Chapter 11
By Crystal
Author's Notes: Glad to have loads of you agree on the two endings ^^, as I've said before, I'm doing the sad/happy ending first, and then the happy one. So check it out ^^
*Screw the disclaimers ^^;;*
~*~ Ginny ~*~
"I can't..."
He looked at me, confused. "What do you mean, you can't?"
"I can't! What about our parents? Our family? My family hates yours and vice versa. If I marry you, then you'll have six of my brothers after your heads and two parents that hates you and I'll have two parents that hates me!"
He raised his eyebrow, "Virginia dear, I'm not getting married to your family, I'm getting married to you. I could really care less about what they think."
"But your family! Your parents will hate you, after all, I am quote 'A muggle-lover'." I said. I would really love to marry to him, but our parents. I didn't want him dead, Ron's not too happy with us dating already. Wait till he hears about me getting married to the 'bloody git'. I slapped my forehead mentally, this was going to be hard.
He shrugged, "We can always talk to your parents," I raised my eyebrows, as if saying 'what about yours?'. "And, I don't give a damn about my parents, so that's okay." I raised my eyebrow again, "I don't give a damn about my parents, Virginia." He repeated.
I thought and then nodded, "I guess that could work..." Then smiled happily, still in my own mind when Draco interrupted me.
"Well, woman, are you going to accept or not?" He said, crossly. I just noticed he was still on his knee. Woops.
I smiled, "Yes... I will marry you." I felt a tears gather in my eyes, I was so happy. So I was going to die a wife, that's good. He stood up and swung me around and around with the both of us laughing happily. If you had told me this summer that Draco could be nice sometimes, I would've laughed. Now if you told me that Draco was evil, I would've defended him. People change lots when you're dying...
We then went up to see Professor Dumbledore the next day before dinner. Once again, he was smiling with his twinkling eyes when he saw us enter his office. To my surprise, Draco had already planned all this with Professor Dumbledore, thus the three hours that I didn't see him last night. He had told us that my parents would be here on Saturday, which is tomorrow and he would explain it all to them. My illness and the marriage.
I had asked him what would happen if they refused to let me marry Draco, then surprisingly, he told me that he would try to talk to them. Thank god. But I would have to be there during the whole thing, and so did Draco. Along with probably Ron and since Ron's going, probably the 'Dream Team' is going to go.
I was sure Draco and Professor Dumbledore did not only talk about the marriage and my illness, because for twice, I had caught Professor Dumbledore looking at Draco with a glint of... something. Something I could not put my finger on, but I suppose it's probably about Draco's parents. I do find it strange that they talked about the whole marriage thing for three hours... And where in the world did he get the ring?!
Oh yeah, Professor Dumbledore didn't mention Draco's parents, it was as though they weren't going to tell Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy about the wedding. Not that I minded, no, but I did find it a bit strange. At least if they didn't tell his parents, then I wouldn't have to worry about getting hexed in the middle of the marriage. I knew how much Malfoys hated Weasleys.
The night passed pretty fast, we went to eat dinner again at the Gryffindor table. Draco and I, yes. He insisted that we sat there and not at the Slytherin table. Made sense, kind of. At least he could take insults fairly well, but if I were to sit at the Slytherin table, I'd probably start crying after a while. The Gryffindors didn't mind too much, they kept on talking, but they did stare at Draco every few minutes and he didn't seem to mind. No one did know about my illness, thank god. My parents don't yet, but they will tomorrow.
Hopefully, they won't start crying in front of Professor Dumbledore like they did during my first year when I got taken by Tom Riddle. Actually, it might be nice if they did. Shows that they still care about me, even if a little.
Right now? Right now, I have Draco's arms around my waist and I'm using his chest as a pillow. We're in his room, on his bed, not naked, mind you. Ron let me sleep in his room tonight too, though he told me to go back to the Gryffindor tower before seven in the morning since Mum and Dad was coming. Of course, Ron didn't know we were going to get married, or else he wouldn't have let me. Nobody knew.
I now officially have a fiancé. Never in my last seventeen years of life think that I'd have Draco Malfoy as my fiancé. We were so different... A Slytherin and a Gryffindor, a Malfoy and a Weasley, a muggle-hater and a muggle-lover, dark and light, water and oil, it's ironic... With that thought, I fall asleep happily with my fiancé holding onto me.
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I groaned, feeling something move. "Morning, Virginia." Draco.
"Morning, Draco... How long have you been awake?"
I yawned, "Just now, how are you doing?"
"Good... Right. I wanted to ask you one question last night. Where in the world did you get the ring? Don't tell me you've bought it for a while?" I turned around to look at him.
He smiled, "Nope, I bought it on Valentine's Day." I frowned in confusion, he didn't leave me once that day, except for the hour when I was at Madam Pomfrey's and the three hours with Professor Dumbledore. "Ah, you see, I only talked with Professor Dumbledore for two hours. Though he did tell me a shortcut to go to Hogsmeade. I ran the whole way and only had around twenty minutes to choose a nice ring. Very rushed indeed, but I'm happy now, so that pays off." (There's your answer, GoldenRed Phoenixia. See the bottom for my reply.)
"I see... Anyways, it's six right now, so I should go back to the Gryffindor tower..." I stood up to go to the washroom, but was pulled down by Draco.
"Wait up, I'm coming along as well." I raised my eyebrow, "Waiting for them in the Common Room, all right? No kissing though, don't want to give your parents a heart attack."
"All right." I walked to the washroom cheerfully and started taking my clothes off, readying for a shower when he knocked on the door. "Yeah?" I asked.
He opened the door slightly, "Want to take a shower together?" He smirked, without my reply, he just came in and took his clothes off. Great, now I had to share the shower with Draco... Not that it was small, but still...
We finished taking the shower in twenty minutes and we were all dressed up already. We didn't have much trouble sneaking into the Gryffindor Tower since every teacher was asleep, including Filch and Mrs Norris. She said the password (Hungarian Horntail) the portrait swung open and we both went inside. We sat on one of the couches that had a love seat and I put my head on his shoulder while our hands were clasped together.
How long we sat there silently, I didn't know. The only thing I knew is that I was thinking and my thoughts were interrupted as soon as I heard Ron come down to the Common Room.
"Hey, here already?" Ron asked me. I turned my head around and nodded. "Mum's going to be here soon."
"I know..." I said, quietly. "Is Harry and Hermione going too?" I asked.
He looked at me, "I don't think so, family matters." I snorted quietly, when did he care about family matters? All he cared real much about was his two best friends... Family was never first for him, at least, I wasn't first for him. "How are you doing? With your illness, I mean."
I snorted quietly again, I saw Draco glance amusedly at me, "I'm fine." I said shortly. He stood there for a minute before he went back up to his dormitory and changed, then came back down and sat in another couch. We sat there in a comfortable yet uncomfortable silence until the portrait opened noisily, making the three of us jump up. There standing in the entrance of the portrait was Mum, Dad and Professor Dumbledore. Ah great... Just great. Now I'm getting nervous.
"Ginny, Ron, what's a Malfoy doing in the Gryffindor tower?" Mum asked.
I stood up to face her, "Mum... Draco's my boyfriend." Two gasps was heard, thank god Ron didn't say anything... And now, I'm readying myself for the lecture about choosing which boyfriend is good and which isn't... I sighed inwardly.
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Author's Notes – 19 reviewers! I've gotten threatened lots because I'm making cliffies =( *sniffles* *kills herself* Wait, gotta finish this story before I'll kill myself, or people are going to come to hell after me =p Anyways... Next chapter's going to be up in 24 hours around, so check back soon! Happy New Year again!
Old News: I have about 3-4 chapters going up, and an epilogue, then I'm going to do a whole chapter of Random Omake. So if you have any ideas what I should do for it, leave a message!!! You can either leave it on a review, or you can email me at clear_crystalglobe@hotmail.com. If you don't know what a Random Omake is, read the bottom of chapter 6, 'A Secret Let Out' about Snape... and... err, his virgin eyes. Lol. So I'll be updating as soon as possible, then you can tell me what scenes you want me doing and how ^^. So leave a review/email and tell me!
The next chapter, Ginny, Draco, Professor Dumbledore and Ron explains everything to Molly and Arthur and hopefully, they won't refuse Draco and Ginny's marriage. Or future marriage ^^ Up in 24 hours!
Happy New Year, what did you do? Me? I spent my time typing this chapter, so you better enjoy it! LoL. Later my lovely reviewers ^^