Title: Blindness makes the heart grow Fonder
Rating: PG-13
Author: Ginny
Summary: Draco has a blind, twin cousin named William. William makes a new friend, but what happens when he can see again??
Pairings: G/W (very little) G/D (of course) H/Hr and R/L (both very little)
Date: 6/29/03
Author's Note: I have no clue how long it takes to prep someone for eye surgery or how long it takes, or anything like that. I am, also, sorry that I did not update for some time, but I got a little writers block, people wanted to see more of W/G so here it is. I didn't know what to write about with them, so I hope that everyone likes it. Next chapter short one and then two more after that. That's right people, only three chapters left!!!
Disclaimer: I own everything! I am Queen of the world!! Uh... okay... so I'm really not. I own nothing. Nada. I own William though. But the last name and the looks belong to Draco Malfoy. So I just own the name.
Disclaimer number 2: Got the idea of twin cousin from "The Donna Reed Show" old Nick at Nite TV show.
ENJOY!!!!!
DEDICATION TO: JACKIE! MY NEW BEST FRIEND!!! THIS IS FOR YOU GIRL!!! :o)
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Friday Night...
~*~
Ginny was drawing herself her Friday Night bubble bath. For the past two years she has had roommates that had better things to do than to stay in their rooms, so Ginny started her tradition of 'Friday Night buble baths'. Ginny felt the water coming out of the faucet to make sure that the temperature of the water met her standards. As she waited for the tub to fill she pulled her hair up and thought of how tomorrow would mark William's and hers one week anniversary. Ginny smiled again at that thought; Virginia Weasley had a boyfriend. Well, not this night at least. She didn't see him at all the whole day and then she received an owl at dinner time explaining to her that he had business to take care of with his cousin and that he'd pick her up at her room much later that night. When she finally had her tub filled she put some classical music on the stereo that Kimmy, one of her roommates, brought from home and taught her how to use it, and climbed into the tub.
Not even a few minutes later William was outside her room knocking on her door.
~*~Meanwhile...
"Well, William, my mother has talked to you mum and she says that there is a doctor that might be able to fix your eyes."
"Draco, we know that no doctor can fix my eye sight."
"Ah, yes, but this is one of these really big American muggle doctors. Apparently, Auntie Linda and Uncle Lucas don't mind muggles."
"Don't forget, dear cousin, that my father is indeed half muggle."
"How can I? But still those muggles and their hocus-pocus surgery's."
"What is this surgery called?"
"Laser eye surgery or something like that." William only nodded his head and looked a little impatient, like he had somewhere more important to go. Draco sighed and said, "Got a hot date?"
"As a matter of fact, yes I do."
"Oh yeah, with that weasel."
"She's not a Weasel! She has a name, damn it!"
"Yes and I bet it's a very nice name too," Draco said, knowing exactly what it was. "I don't understand why you're going out with her, cousin."
"Maybe because I like her?"
"You shouldn't. She's a Weasley and you're a Malfoy, you deserve better than her!"
"You don't know her like I know her! She's great! You'd see that too if you just got to know her!!"
They both went quiet for a moment when Draco decided to sucked it up and asked, "So, how's it going with her anyways?"
"Tomorrow's our one week anniversary."
"Congratulations," Draco said trying to be sarcastic, but it didn't come out like that.
"Jealous, cousin?"
"Never in a million years!" Draco quickly replied, but he could swear he heard a little tiny 'yes' somewhere inside of him.
"Alright then. Anyways, it's been great. Monday and Wednesdays she makes this picnic basket of food and we eat it by the pond. We sit there and as the sunsets. Well, she watches it and then describes it to me."
"She's turned you into a pansy ass boy!"
"Oh shut up, she has not! And even if she has, is it so bad?" Draco nodded his head, "Don't even tell me that there has never been a girl that hasn't tied you around her finger."
"Never. Never stayed with a girl that long." Draco said with a little bit of sadness in his tone of voice, which also surprised him.
"Well, Draco, I'd love to stay and chat, but I got a girl waiting for me."
"Yeah, see you later, and don't forget to owl your parents about that eye laser thing."
"Yeah, bye!" and with that William left his cousin to himself and his thoughts.
William found his way to the Griffendor tower and told the painting of the Fat Lady the password, which Ginny informs him what it is all the time, and entered the common room. No one greeted him as he entered, so he assumed that no one was there. This was a lot easier, for it's not allowed for boys to be going up to the girls' side of the dormitories. He walked briskly up the stairs and knocked on the door, which he knew was Ginny's.
When no one answered his knock he opened the door slightly and called out, "Sweets, are you in here?"
Ginny, meanwhile, was in her tub humming to the song that was on. She had one leg over the other and her foot kept on bouncing to the tempo of the song, so apparently she didn't him.
When William did not get an answer from anyone he strained his ears to see if he could hear anything, and he did hear something. He followed the soft sound of the classical music and realized he came to a door when he walked into it. Assuming it was the bathroom door, he knocked on it.
Ginny was sitting in her tub when she heard something bump into the door and then not even a second later heard someone knocking at it. Thinking it was one of her roommates she really had no problem with them coming in, so she said, "You can come in." She saw the doorknob turn and the door open up. She was about to smile and say 'hi' to whichever roommate it was, when she realized it was William. "William!" she half screamed, half squeaked out and tried to cover her up as best as possible.
William realized that he must of walked in at a very private moment, so out of an impulsive reaction he covered his eyes saying, "Oh God, Ginny! I am so sorry!!" After a very few short seconds he remembered that he really could not see anything, so he said, "Sweets, calm down would you? I can't see anything, remember?"
Ginny stopped fidgeting about when she remembered that and said, "I'm sorry, William. I sometimes forget about that."
William didn't reply to that and said, "Ginny," that first word caught Ginny's attention. He rarely ever called her Ginny. She lifted her head to look at him and heard him continue, "Would you like me any different if I was able to see?"
"Oh, William," she said and put out her hands, "Come here." She saw William get a little distraught with what she said and Ginny said, "Turn slightly to your left and take about 6 steeps forward. There is nothing in front of you." William did as he was told and soon felt the hard porcelain tub against his legs and felt Ginny grab his hands. "Sit down," she said to him and again he did as he was told and sat down right next to the tub. "What brought this all up?" Ginny asked softly.
"I'm serious, Ginny," he paused, "Would you still like me the same if I could see? Or do you only like me because I can't see?" he asked seriously.
"William, listen to me when I say this." She placed a hand on his cheek and moved his head so that he was looking at her, "Your blindness has nothing to do with me liking you. Of course, because of it, it brought you to me." She smiled.
"Yeah, it did, didn't it?" he said with a happy tone in his voice.
"It sure did. The only way I would stop liking you is if you turned into some evil, horrible person."
"You mean like my cousin."
"Actually, no. I can tell there's some good in him. He's just has to find that one person who can get him to show it."
"Only you!" William smiled and said, "Only you would see some good in someone so evil like my cousin. That, Sweets, is one of the main reasons why I like you so much," he placed his hands on her face to find her lips and kissed them soundly.
After feeling a bit awkward with kissing her boyfriend when she was only covered with bubbles she pushed him away and asked, "Why did you even bring that up for?"
"Well, my parents found a doctor in the United States who could help me see again. They can perform some kind of eye surgery or something like that. It's all muggle talk."
Ginny wanted to cry. She knew that he would never look at her the same way when he can actually see her, but she put on a happy face and said, "That's great!"
"You don't sound so happy when you said that."
"Well, William, I guess the question here shouldn't be weather if I would still like you or not, but if *you* would still like me the same if you could see?"
"Of course I will, Sweets," he said without thinking.
"Yeah, you wouldn't..."
He placed a finger against her lips and said, "Sweets, I really don't like having the same conversation more than once."
"But..." Ginny started.
"Shhh..." he put his finger, again, against her lips to silence her.
Ginny sighed in frustration and said, "I guess only time will tell."
"You really don't trust boys, do you?"
"None of them ever gave me a reason to do so."
"I'll be that boy," William said.
Ginny ran her fingers through his hair and said, "I hope so, because I really do like you."
William took her hand and kissed it, "The same goes for me, Sweets. The same goes for me."
William sat against the tub and Ginny started to let the heat of the water relax her again.
"This should be our Friday night thing."
"Excuse me?" Ginny asked a little confused.
"Yeah. Monday and Wednesday will be our picnic by the pond nights. Tuesdays and Sundays are study nights in the astronomy towers..."
"Which turns out to be a snog session every time." Ginny added in, "And what about Thursdays?"
"Detentions."
"Yeah, let's not make a habit of that."
"Hey! That was *all* your fault"
"Oh yeah, and how do you figure that?"
"You were just to irresistible. I just had to kiss you!"
"I'm not complaining about that! I'm just complaining about the part in which you made us miss curfew and get caught by Flitch."
"Ah, yes." He paused for a moment. "So can we make this our Friday Night tradition?"
"Under one condition."
"Which would be?"
"No more detentions!" Ginny giggled.
"You got it." He reached out behind his head and held his hand out. Ginny knew exactly what he wanted her to do and placed her hand in his. He pulled it around his neck and left held onto it.
Ginny sighed with happiness and realized she was never so happy before.
Ginny's eyes went wide and said, "We can not let Ron know about this!"
"Of course not Sweets, of course not. He'll start hating me all over again."
Ginny giggled and they relaxed in each other's company, knowing that they really didn't need to say a word to make the other one happy.
~*~
The days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. Ginny and William both kept their promises to one another. They didn't go to detention anymore and Friday nights were their 'Bath Nights'. Also through those couple of months Ginny became better friends with Hermione and Lavender, and went on triple dates with them, Harry, and Ron. William kept on talking about Ginny to Draco and he kept on giving him his, "You're a Malfoy, you deserve better" speech, but he could also swear that he heard a bit of a jealous tone whenever Draco would say that. Numerous of times he asked Draco if they could double up, or hang out with each other, but every time Draco declined, but never said why. Ginny explained to William that Draco really hated the Weasleys and her being the only Weasley girl made no difference to him.
~*~
It was two days before Christmas break when Ginny got a letter from her mother and father telling her to bring William home for the holiday break. She was so excited that her parents suggested this that she ran to go find him.
She was running so fast through the hallways to find William that she didn't even see the person coming around the corner and smacked right into him.
Ginny fell down and heard a rather loud thump, but felt no pain.
"Weasley, do you mind getting off of me?"
Ginny looked down and realized why she felt no pain. She landed on top of someone and that someone just happened to be Draco Malfoy. "Oh sorry." She got off of him, but didn't get off the ground she was looking for the letter that her mother sent her. She apparently dropped it in the collision.
After a few moments of looking for the piece of parchment and not finding it, she saw someone hand it to her and say, "Lose this?"
Ginny grabbed the note from the hand that offered it to her and noticed that it was Draco's. He grabbed her hand and helped her up, "You okay there, Weasley?"
"Y-yeah. Uh... Thanks Malfoy."
"Yeah. It seems that considering that you are my cousins' girlfriend now, I too have to be nice to you. So where are you off to in such a rush?" he asked her quickly and brushing his robes off.
"I'm trying to find William. My mum and dad are inviting him to stay with us for Christmas break."
"Well, you're in luck there, Weasley. Looks as though his parents are off to Spain and he doesn't want to go because he needs his snow for Christmas, or something like that kind of mushy crap."
Ginny sighed, "I know, Draco."
"Of course you would, you're his girlfriend." Ginny could swear she heard some sort of upset tone in his voice. "Anyways, Happy Christmas, Weasley."
Ginny bit her lip and said, "Draco, wait!"
He turned around and said, "What? I have better places to be."
"I just have one question to ask you."
"And that would be..."
"Do you think that this eye surgery, that William is going to undertake, will really work?"
"Yes, I do." He said sincerely, "And for his sake I hope it does. Now if you don't mind..."
"Actually there was one more question."
Draco sighed and said, "Well, out with it! I don't have all day."
Ginny bit her lip and said, "Well, do you think... I mean, will William... I mean do you think that William..."
Draco smiled evilly and said, "You're afraid that as soon as my cousin is able to see again he'll take one look at you and run the other way?"
"Thank you for putting it so nicely," Ginny said sarcastically.
"Well, that's me!" Draco said. "But is that what you were wondering?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Well, to tell you the truth, if it were me, you should be worried." Draco said a bit evil like.
Ginny looked at her feet and was about to say something when Draco said, "But it's not me, fortunately. So I would say that you have nothing to worry about."
"Really?"
"Really really, Weasley. If you heard how he goes on and on and on *and on* about you, it would make anyone sick! Sadly, Weasley, I think we are going to be related one day."
Ginny was really happy, if she got this out of Draco Malfoy, then it must be true, "Thank you!" she squeaked and hugged him without realizing her actions.
Draco was about to return the hug when he realized that this wasn't supposed to be happening. So he slowly and not so meanly pushed her away, "Now go get that boyfriend of yours and let me be! I think he was headed to the Great Hall."
He turned around and left and Ginny screamed, "Happy Christmas, Draco." He didn't bother to turn around. He just lifted his hand up and kept on walking.
Ginny turned towards in the direction of the Great Hall and sprinted all the way there.
When Ginny ran into the Great Hall she saw Harry and Ron sitting at the Griffendor table playing a game of Wizards Chest and William was sitting there with them.
"Who's winning, Harry?" William asked.
"I am." Harry said quickly.
"Ah, yes, but not for long! I have you right where I want you, Potter!" Ron said and let out an evil laugh.
"William!" Ginny screamed as she ran towards them.
William turned around and said, "Sweets, what are you so excited about?"
"My mum just invited you to stay for the Christmas holiday!!"
Ron was a little shocked and screamed out, "What!?" placing his queen in the wrong square.
Harry saw this, captured his queen and said, "Check Mate!"
"NO!!!!!" Ron screamed.
"Well, that was exciting," he turned to his girlfriend and said, "Why don't you start at the very beginning."
Ginny was about to start when she saw her brother still crying over the lost game, "Oh get a grip on yourself, Ron! It's not the end of the world!"
"But today would of marked the first full month of never being defeated!!!"
"Oh shush up, you big baby!" his girlfriend, Lavender, said to him. Ron did as he was told and listened as Ginny told them everything.
"Well, I wrote them a letter telling them that you didn't want to go to Spain with your folks and asked them if you could stay with us for the three weeks off."
"Do your folks know that I'm your boyfriend?"
"Yes and before you ask another question, yes they know that you are Draco Malfoy's twin cousin."
"And they said that I could stay for Christmas?"
"They insisted!" Ginny beamed with happiness.
"Then, yes, I will love to stay with you!"
Ginny squeaked and hugged him, "You are going to have so much fun! Percy, Fred, and George are going to be there!"
"What about your older brothers?"
"Bill and Charlie are at their wives houses this year. They rotate every year."
"Ah, yes. Well, I have to go and write to my folks telling them that I will not be joining them for Christmas this year." William said as he got up to leave.
"Do you think that they would mind?" Ginny asked, hoping not to make his parents think of her as a bad girlfriend without even meeting her.
"No, no. They will be busy most of the vacation anyways. So, no Sweets, they will not mind." He said, kissed her cheek, and left the table, but suddenly he returned, "Does this mean no more Friday night tradition?"
Ginny gasped and laughed, "No! Not at my house! Now get out of here!" she turned him around and smacked his butt.
"Alright, alright!" and this time he really left.
"What happens on Friday nights?!" Ron asked.
Hermione, Lavender, and Ginny all looked at each other and started giggling.
"I don't like that giggle," he turned to Harry, "Harry, I don't like that giggle."
"Sorry, ol' chap. You're going to have to live with it, 'cause they ain't telling us a thing."
"And ain't that the truth!" Ginny said and left the table running to catch up with William.
~*~
The next two days went by in a flash and before they knew it they were already on the Hogwarts Express going back to platform 9 and 3/4. Ginny couldn't be more excited while William couldn't be more nervous.
Ginny looked over at William and saw him wringing his hands together. She placed hers on top of his and said, "William, stop worrying, please!"
"Sweets, I'm just a little nervous. I never meet parents before."
"Never?"
"Never like this."
Ginny placed her head on his shoulder and said, "William, my parents will love you. My dad will talk to you about all the new muggle inventions he heard of, mum will surely try to fatten you up, George and Fred will pull pranks on you, and you can just hang with Harry and Ron."
"Oh, well, that's a little more reassuring that Harry's going to be there."
"You two are really getting along quite well, aren't you?"
"Yeah, yeah we are, Sweets."
~*~
Ginny apparently fell asleep, for the next thing that she knew was that they were no longer moving and William was nudging her awake.
"Where here, Sweets."
"Thanks." Ginny stood up and yawned and grabbed her bags. "Come on, William, I want to introduce you to my mum and dad!" she grabbed his hand and pulled him along. She ran all the way out of the train, still hand in hand with William. "Mum?" she called out.
"Over here, Ginny dear!" her mother called out.
Ginny saw her mother and ran towards her. She hugged her and said, "Mum, this is my boyfriend, William Malfoy."
"William," she turned to him, "this is my mother."
When Molly turned to greet William she went a little wide-eyed at how perfectly he did look like Draco, "Nice to finally meet you, William."
"Nice to finally meet you too, Mrs. Weasley. I hope I'm not intruding in your family affairs this holiday vacation."
"No, no, not at all. I insisted that you stay with us."
"Yes, so I was told and let me tell you, Mrs. Weasley was I ever excited. Ginny's been going on and on about your wonderful cooking and to tell you the truth, I was hoping to come, just so I could try it. She says that your apple pies are to die for."
With that said, Mrs. Weasley lightened right up and liked the boy right away, "Well, yes, I've been told that they are good. In fact, I have two in the oven right now cooking!"
"Wonderful!"
"Ron! Harry! Say good-bye to your girlfriends and let's get going! You'll see them the day after Christmas!" Mrs. Weasley said and was on her way leaving the station.
Ginny grabbed William's hand and pulled him close, "That was wonderful! She loves you!"
"You think?" he said with a rather large smile.
"Defiantly. Especially the part of her Apple Pies! I didn't think you would remember me telling you that she made them."
"I remember everything you say."
"Nice answer!" she said smiling, "But do you really like Apple Pies?"
"Eehh," he said making the 'so-so' sign with his hand.
Ginny just laughed.
~*~
When they reached the Burrow, William demanded to know what everything looked liked and Ginny explained to him in full detail.
As they finally reached the inside of the house, William could hear an older man greet his family by saying, "There's my darling wife and children." He assumed that he came to his family and greeted them properly when he said, "And who's this new fellow I see here?"
"Daddy, this is my boyfriend, William Malfoy."
"Ah, yes, the twin cousin of Draco Malfoy."
"That would be me, sir."
"Ah, 'sir' is what people call my father, I'm Mr. Weasley if you don't mind."
"Mr. Weasley," William put his hand out and Mr. Weasley took it, "pleasure to meet you."
"The pleasures all mine, dear boy."
There was a soft creak in the near-by stair and William turned his head that way, "Ah, yes, the notorious Weasley twins; Fred and George I presume. You walk as loudly as your brother does."
Fred and George walked over to him and said, "You could hear us? But how did you know it was us? It could have been anyone!"
"Yes, but you were the only ones that I haven't meet, Ginny said Percy's still at work, so by process of elimination, it just had to be the two of you."
Fred waved his hand in front of William's head as George took one of his hands and shook it.
William grabbed Fred's hand and said, "Please, don't do that. I hate it when people do that. I really am blind. I'm not kidding."
"George, Fred! That is enough!" Mrs. Weasley yelled at them.
"Sorry mum," they said at the same time.
"Sorry there, mate, but it just seems weird. You looking like Malfoy and all."
"Yeah, well, sorry guys, nothing I can do about that."
"George! Fred! Please be nice to my boyfriend."
"Ah, yes. Sorry." They said.
"Let's start all over again." William said. "Hi, I'm William Malfoy, Ginny's boyfriend," he held out both his hands.
"George," George said and took one hand.
"Fred," Fred said as he took the other. "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet another set of twins." He released his hold of the twin's hands and said, "Now, I heard that there was some Apple Pies here somewhere."
~*~
The days went by really quickly. All the Weasley's began to really like William, but William did not like Percy all that much. He always talked like he knew everything, but he learned to live with that.
Every night Ginny and William would sit out on the back porch and watch the sunset. Ginny would tell him in full detail, like she always did at school, as to what the sunsets looked like.
"I like winter sunsets the best," she told to William one day.
"Oh, really. Why is that?"
"Purple and pink are my favorite colors and at winter time that's the main colors of the sky. It's really beautiful."
"Well then, Sweets, I love the idea that I get to see it through your eyes. It's make me like it a whole lot better too!" he said and leant down to kiss her neck.
~*~
Christmas Day came soon enough. Everyone exchanged their gifts, but at last it came to William giving Ginny her gift.
He took the gift that he'd been holding since he came the stairs and handed it to her, "This is for you, Sweets" and he handed her a long square box, just big enough to have some sort of jewelry in it.
Ginny took it and smiled, "Thank you." She tore it opened and took out a beautiful charm bracelet. She gasped and held her hand to her chest, "William, it's beautiful!" she exclaimed.
"A beautiful gift, for a beautiful girlfriend," he took it from her hands and said, "Each charm has a significant meaning behind them all." He felt the first one. It was the only colored charm on there, while the rest were all silver. It was a ruby rose with an emerald stem, "A red rose, because I know how much you love them." He moved on to the next two, "A pond and a picnic basket for our dinners by the pond," he moved along, "A sun for the sunsets that we sit and watch together." He moved to the next, "A desk, a book, and a pair of sunglasses, to signify school, and us" and the last one was one that made Ginny smile, "And lastly, a bathtub filled with bubbles, for the ones that I know you love to take."
Ginny kissed him quickly on the lips and said, "Thank you, William."
William smiled and said, "Here, Sweets, hold out your arm." Ginny did as she was told and he fastened it for her. "There, I bet it looks perfect!"
"It does," Ginny said shaking her wrist and hearing the charms jingle against each other, "My turn!" she grabbed a present from under the tree and handed it to William. "This is for you."
He took the gift and opened it up. He felt the contents of the box and pulled out a circular object. He felt it and said, "Well, it feels pretty cool, so it's a metal object of some sort."
"Yup," Ginny said.
"It has the crest of Hogwarts on it, and it has a button on the top of it. Is it a pocket watch?"
"Is it is!" Ginny said and beamed, "But open it up. It's not like any other pocket watch."
When he opened it up he felt the face of it and the numbers and the hands of the clock were all raised. "Oh my gosh, Ginny! Where *did* you find something like this?"
"Oh, I have connections!" she said, "But that's not all." She flipped the watch over, "There's a secret button on the back side of this," she opened it up and said, "I know that you can't see it, yet, but it's a picture of me. This way you can always take me wherever you go."
"I love it, Sweets," he said, drawing her near and kissing her cheek, "I never received a better present!"
Ginny and William sat on the couch wrapped up in each other's arms as Mrs. Weasley got up and said, "So, who's ready for some breakfast?!" and the rest of the Weasley family followed her into the kitchen.
~*~
The days quickly ran past them all and before they knew it everyone was back at school. William and Ginny went back to their routine. Ron, Harry, and William were getting closer, and strangely enough Draco was being a lot nicer.
The days quickly turned into weeks and weeks turned quicker into months and before they knew it Griffendor won the Quiditch cup, and for the 6th year in a row won house cup.
During these months at school William's parents set up a time to put him through eye surgery. They set a date and a time. Ginny wanted to be there and practically begged William if she could go with him, but he declined. It was going to take place two weeks before school started and told her that he would surprise her with it when they meet each other at platform 9 and 3/4. Ginny reluctantly agreed with his decision and dropped the subject.
~*~
William and Harry spent the summer vacation with the Weasley's until William had to go.
"I'll miss you, Sweets," William said while hugging and kissing Ginny.
"I'll miss you more! I'm going to have to sit here and wait for two weeks to see you again. You're making me count down the days until school starts, I've never done that before."
William laughed at what she said and said, "Well, I must be really going. I'm a little nervous about the whole airplane ride. Never been in one of those before."
"You'll do fine and everything will be fine."
"Yeah, at least Draco will be there with me."
"Yeah, thank goodness for him, right?"
"Exactly. Now I really must go before I'm late," he kissed Ginny one last time and stepped into the fireplace. He threw his floo-powder to the ground and screamed out, "Lucas Malfoy's Manor!" and with that he was gone.
~*~
William, Draco, and William's parents, Lucas and Linda all arrived safely in the United States and William sent Ginny an owl to tell her so.
It took a good day and a half to prepare William for surgery and he finally went in.
Draco was the nervous one. William's parents sat out in the waiting room working on some business paperwork while Draco sat there pacing the floor.
Finally after hours of surgery the doctor came out...
"Draco?"
Draco stopped pacing and said, "That's me."
"You're cousin is asking for you." The doctor told him.
Draco ran in and saw William lying on a table with a nurse helping him with a pair of regular glasses on his face. Draco looked a little sad and said, "It didn't work, did it?"
"On the contrary cousin, it did work."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's note in case you didn't read it at the top: I have no clue how long it takes to prep someone for eye surgery or how long it takes, or anything like that. I am, also, sorry that I did not update for some time, but I got a little writers block, people wanted to see more of W/G so here it is. I didn't know what to write about with them, so I hope that everyone likes it. Next chapter short one and then two more after that. That's right people, only three chapters left!!!
Thanks yous to everyone! *Throws out a millions thank yous*
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Rating: PG-13
Author: Ginny
Summary: Draco has a blind, twin cousin named William. William makes a new friend, but what happens when he can see again??
Pairings: G/W (very little) G/D (of course) H/Hr and R/L (both very little)
Date: 6/29/03
Author's Note: I have no clue how long it takes to prep someone for eye surgery or how long it takes, or anything like that. I am, also, sorry that I did not update for some time, but I got a little writers block, people wanted to see more of W/G so here it is. I didn't know what to write about with them, so I hope that everyone likes it. Next chapter short one and then two more after that. That's right people, only three chapters left!!!
Disclaimer: I own everything! I am Queen of the world!! Uh... okay... so I'm really not. I own nothing. Nada. I own William though. But the last name and the looks belong to Draco Malfoy. So I just own the name.
Disclaimer number 2: Got the idea of twin cousin from "The Donna Reed Show" old Nick at Nite TV show.
ENJOY!!!!!
DEDICATION TO: JACKIE! MY NEW BEST FRIEND!!! THIS IS FOR YOU GIRL!!! :o)
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Friday Night...
~*~
Ginny was drawing herself her Friday Night bubble bath. For the past two years she has had roommates that had better things to do than to stay in their rooms, so Ginny started her tradition of 'Friday Night buble baths'. Ginny felt the water coming out of the faucet to make sure that the temperature of the water met her standards. As she waited for the tub to fill she pulled her hair up and thought of how tomorrow would mark William's and hers one week anniversary. Ginny smiled again at that thought; Virginia Weasley had a boyfriend. Well, not this night at least. She didn't see him at all the whole day and then she received an owl at dinner time explaining to her that he had business to take care of with his cousin and that he'd pick her up at her room much later that night. When she finally had her tub filled she put some classical music on the stereo that Kimmy, one of her roommates, brought from home and taught her how to use it, and climbed into the tub.
Not even a few minutes later William was outside her room knocking on her door.
~*~Meanwhile...
"Well, William, my mother has talked to you mum and she says that there is a doctor that might be able to fix your eyes."
"Draco, we know that no doctor can fix my eye sight."
"Ah, yes, but this is one of these really big American muggle doctors. Apparently, Auntie Linda and Uncle Lucas don't mind muggles."
"Don't forget, dear cousin, that my father is indeed half muggle."
"How can I? But still those muggles and their hocus-pocus surgery's."
"What is this surgery called?"
"Laser eye surgery or something like that." William only nodded his head and looked a little impatient, like he had somewhere more important to go. Draco sighed and said, "Got a hot date?"
"As a matter of fact, yes I do."
"Oh yeah, with that weasel."
"She's not a Weasel! She has a name, damn it!"
"Yes and I bet it's a very nice name too," Draco said, knowing exactly what it was. "I don't understand why you're going out with her, cousin."
"Maybe because I like her?"
"You shouldn't. She's a Weasley and you're a Malfoy, you deserve better than her!"
"You don't know her like I know her! She's great! You'd see that too if you just got to know her!!"
They both went quiet for a moment when Draco decided to sucked it up and asked, "So, how's it going with her anyways?"
"Tomorrow's our one week anniversary."
"Congratulations," Draco said trying to be sarcastic, but it didn't come out like that.
"Jealous, cousin?"
"Never in a million years!" Draco quickly replied, but he could swear he heard a little tiny 'yes' somewhere inside of him.
"Alright then. Anyways, it's been great. Monday and Wednesdays she makes this picnic basket of food and we eat it by the pond. We sit there and as the sunsets. Well, she watches it and then describes it to me."
"She's turned you into a pansy ass boy!"
"Oh shut up, she has not! And even if she has, is it so bad?" Draco nodded his head, "Don't even tell me that there has never been a girl that hasn't tied you around her finger."
"Never. Never stayed with a girl that long." Draco said with a little bit of sadness in his tone of voice, which also surprised him.
"Well, Draco, I'd love to stay and chat, but I got a girl waiting for me."
"Yeah, see you later, and don't forget to owl your parents about that eye laser thing."
"Yeah, bye!" and with that William left his cousin to himself and his thoughts.
William found his way to the Griffendor tower and told the painting of the Fat Lady the password, which Ginny informs him what it is all the time, and entered the common room. No one greeted him as he entered, so he assumed that no one was there. This was a lot easier, for it's not allowed for boys to be going up to the girls' side of the dormitories. He walked briskly up the stairs and knocked on the door, which he knew was Ginny's.
When no one answered his knock he opened the door slightly and called out, "Sweets, are you in here?"
Ginny, meanwhile, was in her tub humming to the song that was on. She had one leg over the other and her foot kept on bouncing to the tempo of the song, so apparently she didn't him.
When William did not get an answer from anyone he strained his ears to see if he could hear anything, and he did hear something. He followed the soft sound of the classical music and realized he came to a door when he walked into it. Assuming it was the bathroom door, he knocked on it.
Ginny was sitting in her tub when she heard something bump into the door and then not even a second later heard someone knocking at it. Thinking it was one of her roommates she really had no problem with them coming in, so she said, "You can come in." She saw the doorknob turn and the door open up. She was about to smile and say 'hi' to whichever roommate it was, when she realized it was William. "William!" she half screamed, half squeaked out and tried to cover her up as best as possible.
William realized that he must of walked in at a very private moment, so out of an impulsive reaction he covered his eyes saying, "Oh God, Ginny! I am so sorry!!" After a very few short seconds he remembered that he really could not see anything, so he said, "Sweets, calm down would you? I can't see anything, remember?"
Ginny stopped fidgeting about when she remembered that and said, "I'm sorry, William. I sometimes forget about that."
William didn't reply to that and said, "Ginny," that first word caught Ginny's attention. He rarely ever called her Ginny. She lifted her head to look at him and heard him continue, "Would you like me any different if I was able to see?"
"Oh, William," she said and put out her hands, "Come here." She saw William get a little distraught with what she said and Ginny said, "Turn slightly to your left and take about 6 steeps forward. There is nothing in front of you." William did as he was told and soon felt the hard porcelain tub against his legs and felt Ginny grab his hands. "Sit down," she said to him and again he did as he was told and sat down right next to the tub. "What brought this all up?" Ginny asked softly.
"I'm serious, Ginny," he paused, "Would you still like me the same if I could see? Or do you only like me because I can't see?" he asked seriously.
"William, listen to me when I say this." She placed a hand on his cheek and moved his head so that he was looking at her, "Your blindness has nothing to do with me liking you. Of course, because of it, it brought you to me." She smiled.
"Yeah, it did, didn't it?" he said with a happy tone in his voice.
"It sure did. The only way I would stop liking you is if you turned into some evil, horrible person."
"You mean like my cousin."
"Actually, no. I can tell there's some good in him. He's just has to find that one person who can get him to show it."
"Only you!" William smiled and said, "Only you would see some good in someone so evil like my cousin. That, Sweets, is one of the main reasons why I like you so much," he placed his hands on her face to find her lips and kissed them soundly.
After feeling a bit awkward with kissing her boyfriend when she was only covered with bubbles she pushed him away and asked, "Why did you even bring that up for?"
"Well, my parents found a doctor in the United States who could help me see again. They can perform some kind of eye surgery or something like that. It's all muggle talk."
Ginny wanted to cry. She knew that he would never look at her the same way when he can actually see her, but she put on a happy face and said, "That's great!"
"You don't sound so happy when you said that."
"Well, William, I guess the question here shouldn't be weather if I would still like you or not, but if *you* would still like me the same if you could see?"
"Of course I will, Sweets," he said without thinking.
"Yeah, you wouldn't..."
He placed a finger against her lips and said, "Sweets, I really don't like having the same conversation more than once."
"But..." Ginny started.
"Shhh..." he put his finger, again, against her lips to silence her.
Ginny sighed in frustration and said, "I guess only time will tell."
"You really don't trust boys, do you?"
"None of them ever gave me a reason to do so."
"I'll be that boy," William said.
Ginny ran her fingers through his hair and said, "I hope so, because I really do like you."
William took her hand and kissed it, "The same goes for me, Sweets. The same goes for me."
William sat against the tub and Ginny started to let the heat of the water relax her again.
"This should be our Friday night thing."
"Excuse me?" Ginny asked a little confused.
"Yeah. Monday and Wednesday will be our picnic by the pond nights. Tuesdays and Sundays are study nights in the astronomy towers..."
"Which turns out to be a snog session every time." Ginny added in, "And what about Thursdays?"
"Detentions."
"Yeah, let's not make a habit of that."
"Hey! That was *all* your fault"
"Oh yeah, and how do you figure that?"
"You were just to irresistible. I just had to kiss you!"
"I'm not complaining about that! I'm just complaining about the part in which you made us miss curfew and get caught by Flitch."
"Ah, yes." He paused for a moment. "So can we make this our Friday Night tradition?"
"Under one condition."
"Which would be?"
"No more detentions!" Ginny giggled.
"You got it." He reached out behind his head and held his hand out. Ginny knew exactly what he wanted her to do and placed her hand in his. He pulled it around his neck and left held onto it.
Ginny sighed with happiness and realized she was never so happy before.
Ginny's eyes went wide and said, "We can not let Ron know about this!"
"Of course not Sweets, of course not. He'll start hating me all over again."
Ginny giggled and they relaxed in each other's company, knowing that they really didn't need to say a word to make the other one happy.
~*~
The days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. Ginny and William both kept their promises to one another. They didn't go to detention anymore and Friday nights were their 'Bath Nights'. Also through those couple of months Ginny became better friends with Hermione and Lavender, and went on triple dates with them, Harry, and Ron. William kept on talking about Ginny to Draco and he kept on giving him his, "You're a Malfoy, you deserve better" speech, but he could also swear that he heard a bit of a jealous tone whenever Draco would say that. Numerous of times he asked Draco if they could double up, or hang out with each other, but every time Draco declined, but never said why. Ginny explained to William that Draco really hated the Weasleys and her being the only Weasley girl made no difference to him.
~*~
It was two days before Christmas break when Ginny got a letter from her mother and father telling her to bring William home for the holiday break. She was so excited that her parents suggested this that she ran to go find him.
She was running so fast through the hallways to find William that she didn't even see the person coming around the corner and smacked right into him.
Ginny fell down and heard a rather loud thump, but felt no pain.
"Weasley, do you mind getting off of me?"
Ginny looked down and realized why she felt no pain. She landed on top of someone and that someone just happened to be Draco Malfoy. "Oh sorry." She got off of him, but didn't get off the ground she was looking for the letter that her mother sent her. She apparently dropped it in the collision.
After a few moments of looking for the piece of parchment and not finding it, she saw someone hand it to her and say, "Lose this?"
Ginny grabbed the note from the hand that offered it to her and noticed that it was Draco's. He grabbed her hand and helped her up, "You okay there, Weasley?"
"Y-yeah. Uh... Thanks Malfoy."
"Yeah. It seems that considering that you are my cousins' girlfriend now, I too have to be nice to you. So where are you off to in such a rush?" he asked her quickly and brushing his robes off.
"I'm trying to find William. My mum and dad are inviting him to stay with us for Christmas break."
"Well, you're in luck there, Weasley. Looks as though his parents are off to Spain and he doesn't want to go because he needs his snow for Christmas, or something like that kind of mushy crap."
Ginny sighed, "I know, Draco."
"Of course you would, you're his girlfriend." Ginny could swear she heard some sort of upset tone in his voice. "Anyways, Happy Christmas, Weasley."
Ginny bit her lip and said, "Draco, wait!"
He turned around and said, "What? I have better places to be."
"I just have one question to ask you."
"And that would be..."
"Do you think that this eye surgery, that William is going to undertake, will really work?"
"Yes, I do." He said sincerely, "And for his sake I hope it does. Now if you don't mind..."
"Actually there was one more question."
Draco sighed and said, "Well, out with it! I don't have all day."
Ginny bit her lip and said, "Well, do you think... I mean, will William... I mean do you think that William..."
Draco smiled evilly and said, "You're afraid that as soon as my cousin is able to see again he'll take one look at you and run the other way?"
"Thank you for putting it so nicely," Ginny said sarcastically.
"Well, that's me!" Draco said. "But is that what you were wondering?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Well, to tell you the truth, if it were me, you should be worried." Draco said a bit evil like.
Ginny looked at her feet and was about to say something when Draco said, "But it's not me, fortunately. So I would say that you have nothing to worry about."
"Really?"
"Really really, Weasley. If you heard how he goes on and on and on *and on* about you, it would make anyone sick! Sadly, Weasley, I think we are going to be related one day."
Ginny was really happy, if she got this out of Draco Malfoy, then it must be true, "Thank you!" she squeaked and hugged him without realizing her actions.
Draco was about to return the hug when he realized that this wasn't supposed to be happening. So he slowly and not so meanly pushed her away, "Now go get that boyfriend of yours and let me be! I think he was headed to the Great Hall."
He turned around and left and Ginny screamed, "Happy Christmas, Draco." He didn't bother to turn around. He just lifted his hand up and kept on walking.
Ginny turned towards in the direction of the Great Hall and sprinted all the way there.
When Ginny ran into the Great Hall she saw Harry and Ron sitting at the Griffendor table playing a game of Wizards Chest and William was sitting there with them.
"Who's winning, Harry?" William asked.
"I am." Harry said quickly.
"Ah, yes, but not for long! I have you right where I want you, Potter!" Ron said and let out an evil laugh.
"William!" Ginny screamed as she ran towards them.
William turned around and said, "Sweets, what are you so excited about?"
"My mum just invited you to stay for the Christmas holiday!!"
Ron was a little shocked and screamed out, "What!?" placing his queen in the wrong square.
Harry saw this, captured his queen and said, "Check Mate!"
"NO!!!!!" Ron screamed.
"Well, that was exciting," he turned to his girlfriend and said, "Why don't you start at the very beginning."
Ginny was about to start when she saw her brother still crying over the lost game, "Oh get a grip on yourself, Ron! It's not the end of the world!"
"But today would of marked the first full month of never being defeated!!!"
"Oh shush up, you big baby!" his girlfriend, Lavender, said to him. Ron did as he was told and listened as Ginny told them everything.
"Well, I wrote them a letter telling them that you didn't want to go to Spain with your folks and asked them if you could stay with us for the three weeks off."
"Do your folks know that I'm your boyfriend?"
"Yes and before you ask another question, yes they know that you are Draco Malfoy's twin cousin."
"And they said that I could stay for Christmas?"
"They insisted!" Ginny beamed with happiness.
"Then, yes, I will love to stay with you!"
Ginny squeaked and hugged him, "You are going to have so much fun! Percy, Fred, and George are going to be there!"
"What about your older brothers?"
"Bill and Charlie are at their wives houses this year. They rotate every year."
"Ah, yes. Well, I have to go and write to my folks telling them that I will not be joining them for Christmas this year." William said as he got up to leave.
"Do you think that they would mind?" Ginny asked, hoping not to make his parents think of her as a bad girlfriend without even meeting her.
"No, no. They will be busy most of the vacation anyways. So, no Sweets, they will not mind." He said, kissed her cheek, and left the table, but suddenly he returned, "Does this mean no more Friday night tradition?"
Ginny gasped and laughed, "No! Not at my house! Now get out of here!" she turned him around and smacked his butt.
"Alright, alright!" and this time he really left.
"What happens on Friday nights?!" Ron asked.
Hermione, Lavender, and Ginny all looked at each other and started giggling.
"I don't like that giggle," he turned to Harry, "Harry, I don't like that giggle."
"Sorry, ol' chap. You're going to have to live with it, 'cause they ain't telling us a thing."
"And ain't that the truth!" Ginny said and left the table running to catch up with William.
~*~
The next two days went by in a flash and before they knew it they were already on the Hogwarts Express going back to platform 9 and 3/4. Ginny couldn't be more excited while William couldn't be more nervous.
Ginny looked over at William and saw him wringing his hands together. She placed hers on top of his and said, "William, stop worrying, please!"
"Sweets, I'm just a little nervous. I never meet parents before."
"Never?"
"Never like this."
Ginny placed her head on his shoulder and said, "William, my parents will love you. My dad will talk to you about all the new muggle inventions he heard of, mum will surely try to fatten you up, George and Fred will pull pranks on you, and you can just hang with Harry and Ron."
"Oh, well, that's a little more reassuring that Harry's going to be there."
"You two are really getting along quite well, aren't you?"
"Yeah, yeah we are, Sweets."
~*~
Ginny apparently fell asleep, for the next thing that she knew was that they were no longer moving and William was nudging her awake.
"Where here, Sweets."
"Thanks." Ginny stood up and yawned and grabbed her bags. "Come on, William, I want to introduce you to my mum and dad!" she grabbed his hand and pulled him along. She ran all the way out of the train, still hand in hand with William. "Mum?" she called out.
"Over here, Ginny dear!" her mother called out.
Ginny saw her mother and ran towards her. She hugged her and said, "Mum, this is my boyfriend, William Malfoy."
"William," she turned to him, "this is my mother."
When Molly turned to greet William she went a little wide-eyed at how perfectly he did look like Draco, "Nice to finally meet you, William."
"Nice to finally meet you too, Mrs. Weasley. I hope I'm not intruding in your family affairs this holiday vacation."
"No, no, not at all. I insisted that you stay with us."
"Yes, so I was told and let me tell you, Mrs. Weasley was I ever excited. Ginny's been going on and on about your wonderful cooking and to tell you the truth, I was hoping to come, just so I could try it. She says that your apple pies are to die for."
With that said, Mrs. Weasley lightened right up and liked the boy right away, "Well, yes, I've been told that they are good. In fact, I have two in the oven right now cooking!"
"Wonderful!"
"Ron! Harry! Say good-bye to your girlfriends and let's get going! You'll see them the day after Christmas!" Mrs. Weasley said and was on her way leaving the station.
Ginny grabbed William's hand and pulled him close, "That was wonderful! She loves you!"
"You think?" he said with a rather large smile.
"Defiantly. Especially the part of her Apple Pies! I didn't think you would remember me telling you that she made them."
"I remember everything you say."
"Nice answer!" she said smiling, "But do you really like Apple Pies?"
"Eehh," he said making the 'so-so' sign with his hand.
Ginny just laughed.
~*~
When they reached the Burrow, William demanded to know what everything looked liked and Ginny explained to him in full detail.
As they finally reached the inside of the house, William could hear an older man greet his family by saying, "There's my darling wife and children." He assumed that he came to his family and greeted them properly when he said, "And who's this new fellow I see here?"
"Daddy, this is my boyfriend, William Malfoy."
"Ah, yes, the twin cousin of Draco Malfoy."
"That would be me, sir."
"Ah, 'sir' is what people call my father, I'm Mr. Weasley if you don't mind."
"Mr. Weasley," William put his hand out and Mr. Weasley took it, "pleasure to meet you."
"The pleasures all mine, dear boy."
There was a soft creak in the near-by stair and William turned his head that way, "Ah, yes, the notorious Weasley twins; Fred and George I presume. You walk as loudly as your brother does."
Fred and George walked over to him and said, "You could hear us? But how did you know it was us? It could have been anyone!"
"Yes, but you were the only ones that I haven't meet, Ginny said Percy's still at work, so by process of elimination, it just had to be the two of you."
Fred waved his hand in front of William's head as George took one of his hands and shook it.
William grabbed Fred's hand and said, "Please, don't do that. I hate it when people do that. I really am blind. I'm not kidding."
"George, Fred! That is enough!" Mrs. Weasley yelled at them.
"Sorry mum," they said at the same time.
"Sorry there, mate, but it just seems weird. You looking like Malfoy and all."
"Yeah, well, sorry guys, nothing I can do about that."
"George! Fred! Please be nice to my boyfriend."
"Ah, yes. Sorry." They said.
"Let's start all over again." William said. "Hi, I'm William Malfoy, Ginny's boyfriend," he held out both his hands.
"George," George said and took one hand.
"Fred," Fred said as he took the other. "Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet another set of twins." He released his hold of the twin's hands and said, "Now, I heard that there was some Apple Pies here somewhere."
~*~
The days went by really quickly. All the Weasley's began to really like William, but William did not like Percy all that much. He always talked like he knew everything, but he learned to live with that.
Every night Ginny and William would sit out on the back porch and watch the sunset. Ginny would tell him in full detail, like she always did at school, as to what the sunsets looked like.
"I like winter sunsets the best," she told to William one day.
"Oh, really. Why is that?"
"Purple and pink are my favorite colors and at winter time that's the main colors of the sky. It's really beautiful."
"Well then, Sweets, I love the idea that I get to see it through your eyes. It's make me like it a whole lot better too!" he said and leant down to kiss her neck.
~*~
Christmas Day came soon enough. Everyone exchanged their gifts, but at last it came to William giving Ginny her gift.
He took the gift that he'd been holding since he came the stairs and handed it to her, "This is for you, Sweets" and he handed her a long square box, just big enough to have some sort of jewelry in it.
Ginny took it and smiled, "Thank you." She tore it opened and took out a beautiful charm bracelet. She gasped and held her hand to her chest, "William, it's beautiful!" she exclaimed.
"A beautiful gift, for a beautiful girlfriend," he took it from her hands and said, "Each charm has a significant meaning behind them all." He felt the first one. It was the only colored charm on there, while the rest were all silver. It was a ruby rose with an emerald stem, "A red rose, because I know how much you love them." He moved on to the next two, "A pond and a picnic basket for our dinners by the pond," he moved along, "A sun for the sunsets that we sit and watch together." He moved to the next, "A desk, a book, and a pair of sunglasses, to signify school, and us" and the last one was one that made Ginny smile, "And lastly, a bathtub filled with bubbles, for the ones that I know you love to take."
Ginny kissed him quickly on the lips and said, "Thank you, William."
William smiled and said, "Here, Sweets, hold out your arm." Ginny did as she was told and he fastened it for her. "There, I bet it looks perfect!"
"It does," Ginny said shaking her wrist and hearing the charms jingle against each other, "My turn!" she grabbed a present from under the tree and handed it to William. "This is for you."
He took the gift and opened it up. He felt the contents of the box and pulled out a circular object. He felt it and said, "Well, it feels pretty cool, so it's a metal object of some sort."
"Yup," Ginny said.
"It has the crest of Hogwarts on it, and it has a button on the top of it. Is it a pocket watch?"
"Is it is!" Ginny said and beamed, "But open it up. It's not like any other pocket watch."
When he opened it up he felt the face of it and the numbers and the hands of the clock were all raised. "Oh my gosh, Ginny! Where *did* you find something like this?"
"Oh, I have connections!" she said, "But that's not all." She flipped the watch over, "There's a secret button on the back side of this," she opened it up and said, "I know that you can't see it, yet, but it's a picture of me. This way you can always take me wherever you go."
"I love it, Sweets," he said, drawing her near and kissing her cheek, "I never received a better present!"
Ginny and William sat on the couch wrapped up in each other's arms as Mrs. Weasley got up and said, "So, who's ready for some breakfast?!" and the rest of the Weasley family followed her into the kitchen.
~*~
The days quickly ran past them all and before they knew it everyone was back at school. William and Ginny went back to their routine. Ron, Harry, and William were getting closer, and strangely enough Draco was being a lot nicer.
The days quickly turned into weeks and weeks turned quicker into months and before they knew it Griffendor won the Quiditch cup, and for the 6th year in a row won house cup.
During these months at school William's parents set up a time to put him through eye surgery. They set a date and a time. Ginny wanted to be there and practically begged William if she could go with him, but he declined. It was going to take place two weeks before school started and told her that he would surprise her with it when they meet each other at platform 9 and 3/4. Ginny reluctantly agreed with his decision and dropped the subject.
~*~
William and Harry spent the summer vacation with the Weasley's until William had to go.
"I'll miss you, Sweets," William said while hugging and kissing Ginny.
"I'll miss you more! I'm going to have to sit here and wait for two weeks to see you again. You're making me count down the days until school starts, I've never done that before."
William laughed at what she said and said, "Well, I must be really going. I'm a little nervous about the whole airplane ride. Never been in one of those before."
"You'll do fine and everything will be fine."
"Yeah, at least Draco will be there with me."
"Yeah, thank goodness for him, right?"
"Exactly. Now I really must go before I'm late," he kissed Ginny one last time and stepped into the fireplace. He threw his floo-powder to the ground and screamed out, "Lucas Malfoy's Manor!" and with that he was gone.
~*~
William, Draco, and William's parents, Lucas and Linda all arrived safely in the United States and William sent Ginny an owl to tell her so.
It took a good day and a half to prepare William for surgery and he finally went in.
Draco was the nervous one. William's parents sat out in the waiting room working on some business paperwork while Draco sat there pacing the floor.
Finally after hours of surgery the doctor came out...
"Draco?"
Draco stopped pacing and said, "That's me."
"You're cousin is asking for you." The doctor told him.
Draco ran in and saw William lying on a table with a nurse helping him with a pair of regular glasses on his face. Draco looked a little sad and said, "It didn't work, did it?"
"On the contrary cousin, it did work."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Author's note in case you didn't read it at the top: I have no clue how long it takes to prep someone for eye surgery or how long it takes, or anything like that. I am, also, sorry that I did not update for some time, but I got a little writers block, people wanted to see more of W/G so here it is. I didn't know what to write about with them, so I hope that everyone likes it. Next chapter short one and then two more after that. That's right people, only three chapters left!!!
Thanks yous to everyone! *Throws out a millions thank yous*
Silver Essence - I think you're right. He may be a little too sweet!!
Hells_Crimson_Angel - thank you for that, it really means a lot to me! I hope you liked this one too! :o)
Rachel - Thanks, now is that a good, 'oh shit' or a totally, 'she's weird' oh shit? Either one is good! :o)
Mystical Starlight - Thank you for leaving a review and I'm trying! I'm trying! :o)
Pink Inspiration - Here! I gave you what you asked for. This is the most G/W that you are going to get. I was actually going to whiz right by all this, but thought better of it. That's why it took me so long to get this out! So, I hope you enjoy it! :o)
Peaceoutgrlmehi - Evil band of girl scouts, huh? Let me tell you, I was in girl scouts for quiet some time and we were never evil! *laughs evilly* Anyways... who said that William is really an evil little brat? I didn't say it? Did I? I think not? And good, that's the whole idea! I'm trying to confuse you! *laughs evilly again*. Thanks! :o)
Fire-sprite16 - You think he's such a sweety, huh? Well, that's because he is! Maybe! Confusing you yet? Hmmm... yes, indeedy, who WILL Ginny end up with? Only time with tell! I'm sorry, trying to update faster, but it's just not working out as good as I wanted it to! Thanks and hope you enjoyed! :o)
Snow-Angel - NEW BEST FRIEND!! Luv ya lots girl! Thanks for all the help and all with this chapter! Hope you enjoyed it!! :o)
Becky - I know you reviewed too, but fanfiction.net is so stupid sometimes! But thankies girl for everything!! :o)
Kris - I'm sorry hun, I was supposed to have two whole chapters up for you by the time you came home, but didn't well, this is 15 whole pages long, so maybe this made up for it? Hope you enjoy it! :o)
tulzdavampslayer - Good job at acting more unique! I always do love the reviews you leave me! And uh... sure, William came from that whatever you said it was. *says that even though she knows that it doesn't* Yes! Yes it does! *actually comes from her fav male name*. Thanks for your review. Always look forward to reading them! :o)