"So, Where have you been?" Harry opened his mouth to answer but Ron wouldn't let him, "Hold on Harry, I have a lot of questions for you and I'm going to ask them all and then you may answer them. Why didn't you write? Where the hell have you been? How could you not write knowing that we would think you to be dead? How could you do that to me? How could you do that to my sister? Why would you do that? Why would you want to do that?" Ron put his head in his hands and pulled his hands down over his face to look at Harry, Harry could tell that this was the time for him to answer.
"Ron I have been in Canada for the past few years. Why didn't I write? Honestly? Because I was afraid, I was afraid that after I had defeated Voldemort I wasn't the same person that you all knew, that I knew. I know I hurt you, and I know I hurt your sister, but honestly you haven't seen your mother or you sister in years am I right?" Ron nodded in agreement, "I think it's time you go and see your sister and your mother, I've been told I'm staying at Ginny's until I decide to move here myself so I figure I'll be here a while." Ron looked at him for a while, and then broke into a small smile.
"Come here you asshole." Ron came over to Harry and gave him a small hug, "But this does not mean that I am not still the least bit mad at you, you understand that right?" Harry nodded gratefully. "Now, I can't go to my sister just yet, I have some stuff to do today, tomorrow how about you and Ginny meet me at the Three Broomsticks?"
"Yeah, sure. I'll see you tomorrow." So Harry left Ron's and went to make his way back to Ginny's.
Harry slid the key into the key hole and proceeded into Ginny's house. He walked towards her room to return her owl to her perch, but he heard a distinct sobbing noise coming from her room, he looked through the opening in the door and noticed Ginny sitting alone on her bed crying her eyes out. Harry slowly walked into the room and cautiously sat down beside her, he put his hand under her chin and raised her head, his heart sunk as he looked into her teary eyes. It had been years since he had felt such emotions, he should have known that he would have to deal with these emotions when he came back. It was true, the reason why he had not come back, the reason why he had not written, was because he was afraid, he was afraid that his old friends would not accept him, that Ginny would not want to try to love him again since the battle, the battle that had changed his life, and these feelings, he realized, were the first step in recovering himself, the person he knew, the person they knew. "Oh god Ginny… I'm so sorry." He pulled her into a tight hug, "I know I said that I didn't know where to find you, but the truth is that I was terribly afraid…" Ginny looked up at him, he continued. "I was afraid, for one of the first times in my life, I was afraid, I was afraid that I was too different, that I wasn't the same, and that I wouldn't be able to be the person you all knew, that I knew, and so I assumed another identity William Durick, to get away from everything that had happened to me, and I moved to Canada, to avoid it. But now I realize what I ran away from wasn't bad at all, and the reason I ran away from it wasn't even valid. You see Ginny, for the first time since the defeat, I felt something, when I sat here and looked into your eyes and realized how much pain I had caused you, it hit me, that I hadn't really changed as much as I thought I had, it was just an excuse, to prolong my encounter with the people I knew, and the people I loved…" He looked at her, his eyes now brimming with tears, which was also new to him. He layed down with her and let her cry into his shoulder until they both fell asleep.
Harry woke up, and to his slight surprise, Ginny wasn't beside him anymore, he sighed, kind of disappointed. He got up and walked out into the hallways towards the kitchen where he heard quite a bit of yelling, it sounded like Ginny and Mark were having quite the fight. As he neared closer he realized that this fight was about him, once again, he was causing problems. Harry walked into the kitchen and stood in between them. "Will somebody please tell me what's going on?" Harry looked at Ginny who was shooting dagger glares at Mark, who was glaring at Harry.
"You," Mark started, "You can't just come back into her life like that, you caused her too much pain, and now you're just expecting her to forgive you, just like that?" So he saw Ginny and I sleeping together last night, he thought.
"Listen Mark, I'm thinking that you saw Ginny and I last night, and that is why your mad," Mark opened his mouth to respond, "However, nothing happened last night, I came home and Ginny was crying, I knew it was because of me, and I wanted to fix it, will you please stop trying to interrupt me?" Harry looked at Mark angrily, "I know I hurt her, I know that already, and somehow people feel the need to pull that out every time I turn around. You don't think I care? You think I forget about it that fast? Honestly! I fucking loved her! I still do! Is that what you wanted to hear? Well there it is." Harry turned and left the both of them standing there with open mouths, he slammed the door, he had nowhere to go. And then he remembered, he was supposed to meet Ron at the Three Broomsticks today, he sighed, with Ginny. He sat down on the steps of Ginny's house and put his head in his hands. Why, do I always find a way to fuck things up, He thought to himself, he felt a hand on his thigh, he looked to his left and saw that Ginny was sitting beside him. He put his arm around her, she sighed, then smiled.
"So you love me?" Ugh, he was already regretting saying that. But damn that smile of hers is contagious.
"Yes…" He sighed. She kissed him on the cheek.
"I love you too." They both grinned at each other, he grabbed her hand.
"Come on, let's go."
"Where are we going?"
"Well you see we are supposed to meet Ron at the Three Broomsticks, I had forgotten earlier and was just contemplating on what I was going to do when you came out to see me, which made the decision considerably easier."
"Oh I see," She kissed him quickly, "okay, let's go." He smiled a her and they left together.