Another short chapter, sorry! But stick with me. Please, oh and don't
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The quill scratched across the paper, but nothing of value was written. Sighing, he threw down his quill. He was not a 'write down your emotions and send then' type of person. Now that he though about it, he wasn't really a 'talk about your emotions to some ones face' type of person either. Mainly because, all his life, he had been a 'bottle up your emotions and forget about them' type of person.
But he knew he had to admit his feelings, he needed to find Ginny and tell her everything, tell her how she made him feel, because if he didn't, he was going to go insane.
But he knew that after the words they had exchanged, she may not want to talk to him at all, no matter what he had to say to her. It all had to be out in the open, but she may not have wanted it that way, she probably wanted it locked up tight so no one could ever find out.
Standing from his desk and moving out of his room, he weaved his way out of the common room, passing small groups of girls who sat and giggled, pointing at him. Usually, the old Draco Malfoy would have shot them one of his dangerously sexy smiles and made them think that he was desirable yet completely unattainable. But today he just walked straight past them, not even looking at them; he had more on his mind than what a group of fourth years thought of him. He was on a mission; the new Draco Malfoy had business to attend to.
He wondered when he had become the new Draco Malfoy. When had one Draco Malfoy left and the new one come and taken his place. When did he change?
He knew when he had changed, he had changed with her.
He had changed with her, but not changed for her. Draco had known for a while that this change in him was coming. He knew that he always had another him inside him, and he knew that one day, the other him would over ride all of the elements and push it way to the surface.
Ginny had just triggered the rebellion of the new Draco against the old.
The problem with the brand spanking knew Draco was confidence, or lack of confidence. He was sure that he could still stand in front of others and public speak, he was sure that he could still tell Ron and Harry where to stick it, and he was sure that he could still approach any other girl and chat them up.
But he knew there was no way in hell that he would be able to approach Ginny and talk to her.
She was just a girl, his mind reasoned with him, but his heart would always reply the same, Ginny was so much more than just a girl. She was the girl, the one, every thing that he had been looking for.
From some where, deep inside his heart, he finally worked out what he wanted to say.
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Hermione was in the library, just thinking of the conversation she had had with Ginny about some one changing. Was it really possible for some one to change everything that the world seen them as.
Are false personas really that easy to create, and if so, how hard are they to destroy? Malfoy had obviously created a false persona for himself, and from the looks of it, Ginny had destroyed it within a matter of hours.
What makes some one create an untrue image of themselves? Was it fear, was it self loathing, was it a confidence thing. Hermione didn't understand why some one would do it.
What was Malfoy's motivation for the alter ego, what was he hiding from (Hermione thought for a few seconds, then realized he was hiding from his father for all of those years), and what triggered the change in him.
Ginny was what had triggered the change in him, because according to Ginny, he was a big kitten. Hermione didn't believe it, mainly because she didn't want to believe it, but she knew that if Ginny was to trust Malfoy, she would make the effort to trust him to.
"Umm, Hermione?" Some one speaking to her shifted her out of her thoughts, looking up, Hermione saw Draco stand by her table, in his hand he held a piece of parchment.
"Yes Malfoy, I mean, Draco, What can I do for you?" She asked, Draco took a deep breath, willing himself to go on with what he was going to say.
"I guess Ginny told you about what happened between the two of us?" He asked, Hermione shrugged.
"I didn't get any details out of her, only hat you majorly surprised her in many ways than one, and that you are as tame as a kitten when you want to be" Hermione couldn't help but smirk at him, she thought that that would make him lose his temper, but he didn't.
"Yeah, something like that. Listen, towards the end of it, words were exchanged that I am not exactly proud of, so I was wondering if you could give her this, and tell her how sorry I am." Draco asked, holding out the parchment. Hermione took it, smiled at him awkwardly, and then turned to leave the library.
"She cares about you Malfoy" Hermione replied, turning back to the blonde slytherin. "I don't know why, and I don't know how it happened, but she cares about you, has feelings of you"
Malfoy stood as Hermione strided back to him, standing close in front of him. Draco had to admit that Hermione could be scary if she wanted to be.
"If I found out that you have done anything to hurt her, mentally or physically, I will personally make sure that your broomstick is shoved so far up your ass that you would be flying instead of walking" Hermione told him.
"I would never hurt her" He replied honestly.
"Just make sure you know that friends can become enemies quickly Malfoy" she replied, before turning and leaving the library.
Draco just stared after her.
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"Oh Ginny" Hermione sang as she opened the door to the younger girls bedroom. Ginny was still in her bed, staring up at the ceiling of the canopy bed.
"What?" Ginny replied.
"I have a letter here for you" Hermione replied, waving it in front of Ginny's face.
"I don't want to read it" Ginny sighed.
"Oh well, I will just take it back to the tall blonde Slytherin quidditch seeker then shall I?" Hermione asked, and then chuckled as she saw how quickly Ginny jumped out of her bed and snatched the letter from her hands.
Then Ginny just sat there, unable to bring herself to open the letter. She just sat on her bed and stared at Draco's messy hand writing.
"As far as I can tell, you don't have x-ray vision, so you cant read though the envelope" Hermione laughed, taking a spot on the bed with Ginny. Ginny sighed.
"What if he says he doesn't care, and that he made a big mistake?" Ginny asked.
"What if he says he feels the same way you do?" Hermione asked, Ginny nodded.
"But he may say it was a mistake" Ginny reasoned.
"He may also say that he has been invited to be a back up singer for The Weird Sisters, but we both know that it hasn't. Just like I am pretty sure it does not say he regrets anything"
"What makes you so sure?" Ginny asked, her fingers fidgeting on the wax seal of the parchment envelope.
"I saw the look on his face when he gave it to me, he was sad, almost ...... Human" Hermione replied.
"Hermione, that is an awful thing to say, Draco is human" Ginny replied, jumping to his defense, Hermione smiled apologetically.
"You are right, I am sorry ...... But will you just open the letter, the anticipation is killing me"
Ginny's finger slipped under the wax seal and opened the envelope, pulling out and unfolding the piece of parchment, she smiled softly.
"He says we should talk, and he says I know where"
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yay.
Any way, Do you wanna know the best way to piss off your Harry Potter loving friends while watching CoS? (no joke, this works, I have done it every time) When Harry hears the voice in the walls, put on your best disembodied voice and say "Shire Baggins" you will either get a laugh or a smack to the head. (YAY, less than a month till TTT hits Australian cinemas, cant wait, more Orlando Bloom, More Billy Boyd, More Dominic Monaghan, and yay, new boy Karl Urban, yay yay yay)
Anyway,
Do you wanna know the best way to get me to continue this fic? Review
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The quill scratched across the paper, but nothing of value was written. Sighing, he threw down his quill. He was not a 'write down your emotions and send then' type of person. Now that he though about it, he wasn't really a 'talk about your emotions to some ones face' type of person either. Mainly because, all his life, he had been a 'bottle up your emotions and forget about them' type of person.
But he knew he had to admit his feelings, he needed to find Ginny and tell her everything, tell her how she made him feel, because if he didn't, he was going to go insane.
But he knew that after the words they had exchanged, she may not want to talk to him at all, no matter what he had to say to her. It all had to be out in the open, but she may not have wanted it that way, she probably wanted it locked up tight so no one could ever find out.
Standing from his desk and moving out of his room, he weaved his way out of the common room, passing small groups of girls who sat and giggled, pointing at him. Usually, the old Draco Malfoy would have shot them one of his dangerously sexy smiles and made them think that he was desirable yet completely unattainable. But today he just walked straight past them, not even looking at them; he had more on his mind than what a group of fourth years thought of him. He was on a mission; the new Draco Malfoy had business to attend to.
He wondered when he had become the new Draco Malfoy. When had one Draco Malfoy left and the new one come and taken his place. When did he change?
He knew when he had changed, he had changed with her.
He had changed with her, but not changed for her. Draco had known for a while that this change in him was coming. He knew that he always had another him inside him, and he knew that one day, the other him would over ride all of the elements and push it way to the surface.
Ginny had just triggered the rebellion of the new Draco against the old.
The problem with the brand spanking knew Draco was confidence, or lack of confidence. He was sure that he could still stand in front of others and public speak, he was sure that he could still tell Ron and Harry where to stick it, and he was sure that he could still approach any other girl and chat them up.
But he knew there was no way in hell that he would be able to approach Ginny and talk to her.
She was just a girl, his mind reasoned with him, but his heart would always reply the same, Ginny was so much more than just a girl. She was the girl, the one, every thing that he had been looking for.
From some where, deep inside his heart, he finally worked out what he wanted to say.
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Hermione was in the library, just thinking of the conversation she had had with Ginny about some one changing. Was it really possible for some one to change everything that the world seen them as.
Are false personas really that easy to create, and if so, how hard are they to destroy? Malfoy had obviously created a false persona for himself, and from the looks of it, Ginny had destroyed it within a matter of hours.
What makes some one create an untrue image of themselves? Was it fear, was it self loathing, was it a confidence thing. Hermione didn't understand why some one would do it.
What was Malfoy's motivation for the alter ego, what was he hiding from (Hermione thought for a few seconds, then realized he was hiding from his father for all of those years), and what triggered the change in him.
Ginny was what had triggered the change in him, because according to Ginny, he was a big kitten. Hermione didn't believe it, mainly because she didn't want to believe it, but she knew that if Ginny was to trust Malfoy, she would make the effort to trust him to.
"Umm, Hermione?" Some one speaking to her shifted her out of her thoughts, looking up, Hermione saw Draco stand by her table, in his hand he held a piece of parchment.
"Yes Malfoy, I mean, Draco, What can I do for you?" She asked, Draco took a deep breath, willing himself to go on with what he was going to say.
"I guess Ginny told you about what happened between the two of us?" He asked, Hermione shrugged.
"I didn't get any details out of her, only hat you majorly surprised her in many ways than one, and that you are as tame as a kitten when you want to be" Hermione couldn't help but smirk at him, she thought that that would make him lose his temper, but he didn't.
"Yeah, something like that. Listen, towards the end of it, words were exchanged that I am not exactly proud of, so I was wondering if you could give her this, and tell her how sorry I am." Draco asked, holding out the parchment. Hermione took it, smiled at him awkwardly, and then turned to leave the library.
"She cares about you Malfoy" Hermione replied, turning back to the blonde slytherin. "I don't know why, and I don't know how it happened, but she cares about you, has feelings of you"
Malfoy stood as Hermione strided back to him, standing close in front of him. Draco had to admit that Hermione could be scary if she wanted to be.
"If I found out that you have done anything to hurt her, mentally or physically, I will personally make sure that your broomstick is shoved so far up your ass that you would be flying instead of walking" Hermione told him.
"I would never hurt her" He replied honestly.
"Just make sure you know that friends can become enemies quickly Malfoy" she replied, before turning and leaving the library.
Draco just stared after her.
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"Oh Ginny" Hermione sang as she opened the door to the younger girls bedroom. Ginny was still in her bed, staring up at the ceiling of the canopy bed.
"What?" Ginny replied.
"I have a letter here for you" Hermione replied, waving it in front of Ginny's face.
"I don't want to read it" Ginny sighed.
"Oh well, I will just take it back to the tall blonde Slytherin quidditch seeker then shall I?" Hermione asked, and then chuckled as she saw how quickly Ginny jumped out of her bed and snatched the letter from her hands.
Then Ginny just sat there, unable to bring herself to open the letter. She just sat on her bed and stared at Draco's messy hand writing.
"As far as I can tell, you don't have x-ray vision, so you cant read though the envelope" Hermione laughed, taking a spot on the bed with Ginny. Ginny sighed.
"What if he says he doesn't care, and that he made a big mistake?" Ginny asked.
"What if he says he feels the same way you do?" Hermione asked, Ginny nodded.
"But he may say it was a mistake" Ginny reasoned.
"He may also say that he has been invited to be a back up singer for The Weird Sisters, but we both know that it hasn't. Just like I am pretty sure it does not say he regrets anything"
"What makes you so sure?" Ginny asked, her fingers fidgeting on the wax seal of the parchment envelope.
"I saw the look on his face when he gave it to me, he was sad, almost ...... Human" Hermione replied.
"Hermione, that is an awful thing to say, Draco is human" Ginny replied, jumping to his defense, Hermione smiled apologetically.
"You are right, I am sorry ...... But will you just open the letter, the anticipation is killing me"
Ginny's finger slipped under the wax seal and opened the envelope, pulling out and unfolding the piece of parchment, she smiled softly.
"He says we should talk, and he says I know where"
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yay.
Any way, Do you wanna know the best way to piss off your Harry Potter loving friends while watching CoS? (no joke, this works, I have done it every time) When Harry hears the voice in the walls, put on your best disembodied voice and say "Shire Baggins" you will either get a laugh or a smack to the head. (YAY, less than a month till TTT hits Australian cinemas, cant wait, more Orlando Bloom, More Billy Boyd, More Dominic Monaghan, and yay, new boy Karl Urban, yay yay yay)
Anyway,
Do you wanna know the best way to get me to continue this fic? Review