Disclaimer- not mine! JKR owns Potterverse

Title: I will always love you

Authored by: Gail

Summary: When Ginny discovers she is pregnant with a miracle child (means no one knows how it happened) and then sees Harry proposing to someone, she runs away to America, what happens when about 5 yrs later poor unsuspecting Harry turns up there with Ginny's brother? Overused plot…I know, I like the characters. H/G, CW/OC

Rating: T for language, talking about sex, suggestions of abortion, etc.

A/N: Wow, it's been long huh? I was taking a break from studying and I realized that this chapter had been finished a while ago…sorry. I am in the middle of my exams, which will end on the 24th. Then it's summer! Yay! Hope you like this chapter because I really enjoyed writing it. Update on Hello Life: it's coming along, I promise, I'm having a bit of a writer's bloke in that area, but the next chapter is going to be extremely fluffy!

Chapter 5

Friday came soon enough, but Lily's teacher postponed the meeting to 3 o'clock after which Vi was required to attend a meeting with a customer who wanted snacks to be catered at his party.

She dropped off Lily at home and went back to open her shop, leaving Harry in charge of her five year old daughter.

Lily rolled on the floor laughing, "You've never played hide and seek?" Harry smiled shyly, "Not the way you do I guess. Well, I used to hide and my cousin Dudley would seek me out so he could beat me up."

"Oh. Wow! That's mean!" Harry nodded, "Yeah, he was a mean kid, but then when I grew older and stronger he could no longer intimidate me." Lily looked up at where he was sitting on the couch, "So you never played a proper game of hide and seek? Even with your kids? I mean mum always plays with me."

He looked at her in confusion, "Lily I don't have any children. No wedding band, see." He held up his hand for inspection. Her mouth formed an 'oh' expression which made him ask, "What made you think I was even married?"

Lily shrugged, "I don't now, just one of those things I guess." Harry watched her frown in thought as she started gazing out of the window. She startled him by asking, "Have you ever been in love Mister Potter?"

He looked at her and winked, "Why miss Lily, who is the young man who has stolen your heart? Could it be young Mister Ryan who you were talking with a few days ago?"

Lily wrinkled her nose in disgust, "Eew! No! Ryan's icky, he puts snot on other kids! And I am not in love, I was just wondering…" She trailed off. Watching her facial expression go from childish disgust to an almost longing look mixed in with pain and hopelessness Harry realized she was being serious.

"Is this about your parents Lily?"

Lily nodded and Harry felt her sorrow creep into his heart. "I heard your mother told you about your father."

She nodded, "She said he is a very good man."

"So how come he isn't hear taking care of you?" Harry asked. He knew that Vi had run away but he wanted to get the story from Lily. He didn't know what it was, but something about them intrigued him and he wanted to learn more about Vi and Lily. Something told him that it was important for him to know.

She bit her lip and started playing with the threads of the carpet as she replied, "Well, My dad doesn't know about me. Mum never told anyone, she just ran away."

Harry looked at the young girl and asked, "But shouldn't he be told about you, after all he is you father."

Lily shook her head, "I understand my mother's decisions. You see, my mom had loved my father for a very long time. And as long as he was happy, it was all that mattered. She held the kind of love for him. The kind that makes us want to do anything and everything to ensure that the person that we love is happy.

He was happy when she left, he had a fiancé that he loved and my mum didn't want to take it away from him. If she had told him and he said that he didn't want anything to do with me, her family would have hated him. And that would have made him sad because he was a very close friend of the family's. But if he said that he wanted to be a part of my life, it would have only succeeded in bringing him unhappiness because it probably would mean the end of his engagement. His fiancée hated my mum, obviously she would hate me and mum didn't want me to be around anyone who would treat me badly. Finding no solution to her problem, she left. Besides she was only 19 and the brain doesn't really develop until a person is 25, so even if you feel that she made an impulsive decision, she really can't be blamed."

Harry nodded cursing the father silently for creating such troubles, even if it was unknowingly, for the young mother and her daughter. He must have been a stupid bloke to not fall in love with such a beautiful and kind woman. (a/n: oh so sappy! And I 'm having so much fun writing it!)

"Are you ever going to go and find him, you know just to meet him." He watched, confused, as she fidgeted after hearing the question. Finally she shook her head,

"There's no need, I already know enough about him from what all mum has told me. Plus I am afraid to tell him because he might not love me, since he never loved my mother." She explained.

Harry wondered who the foolish man was who didn't love Virginia and then wondered how anyone could not adore the child sitting in front of him.

On impulse he gathered her in his arms and hugged her tightly, "The man would be a fool if he didn't love you Lily. This might be my opinion, but I think he should be made responsible for his actions. After all he was engaged to someone else when your mother was pregnant…" Harry realized that he was talking to a five-year-old child about baby- making and groaned in his head.

Lily shook her head; it was amazing that such a young child could talk so seriously, "It was no one's fault. I wasn't made the usual way. Even mum doesn't know how it happened. But Great grandpa and Professor Dumbledore think I was formed the same way Godric Gryffindor was, through magic."

Harry soaked in the information, "You are a miracle child."

He frowned as he saw her pretty little face twist in displeasure at his words for a few seconds. "I guess you could call me that." She replied to the statement quietly.

Harry put his finger under her chin and lifted her face so that she was looking at him. "You listen here young lady. You are not JUST a miracle child. That is not your identity. Who you are depends on your personality, and you have a beautiful one. Never let what you are define who you are.

I can understand how you feel, because people would see me in a certain way because I was The-Boy-Who-Lived, but then they stopped because I showed them that I was more than just that, and you, must do the same. Do you understand?"

Lily smiled gratefully at him and nodded. Then she looked up at him once again and said, "You never answered my question."

Harry sighed. The child was so persistent. He watched as the child started to fiddle around with his hands and started his tale.

"I used to think I was. There was a woman I was engaged to. She seemed to be perfect. I used to think that we would always be in love, never fight, always support each other, raise a family together and live happily ever after. I had thought that she loved me as much as I loved her. But I was wrong."

"What happened?"

"One of my friend's sister (who was also Charlie's) ran away. Her whole family was really distressed and I was helping them look for her. I don't know why but Maureen started to say really horrible things about them, the family she knew had taken care of me since I was ten. I couldn't believe it. I refused to listen to anything she said about them and we broke it off. Then she went gave an interview on me and went and married a former death eater." Harry chuckled mirthlessly. His eyes reflected the pain in his heart. "I should have seen it coming."

Lily moved up and hugged him. "She was stupid. You are a really nice person."

Harry chuckled and rubbed her knuckles on her head. Lily got off his lap and started to colour in her colouring book. Harry let out a chuckle as he watched her colour the boy's face orange. She looked up at the sound, confused because she was unable to comprehend what he found funny.

He shook his head and Lily went back to her colouring. A few minutes later the ever-curious child asked without looking up, "Do you have a girlfriend now?"

The question caught Harry with as much surprise as her earlier one.

In his shock he did not question her curiosity, instead he found himself blurting out the answer, "No, I haven't dated since my engagement broke a little more than five years ago." He wasn't able to keep the bitterness out of his voice.

Lily finally looked up, her bright emerald green eyes round, "Wow! That's a long time. You must have really loved your ex-fiancée!"

Harry frowned, he never realized that it would seem that way. No wonder Ron and Hermione kept giving him sympathetic looks whenever one of their old classmates announced their engagement or got married. And that had happened many times in the past few years, first when they got married, then Luna and Neville's engagement and wedding, then Lavender and Seamus's, then the surprising union of Hannah Abbot and Oliver Wood, and then Parvati and Dean's who had only gotten married a few months ago.

"No, Lily it's just I haven't had time, you know being an Auror and all. It's been really busy for the past few years. Plus when I'm not working I am helping the Weasleys, Charlie's family, look for his sister." He didn't know why he was giving Lily any explanations, but everything seemed to be tumbling out of his mouth.

Lily looked down on her book and started colouring furiously, "Do you know why that girl ran away?" she asked.

"No, we still haven't figured it out, all she wrote in her letter was that she hoped we would have a wonderful life, that all our wishes came true, she said she was leaving because there was someone very important to her she needed to be with, and not to look for her. She said she was sorry, but there was nothing she could not do that living there, it would only hurt everyone. We never found out who she was talking about, but her brother, my best friend, is convinced that she ran off with our enemy, Draco Malfoy."

"No, why would she do something like that. That's just stupid!" Harry was shocked at the harshness in her voice. She seemed to realize what she said and the girl flushed slightly before answering in a calmer voice, "I mean, why would she run away with her brother and friend's enemy and that too Draco Malfoy?" She spat out the name.

"You know who Draco Malfoy." It wasn't a question but Lily answered it as if it was anyway, "Everyone knows who he is Mister Potter. His minions aren't only in England."

The anger in her voice caught Harry's attention. Suddenly she didn't seem like a five year old at all, her voice sounded old and worn.

"What did they do Lil?" Harry asked Lily softly.

She had stopped colouring. She threw the crayon and it landed with a muffled 'thunk' on the sofa in front of her.

"Last year Aunty Gaurika convinced my mum that she needed to try to get over her heart break over my father and start dating again. A lot of men who came to the shop used to ask her out, but she never encouraged them, instead she would politely turn them down. Then last year, she started liking this guy who would came to the bakery frequently. They dated for a few months. He turned out to be completely different then what he had he had acted like first. He was no longer charismatic, kind, considerate; he turned out to be one of Malfoy's cronies who had gotten word that she was one of Dumbledore's contacts here. We only managed to contact some Aurors who arrested him."

Harry went and sat beside her and started stroking her back. He could see the tears falling from her eyes and dissolving on the brightly coloured face on the paper. "I think I know who you are talking about. I know what he did to all of you, I read the report in England, his trial took place there. He is in Azkaban now; he won't try to hurt you anymore."

Lily nodded silently. "Is this why you get nightmares?" Harry asked.

Lily looked at him again. Her green eyes glittered with the tears that they held. "I see him, Malfoy hurting mum nearly every night. Using curses on her that make her scream in pain, I see her flesh tear and bleed. It's the same thing every time. I also see my father; he's the only good thing in them. He's the one going to save her. I don't know why I have these dreams or what they mean. Sometimes I think that it's a warning against meeting my father because it might happen if I contact him. But for most part it seems like these dreams are telling me to get in touch with him. I really don't know what to do. I know if I write to him he probably won't believe me, plus mum would be furious and hurt. I really don't want her to be hurt ever again. Too many people have hurt her already. But I am afraid somebody will…soon."

Harry nodded in understanding. "I know how you feel. I used to have nightmares too. I used to see my loved ones get hurt. Lily, if you ever feel threatened by anyone or just need someone to talk to other than your mum or Gaurika, you can speak with me. Here, come with me." Lily followed her father into the room he was sharing with her uncle and watched him take out a mirror. He put some spell on it and handed it to her and said, "This used to belong to my godfather. I have my father's. If at anytime you want to contact me, all you have to do is look at the mirror and say 'Harry'. If I have the mirror at that time (I usually will carry it with me) you will be able to talk to me through it." He pulled out the other one from his trunk and grinned at her and said, "Go on, try it."

Lily looked at her mirror and said his name. Although she had believed him, she was still shocked to see his face smiling at her from the mirror.

"That is so cool!" She exclaimed and jumped up at him and hugging him with her small, slightly chubby due to baby fat arms.

Harry laughed and hugged her back. He had to admit this trip, although it was for work, had helped heal the emptiness in him that had been created since Voldemort's death better than anything.

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A/n2: 18 reviews! Yay! Arianna of Bellezza pointed out that Gaurika referred to Ginny by her real name while talking to Harry in Charlie in the last chapter…I really meant to put Vi there, so please ignore that. I hope everyone like this chapter. It's one of my favourites up till now. Please keep reading and reviewing:)