Tempest's Fury
Chapter two: Explanations
After class, Harry went up to their chambers to see how Ginny was feeling, but she was not there. Thinking that she had gone down to the library, he checked there as well but still no Ginny. Harry searched the house for over an hour looking for her but she was nowhere to be found.
By the time he came back to their chamber, he was becoming frantic. Upon entering he heard someone in the other room and opened the door. "Oh, thank God, I was starting to worry. I have been looking…" Harry stopped in mid-sentence when he saw his wife standing there with bruises on her thigh that looked like a hand print.
"Ginny, who did that to you? Who hurt you?" he asked angrily as he crossed the room to her.
"Oh this?" Ginny asked trying to keep her voice steady. "This was me being clumsy."
"It looks like a hand print Ginny," Harry said as he reached out to touch her leg, concerned that she wasn't being truthful. "If someone hurt you..."
"No, really Harry, I was in the library and was reaching out towards a shelf I shouldn't have and a couple of large volume books fell. They caught me on the leg because I stupidly put my leg up to catch their fall. The corners hit me and that's why it looks like that," she explained, hoping he would buy the story.
"Ginny, you need to be more careful. Why didn't you ask for some help?" he asked as he took out his wand and healed the bruises for her.
"I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking and I didn't want to bother anyone. Silly of me, I know," she confessed as her eyes misted.
"Ginny, are you okay?" he asked as he gently touched her face, feeling for fever since he still thought she had the flu. "You are a little warm. Why don't I go to the kitchens and get us some dinner? That way you can stay up here and rest. I don't like it when you are not feeling well," he said, as her heart soared. She hadn't figured out how she was going to avoid Draco tonight and her darling of a husband just did it for her. Without looking too enthusiastic, Ginny gave a small smile and affirmed, "I don't really feel all that great. Thanks for getting dinner, I would love to have a quiet meal with the man I love," she continued truthfully.
"I'll be back in a bit. Why don't you take a nice hot shower and get ready for bed. When I get back we will eat and then maybe we can sit and relax. How does that sound?" he asked as he saw her face light up.
Ginny threw her arms around his neck, hugging him tight. "You are a life saver. I love you so much," she said as she kissed him soundly.
"I'll have to offer to get dinner more often if you are going to kiss me like that," he smiled as he pulled her closer.
"You start offering and you will get more than just a kiss," she said enticingly as she kissed him again.
Pulling away reluctantly, "I'll be back in a bit, go take your shower," he said as he softly closed the bathroom door.
After Ginny heard the outer door to their chamber close, she unbuttoned her blouse to reveal more bruises on her breasts and stomach. "Good thing you didn't see these or I would have had a lot of explaining to do," she whispered as she pulled out her wand, healing them in an instant.
When Harry returned, Ginny was curled up on the sofa fast asleep… the book she was reading lay slack in her hands.
Shaking his head, he knelt down in front of her, moving the red tresses from her face.
"Gin, do you want some food?" he asked quietly.
"No, I just want my husband to make love to me," she said sleepily as she held her arms up to him, seeking the comfort of his arms, trying again to rid her mind of the events of the last few days.
Harry lifted her and carried her to the bed. He murmured quietly against her neck, "You haven't been this frisky since you were pregnant with Sabastian." He climbed in beside her, causing her to smile and snuggle up against him. "I thought you wanted dinner," he whispered in her ear right before he kissed her gently right below the lobe.
"Mmmm," she purred as his lips traveled lower down her neck. "I want dessert first."
"I think I can handle that," he said as their dinner lay forgotten on the table.
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Draco sat up in the attic for most of the afternoon, searching desperately for the spell that had been cast. His search came up empty as he realized that they were going to need some help. As he sat there thinking, more questions entered his mind. Where was Lucius when he cast the spell? Surely, he was the one who broke the ward. Why was he doing this? And were there going to be any residual effects later, causing them to go animalistic again? That was all they needed… to be sitting at dinner one night and have the curse kick in. He didn't think it would be great dinner conversation for him and Ginny to hop up on the table and start having wild sex. The thought made him shudder.
As the room began to get cooler, Draco knew it was getting late and he needed to get back down stairs for dinner. As he entered his chamber to wash up, Hermione was reading in the sitting room. "Well hello," she said as she rose and came up to him, kissing him tenderly. "Where have you been all day? You look tired."
"Oh I have been up in the attic going over some papers that I should have gone through a while back. Nasty work and I am exhausted. All I want to do is go to bed," he said as he massaged his neck with his hand.
"Here, come over here and let me do that," commanded Hermione as she took his hand and led him to the ottoman, making him sit.
As she began to massage all the tension from his shoulders, Draco finally started to relax.
"Merlin's beard, Draco, what has got your muscles all knotted?" she asked as she heard one of his vertebrae pop.
"Gods that feels so good," he purred as he closed his eyes, letting her wonderful hands do their magic on this tense body. Before he knew it, he was on the floor with his shirt off and Hermione was slowing rubbing the knots from his back, working the muscles into a relaxed sumission.
Draco was nearly asleep when he felt feather light kisses being placed up and down his back and finally to the back of his neck, causing him to tremble. Draco rolled over, pulling Hermione to him, kissing her desperately, trying to wipe out the memory of being in Ginny's arms.
"I take it you aren't feeling as tired now," she giggled as he started to remove her robes.
"Oh I'm tired, but never too tired to make love to my beautiful wife," he confided as he slipped her shirt off.
"What about the door?" she asked breathlessly as his lips found the curve of her breast.
Reaching into his pants pocket he pulled out his wand and waved it in the air. "What door?" he groaned as Hermione straddled him, her tongue finding its way to his chest, licking the dragon tattoo over his left breast. "Oohh," she squealed, "the dragon is awake."
"Yes and he wants to play," growled Draco as he flipped Hermione onto her back, ravishing her mouth with his.
Needless to say, they were late for dinner. When they entered the dinning room, Narcissa couldn't help but notice that her son was troubled about something. As Hermione took her seat next to Sirius, Draco went over to kiss his mother's cheek, whispering in her ear. "I need to talk to you and Sirius tomorrow. Hermione is not to know."
Narcissa in turn kissed his cheek and said in a low tone, "My chambers after breakfast." Draco nodded and sat next to his wife, dreading Ginny's arrival. However, she never came. About half way through dinner, Harry came in an gave his apologies, saying that Ginny still wasn't feeling very well and they would be dining in their chambers.
Upon hearing this news, Draco perked up a little but the change didn't go unnoticed by his mother.
"What has he gotten himself into?" she wondered, curious about what the meeting in the morning would bring.
The next morning, after breakfast, Draco and Ginny made their way to his mother's chambers. Draco had pulled Ginny aside at breakfast to tell her about going to see his mother and Sirius.
As they entered Narcissa's room, Ginny started to feel ill.
"So, why did you need to see me without Hermione's knowledge?" asked Narcissa as she surveyed the two nervous looking adults in front of her.
"We have a problem," said Draco, as he and Ginny sat down on the sofa.
"Do I want to hear this?" asked Sirius, as he glanced from Draco to Ginny, noticing their guilty faces.
"Yes, you need to know. Now, where to start?" Draco wondered, getting up to pace the room.
Narcissa rose and stood before her son, touching his face tenderly. "At the beginning."
Draco went and stood behind Ginny, placing his hands on her shoulders, causing Sirius to frown.
"Two nights ago, when everyone was at their meetings, when Ginny and I were alone, a ward was breached. When we went to investigate, we believe that we were put under a dark spell, resulting in our…" Draco looked around, unable to finish as tears formed in his eyes.
Ginny touched his hand and continued, "It seems that we were cursed. The result was our unfaithfulness to our spouses," she sobbed as she ran from the room to the bathroom where she was promptly sick. Narcissa hastily followed, wanting to offer any comfort she possible could.
"Tell me exactly what happened," said Sirius, as he raked his fingers through his hair.
"First off let me say that I love Hermione and Ginny loves Harry," Draco responded, tears welling in his eyes as he sat down heavily on the sofa. "We would never do anything like this. It was like someone had taken us over. We couldn't stop. It was uncontrollable passion. Sirius, you have to believe us. We are scared and need help from someone we trust that knows about dark magic. Please…"
"I believe you, son," Sirius comforted, as he went and sat down next to Draco. "We received word this morning that Lucius has been spotted not 50 kilometers from here and this sounds like his handiwork. What I need to know, although I don't really want to know, but I need details. I know this is difficult, however, you need to be strong and tell me exactly what happened," Sirius continued, looking grave.
Taking a deep breath, Draco started his story. "Well, it was around one in the morning when the ward was breached. Ginny and I secured the house and then went out on the grounds to see if we could find anything. After an hour or so, we stopped at the gazebo to rest a minute," Draco explained as he stared at his hands, uncomfortably squirming on the sofa. "Sirius, we couldn't keep our hands off each other. I remembered none of this at the time, just that I woke up in my bed, tired and bruised. Ginny avoided me all day, saying that she was sick. She wouldn't even let Collette come in to help her. Yesterday, I noticed that the ward on the attic had been suspended and I went to find out who was in there. It was Ginny. Again, there was a break in memory and, when I woke up, Ginny was in my arms, on my father's bed there in the attic and that is when all of the memory came flooding back to me. I'll spare you all the gory details," Draco confessed, tears now starting to slowly slide down his pale cheeks.
Sirius placed a supportive arm around Draco's sagging shoulders. "We will find out what curse it was and will sort this out. "
Narcissa came from the other room as white as a ghost.
"What's wrong?" asked Draco, as he stood to go check on Ginny.
"Draco, don't," warned Narcissa, feeling that he was becoming too attached to Ginny, "she thinks that Sirius is going to tell Harry and she is hysterical," Narcissa continued as she sank down onto the sofa. "The poor little thing is devastated about the whole mess."
Standing, Sirius comforted Narcissa, "I'll go and talk to her."
Quietly he entered the bedchamber to find Ginny sitting in the chair bedside the bed with her head resting in her hands, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Ginny," Sirius said quietly, not wanting to startle her.
"You are going to tell Harry aren't you?" she asked flatly as she looked at him with her big brown eyes.
Sirius knelt down in front of Ginny, taking her small hands into his large ones. "No, however, these thing do tend to come out," he explained as she started to panic again.
Moving his hand to her face he said tenderly, "He will need to know."
Ginny's sobs nearly broke Sirius heart. He knew she would never willingly desecrate the love that she and Harry shared. Brushing the tears from her eyes, he continued in a soothing voice, "But we will not even entertain the idea of them knowing until we have found out exactly which curse was used. Harry and Hermione will need to know the details of the curse in order to understand that you were not acting of your own free will, and that you had no choice in the things that you were made to do. Narcissa and I will go with you and Draco too if you wish when the truth comes out, however it needs to be you and Draco that tell them. Okay?" he finished as he wiped the rest of her tears from her face as if she were his child that he was comforting.
"Yeah, okay, It's just… Oh Sirius, it's killing me. The thought of what I have done is tearing me apart. I have been ill ever since it happened. I can't sleep or eat. It is destroying me inside. I love Harry with every fiber of my being and to think that I was intimate with someone other than him… I feel so violated," she said as tears started to fall once again.
"Ginny, it will all work out. Harry and Hermione will understand what has happened. Hermione especially will understand what it is like to feel violated. You will get through this, I promise," he reassured her as he held out his hand.
"Let's get out there to Narcissa and Draco before they come barging in here in a panic."
At this, Ginny gave a little giggle, "Now that would be entertaining."
For the next few weeks, Sirius and Draco worked diligently on trying to find the book that this dark magic was in. After three weeks of fruitless research in countless dusty old books, Sirius, getting frustrated, set off for Knockturn Alley in search of the one book he knew that it would be in.
Ginny was doing no better. Her eyes were heavy with dark shadows. She was losing weight, and she didn't sleep or eat much. Harry was becoming quite worried but Ginny kept telling him that it was an odd strain of virus, that she had picked up from somewhere and she would be right as rain very soon.
Later that night, Ginny sat before the parlor fire, sipping tea and trying to settle her stomach when Draco, who also couldn't sleep, came downstairs. Seeing her there, Draco came into the room.
"Ginny? Are you alright?" he asked, concerned of late about her welfare.
Ginny just shook her head, tears falling. As she sniffed, Draco came and sat down next to her.
"What's wrong?" Draco asked quietly, reaching out to take her shaking hand in his. "Ginny, you're trembling. Please, I want to help you."
As tears coursed down her cheeks, Ginny looked into his pale eyes and said flatly, "I'm pregnant!"
This is what Harry heard as he walked through the door. He stopped dead in his tracks wondering why she was telling Draco first and more importantly, why was she upset about it?
Draco's face fell. Taking her face gently in his hands, he asked quietly but loud enough for Harry to hear, "Who is the father? Harry or me?"
Ginny threw her arms around Draco's shoulders and cried, "I don't know!"
Pure rage filled Harry's soul as he made his presence know to them. "Get your fucking hands off my wife!!" Harry growled as he reached them, pulling Draco away from a hysterical Ginny, punching him dead in the face.
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