What A Girl Wants

Chapter Nineteen- Shattered

        Discliamer: I don't own Harry Potter :)

            Harry stood frozen in place as he stared at Ginny, his mouth agape as the two words she told him replayed over and over in his mind. 'No, this can't be happening. Not now, not that Hermione and I are finally together again.'

        "Harry, say something please." Ginny pleaded as she looked into his eyes for him to say something, anything, to her.

        "Are you sure?" Harry asked in a whisper.

         "Yes, I'm sure. I found out yesterday morning."

       "But how? When?" Harry asked her as he ran his hand through his raven hair.

         "You don't remember? It was the night you and Lily returned from Ron and Luna's and I had gotten back from my girls' night out with Lavender and her cousin."

       Harry looked back into his memories from that night. He and Ron played a game of Wizards Chess while Lily and Seth played gobstones outside with Raelie and Raelinn. The next memory was rather heated as he recalled he and Ginny making love with one another when she got home. 'She's right.'

      "I remember."

       "Well this is a good thing, isn't it? We're finally going to be the family you've always wanted." Ginny told him as she looped her arms around his neck and pulled him close.

        'No, the family I've always wanted is with the woman who is currently upstairs' Harry thought to himself. How could he have let this happen? They had always been so careful. "Yeah Gin, it's great." He told Ginny as he kissed her on the top of her head. 'What am I supposed to tell Hermione?'

         He pulled back from him and Ginny's embrace and said, "I'm going to go out for a little bit. I'll see you in a couple hours." He left his study and disapparated to Ron's to seek advise on what he should do.

           Meanwhile, Lily was sitting upstairs in her moms room as they were discussing the events of their day. Lily was excited to hear that her dad was planning to leave Ginny so he and her mom could be together again.

        "I'm so happy for the two of you!" Lily squealed as she threw her arms around her mother and pulled her into a hug.

        "Thank you, Sweetheart. If it wasn't for you coming here, I don't think your father and I would be getting back together again. I haven't even been able to tell him why I left."

      "Well you could use me as practice." Lily suggested as she shrugged her shoulders.

         Hermione took a deep breath, then smiled at her daughter. "Alright, I left your father the night I found out I was pregnant..."

                             **Flashback**

           It was a hot, August night. Harry and Ron were still away at Auror training while Hermione was in the upstairs bathroom, vomiting in the toilet. Her morning sickness always started after Harry had left for his training and never lasted throughout the day . This had to have been the tenth time today she had vomited.

       The littlest of smells caused her nausea to act up. She hadn't been able to eat chicken or pickles in about a week. She thought she had a case of Wizarding flu since she had heard news of people falling ill lately, especially Parvarti Longbottom who had been hospitalized due to dehydration. But once her boobs became sore to the touch, she knew the Wizarding flu wasn't the answer.

      Once she got up from the floor and brushed her teeth, she pulled out a pregnancy test from her handbag and used the toilet. She placed the test on the counter and washed her hands.