Chapter 6: A Healthy Dose of Romance

So I took a little break, I have been totally blocked. For all of my loyal followers, Thank you for sticking with me, hopefully this chapter was worth the wait, you finally get some D/G fluff…so yes this is my fluff warning, if you don't like fluff then some parts of my story won't be for you. I am a hopeless romantic and sometimes my fluff gets out of control. But here it is enjoy and PLEASE REVIEW!

The next morning, early as usual, Emily was awake; Patches alerted Uriel while Snuffles helped the little girl get ready and took her down to the kitchen. Uriel met her there and the two began to prepare breakfast.

"Uri, where are my mommy and Draco?" the little girl asked still rubbing sleep out of her eyes.

"Well," Uriel began trying to win the little girl over even more. "I got so jealous of Draco and your mom spending so much time with you that I told them 'Today, I get Emily all to myself.'"

The little girl clapped her hands and jumped up and down delighted at the answer to her inquisition.

"Now Little Miss Emily, have you ever been horseback riding?" Uriel asked as the pair ate breakfast.

"No, my uncles taught me how to ride a broom, is it anything like that?"

Uriel laughed. "A little, why don't we go out and see some of the horses, you can pet them give them a few treats and see if you would like to go for a ride."

The redhead smiled and Uriel felt her heart continue to be taken over by this wonderful little girl.

"Mistress Uriel?" Patches said from behind her. "Mister Blaise is here again, he asked for Master Draco."

"I'll speak to him Patch." Uriel replied. "I don't want my brother bothered today."

A few moments later Blaise made his entrance, grand as always. "Hi sunshine," he looked at Uriel. "How are you today?"

"I'm fine Blaise," Uriel smiled, as Emily slid down in her chair a little more. "Emily this is Draco's best friend, Blaise, I promise he won't hurt you honey."

Blaise knelt next to the little girl. "Hi Emily."

He held out his hand and after a moment or two the little girl shook it. "It amazes me how much you look like your mommy, but I think that you are just a little prettier than she is."

Emily blushed and slid down more.

"Wow Blaise, you have a thing for older women and younger women, you need to control yourself sir."

"Don't push me or I will put you over my knee right now and-"

"Little ears hear all Blaise," Uriel stopped him, pointing at Emily still hiding, only her eyes above the table. "Now what did you need?"

"I need to speak with Draco," Blaise got to his feet.

"I'm sorry my brother is indisposed, but I will tell him to contact you as soon as he can."

"So he finally-"

"Kids in the room!" Uriel said brightly. "There is still a child in the room with us Blaise, this is not adult time right now. I will owl you later and you can come by or Draco will come to you."

"One day Uri, you will stop resisting the Zabini charm,"

"And on that day Blaise the world as we know it will end" Uriel joked. "I will talk to you later."

As soon as Blaise was gone Uriel held her hand out to Emily. "Come on Em, let's go have some fun."

'There is light shining in my eyes' was the first thought that came into Draco's head. 'But there is no way it could be coming from this angle in my bedroom'

With that the Malfoy opened his eyes and found himself still on the couch in the library, Ginny snuggled up by his side, and a blanket over them.

He looked around a nearly jumped out of his skin seeing Patch already standing there.

"Forgive me Master, but I have a message for you from Mistress Uri," Patch whispered. "She is going to take care of Miss Emily for the day so that you and Miss Ginny can have some time to yourselves."

It was times like this that Draco was really grateful for his sister. "Thank you Patch, tell them we will meet them for dinner, also set up a picnic lunch for myself and Ms. Ginny in the conservatory we'll be down shortly."

The elf bowed and left the room again with a loud crack.

Draco froze for a moment hoping that the noise wouldn't wake Ginny, she stirred a little but just moved closer to the blond without waking. Draco couldn't stop the wide smile that spread across his face, and he gently brushed a strand of fiery red hair out of her face. He had never in his life felt for anyone the way he felt about Ginny. He had been so glad when his mother left his father because that meant that his marriage to Daphne Greengrass's younger sister Astoria would no longer have to happen. Draco would have been able to stand Ginny being married to another man, as long as he could have spent the rest of his life brooding away for her and hoping that one day he would get his chance again. When he had seen her in Diagon Alley that day he had tried to prevent himself from hoping, but it bloomed in his chest with each word she said to him. Then Emily had wandered over and she could have shot that hope through the heart if she had been at all attached to her father. When Emily smiled at him that first time he knew that he would be able to be in both of their lives.

Just as he was mulling over the thoughts in his head the object of his affection in his arms opened her eyes.

Draco's smile widened. "Good morning beautiful."

Ginny smiled into his chest. "Good morning to you too, what time is it?"

"Almost eleven" Draco looked at his watch.

There was silence for a moment or two when Ginny all of a sudden remembered.

"Oh my god Emily!" she all but leapt off the couch before Draco caught her and brought her back down next to him.

"It's okay Gin, Uri is taking care of Emily all day. She wanted us to have some time alone."

Ginny relaxed as soon as she heard that. "I'll have to remember to thank her."

"She won't let you, she loves Emily so much that she planned this for us so she could have your daughter all to herself."

Ginny smiled more. "Well then what is the plan for today?"

"Well why don't we both go get showered and changed and then you let me take you to one of my favorite places in the manor for a picnic."

"That sounds wonderful," she gave him a small kiss on the lips. "I'm just going to go change and I'll meet you back here."

She left and went to her own room. She changed into a pretty green dress that she had and went into the bathroom. She quickly did her makeup and brushed her hair. Then she happened to look down, she was still wearing her engagement and wedding rings. She took them off without a second thought and threw them in the garbage can. She felt more free then she had in years, Ginny smiled at herself one last time before going back to Draco's room.

"I'm ready," she called to him from the sitting room.

"I'll be right out," Draco responded from where he was perched on his bed, a small box in his hands.

He took a deep breath and put the box in his pocket. He only hoped that now he had the courage to do what he hadn't over six years ago.

He smiled at Ginny and gave her another kiss before taking her hand and leading her down to the main floor of the manor. After a few twists and turns Ginny found herself in a glass room full of flowers in full bloom.

"This is gorgeous," she sighed. "I love flowers."

Draco smiled. "I remember, I thought you would like it here as much as I do."

He led her to a raised dais where their picnic was set out. They sat down and began to eat talking about this and that. As the meal finished Draco began to sort of fidget and Ginny couldn't help but notice.

"Draco are you okay?"

"Yes I'm fine Gin, I'm just trying to give you something…"

"Draco you didn't have to get me anything," Ginny cut him off.

"Well I got this a long time ago." He took a deep breath. "After the war, my father took me to Gringotts one day and told me to pick out one of the family rings that I wanted to give to the women I would marry. I couldn't tell him at the time but I knew that day I would never get married because the only women I wanted as already engaged."

Ginny knew he was talking about her, and she tried so hard to hold back her tears, and her regrets.

"I picked a ring that day anyway, vowing to myself that unless you were the women wearing it, I would never give it to anyone. I know that you are still married Gin, and that we have a long road ahead of us but I know that I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I love you, and I have always loved you. I love your daughter too, you both are as much my family as Uriel is."

Draco took the box out of his pocket. "Don't worry I am not asking you to marry me right now. This is just my promise to you that no matter what happens I will always be here for you, always be ready to defend you, always love you, and never ever will I raise a hand to you."

Draco opened the box to reveal a beautiful chocolate colored diamond flanked by two smaller white diamonds on either side. It took Ginny's breath away.

"Well?" Draco looked a little nervous when she didn't answer.

"I have loved you for a long time as well, and when things started to go south with Harry I didn't imagine that I would ever find someone who would love me baggage and all. This is more then I could ask for, and when the time comes I would love to be the wife of someone who loves my daughter and I so completely."

With those words Draco slipped the ring on Ginny's right ring finger. When the ring was in place Draco rose to his feet and dropped a small kiss to Ginny's lips.

"Well well…what have we here?"

Draco and Ginny both turned their heads to see Narcissa Malfoy standing at the door to the conservatory. As they both stood there and tried to think of something to say they heard running and heavy breathing. Uriel's face appeared behind her mother, with Emily in her arms.

"I'm so sorry, I tried to stop her, I don't even know why she is here, she's supposd to be in France on holiday."

"Well now," Narcissa said calmly. "Shall we say, the jig is up."

Draco looked from Ginny, to his sister, to his mother.

"So?" Narcissa walked up to Draco, Uriel on her heels. "Who would like to take their hand at explaining things to me first?"

So Draco and Ginny's relationship is more out in the open then ever before. Stay turned to see what happens next, and please if you liked it LEAVE ME A REVIEW! 3 to all my fans!