Neverland

by prexus

AN: Not really so much as a D/G romance ficc, but it's a ficc, with Draco and Ginny. It has bit of fluff and such. J I haven't done a happy ficc for a long time. It's kind of about Peter Pan and Neverland, but they're really just symbols. To explain, they're symbols of what both Draco and Ginny never had. Erhm, yea. oh! And I used two quotes from the Peter Pan movie. Not the book, though the book is much more wonderful. But the movie had some nice quote sin it. ^^ so yeap. Anyway, enjoy?

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He's coming tonight. She knows it.

He's coming to take her away. She's been waiting since she heard his story. Boy who ran away from home, lived among the fairies, young forever.

He doesn't come tonight. Maybe, tomorrow.

A year passes. Still no flying boy with all his baby teeth. She waits.

She's seventeen now. Doesn't think about him much, but sometimes, she still wishes, dreams.

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Red hair, brown eyes, and has seen more than someone her age should. Been like that all her life.

Now she's seventeen. Maybe she can be seventeen. But they tell her, seventeen, is much too old for Neverland.

Nonsense. You can never be too old, she thinks.

Truth is, she's been too old all her life.

Never really had a chance to be eleven. Come to think of it, never really had a chance to be twelve, thirteen, or even fourteen.

He's coming for her tonight though. She dreamed it: Her savior arriving at her window, to take her away to Neverland. And she'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

They say never is an awfully long time. Perfect.

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She knew a boy back in school. Everyone knew him. Troublemaker. He had to grow up a long time ago too.

Not many people liked him, thought he was evil, different. But she saw what others couldn't. He was but a boy.

Maybe, she thought, they could be friends.

He graduated a year before her. Last day, they spoke, really spoke, for the first and last time. Well, maybe.

"Congratulations, Malfoy. Your Father must be proud. Graduating at the top of the class right next to Hermione."

He scoffs. "Proud? He'll be devastated."

She kicks the floor. She looks up. Eyes piercing into his. "What do you want to do with your life?"

"Do I have a choice?"

"You can always run. To Neverland. He'll never be able to make you do anything there." He looks at her strangely, like he's never seen anything quite like her.

Her brothers are calling.

He raises his brow at her. "Never, Weasley, is quite a long time."

He sticks out his hand. She takes it.

"It was nice knowing you Weasley." As if it were final or something. He mumbles. "Too bad we can't run away to Neverland, the both of us."

She smiles.

She lets go, turns, and walks back to her family. Her family, who thinks she's still little Ginny Weasley.

He looks after her retreating back, almost wishing they could have known each other for more than three minutes. Five minutes, perhaps.

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Tapping at the window. A shadow.

She's walking over. She knows it's him, it must be. Ginny Weasley's only been waiting all her life for this moment.

She slides the window open. Blonde hair, gray eyes. All on a broom.

"You're not Peter Pan." She's kind of disappointed.

"No. But I can take you away from here. And I promise … you'll never have to worry about grown-up things again."

She looks at him, hesitantly. Then mockingly, "Why, Malfoy, you should know, that never is an awfully long time."

"Yes, yes, it is." She seems him smile for the first time.

He holds out a hand. She looks back once, as if to say goodbye.

She takes his hand. She's seventeen, and throwing her life away. And she's never been more relieved.

They're flying now. Flying away from all their troubles, leaving their selves behind.

Ginny Weasley never thought that Draco Malfoy would be the one to take her to Neverland.

But then again, never isn't a very certain thing, is it?

FiN.