Chapter Ten

Say You Love Me

Ginny kissed Draco's neck gently before disappearing into the apartment she had until so recently shared with David. Draco let her go. She had to handle this on her own.

Ginny entered quietly, head down and eyes folowing suit. David looked up as she entered.

"Ginny."

Not even caring. Not a modicum of tenderness or real emotion. Just facts.

"What took you?"

"Our plane crashed. Draco and I ended up on an island an-"

"Yes, yes, All well and good. What about the deal?" he snarled.

Ginny clenched her fists to keep from attacking the older man. "We didn't get there in time and it-"

David's right hand lashed out to slap her. Ginny looked up at him through her dark crimson hair. Slowly, deliberately, she gathered handfuls of the red locks and pulled it back into a long ponytail, securing it.

"That was the last time I will ever let you hit me. Good bye, David."

She turned and he laughed harshly. She stopped.

"Where will you go, little girl? You're just a sick child who loved her brother. No one else will accept you."

Ginny turned fully to face him. "It was a potion."

He laughed again. "A potion that emphasised what you alrea-"

Ginny's left elbow caught him in the jaw. He spun around before her knee found the family jewels. "It. Was. A. Potion." She hissed, before walking from the room.

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Draco sat at the Weasley family table. It was almost a month since he and Ginny had first appeared on this table, making out. A lot had happened since then. Her brothers weren't insanely happy about their relationship, but Ginny was. And to him, that was all that would ever matter.

Draco laughed at something the twins said before offering to help Molly with the dishes. Ginny sent him a smile before launching into her own joke. It was good to see Ginny laughing like this. Very good.

He set the dishes in the sink and made as if to go get more but Molly stopped him. "Draco, may I have a word?"

He leaned against the stove, flicking his wand at the dishes. They began to wash and dry themselves.

"You can have several."

"I wanted to thank you."

Draco blinked, "For what?"

"For bringing Ginny back to us. I mean the real Ginny. She doesn't think we noticed, but we did. We just let her think we didn't. I felt horrible for her when Fred found Monique."

"You knew about the potion then?" he asked incredulously.

She nodded. "Very little gets past me. But that's in the past. You and Ginny have a bright future, if you let yourselves have it."

Draco followed her back into the dinning room. Ginny was laughing again. She looked his way and gave him a smile, the kind only she could give.

Draco was definitely seeing benefits to the lighter side of life.

The End.

(A/N: Aww! So cute! I love it. Any way! This chapter brought to you by No-longer-single Nikki Flinn!