A/N: If you like country music at all, I recommend you listen to this song while you read. The title and artist is at the bottom. Also, I'll try to update often.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, spells, or places you may recognize. I am sure I'll make up people, places and such though. That is one point of being an author. There also may be a few lyric excerpts through out the story. I'll put the title and artist of those at the end of the chapter.
Chapter 2: Let's Get Out Of This Town
Gin's POV
Got it all figured out inside of my head
There's a bag packed up at the foot of my bed
You say the word; baby I'm all set
It's almost two o'clock now. That's when Nev is supposed to send his signal that he is coming for me. We have to leave, have to get out of this town. For over two years now we've had to pretend. All we really want is to be together, Nev and I, be in love. Harry came in to say goodnight before he went to bed like he always does. They don't know how much we are counting on routine for this plan to go smoothly. Luckily, they have never broken the routine. The change would throw them all. Makes me wish I could stay just to watch what happens when they realize Nev and I'm not here in the morning. Anyways, once Harry leaves my room for his own, I jump out from under the covers, open my trunk and murmur "pack!" and watch as all my belongings neatly pack themselves in my magically extended trunk. I lock it up and double check for things around the room and make the bed while waiting for my signal. Finally, a see his bear patronus rush through my door and watch as it leans up to say, "It's time. I'm just checking on everyone then I'll be by for you."
Cover our tracks; tell a couple white lies
Make sure we got a good alibi and by the time they catch on
We'll be outta their sight
Long gone baby
After receiving his message my heart beat quickens. This is it. This is our chance. My excitement must be shooting through the roof. After a couple seemingly everlasting minutes, Neville comes in my room with his wand in one hand and his shrunken trunk in the other. I rush to hug him and he assures me each person is sound asleep in their own rooms with spells set so an alarm would sound if they were to leave the room for the next half hour. We decided this was best because we aren't going to simply disapparte and hope they don't hear the pops. No we planned this out too well. We're going to travel the muggle way for now. We secretly purchased a truck about a month ago and keep it parked about a ten-minute jog away. We've planned this out for awhile now. For about a year, we have been slowly collecting most of the money out of our Gringotts vaults so no one would notice. Yesterday we took the last of it and closed out our accounts with them. We know that this is going to work now. It has to.
Nev's POVAfter taking a minute for one last look around the place we've called home since school ended, we quietly head towards the door and prepare ourselves. We know once that door opens we have a chance of being caught. Every time the bloody thing was opened it made noise. We are just hoping no one will wake up, but that's what the alarms are for. So we can have a warning if someone does happen to be coming. It's not like we couldn't get away with out them knowing. It's just easier on us this way. Plus it all adds to the thrill of escape. We quickly cast feather-light charms on our trunks so that we can run with them easily and take a deep breath. With one last look at each other we open the door and creep through it.
We don't immediately hear an alarm and are relieved. We decide to jog at a leisurely pace since no ones behind us. By the time we reach the end of the property an alarm sounds, followed almost instantly by three others. We share a panicked look before sprinting as fast as we could manage in the direction of the truck. Panicked thoughts started to race into my head as we go, "We'll never make it. We'll get caught. Please let us make it! They have to have realized both of us and all our stuff is missing by now. They're going to be chasing us any second!"
With a liberated feeling I see the truck. I dig into my pockets for the keys, quickly toss my trunk inside the back and turn to grab hers. I notice they aren't even in sight. And can't help but wonder if they are even outside chasing us. Surely they would have saw us. Maybe they were too preoccupied by the alarms to notice us missing. Or maybe something else happened that caused one of them to leave their room. After securing our trunks in the back I hop up in the drivers seat and turn to look at her. She's flashes me the most breathtaking smile I've seen in a long time and says, "They aren't even coming after us. We're free Nev. We can go be free!" I give her a quick kiss on the forehead, start the truck and drive away. Thanking Hermione for making sure we all learned how to drive because you'll never know when you need to. Boy was she right in thinking that.
Let's get out of this town tonight
Nothing but dust in the shadows
Gone by morning light
Somewhere we wont ever get caught, never be found
Baby lets just get out of this town
Don't need directions, don't need a map
If we get lost, I'll be good with that
Yeah we'll find a way to make the time pass
As soon as he starts to pulls off the side of the road I realize that we honestly just got away with leaving. I don't think I've been this happy since the war ended. "Ya know, we can go anywhere we want right now. No one is coming after us. No one can stop us. And we are together," I say after basking in my happiness for several minutes.
"Anywhere," he repeats seeming slightly dazed. "Well where to then?"
"I don't care as long as we get out of this town. By the time it's light enough out to get help and really search for us we'll be gone. We can go somewhere they'll never find us. We'll obviously never be caught if we're never found," I say smiling dreamily.
"Well, would you like to share your theory with me of which way I can find such a place?" he asks amused.
I just wink and say, "Just drive Nev, just drive. You don't need any directions. Just go which way your heart tells you to go and we'll find a brilliant place to stay."
"So did you buy that muggle road trip book?" he asks after a few minutes of silence.
My eyes light up as I jump to open the back window and dig through my trunk for the book. After tossing some stuff aside I come up with the book and quickly skip to the game section so we can have fun well we go. "There are so many things we can do, but we'll have to wait till daytime for most of them to be much fun," I say while skimming through the chapter. "Hmm, lets see. I'll list a few for right now and you can choose. Twenty Questions; one of us thinks of an object and the other has to guess what it is in twenty questions or less. We can turn the radio on and sing, which I hope I don't have to explain to you. Or The Alphabet game; you have to alphabetically find a word beginning with the letter somewhere outside of the car. Or we can play the game I'm going…"
"You already know what I'll pick so why would you possibly go on?" He cuts me off amused.
I blush slightly and think back to what I offered. "Of course know. I just, forgot it's your favorite. I got a little caught up in my book," I say embarrassed before turning the radio on and to our favorite muggle station so we can sing along.
Windows rolled down with the heat on high
Stars all aligned in a runaway sky
Holding my hand as the miles roll by
Long gone baby
Let's get out of this town tonight
Nothing but dust in the shadows
Gone by morning light
Somewhere we wont ever get caught, never be found
Baby lets just get out of this town
For the next few hours we sang at the top of your lungs to any song we could recognize. If we couldn't recognize a song we would look up at the stars at point out whichever constellations we could find before they would be replaced with the sunrise. All the while gripping each other's hands tightly, glad we are finally able to do as we please together. By the time the sun is about to rise we are ready to stop off and eat. Before we go inside the little café though we sit on the tailgate of the truck and just watch the sunrise together.
If we leave tonight and drive fast enough, all our troubles will be just like us
Long gone baby
"It's a new day baby girl. We're looking at the start of a new day and a new life," he says well we head inside. All I can do is smile and lean up to give him the kiss I've wanted to for years.
Though it was a chaste kiss, it was full of a build up love and the excitement of our new day. "Everyone else is long gone baby," I murmur against his lips as I pull away from the kiss.
A/N: Lyrics are "Get out of this town" by Carrie Underwood. Please review if you have comments or complaints. Thanks for reading.