A/N: Okay! I promised two chapters, I know, but I've been super busy so0o0o
here's the deal. I'm working on the is chapter as you read. AS soon as I
finish it, even if it's one in the morning it will be posted. And on top of
that, I'll add two new stories instead of one so there!
I'm really really really sorry! This will never happen again. SO, without any further ado.
CHAPTER TWO
It was around four in the afternoon. Draco had been sitting in the study of his flat when he heard the phone ring (A/N: He kept the Malfoy Manor but uses his flat and muggle things more often).
Picking up the receiver, he answered, "Hello?"
"Draco, its Harry and you had better get your arse to the Burrow right now!"
"Huh? Why?" asked Draco cautiously.
"You are never going to believe this!"
Draco was getting irritated and snapped, "Spit it out, Potter!"
"Ginny's here!"
Draco's heart skipped a beat and he almost dropped the phone. 'No. Shit.' After three years of waiting and wishing, she was there.
"Draco? Draco, do you here me? Hello?" but there was no response. Draco had already apparated to the Burrow.
After catching a taxi to the closest town, Ginny apparated Leila and their shrunken luggage to the front door of the Burrow.
With Leila in her arms and her bags in her pocket, Ginny looked at her daughter. "Okay princess. You are about to meet your Grandparents and maybe your uncle, if not all of them. So, be a good girl and let's try not to make things fly alright?" She looked at the silver-eyed baby in her arms that responded by pulling her mother's hair. "Ow. Mummy wants to keep her hair on her head, please? Well, let's do this."
Ginny opened the door with her wand and instantly felt at home. Except of the quite of the house, the Burrow hadn't changed. Everything was how she saw it last and most likely how it will be years from now.
From the kitchen, Ginny heard the sound of humming. Her eyes widened and she yelled, "MUM?"
"GINNY.? Ginny!" Molly Weasley came running into the sitting room to where her daughter was standing. "Oh Virginia! I have missed you so much!" Molly gave her daughter a giant hug and then looked at her granddaughter. "Oh heavens. She's beautiful." She said in awe. 'She looks just like you- and look at those eyes! Those are Draco's eyes. And so is that face. Oh Ginny, you must see him. He's been awfully lost since you left."
Ginny looked down at her shoes and them up again in order to change the subject. "So where is everyone?"
"Oh your father should be here shortly, Ron and Hermione are at their home, Harry should be at his flat watching the Tele, Draco is probably sleeping Percy is out on business and the twins are at work. I'll Floo everyone and tell them that you're here." With those words, Molly ran to the fireplace and began informing everyone.
Ginny looked at the baby in her arms who was staring after her grandmother. "I think your nap will have to wait until later." Leila turned her gaze towards her mother and gave off what looked like her very first Malfoy death glare.
Sure enough, twenty minutes later, Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Arthur were embracing Ginny. After Harry gave her a great bear hug, he stealthily snuck off to call Draco on his cellular phone. Everyone was saying how much they missed her when suddenly, Ron had to ask, "So. where's that niece I've been expecting?" Instantly, everyone was asking her about the baby and had no choice, but to retrieve Leila.
Carrying the sleepy and fussy girl on her shoulder, Ginny returned. "This," she said, "Is Leila." When Ginny shifted her hold on the child so that others could see her, all the 'oohs' and 'aaaaws' ceased. Harry, Ron, and Hermione (who didn't know who Leila's father was) were immediately focussed on two things: silver eyes, and a smirk that displayed the child's happiness in silencing the noise (she was still sleepy).
"Ginny." whispered Hermione, "I know you refused to tell us who the baby's father was, but. "
At the same volume, Harry said, "Draco.I-it was Draco wasn't it? But when?"
"Narcissa and Sirius' wedding" replied Ginny.
"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Ron.
"Because I didn't want him to know."
The baby in Ginny's arms buried her head at the crook of her mother's neck and closed her eyes.
"You are going to tell him though. I mean, it is obvious. He has a right to kn-"
"Ginny?" she knew that voice. It was the same voice that haunted her most erotic dreams. This was the voice of the man that she wanted to be loved by.
Everyone in the room cleared out leaving the two of them alone, except for the sleeping Leila. As a maternal reflex, she looked down to check her baby and then turned back to Draco. Draco watched her actions and looked at the baby in her arms. He knew very little about Ginny's child, yet felt a strange connection to it. The silence was too much for both of them, and was broken by Ginny.
"Draco. Uh. hi." She was so unsure of herself and what to say to him. A part of her wanted to tell him everything and run into his arms, another part of her wanted to walk away without a single word.
Thoughts were spinning around in Draco's head. He kept thinking things like, 'Why does she look like me?' and 'She would be old enough to be mine' and mostly 'God I want Ginny!' "She's beautiful." He said. "Like her mother."
"Like you." Suddenly, Ginny's eyes went wide and her skin paled like a ghost's. 'O. Dear. God. I can't believe I said that!'
"She's mine?" Draco started to walk closer to Ginny until they were only inches away. He lifted his hand to touch the child's face. In reply, Leila began to stir.
Silver eyes met silver eyes as if there were some sort of bonding process taking place. After what seemed like an eternity of reticence, Leila began to giggle and reached for Draco. Stunned by her actions, he instinctively picked her up as if he'd done it all her life.
Ginny was touched. For the first time since she had been pregnant, everything felt right, and she started to shed tears of joy.
Draco saw this, and with his free hand wiped away Ginny's tears. "Ginny? Love, what's the matter?" he whispered.
Now Ginny was bawling. He had shown affection towards her for the first time in three years. "Y-you called me love."
"Yes, I did. Was that wrong?"
"No!"
Pulling her close to him in a hug, Draco said, "You know, you should have told me. I would have been happy about it. You could have done anything but leave me."
Clinging to his shirt she looked up to him. "Really?"
"Really. Uh, maybe we can give."
"Her name is Leila." Said Ginny.
"Ah, 'Dark Beauty'. I like it." He smiled at Ginny who was looking at their child (who had been sucking on her fist, leaving drool on Draco's shoulder) and continued talking. "Well, maybe we should give Leila to Molly and find somewhere to talk."
"Okay."
Draco and Ginny decided to walk in a field close by the Burrow. When they reached their destination, a clearing surrounded by tall trees to give them privacy, they sat down. Ginny had already filled Draco in with all the information he needed: the conception, birth, their life, and facts about Leila. But, there was more he needed to know.
"Ginny?"
"Hmm?" she asked staring out into the sky.
"You aren't seeing anyone are you?"
"What?" Ginny's head snapped up and met silver pools filled with emotion.
"Are you going out with anyone? As in a boyfriend?" Draco held her hand firmer than before.
"I- uh.no.why?"
"I was just making sure it was alright."
"What was alright?"
"If I did this."
Draco pulled Ginny in his arms tightly as if she was being pulled away by an invisible force. He then lowered his mouth onto hers in a passionate kiss. Lips slid against lips as tongues glided along each other's mouths. Soon Draco led his hands rest on either side of her hips and eased her down on the grass. Instinctively, Ginny's hands slid around his neck, pulling him closer to her.
Slowly, long Draco's fingers began unbuttoning the bottom of Ginny's blouse. Feeling the cool breeze sweep between them, she gasped then moaned when she felt Draco move from her lips to her neck. He was licking and nibbling sending chills down her spine. As much as she wanted to- needed to- continue, she knew there were more important matters at hand.
"Draco," she said, pushing him away. "We need to stop and talk about this."
He sat up and ran his fingers through his hair, then looked at her. "So, what now?" he asked her. They sat down under a tall tree looking directly into each other's eyes.
"What do you mean?" She wasn't sure if he meant snogging or the future.
"I know what you wanted to talk about, and let's just make this easier. Well, there's you, there's me, there's Leila. I want to see Leila, and most of all, I want to see you." Draco had his thumb running along Ginny's hand. 'Oh, the future' she thought.
"Well. what do you think we should do? Or at least what do you want to do?" She was getting worried. She didn't know what was to come out of all this. She wanted him more than anything. She wanted him to love her and Leila. She even wanted to wake up in his arms every morning. 'Where did that come from?'
"Not to sound forward, but I've had something in mind for some time. Not necessarily under these circumstances, of course, but. now that I know about Leila, I want her to be a big part of my life. You know, the Muggle father role in the happy Muggle family. well, with a few exceptions. After all, she is my child and I do want to raise her..."
Ginny's eyes went as wide as a house elf's. 'He can't possibly mean custody. I thought he'd changed. He can't be serious.' "As do I, as I have been doing for the last two years. Three if you could the pregnancy." Ginny spoke firmly as to make sure he knew Leila was had been hers.
"Well then." Said Draco jubilantly. "It's settled. I'll make the legal arrangements and do all the 'manly' things, and you can do whatever it is you women do. We can discuss a date later. I have other things in mind for now." Draco began to nibble on Ginny's neck again in order to resume what they were doing.
Once again, Ginny's eyes widened. "Wait, what date? What legal arrangements? And what manly things?!"
"Ginny, dearest." Draco wrapped his arm around her waist and whispered in her ear. "I can understand you being nervous and all, but you have a few weeks until the frantic stage begins."
"Maybe we should take this a step back," said Ginny. She removed his arm and turned to meet his eyes. Looking directly at him, she began to glare. "What is settled? As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that we've come to an agreement on is that we both want to raise Leila like a regular family would. So what is it that you presume we do?"
Draco took a deep breath and rubbed his temples. 'So this is what it feels like to argue with the mother of your child.' "Isn't it obvious? Virginia, dear, you know that I'm not one to beat around the bushes, I see what I want and I take it. Right know, since you've deprived me of the knowledge I have a daughter, an actual chance to see that daughter grow up, and the best sex in my life, at the least living with me is what you can to repay me."
Ginny's jaw dropped and she stared at him with wide eyes. "I know that you're straight forward, but this is insane! You haven't put any thought in it or anything! You expect for me to agree with you and say 'yes, Draco, I'd love to move in with you-'"
"I said the least you could do was move in with me," he interrupted.
"The point is, I have a life, Draco, I have a job, I have a house! And you expect for me to give that up because you've been missing out on sex?! Are you completely daft?!"
"Ginny, dear, you must calm down a bit. I'm getting an awful headache."
"I don't believe you!" Ginny stood up and began to walk towards the burrow when Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her against him.
He pulled her to him so closely that their bodies were pressed together and then crushed his lips against hers. "Tell me you don't crave me when we kiss. Tell me you didn't stay awake at night thinking about me. Tell me you never dreamt of a life with me. I know I have, Virginia. And it takes a lot for me to feel this way about one woman. While you were out in. wherever living you're life in secret, I was here looking for you. I spent days searching for you all over, and when I couldn't find you myself, I paid others to help me. Do you know how many galleons I've wasted searching for you possibly finding out you were married or engaged to someone else? I could've given up, but I didn't. And here you are, right in front of me, and you even have my child. Don't think you'll be getting away, Virginia. I won't let you, and neither will your family, because they know how hard I've looked. And no one will take you away because I have, and always will love you."
Ginny's heart began racing and her knees were weak. She couldn't move. She couldn't breathe. She could only stare at him in utter shock. It took all her strength to do anything, but she said it.
"I didn't think you would want me. I'm sorry I never told you, I just thought it would be better if you never knew or saw me again."
"Ginny, I would've found out eventually, and things would never be better without you." With those words he kissed her passionately as if to prove he would always lover her. In a way, that's what the kiss meant. It was also a promise of what was to come.
A/N: Ok the chapter is getting there. Give me another hour.
I'm really really really sorry! This will never happen again. SO, without any further ado.
CHAPTER TWO
It was around four in the afternoon. Draco had been sitting in the study of his flat when he heard the phone ring (A/N: He kept the Malfoy Manor but uses his flat and muggle things more often).
Picking up the receiver, he answered, "Hello?"
"Draco, its Harry and you had better get your arse to the Burrow right now!"
"Huh? Why?" asked Draco cautiously.
"You are never going to believe this!"
Draco was getting irritated and snapped, "Spit it out, Potter!"
"Ginny's here!"
Draco's heart skipped a beat and he almost dropped the phone. 'No. Shit.' After three years of waiting and wishing, she was there.
"Draco? Draco, do you here me? Hello?" but there was no response. Draco had already apparated to the Burrow.
After catching a taxi to the closest town, Ginny apparated Leila and their shrunken luggage to the front door of the Burrow.
With Leila in her arms and her bags in her pocket, Ginny looked at her daughter. "Okay princess. You are about to meet your Grandparents and maybe your uncle, if not all of them. So, be a good girl and let's try not to make things fly alright?" She looked at the silver-eyed baby in her arms that responded by pulling her mother's hair. "Ow. Mummy wants to keep her hair on her head, please? Well, let's do this."
Ginny opened the door with her wand and instantly felt at home. Except of the quite of the house, the Burrow hadn't changed. Everything was how she saw it last and most likely how it will be years from now.
From the kitchen, Ginny heard the sound of humming. Her eyes widened and she yelled, "MUM?"
"GINNY.? Ginny!" Molly Weasley came running into the sitting room to where her daughter was standing. "Oh Virginia! I have missed you so much!" Molly gave her daughter a giant hug and then looked at her granddaughter. "Oh heavens. She's beautiful." She said in awe. 'She looks just like you- and look at those eyes! Those are Draco's eyes. And so is that face. Oh Ginny, you must see him. He's been awfully lost since you left."
Ginny looked down at her shoes and them up again in order to change the subject. "So where is everyone?"
"Oh your father should be here shortly, Ron and Hermione are at their home, Harry should be at his flat watching the Tele, Draco is probably sleeping Percy is out on business and the twins are at work. I'll Floo everyone and tell them that you're here." With those words, Molly ran to the fireplace and began informing everyone.
Ginny looked at the baby in her arms who was staring after her grandmother. "I think your nap will have to wait until later." Leila turned her gaze towards her mother and gave off what looked like her very first Malfoy death glare.
Sure enough, twenty minutes later, Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Arthur were embracing Ginny. After Harry gave her a great bear hug, he stealthily snuck off to call Draco on his cellular phone. Everyone was saying how much they missed her when suddenly, Ron had to ask, "So. where's that niece I've been expecting?" Instantly, everyone was asking her about the baby and had no choice, but to retrieve Leila.
Carrying the sleepy and fussy girl on her shoulder, Ginny returned. "This," she said, "Is Leila." When Ginny shifted her hold on the child so that others could see her, all the 'oohs' and 'aaaaws' ceased. Harry, Ron, and Hermione (who didn't know who Leila's father was) were immediately focussed on two things: silver eyes, and a smirk that displayed the child's happiness in silencing the noise (she was still sleepy).
"Ginny." whispered Hermione, "I know you refused to tell us who the baby's father was, but. "
At the same volume, Harry said, "Draco.I-it was Draco wasn't it? But when?"
"Narcissa and Sirius' wedding" replied Ginny.
"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Ron.
"Because I didn't want him to know."
The baby in Ginny's arms buried her head at the crook of her mother's neck and closed her eyes.
"You are going to tell him though. I mean, it is obvious. He has a right to kn-"
"Ginny?" she knew that voice. It was the same voice that haunted her most erotic dreams. This was the voice of the man that she wanted to be loved by.
Everyone in the room cleared out leaving the two of them alone, except for the sleeping Leila. As a maternal reflex, she looked down to check her baby and then turned back to Draco. Draco watched her actions and looked at the baby in her arms. He knew very little about Ginny's child, yet felt a strange connection to it. The silence was too much for both of them, and was broken by Ginny.
"Draco. Uh. hi." She was so unsure of herself and what to say to him. A part of her wanted to tell him everything and run into his arms, another part of her wanted to walk away without a single word.
Thoughts were spinning around in Draco's head. He kept thinking things like, 'Why does she look like me?' and 'She would be old enough to be mine' and mostly 'God I want Ginny!' "She's beautiful." He said. "Like her mother."
"Like you." Suddenly, Ginny's eyes went wide and her skin paled like a ghost's. 'O. Dear. God. I can't believe I said that!'
"She's mine?" Draco started to walk closer to Ginny until they were only inches away. He lifted his hand to touch the child's face. In reply, Leila began to stir.
Silver eyes met silver eyes as if there were some sort of bonding process taking place. After what seemed like an eternity of reticence, Leila began to giggle and reached for Draco. Stunned by her actions, he instinctively picked her up as if he'd done it all her life.
Ginny was touched. For the first time since she had been pregnant, everything felt right, and she started to shed tears of joy.
Draco saw this, and with his free hand wiped away Ginny's tears. "Ginny? Love, what's the matter?" he whispered.
Now Ginny was bawling. He had shown affection towards her for the first time in three years. "Y-you called me love."
"Yes, I did. Was that wrong?"
"No!"
Pulling her close to him in a hug, Draco said, "You know, you should have told me. I would have been happy about it. You could have done anything but leave me."
Clinging to his shirt she looked up to him. "Really?"
"Really. Uh, maybe we can give."
"Her name is Leila." Said Ginny.
"Ah, 'Dark Beauty'. I like it." He smiled at Ginny who was looking at their child (who had been sucking on her fist, leaving drool on Draco's shoulder) and continued talking. "Well, maybe we should give Leila to Molly and find somewhere to talk."
"Okay."
Draco and Ginny decided to walk in a field close by the Burrow. When they reached their destination, a clearing surrounded by tall trees to give them privacy, they sat down. Ginny had already filled Draco in with all the information he needed: the conception, birth, their life, and facts about Leila. But, there was more he needed to know.
"Ginny?"
"Hmm?" she asked staring out into the sky.
"You aren't seeing anyone are you?"
"What?" Ginny's head snapped up and met silver pools filled with emotion.
"Are you going out with anyone? As in a boyfriend?" Draco held her hand firmer than before.
"I- uh.no.why?"
"I was just making sure it was alright."
"What was alright?"
"If I did this."
Draco pulled Ginny in his arms tightly as if she was being pulled away by an invisible force. He then lowered his mouth onto hers in a passionate kiss. Lips slid against lips as tongues glided along each other's mouths. Soon Draco led his hands rest on either side of her hips and eased her down on the grass. Instinctively, Ginny's hands slid around his neck, pulling him closer to her.
Slowly, long Draco's fingers began unbuttoning the bottom of Ginny's blouse. Feeling the cool breeze sweep between them, she gasped then moaned when she felt Draco move from her lips to her neck. He was licking and nibbling sending chills down her spine. As much as she wanted to- needed to- continue, she knew there were more important matters at hand.
"Draco," she said, pushing him away. "We need to stop and talk about this."
He sat up and ran his fingers through his hair, then looked at her. "So, what now?" he asked her. They sat down under a tall tree looking directly into each other's eyes.
"What do you mean?" She wasn't sure if he meant snogging or the future.
"I know what you wanted to talk about, and let's just make this easier. Well, there's you, there's me, there's Leila. I want to see Leila, and most of all, I want to see you." Draco had his thumb running along Ginny's hand. 'Oh, the future' she thought.
"Well. what do you think we should do? Or at least what do you want to do?" She was getting worried. She didn't know what was to come out of all this. She wanted him more than anything. She wanted him to love her and Leila. She even wanted to wake up in his arms every morning. 'Where did that come from?'
"Not to sound forward, but I've had something in mind for some time. Not necessarily under these circumstances, of course, but. now that I know about Leila, I want her to be a big part of my life. You know, the Muggle father role in the happy Muggle family. well, with a few exceptions. After all, she is my child and I do want to raise her..."
Ginny's eyes went as wide as a house elf's. 'He can't possibly mean custody. I thought he'd changed. He can't be serious.' "As do I, as I have been doing for the last two years. Three if you could the pregnancy." Ginny spoke firmly as to make sure he knew Leila was had been hers.
"Well then." Said Draco jubilantly. "It's settled. I'll make the legal arrangements and do all the 'manly' things, and you can do whatever it is you women do. We can discuss a date later. I have other things in mind for now." Draco began to nibble on Ginny's neck again in order to resume what they were doing.
Once again, Ginny's eyes widened. "Wait, what date? What legal arrangements? And what manly things?!"
"Ginny, dearest." Draco wrapped his arm around her waist and whispered in her ear. "I can understand you being nervous and all, but you have a few weeks until the frantic stage begins."
"Maybe we should take this a step back," said Ginny. She removed his arm and turned to meet his eyes. Looking directly at him, she began to glare. "What is settled? As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that we've come to an agreement on is that we both want to raise Leila like a regular family would. So what is it that you presume we do?"
Draco took a deep breath and rubbed his temples. 'So this is what it feels like to argue with the mother of your child.' "Isn't it obvious? Virginia, dear, you know that I'm not one to beat around the bushes, I see what I want and I take it. Right know, since you've deprived me of the knowledge I have a daughter, an actual chance to see that daughter grow up, and the best sex in my life, at the least living with me is what you can to repay me."
Ginny's jaw dropped and she stared at him with wide eyes. "I know that you're straight forward, but this is insane! You haven't put any thought in it or anything! You expect for me to agree with you and say 'yes, Draco, I'd love to move in with you-'"
"I said the least you could do was move in with me," he interrupted.
"The point is, I have a life, Draco, I have a job, I have a house! And you expect for me to give that up because you've been missing out on sex?! Are you completely daft?!"
"Ginny, dear, you must calm down a bit. I'm getting an awful headache."
"I don't believe you!" Ginny stood up and began to walk towards the burrow when Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her against him.
He pulled her to him so closely that their bodies were pressed together and then crushed his lips against hers. "Tell me you don't crave me when we kiss. Tell me you didn't stay awake at night thinking about me. Tell me you never dreamt of a life with me. I know I have, Virginia. And it takes a lot for me to feel this way about one woman. While you were out in. wherever living you're life in secret, I was here looking for you. I spent days searching for you all over, and when I couldn't find you myself, I paid others to help me. Do you know how many galleons I've wasted searching for you possibly finding out you were married or engaged to someone else? I could've given up, but I didn't. And here you are, right in front of me, and you even have my child. Don't think you'll be getting away, Virginia. I won't let you, and neither will your family, because they know how hard I've looked. And no one will take you away because I have, and always will love you."
Ginny's heart began racing and her knees were weak. She couldn't move. She couldn't breathe. She could only stare at him in utter shock. It took all her strength to do anything, but she said it.
"I didn't think you would want me. I'm sorry I never told you, I just thought it would be better if you never knew or saw me again."
"Ginny, I would've found out eventually, and things would never be better without you." With those words he kissed her passionately as if to prove he would always lover her. In a way, that's what the kiss meant. It was also a promise of what was to come.
A/N: Ok the chapter is getting there. Give me another hour.