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WARNING: This chapter contains rape, if you have a problem with that please stop reading NOW! That said enjoy the story.
Chapter 4
Life gets complicated
The first two weeks of school had been rather uneventful although she'd caught Draco starting at her once or twice and once she caught him following her from Charms class to Potions. When he realized she'd seen him, he sneered and made for farther in the dungeons. She was still a little confused.
"Miss Weasley! Five points from Gryffindor and I'm sure the rest of your classmates would appreciate it if you were to rejoin the class." Professor Snape's voice jolted Ginny out of her musing. She sat bolt upright in her stool as snickers erupted from the Slytherin side of the classroom. Mortified she looked down at her notes only to discover she had doodled the name "Virginia Ann Malfoy-Weasley" on the edge of the paper. Blushing furiously she covered it with her hand and added the information that Professor Snape had just put in the blackboard. I can't believe I wrote that! Ginny thought as she tried to put an attentive look on her face as Professor Snape continued his lecture. Ugg! Malfoy's a creep, not someone to be mooning over! Finally the class was over and Ginny gathered her things and bolted for the Gryffindor tower.
Seated on her four-poster bed Ginny poured over all the notes she had taken in class. She was horrified to discover that she had written "Virginia Ann Malfoy-Weasley" and other variations thereof on several more pieces of parchment and one piece which looked like it was from History of magic that was covered with that and hearts of various shapes and sizes. Hastily transferring the notes to fresh pieces of paper she took all the doodled papers down to the common room and threw them into the fire. Her hand started to creep up to her wrist before she remembered that she'd taken the bracelet off and buried it in her trunk.
"What are you doing that for?" Hermione's voice came from behind her.
"Just some sheets that I had no use for," Ginny said, "I just didn't want to throw them in the garbage." Ginny left the common room hoping she had managed to keep Hermione from suspecting anything. Hermione watched her go then grabbed the fire tongs from the holder. Snagging one of the scraps that was left she blew it out and gazed thoughtfully at what she saw.
"Virg i A lfoy-We le "
I hope she knows what she is doing Hermione mused because if he's playing with her she could really get hurt. And I don't want that to happen. Reaching her room she tucked the scrap carefully into one of her books and went to dinner.
It was the beginning of October and all the students could talk about was the Halloween Ball. Dean Thomas grabbed Ron in the common room and dragged him off to one corner.
"Hey Ron um…" Dean faltered.
"What?" said Ron.
"Well I was wondering if you knew if Ginny was going to the Ball this year I mean…" Dean broke off as he saw the look of confusion on Ron's face.
"What are you asking me for?" Ron asked, "I'm not her keeper or anything. And since when have you been interested in Ginny anyway?"
"I know but well, you're her brother and I though you would know if she was interested in anyone and well…um…" Dean flushed as he realized Ron was staring at him open mouthed.
"Dean are you trying to tell me that you fancy Ginny?" Ron asked as what Dean was saying finally sunk in.
"Well…um…I guess so," Dean was blushing furiously, his dark skin even darker as his embarrassment grew, "I was kind of hoping to find out if she hadn't said anything to you so I didn't make a complete fool out of myself by asking her to go with me if she already had someone she wanted to go with you know like…um…maybe Harry." Dean finished weakly.
"Dean, Harry's more interested in going with Cho, if he can ever get over feeling guilty about Cedric. And Ginny got over her crush on Harry in her second year. So if you can quit being such a git and go over and ask her you can find out for yourself you know."
"Oh right…um…yeah I'll do that." Dean said as Ron left to go back to Hermione.
Ginny sighed in relief as she closed the book in front of her and rolled up her parchment. Finished! Now all I have to do is get back to Gryffindor tower without Dean seeing me. For the past two weeks Dean had been following her around like he wanted to say something to her but every time she turned around to confront him about it he would vanish. Once or twice when this happened she had seen Draco Malfoy snarling in Dean's direction, which only served to confuse her even more. I'm getting to know this place as well as Fred and George. In trying to stay away from Dean and Draco Ginny had found some very creative ways of getting from anywhere in the castle to the Gryffindor tower. Today she opted for a route that would take her past the dungeons. As if school and You-Know-Who weren't enough to worry about. I've got Draco Malfoy acting like a jealous rhino every time I turn around and Dean Thomas following me around like a lost puppy. What next? Neville Longbottom reciting bad love sonnets in the common room? Lost in thought Ginny didn't notice the shadow that detached itself from the dungeon wall. Suddenly someone grabbed her from behind and pulled her into one of the abandoned classrooms.
"I've been waiting a long time to do this," a rough voice said from behind her, after a moment Ginny was able to identify the voice as Goyle. "I'm going to enjoy this," he said as he threw her down on the floor. In his hand was a dagger that he used to slice open her robes. She felt a sharp pain at her shoulder and the next thing she knew Goyle was on top of her pulling up his own robes. In a daze she heard the door open and running footsteps come up to where she was struggling with the much larger boy. Goyle was suddenly pulled off of her and she watched in amazement as Draco Malfoy hauled back and landed a punch on the larger boy's face. Goyle looked up in amazement at Draco, suddenly he found himself pinned to the wall. Draco looked down at Ginny; "Are you alright?" the concern in his voice seemed strange. Draco took in the torn robes and hauled off his cloak, "Here use this. You might want to get to Gryffindor tower as fast as you can." Noticing she was bleeding he said, "Better yet go to Madame Pomfrey and get that looked at, it looks deep." Ginny reached up to her shoulder and pulled it away bloody.
"I think that's what I'll do," Ginny's voice was trembling as she pulled the cloak closer to her body, "What are you going to do about him?"
"This piece of trash? I think we are going to go have a talk with Professor Snape." The bigger boy was still pinned up against the wall where he seemed to be fighting-and losing-against something that wasn't there. Ginny nodded and fled the room. "Mobiliarbus" Draco made Goyle follow him to Professor Snape's office.
The Great hall that night was filled with the buzz of whispers.
"Did you hear what happened to Goyle? He got taken off the grounds by dementors"
"I heard Draco and Goyle got into a fight"
"Someone told me they caught him trying to kill Professor Flitwick with a sword"
"I heard he got the kiss before they even left Hogwarts"
"Draco and Ginny were kissing in Professor Snape's classroom."
No one seemed to know exactly what had happened and Draco was happy to keep it that way. Crabbe sat down next to him looking like he was going to bolt if Draco looked at him sideways. "Don't even ask," snarled Draco. Crabbe just nodded once and set to eating.
Ginny made her way up to her four-poster slowly wrapped in the remains of her robes and Draco's cloak. Madame Pomfrey had taken one look at her and simply asked her if she wanted to talk about it. When Ginny had shook her head she'd taken a couple of pictures of Ginny and then healed everything up without a word. When she'd given Ginny the choice of resting in the hospital wing or in her dorm Ginny had chosen to return to the tower. Pushing aside the curtains she laid down only to sit up when her head touched something unfamiliar. She opened the package carefully to reveal a brand new costume. White dress, red shoes and red cape. Also inside was an unsigned note:
Little
Red,
Go to the ball
with me?
She stared at it for a moment before reaching for a quill to write simply "Yes" on the note and folding it. Putting on a new robe she walked to the owlery to send it.
A/N: Okay time for the Thank You and notes.
Michelle P. Arabeque1 and Maidmarian62 : There WILL be longer chapters I promise. Really I do. J
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WARNING: It is rated R for nakedness (Draco of course J )