Chapter 2- Without you

15 years later

"I need this." Lucilia said holding up a black cloak.

"What don't you need?" Ginny Weasley asked her daughter.

"Please mom?" Lucilia asked.

"Where's your other cloak?" Ginny asked.

"It caught on fire." Lucilia said looking through a rack of clothes.

"How?" Ginny asked, her eyes wide.

"Mmm... I can't remember."

Ginny sighed. "I really worry about you Lucilia." Ginny and Lucilia were out shopping for clothes for the summer. Lucilia had just gotten out of her fourth year at Hogwarts. Everyone in the Weasley family was afraid that Lucilia would be like her father, Draco Malfoy, especially since Lucilia was sorted into Slytherin house.

"Mom have you noticed anything wierd today?" Lucilia asked, her head peering over the top of the clothing rack.

"Um, no." Ginny replied looking up from the rack of clothes in front of her to her daughter that was staring at something. "Why?"

"That blonde guy over there has been staring at us ever since we came in here. I'm pretty sure I saw him in a couple other stores earlier also." Ginny turned around and found none other than Draco Malfoy staring at her daughter.

"Lucilia, let's get home. We can finish shopping tomorrow."

Lucilia, not wanting to argue with her mother, just nodded.

Ginny grabbed Lucilia's arm and began to pull her out of the store.

"Hey Ginny!" someone yelled. Ginny ignored it and kept walking, pulling Lucilia along behind her.

Lucilia went along with her mom but looked behind her to see if the blonde guy was following.

The man was running up to them. Ginny didn't know this and was caught off guard when he grabbed her wrist pulling her to a stop.

"Why didn't you answer me?" he asked pulling Ginny around to face him.

"Let go of me Malfoy." Ginny hissed pulling away from him.

"What's going on?" he hissed back.

"Mom?" Ginny and Draco both turned to Luci. "Is he my father?" she asked.

"Luci, we'll talk about this later. Go home." Ginny said giving her a little shove in the direction of their home above Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.

Lucilia glared at her mother before running down the street.

"Now Weasley, would you mind tellling me who she is?" Draco asked. He was visibly shaking and had a look of fear and anger on his face.

"She's my daughter." Ginny said, a hint of defiance in her voice as she glared down Draco Malfoy.

"That I knew." he said sarcastically. He took a deep breath and calmed his voice down asking, "Why does she look like me?"

"If you could figure out that she's my daughter, I would have thought that you could figure that one out too." Ginny huffed.

Draco glared at her, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I don't want you or your family drilling your pure blood prejudices into head. Besides, it really doesn't matter because that was the first and the last time that you'll ever see her."

"She's my daughter too. I have every right to be a part of her life."

"No you don't. We've been doing perfectly fine without you and don't need you around."

"I will fight you on this!" Draco hissed.

"Why do you even care? I'm just a blood traitor and she's just the daughter of a blood traitor." Tears came to her eyes.

"You know full well I'm not like that Ginny." Draco said, his voice softening.

"It doesn't matter Draco. Just stay out of this." she wiped at her eyes and began to walk away.

Draco grabbed her arm making her look back at him. "I'm not going to leave this be. Whether you like it or not, I will be a part of my daughters life."

Ginny yanked her arm out of Draco's grasp, glared at him then walked away.

She walked as fast as possible to her home, not even knowing that she was being followed.

Draco Malfoy watched from across the street as Ginny walked in the front doors of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. He followed her in and watched as she walked into the back room of the shop.

He sighed and walked away, already plotting how he was going to win the affection of a daughter he hadn't officially met yet.

Ginny walked past her twin brothers who were talking in the back room at their shop and up the stairs to the apartment they shared along with her daughter.

Fred and George looked up when their sister walked in and saw the solemn expression on her face, They followed her up to the apartment knowing Verity was more then capable of watching the shop.

When Ginny, Fred and George entered the apartment they found Lucilia sitting upsidedown on the sofa.

She sighed and sat upright.

"Listen-" Ginny began but was cut off.

"Mom, it's fine. I know that you don't want him in our lives and I understand that. But just think about it from my point of view. Wouldn't you want to know him?" Lucilia got off the couch. "I'm going to my room." she said before walking down the hall.

When they heard her door shut, Fred and George rounded on Ginny. "What happened?" they both asked at the same time.

Ginny sighed and threw herself onto the sofa. Fred and George sat down in the chairs opposite her waiting for an explanation.

"As you know we were summer shopping in Diagon Alley-" Ginny looked up at them as if pleading for them to not make her explain, but they just nodded their heads waiting for more. "and we saw Draco Malfoy."

"What?" They shouted. Ginny shushed them and pointed down the hallway towards Lucilia's room. "Oh right."

"He want's to be in Luci's life." Ginny's eyes filled with tears. "He said that he'de fight me on this."

"Oh Gin, what could he possible do?" Fred asked.

"Luci's old enough to make her own choices and she would never let him take her away from you." George added.

Ginny nodded. "I guess you guys are right." she said wiping away her tears.

"I don't know when you'll ever learn-" George started "-but we're always right." Fred finished.

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