Chapter 2: I Love You, Gin!

In the next twenty minutes, Harry found himself standing in the middle of a jam-packed crowd with a trunk, a broom and an empty cage. Desperately looking around, and keeping a wary hand over his wand that was tucked away in his pocket, he spotted a flash of bright-red hair in a sea of dull-gray suited people.

As he got closer his jaw dropped! It wasn't Ron, or Fred, or George, but Ginny! And boy had she grown! She wasn't that little innocent girl that followed him around with a crush, but a totally gorgeous woman.

Harry looked her up and down. She was wearing a bright pink halter top with matching earrings and a pair of really tight jeans that fit her figure perfectly. But what he was really fascinated by was her top. How she had the ability to grow those in a short period of three weeks, he had no clue whatsoever. But he liked it!

She waved at him and started running towards him, her slightly wavy, red hair trailing. When she reached him, he snapped back into reality.

"Hey Harry!" Her voice was like a chorus to him. "How are you, and why do you look like that?"

He was still captured by her beauty, but answered, "I-uh-I just didn't recognize you."

"Well then, I guess my disguise worked," she giggled.

Oh, it worked all right, thought Harry.

"Well come on then! Dad and Ron are waiting outside. I tagged along because I wanted to get the feeling of apparating,"

They went outside and found Arthur and Ron. Then they found a secluded place, as each of them apparated, Ginny using side-apparation with Harry.

"Oh, Harry dear! How are you?" was the first thing Harry heard just before he was crushed under the mighty power of Molly Weasley's hug. She stepped back and kissed him on the cheek and then said, "Why don't you and Ginny settle your things and Ron, go help Fred and George set the table. Arthur, come and help me in the kitchen. I still haven't finished lunch."

So with that everyone set about his or her jobs. Harry grabbed one end of his trunk and Ginny the other. They started up the stairs.

"So your get my old room as I got Fred and George's. They're on the same floor along with a bathroom." Ginny just kept talking as Harry watched her. They reached the third floor and headed for a room with the words "Ginny's Room" on its door. There was also a picture of a unicorn and waterfall.

They entered and set Harry's things down. Harry looked around. There was a double bed and a desk to match. There were lavender walls, which were refreshing after four years of Chudley Canon posters. And, last, but not least, there was a comforter with golden snitches silently zooming around on it.

"Well this is it," said Ginny.

This is it, thought Harry. It was now or never. He was going to confess his love for her.

"Gin, can talk to you?" He questioned with a lump the size of a football in his throat.

"Yes? What is it?"

"Umm… well, I was just, you know… umm…" he stammered.

"Spit it out Harry James Potter!" Harry looked up, shock hitting him in the face. She had never before used his full name.

"Well, umm… will you, I mean, do you, umm… oh hell! Ginny, will you be my girlfriend?" he shouted, almost scaring her.

She just stood there, looking awed, as the full potential of the question hit her. Then she ran and threw her arms around his neck while he hugged her middle.

"Oh Harry! You don't know how long I've waited for you to say that!"

"Gin," he whispered into her ear, " I love you!"

"Me too, Harry! Me too!"

And slowly they came together for the passionate kiss they were both waiting for.

They broke apart and just looked at each other.

Harry watched as his hand ran through her silky hair, then caress her soft, angel-like face. He leaned in and claimed her lips.

They didn't know how long they were locked together. It could have been a couple minutes, a few hours, or tons of sunlit days. All they knew was that when they broke apart they couldn't stop smiling. It was Ginny who broke the seemingly everlasting silence.

"Harry…" she whispered, as they brushed lips. "Harry, we need to go to lunch. Everyone's waiting."

"Oh Gin, why can't we just stay here, like this forever?"

"You know I want to, but we can't."

"Fine. As long as your happy." And with one last peck on the cheek they headed downstairs and while everyone was talking and shouting, they smiled sheepishly as they held hands under the table.

Harry was having a good dream for once. All his loved ones, even Sirius and his parents, were there and celebrating Harry and Ginny's wedding. Then all went black. Harry once again found himself running. His loved ones moving farther and farther away from him. And just as before when he realized Ginny was missing, he could hear his fast beating heart pumping in his ears.

He turned around as he heard her scream. There he saw her running away from the largest army ever known to wizard kind. And this army was filled with snakes and Death Eaters.

"Gin!!!" he yelled until his voice was hoarse.

"Help! Harry! Harry, help!!!" she screamed. Then again she rose into the air and was placed upon a very tall glass pedestal. Harry could see her beautiful reflection between the many curves in the intricate design.

"Harry! You said you loved me! Help!!!" Ginny was now crying hysterically.

"You can't sssave her now Potter! It'sss too late!" Voldemort came into view with even more snakes following him. He immediately placed the Cruciatus Curse on Ginny, seeing the horrified look on Harry's face.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! Harry!!!" her scream cut through him like a dagger.

"No, please take me! Don't hurt her! Don't hurt my Ginny!!!" She was limp.

"Gin!!!!!!!!"