A/N: I loved the reviews made me feel all warm and fluffy! Here's the next chapter! Hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I disclaim all the characters and anything else you would recognize as the wonderful and talented J.K. Rowling.

Rated: PG-13 – there's a lot of cursing…I have a potty mouth!

Summery: Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley find each other in their 7th and 6th year. But what happens when Ron gets in the way and Draco has to become a Death-Eater?

Fluff-o-meter: There's some fluff. Like towards the end.

Recap: Ginny gets taken away by the Death Eater. Draco goes by himself to get her. Ginny is put under the Imperius curse and Draco tells her he loves her. Ginny frees herself from it and tries to tell him something, but falls unconscious

The Aftermath

It was a beautiful day. The sun was out and there was fresh snow on the ground. The birds were chirping and people were outside having snowball fights.

The only thing that wasn't beautiful was the air in the Hospital Wing.

It had been three days since Draco's initiation night. After Ginny fell unconscious the Aurors came. Harry defeated Voldemort with their help and Lucius Malfoy, along with the rest of the Death Eaters, was sent to Azkaban.

Three days later though Ginny was still in her state and no one had any idea when she would come out.

Her entire family was there along with Harry, Hermione and Draco. Ron had told the Weasley clan about Ginny's relationship with Draco and how they loved each other. He also told his family about how Draco went to save Ginny by himself and risked his own life. The Weasely's accepted Draco and welcomed him into the family.

Draco would not leave her side. He was there every morning and every night not even leaving for meals. He was sitting in a chair next to her bed slouching, his hands placed lazily on his thigh, just staring at her.

Ron came up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Go get something to eat and try to get some sleep," he said walking around and sitting in the chair next to him.

Draco shook his head. "I'm okay" he insisted stifling a yawn as he stretched his body out.

"Malfoy…you look like shit!" Ron said earning a glare from Draco. "Listen, go eat and get some sleep. Of anything changes I'll come and get you."

Draco contemplated what Ron said and got up. "If anything changes-"

"I'll come running to tell you" Draco nodded and started leaving. "And take a shower!" Ron called after him. Draco shook his head and chuckled a little bit as he left the Hospital Wing. Ron leaned on the bed and took Ginny's hand sighing. "I'm sorry Ginny…for whatever I've done to you that made you feel like I don't love you. You're my sister…of coarse I love you! And I'm sorry for making you feel left out, yelling at you, and trying to control your life. You're right you are 16 years old and you are old enough to make decisions on your own life. You love him and he loves you, so be happy." Ron said a tear or two rolling down his face. He picked up her hand and kissed it. "I'm sorry and I love you," he told her rubbing her hand lovingly.

The Weasley family came in and Bill put his hand on Ron's arm comfortingly sitting in the chair Draco was just in. The rest of the clan along with Harry and Hermione sat around Ginny's bed. Hermione sat on the other side of Ron and put her hand on his knee and rubbed it trying to comfort him.

"She's gonna be okay" Bill told Ron trying to give him hope. Ron nodded resting his chin on his knuckles silently crying.

Molly Weasley looked at all her sons their eyes brimming with unshed tears for their only sister. The she looked back to her only daughter and youngest child and started sobbing. "I want my baby back. All I want is my baby…bring her back" she cried her body racking up and down with each sob.

Arthur Weasley put his arms around his wife tightly trying to keep her still as he himself started to cry.

Ron stood abruptly and threw the water jug that was on the table next to her bed, at the wall making everyone jump from the shatter. He fell onto his knees in tears. His hands covered his face and his elbows rested on his thighs.

Hermione got up and walked over to him. She wrapped her arms around his body and rocked him, trying to clam him down. "She gonna be okay Ron. She's gonna wake up and be fine. I promise" Hermione whispered soothingly to him.

That was everyone's breaking point and they all started to cry.

Draco walked out of his steamy bathroom and sat on his bed. He put his face in his hands and sighed loudly. He then fell back on the bed running his fingers through his damp hair.

He wanted to stop thinking about a life without Ginny, but the fear was haunting him. How would he be able to live without her smile, her eyes that would tell every single emotion that ran through her, her soft touch, her light butterfly kisses or the feel of the way she would fit perfectly into his arms? Would he ever hear her voice, or the way his name would come off her lips like she was singing it. What about the way her lips fit together with his?

He lived without if for almost two week but forever…he couldn't do that.

But he also didn't want to keep putting her in danger. His father was in Azkaban and was waiting for a trail. If something would happen and he got out he couldn't risk putting Ginny back in harms way. Especially of Lucius was that harm. He would do anything to get Draco to become a Death Eater, even if his master was dead.

Draco looked up at the top of his canopy bed. "What am I going to do?"

The sunlight hit Ginny's face making her glow like an angel. She scrunched up her nose and let out an inaudible groan. She was having such a peaceful sleep and she didn't want to wake up. She opened one eyelid and peeked around. Her entire family was sitting around her bed with solemn faces on. She opened the other eye and groaned and as her eyes drank in the sunlight for the first time. She quickly shut her eyes again.

"Ginny! You're awake!" Ron exclaimed. Every Weasley head turned to look at the youngest child. Ginny groaned and put a finger to her lips to quiet him down. "Sorry Gin" he whispered blushing. "How ya feeling?" he asked grabbing her hand.

"I wanna go back to sleep" Ginny whispered weakly.

"Sleep!" Fred cried aloud for the whole Weasley's. "You've been sleeping for 4 days!"

"What day is it?" Ginny asked alarmed but still weak.

"It's Monday sweetie…you're classes have started again" Mrs. Weasley told her only daughter.

"Oh…when can I get out of here?" Ginny asked her family. She hated being stuck in an uncomfortable cot for hours on end.

"Now that you're up probably by the end of the week" Molly told her again.

Ginny nodded her head and started playing with her hands. "What happened?" Ginny asked. She really didn't remember anything. All she remembered was being taken by a Death Eater to Malfoy Manor and getting chained to a wall.

"Well…" Ron began slowly. "Lucius Malfoy put you under the Crutasis curse then Malfoy came in and stopped him. Then Malfoy was put under the curse and that was taken off of him when me, Harry and Hermione showed up. More Death Eaters came into the room and Lucius took you to another separate room. Malfoy followed him and tried to stop his father from…raping and killing you." he got some small gasp and whimpers here from his mother and father. "Then He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named came in with another Death Eater and Harry. You were put under the Imperius curse and Harry and Malfoy told you to fight it. I guess you did, but you weren't strong enough from the crutasis, so you passed out." After they got back home they all went in for questioning. Ron heard what happened in the other room from Harry and Malfoy.

"What about you and after I passed out?" Ginny asked still not looking at him or anyone.

"Herm and I were okay. Just some cuts and bruises. She broke her wrist and I sprained my ankle but other then that we were okay. We kept hexing them."

"And after I passed out?" Ginny asked again.

"Well you passed out and that was when the Aurors came. They had to fight for a while, but they got all the Death Eaters in Azkaban. And they helped Harry defeat him" Ron told her still not able to say Voldemort's name even if he was gone for good.

Ginny nodded her head and took a few minutes for everything to sink in. "What…what about Draco?" she asked timidly. "I…I wanna see him"

Ron jumped out of his seat suddenly remembering that he promised Draco that he would come and get him if anything happened. He raced out of the hospital wing down to the dungeons knowing that was where Draco was, leaving 7 people very confused.

Draco was working on a potion with Pansy, who was all over him. Nobody knew what happened 4 nights ago and that's the way he wanted to keep it.

Suddenly the door burst opened.

Draco turned and looked at a red faced Ron gasping for air. Ron's eyes fell with him.

"She's up…she wants to see you" Ron gasped.

Draco dropped everything he was doing and quickly walked out of the room and to the Hospital Wing with Ron, leaving a glaring and huffing Pansy. Harry and Hermione, also in the class, looked at each other and left jogging after Ron and Draco to catch up.

"Is she okay?" Hermione asked worry in her voice, once she caught up.

Ron nodded. "She's fine…just tired. And she didn't remember anything…I had to tell her." He answered. They walked the rest of the way in silence until they got to the door, which they shoved open.

Ginny looked up and locked eyes with Draco right away. Everyone saw them lock eyes and watched as their emotion melted out of their eyes. They got up and walked out so they could have their privacy.

They looked at each other for a while then Draco spoke. "How do you feel?" he asked taking a few steps towards her bed.

Ginny shrugged. "I'm just tired...and weak." Ginny told him quietly.

Draco walked over to the chair he occupied for the first 3 days. He took her hand in his, rubbed it, and kissed her knuckles.

Ginny smiled and tears flooded to her eyes. The feel of his skin and his lips…she missed it. Being near him again was like breathing again. Her felt lighter and she got that happy, giddy, tingly feeling again.

But him being with her was putting him in danger. She got into a mess and he risked his life to get her out of that mess. She couldn't let him do that anymore. She couldn't lose him forever, even if it meant not being with him.

"Listen Gin" Draco started still rubbing her hand, but not looking at her. It felt perfect to have her little hand in his bigger one again. "I don't know what to do here. I wanna be with you, but I can't keep putting you in harms ways. I love you…so much, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself if something would ever happen to you because of me" he told her.

She was crying now. She knew this was the right thing but it didn't make it any easier. He loved her and she loved him but they couldn't be together because of this stupid fate his father gave him that he didn't want.

"I'm sorry Ginny," he said and she nodded. Sighing loudly he continued. "I guess this is what love is…wanting something you can't have." He stood up and kissed her forehead. "I love you," he whispered. He walked away leaving Ginny in tears.

"I love you to Draco" Ginny said quietly, but loud enough for him to hear.

Draco stopped walking and looked down at the floor, tears welling up in his eyes. That was the first time she told him that. He gained his composure and walked out.

Ginny's cries became sobs. Her family came back in and sat around her. Molly rubbed her back to try to calm her while Charlie rubbed her hand like Draco did and Ron rubbed her leg. They were all quiet just letting her cry it out and when she stopped Arthur took the chance to ask her what happened.

"We're over forever" Ginny chocked out. "He doesn't want to keep putting me in danger so he thinks it would be better to not be together. I agree…it's just hard." She told them playing with Draco's family ring.

Her family looked at her with understanding and heartbreak. They accepted him because they knew he was different from his father and he made Ginny happy. If this is how it was going to be for them, apart and sad, then they were going to help her try to get through it.

Draco threw himself on his bed and looked up at his canopy. She loves me! She loves me and I love her! Life sucks!

A/N: There it is! So they aren't together…so sad. You will have to wait to see what happens in the next chapter! The next chapter is my last and favorite chapter. I'll put all my thank yous at the end of the next chapter and I'll tell you about my next D/G projects. Review and let me know what you think about this chapter!

Preview for next chapter: The Beginning of Forever

Ginny and Draco try to get through their pain. It doesn't work for Draco and he does something that will affect Ginny and himself forever.