Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K.Rowling
A/N: I'm so very sorry, really I am, I'm extremely remorseful that it's taken me so long to update this story. To be honest it's been finished for over a month but every time I came to put the finishing touches to it I ended up writing a completely different story ('One bad boy' my H/H, 'Before ever after' L/J and 'Any which way' Weasley twins). But then I got a review from Cyrano De Bergerac. And felt so guilty that I updated immediately, so here it finally is the next (and possibly last depending on reviews) chapter in 'It can't be me'
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One minute since Ginny and Draco started kissing and still nobody spoke, two minutes and nobody could do anything but stare in shock, three minutes and Draco felt as though he could never move again, he belonged with Ginny. Four minutes and Ginny still had no desire to stop for air and finally after five minutes somebody pulled themselves together enough to speak
'Dumbledore what's going on?' Sirius asked looking very confused, as Ginny and Draco still gave no sign that they intended to stop at any time in the near future
'I must contact the ministry immediately but if you all meet me in my office in 15 minutes then I will explain all that I can' Dumbledore became more like himself as he took charge
'Ok, we have some things of our own to do' Remus stopped staring at Ginny and Draco
'Very well so 15 minutes should give Mr Malfoy and Miss Weasley enough time to…' Dumbledore trailed off trying to think of an appropriate word
'Finish their personal business' Sirius supplied with a weak grin
'Yes that's right. Mr Weasley please remember that the use of magic in corridors is forbidden' Dumbledore said looking directly at Ron who showed no sign that he had heard this. Dumbledore turned to leave with Voldemort's lifeless form floating in front of him, the other teachers and Remus and Sirius all followed him helping to move the deatheaters out of the hall, it could be observed that Sirius was kicking Goyle along.
Ron had been stood staring at his sister with his mouth open in shook
'I don't need my wand, I'll rip his head off with my bare hands' he muttered angrily
'Ron don't be stupid fighting of any form isn't allowed, let's just leave Draco and Ginny alone' Hermione said attempting to move Ron a safe distance away from where Draco and Ginny were still kissing
'DRACO? When did you become his number one fan? His name's not Draco, actually it is, but not to us, he's not called Draco' Ron's complaints continued endlessly as Harry forcefully dragged him from the room.
Now that everybody had left, Draco and Ginny finally stopped kissing but didn't let go of each other they just smiled happily, Draco didn't even care that his father was probably going to be sent to Azkaban or that his mother would be distraught. Ginny meant so much more to him than anything else, she was all that mattered
'You came back' a part of Ginny was still caught in disbelief
'I couldn't leave you' Draco replied, for a few minutes more there was silence as they continued to just hug and smile at each other
'So you want to go make out?' Ginny asked innocently
'Absolutely. Your common room?'
'Not unless you want my brother trying to kill you'
'Not just at the moment. You could come to my dorm'
'An invitation to see your lovely dark green stone cold dungeon walls with really tiny windows and scary faces in the walls, what an honour'
'Very funny' Draco rolled his eyes, then a thought suddenly struck him that he had never taken Ginny to his dorm before, 'How do you know what my room looks like?'
'Why Draco, did nobody ever tell you it was little old me that turned your robes pink?' Ginny said in mock surprise, Draco did remember very well how last year he had woken up to find that his favourite robes had been turned a horrible shade of pink, at the time he had blamed Pansy
'I should have known, come on trouble' Draco scooped Ginny off the floor and into his arms, they never actually made it as far as the dorm because they collapsed into a very nice chair on the way and found no reason to move
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Ginny and Draco entered Dumbledore's office smiling stupidly (as only people totally in love can) and holding hands
'Nice to see you both' Dumbledore greeted with the twinkle back in his eye
'Sorry, Ginny got lost on the way' Draco offered by way of explanation but Ginny slapped him on the arm and said indignantly in protest
'I got lost? No way it was you that pulled me into a cupboard'
'It was more like you fell on me really' Draco pointed out as he smiled remembering the incident
'We really don't need to know every little detail' Harry interrupted, acting like the perfect head boy who had never so much as looked at a girl, even though he had often participated in some of the most gross public declarations of love possible with Hermione
'Anyway we should talk about what just happened' Dumbledore started to say
'Will you stop that' Ron interrupted Dumbledore and glared at Draco who merely smiled back, causing Ron to glare even more
'Err Ron, he's not doing anything' Hermione pointed out in a slightly worried tone, as though Ron was finally losing it
'He's smiling happily, it's really scary' Ron growled
'I can't help it, I am happy' Draco said smiling even more, everything was now an occasion to smile
'I think it's a very sexy smile' Ginny volunteered, she was saying that partly to infuriate Ron and partly because it was true
'Why thank you, you have very sexy…' Draco began to say
'Please just kill me now' Ron shouted throwing his arms up in despair
'All be quiet, Professor Dumbledore is speaking' Remus said quietly but with authority, they all immediately stopped talking
'As I was saying Voldemort is dead and finally gone forever and a prophecy has been fulfilled' Dumbledore began speaking in a calm tone
'You mean that prophecy really was about us?' Ginny interrupted in amazement
'Well duh' Ron said sarcastically earning glares from Ginny and Draco
'Why did it kill Voldemort?' Hermione asked partly to stop Ron and Draco from fighting because they were looking very angrily at each other and partly because she thought it would be useful to know, it did stop them because both Draco and Ron flinched at the name been mentioned
'We may never really know, but love was something he couldn't understand or comprehend and a love between someone from his own house and a Gryffindor was not something he even thought possible'. Dumbledore stroked his beard thoughtfully before continuing 'A pure true love was something he just couldn't accept, and if we cannot accept the truth then it will eventually kill us'
'Oh right' Draco thought he should say something but he honestly didn't care that Voldemort was dead, all he cared about now was Ginny
'Well if that's all we'll be going now' Ginny spoke in a very brisk business like manner, even Dumbledore looked surprised but he nodded his approval and Ginny dragged a rather surprised Draco from the room
'What was that for?' Draco asked as soon as they were stood in the empty corridor
'I just thought that we had more important things to do than talk about the past' Ginny said with a shrug
'Important things like what?' Draco couldn't think that anything could matter except the girl in front of him
'Well how's your mum going to take this, what are you going to do now you've left school, where are you going to live, are you going to visit your dad in prison?...' Ginny started to reel of a list of the things he needed to sort out
'Alright I get the idea' Draco interrupted her 'but couldn't we leave it for now, I'm not shutting you out but I'm just not ready to think about it yet'
'Ok, what do you want to do?' Ginny asked
'Well if you've finished school for the year, you could start making plans to spend the summer with me' Draco suggested with a sly smile on his face
'Name the time and place and I'll be there' Ginny grinned
'Tell you what, I have to go now but I'll owl you as soon as possible alright?' Draco realised that the quicker he sorted everything out, the sooner he could start to live his own life
'Sure' Ginny seemed slightly surprised, Draco swooped down to give her a quick kiss on the cheek before walking out of the room, he knew that he really should speak to his mother and try and get things sorted out
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One month later
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'So how did you get a house like this to yourself?' Ginny gaped in surprise, she had been missing Draco like crazy for a month when his owl had finally arrived and she had gone straight to the address Draco had given her
'This is Malfoy Manor, my mother went away to think things through and when she comes back I'll be moving out so at the moment I'm here alone, so I gave the house elves the day off so they wouldn't disturb us'. Draco's mother had blamed her son for her husband's imprisonment and they had come to the agreement that Draco would keep his inheritance and she would keep the house, his father had refused to see him as he waited for a trial before imprisonment in Azkaban
'Disturb us from what?' Ginny asked looking innocent
'Playing scrabble of course' Draco said with a large wink as he took Ginny's hand and proceeded to give her the tour of his house, which would take a long time
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'Are you sure you aren't spending quality time with your mirror in there?' Ginny shouted, it was the evening and Draco had gone for a shower at least an hour ago by Ginny's reckoning
'Very funny' Draco's muffled voice came from inside the bathroom, the hiss of water stopped so Ginny assumed he was finally out of the shower, she continued to flip idly through the selection of magazines that were on the table in the large living room
'I should be in this magazine, I came make a far better pumpkin pie than that' Ginny said with a snort, to be honest she had never baked in her life but she hated these kind of magazines
'I know somewhere else you should be' Draco smirked in a nice way as he finally emerged from the bathroom with only a pair of trousers on to lean against the doorway, the sight definitely had the effect of taking Ginny's attention away from the magazines
'Hmm are you sure you don't work out?' Ginny voiced her thoughts out loud before she pulled herself together 'Sorry, just got slightly distracted, where do you think I should be?' Ginny was still looking rather interestedly at Draco's chest
'In my bed'
'Why Draco Malfoy would that be a proposition?' Ginny raised an eyebrow but a smile was tugging at the corner of her lips as she stood up and walked over to Draco
'I believe it would' Draco smiled as he wrapped his arms round her waist and pulled her close to him
'In that case, lead the way'
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A/N: And that is where we leave them (partly because the rating would have to change if we continued and partly because Voldemort's dead). However I may add extra chapters to this to kind of continue straight on or I may have a new story as a sequel, I can't decide which, so please review and help me
In case I never get another chance to say it, thank you so much for all the reviews, every single one of them meant so much to me
I just realised I should explain the last chapter, so here goes: I thought Voldemort was making the story a bit too depressing and serious, which detracted from the entire point of a humorous D/G story. I was going to let Harry kill Voldemort (like in every other story) but then decided that I may as well use the prophecy thing. So don't take it too seriously and one way or another there will be a sequel or continuation of this story that will focus on a D/G relationship, most probably dealing with Ginny's brothers and a furious Pansy
A/N: I'm so very sorry, really I am, I'm extremely remorseful that it's taken me so long to update this story. To be honest it's been finished for over a month but every time I came to put the finishing touches to it I ended up writing a completely different story ('One bad boy' my H/H, 'Before ever after' L/J and 'Any which way' Weasley twins). But then I got a review from Cyrano De Bergerac. And felt so guilty that I updated immediately, so here it finally is the next (and possibly last depending on reviews) chapter in 'It can't be me'
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One minute since Ginny and Draco started kissing and still nobody spoke, two minutes and nobody could do anything but stare in shock, three minutes and Draco felt as though he could never move again, he belonged with Ginny. Four minutes and Ginny still had no desire to stop for air and finally after five minutes somebody pulled themselves together enough to speak
'Dumbledore what's going on?' Sirius asked looking very confused, as Ginny and Draco still gave no sign that they intended to stop at any time in the near future
'I must contact the ministry immediately but if you all meet me in my office in 15 minutes then I will explain all that I can' Dumbledore became more like himself as he took charge
'Ok, we have some things of our own to do' Remus stopped staring at Ginny and Draco
'Very well so 15 minutes should give Mr Malfoy and Miss Weasley enough time to…' Dumbledore trailed off trying to think of an appropriate word
'Finish their personal business' Sirius supplied with a weak grin
'Yes that's right. Mr Weasley please remember that the use of magic in corridors is forbidden' Dumbledore said looking directly at Ron who showed no sign that he had heard this. Dumbledore turned to leave with Voldemort's lifeless form floating in front of him, the other teachers and Remus and Sirius all followed him helping to move the deatheaters out of the hall, it could be observed that Sirius was kicking Goyle along.
Ron had been stood staring at his sister with his mouth open in shook
'I don't need my wand, I'll rip his head off with my bare hands' he muttered angrily
'Ron don't be stupid fighting of any form isn't allowed, let's just leave Draco and Ginny alone' Hermione said attempting to move Ron a safe distance away from where Draco and Ginny were still kissing
'DRACO? When did you become his number one fan? His name's not Draco, actually it is, but not to us, he's not called Draco' Ron's complaints continued endlessly as Harry forcefully dragged him from the room.
Now that everybody had left, Draco and Ginny finally stopped kissing but didn't let go of each other they just smiled happily, Draco didn't even care that his father was probably going to be sent to Azkaban or that his mother would be distraught. Ginny meant so much more to him than anything else, she was all that mattered
'You came back' a part of Ginny was still caught in disbelief
'I couldn't leave you' Draco replied, for a few minutes more there was silence as they continued to just hug and smile at each other
'So you want to go make out?' Ginny asked innocently
'Absolutely. Your common room?'
'Not unless you want my brother trying to kill you'
'Not just at the moment. You could come to my dorm'
'An invitation to see your lovely dark green stone cold dungeon walls with really tiny windows and scary faces in the walls, what an honour'
'Very funny' Draco rolled his eyes, then a thought suddenly struck him that he had never taken Ginny to his dorm before, 'How do you know what my room looks like?'
'Why Draco, did nobody ever tell you it was little old me that turned your robes pink?' Ginny said in mock surprise, Draco did remember very well how last year he had woken up to find that his favourite robes had been turned a horrible shade of pink, at the time he had blamed Pansy
'I should have known, come on trouble' Draco scooped Ginny off the floor and into his arms, they never actually made it as far as the dorm because they collapsed into a very nice chair on the way and found no reason to move
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Ginny and Draco entered Dumbledore's office smiling stupidly (as only people totally in love can) and holding hands
'Nice to see you both' Dumbledore greeted with the twinkle back in his eye
'Sorry, Ginny got lost on the way' Draco offered by way of explanation but Ginny slapped him on the arm and said indignantly in protest
'I got lost? No way it was you that pulled me into a cupboard'
'It was more like you fell on me really' Draco pointed out as he smiled remembering the incident
'We really don't need to know every little detail' Harry interrupted, acting like the perfect head boy who had never so much as looked at a girl, even though he had often participated in some of the most gross public declarations of love possible with Hermione
'Anyway we should talk about what just happened' Dumbledore started to say
'Will you stop that' Ron interrupted Dumbledore and glared at Draco who merely smiled back, causing Ron to glare even more
'Err Ron, he's not doing anything' Hermione pointed out in a slightly worried tone, as though Ron was finally losing it
'He's smiling happily, it's really scary' Ron growled
'I can't help it, I am happy' Draco said smiling even more, everything was now an occasion to smile
'I think it's a very sexy smile' Ginny volunteered, she was saying that partly to infuriate Ron and partly because it was true
'Why thank you, you have very sexy…' Draco began to say
'Please just kill me now' Ron shouted throwing his arms up in despair
'All be quiet, Professor Dumbledore is speaking' Remus said quietly but with authority, they all immediately stopped talking
'As I was saying Voldemort is dead and finally gone forever and a prophecy has been fulfilled' Dumbledore began speaking in a calm tone
'You mean that prophecy really was about us?' Ginny interrupted in amazement
'Well duh' Ron said sarcastically earning glares from Ginny and Draco
'Why did it kill Voldemort?' Hermione asked partly to stop Ron and Draco from fighting because they were looking very angrily at each other and partly because she thought it would be useful to know, it did stop them because both Draco and Ron flinched at the name been mentioned
'We may never really know, but love was something he couldn't understand or comprehend and a love between someone from his own house and a Gryffindor was not something he even thought possible'. Dumbledore stroked his beard thoughtfully before continuing 'A pure true love was something he just couldn't accept, and if we cannot accept the truth then it will eventually kill us'
'Oh right' Draco thought he should say something but he honestly didn't care that Voldemort was dead, all he cared about now was Ginny
'Well if that's all we'll be going now' Ginny spoke in a very brisk business like manner, even Dumbledore looked surprised but he nodded his approval and Ginny dragged a rather surprised Draco from the room
'What was that for?' Draco asked as soon as they were stood in the empty corridor
'I just thought that we had more important things to do than talk about the past' Ginny said with a shrug
'Important things like what?' Draco couldn't think that anything could matter except the girl in front of him
'Well how's your mum going to take this, what are you going to do now you've left school, where are you going to live, are you going to visit your dad in prison?...' Ginny started to reel of a list of the things he needed to sort out
'Alright I get the idea' Draco interrupted her 'but couldn't we leave it for now, I'm not shutting you out but I'm just not ready to think about it yet'
'Ok, what do you want to do?' Ginny asked
'Well if you've finished school for the year, you could start making plans to spend the summer with me' Draco suggested with a sly smile on his face
'Name the time and place and I'll be there' Ginny grinned
'Tell you what, I have to go now but I'll owl you as soon as possible alright?' Draco realised that the quicker he sorted everything out, the sooner he could start to live his own life
'Sure' Ginny seemed slightly surprised, Draco swooped down to give her a quick kiss on the cheek before walking out of the room, he knew that he really should speak to his mother and try and get things sorted out
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One month later
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'So how did you get a house like this to yourself?' Ginny gaped in surprise, she had been missing Draco like crazy for a month when his owl had finally arrived and she had gone straight to the address Draco had given her
'This is Malfoy Manor, my mother went away to think things through and when she comes back I'll be moving out so at the moment I'm here alone, so I gave the house elves the day off so they wouldn't disturb us'. Draco's mother had blamed her son for her husband's imprisonment and they had come to the agreement that Draco would keep his inheritance and she would keep the house, his father had refused to see him as he waited for a trial before imprisonment in Azkaban
'Disturb us from what?' Ginny asked looking innocent
'Playing scrabble of course' Draco said with a large wink as he took Ginny's hand and proceeded to give her the tour of his house, which would take a long time
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'Are you sure you aren't spending quality time with your mirror in there?' Ginny shouted, it was the evening and Draco had gone for a shower at least an hour ago by Ginny's reckoning
'Very funny' Draco's muffled voice came from inside the bathroom, the hiss of water stopped so Ginny assumed he was finally out of the shower, she continued to flip idly through the selection of magazines that were on the table in the large living room
'I should be in this magazine, I came make a far better pumpkin pie than that' Ginny said with a snort, to be honest she had never baked in her life but she hated these kind of magazines
'I know somewhere else you should be' Draco smirked in a nice way as he finally emerged from the bathroom with only a pair of trousers on to lean against the doorway, the sight definitely had the effect of taking Ginny's attention away from the magazines
'Hmm are you sure you don't work out?' Ginny voiced her thoughts out loud before she pulled herself together 'Sorry, just got slightly distracted, where do you think I should be?' Ginny was still looking rather interestedly at Draco's chest
'In my bed'
'Why Draco Malfoy would that be a proposition?' Ginny raised an eyebrow but a smile was tugging at the corner of her lips as she stood up and walked over to Draco
'I believe it would' Draco smiled as he wrapped his arms round her waist and pulled her close to him
'In that case, lead the way'
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A/N: And that is where we leave them (partly because the rating would have to change if we continued and partly because Voldemort's dead). However I may add extra chapters to this to kind of continue straight on or I may have a new story as a sequel, I can't decide which, so please review and help me
In case I never get another chance to say it, thank you so much for all the reviews, every single one of them meant so much to me
I just realised I should explain the last chapter, so here goes: I thought Voldemort was making the story a bit too depressing and serious, which detracted from the entire point of a humorous D/G story. I was going to let Harry kill Voldemort (like in every other story) but then decided that I may as well use the prophecy thing. So don't take it too seriously and one way or another there will be a sequel or continuation of this story that will focus on a D/G relationship, most probably dealing with Ginny's brothers and a furious Pansy