A/N: I've had a lot of time on my hands lately so I've added quite a few chapters today. Please review!! I've made a pact to myself that I'm not putting up the next chapter until I get some more reviews please! I love writing this story, and I love the reviews I've been getting, but I need to know if all of you love the story too!!
Chapter 15
"Draco," Draco started with surprise as Luna fell through the fireplace in his office.
"Luna?" Draco asked, surprised, "What are you doing here?"
"You need to come to St. Mungo's. Now." Luna took a deep breath, "I don't have much time to explain now, but Ginny collapsed at work this morning. They have me as her emergency contact so I got there as soon as I was told. They still haven't figured out what's wrong."
As Luna was talking, Draco was pulling his jacket on. When she finished talking he said, "Ok, let's go." They flooed to St. Mungo's and Draco immediately ran to the front desk, "I need to know where Ginny Weasley is."
"I'm sorry sir, I can only give that information to her family," the nurse said.
"I'm her fiancé!" Draco exclaimed, "If you look in her file you'll see that we were here two weeks ago for a checkup. She's pregnant."
"Oh, yes," the nurse said, "She's in the emergency ward, room sixty five."
"Thank you," Draco ran from the desk and practically sprinted down the hall, Luna running behind him. As he ran down the hall he kept note of the door numbers. Fifty nine, sixty one, sixty three. He dodged a nurse before taking a sharp turn into Ginny's room. Ginny was sitting up in bed staring out the window when Draco barged in. "Ginny," he gasped for air, "Are," gasp, "you," another gasp, "ok?"
"They haven't told me anything yet," Ginny said, surprised at his sudden entrance, "Are you ok?"
"Yeah," Draco sighed and flopped down in a chair, "I came as soon as Luna told me."
Luna was standing in the doorway, chest heaving, "Ginny, your fiancé runs really fast."
When Draco finally caught his breath he leaned forward and tucked a strand of Ginny's hair behind her ear. "What happened, love?"
"I don't really remember," Ginny said, "But I was feeling strange this morning. Remember?"
"Yeah," Draco nodded. That morning Ginny had mentioned that she felt different.
"Well, I felt that like that the whole day, and then this afternoon I had to hurry from one meeting to another," Ginny paused and then turned to face Draco, "That's the last thing I remember."
"It's ok," he stood up and kissed her forehead gently, "Everything will be fine. I'm going to go find a doctor." He walked out and caught a nurse who was walking past. "Excuse me; do you know when a doctor is coming to see my fiancé?"
"I think he's coming now," the nurse pointed to a man walking towards them, "That's him."
"Thank you," Draco gave her a small smile before approaching the doctor. "Are you Ginny Weasley's doctor?"
"Yes," the doctor said cautiously, "Why?"
"I'm her fiancé, Draco Malfoy."
"I know who you are," said the doctor quietly, "I didn't know you're her fiancé."
"Well, I am," Draco smiled, "Is there anything you can tell us?"
"Actually, I was just coming to see you with the results of the tests we were doing," the doctor said, flipping through his files. "Would you like to sit down?" Draco followed the doctor to an old blue couch in one of the waiting rooms. "Now, Mr. Malfoy, we did a series of tests," the doctor started. Draco braced himself for the worst.
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Luna was sitting next Ginny, playing with her hair, saying, "No, I haven't told Howard anything about me being a witch, but I'm sure he suspects something. I mean, I made him close his eyes to go to the Ministry Halloween Ball and he caught sight of my pensive yesterday."
"Ginny," Draco's voice cracked. The woman turned to face him and Luna, seeing the look on his face, squeezed Ginny's hand and left.
"What's wrong?" Ginny asked.
Draco sat on the edge of the bed. His long legs still reached the floor, but he looked so weak, so pale. He took Ginny's hand in his and said, "The doctor told me the results of your tests."
"And?"
"And," he looked her in the eye and sighed, "We lost the baby."
"No," Ginny whispered. Her eyes filled with tears and she mumbled, "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault," he said, taking a deep breath and closing his eyes as he started crying as well. He made her lean forward and he scooted in behind her before pulling her into his arms. A sob escaped her lips and her body trembled against his.
"I'm so sorry," she repeated, burying her face in his chest. He held her tightly, trying to take some of the pain away from her, but he knew he couldn't help. She had convinced herself that it was her fault and he couldn't fix that.
Ginny finally stopped sobbing and fell into silence. They sat together for hours in silence. He wasn't sure what to say to her or if he should say anything at all.
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"Draco, are you ok? What's wrong?" Luna hurried around him, trying to pull towels over him and dry him off. His wet clothes dripped onto the carpet and created puddles. "Draco, say something," Luna insisted, "What happened?"
"It's Ginny," Draco said, his voice cracking.
"What happened?" Luna made him sit down on the couch and then hurried into the kitchen to make him tea. "Is she ok?"
"No," Draco sounded utterly hopeless, "The doctors let me take her home a week ago and she's just been sitting in bed. She doesn't go to work she doesn't do anything. She just sits in bed and stares at the wall. I tried to bring the TV in our bedroom and I've bought her new books, but she just sits there." He took the mug Luna handed him, "I'm scared Luna."
"Is she ok medically?" Luna sat next to him.
"Yes, the doctors said she was fine," Draco sighed and then took a sip of his tea, "but emotionally," he paused, "I don't know. She was so happy about being a mother. She was ready and now," he shrugged, "I don't know what to do."
"Draco, give her time," Luna said quietly, "She lost her baby-,"
"I lost a baby too!" Draco interrupted, "Yeah, I wasn't carrying the child, but it was mine too!"
"I know," Luna said, trying to calm him down, "I know, Draco, but Ginny is an emotional person. She always has been and she always will be. Things have always hit her harder than they've hit other people."
"I know," Draco thought for a second then said, "When my cat died Ginny cried for days."
"See?" Luna asked, "And that was just a cat, this is a baby."
"Ok," Draco sighed, "But can I ask you a favor?"
"Yes."
"Would you come see her?" Draco asked. Luna started to shake her head and Draco said, "Please Luna, I don't know what else to do. She's stopped talking to me and there are days she won't even look at me."
Luna thought for a moment and then said, "Ok, I'll be there tomorrow."
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"Thank you for coming," Draco said, "It really means a lot to me."
"Anytime," Luna hugged him, "She'll be fine; don't worry."
"Yeah," Draco nodded and let Luna floo away before meandering back to the bedroom. He knocked on the door and walked in, "Hey Ginny, how do you feel?"
"I'm fine," Ginny said blankly.
Draco climbed in bed next to her and wrapped his arms around her waist to pull her close to him. She let him get close to her, but didn't respond to the light kisses he trailed down her shoulder. He pushed her sleeve down and said, "I've missed you lately."
"Yeah," Ginny said unenthusiastically.
"Come on," Draco tried to turn her to face him. He tried to kiss her, but she yanked away from him and curled up on the edge of the bed, far away from him. "What's wrong?" he asked, confused.
"I'm sorry Draco, but I just lost a baby. I'm not really in the mood to create another one," Ginny snapped.
"I lost a baby too!" Draco insisted, "I understand it's hard for you Ginny, but it's hard for me too. Do you know how much I wanted a baby? I've always wanted to have children with you and we finally had one, but somehow it didn't work out and now we have nothing. Ginny, we have nothing but each other and I wish you would stop pulling away from me because I really think I, of all people, can help you through this!"
Ginny sighed and rolled back into his arms before saying, "You're right Draco, I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry," Draco said, "It's not your fault. This is just something we need to go through together."
"You're right," Ginny repeated. She kissed Draco deeply and smiled for the first time, "I love you."
"I love you too," he kissed her again and pulled her closer to him.
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"What's wrong?" Draco asked her from across the table.
"Nothing," Ginny said quietly before falling back into silence.
"Something is wrong, Ginny, I'm not stupid," Draco insisted.
"Harry proposed to me today," Ginny said bluntly, setting her fork down on the table.
Draco stared at her, shocked, and then asked, "What did you say?"
"I said no of course," Ginny said blatantly.
"Have you decided on a date for our wedding?" he asked cautiously.
"No," she mumbled.
"Ginny, I don't get it. We've been engaged for almost a year. When are you going to get over your fear and tell your family about us!" he demanded.
"Draco, you don't understand!" she protested.
"Yes, I do understand Ginny, I was just as terrified to tell my parents, but they've handled it just fine," Draco said, "Would you like to go to the Burrow and have your mum catch us shagging? Would that make it easier for you?" Ginny glared at him, threw her napkin on the table and stomped upstairs. Draco ran after her saying, "What is it? Why are you so scared to tell them?"
"It's-," Ginny started, but cut herself off, "It's nothing."
"Tell me," Draco insisted as he followed Ginny into their bedroom, "Tell me why you've worked for years to hide our relationship! Tell me why you've used Luna as an excuse and why you can't work up the courage to let me curse Harry for ever coming near you!"
"Because," she screamed, tears rolled down her cheeks as she sobbed, "Because I know that they won't love you as much as I do."
He took a step away from her. She stared at him as he backed away, her shoulders trembling. Finally he said, "So that's what this is all about."
"W-what?" she sniffed, wiping tears from her cheeks.
"You're scared because you know that I'm not good enough for you," he stated.
"No, that's not what I said," Ginny said quickly, "It's my family-,"
"Yeah, but you know it too Ginny," Draco snapped, "I grew up under the Dark Lord. I tormented your family and friends all through school. I helped Snape kill Dumbledore. I did a lot of bad things Ginny, I never deserved you."
He turned away and started to walk out but Ginny chased after him grabbing his arm and saying, "No, Draco, that's not it!"
"No, I get it," Draco said, pulling his arm out of her grasp, "It's that you're ashamed of me, right?" When she didn't answer he yelled, "Right?!" The look in her eyes told him that he was right. He turned away from her, obviously trying to hide the coming of tears. After a minute he seemed to harden and he turned back to Ginny, a few tears lingering on his cheeks, "Fine. I'm leaving. Stay as long as you want, but I won't be back until you're gone."
"No," she tried to run after him and grab him, but he would pull away from her. It wasn't until he got to the fire that her sobs started again and she screamed, "No! Draco!" but he was gone. She fell into a heap in front of the fireplace, weeping and screaming at the top of her lungs. She screamed for him to come back to her, she screamed for hours, but he didn't come back. Finally, after her voice was reduced to a small scratch she just lay, waiting.
She waited for days, either curled up on the couch or on the floor in front of the fireplace. She didn't dare travel far from the room in case he came back for even a second. She didn't want to miss him. The days turned to weeks and when the start of week three rolled around she lost her last bit of hope. Dry sobs accompanied her as she packed her things. They only had one copy of their photo album; why would they have needed two? They were planning on spending the rest of their lives together. She took only one picture from the book; the first picture ever taken of them together. It was the day Luna found out they were together.
Ginny tried to hold in her tears as she pulled her bag down the stairs and to the fireplace where she took one last look at the mansion, turned her back on all the memories, and flooed to Luna's house.
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Luna set a glass of water on the bedside table and then sat next to Ginny who had curled up into a ball and buried her face into the pillow. "Drink, Ginny," Luna ordered, "You've been crying for days, you need to stay hydrated or you're going to get sick. Ginny didn't move and didn't say anything. Luna sighed and said, "Please, Ginny, you're being ridiculous. You had one fight. Yes, this is your first big fight with Draco, but you two love each other, you'll work it out."
"No, we won't," Ginny said, sitting up quickly and surprising Luna. "You don't get it Luna. I practically told him that I'm ashamed of him because he's a Malfoy."
Luna sighed, "Ginny, you really need to contact him."
"I can't Luna," Ginny said, "He hates me."
"You have too!" Luna yelled.
"Why are you pressing this?" Ginny asked.
"Because of this," Luna exclaimed and thrust a copy of the Daily Prophet into Ginny's hands.
Ginny's eyes opened wide when she read the headline.
Draco Malfoy and Olivia Fox Announce Engagement
The Malfoy family announced the surprise engagement of their son Draco to Olivia Fox, daughter of David and Chelsea Fox. The Fox family is a prominent family in magical society, alongside the Malfoys. Following the sudden engagement, the wedding will also be soon, Chelsea Fox announced. They plan on holding the wedding on the Malfoy Estates later this month.
Ginny gasped for air, pulling herself out of bed. She ran into the bathroom and emptied the contents of her stomach in the toilet. She curled up on the floor, sobbing and gasping for air. Luna joined Ginny in the bathroom, sat on the floor and pulled Ginny into her arms, letting the weeping girl cry against her shoulder.
Three days later Ginny Weasley was engaged to Harry Potter.
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"Ginny, you look gorgeous!" Molly exclaimed as she walked into Ginny's bedroom.
"Thanks mum," Ginny said, kissing Molly on the cheek and then moving back to stand in front of the mirror. Her wedding dress was simple. It was white and sleeveless with a basic neckline. The train was short, so was the veil, but Luna had done some sparkling details along the neckline.
"Gin, are you ready?" Luna asked, poking her head into the doorway.
"Yeah," Ginny adjusted her dress one last time before saying, "I'll see you out there mum."
"Ok," Molly kissed Ginny on the cheek, "Good luck." She left, leaving Ginny and Luna alone.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Luna asked quietly, touching Ginny's arm.
"Yes," Ginny said casually, "Why wouldn't I want to do this?"
"Ginny!" Luna exclaimed, "You don't love Harry!"
"So?" Ginny snapped, "Who else am I going to marry? Draco doesn't want me Luna. It's time to accept that fact. Now, can I go get married?" Luna let go of Ginny's arm and shrugged before walking out. Ginny took a deep breath and pushed the door open.
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A small part of Ginny's heart told her that it was all a dream, that at any moment she would wake up and find Draco lying next to her. That part of her heart hoped that it was all a trick or that Draco would come and fight for her, but he never did. Every morning Ginny woke up, not next to Draco, but next to Harry and every morning her heart broke again.
There were small joys in life. She got a promotion, she and Harry bought a cat, and Luna and Howard got married, but a cloud followed Ginny everywhere she went.
Her first pregnancy with Harry terrified her. After losing her first baby, she was convinced that she would lose the second baby too, or that something would go wrong. The idea of telling Harry why she was scared was preposterous, if she told him about her previous miscarriage, she'd have to tell him about Draco as well.
The rare occasion that she saw Draco threw her into a depression that lasted weeks. The one time she was hospitalized for the depression the doctors said it was something normal during pregnancy, but Luna knew the truth. Luna would visit Ginny every day and do her best to protect Ginny from the horrors of the outside world. There were rumors of Draco's father dying and rumors of him cheating on his wife, but Luna knew that that was the last thing Ginny wanted to hear.
When James was born, Ginny learned to love again. Not in the way she loved Draco, of course not, she would never love anyone the way she love Draco, but in the innocent way. She could watch James for hours, even if he was just sleeping, and she would finally smile again.
Her second pregnancy was easier. Although it had been over two years since she'd last spoken to Draco, he was constantly on her mind. Ginny would sit up late at night, terrified. She was terrified that she had lost the love of her life and that she would never see him again.
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