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A/N - This isn't the greatest chapter I've ever written, in fact I'm a little bit disgusted with myself. Here it is, the other chapters will be longer I'm sure. I was really stuck for this chapter.
Harry closely followed by Ron and Hermione who had been inseparable since they'd kissed headed for the exit of the Headmaster's office, "It's over, it's really over?" Ginny appeared at the top of the stairs with tears still rolling down her face, Harry took her head in his hands and placed a kiss on top of her head, "Yes, it's over, everything's finished." Reaching the bottom of the stairs both couples went their separate ways, Ron and Hermione back to the Weasleys in the Great Hall and Harry and Ginny towards Hagrid's hut, or rather what was left of it. Harry needed to see Hagrid and he knew the giant didn't work well with crowds. Standing in the corridor leading out of the castle Ginny turned to her love and took his hand in her own. "I love you Harry Potter." This was the last thing Harry needed right now but he knew she was only trying to help; he stopped and took her other hand in his before kissing her on the lips, "I love you too Ginny Weasley." Hugging the red haired girl and wiping the remaining tears off her face they stood there, just holding each other, letting the world around them disappear.
"Oh, so that's how it is, Voldemort's dead and it's over, you're going back to her after everything that's happened between us?" After the outburst there was a bitter silence that tore into Harry's heart. He turned to see the face of the boy he'd been deeply in love with for the past two years, his heart dropped as he saw a single tear run down the other boys face. He couldn't bare it anymore but he couldn't let Ginny know what had been going on, she'd go off her head that the boy she'd just declared he love to was in fact in love with the person everyone least expected him to be. "Ginny, go find your mum, make sure everyone's okay will you?" Ginny dropped his hand, the expression on her face was less than impressed that she'd been sent away but complied nonetheless. The red haired girl wandered off in the same direction her brother had gone no more than five minutes before.
"Don't worry Potter, I can see what's going on here, I never mattered, I was just something to occupy your time." Draco started moving closer to him, not caring about who saw the closeness between the two. He hadn't meant to upset Draco, he did love him but now wasn't the right time to let everyone know that. "I'm sorry Draco; I love you but everything's messed up right now. You left with your mother, your father's gone and you can hardly say that you don't need some space to sort things out before we get any closer than we already have done." The single tear that ran down Draco's face was now joined by yet more, a sudden stream that he couldn't contain. "Its fine, finally I can see you crystal clear. You never needed me like I needed you, I always had your back, I hated your god-damn friends at times but you, and there was nothing I could hate about you. But now, I feel like everything's gone, I'm done." With that Draco walked away.
Harry couldn't let it end like that, chasing after the blonde boy he grabbed the shoulder of his lover, "Draco, I'm sorry, I never wanted this, I didn't want us to end like this, hell I didn't want us to end and if you'd just give me time it won t be the end, I just need to sort my head out before committing to anything or anyone, don't be angry." He took his hand off the boys shoulder but before he had another chance to say anything Draco made the exact same exit he had previously at the end of the war. He couldn't take it, everything was falling apart, he had nothing left and without Draco nothing mattered.
He sat down on the cold, wet ground without concern for the wet patch that was emerging on the bottom of his trousers. The rain was getting heavier and Harry didn't care. Why couldn't everything be simple, why did Ginny have to love him, it'd be easier if she didn't love him because then him and Draco could disappear somewhere till everything had died down and no one cared about the war or the Malfoy's sudden change of sides when their leader had been killed. He just wanted Draco to come back and turn the sorrow that he'd been feeling into treasured gold, he wanted Draco to come back and tell him that the loved him and nothing else mattered, but it wasn't going to happen, he'd just blown whatever they'd had.