I'm proud of myself; this is my longest chapter yet. Hope you enjoy……..

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Ginny was carried back up to her dorm room by Draco later that night. Much to the annoyance of The Fat Lady. Though she then decided it would not be wise of her to make a Gryffindor sleep outside. Therefore she let them inside.

Nobody was awake in Ginny's dorm room, leaving Draco free to stay and watch her sleep, his favourite hobby. He sat next to her four poster bed for hours, just holding her hand and admiring her.

"Draco?"

Draco was startled "oh! Ginny you're awake"

"You stayed with me?" she was pleasantly surprised and slightly embarrassed that he'd had to carry her all the way back to her dorm.

"Erm, yeah I was gonna go but. I couldn't. I love to see you sleeping". He admited, blushing slightly. When he'd said that, a thought hit Ginny, something that had been bugging her for a while.

"Draco? Did you come visit me in hospital, the second time?" She asked.

"Yeah, I did. I felt really bad about upsetting you. It hurt me more then it hurt you, you know?"

"Then how come you didn't end up a useless sobbing lump then?" she asked starting to get angry. It was never to early in the morning for the weasley woman's temper to surface. Though this was a cautious anger, last night had been perfect and she didn't want to make him think twice about loving her.

"I've been trained to hide unwanted emotions. I can make myself upset or happy, I can push unwanted emotions to the back of my mind forever, I can even stop myself from feeling at all. That was, of course, before I meet you. I can't stop myself from caring about you, I can't push these knew emotions to the back of my mind and I can't stop loving you. For seventeen years I've been told that feelings like compassion and love are useless because they don't give you power or money. I was gullible. I was clay, Ready to be moulded into whatever my father wanted me to be. He had my whole future planned out for me. I would grow up under his firm control, when I turned eleven I'd be carted of to Hogwarts, when I was finished at Hogwarts I'd marry pansy Parkinson, then straight after I'd receive the dark mark. After that, it would be up to the dark lord as to how I lived my life. I've never been my own person and I never would have been, there was always someone controlling me and making important decisions for me. But not anymore Ginny, I don't want that life and you're the reason. It's my life and I'm choosing to spend it with you. Thank you…..for showing me love is all anyone needs to be happy".

Ginny was speechless. Nothing she could reply to that would match it. He'd told her something he'd never told another living soul. She looked up into Draco's blue/grey eyes and released this is who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. He was what made her the happiest she'd ever been and he was absolutely, definitely her soul mate.

She might not have been able to say anything but she could do something. She wrapped her arms around his neck and captured his lips with hers. She put everything she had into that kiss and hoped he understood how much he meant to her and he did because she also meant the world to him.

Some might say that sixteen and seventeen is to young to know if your in love, but Draco had never truly lived before, he'd spent his entire life being tortured, mentally and physically by the people who where supposed to care about him, his own flesh and blood.

Ginny also knew what it felt like to be controlled by someone else. She'd been possessed by voldemort in her first year and as he was getting stronger, she was slowly dying. Then Harry had come and saved her. Though her hero turned out to be a monster instead. When you've lived through as much hurt and pain as Ginny and Draco had you'd understand that once you find something so perfect and true, its best to hold onto it as hard as you can because good things don't always last as long as you'd like them too….

"AAARRRGGGHHH!!!" someone screamed.

"Ginny! What the bloody hell is HE doing in HERE, kissing you? Oh. My. God. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack".

"But he is kind of cute Ami"

"HE'S A SLYTHERIN, Morena"

Ami Chang and Morena Wood were Ginny's dorm mates and younger sisters of Cho Chang and Oliver Wood.

"Will you both please calm down" Ginny said breathless from her and Draco's kiss.

"I'll just be going then shall I?" Draco asked slyly standing up from Ginny's bed

"Oh no you don't, your not leaving me to explain this by myself", Ginny told him grabbing on his trouser leg and as she was still sitting on the bed and he was standing up, grabbing hold of his trouser leg wasn't a clever plan, they were pulled down slightly revealing a patch of slytherin green boxer shorts.

"Ginny not now" he said joking "we're in full view of your friends" he told her grinning.

Ginny, realising what he was insinuating, turned pink, but played along

"Aww, here's me getting my hopes up" she said pouting. She'd expected him to smirk or reply with something witty, but instead……..

"Well, I'm not one to disappoint" and with that he dived on top of her and started to kiss her passionately.

"Ewww" Ami said

"Oh my bloody god" Morena said

"Hello we're still here" Ami said waving at the pair.

"Geroff me", Ginny tried to shout but it was muffled by Draco's lips. She shoved him off the bed and stood up straighten her clothes, whilst Draco stumbled to his feet after having hit the floor quite hard. And Ginny started to explain.

"Listen girls, I didn't want you two to find out like this, but me and Draco are a couple. However annoying and tactless he can be sometimes…." She looked at Draco with distaste before continuing "…..I love him".

She then smiled at him and he grinned stupidly back. Ginny rolled her eyes then turned her attention to her friends, waiting for them to reply.

"Wow……… Your. Both. Crazy." Morena said pointing at them both in turn, then she turned around, got into bed and went back to sleep.

"Shes right you know. You're both supposed to hate each other. This relationships going to cause some problems with your families" Ami told them.

"Yeah we already know, and you guys? do us a favour and don't tell anyone 'bout us yet". She said looking worried.

Ami sighed but nodded.

"Like anyone would believe us anyway" shouted Morena from under her bed covers.

Draco chuckled and put his arms around Ginny hugging her tightly to him, never wanting to let go of her. "Your wonderful" he whispered to her before she took a shower and got ready for breakfast.

Ginny and Draco separated before going down to breakfast. She could just image the war that would break out should they enter the great hall together.

"So... will you Gin?" Seamus had been talking to Ginny for a while, but she was paying him little to no attention.

"…oh, sorry what was that Seamus?" having been knocked awake from her daydream by the question.

"I said will you do one of your famous strips for us at my birthday party" he asked with a cheeky grin.

"Bugger off Seamus, I'm not a strip service" she told him before kicking him under the table.

"Aw!!" but Ginny wasn't listening. She'd caught Draco's eye and the pair were exchanging secretive smiles.

"Ginny who are you smiling at?" Ron said being his nosey self. "Tell me!"

"Shut up, Ron it's got nothing to do with you"

"It's a Slytherin, I saw you smiling at a slytherin" Ron was now starting to turn an unflattering shade of red. Ginny could sense danger so left, before Ron either blew up or found something out.

She was walking up the corridor when she felt someone's arms around her waist. "What's up with the big oaf?" Draco asked into her ear.

"He saw me smiling at you and overreacted". When she said that, he pulled his arms away from her quickly. She looked up at him quizzing.

"We're going to have to be more careful Gin, if they're already suspecting something" he answered looked apologetic.

"I don't care if they find out anymore, your graduating in a few days anyway" she said to him.

"yes but your not, you wont be the Gryffindor Princess next year, if anyone finds out about us, you'll be a traitor. Are you sure you're doing the right thing by being with me?"

She pretended to think for a while just so he knew she was serious. "Yup. I'm absolutely sure I'm doing the right thing, weren't you the one who told me love is all anyone needs to be happy?"

Draco sighed but agreed, he was worried about endangering her. He knew she was strong, but she was no match for Voldemort's death eaters, should they come after her, which they probably would. If Draco knew death eaters, which he did, once they found out about his betrayal they'd go after the one thing Draco loved the most in the world. When he voiced this to Ginny she got angry, because Harry had told her the almost the same thing, back when he'd been nice and normal He'd told her they must break up and it was for her own safety, he said that voldemort would hurt anyone he cared about. It broke her heart, but then he'd come back to her, different, more evil. She told Draco how infuriating it was to have all her boyfriends want to leave her so she'd be safe.

"Maybe, if you didn't have such a talent for putting yourself in danger you'd stay away from men that are dangerous, I suppose it was only a matter of time before you fell in love with someone even more dangerous then Potter" he told her sternly.

"Just please stop trying to protect me , I'll live my live however I want to, even if that includes putting myself in danger" she told him equally as sternly, but Draco noticed her eyes were filling with the tears she was trying hard to hold in.

"Thank you, Ginny" and when she asked why he was thanking her he told her… "For risking your life to be with me, it's incredibly stupid, but thank you".

She smiled, kissed him on the cheek and told him she had to go.

Ginny made her way back to her common room feeling she'd finally persuaded Draco that she wasn't leaving him. For such an over-confident person he seemed very insecure. She was about to round a corner when she heard Ron's voice. Ginny was planning on turning right around, not wanting to have to deal with him right now. But then she heard. "…then she kissed him on the cheek and he let her, he wanted her too, as you can imagine I was speechless. I know I shouldn't have been spying on them but I couldn't help it. I thought you should be the first on to find out, with it being your little sister". 'Oh no' Ginny thought. 'No no no this is NOT good'.

She heard Ron cursing, showing of his wide vocabulary, mostly consisting of 'bugger's' and 'bloody hell's'. Ginny was weighing the pros and cons of either showing herself now or running away to deal with him later. After much deliberation she decided she couldn't run away this time. Actions have consequences and she had to be grown up enough to deal with them before they escalated.

She walked around the corner to see Ron and Parvati. 'Should have known' Ginny said to herself. Parvati was the biggest gossip in the school, by to tomorrow everyone would know.

"Oh look Ron, speak of the devil" said Parvati innocently.

"Been talking about me have you?" Ginny replied equally as innocently.

'I best be going now. Bye Ron, Ginny" and then she left waving.

Ron started to circle Ginny, as a predator would with its prey before it attacked. "Ginevra, such horrible things I've been hearing about you, tell me sister, kissed any Slytherins lately?" Ron was obviously trying to hide the fact that he was absolutely furious with her, but it wasn't working. Ginny could just imagine steam shooting from his ears.

"Brother, darling. Since when do you pay attention to rumours? If rumours were true then let's see…. You'd be secretly married to Hermione, Madame Pomfray would have six nipples, Morena would be pregnant, Harry would have a crush on professor Snape and Dumbledore would be gay". Ginny said in a pitiful attempt to change the subject to one of Hogwarts latest rumours.

"Yes well, Parvati saw you kiss Malfoy" he spat out Draco's name as though it was a rather disgusting Berty Bott's bean. "With her own eyes" he said as though that fact settled it.

"Ok, fine, I kissed him. Get over it Ron"

"YOU DID WHAT!" he yelled at her. Their argument was starting to cause a group of students to gather around them.

"I thought you knew, you told me Parvati told you. Why are you sounding so shocked?!"

"MY BABY SISTER SNOGGED DRACO MALFOY and you're asking me why I'm shocked. Have you lost your bloody mind?" he shouted just as loud as before.

"Fantastic Ronald, absolutely fantastic, now you've gone and told THE WHOLE SCHOOL" she was really starting to get mad now.

"Merlin! you really are off your rocker aren't you, no one in their right mind would kiss Malfoy". Ron said

"Oh. Thanks a lot". Someone said. Ginny turned around to see Draco standing among the crowd, completely unfazed by the fact that everyone was staring at him. He had that look on his face that Ginny hated. Because she knew he was doing what he'd been trained to do; hide all the emotions he was feeling from the outside world. His eyes didn't lead to his soul; it was too dangerous for someone like him to give such easy excess to something as valuable as a soul. Maybe the dark lord felt the need to rip his into pieces. But Draco knew, after all the terrible things he'd done, that having a soul was the only thing keeping him human. He only ever let Ginny see his soul, no body else had that privilege, instead when he was out in public he put on a blank emotionless face, held his head high and his arms by his side, this stance usually intimidated most people, keeping them from getting to know the real him. Which Draco felt was a good thing. He was a danger to anyone who got to close.

Ginny felt horrible having everyone look at her and Draco, because she knew they were making assumptions in they heads, filling in the details they didn't know with their own lies. Ready to share their knew 'found' information with anyone willing to listen.

She'd had enough of all the gossip thirsty teenagers in Hogwarts, so she ran into the crowd and it parted letting her through them. Tears were pouring from her eyes as she ran, both Draco and Collin were chasing after her, side by side.

"Ginny!"

"Wait!"

She slowed down to a walk and they both fell into step with her. Draco on her left and Collin on her right. Her two most favourite boy's in the world.

"Shh it's ok Gin, stop crying" Collin said wrapping his arm around her shoulders, trying his best to comfort her. Though it wasn't helping, didn't he understand that crying was exactly what she needed to do right now.

"Don't tell her not to cry, she needs to, it helps" Draco told him. Showing of his talent for knowing exactly how she feels and thinks.

"Thanks Collin, but I need to talk to Draco alone" then she tried a smile and liked how it felt so she smiled again for the sake of it. Then reality set in.

"They know now Draco, they all know".

"It's alright" he said pulling her into a bear hug "we'll get through it, words can't hurt us". He told her.

"No, but Ron's fists can, and no doubt he'll have half of Gryffindor backing him. I don't want you to get hurt" starting to cry again.

"Puuuuurlease a dozen stupid, brawny Gryffindor's are no match for me". He told her grinning. Ginny laughed then reminded him that they were her friends and family he was insulting.

"So should we admit it to everyone or deny it and let rumours lose?" She asked

"I'm not sure denying it would work, they wouldn't believe us. News will no doubt travel to my father in as little as two days, longer if I can help it". Draco's face was scrunched up in concentration, Ginny was wondering if he was thinking of how they'd survive his father, and she hoped he was because she had no ideas or plans.

"Draco?"

"Just go back to your dorm, Ginny. I need to think for a bit". He said with his eyes still scrunched close. 'What could he possibly want to think about that he couldn't talk to me about?' she asked herself. She needed to let him know that she was here for him and wasn't going to leave him. She gently put her arms around his waist. "I'm here for you Draco" she whispered into his chest. She kissed the corner of his mouth and said "I love you, remember". Then she gave him an encouraging smile before leaving him to his thinking.

A/N please review, they really help.