Quidditch Through the Ages

Chapter 18: News from the Cup

Kennilworthy and Aurora arrive outside the Quidditch stadium.

"Egypt or Bulgaria?" Kennilworthy looked at Aurora.

"Which do you think?" Aurora smiled.

"Ladies first." he smiled back.

"I think it'll be a shocker, like the one in '94." she said. "Egypt."

"Bet." Kennilworthy said looking in his jacket pocket. "Three galleons."

They shook hands while a group of three young wizards passed by them.

"You saw the 1994 Quidditch Cup." one asked in an Australian accent, stopping. "I was born that year! But you both look very formal for a cup."

"We're just, a little outdated." Aurora chuckled.

"We better find mum, she worked hard for us to see the cup, bye!" another said as they ran off.

Kennilworthy and Aurora walked down to the tents to see what items were being sold.

"I want to buy you something as a thank you for being on this journey." Kennilworthy said as they looked around. "Mind staying here for a moment, I want it to be a surprise."

"Not at all." Aurora smiled. "But really don't get me anything."

Kennilworthy smiled and turned back walking away to more tents. Aurora chuckled continuing to look around.

Kennilworthy looked back at her then looked at shops.

"Maybe something dragon related." Kennilworthy said to himself.

"Egypt has dragons, something from the Egyptian shops." a voice said from behind him.

Kennilworthy turned around to see a grown Fin softly smiling.

"Finn." Kennilworthy smiled. He noticed Finn looked a little gloom. "What happened, is something wrong?"

"I had a feeling you would be here." Finn said. "I have to show you something, is Aurora here?"

"Yea, she's over this way." Kennilworthy said starting to walk back. "Did something happen?"

"About four years ago." Finn said following. "It was expected, but not so soon."

Aurora noticed Kennilworthy coming back and smiled, but frowned when she saw both Finn and Kennilworthy looking serious.

"Finn, what are you doing here? Is something wrong?" she asked touching his shoulder.

Finn grabbed both of them and apparated to a cemetery.

"I knew you two would be in Bulgaria." Finn said pointing to the grave in front of them. "She wished to be buried here."

Kennilworthy and Aurora inspected the grave, both eyes widen as they read it silently.

Penelope Pluie Baskov

Beloved Wife and Auror

9, March, 1957 - 20, May, 1998

"How did this happen." Kennilworthy said in shock. "The girl I met only a few days ago, it felt like years, she's...dead."

"She was helping during the war at Hogwarts, she was shot, died a slow and painful death through the course of six days." Finn said wiping a tear. "She wanted to be buried here, she lived here with her husband, a Bulgarian auror."

"She didn't deserve to die that way." Aurora said looking sadly at the grave.

"She left a letter, it's assigned to you." Finn said taking out the letter and handing it to Aurora.

Kennilworthy looked at her, both watched as she read the letter silently to herself.

My dear Aurora,

I'm not sure when you are reading this, but I'm probably dead as of now. Don't grieve over me, I died saving others, and that's why I loved being an auror. Though I only knew you for very little time, I felt like we were sisters the time we were together. After you and Ken left in 1995, I met Tihomir, I call him Ti, a Bulgarian auror I met on a mission in Belarus. It was love at first sight, we married in 1996. We were both too busy to have a family, but we did dream of having one, one day. I don't want anyone knowing this, only you, but after the fighting at Hogwarts, I was planning to tell Ti I was three weeks pregnant. Don't tell anyone now, I don't want anymore grief upon my soul.

-Penny

P.S It clear both you and Ken like each other, go for it before it's too late.

Aurora looked up softly smiling with tears running down her face.

"She doesn't want any grief on her soul, she wants us to be happy that she got to meet us." Aurora said looking at them. "Is her husband well?"

"Tihomir? Not exactly sure what happened to him." Finn said. "He was devastated by her death, he left their village and never returned. Some say he went to live in France to see her legacy."

Kennilworthy crouched by her grave.

"Of all the places and years I've traveled, Penelope Pluie, never in all my years will I forget you." he smiled standing back up.

"I'll send you two back to your little date." Finn smirked.

"Well-"

"That would be nice." Aurora smiled looking at Kennilworthy.

He smiled back and all three apparated back to the cup.

"I'm a fool, you two missed the cup." Finn said hitting his head with his hand.

"It was much better knowing about Penny." Aurora smiled.

"I hope you two are okay." Finn said. "I have a call, until we meet again." He smiled apparating away.

"Who do you think won?" Aurora asked looking at Kennilworthy.

"Not sure, hopefully Bulgaria." he laughed.

"Excuse me, who won the cup?" Aurora asked a witch walking pass.

"Egypt." she said continuing walking.

Aurora looked at Kennilworthy and smiled.

"You see Aurora, I don't have three galleons." Kennilworthy smiled. "I don't know if this will be better but-"

He walked closer and kissed her.

"That'll do just fine." she smiled.

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Author's note: I'm back from my slumber, yes chapter 18, one of my personal favorites. I haven't wrote in a while because over time I started to dislike how I wrote this book but it was bugging me to finish and I now actually like how I wrote it, but I would change it if I had the chance to go back in time. I'm pretty relieved I finally made my little ship cannon because the next two chapters will be probably my favorites. I noticed we hit 700 reads, so of course I just had to finish the book :)) I have a lot of character biographies I wanted to write but I'm not sure if I want to publish them after the epilogue so feel free to tell me if you want them :))