Chapter One: Life after I Do

Six months after the trial and the wedding the lives of the Malfoy family had not changed much. Everyone was happier than they ever thought they could be. The family was thriving in every possible way; Draco and Ginny were happy and in love, Emily was surrounded by a safe, adoring, and close family, Uriel and Blaise were busy playing the dating game while Blaise tried to figure out when to make his next move, and Narcissa was in France letting her children live their own lives while she kept an eye on them from a distance.

Blaise had been enjoying a boom in his practice after his triumph over Harry Potter. It really surprised all of them because they had been expecting a backlash from all of the Harry Potter lovers. The backlash had really been minimal, at least so far it had been. There was still a good majority of people who stood behind their fallen idol, but most of the Wizarding world realized that the evidence was all there and Harry Potter was no longer the person that the public wanted him to be.

Draco continued his work as a Healer at St. Mongo's but he was promoted to a special post. He was now head of the assault and battery ward in the hospital. It was a place where any abused husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, child, or anyone suffering from abuse could come to seek help. They tended to wounds, both physical and psychological. Draco realized how much he liked to help people back onto their feet, and what he had gone through with Ginny gave him very good insight into other people's problems. He was there to listen and be supportive just as much as he was to heal.

Uriel resigned from her job with Gringotts as a Curse Breaker. Now that she had Blaise, and wasn't just trying to get away from bonding time with Narcissa all the time she realized how much she liked being home instead of jetting off to any location where she was needed. She loved her family more than words and after a few months of just spending time with them all she became conscious that she couldn't be one of those women who was content to sit around and do nothing, and she realized that right around the same time Ginny had.

When Ginny was still married to Harry Potter she was so focused on hiding the evidence of her abuse, on keeping Emily safe, that she had never even tried to have a job. Now that she had a new life, a real life, she was getting bored easily. She loved being a mother, and a wife, but she was not Narcissa Malfoy; she could not just sit around and spend money and contribute nothing to her life with Draco. So she and Uri put their heads together and started their own business.

After planning Ginny's wedding and Emily's birthday party the Malfoy daughter recognized her love of party planning, and when she and Ginny teamed up to plan Draco's 27th surprise birthday party, Ginny realized that she loved to plan parties as well. So the two Malfoy women started their own party planning business which had really taken off. They were becoming the go two girls if you wanted an amazing party even if you didn't have the budget of a Malfoy.

So everyone in the odd little family was happy. They had big family dinners with all the Malfoy's and the Weasley's every Sunday, Emily was safe, and happy, it seemed like everything was going to come up roses for everyone. But that is usually when life decides to turn on you…when you are at your happiest. And boy did life turn on that unsuspecting family…oh did it ever.

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"Emily, please let's go back it looks like rain."

"Mommy," the little girl protested. "We live in England…it always looks like rain."

Uriel tried to hide her laughter. "Mind your mother Emily; we don't want to get stuck out here in the rain."

Emily huffed but got back on her pony none the less. With a few waves of their wands Ginny and Uri had cleaned up their afternoon tea, and they mounted their own horses as well. They trio began to ride back in the growing gloom.

"I don't like the look of those clouds," Uri said as they finally got back to the stables and put their horses away.

Ginny finished putting the horses tack away with a wave of her wand and looked out the doors to the stable as well. "We better get inside before the sky decides to start opening up on us."

They all walked as quickly as they could back up to the manor. Emily retreated to her own room to play and maybe take a nap and Ginny and Uri went to the room that served as their office and lounge for perspective clients. Mitzi was laying out tea for the two women when they entered.

"Thank you Mitzi," Uriel said as she sat down. "Please go and make sure that Miss Emily doesn't want a snack."

The little elf nodded and with a crack was gone.

"So," Ginny opened their appointment book. "We don't have any clients scheduled for today or tomorrow, in fact we don't have anyone book until this time next week. That's odd we've been so busy and now…"

"We have free time for the first time in months," Uri laughed at her sister in law as she sipped her tea. "Maybe we can all take a little trip as a family."

Ginny smiled. "That would be nice. It is close to your anniversary with Blaise."

"Eight months isn't really an important anniversary Gin," Uriel tried to tell her. "Unless you know something that I don't, and Blaise is planning to give me something small, shiny, and attached to a very large commitment."

Ginny smiled. "I don't know why you are so afraid of Blaise proposing, or of getting married. You love him don't you?"

"Of course I love him," Uriel assured her best friend. "And I want to marry him, but not until I know that we can last. If we get bored with each other after a year, I want to know before we both get in too deep and get hurt."

Ginny snorted. "As if you and Blaise could ever be boring, or get bored with each other."

The two women laughed and continued to talk as they finished up their tea. Before they knew it Draco was walking through the door to their lounge.

"Good evening family," Draco greeted them both warmly.

He gave Ginny a deep kiss as Uri poured her brother a cup of tea.

"So how was your day my love?" Ginny asked, as she saw the tension drain from her husband's body.

"It was the same as always," Draco took a sip of his tea. "I thought it would get easier to see all of these abused people parade through my ward, but it doesn't. I thought because I wasn't emotionally invested in all of these people I wouldn't want to hurt whoever hurt them, but I do."

"You were hurt too Draco," his sister reminded him. "This isn't only because of what you went through with Ginny and Emily; it's about what you went through because of me, what you yourself went through."

Ginny brushed his hair back out of his face. "You wouldn't have taken this job if you didn't think you could handle it. You are making a difference to these people, to all of them. Sometimes just knowing that someone is there on the other side of the dark cloud can be all the difference. You helped Emily and I more than words could ever describe and even if you didn't love me you would have done it. I know that for years you struggled with yourself and wondered why you couldn't just do what was expected of you and become a Death Eater, but I knew the answer all along."

"What is the answer Gin?" Draco asked kissing her hand.

"It is because you can't hurt anyone, not really. Sure you can be mean or even petty, but you could never hurt anyone. You were hurt so much in your life; you've been through so much pain that you don't want to see anyone else hurt." Ginny kissed him on the cheek.

Draco looked down, and began to look all over, as if he had just misplaced something.

"What are you looking for?" Ginny asked him.

"My balls," he told her. "I had them a second ago and then you spoke and I lost them."

Ginny and Uri both laughed at him, knowing that even if he wasn't a horrible person capable of hurting anyone, he was still Draco.

A few hours later Blaise came into the room with Emily in his arms.

"Hey, I found this cute little girl wandering around the hallway," Blaise put Emily down in Draco's arms. "Can we keep her?"

Emily threw her arms around Draco's neck. "Daddy you wouldn't let Uncle Blaise throw me out would you?"

Draco smiled at her, it never failed to stop his heart and make him melt when he heard Emily call him Daddy.

"Never in a million years my darling girl," Draco assured her.

It always made Ginny so happy seeing how their family had grown closer, and became as close knit as the Weasley's had ever been. A little while later they all sat down to dinner.

"So," Ginny spoke up. "Are we doing anything special for your anniversary Blaise? Uri-ouch!"

Ginny leaned down to rub her shin while Emily and Draco laughed.

"We'll actually have to wait to celebrate until later Gin," Blaise told Ginny. "Uriel, Draco, and I have to go over to France to see Narcissa."

"I could come with you," Ginny offered. "The four of us could go out afterwords."

"That isn't necessary Gin," Draco kissed her hand. "Mother has a few things in her will that she needs looked at and changed that involve Uri and I, and we need our lawyer there. Who knows how long it could take, you shouldn't have to sit and wait for us."

Ginny's face fell. "Well Emily is already going to stay with my parents for the weekend, so I suppose that we can do something tomorrow."

"I promise that we will do something tomorrow," Uri promised. "You know Mother, when she wants something she gets it."

Ginny felt like she wasn't being told something, but she knew better than to argue or worry. Nothing stayed secret in this family for long, Ginny would find out from Draco soon enough. After Dinner was over Draco, Uriel and Blaise left, and Ginny took Emily over to the Burrow.

After she dropped Emily off, Ginny headed over to Diagon Alley to pick up a few things. She stopped by the store to see George and as she was leaving she saw a telltale head of blond hair.

"Draco?" she called out to him. "How did you know I would be here? Are Uri and Blaise here t-"

She didn't get to finish her sentence because the man in front of her turned and aimed a killing curse right at her. Thankfully her years of wartime training made her ready and the curse missed her by a few inches, she was however thrown backwards with the force of the curse. As she hit the ground all she saw was the blond man disappearing into the quickly growing crowd rushing to help her.

"Draco? What the Hell is going on?" Ginny wondered, as people crowded around her. "Someone catch that man."

But her cries fell on deaf ears, as she began to lose consciousness all she could think was "how could I let this happen again…no Draco would never hurt me."

But if that was true…then what in the world was going on?

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So here is my first chapter of my Me and Emily sequel. Don't hate me, I just wanted to get the ball rolling and get everyone interested. I am so glad I can continue this series, and I am so glad to be back. Strap yourself in kids, this one is going to be a bumpy ride.