Losing the Love of my Life Author's note: This story has been revised! It's an AU originally written way before HBP and DH, though I have tried to mesh the story with the newer HP books, if it's not up to snuff, well it is an AU. I plan on updating more soon! Read and Review! Much love!
Disclaimer: It all belongs to JK Rowling except the main plot.
Chapter: 1
The Dawn of a Lifetime
It was a cool September morning. The crisp fall air was making its way into the room. The sun was pouring through the bedroom curtains. Ginny squeezed her closed eyes tightly, trying hard not to wake up. She felt so warm wrapped up in those strong arms. The morning light was starting to annoy Ginny, so she rolled over away from the light and buried her head into his chest. Ginny paused as her mind was starting to wake up, much to her protest. There was not supposed to be someone in her bed with her.
Her mind began racing. There was most definitely a warm, strong body next to her.
'It's forbidden to share beds at Hogwarts,' Ginny thought frantically. 'How did this person get up into the girls bedrooms anyway? The steps are charmed to make it impossible for guys to get up here.' She was now starting to freakout, she couldn't remember how she came to be sharing a bed with some unknown person.
Ginny felt the arm around her waist tighten and the guy next to her was starting to stir. Ginny opened one of her eyes hesitantly, trying to remain clam. Just then, an alarm clock went off. A huge yawn and then, the body next to her shifted.
"Gin, time to get up," said a sleepy voice beside her.
The owner of the voice turned over and pushed a button on the clock to turn it off. He then turned back over and kissed Ginny lightly on the check. Ginny hadn't moved an inch but on the inside she was screaming. She squinted through her lashes, trying to catch a glimpse of the person without appearing as if she were awake.
That was when Ginny got a good look at the stranger in her bed.
"DRACO MALFOY!" Ginny screamed and hopped out of bed, her face red with rage. Draco looked up at her with a slightly shocked look on his face.
"Yes Ginny?" Draco asked in a calm voice trying to keep a smirk from forming on his face.
"So! You think it's funny to sneak into the Gryffindor Tower and sleep with unsuspecting girls?" She bellowed and stomped her foot.
'She is livid! That was clear but, what the hell is she talking about?' Draco thought to himself, getting agitated.
"Look, Ginny, I know you're mad about last night but can we talk about it instead of having you scream at me. You're going to wake the kids... if you haven't already," he paused then said, "Let's face it, if they can stay asleep for an hour or two more then we all are going to have a much better day." Draco said teasing his wife, as he began to pull on a clean shirt.
"What in Merlin's name are you talking about?" Ginny asked, rubbing her throat, which was now sore.
The bedroom door suddenly flew open. Ginny jumped and bumped into a nightstand causing Draco to laugh. She glared at him and rubbed her hip to easy the pain, as in walked two little boys and a little girl. The one boy looked older by a few years. His hair was a strawberry blonde. His eyes were a piercing gray-blue that reminded Ginny of a stormy sky during the springtime. He was smiling at her.
"Mum, you still annoyed at dad?" He asked innocently climbing up onto his parents bed.
Ginny looked at this little boy. Then she shifted her attention to the two other children. The younger boy standing up tall by the far edge of the bed was staring at Ginny with a serious expression, which seemed slightly out of place on such a young face. She noticed that he had red hair that was her families' trademark color and her brown-green eyes. However, he had the stance of an aristocrat and she could tell right away that he had the Malfoy charisma.
"Mum?" The older boy asked raising his voice impatiently. He was waving his hand in her face trying to get her attention.
"Umm, yes?" Ginny had no clue what was going on and she felt nervous under the curious stares of so many strangers.
Ginny quickly took in her surroundings. It was a fairly large bedroom with a large bed. With plain wooden floors and soft blue walls, the room had a peaceful and soothing feeling. Her eyes feel upon the little girl. The girl, noticing her mother's stare, quickly straightened up from a slouch. The girl had shoulder length, wavy, blonde hair. Her eyes where more blue then gray and she was petite, like Ginny. Draco cleared his throat.
"Gin, are you alright?" Draco asked sounding concerned.
Ginny snorted at the thought of Draco being concerned. She was very confused to say the least. Even if Draco was pretending to care, she didn't understand where these children came from and why they were playing along with Draco's awful trick. The second she had realized she wasn't in her Hogwarts room, she knew that Draco had done something to her.
"Draco, you kidnapped me! And I demand you take me back to school at once!" She yelled, then paused as if in thought, "And... you return these poor children back to their parents!"
"What are you talking about?" Draco asked getting up from tying his shoes. He was starting to get really angry now. Ginny was now hysterical.
"I don't know these kids! And I have never been in this room before! AND I most certainly would never sleep with you!" Ginny was crying now as she yelled at Draco. He surveyed his Ginny's reaction to the normal morning they where having and wondered why she was freaking out at nothing.
"AWW! Mum, please calm down your over-reacting. Dad can't control dogface lady anymore then you can control Uncle George." The boy on the bed said trying to add some humor to the situation.
"Dogface lady? Who is that? And someone tell me what happened last night?" Ginny said while rubbing her head.
"Dogface Lady is what the kids call Pansy. You know Parkinson? Anyway, we were at dinner last night, she came over to our table, and started to flirt with...er...me while you where in the lavatories changing Railey. That's way you were mad last night."
Ginny looked at the girl. She seemed a little too old for diapers "You're Railey?"
"Nope! I'm Jade and I'm five. That is Ryan and he is my twin." She said pointing at the younger boy with red hair. "And he is Evan. He is almost nine." She added pointing to the older boy on the bed with blonde hair.
"Right...ok! So, there are four kids. Then where is Railey?" Ginny said looking around the room to see if she missed one.
Draco looked at his wife, quizically. Something was definitely wrong with her.
"Ginny, baby, you have more then four kids... try seven." Ginny paled.
"What! Seven kids? Where are they all?"
"Well, Connor, who is fifteen, is in Slytherin. Then, Lena, who is thirteen, is also in Slytherin. And, Cadence, is in Gryffindor. She is eleven." Draco explained, getting more worried at his wife's sudden lose of memory.
"Railey is still asleep in her crib." Evan said, trying to be helpful.
"So... how old am I?" Ginny said to Draco. Her eyes were filling up with tears. "The last thing I remember was being at Hogwarts in my sixth year."
He was shocked. "What month was it when you were at school?"
"Well, Christmas break just started. Why?"
Draco looked thoughtful for a moment. Then he frowned slightly and nodded. He turned to his children with a smile on his face.
"Hey kids, why don't you go get Railey up and have some cereal down in the kitchen?" Draco asked his kids. Of course, they knew he wasn't asking but that he was nicely telling them what to do.
They agreed and left their parents and headed down the hall nosily, laughing and talking the whole way to Railey's room. Draco walked over to the door and closed it.
"Gin, we need to talk. You must have hit your head during the night or something, because you are not sixteen, you're thirty-six. You have seven kids. You and I have been married for almost seventeen years now. And, you freaked out this morning when you saw me."
"I don't know what is going on. I shouldn't be here! This is not real! Yesterday, Hermione and I, where in the dungeons working on some potions homework thing. No one was down there because it was the first day of break. We were laughing and talking then you walked in. You were mean to Hermione."
Ginny looked up into Draco's icy gray eyes expecting him to be smirking or something, proud at himself for hurting Hermione. Instead, she was shocked to see he actually looked like he was ashamed. She noticed his eyes didn't look icy but were a soft gray at the moment.
"And you kept teasing her. I got mad so I hexed you... with a bat boogey hex. And you fell and knocked over my cauldron and the contents went into Hermione's. When they came in contact with each other they exploded. But after the smoke cleared, you yelled at me and ran off to get Snape. Me and Hermione ran for it and made it back to the common room without getting caught." Ginny said.
Draco studied Ginny's face. His mind and his heart were racing. He walked over to where Ginny stood and put his hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
"Yeah, I remember that... We will get this figured out. But how about we go get some breakfast for now?" Ginny nodded her head in consent. They left the bedroom, and Draco lead Ginny down to the noisy kitchen.
"Hey, Connor!" Lena yelled down the Slytherin table to get her older brother's attention. He looked up from his notes and glared at her. She smiled innocently.
"Connor, I was just going to ask if you got a letter from dad? It's about mum?"
"No. What's it say?" He asked, now putting his last minute studying aside. She smirked at him and got up from the table, walking away.
"Nothing. You can go back to studying. I am going to go see Cadence and piss off some lions." She said smiling broadly.
"You're good at pissing people off. Now, hand me the letter!" Connor said raising his voice gradually, also getting up and following his younger sister, who was heading towards the Gryffindor table.
"Yes, I know I am." She flicked her long straight blonde hair over her shoulder, making a guy passing her turn around for a second glance. This made the already annoyed Connor livid, which just made Lena smirk more.
"Hey, babe!" Lena said sitting down next to her younger sister.
"Hey! What's that?" Cadence asked spotting the letter clutched in her older sisters hand. Connor sat down across form his two younger sisters.
"Hi Connor!" Cadence added cheerfully. He frowned.
"How the hell can you be so damn cherry at seven thirty in the bloody morning on a Monday!" He asked her in disbelief.
"I don't party all weekend long and then try to cram for a test. What subject is it this week?" She asked with a smile. Lena was laughing merrily.
"Divinations." He grumbled. Lena snorted.
"Why take that class anyways?"
"Hey! I like Divinations!" Cadence said offended by the way Lena disregarded it. Lena and Connor rolled their eyes.
"You won't when you actually start taking the class!" Connor said in a dark voice.
"Whatever." She said.
"Moving on. Dad sent me this letter." Lena waved the letter in her left hand. "Mum is suffering from some kind of memory lose. Dad was just letting us know and he said he would keep us posted."
Cadence gasped and looked upset. Connor knew that Lena's blasé attitude was a defense mechanism and that she too, was upset. As the oldest, he knew he had to take care of his younger siblings. He sighed and looked at his watch.
"Girls, we are going to have to meet later. We have to head to class now." His sisters nodded.
"Alright. How about by the lake during lunch," Cadence suggested. "Lena, you're in charge of bringing the food. Connor, you can bring the drinks." She said in her take-charge voice. Her older siblings consented to her plan.
The three Malfoy children at Hogwarts got up from the Gryffindor table and headed off on their different ways, intending to meet back in a few hours to spend lunch together by the lake.
If Ginny had been at Hogwarts that crisp fall morning, she would have been surprised to see how much Hogwarts had changed in the past 17 years. Inter-house unity, was no longer an outlandish dream of the old headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, but it was an actual reality. That reality spoke volumes of just how far the wizdaring world had really come since the fall of Voldemort. And maybe if Ginny had seen how all the students interacted with each other, regardless of their house, she wouldn't have been so surprised by her current situation or any of the other surprises that soon awaited her.
