Disclaimer- not mine! JKR owns Potterverse

Title: I will always love you

Authored by: Gail

Summary: When Ginny discovers she is pregnant with a miracle child (means no one knows how it happened) and then sees Harry proposing to someone, she runs away to America, what happens when about 5 yrs later poor unsuspecting Harry turns up there with Ginny's brother? Overused plot…I know, I like the characters. H/G, CW/OC

Rating: T for language, talking about sex, suggestions of abortion, etc.

A/N: Here it is! The end! I've finished a story for the first time! Yaaay! The chapter may seem a bit rushed, for that I apologize, so it's not all fluff, but it does have a happy ending.

Chapter 7

I.

Harry watched Vi from the window of the bakery as she laughed at something the old couple she was serving said to her.

"She's very pretty." Harry jumped at the voice. He turned around to see a very familiar face.

"Remus! What are you doing here?" He asked as he hugged the old werewolf.

"I was sent by Albus to check on you guys. I guess he was right to send me huh? Make sure the pretty ladies don't distract you. Can't do much about Charlie now, but we've still got you don't we?" (a/n : Just assume he's already gone and met Charlie who told him about Gaurika)

Harry rolled his eyes at hi pseudo-uncle's good natured ribbing.

"Harry do you even know anything about her?"

"Huh" Harry was surprised to see the sudden serious look in Remus's eye. He figured that Remus was only protecting his heart so it would not be broken again because he didn't know the girl well. "Yes, She's Virginia Velley. Her family, well her grandfather knows Dumbledore pretty well from what I have gathered. She is trusted by the headmaster and helps the Order. I know that she ran away from home at the age of nineteen because she was pregnant. And I know that she's very nice and really pretty. Really Remus, why are you looking so paranoid?"

"Harry, that's Ginny Weasley." His face held a look of sorrow. Harry looked at him disbelief and then started laughing, "Oh Remus, the marauder in you always comes out at the weirdest of times!" But when Remus didn't laugh and instead looked at him sympathetically Harry started shaking his head in shock.

"Remus, tell me you're joking. That couldn't be Ginny! Remus, this woman has a daughter, Ginny's too young to have a child!"

Remus shook his head sadly, "Harry, I am a werewolf, I can recognize her scent. It's no wonder you couldn't recognize her even with the similarities, you still think of her as a girl. Harry, Ginny's been a woman for many years, and that woman standing inside is Ginny."

Harry pressed his face against the window. The familiar red hair, the shape of her eyes, and those Weasley characteristics suddenly stood out. He cursed himself for being stupid enough to not be able to look past the charm she may have used to change the colouring of her eyes and not recognize the blatant use of a disillusionment charm on the lower half of her face.

Ginny looked up and saw Harry at the window. She gave him a wide smile and waved at him. When he didn't wave back, she frowned but beckoned him inside anyway. He turned around and Remus only nodded his head towards the door. Without saying a word, Harry walked into the shop.

Suddenly the whole story made sense and he knew what Ginny had been trying to keep from him. He was hurt and he was angry. He hadn't felt this betrayed since the time he came to know his father's friend was responsible for his parents' death, not even the break up with Maureen had been so hurtful.

Being an auror had taught him how to hide his feelings and keep his face blank, but he wondered if he would be able to do that now. Earlier it had always been to protect his body and life, this time it was to protect his heart and he wondered if he had the strength to put on the façade while his heart felt like it was being sawed in two.

Harry gave Ginny a weak smile, one that she returned with a full grin. "Like some coffee?" She asked holding the cup under his nose as the smell of the freshly brewed beverage wafted up to his nose.

He shook his head, looking away, unable to meet her eyes. "Oh come on!" She coaxed, "you still haven't tried the coffee. Trust me, you'll like it."

"How would you know if I would like it? You don't even know what I want!" He snapped at her pushing her arm away roughly which caused the cup to shake and the coffee to spill on her.

"Harry!" Vi exclaimed in shock and annoyance before she scourgified the hot drink off her.

"What is wrong with you!" She hissed. The few customers in the store had started watching the little drama that was unfolding at the counter.

"I know who you really are!" Harry turned around and stormed out of the café with Ginny calling after him.

She turned to everyone and announced, "Alright. The shop is closed. Everyone out!" After quickly ushering everyone out, Ginny locked the doors and looked around for a sign for which way Harry may have left. Unable to discern where he could have gone, she decided to return home and wait.

II.

Harry staggered in through the door at one o'clock at night to see five people waiting up for him. Remus did not look up at him from his seat on the armchair; instead he kept staring at the firewhiskey he was rolling in his glass. Charlie and Gaurika looked up from the two-seater sofa and Ginny and Lily faced him from their place on the rug in front of the fireplace. The blue flames of the cool-fire flickered next to them, reflecting in the remaining tears in their swollen eyes and on their hair. He instantly felt guilty, but his anger rose again and he snapped at Lily, "Go to bed! It's too late for you to be up!

"Don't you shout at her!" Ginny growled at him looking like a lioness protecting her cub. Lily glared at her father and then hid her face in her mother's bosom.

Harry just kept standing there swaying to-and-fro looking dazed and angry at the same time.

"Ginny, it might be a good idea for Lily to go to bed." Remus said silently and Ginny nodded quietly and looked at her daughter who had understood that it was a que for her to leave.

Remus finally looked up at Harry. His gray-blue eyes were hard with disappointment. "Harry, sit down."

The black haired man knew that it would not do to disobey the order and seated himself across from the older man.

"She's mine, isn't she?" He asked quietly. Ginny nodded and Harry put his head in his hands and asked quietly, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You know why" Ginny responded in the same soft tone.

"I don't care, you should have told me. I would have left her, I would never have turned you away, you know that!" His voice trembled with desperation and sorrow.

Ginny couldn't look him in the eyes knowing that she wouldn't be able to hold back the tears if she did. Remus, Charlie and Gaurika left the room quietly so that the two of them would have some privacy to discuss things.

"I know. I knew what you would do and that's why I left."

"And what about Lily? Did you even think about her, Gin? She had never even met her father, me! Until…hell! It's not even been a month!"

"She's fine Harry-" Ginny replied, but she was cut off.

"No! No, don't give me that. She is not fine! Do you know what it's like to not have parents, no Ginny you don't! But I do, and I don't think being unable to be with one of your parents is any better than not being able to be with both. And then two of you had Malfoy's men after you! For Merlin sake! That child has nightmares that something will happen to you! She's worried that she'll lose both her parents, and although I can never know what that's like, I imagine that it would hurt more to loose someone after knowing them and loving them, then it is to loose them without knowing them at all.

You kept me out of her life, and you kept her out of mine. Why did you keep my child away from me Ginny? Somehow I can't understand your reasons."

Looking away didn't help anymore. Tears were flowing freely down both their faces.

"I didn't want you give up the chance you finally had to live a normal life." Ginny replied softly, knowing that her good intentions did not have the best results.

Harry went over and sat down next to her. "And look what happened. Ginny, although Voldemort is gone, I still can't ever have a normal life. As much as I hate it, I will always be the boy-who-lived. People will never treat me normally and no one will ever love me for just being Harry, and not Harry Potter. No one will love me…not like you have."

Ginny looked up in surprise and saw Harry's tear stained face smiling weakly at her.

He nodded and continued, "It's true, no woman, except you would ever give up the chance of having her name attached to mine just so I can be happy, so that I can live my life the way I want to. When you ran away, Ron told me that you never actually stopped loving me, and no matter how much I tried to deny it I knew in my heart that your leaving had something to do with me. Even though in your letter you wrote there was someone you had to be with, and everyone assumed it was a man, I just knew, and it broke my heart. I looked for you everywhere, I completely disregarded your request and I got a case opened for your search in the Auror's department and I took every one of the missions regarding it for three years. When I started, I think Maureen knew what I didn't know myself, and I think that's why she left me. I didn't know what compelled me to look for you Ginny, but I know now. I love you, I always have. For these few days, whenever I looked at you, I felt like my heart could sing and all my worries would disappear. Ginny, I hope that you could forgive me for being a fool, for not seeing how much you loved me before everything happened. And Ginny, I ask you to give me a chance to live the only life I would want to, a life by your side, if you would have me…I know I don't have a ring, but I promise to get one as soon as possible."

Ginny had never been shocked in her entire life. She wanted to laugh at seeing how quickly Harry had gone from being angry to sad to romantic, but she didn't think he would appreciate it.

Instead she took his hands in hers, smiled softly and said, "Harry, you don't need to ask me for forgiveness for anything. I should be the one apologizing. Seeing how everything has turned out makes me wish I had told you. I don't have any excuse for what I did, but if I had to find one, it would be that I was young and foolish. I know I don't deserve you, but I am not going to keep Lily away from you, and if being with me is what you truly want, then my love, I can't complain because I would have everything I could everything I could ever want or need in this world."

Harry chuckled, "I won't accept that excuse Gin, I wasn't even nineteen when I killed Voldemort, but I guess we could blame it on your pregnancy hormones."

Ginny laughed in response, but that stopped once Harry captured her lips with his own.

III.

"Was it hard?" he asked later when they stopped kissing

"Was what hard?"

"Having the baby." Harry responded

Ginny blushed, "She was premature, so I had to have a surgery. But I'm glad, because…well, I hadn't ever… and it would have probably really hurt."

Harry cringed and hugged her, "Oh my god! I hadn't even thought about that!" he exclaimed.

Ginny blushed harder, she hadn't anticipated talking about her virginity. "It's all right." She mumbled.

Harry smiled at her and waggled his eyebrows, "We'll take care of that won't we?" Ginny laughed and buried herself in his arms, "not tonight though."

"No, not tonight" He agreed squeezing her tighter.

IV.

"Do you think it's possible that I stay with you tonight? I just…" Harry finished of lamely as they stood outside Ginny's room.

"I think that'll be fine." She replied pulling him in, it wouldn't matter. Everyone seemed to be asleep anyway.

Ginny changed into her night clothes while Harry stripped down to his boxers and asked, "Does Lily have to go to school tomorrow, or do you think she could stay home for a day?"

Ginny smiled at his excitement of telling their child the news and replied, "I think it would be fine for her to take a day off, she slept pretty late anyway" as she snuggled into his arms feeling safe in his embrace.

Harry smiled, tomorrow they would talk about the wedding, and maybe, just maybe about having another child, and this time, Harry would be there. With that pleasant thought he drifted off to sleep.

THE END!

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