Hey guys! Last chapter here. It really is! Promise, no sequel or anything to this. Feels good to be posting again. : ) Watch, it'll be another 1.5 years before I post again…sadness. Okay, on with the show.
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Chapter 2: I'm home
Harry Potter looks at Neville carefully.
"Are you sure you want to know Neville? It isn't going to be pleasant."
"Of course I want to know. Unless, that is, you are planning on publishing a book on your defeat of You Know Who."
Harry laughs at the idea.
"There is no way I'm going to become an author. I'll let Ginny write it down, she's the journalist."
"So that's your inside contact to the Daily Prophet."
"Hehe yeah. It's pretty convenient I suppose."
"So, are you going to tell me?"
"Fine. Sarah and I managed to pool our sources together and find the base of Lord Voldemort. There wasn't time to call in backup. I wished there was though. It was rumored that Voldemort was going to move his base again. So the two of us had to act fast. It took us a month to find his base and we weren't going to let him get away. I had to perform an unforgivable curse on Voldemort or else he was going to kill Sarah. Hell, Voldemort was human now, he could die like any of us."
flashback
Sarah tightened the silencer on her gun once again; the Death Eater's body at her feet. Harry stared at the tall wooden door in front of him.
"This can't be it, can it Sarah? It's just so obvious."
"I don't think Voldie expected anyone to get in this far Harry."
"He has to know we're here. We've disposed of too many Death Eaters not to raise any alarm."
"I know. Ready?"
Sarah put a new clip in her gun. "Let's go."
Sarah kicked the door open and had her gun raised right away. It was a large circular stone room with columns evenly placed around it to support it. A single beam of light shown from the middle of the room to illuminate the fearsome figure in the center, Voldemort. Two Death Eaters came running at the intruders but Sarah shot them down. She aimed for Voldemort and fired but Voldemort, with a flick of his wand somehow turned the shot around and Sarah fell to the ground with a scream clutching her left arm. Harry raised his wand as Voldemort turned his attention towards Harry. A gunshot rang out and Voldemort's wand lay broken on the ground.
Voldemort let an angry his escape his slit nostrils and turned his cold eyes towards Sarah again. His hand opened and a wand from one of the Death Eater's flew to it. He raised the wand and pointed it at Sarah.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Voldemort fell to the ground immediately. Sarah looked and saw Harry with his wand aimed where Voldemort had stood.
"Neville!" Harry shouted across the medical tent.
"Harry, I was shot in the arm, I can walk you know." Sarah sat at a chair waiting for Neville to come and treat her. Neville hurried over and began to clean the wound and heal her arm.
After a week, Sarah was getting ready to leave for the USA. Harry came to her room to thank her for all her help. He walked to her door and knocked on it a few times. Sarah opened the door and smiled at Harry, motioning for him to come in. Her bags were mostly packed and Harry saw a laptop computer on the table.
"I'm writing out my report for my agency," said Sarah as if to answer the unvoiced question Harry had.
"I came to say thank you for all your help Sarah."
"It really was my pleasure Harry." Sarah gave a huge smile, "My fiancé is safe now thanks to you and me. I bet he won't appreciate it that much. Come to think of it, I've been away far too long from him. I'm glad to be going home now."
"Who is your fiancé?"
"Why, he's your arch nemesis Harry. Draco Malfoy."
"WHAT?!"
Sarah laughed very hard after Harry's outburst.
"You could say Harry, that it was love at first fight. I've come to show him that not all muggles are stupid. Just some of us."
"Are you the reason he left for the US?"
"Oh no, he was trying to protect his mother. He took her to the US in the hopes that he could escape his father who was trying to make him into a Death Eater. He promised to help the ministry in exchange for safety. They put him in the US to keep him from Voldemort's main base. My cousin and brother were protecting him. That's how I met him, the FBI wanted me to keep tabs on him too. During that time we were attacked and that's how my brother and cousin were killed by Death Eaters."
Harry just stood there trying to take it all in. This pretty woman before him was going to marry Draco Malfoy. She was even stronger than he thought.
"Well, then I would like to wish for the best for you and Draco then. If you really want to irk him, tell him I said 'Hello.'"
"Don't worry, I will." Sarah gave a mischievous smile.
end flashback
Neville just stares at Harry with wide eyes before letting a quiet "wow" escape his lips.
"I know," answers Harry, "she's marrying Draco. That's just so unthinkable."
"I meant how you defeated Voldemort. And I suppose the fact that Draco is marrying a muggle for that matter."
"Mr. Longbottom," calls out the attendant. "This is your stop, sir."
"Thank you. I'll see you around then Harry. Always feel free to visit."
"Will do, mate."
Harry shakes hands with Neville. He looks out the window to see Neville's grandma coming out of the house. She is wearing her typical green robes, a fox-fur scarf, a distinctive hat topped with a stuffed vulture. Everyone runs out of the house to greet Neville in one big family bear hug. Harry smiles at the scene before him as the bus flies off. Harry leans back into the couch and closes his eyes, his thoughts wandering off again towards Ginny, where they often would go. He begins to think back to the last time he's seen her in person.
flashback
Harry held Ginny's hand and they walked back to the Burrow. It was getting late and Ginny knew that Harry would have to sleep soon since he would be leaving tomorrow morning.
"Ginny?"
"Yes, Harry?"
"I'm sorry I was such an idiot."
"Oh don't you dare Mr. Harry James Potter!" Harry gave Ginny a quizzical look.
"Don't you dare go all mushy on me apologizing like in any romance novel for being such an idiot for not noticing the girl before. I won't have it! You are no idiot to me. All that counts is that you're here right now with me underneath this star filled sky."
"Now you're getting mushy on me Ms. Ginerva Weaseley."
"I apologize Mr. Potter." Before she could say more, Harry leaned down and kissed her. Ginny didn't let go after the kiss. She held on to him tightly.
"Do you have to go Harry?"
"Yeah I do," whispered Harry.
Ginny whispered so softly that Harry could barely hear her. "Just give me this one night then Harry."
"What?"
"Just one night Harry. That's all I ask for."
"Ginny, you don't know what you're saying."
"I fully understand what I'm saying Harry."
Harry looked deeply into Ginny's eyes then kissing her one more time before letting her lead him inside the house.
end flashback
"Mr. Potter. Mr. Potter!" Harry's eyes open to find the attendant staring at him. "This is your stop, sir."
"Thank you." Harry gets off the Knight Bus with his things to see a Ginny looking to see who is coming off the bus. Her shocked face mirrors Harry's. Ginny is holding a beautiful bouncing baby boy; his red curly hair already apparent on his small round head. Harry feels his stomach drop to the ground but he still walks to the gate, never taking his eyes off of Ginny.
"Hi Ginny." Harry stops right in front of her and finds himself in a one armed bear hug with the red head woman.
"Oh Harry! I thought you'd never come back! You have no idea how much I've missed you!"
"I've missed you too Ginny, more than even you can imagine I believe. So who is this little fellow?" Harry asks directing his gaze at the baby in Ginny's arms.
With a very large smile, Ginny answers, "This is Ron and Hermione's first child, Joseph. I'm babysitting for them till they get back from the mark-"
Before Ginny can finish, Harry kisses her suddenly.
"Mummy!" Harry and Ginny break the kiss and turn to see a young girl with red hair and jade eyes looking ever so confused at the scene before her.
"Harry," whispers Ginny, "I'd like you to meet your daughter, Lily. Oh how I wished I could tell you, but there was no way to get news to you with you being at the front and all." Harry is just shocked; he carefully lets go of Ginny and gets down on one knee to look at the girl before him. He can see himself in her eyes. The girl goes up to him, then looks up at Ginny with a questioning look.
"Daddy?" She blinks a few times thinking this is just a dream. The pokes his nose, tugs his ear and pokes his cheeks. Harry chuckles at this and picks up the girl in a big hug.
"Daddy!" Lily yells again and returns the bear hug. Harry and Lily look to Ginny to see tears falling down her cheeks.
"Don't cry mummy," comforts Lily.
"That's right," answers Harry with a smile. "Don't cry mummy."
Ginny lets out an exasperate laugh and pulls her family into one big hug.
"Let's so inside won't we?" invited Ginny.
"Yes, let's." Harry, still holding his daughter takes Ginny's hand and they walk back inside the Burrow.
Fin (I've always wanted to use that word. : ) )
A/N: Well there it is…Hope it was fun to read.
Bye everyone!