Thank you all for the support and comments! I'll be taking a break from writing, and then I'll finish Saddest Day.

Also someone suggested that I have the story fixed up since it finished to revamp it. If you are interested, e-mail me.

All characters belong to J.K. Rowling.

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on…

-David Grey "This Years Love"

Timeline (Epilogue)

By JLaLa

Ginny looked out the window of her older brothers' shop. She felt like she had just woken up from a deep sleep. Blinking, she realized that Hermione was staring at her with worried eyes. Ginny gave her a smile to let her know everything was alright.

"Ginny?" Hermione put a hand on her shoulder. She was worried about the younger girl; it was like she was a daze. As she had been somewhere other than the chair she sat in. On the other hand, Hermione felt the exact same way. The jingle of the shop door announced the arrival of her boyfriend, Ron and Harry. She went to Ron to tell him what was going on with his sister but suddenly was stricken with dizziness.

"Hermione, are you alright?" Her boyfriend put an arm around her and she had a sudden urge to weep with joy. Her brown eyes seemed to be glowing and Hermione pressed her lips soundly on his.

"I love you Ronald Weasley," She said as she pulled away. Ron caressed her face and looked into her sparkling eyes.

"Than marry me," He said softly. Her eyes filled with tears and before he could ask for a reply, Hermione kissed him. That was all the answer he needed.

"OY!" George yelled from behind them with eyes dancing with merriment. "Take it outside like your friend! We have young, innocent minds here!" He gestured at the crowd of children running amok as they had their moment.

"Our friend?" Hermione asked and turned to see the chair once occupied by Ginny was now vacant.

And Harry was nowhere to be found.

Ron turned to Hermione with suddenly protective fury. "I'm going to GET HIM!"

She rushed out to stop her boyfriend…no fiancé… from trying to stop something that seemed to already happen.

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"Gin!" Harry called out to her as Ginny rushed out of the store. Harry caught up with and was surprised to see that they had stopped at a fountain that seemed so familiar…"What is going on with you?" Ginny turned to face him and he was surprise to see that her face had a look of sadness. She sat at the edge of the fountain and began to trace ripples along the water. It seemed like he had seen this before.

The sun shone and Harry took in the beauty that was Ginny. Her hair seemed to a waterfall of golden red, like the sky before sunset.

"I don't know what's wrong with me," She finally answered. "I feel like I missed something…and I don't know why but I'm hurting here…" She put a hand to her heart and looked up at him with piercing brown eyes. Harry realized how different she was. She wasn't a little girl anymore. All this time, Harry had never noticed her and now Ginny had become a completely different person. But as time passed he came to admire her beauty and compassion. Her bravery…she was always braver than he was.

It wasn't until that moment that he realized how much he'd loved her.

And that he couldn't stand to be without her.

"Ginny, I don't know what I can do to change how I've treated you," Harry began nervously as he ran a hand through his jet-black hair. "But I want to try to make up for it." He took her hand and Ginny couldn't help but blush. "What I wanted to say is—"

He was cut off by the sudden touch of Ginny's soft lips to his. He wrapped his arms around her waist to pull her closer. Ginny couldn't believe what she was doing but it didn't matter. Nothing mattered. It felt so right. As she pulled away, she saw that Harry's face was burning with embarrassment. He looked down and hoped that she wasn't going to change her mind and slap him.

Instead, Ginny took her Harry's face with her small hands and lifted it up so their eyes met. "I love you and I will always love you." Ginny knew that she had never stopped loving him; she never had even when she acted like she was over it.

PLOP!

They looked down to see something shimmer in the water. Harry picked it up to examine it.

It was a necklace. The chain was made of small interlinked hearts…

"It was from my daddy. It was the first present he ever gave my mum…"

The small voice echoed in his brain. Ginny was looking at it curiously. Harry put it around her neck and he pulled her long hair through so that it wouldn't get caught.

"It's lovely but where did it come from?" Ginny asked and Harry took her hand. He pulled her up and kissed her softly.

"Consider it an early engagement present," He replied and Ginny cocked her eyebrow at him. Suddenly he seemed nervous, it just seemed to fall out of his mouth but at the same time, he didn't want to wait to be with her.

But what if she had said no?

"Okay," She said softly. Harry beamed at her and Ginny ruffled his messy hair. "But what could I possibly give you?"

"Children," He replied coyly and she laughed. "Lots of them."

"What the heck are you DOING!" They turned to see Ron and Hermione. Ron was beet red while Hermione wore a bemused smile. Harry pulled Ginny closer…

"I remember when you and Harry told me you were getting married…I punched him in the face, you know…"

Ginny shook her head as the echo in her head seemed to fade. Maybe they would just wait for awhile…

Silently they walked away from her obviously harried brother.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING!"

"Shush," Hermione reprimanded him. "Leave them be."

Harry walked on silently as Ginny leaned against him. Kissing the top her head, he contemplated what was happening. He wasn't sure but it felt perfect—

He looked up and saw the sad face of Cho Chang. Her parents had been murdered as well as her younger sister Jane a month ago by Voldemort because of her connection to him. Suddenly he realized how lonely she was, how hurt and how angry she must be at him. He didn't blame her…

"Don't you know that every action you make in this world accounts for something?Our lives are made by the things we do, if only I hadn't agreed to go out with you. Voldemort would have never given a damn about me. For just being you, Harry Potter, the boy who lived, you affect my life but not for the good…"

Harry realized that Ginny was also looking at the sad face of Cho. "Go to her Harry, she needs you." Ginny gave him an encouraging smile and he tentatively walked over to her. Cho was surpised to see him but she gave him a small smile.

"Hullo Harry," Cho said and he sat at the empty chair beside her.

"I'm sorry," He said suddenly and her eyes widened.

"For what?"

"For not being able to help you, as a friend, I completely failed you…" Harry said to her and her eyes filled with tears. "No one should face this alone. I'm so sorry…" His own eyes filled with sad tears. He had failed Cho again by not protecting her family. It was like losing Cedric all over again. He put a hand on her shoulder.

"It's not your fault," Cho said through her own wet eyes. "I know you would have helped me if you could. I know that it wasn't easy to come over here and keep me company but I really needed it…suddenly I don't feel so alone…" Ginny walked over to them and gave Cho a smile.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to join us for lunch," Ginny began and Harry looked lovingly at her. "My mum pack us a huge basket of food--" Cho grinned at her and then at Harry who nodded in agreement.

"You picked quite a girl, Harry," Cho said as they got up. "I just hope you're a better kisser with her than you were with me!"

Harry turned bright red as Ginny laughed jovially and took Cho's arm leading her over to the shop.

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"It's a GIRL!" Thirteen year old Jamie Potter said excitedly. "A baby girl…finally…" Ginny Weasley-Potter smiled at her daughter as she cradled a pink bundle. Tufts of that signature red hair stuck out of the infant's head and when the baby opened her eyes, it was her husband's gorgeous green eyes.

They had married right after she graduated. Much to her family's surprise but it was nothing compared to Ron's—

"EMMA!" Hermione burst in with her daughter in tow. Gorgeous at fifteen with long, curly brown hair, she was truly her mother's daughter.

Needless to say when Ron had to tell his parents that Hermione was pregnant, they weren't pleased.

Even more so since they weren't married yet.

And both were still in school.

Hermione graduated with the highest marks in the school and the biggest stomach. It was miracle that she could move.

The curly, brown hair and the almond shaped eyes were the only thing that Hermione had given her young daughter. For her unruly, disorganized nature belong to her father. Ron walked in, a toddler with shaggy red hair in his arms. Arthur was their second child. He was a happy kid who was content with eating a biscuit.

Though it seemed sometimes that Arthur was much neater at eating than his father.

"Mum is doing it again," Emma said with a pout though her eyes held a mischievous glint. She had a penchant for pulling pranks much to Hermione's dismay. Emma was a gifted actress and was actually studying at a theatre company in London. "It's not my fault that every time I get near Evan something bad happens."

"Did somebody say my name?" Evan walked into the bedroom followed by his older brother Albus. Twelve year old Evan and Fourteen year old, Al were as different as night and day. Al walked over to his mother and gave her a hug.

"I was just saying that every time you come near me I get in trouble," Emma said. "It is not my fault that Al almost fell down the stairs."

"Enough already," Harry said as he walked in the room. "Your mother just had baby for goodness sakes!" He walked over to his wife and sat on the side of the bed. Ginny kissed him softly all the while holding the small baby. "How are you?" Even now Harry couldn't breathe whenever she kissed him.

"I'm fine," Ginny said softly. "Just pushed another baby out of my womb." They had agreed to have the birth at home. For privacy sake, she didn't want a picture of her sweating and screaming obscenities to end up in The Daily Prophet.

"So humble," Draco said as he entered. "You weren't so sweet an hour ago. Cho's on the way, she's putting Jane down for a nap." After Eva had died and Samuel had been born, he thought that he could never love another woman. But Cho had helped him through it, all the while raising Samuel as if he were her own. His son adored her. Cho had been involved with Charles, at the time, and when Cho found out she was pregnant, he split.

They had been married for two years now, and he had officially adopted Jane as his own. Draco couldn't imagine his life without her. He would always love Eva but she would've loved Cho too.

Samuel walked in, his dark hair falling over his eyes and when he saw Jamie, a red blush flooded his face. Jamie, who had been hopping around with her long black ponytail swinging, stopped and pulled her ponytail down so that her long hair tumbled down her back. They hadn't seen each other in a year. They had been twelve then, and she had been in pigtails but now it seemed different.

She was different.

"You threw dirt at me," Jamie said after a moment and Samuel couldn't help but scowl.

"Only because you jinx me so that everything I ate tasted like snot," Samuel replied.

"Actually Sam that was me," said Evan sheepishly. "But that's only because you made fun of Jamie when you should be admitting you like her."

Cho chose to walk in at the moment, much to both of the children's relief. Her life had changed since the day her parents and younger sister were murdered. When Harry defeated Voldemort; she wept with joy. Ginny Potter had let her cry until she was blue in the face. They become the best of friends since then.

"What's going on?" Cho asked. "Gin just had a baby, shouldn't all of you be coddling her or something?"

"Oh no, we're too busy trying to admit that Sam likes Jamie," Al informed her.

"I do not!"

"By the way, Mr and Mrs. Longbottom send their regards," Cho said to Ginny.

"Is Neville enjoying Africa?"

"Immensely," Cho replied. "At least that's what Luna said. So what are you naming her?"

"We were going to get to that," Harry said from where he sat next to his wife on the bed. "I know…how about Pansy?" Ginny looked amused at the expression on Draco's face.

It was the appearance of Molly Weasley that put an end to the conversation. Her father had died only recently and it had taken a toll on their mother. Ginny knew that it wouldn't be long before the bond went into effect.

"Oh Gin, she's lovely," Her mother said and Harry scooped the little girl up and brought over to her grandmum. "What's her name?"

"Seems to be the question of the day," Harry replied. A loud, shrill shriek filled the air, and everyone turned to see the baby crying loudly. Molly shushed her until her cries became small whimpers. It suddenly came to him like someone was whispering in his ear. "How about Molly?"

His mother in law looked at him and Harry kissed the top of her head. Molly Weasley had been the only real mother he had and Molly seemed to be the perfect choice for one very boisterous baby. Ginny looked at husband with pure love in her eyes.

"Molly Potter," Ginny said trying out the sound of the name. "It's perfect."

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So ends my story…what's next?

Take a break for health reasons.

Earn some money for my new car.

Finish Saddest Day

Also if any was interested in trying to fixing up the story it would be greatly appreciated…e-mail me review…I need some love!