Chapter 9

"Ginny?" he whispered.

"I'm right here," she said huskily from the other side of the room.

"Come back here," he said sulkily. She laughed at him, "In a minute," she replied as she rummaged in a cupboard for something. She walked back over to him when she had finished and knelt quietly beside him. Harry was aware of her presence but not sure what she was going to do. He twitched as a tickling sensation crossed his stomach and he tried to grab hold of her hands, but missed because he couldn't see her. He kept feeling the tickling sensation all over his body and he tried to squirm out of the way. He kept groping out in front of himself to stop the sensation and he could hear Ginny giggling to one side, eventually he followed the sounds of her giggling and grabbed her around the waist dragging her down on top of him and kissing her wherever his lips landed. She tried to squirm but found his lips and kissed him instead, the glow of the firelight and the candles was making them both hot so they stopped squirming and wrapped their arms around each other rolling over each other on the floor until Harry was positioned once more above her between her legs. At this point he stopped and pulled the blindfold from his face, he looked deep into Ginny's eyes, the expression on his face changing to one of deepest desire. "I love you Ginny," he said as he moved closer and began to make love to her slowly and sensually. "I love you too," she breathed.

Half an hour later they were both laid on the cushions in front of the roaring fire, the room had become dimmer as most of the candles had burnt out, and they had fed each other the remaining strawberries. Harry had his arms wrapped around her waist and she was leaning with her head back against his chest looking down at the beautiful ring on her finger.

"So, Mrs Potter to be, when do you think we should have the wedding? I was thinking of a Christmas one."

"Next Christmas?" she asked thinking he might need more time to get used to the idea.

"I was thinking more of this one," he replied. She sat up and looked at him laying on the cushion staring deeply into her eyes, "Is that not a good idea?" he asked, a worried frown creeping onto his face.

"No, not that, I just thought, well that you might want to wait a bit longer, you know get used to the idea first, I mean it's a big step, men are supposed to be scared of the big commitment stuff aren't they?" He sat up and took hold of her shoulders so that she was looking straight into his eyes. "Ginevra Weasley, I have been thinking about the day I would marry you since I was wandering round the country looking for horcruxes, even when we were not together for those years before Neville and Luna's wedding I imagined what it would be like to walk down an aisle with you as my wife. At their wedding when I had to walk down the aisle with you behind them I kept dreaming about doing it properly, but realising it would never happen, but then, when we got together I began to believe that it truly could happen one day, in fact that night when I went back to Ron's room I went to sleep dreaming of a future with you, a future I was determined to have. I bought the ring a couple of weeks after you moved in here, I thought up this whole night back then, trying to think of ways to make a proposal special, I knew that we were destined to be together forever. But most of all I knew that I wanted forever to start straight away, I'm not one of those people who get engaged but then put off the wedding as long as possible, I want to marry you, I'd do it tomorrow if I didn't think your Mum would kill us if we don't do it properly, I want the rest of our lives to start now, and," he added shyly, "I want to make babies with you too!" he grinned sheepishly at her, "And until then, well we can just practice!"

"Harry," she whispered, "Christmas sounds perfect," and she leaned forwards to kiss him passionately on the lips. As they pulled apart she had to ask, "How did you know I'd come back here tonight?"

"Well I didn't for sure, I just knew I was going to do everything in my power to get you here, I didn't want to have to propose at the party but if I hadn't been able to get you here first then I would have, I was stupid the other day, Ron came round earlier and said he thought he should be quite angry at me for not moping around like you were, and when I realised you were moping my heart lifted a bit,"

"Oh, thanks," she said pushing his arm.

"No not like that," he retaliated pulling her close to him, "I just meant I was glad that you weren't happy about us having broken up, in my heart I knew that it couldn't be the end for us, I wasn't going to let it be, but I also knew that as stubborn a Weasley as you are, that if you were happy with the break up then there wasn't really a lot I could do. I was just glad that you had been upset about it, I saw that silver lining I had been hoping for!" He placed his lips gently on hers at this point and kissed her tenderly but with a passion which showed his desire for her, "So how about a bit more practise?" he asked her wiggling his eyebrows. In answer to his question she leaned in to kiss him again and ran her fingers down his back. The kiss lengthened and they began to get heated again, Harry was exploring her body with his tongue again, once more sending the familiar electricity jolts through her body, when there was a ring at the doorbell, they both groaned deeply and Harry looked down at Ginny with a frustrated look in his eyes, "I swear to God, if that's your brother, I'm going to kill him!"

Ginny laughed loudly at him as he grabbed a cover from the sofa to wrap around himself as he went to find out who was at the door. She watched him and thought about everything he had just said and she knew too that she wanted forever to start straight away, she wanted everything he wanted, and the practice until then sounded good to her too! She looked down at the ring and knew that she was happy, and that there would never be a time in her life when she wouldn't feel that way because she had everything she had ever wanted, quite simply, Harry James Potter.

Well that was the last chapter of this story, however I do have another one ready to go about the events leading up to the wedding, well maybe leading to the wedding (will they make it? Is Harry really destined to be truly happy? Or is protecting her more important?) bit more magic and story in the next one, but still a bit of fluff and romance if anyone's interested?!!! Review and let me know!