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Chapter 4

Memories

Malia spent the whole day in her room looking at the boxes. She found more photos, mostly of Italy, where their marriage license said they were married. The pictures looked as though they were taken in random spots, there were pictures of her mother eating food, her father riding a bike, and them on a gondola. They were so random, yet they helped explain their personalities, what they did on the trip, and showed how much they loved each other.

When she finally got to the bottom of the heavy box, she found what made the box so heavy. There was a wooden crate in the box.

Inside the wooden crate, lay a pensive.

Malia was very tempted to touch it and go inside a random memory. She'd never seen a pensive before, but she'd learned about them at Hogwarts.

She lifted the crate out of the box, and then took the pensive out of the crate. There was no writing anywhere, not on the pensive or crate, to tell who put their memories in the pensive. She decided that the only way she would find out who the pensive belonged to was if she were to go inside a memory.

She slowly touched her hand to the pensive. Suddenly she felt like she was falling, until she looked around and noticed she was outside of Hogwarts during the winter, and it was freezing. She hoped this would be a short memory.

She saw two people walking hand in hand along the lake; they were the only two people she saw. They were laughing and cuddling, Malia thought they were insane to be outside of the castle when it was this cold.

"Draco?" she heard one of the people ask. "Why are you in such a great mood today? Didn't you say you had to write two-feet long essays for both Potions and Transfiguration last night? Usually you're grouchy after you write essays."

She could see the couple more clearly now, and saw red hair looking as though it was trying to hide under a huge hat. Malia thought that had to be her mother. She also could see her father's hair peeking out from under a hat he was wearing as well.

"Well," she heard her father's voice, "I'm just enjoying spending time with you. I think that spending time with the most beautiful and intelligent woman in the world is reason enough to be happy."

Malia noticed how open and happy her father felt with her mother. He could already see in his eyes just how much they loved each other.

"Well, you know what I think?" she heard her mother ask innocently. "I think you just want to get me out here so you can snog me senseless without worrying about people interrupting us; but, I know the reason I came out here was to…" she quickly tore their hands apart, bent over, and scooped up a ball of snow, "get in a snowball fight!"

She threw the snowball at him and hit him directly in the stomach. After the shock of her throwing a snowball at him faded, he bent over and picked up a hand full of snow. While he was doing that Ginny ran to the nearest tree for protection. "That was not fair," Draco said.

"Oh well, I guess you'll just have to deal with it," Ginny said while trying to look at where he was without moving from behind the tree. Right after that she felt ice hit her back. She turned around and saw Draco with his trademark smirk on his lips.

"The first thing you should know about hiding is to never do anything that could give away your location," he said. "Since you told me to 'deal with it' I did, and you actually helped me."

She stuck out her tongue at him, and he started to walk towards her. "Want to call a truce?" he asked.

"OK, but on one condition," she said.

"And what would that one condition be?" Draco asked.

"You have to give me a hug and kiss and tell me you're sorry," she said.

"I'm OK with the hug and kiss part, but you're the one who started this fight, so I am not saying I am sorry."

"Fine, I'll be happy with just a hug and a kiss I guess," she pretended to feel hurt. But Draco didn't fall for it.

"You'd better be happy with that, because that was all you were getting out of me."

"I bet I could get more than just a hug and kiss out of you," she smiled.

"I bet you could too," he smirked at her.

"So what really did you bring me out here for?"

"Follow me, I wanted to show you something."

Malia realized that she had to move. She felt like she was watcing a movie that muggles watch for entertainment. She followed them.

"Draco, why are you taking me into the Forbidden Forest?"

"We're almost there I promise."

They walked a bit farther until Draco stopped in front of a large group of trees and moved the branches out of the way so Ginny could get past the trees. As soon as she passed the tree, she gasped. Draco smiled at her reaction.

Malia walked into the area where her father and mother were and gasped just like her mother. It was beautiful. It was a small clearing, a stream was running through it and there were a few trees scattered throughout the clearing that Draco had put lights on and magically lit up. There was also mistletoe on almost every branch of every tree in the clearing.

"Draco, it's Beautiful! But why did you do this?" Ginny walked around to get more familiar with the beautiful setting.

"It's just my way of saying thank your spending your winter holidays with me here, and thank you for spending Christmas with me."

"Well who else do you think I'd rather spend Christmas with?"

"I thought you'd want to spend it with your family, but I guess I was wrong."

"Yeah," she said. "I guess you were," she then pointed upwards.

Draco looked up just before Ginny pulled his lips onto hers.

Malia smiled, it really was a beautiful thing to see. She also felt a bit guilty because she was watching something very personal happening, but she was glad to see these things happen to her parents, it helped her understand things she'd always wanted to know.

"I love you," he said, after their lips parted.

"I love you, too." She smiled and hugged him. But, Draco looked a bit stiff, like he was bothered or surprised at the hug. "Is there something wrong?"

"No, no of course not. I just … uh… I just wasn't finished with what I wanted to say. I wanted to bring you here because I wanted to give you your birthday present in the most beautiful place I could find, and with luck this will also be a Christmas present for me."

"Well, I already got you something," Ginny said. "I have it with me if you want to exchange presents right now."

"I don't care when I get your gift, I just want to give you yours now."

She looked at him confused. Malia was a bit confused as well.

"Ginny," he started. "Our relationship is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I love you so much, and I could never imagine not having you in my life after I graduate from Hogwarts at the end of this year. I could only think of one solution to this problem where I could see you everyday for the rest of our lives, and where we could have children and live in a big house and I could be happy forever. But I just hope that you think this way too, but if you don't feel the same way I do, I don't know how I'll go on…"

Ginny smiled. She loved it when he started to ramble; it was so unlike him. He only did it when he was too nervous to hide his emotions.

But both Ginny and Malia couldn't hide what they thought when they saw what he did next. He got down on one knee and started to reach for something in his pocket.

"… So I decided that I wanted to ask you a question, and please answer it truthfully," he paused, took out a velvet box, and opened it "Ginerva Weasley, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife and marry me?"

With out even hesitating Ginny replied, "Yes!" and kissed him.

After they parted, Ginny repeated what she'd said, "Yes, Draco I would love nothing more than to marry you."

Draco was practically beaming, "You've made me that happiest person in the world right now, Ginny."

"I think you are mistaken Draco, I am the happiest person in the world right now."

Malia got a good look at the ring when he slipped it on her finger, It was a diamond ring with two small rubies and two small emeralds (one of each on both sides of the diamond) and it had a white gold band.

Immediately after Draco finished putting the ring on, Ginny kissed him again.

"Draco, when are we going to get married? And what will our parents think of us being together?"

"I haven't thought that far yet, but I was thinking this summer after we graduate, I'm glad you're so smart and were able to graduate a year ahead, it means we don't have to spend another year apart. And regarding our families, I could care less what they think. It's not like they are going to be happy about it, you know that just as well as I; but let's not ruin this moment. I want it to one of the happiest days of my life."

"And what will those other happiest days be?" Ginny smiled.

"Well, our wedding day, the day our first child is born, the day our second child is born… well all the days that our future children will be born on will be a few of the happiest days of my life, too."

Malia saddened at this comment.

"Well right now, this is the happiest day of my life."

Same here, not only is it the happiest day of my life, but also the best Christmas I've ever had. Thank you for giving that to me Ginny."

"No problem," Ginny said as she and Draco once again started kissing.

Malia notices things started to fade away from her while her parents were kissing. After everything faded away she found herself in her room again.

Malia was shocked to know that her mother graduated a year early. She'd never heard of that before. Her mother must have been incredibly smart. It also explained why her parents couldn't get married; her mother was obviously not of age when they got married, being a year younger then her father, and according to him, her parents would probably not sign the papers allowing them to marry at a such a young age; that's why they went to Italy.

Malia was now even more curious about her parents' relationship. She decided to view another memory.

She touched the pensive yet again, and started to feel the familiar falling sensation.

The memory she was in took place in a small cottage she saw her mother sitting on the one bed in the small house, spinning a small little device that Malia couldn't get a good view of, and crying. They both heard the door start to open and saw Ginny reach for her wand, until she heard a familiar voice say, "I'm back."

Malia's father entered the room and put what Malia assumed to be groceries down on the small table in the kitchen. He went over to Ginny's side and askedif she's ok and started to comfort her. Ginny started to cry louder. Malia saw her mother lean against her father for support, they stayed that was for quite sometime.

When Ginny started to calm down she spoke. "Draco, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." She repeated that phrase over and over.

"Shhh. It's ok, you haven't even told me what's wrong yet. Just calm down, I'm sure whatever it is, it isn't as bad as you think."

"But Draco," she said. "Look at this," she gave him the small little device. "I'm pregnant. Draco, I'm pregnant!"

Malia looked at her father and noticed that his expression was shocked but also scared. Malia realized that her mother being pregnant with her now wasn't a good thing.

"But why are you pregnant now? I thought you were taking the potion that prevents you from conceiving a child."

"I did, except for that one night before we had to leave Nice. I had run out and I forgot to pick some up." She started to bawl. "I'm sorry, Draco. I'm so sorry."

"It's ok," he said. "We'll just be more careful that they can't find us. Maybe we could go to America and hide there for a while."

"Draco, you-know-who has supporters everywhere, you know that even more then I do."

"I know, that means I know exactly where to not hide," he said. "C'mon let's start packing up." They've probably caught on to our path by now I guess."