The subsequent posts are all entries for the "DG Forum's 100 Days, 100 Drabbles" challenge.
While this isn't the exact version I wanted to submit, I had to get something up. When I have the net back on my laptop, I might change it.
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Something old, something new,
Something borrowed, something blue,
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.
Ginny could vaguely remember the first time she heard that phrase. She was perched on the edge of the worn kitchen table of the Burrow; her feet swinging under her, making the soft cotton of her first good dress dance and fall. Molly was murmuring the verse beneath her breath as she bustled around in her best robes. She rattled through the numerous cupboards and jars and tins in search of the elusive silver sixpence that flittered between the female members of the Prewitt family, ready to finally pass it on to some distant cousin.
The second time the old rhyme caught her attention was many years later, when yet again the words were unconsciously escaping her mother as she busied herself in the Burrow's well loved kitchen. That bright morning was also the first time Ginny noticed the tiny pearl drop necklace that must have hung around her mother's neck for years. The pendant on its thin silver chain had fallen from the neck of Molly's dress robes and was glinting in the sunlight.
It was only a week before her own wedding that Ginny heard the echo of those words come from the last person she would have expected. Narcissa Malfoy had charged into Ginny's apartment, completely disregarded the fact that her almost daughter-in-law was dressed only in her underwear and had thrust a small box at her.
"Your mother informed me that you've something borrowed and a sixpence." Narcissa waved a delicate hand toward the box sitting in Ginny's slack grip. "That is something blue and I'm sure the engagement ring is more than old enough."
And with that she had swept away.
Ginny brushed shaking hands down the material clinging to her torso and sighed. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe."
The Malfoy engagement ring was weighing heavy on her hand, her mother's pearl necklace was hanging around her neck, the embarrassing blue lingerie hidden along with the absolute terror she was feeling and the coin that had been woven into the strappy shoe on her right foot was anchoring her to the earth.
But the brand new dress of ivory lace and fine cotton, and the new life she could look forward to with her husband, elevated her spirits beyond everything.