This chapter is dedicated to all those readers who still continue to read my fic. I appreciate all the reviews. As requested by certain reader here's a D/G moment. I hope that I am meeting some of your expectations. Now for those who had requested a little more than this, I wrote another fic titled "Greenhouse Incident". It is almost done and Im afraid that it is only intended as one-shot fic… Enjoy reading and a review is very much appreciated.
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Hunted by MemoriesCHAPTER 13: MOMENTS FROM THE PAST
2O YEARS AGO
LAST WEEK OF APRIL
FRIDAY NIGHT
GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM
PAST 10:00, ALMOST 11
The Gryffindor common room is dark; the only light that is serving the room is the light that is coming from the fireplace. It was not too late but most of the Gryffindor students are either staying at their respective dormitory or some of them are already in bed. There will be a Hogsmeade trip tomorrow, and most of the students are already sleeping because the trip was early around 8 o'clock. It was a long day especially for the Gryffindor Quidditch team; they just finished practicing about an hour ago. Ron, Hermione and Harry are sitting in the common room. Same as usual Hermione is reading a book and Harry is writing a plan for their next DA meeting. However Ron keep on pacing back and forth in front of the fireplace. He is worried of Ginny. It had been an hour since they had finished their practice and she hasn't returned yet. Ginny left half an hour earlier before they finished their practice and so far no shadow of Ginny had emerged from the portrait hole.
"Why don't you sit Ron? Geez your going to get us feel dizzy if you keep on walking back and forth around the fireplace" said Hermione.
"Ginny hasn't come back yet" said Ron still not sitting as he turned his head at the portrait hole.
"Ginny is with Malfoy" said Harry which made Hermione and Ron look at him at the same time.
"What?" it was Ron.
"The map" said Harry as he pulled the map out of his pocket and he placed it on top of the table. Ron and Hermione gaze at the map at the same time. It shows on the map that Ginny and Draco Malfoy are walking out from the library and they are heading towards the Gryffindor tower.
"That git!" said Ron. "Im going to beat the pulp out if him if he won't stop seeing my sister!" he finishes as he clenches his fist into his palm.
"You know that you can't stop them," said Harry. "No matter how much you deny it Ron, your sister look's happy whenever she was with Malfoy"
"Happy? You call that happy? That son of a death eater is nothing but a trouble. I doubt if he really love my sister. Malfoy is not capable of love, who knows if he is only using my sister to get some information from the Order!" Ron said with a hiss.
"Shut up, Ron! Some people are listening" it was Hermione trying to stop Ron before he looses his patience.
Before Ron could say more, the portrait hole from and Ginny emerged from outside. Ron walks to the door and ready to confront Ginny. Harry and Hermione stands up from where they are sitting and followed Ron.
"Where have you been at this time?" confronted Ron as he gave Ginny a dirty look. Ginny just look at him in the eye and didn't say anything. Instead of answering Ron she just walk away ignoring her brother but Ron stops her and hold her on her arm. "Im talking to you, Ginny. Where have you been at this time?" said Ron repeating his question.
"Let go of me, Ron. You're hurting me" said Ginny and was about to cry.
"Ron, let go of her!" it was Hermione.
"This is none of your business, either of you!" said Ron to Harry and Hermione. "She is my sister and I will discipline her the way that I like" he continued with a hint of anger in his voice.
"You're hurting her" protested Harry. Its true that it is none of his business on what was going on. However Ginny is like a little sister to him. He doesn't approve Ginny's relationship with Draco Malfoy but what can he do? It was Ginny's own choice to date Malfoy. Although Harry is not convinced that Draco had changed, but whenever he is around Ginny they could tell that Draco is a totally different person.
"I went to see Draco. Now are you happy?" said Ginny as tears began to fell from her eye.
"Ha! Don't you realize that it's already past curfew? Or maybe you just doesn't care because that death eater boyfriend of yours is a head boy?" said Ron in a haughty voice.
"Draco is not a death eater!!!" protested Ginny as she tries to pull her arm out of Ron's hand. It was then that Ron noticed the necklace that Ginny is wearing around her neck.
"Death eater or not, I don't care! He is still a Malfoy. You almost died during your first year because of his father. Have you gotten so low that you are now coveting with an enemy! You're a disgrace to our family! What have gotten into your mind?"
"Draco and I love each other, and there is nothing you can do. Nor anyone of you"
"You are worst than Percy! Don't you know what are mom and dad feeling about this? They are totally hurt! Are you going to sacrifice your family for your own happiness? Are you crazy? If you wont stop seeing Malfoy I swear that I am going to disown you!"
"Is that what you want Ron?"
"Yeah!" yelled Ron. "I wont forgive you for this. I wish that I wont be able to see you again for as long as I live!"
Ginny looks at her brother as tears feel from her eye. The words that he just said had totally hit her. It hurts so much to know that Ron, the closest to her among her brothers had closed his mind and understanding to his little sister. The only people who understand her so far are her Slytherin friends, and Percy. Everybody's saying something about her. Talking about them, judging them about their relationship. Whispering gossip that Draco Malfoy is using her. Judging her that she only likes him because he is rich. None of those things are true. Draco loves her so much; why they cant just see that he had changed a lot? They had misjudged them. They are all blinded of this war that is going on. Draco is not a death eater unlike his father. Deep inside those gray cold eyes, there is a warm person inside Draco. And that person is giving her comfort and security.
"So that's what you want Ron? You don't want to see me again for as long as you live? If that's what you want then you'll get what you want" said Ginny and she ran out of the common room.
"Ginny!" it was Harry, but it was already too late. Ginny disappears already.
SLYTHERIN DUNGEON
DRACO'S ROOM
PAST 11, ALMOST MIDNIGHT
"So that was your brother had said to you?" ask Draco to Ginny, as he is hugging her on his arm. She is still crying for what had Ron had said to her.
"Yeah, he said he hate me that he doesn't want to see me for as long as he lives" said Ginny between sobs. Draco kisses her on her forehead.
"Sshh…don't cry my angel. Soon everything will be all right" said Draco as he try to calm Ginny down. How long has it been since they started dating? Its not even six months, and they've already been gone through a lot of things. Draco had said the same thing from the moment that they had started dating. And now things had gotten worst, her family doesn't approve their relationship. Who could blame them? Even though he had changed a lot, he is after all a Malfoy. A Slytherin, and things are getting worst. His father is a death eater, and just last week he had managed to escape in Azkaban. His father knows that he is dating the youngest Weasley, and what he got so far is a threat that if he ever plans to marry her his father will going to disown him. It's already too late, father. Draco said to his self. I already did.
Draco looks at Ginny one more time, she had stops from crying. It pains so much too see how she had suffered to all the things that is going on. "Don't cry, I assure you soon everything will be alright. Does anybody in Gryffindor house that we got secretly married last month?" ask Draco and Ginny's still not looking at him.
"No, how could I tell them. They already hate me for dating you, what more if I'll tell them that I no longer a single?"
"Good, because I have a plan" said Draco which made Ginny look at him.
"What plan?"
"Im planning that after the war is over, we're going to hide. Somewhere where nobody knows about us. Where nobody could judge us. Where nobody could ever go between us"
"What do you mean? We're going to run away?"
"It's not exactly running away. We're going to far away places. We are going to change out identity and we will not come back again into this place. We're going to start a family somewhere where nobody could ever know this whole thing. Anywhere… there are so many places to choose. You choose and we will go there. Africa, Asia, Australia or even America" explains Draco. Ginny look at him seriously and she could tell that he is not joking at all.
"Is that your plan? Sounds good to me"
"We will leave this place. I already planed everything. I already talked to Vincent, Greg and Pansy about this, and they're going to help us. We will go somewhere and forget about everything, even magic. When all goes well according to plan, everybody will going to think that we died from the war" finishes Draco.
"What do you mean by forget about magic?" ask Ginny.
"We're going to settle down in a muggle world"
"But Draco, how are we going to survive in a muggle world. Especially you, you don't know anything about the muggle world" said Ginny with a hint of worry in her voice. "Why muggle world?"
"The wizard world is too small. Whenever you go, no matter what happen they will going to find you. Trust me on this one… we are going to survive"
"I do" said Ginny and Draco smiled at her. Just one smile coming from him felt like that everything in her world seems to stop. Draco looks at the watch hanging on his room.
"It's getting late. Why don't you just sleep here tonight and tomorrow we will go to Hogsmeade and buy those things that we need" finishes Draco as he pulls the blanket over their body. "You're the best thing that had ever happened to me, nobody could ever take you away from me. I love you Ginny, my little angel"
"I love you too, Draco" and they kissed each other as they lay on bed to sleep.
PRESENT TIME
MCBRIDE RESIDENCE
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
"Did you heard what I said?" asked Draco to his wife for the second time. The couples are sitting on the balcony overlooking at the city. They are currently staying at their Los Angeles home. Draco has some important business to attend. Just last week he had announced to the media he's retirement as a producer in Hollywood. Same as Ginny, she already quit from her job. Although she will continue to write books whenever she has a time.
"Im sorry" Ginny said to her husband. She is watching Jet and Destiny playing tennis. "What did you say again?" as she turned away her head and looks at Draco.
"I said you and the kids are the best thing that had ever happened to me" Draco said as he smiles at his wife and hold her hands.
Ginny smiles back at her husband. "It's been twenty years ago since the first time that you had said the same words to me" she said.
"I just suddenly remembered that night, inside my room. When I told you about my plan, about us living in muggle world. And look at us… we found a way to live here in a muggle world and now its strange that after twenty years we will going back to where we're suppose to belong" Draco stated.
"How unlike of you to think about the past" Ginny said as she look into her husband searching for a hint of any feelings that might surface out of him, but there was none.
"I know… how interesting how unlike of me to think of those things. I've never been happy with my life not until you came in. You showed me something that is rich and fame could not offer me. Im happy that you came into my life"
"Neither do I. As I told you before, no matter where we go, no matter how long it is our past is not something that we just cant escape. It will always be there" stated Ginny.
"I know, Im glad that everything are coming to whole piece. The missing pieces of our life are all coming together"
"I love you… Draco Malfoy"
"I love you too…Ginny Weasley Malfoy"
Destiny and Jet had stopped playing tennis for a while to take some rest for a while. The term is over and they are already on their summer vacation. Since there's still two weeks left before the upcoming Hogwarts Alumni, they decided to go to California with their parents to visit some old friends.
"What do you think is going on there?" asked Destiny to her brother and she pointed their parents from where they are sitting.
"I don't know" replied Jet as he drink he's bottled coke. "Have you decided what kind of career your going into?"
"Not yet" replied Destiny with a sigh. "Grandpa told me that we don't have to work if we don't want to. He said that the Malfoy family have enough fortune that could last for the next hundred of years"
"I know as a McBride's we have money, well considering that we are part of Hollywood elite. But as a Malfoy's I never thought that we could be this rich. Dad is really rich eh?" asked Jet to his sister "Ah well, look at mom and dad. Its nice to see that after all these years they are still in love with each other"
"Yeah, they've been through a lot of things. So anyway how is it going with you and Pam?" asked Destiny, curious about her brother's relationship with her friend.
"We're ok. It's only been a week since I saw her and I'm missing her already" Jet revealed with a sigh. "What about you and Potter?" he asked teasing her, although he knows that the only thing that they had done so far a little date at Hogsmeade.
"Its frustrating Jet. Don't even ask me about it. He hasn't asked me out yet" said Destiny feeling annoyed.
"That's funny. Maybe he is torn between his feelings for you and his friendship with John Weasley. You can't blame him, the bloke doesn't know that John Weasley is our cousin" he stated testily.
"As of yet, no. I wonder what will be their reaction once they find out about it. I can't wait to see Weasley's face" stated Destiny, until now she still have a strong aversion to John Weasley. She just can't stand the way he acts like he knows everything.
"Lets go in, I'm starving!" said Jet as he walks away. Destiny looks at her brother as he went inside. She looks at the sky thinking about James Potter.
TO BE CONTINUED