Title: Love is a Battlefield
Author: Jess
Author's Note: This is my first HP fic so please be nice!
Disclaimer: I own Andre Miller and his family and friends. Everyone else belongs to JK Rowling and whoever else.
Summary: It's been five years since Ron, Harry and Hermione left on their hunt for Voldemort. Ginny has finally moved on with her life and has out the wizarding world behind her. She is living in Northern England with her new fiancé Andre Miller. What will happen when Andre finds out the through about who Ginny really is?
Chapter 1 – the Proposal
"I never really gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped…Hermione told me to get on with my life, maybe go out with some other people, relax a bit around you, because I never use to be able to talk if you were in the room, remember? And she thought you might take a bit more notice if I was a bit more – myself.'
'Smart girl that Hermione. I just wish I'd asked you sooner. We could have had ages…months…year's maybe…'
'But you've been too busy saving the wizarding world. Well I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.'
Harry could not bear to hear these things, nor did he think his resolution would hold if he remained sitting beside her. Ron, he saw, was now holding Hermione and stroking her hair while she sobbed into his shoulder, tears dripping from the end of his long nose. With a miserable gesture, Harry got up, turned his back on Ginny and on Dumbledore's tomb and walked away around the lake.
Five years later…
Ginny sat on her stool in the bathroom admiring herself in the mirror.
She sighed and applied the final touches of her makeup, then fiddled with her air until it looked just right. She sighed again and closed her eyes.
"Hey beautiful. I've got something for you." Someone walked up behind her.
"Hey." She smiled as he kissed her neck. She opened her eyes.
"Close your eyes." He laughed. She smirked and closed her eyes again. She felt him place something cold and heavy around her neck. "Okay open your eyes now."
"Wow." Ginny opened her eyes and she could see a big while gold necklace with a pearl pendant on the end. "It's beautiful. It must have cost a fortune."
"You know I love spending money on you. Because I love you so much."
"I know." She smiled and turned around. "I love you too." It had been so hard for her to move on after Harry had left. She had spent several months in her room, crying herself to sleep, she had spent the whole summer sulking around the house not eating much and her face was constantly covered with dry tears. After about a year of grieving Luna finally convinced Ginny to get out of the house and do something…and that was when she met Andre Miller, a very rich man who had inherited all of his fortunes when his father had died.
"Are you ready to go?" Andre asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be." Ginny stood up.
"Great. The Limo is waiting downstairs."
"Limo? What kind of dinner is this?" Ginny laughed. She had been dating Andre for over three years and she still wasn't used to him showering her with gifts and having to attend cocktail dinners and special events.
"Come on. Let's go. You'll see when we get there." Andre smiled and linked arms with her, then led her out of the house.
"Where are we going?" Ginny asked as they were driving along.
"You'll see. Here put this on." He held out a blindfold.
"Why? Where are you taking me?' She smiled nervously.
"Just put it on and you'll see when we get there. I want it to be a surprise."
"Okay…" She replied hesitantly and let Andre place the blindfold around her eyes.
"Now no peeking."
"Ok I'm not peeking." She laughed.
When the limo stopped Andre and Ginny got out and Andre led Ginny through a narrow hall and into a giant ballroom.
"Okay…you can look now."
Ginny took off the blindfold and looked around with a gasp.
"Wow it's so beautiful." They were standing in the middle of the biggest ballroom Ginny had ever seen. The room had silver walls and doors and silver ribbons hanging from the ceilings.
"What are we doing here?" Ginny asked. Andre looked at her with a sly smile. "What's going on?"
Andre clapped his hands and suddenly the room was filled with the sound of a choir singing Ginny's favourite song.
"Andre…" Ginny had tears in her eyes. "Andre what's going on?"
Ginny gasped again when Andre bent down on one knee.
"Ginevra Weasley…will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?" Ginny looked at him with wide eyes, tears pouring down her cheeks. She nodded and he placed a diamond and ruby ring on her finger.
"Wow…" She smiled. "I…I love you." He stood up and kissed her passionately.
"Now…come on…we're late for dinner."
"Who are we having dinner with?"
"My family."
"What?" Ginny was surprised. "Are you kidding?"
"No...They've been dying to meet you."
"Oh…well let's go then." Ginny smiled happily and followed him back out to the limo.
Well there you go. That's the first chapter. I hope everyone likes it…please say you like it lol…
Jess