Author's Note: Note that this is part of the D/G ending.

Epilogue: Ginny Malfoy (Ending 2)

Three months later

Draco shed his clothing down to his swimming trunks, carefully folding his button-down and pants and setting them on the pond bank. It was beautiful out – one of those warm spring evenings that hinted at the coming summer, and he and Ginny had come out to the pond after the Weasley dinner. For old time's sake.

"Come on! What are you waiting for?" Ginny called, giving him a teasing splash.

He turned to look at her and she gave him a cheeky wink. He shook his head, a small smirk forming at the corners of his lips. "You really shouldn't have done that," he said, and then he took three running strides to the water's edge and cannon-balled into the pond.

Ginny shrieked as water sprayed over her, and Draco surfaced laughing uncontrollably.

"You arse!" Ginny yelled, but she was grinning widely. She moved toward the bank and turned to face him, resting her forearms on the shore and kicking her legs out before her.

"Aw, don't be like that," he answered, dodging a light splash as he waded toward her.

"Since when are you such a terror in the water?" Ginny said, smiling cheekily as Draco settled his arms on either side of her body and kissed her lightly on the forehead.

"Well, what can I say?" he answered, smirking, "I learned from the best."

Ginny smiled at that. The last rays of sunlight were reflecting off of her copper hair, quiet night noises were beginning to sound around them, and Draco suddenly found that the moment he'd been looking for all week was upon him.

"Ginny?"

"Hm?" She met his eyes, obviously expecting another teasing comment.

"I love you," he said.

She looked at him curiously, but her smiled widened, and she tilted her head for a kiss. "I love you too, Draco," she replied, voice soft, as their lips met. As the kiss deepened, Draco reached behind her to the shore and into the pocket of his jeans. He pulled away a little and met her eyes again.

"Then marry me."

As her eyes widened and flicked from his face to the ring and velvet box in his hand and back to his face, he realized that he wasn't as nervous as he'd expected to be. He'd expected a pounding heart and a dry mouth, but instead he found that he was just looking at her and that his mind was racing, trying to imprint every second of this event into his memory.

"Yes," she said finally, laughing and throwing herself at him so enthusiastically that the water splashed around them. "Of course I'll marry you!"

"Calm down, woman! You'll drown me!" Draco hollered with laughter.

Ginny smirked and kissed him full on the lips. "I thought you learned from the best."

Draco pulled the ring from the box and slipped it onto her finger. "Beautiful," he said.

"Yeah, it is," Ginny agreed.

"I wasn't talking about the ring," he said, raising his eyebrows at her.

Ginny threw her head back and laughed aloud. "Cheesy, Malfoy, so cheesy." Then she glanced down at the ring on her finger and tilted her head slightly. She looked back up at him. "Is this…?"

He nodded.

"You never returned it," she said, smiling.

"Well, you know," Draco said, shrugging, "The store wouldn't take it back, so…."

"Oh, please, Malfoy," she snorted, leaning in for another kiss. "You think you can get that past me?"

He grinned. "I wouldn't dare. So," he said thoughtfully, planting kisses along her forehead and temple and down her cheek. "How does it feel to be the future Mrs. Malfoy?"

She smiled back.

"Perfect."

And thirteen years after that

"Let me guess, Leo, you got these from your Uncle Fred." Draco looked down at the little strawberry blonde boy, eyebrows raised sternly and hand outstretched.

"Yes," Leo groaned sheepishly, depositing the handful of Skiving Snackbox sweets into his father's palm.

Ginny rolled her eyes in amusement. She watched Draco suppress a smirk and held out her hand for him to hand her the candies. With a conspiratorial wink, she tossed one to Leo behind her back and pocketed the rest. Leo beamed.

"I'm going to be late!" Ginny looked up to see Cissa standing next to the barrier, her hands on her hips and a scowl on her face. "I don't want to miss the train!"

"All right, Cissa, go on through. But take Leo with you," Draco said, and Leo bounded forward to grab his sister's hand. They disappeared through the barrier.

Draco came around to the back of the trolley and put his arm around Ginny. "I saw you toss him that sweet, you know," he said, an amused gleam in his eye.

She shrugged. "Well, we have to let him have a little fun," she replied, smiling cheekily. "Anyway," she added, meeting his eyes, "It was a Puking Pastille. He'll learn his lesson soon enough."

Draco threw his head back and laughed. "Evil," he commented, shaking his head as they walked through the wall, "Brilliant. But evil."

Platform 9 ¾ was bustling. Groups of parents dotted the station, and students raced around the platform, chattering excitedly as they lugged their trunks onto the Hogwarts Express. Up ahead, Cissa and Leo had already found the group they were looking for and Leo and Hugo were already running around in breathless circles.

"Ron, Hermione!" Ginny greeted them brightly. She turned to where Draco and Harry were shaking hands. "Harry, where's Cathy?"

"Couldn't make it," he replied, "Auror's conference in Romania."

"How's James feeling about heading off?" she asked. Harry glanced at his son, whose head was bent close to Cissa and Rose's over a book.

"A little too eager, I think," he said, smiling.

"I'm a little worried about what the three of them are plotting," Ron said, narrowing his eyes at the little group. Ginny looked over; she had to admit that they were striking. Rosie's hair was bright red, James's jet black…and though Cissa had inherited Ginny's warm brown eyes, she was white-blonde like her father.

"Nothing good, I'm sure," Draco smirked.

Fifteen minutes later, they had loaded the three older children onto the train. As the Hogwarts Express pulled from the station, Draco's arms came around her and Ginny leaned back against his chest.

"She'll be all right, you know," Ginny said softly, glancing up and meeting his eyes.

"Of course she will," he replied matter-of-factly. "She has your Quidditch skills."

She grinned. "And your sense of style."

Draco chuckled. "And a strange streak of mischievousness that's just impossible to account for," he added.

She turned to face him, her brow furrowed in mock thoughtfulness. "That could've been either of us, really."

He nodded. "Too true." He leaned down and gave her a soft kiss.

A moment later, he pulled away speculatively. "So if Cissa ends up in Slytherin, can we decorate the Manor with green and silver and hang Slytherin flags over the fireplace?"

Ginny laughed at that and arched an eyebrow at him cheekily. She stood on tiptoe to plant on another light kiss on his lips.

"Not a chance in hell."

THE END

Author's Note: As you can see, the last scene of this story has a lot in common with the canon epilogue. But if you do the calculations, you'll see that I pushed the canon epilogue back a year (because I didn't think Draco and Ginny would have kids right after getting married...I wanted to give them a year or so). I think that's the only technical thing I wanted to say about the epilogue...

SO THAT'S IT! Wow, I can't believe this story is finished! This is the first really substantial story I've ever finished, and it's been a really amazing experience. I appreciate all of you who have read/reviewed throughout. You really inspired me to continue writing, so THANK YOU. Please review and tell me what you thought (about the epilogue and about the story as a whole). I would love to hear your thoughts and constructive comments, too.

I'm happy to say that I have another story in the works, so this story being over doesn't mean I won't have anything to frantically write in my free time. The story I'm working on is purely DG (no Harry triangle situation), so all you DG people keep a look out for it!

That's all I have to say - THANKS AGAIN FOR READING :)