Disclaimer: Before anything else, I would disclaim. JKR you own them, but the story line's mine!
A/N: Hello there, before you read this one-shot, I would like you to please read this first.
This is a very out-of-this-world, very AU fanfic. I'm going to give you some background of the happenings here so as not to create confusion. This is all based on MY imagination and I'm just sort of playing around with JKR's characters. In this fic:
1. There's no family feud present between the Malfoys and the Weasleys. Their family friends and are very close.
2. Draco, Harry, Ron and Ginny are all childhood friends.
3. Harry's parents, James and Lily Potter, are very much alive.
4. Voldemort's still after Harry. He attacked the Potters' house, but Lily and James were away on a mission for the Order. They left Harry alone with an Auror. Harry lived, but the poor Auror wasn't so lucky.
5. Lucius didn't give Ginny the diary of Tom Riddle. All the bad things Lucius did to Harry and the Order has happened, but it wasn't Lucius' fault or doing. Lucius is a businessman, father of Draco, and loving, but strict husband to Narcissa Malfoy. Lucius, the Death Eater, is replaced by an OC.
6. Draco is still in Slytherin,but only because of his cunning and intelligence. He and his ancestors are all in Slytherin. Slytherin, in this fic, is not home to future Death Eaters. It just so happens that Voldy was in Slytherin.
7. Harry's family migrated somewhere in Muggle London after Voldemort's attack on Harry. They came back to Godric's Hollow after Harry turned 11. So everything that happened in the first book, that is the things that happened to Harry before he found out he was a wizard, did not happen. However, the part about the Sorcerer's Stone did happen.
8. Ron is unhealthy. That is why it's Ginny, not him, that is Draco's best friend.
9. Harry and Ginny are not an item. Ginny had a crush on Harry during his second year, but their relationship during his fifth year didn't happen. Replace Ginny with Luna.
10. Lucius and Draco don't hate Muggles. The only reason Draco would hate any of them is because Ginny is dating one.
11. This takes place before the seventh year of Draco and it is summer.
A/N: Now that we're clear, let's go on to the story!
Taming Ginny Weasley
He was in love with her.
He was in loves the way she laughs. He's in love with her red hair and every freckle on her face. He loves it when she pouts whenever she doesn't get her way. He loves her bubbly personality and her fiery temper. He loves it when she runs after him with the goal to hex him…heck he'd even love her hexes if they weren't so painful for him to take.
She was extraordinary that way. No, she's not like the Veela Bill has for a fiancée. Not at all ethereal like the beauty of a fairy and she lacked that lady-like gorgeousness many girls he had dated before possessed.
No, she's not those. But her beauty lies somewhere else. Where other girls find that wearing their long hair down and curly is beautiful, Ginny is breathtaking whenever her hair is tucked in a high ponytail. She doesn't bother much with make-up, though an occasional swipe of color for her face just enhances her beauty. He always prefers her natural face more than anything. Girls in bikinis would never illicit the same strong reaction Ginny causes him whenever she hangs around in a tight shirt and old shorts. And while other girls love to have tea parties and go shopping, she would choose playing Quidditch with him and her brothers all the time.
And the beauty of it all? Ginny Weasley doesn't even know how beautiful she is.
Yes, he was in love with her. Draco Malfoy was in love with her, his childhood best friend.
And that's what made it complicated.
He didn't know where it started; just that she was always inside him. His mind and thoughts were filled with her and he couldn't, wouldn't, really get her out of his system.
Draco knew better than to fall in love with a family friend. The Malfoys and the Weasleys were old pureblood family friends; they go a long way back, and though Draco was thankful that the old friendship made it possible for him to be able to meet Ginny Weasley, he also cursed it for the same reason.
One would wonder why it was Ginny who was Draco's best friend and not Ron, who shared the same year and sex as Draco. But Ronald Weasley's childhood had been a dreary one, with the boy always catching a sickness here and there. Much as the, then, little Draco wanted to play with Ron, the latter couldn't even run for ten minutes without hyperventilating. Bill was far too old and so was Charlie to play with Draco, Percy was much too serious, and the twins, although they do play with Draco some of the time, preferred to take into their own naughty world and spring surprises on the unsuspecting others. Draco eventually found a playmate in the littlest Weasley and they had become the best of friends. By the time Ron was healthy enough to join in with their games, Draco and Ginny had already been inseparable. Ron didn't mind though. Harry and his parents had come back from hiding and the two were inseparable themselves.
While Draco was glad to have a friend in Ginny, he couldn't say he was delighted of the fact that Ginny only saw him as that: a friend.
And it wasn't as if no one knew about it. Her brothers knew it and they made sure to bugger him because of his inability to tell the girl. Him, Draco Malfoy of the playboy nature, who seemed to take after Bill's penchant for having an expiry date put on every women he's dated, and who had the gift to sugarcoat his every word and make women fall.
Harry knew it, too. Once upon a time, when Ginny had fancied herself in-love with Potter, Draco had taken every step to reign in control and not beat Harry to a pulp. Harry had just laughed at him, saying, "I wonder how you can call yourself her best friend when you don't know her at all." Draco had known what he was talking about then. Ginny falls in and out of love with every boy she meets; their childhood friend Harry is not an exception. It was when Harry was in second year and Ginny had just thought Harry the best seeker ever and had started drawing hearts on her parchments with the words Mrs. Ginny Potter written in large fonts.
Draco could only smile thinly and remind the girl that it would be a long, long time before the title written in the parchment could become reality. He didn't push through the topic, not quite trusting himself because the next thing about to run off his tongue was: "If you'd written Mrs. Ginny Malfoy though, I would have instantly made it a reality."
As it was, Ginny had moved on to crushing on another person after two weeks of liking Harry. Don't get him wrong, Draco loved having Ginny in Hogwarts because he did not know what to do with himself if he was away from her for too long, like his first year in Hogwarts. It was the first time he had been away from Ginny for a very long time, and he had deliriously missed her. But having Ginny around in Hogwarts only brought excessive impatience and frustration on his part as Ginny moved from one crush to another.
And it was not as if he didn't do anything to stop his feelings for her. When she started her second year, Draco had deducted that she wouldn't stop crushing on other people and instead of dwelling on it, he busied himself with dating other girls in school. At the back of his mind, he wanted to make Ginny jealous, just as he is whenever she has a new boyfriend. But as it was, the girl had three emotions on the subject: one was delight whenever he turns to her for girl advice, irritation whenever his girlfriends get jealous over their friendship and resignation when he breaks the relationship with them. Of course she couldn't judge him for being a playboy, as she jumps from one crush to another herself.
Now, gazing at the girl while flying around the huge lawn of the Burrow, he was just glad they were away from Hogwarts. Even if it was just for the summer; at least he has a few months to keep her away from the other boys.
A/N: There you go! I know I told you guys that this was a one-shot but my beta told me it's better to have it by chapters. I considered it and came up with the conclusion that it would be better if I posted it in chapters. So here it is! I'm just waiting for my beta to finish checking the story so in the meantime read this and tell me what you think!
Special, SPECIAL, thanks to my first beta nextbestthing for being so nice! God Bless!