Title: Things change.
Disclaimer: I own nothing that you have seen in any of the works of Ms. Rowlings.
Chapter 1: When things like this hurt
Ginny closed her eyes and braced herself. She could barely imagine the pain that she would be subjected to in a moment or two. Her wand and only line of defense had been forced twenty feet away from her by the large towering figure in front of her. The dark outline looked down at her as she lies in a crumpled mess, her rose red hair sprawled over her fair, delicate face.
"Please…" she pleaded up at him, "don't kill me...please I have a daughter..." Ginny pleaded helplessly.
"Liar," he said coldly," That child is not yours, it's mine."
"Please, Ron, she left Aurora to me...don't take me away from her too…" Ginny looked up at her brother, her brother, damn what had brought them to this.
Ron raised his wand, "Ad.."
Ginny covered her head with her arms and saw a glow of green light from behind her eyelids. She felt the weight of someone else on top of her, then...silence...
She opened her eyes to see nothing but complete darkness...there was a man on top of her, she gently pushed him onto the ground next to her a peered over at him trying to make out who it was. With the ill supply of light, she couldn't tell from looking. She ran her hands through his hair, ruff, messy. Her hand traveled down to the face, soft, smooth.
"Oh Harry, please don't be dead..." Ginny felt his neck frantically searching for his pulse; she found it and sighed slightly. "Wake up Harry," She brushed hair out of his face and kissed him lightly waiting for him to kiss back, 'kiss me back Harry, wake up and run your hand through my hair.'
Ginny felt a large wave of relief when she felt his lips move back against her and something stroke a bit of her hair. "Stay here," she said breaking away, "I'll go get help, and I'll be back."
"You owe me, Ginny." His voice creaked, the words turned into light the moment they left his mouth, the bright silver ban of light circled around Ginny's neck, falling to be a dainty silver chain holding a small circular medallion.
Ginny held the charm with one hand and held one of his in the other "I know, wizard's debt." She smiled softly in the dark; she leaned and kissed him softly. "I'll be back soon Harry" she said and apparated.
"My names Draco, Ginny, Draco Malfoy." he said to himself softly, mustering all the rest of his strength popping out of the scene and back to the Malfoy manor.
Ginny glazed at the picture on the wall, a muggle picture, Hermione's mother had taken it on the day that Ron and Hermione had gotten married. Hermione had been the most beautiful bride Ginny had ever seen, and Ron had looked so handsome. Ginny took a sip of her coffee and thought about all the things that had happened so many years ago.
She played with the sliver chain around her neck, "seven years ago and I still haven't paid this back, what do they want me to do? I mean, I'm even engaged to the man" she sighed and looked at the charm "one for me, and one for you" she read off the back of the small piece of silver for the millionth time.
"Mommy!" a small red haired child made her way rambunctiously down the stairs.
"Yes, Aurora?" Ginny answered.
"Can we have pancakes and pumpkin juice for breakfast?" Aurora asked hugging her push yellow cat tightly to her chest.
"Sure Rory, whatever you want baby." Ginny smiled running her hand over the girls hair kneeling down kissing her forehead, "Go get out the pumpkin juice and pancake mix okay?"
Aurora smiled, "Okay." she said cheerfully turning into the kitchen.
Draco sat down across the table looking at the girl from last night. Good looking girl, lush brown hair that curled at the tips, strong jaw line, deep cheeks, rosy red lips, and dark mysterious green eyes. They'd met the night before at a club Draco did some business at, only took him a few hours to get her back here. He felt rather accomplished of himself, she'd really been...talented and Draco had enjoyed her, but now it was time for her to leave.
"I think it's best if you leave shortly." Draco said folding one of his legs over the other with his arms loosely draped over the arms of the chair.
"What? But. I just woke up." The brunette said a little confused.
"Well, I guess that makes you lucky you're still here doesn't it." Draco raised an eyebrow waving in two house elves; one had a bag full of the woman's things and the other with his hand extended to the lady. "They'll show you the door."
The woman gave Draco a sinister look that could send chills down your spine, twice.
Draco made a face and his mother came into the dinning room. "Draco, really, when will you marry?"
"When I find someone that's worth it." Draco said lazily kicking his feet up onto the table and sipping his coffee.
"Why not just marry and have your affairs...then if you find the 'right' one, divorce and remarry?" Narcissa recommended. "You're going to need to be married if you want anything from that account your father set up for your twenty-fifth birthday..."
Draco frowned "You never told me that mother..."
Narcissa shrugged, "That's the deal your father made with the bank, you have to be twenty-five and married to get the money and the deeds."
"Shit," Draco sighed, "Well who am I going to find to marry?"
Narcissa smiled at her son and ran her hands over his hair and kissed his forehead "You'll figure something out," She smiled, "You always do."
Harry came up behind Ginny and wrapped his arms around her waist rubbing her stomach, planting a kiss on her neck. "Morning," Harry smiled, "Pancakes and pumpkin juice? Was that at the request of your lovely little niece?"
"Daughter, remember?" Ginny corrected him.
"You're too young to be a mother, but not to be an aunt, like you are. Plus, you'd have to be the Virgin Mary to be her mother." Harry pointed out, "You haven't even let me go there, and we're engaged."
Ginny gave him a look, "We've been over this, Hermione left her to me, and so she's mine. And, I just want you to have all of me." She smiled and gave him a kiss, "Now, go get dressed, you have to take Rory to school because I have to teach a class today."
Ginny worked at a local high school, a muggle high school. She taught English and she loved it. She needed to be in at 8am, but was already running a little bit late. She rushed upstairs throwing on a nice jean skirt and a plain v-neck 3/4 sleeved, red shirt. She put her hair up in a curly ponytail; she added a little bit of neutral foundation, dark brown eyeliner and mascara. She slipped on her red heels and grabbed her keys and purse, then rushed downstairs and kissed Aurora on the forehead and gave Harry a kiss goodbye.
"Have a good day you two, stay safe." Ginny smiled and walked out of the door, hopping into her small green Nissan Sentra, pulling out of the driveway and off towards the school.
She rushed into her office, "Okay!" she said more to herself, "I'm here, I made it." She looked at her wristwatch, "Seven fifty." Ginny smiled to herself grabbing her briefcase and walking into her adjacent classroom. She sat her briefcase down on her desk and, then sat on the edge of her desk crossing her ankles waiting for her class to filter in.
Draco ran a hand over his messy hair as he let himself into Ginny's office. He sat in the chair behind her desk, putting his feet up on the mahogany surface as he played with the silver chain and medallion that hung around his neck.
He waited for a long while before the dainty red haired Professor came back into her office. "Ah, Professor Weasley." He stood from his seat, as a man should do when a lady enters the room, fixing his black and green Armani suit.
"Malfoy? What do you want? What are you doing here?" Ginny raised an eyebrow closing her office door behind her settling her things down on her desk.
"You have a debt to settle with me, and I need a favor." Draco explained.
Ginny gave him a look, "What're you talking about? I don't owe you anything." Ginny laughed, "What could you want from me anyway?"
"Well you see, I need to be married to get the deeds to my house, and I need a bride before I turn twenty-five." Draco shrugged, "So I need a bride, and you do owe me."
"And what, exactly, do I owe you for?" Ginny asked sitting down on the edge of her desk as Draco sat in front of her in one of the chairs. She crossed her legs, and Draco moved his eyes up from her heeled feet, up her long legs finally looking her in the face again.
"Well, for saving your life." He crossed his legs and sat back in the chair, "I mean, you think that your little hero boy did it, but no, it was me."
Ginny scoffed and rolled her eyes "Oh, okay, because I believe that, entirely."
Draco held the medallion out, and gave her a look. Her eyes got wide, "but...it... was Harry..." she said shaking her head.
"And you still haven't paid him off after seven years? That's a little fishy" Draco laughed, "It's nothing really, just a ceremony, we can have our affairs, then divorce and remarry. Really simple, I just need the deeds."
Ginny shook her head "Isn't that going to be weird? Just out of nowhere we announce that we're engaged? We're not dating, and I'm engaged to another man," She said holding up her left hand.
"Yeah, you probably based that on something you thought he did, and he never corrected you." Draco took her left hand and slid the ring off.
"That's not true!" Ginny defended, "I'm marrying him because...I love him and he loves me and my daughter." she frowned, "Give me my ring!"
"Don't you mean niece?" Draco corrected her smugly. He shook his head turning her hand palm up and placing the ring in the center of it.
"Oh, I really cannot stand you, why are you still here?" Ginny glared at him, closing her hand in a fist around her diamond engagement ring.
"Because, you owe me, and you're to become my bride." Draco smiled and got to his feet. "Break it off with Potty, then we'll date for a month and I'll pop the question." He showed himself to the door, "Sorry love, but you owe me, and that's how it goes. My address is on the table, for when you move out."
Ginny paced a little shaking her head. "How could he have let me think that I've owed him for all these years for something that he didn't even do, uh!" she said with a frustrated tone, "It's like this whole relationship has been based on coddswallop bull crap." She angrily looked at the ring and slammed it on the table. "That lying stack of boy-who-lived crap!"
Harry, unsuspecting of what was waiting inside the den for him, walked in the front door of the small two story house, "Ginny, babe, you home?"
"Yes dear," Ginny replied sarcastically, "In the den."
Harry made his way towards the den hanging up his cloak and leaving his briefcase by the front door. He opened the door to the den to see her behind the desk. "Hi, honey, how was you're day?"
"Oh fine." Ginny nodded, "I had an interesting visit from Draco Malfoy today. He came to my office. Informed me why I still have a wizarding debt necklace stuck around my neck. A necklace that I thought I owed to you. Guess what.."
"What...?" Harry asked slowly.
"That I don't owe you shit. You've let me go on thinking that you saved my life for seven years now." Ginny gave him a deadly look. "Why would you do that Harry?"
"Ginny please, you have to understand..."Harry started "I thought I'd just forgotten, or you didn't know what you were talking about...I didn't mean to hurt you or lie."
"Well you did, and you know what I have to say about that?" Ginny asked not waiting for an answer, "I say that I'm done." Ginny pointed to the ring on the desk. "I'm taking Rory and leaving."
"Mom, what'd Harry do wrong?" Aurora asked looking at Ginny across the restaurant table, "Why can't we live at his house anymore?"
"Because...Mommy doesn't think it's best if we stay with Harry." Ginny answered, "But we're going to get our own house okay?" Ginny smiled taking the girls hands in her own. "Everything is going to be fine."
Aurora smiled at Ginny, "Okay mommy" she said going back to her funny face pancakes and orange juice.
Ginny sighed and shook her hand looking back at the apartments for rent in the paper. Something caught her eyes, an ad that read:
Malfoy Manor
One floor for rent. Four bedrooms, two baths, three closets (one walk
in), one den, one dinning area, kitchen in progress. 200 galleons, 50
sickles a month. Furnished. Open house Tuesday.
Ginny must have read it three times. "That's amazing...what...why?" She shook her head and remembered what Draco had said 'my address is on the table' "Oh god damnit," she said quietly, then looked over the paper at Aurora, "You done baby?"
Aurora nodded, "yes, are we going somewhere mommy?"
Ginny smiled, "Yes, we are."
"Oh Ginny, you can't be serious..." Molly Weasley looked at her daughter with wide eyes. "We didn't even know you were dating him, what happened to Harry?"
"Harry's a liar and a scoundrel. I've been with Draco for a little while...We're living together." Ginny said confidently screaming to herself on the inside, "He loves Rory... and me, and… we're getting married. Soon."
Molly felt her daughter's forehead "Are you under a spell? This is Draco Malfoy you're talking about."
"Mother!" Ginny frowned at her mother, "I am marrying Draco and that is that! Now if you would kindly tell the Twins and Bill that they are to be groomsmen and that Charlie is walking me down the isle, I'd be much obliged!" Ginny huffed and got to her feet apparating out of her mother's small house. Ever since her father had died Ginny's mother had been more and more on edge than ever.
"Rory?" Ginny called as she appeared in the third floor of the Malfoy Manor where her and Rory had lived for the past month and a half. "Rory?" She called again walking down the hallway and going towards the stairs. "Rory!" She said a little frantic.
Draco was on his way towards the third floor stairs when Ginny ran into his chest on the way down. "Oof!" Ginny said bouncing back off his muscular frame. She almost fell when Draco wrapped one arm around her back. Ginny pushed him back a little when she regained her footing.
"Have you seen Rory?" Ginny asked looking up at him. Draco nodded, "Yes, actually, my mother took her out shopping, for a flower girl dress."
"Oh well.." Ginny brushed some hair out of her face; "I'd like it if your mother didn't just disappear with my daughter..."
"She's not your daughter." Draco reminded her.
"Yes, she is." Ginny defended. She frowned and turned to go back up the stairs.
Draco grabbed her arm, "My mother thinks it strange that you sleep on a different floor, my suggestion is that you move into my room."
"Never." Ginny said quickly.
"Oh please Weasley, there's a secret room connected to mine, you'll be in there." Draco rolled his eyes, "And as I see it, you don't have a choice."
Ginny gave him a look. He returned it and flicked his wand, "Look at that, all your stuff is already in there."
Ginny scoffed. "Ass." She rolled her eyes, "So where is this new room of mine?"
"Follow me." Draco said turning off the stairs and going down the hall. "Malfoy, why is your house so dark?" Ginny asked curiously ask they walked down the hallway. All the curtains were closed and the candles only gave a little shimmer of light.
"Because that's the way we like it." Draco replied.
"That's an excellent reason. No wonder you're so frinkin pale." Ginny replied looking at the pictures on the wall, she rarely ever came down from the third floor.
"Now, now," Draco turned and stopped, making her run into his chest again, "That's not the way to talk to your husband."
Ginny rolled her eyes "I'll just be a bitter wife." Ginny commented. "Now, on with this room."
Draco turned and opened the door to his bedroom. The large bed with towering oak posts was in the center of the room; the dark green and black satin sheets and drapes glittered from the light in the fireplace. There was a handsome finely carved desk in one corner, extravagant wooden serpents wrapped around each leg. The tall fireplace sat on the wall parallel to the large bed, with the dark mantel, covered with moving portraits of people Ginny guessed to be generation of Malfoys past.
Draco called Ginny away from her surveying of the room, "The entrance is right here," He said pulling out his wand and tapping on the center stone in the wall three times. The stones that formed the wall shrunk away and made a door leading down a few steps. The secret room was smaller and more feminine. The bed looked about the size of a queen, laced with dark red satin sheets. The long drapes the hung over each post where they were tied back with thick cords of silver rope. The redwood desk was in the corner holding a long red candle on top of a sterling silver candlestick.
"Did you put a lot of thought into this room?" Ginny asked curiously turning her head looking back and up at him.
"A little, I figured you should start living like a Malfoy." Draco shrugged. "That's all. Dinner's at 8:30." Draco turned and went to exit the room.
"Wait! Since when are Rory and I eating dinner with you Malfoys?" Ginny asked frowning.
"Since that's what a wife does with her husband." Draco went to turn and leave the room, but he stopped and added on another thought "And please do wear the red and silver dress, I like those colors."
A/N: first chapter ! please tell me what you think, so I know if it's worth adding to or not. there may be some grammar mistakes and I apologize, but my word processor doesn't have any kind of grammar check. to tell the truth, the only reason all the words are spelled right is because of my lovely beta ashli. thanks again, please r/r. one last thought ! if anyone has a better title for this, please let me know !
Edit: I fixed all the spacing and the grammar, update really soon.