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Chapter 7: Draco vs. Harry - Showdown #1
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As soon as Ginny got back upstairs, she was met by Tarah.
"So how was your day?" she asked. Ginny proceeded to tell her all about Draco. What he said, how he had tried to kiss her. Everything.
"Your kidding." Tarah said in awe after Ginny had finished.
"Nope." she replied.
"You really like Draco don't you?"
"Tarah! Shut up, I do not."
"Yes you do. Hark, dust my ears deceive me. Ginny has hormones."
"Shut up."
"What else happened, I thought I heard yelling just before you came up here."
"Oh…Harry tried to kiss me again."
"Him too?" Tarah, squealed, "You shameless hussie."
"Tarah!" just then Tarah looked as if a light bulb had just been turned on in her head and she stopped smiling and looked seriously at Ginny.
"Ginny there's something I have to tell you!" she said in a rush.
"Ok, calm down what is it?"
"It's actually been bugging me all day. I had almost forgot about it. I was going to tell you earlier, before you left, but with all that's been happening I completely forgot. I'm so sorry."
"Calm down, I bet its all fine. What is it you wanted to tell me?" Ginny looked worriedly at her friend.
"It's about Harry. It was just after I left the party, you know the one that was in the astronomy tower a couple of weeks ago-"
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Ginny decided to go down to the great hall early. It was four in the morning, she couldn't sleep (Tarah was snoring so loud you'd think a hurricane was ripping through the room every 5 seconds), Harry was asleep on the couch in the common room, also snoring (she didn't really want to be there with him after what Tarah told her anyways). Here she could be alone with her thoughts. She went into the empty great hall. None of the torches were lit (everyone was still supposed to be asleep), and without the moonlight shining over her (yes the enchanted ceiling worked night and day), she wouldn't be able to see her hand in front of her face. Sitting down at the table, she started to think. Both Draco and Harry had been acting strange towards her lately. Both had suddenly wanted to suddenly start kissing her, and now she knew about Harry's bet with Cho. He really wasn't who she had thought he was. She thought she'd be crying right about now, but she had strangely didn't seem to have any tears to shed.
"Ginny?" said a voice from the shadow on the other side of the room.
"Whose there?" Ginny asked looking to where the voice had come from. Draco stepped into the moonlight, walked towards her, and sat down beside her at the Gryffindor table.
"What makes you so sure you're welcome?" she asked him insensitively.
"Oh…Ginny…your harsh words they hurt me so." Draco said sarcastically putting a hand over his heart. Ginny looked over him and had to stifle a giggle.
"You know, if my brother saw you over here, at the Gryffindor table, with me, he'd kill you." she said looking over at him.
"Well I guess it's just a chance I'm going to have to take." He said looking back at her. "Ginny it's four in the morning, your brother is snoring his ass off as we speak."
"You're probably right." she. "So what brings you down here at this hour? Can't sleep?"
"I don't sleep."
"You don't sleep." Ginny said in a 'now-I-know-that's-a-lie' tone, raising an eyebrow (something Colin taught her over the summer after 4th year). Draco shrugged his shoulders.
"Why did you slap me earlier?" he asked, changing the subject.
"I told you why," she said looking back at the table. "Cause you had no right to kiss me."
"But you enjoyed it."
"What makes you so sure." she said looking back at him again. Once again he shrugged his shoulders.
"I just have a sixth sense for these things." he said, smirking.
"Is that right." she said. He nodded and there was a short but awkward lull in the conversation.
"You didn't look very happy when you came in." he said suddenly. Looking at her with un-Draco-like concern.
"Yah."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
"You sure-"
"Just drop it." she said, with a finality that actually made Draco stop asking questions. There was another awkward lull.
"Look, Ginny." he broke into conversation again.
"Yah."
"There's a Hogsmeade weekend coming up." he began to run his hand through his hair, looking almost…nervous?
"I know."
"Well I was wondering if you'd-" Draco didn't get to finish his sentence before he heard footsteps coming up right behind him.
"What are you doing here Malfoy?" Harry spat, holding his wand at the back of Draco's head. "Ginny are you ok?"
"Calm your hormones! We were just talking." Ginny told him.
"Why the hell would you want to talk to him?" Harry said dumbfounded.
"Well that is none of you're business." Ginny stood up and snapped at him. "And what the hell are you doing down here anyway, it's 4 in the morning!"
"I could be asking you the same question. I followed you to see if you were all right. But don't try to change the subject. Ginny he's a Slytheryn, a Malfoy! You shouldn't be talking to him! Think of everything his jackass excuse for a father has done to you. Your first year remember, that was his fault!"
"I'm still here you know!" Draco said, "And although I do not approve of all my father's actions, I stand by him and will not just sit here while you verbally abuse him!"
"Than stand up if it makes you feel better."
"I'm warning you Pothead."
"Warning me of what. What the hell do you think you can do to me Malfoy?"
"Oh wouldn't you like to know." Draco pointed his wand at Harry's chest. Harry pointed his wand at Draco.
"EXPELLIARMUS" they both yelled. Both wands flew out of their hands and to opposite corners of the hall. They both ran at each other, fists flying. Draco landed an uppercut on Harry, only to receive a fist to the side of his head. Draco went down, landing gracefully, knees bent and on his feet, and swung his leg out in a circular motion to trip Harry, who came crashing down. However Harry was then on him and punching him repeatedly in the face. Draco rolled himself out from under Harry and pinned him to the ground instead. Now Draco was sitting on Harry's chest and punching the living daylights out of his face.
"Will you two stop already?" Ginny yelled. They stopped and looked over at Ginny.
"Draco, sit and calm down." to everyone's surprise, even Draco's, he got off of Harry and sat down but never took his death glare off of him.
"Harry!" Ginny continued, "You don't have to follow me around, I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself, and if I want to talk to Draco, I'm bloody well going to talk to Draco!" she yelled. The echoes of her anger rang off the walls of the Great Hall as Harry stood there looking shell shocked over at Ginny.
"Why did you call him Draco?" Harry asked her. Ginny sighed in frustration.
"Because that's his name dumbass!" she yelled again. Draco shifted his gaze over to Ginny looking very impressed. "Don't look so pleased." she told him, and looked back over at Harry.
"Look…Ginny I'm sorry. I guess I just lost my cool."
Understatement of the year. Ginny thought to herself.
"I really just came down here to ask you something." he said looking down at the floor embarrassed.
"What?' Ginny asked, still mad at him.
"Well there's a Hogsmeade weekend coming up, and I was wondering if you would want to go with me." he asked.
"no." Ginny replied. Harry glared at her.
"WHAT!" he yelled, almost louder than Ginny.
"I said NO!" she yelled back. "You know Harry, I thought I liked you before, but it turns out that you're really nothing but an insensitive jerk! I know all about your bet you had going with that slut Chang. About all the girls you've been with. And no, you're not going to 'get me'," she put her fingers up in quotations as she said this, "so just piss off and I don't ever want to speak to you again!" Harry looked shocked at her at first, then glared at her.
"You'll regret this Ginny Weasley." he said, "One of these days I'll make you mine, you'll see." Draco got up again and stood between in front of Ginny in a protective manner.
"Look Pothead. Why don't you fuck off and go play with your whore." He said glaring daggers at him.
"Been there," he said, brushing invisible dust off his shirt. "done that. I'm not going to waste my time with you right now. But trust me," he said looking over Draco's shoulder at the red head behind him, "we're not finished here Ginny." And with that, he stormed out of the Great hall, robes billowing out behind him menacingly.
It was then that Ginny burst into tears. She was upset that what Tarah had said was true, no matter how much she had wished it wasn't. Draco immediately turned around and wrapped his arms around her; he didn't say anything because for some unknown reason he knew he just needed to be there for her right now. They both sunk to kneel/sit on the floor, and he just held her, even after she had stopped crying, until the torches were lit, and food began to show up on the tables around the great hall. She wiped her tears away and did a "freshen up" spell on herself, and smiled at him.
"Thanks." she said, reluctantly letting go of him so she could get up to go sit back down at the Gryffindor table. He was about to leave when he turned around to ask her something.
"Ginny, I never got to ask you before since…we were interrupted. But I was wondering if you'd go to Hogsmeade with me." he asked her. She smiled.
"I'd love to." she said. She then stood on the toes to kiss him on the cheek. He turned his head so she missed and hit his mouth. He then wrapped his arms back around her and began to kiss her, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back, and just when she was really starting to get into the kiss he broke away.
"People will start coming in soon." he said.
"So." she replied.
"I thought you said that if you brother saw me over at the Gryffindor table with you, he'd kill me." Draco smirked, let go of her and walked back over to the Slytherin table and began to pile food on his plate for breakfast. Ginny laughed to herself and sat back down at the Gryffindor table, just as Ron walked in.
That was close she thought to herself. She laughed again and began to eat.
End of Chapter
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