Chapter 1: How it began.

As he ran from the Hogwarts grounds, Draco told his godfather, Severus Snape, that he couldn't serve the Dark Lord. He needed to get his mother from the Manor and go into hiding. Severus hid them in the cellars of Number Twelve Grimmauld Place. Narcissa knew this was Order headquarters making it the safest place to be. Besides, Narcissa knew all the secret passages in the house after all, she played in them as a child. After a couple days in hiding, Draco and Narcissa were shown into a room that held a very weak but alive Albus Dumbledore.

Severus had helped Dumbledore fake has death to save both he and Draco. Dumbledore needed some time to recover, Riddle would have easily been able to kill him in his present state. Once Order members found out the truth, Draco and Narcissa were permitted to join, along with Lucius, who with help from Snape (who was still working as a spy for the order), escaped from Azkaban.

Draco was partnered with Seamus Finnigan and were sent to look for the remaining horcruxes. Unlike the golden trio, Draco and Seamus came back to Order headquarters for the weekly information meetings. It was during this time that he got to know Ginny Weasley, while she was living at Headquarters with her parents. Ginny wanted to join Ron, Hermione and Harry but since she wasn't of age, Molly would not allow it. Draco, Seamus and Ginny would spend hours, after the meetings, joking with one another. It was during this time Draco found that he was attracted to Ginny but he decided it was just because she had been Potter's girlfriend.

In June of 1998, He Who Must Not Be Named came to his final down fall. Draco, and Seamus, Harry, Ron, and Hermione had located and destroyed most of the horcruxes. Now, the only thing left to do was kill Tom Riddle and Nagini. This turned out to be easier than anyone thought. With Lucuis' information, the Order found Lord Voldemort. The final battle was surprising, many Death Eaters turned against the Dark Lord, due to his madness. It was Bellatrix who finally killed Voldemort, though she fled right after.

Chapter 2: Hogwarts – The Delayed Year.

Hogwarts had been closed the year of the war and was reopening that September, most of the students were returning to complete their education. Hermione was named Head girl and Draco Head boy.

Seamus and Draco remained friends but once school started the old feelings between Draco and the golden trio returned. Harry started paying more and more attention to Ginny which seemed to bother Draco. He convinced himself it was because he hated seeing Harry Potter happy. Draco decided the best way to get to Harry was dating Ginny.

He knew Ginny would not be won by expensive gifts, charm was the only way to get her. He started by leaving her hand picked wild flowers on her desk, everyday, along with an unsigned love poem. A week later he added a single piece of Honeydukes chocolate, still the love poems remained unsigned. He quietly asked around learning about her favorite things.

It made him laugh when he heard about her love for old American Muggle music, and the horror novelist Steven King. It was the only way she was like her father, he thought. Her other loves were standard things. She loved dancing, well, that he remembered from his fourth year (She and Longbottom never left the dance floor).

Dancing would be their first date. The Three Broomsticks had been destroyed in the war, Madam Rosmerta had recently rebuilt it. It now had a large Wizard Wireless and a small dance floor. The Friday before the first Hogmeade weekend, his note accompanying the wild flowers and single chocolate read:

Dearest Ginevra,

Let's go out and have some fun.
It doesn't matter where or when,
Or what we say or what we do,
As long as it's just me and you.

Let's be together for a while
And get to know each other well,
Exchanging jokes and tales and chatter
Before we get to things that matter.

Let's see what happens when we dance
Across an evening sky, and glimpse
Below the stirrings of a sea
That might--or not--wind-haunted be.

D.

Be at the Three Broomsticks tomorrow at 3. I will whisper this poem in your ear.

Draco went to the Three Broomsticks with Seamus. (He thought Ginny would be more at ease with him around and he also knew that she would have a friend and Seamus had agreed to keep Ginny's friend busy.) When they walked in and spotted Ginny sitting at a table with Luna Lovegood. Seamus turned to Draco and whispered, "Mate, this is going to cost you!"

"I don't think so Finnigan. Lovegood's a party girl. I've seen it myself. I had the misfortune to walk in on her and Goyle."

"Goyle!" Seamus was shocked.

"Yes, according to him the bint can't get enough. Best BJ's he's ever had."

"Bloody hell, let's get over there. Luna's plenty shaggable."

Draco walked up behind Ginny whispering the poem in her ear. He was shocked when she turned her head smiling. Her lips brush against his cheek lightly as they made their way to his ear. She spoke very softly. "I've been dreaming it was you." His heart jumped in his chest, she dreamed of him. She wants him, just like he wants her. He forcibly reminds himself that he only wants her to better Potter.

Draco and Ginny walked onto the dance floor, he was amazed at how perfectly she fit in his arms and how they move across the floor as one. How could they be so perfect? It's because he's a great dancer, or so he thinks, but he's danced with many other girls and it's never been like this. He concludes she must be a great dancer, as well. They dance for hours. He stole small kisses from her at times, always smirking and staring at her after, his actions make her giggle into his chest. He holds her tight enjoying the enticing smell and warmth she alone possesses.

They run hand in hand back to Hogwarts. He barely got her to Gryffindor tower before curfew. She asked him into the common room, he agreed because being head boy, he didn't have to worry about a curfew himself. The crowded room was noisy with sounds of students discussing the odd couple they saw dancing at the Three Broomsticks. The room fell quiet; all eyes went to the couple still holding hands.

"Malfoy, are you daft? Get the bloody hell outta here!" yelled Ron.

After kissing Ginny on the cheek lightly Draco asks, "Meet me outside the Grand hall after breakfast, about 9 o'clock?"

She pulled his head down to her and gave him a soft kiss on his lips before saying, "I thought that a gentleman always picked a lady up at her door?"

"Then I'll see you here at 8 o'clock to escort you to breakfast?" She gave him a nod before kissing him again. Draco puts his arms around her waist pulls her close and kisses her back. There was a loud gasp. "Get your hands off my sister, you git!" screams Ron. Seamus and Dean have to hold him back. Draco steps away from Ginny and bids her good night. He looks at Ron, whose face is red with anger and Harry, who was next to Ron, his face was pale, and his mouth was hanging slightly opened in shock. Draco left the common room with the trademark Malfoy smirk on his face. This was too easy and those kisses of Ginny's were too sweet.

I'm not the author of this poem, and their name was not listed by it.