Wow, I didn't expect to get this chapter done so soon. For all of you who read the first chapter of There to Comfort Him you can expect the next update some time this week. And I know I'm evil for not posting a real chapter but hey, it gets my stories attention. Anyway, enjoy Chapter 9 and for those of you who haven't checked it out, my new story is called There To Comfort Him.
Chapter 9
Ginny waited to feel Draco's lips on hers, but it never happened. Ginny opened her eyes not realizing she had closed them. She let out a breath that she suddenly realized that she had been holding and looked at Draco's smirking face. She had forgotten he could have that effect on her. After there little meeting in the hallway that one time they hadn't been that 'close'.
"Now unless I'm delusional Weasely", Draco said, "you enjoyed that".
Ginny shot him an angry glare and refused to answer.
"What's the matter. Angry that I didn't go further?", he asked sneering.
"Shut up Malfoy", Ginny spat at him.
"Ok. But before I leave you alone I want you to know that we're having a little meeting in the Room of Requirement tonight", he told her, "be there at 10"
And with that, Draco Malfoy left Ginny standing in the corridor has he entered the Slytherin Common Room. Blaise wasn't there so he decided to head up to Pansy's room. "This probably isn't a very good idea", Draco thought to himself, "she'll probably demand to know everything about what happened even though Ginny already told her most likely".
Draco didn't bother knocking on Pansy's door, he just entered. Pansy had just gotten out of the shower and was in nothing but a towel. Upon seeing Draco in her room uninvited she let out a loud shriek before running back into the bathroom that was in her room.
Draco chuckled to himself and sat down on her bed. A few minutes later Pansy came out dressed and looking very angry at him.
"What the hell's your problem Draco! Have you ever heard of knocking on the fucking door before you barged in?!", Pansy yelled at him.
"I'm sorry Pansy I violated your privacy and should be burned at the steak for it will you forgive me?", Draco said mockingly.
Pansy slapped him on the side of the head.
"Next time knock. And no, I won't forgive you", Pansy said crossing her arms.
"I'm assuming that means my sorry excuse for an apology is accepted", Draco said grinning.
"The only way you're getting off the hook", Pansy said, "is if you tell me how you're date went".
The angry expression was still plastered on her face, but that familiar glint of mischief in her eyes that Draco had learned to look for was practically gleaming. Draco shook his head and looked up at her.
"Pansy you have got to be the most manipulative little witch in Slytherin", Draco said to her.
"I know", Pansy said sitting down on the bed next to him, "which is why you are going to tell my everything".
Knowing that if he didn't he wouldn't make it out of the room alive, Draco relented. Pansy's reaction wasn't anywhere near has excited has he'd expected thus confirming his suspicions that Ginny and Pansy had talked about their date before he got there. When he was done Pansy had a grin on her face that literally spread from ear to ear.
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Ginny entered the Gryffindor Common room, hoping to God that the three people she least wanted to see weren't there. She wasn't so lucky. "Well I was going to have to face them eventually. No time like the present", she thought to bracing herself for one of her brothers outbursts.
"Ginny Weasely", he started looking has if he had been holding his anger in and was now about to explode, "where in the hell have you been?"
"With Pansy in the Slytherin Common Room", she replied calmly.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING THERE!?", Ron roared angrily.
The few students that hadn't cleared out when they sensed a Weasely family feud now darted towards either the dormitories or the portrait hole for fear of being on the receiving end of a hex.
"I was visiting a friend Ron", Ginny said now somewhat agitated.
"In another House's Common Room?", Harry asked suspicion in his voice.
"Shut up Harry. At least I didn't go to shag Mandy Crawford", Ginny spat at him.
Hermione looked questioningly at Harry whose cheeks instantly began to redden.
"She was really nice, and it was only that one time—", Harry stuttered before Ron interrupted him.
"So what? Mandy Crawfords a Hufflepuff, NOT A DEATH EATING SLYTHERIN!", Ron yelled.
Now Ginny was angry. She hated how they all seemed to think that Slytherin equaled Death Eater or Dark Wizard. They had no idea how wrong they were. Sure a few Slytherins probably did support the Dark Lord but that didn't mean they were Death Eaters. And the few that were didn't go around advertising it.
"Ron how many times do I have to tell you? Pansy, Blaise and Draco are not Death Eaters!", Ginny said angrily.
"Ginny that's very unlikely. Remember the Parkinsons and the Malfoys have always been supporters of You-Know-Who and Lucious Malfoy is practically his second in command", Hermione said has if it was something she had read in a book.
"Hermione, Pansy and Draco are not their parents! Sure, Draco's a prick but you have no idea what he's had to endure because of his father", Ginny yelled her temper rising.
"That's it I'm owling Mom", Ron said storming up to the boys dormitories.
Harry and Hermione stayed in the Common Room with Ginny. Harry put a hand on her shoulder.
"Gin, whatever Malfoy's told you is probably a lie. He probably just wants to use you to get close to me or get into your pants or something", he said has if explaining something to a child.
Ginny shook off his hand angrily.
"Leave me alone Harry", Ginny said in a low voice only reserved for when she was really angry.
"Ginny just calm down and think clearly", Hermione said, "it's Draco Malfoy. His father is the reason for what happened to you—"
"Hermione haven't you been listening to a word I've been saying?! Draco Malfoy is not his father!", Ginny screamed at her. "If you anything about the real Draco Malfoy you wouldn't even say that!".
"Then tell us Ginny", Ron said from the top of the stairs, "tell us about the so called real Draco Malfoy".
Ginny looked at her brother angrily. She couldn't recall ever being so angry in her life. She wasn't sure how she was able to keep herself from killing her brother in a very painful way.
"It's not my place to say. Why don't you ask him yourself", she said trying to keep her composure.
"You know Ginny", Ron snapped venom in his voice, "since you're so friendly with the Slytherins why don't you go off and join them?"
The look that Ginny gave her brother was full of anger that was barely controllable.
"You know what Ron", Ginny said coldly, "maybe I will".
Before anybody could stop her, Ginny stormed furious out of the Common Room. She slammed the portrait shut so hard that it fell to the floor.
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Draco waited up in the Astronomy Tower for his date. It was twenty after ten and Draco was pretty sure that Ginny wasn't going to show up. Slightly frustrated, Draco made his way down from the Astronomy Tower. Deciding he didn't want to go back to the Common Room he decided to pay a visit to his mother.
Actually taking the time to knock this time, Draco waited for his mother to answer the door. When she did Draco almost wished she hadn't. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail that hung over her shoulder, and even though her robe was pulled closed around her, Draco could still barely see some of the scars. Draco's eyes gazed at the scar.
"Draco what is it?", his mother asked him snapping his attention away from what she knew he was staring at.
"Nothing", he said, "I just wanted to talk to someone"
"Well don't just stand there then", Narcissa said stepping aside to let her son in.
Draco entered his mother quarters. From the looks of things she was just about ready to go to bed. Now Draco felt bad for interrupting her.
"I'm sorry Mother I should let you sleep", Draco said turning to leave.
"No, it's alright", Narcissa said putting her hands on her sons shoulders, "I always have time for my son".
Draco smiled at his mother. He sat down in a chair and stared at his mothers wrist where under her sleeve that hideous scar was barely visible.
"Why did you stay with him?", he asked her, "why didn't you just leave?"
Narcissa sighed and moved towards her son wrapping her arms around him.
"It wouldn't of done any good. Your father has a lot of power and if I left him he could make life very hard for me", Narcissa explained, "besides, I would never be able to forgive myself if I left you with that monster".
At the mention of Lucious has his father Draco shuddered. He hated to think of himself in any way shape or form has related to Lucious Malfoy.
"But you could've taken me with you and gone into hiding", Draco argued.
"Your father would've tracked me down eventually. And if I had taken you from him he would've been more angry than you've ever seen him", Narcissa said, "also, when you were young you loved your father. I couldn't bare to take you away from him".
Draco sighed and hugged his mother. Deciding that he had better get to the Common Room and get to bed, he kissed her goodnight and left.
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The next morning at breakfast Draco didn't see Ginny at the Gryffindor table. Even though he didn't really take their relationship seriously he was going to give her a hard time about not showing up the previous night. "Now if she'd just show up to breakfast", he thought to himself, "come to think of it, where the hell is Pansy?". Deciding not to talk to himself during breakfast he turned to Blaise.
"So Blaise, whose this mystery girl you're seeing? Word on the street is it's a Ravenclaw. Care to comment?"
"Sorry Draco but that's my secret", Blaise replied grinning.
"What's the matter Blaise is she a first year?", Draco asked jokingly.
"I'm a playboy not a child molestor", Blaise said, "and for that I'm taking a piece of bacon".
Draco ignored this and scanned the Ravenclaw table. The only girls of interest were Cho Chang, and a few rather attractive sixth and seventh years, as well as one that nobody would date.
The doors to the Great Hall opened and Draco turned to see who had entered. Pansy was heading over to him. He caught a glimpse of red hair as well and turned back to his plate grinning. "About time she showed up. Breakfast is almost over", he mused. However, his thoughts were interrupted when the next glimpse of red hair was in her peripheral vision. Draco turned to ask her why she wasn't over sitting with the Gryffindors when his eyes actually looked at her. Instead of her usual Gryffindor robes, they were colored silver and green. The color of Slytherin.
Yippee another cliffhanger. I know I'm evil but anyway, you know the drill. You read, you like, you really like it, and then you press the magic button that says review.
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