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LAST CHAPTER

"Hello Ginny.." He said with a large smile that showed a happiness that was undeniable.

Ginny stood there with her mouth agape. What was he doing here? Why did he come her? Right when things were going right for once and she had finally gotten over him. She had just met a new guy! This was just like him to show up just at the wrong moment! She thought, resenting how he could still make her feel angry and unbelievably happy at the same time.

"Ginny?" He said. "Can come in? Or are we going to stay out here in the cold..?" He said with a casual laugh. He was so happy to finally see her. She had barely changed at all. Her long curly hair was a darker shade of red now, and she looked more fit than she used to be, more toned instead of just boney.

"What are you doing here?" She asked him, standing in the door looking at him with an expression that Draco could not read. "How did you find me here?" Her eyes were fixed on him, she wasn't even blinking! He wondered aimlessly when she had learned to hide her emotions, even from him.

"Gin, how about you invite me in and then I can explain everything. And in great detail too." He smiled at her casually, trying to get her to smile. She didn't smile at him. Instead she moved from the door and help it open for him. Draco's smile widened as he stepped through the doorway into Ginny's house.

The first thing that he noticed was that there were pictures everywhere. But none of them were of anyone he knew. They were of Ginny with various friends, women mostly and some men, but most of them were older and balding with grey hair. Second he noticed that the house was exactly how he would expect Ginny's home to be. Warm and full of lively colors. Soft yellows and reds were scattered around the living room where Ginny led him to.

"Is there anything I can get you? I don't know if we have anything that you would like.. Mostly just juice. Oh and coffee." Ginny was flittering around the living room doing random things to tidy the already spotless living room. Draco could hardly believe how clean it was, considering that she had always been such a slob.

"Juice sounds good, thanks." Draco said, sitting on the couch and observing Ginny turn pillows just slightly then rushing off to the kitchen.

"Okay.." She said halfway into the kitchen. She called Amanda's cell, praying that she would answer right away so that she could warn then to stay later. Finally she picked up, answering the phone like always in her perky Hi!

"Hey Amanda, it's Jenny. I was wondering if you could bring Adrian by later… Could you take him out for dinner or something? I can pay you when you get here." She said, opening the old fridge and getting out some apple juice.

"What is it Adrain? Yes, it's your mom! Yea sure Jen, that would be fine. But you don't have to repay me. Really, I love spending time with Adrain." Ginny made a mental note to thank god later for sending her Amanda, who watched Adrian while she worked then brought him home, then continued to stay well into the night playing with Adrian and talking to Ginny about various things.

"Thanks so much Amanda, but I really got to go. Someone's here and I really need to get back to then. Thank you again! You are a life saver."

"Okay Jen, but you know Adrian when he's eating, I'm afraid we won't have all that long to talk to this boy you have over." Ginny rolled her eyes and hung up the phone. She headed back into the living room to give Draco his juice and to find out how he found her.

"I hope apple is okay with you, I would have gotten you orange juice but well, we're almost gone and it's my favorite…" She said smiling a little and handing Draco the cup. She sat down in the chair across from the couch that Draco was sitting on. Ginny had to suppress her laughter at the sight of Draco drinking from a cartoon cup in her living room. He looked so out of place.

"Yea that's fine." Draco drank his juice, occasionally looking at Ginny, whose nostrils were flaring. Draco smiled again, even if she could hide her emotions from him now, she couldn't hide the small quirks that only Draco knew.

They sat in their respective spots, neither saying anything and neither of them willing to start that conversation. Draco knew that Ginny would ask him soon how he found her and he knew that once she got started that she wouldn't be able to stop, and if she didn't stop then he would never find out why she left. Draco, as stubborn as he was, was the first to break the silence.

"Ginny, what are you doing here? Why aren't you in England? Why did you leave? Why didn't you tell me? Or your parents? Or ANYONE? Why haven't you answered anyone's owls. Don't even say that you didn't get any because you know for a fact that my owl always finds the person that it's looking for." He said in one hurried breath.

"Umm.." She said unsurely.

"Is that all you can say? Umm? You left for 5 years without contact to anyone? Not your family or your friends… or me." Ginny could barely stand the hurt in Draco's voice. She wanted to let him embrace her and let herself get lost in his arms, in his eyes, and in his kiss. But she knew that if she were to let herself get lost, she would never be able to find herself again.

She looked up into his grey penetrating eyes, but looked away before he could see inside her like he always could. "Say something Ginny!" He practically screamed.

"What do you want me to say?" She quipped, "Do you want me to say that I left because I couldn't marry you? Because if that is the answer that you are looking for then I am sorry but you should just leave. I had to be alone Draco! No one would have understood! No one. Not even you could have made it better! No matter how much you wanted to." When she had first started talking, she was just below yelling, when she stopped she was just above whispering.

"Ginny, I could have made it better! There is nothing that your parents would not have understood! Everyone loves you and misses you Ginny, we all want you to come home. No one will care about whatever happened! Whatever it is! No one is going to care!" Draco wanted to wrap her in his arms and protect her from whatever it was that kept her away from him for so long.

"Draco, this is something that my parents would not have understood. Ron would have had a fit and you could not have made it better. No one could have. "She said getting up. "I need more coffee.."

"Ginny… Why did you leave? Why didn't you stay? What was so bad that you had to leave?" He pleaded, following her into the small kitchen. "Stop avoiding the question! Just tell me why you left so that we can get over it and you can come back!"

She filled up her coffee mug and went strait back into the living room and sat in the chair. She sighed as she sat. She sipped her coffee, trying to find the words to tell him without him freaking out. She didn't know how long passed before she realized that he had come here out of the blue.

"Before I say anything else, I want you to tell me how you found me here. How did you know I was here?" She said eyeing him suspiciously.

"Well… It wasn't easy, I'll give you that." He sighed and ran a hand through his gorgeous blonde hair that was no longer slicked back but hanging around his equally gorgeous silver grey eyes.

"I suppose I should start from the beginning." He sighed again and leaned back into the comfortable red couch.

"I guess you should." She said, folding her legs and bringing a blanket onto her lap.

"Well, I found out you were gone a few days after you had actually left. Your parents took out an ad in the Daily Prophet asking for you to come home and pleading that if anyone had seen you to contact that. And I saw it. I hadn't seen you since the morning after we had sex for the first time. It had been a month since we had seen each other, and as I remember it was not my doing. Anyway, I went to Granger since she was the only one who would tell me anything without killing me for wanting to know. And she told me that you had disappeared three days before and you left no note, no clues as to where you had gone, and you had left everything in your room besides your clothes and your pictures and a few other things. She asked why I wanted to know, and well.. What could I say Gin? That I saw the ad and suddenly cared that you had gone missing? No I-"

"I bet you could have thought something up. You were always good at thinking on your feet." She interrupted. "So let me guess? You told her and then you and her decided to try and find me. Then you two looked everywhere you could think of for me! Until finally you gave up. Then by coincidence you saw my short story in the New York Times and saw the name Jenny Wesley next to it and the picture of me and my classic Weasley red hair and tracked me down." She said quite annoyed that the life that she had tried so hard to protect from her old life had been broken into by the one person that she both wanted to see and didn't want to see more than anyone else.

"Well, your close. Actually, Granger already knew. She had seen us together once while we were at the Three Broomsticks. And she didn't want to help me. She told me that if you had left without a reason or a note it meant that you wanted to stay hidden and that we should all stop looking for you. She was the only one that felt that way. But the rest, is all right." He explained simply, running his hand long the edge of the couch lazily.

"She was right, and I knew she was right. But I couldn't help but to track you down. I loved you Gin, and you just left." He said, relaxing into the couch that was so comfortable.

He studied her for a while, and she glared at him. Hating him for knowing her so well and wishing that he and the rest of her family would have listened to Granger. He glared back at her, suddenly angry. How could she be mad at him for wanting to be with her?

"Well? Are you going to tell me why you left without telling anyone? Why you let us all worry about you? Thinking you were dead or somewhere on the streets starving to death? Why you didn't at least owl anyone? That way I didn't have to spend five years trying to find you only to find out that you didn't want to be found!" He said heatedly.

She continued to glare at him not saying a word. Then gave it up. She knew he would not leave without an explanation.

"Fine." Ginny sounded more defeated than Draco had ever heard her sound, "If you must know, I left because-" Just as Ginny was about to tell Draco about Adrian, their son and the reason she had to leave him and all her family, Amanda and Adrian walked into the room.

"Hey Jen! I know you said 6 but I figured that 10 minutes wouldn't really matter…" Amanda looked from "Jenny" to Draco then back to "Jenny." "Apparently I was wrong." Ginny looked from Amanda to Adrian, who was sitting on the floor in the entry taking off his shoes like he did every day.

Adrian, not noticing any of the tension, ran from the door onto his mom's lap. "MOMMY!" He yelled, "Guess what! GUESS WHAT!"

She laughed a little, forgetting Draco in her sons eagerness. "What Adrian?"

"I was so good today that Ms. Joanie gave me FOUR STARS!" He said not noticing the man sitting on the couch across from him, the man that was in the picture sitting on his bedside table.

"Wow! Good job baby! I am SO proud of you!" She said hugging him. She didn't notice the stunned Draco that sat across from her, his mouth wide open and looking slightly confused.

"Well," said Amanda, who by then, everyone had forgotten was there, "I guess I should leave now. See you tomorrow then?" She said leaving the three of them alone in the living room. None of them noticed when she slammed the door shut, like she always did.

Ginny suddenly remembered that Draco was there and turned to him with Adrian in her arms. "Draco," She said, looking lovingly at her son, then back to his father, "I'd like you to meet my son, Adrian. Adrian, I'd like you to meet my friend Draco."

"Draco? That's a funny name!" He giggled. While Draco continued to stare at the 5 year old boy in Ginny's arms. The boy that had platinum blonde hair and silver/grey eyes. For Draco, looking at the boy was like looking at a mirror that showed your younger self. Only there was one difference. The boy had freckles dusted across his nose and was just as skinny and boney as Ginny was the last time that Draco had seen her. Typical Weasley traits..

"Hey! I've seen you before! Oh I remember now!" He said enthusiastically before running off and quickly coming back with a picture of Draco and Ginny together kissing and waving. "See! I knew I had seen you before! Mommy says that you are my daddy! Are you really? Mommy says I look like you! I think don't think I do. I think I look like my mommy. Only she doesn't have yellow hair like I do!"

Draco stared wide eyed at the little boy before him. Draco didn't need to have been told by the little boy that he was his son. He could tell when the boy had walked in the room.

"Draco," Ginny said carefully, "I'd like you to meet your son, Adrian. Adrian, I would like you to meet your father, Draco." She smiled at the two of them as Draco continued to stare at the little boy holding a picture of him and Ginny.