The Stars Above Us

More Than A Feeling

It was soon December 11th and it was day of Bella's grandfather's funeral, and she was sitting on her bed in the hotel room which she was sharing with her parents and Harry whilst Maisie was with Sirius, Remus and Regulus. Harry came into the room and sat next to her on the bed "I know that it's going to be hard, but I'll be there and so will your mum and dad." "I know, but it's even harder for my dad." "It will be." Lucius walked into the hotel room and walked up to his daughter and wrapped her into a hug and placed a kiss to her forehead "Are you okay, dad?" "I'm okay, honey, thank you for asking." Harry got up, getting his black blazer, pulling it on. Bella pulled back and walked over to the wardrobe, getting her black jacket, and pulled it on, getting her boots, and walked downstairs with Harry.

When they got there, Bella sat in between her parents, grandmother and Harry. Bella's grandmother grabbed her hand as it came to the eulogies "Darling, do you want to go first?" "It's best to get it out of the way." Bella got up, walking up to the front with her piece of paper, and stood at the stand and cleared her throat, "Granddad was one of the kindest men I have ever met. He would give you the shirt off his back. His generosity was limitless. He was a smart man and he worked hard for everything he had. He didn't judge others or criticize different ways of life. He would nod his head and say something like "To each their own." He meant it. He was a role model to me. I am sad that we won't get to have our front garden talks anymore. Aside from my parents, he is the only person that has known me my whole life. It's surreal to think he will no longer be here. It makes me very emotional to think about my children growing up without him. I have been very blessed to have him as a grandpa for 21 years. I will treasure the memories I have of him. I'd like to share one of my favourites with you now." Narcissa saw tears in her daughter's eyes as she walked away and she sat down. Harry took her hand and Narcissa took the other hand.

Bella looked at the two, "Grandma?" "What's up sweetheart?" "Can I go back to your house with Harry?" "What's wrong?" "I feel sick." "Of course you can, Harry, please go with her, or take her back to the hotel room." "I'll take her back to the room." She nodded, "Don't worry Medusa, I've got her." Bella got up, walking outside. Harry walked outside with her "What's going on?" "I need a quiet space to cry." "Where do you want to go?" "Back to the room." "Of course." Bella nodded, walking out of the building with Harry and outside to where a car had pulled up. The two got in the car and in the back. Bella rolled her head onto Harry's shoulder. Harry looked down at her, and she had her head tucked into his shoulder. Harry played with her hair, and she instantly relaxed. 

When everything was done, Bella was lying in her hotel room bed with Harry laying next to her, playing with her hair. Narcissa came into the hotel room with Lucius, "Is she okay?" "Yeah, she's been slipping in and out of sleep, but she's.." Harry looked down at her "She's asleep, I think it's best if we take her back to Brighton as I think she's also feeling a bit homesick." "We can do that, we'll do the packing, you can cuddle with her for the meantime." Harry nodded, and laid down next to Bella and wrapped his arms around her. She snuggled into his chest and he smiled at the way he felt around her.

Harry got up once she had fallen asleep on him, and he laid her down, and got up, putting his blazer in his suit bag with his tie, and walked over to her, and sat on the bed "Sweet girl?" He stroked her cheek slowly "Mmm?" "We're about to leave in a minute." "Okay," She got up slowly, stretching "You can sleep in the car, it's okay, your mum and dad are taking us home and then going to their home in Brighton." She nodded slowly, getting up, walking over to the door after pulling her jacket on. Harry got her downstairs to the car.

It was an hour into the drive home and Bella was leaning against the window to stop herself from getting travel sick as she looked over at trees as she looked over at Harry "Harry?" "Yeah? Are you okay?" Bella leaned down and got the bucket from the car. Harry tied her hair up and opened the window a little bit "Have you got your sickness bands on?" Bella nodded, lifting her sleeves up, "That's good, Lucius?" "Yeah?" "When's the next service stop?" "In about a mile. Why?" "Bella feels like she's going to puke, and I need a wee." Lucius pulled over on the side of the road, getting out, opening Bella's door as she got out, bending over slightly. Harry held back her hair and rubbed her back as she emptied her stomach on the pavement below her. Harry kept rubbing her back until she was finished. She stood back up and got her water bottle, and had some of her water, and spat it back out to get rid of the funny taste in her mouth "All done?" She nodded, getting back in the car.

Harry put a bag in the bucket and set it by her feet, and shut the window "If I'm ever on a trip with work, I will need to sit at the front or next to a window, as if I don't, I will throw up everywhere. Remember in year 10 when we went on that History trip to the WW1 battlefields of the Somme in France for three days?" "Yeah, we were not friends as we had a massive argument, and I still sat next to you." "I remember that, I felt sick halfway and I nudged you and you literally grabbed a bag from where my bag was near me, got it open and stayed with me." "Even though we weren't talking, I'd still be here for you." "True, if we weren't now married or even together for that matter, we'd still try our best to be friends." "Yeah." Bella got buckled into the car.

When they got home and hour and a half later, Lucius pulled the car up in the driveway and Bella and Harry got out of the car with their bags, and walked inside and upstairs. Bella walked upstairs to the bathroom, and turned on the light. Once she used the toilet, she walked back in the bedroom where Harry was waiting on the bed. Bella got on the bed "You okay?" "I'm okay." Bella moved to be on Harry's lap and looked him in the eye "You keep looking at me, what's wrong?" "There's nothing wrong, just the fact that I haven't been able to kiss you in front of my parents." "Well, you can kiss me now." Harry rolled them over and hovered over the blonde and pulled her in for a kiss.

Bella kissed him back within a few seconds, and their lips moved quick against one others. Harry pulled away, and Bella moved away from him "What?" "Nothing, just badly turned on at the minute." "What is it that you want?" "Umm, you.." Harry pushed her back down on the bed and held her by the waist and began to kiss at her neck, she let out a low groan and slipped a hand through Harry's hair, and when he stopped, he moved up to lifting her dress up and over her head, leaving her in her underwear. Bella heard a notification from her phone and she checked her phone "Is everything okay?" "Yeah. Emma miss called me." "Call her back," Bella got up from the bed, and walked in the hallway after putting her dress on.

She walked in the hallway, sitting on the stairs and called her sister back "Hello?" "Bella, how was the funeral?" "I had to walk out, I had to tell mum and grandma that I didn't feel well, and when we was on our way home back here, I threw up on the side of the road three times, and when we were coming into Brighton, I was bursting straight into tears while Harry kept holding me and mum had to climb in the back to calm me down before I got worse and forced myself into a panic attack, which did happen and mum was sitting on the left side and Harry was on my right, and I just felt so bad as I did the eulogy which made me tear up and made mum tear up but it needed to happen, and it needed to be said." She explained "Do you mind telling me what you said or will it be too hard?" "I'll try." Bella walked downstairs and sat on the sofa and crossed her legs.

She put her phone down on her leg, and put it on speaker "Just try as much as you can." "Okay." Bella cleared her throat "Granddad was one of the kindest men I have ever met. He would give you the shirt off his back. His generosity was limitless. He was a smart man and he worked hard for everything he had. He didn't judge others or criticize different ways of life. He would nod his head and say something like "To each their own." He meant it. He was a role model to me. I am sad that we won't get to have our front garden talks anymore. Aside from my parents, he is the only person that has known me my whole life. It's surreal to think he will no longer be here. It makes me very emotional to think about my children growing up without him. I have been very blessed to have him as a grandpa for 21 years. I will treasure the memories I have of him. I'd like to share one of my favourites with you now." She felt a tear come down her face.

Harry came downstairs and walked over to her and wiped at her eyes "Do you want a hug?" She nodded "Bella, I'll let you spend some alone time with Harry but I will be with you shortly." They both hung up the phone. Harry sat on the sofa, and wrapped an arm around her "I've put some comfy clothes on the bed, I've put your black leggings and your white top." "Thank you, can you maybe get me dressed?" "Of course, are you not up to it?" She shook her head "Do you want your pyjamas instead?" She nodded "Your cloud ones?" She nodded, tears filling up again "Okay, I know how hard it is, how about I run upstairs, go and get your pyjamas and you can take a little nap, either on my chest or we can lie in bed." "On your chest." "Oh of course, my darling, you know you can." Bella nodded. Harry walked upstairs, getting her pyjamas.

He walked downstairs, and sat on the sofa. He got her changed into her pyjamas, and laid down on the sofa. Bella laid down on top of him, her head tucked into Harry's chest. Harry stroked her hair slowly as her eyes began to close slowly. Harry pulled the blanket around her and himself, and didn't want to let her go, since she had gone through a lot during the day. Bella was glad to have someone like Harry in her life, and she loved him, no matter what they went through, they went through it together as one.