I apologize for not posting in so long! I was busy enjoying the last of my vacation jumping off falls and swimming with whalesharks!

Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. I made it a bit longer since the previous ones were too short

Draco was swift in flying him and the wet redhead into the castle. The speed didn't bother her either. They had woken up a few portraits along the way, but at least they didn't get caught. They stopped at the dungeons, in front of a large snake emblem embossed on a wall Ginny didn't notice before. Malfoy dismounted his broom and assisted Ginny as she did the same. He did not linger and approached the snake emblem and muttered the password with his wand. Ginny shuddered as the snake slithered away and a door opened underneath it. It was much too like the Chamber.

"In you go, Weasley." Draco told her, his face straight.

Ginny self-consciously walked in, her fingers playing with the wet tips of her hair. Draco looked down to the droplets on the floor, observing the redhead's muddy feet as she slowly walked, and followed her after. The door closed with a loud thud—which startled Ginny.

"Why so jumpy?" Draco asked with raised eyebrows.

Ginny shook her head at herself. "Of course you have your own private chambers."

"As if I would let my commoner Slytherins take in the glorious sight that is… you." He says sarcastically, and looks at her head to toe, his eyes gleaming.

"As if you would let your commoner Slytherins see me with you." Ginny bites back softly, as she folds her arms in front of almost-exposed breasts, feeling self-conscious.

Draco smirks. "Take your shower, Weasley. You're dripping on my floor."

With her head bent down, Ginny closed her eyes as she let herself feel the water warm her cold limbs. What the fuck was I thinking? How could I have… She let herself wonder of what would have happened if the Malfoy boy wasn't out flying in the dead of the night. She winced as she touched the bite on her inner thigh. Blood was still leaking, and it mixed red with the mud and water in the drain. Ginny could not stop the thoughts of the young man outside the door whose lips had saved her from death.

Yet she knew she could not trust him.

She stepped out of the bathroom clad in a towel. There was a gray shirt on the bed, as well as a pair of black boxers.

"Don't worry, they're new. I haven't used them." Draco appeared in front of her, topless, towel hung over his shoulder, and a goblet in hand. "The boxers, I mean."

He then handed the cup to her. She received it with one hand, and kept the other firm hold on her towel.

"It's a potion to make sure no traces of venom are left in your system." He answered her unvoiced question.

Ginny arched an eyebrow at this. "How do you even know how to make one? Or did you just happened to have one at your disposal?"

Draco huffed. "I'm a Slytherin. Professor Snape made sure we don't make a fool of ourselves by dying through poison of our sigil."

Ginny gently sloshed the liquid in the goblet.

"Don't worry, Ginevra. If I wanted you dead, I wouldn't have bothered saving you in the first place." He said before walking towards the bathroom.

Ginny drank the potion before putting on the clothes Draco lent her. She looked around in the unfamiliar room of her savior. The walls were black and decorated with green drapes and some wall lamps. The floor she had dripped on, she noticed were wood, instead of the cold stone she had expected. The wardrobes were fairly big. His king-sized bed looked inviting, but she shook her head at herself. She was going to sleep on the black leather sofa by the wall. Despite the Slytherin colors, Draco's chambers felt rather homey. Ginny then sat on the carpet in front of the fire, and tried to warm herself.

It wasn't long until Draco emerged from the bathroom, rubbing a towel on his wet head.

"Do you want some wine?" he suddenly asked, startling Ginny.

"Are you for real?" she asks incredulously.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Draco answered, not looking at her as he pours wine in two goblets.

"You've been acting… weird."

"Weird? I have done nothing of the sort, Weasley. I merely saved you and offered you a bit of wine." He said with nonchalance as he sat down on the carpet next to her, and handed her a goblet. Ginny eyed it suspiciously.

Draco scrunched his eyebrows at her. "Don't be stubborn. It'll help with the cold. And the nerves."

Ginny finally drank. "Why did you help me?" she asked softly.

"I couldn't have just let you die, could I?"

Ginny continued in thought. "Yeah… but I bet you've never invited a girl in here unless it's for shagging…" Her eyes suddenly widen at the thought, and looks up to blond topless boy next her.

Draco only raised an eyebrow in reply.

Ginny surprised him by suddenly laughing. "No, I don't think you brought me here for that. Which is why I say you're acting weird."

"Because I've helped a poor girl who almost met her demise, I'm acting weird?" he asked her as he leaned back on his arm, sipped his cup.

"Yeah, but you already helped me from drowning, the poison, and then you take me in your chambers for a shower? You could've just left me there. I could've found my own way to—"

He cut her off, his tone informant. "I thought we've already discussed this. I had no choice. You couldn't have gone in your dormitory without a wand. If you had thought you could have slept in the bloody roots of that bloody tree, my saving you was a waste of time. You would have died in the cold."

"And yet I still find you weird." Ginny said, rolling her eyes.

"And yet you still find me weird." His tone this time was amused. They both sip their wine.

"You called me Ginevra." Ginny suddenly says, breaking the brief silence.

"Did I?"

"I believe the sentence was," she then mocked a deep male voice, "Don't worry, Ginevra. If I wanted you dead, I wouldn't have bothered saving you in the first place."

Draco laughed merrily. Ginny smiled at the sound. It seemed so genuine. "I don't sound like that, you Weasel!" he retorts amused, and continues to laugh. "And am I not allowed to call you by first name?"

"Yes, well we haven't had a proper conversation before this one, haven't we?"

Draco looked at her face properly. "We have."

Ginny looked up from sipping her cup. "Pardon?"

"We talked about Quidditch last year. Had a bit of a banter if I recall." He said as he drank his wine.

"Oh. Right. That night of a storm. Much like this one."

"Mhmmmm."

"Still, how is it that you know my first name? It's just Ginny, usually."

"Well just Ginny, it just so happened that you're in Blaise Zabini's Shag-able List." He said as he watched her reaction.

"I'm in the Shag-able List." She repeated with her eyebrows scrunched up.

"He called you a blood traitor, but yeah, you're in it. Zabini won't shut up about the damn list during the whole train ride. Probably won't for a week." He said in an annoyed voice.

"Hmm, I should be swooning then." She replied in a grim tone.

"What happened to you tonight, Weasley? Why were you out there?" he finally voiced the question that was running in his mind.

Ginny stiffened at his question. "I just… needed to think."

"To think about killing yourself?" he asked incredulously.

"I wasn't trying to kill myself!"

"You weren't trying to kill yourself, but you jumped off a boulder into a freezing lake, and just happened to swim into poisonous snakes?" he asked accusingly.

"Yes!" she exclaimed defensively.

"And you walked out of the castle, wandless and barefoot! And you accuse me of being weird." He glared at her, and her at him.

"What do you want me to say, Malfoy? It's none of your business anyway." She said defiantly.

"None of my business?! What would have happened if I wasn't out there, Weasley? Did you think about that? And you say it's none of my business?" he now shouted at her.

"Just leave it alone! Please!" she shouted back at him.

He continued to glare at her. "I forgot how stubborn Gryffindors were. Suit yourself."

He then stood up without a glance at her, and walked towards the black leather sofa by the wall.

How was that?

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