A/N I'M HOME! Did you miss me? Okay here is part 2! Also just a side note, No this does not end with the begining of Just Married, they are completely different timelines...yes you will eventually get to see what Harry wrote in his letter (I actually just wrote that scene last night) but I'm not going to tell you when...and I have no idea how many chapters this is going to be but it is going to be long...if this story was a tv show (I know this is a weird way of looking at it) this chapter would end the first 'season' and I have my plot archs worked out for the next four 'seasons' ... well I wont make you wait any longer so have at it and I hope you enjoy!

Ginny paced back and forth in the hallway in front of Harry's room, not sure what to do with herself. What is wrong with me! I can't believe I slapped him. What was I thinking? Well, I must not have been thinking! You stupid, stupid girl! she berated herself as Ron and Hermione hurried down the hall to meet her.

"We fire called your Mum and she said she would contact everyone else," Hermione informed Ginny. "Have you seen him yet? How is he?"

"I don't know, Dr. Sean is still in there with him," she told them as she resumed her pacing.

"There're Mum, Fred, and George now," Ron said pointing over Ginny's shoulder.

Ginny turned to where her brother had gestured and sure enough, there was her mother still in her apron with a wooden spoon sticking out of her pocket, followed closely by the twins, who were still in their bright pink work robes.

"How is he? When did he wake up? Can we see him?" Molly started asking before she had even reached them.

"Dr. Sean is in with him now, but we talked with him a little bit and he seems fine," Hermione reassured her.

"What happened? Do we know why he woke up?" Molly asked again.

"Yes, why did sleeping beauty finally decide to rejoin the land of the living?" George asked, obviously elated that Harry was better.

"I don't know," Hermione said. "Maybe Ginny knows, she was with him."

Ginny's eyes snapped up at the mention of her name.

"What happened Ginny?" Fred teased her, "did you kiss him and he woke up?"

"What? No! I was asleep and when I woke up he was awake too," Ginny said quickly as a blush crept up her cheeks.

"Yeah, and then you yelled at him and slapped him," Ron added.

Any blood that hadn't already reached her cheeks rushed there at once as her face turned tomato red.

"Ginevra Molly Weasley!" her mother admonished.

"That's the way to do it Ginny," Fred encouraged her.

"Who cares if he saved the world?" George added.

"Or if he has been in a coma for a month…"

"Or if today is his birthday…"

"He woke up and you showed him who is still boss."

Ginny would have given anything for the world to open up and swallow her whole right then and there. She felt bad enough about it as it was without everyone standing there staring at her. Her mother shocked and disapproving, the twins amused and oddly proud, Ron still confused as to why she did it, and Hermione understanding.

"I want coffee!" she announced suddenly. "Does anybody else want coffee? I can go get coffee. I'm gunna go get coffee."

As she rushed down the corridor away from Harry's room, she ran head on into Bill who had just arrived, still in his Gringotts uniform.

"Hey Ginners, where are you going?"

"Coffee," she said quickly as she continued to hurry down her way.

When she reached the nearest coffee machine, she had a mini panic attack when she saw it was out of order. Oh Gods, what do I do? What do I do? I can't go back there empty handed! She wandered the halls a little longer until she came across a vending machine. Not knowing what anybody would want, she decided to get one of everything. Her arms now laden with foodstuffs, she hurried back to where everyone else was waiting.

"I thought you went for coffee," Bill commented upon her return.

"Broken."

Weasley appetites intact as always, Ron, Fred, George and Bill each grabbed a bag of crisps and began munching while they waited. Ginny deposited the rest of the food on a chair and sat in the one beside it. She pulled her legs up to her chest and stuck her head between her knees, wishing she could just disappear.

Everyone jumped when Dr. Sean opened the door and poked his head out. "I think that Harry might be up to visitors if you would like to see him."

Everyone started to rush the door but the Healer put a hand up to stop them. "You can go in for now, but I'm going to go do some paper work, and when I come back it will be time for Harry to get some rest. Okay?" Everyone nodded and he stepped aside to let them in.

"Aren't you coming?" Ron asked his sister who was still sitting with her knees to her chest.

"I think I'm going to wait out here for Dad and Lupin and Dumbledore and everyone else to get here so that I can point them in the right direction."

Ron just shrugged and followed everyone else inside.

Even after everyone she was waiting for had arrived and gone inside to see Harry she remained in the hallway with her head in her lap and her hands over her head.

"Hello Ginny," Dr. Sean said as he sat down next to her.

Without lifting her head she reached into the chair on the opposite side of her from the Healer and grabbed a bag at random. "Crisps," she offered.

"Thank you; these salt and vinegar ones are my favorite and I haven't had a chance yet to stop and eat," he said opening the bag with a small pop.

"You never do," Ginny said to her knees. She had gotten to know Dr. Sean quite well over the past month and had long since discovered his tendency to skip meals when he got busy.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure," Ginny responded, looking up for the first time since he sat down.

"You spent the last month in this hospital, almost never leaving his side so that you would be there for him when he woke up, and now that he is awake you are sitting by yourself in the corridor. Why?"

"I slapped him."

"You what?"

Ginny buried her face in her hands once more. "I know! I don't know why I did it. I woke up and he was awake and he said hello and I slapped him, yelled at him and ran out of the room. I guess he just surprised me and now I don't know how I can face him. I mean what must he be thinking about me?"

"Okay," he said slowly as he considered this. "Well, slapping my coma patients for waking up is not usually something I approve of, but lets put that aside for now and work out why you slapped him. It wasn't because he surprised you, was it?"

"You Healers, always trying to psychoanalyze everybody. I'm not your patient."

"No, you're not my patient, but I hoped that you would consider yourself my friend and I'm just trying to help."

"You're right, I'm sorry. So," she asked him, "what's wrong with me?"

"Nothing is wrong with you, I just think you hit Harry because you were angry at him and were scared of him."

"No I'm not," Ginny denied. "Why would I be angry at him? He saved the world and I'm not scared of him, he's my best friend."

"That's exactly why I think what I think. You were his best friend before all this happened and you were angry at him for dying, and you were angry at him for not waking up. You were being the best friend someone could hope for, being utterly loyal and never leaving his side and he couldn't even wake up for you. Does this sound at all possible?"

"Maybe a little," Ginny relented, her feelings becoming clear to herself. "But I still don't think I'm scared of him."

"Okay maybe not of him, but perhaps of what might happen, or what he could do if he woke up. You've told me all about how you helped him out of his depression last year and how you were his training partner for his battle against You-Know-Who, and you have been so loyal to stay at his side this whole time. I think you are scared that now that his battle is over, which was the thing that brought you two together, that he might reject you. You are afraid he might not need you anymore. So you rejected him first."

Ginny stared at the young Healer gaping. Is this how I feel? she asked herself. Oh bullocks, maybe it is…

"Now I don't actually know Harry awake," Dr. Sean continued, "but I have gotten to know you pretty well and I don't think that you would choose someone to be your best friend if they would abandon you like that. But that's just my opinion."

"How did you get to be so smart?"

"Ah, now that's why they pay me the big bucks."

"The big what's?" Ginny asked confused.

"Muggle saying, don't worry about it. Anyway," he said standing up. "I'm going to go in there and kick everyone out of Harry's room so he can get some rest until after dinner. However I might be preoccupied with some paperwork and I might not notice if a certain redhead wanted to slip in there to have a private conversation," he commented airily. "Oh, and thanks for the crisps."

Ginny didn't say anything as Dr. Sean went into the room and came back a few minutes later with the rest of the large group trailing behind. With a wink to Ginny, the Healer went on his way but the others lingered for a while. After a while though, those who had come from work went back to work and the rest decided to get some tea in the cafeteria.

"Are you coming?" Ron asked for a second time that afternoon.

"No, I think I'm gunna hang out here for a while," Ginny declined. She knew that the Healer was right, she needed to talk to Harry, alone.

Ron just shrugged once again and followed his mother and his girlfriend to the elevator.

Once they had disappeared, Ginny took a quick glance around, made sure no one was watching and quietly slipped into Harry's room. When she entered the room she saw Harry standing gazing out the window, much like she had earlier that afternoon.

"Merlin's mothballs! Harry, what are you doing out of bed?"

Harry jumped and turned with a fright at Ginny's exclamation. "Gods Ginny, you scared me. And I'm fine, I don't need to be in bed. See," he said opening his arms out to his sides. However he had to let go of the chair back he was holding on to for support to do so, causing him to wobble dangerously. Ginny all but flew across the room and grabbed his elbow to steady him and led him back to bed.

Once she got him back in bed and had herself seated, an awkward silence fell between them. Ginny finally decided to speak first.

"Harry, I'm sorry I slapped you."

"It's alright, I'm sorry I died without your permission."

"It's alright, just don't do it again."

Harry chuckled, "Alright, I'll be sure to ask next time."

"Hey," Ginny said, the sparkle that had been absent for the past month returning to her eyes. "There had better not be a next time because I intend to live forever and you will do the same, do you hear me mister?"

"I hear you," Harry said with a smile.

"Good, and no more comas either, I'm sick of this hospital and I have had enough hospital food to last me my lifetime and yours."

"Did you really stay here the entire time?" Harry asked before he could stop himself.

Ginny blushed and averted her eyes to a spot on the floor at the foot of Harry's bed. "Umm…yeah. I know it's weird and everyone told me to go home but I didn't want to not be here when you woke up and I mean they told me that they didn't think you ever would but I said I couldn't believe that and that you had to wake up because I didn't know how to live without you and…." Ginny trailed off embarrassed at what she had revealed in her ramblings.

"Thanks Gin, it means a lot to me that you didn't give up on me," Harry said earnestly.

"No problem Harry, I knew that you would do the same for me," she said meeting his gaze.

"Yes, I would have," he told her, not breaking their intense eye lock.

She didn't read the letter so you're going to have to tell her yourself, he told himself. Come on Potter do it now, do it now, it's easy just tell her how you feel. She obviously cares about you if she stayed here the whole time. Just say it, just say 'Ginny I love you.' No I can't be that blunt about it maybe I can just say 'Ginny I care a lot about you and I think I might want to take our relationship to the next level.' No, that sounds to much like a line. Oh Merlin it's too hard to think with her looking at me like that. Gods she's beautiful and those eyes, I could stare into those eyes forever…Snap out of it Potter and think about what you are going to say to her.

As they stared at each other and Harry had his internal battle, Ginny noticed the odd look in his eyes.

"Are you okay Harry?" she asked.

SAY SOMETHING! Harry's inner dialogue yelled at him. "Ginny, you know that kiss on the train before--" Harry started.

"Oh that," Ginny interrupted, "don't worry about that."

"What?" Harry asked confused.

"I said don't worry about that. I know that it didn't mean anything so you don't have to worry about me reading anything into it. Personally, if I were in your shoes I would have done the same thing. I mean if I thought I was going to die I would have wanted to get one last kiss in too, and since you couldn't really kiss Hermione, I was the best choice. So don't worry, I totally understood why you did it, and I'm totally fine with it. So I just figure we could pretend it never happened and not have to worry about any weirdness," Ginny said in her rehearsed speech. She held her breath as she waited for his response to her plan. Don't agree, please don't agree, I don't want to pretend it never happened, she pleaded with him silently.

"Sure," he said slowly after he had digested what she had said for a moment. "Yeah, it's for the best if we just forget it ever happened. After all, you are my best friend, and I don't want anything to come between us and make anything awkward. I don't know what I would do if I lost your friendship."

Ginny nodded in agreement but felt tears welling up in her eyes, all the emotions and occurrences of the past month and day were catching up with her all at once. She had wanted so badly for him to tell her that she was wrong and that he didn't just kiss her because she was convenient, but that he had kissed her because he had wanted to and that it meant as much to him as it did to her, but she was just going to have to settle with being his best friend.

"What's wrong Gin?" Harry asked worriedly as tears began to leak from her eyes.

"I'm just so glad that you're awake," she told him. It wasn't a complete lie; it was part of the reason she was crying.

"Oh Ginny," he said as he sat up a little more and opened his arms to her. She responded by crawling onto the bed and into his embrace. With her head on his chest and his arms tightly around her she began to sob, letting all her pent up emotions out. Emotionally drained, it wasn't long before she had cried herself to sleep in Harry's arms.

"Well Peanut," Harry whispered to the sleeping redhead, "one day I will tell you how I really feel. After all, I have a whole lifetime to tell you now."

It wasn't long before Harry too had closed his eyes and fallen asleep.

A/N So there it was…I hope it was satisfactory because this closes the first chapter in my Harry Potter saga and because I might not update for a little while since I'm going to concentrate on Just Married…Kinda for a while and I'm starting my first year of college in two weeks…..but don't worry because againI promise this is not the end and I still have lots and lots of plans and ideas for these characters….In fact I just wrote a scene for this story that doesn't take place for five years (I have a whole file for random scenes that I think of) So leave me some review love and I'll try to write as fast as possible so I can give you more…..

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Oh and by the way I'm sure some of you were questioning the whole vending machine thing but I'm the author so they have magical vending machines and coffee dispensers and you can't prove otherwise…..lol…..

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B/N: There's another great chapter! I'm going to be joining college in two and some weeks too, so life's going to be buzzing. Anyway, we will try our best to get the stories up. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of Just Married…Kinda, aren't you guys? Anyhoo, drop us a review!

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