Prompt: Winning
Words: 200 – I can't bring myself to cut it down any further! Sorry, VS
His voice finally cracking with pent up emotion, Harry struggled to keep control but a tear escaped and fled down one cheek. Ginny could only stand shell-shocked for a moment before she crossed the distance between them in one stride and embraced him, wholeheartedly and without hesitation.
"We have won Harry." She whispered.
"why here?"
"What do you mean?"
"This place is beautiful; the repairs seem to be going remarkably and, well, it's perfect, but why is living here – y'know, in the future, when we're married – why is it important to you that we live here, of all places?"
"Because," his voice caught as he plucked up the courage to tell the love of his life what this place meant to him, "Because we lived after I was born, it – it was where… My dad? He died beside that front door down there. Because… My mum? My mum stood precisely where you're stood right now and threw herself between Riddle and me. Because this place means family to me. Because… Because if I can't repair this place, put right what he destroyed and get on with my life, he's finally won, and he can't win Ginny, he just can't."