Hey guys! I finally finished the chapter, sorry it's been so long! Thanks, as always, to Elliroc who spends what seems like a million hours a week to write. Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 40

Charlie's POV.

Alexis stared at the door her father had just left through for a few seconds before turning her attention back to Lucas and his gifts from Fred and George. He mother sat on the other side of the bed, her eyes darting between her daughter and the door, silently debating whether or not to follow her husband.

"I'll be back in a minute Lexy," I said, kissing her forehead and heading for the door.

"What are you doing?" she asked, looking concerned.

"Going to talk to you dad."

"Don't worry about it Charlie, he'll come around eventually," she told me.

"I'm going to talk to him."

"Be careful, he might hex you," she warned.

"Lucas, can I borrow your cloak?" I asked.

He nodded, handing it to me. Alexis laughed as I put on one of Fred and George's shield cloaks.

"Now I'm safe," I told her as I headed into the hallway.

I found Jonathon sitting outside Alexis's room, he looked up as the door opened and glared at me, as he had taken to doing.

"Leaving are you?"

"No actually, I was just looking for you. I won't be leaving anytime soon."

"Mr Weasley, you will have nothing else to do with my daughter. You have caused her enough pain and suffering as it is. You will leave and you will never see her again."

"So you plan to make her miserable by making her decisions for her?"
"She will not be miserable if you are out of her life!" he shouted at me.

"I'm not leaving Mr Fuller. I love your daughter very much and I plan to spend the rest of my life with her," I responded calmly.

"You will have nothing more to do with her! And you certainly will not marry her! I forbid it!"

"Mr Fuller, you have a beautiful daughter in there who needs you!"
"She was, until someone took her to play with the dragons and got her all scarred!"
"She still is! She is the most beautiful girl I have ever laid eyes on!"

"And what will happen if she can't walk? You'll run back to Romania."

"I no longer have a job, Mr Fuller. I quit months ago, not long after Alexis was admitted here. I won't be leaving her, regardless of the outcome."

"Until you realise just how hard it would be to support her and Lucas on your own, physically, emotionally and financially!"

I had to refrain from pulling my wand on him then.

"Yes, it may be difficult at times, but if it comes to that I will manage! Alexis is the most amazing, beautiful, passionate, talented girl I have ever met and I will do anything for her, no matter what it takes! I will always support her and her decisions, even if her own father will not!"

I turned my back on him and took a deep breath before heading back into Alexis's room. Alexis, her mother and Lucas were looking at me; obviously they had heard most of the exchange.

"See Mum, I told you he loved me. How many other guys do you know that would have yelled at Daddy like that?"

Jonathon's POV

I apparated home. I was utterly humiliated by that Weasley boy, he had shouted at me in the middle of the hospital, basically accusing me of not loving my own daughter. I paced the living room, fuming. After all the times that he had upset her, she kept going back to him. He had almost killed her with those damn dragons, but that still didn't change her mind. Why couldn't my daughter be interested in someone other than a Weasley? They all seemed to have pointless or dangerous jobs, nothing that my daughter should be exposed to. Alexis needed to find herself a nice wizard, with a good job. Someone not involved with dragons or joke shops. She should never have been involved with the Weasley's, if she had started Hogwarts a year earlier like she was supposed to, it never would have happened, she wouldn't be in the hospital now.

I remembered back to when I started Hogwarts, my pureblood parents had warned me that not everyone there was going to be as respectable as our family, they had always thought that being a pureblood was the most important thing. I had obeyed my family's wishes and avoided those not from pureblood families, until my final year of school I looked down upon muggle's and blood traitors.

I met Mary-Anne on day, while I was wandering around muggle London, about to head into the Leaky Cauldron then to Diagon Alley. I had run into her, literally, and knocked her to the ground. I helped her up and offered her a drink to make up for it, and from that day forward, we were virtually inseparable. My parents were appalled that I was dating a muggle woman; they tried desperately to get me to leave her. But I couldn't. Regardless of how hard my parents tried, how many times they threatened to disown me, I just couldn't leave her.

Then, amidst my angry reminiscing of how horrible my parents had been to me when I started dating Mary-Anne, I realised something. I was doing the exact same thing to Alexis and Charlie that my parents did to Mary-Anne and I. The exact thing that I swore I would never to do to Alexis. Admittedly, I had never imagined that she would fall in love with someone that had caused her so much physical and mental pain.

I apparated back to the hospital, and opened the door to Alexis's room, where Lucas was sitting in her bed, talking animatedly about something , Charlie and Mary-Anne were sitting on either side of the bed, laughing at whatever story Lucas was telling. They all looked up when I walked in, Lucas waved happily.

"Charlie, can I see you outside for a moment please?"

Charlie looked confused but complied with my request, kissing Alexis on the forehead and ruffling Lucas's hair as he stood and followed me out into the corridor again.

"Mr Fuller I was…"

"Charlie," I cut him off, "I'm sorry I've been so horrible to you."

He looked shocked and didn't speak as I continued.

"I am from a pureblood family; my parents were always telling me that I had to marry a witch from a nice respectable, pureblood family. You can probably imagine their reaction when I met Mary-Anne, not even a muggle born witch, just a muggle. They told me so many times that I shouldn't be with a muggle, that I could do better and they threatened to disown me. All in all, they were very unreasonable. A lot like I have been with you and Alexis."

He smiled a little in agreement. I took a deep breath as I thought about what to say next.

"Despite what has happened in the past, I think that you will take good care of my little girl and my grandson. I know that you plan on proposing to her one day, and I just want you to know that you have my blessing."

He grinned, "Thankyou Mr Fuller, that means a lot to me, and I'm sure it will mean a lot to Alexis as well. I want to apologise about what I said before, I was way out of line."

"No, you were right, Charlie. Thank-you."

I patted him on the shoulder as we headed back into Alexis's room. Charlie took his seat beside Alexis's bed; she tilted her head slightly, as if to ask him what we had talked about.

"No big deal Lexy, you dad just told me I can propose to you," he grinned.

Also, checkout "My First Time" a oneshot I wrote on a prompt form Elliroc. It works as a sequel to Playing With Dragon.s And, don't forget to tell me what you think!