The pivotal second chapter [haha….always wanted to say that : ) ] in my story.
Many a thanks to my B/R, AdmiralAlbia.
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The Duo: Ginny & Draco
Chapter Two
"Angel, promise you won't tell?" Angel just smiled at her and Ginny realized that this was a stupid question.
Draco took off his invisibility cloak and Angel just studied him while Ginny put a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the room's door. Draco smiled.
"So you're her best friend?"
"Um, yea."
"How come I've never seen you before?"
"Well, I've been here for a year, this is my second. I was a transfer from American Academy in the US."
"Yes, I notice your accent." And so they talked until Angel left too for breakfast. Ginny and Draco stayed in the room and put a magical lock on the door. They watched "Friday" on Gin's TV that her dad sent her and Draco was busy on Ginny's computer, trying to figure out how to type. Every once in awhile she would catch him staring at her, and when she looked at him, he just winked.
"Ginny! Ginny, it's me!" Angel was trying to shout through her door. "Ginny! It's time for lunch, c'mon!"
Draco put his cloak back on and they went to the Entrance Hall together, but entered through separate doors. The public was not to know, yet.
Angel was Gin's best friend and was a very interesting person. She came as an exchange student to Hogwarts her second year and every once in awhile would go back home and come back bearing gifts from the United States. Once she got Ginny a best friend charm from Salem, Massachusetts that changed colors. It was made from hemp, but the beads on it changed colors, each one having a word on it. There were three long beads and two smaller circles on each side. The long beads said 'Best Friends Forever' and two of the smaller beads had a soccer ball on it and the other two had basketballs. On Ginnys, however, it had the same three long beads, but on the other ones were two hearts and two smiley faces.
Since Angel played soccer, or English football, she naturally started dating Dean. They'd been going out since the summer after fourth year and didn't seem to have any trouble.
"Ginny, I heard what happened a while ago. I'm sorry. I would have been there for you, but I knew from Hermione that you probably just wanted to be left in your thoughts."
"It's alright. I'll be fine, really. I'm just glad that I found out before we got married or something serious." She gave Angel a weak smile and started to eat, every once in awhile wiping a tear away. Secretly, she has always thought her and Harry were serious. At least she was.
"Lavender really is a slut, ugh. Could you imagine doing what she did?"
"I know, nasty."
"I mean, I regularly get along a lot better with guys before I came here, and even now I'm still a sorta tomboy with style. But I still talk to my homeboys in New York and they say that they let girls get on with it if it makes them happy, but they won't go out with them because their disrespected. They don't like 'em."
Ginny couldn't help but chuckle at Angel's accent. She was in the middle of finally getting an English accent and with her slang, it just didn't mix.
"What are you laughing at?" She looked at Ginny.
"Oh, um nothing."
"Well, oh yea! Whose Harrys enemy? That Draco kid?"
"Um, yea. Why?"
"Did you really kiss him?"
"No, actually. He kinda kissed me." Ginny blushed as she started walking up the stairs. Ginny couldn't help but smile. She used a couple of charms to put her hair into a pretty clip in the back of her head.
"Are you serious! But Draco's so mean! Isn't he an enemy with everyone? Like, YOUR WHOLE FAMILY?!"
"Well, yes, but please don't tell anyone? I don't want it to get out and he's actually very nice to me. I told him that I wasn't ready and we both have detention tonight, so if you don't tell then I'll tell you what happened in detention. Deal?"
"Oh, please. You'll tell me anyway! You can't keep your lovelife a secret to your best friend!"
"I know, but promise me anyway." Ginny and Angel smiled at each other.
"Of course! Have I let you down yet?" Ginny smiled.
"How did he find out about Draco and I in the first place?" She looked over at Angel.
"Oh, I dunno. Probably followed you with his damn invisibility cloak."
"Hey guys!" Hermione arrived. "Guess what happened last night!" She purposefully held her hand on her face, so they could see her ring.
"Hmm, I wonder?" Angel looked at Ginny sarcastically. "Well, tell Angel, because quite frankly, hearing about any of my brothers being romantic makes me sick to my stomach." She really just didn't want to hear about happy romances.
So Angel and Hermione were discussing what happened while Ginny gazed at the Slytherin table, looking for Malfoy, err.... Draco. She knew that it would be another ten minutes before the boys came because they sleep late, they eat a lot, and in not a lot of time. But when they did come, it was awkward. Ron sat next to Hermione and Harry sat on the other side of Ginny, blocking the Slytherin table [and Draco] from view.
"Hey, Gin."
"Hi." And that's all their conversation contained. Ginny soon involved herself in a conversation of romance techniques with the girls, and Harry and Ron went on with quidditch. All the while, Harry was trying to hold Ginny's hand, but she half-heartily shook him off. She wanted so bad to hold his warm hand, but knowing that it had touched another girl, she just couldn't bring herself to it. After about fifteen minutes, she was starting to tear; it hurt her so much, she was shaking.
"Stop it! Can't you see that you've hurt me enough!" Harry just took her hand.
"Gin…."
"Get the fuck OFF ME!" She stormed out of the Great Hall and a Slytherin got up from his table to follow her.
Ginny rushed out of the Great Hall, but soon slowed down as she was running down it. As she started to here footsteps behind her, she hastily swept her tears away and wiped her hands on her cloak.
"Ginny! Ginny, hold on." Draco ran up behind her and grabbed her arm. She stopped and turned around to him.
"What? Aren't you glad? Aren't you happy that we're like this?" She looked at him and threw back a wisp of hair that was getting in her way.
"No! Of course I'm not! I'm not happy that he's hurting you like this. I'd knock him upside the head, but it would just confuse him even more than he already is, the stupid git!." He watched her smirk, then return to her tears. She wasn't sobbing, but tears were silently running down her face.
"You wouldn't understand, Draco. I've loved him ever since his first year and when I wasn't even in Hogwarts! When we hooked up, I thought it was real, it was genuine. It was my deepest dream come true! I guess I just don't want to see it go down the drain."
"How can you stay with someone who does that to you?"
"Because I know that if I run away from him.... I'll regret it." Ginny whispered the last part and slid down the wall. She looked up at him, letting the tears run down her cheeks. He gave her quick, but deep hug. He remembered how whenever he went back to his home, his mother would be treated like the house-elf instead of his father's wife. How every time that he went back home she would have new bruises on her body.
"C'mon, let's get you something to eat." He helped her up and put his arm around her and she just crossed her arms, sniffling. But at that very moment, Harry and Ron ran out of the Hall, looked both ways for her and ran up to her. Draco of course, took his arm back from being around her.
"What the Hell are you doing with my girlfriend?!" Harry yelled.
"I'm not your girlfriend!" Ginny said quietly to him.
"Stay outta it, Ginny." Ron looked at her.
"No!" She directed the conversation towards Harry.
"You're always acting like you own me! You don't own me! You've lost me, Harry Potter. You couldn't tell Lavender to fuck off, so deal with your decision now." Ginny started walking away, putting down her hands that were frantically waving at him a moment ago.
"Ginny, let's talk about this." He grabbed her arm and turned her around.
"According to me, there is nothing to talk about." She gave him a penetrating stare and started walking away with Draco.
"You fucker! You did this to her!" Harry ran up behind them and Draco turned around. He raised his wand up and chanted:
"Stupefy!" Harry froze right where he was and Ron ran up to him.
"Dumb-ass." Draco grinned.
"I still dunno, Draco." Ginny looked up at him.
"What's there to know?"
"Some stuff." She turned around and unfroze Harry. With one last glance, she started towards the Gryffindor Common Room with Harry and Ron, while Draco went to the Slytherin Common Room.
The wind was howling in the Gryffindor tower and echoing in the Slytherin dungeons. Ginny sat down in front of the fire, listening to Ron and Harry talk about the upcoming Quidditch match against Ravenclaw, but she was thinking another conversation in her head.
'Why can't I just decide? I've never had to think about my decisions before, why now?' She sat in a big, comfy navy chair with a pillow left there. She was just sitting, gazing in the fire, thinking of ways to be able to get both sides of the river, when Harry interrupted her wishful thinking.
"What do you think, Ginny?"
'Well, there's a first.' Thought Ginny.
"Um, I think we'll win. Don't we always?" Harry accepted her answer and slowly turned back to Ron.
Meanwhile, in the dungeons the next day….
Draco was sitting in a high-backed chair that was very stiff, but that wasn't unusual in the Slytherin Common Rooms. All the chairs were high-backed, and all of them were very uncomfortable, but promoted a higher authority and proper etiquette.
"Draco, you look very upset today, what's the matter?" Pansy inquired of him, with a noticeable drawl to her voice.
"Go away, Pansy." Pansy took this as an invitation to sit on his lap, in which she didn't mind fussing at all.
"Get off, Pansy. I have enough problems without you breaking my balls."
"Draco Malfoy! You cannot tamper with fate! It's already been decided!" And she pranced off to talk to her other girl friends. 'Most likely talking about me,' he thought.
Draco pondered this for a moment. 'What does she mean, 'it's already been decided'? What has been decided?' He looked around the room for her, but couldn't see her throughout the room. He figured that she ran up to her dormitory with her friends. When Draco looked back, though, he came face-to-face with his two thuggish cronies, Crabbe and Goyle.
"Where have you been, Draco? We haven't seen you in four days! Pansy said that you was walkin' 'round with that Weasley chick, is that true?" Goyle asked him.
"First of all, she isn't a 'chick'," [though he got the hots for her every time her thought about her, which was very often lately.] "Second of all, since when did I need to ask permission to go out?"
"Well, it's just that this was left on your bed," and Crabbe threw a postcard from his father on the table in front of Draco. "It arrived by snowy." On the postcard was the Great Wall.
'Since when have my parents been in China?'
He flipped the card over and read:
Draco-
I am in China at the moment for business reasons. [Though Draco knew that these had nothing to do with the Ministry.] Your mother and I have some very important news to tell you soon. We will see each other soon.
-Father
P.S.-If anyone asks about my whereabouts, they are not to know. I believe you can wiggle your way around the question? [But this was more of a statement then question, and Draco just rolled his eyes.]
Draco looked up at Goyle and Crabbe, now playing Exploding Snap in front of the fireplace.
"Business indeed." He muttered.
He immediately stalked up to his dormitory and snatched his invisibility cloak from his wardrobe after a brief message was sent to Ginny.
He went out to the entrance of Hogwarts and waited between the pictures of Wendalin the Weird and Rowena Ravenclaw.
Ginny was in the Common Room when a great Eagle Owl came to her with a message.
Ginny, We must talk. Please meet me with Potters cloak between Rowena Ravenclaw and Wendalin the Weird. Love, Draco
"Harry, can I borrow your invisibility cloak real quick?" Ginny asked him.
"No." Harry didn't even look up from the chessboard he was sharing with Ron. Ginny hadn't expected this.
"Why the Hell not?"
"Because you're only using it to see Malfoy. I won't contribute to your insanity."
"You not letting me borrow your cloak won't stop me from seeing him." She put her hands on her hips, and after Ron stole Harry's king, she left out the portrait hole.
After about ten minutes of steaming over Harry's rudeness, she was in the entrance hall. She felt something lift over her head and an arm run across her shoulders. She finally realized that she was in Draco's cloak when she felt his warm lips kiss her cheek. She smiled. Harry vanished from her mind.
She started to say something, but Draco put his index finger up to her lips and she kissed it.
"No, I mean shhh...." He chuckled at her cuteness. She nodded at him with a smile and sweet chuckle.
After spending a quarter of an hour looking for an empty classroom, they went into the abandoned History of Magic room.
Draco took the cloak off of them and took her hand in his.
"I thought that we were going to talk?" Ginny looked at their entwined hands.
"We are, warmth puts me at ease," and he gave her hand a slight squeeze with his cold one. "So what have you been up to lately? I haven't seen you in two days. I want to know everything."
And so they talked, and talked, and talked some more.
"And so Angel came up to me and said, 'Ginny, you are the phatest grrrrrrl in know. She really put in the 'grr' in girl too!"
"This Angel, is she your best friend?"
"Um, yea. Why?"
"No reason." He looked away from her.
"Draco, you promised me that you wouldn't play." She looked in his eyes concerned. He just looked at her, looked away and reached towards her.
He took her hands in his, and said, "Ginny, I would never lie to you, and so I have not yet. After that first day in the Potions room, I promised myself, MYSELF that I wouldn't cheat myself by losing you. Malfoys never go back on their plans." He kept looking in her eyes, and Ginny noticed that he had a yellow ring around his eyes. Just outside the gray.
"Did you know that your eyes have little yellow rings around them?"
"Yes, of course. You like 'em?"
"I love them." Draco smiled.
The next night, Ginny and Draco met up with Hagrid to do their detentions. Hagrid had noticed that they weren't standing at either ends of the hall either, nor were they bickering. In fact, they were having a civil conversation! But he didn't mention it, because he wanted to keep it that way.
"You cold, Gin?" Draco asked.
"Um, sorta." She replied, looking at the ground.
"Would you like to wear my cloak, I have a sweater on underneath."
"Are you sure, I don't want you to be cold either, though?"
"No, the dungeons are colder then out here." Suddenly Hagrid jerked around and put his huge hands on his huge hips.
"Okay, wha' happened 'ere? Since when did 'o two get along?"
The just looked at each other and laughed.
Hagrid turned around muttering something about love charms going wrong when he led them straight up to his cabin. He opened the door and picked up his bow and three arrows.
"And what are those for?" Draco asked him politely.
"You'll see."
"Well, at least tell us what we're doing then?" He asked this while watching Hagrid get Fang from the pumpkin patch.
"Somethin's been taking food from my garden. And it doesn't look like an animal because it's been picked, but the scrap lefts behind have fang marks in it. I want to find out what's been doing this."
"Oh, fun."
"So, you two take Fang, and I'll take my bow. Malfoy, you know the drill." Ginny raised her eyebrows at Draco, but he just took the leash to Fang and started walking down a trail in the Forbidden Forest.
Ginny was a tad scared, 'too proud to admit it, typical Gryffindor' thought Draco. But he let her hold on to his arm anyway. He was getting a bit cold.
They were walking for a good half an hour when a Grim, or what they thought was a Grim jumped in front of them, baring his teeth. Little did they know it was Sirius Black....
Draco instantly took advantage of the situation. He grabbed hold of Ginny and pointed his wand at the great dog. He then twisted his wand up and threw red sparks in the air and soon Hagrid's footsteps could be heard throughout the forest.
Ginny was pinned up against his chest as he watched the dog become fiercer then ever. Then he sprang.
Draco did what first came to him. He pushed Ginny to the side and let the dog topple him over.
Hagrid came in the knick of time to drag the dog off of Draco, but it didn't help the bleeding wound on his shoulder. He got up with the help of Ginny and Hagrid. Draco dusted himself off and looked at the large gash in his shoulder.
"Draco! Are you okay?"
"Yea, I think so." He took off his sweater carefully and then his bloody undershirt too. He touched the bloody gash. It was at least seven inches long.
"Madam Pomfrey should be able to fix it. No problem. Well, when she fixes it, I mean. It still hurts like a motha." Hagrid gave him a reproving stare and they started walking towards the castle, abandoning the detention because of injury.
Of course, she was able to fix it rather quickly while muttering about dangerous punishments.
Hagrid said bye to them and they went to the Slytherin common room to fetch his cloak. They wanted to spend the night together, again.
"Muggle." He tapped his wand on the appropriate space and entered, holding his bloody shirt. As soon as he entered, he was bombarded.
"Draco, baby! What happened to you? Why does your shirt have blood on it! Did you kill someone?" She gave him an amazingly excited stare and he said.
"Go away, Pansy."
"Draco, why are you making this so hard? Our fates have been decided, we can't change them."
"We'll see about that." Draco went up the boys' staircase and back out the hole.
"What took you so long?" Ginny asked him as she took his hand under the cloak.
"The same thing as last time. Pansy."
"Oh."
They entered the Gryffindor common room and up her staircase. But this time, Hermione was there with Angel. Ginny went quietly and carefully over to Angel and whispered in her ear:
"It's Ginny, Angel. Can you get rid of Hermione? I have Draco with me." Little did Ginny know, but Draco signed, "hi" on her back in sign language. Angel nodded at Ginny, signed back on Draco's hand, then walked up to Hermione, who was still explaining the importance of Arithmancy.
"I thought I saw a fascinating book on it in the library. Wanna come and check it out?"
"Oh, yes! I forgot my Herbology homework! We can do that in the library too." They left and Ginny and Draco took off the invisibility cloak. Ginny went to look for movies and Draco put a lock on the door, then sat himself in front of the computer.
"How do you turn this on again?" Ginny walked over and flipped the red lighted switch on for him, then serenely put the movie [Erin Brockavitch] in the VCR.
She sat on the floor and Draco decided that Ginny was MUCH better then a computer anyday. He snuggled up close to her and she used his arm as a pillow. Every once in awhile she would catch him staring at her.
"Why are you staring at me? Can I help you?" Draco just chuckled softly and said:
"I could stare at you forever." Ginny kissed him, what she thought would end quickly, but before either of them knew it, they were in the middle of an emotional kiss. When it ended, he was on the top of her. She did a sit-up to kiss him and they were lying down. Draco put his hands everywhere. When she was straddled on top, he was rubbing from her ginger hair to her toned calves, and she was clinging to the back of his neck, tightly so she wouldn't fall off the ride.
Then they rolled over. Her hands were just sprawled against the floor, hands above her head, when Draco pulled up her shirt a little bit and started kissing her stomach.
"You have a belly button ring?!?!"
"Yea, you like it?" Draco smiled mischievously and started playing with the ring with his tongue. Ginny was switched on. She grabbed his shirt and took it off, then he rolled her over so he was on bottom. They got on their knees.
While looking in her eyes, he started to take off her shirt, but took off his cloak first. He got a kick out of her bra. It was a half-shell black one. 'God's been good to her…' He smiled and hugged her. She was kissing his neck while he looked over her shoulder, trying to figure out how to take off her bra. She was trying, and not failing to take off his pants. He kicked them off and they both stood up. He kissed her and grabbed her ass REALLY hard. He picked her up, and she wrapped her legs around him. He let her go gently, laying on top of her, while still kissing her, onto the bed.
"Ginny! Ginny!" It was Angel. "Harry's coming! Do something, quick!" Ginny looked at Draco in his boxers, real hard. 'God's been good to him in all the right places….' She thought to herself. She shook out of it, then he ran into the closet with his invisibility cloak on and his clothes in hand.
She hurriedly put her shirt back on and just in the nick of time, she whispered Alohamora as to unlock the door. Harry ran through the door.
Ginny pretended to be busying herself with her hair. "Why did you just bust into my room like that! I could have been getting changed!" She acted disgruntled and put her hair back down.
Harry kept searching her room with his eyes, catching every crack and corner, nook and cranny, until his eyes flashed at the closet.
"Why are you searching my room?! What is wrong with you, Harry Potter!"
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