after the HUGE fight at the end of the seventh book, Rowling never lets the characters grieve for those they lost, and she doesn't give us anything else...

don't get me wrong, i LOVE HP... i just wanted a little more HarryXGinny :)

enjoy!!

Harry slept for what felt like days. When he finally woke, it was dark outside his window. He glanced over and saw Ron sleeping soundly in his own four-poster bed next to Harry. As he looked around his room at Hogwarts, suddenly wide awake, he noticed a single sheet of paper on his bedside table. It was a note from Ginny.

'come out when you wake'

That was all it said, but Harry understood.

As he had read the note, a longing had built inside him, and now he quickly jumped out of bed and started down the stairs to the Gryffindor common room. Ginny was sleeping on the biggest armchair and as Harry crossed the room she started awake and smiled sleepily at him. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, she rose.

"Last I was here, I cried myself to sleep a lot, so all my roommates found other rooms," she said, taking Harry's hand and leading him up the other flight of stairs. "No one's sleeping in my room tonight but me."

When they reached Ginny's room she let his hand fall to his side and went to sit at the window. Harry could see tear stains on her cheeks as he watched her. He sat across from her silently, watching her as she gazed out the window onto the Hogwarts grounds.

"A lot happened last night, Harry, and I realized that I don't get a second chance if I make a mistake. There is no turning back, and opportunities that are lost are lost forever. I only get one try at life," she said, still staring out the window. "Some of us aren't even that lucky. Fred-" she stopped and fresh tears started to flow. Harry pulled her into a tight hug as he felt hot tears start to fall down his cheeks too. He didn't know what to say, how to comfort her, so he simply held her and let her cry.

They stayed like that for some time, and then Harry felt Ginny take a deep breath.

"I know-you don't have to- I'm sure you don't really feel like talking about it now, but when you're ready, I would like to hear the whole story- from start to finish- of what you three have been doing all this time," Ginny said and as Harry looked into her beautiful brown eyes he knew he could tell her everything.

So he did. He told Ginny the whole and unadulterated truth, from Ron's breakdown over the dying Horcrux, his struggle to choose Hallows or Horcruxes, to their plot to break into Gringotts and double-cross Griphook. Harry told her everything and she listened. She didn't judge, didn't interrupt, just sat quietly as Harry told the whole story from when they left the wedding to when he turned himself in to Voldemort and saw Lupin, Sirius, James, and Lily.

When he finally finished explaining it all, Ginny looked up at him with her big brown eyes full up of admiration and love- they practically shown. She took his hands in hers tenderly.

"Harry, that sounds… I don't even know what to say. It sounds glorious; I'm sure it didn't feel that way during your journey, but… It all makes sense now. How you figured all that out with the few clues that Dumbledore gave you lot, I have no idea, but you did!"

She dropped his hands and placed her fingers lightly on either side of his face, looking him directly in the eyes.

"I love you," she said, and there was so much conviction in her voice that Harry had to smile. He leaned into her and suddenly they were close, closer than they had been since those dark corners of Hogwarts last year.

Harry's heart hammered in his chest as he kissed her and his arms pulled her tightly against his chest. Her arms hugged him and her hands twisted into his hair, holding him to her. In-between kisses, Harry told Ginny that he loved her; he told her she would never be apart from him again, that he could not leave her.

Sometime during their heated exchange, Ginny had started to cry again, the silent tears running down her face. As they both collapsed, breathing heavily, onto her bed, Harry wiped the tears off her cheeks gently.

"Please, don't. Don't cry, Ginny, everything is going to be alright, I promise. I won't ever leave you again," Harry said, and Ginny took a long, shivering breath, wiping her eyes with the backs of her hands and blushing slightly.

"I know, Harry, I'm sorry. I guess I'm just happy that you are back. I have dreamed about this for a long time," she said, hugging him again. He held her tightly and slowly her hiccupped breathing evened out as she fell asleep in his arms.