A/N: I have had a request to stop using the I's as a break so now when I want to break something up I'll simply put BREAK.

"Mum wants us at the Burrow this weekend. The whole family is coming in." Ginny informed Harry after she read the letter that had just arrived in their office the next afternoon.

"Oh?" He looked up from the report he had been working on. "What time?"

She yawned and scanned the letter quickly. "We are expected at five."

"Good. Your mother is a fabulous cook." Harry went back to writing.

She got up slowly and put her arms around his neck from the back, lightly squeezing him. He stiffened before put a hand up on her arms. She kissed his cheek before speaking. "You are a good cook as well." He looked up at her questioningly so she winked. "I'm better than you are, of course, but that's nothing to be ashamed of."

He chuckled. "See? You still make me laugh. Generally we are laughing at me but at least we laugh."

She straightened slightly and mussed his hair. "I have to go and speak to…"

"Afternoon you two." Tonks came strolling in to their area.

Ginny grinned at her. "Just the woman I was going to find. We need to get our travel information for France next week."

"Bad news." Tonks replied before running a hand through her lilac colored hair. "You are leaving tomorrow morning. I have the itinerary right here."

She handed a sheet of parchment to Harry who read through it before handing it to Ginny. They had a portkey leaving for France at 8:00am the next morning. "Why was it changed?"

Tonks shifted about on her feet before answering. "The Minister decided to send you early. I think it was to pacify the French Ministry."

"So does that mean…" She stopped speaking as a memo flew. She caught it deftly and unfolded it. "Damn!" She swore. "We need to go. Muggles were just attacked and the Hit Wizards think that the Death Eaters might still be in the area."

"Can you move quickly enough to go?" Harry asked her.

"I'm much better today." She felt a twinge in her ribs as she donned her cloak. "Maybe I'll let you play the hero today and I'll guard your back."

He chuckled. "Thank you. You are too kind."

They walked out to where the rest of the group was gathered and received the location of the muggle attack. Ginny, Harry, Tonks and Dawlish Apparated to a small village or rather what was left of the village. The town was in ruins and smoke rose from many of the twisted piles of rubble. A man in his late twenties came running to them. "One of the muggles said that she saw men in black cloaks walking off in to the forest." He pointed off to their left. "Do you need any assistance?"

"No." Dawlish answered. "Secure the town and send back a status report to the Ministry."

"Yes sir." The man answered before moving back to searching the fallen houses.

Tonks took a deep breath. "Let's go."

They spread out and slowly entered the dark forest. Harry began scanning the area around them while Ginny kept watch. It was arduous work, searching through the dense forest and she felt herself start to weaken physically before they had gone more than ten minutes. "Harry." She called in hushed whisper.

He was at her side in seconds. "What's wrong?"

She closed her eyes in humiliation but opened them quickly, and continued to monitor the area. "I shouldn't have come. I'm already tired and getting sore." She swallowed the lump in her throat. "I'm sorry."

"Oy!" They heard a call from farther in. "We found their robes but the Death Eaters appear to be gone." Tonks walked over and looked hard at Ginny. "You look like bat droppings. Are you all right?"

Ginny was about to lie when her vision started to blur. She blinked several times and it cleared. "I think it would be best if I went home. I'm still not at my best after our trip to France."

"Right. Harry, take her home and then get back here. We have to thoroughly survey the area before we can leave." Tonks instructed them and she turned to walk to her partner.

He gazed down at her. "I'm proud of you."

"Why?"

"You just admitted to a weakness. You know we've been hiding from those for years." He held out his hand. "Let's go home."

She took it and they Apparated back to their flat. He walked her down to his bedroom automatically and helped her in to bed. He even removed her shoes. "You have me spoiled." She managed to say but her eyes were already drifting shut. She did not know if he responded or not.

"Harry?" Ginny approached him cautiously in the deserted common room. His face was dark with anger.

He didn't even bother looking up at her. "You heard then?"

She sat next to him and put a comforting arm around the tall seventeen year old. "Hermione told me."

Harry shrugged off her arm and stood. She felt a pang of rejection but she ignored it. He paced quickly in front of her. "He almost died. I almost lost…" He stopped and looked in to the fire before punching hard at the mantle with a yell. To her surprise the bricks crumbled under the pressure and Harry did not even seem affected by it. "I HATE HIM!" He yelled at the fire. "Why couldn't Dumbledore just have told me the truth?"

"I don't know Harry." She stood and moved over to him before tentatively putting her arms around his waist. She had hugged him many times but it wasalwaysl awkward for her to do so. He amazed her by hugging her back. "Remus will recover though."

"He shouldn't be in St. Mungo's at all!" He exclaimed as he let go of her and turned away. "I wish I hadn't…"

"It isn't your fault though." She got into his face to stare him down. It was an odd thing to attempt since he was so much taller than herself. Ginny didn't let that deter her. "Dumbledore should have told you that Remus would be guarding you. If he had, then you wouldn't have attacked him!"

His face crumpled and he began to sob with his hands over his eyes. Ginny tried to hug him but he wouldn't let her get close enough. "I almost killed him! I had the sword and I almost…"

She pried his hands away from his face so that he would look at her. "This is Dumbledore's fault, not yours. You have to be careful and protect yourself. Remus won't blame you, Harry. He'll be damn impressed that you were able to take him down so easily."

A snort of laughter escaped his lips. "Thanks Gin." He hugged once again. "Have you noticed that it's always you and me these days?"

"Ron and Hermione are always there for you." She reminded him sternly.

He shook his head. "I mean for this kind of stuff. You are always helping me when I feel bad. They are always there training with me but… I just feel like you understand better than they do."

Joy ran through her, warming her entire body. "I'm glad to help."

"Promise me something?"

"Anything." She naively answered.

His intense eyes met hers. "Promise me that we'll never keep secrets from each other."

She didn't have to think long. "I promise."

Her eyes opened slowly as she looked around Harry's room. Dusk had settled around her and she sat up gingerly, relieved to notice that her body seemed to be obeying her commands. She walked slowly down the hall to the kitchen and found Harry sipping a cup of tea at the table. Guilt filled her again at the thought of keeping secrets from him but she couldn't confess that she loved him. He had seen her naked but had not even looked twice at her as a woman.

"Good morning." He chuckled and she started when she realized she had been staring at him.

"Hello." She replied groggily before sitting down.

"Do you want tea?"

She shook her head and sighed. "I had another dream."

Concerned filled his face. "What was it?"

"The time we promised never to keep secrets from each other. When Remus was hurt." She ran a hand over her face trying to remove the last dregs of sleep. "I think we'll be seeing him this weekend."

"Good." Harry finished his tea and set the cup down on the old wooden table. "I haven't seen him since my birthday." He stood and rinsed out his cup. "Are you feeling better?"

"Mmm." She mumbled. "I don't feel like cooking. Do you want to go out?"

"Let's order pizza." He said and walked over to a drawer. He searched for several minutes before locating his muggle cellular phone. "Glad I got this."

"So you can order pizza?" She grinned up at him. "You can be so lazy sometimes Harry."

He stopped dialing and turned to her. "You know, I think you're right. We'll go out and then go to the cinema. We haven't been in years."

"Oh, a date!" She exclaimed in mock excitement. She got up and walked over to kiss his cheek. "Let me go shower and make myself beautiful. I certainly can't go out with the famous Harry Potter when I look like an overworked house elf."

His laughter filled the room. "Don't take too long. I'm hungry."

She changed as quickly as she could and they left for a muggle pizza parlor that they frequented at least once a month. After eating they walked a block to the muggle cinema and bought tickets to see the movie 'Sweet Home Alabama'.

"What is this going to be about?" Ginny asked him as they sat in their seats.

"Dunno. I haven't heard much about these American films but it's a comedy." He put an arm around her and she leaned against his shoulder to watch the trailers come on.

"I'm so glad you made me come with you that first time." She whispered. "I like them even if they are all about muggles. Maybe some day there will be films about our world."

He laughed. "Maybe they'll tell our story and release it for everyone to see."

She snorted derisively. "I doubt anyone would want to see it. We are rather boring." The theater darkened and she fell silent.

BREAK

"It was a romance!" Harry groaned after they had Apparated back to their flat. "Bits of it were funny, but that was a romance."

She laughed at his indignant face. "Poor Harry!" She stuck out her lower lips and gave him an exaggerated pouting face. She expected him to join in her laughter but he simply stared at her. "Harry?" Ginny walked over and touched his arm. "Are you all right?"

He shook his head but mumbled, "yes."

"It's late. We should go to bed." She said finally since he appeared to still be in a daze.

His eyes widened and he nodded mutely.

They got ready for bed separately and she entered his room slowly, still confused about his behavior. She knocked gently as she entered but he was already in bed, facing the wall. "Harry? Do you want me to sleep by myself tonight?"

For a moment he didn't move and she felt her heart start to race. When he did turn his face was full of an emotion that she could not name. "No." He replied hoarsely as he lifted the blankets. "I want you here."

She climbed in and hesitantly moved towards him. "Did I do something?" Her traitorous voice wobbled revealing her fears to him.

"No!" The strangled word tore from his mouth. He pulled her on top of him and held her securely. "I don't know what's wrong with me but you didn't do anything." He ran a hand over her hair. "Go to sleep."

It did not come easy that night. Ginny tried valiantly to relax but she kept reliving what had happened before but could not figure out what she had done wrong. Finally sleep overtook her.

"Stupefy!" Ginny shouted and the red stream hit a Death Eater who fell unceremoniously to the ground. "Seamus!" Ginny ran over to her housemate but it was too late. There was nothing she could do about a death curse. She looked up through her tears at the battle that raged around her on the Hogwarts ground. In the distance she saw Ron and Hermione fighting off Death Eaters with the rest of the DA but Harry was not there. Where had he gone? She scanned the field and to her horror saw him dueling Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange at the same time. She started running towards them to engage Bellatrix in a duel.

"Look it's the smallest Weasel." Bellatrix taunted before throwing a killing curse at her.

Ginny dodge and attempted to stun her but she blocked it easily.

"Bellatrix!" Voldemort yelled at her. "Dumbledore!"

The older woman turned to the Headmaster who was now engaging Voldemort in the duel along with Harry. Ginny took her chance and yelled, "Reducto!" She spell went straight for her but not before Bellatrix shot off one last spell.

"Avada Kedavra!"

"NO!" Ginny screamed as she watched the green light sail towards their Headmaster. He was hit and fell immediately. Ginny turned back to curse Bellatrix again but was surprised to see the woman thirty feet away, not moving. She turned back to Harry and began firing spells at Voldemort. Harry withdrew the large sword that he always carried with him.

"Ginny!"

She sat up and started swearing. She looked over at Harry and saw his tired, apprehensive eyes. "Sorry. Final battle…" The rest of her sentence died in her throat and she lay back down.

"I have that dream often." He commented dryly.

"I…" Something occurred to her that had slipped her mind before. "Where's the sword?"

"What sword?" Harry yawned as he asked.

"Gryffindor's sword! The one you used to kill Voldemort." She reminded him as she leaned up on an elbow to look at him.

"I don't… I dunno." He answered slowly. "I think I dropped it after I killed him."

"It is odd that we've never heard anything else about it. Until my dream I had not even thought about it." She said before getting lost in his deep green eyes. The temptation to kiss him was almost overwhelming. Almost. She didn't want to lose her best friend, flat mate and partner.

He gazed up at her with that strange expression firmly fixed upon his face. "We need to sleep. We have to portkey to France tomorrow morning."

"I know." She lay down and put her head on his shoulder. She smiled in delight when he kissed the top of her head once again. "I'm sorry that you had to wake me again."

"Anything for you, Gin." He whispered huskily.

She giggled in nervousness. "You are such a flirt."

"You've found me out, then."

A/N: Okay, so traveling for seven hours really sucks! Anyway, I'm here now and posting for the day before I head off to do fun stuff with friends.

Thank you for reviewing! Thank you also to my Beta!

wvchemteach: There is method to my madness as far as the dreams go but also I am using them for things that the reader needs to see. They will be together soon…

kazziedal: Not anytime soon. Sorry!

Rivenn: The investigation won't be what you expect…

weselan: Sometimes I wonder where I'm heading as well… but that's usually after a lot of pain killers. To make my life easier I've started to write down the plan so I don't inadvertently forget it.

lifeisgood: Hopefully this keeps up…

realfanficts: I will update daily unless I specify otherwise or I'm unable to leave my bed. Anyway, I'm glad you liked it! I am kind of surprised that more people don't discuss other dark lords and such…

AllylovesHarry: I'm visiting friends and still having to work so it will be interesting but I plan on enjoying myself. I hope you have fun in Texas!

Harrie: Ginny's family knows and that is it. You got that from the second chapter when Ginny talked about them hiding it from everyone. Good question!

Anony: Part of my plan was to keep everyone in the dark so no worries. I'm glad you liked it!

Bukama Stealth: Be patient for a few more days and they'll be together. The suspense was driving me batty…

forgetyourwatch: Thanks!

hpgirl7777: It starts getting more romantic from here on out. I wrote Harry from what I've seen JKR do and also I know several men who would do that for the woman they… ah well, I think you can figure out the rest.

Harry and Ginny 4eva: Chapter 11

SaintEmo: Good… it was really intimate and that's why I did it.