Blood
Blood: Is no longer more important than her.
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Draco dropped the letter he had just received from his father into the fireplace and watched with no passion as it caught alight and the edges started to burn.
Ginny, who was sat on the sofa with her legs drawn up, merely watched him and waited.
"He says I'm stain on the Malfoy family tree and he doesn't want to see me. I've still got my vaults and my name, but he no longer considers me his son. No doubt I'd be replaced as his heir if he had another child." Draco spoke with no tone, his words flat and emotionless.
He sat next to Ginny and without a word she wrapped her arms around him. Holding the tears back, she said what she had to.
"You can go back to him Draco. I'll understand. It's your father, your family."
Draco stiffened in her embrace before spinning to face her, a fire in his eyes she hadn't seen before. "Never," he hissed, "I made my choice when I told him about us Ginny, I knew this would happen." He took hold of her hands and clasped them tightly. "Never," he repeated, "never think that you are to blame for this. He is not what I need, he is no more more important to me. If he comes around, that's wonderful, if not..." He let the sentence trail away, the words not needing to be said.
The letter finished being consumed under the watchful eye of the couple.
