Chapter 2: Unwelcome Assumptions

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The infamous Argus Filch stood in front of the shocked students. Argus' face shown with pure happiness as he stroked his cat in his arms, he continued to gaze at his new finds.

"Out for a mid-night rendezvous?" He asked mockingly. "You two follow me." He commanded.

"But Fil- I mean Mr. Filch we were just…" Ginny began.

"You were out, in a deserted dungeon in middle of the night. Being out of your dormitories is a serious offence Miss Weasley, Mr. Malfoy."

"But sir, we were locked in!" Ginny continued.

"A likely excuse."

They quickly made their way to Professor Dumbledore's office, and Ginny continued to plead with the stubborn man. Draco watched with amusement as Argus Filch – enemy of the student body of Hogwarts School (in reality the ruthless caretaker of the castle) – argue with a young 16 year old.

"Shut up!" Argus Filch finally exclaimed after a 15 minute argument. "Enter Professor Dumbledore's office, and wait for him to come and see you."

"What? We have to see Dumbledore just for being out at night!?" Ginny hissed.

"Professor Dumbledore. And yes, now go in now."

He left the two in front of the open portal. Wordlessly, Ginny walked into Dumbledore's office. Draco following behind her. Once upon reaching the notorious office, Ginny sat down nervously as Draco nonchalantly assumed a stance of leaning against the wall with his arms folded.

"Nice little mess you got us into, Weasley." Draco began after minutes of awkward silence.

"Screw you." She replied.

"My, my. Such a positive attitude towards the man who saved your life."

"Saved my life? All you did was sit next to me you jack ass."

"True, very true." Draco said amused at her irritation.

"Maybe a rich jerk as you just mistook it as a valiant effort to save a human's life?" Ginny said, as she glared at him.

"Yet how could an underprivileged girl as yourself be able to tell?"

"Go to hell!"

"If you come with me, I'd be happy to go to the very core of that fiery domain."

"Do you ever shut up?"

"I'm a Malfoy. I don't back down when challenged, Weasley." He said proudly.

"Being a Malfoy says a lot – you don't 'back down when challenged', as you say, and you're an ignorant knave."

"Quite the temper, eh sweetheart?" Draco said with a sweetness dripping with sarcasm. He smirked when he was awarded with an intense glare from Ginny.

At that very second, Professor Dumbledore appeared in his office. Dressed in a glittering nightdress with a pointed hat, his face lit up with hilarity as he saw the two students. His eyes twinkled with the same curiosity as was shown during the day.

"Good evening." He said in a misty voice, apparent of exhaustion.

"Hi, Professor." Ginny said politely.

"What's up?" Draco greeted coolly.

"I hear that you two were found roaming outside of your dormitories? The Potions classroom to be exact."

"Yes, sir, but the thing is that we had been locked in there… and…" Ginny started.

"And couldn't find a way out, and so were forced to stay in there and wait for help." Draco answered.

"A likely story. Yet, I will still be forced to take action."

"But Professor!" Ginny whined.

"Miss Weasley, enough." Dumbledore said seriously. "I do believe that you're presence in the Potions classroom may have been accidental, but I will still be forced to take action. You both will report to the Greenhouse for your detention with Professor Sprout at noon tomorrow."

Ginny lowered her head sadly at having to do work tomorrow night… a Saturday night at that.  Draco, who was used to this type of punishment, simply made his way out of the small office without uttering a single syllable. Ginny proceeded in following him into the dark corridors.

"Damn it." Ginny muttered to herself.

"Weasley, I'm shocked. A little girl like you using such harsh language!" Draco drawled sarcastically.

"That's a horrible comeback, Malfoy. I would think you had at least a bit of sense to think of something better, you sound like a 9 year old." she said, and suddenly her voice shook a bit.

Her breathing started to quicken, and she could feel the pace of her heart start to race. She turned to face Draco, but could only distinguish a blur in the place where Draco had previously been. The room started to spin as she felt her previous headache return to her. The throbbing that began in her head caused her to fall against a wall for support.

"Weasley, you ok?" Draco said – suddenly loosing all of his anger towards her.

"M-malfoy… I…" She tried to speak, but couldn't through the pain.

"Come on." Draco said quickly, "Let's go to the hospital wing…"

"No!" Ginny said angrily, "No…" she repeated more slowly, her voice showing the agony she was in.

"Why the hell not?"

"Just because. Leave me alone, Malfoy! I don't need your help." Ginny said, trying to be angry, but her voice just quivered in a painful whisper.

"Damn Weasley. Why do you have to be so impossible?" He muttered.

He took her hand and started to lead her through the gloomy stoned hallways, but she pushed him away from her and shook her head.

"Malfoy, I can't walk." She said slowly.

He was tempted to leave the little bitch there, but then saw that she wasn't feigning the pain. He took her into his arms, rather roughly, and started to take her towards the opposite end of the hallway. Suddenly he realized he hadn't a slight idea of where the Gryffindor's dormitories were.

"Hey, Weasley. It's not like I like you or anything, but I'll just take you to your dormitories… but where are they?" He spat out.

"They're…umm… that way." She said pointing up the staircase in front of them, "and to the left."

Without another word, Draco started walking up the steps, Ginny cradled in his arms. He groaned as he walked up the steps, it wasn't that Ginny was heavy he just hated having to carry the little wench. "A wench… a bitch… you think she's both, but you still love her." A voice whispered from the back of his head.

Then he heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Draco, not being frightened by the sudden sound, waited rather impatiently to see the person walking down. He was surprised to see Vincent Goyle standing in front of him.

"Hey Draco. Was wondering what you were doing still out until now…" He said and then smirked when he saw Ginny (now asleep in Draco's arms), "but I see you were kinda busy."

"Goyle, it's not what you think." Draco said sternly, his face contorted into a look of disgust.

"Whatever. Dude I'll seeya later… have fun with her." He chuckled.

Draco saw his friend disappear towards the Slytherin common room. He nearly threw up at the thought of having anything to do with the girl in his arms… but then again she was a gorgeous girl. "What the hell are you thinking? You love this girl! No I don't… no I don't love her…and if I did, it's not like she'd have anything to do with me?"

Draco finally made it to the portrait whole, covered by the mysterious Fat Lady. She stared at him with curiosity as she saw the girl in his arms. She smiled and dared to think that maybe the two had become an item.

"Mr. Malfoy, what happened to Miss Weasley?" She asked after a few seconds.

"She…umm.. well she had a headache and I thought I should bring her here." He said nervously.

"She couldn't come on her own?" She said, her smile growing.

"Umm… no. She was having trouble walking."

"Oh my!" She exclaimed becoming worried "Well you better wake her and allow her to get a goodnight's rest."

"This is the entrance to the Gryffindor common room?" Draco asked surprised.

"Why yes."

He shook Ginny softly, and watched her open her hazel eyes. She felt the warmth of someone's arms around her, she leaned against him once more spontaneously, but then her vision adjusted and she jumped out of his arms.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Ginny screamed.

"Shut up!" Draco said hastily, he saw the Fat Lady look at them, "Remember when your head was hurting and I had to bring you here?"

"Oh yeah…" Ginny said quietly, "I didn't let you carry me!" She snapped.

"You didn't have a choice." He said slyly, looking at her amused. "It doesn't seem you minded, Weasley, you were asleep within seconds."

"The whole damn world was spinning before me, Malfoy. I was exhausted. I couldn't stand. What else did you expect?"

"Maybe a thank you?" He drawled.

"You selfish cow!"

She turned to enter the portrait hole, but was stopped by Draco grabbing her wrist and pulling her back.

"You know, Virginia, you are now in my debt." He said icily in a low hiss, "You were about to fall unconscious, and so I decided to bring you here. You're obviously better… but until you pay me back, you're mine."

"I owe you shit." Ginny said arrogantly.

"You…" He said venomously, and pulled her closer to him, "… owe me your life…"

Suddenly, he pulled away from her, again wearing that award winning smirk…

"G'night, Weasley. I'll see you tomorrow."

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A restless night had Ginny looking awful the next morning. She had overslept and so had missed breakfast. Angrily planning ways to get revenge on her friends who hadn't waken her, she made her way towards the Transfiguration room.

"How could they? How dare they leave me in bed while they prance off and pig out on food. The nerve…" Ginny muttered.

"You know, many say that talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity." Colin Creevey said as he walked up from behind her.

Ginny stopped and turned to him, a playful smile on her face.

"Hey, Colin." Ginny said laughing.

"Where were you last night, Gin? We were supposed to work on our transfiguration homework."

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I totally forgot, well you see…" Ginny started frantically.

"I hear that you and a certain someone were hanging out…" Colin started slowly, ha mischievous smile playing at his lips.

"I was not hanging out with anyone!" Ginny exclaimed stubbornly.

"No, of course not. Pansy Parkinson is only making it up!"

"What? Pansy Parkinson is saying I was what?"

"Nothing, just the Slytherins are all saying that you and Draco Malfoy were found alone in the hallways last night. Malfoy was carrying you, and you were sleeping like a baby."

"What!" Ginny screamed. "This is not good… Ron's going to kill me… oh my god!"

"Hey, hey. Calm down!" Colin said putting an arm around Ginny. "I'm just kidding." He said staring at her intently, "I just overheard some people talking about it… no one knows just yet."

"But Colin…" Ginny started, "There's really nothing going on. Nothing."

"I believe you. Why wouldn't I? You're my best gal friend, Remember?"

"Yeah I remember. I'll seeya later, Colin. I gotta go."

"Seeya sweets." He said and walked off.

'Oh god! I can't believe Malfoy told all of those friggin' slytherins! He's going to die when I find him!'

Ginny ran off towards the Slytherin common room (just left of the Potions Classrooms. She had located it the year before when her and Colin had stuck a stink bomb in the Slytherin dorms).

"Malfoy come out here right now!" She screamed, pounding on the opening to the Slytherin domain. "You dirty son of a bitch come out here and face me like a…" She started, but stopped suddenly as she saw him appear through the portrait hole.

"Weasley, I didn't expect to see you here." He sneered. "Come to apologize for your behavior last night?"

A few Slytherins came around to see what was going on, Ginny became aware of the fact that she was largely outnumbered. All of a sudden, she became very nervous.

"What behavior?" She spat out.

"You know… how you rudely spoke to me when we were in the dungeons… alone." He said, his words received snickers from his fellow house members.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Malfoy."

"Playing dumb as always." He said and clucked his tongue sadly, "Well, it's time for our detention. Shall we go?"

Ginny swung around and stomped down the hall…

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