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When dreams become... reality.

Chapter 1.

"So you admit it then?" Ginny yelled angrily.

"Yes. I'm so sorry." Draco took a step towards her, to try and comfort her. She stepped back, whacking his hand away from her.

"Get away from me you bastard."

"Ginny, please -"

"No. Get away from me, just go!"

"I'm sorry Ginny." He said sadly. "It was good while it lasted." He turned and walked out of the room, a valuable ornament following, and narrowly missing his ear.

***

How could he have done this to her? Her boyfriend had just cheated on her with Pansy Parkinson! Of all people, but then, it was Draco Malfoy. She should have known a Malfoy couldn't really fall for a Weasley.

Just then a brilliant plan came into her head...
***

Draco wasn't in the mood to see Pansy at the minute so he went to the library to calm down.

He knew Ginny would want revenge, but he couldn't figure out what she would do to him. He sat at a table, pretending to read and stewing on this thought for ages.

He felt tired and looked at the clock. He was shocked to see that it was almost eleven o'clock, he couldn't believe he had been in the library all that time.

He walked slowly back to the Slytherin common room, trying not to make a sound. It was well past curfew and none of the prefects liked him. He prayed that Pansy wasn't waiting for him.

When he got there he was surprised to see that she had gone to bed without saying goodnight to him, but he didn't mind.

He got undressed quickly and climbed into bed, it didn't take long for him to get to sleep...

*** DREAM***

"Draco. Draco." He heard a girls voice whispering softly. He recognised the voice, but couldn't name it, where had he heard that voice? All he could see was a bright light, he couldn't see properly, but he knew he was in the school grounds, right by the Forbidden Forest: the smell of the trees told him that.

There was somebody walking towards him, he couldn't see who it was, only it was a girl.

"Draco." She said again.

"What do you want from me?" he was getting really scared and panicky by now, he didn't know what this was.

"You ripped me up, Draco." She said sadly, but she was irate.

Draco tried not to show how scared he was, he held up his arm to shield his eyes from the light

"You will pay for this." She said. She drew a knife and walked towards Draco.

"What are you doing?" he asked. It was obvious that he was totally terrified now.

The girl gracefully fell to her knees beside Draco, still with the knife in her hand.

"You're crazy." He said shakily, staring at the knife.

"I said you would pay, Draco, and you will." With that she pressed the knife to his neck.

You can't do this to me, you can't. Noooooooooo." She laughed softly and pressed the knife harder.

***REALITY***

Draco woke up with a start. His neck hurt where the knife had been pressed. He felt it and when he took his hand away, there was blood there.

Just then Pansy ran in from the next room. "Draco, hunny, are you OK, you were screami-" She stopped dead when she saw Draco sitting up in bed with blood on his neck. "Draco, what happened?" She was really concerned for him. She went over to sit next to him and held his hand gently, he was shaking. "Draco?"

"Nothing, it was just a dream."

"But you're bleeding. What happened?"

"Nothing, I'm fine, go back to bed, Pansy. There is nothing you can do for me."

Respecting his wishes she got up, kissed him on the forehead and left him in peace.

Draco was scared to go back to sleep. He looked up at his clock, it was six o'clock in the morning. He got up and went to look in the mirror. The cut had stopped bleeding but it still hurt.

He decided to have a shower before he went to breakfast. He turned on the taps in the shower room and went to get his towel.

***

He walked down to the Great Hall with Pansy Crabbe and Goyle, they wouldn't leave him alone for fear of his safety.

They sat down at the table and helped themselves to some food. Draco had two slices of toast and a goblet of Pumpkin Juice and, naturally, the others copied him.

He was about to take a bite out of his second slice of toast when he noticed Ginny Weasley take a seat between Neville Longbottom and her older brother, Ron

She glanced at him and their eyes met. Draco was looking at her questioningly but her eyes were full of poison and hatred. They sat there, staring at each other, unblinkingly, for a while until Harry came and sat between them.

Ginny leaned to the side to look at Draco again but he wasn't paying attention. She saw a cut on his neck.

"Ginny, what are you looking at?" Harry asked, interrupting her thoughts.

"Nothing." She said vaguely.

Just then the bell went for first lesson and there was a rush to get out of the Great Hall. Ginny's first lesson was Defence Against the Dark Arts on the third floor and Draco's was on the same corridor.

Draco got out of the Great Hall first and Ginny followed him and his little gang all the way to her classroom. She hated Draco so much that she could just jump on him and strangle him to death...