I've got nothing left to prove
Cause I've got nothing left to lose
- "Who Are You Really" by mikky ekko
Part II ( PartII was also written for dirigibleplums's the Musical Muse Challenge.)
Gordon woke up to see Cho prepare breakfast. The smell of coffee wafted out of the kitchen. As she had worked at a Muggle coffee shop as a barista, her brewing was perfect. When she turned to set the coffee set on the table, she noticed him watching her and she smiled at him.
"Good morning." Her velvet hair was beautiful lit by the sunlight from the window.
Gordon felt a pang of loss of Fiona, who used to smile at him just like Cho did to him. Last night's nightmare was still vivid in his memory. He shook his head trying to forget it and sat down.
Cho sat at the table, too. The way he sank into meditation was just like Harry. She also couldn't forget the past completely. They comforted each other both mentally and physically. She wondered if it might be the shape of love, too. Gordon sipped his coffee and closed his eyes contentedly.
"Are you alright now?" Cho served salad on a plate and passed it to Gordon.
"Yeah. It seems that I made you worry about me." He opened his beautiful blue eyes.
"It's okay. I put cheese in dressing. Do you like it?"
He ate some and smiled, "It's good. I like cheese."
"Good." She buttered a slice of freshly-baked bread and urged him to eat it.
"Do you make it by yourself? I mean…you didn't use magic?" He asked her gingerly. His blue eyes were filled with care and warm.
Cho missed the feeling. The care for her. She used to seek for the care when Harry was near her, especially when she had lost Cedric. His brilliant green had the same warmness as this blue ocean contained. She smiled and said,
"No, I didn't. It's easy to use the automatic bread maker."
"It's good." He continued, "We can open our shop if we have a wagon car."
"Oh, I like the idea. But I can't drive a car."
"I can. Let's visit a car shop later."
"Today?"
"The sooner, the better."
That's how they went to Edinburgh and bought a used blue wagon and bought the things required for the coffee shop. She simply liked blue for the car, she might choose the Ravenclaw color unconsciously. Gordon kept driving from Edinburgh to the Scottish Borders. There were some harvest festivals here and there, so they didn't have to worry where to open the shop. When they arrived at the small village to do research for marketing, Cho felt warm inside the pocket of his skirt. It was the first time in a while since she felt the warmness of the D.A. coin last time. She glanced at the message sent from Harry and her heart beat faster. She thought she should admonish two-timing Gordon, but she couldn't stop letting her face flushed. Harry called the D.A. members to have a reunion gathering that night.
"What's the matter?"
"Nothing." She lied and rethought soon. She determined to tell him. "My old school friends will gather around tonight."
"Tonight? It's short notice."
"Yeah. I'll send a message of absence. Stay here." She got out of the wagon and shut the door making sure that Gordon wouldn't follow her. And she cast the Patronus Charm to tell her absence to Harry. The silver swan flew elegantly into the forest and vanished. Then she was stunned by Gordon's voice.
"It is really amazing and beautiful."
"Oh, you saw it again." She turned to him. Holding her wand, a hesitation ran through her mind.
"I won't tell anybody. And it's waste of time to erase my memory. I told you. I'm immune to magical obliteration. You won't get anywhere." Feeling her magical aura and her perfume of jasmine, a keen spasm of lust sent through him and he kissed her. And he held her in his arms and took her back into the wagon.
Their bodies hit the backseat of the wagon and Cho pointed at it with her wand so that the backrest would turn to be flat. They locked their eyes and the flames in her mind began burning. The love flew through them quicker and they didn't feel fear at all this time. They made love as if they were born to spark together.
Kissing her bare shoulder, Gordon whispered, "I love you."
They spent the rest of the afternoon to stock up things needed for opening her coffee shop. The sun began declining to the west.
Though Harry took a message from Cho's outstanding Patronus swan, he didn't feel safe for her. He felt he had a debt to pay since he remembered the happening between the man who was identical to him and her on the train during summer vacation. He pulled his holly wand and sent his Patronus to her. He had an urge to make sure the man would not hurt Cho. After a while, the silvery Swan carried her voice to him. To his surprise, she told him to take the other D.A. members to her place.
"The Muggle village near the Scottish Borders?" Ron and Seamus were very surprised at the news.
"Yes. The guy is with her. She invited us to her coffee shop."
After meeting the other members in the Leaky Cauldron, they apparated together near the forest Cho told them to spot. Ginny almost stumbled down, which was quite unexpected of her, she joked that she was upset around Harry Potter's ex-girlfriend. Harry tried hard to be nonchalant about her response.
"Look at that." Ginny pointed at an object attached to the side of the wagon.
It was a swan made of thick golden origami. Cho appeared from the wagon and said,
"Welcome to my coffee shop, the Swan Tea Room." Then she set a long wooden table in front of the wagon with help from the man who was identical to Harry.
The other D.A. members looked astonished by the man's look. It was Ginny who moved first and she stepped closer to Harry and held his hand tightly in her hand as if she wanted to make sure he was by her side.
Cho smiled weakly at her old rival's movement and introduced Gordon to everyone. It took some time for everyone to accept the fact that Gordon, who was a Muggle, was immune to obliteration charm.
"Who are you?" Ron asked.
"I am Gordon Fraser, your friend's boyfriend. That's all." Gordon shrugged his broad shoulders.
"You are Harry's double. Aren't you in disguise?" Ron didn't hide his skeptical expression.
Gordon held his hands up and said, "I don't have the weird stick at all. I can't perform magic."
"Do you really …" Hermione stopped and continued again, "… love Cho?"
Gordon grinned wide and answered, "Yes, I love her."
Cho smiled shyly and said, "All are set on the table. Please help yourself to a drink, the sandwiches and the cake." She was a little surprised by Hermione's words. Remembering her childish jealousy towards Hermione and Harry in her school years, she thanked for her care.
After most of the D.A. members got relaxed and enjoyed coffee and food, Harry faced his double,
"You are the only Muggle here. Who are you really?"
Gordon emptied his cup and put it down. "I've got nothing left to prove. Trust me. I love her."
Harry's green eyes stared at the blue ones. "So you admit you've got someone to protect."
"Yeah, she found me. And I found her. I had got nothing left to lose after my ex-girlfriend died. I even tried suicide. Cho saved me."
Harry nodded and continued, "I have something to ask you around the case, your ex-girlfriend's death. The girl named Fiona McKay."
Gordon's face got pale.