"You know Malfoy, you're not that bad with kids."

When no one was looking he would play peek-a-boo with Chelsea, or make her laugh with funny faces. At the moment she was busy trying to reach the diamond stud earring in his ear, it sparkled and looked extremely pretty (…or edible…) to a baby.

"No, you can't have that." He tickled the little girl "Granger, I think she wants my earring…or my ear which ever she gets to first I guess."

"You have an earring?!"

"Yeah." Draco was still distracted by this amazing child. She was very intelligent for a drooling, babbling Weasley…hmmm, reminded him of some one else he knew, at least the drooling and babbling part.

Ron walked out of the house. 'Speak of the devil…' Draco smirked.

But turned to Hermione before he would, no doubt, start to laugh. "I've had it for a while…since my 6th year."

She looked at his earring and wondered how she could have missed it before. She probably couldn't pay for a rock like that with all her paychecks that she's gotten, and will get, combined. But instead of oooing and awwwing, she simply said.

"Gee, Malfoy, I hope you don't go swimming you might bloody well sink to the bottom."

He knew it was an insult but couldn't resist, "Why Hermione, I didn't know you cared…"

Her only response was to mutter "Oh, shut it you git."




*




"You don't believe me do you Ronald? You don't believe a goddamn thing I say." The last bit definitely wasn't a question.

"I…just…maybe you were mistaken…or got things the wrong way…" Ron trailed off at the look on her sisters face. It wasn't angry any more, no, it looked almost as if all her anger had drained away.

She mostly gave the impression of being…disappointed. But in him or her self?

"Get out." She said quietly.

"What? Gin come on, I know Harry didn't mean-"

"I said get the fuck out, now."

He didn't need to be told twice. He promptly turned around and left his little sister to her self. He could have sworn he heard crying through the door…but right now he had to think about other things. Like why she's acting the way she is! Why would she just blame Harry like that, /and/ Hermione. It didn't make any sense.

Reaching the bottom of the stairs he trudged his way outside, not even pretending everything was ok. He was so confused (A/N: seems to be the natural state of Ron…) and he had no clue what to do about it all. He should talk to Harry about it. That always set him straight.




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Ginny laid on her bed curled up into a little ball. She didn't need this, she was supposed to be happy today. James gets to spend time with the whole family and so she should have also. She hadn't seen every one in quite some time, well, not all together like things used to be…to be before…

She started sobbing again.




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Ron had wandered out of the house a while ago, but Draco had yet to see Ginny. He scanned the entire yard, then winced, too much red. Turning to Hermione he asked, "Hey, did you see Ginny come out of the house yet? Ron's over there, but no sign of her."

Hermione looked around just as he had, "I…don't know…it doesn't look like she's out here. Do you want me to go inside and check?" She was about to hand him Chelsea, but he waved his hand.

"No I'll do it, it'll only take a second."

"Alright then." As soon as Draco got up Chelsea started crying and struggling against Hermione. Draco turned around to see what was going on, and it amused him to no end.

Finally one swift kick, only with the accuracy a child could give, to the stomach and Hermione let go. Chelsea, doing a combination of toddling and crawled, went to Draco. He picked her up while looking at Hermione.

He gave her a smirk, "Well…guess who she likes /better/." That comment could only have been more childish if he'd have stuck his tongue out at her.

Hermione was holding her stomach looking at the 'innocent' little girl. "Well, you can /have/ her now for all I care."

Draco laughed and turned around to go into the house.



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"Giiiiiiiiinyyyyyyyy" Draco called through out the house. Every time he did Chelsea thought it was the funniest thing, and she'd giggle.

"Come on Chels, we have to find Virginia."

On his way through a back room he ran into Bill. "Daddy! Daddy!" Draco handed her over to her father.

"Hi sweet heart, you have fun with the evil Slytherin?"

Draco sighed, "It's to late Bill I've already corrupted her."

Bill laughed "Uh huh, well Hermione told me where I could find you, I thought you might want me to take her off your hands."

"Yeah, thanks. Have you seen Ginny around lately? I've been looking for her."

"…Nooo…I don't think so. I thought she was helping mum out with something. Have you checked in her room?"

"Actually, I never thought to look there. Thanks." Draco turned around to go upstairs.

"No problem. Oh and Draco?"

Draco looked back towards him, Chelsea was distracted by playing with his skull necklace.

Suddenly Bill seemed intimidating…"I don't know how you know where my sisters bedroom is…but if you do /anything/ to her, hurt her in any way…I will /find/ you and cause you unimaginable pain. And then I will owl my brothers and they will come and hurt you as well. And we have many more relatives…" then Bill gave a sudden smile, and said in a lighter tone of voice, "got it?"

Draco was actually kind of scared…

"Yeah, sure…I would never do anything to hurt Virginia, or James."

"Good." And with that said Bill walked outside to join the rest of the family, Chelsea waving and saying "Bye, bye" repeatedly. It was one of her new words.

Gin's family was seriously screwed up. They either A) try to over feed him home cooked foods (Molly) B) threaten his life (Her brothers, and a silent threats from Potter and her Father) and then there's category C) The ones who drool on things…how…interesting…

Draco wandered up the stairs silently thanking Lucius for the fact that he was an only child.

When he arrived at the appropriate door he knocked, "Virginia?"

No answer. But he thought he heard something.

He knocked again, "I'm opening the door, ok?"

The door swung open and he walked in. And he wasn't too happy with what he saw. Ginny was on her bed, curled up into a little ball, and shaking.

He went straight to her and held her, "Hey, Gin, what's wrong? Come on you can tell me…what's the matter? Why are you crying?"

She looked up at him with her red eyes, and was going to say something, but then she started to cry again.

"Oh!…It's just…everything…and I don't…know what…to do…no one believes me...not even my own family…" She desperately tried to explain everything between sobs, but it wasn't much help.

Draco just held her, rocking back and forth slightly.

"Was it Ron?" he asked gently.

She nodded into his chest.

Draco sighed, 'damn red headed idiot, I want to hurt him…'

"We don't have to stay you know." He whispered "We can leave any time you want to, I'll go get James while you get dressed and we can go out for some ice-cream. How does that sound…come on, how about a chocolate Sunday instead then?"

Ice-cream…her one weakness. She laughed a little bit, then sat up wiping her already puffy eyes.

"I think I would like that."

She moved to get up, but he didn't let go. Looking at him confused she asked, "What is it?"

"Gin…I know allot of things just aren't my business…but if you want to talk…" He just kind of trailed off. It's not as if he's done this sort of gesture before.

She smiled faintly, "How about you come over tomorrow night. You, James, and me can do something. I'll plan it all. And we can talk about this whole mess…I don't even think /I/ know the entire story...but I'll tell you what I do."

He kissed the top of her head, "Ok then."

Draco went down stairs to collect the Little Monster, while Ginny put on a pair of shorts and a white T-shirt.





Draco walked up to the table and got Harry's attention, "Hey, where's the munchkin?"

Harry suspiciously narrowed his eyes, "Why?"

Every one had their eyes glued on the two Men…this could be interesting…

"Turns out Ginny has decided not to stay here after all. I'm taking James and her out for ice-cream maybe a movie, she asked me to get him."

Harry looked like he was about to tell Malfoy to sod off, but as soon as James heard "ice-cream" he had magically appeared by Draco's side eager to go get his mum. Taking his hand, James pulled Draco away. Draco had a very smug look on his face, and made sure Harry saw it.





They hadn't actually left till about twenty minutes later, as she had to talk to her whole family (minus Harry and Ron) as they were disappointed that she was leaving. Making up an excuse was easy, and so were the charms that covered up he redness in her face, and her sore throat.

And finally they climbed into Draco's car and left. (A/N: I'm not good with car models and what not, so just think :fast: :blood red: :stereo system in seats: :expensive:…got it? Good.)

They'd decided to go out to diner at a local restaurant, and then get ice-cream in a nearby park. While James went to play on the swings Draco and Ginny made them selves comfortable on a park bench.

After a few minutes of comfortably conversation Gin decided that she would tell him everything right then instead of tomorrow…maybe things would make more sense to him. After all they were friends, and he's always understood her.

"Draco I wanted to talk to you about…"







(A/N): Problem with the story, what I need to do is sit down and piece together all my random writings and see what I can come up with. Unfortunately I haven't had the time. In all my other stories I've had confidence to put a publishing date up because the chapter was already written…but with this I'm not sure how to go about it. I'm working on it as fast as I can, so please check back later- web-site or profile, and see if I've up-dated or left a note.

Thanks for reading, and reviews are appreciated!

-Wind and Ashes