The Seductress

Part X VII

Epilogue

His fingers explored her lightly, giving her the urge to gasp his name in response. Her hands tugged on his hair so tightly that he groaned and nuzzled his head into her neck, breathing heavily as he plunged into her more deeply, embracing her with his arms around her bare waist.

"I love you," he whispered, as they vibrated in completion.

"I love you too," she murmured softly, closing her eyes.

~

"It's no use. We're stuck here."

"Don't give up hope Virginia, there must be a way..."

"There is no way, don't you understand?" Virginia pulled her hand out to one of the embers golden colored fire and blew on it dismissively.

"I am so bored," she muttered.

"All that matters is that we're together..." he said, reaching for her hand. She leaned forward to take it, but a forceful of fire between them pushed them apart, into opposite sides of flames.

"It's ruined!" Virginia ruined, her bare body in flames. "We can't even stand near each other anymore!"

"We'll find a way, my love, we're destined to be together..."

"Are we?"

"We are. I promise. We WILL strike back as mortals once more."

~

"Draco? Where are you?" Seventeen- year old Ginny Weasley said anxiously. After a night of lovemaking, she was still cautious of what had happened to them just years before.

"I am taking a shower," a soft voice yelled. Ginny sighed in relief, her chest heaving.

"Want any company?" she called back, taking off her coat.

There was no reply, so Ginny stepped forward and opened the door to the bathroom and swept away the shower curtains, revealing a naked Draco, slathering himself with soap.

"Hey," she muttered, kissing him. He kissed her back hungrily.

"I am getting wet!" she complained, pulling away and examining her water-splattered sweater.

"Really?" Draco raised an eyebrow suggestively.

"You are still disgusting as always," Ginny said, smiling.

"It's a gift. Come here," he commanded tenderly, motioning her closer. She pulled off her clothes and stepped into the shower, hot water rippling across their bodies as he held her tightly in his arms, running a soothing hand through her hair.

"You know what I like most about you?" he asked her.

"My lovely figure? My beautiful face?" she joked.

"Your hair."

"Thanks a lot, you really know how to make a woman special," she replied snappishly, rolling her eyes sarcastically.

"Oh, come on, I love your face too," he said, rubbing her cheek with one tip of his finger. She breathed and pulled him closer to her.

"And," he added, "Don't I remember a fourteen year old girl coming into an Advanced Potions lesson once and me telling her she had a great body?"

"Uh huh...and I remember a fifteen year old boy almost getting punched by my overprotective cynical brother."

"Oh, yeah," he said.

She giggled. "Let's get out now, then."

"Okay."

After they had headed out from toweling themselves dry, they both settled into their bathrobes and went to their bedroom.

"Ginny?" Draco said, in a strange tone of voice.

"Yeah?" she turned to face him, rinsing the water out of her hair with a white towel.

"I have something important to ask you..."

"Yeah?"

He went to the closet and took something out into the middle of his palm.

She finished toweling her hair and dropped it on the bedside.

He unconcealed it. It was a small, velvet box. Ginny gasped as he opened it. A glimmering, gold band, with a shining triangle-shaped diamond.

"Oh my God," Ginny croaked. "May I?" she asked, pointing at the ring. He nodded, but she ignored him as she admired it's beauty and tugged it on her finger.

"It's so beautiful..."

"So you'll marry me?"

She laughed. "Of course!" She reached up and hugged him joyfully.

"Great! We'll have to send owls!"

"Of course! You start on that and I'll dress."

"Love you."

"Love you too." She kissed him lightly on the lips and watched him leave. Then, she shut the door behind her, sighing, and closing her eyes in both agony and excitement. Eyeing the ring one last time, she opened her drawer and pulled out the box.

The red-covered box. She unlatched the lock on it with the key in her chain of her necklace, and opened it steadily with the tip of her finger.

It was a large music box. The soft tingling melody stood, ringing in her ears as she pulled out the two things in the box.

One, a red-leathered book, stained with ink, entitled: The Seductress.

Her heart paced more fast against her chest. This was the thing that had started everything. She couldn't just throw it away then, but now....

She reached up and took the second thing in her box. She examined it for a moment and put both things back in the box, locking it tightly.

Ginny Weasley was going to deal with this later. This was supposed to be a happy time. She turned around from the box and began dressing into something more suitable than a bathrobe to present their new engagement.

Whether it was the wind, or something else materialistically related to supernaturalism, the box blew open, unnoticed by Ginny, to reveal the book.

And, another certain object.

The beaming sunlight highlighted the red ribbon that shimmered.

~

It's done. Finally done. I can't believe it. I want to thank ALL of my reviewers for supporting me, I love you guys, and I love this story!!!

See you next time,

hopefully in another G/D or other shipping fic....

LOVE,

-S.A.