Disclaimer: Deep in the jungle, there is a magical monkey that farts every time someone is born, by the time that monkey stops farting, I will still not own Harry Potter.

Warning: Slash (yaoi), Femme-slash (yuri), AU-ish, Spoilers for DH.

AN: hey people, it's me again!

Chapter Eleven: Loved

---Before---

Ginny looked up in time to catch the expression on Astoria's lovely face, and her breath caught, for Astoria looked stunningly ethereal and angelic.

Without thinking of the consequences, Ginny pulled Astoria's face down and kissed her.

---!---

Astoria was shocked still. Finally, she came to her senses and hesitantly reached to cup Ginny's soft face.

But Ginny, who also came to her senses, suddenly pulled away, mortified.

"I'm so sorry!" she choked out, before standing from the stone bench and fleeing, once again leaving Astoria in the dust.

A single crystalline tear slid down Astoria's pale cheek and she closed her gray eyes in pain and sorrow.

---30 minutes later---

Ginny slammed into her cottage and ran to her room where she flung herself onto her bed and began to weep.

"Oh what have I done?!" she wailed, "I pushed away the only friend I have right now just because of my weird lust for her! Oh, what am I going to do?! She doesn't even love me!!!"

"You stupid, stupid woman." came a sneering voice from behind her.

Ginny sat up and turned towards the voice, shocked when she saw none other than Draco Malfoy standing in her bedroom, looking every bit as icy and mean as reputation made him out to be.

"Wh—what?" she whispered.

Draco sneered again and conjured himself an armchair next to her bed, which he then sat in.

"Could you BE anymore insensitive?! I was with Harry right when Tori flooed in and launched herself into my arms, sobbing hysterically about you leaving her! She wasn't making much sense, so I decided to come here, only to find you in the same state!!!" he yelled.

"What?!" cried Ginny, "But why would Astoria be so upset!? She doesn't even love me! She loves some older Gryffindor bimbo who never even knew she was alive in school!!! One who doesn't even love her!"

Draco tilted his head back, pinching the bridge of his nose and praying for patience he didn't have.

He looked up and glared at her straight in the eyes.

"Why are Gyffindors so FUCKING dense!?" he all but screamed, "SHE LOVES YOU, YOU IDIOT!!! YOU ARE THE OLDER GRYFFINDOR BIMBO WHO NEVER KNEW SHE WAS ALIVE!!!! YOU ARE THE ONE SHE'S LOVED SINCE SECOND YEAR!!! YOU!!!!"

Ginny was stunned into silence, her tears long forgotten. Suddenly everything made sense...

'Never noticed her in school...was in love with a male who didn't love her back...left Astoria to rot in an arranged marriage...Oh God!'

"Oh shit," was all Ginny could say.

Draco smirked in grim triumph and said, "It sure took you long enough!"

"OH SHIT!" shrieked Ginny suddenly, "OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT!!!!! ASTORIA!! SHE LOVES ME! SHE LOVES ME AND I...I...left her...Oh shit! I gotta go!"

And with that Ginny apparated to Astoria's villa.

---Astoria---

"Here you go Astoria," said Harry gently, as he handed her a steaming cup of tea.

Astoria took it in trembling hands and Harry vowed to kill Ginny next time he saw her, glad that Draco had gone to Potter Cottage to scream some sense into Ginevra.

Astoria slowly drank her tea until she started and spilled her tea all over the carpet and herself. But she seemingly took no notice of this.

"The wards have been tripped..." she whispered, "by...no, it can't be...I have to go!!!"

And Astoria apparated to her villa.

---Ginny---

Ginny paced in the gardens where she had last seen Astoria, tears blurring her vision.

"Oh Astoria..." she whispered, "How could I have been so stupid?! It was me you loved all along, and I never saw it, never stopped to think...and now I think I'm too late...and that I've lost you for good...Oh Astoria...I never thought I'd say this, but...I love you..."

"...Ginny?" came the whispered voice of Astoria.

Ginny whirled around to face her, and with a cry, launched herself into a stunned Asoria's arms, pressing her rose red lips to Astoria's soft pink ones.

Astoria was stunned into immobility, before, once again, coming to her senses and slowly wrapping her arms around Ginny's hourglass waist.

Astoria's gray eyes closed in bliss as she began to return the tender, but hungry kiss that she had longed for for so long.

After a few seconds of soft kissing, Ginny gently drew back and looked into Astoria's dazed gray eyes.

"I love you Astoria..." she murmured, "Forgive me for being so blind?"

Astoria's only response was—her eyes filling with tears of joy—to pull Ginny into another kiss.

"I love you too, Ginevra...and I always will, no matter how badly you mess up."

And Ginny finally felt loved.

"Finite," she whispered, and sapphire eyes changed back to brown.

AN: Sorry for the short chapter, but it's 3:00 AM and I'm tired...I just wanted to get a new chapter out for all you guys, so here it is!! I hope you like! So review and tell me whatcha think!!!

Lucius: Review or we'll crucio you, remember?

Me: Thanks for the reminder, Lucius, ahaha.