With you in my Arms

26. Most adorable, charming, sexy husband of yours...?

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Ginny and Harry were sitting in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place enjoying a delicious diner. Kreacher was busy somewhere in the basement. The young couple had been discussing how soon Ginny would have to leave in order to join the Holyhead Harpies. It would be the end of next week when the witch began her new life as professional Quidditch player and Harry already started to miss his girlfriend. They had been getting used to being able to see each other any time they wanted to. Not even the occasional side way glances Mrs. Weasley gave them could have deterred them from showing their affection for each other openly.

The young witch had just finished the dessert and was now leaning her head on his shoulder.

"Have you heard from Hermione?"

"Yes. I got a letter yesterday. She sounds really happy. She's talking about a holiday they are going to go on. Seemingly Malfoy is going to introduce her to some of his relatives."

She raised her head of his shoulder, turned towards him and asked, "What relatives? Tonks' parents? Or somebody from the Lestranges? I wouldn't think he's keen on meeting any of them. Not after what his deranged aunt has done."

Harry thought about this for moment. She was right of course. Tonks' mother was Malfoy's aunt, which meant they were cousins and related, but why would he go and introduce Hermione to his aunt and uncle when Hermione knew them better than he probably did. And Tonks was dead after all. He felt a slight twinge when thinking of young Teddy. He would never know his parents. Just like Harry himself...

"Do you think, that there is any Malfoy out there, that is not Draco or Lucius?" He asked.

"I don't think so. The ferret is really the last in line." She hesitated. "Or their son or daughter will be."

Ginny started playing with her dessert spoon. Her boyfriend was lost deep in his own thoughts now. Malfoy had explained to him that he wanted to find the Grangers in order to re-unite them with their daughter. He had been planning this as a kind of wedding present. Wedding present. He still couldn't get his head round the fact that it was Draco Malfoy, who was the father to Hermione's child. That it was him who was so serious about her that he would have taken her anywhere in the world just in order to make her happy. He had changed, Harry knew. It was just the fact how much he had changed that caught him out more often than not.

"I don't think, he'll present her to some relatives of his, Ginny."

She looked at him. Whom was he going to have her met then, if they were not relatives of his own? Harry watched her thinking. He grinned to himself. She looked rather beautiful with her reddish-brown hair, the blue-grey eyes and the soft skin. Who would have thought that she had been waiting for him since she saw him at King's Cross the summer he started his life as a wizard? He should have noticed her years earlier than he did, he knew, but at least he had finally got his act together and done the right thing.

He sighed. It was all too easy for him to loose his grip of reality when she was with him. Pity that reality would be catching up with them soon. He would be watching her play as much as he could, but to have quality time together would become rather difficult. For a moment he seriously envied Malfoy, as he had the means to just spend his time with the witch he obviously loved.

Draco Malfoy loved Hermione Granger. It didn't matter how often he told himself, that it was okay and that his friend knew what she was doing. The thought alone of them being close caused him a severe outbreak of goosebumps.

"It could be that he wants her to meet her parents..."

Ginny just looked at him, stunned into silence. He just smiled.

"He had me check with the Australian authorities for their whereabouts. I found them. It's just that they are no longer in Australia."

"Oh, Merlin! How is she ever going to find them now?"

"I have already done that."

"Oh? Where are they?"

"I can't tell you as yet. When they have found them, they'll tell us."

For a moment he considered himself lucky that she didn't hex him. Her face was all too clearly showing how tempted she was.

"Ginny, I can't talk about auror business."

"That's not auror business! That's private!"

Then it dawned on her.

"You have been using the official channels of the Auror Office, haven't you?"

He tried his best not to look at her and not to blush at the same time. He wasn't good at multitasking, not where Ginny was concerned.

"So they are going to go where ever her parents are?"

"I think so, yes."

"Has she said anything about how long they will be gone?"

"No. Only that it could be a while."

She slowly run her fingers through his unruly hair. Catching him looking at her like he had during sixth year in the common room after that fateful Quidditch game. Smiling enticingly she whispered against his lips after having enjoyed them for long moments, "Do you think they have a chance together?"

He looked at her. His gaze filled with memories.

"Yes. I don't doubt Malfoy's sincerity for a minute. It's just..."

"He has been the enemy of you three for so long."

"Yes, he has. Hermione never showed how much his name calling hurt her, but I know it did. He was a foul git and now..."

"It's him she is wanting to be with."

He wrapped his arms around her. She kissed him.