Dreams
Chapter 16: Binding Moments
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling nor am I trying to be her. All I own is the plot, I'm just borrowing her characters for awhile so I don't die of boredom.
A/N:All thoughts are now going to be in an asterisk (**blah blah blah**). I was going to do the thoughts in italics but Word is being weird. I had to write this on Notepad so sorry if there are any spelling errors.
A/N2: I want some reviews! I didn't even get one for last chapter but I know that ff.net has some blame in that. Anyway, on to the story...
It had been weeks since the Cho fiasco. Rumours that had been spread by the gossip queens Lavendar and Parvati had blazed through the student population like wildfire and were finally starting to die down. It wasn't really because time had passed or from Harry keeping a low profile. Even when Cho cracked under the steady pressure in the Great Hall, which had sent her into a rather amusing rampage, the talk didn't stop. No, the public was now more interested in our favorite suspended Slytherin, Draco Malfoy. Actually it was more of his return from suspension that had captured the students attention. Only Ron, Hermione, and Harry had truly known what had happened that night. It was midnight and a frustrated, mentally beaten by other Slytherins for information (but wasn't able to tell anything because of Dumbledore) Draco was slinking his way to the Astronomy Tower to sulk and think.
***Draco POV***
**Ugh, I'm finally able to get away from Pansy. Stupid prat why does she have to be the daughter of a prominent Death Eater, don't forget to mention wealthy pureblood family. Why God? Why pain my existence with that pitiful excuse of a girl? If she throws herself at me one more time, I swear that I'll tell her that I'm gay and that I'm pining over Potter. Actually scratch that...she would tell that ass of a father that I said that and then I would be beaten within an inch of my life. He'd probably kill me as an example for my other brothers. Oh well, at least I can look at the stars. We are all made of stars, at least according to...** OOF!
"What in the bloody hell was that?"
***Ginny POV***
**Fuck Fucketty Fuck!! How did I forget that the invisibility cloak just makes you invisible, not into a damn ghost. I wonder who I bumped into...GAH! Ok no need to get a paper bag. Breathe, Gin, breath. Ok, everything is okay...Must think logically. It's only Malfoy. Crap, was that a meow? That does sound like Filch's cat. Should I help Malfoy? Whoa rewind...ME...help a MALFOY. Well I guess I better look out a window tommorow and make sure that pigs are flying. It is kinda my fault he stumbled into me.**
***3rd Person POV***
"Hey, psss. Malfoy over here,"
Draco was officially freaked out. Two fingers were waving at him, suspended in mid-air.
**What do I have to lose**, he wondered. He walked over and was suddenly engulfed in a silvery cloth. He looked to his right and froze. There stood the object of his affections, her hand over his mouth. The other hand had one finger at her lips, commanding silence. Filch and Mrs. Norris started to walk down the corridor. Draco could feel Ginny's pulse rise slightly. Filch and his dreadful cat were almost in the other hall when Ginny had the sudden urge to sneeze.
"Ahh," Ginny started. **Oh please God, not now...** "Ahh." **We are doomed.** "Ahh," but before Ginny could blow their cover, Draco put one of his long fingers underneath her nose.
**Who woulda thought that Malfoy wasn't a total prat. Probably just wanted to save his skin, though.** Finally, Ginny and Draco were out of danger. Ginny started to talk but Draco beat her to it.
"Where are you going?"
"Why do you care?"
"Look I just wanted to say thanks in a loud and clear voice, not just whispering."
**This boy surprises me more and more.** "Well, I was going to the Astronomy Tower."
"Strange, so was I. Let's go then we can talk."
"Okay, but under the cloak. I don't want to take anymore chances. This week detentions are with Snape and he's..."
"Yeah, he's a complete, utter asshole. I know."
"Okay let's go." **I so was not expecting that.**
The two huddled under the cloak thinking too much instead of watching where they were going. Ginny happened to forget the trick stair and landed on Draco, who whinced.
"Sorry," she barely said. It was more like she was mouthing it.
**Ok, Draco. Stop thinking about her on you. Think about Potions. She's supposed to be really good with that. Umm, pumpkin juice. Wow she's got nice lips. Oh Christ! Cold shower, yeah a shower...with her in it.**
He visibly shook his head and Ginny started to worry.
**Man, I hope I didn't hurt him. I don't think that I'm THAT unattractive or fat. He, on the other hand is pretty, ugh I'm going to barf when I look back on this but he is HOT. His muscles aren't too shabby either. I can't believe that I'm thinking about this. At least we're at the Tower.**
Indeed the two opposites were at the tower. For a good fifteen minutes they just sat there in silence. Draco was fidgeting, pretending to focus on the stars. Ginny was looking at the constellations too, but she kept stealing glances of his face and hair. She was amazed on how much a person could change just from the light.
"Sorry," they both said at the same time. They gave a uncomfortable chuckle and Draco insisted that she go first.
Ginny took a deep breath. **Hopefully he won't laugh or tell me how rich he is and rub it in my face.** "I just want to say sorry. I should've watched where I was going. Apology accepted?"
Draco looked like he was thinking about her proposition but he really was just staring at her. Still memorizing her features, he replied, "Of course. Thanks for saving my neck, I know that you probably had some internal battle. Now I hope you accept my apology for my father. I think he should eat dung, the bastard."
Ginny's mouth was wide open. She might've been drooling but she wasn't aware. This night was certainly not going the way she had planned. She just thought she would mope around about Harry not being hers and look at the stars. Now that she thought about it, the stars had been a little bit shinnier than usual. What surprised her more was what Draco did next.
He put his finger under her chin and shut her mouth. He left his finger on her chin a while longer then needed while saying, "Very unattractive Ginny. So do you accept?"
She blushed and replied, "Yup. If you can call your dad an idiot then you really don't like him. I guess I should call you Draco."
**I wonder why she blushed? And why am I blushing? This is nothing like Hermione. Hermione was just an infatuation. This...this is different.** Little did he know that she was thinking the same thing, except with Harry.
"I guess we are friends, right Draco?"
"Yeah. This is like one of those binding moments that Potter, your brother, and Hermione had in their first year," he said grinning.
**Wow, let the record show that Draco Malfoy, yes I am calling him Draco, has smiled. Rather he's grinning and it's pretty cute.**
"Well, Draco, new friend o'mine, I need to get back to my dorm. It's almost one. G'nite."
"You too Gin. You don't mind if I call you Gin, right?"
"Nah, its okay. Soooo...I'll see you here tommorow?"
**The grin again. That damn grin is going to be the end of me. If he grins anymore, I'll need Skele-Gro for my knees...**
"Of course Gin...And thanks."
"You don't have to thank me about saving your skin again, it was," Ginny started but was rudely interuppted.
"No it's not that. Just wanted to say thanks for being my friend. I know your brothers would kill you...actually they would kill me but I digress. Most people are friendly to me just because of my father," Draco said, while spitting the word father like it was venom.
"Well to be perfectly honest you seem like a nice guy. Just show that side more instead of the I'm-A-Malfoy-Bow-Down-To-Me facade. Anyways, good night." She gave him a shy smile and went down the stairs. Before she was out of view she said, "Oh, and sorry about landing on you when I tripped."
"Honestly, I didn't mind. Night, Gin." he faintly said. He decided to stay here a little longer and ponder the phrase that kept bouncing in his head. **There IS a God.**
*** End of Chapter Sixteen***
A/N: Ok I know that there wasn't any Harry-Hermione-Ron drama but I thought that I might as well keep them separate. I think that Draco has had enough crap for this year, he deserves some love, too.
A/N2: Review por favor. That is what the button in the left bottom corner is for...
Chapter 16: Binding Moments
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling nor am I trying to be her. All I own is the plot, I'm just borrowing her characters for awhile so I don't die of boredom.
A/N:All thoughts are now going to be in an asterisk (**blah blah blah**). I was going to do the thoughts in italics but Word is being weird. I had to write this on Notepad so sorry if there are any spelling errors.
A/N2: I want some reviews! I didn't even get one for last chapter but I know that ff.net has some blame in that. Anyway, on to the story...
It had been weeks since the Cho fiasco. Rumours that had been spread by the gossip queens Lavendar and Parvati had blazed through the student population like wildfire and were finally starting to die down. It wasn't really because time had passed or from Harry keeping a low profile. Even when Cho cracked under the steady pressure in the Great Hall, which had sent her into a rather amusing rampage, the talk didn't stop. No, the public was now more interested in our favorite suspended Slytherin, Draco Malfoy. Actually it was more of his return from suspension that had captured the students attention. Only Ron, Hermione, and Harry had truly known what had happened that night. It was midnight and a frustrated, mentally beaten by other Slytherins for information (but wasn't able to tell anything because of Dumbledore) Draco was slinking his way to the Astronomy Tower to sulk and think.
***Draco POV***
**Ugh, I'm finally able to get away from Pansy. Stupid prat why does she have to be the daughter of a prominent Death Eater, don't forget to mention wealthy pureblood family. Why God? Why pain my existence with that pitiful excuse of a girl? If she throws herself at me one more time, I swear that I'll tell her that I'm gay and that I'm pining over Potter. Actually scratch that...she would tell that ass of a father that I said that and then I would be beaten within an inch of my life. He'd probably kill me as an example for my other brothers. Oh well, at least I can look at the stars. We are all made of stars, at least according to...** OOF!
"What in the bloody hell was that?"
***Ginny POV***
**Fuck Fucketty Fuck!! How did I forget that the invisibility cloak just makes you invisible, not into a damn ghost. I wonder who I bumped into...GAH! Ok no need to get a paper bag. Breathe, Gin, breath. Ok, everything is okay...Must think logically. It's only Malfoy. Crap, was that a meow? That does sound like Filch's cat. Should I help Malfoy? Whoa rewind...ME...help a MALFOY. Well I guess I better look out a window tommorow and make sure that pigs are flying. It is kinda my fault he stumbled into me.**
***3rd Person POV***
"Hey, psss. Malfoy over here,"
Draco was officially freaked out. Two fingers were waving at him, suspended in mid-air.
**What do I have to lose**, he wondered. He walked over and was suddenly engulfed in a silvery cloth. He looked to his right and froze. There stood the object of his affections, her hand over his mouth. The other hand had one finger at her lips, commanding silence. Filch and Mrs. Norris started to walk down the corridor. Draco could feel Ginny's pulse rise slightly. Filch and his dreadful cat were almost in the other hall when Ginny had the sudden urge to sneeze.
"Ahh," Ginny started. **Oh please God, not now...** "Ahh." **We are doomed.** "Ahh," but before Ginny could blow their cover, Draco put one of his long fingers underneath her nose.
**Who woulda thought that Malfoy wasn't a total prat. Probably just wanted to save his skin, though.** Finally, Ginny and Draco were out of danger. Ginny started to talk but Draco beat her to it.
"Where are you going?"
"Why do you care?"
"Look I just wanted to say thanks in a loud and clear voice, not just whispering."
**This boy surprises me more and more.** "Well, I was going to the Astronomy Tower."
"Strange, so was I. Let's go then we can talk."
"Okay, but under the cloak. I don't want to take anymore chances. This week detentions are with Snape and he's..."
"Yeah, he's a complete, utter asshole. I know."
"Okay let's go." **I so was not expecting that.**
The two huddled under the cloak thinking too much instead of watching where they were going. Ginny happened to forget the trick stair and landed on Draco, who whinced.
"Sorry," she barely said. It was more like she was mouthing it.
**Ok, Draco. Stop thinking about her on you. Think about Potions. She's supposed to be really good with that. Umm, pumpkin juice. Wow she's got nice lips. Oh Christ! Cold shower, yeah a shower...with her in it.**
He visibly shook his head and Ginny started to worry.
**Man, I hope I didn't hurt him. I don't think that I'm THAT unattractive or fat. He, on the other hand is pretty, ugh I'm going to barf when I look back on this but he is HOT. His muscles aren't too shabby either. I can't believe that I'm thinking about this. At least we're at the Tower.**
Indeed the two opposites were at the tower. For a good fifteen minutes they just sat there in silence. Draco was fidgeting, pretending to focus on the stars. Ginny was looking at the constellations too, but she kept stealing glances of his face and hair. She was amazed on how much a person could change just from the light.
"Sorry," they both said at the same time. They gave a uncomfortable chuckle and Draco insisted that she go first.
Ginny took a deep breath. **Hopefully he won't laugh or tell me how rich he is and rub it in my face.** "I just want to say sorry. I should've watched where I was going. Apology accepted?"
Draco looked like he was thinking about her proposition but he really was just staring at her. Still memorizing her features, he replied, "Of course. Thanks for saving my neck, I know that you probably had some internal battle. Now I hope you accept my apology for my father. I think he should eat dung, the bastard."
Ginny's mouth was wide open. She might've been drooling but she wasn't aware. This night was certainly not going the way she had planned. She just thought she would mope around about Harry not being hers and look at the stars. Now that she thought about it, the stars had been a little bit shinnier than usual. What surprised her more was what Draco did next.
He put his finger under her chin and shut her mouth. He left his finger on her chin a while longer then needed while saying, "Very unattractive Ginny. So do you accept?"
She blushed and replied, "Yup. If you can call your dad an idiot then you really don't like him. I guess I should call you Draco."
**I wonder why she blushed? And why am I blushing? This is nothing like Hermione. Hermione was just an infatuation. This...this is different.** Little did he know that she was thinking the same thing, except with Harry.
"I guess we are friends, right Draco?"
"Yeah. This is like one of those binding moments that Potter, your brother, and Hermione had in their first year," he said grinning.
**Wow, let the record show that Draco Malfoy, yes I am calling him Draco, has smiled. Rather he's grinning and it's pretty cute.**
"Well, Draco, new friend o'mine, I need to get back to my dorm. It's almost one. G'nite."
"You too Gin. You don't mind if I call you Gin, right?"
"Nah, its okay. Soooo...I'll see you here tommorow?"
**The grin again. That damn grin is going to be the end of me. If he grins anymore, I'll need Skele-Gro for my knees...**
"Of course Gin...And thanks."
"You don't have to thank me about saving your skin again, it was," Ginny started but was rudely interuppted.
"No it's not that. Just wanted to say thanks for being my friend. I know your brothers would kill you...actually they would kill me but I digress. Most people are friendly to me just because of my father," Draco said, while spitting the word father like it was venom.
"Well to be perfectly honest you seem like a nice guy. Just show that side more instead of the I'm-A-Malfoy-Bow-Down-To-Me facade. Anyways, good night." She gave him a shy smile and went down the stairs. Before she was out of view she said, "Oh, and sorry about landing on you when I tripped."
"Honestly, I didn't mind. Night, Gin." he faintly said. He decided to stay here a little longer and ponder the phrase that kept bouncing in his head. **There IS a God.**
*** End of Chapter Sixteen***
A/N: Ok I know that there wasn't any Harry-Hermione-Ron drama but I thought that I might as well keep them separate. I think that Draco has had enough crap for this year, he deserves some love, too.
A/N2: Review por favor. That is what the button in the left bottom corner is for...
