A/N: This is my first multi chapters fanfic and as such I'm interested in perhaps getting a Beta who'd be interested in this sort of story. Mainly just as a guide . I had a look at the Beta profiles but there are so many it's hard to find a suitable Beta. So if anyone knows or can recommend a good Beta I'd be interested to know :)

The Boy Who Lived had won, and it seems that the whole wizarding world had come out to celebrate for his triumph over Lord Voldemort.

Despite the heat of the summer sun, Ginevra Malfoy shivered and pulled her cloak around herself more tightly.

The last couple days had been a nightmare for her. Her heart had been ripped out with Draco's death, and there were painful reminders of him everywhere she looked at Hogwarts, Malfoy Manor,the fields near the Burrow, even Diagon Alley, all evoked memories of times they spent together secretly,nobody knew about her exact relationship with the Malfoy's heir ,not her parents ,not her brothers and the so called Golden Trio.

Only Severus Snape(Draco's Godfather),and Blaise Zabini and Luna Lovegood(Draco & Ginny's best friends),Nymphadora Tonks (Draco's older cousin) and Lucius Malfoy( the Malfoy patriarch) knew about her and Draco's relationship .

Lucius stood by her , stoically, not saying anything . He had promised her that she is his daughter in law legally and would help her if she need anything and protect her from the rogue Death eaters who wanted revenge for the Malfoy family's betrayal of the Dark side . Yes,The Malfoys' were spies and were caught and tortured and did their best by escaping to Grimmauld place before Draco's fifth year. Voldemort had killed the Malfoy matriarch ,Narcissa as a punishment due to their betrayal.

Ginny's grief was painful enough in itself, but she also had to deal with it while at the same time ,trying to be happy along with her family. The wizarding world had celebrated all day,night . Streams of coloured ribbon filled the air and all people were jumping up and down,shaking hands with her family,Harry ,Ron,Hermione and to some extent ,her ,Blaise,Luna,Severus and Lucius too. People were jostling for position to catch a glimpse of the heroes or one of the people who had been the closest to Harry.

While the celebration was going on, a quiet cemetery was going on the grounds of Malfoy's graveyard.

Ginny stood silently by the graveside, Ginny felt that every eye was on her,she noticed Severus bowed his head down,trying to hide tears .

Lucius was still standing beside her, holding Draco's Jacket ,as if he is trying to reassure himself that his son is still alive .From the look on his face,Ginny knew what he was doing. He was trying to deny what was going on in front of him.

Blaise and Luna stood closely ,crying silently for fallen best friend,Draco, who had been responsible for them to be together.

Ginny never shed a tear ,hoping to be strong to support her father in law. He was a strong adult supporter in her life ,yes she had already forgiven him for her incident during her first year. The Malfoy's patriarch had apologized many times and regretted deeply,saying that he didn't know what the diary was about, he simply thought it was a useless diary ,that's all and she had told him that it was her mistake too for not informing her parents that whether they really had bought the diary for her or not ,but she simply assumed that it was for her ,all the same. This was a lesson learned.

To most of the scores of witches and wizards in the Wizardry World, Draco Malfoy was an arrogant pureblood bigot and spouting off useless words,just wanted to be a clone of his father. But he was the epitome of a rich aristocratic man ,whom many girls swooned whenever he goes.

Ginny understood this, as she had been the same way once too. Apart from having a storybook hero crush on Harry Potter, she had had a silly real schoolgirl crush on Draco Malfoy too.

Only after meeting him in the bookshop and her incident during her first year caused by Lucius Malfoy accidentally, the way he troubled her brother Ron and his friends, she had given up her real hope and dreams of loving Draco Malfoy,knowing that her family would forbid it.

So she spent her time seeing and observing Draco from afar,slowly seeing past the Malfoy' s Mask and liking the real Draco Malfoy. And she really love Draco for who he was whenever no body is around to see his gentle caring nature. She then learned to love him in his imperfection. Or how he would show his fierce caring nature to those he love to care and protect them so deeply .

Neither her Family nor the Golden Trio sought to seek and become his friend at Grimmauld . They were simply too busy and self involved in their own life,thinking,planning strategies etc.

Only she had taken the time and courage to seek him out when he usually hide in one of the rooms and thus slowly their friendship evolved ,stronger and it turn into more later . They had hidden their relationship so well,not even her own parents knew about what was going on in her life . Everybody was so busy in the Order meetings frequently .

They didn't know how he pulled on his left ear when he was deep in thought. Or how he never turned down an offer of a game of wizard's chess with his friend,Blaise,saying that Malfoys never lose and will keep on trying till they succeed, even though he never won,trying to save his dignity in his usual prattish way.. Or the way his smile could light up a room whenever he see her.

They only knew him as the Malfoy Heir,Pureblood,the arrogant prat and they didn't remember that he too was a human ,has feelings too. He had changed a great deal after suffering loss. Nobody remembered the Malfoy family 's loss as it was insignificant for them . She really hope that they (Harry,Ron,Hermione)will remember what Draco had done for them. At times,Draco did gave them the best advices and help in some of the spells to locate Horcruzes etc. She really hope that they don't go overboard with their new found fame.

As the ritual began, Ginny nestled closer to her brother George, who put a comforting arm around her shoulders. Yes,George and Fred was the only ones who knew about her crush on Draco . She couldn't concentrate on the vicar's words.

Instead she found herself thinking back on her relationship with Draco. She hope that what ever she will do now, she will make her Malfoy family proud. She can help Lucius in their Malfoy business or …...

Draco had always thought of Ginny as the weasel's little sister–the one who had an embarrassing crush on Harry Potter.

But he was wrong,he learned from his friend Blaise that it was him that she had a real crush on,but would not dare tell loud out of fear of her family.

She eventually gave up on the crush, and accepted the fact that she would never be anything else except blood traitor to him.

Then, the summer after her fourth year, things began to change due to Narcissa's death ,he blamed himself and his father too for not saving his mother, etc and refused to talk about it.

But Ginny was just as stubborn as him. She refused to let him wallow in self pity,self loathing and somehow she began to convince Draco that it wasn't his fault and encourage him to use his anger in another way by helping the Golden trio in their effort to defeat Voldemort, Initially,he hesitated to help them due to their history. Neither them nor he made an effort to be friends. Ginny thought that at least this is the beginning.

She made him realize that they were both so much in similar such as ,they were both pureblood, He ,an only child and she , the only Weasley girl in seven generation , his suffering by Voldemort after being caught as spies ,hers in her first year. She, too, had been manipulated into doing things that hurt others. If he blamed himself for what happened to his mother, he would have to blame her for opening the Chamber of Secrets, and he was much too gallant to do that.

The two slowly developed a friendship based on their common experiences with Voldemort, and before long she considered him to be one of her best friends. And even if he didn't feel the same way about her (he had Blaise after all), she was in a category by herself. There were things he could say to Ginny that he couldn't say to anyone else.

By the end of her fifth year, Ginny had begun to fall in love with him and not Harry Potter. And Draco had stopped thinking of Ginny as the blood traitor , the poor Weasley girl, and started to see her strength, inner and outside beauty, and decidedly wicked sense of humor,her sneaky slytherin cunning etc.

In his sixth year, Draco received a series of letter full of threats from Junior Death Eaters. He tried to push Ginny away in a misguided attempt to protect her. She realized what he was doing and wouldn't allow it, of course. In the end, it only ended up bringing them closer and they got married secretly at Christmas with their best friends as witness and The adults Lucius and Severus and Draco's cousin,Dora too. They got married in Paris where the legal age for marriage is 15. The wedding took place almost immediately as they decided there was no time to waste. They had a mini honeymoon around New year ; But they spent every moment together that they could.

The school year passed peacefully, Ginny and Draco were as happy as they could be,Soon, One and a half year passed . Draco was almost 18 and Ginny was 17.

They were planning to start a family even if the war was still going. Ginny had told her parents that she would prefer living at Luna's place since she wasn't allowed in the Order meetings,her parents agreed,thinking that she would be safe at her friend's place. Thus,Ginny and Draco stayed at their London Flat . Nobody would know,they have Luna and Dora as an alibis.

But,soon that year spring, the Death Eaters suddenly attacked Hogwarts. They both fought valiantly side by side. Draco had saved her brother Fred by silently by casting a silver metal spell into the werewolf ,who had tried to bit him and George noticed Draco 's action . They both got separated while fighting among crowds.

Then she noticed him fighting Bellatrix with ruthless anger ,who was instrumental in killing his mother and he noticed that Bellatrix was about to send a spell towards Ginny and Draco managed to intercept the spell .Thus ,having distracted Draco,she sent a quick spell towards his father ,who was fighting with Rudolphus nearby him.

Draco bellowed at his father to duck but Lucius didn't hear Draco's call and Draco ,with a lightening speed, flung himself between the spell and his father,saving his father from the Dark cutting Curse,cutting him deeply in the stomach and Ginny screamed .She ran to him,sat beside him,lifted his head on to her lap,wept, trying to block his blood from spilling and shaking his face to keep him awake,her instinct telling her to tell him the secret she had been keeping. He heard her secret and smiled at the news, but he was coughing out blood ,then looked at her with his most intense gaze. "Ginny," he said, "whatever happens, be happy."

Then he closed his eyes and slipped into unconsciousness. He never woke again . Lucius stood shocked and he ,with blind anger ,killed Rudolphus and he immediately dropped down and took Draco,shaking his head ,trying to wake his son up many times .

After some minutes,Ginny was numb,filled with shock, denial,saw Bellatrix fighting with Luna .She got up and with full anger,wanting to kill her , joined in the fight with Luna ,who was also joined by Hermione too. The three fought her with full strength,but she was too strong than them . She almost narrowly escape the avada kedavra curse and soon Bellatrix was killed by her mother who saved them . But by then , Voldemort was defeated and everybody rejoiced .She had become so numb and so empty inside as though Draco had took her piece of heart with him too.

Now, as she stood at his grave, she wondered if she could ever be happy again. Everything around her seemed to bring her back to him.

George nudged her then, and she realized that the vicar was waiting for her to throw the first handful of dirt upon the coffin. She did so, and took comfort in the ancient words being spoken. When Draco's body had been committed to the earth, and his soul to heaven, Ginny simply remained silent,chanting the mantra in her head..saying Malfoys do not cry ,Malfoys do not cry,Malfoys are always strong...George and Fred flanked on either side of her through it all, a comforting presence at her side. Fred and George were the only Weasley siblings who knew Ginny so well and always seemed to know exactly what she needed.

She noticed her best friends getting up and leaving , there was only twp persons left, and she stepped away from her brothers,telling him to go back to her family ,so they wouldn't notice their absence and told to pass the message that she would be staying at her friend's place.

Severus Snape had been a mentor to her for years. In her second year at Hogwarts, she had struggled to come to terms with what had happened with Tom Riddle.

She felt as if she could never trust anyone again, and as if she would never be cleansed of her guilt. As her Potion professor, Severus had seen her struggle, and he helped her see that the opening of the Chamber was not her fault–stronger witches and wizards had come under Voldemort's spell before and likely would again. He had also helped her see that she was a strong and talented witch, and that her experiences had only made her stronger.

After her friendship and later relationship with Draco,she considered him to be her mentor,Uncle to her ,helping them both to spend time by giving them detention, giving up his room to Draco and her as their meeting place. She would owl him when she was unsure or confused about something, and he never failed to respond with encouragement and advice. Now he stood before her and looked at her with his sad,knowing onyx eyes.

"I know what it is to lose your best friend/husband as since he had lost his friend, Lily. Ginny, if there is anything I can do for you, I will do it." His gaze intensified. "Anything. And I can keep a secret, even from your family, if you need me to."

She looked at Lucius too ,he just looked so pale,and he nodded silently ,telling her that he would do anything for the Malfoy family. She knows that her father in law will help her as he knows what she is planning to do since past two days. She had considered him as a father to her now since her real father ,Arthur Weasley,is so busy with the order,now he had gotten promotion in the ministry,so involved in helping Harry and all.

She looked up at both her Uncle and her father in law and saw understanding in their face. They knew what she needed, and they was willing to help her. She took a deep breath before asking it of them.

"I need to leave. To get away from everything that reminds me of him. Will you both help me with that?"

Its alternate Story,Not canon. Here,Ginny & Luna had not gone to the Dept of Mysteries with Golden Trio. They were not exactly friends. I have written the entire story. I will mostly try my best to update it often. Until then ,Review it and please No Flame it! I dislike flames reviews. Its only a story to me which I am a big fan of Draco Malfoy,Harry Potter,Ginny too.

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By Ice Queen Malfoy