Ahhhh.... It's good to be able to enjoy weekends! Ya ya, I'll get to writing now, I know you can't wait to find out what happened. *Grins* Here's a little reminder of what happened last time...

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She hesitated at the door; she had never intruded as far on his privacy as to go into his room. Hearing muffled noises from underneath the door she flung it open, only to be grasped by a pair of strong hard hands and dragged towards the open window...

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I'm really sorry I haven't written in a long time, I've been busy with school and volleyball and babysitting and trying to get a job and shoveling snow. Yeah we just got three and a half FEET of snow, that's like a record or something so yeah...

Ok ok, I'll stop stalling,

Chappy Five is finally here

The Dark Side of the Moon

Chapter five

Summary: When followers of the dark lord someone unexpected takes her into the family kill Ginny's family. Will she and Draco ever get along as friends, or more? And what the heck is the dark market? What role will Blaise play? And most importantly, will they ever be able to stay out of trouble?

Disclaimer: I disclaim. End of comment.

Ginny was struggling to no avail against her captor. She knew that if she didn't escape his grasp soon, she would be dragged out the window to who knows where. She heard a sickening thud followed by the hands grasping her waist loosening. Her captor dropped her in a heap in the middle of the floor and ran for the open window. The dark shadow escaped followed closely by a second dark shadow.

After catching her breath she stood up slowly, holding onto Draco's bedpost for support. She was just beginning to wonder about what had just happened when one of the dark forms slipped silently into the room again. Ginny squealed with surprise and fell to the floor again in a dead faint.

"Shit!" the dark form exclaimed and ran over to where Ginny had collapsed. "Damn it! SHE wasn't supposed to still be here!" Draco nervously bent down to lean over Ginny.

"Weasley....," He tried softly to no avail, "...Ginny...," he tried even more tentatively. But she could not be woken, it appeared she had just drifted back to sleep and was now muttering about some difficult potion. After shaking her gently but not succeeding in waking her, Draco dragged her up onto the bed to worn out to do anything more. He then dragged himself over to a chair and curled up to sleep off what was left of the night.

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Draco was crouched by his bed double checking the lock on a small box. The box was plain and wooden; one might wonder what would be hidden in such a box that would require the lock to be double-checked. Non-the-less Draco made sure it was securely locked before climbing into bed for the night. He had overlooked the fact that his window was open slightly, or so an observer would think.

A figure cloaked in black by the night shadows quietly stole into the room. The shadow stole over to the bed where it knelt down and retrieved the box from under the bed. Draco, who had watched these proceedings from underneath half lidded eyes suddenly sprang up and pounced onto the shadow causing it to grunt under his added weight. The two began to wrestle for the box when the door suddenly burst open.

Draco looked up to see Ginny standing there in her white nightgown and took the distraction as opportunity to seize the box when he realized all to late that the dark form was busy dragging Ginny to the window. Not thinking about what he was doing, Draco lifted the box over the other man's head and brought it down with a sickening thud. He released Ginny and fled to the window. Draco snapped back to reality and followed the dark form.

Draco ran across the roof that was under his window and slipped over the edge dropping lightly to his feet on the next roof level.

"Shit Draco! What was that for? That bloody hurt. I was only getting her out of the way, what was I supposed to do when she just showed up like that?"

"Sorry Blaise, instinct took over I guess. I didn't know SHE was going to burst in like that, SHE wasn't supposed to you know." Draco replied casually.

"Yeah, it's ok I guess. Damn she's gonna want the whole story you know, she saw enough to be curious."

"Well we better start concocting a plausible story."

"Draco, she'll never accept anything but the truth and you know it. I'll come over in the morning to help you explain, leave the window open." Blaise said as he turned to go, "and Draco, you better pull yourself together, you don't want to make it to obvious." At this Blaise grinned and raised his eyebrows before picking up his broom and speeding off into the night.

"It's not my fault my body doesn't listen to me when I think about her... if she has any sense she'll be back in her own room by now...." Draco mumbled as he started climbing back to his window.

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Draco woke up early as was his custom and began to stretch out the kinks in his muscles that came from sleeping in a chair all night. He walked over to the bed where he gazed down at Ginny for a moment. She looked like a little kid when she was sleeping. Her face was relaxed and held a small grin as though she was sharing a secret with a friend. *Damn* he thought *she's so innocent and sweet looking, why'd she have to end up here? * His hand reached down as if on its own to gently stroke her cheek.

Behind him someone cleared his throat and he spun around quickly.

"You might want to work on that self-control." Blaise said not even trying to hide his grin.

"Just like you do around Ashley?" Draco teased him.

Blaise's eyes hardened slightly and he rushed at Draco tackling him to the ground. "Shut up about that, Ginny might wake up and hear you!"

"Well, I wouldn't be awake if you two hadn't decided to have a wrestling match in the middle of the floor. And now that I am awake would you both mind telling me just what you are doing and Draco what the hell happened last night?" Ginny said startling them both. "If you're both going to sit there like guppies with your mouths open then I'm going to go take a shower and when I get back... I want to hear the entire story. Kapish?"

Ginny extracted herself from the bed and walked into Draco's bathroom. The boys soon heard water begin to run.

"How much of that do you think SHE was awake for?" Draco asked nervously.

"Calm down Draco, I didn't hear anything that was said before 'shut up about that, Ginny might wake up and hear you'" Ginny said poking her head out of the bathroom, "and would you be so kind as to toss me a pair of pants and a t-shirt, anything clean will do."

Draco quickly went to his closet and grabbed the articles of clothing she had requested and handed them to her through the half open door. He was surprised to find her clad only in a towel but was careful not to let his surprise show on his face. Ginny quickly shut the door after she received the clothes. Neither of the boys dared to speak until they heard her clear singing voice drift out of the bathroom.

"Well, looks like she's not as timid as would be expected, maybe we have a new partner." Blaise commented.

"Damn, she's gonna be trouble, that's for sure." Draco replied absently. He had determined to not show any feelings he might have for or because of her on his face again.

Ginny emerged from the bathroom wearing Draco's clothes, which were at least two sizes too big, and a towel wrapped around her head.

"I suggest you start explaining." She said getting straight down to business.

"Okay. Well you see for the past two years Draco and I have been doing some, we'll call it trading, in Hogsmeade. And, well, sometimes the people on the worse end of the deal don't take things too well so over the summer we have these 'practice sessions' and we prepare for possible attacks..." Blaise paused letting Draco pick up the story.

"You just walked in on one of our practices last night." Draco finished quickly trying to avoid Ginny's interested look.

"And what exactly do you 'trade', hmmm?" She inquired.

"I don't think you want to know that one." Draco replied coolly.

"Yes. I do." She responded dangerously.

"Fine, we 'trade' information and goods for the dark market*" (the dark market is like the black market except in the wizarding world, it's very dangerous to be involved in and it's members don't take highly to spies and people who know to much)

"Isn't that dangerous for you?" Ginny questioned.

"Yes, but it's well worth the risk, besides, our identities remain secure, no one knows we are involved. They only know that their contacts are Ali the rat and his partner Keelash the serpent. We're quite safe; we've spent years developing our identities." Blaise commented earning him a glare from Draco who hadn't wanted to give that much info to her. Blaise took no notice and continued, "Most of the towns people already think of Draco as the all seeing Dragon though, I'll admit he sure has a knack for knowing everything before anyone else. He can also see amazingly well in the dark and hear like a hawk as well. Hah! There's even a rumor going around that he turns into a dragon at night. Man, the town's people sure are gullible and superstitious!" Blaise seemed to find this extremely funny and began to laugh.

"It's a lot more dangerous than Blaise makes it out to be which is why you should stay out of it." Draco spoke up.

"Hell no! If you are going to be out there risking your necks then I most certainly have the right to as well!" Ginny huffed.

"Yeah well, with your red hair it wouldn't exactly be easy to disguise you so how about we'll keep you informed with what we are up to, ok? Is that good enough?" Draco asked.

"Well, I think you should at least try to disguise me and if that doesn't work then I suppose that will be good enough. As long as you two keep up your end of this, I'll refrain from telling anyone else about this."

"Deal." Draco and Blaise said at the same time. The three shook on it before getting to work on Ginny.

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Draco sent for a house elf to take a message to his mother.

Mother,

Blaise showed up for a visit this morning, he'll be staying for a few days if that's ok. He Ginny and I will be taking our meals in my room today. Ginny says she is sorry she'll have to decline your offer to go to Diagon alley today. Have fun if you go.

~Draco

"Won't she be suspicious with a note like that?" Ginny asked.

"Nah, Blaise comes over all the time without notice. And it's not that unusual for the three of us to spend some time getting to know each other better. Mother will be positively thrilled we are getting along again after last night." Draco replied with confidence.

Draco pulled a box out of one of the drawers of his dresser and opened it revealing all kinds of fake warts, face paint, fake scars and blood, hair dye, anything that could be used to turn a person into someone else was seemingly in the box.

His face showed no emotion as he began to work. He started by making Ginny's complexion darker and more rugged. He added a wart to the end of her nose at her insistence. *Merlin, this isn't going to work on such a lovely face* he thought. Blaise was watching these proceedings with a hint of a grin. Draco next tried to dye her reddish copper hair a dark brown. Needless to say it didn't work. This was the last thing Draco could do, he spun her around to face the mirror. The look on her face was too much for Blaise; he cracked up, as did Ginny.

Draco even had to rush to the sick and dump water over his head. Little did Ginny know that it was to keep him from scooping her up in his arms, wart and all, and snog her like mad.

"I guess I'll have to be content with just knowing what your plans are." Ginny said between hiccups, the result of all her laughing.

"Yeah, I'd say so" Blaise laughed.

Draco remained unreadable, only nodding in agreement.

"Oh come on Draco, don't you think this is the least bit funny?" Ginny asked rushing over to tickle his sides.

"Even you have to admit she looks ridiculous." Added Blaise.

"We should get that stuff off of you before mother comes up."

"Geez, what's up with him?" Ginny whispered conspiratorially to Blaise on her way past him into the bathroom. In the bathroom Ginny tried to wash off all of the face paint and hair dye. When she came back out Draco and Blaise pointed out that she had missed some and helped her get it off. This of course turned into a water fight between the three of them. Draco even cracked a smile before having to dump water on his head again at the sight of Ginny in a soaked t-shirt, his t-shirt at that!

Over the next few weeks Blaise came over nearly every other day until it was time for them to go back to school. Blaise's parents were busy on September 1st so he accompanied the Malfoys to platform 9 3/4. The three dragged their trunks onto the train and pushed them into an empty compartment before Ginny announced that she was going to see if she could find some of the other girls in her year.

"I'll be back before the train starts; I just want to catch up with them a little bit." She said before exiting their compartment.

"So what are you going to do about her?" Blaise asked.

"Who knows, probably the same thing I've done all summer, be vague and unemotional." Draco replied.

"Why can't you just tell her how you feel, I mean, it's not like you two are actually brother and sister. Things would be so much simpler if you did."

"Yeah right, she just lost her family for Merlin's sake! She just thinks of me as another brother and it'll never be anything more."

"Oh. Well, eventually things might get better."

Draco didn't answer; he was looking out the window seemingly lost in his own world.

"Well, since you seem kind of out of it, ah never mind you're not listening anyways. I'll be back later." Blaise said before leaving the compartment. He headed down the hall to the end of the train where he found some other friends from slytherin.

Draco was lost in thought, mostly about Ginny.

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Meanwhile in another compartment Ginny was talking happily with Hannah and Amanda Whitherton, twins that she had met last year and had started to befriend. They were both in Ravenclaw. Harry walked into the compartment and talked with them for a few minutes before asking if he could talk to Ginny alone for a moment. Hannah and Amanda said goodbye to Ginny and left to find some other people.

"Ginny," Harry began, "I heard about what happened. I'm really sorry, how are you holding up?"

"It's been rough but the Malfoys have really been great." She replied.

"That's right, I almost forgot you were living with them now. That's got to be absolute torture. Imagine, Malfoy's probably given you no end of teasing."

"Did you not just hear me say that they have been great?"

"Oh and Ginny I wanted to ask you something. Well, I've been thinking, and I think it would be easier for you to deal with all this if you had a boyfriend. So I've decided to tell you that we can go out now, it would be for the best. What do you think? Isn't it great?"

"You bastard! How can you say that? You have done nothing but ignore me for the past FOUR years!!! I may have had a crush on you for a while but you never even noticed I was there and now you think you can just say we are going out just like that?! Think again. And how dare you insult Draco and Narcissa!!! They have been so kind to me, and you never even wrote once when you found out! Go fuck yourself, I never want to hear you speak about what you don't know again!" Ginny stormed out of the compartment and ran back to the one she thought Draco and Blaise were in. Ginny waited until she got inside before breaking down completely.

Draco heard someone running up the hall and begin to open his compartment door. This noise had snapped him out of his trance or self-pity. The first thing he noticed was that Blaise was gone. He then turned his attention to the door. Ginny swept through the door with a determined look on her face. It wasn't until she had closed the door that she collapsed on the floor and began sobbing.

Without thinking Draco rushed over to her and scooped the crying girl onto his lap. He hugged her and whispered comforting words until she began to calm down. He was absently stroking her hair when she spoke.

"He's such a bastard! How can he say such things?"

"Who is he Ginny? What did he say?"

Ginny looked up to Draco's face and began sobbing again. Draco pulled her closer and she wrapped her arms around his neck and sobbed into his shoulder. They stayed like this until Blaise came back and upon seeing Ginny crying, sandwiched her between him and Draco hugging her as well.

"You guys are so great;" she choked out between sobs.

Eventually the boys got the whole story out of her. By this time Ginny had calmed down and was restraining the boys from rushing off to break Harry's neck. Well, Blaise was the only one trying to get out the door; Draco had just gotten dangerously silent. But by the time they got to Hogwarts they had all changed into their school clothes and were playing a muggle card game of ERF.

The three entered the Great Hall together and Blaise and Draco walked Ginny over to the Gryffindor table making sure she was seated with her housemates before heading over to the Slytherin table. Most of the sorting and feast was a blur to Ginny; she was eagerly waiting for it to be over. She, Draco, and Blaise had agreed to meet after the feast and let the others know both common room passwords so they could talk to each other whenever they wanted.

"Draco! Blaise! Over here," she called as they walked out of the Great Hall.

"Hey Ginny, we just got the password, it's 'slytherin pride'," can you meet us by the potions room tonight so we can show you where the common room is?" Blaise said.

"Sure and then afterwards we can go to the Gryffindor common room so you guys will know where it is. By the way the password is 'lemon pop-sickle'." Ginny said, "I'll see you guys later, I have to go unpack. Draco, we should sent a thank-you note to Narcissa for getting us our own rooms later."

"Yeah, ok we'll see you at ten by the potions class then." Draco said before starting off towards the dungeons.

A/N: O.K. I'm on a roll!!! I'm going to keep writing tonight but post this now so you guys won't think I forgot you. Again, I'm really sorry I kept you waiting so long. This is a longer chapter to make up for it. Also in the future I'm not going to post on a regular basis. Sometimes I'll post every day or every week and at other times it'll take longer so bear with me please. Don't forget to review. And much thanks to all those who reviewed the other chapters.