found him smiling up at her with a toothy grin. He felt warm.
"Mummy couldn't sleep either." She told him. "Do you want to see something pretty?"
Gary nodded.
She made her way towards the hill and noted down how quiet the campsite was. Actually, it was incredibly quiet for a Quidditch convention.
"Isn't this pretty?"
They were now stood at the top of the hill and could see the entire site of the campsite. Gary giggled with delight when he saw the stadium and muttered Krum's name, surprising Ginny.
"Uncle fly!" he then squealed. "Me fly too!"
She stared at Gary, wondering who had taught him to call Krum, uncle. She had been planning to teach him so and was glad that she didn't need to. She sighed. Having spent all his life in the Krum family and having had Viktor Krum as a father figure for much of his life, she had a feeling that he may end up with having a few of Viktor's traits, including that of the love of flying. Was Gary going to end up a Quidditch player too? Thinking about it, maybe the love of flying was a trait inherited from her. After all, if she hadn't fallen pregnant, she would have opted for a career in the Quidditch world.
"Look, Gary!" she said pointing towards the horizon ahead of them.
He looked towards where she was pointing and saw the beautiful sea and sky, causing his face to begin to gleam with delight. A wondrous shade of a very light red spilt itself onto the wet sea canvas from the point where the sea met the sky, followed by orange, violet and blue, seemingly painting a make do rainbow on the surface of the ocean. Such a breathtaking sight. Ginny thought. I should take Gary out with me to see things like this more often. He seems so happy… Maybe he is meant for flying.
She then suddenly realised that Gary had never been to the beach or seaside before and decided that she should take him there. She could even take him out for a bit of flying if she could get her hands on a broom.
"Gary, do you want to go to the seaside?" she asked.
He cocked his head and stared at her curiously, wondering what on Earth she was talking about. She laughed and told him to wait and see.
When they got to the beach, she let Gary down and watched him as he cautiously and curiously walked towards the seawater, carefully watching his own steps as he stepped onto the pebble beach.
He seemed unsure of himself as his feet touched the pebbles. It wasn't like the pebbles he had encountered back at Krum Mansion so he was probably thinking that there was something wrong with the pebbles here.
She giggled as some droplets of seawater splashed onto him. He had frozen and had his arms bent with fists clenched against his chest in confusion and fear. He then almost tripped over from the sudden spasms of shivering.
"Go on Gary. It's okay. It's all right."
Being his mother, he trusted her and took another careful step, this time, feeling the waves washing his feet once… then twice… causing him to morph back into his frozen state.
"It's okay Gary, it's only water." She told him. "Like when I bathe you, but it's saltier."
She bent down to his level and dipped a finger into the seawater before touching his nose with her wet finger. He looked worried and stared at her with a frightened look on his angelic face, but slowly started to smile as she repeated the gesture.
"It's cold isn't it?" she asked. "Seawater is so cold!"
Gary soon began to play with the water and she watched as he got himself all wet after tripping over his own feet during the sudden spasms of delight. She helped him up and smiled as she saw his eager wet face and he began splashing the water again with his hands, wetting her slightly.
"You like this don't you?" she asked, as she slowly stood up.
"Yes!" he squealed.
She let him play by himself again and looked ahead of her and saw that the darkness was beginning to fade. A dark figure suddenly appeared right in front of her, far way, seemingly appearing to come out of the sun. She squinted her eyes to see what it was and soon realised it was a person on a broom, having been on one for more than half her life, although she hadn't been on one much these days.
Whoever the person was, was practicing a move on his or her broom. It wasn't one that she had seen before. A new move?
A loud splash snapped her out of her reverie and she saw Gary looking up at her as he lay down on the wet pebbles.
"Are you tired now?" she asked.
He nodded, coughing slightly as he had accidently swallowed some water.
"Yuck!" he said, scrunching his face up.
She dried him up with a spell as she helped him up, before drying herself, then lifted him up again as she began to walk along the pebble beach. She sighed, as she began to worry again about the results. What if your father is neither of them, Gary? She thought. That's going to kill me big time.
An owl suddenly appeared in the sky and flew down towards them, stopping right in front of Ginny in a hasty manner. It was a beautiful tawny owl, except, its feathers was in a messy state. The tawny owl suddenly stuck its foot out and Ginny saw that it was presenting her a small letter.
"Thanks."
She took the letter from it and saw that it was from Blaise. She sighed. When the fuck are you going to leave me alone? She thought. Do I have to put up with you everyday?
Ginny
Hey. How's life? Um, bad start. You know that I always fuck up my intros, so let's just ignore that I don't have an amazing introduction to fucking wow you.
Okay. So. I just wanted to apologise to you for pissing you off and everything (ignore the fact that I fucking suck at apologising too). Some of my actions were rash, sometimes uncalled for and there were some things that I should have not done in your sense.
I still have feelings for you though. I don't want you to ignore- especially forget that. I sincerely mean it. And how's Gary doing? Is he all right? I utterly miss him.
Hey. If you wanted to know about my awesome penis that you so cruelly kicked, it's fine. Nothing's wrong with it, I can still get aroused. This letter is going to burn after you finish reading this so you can't blackmail me with anything!
Before I write off, I just wanted to ask if I could be there during results day, regardless of the results. Even if Gary isn't my son, I'll still love you and him. Honest.
Forever yours,
B Z
The letter then burned and disappeared from her hand, leaving her hand empty. Gary made a noise of surprise as he never seen a letter burn before. He pointed at the owl and muttered something about 'daddy'.
Ginny stuffed her hand into her pockets and found that she had a scrunched up piece of paper inside. It was actually a receipt from a muggle store she had bought from yesterday whilst out with Hermione. She then conjured a make do quill and sat down on the pebble beach, placing Gary on her lap.
Blaise
-Not enough space to write an intro-
I should apologise for hurting you too.
Only a heartless bitch would ever do
that to somebody who is only trying to
help. It was awful on my part. Forgive
me.
She paused for a moment, wondering if she indeed wanted Blaise to be there during results day. Her heart pounded. Thump. Thump. Thump. Fuck she thought. I do want him there.
And yes, you may come. I'll send a
patronus to you on the day. You
can Apparate over then.
Yours,
Ginny
She blinked, and noted how she had just written 'yours' just as she sent the tawny owl off with the letter. She hadn't wanted to write anything before her name to be honest. Usually, a name would just do.
"Mummy!" Gary suddenly squealed. It wasn't his usual cheery happy voice but a squeal containing worry, anxiety and fear.
Ginny cocked her head. "Yes?"
He started to whine out incoherent words and pointed towards the direction of the sun. Ginny noted how much brighter it had gotten as the surface of the sea was now an array of a glittery silver sheet. Blinded by the sudden shine of the sun, she squinted her eyes and blinked before noting how the flying person had disappeared.
"What's the matter, Gary?" Ginny asked, as she couldn't see anything wrong. "What's wrong?"
He kept whining and moaning in a way that made Ginny worried. What worried her even more was that she didn't know what he was whining about, as there wasn't anything out of the ordinary that she could notice before her.
She decided that it was an owl, a sea bird or even a fish of some sort that had caught Gary's eyes and pushed the thought away. Having her arm around Gary, she noted that he was shivering. The spell had worn off.
"Gary, I think it's time we head back to the tent. Everybody is going to be waking up soon." Ginny muttered, kissing his long hair.
Gary had stopped whining and moaning but still held the perturbed look on his face as he looked over to the reddish horizon every now and then. She smiled as she saw how the light reflected off his blue eyes whilst seemingly appearing to take in the colour of the blue sea. She kissed his nose and took in the smell of his hair, noting how it smelled just like the Krum's garden.
"We're going to go watch a Quidditch game later at the stadium," she told him as they began to walk back slowly.
He smiled up at her and she returned the smile.
"I think you should get a haircut. Your hair is a bit too long…" she muttered, more to herself than to Gary. "Or should I braid your hair? We've got tons of time before the whole family heads over to breakfast. Do you want me to braid your hair?"
Gary cocked his head curiously, causing her to laugh.
"Right. I forgot that you don't know what a braid is." Pause. "You are going to look so adorable!"
They walked on for a bit more before passing by Section D, where Draco's tent was. Section D was always reserved for the celebrities, whether they booked a place or not. Ginny sighed, thinking how fucked up life was since nobody seemed to take it for granted that a lot of the people who had been part in the core of the war had even helped out at all. In fact, put aside Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, everybody else was forgotten except for the ones who had died, like Albus Dumbledore. All of the 'forgotten ones' weren't even reserved a place in Section D. Most of the people that made up Section D were in fact pop stars, Quidditch players, and WAGs- the filthy and horrible ones.
She then passed by Section C, where Luna's tent was. Section C, like the rest of the other sections, were for the 'normal' people.
Her family's tent was at Section A, the farthest away from the stadium.
As she drew closer to the tent, she gasped slightly as she was surprised to see Hermione wide awake and standing at the entrance of the tent. She was looking aimlessly at the ground with a hand on her tummy.
"Hermione! What are you doing outside?" Ginny asked. "Put a coat on or something you pregnant woman!"
Hermione shook her head with a sigh. "You habitually seem to forget that I am extremely adept with spells, Ginny."
Ginny laughed. "In that case, could you please cast some warming spells on Gary and I? After that, help me braid his hair."
Hermione smiled. "Sure."
One hour later
The whole tent had woken up now and Ginny noted how curious Gary was with his new friend.
Her mum and dad had left the tent with Pansy who had tagged along with them to get a seat at the make do restaurant to eat there breakfast.
"Hey, Gary," Ron mumbled. "This is Shawn. Shawn, this is Gary. You guys are cousins. Be nice to each other and don't fight."
Ginny laughed. "Honestly, Ronald, I really don't get you sometimes. Can't you speak to them normally and not just give them orders and facts?"
"I am!" He watched Gary as he felt Shawn's head before continuing. "You braided his hair. It looks nice. Could you braid mine?"
Ginny laughed. "You two would look like twins then!" she looked at Shawn and realised that he had gotten his hair cut in the image of the British flag. It had even been dyed that way, blue and red. "Oh Merlin! What the fu- um, what did you do to his hair?"
"I wanted to show some British pride here at this Quidditch tour thing." Ron said. "So I used Shawn to do so."
"Why don't you do the same with yours? You can always change it later with some hair products I can get you. You two will look so adorable together!"
Ron didn't look so sure which only made Ginny want to do so.
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase?"
"All right."
In a matter of a couple of minutes, Ron's hair was done and he looked just like his son.
Ginny chuckled. "You look so fu- adorable!"
Ron blushed with embarrassment. "Yeah…"
Ginny sighed as she thought how everything seemed so normal again- and in a day too! Was this really not a joke on her? Was everything honestly real?
"Hey, where's 'Mione?" Ron suddenly asked.
"Why?" Ginny asked.
"I don't know." He began. "She seems a bit off. I reckon it's that git Krum. Do you know where she went?"
Just as Ginny was about to make a response to his question, Hermione entered the tent with her twins on either side of her hips.
"Bloody hell." Ron muttered. "They look just like that bloody dunderhead."
Hermione gave him a look. "Good morning to you too. Thanks for greeting me in the morning in such a manner. What a good way to start the day off!"
Ron made a face as he looked into her eyes. "Oh come on, I was only joking. You look beautiful today." His face grew a bright red.
Ginny punched his arm and gave him a warning look. She had always had thought that Ron hadn't gotten totally over Hermione.
"Mum's said that we should head over to that restaurant place at eight. Do you know what the time is?" Ginny asked.
"Well, it's five minutes to. I guess we should head over now." Hermione said.
They began to make there way over to the restaurant and did so in a slow manner. Shawn being old enough to walk without getting too tired walked on foot whilst Hermione and Ginny held the rest of the children. Ron offered to help hold one of Hermione's twins, and so she had passed Miro over to him who was beginning to look more like Viktor. Viktoria was beginning to look more like Hermione much to Ginny's surprise.
"Bloody hell, he looks just like that Krum." He mumbled. "He's got your eyes though Hermione. Nice eyes yeah..."
They got to the restaurant and soon greeted everybody who was at the table. Her parents, Bill and Fleur, Charlie, his Romanian wife and daughter, George, Pansy, Luna and Lily, and Draco and Scorpius.
"Are you all excited today?" Arthur asked everyone. "It's a replay of the game back when you guys had that tournament back at Hogwarts."
"Ireland vs. Bulgaria?" Ron asked, eyes slightly changing in shade as memories flashed into him.
"Yeah." Charlie said, shaking his head with delight. "Can't believe Viktor Krum is still on the Bulgarian team after all these years. He's the only player who's had a career that long. Amazing that one he is."
"Way too talented to dismiss just like that." Bill added with the same gleam of admiration in his eyes. "Don't you all feel sorry for those younger ones trying to break into the first team squad?"
"Speaking of Krum, how are things going between you two?" Draco asked, Hermione. "Still shagging?" he wiggled his eyes.
Seeing Hermione's discomfort of the subject, Ginny gave Draco the look. "Do we honestly want to know about their sex life Draco?" she asked, noting the surprised look on her mother's face. Her father seemed cooler about the subject though. "Trying to sleep every night is hard for me with all of the noise they make."
The whole table laughed as Hermione burned a bright red.
"The next game of the world tour is going to be in Spain." Bill said, when the laughter died. "It's Spain vs. Russia."
"We could try and hook George up with a girl over there," Draco said. "Spanish girls are hot."
Ginny noted a look on Luna's face as he said those words and thought that maybe her suspicions of the two were right.
"Well, the game here is going to start at twelve." Arthur said. "So we still have time to walk about and take a look at the scenery here."
"We could get some signatures around here too since all of the other nations haven't got a game." Ron said.
"Draco's got us all VIP seats." Luna said all of a sudden.
"Yeah, so before we all go watch, we should meet up somewhere." Draco said.
"The entrance?" Charlie suggested.
"Nah. Too crowded." Bill muttered.
"What about the back entrance?" Arthur suggested.
"That's way too far back!" Molly said.
Hermione and Luna were having their own conversation, as was Pansy with Fleur. The only person who hadn't talked at all was George and Charlie's Romanian wife and daughter, put aside the younger kids with them.
"Why don't we just meet up where my tent is then make our way to the VIP seats together?" Draco finally said in his most supreme voice.
"Yeah, that's a good idea." Arthur said.
"I haven't been introduced to your wife yet," Ginny told her older brother, Charlie.
"You haven't introduced her to any of us properly actually," Arthur said.
"The wedding doesn't count." Bill added.
Charlie blushed as did his wife.
"Well, my wife's preferred name is Alina. She's learning her English right now since she's not fluent yet, so if any of you guys want to talk to her, an attempt of sign language will do for now." He looked over to his adopted daughter with love glowing in his eyes. "My beautiful daughter's name is Maria. She speaks better English than her mother. It was through Maria that I met my wife." He then paused as if ready to announce something else. "My wife and I are expecting a child."
Ginny thought that her mother's eyes were going to pop out as she suddenly stood up from her seat. She closed her eyes, preparing herself for the negative emotions that her mother was going to spill.
"CONGRATULATIONS!" she squealed. "I'M SO HAPPY FOR THE BOTH OF YOU!"
She must have really gotten over everything Ginny thought; making her wonder if she too should just move on even if some of the hurt remained with her. To be honest, she hadn't totally forgiven her mother yet and she hoped that her mother knew. Being all nice to her wasn't going to solve anything really. Ginny sighed. Only time could tell if she could forgive her mother.
A round of congratulations then went on. The only thing that let the happiness that was glowing around the table was the fact that George hadn't even uttered a word.
"I've invited Blaise Zabini by the way," Draco suddenly said. "You all do know him right? My best friend?"
Ginny blinked as a thought got to her. Why does he honestly have to be around me all the time! Honestly!
"That's great!" Luna said. "It will feel like we are sort of back in school again."
"Why don't we all go out and have some fun yeah?" Arthur suddenly said. "Come on, get up everyone. We'll see each other soon!"
When the group split, Ginny ended up being with Hermione and Ronald. Pansy was tagging along with Molly and Arthur with Shawn in her arms. It appeared that she had gotten really close to her mother-in-law. Draco and his son was going to go around with Luna and her daughter. And the rest of her family were hanging out together.
"Ronald? Aren't you going to hang out with your Pansy and Shawn?" Ginny asked as they began to walk around.
"Nahh. Need a bit of a break. Shawn pees an awful lot." Ron answered.
"Not surprised, considering that he took after you." Ginny muttered. "I remember how mum used to complain how you were toilet trained only after you were five. And not to mention how you wet your bed until you were ten."
He blushed furiously as he glared her way. Hermione was attempting to suppress her smile.
"Ginny!" he hissed.
"Yes, my dear brother?"
"Could you please stop embarrassing me?"
"I don't want to."
He didn't say anything after that.
Five minutes before the game
Ginny was at the VIP box now with everybody else as they waited for Blaise to arrive. The game was about to start in thirty minutes and she could feel the tension and excitement around the stadium as a lot of screaming and yelling could be heard.
"He's here!" Draco said loudly as the door behind them swung open.
"Hello everyone!" Blaise greeted as he walked over to them.
Everybody greeted him back.
Ginny found herself rather surprised and felt her heart warmed when she saw that the first thing he did after greeting everyone was come over to Gary to give him a hug. Blaise was currently whispering something into Gary's ears, and she smiled when she saw Gary giggle and give Blaise a kiss on the cheek.
Looking over to her mother, she saw her give the pair a curious look before looking over to Ginny. Ginny shrugged and just smiled at her mother, not wanting to give her any ideas.
When she turned back around, she noted that George was in a conversation with a jolie laide looking woman and appeared to be actually smiling, causing a smile to form on Ginny's own face again. Was today a day filled with miracles? It seemed like all of the people who were once sad were now happy.
Having Gary looked after by Blaise, she went to look for Hermione to talk to her and found her near the far back with her twins, not appearing to look too happy about being here.
"Hermione? What's with the face?" Ginny asked as she sat next to her. She picked Miro up who was lying on the ground and placed him on her lap.
"Nothing." Her best friend replied, trying to calm the very lively Viktoria who was currently screaming 'Daddy!' repetitively.
Ginny knew not to question her further and didn't mention the subject again and talked about the weather, a boring topic, until somebody suddenly interrupted the entire stadium with a loud sonorus spell.
"The game's are about to begin!" whoever the person was yelled. "First up, let's introduce the mascot of Ireland!"
There was a sudden explosion of fireworks as a leprechaun formed in the sky. The Irish team suddenly zoomed through the fireworks display and performed a gazillion tricks.
"And here they come! Chaser, Captain Evanna McCullough! Chaser, Mark Horan! Keeper, Daniel Lloyd! Beater, Jacob James! Chaser, Laura Facey! Beater, Alastair Moran! And Seeker, Rory Johnston!" the commentator yelled out in order of appearance.
"Holy shit, the team sheets completely different from laster year!" Ginny heard Ron exclaim.
"Yeah I know!" Bill replied to him. "The new manager of Ireland wants younger and fresher faces!"
"And now the Bulgarian's mascot- the famous veelas!"
Cheers of male fans were heard as the veelas appeared. Ginny rolled her eyes as did the rest of the females present at the stadium.
"Now welcome the Bulgarians onto the stage! Chaser, Valeri Dimitrov! Chaser, Ivanka Yankov! Chaser, Ekatrina Mihaylov! Beater twins, Stanislav and Dimitar Bozhinov! And seeker-" there was an awkward pause as the crowd heard the commentator's tiny voice as he had a short conversation with somebody. "And debut seeker, Hristo Manolev!"
Ginny knew that everybody was in shock of not hearing Viktor Krum's name, but what surprised her the most was the look on Hermione's face.
"I'm surprised to find that favourite seeker and Captain Viktor Krum is not on the team. Valeri Dimitrov will play captain for today!" the commentator announced. There was another awkward pause as the referee prepared the balls for the game. "Well, what a surprise! Turns out Viktor Krum cannot play through injury! News has just reached me that he has seriously injured himself practicing a move this morning! He is currently resting at St. Mungos hospital over in England as he is at a very serious state!"
Ginny heard Hermione gasp as she suddenly stood up without realising that she had just dropped a very surprised Viktoria onto the ground.
"Oh my God!" Hermione cried out, as she stood motionlessly in panic. "Oh my God!"
The whole VIP box appeared to freeze as Hermione started to panic. "I need to see him! Oh my God! Is Viktor okay?"
Ginny stood up soon after, wondering what to do as everybody else still tried to take in the information of the apparent accident.
Hermione turned around to face her. "Ginny, I've got to go. I can't watch this game. Look after the twins for me."
"No, I'm coming with you." Ginny said adamantly. She turned to face Blaise. "Blaise, look after Gary and the twins for us. Finish watching the game."
Before anybody could respond, Hermione grabbed Ginny's hand and ran out of the VIP box, and brought her out of the stadium with her to find a floo box as people could only get to St. Mungos through the floo system. Apparating to the hospital was virtually impossible because of the secuirity issues.
Ginny could feel Hermione trembling with emotion and could see tears falling down her face. She hoped that she was all right as she watched her best friend enter the floo, mumbling the hospitals name. She then followed after her friend as soon as Hermione disappeared.
A/N
The next chapter should be the 'actual' results day but problems will prevent Ginny from finding out the result! That's all I'm telling you about the next chapter xD I hope this made up for the wait! Flames and reviews both accepted. The next chapter isn't the last one!