AN: OMG. last chapter. Egad. Enjoyyyyyy. I love joo all!! I wrote an epilogue but it turned out very Jk Rowling's epilogue-esque (in my opinion unnecessary and crap, though I do love the woman obviously) I'm working on a Gilmore Girls fanfic now so if anyones interested check in a week or so. :)


Ginny couldn't move from off the ground but tried to prop herself up with her arms as Draco rushed over to help her.

"I'm going to take this man to St. Mungo's immediately." Snape said quickly and vanished quickly with the brown-haired man in an

instant.

"Why are they here?" Ginny growled as she let Draco put his arm around her waist and help her to her feet. "Oh my god you're

bleeding." her eyes widened as she gazed at the deep wound in his shoulder that cut diagonally across the length of his collar to his

shoulder. Draco glanced at it.

"The odds weren't brilliant. They evened them out a bit though, as much as I hate to admit it."

"A thank you would be nice you git." George said coldly as he went to stand with Hermione, Ron and Harry. Ginny looked at them

and for once she didn't see pity and it made her twinge inside slightly.

"He doesn't say thanks, but I will." Ginny jumped slightly as her mother and father apparated into the room. Draco lessened her grip

on her slightly but she pressed herself closer to him.

"Honey you're alright!" Mrs. Weasley cried as she began to dash forward to hug her daughter.

"Stop. I'm not alright." Ginny said coldly and with a deep breath she glanced at all of them. "I'm not understanding how anyone would

expect me to be after my family refused to believe me and locked me into the worst place I've experienced in my life. I'm not ready to

just forget the way you all left the room when I begged you to take me home."

Mrs. Weasley had broken into tears while Hermione looked dangerously close.

"We made a terrible mistake Gin, we know that now." Ron pleaded.

"You can't imagine how guilty we feel..we felt even then, but what else could we do?" Harry added, his fists were curling watching

Draco hold onto her and her to him and Draco smirked a little as he noticed.

"You all should have listened to me." she swallowed hard and fought back her own tears and looked up at Draco "he did and he

risked everything to rescue me. And he barely knew me."

"So the fact that we just risked our lives to help the both of you means nothing?" Ron said. His voice was sounding desperate,

hopeless and he looked as though he could strangle Draco though everything Ginny was saying she had needed to since before Draco

walked into her padded cell.

"No it means everything." she paused as she took another deep breath. "There's a chance for forgiveness now...but not right now, I'm

not ready for it yet."she forced herself to give a weary smile to her parents who brightened and returned it. "I'll come to you when I

am."

Draco and her limped over to Bellatrix's limp body and though Ginny cringed as she touched her the three of them vanished to St.

Mungo's and left everyone else in the cathedral.


"What're you doing?" Draco mumbled with a smile. He started to slowly wake up as Ginny kissed him. They had been back in his flat

in the Caribbean for a week after sorting out everything with the man from Moscow whose memory was returning and securing

Bellatrix in Ginny's old cell. Ginny's flat was for sale and Draco could return to England whenever he wanted without changing his

appearance. Along with that he had a great ease in his mind as well as continued to fall asleep beside the same red-headed witch

every night.

"I've been awake for an hour; I got bored." she admitted as she straddled his hips and leaned over him. She was dressed in the satin

chocolate brown nightgown that as Draco looked at it, he realized he had taken it for granted.

"Well without my company I can imagine how that could happen. But I think it's very productive to make up for the lost opportunities

we may have had in Africa." he smirked as he tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear. For some reason he hadn't had to thank her

for all she did for him but she already seemed to know that he was completely aware he couldn't have managed to destroy his father

and save the innocent man without her.

"So that thing..that I brought up at the cathedral.." she bunched the skirt of her nightgown in her hand so she could move to lay beside

him. He rolled over to look at her and the small smile that seemed perfectly in place on her pale lips. Draco smirked and propped his

head up with his hand.

"You mean the thing where you were going to tell me you love me?" he suggested. Ginny's jaw dropped and she hit him.

"You conceited jerk I was not going to say that."

"Really?"

"Course not." Draco shrugged and rolled over to his nightstand and pulled out a dark blue box. He popped it open under her nose

revealing a diamond necklace and after her eyes began to bulge he snapped it closed.

"Well since I figured you were going to say it sooner or later I thought I better prove I'm not as cheap as you thought I was and get

you something. I was sure as hell not going to be reciting you poetry or letting you call me sickening pet-names. But I'm also not about

to spend that much money on a woman who doesn't love me." he started to turn to put it back but Ginny snatched it.

"Fine I was going to say that I was falling in love you but I was afraid you wouldn't say anything but this could make up for any

awkward silences." Ginny looked at him a little nervously and put her eyes back to the necklace. Draco pulled it out of her hands.

"I'm not a romantic let's get that straight first."

"That really doesn't surprise me much." she said with a smirk, he growled and pinned her. "Hey I didn't mean it that way. You're not

the stand under the balcony with roses to serenade me type, and I'm very grateful because I would probably laugh so hard my ribs

would break if you ever tried that. But in your own smart-ass kind of way you are romantic, what with protecting me from your father

and breaking me out of St. Mungo's. Not to mention this lovely thing." she smiled as she held up the box and kissed him.

"Well it's not like I need to court you anyway since the only bed you have to get into would be mine."

"See..again in a strange way, sort of romantic." Ginny laughed as she looked up at him. He had a amused and slightly puzzled look on

his face but she could tell he was enjoying what she was saying. "I just want you. Oh my god is that a smile?"

"I don't smile Weasley you're obviously delirious." he let the weight of his torso press against her as he continued to watch her. "So

pretend I'm not as clever as I am and fill me in as to what conclusion we've reached here?"

Ginny smiled and sighed in an almost frustrated tone. "I love you Draco." She laughed as his face split into a satisfied smirk. "What

am I the only one to ever say that to you?"

"No. This is just the only time it's ever mattered." he watched as her eyes widened and the smile continued to be glued to her face no

matter what the size of it. He liked the fact that it had been a while since she had looked at him and not smiled.

As she slowly began to tease him with strong but short kisses and they began to make up again for lost opportunities in Africa Draco

brought his lips to her ear.

"I need you here with me."

"Good because I'm not leaving. Now let's smuggle a bottle of rum into a picnic basket and drink on the beach this afternoon shall

we?"

"Brilliant idea."