Homebound by Azusena

Rating: PG
Genres: Romance
Relationships: Draco & Ginny
Book: Draco & Ginny, Books 1 - 5
Published: 05/07/2005
Last Updated: 05/07/2005
Status: Completed

The war is finally over, Draco and Ginny's thoughts as he heads home...




1. Homebound
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**Thanks to all who reviewed Just a Boy. I hope everyone likes this story.**

**Thanks so much to my Beta Trutonks and my best friend Emily, she's**

**the reason i wrote this story because she loves d/g.**

***Azusena**

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(DRACO)

I hurried through the streets of Hogsmeade, eager to get to Hogwarts. I hadn't seen Gin in
three months, but now that Potter had finally defeated Voldemort, (he took his bloody time at it,
too) I can finally get back to Ginny. I barely even pay any attention to all of the people in the
street as I go past. They're celebrating Potter's victory - just in case anyone hadn't
already heard about it. There are fireworks being shot up from all over, but primarily from Fred
and George's joke shop. As I continue on, I notice an old woman weeping openly in the middle of
the street. That's just how happy people were. I mean, the war had been going on for quite a
while, why shouldn't they celebrate now that it's over? But I can't celebrate yet. I
have to make sure Gin's ok, and if she's not... I'm not sure what I'll do.



**And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder**

(Ginny)

Where is he? Shouldn't he be back? It's been nearly an hour since Harry got back, where
is he? Everyone's celebrating here, but I need to keep busy, I can't celebrate yet. Since
I'm training to be a healer at St. Mungo's, I volunteered to help Madam Pomfrey and bandage
the wounded. My thoughts wonder to my family - it's a miracle that most of them got out alive.
Percy was killed at the beginning of the war. He was trying to fight off five or six death eaters
at once in order to protect Penelope and their
child. She's now living at the burrow with us, along with their son. She named him Percy, in
memory of his father. I drift back to the now and just
continue doing everything in my power to keep my mind off Draco. I hope he's ok, I don't
know what I would do if he's... not alright.

**If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
'cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight**

(Draco)

It seems as if time is going by really slowly. I'm trying to push through the mass of people
who have now filled the streets and are blocking my path to the Hogwarts gates. It feels as if
instead of getting closer I am barely moving forward. At this rate I won't be able to reach
Ginny for at least another hour.

**It's always times like these
When I think of you
And I wonder if you ever think of me
'cause everything's so wrong
And I don't belong
Living in your precious memory**

(Ginny)

I wonder if he's thinking of me. Maybe he's out on some field dying, waiting for me. I
haven't told my parents about us yet. Draco wanted me to, but I just couldn't - not when
there had been much more important things for them to worry about. They have already been up here
to the ward, even Ron,
wondering what's wrong, why I'm not joining in the celebrations. I just keep telling them
that I need to finish healing all of these people first, that's far more important than
celebrating.

**'cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder

If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
'cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight**

(Draco)

Suddenly, I remember... Potter, that map, HONEYDUKES! I bolt back to the heart of Hogsmeade and
rush into the back door of Honeydukes, head down the storage rooms steps, and shove my way into the
One-Eyed Witch Passage,
thankful that no one notices me. I'm finally going to see Ginny. Everything is going to be
perfect. We can start our new life, our own family, after we get married.

**And I, I don't wanna let you know
I, I drown in your memory
I, I don't wanna let this go
I, I don't**
(Ginny)

What if he's dead? What if I never see him again? I look up from my daze to some commotion
at the front of the hospital wing.

**Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces pass and I'm homebound
Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way through the crowd**

(Draco)

I can see her, over all the people. She's tending a patient, she looks up and her face turns
from one of annoyance to one of surprise and happiness. I push through the crowd to reach
her.

**
And I still need you,
And I still miss you,
And now I wonder...**

(Ginny)

It's him!!! He's finally back. I ran to him and threw my arms around him, kissing him
and hugging over and over again as spun me around in his arms.

"I love you," I whispered in his ear as he set me down. He just kind of stared at me for
a while... I'd never told him I loved him before.
**
If I could fall into the sky,
Do you think time
Would pass.. us by?
'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you...**

(Draco)

Did she just say what I thought she did? I've dreamed about this... It must be real since
she's looking at me like that.

**If I could fall into the sky,
Do you think time would pass me by?
'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you.**


(Ginny)

Finally he seemed to come out of his trance, he smiled and laughed, an actual smile not his
usual smirk. "I love you too," he managed to say before picking me up and swinging me
around again. "I'll love you forever."


**If I could just hold you....
Tonight**

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