A/N: That was pitiful!!!!!!!! Only 9 reviews!!!!! I hope you guys learned your lessons! If you don't review, I have no motivation to write. So I hope you love the chapter! Have fun reading it… PS when I don't post for a while, I'm probably going to make a longer chapter than usual.
I went sky diving. I went Rocky Mountain climbing.
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
And I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter,
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying,
And he said, someday I hope you get the chance, to live like you were dying. - live like you were dying, by Tim McGraw
Ginny felt numb as she walked out of heaven. She had no idea where she was going. She was merely following Draco to what she knew was the gate.
She saw the angel at the gate. She looked at Draco, he looked extremely grim. Before she could pass through the gate, the angel stopped her.
"You can't go leave," he answered.
"Why not?" she asked. She didn't want to deal with this.
"Because you're dead. Dead people can't just go back to earth."
"I'm not dead," she replied, clearly wanting to just go home.
"Then why are you in heaven?"
"It's none of your damn business! If I want to be in heaven, I can fucking be in heaven!"
"What's your name?"
"Ginevra Weasley."
She watched irritably as he looked through his book.
"Yeah, you're right; you don't die for another eight months, six days, four hours, thirty-nine minutes, and twenty-three seconds."
Ginny glared at the angel, before walking through the archway and getting on Draco's winged back. Draco took off into the blue sky.
The trip home seemed hours shorter than the trip there. In minutes they were back at Hogwarts.
Draco flew in through the open roof in the owlery. Ginny got off his back, and looked around. There was dead mice and bird poop everywhere. Within seconds, Pig had flown over to her, and sat down in her hand.
"Hi Pig!" Ginny exclaimed. All her problems seemed to go away for a second, as Pig nipped at her fingers.
"Is this your owl?" Draco asked.
"No, it's Ron's," Ginny replied, "Do you want to hold him?"
"Umm, I don't think Ron would like it very much if I touched his owl."
"Oh, he won't care. Pig, this is Draco!" Ginny said putting Pig on his shoulder. Pig quickly nuzzled against Draco's neck. It was obvious he liked Draco.
Draco put him down on the ground. He rubbed up against Draco's leg. Ginny giggled; it was adorable.
They soon went down the stairs, out into the corridor. Once they had left the owlery, the atmosphere changed completely. It was once again miserable. They walked all the way back to the Gryffindor common room, but before Ginny could go through the portrait hole, Draco caught her by the hand.
"Now that I know that you won't be here forever, I want to spend every second of my life with you," he whispered into her ear, pulling her close. "I never want to let you leave my side. I would give anything to keep you alive." A single tear slipped down his cheek.
"My life wasn't supposed to end like this. I mean, I can't believe that my life will be over this soon. I was supposed to grow up, become a Healer, get married, and have three kids, two girls and a boy old, get old with my husband, and die of old age at the same time as him!" Ginny sobbed.
"Yeah well life isn't exactly going the way I planned either. I have to look after the damn kid for the first eighteen years of its life. It's part of the rules. Yeah, it sucks you know, this has just ruined our lives, but I have a feeling that the next eight months will be the best of my life."
"Well I'm going to go to bed ok?" Ginny turned to go through the portrait hole.
"Goodnight," Draco whispered so softly that Ginny didn't even hear him.
It took a couple days, but Ginny finally got back into the swing of life. Hermione had covered for them perfectly. She said that neither Harry nor Ron knew anything about where they had gone.
Ginny spent all her free time with Draco or Hermione, who she found to be great comforts. She was a little depressed about the news, but she tried to be as optimistic as she could.
Harry had figured enough of it out that Hermione had just told the rest. There was no point of him thinking that some of the rumors were true and telling Mrs. Weasley.
One day about a week after they had gotten back, Ginny was sitting in the common room, doing her Transfiguration essay. She was getting sick of her homework, what was the point if she wasn't even going to live long enough to get a job?
She closed her book and stared into the fire. She barely noticed when Hermione came over and sat down next to her.
"Hey," murmured Hermione, making Ginny snap out of her trance.
"Hey," Ginny replied. Her gaze traveled to her Transfiguration book. "Is there any point of OWLs?"
"Of course there is," replied Hermione, shocked that Ginny would even suggest that there wasn't.
"I mean for me, I know that they are a way for employers to know who the smart kids are, but I won't need them; I'd rather do something useful with the rest of my life, like help people at a homeless shelter, or something fun like go skydiving, or mountain climbing. I wish I wasn't stuck here in Hogwarts for the last months of my life."
"Ginny, what's it like?"
"What's what like?"
"What's it like to know exactly when and how you're going to die, but not be able to do anything about it?"
"I dunno. It's kind of like falling I guess. Falling from a million feet up, without a parachute, knowing you're about to crash into the ground."
"Wow, I can't even imagine being in your situation."
"It's really not that horrible, yet. I guess it will be in a few months, when I gain twenty pounds, and have to worry about the end of year exams."
"Don't worry, I took them last year, they aren't really that hard."
"But you're super smart."
"I am not!" Hermione's cheeks flushed, "I just try harder."
"What ever, I'm going to bed, ok?"
"Ok goodnight." Hermione watched Ginny walk up to her dormitory. She felt terrible about it, but there was nothing that she could do.
Day after day passed, each more monotonous than the previous one. Soon Ginny noticed Professor McGonagall was passing around the 'stay over the holidays' paper.
Ginny wondered what she should do. Part of her wanted to get away from Hogwarts, and go home to her family, but another part of her wanted to stay with Draco.
She went to her dormitory, still puzzled about what to do. On one hand she could go home and tell her parents that she was pregnant, on the other, she didn't think she'd be able to without Draco.
She got out a spare bit of parchment and a quill, and began to write a letter to her mother.
Dear Mum,
I was wondering if I could have one of my best friends come over for Christmas. I want to come home for the holidays, but I don't feel good about leaving my friend here alone. I would appreciate it a lot. I can't wait to see you then!
Missing you terribly,
Ginny
The next day, Ginny walked up to Draco. He was sitting in a hidden corner of the library, reading a book Ginny had never seen before.
"What are you reading?" Ginny asked, sliding into the seat next to Draco. His cheeks turned red, as he showed her the cover of the book. It was entitled Parenting for Dummies.
"I though, I'd better get ready, only seven more months to go," Draco replied.
"Draco, will the baby be born with wings?"
"I'm not sure. I hope not, that might be a little bit hard to explain to the Healers."
Ginny giggled at the thought of Draco trying to explain why their baby had wings.
"Anyways why did you come here," Draco asked.
"Can't I come here just to be with you?"
Draco looked at her skeptically. "I dunno, can you?"
"Yes I can!" she replied enthusiastically, "but I didn't today. I wanted to ask you, if you would mind coming to the burrow with me over Christmas break."
"I'm sorry Ginny, but there is no way in hell you could make me spend three weeks in your house."
"Pretty please! Pretty please with sugar on top!"
"No."
"Please, I want to tell my parents, but I don't think I can do it without you."
"No, Ginny!"
"Please, Draco, if you do this I'll never ask you for anything ever again!" She started crying for no reason Draco could see.
"Ginny, please don't cry. Look, I'll make you a deal; we can spend half of the vacation at your house, and half at my house."
"But, your dad hates me. He tried to kill me in my second year remember?"
"He doesn't hate you, and besides Malfoy Manor is so big that you don't even have to see him."
"Ok."
Before she knew it, they were loading the trains to take them back to king's cross for the holidays. She sat in a compartment alone with Draco.
"So are you thinking of naming the baby?" Draco asked her.
"I dunno. I haven't really thought about it really," she replied, "Have you thought of any names?"
"Well if it's a girl I was thinking of Brooke, or Cassandra."
"You know what name I love for a boy? Justin."
"Yeah that's a nice name."
"What about Katie?"
"Uh huh, that's good too, but I don't want it to have a common name though, like Sarah, or Emily."
"Me neither. I want it to be the only one with its name. You can bet there's no other Ginevra's in Hogwarts."
"Yeah, no other Draco's either."
"Well what other boy names do you like?"
"Patrick or Brett."
"Or we could name him Harry!"
"We are NOT naming him Harry! There is nothing you could say that would convince me to name him Harry."
"Relax I was just kidding," Ginny soothed him, kissing him lightly on the lips. "What about Alex."
"Yeah I like that name. I knew a kid named Alex. He graduated last year. He thought me everything I know."
"Ok, not Alex. What about Bryson?"
"Yeah, Bryson, I like it. Yeah, that's what we'll name him, but what if he's a girl?"
"What about Harmony?"
"No, I don't really like that name too much."
"Hillary?"
"I don't know I still kind of like Brooke and Katy."
"What about Hannah?"
"No," he said a little too quickly.
"Why not?"
"Never mind, let's not worry about names right now, we still have a while," he said in a final tone of voice, "You know I'm kind of scared about raising this baby without you."
"I wish there was some way I could be with you," she commented softly, laying her head down on his chest.
"I'm going to miss…" he paused mid sentence, "Someone was at the window. They saw us; I bet they heard us too."
"You're just being paranoid. No one knows except Hermione."
XxX
"Look at these!" Colin Creevry exclaimed waving photos in front of Ron's face. Ron was the only one in the compartment at the moment.
"Are these real?" he asked shocked. The photos were of Draco and Ginny together kissing all over the place.
"Yes, they are!"
"I can't believe this! How can they do this?"
At that moment Harry and Hermione walked through the door.
"Well I guess he knows," Harry commented.
"Finally, I was beginning to think he'd never find out," Hermione replied.
"You knew too? You know, it's bad enough that you never told me, but it's even worse that Ginny, my own sister, never told me." Ron told them.
"So what are you going to do?" Harry asked.
"I'm going to outwit Draco conversationally! What a fine game of cat and mouse that will be."
Harry and Hermione started cracking up.
"What happens in cat and mouse when the cat is retarded?" Colin wondered. This comment made Harry and Hermione laugh more.
"So what are you planning to say to him?" Hermione inquired.
"Oh, it'll come to me in the heat of the moment."
"Don't you think you should plan it out a little?" Harry asked, but Ron had already set off down the hall.
He slammed Ginny and Draco's compartment door open.
"Do you have anything to tell me Draco, if that is you're real name?" Ron asked.
"Well, I guess you know about me and Ginny."
"Oh don't pretend to not know what I'm talking about."
"What's to pretend? I admit it; I've been messing around with Ginny."
"Well…" Ron started but couldn't think of anything else to say. He stepped back to throw a punch at Draco, who then stepped out of the way. Ron ran head first into the seat. "My eye!" he screamed, holding his hand tightly over his eye and running frustrated back to his compartment.
A/N: So… did you like it? I thought it was a pretty cool chapter personally. I told you in like the 5th or 6th chapter that I love That 70's Show… So did anyone catch it… anyone? I don't feel like writing out a long thing for each of you so…
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Lady Alionae- you caught me… just to spite you! But don't worry, I still have no idea at all if she's going to die or not. It all depends if I'm in a bad mood when I write that part.
NeoAddctee- did you completely skip the chapter that she tried to get an abortion in cuz it didn't work, since Draco's an angel.
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The happy people who like your story- actually your review finally motivated me to write after sooooo long.
From 'How can they do this' to the end- thats basically all from That 70s Show... I'm sorry if Ron was really OOC, but he's the most like Kelso out of all of them, and I've already told you that Hyde is my insperation for Draco, so it worked out really cutely...