Title: Walking Away
Author: Rhapsody
Summary: I grew up a Slytherin. I will always be one, no matter what I do. I can renounce my family name but it will not change what is in me. I couldn't change my blood. Draco/Ginny
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
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I grew up a Slytherin. I will always be one, no matter what I do. I can renounce my family name but it will not change what is in me. It was all forced, I had no way of stopping it. I couldn't change my blood. The cold heartless blood that ran through my veins.
And now I sit in a shadowy room. The bed covered in black curtains. I was betrothed to her and she to me but my heart shall never be hers. It will always belong purely to you. She stares at me with wide waiting eyes. I am to be an egotistical Slytherin, but I do not, can not be one.
As a child at school I was always very arrogant. But my arrogance got in the way of my love for you. So I pushed it away. You did not believe I could change. You saw me as the cold-blooded Slytherin I am; the cold- blooded Slytherin I will always be.
You never loved me in return, but she has. The woman in my bed, my wife. The one whom I was forced to marry. In the mornings and evenings her hair turns to amber, it reminds me of you.
I cannot understand my love for you; I never will. I will continue with my life pretending I love her, even when my heart cries out for you. You said you could love me. if I wasn't me.
Why do I even bother to love you, to pester you with letters when I know you will never return my feelings and when I have a loving wife. I tell myself I will learn to love Cypris, but it will never be.
And now the butler enters the room and tells me I have a visitor. Someone unexpected has come to my door in the night. I am to see this person alone. Cypris pouts on the bed knowing when I return she will get her remuneration for having to be left in the dark.
I walk to the sitting room in my back robes and see a beautiful woman sitting in the chair. A beautiful woman by the name of Virginia Weasley.
"I really don't understand you." Are the first words out of your mouth.
"What is there to understand, I can't change who I am Ginny. I can't change that I love you."
"But why?" you ask, "why? When I thought you hated me all these years and sudden, boom you're in love with me, it doesn't make sense!"
"Does anything?" I ask.
"I won't answer that, Draco, you don't need me to answer your childish questions. You're avoiding the topic. Where did this sudden love some from?"
"I have always loved you Ginny, don't you understand? I couldn't tell you at first because my pride prevented me from saying a word. Then when I finally did tell you called me a lying bastard and left. Why do I love you? I don't know. Why don't you love me."
"That's the problem Draco." you look at your feet bowing our head as amber curls spill off your shoulders.
"What?"
"I do love you!" you cry and turn your head away.
"But why didn't you just tell me?"
"You have a life, you can't just walk away from it."
I look you in the eyes I see confusion and hurt. I want to sweep it away but I don't know how. I stand and grab you by the arm.
"Watch me."
We walk together out the door away from my house, my wife, my entire life. We will start over together. Building a new life on a foundation of love. You are the only one who can drive the cold blood out of me. I know you can. I love and I have faith in you.
As we walk down this road together I look in your eyes the confusion is gone and happiness remains. I don't know where we're going but I know one thing, I will finally be happy.
Author: Rhapsody
Summary: I grew up a Slytherin. I will always be one, no matter what I do. I can renounce my family name but it will not change what is in me. I couldn't change my blood. Draco/Ginny
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
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I grew up a Slytherin. I will always be one, no matter what I do. I can renounce my family name but it will not change what is in me. It was all forced, I had no way of stopping it. I couldn't change my blood. The cold heartless blood that ran through my veins.
And now I sit in a shadowy room. The bed covered in black curtains. I was betrothed to her and she to me but my heart shall never be hers. It will always belong purely to you. She stares at me with wide waiting eyes. I am to be an egotistical Slytherin, but I do not, can not be one.
As a child at school I was always very arrogant. But my arrogance got in the way of my love for you. So I pushed it away. You did not believe I could change. You saw me as the cold-blooded Slytherin I am; the cold- blooded Slytherin I will always be.
You never loved me in return, but she has. The woman in my bed, my wife. The one whom I was forced to marry. In the mornings and evenings her hair turns to amber, it reminds me of you.
I cannot understand my love for you; I never will. I will continue with my life pretending I love her, even when my heart cries out for you. You said you could love me. if I wasn't me.
Why do I even bother to love you, to pester you with letters when I know you will never return my feelings and when I have a loving wife. I tell myself I will learn to love Cypris, but it will never be.
And now the butler enters the room and tells me I have a visitor. Someone unexpected has come to my door in the night. I am to see this person alone. Cypris pouts on the bed knowing when I return she will get her remuneration for having to be left in the dark.
I walk to the sitting room in my back robes and see a beautiful woman sitting in the chair. A beautiful woman by the name of Virginia Weasley.
"I really don't understand you." Are the first words out of your mouth.
"What is there to understand, I can't change who I am Ginny. I can't change that I love you."
"But why?" you ask, "why? When I thought you hated me all these years and sudden, boom you're in love with me, it doesn't make sense!"
"Does anything?" I ask.
"I won't answer that, Draco, you don't need me to answer your childish questions. You're avoiding the topic. Where did this sudden love some from?"
"I have always loved you Ginny, don't you understand? I couldn't tell you at first because my pride prevented me from saying a word. Then when I finally did tell you called me a lying bastard and left. Why do I love you? I don't know. Why don't you love me."
"That's the problem Draco." you look at your feet bowing our head as amber curls spill off your shoulders.
"What?"
"I do love you!" you cry and turn your head away.
"But why didn't you just tell me?"
"You have a life, you can't just walk away from it."
I look you in the eyes I see confusion and hurt. I want to sweep it away but I don't know how. I stand and grab you by the arm.
"Watch me."
We walk together out the door away from my house, my wife, my entire life. We will start over together. Building a new life on a foundation of love. You are the only one who can drive the cold blood out of me. I know you can. I love and I have faith in you.
As we walk down this road together I look in your eyes the confusion is gone and happiness remains. I don't know where we're going but I know one thing, I will finally be happy.