These are not my characters they belong to J.K. Rowling as do some of the places. I only use them for my enjoyment.
Ginny stood there waiting in the shadows everyday since the day he walked out the door and did not turn his head to say goodbye to her. The shadows she is where she felt the comfort, the control, the possibility that she would see him but he would not see her. She feared that if he saw her he would turn and vanish just as he did the year prior and Ginny would not allow that to happen not when the world needed him as much as she did. Every day she quietly rose from her bed, dressed and silently left the burrow behind in hopes that it would pay off in the end. Her family and friends did start noticing that she was there less and less and that just would not do but it had been so hard for her to leave that spot. The deep shadow was just steps away from Courtshire Inn a place that Draco and Ginny only spent one night at before the world knew of their secret a secret that was had been kept so close that none of the family even knew not even Ginny's best friend.
A stupid slip up cost them everything, if only she had not been in such a rush but she had been and that was the end of everything though she could not get that wrapped around her heart. Her mind knew that it was impossible but how could she explain that to her heart. One-step without looking she had walked a thousand steps but all it took was one misstep. Ginny began playing the scene all again in her head. She could see it as if it happened just yesterday instead of the year before.
"I have to go you know that if I don't show up they are going to come looking for me."
"You promised me the weekend," he spoke with a hint of desperation.
"I know but, but I have already lied to them and this thing I have put off so many times that if I don't come to this they are going to follow me and how can I let them know it would just ruin everything."
"Go then meet me at Hyde Park tomorrow in the red." He whispered quietly in my ear. Ginny knew exactly what he meant by in the red it was their favorite set up. It was something that came to her one night before a trip to Hogsmead a way for her to skip away from friends and meet up with Draco without being recognized by them or at least that was the plan and she made sure of it by walking by them a few times never getting called out on it.
"I will. I promise you I will nothing will keep me from there." She did not give him a kiss goodbye we were right out there in front of the hotel the mere fact that we were in kissing distance to each other was pushing passed their boundary lines.
Turning so quick Ginny only made it about a dozen steps when she did the one thing, she tried never to do turn and look at him just one last look. Though she could barely see him since people were, walking past it was enough to make her happy not even turning around she took a step and caught the edge of a flowerbed causing her to fall. She caught her self but not before it was too late, her sunglasses fell off and she hit them on the way down. Gathering herself, she stood and pushed the black hair behind her ear allowing a lock of red hair to fall down.
"Here let me help you," a younger man bent down and helped pick up her two bags that she was carrying. She held the broken sunglasses in one hand taking the bags in her other hand.
"Um, thanks." I tried to keep my voice very softy even though I was cursing inside.
"No problem." He looked right into her eyes and peered down to her neck. "Um, I know you don't I?"
She looked at him and cocked her head to the side from first glance she did not know him but after a moment it clicked. They both attended Hogwarts if she was correct he was in the same year as her but in a different house but she could not figure out which one. It had been a couple years since they attended there together but that didn't seem to keep him from remember but how did he know it was her she had to play off like she didn't remember him maybe he would simply say he must have mistook her and walked away.
"I am sorry," she began the nice getaway, "but I have to say no."
"Yeah, we um attended school together a couple years ago. You are um, uh, um Weasley, Ginny Weasley right?" He spoke loudly causing a few people to turn and look at us. She did not dare look around but she wanted to know if Draco had seen her and began towards her.
Shit had been the first thing to cross my mind now that my sunglasses were broken I had nothing to hide behind I unconsciously moved my hair and that's when I felt the lock of hair which means he probably saw it too. That is what she gets for being in a rush.
"I am sorry, I really don't remember you."
"So are you here with Harry Potter is that why you're in disguise?" At the mention of Harry Potter, more people turned and looked. Even a few people actually stopped and began listening in on their conversation.
There it was the one thing she was trying to keep herself out of he had her trapped there had been no good way of getting out of here. Not with all these people, here no matter what she said people would make some kind of deal out of it. If she said no they would call her heartless if, she said yes then it would be across the front page. Instead, she settled for the personal space issue.
"I am sorry but that is not your business." She replied quickly.
"Sorry curiosity gets me every time. I think it's kind of cool that you are going undercover to see your boyfriend."
"He is not my boyfriend anyways thanks again for helping me with my bags." Ginny quickly walked passed him.
"Hey Weasley it was great seeing you." She knew at that point that her disguised was blown and she had to know if Draco's was too because if anyone could place the two of them in the same area speculation would arise. Making the decision she began to cross the road lingering in the direction of the hotel she noticed Draco not more then a few feet away from where she just was. Was he coming to help me but did not because of the man?
At that moment, she brought herself out of the old memory and kept looking towards the Inn. The questioning had to stop she did not know what he was about to do but that didn't matter because the man who stopped her then stopped right next to Draco and the following day Daily Prophet was writing articles about an alleged death eater sighting. Even though it has been years since the fall of the dark lord and almost all the death eaters have been dealt with in one way or another occasionally someone will come out saying they saw one. This time Draco's face fell across the second page with the article going into to detail about him been investigated again. Even though he had went through a trial and had been released due to him being a young adult and having to follow orders more or less from his parents and of course just how he was surrounding in general he did not have a way out and has shown remorse for some of the things he had done. She remembered that he had agreed to help with the locating of some of the more reclusive death eaters. The reasoning for the belief that the death eater being under investigation had been stated because a member of the Order of the Phoenix was sighted in the area in disguised. Of course the paper was stupid enough to post a photo of the member in disguised though it was hard to see exactly who it was it was enough to cause people to start coming out.