Angsty Ginny songfic. Yes, another...Ginny's a bit older and far more jaded, and recounts her life to
Rated: Fiction K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,894 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 1 - Updated: May 23, 2001 - Published: May 19, 2001 - id: 289177
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Un-Break My Heart
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I hadn't planned on continuing "I Don't Know You Anymore", but when 3 out of 7 reviews demand I continue in some form or another, I really can't argue. So, for those of you who begged, this is one ending for "I Don't Know You Anymore". It's the ending that makes me happy, since I'm a sucker for happy endings. And since it's my fic, you just have to deal with my ending. * cue evil laughter *
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters belong to their creator, the stunningly brilliant JK Rowling. To you we owe all praise and adoration. "Un-Break My Heart" is sung by the incomparable Toni Braxton.
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Harry could scarcely believe that Ginny was calling him back, that she was even speaking to him. Did it mean he was forgiven? "Look, Gin, give me an hour, please? We can meet for coffee or something…name the place, anywhere. I just need to see you…I can be there in twenty minutes, sure. I'll be waiting." He pressed the button on the cell phone, the ridiculous Muggle device he'd come to fancy so much, and pulled his coat tighter against the cold drizzle that was just beginning to fall. So much had happened in a year…too much.
Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Come back and bring back my smile
Come and take these tears away
I need your arms to hold me now
The nights are so unkind
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me
He remembered Hogwarts, remembered being there with Ginny, remembered really appreciating Ginny. And how all it had taken was a situation too easily misunderstood and malicious gossip to pull her away from him. Hermione had been upset, and she needed a friend. What was a kiss on the forehead and a long talk in the Astronomy Tower one night had turned into him cheating on Ginny for months the next morning. Hermione was mortified, Harry was angry, but Ginny…Ginny just stopped caring. She stopped talking to him, snubbed him with an efficiency that wounded him to the quick. And Harry walked away.
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
But he wasn't going to walk away, not now. Not when he had his chance. Quidditch didn't give him much of a chance to do anything, to even have a personal life, never mind something this complicated. But with a well-chosen and feigned illness, some Muggle clothes and an arrangement with the Team Captain, Harry was out on the streets of London when the rest of the wizarding world was focused on Quidditch. He shoved his hands in his pockets and headed towards the small café Ginny had requested. He knew she lived in the wizarding section of London, and that it wasn't far, but he was closer. He was willing to wait. After all, he'd waited this long.
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart
Harry sat, playing with the phone, his eyes fixed on the door, oblivious to the café au lait that sat untouched in front of him. He set the phone down and took off his glasses to clean them. When he put them on and looked up, there she was. Harry felt a lump in his throat as he watched her come towards him, dressed elegantly in a grey sweater and black trousers, her hair a fiery mane around her face, just as he remembered it. But her eyes, eyes previously so full of life seemed hollow almost. So sad. "Hullo, Harry," she greeted him softly, sitting across from him. "It's been a while."
Take back that sad word good-bye
Bring back the joy to my life
Don't leave me here with these tears
Come and kiss this pain away
I can't forget the day you left
Time is so unkind
And life is so cruel without you here beside me
"Ginny," he began, and he felt as if his voice would desert him. But stubbornly, Harry pressed on. "Ginny, I need to tell you so many things. About what happened with Hermione and I, about you and I…if there can be a you and I again. I want there to be a you and I. I'm not whole without you."
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Ginny shook her head. "It isn't so easy anymore, Harry. You can't just waltz in here and expect me to drop my life for The Boy Who Lived. I'm not the little girl who had a crush on you anymore. I'm not the young woman who was head over heels for you anymore, either. I'm married now, Harry. To a good man who loves me, cherishes me and is more than I deserve. I trust Alex."
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart
Harry protested. "No, Ginny, no. You don't know the truth, you wouldn't listen to me then and I hope you'll listen now. Nothing happened between Mione and me. Nothing. She was so upset with breaking up with Ron, and we went up to the Astronomy Tower to talk, to get away from everyone. Ron was skulking around the Common Room, she needed to get away from him. And what people told you was snogging and fooling around was a kiss on the forehead when I sent her to bed. That's it, Ginny. I swear it, on the souls of my parents, I swear it."
Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Bring back the nights when I held you beside me
"More promises, Harry? Are these going to mean anything to you when some girl comes crying and she looks like she needs you more than I do?" Ginny burst out suddenly, feeling tears prick at her eyes, roll down her pale cheeks. "I need you, Harry! You came back when I needed you, you always come back when I need you. I need you now, I'm crying and senseless and I'll stay that way if it means I can be with you again."
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Slowly, Harry got out of his chair, and went to stand behind her. Wrapping his arms about her, he buried his face in her hair, murmuring her name softly. "Hush, now...my poor Ginny..." Why had he ever let her walk out of his life? Why hadn't he fought tooth and nail for her? Why? He hated to see her cry, always had. And now she was pulling at his heart in a way no-one else ever could, not Hermione, not anyone.
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many, many nights
Un-break my
"I won't let you go, I don't want to be alone, I don't..." Ginny sobbed into his arms, breathing in the scent of him. She'd missed that. "I'm alone now, all alone. Alex left me last week," she confessed tearfully. "Don't you leave me, too, now that you've come back." Harry inhaled sharply. She hadn't told him that, hadn't told him what everything had come down to in the end.
Un-break my heart
Come back and say you love me
Un-break my heart
Sweet darlin'
"It's all right, Ginny. I'm here now, right here. And I'm not going anywhere, not without you, not ever again. That's a promise I'll keep, a promise you can hold on to," Harry told her gently, just holding her, holding on to her. "I won't ever leave you alone again."
Without you I just can't go on
Can't go on
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