Hello Frodo!! (Sorry about that, I just watched lord of the rings)
This is the new chapter, I hope that you enjoy it, because I enjoyed writing it, and this one is a little longer because I just could not stop typing.
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"Wait, Mr. Weston, sir. You see, the man I stole that money off of was my father! And well, I was leaving and I had not started my job yet, so I really needed the money ...." Draco began to explain, Mr. Weston, his eyes still sad, held up his hand, silencing Draco.
"Draco, as a Malfoy, you should know by now that it is never a good idea to cross Lucius. He has made an official complaint about this, that is why we have to dismiss your case, I am sorry" Mr. Weston explained. Draco looked as though he was about to cry as he leant forward and rested his head in his hands.
"Wait, Mr. Weston, what if we can get Draco's father to lift the charges, can the case then go on?" Ginny asked, standing from her spot beside Draco. Draco pulled his head out of his hand and looked up at her as though she was crazy.
"That will never happen Gin, Lucius would never take it back" he sighed.
"How do you know, we have not even tried to convince him yet" Ginny replied.
"Miss Weasley, if you can make Lucius Malfoy take back the charges he has laid on his son, not only will I let you continue with the case, I will give you a 10 000 galleon cash bonus!" Mr. Weston replied. Ginny grabbed Draco by the upper arm, and pulled him out of his seat.
"Thank you sir, you will be hearing from us again soon" Ginny smiled over her shoulder. She continued to drag Draco out of the room.
"Come on Malfoy; let's go find your father"
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"You don't seem to understand Gin, he will not even meet with us, let alone listen to what we have to say, and there is no way he will take it all back. He told me before I left the house that I would never get my daughter back. He had been planning this all along, damn him!!" Draco ranted.
"Pull yourself together Malfoy; do you want you daughter back or not?" She stopped walking and shot Draco a dark look.
"Yes, of course I do! You know that there is nothing more in the world that I want" he exclaimed.
"Then snap out of it, grow some balls, and get in there and tear shreds off of that ugly excuse for a father." Ginny told him. Draco couldn't help but laugh.
"Sure you don't want to go in there and rip shreds off of him for me?" he asked, Ginny shook her head and pushed him towards the door of his father's office.
The door creaked open, and Draco entered the outer office where his father's secretary was filing her nails.
"I need to see my father" Draco stated clearly, the secretary looked up from her nails and then realizing that it was nothing interesting, went back to her nails.
"Mr. Malfoy has gone home to spend the afternoon with his wife, it seems that the report he filed this morning stopped the closure of a deal which he was against to begin with" The secretary replied, Draco thanked her quickly, and then returned to the hallway where Ginny was waiting.
"We have to go to Malfoy Manor"
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"How dare you!" Draco yelled as he walked into the large dining room at Malfoy manor. Lucius looked up from the papers in front of him, smiling sadistically at his son "How dare you do that to me"
"How dare I? How dare you steal money from me." Lucius began, then stopped when his eyes fell on Ginny. "And how dare you bring that into my house!"
Draco ignored his fathers comment about Ginny. "Why did you do it dad? Why, it was not like you needed the money!"
"It was the principal of the matter" Lucius replied dismissively. "You really thought that I would let you steal my money to support your half blooded abomination and that Weasley whore that you are so fond of?"
Ginny and Draco turned bright red in anger.
"Kayla is not an abomination!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Ginny is not a whore" Draco yelled, Lucius just seemed amused at their replies.
"What a happy little family you lot will make, all you need is custody of your daughter and sweet little puppy dog, and you will be the personification of an average wizarding family."
"And you are just going to make sure that that never happens aren't you, why do you have this sick satisfaction if breaking my sprits like this?" Draco asked.
"I am no breaking your sprits son, I am making you stronger, soon you will fall out of this magical little realm that people call love and you will come to realize the error of your ways, you will see that I was right all along, that being a Malfoy and mixing with half bloods and muggles will be your downfall. Don't you see, your daughter, your girlfriend over there, they are holding you back from your true potential" Lucius lectured, Draco rolled his eyes slightly.
"My true potential as what?" Draco asked.
"You think that with the dark lord gone, there is not dark magic in the world?" Lucius began, Draco took a step back from his father.
"I can't believe you, as if I would join you and all of your little death eater friends in your practices of the dark arts, I have too much to live for!"
"You have nothing to live for" Lucius bellowed. "You will never know what it feels like to hug your daughter Draco, they will never let you have her, never, no matter what you tell them, no matter what you say...."
"We were winning our case. We will win our case" Draco replied defiantly, Lucius laughed at him.
"You will never win anything as long as I am there to sabotage it" Lucius threatened.
"You asshole!" Draco growled. He looked like he was set to murder his father, So Ginny took a step up behind him, and placed her hand on Draco's shoulder, calming him.
"And do you think that even if you did get your daughter back, everything would be just fine and dandy. Bringing up children is a full time job..." Lucius began
"What would you know, you never helped once in raising me, it was all mother, and the selected nannies that you hired" Draco replied.
Lucius ignored his son's statement "How do you think that you daughter will feel, growing up knowing that she was a child of sin..."
"My daughter is not a sin!"
"She will rebel against you Draco, she will turn on you and she will hate you forever" Lucius added.
"Then it will run in the family, because you have no idea how much I hate you now!" Draco growled, balling his hands into fists. Lucius smirked.
"And do you really think this little one will stick by your side through thick and thin?" Lucius asked, taking a step towards Ginny, paralyzed with fear, Ginny just stood still.
"You expect to raise this child together?" He began, stroking his finger down Ginny's cheek, that time she did pull away from him. "One big happy family. That little girl will grow to hate you to, Miss Weasley, she will resent you for replacing her mother, not only in her heart, but in the heart of her father"
"You do not know that will happen" Ginny mumbled.
"What, you believe that she will grow to love you. That Kayla's little family will be just like your precious family. Where you hug and kiss your parents before bed, you playfully tease your brothers, and no one minds that you live in a house that is held together by bird shit, because all you really need to survive is love?"
Ginny took a deep breath, determined not to let what Lucius said about her family get her down.
"I pity you Mr. Malfoy" Ginny began, Lucius' eyes bugged out of his head as he laughed.
"You, a Weasley, pity me?" he smirked.
"Yes, I do" Ginny replied calmly. "Have you ever loved anything in your whole life?"
"Loving something makes you weak"
"Loving something makes you human. And being loved makes you human to. You want to know what I think sir, what I really think? I think that you are jealous of your son" Ginny replied.
"Jealous? Me, Jealous of him"
"You are jealous, because he has loved so much more than you have, and he has been loved by many others. And he will continue to be loved, by his daughter and by me, for as long as he lives. Whereas you, no body loves you, I am not even sure that you wife loves you, I know for a fact that your son never did."
"Why would I care about love, love is an empty, hollow sentiment" Lucius replied.
"Then why are you trying to stop your son from loving and being loved? You realized that love is so much stronger than anything that you could ever offer any one." Ginny replied "You realized that some times, all you need is love. And you are jealous "
"That is stupid" he replied, some what nervously.
"I don't think it is stupid, why else would you being trying to break the case, you are not loved, and you don't want your son to be loved either." Ginny replied. "You are thinking of no ones best interests but your own"
"Love has nothing to do with this. This is all about betrayal." Lucius replied. Draco smirked and ran his hands quickly though his hair.
"You have always been melodramatic, haven't you father. This has nothing to do with betrayal, and everything to do with the fact that you are selfish, and you don't want to live in this world of self pity alone, you want me to share it with you, you want me to be miserable, because you don't want to face it all alone" He accused.
"I do not, I could care less what you do" Lucius replied hotly.
"Then why did you stop the case!" He exclaimed.
Lucius did not reply.
"Retract your complaint about me, pull a few strings and get my case back in court, and then, when I have my daughter, you will never have to see me, or Ginny, or my daughter again"
"What of my money?" he asked.
"You don't give a flying fuck about the money, and you damn well know it" Draco exclaimed.
"The point is, you stole from me" Lucius replied.
"Get my case running again, and I will pay you back" Draco replied seriously.
"You truly do want this child of yours, don't you, you take no heed to my warnings and you continue to fight for her." Lucius sighed "You know that you will continue to fight for her for the rest of your life."
"Does that mean that you will allow the case to go forward?" Draco asked.
"That means that if you leave this house now, I will seriously consider it. Now get out of my sight" Lucius replied, taking his seat at the table again. Draco turned to the door, and together, he and Ginny left the dining room.
"At least he is considering it" Ginny said softly as they walked through the hall to Draco's old room where they were going to floo back to his house. As soon as the door shut behind him, Draco pulled Ginny into his arms, holding her tight.
"Thank you for helping me with him" He whispered, Ginny smiled and snaked her arm up to his head, where her fingers ran through his hair.
"He is a jerk, just forget about him" Ginny mumbled.
"I can't forget about him, he is in there making the biggest decision of all of our lives. He is the type of person who would make matters worse, just to spite me" He told her. Ginny nodded. "So, are you going to come home with me? I will try and cook dinner for us"
"Well, I was wondering if you would allow me to take you some where" Ginny replied, stepping out of Draco's embrace. Draco looked at her oddly, but then smiled and nodded. Ginny grinned, and pulled Draco into the fireplace with her, dropping her handful of floo powder at her feet, she clearly stated...
"The burrow"
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"Well, my dad was right about on thing, this place is held together by bird shit" Draco joked as he picked himself up off of the living room floor of the Burrow. He then yelped in pain when Ginny hit him hard on the chest "I was kidding, I was kidding,"
Draco took a few minutes to look around the small house. He had heard many descriptions of this house over the years, but every time that he tried to picture it, it never turns out looking like this.
"Nine people really live here?" Draco asked as he looked at a picture of the Weasleys. Draco recognize most people in the picture, He obviously knew Ron, Percy, Ginny and the twins by looks, and he barely remembered the two older brothers from when he had gone to the quidditch world cup in his forth year and the Weasleys had sat in front of him. Ginny moved up beside him and took the picture out of his hand.
"Some times nine, Bill lives in Egypt and Charlie lives in Romania, Fred and George moved out last year and got a places of their own closer to their joke shops, Percy still lives here but he is looking for some where quieter, Ron will be moving to Kent soon, and then it will just be my parents and little old me here" She explained, pointing out each person as she spoke about them "But lucky you, everyone seems to be hanging out here these holidays"
Draco groaned. Ginny ignored it.
"Speaking of which, I wonder where everyone is" Ginny sighed, moving through the house to the kitchen, Draco followed, his eyes wide with wonder.
"This place is really cool" Draco smiled as he looked around.
"Really?"
"Really, you can really feel the love in this house. Unlike the manor where everything is dull grey and black. We have no family photographs in our house, but these stupid big tapestries with old people on them." Draco smiled. Ginny laughed.
A small pop startled them out of their conversation. Both of them looked to see Molly Weasley standing in the middle of the kitchen, a like of shrunken packages in her arms.
"Hello kids" She smiled, dropped her things onto the table, and then went about returning his all of the packages to their normal sizes.
"Hello Mrs. Weasley" Draco smiled. Molly looked up and smiled also.
"Are you staying for dinner Draco, Dear" Was all Molly said. Draco grinned and nodded.
"Yes, thank you"
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Ginny stood in the doorway of the kitchen and watched as Bill, Charlie and Draco set up the tables in the back yard. She was very glad that at least those two brothers had accepted him and were treating him civilly.
She knew that it was risky bringing Draco to her home for the evening, but she knew that this would stop the questions that every one kept asking her. Plus, she thought it would be good to get Draco socializing again, since leaving school, all he had really seen was her and the people who were involved in the case.
"I am glad you brought him here Ginny" Molly said, ripping Ginny from her thoughts. Smiling at her mother, Ginny moved to help peel the vegetables.
"I just thought it would be nice for him to talk to some people other than me, and to eat something other than that slop he feeds himself" Ginny said. Molly laughed.
"Well, I am glad, your father and I were wondering when you would bring him home to met us" Molly smiled.
"I just hope that the boys can be civilized towards him, I mean, Bill and Charlie don't really know him, but the others really never got along with Draco so, they might take this a little harder" Ginny replied.
"Don't you worry Gin, if the boys try something, there will be hell to pay" Molly smiled, scrubbing the potatoes under the water in the sink. Ginny looked from the food they were preparing, to her mother and then back to the food, an idea suddenly blooming in her head.
"Mum, could you do me a favor?" Ginny asked.
"Sure, anything" Molly replied. Ginny smiled, and moved to the door.
"Malfoy, Get your butt in here for a cooking lesson"
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"What is he doing here?" Ron growled across the table as they all sat down for dinner. The sun was setting slowly and the stars were beginning to show themselves. The tables had been set up in the back yard and now, all of the Weasley's, as well as Draco, were sitting around them, eyeing the large plates of food hungrily.
"I would have thought that to be obvious, he is here to eat." Charlie replied, helping the others by passing around plates.
"But why? Doesn't he have food at his house?" Ron groaned.
"Ron, shut up and eat" Ginny smiled, shoving a bread roll into his half open mouth. Ron choked slightly on the bread before chewing and swallowing. Ron ate his meal, glaring at Draco from across the table as he got along with the other boys. It seemed that all the others in the family were very much acceptant of Draco.
Ron's hesitance fell, however, when Bill and Charlie turned the topic of conversation to quidditch. Draco and Ron soon started a very animated friendly argument about the season's successes, or lack of successes of the cannons. Ginny smiled, sensing that sooner or later, a friendship would form between them.
When dinner was finished, the children retreated to the kitchen to do the washing up, giving Molly and Arthur a break. Ginny sat at the table, and watched as Percy began to boss people around. With in minutes, Charlie and Draco were at the sink, preparing to wash, Fred and George were armed with tea towels (which they were whipping each other with) and Ron and Bill stood to the side, getting ready to put things away in the right places.
"Why haven't you got a job" Fred exclaimed, pointing at Percy.
"I am making sure you all stay organized and motivated" Percy replied, but he was suddenly being attacked by tea towels.
"So, Draco, How is the case going?" Charlie asked softly while every one in the room had their attention on attacking Percy. "I hope you don't mind that Gin told me"
"No, I don't mind, I guess people are going to be finding out sooner or later" Draco replied.
"So, how is the case going?" Charlie asked again.
"At the moment, it is not. Lucius interfered with it all, they may dismiss it completely from court" Draco replied.
"I hope you don't mind me saying that I have always hated your father" Charlie replied, Draco grinned.
"Join the club. I don't really like him either" Draco smiled.
"Listen, Malfoy, I know that our families have kind of clashed over the years, but you are in alright guy" Charlie began "Gin likes you, maybe she shouldn't under the given circumstances, but we have always trusted Gin's judgment and decisions, so, I want you to know that if you ever need help with anything, like if you need me to set a dragon on your father or something, all you have to do is ask."
Draco smiled as he looked down at the hand Charlie was offering him. He shook it strongly.
"Thanks, that means a lot to me" Draco smiled. From across the room, Ginny watched as Draco and Charlie shook hands. She stood, walked around her brothers (Who now had Percy pinned to the floor and were shoving the Tea towels into his mouth) and over to where Draco and Charlie were standing.
"I never thought I would see the day that one of my brothers would offer the hand of friendship to a Malfoy" Ginny smiled. Charlie laughed and hugged his little sister. Ginny hugged back, but smiled at Draco. He was smiling to.
"Charlie, can you cover for me and Draco?" Ginny asked, smiling up at her big brother, he nodded. Ginny pulled away from Charlie and took Draco's hand, leading him into the back yard.
The door closed behind them, but they could still hear Charlie yelling at the others to get back to work. Draco smiled as the moved out onto the back grass and looked up at the stars.
"Do you think your family would mind if I was to bring Kayla here?" Draco asked, sitting on the fresh grass. Ginny smiled and sat beside him.
"They won't mind. In fact, they will love it. I know they don't look like it, but they are a big bunch of softies when it comes to babies" Ginny replied.
"Lucky little girl is going to have a lot of family" Draco smiled. "If I ever get her back.."
Ginny threw her arms around his neck "You will get her back."
"Always an optimist" Draco murmured. Ginny laughed.
"One of us has to be" Ginny replied, pulling away from him and sitting back a little bit.
"What if what Lucius said is true, what if my daughter does grow to hate me?" Draco whispered. Ginny shook her head.
"That will never happen, he only said that because he is a heartless bastard" Ginny replied, stretching out on the grass. Draco turned to look down at her.
"And I am sorry about some of the other things he said about you, I mean, everything he insinuated about our relationship" Draco said softly.
"It doesn't matter, let every one think what they want to think about us" Ginny told him. "We know the truth, and my family knows the truth, and Mr. Weston knows the truth, but other than that, who really cares what people think"
"You are so much stronger than me, you know that Gin" he smiled, leaning back onto the grass.
"I feel another 'thank you so much, I am eternally grateful' speech coming on" Ginny joked.
"You know me to well" he smiled, and then looked at his watch. "I should be heading home, it is getting late"
"You don't have to go if you don't want to, if you wanted to stay, I am sure one of the boys wouldn't mind sharing their room with you, or there is a perfectly comfortable lounge in the living room" Ginny suggested. Draco smiled.
"You don't think your parents would mind?" Draco asked.
"No, not at all, come on, let's go ask"
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This is the new chapter, I hope that you enjoy it, because I enjoyed writing it, and this one is a little longer because I just could not stop typing.
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"Wait, Mr. Weston, sir. You see, the man I stole that money off of was my father! And well, I was leaving and I had not started my job yet, so I really needed the money ...." Draco began to explain, Mr. Weston, his eyes still sad, held up his hand, silencing Draco.
"Draco, as a Malfoy, you should know by now that it is never a good idea to cross Lucius. He has made an official complaint about this, that is why we have to dismiss your case, I am sorry" Mr. Weston explained. Draco looked as though he was about to cry as he leant forward and rested his head in his hands.
"Wait, Mr. Weston, what if we can get Draco's father to lift the charges, can the case then go on?" Ginny asked, standing from her spot beside Draco. Draco pulled his head out of his hand and looked up at her as though she was crazy.
"That will never happen Gin, Lucius would never take it back" he sighed.
"How do you know, we have not even tried to convince him yet" Ginny replied.
"Miss Weasley, if you can make Lucius Malfoy take back the charges he has laid on his son, not only will I let you continue with the case, I will give you a 10 000 galleon cash bonus!" Mr. Weston replied. Ginny grabbed Draco by the upper arm, and pulled him out of his seat.
"Thank you sir, you will be hearing from us again soon" Ginny smiled over her shoulder. She continued to drag Draco out of the room.
"Come on Malfoy; let's go find your father"
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"You don't seem to understand Gin, he will not even meet with us, let alone listen to what we have to say, and there is no way he will take it all back. He told me before I left the house that I would never get my daughter back. He had been planning this all along, damn him!!" Draco ranted.
"Pull yourself together Malfoy; do you want you daughter back or not?" She stopped walking and shot Draco a dark look.
"Yes, of course I do! You know that there is nothing more in the world that I want" he exclaimed.
"Then snap out of it, grow some balls, and get in there and tear shreds off of that ugly excuse for a father." Ginny told him. Draco couldn't help but laugh.
"Sure you don't want to go in there and rip shreds off of him for me?" he asked, Ginny shook her head and pushed him towards the door of his father's office.
The door creaked open, and Draco entered the outer office where his father's secretary was filing her nails.
"I need to see my father" Draco stated clearly, the secretary looked up from her nails and then realizing that it was nothing interesting, went back to her nails.
"Mr. Malfoy has gone home to spend the afternoon with his wife, it seems that the report he filed this morning stopped the closure of a deal which he was against to begin with" The secretary replied, Draco thanked her quickly, and then returned to the hallway where Ginny was waiting.
"We have to go to Malfoy Manor"
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"How dare you!" Draco yelled as he walked into the large dining room at Malfoy manor. Lucius looked up from the papers in front of him, smiling sadistically at his son "How dare you do that to me"
"How dare I? How dare you steal money from me." Lucius began, then stopped when his eyes fell on Ginny. "And how dare you bring that into my house!"
Draco ignored his fathers comment about Ginny. "Why did you do it dad? Why, it was not like you needed the money!"
"It was the principal of the matter" Lucius replied dismissively. "You really thought that I would let you steal my money to support your half blooded abomination and that Weasley whore that you are so fond of?"
Ginny and Draco turned bright red in anger.
"Kayla is not an abomination!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Ginny is not a whore" Draco yelled, Lucius just seemed amused at their replies.
"What a happy little family you lot will make, all you need is custody of your daughter and sweet little puppy dog, and you will be the personification of an average wizarding family."
"And you are just going to make sure that that never happens aren't you, why do you have this sick satisfaction if breaking my sprits like this?" Draco asked.
"I am no breaking your sprits son, I am making you stronger, soon you will fall out of this magical little realm that people call love and you will come to realize the error of your ways, you will see that I was right all along, that being a Malfoy and mixing with half bloods and muggles will be your downfall. Don't you see, your daughter, your girlfriend over there, they are holding you back from your true potential" Lucius lectured, Draco rolled his eyes slightly.
"My true potential as what?" Draco asked.
"You think that with the dark lord gone, there is not dark magic in the world?" Lucius began, Draco took a step back from his father.
"I can't believe you, as if I would join you and all of your little death eater friends in your practices of the dark arts, I have too much to live for!"
"You have nothing to live for" Lucius bellowed. "You will never know what it feels like to hug your daughter Draco, they will never let you have her, never, no matter what you tell them, no matter what you say...."
"We were winning our case. We will win our case" Draco replied defiantly, Lucius laughed at him.
"You will never win anything as long as I am there to sabotage it" Lucius threatened.
"You asshole!" Draco growled. He looked like he was set to murder his father, So Ginny took a step up behind him, and placed her hand on Draco's shoulder, calming him.
"And do you think that even if you did get your daughter back, everything would be just fine and dandy. Bringing up children is a full time job..." Lucius began
"What would you know, you never helped once in raising me, it was all mother, and the selected nannies that you hired" Draco replied.
Lucius ignored his son's statement "How do you think that you daughter will feel, growing up knowing that she was a child of sin..."
"My daughter is not a sin!"
"She will rebel against you Draco, she will turn on you and she will hate you forever" Lucius added.
"Then it will run in the family, because you have no idea how much I hate you now!" Draco growled, balling his hands into fists. Lucius smirked.
"And do you really think this little one will stick by your side through thick and thin?" Lucius asked, taking a step towards Ginny, paralyzed with fear, Ginny just stood still.
"You expect to raise this child together?" He began, stroking his finger down Ginny's cheek, that time she did pull away from him. "One big happy family. That little girl will grow to hate you to, Miss Weasley, she will resent you for replacing her mother, not only in her heart, but in the heart of her father"
"You do not know that will happen" Ginny mumbled.
"What, you believe that she will grow to love you. That Kayla's little family will be just like your precious family. Where you hug and kiss your parents before bed, you playfully tease your brothers, and no one minds that you live in a house that is held together by bird shit, because all you really need to survive is love?"
Ginny took a deep breath, determined not to let what Lucius said about her family get her down.
"I pity you Mr. Malfoy" Ginny began, Lucius' eyes bugged out of his head as he laughed.
"You, a Weasley, pity me?" he smirked.
"Yes, I do" Ginny replied calmly. "Have you ever loved anything in your whole life?"
"Loving something makes you weak"
"Loving something makes you human. And being loved makes you human to. You want to know what I think sir, what I really think? I think that you are jealous of your son" Ginny replied.
"Jealous? Me, Jealous of him"
"You are jealous, because he has loved so much more than you have, and he has been loved by many others. And he will continue to be loved, by his daughter and by me, for as long as he lives. Whereas you, no body loves you, I am not even sure that you wife loves you, I know for a fact that your son never did."
"Why would I care about love, love is an empty, hollow sentiment" Lucius replied.
"Then why are you trying to stop your son from loving and being loved? You realized that love is so much stronger than anything that you could ever offer any one." Ginny replied "You realized that some times, all you need is love. And you are jealous "
"That is stupid" he replied, some what nervously.
"I don't think it is stupid, why else would you being trying to break the case, you are not loved, and you don't want your son to be loved either." Ginny replied. "You are thinking of no ones best interests but your own"
"Love has nothing to do with this. This is all about betrayal." Lucius replied. Draco smirked and ran his hands quickly though his hair.
"You have always been melodramatic, haven't you father. This has nothing to do with betrayal, and everything to do with the fact that you are selfish, and you don't want to live in this world of self pity alone, you want me to share it with you, you want me to be miserable, because you don't want to face it all alone" He accused.
"I do not, I could care less what you do" Lucius replied hotly.
"Then why did you stop the case!" He exclaimed.
Lucius did not reply.
"Retract your complaint about me, pull a few strings and get my case back in court, and then, when I have my daughter, you will never have to see me, or Ginny, or my daughter again"
"What of my money?" he asked.
"You don't give a flying fuck about the money, and you damn well know it" Draco exclaimed.
"The point is, you stole from me" Lucius replied.
"Get my case running again, and I will pay you back" Draco replied seriously.
"You truly do want this child of yours, don't you, you take no heed to my warnings and you continue to fight for her." Lucius sighed "You know that you will continue to fight for her for the rest of your life."
"Does that mean that you will allow the case to go forward?" Draco asked.
"That means that if you leave this house now, I will seriously consider it. Now get out of my sight" Lucius replied, taking his seat at the table again. Draco turned to the door, and together, he and Ginny left the dining room.
"At least he is considering it" Ginny said softly as they walked through the hall to Draco's old room where they were going to floo back to his house. As soon as the door shut behind him, Draco pulled Ginny into his arms, holding her tight.
"Thank you for helping me with him" He whispered, Ginny smiled and snaked her arm up to his head, where her fingers ran through his hair.
"He is a jerk, just forget about him" Ginny mumbled.
"I can't forget about him, he is in there making the biggest decision of all of our lives. He is the type of person who would make matters worse, just to spite me" He told her. Ginny nodded. "So, are you going to come home with me? I will try and cook dinner for us"
"Well, I was wondering if you would allow me to take you some where" Ginny replied, stepping out of Draco's embrace. Draco looked at her oddly, but then smiled and nodded. Ginny grinned, and pulled Draco into the fireplace with her, dropping her handful of floo powder at her feet, she clearly stated...
"The burrow"
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"Well, my dad was right about on thing, this place is held together by bird shit" Draco joked as he picked himself up off of the living room floor of the Burrow. He then yelped in pain when Ginny hit him hard on the chest "I was kidding, I was kidding,"
Draco took a few minutes to look around the small house. He had heard many descriptions of this house over the years, but every time that he tried to picture it, it never turns out looking like this.
"Nine people really live here?" Draco asked as he looked at a picture of the Weasleys. Draco recognize most people in the picture, He obviously knew Ron, Percy, Ginny and the twins by looks, and he barely remembered the two older brothers from when he had gone to the quidditch world cup in his forth year and the Weasleys had sat in front of him. Ginny moved up beside him and took the picture out of his hand.
"Some times nine, Bill lives in Egypt and Charlie lives in Romania, Fred and George moved out last year and got a places of their own closer to their joke shops, Percy still lives here but he is looking for some where quieter, Ron will be moving to Kent soon, and then it will just be my parents and little old me here" She explained, pointing out each person as she spoke about them "But lucky you, everyone seems to be hanging out here these holidays"
Draco groaned. Ginny ignored it.
"Speaking of which, I wonder where everyone is" Ginny sighed, moving through the house to the kitchen, Draco followed, his eyes wide with wonder.
"This place is really cool" Draco smiled as he looked around.
"Really?"
"Really, you can really feel the love in this house. Unlike the manor where everything is dull grey and black. We have no family photographs in our house, but these stupid big tapestries with old people on them." Draco smiled. Ginny laughed.
A small pop startled them out of their conversation. Both of them looked to see Molly Weasley standing in the middle of the kitchen, a like of shrunken packages in her arms.
"Hello kids" She smiled, dropped her things onto the table, and then went about returning his all of the packages to their normal sizes.
"Hello Mrs. Weasley" Draco smiled. Molly looked up and smiled also.
"Are you staying for dinner Draco, Dear" Was all Molly said. Draco grinned and nodded.
"Yes, thank you"
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Ginny stood in the doorway of the kitchen and watched as Bill, Charlie and Draco set up the tables in the back yard. She was very glad that at least those two brothers had accepted him and were treating him civilly.
She knew that it was risky bringing Draco to her home for the evening, but she knew that this would stop the questions that every one kept asking her. Plus, she thought it would be good to get Draco socializing again, since leaving school, all he had really seen was her and the people who were involved in the case.
"I am glad you brought him here Ginny" Molly said, ripping Ginny from her thoughts. Smiling at her mother, Ginny moved to help peel the vegetables.
"I just thought it would be nice for him to talk to some people other than me, and to eat something other than that slop he feeds himself" Ginny said. Molly laughed.
"Well, I am glad, your father and I were wondering when you would bring him home to met us" Molly smiled.
"I just hope that the boys can be civilized towards him, I mean, Bill and Charlie don't really know him, but the others really never got along with Draco so, they might take this a little harder" Ginny replied.
"Don't you worry Gin, if the boys try something, there will be hell to pay" Molly smiled, scrubbing the potatoes under the water in the sink. Ginny looked from the food they were preparing, to her mother and then back to the food, an idea suddenly blooming in her head.
"Mum, could you do me a favor?" Ginny asked.
"Sure, anything" Molly replied. Ginny smiled, and moved to the door.
"Malfoy, Get your butt in here for a cooking lesson"
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"What is he doing here?" Ron growled across the table as they all sat down for dinner. The sun was setting slowly and the stars were beginning to show themselves. The tables had been set up in the back yard and now, all of the Weasley's, as well as Draco, were sitting around them, eyeing the large plates of food hungrily.
"I would have thought that to be obvious, he is here to eat." Charlie replied, helping the others by passing around plates.
"But why? Doesn't he have food at his house?" Ron groaned.
"Ron, shut up and eat" Ginny smiled, shoving a bread roll into his half open mouth. Ron choked slightly on the bread before chewing and swallowing. Ron ate his meal, glaring at Draco from across the table as he got along with the other boys. It seemed that all the others in the family were very much acceptant of Draco.
Ron's hesitance fell, however, when Bill and Charlie turned the topic of conversation to quidditch. Draco and Ron soon started a very animated friendly argument about the season's successes, or lack of successes of the cannons. Ginny smiled, sensing that sooner or later, a friendship would form between them.
When dinner was finished, the children retreated to the kitchen to do the washing up, giving Molly and Arthur a break. Ginny sat at the table, and watched as Percy began to boss people around. With in minutes, Charlie and Draco were at the sink, preparing to wash, Fred and George were armed with tea towels (which they were whipping each other with) and Ron and Bill stood to the side, getting ready to put things away in the right places.
"Why haven't you got a job" Fred exclaimed, pointing at Percy.
"I am making sure you all stay organized and motivated" Percy replied, but he was suddenly being attacked by tea towels.
"So, Draco, How is the case going?" Charlie asked softly while every one in the room had their attention on attacking Percy. "I hope you don't mind that Gin told me"
"No, I don't mind, I guess people are going to be finding out sooner or later" Draco replied.
"So, how is the case going?" Charlie asked again.
"At the moment, it is not. Lucius interfered with it all, they may dismiss it completely from court" Draco replied.
"I hope you don't mind me saying that I have always hated your father" Charlie replied, Draco grinned.
"Join the club. I don't really like him either" Draco smiled.
"Listen, Malfoy, I know that our families have kind of clashed over the years, but you are in alright guy" Charlie began "Gin likes you, maybe she shouldn't under the given circumstances, but we have always trusted Gin's judgment and decisions, so, I want you to know that if you ever need help with anything, like if you need me to set a dragon on your father or something, all you have to do is ask."
Draco smiled as he looked down at the hand Charlie was offering him. He shook it strongly.
"Thanks, that means a lot to me" Draco smiled. From across the room, Ginny watched as Draco and Charlie shook hands. She stood, walked around her brothers (Who now had Percy pinned to the floor and were shoving the Tea towels into his mouth) and over to where Draco and Charlie were standing.
"I never thought I would see the day that one of my brothers would offer the hand of friendship to a Malfoy" Ginny smiled. Charlie laughed and hugged his little sister. Ginny hugged back, but smiled at Draco. He was smiling to.
"Charlie, can you cover for me and Draco?" Ginny asked, smiling up at her big brother, he nodded. Ginny pulled away from Charlie and took Draco's hand, leading him into the back yard.
The door closed behind them, but they could still hear Charlie yelling at the others to get back to work. Draco smiled as the moved out onto the back grass and looked up at the stars.
"Do you think your family would mind if I was to bring Kayla here?" Draco asked, sitting on the fresh grass. Ginny smiled and sat beside him.
"They won't mind. In fact, they will love it. I know they don't look like it, but they are a big bunch of softies when it comes to babies" Ginny replied.
"Lucky little girl is going to have a lot of family" Draco smiled. "If I ever get her back.."
Ginny threw her arms around his neck "You will get her back."
"Always an optimist" Draco murmured. Ginny laughed.
"One of us has to be" Ginny replied, pulling away from him and sitting back a little bit.
"What if what Lucius said is true, what if my daughter does grow to hate me?" Draco whispered. Ginny shook her head.
"That will never happen, he only said that because he is a heartless bastard" Ginny replied, stretching out on the grass. Draco turned to look down at her.
"And I am sorry about some of the other things he said about you, I mean, everything he insinuated about our relationship" Draco said softly.
"It doesn't matter, let every one think what they want to think about us" Ginny told him. "We know the truth, and my family knows the truth, and Mr. Weston knows the truth, but other than that, who really cares what people think"
"You are so much stronger than me, you know that Gin" he smiled, leaning back onto the grass.
"I feel another 'thank you so much, I am eternally grateful' speech coming on" Ginny joked.
"You know me to well" he smiled, and then looked at his watch. "I should be heading home, it is getting late"
"You don't have to go if you don't want to, if you wanted to stay, I am sure one of the boys wouldn't mind sharing their room with you, or there is a perfectly comfortable lounge in the living room" Ginny suggested. Draco smiled.
"You don't think your parents would mind?" Draco asked.
"No, not at all, come on, let's go ask"
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