Complicated (Charlie Weasley x reader)

Chapter 28 Because I'm not scared anymore.

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Eventually you found the way to St. Mungo's, where you finally got to see your grandmother again. She had gotten skinny, almost looking like a skeleton where she laid, but smiled as she saw you and stretched out her arms for you to come and give her a hug. She talked a lot, her English being much better than before, but she couldn't walk anymore as she didn't have the strength in her legs to do so.

It took a week before you could go back to Norway, and during that time you had stayed in a hotel nearby. Every day you visited your grandmother, and every day a healer showed you how you could help your grandmother when you got back home. Honestly, it wasn't that much you had to do as most things could be done with a simple spell, but she still needed the help and someone to stay with her in case something happened.

It did sadden you. Now you had to put your own life on pause, just so you could help your grandmother live hers. Under different circumstances you might have sent her to an elderly home or something, but since she's all you have left, and you're all she's got left, you chose to take care of her.

You could look at it as some kind of experience! A job maybe? An unpaid job... not that you needed money. You had inherited quite the amount of money from your parents, so that wasn't a problem. You would also get to spend a lot more time with creatures, as grandma couldn't take care of them anymore, so that was kind of a plus? Though you did worry about the time that was ahead of you as you would have an enormous amount of responsibility, but still, you tried your best to look at the positive side.

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Some time had gone by, and you had done better than one would expect. No creature had died yet and your grandmother was doing a lot better as she could even stand with the help of a cane now. It was currently February, you were walking through the snow, having just finished your first feeding round of the day. You could see your grandmother though the kitchen window as she was doing something you had no idea what was. You smiled to yourself while observing her finally being able to live life partly as she wanted to. She had been so sad during the time she was bedridden. It had been barley a month since she'd gotten the strength to stand alone, and now she was walking around with a cane. Maybe, in a few more months, she might even be able to tend to her creatures again, and you would be able to continue your own life, maybe even get a spot at the Romanian Dragon sanctuary.

Keeping that thought in mind, you had gotten almost weekly letters from Charlie since he got his N.E.W.T results and was accepted to the Romanian dragon sanctuary. He excitedly explained everything he saw or experienced to you in the letters, and you were really happy for him, though you hadn't had a chance to meet him since the day you left Hogwarts.

Sighing a little to yourself, you continued to make your way through the deep snow.

You had never really gone this long without him before. Yeah, there was that time you two didn't speak to each other, but at least you could see him back then. Now you can only write... what was sad was that you didn't really have that much to tell him. It wasn't often something new happened while you tended to the creatures. You always updated him on your grandmothers condition though, but it hadn't been much to update about until last month.

You sighed to yourself again.

You really did miss him. A thing that also saddened you was that you never really got together. You had liked him for five years and you never did anything about it until your last year! That might have been because you never really realised that you might go different ways when you got older... and look at yourself now. Maybe he would find someone else in Romania... someone prettier, or friendlier... someone with a big and warm family, just like him. The selfish part of you didn't want that. You wanted him to stay single, forever if he had to, but at the same time you wanted him to be happy... And if he did find someone, then who are you to stop it? It's not like you own him!