Authors Note: For those of you that thought Ginny had fallen for our dashing Draco to easily, think again! This chapter presents you with an amazing (if I do say so myself) and totally unexpected plot twist. Enjoy!

Chapter Eight:

"Ginny, can we talk?" Ginny turned around to see Evan standing in her doorway.

"Hey, Ev! What are you doing here?" Ginny asked.

"I'm your best friend Ginny. But I can't let you do this." Evan sighed heavily. "You know you aren't marrying Draco for the right reasons. Getting back at his dad isn't a good enough reason to ruin someone else's life."

"Draco has ruined enough people's lives as it is." Ginny snapped. "He deserves a taste of his own medicine, too."

"I think he really loves you, Gin." Evan protested.

"Of course he does! What's not to love?" Ginny said confidently.

"I hope you know what you're doing. You're not the girl I used to know, Gin. She would never break someone's heart, no matter what they'd done to her." Evan said quietly, turning to go.

"Maybe you never really knew me." Ginny said bitterly.

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"Draco, it's time."

Draco nervously looked up into the smiling face of Albus Dumbledore. He walked up to the altar and took his position, waiting impatiently for the music to start playing so he could see Ginny. An enchanted Organ started playing somewhere in the background, and all the guests stood to look expectantly at the small doorway.

Hermione came out first, escorted by Harry and followed by Evan and Luna Lovegood. They made it all the way to the altar before the organ stopped playing. The guests whispered amongst each other in confusion. Hermione glanced at Evan curiously. He shook his head, but leaned in to whisper in Draco's ear. Draco's head shot up and he looked at Evan helplessly before running down the isle and out of sight.

"Er, it seems we are having technical difficulties." Albus said, "please stay seated." with that, he followed Draco's path out of the hall.

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"Hello, Dormin." Ginny said wearily as she stepped out of the fireplace and into a dark shadowed room, the only source of light the small torch on the wall.

"Miss Virginia. How can I help you?" The barkeeper hissed.

"I need a room. I don't know for how long." Ginny said quickly.

"Room Seven is available, I will show you." Dormin said, indicating for her to follow.

Ginny followed him through an even darker hallway; leading to a small door with a rusty tarnished number 13 hanging at an angle. Ginny thanked him when he had told her how to set the password, and waited for him to leave before entering her new room, and her new life.

"Password?" a raspy voice asked.

"The Burrow." Ginny whispered.

When Ginny closed the squeaky door behind her, she felt as is she was shutting away her life with it.

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"What do you mean, she's gone?" Draco yelled through the small kitchen of the Weasley household.

An entire family of redhead stood before him. The sadness on their faces evident, though none were as sad as Draco Malfoy. His love had left him. She would have been his wife! And now Evan informed him of her little plan.

"Draco, listen." he said quietly, "she never loved you."

Those words stabbed into the very core of Draco's being. He had promised himself he wouldn't cry, but he could feel the beginnings of hot tears forming in the corners of his eyes. He looked at Evan Carter, and silently bid him to continue.

"She was angry, Draco. Mostly at your father. She couldn't believe that after everything he put her through in her first year with the Chamber of Secrets that he would have the nerve to ask for her hand in marriage to his son. And then there was you. She thought you were just like him. You tortured her brother and her first love endlessly, and she wanted to make you feel the same pain she felt every day. And now you do. She's had to leave her entire world to escape you, Draco. I only hope it was worth it." with that, Evan turned and disappeared into the kitchen fire.

-Fin-

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