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The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn
CHAPTER 1: A Few Changes Love Can Bring
Ginny sighed as she watched the snow falling endlessly from her bedroom window at Malfoy Manor. It was still early so everything was silent. She looked over at the sleeping form draped across the large four poster bed on the other side of the chambers. Her husband, Draco. It still amazed her that she married this man. A man who, in their teenage years, had bestowed so much torment on her and her friends. A man who's father had been a loyal Death Eater and, along with others, had killed and tortured so people she knew and loved in the Final Battle. But he was not his father and he was not that boy any more. He was just Draco and she loved him for it.
Ginny and Draco had been married for 14 years and had two wonderful children. Being Christmas, they had come home from Hogwarts. Darius, at 13, was very defiant. He was arrogant, cocky and exceptionally like his father, so naturally, he was in Slytherin. Amethyst was much more like her mother. She had inherited her mother's feisty temper and her auburn hair. This year was her first year at Hogwarts and she was placed, same as her mother, in Gryffindor.
A voice from the bed broke her from her reverie. "What are you thinking about?" Draco asked her as he pulled back the covers and walked over to her.
"Nothing really. Just that our children are exactly like us, completely different." She replied as he wrapped his strong arms around her thin waist.
She turned around and placed her arms around his neck and played with the small curls of hair there. Draco had grown into a very handsome and powerful man. He still had that translucent skin and white blonde hair, but he didn't slick it back any more. And who could forget those aristocratic features that every Malfoy displayed. He still hated, well, strongly disliked Potter, Granger and that repulsive red headed brother of hers, but when they were together he treated her like a princess.
But even though they had been married for fourteen years they were still very much in love. Draco leaned down and captured her mouth in a chaste kiss. As he started to break away Ginny moaned and pulled his head back down for a more passionate kiss. After what seemed like years, the need for air broke the two apart and they both pulled back breathing heavily.
"Morning love," Draco said, smirking, "didn't I wear you out last night?"
"What are yousmirking at? Unless you wipe that look off your face I'm not going to help you with that little problem!" she replied lightly with a smirk of her own, signalling to his groin.
"Small, am I Ginevra?" he asked as he pressed his erection into her thigh. She gasped but then collected herself.
She leaned up and softly blew in his ear sending shivers down his spine. "You're quite right Mister Malfoy," she purred, "Not so little." Then she paused.
"But now you have a large problem and because of your stupidity I'd say you have a date with a cold shower," she spoke coolly as she walked out of their bedchambers. As she passed through the doorway she turned her head slowly and gave him a seductive look over her shoulder which did nothing to help his raging erection.
"Damn all witches and their lack of…of… having any sympathy!" he muttered to himself as he walked towards his bathroom. Ginny, who was still hovering outside the door, heard what he said and laughed to herself. She'd make it up to him later but for now she had to go and wake her two children for breakfast.
Ginny started the long journey to the west wing of Malfoy Manor. She and Draco resided in the south wing but they gave their children the privilege of privacy, something she had never had when she was growing up. Not that she hadn't enjoyed her childhood, it was just that everywhere she went someone was always there. It was hardest for her, being the youngest, and having 6 over protective big brothers. 7 if you included Harry. She still remembered the looks on all of their faces when she had brought Draco home for the first time.
"Mum! Dad! I'm home!" Ginny shouted as she came in the door of the burrow. She made sure to leave out that she had a companion.
All year she had been on a Ministry assignment and she hadn't seen any one of her family members.
"Ginny! Oh my! Dear, come in hear and give your mother a hug. I'm up to my elbows in dishes!" her mother called in return.
Ginny turned to her companion and spoke softly.
"Draco, they will all be very…wary of you at first but don't worry my family is used to accepting people so you don't have anything to worry about. Ok?"
Draco wasn't worried but he knew that Ginny was. Her words sounded confident but the nervous looks she kept giving him betrayed her.
"Just how many of your brothers do you have again?" he replied jokingly.
His calm voice broke some of the tension that she was feeling and she took his hand and strode into the kitchen. All heads turned when Ginny appeared in the room. Her brothers looked ecstatic to see her but when they noticed Malfoy standing slightly behind her holding her hand their looks turned to fury. Bill was the first to speak.
"Gin-bug, it's so good to see you but would you care to explain why Ferret Boy is with you?"
Ginny was glad that it was Bill who had spoken first. He was the oldest and he certainly had the most patience. She slowly looked at everyone in the room. Her mother, her father, Bill and his wife Fleur, Charlie, Percy and his wife Penelope, Fred and Angelina, George and his wife Katie, Ron, Hermione and Harry. Out of these fourteen people only her mother knew about Draco. Ron was looking murderous and so were Charlie and the twins. Mrs Weasley put her hand gently on her husband's shoulder to calm his temper and then gave her an encouraging look. Ginny took a deep breath and spoke firmly.
"Everyone, I'd like to introduce my fiancé, Draco."
She especially left off the Malfoy but it didn't make a difference. On the word fiancé seven infuriated men stood up and started yelling at Draco. Ron ran over to Draco and grabbed him by the collar.
"I'm gonna kill you!" he screamed, "How dare you get my sister pregnant!"
Ginny was distraught and had blocked out most of the yelling but she heard what Ron had said.
"ENOUGH!" her bellowing voice was heard even above the din, "I am not pregnant! Ron, sit down, and the same goes for the rest of you or you'll all be meeting with the business end of my wand!" she spoke dangerously.
All the men sat down quickly in fear of being Bat Bogeyed by their younger sister. Fred had enough courage to call out, "Well if you're not pregnant then why would you marry Malfoy."
"Because, Fred," she replied evenly, "I love him."
After her declaration all of the females present ran up to Ginny and hugged her and all started squealing over her enormous diamond. She didn't know what made her brothers stay quiet for the rest of evening but Hermione and her mother were looking very smug. As she and Draco were leaving that night Charlie came up to Draco and whispered into his ear.
"Just because our sister has seen a difference in you doesn't mean we have. We'll arrange a time when you can get together with me and all the boys so we can discuss your…future with our sister." He drew back and said loud enough for Ginny to hear," That's alright, isn't it Malfoy?"
Draco looked a bit tense but Ginny squeezed his hand. He looked Charlie in the eye and nodded. He then bid goodnight to Mr and Mrs Weasley and then he walked outside, waiting for Ginny. Ginny hugged and kissed her mother and father and said that she would drop by soon, then she too, left.
When she met up with Draco outside he looked very agitated.
"Why didn't you tell Charlie that, sorry but NO, Draco can't come to a little meeting with you and all the boys! Do you want me to get killed?" he whispered harshly to her.
"Draco you don't understand! If I thought that you would be in danger there I would have said that but my father will be there and if things get out of hand he will sort it out! This is their way of accepting you! They do this to every guy I bring home!"
Draco raised his eyebrows slightly at what she said last.
"Oh? And just how many young males have you brought home?"
Before she could answer he bent down and kissed her passionately.
At the little 'meeting' Draco had with her brothers they had ended up being amazed at something. They had asked Draco what had happened to him that made him stop being the Muggle hating, Death Eater, Ferret Boy that he used to be. She whispered to herself his answer. "Just a few changes love can bring."
She smiled to herself as she quietly tapped on Darius' door. When she opened the door to show the full extent of his bedroom, she screamed as the sight that greeted her.