Jumping: Chapter 1- Truths
I stood by the edge of the lake, the water was calm like crystal and the suns rays were glittering on the lake. The air about me was cold and warm all at once. I felt like if I jumped in the water I would be safe for the first time. However, something was holding me back, in the water a vision of the man I love flickered up and looked at me. He was silently pleading with me not to jump. All the sadness in the world seems to be in his eyes, that graceful stare; the love that you just knew was there. All this was going through my head as I prepared to jump into what would have been a watery grave, if my love, my Draco hadn't saved me.
I heard him calling me away from the water; in ways his love is what made me turn away. He got to me as I was about to jump, he enveloped me in those big strong arms of his. This is who saved me. He saved me from dark, from death, from incompleteness, from sadness and from depression. To my love, my Draco, I stood and could only say one word, "why?" He wrapped me up tighter in his arms and said, "I couldn't bare loosing you, Ginny. Your friendship, makes my life complete, you keep me from jumping in the lake. Please, don't jump."
All I could do is stare into those perfect blue eyes of his. He ruffled my hair and released me from his grasp. He looked into my eyes and put one arm around my waist and walked with me up to the castle. I had to mumble, "No one beside you would miss me Draco. I am alone, I don't have any friends other than what you call the 'dream team' and you. I don't know of anyone who truly loves me like a girlfriend. Harry loves me like a younger sister. I have no one Draco. So why did you stop me?" He shook his head and opened the doors to the entrance hall.
He looked at her and said, " You think that you are unloved, you have a family that loves you. What do I have? I have a father who beats me, a mother who is to crazy to see this and a girl I love. You know what? I can't tell her that because her family would kill me."
I looked up into those eyes, they were twinkling. Somewhere in those eyes I saw love, but for whom I did not see. I smiled and was about to say 'I love you,' when my brother, Ron, Harry, and Hermione walked into the room. Ron saw us and immediately said " Malfoy, get your stinking hands off my little sister."
Draco was about to reply, when I stepped in front of him and said, "No Draco, this is my battle and not yours. I just want you to know that… well… iloveyou," I said. "What?" asked a disgruntled Draco. "I said," I started, "Draco, that I LOVE YOU ." Ron looked from me to Malfoy, then back at me. Then he said," You can't be serious Gin, he's got you bewitched or something. Weasley's just don't love Malfoy's. Get to the common room now!"
"No, Ron. It's your turn to listen. I love Draco. He saved my life and stopped me from jumping. I love him. And not Harry, not Neville, and not Collin. I love Draco. Goodbye Ron," and with that I took Draco by the arm down and took him to the dungeons.
When we got there, Draco asked, " Why? How? What did I say to deserve your love?" In order to hush him up I put my arms around his neck and kissed him. He kissed me back and wrapped his arms tightly around my waist. When we broke apart, he whispered into my ear that he loved me too and wanted to be with me forever.
He put my hands in his and stepped back to get a better look at me. He asked me, " How long have you loved me? I've loved you ever since I saw you in my second year." I looked at him with bright green eyes and answered, "Ever since I saw you in Flourish and Blots, you were drop dead gorgeous and you stood up to my brothers and my father, well that doesn't matter I just want to stand here and kiss you."
Unbeknownst to us, three professors were standing and watching the scene. When we were about to kiss again, Dumbledore made a slight cough and then we turned around to see Professors Snape, Mogonagal and Dumbledore.
Abruptly we pulled away from each other and held fear and passion in our eyes. Dumbledore was the first to speak. He said, " Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Weasley. So good of you to stop. Now if you two would follow me we could go and discuss this issue in my office. Severus and Minerva you may go back to whatever you were discussing." In Draco's eyes I saw loss and punishment. I put my hand in his as if to say you can't loose me, my love for you is to strong. He looked at me and nodded. When we arrived at Dumbledore's office he told us to sit down in front of him. He smiled and said, " Don't worry, I'm not going to bite. However, finding you two together like that was quite astonishing. Please explain it to me." Seeing the pain in my Draco's eyes, I held onto his hand tighter and spoke up, I will tell you. But you must promise me not to tell our parents, because my parents and Draco's parents would hurt us both in so many ways. If you can do this one favor then I will tell you all." Dumbledore sighed in resignation and said, " If I must, but I'm more interested in how this happened. So please enlighten me."
"Well professor," I started, " It all started in my first year when I went into Flourish and Blots. After you had appointed Gildoroy Lockhart, as the new DADA professor. I got my books and then I saw Draco. My brothers and father fought with him in the shop and did not stop until Hagrid broke them up. That was all that I saw of Draco until Valentines Day…" I told him everything from that point on. I stopped and looked over at Draco, who looked ready to talk.
He said, " I found Ginny near the lake this morning and I knew that she was going to jump. So I told her to stop. I walked her into the entrance hall where, her brother Ron, Harry and Hermione, met us. Her brother confronted us and then she told Ron, Harry and Hermione that she loved me and no one else. Then we walked down to the dungeons and I think you know the rest, sir."
We looked at Dumbledore who was smiling at us, he looked down at his desk and said, "Thank you for sharing. Now I must share something with you. Have you two ever heard of the Seer named Rachelle Krawitz?" We shook our heads and he continued, " Well this seer was about fourteen when she made her prediction, it is called ' Fire and Ice,' it has only happened once since the prediction. Well it didn't really work. It backfired when she married someone else, other than her true love. I believe you two know both of the people of whom I speak. I am talking about Lily Evans and Severus Snape.
" They were quite a couple. She almost lost everything for him, but in the end she thought he was cheating on her with Narsissa Malfoy. So she left Snape for James Potter. Of course, being the one of her many admirers, he accepted. They fell in love, or so the rest of the school thought. He proposed on their graduation night ball, she of course said yes. When Severus heard of this I found him crying and being quite unreasonable.
" The next thing I know is that he goes to Voldermort and joins that side. It was not until the death of Lily that he broke down completely. He came back to me and told me everything that had happened since he and Lily knew that they were in love. Like your story it too was very long. That was the day he rejoined our side and became a spy for us. Now, Ginny this is why when we found you and Draco together, it was a shock for us. This is also why he gives Harry a bad time and I am not going to be wrong in saying that he gives you a hard time too. It's because you look an awful lot like Lily.
"Now as for you two we have to be sure that you two both truly love each other. I will devise some sort of test. I will stop talking and let you look at that prophesy."
When he stopped speaking I looked at Draco, who looked at me in return. I opened my mouth to say something to Draco when he covered my lips with his. I melted into his kiss with bliss.
Out of the corner of Dumbledore's eye he saw us kissing. He saw the whole entire Lily and Severus tragedy happening all over again. In his cabinet he pulled out a book called " Famous Phrophecies of All Time." He looked at the table of contents and saw that the prophecy that he was looking for was on page 147. He flipped to that page a found a beautiful picture of a blonde haired, and blue eyed witch. He closed his eyes and remembered his daughter. He ran a finger over her picture.
By that time we had stopped kissing and we were now staring at Dumbledore. He had a tear or two in his eyes, I went around to Dumbledore and asked, " Professor, what's wrong?"
He replied, "This is my daughter. When she was little her mom took her away from me for eleven years until she was eligible to attend Hogwarts. When she came to school, I saw her again for the first time in years. In her fourth year she made this prediction, in Professor Trelawney's classroom.
" I miss her so much. She died right after she left school. Voldermort had gotten a hold of her and she did not give into him so she died with the avada kadavra. When I found out I broke down and turned in all of her predictions.
"By this time Lily and Severus were both in the school. You know the rest. I just love her so much." He broke down and cried. I walked over to him and said, " Dumbledore it's going to be ok. Everything will be all right. Draco and I will be fine. I know he'll never cheat on me. It's trust." With that he wiped his eyes and spoke up, " Ginny, didn't you like Harry for awhile? Or was I just blind?"
"That was a long time ago. Yes I did like him but it was just a crush and that is all. I got over the fact that I knew that Harry would never love me any more than just a little sister," I said blushing vibrantly.
"Sir, I just don't get why Lily thought Snape was cheating on her with my mom. I mean she was betrothed to my dad. At least I think so." "Draco," started Dumbledore, "Your mom was not betrothed to your dad actually she was going to marry James. Instead of thinking that he was with her, she saw him spend a great amount of time at Lily. She got mad and cheated on James with your dad. Accept everyone thought that her and Snape were going together. So that is the truth. As for you and Harry, Ginny. I'm glad that you moved on."
I looked over at my love and saw that he was burning with a fire that could kill. I put my arms around him. He looked into my eyes and said, " I will never allow that to happen to you Ginny. In fact, professor I have an idea for a test. I would like to go over it with you later though, now where is that prophecy?"
I stood by the edge of the lake, the water was calm like crystal and the suns rays were glittering on the lake. The air about me was cold and warm all at once. I felt like if I jumped in the water I would be safe for the first time. However, something was holding me back, in the water a vision of the man I love flickered up and looked at me. He was silently pleading with me not to jump. All the sadness in the world seems to be in his eyes, that graceful stare; the love that you just knew was there. All this was going through my head as I prepared to jump into what would have been a watery grave, if my love, my Draco hadn't saved me.
I heard him calling me away from the water; in ways his love is what made me turn away. He got to me as I was about to jump, he enveloped me in those big strong arms of his. This is who saved me. He saved me from dark, from death, from incompleteness, from sadness and from depression. To my love, my Draco, I stood and could only say one word, "why?" He wrapped me up tighter in his arms and said, "I couldn't bare loosing you, Ginny. Your friendship, makes my life complete, you keep me from jumping in the lake. Please, don't jump."
All I could do is stare into those perfect blue eyes of his. He ruffled my hair and released me from his grasp. He looked into my eyes and put one arm around my waist and walked with me up to the castle. I had to mumble, "No one beside you would miss me Draco. I am alone, I don't have any friends other than what you call the 'dream team' and you. I don't know of anyone who truly loves me like a girlfriend. Harry loves me like a younger sister. I have no one Draco. So why did you stop me?" He shook his head and opened the doors to the entrance hall.
He looked at her and said, " You think that you are unloved, you have a family that loves you. What do I have? I have a father who beats me, a mother who is to crazy to see this and a girl I love. You know what? I can't tell her that because her family would kill me."
I looked up into those eyes, they were twinkling. Somewhere in those eyes I saw love, but for whom I did not see. I smiled and was about to say 'I love you,' when my brother, Ron, Harry, and Hermione walked into the room. Ron saw us and immediately said " Malfoy, get your stinking hands off my little sister."
Draco was about to reply, when I stepped in front of him and said, "No Draco, this is my battle and not yours. I just want you to know that… well… iloveyou," I said. "What?" asked a disgruntled Draco. "I said," I started, "Draco, that I LOVE YOU ." Ron looked from me to Malfoy, then back at me. Then he said," You can't be serious Gin, he's got you bewitched or something. Weasley's just don't love Malfoy's. Get to the common room now!"
"No, Ron. It's your turn to listen. I love Draco. He saved my life and stopped me from jumping. I love him. And not Harry, not Neville, and not Collin. I love Draco. Goodbye Ron," and with that I took Draco by the arm down and took him to the dungeons.
When we got there, Draco asked, " Why? How? What did I say to deserve your love?" In order to hush him up I put my arms around his neck and kissed him. He kissed me back and wrapped his arms tightly around my waist. When we broke apart, he whispered into my ear that he loved me too and wanted to be with me forever.
He put my hands in his and stepped back to get a better look at me. He asked me, " How long have you loved me? I've loved you ever since I saw you in my second year." I looked at him with bright green eyes and answered, "Ever since I saw you in Flourish and Blots, you were drop dead gorgeous and you stood up to my brothers and my father, well that doesn't matter I just want to stand here and kiss you."
Unbeknownst to us, three professors were standing and watching the scene. When we were about to kiss again, Dumbledore made a slight cough and then we turned around to see Professors Snape, Mogonagal and Dumbledore.
Abruptly we pulled away from each other and held fear and passion in our eyes. Dumbledore was the first to speak. He said, " Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Weasley. So good of you to stop. Now if you two would follow me we could go and discuss this issue in my office. Severus and Minerva you may go back to whatever you were discussing." In Draco's eyes I saw loss and punishment. I put my hand in his as if to say you can't loose me, my love for you is to strong. He looked at me and nodded. When we arrived at Dumbledore's office he told us to sit down in front of him. He smiled and said, " Don't worry, I'm not going to bite. However, finding you two together like that was quite astonishing. Please explain it to me." Seeing the pain in my Draco's eyes, I held onto his hand tighter and spoke up, I will tell you. But you must promise me not to tell our parents, because my parents and Draco's parents would hurt us both in so many ways. If you can do this one favor then I will tell you all." Dumbledore sighed in resignation and said, " If I must, but I'm more interested in how this happened. So please enlighten me."
"Well professor," I started, " It all started in my first year when I went into Flourish and Blots. After you had appointed Gildoroy Lockhart, as the new DADA professor. I got my books and then I saw Draco. My brothers and father fought with him in the shop and did not stop until Hagrid broke them up. That was all that I saw of Draco until Valentines Day…" I told him everything from that point on. I stopped and looked over at Draco, who looked ready to talk.
He said, " I found Ginny near the lake this morning and I knew that she was going to jump. So I told her to stop. I walked her into the entrance hall where, her brother Ron, Harry and Hermione, met us. Her brother confronted us and then she told Ron, Harry and Hermione that she loved me and no one else. Then we walked down to the dungeons and I think you know the rest, sir."
We looked at Dumbledore who was smiling at us, he looked down at his desk and said, "Thank you for sharing. Now I must share something with you. Have you two ever heard of the Seer named Rachelle Krawitz?" We shook our heads and he continued, " Well this seer was about fourteen when she made her prediction, it is called ' Fire and Ice,' it has only happened once since the prediction. Well it didn't really work. It backfired when she married someone else, other than her true love. I believe you two know both of the people of whom I speak. I am talking about Lily Evans and Severus Snape.
" They were quite a couple. She almost lost everything for him, but in the end she thought he was cheating on her with Narsissa Malfoy. So she left Snape for James Potter. Of course, being the one of her many admirers, he accepted. They fell in love, or so the rest of the school thought. He proposed on their graduation night ball, she of course said yes. When Severus heard of this I found him crying and being quite unreasonable.
" The next thing I know is that he goes to Voldermort and joins that side. It was not until the death of Lily that he broke down completely. He came back to me and told me everything that had happened since he and Lily knew that they were in love. Like your story it too was very long. That was the day he rejoined our side and became a spy for us. Now, Ginny this is why when we found you and Draco together, it was a shock for us. This is also why he gives Harry a bad time and I am not going to be wrong in saying that he gives you a hard time too. It's because you look an awful lot like Lily.
"Now as for you two we have to be sure that you two both truly love each other. I will devise some sort of test. I will stop talking and let you look at that prophesy."
When he stopped speaking I looked at Draco, who looked at me in return. I opened my mouth to say something to Draco when he covered my lips with his. I melted into his kiss with bliss.
Out of the corner of Dumbledore's eye he saw us kissing. He saw the whole entire Lily and Severus tragedy happening all over again. In his cabinet he pulled out a book called " Famous Phrophecies of All Time." He looked at the table of contents and saw that the prophecy that he was looking for was on page 147. He flipped to that page a found a beautiful picture of a blonde haired, and blue eyed witch. He closed his eyes and remembered his daughter. He ran a finger over her picture.
By that time we had stopped kissing and we were now staring at Dumbledore. He had a tear or two in his eyes, I went around to Dumbledore and asked, " Professor, what's wrong?"
He replied, "This is my daughter. When she was little her mom took her away from me for eleven years until she was eligible to attend Hogwarts. When she came to school, I saw her again for the first time in years. In her fourth year she made this prediction, in Professor Trelawney's classroom.
" I miss her so much. She died right after she left school. Voldermort had gotten a hold of her and she did not give into him so she died with the avada kadavra. When I found out I broke down and turned in all of her predictions.
"By this time Lily and Severus were both in the school. You know the rest. I just love her so much." He broke down and cried. I walked over to him and said, " Dumbledore it's going to be ok. Everything will be all right. Draco and I will be fine. I know he'll never cheat on me. It's trust." With that he wiped his eyes and spoke up, " Ginny, didn't you like Harry for awhile? Or was I just blind?"
"That was a long time ago. Yes I did like him but it was just a crush and that is all. I got over the fact that I knew that Harry would never love me any more than just a little sister," I said blushing vibrantly.
"Sir, I just don't get why Lily thought Snape was cheating on her with my mom. I mean she was betrothed to my dad. At least I think so." "Draco," started Dumbledore, "Your mom was not betrothed to your dad actually she was going to marry James. Instead of thinking that he was with her, she saw him spend a great amount of time at Lily. She got mad and cheated on James with your dad. Accept everyone thought that her and Snape were going together. So that is the truth. As for you and Harry, Ginny. I'm glad that you moved on."
I looked over at my love and saw that he was burning with a fire that could kill. I put my arms around him. He looked into my eyes and said, " I will never allow that to happen to you Ginny. In fact, professor I have an idea for a test. I would like to go over it with you later though, now where is that prophecy?"