Haunting Visions
Rating: R for language, violence, sexuality
Pairings: Draco/Ginny, Blaise/Angelina, Harry/Hermione, Ron/Luna, mentions of Blaise/Kit Lanchester, of Harry/Ginny, and of Harry/Kit
It's been five years since Ginny killed Voldemort. Now she has to deal with repercussions of her sixth year, and a new obstacle for Ginny and Draco, and Angelina and Blaise to get by. One possibly worse then Voldemort. Sequel to Help Me Cause I'm Breaking Down
Chapter 6: Lingering Softness
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"So what happened after I left yesterday?" Ginny asked Angelina. They were walking arm and arm through Diagon Alley the day after the strike against them.
"Nothing really… Blaise showed up. We talked for a bit."
"Really? That's great. Small steps."
"Then we had sex." Angelina said, "Oh, I love that top." Pointing through a store window.
"Excuse me?"
"Déjà vu." Angelina said, then shook her head, "I guess I just realized Blaise was thinking with his ehem not his brain." She censored herself as kids ran by to get to the Quidditch shop.
Angelina and Ginny walked into Knockturn Alley, albeit hesitantly. Even though after 96% of the Death Eaters were either dead or in Azkaban, with the exception of the break out, Knockturn Alley had cleaned up a little.
"Are you sure you want to buy this?" Angelina asked Ginny as they walked by a witch holding severed toes.
"I need it." Ginny said firmly.
"It might not do anything."
Ginny was about to answer when a voice fell on to their ears from a shadowed store door.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't two nosy little Gryffindor's poking their pointy noses where they ought not be poked."
"Shouldn't you be trying to steal some girls' boyfriend, or have you gone lower and are now trying to steal husbands? Fiancée's? New fathers?" Angelina asked, her temper rising fast.
"Aww, poor wittle Angie jeawous?"
"Of what? A no good whore like you Lanchester?" Angelina asked with a disgusted chuckle, "Puh-lease."
"Don't get haughty with me, bitch." Kit grabbed Angelina's arm as she turned to leave.
"Don't touch me, bitch." Angelina told her, ripping her arm out of the older girls' grasp, "I knew something weird was up in sixth year. When you told me you didn't love him, that the whole betrothed thing didn't matter to you."
"You're right. It did matter. I love Blaise."
"And he loves me, and I love him, and you won't break us up."
"I should've let your family rot in that cage, or killed them myself, while you fought the Death Eaters."
Angelina made to strangle her but Kit was down on the floor before she could even move. She looked at Ginny with an approving smile.
"If you had left our families down there, or killed them, you would've wished that you had killed yourself too because I would've killed you painfully, and slowly." Ginny growled at her.
"You wouldn't've had the stones Weasley."
"I did to kill Voldemort." She told her in a whisper.
Kit's eyes widened before she stood and ran off.
"You think that was smart?" Ginny asked.
"Hell no. But the hit you gave her, brilliant!" Angelina gushed.
"Ya'know what, I need to get out of here. Let's go." They walked back out the way they had entered a few minutes before.
Once Ginny and Angelina were safely out of Knockturn Alley, they both heaved a sigh of relief.
"Well, at least I don't have to talk you outta buying that amulet now." Angelina said as they entered Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor to get a cold snack on such a balmy spring day.
"It could be the only chance to getting the gift back." She coded herself by saying 'The Gift' instead of 'prophetic dreams'.
"Ok, you sound all worshippy sorta when you refer to it as 'the gift.' You might as well be calling it 'The Sacred Thing'."
"Oh, yeah! Like that sounds any less inconspicuous." Ginny answered sarcastically.
The waitress appeared from below the counter, "What can I get you two, today?"
"Large mint chocolate chip, extra chips, extra cherries, and rainbow sprinkles. No whip cream or walnuts today Janine."
Janine Abbott, Hannah's little sister, said, "Ok Miss Michaels, and for you Miss Weasley?"
"Large vanilla chocolate swirl, walnuts, cherries, chocolate chips, gummi bears, cookie dough, whip cream, annnnnd… oh, rainbow sprinkles!" Ginny ordered almost every topping out at the moment and then zoned out briefly, her mind wondering to why she had broken up with Draco.
"Hey! Butt-head! Earth to Gin-Gin!" Angelina waved her hand in front of Ginny's face.
"What?"
"You zoned. Grab your ice cream, it's time to let these kids get theirs."
Ginny grabbed the large cup and smiled to Janine. She then walked over with Angelina and sat at a booth against the window.
"Are you doing okay?"
Ginny looked up, "Yeah. I'm fine. Just a bit preoccupied."
"With what, sweetie?" Angelina asked, eating a spoonful of ice cream, a worried expression on her face.
"The dreams, life…"
"Draco?" Angelina intercepted innocently.
"Shove it." Ginny grumbled.
"Okay!" Angelina said, "No need to be bitchy with me. Geesh!" She violently stabbed her spoon into the cup, a grumpy expression replacing the innocent one from moments before.
Ginny's face softened, "I'm sorry."
Angelina made a small sniffle, "I know. But we need to stick together right now. I don't understand why you broke up with him. Draco has come quite a long way since out sixth year at Hogwarts. I especially remember how nervous you were on the train right home from Hogwarts seventh year. You were particularly scared that he wouldn't be there to greet you, or that he would and would be there to break things off." She chuckled at the memory of Ginny, in her nervous state, putting on her Muggle clothing backwards and inside out.
"And I remember a certain brunette freaking out for similar reasons!" Ginny answered defensively.
Angelina lowered her head and ate more ice cream.
"If you lower your head any farther, you'll be snorting cherry juice and chocolate chips." Ginny teased, smiling when her friends' head snapped up.
"Brat!" Angelina said. She shook her head and promptly stood, "I think I'll finish this while I walk to the new animal store near Gringotts."
"Angie! Angie wait!" Ginny called, gathering her purse and ice cream. She ran from the ice cream parlor and into the busy and completely crowded street.
"Angie! Arg!" She made a frustrated noise, "Where did she go?"
"Not far." Angelina told Ginny from behind her. Angelina walked up to Ginny's right and smiled, "You have my money purse seeing as I didn't bother to bring my own purse. Apparently I couldn't go very far." She paused and sighed, "Plus, I can never stay mad long… well, with you at least."
Ginny smiled and hugged Angelina quickly, "You love me!"
"I'm also annoyed by you." Angelina added, then smiled.
"To the animal shop?" Ginny asked, dismissing her comment.
"No. Actually, I think I'd rather have a Muggle pet. You remember Snuffles?" Angelina asked with a grimace and shudder.
Snuffles had been hers and Blaise's first pet… in their first apartment, which was Muggle and charred, seeing as "Snuffles" had the unknown ability to breathe fire. Thankfully, Muggle police ruled it an accidental kitchen fire.
Ginny nodded in agreement, "One problem."
"No Muggle money." They stated in unison.
"Oh well. I'll buy one later." Angelina said with a shrug.
"Buy one what exactly? Puppy, kitten, bird, hamster?"
Angelina had stopped, "Blaise!" She smiled.
"Angie!" The man smiled back. His companion however, didn't.
"Ginny." He greeted slowly.
Ginny was frozen, "Draco!" She quickly asked, "What are you doing here?"
"It's Diagon Alley, Ginny, what do you think?" He asked, some of his old self coming to the surface.
"Well, Angie and I'll just be getting out of your way." She tried pulling Angie with her but was met with resistance.
"Actually, Gin, Blaise and I need to get something for the loft. We'll meet up with you two later." Before the two ex-es could object, Angelina was pulling Blaise away with her toward a jewelry shop.
"Liar!" Ginny shouted after them.
"Shall we go after them Weasley?" Draco asked.
"Draco, please, don't go back to that. I still love you; I don't know why I broke up with you. I was scared, upset, worried." She trailed off.
"I'm a big boy Gin. I can protect myself from my insane psychotic father."
"I know." She sighed and looked away embarrassed, "I'm worried that if something happens, like in my sixth year, and I have to… get "rid" of the evil, being your father, that you'll hate me, and really leave me… for good." Tears prickled behind her eyes.
"You won't, Gin. I swear to you." He hugged her.
She inhaled his cologne, "I love you."
"I love you too." Draco responded, kissing her temple.
"Haha!" Angelina said, clapping her hands, "I knew this would work! And you had your doubts!" She sent a few tsk-ing noises at Blaise and smiled.
"You two set this up?" Ginny asked in disbelief.
"Yep!" They stated in unison.
"Evil! You lured me here on pretexts of a girl's only day! No men!" Ginny pouted.
Angelina wrapped an arm around Ginny's shoulders and said, "You'll get over it babe."
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Two days later, Ginny sat on the windowsill facing the whole of London. It was night and the moons and stars were high in the sky, casting a glow into hers and Draco's bedroom.
"Babe?" A groggy Draco asked from the king-sized bed, "You okay?" He asked, rolling over to the edge to read the red numbers of the clock, "It's two am."
"Just thinking." She informed him. She heard a shuffle of movement, then a closing of a drawer. Then, Draco got to his knees next to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, and rested his head against her shoulder.
"About?"
"What's ahead."
"London." He kidded.
She smiled, "Funny smart-ass! I meant for us."
Draco's hand, in front of her, resting on her belly, opened, and he said, "I know one of two possible things." He used both hands to open the box in his hands.
"Draco…" She breathed.
"Will you marry me?"
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I'm so sorry I didn't update. Wednesday I had to go to the dentist and she took pictures of my mouth and told me that the tooth that's been hurting me has a cavity eating away at my tooth, and that one directly across from it has a cavity that's gone deep and done nerve damage so now I have to have two root canals. :( One of which I was supposed to do yesterday but the medicine made me really sick. So now, I'm going Wednesday. Good news though, I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico… ::crickets:: Commercial, gecko… must be a Florida based insurance agency. No, the actual good news is mom bought me The Bourne Identity DVD and we're going to go see the sequel on Thursday. Inside the DVD was one free ticket to go see it, so all we gotta do is pay 5.50 for mom to get in, 5.00 if they give here the seniors discount ::snickers::, and we'll be watching hottie Matt Damon kickin ass! Woot!
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