Hey people,
I hope you like this chapter, because I strangely enough, enjoyed writing it for you.
Today is 01/01/03 and I have hand 45 minutes of sleep in the last 48 hours, so I hope this chapter makes sense.
Reviewing is good for your health.
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"Do you remember the feelings we had, when we first got together, do you remember how strong we felt when we were together? I wish we had that back" Ginny sighed. Draco nodded. He remembered the feelings well. The feelings of power and hope he had felt when he and Ginny had first admitted they were in love with each other.
Nothing could have stopped them then. They had had the whole world at their feet, with no worries in the world. The needed to capture that again, they needed to find a way to bring all those emotions back with out making them feel artificial and manufactured.
Draco smiled and stood, moving to the other side of the room to sit beside Ginny. He couldn't help the laugh that escaped him as he held his hand out to his wife.
"Good evening Ma'am, my name is Draco Malfoy, it is a pleasure to met you" He smiled. Ginny laughed.
"Draco, what are you doing?" She grinned.
"I am starting again." He replied as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And what is your name my fair lady?"
"Virginia Weasley Malfoy ... "Ginny smiled, playing along with Draco's confusing little game and shaking his offered hand. "But you are more than welcome to call me Ginny"
"So, Ginny, tell me a little about yourself" Draco smiled.
"Draco, this is so stupid" She laughed.
"I don't think so" he replied. "I think it is a good idea, the two of us getting to know each other again."
"But we already know everything about each other, it really defies the purpose" Ginny replied. Draco rolled his eyes at her playfully.
"At the moment Gin, I am willing to try anything to make us work": He admitted, Ginny sighed and then smiled at him.
"Oh, Ok, but I want you to know that I think you have gone completely and utterly mad!" Ginny smiled "What is it that you want to know about me?"
"Your hopes, your dreams, your beliefs. Your family. Your past, present and future." Draco listed. Ginny nodded.
"My beliefs? Well, I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that love can conquer all evil. I believe that inner strength is given to us at birth and we have to take the opportunities that are given to us and show that strength. I believe that the sun will always come up tomorrow, and it will be as bright as possible. Things will always look better in the morning. My past was my mother, father and brothers. My future is my three beautiful sons and hopefully my husband." Ginny paused, avoiding Draco's eyes. "My present however, is so much more complicated."
"As is my present, and my past. I have hopes for my future though, and that is to spend time with my children and the love of my life." Draco replied. "I never believed in that whole love at first sight stuff until I met her."
"Tell me about the love of your life." Ginny smiled. Draco sighed.
"Oh, where do I begin? Her name is Virginia, or Ginny to those who know her, but I have always just called her Gin. She is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Flaming red hair and the deepest blue eyes I have ever seen. Beautiful woman, absolutely beautiful....inside and out. I know it makes me sound clichéd, but she makes me strive to be the best person I can be, the best professor, the best friend, the best father and the best husband that I can be. That is why I feel like I have failed her over the last few years." Draco explained sadly. Ginny looked up at him.
"You think that you have failed her? How?" Ginny asked. It felt strange, yet oddly systematic that they were talking about their relationship as though they were two strangers looking in from the outside. They could ignore the fact that the person they were talking to was the person they were talking about and they could just let their feelings out.
"There was a ... death in the family a few years back. And since then we have been distant, and I know that it is partly my fault. I should have tried harder to keep the lines of communication open between the two of us. Maybe if I had of done that, I could have stopped her from wanting to leave me." Draco replied.
"She may not want to leave you" Ginny replied helpfully. Draco smiled.
"But that is enough about me, more about you. You mentioned that you have a husband, what is he like?" Draco asked. Ginny took a deep breath.
"Well, I will start with gorgeous and I will add that he is the most surprising man I have ever met, even now I am still surprised by the little things that he says and does. I have known of him and his family since I was a baby, and I had heard some pretty nasty stories about him growing up, he didn't seem like a nice person. I have known him personally since I was 11, and that was when I realized that he really wasn't a nice person, Or at least not the man that I feel in love with six years later. Everything that he said to me, everything that he told me surprised him. In a small time frame, everything I have ever known about him was blown out of the water, and I had the privilege to learn all about him all again. Even now, I will see him doing some preparation work for one of his classes or I will see him just having fun with our kids, and he will still surprise me." Ginny admitted. She was amazed at how easy she found it to just release everything that she was thinking. "That was before ..."
"Before what?" Draco asked.
"Before things began to turn a little sour in our relationship. We unfortunately lost a child, a baby that was very, very important and dear to the both of us, and things just have not been the same since. We fight a lot, and nothing seems to stop us from fighting. We fight about the smallest little things" Ginny replied. Draco nodded.
"Sounds like you and your husband need marriage counseling" Draco smiled, Ginny laughed.
"Well, I guess you could say that" They both laughed together.
"Tell me more about your wife. Do you think that there is any chance that you and her will work things out?" Ginny asked.
"I hope so; I don't think I would be able to live with out her by my side. I love her a little more each day, even if we are not talking to one another, even if we are fighting. And I hope.... I hope she will take me back." Draco sighed. Ginny reached out and held his hand in hers, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
"She will" Ginny replied. "I just hope that I can sort things out with my husband"
"I think you will Ginny, In fact, I am counting on it." Draco smiled.
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For the first time in a long time, Ginny and Draco were laughing in each others presence.
"Do you remember the time that your dad walked in?" Draco asked through bouts of laughed. He smiled as he saw Ginny's face flush red.
"I wish you would stop laughing at that and think of it from my point of view. I was 16 and practically shagging by boyfriend in an upstairs bedroom with all of my brothers and parents in the house, plus the family hangers on of Harry and Hermione were there to. I was mortified when my dad walked in, especially since you were wearing very little clothing." Ginny replied.
"Well, we should have known better since the house was full, but I remember that as a very funny event" Draco replied.
"And I seemed to remember that you were scared shitless that my dad was going to curse your, and I quote my father on this 'Sad Sorry Malfoy Ass' into the next millennium." Ginny laughed.
"Hey, I was not scared of your father, I was more scared of the fact that your brothers thought I was up stairs corrupting you" Draco replied, grinning. "I thought I was going to get my ass kicked, the old fashioned way."
"Oh, and the lectures!!!!" Ginny exclaimed, giggling.
"Oh, I know. Your father took it upon himself to give me the whole birds and bees speech. You would think after having 6 boys, and probably Harry, he would know what to say." Draco chuckled.
"I think it was the fact that he never thought he would be educating a Malfoy on the facts of life" Ginny replied.
"I didn't have the heart to tell him that I already knew everything that he told me. And I didn't remember giving him a straight answer when he asked me how far we had gone with each other" Draco replied.
"Oh, my mum told him. I was asked the same question, and I don't hide things from my mum" Ginny replied.
"That was the scariest thing. Wondering if your dad was going to kill me after he found out about us" Draco replied. Ginny smiled. "Second scariest thing was my bachelor party."
"You had a bachelor party?" Ginny asked "Why was I not told?"
"Well, you had had a bachelor-ette party thingy didn't you?" He asked.
"Well, me, Hermione and mum, had a girly night, I guess" Ginny admitted. "Wait, which one of my brothers planned this party for you?"
"Charlie, Bill, Fred, George, Ron, and I am pretty sure Harry had a say in it as well." Draco replied.
"It is amazing you made it to the wedding at all" Ginny sighed.
"Yeah, and who would have guessed Percy was such a party animal?" Draco shook his head.
"Ok, I know it is the secret men's code that the bride is never meant to know what happened to the groom on his last night of freedom, but just tell me one thing." Ginny began. "How many strippers did my brothers arrange?"
"Umm, there were three, but I swear to god, I was only thinking of you" Draco smiled.
"Yeah right" Ginny grinned.
"No seriously. Your brothers stole them all, why do you think that Ron, Bill and Percy had such huge smiles on their faces at the wedding. It wasn't because they were happy for us" Draco laughed.
"Oh, eww, to much information about my brothers." Ginny groaned. Draco laughed.
"But that was a fun party, except for the hung over best man" Draco smiled.
"Oh, it added character that Harry wore sunglasses and had to be woken up from his migraine induced trance to hand over the rings" Ginny replied.
That had been the biggest shock to come out of the wedding. Draco didn't really have any close friends so when it came to choosing a best man for the wedding, he had to choose one of her family members. He didn't want to choose Arthur; things were embarrassing enough between them. He reasoned that he didn't know Bill and Charlie well enough, he said he didn't want Fred and George handing over fake trick rings, he had admitted that he had a few issues feeling comfortable around Percy (due to the perfect prefect attitude that he had continued on after Hogwarts) and honestly, Percy didn't mind that he was not chosen. And Draco just didn't want to give Ron the satisfaction of being his best man. So, Draco asked the next logical person.
Resulting in Harry Potter being the best man at Draco Malfoy's wedding.
"We had a good wedding" She sighed.
"And an even better honeymoon" Draco replied, laughing. Ginny smiled and slapped him on his shoulder.
"Oh, I don't recall you complaining, Mrs. Malfoy" Draco laughed; she moved to slap him again. But this time, Draco grabbed her hands. He slid down onto the floor, bringing a giggling Ginny with him.
"Gin?" He whispered their lips close together as they gazed into each others eyes.
"Yes Draco?" She whispered. Draco ran his hand lovingly through her hair, lacing his fingers through her red locks that had fallen from the messy bun.
"Can we try that kiss again, please?" Draco asked. Ginny nodded and closed the gap between their lips.
I hope you like this chapter, because I strangely enough, enjoyed writing it for you.
Today is 01/01/03 and I have hand 45 minutes of sleep in the last 48 hours, so I hope this chapter makes sense.
Reviewing is good for your health.
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"Do you remember the feelings we had, when we first got together, do you remember how strong we felt when we were together? I wish we had that back" Ginny sighed. Draco nodded. He remembered the feelings well. The feelings of power and hope he had felt when he and Ginny had first admitted they were in love with each other.
Nothing could have stopped them then. They had had the whole world at their feet, with no worries in the world. The needed to capture that again, they needed to find a way to bring all those emotions back with out making them feel artificial and manufactured.
Draco smiled and stood, moving to the other side of the room to sit beside Ginny. He couldn't help the laugh that escaped him as he held his hand out to his wife.
"Good evening Ma'am, my name is Draco Malfoy, it is a pleasure to met you" He smiled. Ginny laughed.
"Draco, what are you doing?" She grinned.
"I am starting again." He replied as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And what is your name my fair lady?"
"Virginia Weasley Malfoy ... "Ginny smiled, playing along with Draco's confusing little game and shaking his offered hand. "But you are more than welcome to call me Ginny"
"So, Ginny, tell me a little about yourself" Draco smiled.
"Draco, this is so stupid" She laughed.
"I don't think so" he replied. "I think it is a good idea, the two of us getting to know each other again."
"But we already know everything about each other, it really defies the purpose" Ginny replied. Draco rolled his eyes at her playfully.
"At the moment Gin, I am willing to try anything to make us work": He admitted, Ginny sighed and then smiled at him.
"Oh, Ok, but I want you to know that I think you have gone completely and utterly mad!" Ginny smiled "What is it that you want to know about me?"
"Your hopes, your dreams, your beliefs. Your family. Your past, present and future." Draco listed. Ginny nodded.
"My beliefs? Well, I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that love can conquer all evil. I believe that inner strength is given to us at birth and we have to take the opportunities that are given to us and show that strength. I believe that the sun will always come up tomorrow, and it will be as bright as possible. Things will always look better in the morning. My past was my mother, father and brothers. My future is my three beautiful sons and hopefully my husband." Ginny paused, avoiding Draco's eyes. "My present however, is so much more complicated."
"As is my present, and my past. I have hopes for my future though, and that is to spend time with my children and the love of my life." Draco replied. "I never believed in that whole love at first sight stuff until I met her."
"Tell me about the love of your life." Ginny smiled. Draco sighed.
"Oh, where do I begin? Her name is Virginia, or Ginny to those who know her, but I have always just called her Gin. She is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Flaming red hair and the deepest blue eyes I have ever seen. Beautiful woman, absolutely beautiful....inside and out. I know it makes me sound clichéd, but she makes me strive to be the best person I can be, the best professor, the best friend, the best father and the best husband that I can be. That is why I feel like I have failed her over the last few years." Draco explained sadly. Ginny looked up at him.
"You think that you have failed her? How?" Ginny asked. It felt strange, yet oddly systematic that they were talking about their relationship as though they were two strangers looking in from the outside. They could ignore the fact that the person they were talking to was the person they were talking about and they could just let their feelings out.
"There was a ... death in the family a few years back. And since then we have been distant, and I know that it is partly my fault. I should have tried harder to keep the lines of communication open between the two of us. Maybe if I had of done that, I could have stopped her from wanting to leave me." Draco replied.
"She may not want to leave you" Ginny replied helpfully. Draco smiled.
"But that is enough about me, more about you. You mentioned that you have a husband, what is he like?" Draco asked. Ginny took a deep breath.
"Well, I will start with gorgeous and I will add that he is the most surprising man I have ever met, even now I am still surprised by the little things that he says and does. I have known of him and his family since I was a baby, and I had heard some pretty nasty stories about him growing up, he didn't seem like a nice person. I have known him personally since I was 11, and that was when I realized that he really wasn't a nice person, Or at least not the man that I feel in love with six years later. Everything that he said to me, everything that he told me surprised him. In a small time frame, everything I have ever known about him was blown out of the water, and I had the privilege to learn all about him all again. Even now, I will see him doing some preparation work for one of his classes or I will see him just having fun with our kids, and he will still surprise me." Ginny admitted. She was amazed at how easy she found it to just release everything that she was thinking. "That was before ..."
"Before what?" Draco asked.
"Before things began to turn a little sour in our relationship. We unfortunately lost a child, a baby that was very, very important and dear to the both of us, and things just have not been the same since. We fight a lot, and nothing seems to stop us from fighting. We fight about the smallest little things" Ginny replied. Draco nodded.
"Sounds like you and your husband need marriage counseling" Draco smiled, Ginny laughed.
"Well, I guess you could say that" They both laughed together.
"Tell me more about your wife. Do you think that there is any chance that you and her will work things out?" Ginny asked.
"I hope so; I don't think I would be able to live with out her by my side. I love her a little more each day, even if we are not talking to one another, even if we are fighting. And I hope.... I hope she will take me back." Draco sighed. Ginny reached out and held his hand in hers, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
"She will" Ginny replied. "I just hope that I can sort things out with my husband"
"I think you will Ginny, In fact, I am counting on it." Draco smiled.
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For the first time in a long time, Ginny and Draco were laughing in each others presence.
"Do you remember the time that your dad walked in?" Draco asked through bouts of laughed. He smiled as he saw Ginny's face flush red.
"I wish you would stop laughing at that and think of it from my point of view. I was 16 and practically shagging by boyfriend in an upstairs bedroom with all of my brothers and parents in the house, plus the family hangers on of Harry and Hermione were there to. I was mortified when my dad walked in, especially since you were wearing very little clothing." Ginny replied.
"Well, we should have known better since the house was full, but I remember that as a very funny event" Draco replied.
"And I seemed to remember that you were scared shitless that my dad was going to curse your, and I quote my father on this 'Sad Sorry Malfoy Ass' into the next millennium." Ginny laughed.
"Hey, I was not scared of your father, I was more scared of the fact that your brothers thought I was up stairs corrupting you" Draco replied, grinning. "I thought I was going to get my ass kicked, the old fashioned way."
"Oh, and the lectures!!!!" Ginny exclaimed, giggling.
"Oh, I know. Your father took it upon himself to give me the whole birds and bees speech. You would think after having 6 boys, and probably Harry, he would know what to say." Draco chuckled.
"I think it was the fact that he never thought he would be educating a Malfoy on the facts of life" Ginny replied.
"I didn't have the heart to tell him that I already knew everything that he told me. And I didn't remember giving him a straight answer when he asked me how far we had gone with each other" Draco replied.
"Oh, my mum told him. I was asked the same question, and I don't hide things from my mum" Ginny replied.
"That was the scariest thing. Wondering if your dad was going to kill me after he found out about us" Draco replied. Ginny smiled. "Second scariest thing was my bachelor party."
"You had a bachelor party?" Ginny asked "Why was I not told?"
"Well, you had had a bachelor-ette party thingy didn't you?" He asked.
"Well, me, Hermione and mum, had a girly night, I guess" Ginny admitted. "Wait, which one of my brothers planned this party for you?"
"Charlie, Bill, Fred, George, Ron, and I am pretty sure Harry had a say in it as well." Draco replied.
"It is amazing you made it to the wedding at all" Ginny sighed.
"Yeah, and who would have guessed Percy was such a party animal?" Draco shook his head.
"Ok, I know it is the secret men's code that the bride is never meant to know what happened to the groom on his last night of freedom, but just tell me one thing." Ginny began. "How many strippers did my brothers arrange?"
"Umm, there were three, but I swear to god, I was only thinking of you" Draco smiled.
"Yeah right" Ginny grinned.
"No seriously. Your brothers stole them all, why do you think that Ron, Bill and Percy had such huge smiles on their faces at the wedding. It wasn't because they were happy for us" Draco laughed.
"Oh, eww, to much information about my brothers." Ginny groaned. Draco laughed.
"But that was a fun party, except for the hung over best man" Draco smiled.
"Oh, it added character that Harry wore sunglasses and had to be woken up from his migraine induced trance to hand over the rings" Ginny replied.
That had been the biggest shock to come out of the wedding. Draco didn't really have any close friends so when it came to choosing a best man for the wedding, he had to choose one of her family members. He didn't want to choose Arthur; things were embarrassing enough between them. He reasoned that he didn't know Bill and Charlie well enough, he said he didn't want Fred and George handing over fake trick rings, he had admitted that he had a few issues feeling comfortable around Percy (due to the perfect prefect attitude that he had continued on after Hogwarts) and honestly, Percy didn't mind that he was not chosen. And Draco just didn't want to give Ron the satisfaction of being his best man. So, Draco asked the next logical person.
Resulting in Harry Potter being the best man at Draco Malfoy's wedding.
"We had a good wedding" She sighed.
"And an even better honeymoon" Draco replied, laughing. Ginny smiled and slapped him on his shoulder.
"Oh, I don't recall you complaining, Mrs. Malfoy" Draco laughed; she moved to slap him again. But this time, Draco grabbed her hands. He slid down onto the floor, bringing a giggling Ginny with him.
"Gin?" He whispered their lips close together as they gazed into each others eyes.
"Yes Draco?" She whispered. Draco ran his hand lovingly through her hair, lacing his fingers through her red locks that had fallen from the messy bun.
"Can we try that kiss again, please?" Draco asked. Ginny nodded and closed the gap between their lips.