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Chapter Two: Kissing
"But professor, I don't want to! You can't make me spend a whole MONTH with that thing!" Draco practically yelled at the man standing in front of him.
"Mr. Malfoy, I'm sorry. I tried to get you out of it but professor McGonagall already talked to the Headmaster,"
"But this isn't fair. She's the one that hurt ME," he said, pointing at the large white thing that covered almost half of his face. Draco knew he was exaggerating but still, NO one hit a Malfoy and got away with it. Especially not female Weasley's.
"Draco, I don't think you're completely innocent. No matter how much I don't like saying this, Miss Weasley is a fairly good student and DOESN'T go around hitting people. You must have done SOMETHING,"
"Yes...but I'm not telling you what it was," Draco replied, almost feeling instead of remembering her freeze under his hands.
Snape raised an eyebrow. "All right, back to the subject of your detention tonight," Draco sighed at this. "You're going to go out on the grounds at 8:00, Hagrid has something you can help him with,"
"Oh, come on. Please don't tell me I have to go into the forest again," he said, remembering all to well that time in his first year. He had been as scared as hell and he certainly didn't want to go through that again.
"I don't know what you're going to do. Now I think that you should get off to your next class,"
"All right,"
Potions had just finished and Snape had held Draco back. But, if he wasn't careful he was going to be late for Transfiguration. He made his way to the classroom and took his seat.
Draco tried desperately to concentrate on turning his slug into a ferret (he scowled at this) then to a fish, and back to a slug again. But something or rather someone kept straying into his thoughts. A certain red headed someone. He managed to finish and stared down at the slug on his desk triumphantly.
That night he walked into dinner early. It was 1 and a half hours until his detention. He saw Ron and his friends come in. But, instead of going over to the Gryffindor table, they headed in his direction.
When they reached him he looked up and smirked.
"Ah, what can I do for the loser trio today?" he said.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Ron had his hands on his waist and was staring down at him.
"Well, I was TOLD I was Draco Malfoy, but I could be wrong. But I'm sure I'm not a Weasley. For one, I'm not poor. Two, I'm not p..."
"Don't give me your crap. You're lucky my sister isn't here. The only reason I didn't kick your ass yesterday was because she stopped me,"
Draco raised and eyebrow. "She stopped you did she? Well, I knew she had to give into the Malfoy charm eventually. Besides, what are you so worked up about?"
"You TOUCHED her!"
"I've touched lots of girls Weasley," he leaned over and pointed Ron hard in the ribs. "And you're now being added to the list,"
Ron's eyes flared and he stepped forward. Hermione reached out a hand and held him back.
"Come on, Ron. Don't start something," she said. Ron looked back at her and then to Draco.
"I'm not finished with you Malfoy," he said as he turned around and started heading off with Hermione and Harry. Draco called after them.
"It looks like you are Weasel!"
Ron scowled and stomped off. Draco slowly started to eat. He noticed Ginny walk in. He put his hand in his pocket to make sure the folded piece of parchment was still inside. When he was finished he got up and headed towards her. Making sure to catch Ron's eye. He held it for a second and stepped up next to Ginny, stopping briefly to drop and note in her lap and left.
*****
Ginny stared down at the piece of paper Draco had dropped. She looked up to see him leaving the Great Hall. Being as curious as she was, she ignored Ron's protest, picked up the letter and opened it. She could almost hear Draco's voice as she read.
Dear (it looked like he had crossed out 'Virginia' and 'Ginny') Weasley,
You don't know how hard it is for to say this but I'm sorry. I crossed the lines last night and, seeing as I have to spend the next month with you and don't want to get punched again, I apologize. But only for the sake of my face. I think we should at least try to be civil with each other until this is over and then I can go back to annoying you in peace. Though, I do think this is the ultimate payback to your brother, I don't want to do this. I'd rather kiss a blast-ended-skrewt then to spend time alone with you.
-Draco T. Malfoy
Well, what a pleasant letter, Ginny thought. It did sound like Malfoy though. She was just surprised that he had apologized, even if it didn't sound like he meant it.
The second she finished reading and was just refolding it, Ron jumped.
"What is it? What did he write?" he asked, grabbing the letter. He skimmed the first sentence, paused, and looked up.
"Did he just say he was sorry?" he asked, shocked. Ginny took back the parchment, not wanting him to read the rest.
"Yes he did," Ron still looked at her with his mouth slightly open.
"Ginny, don't trust Malfoy. You don't know him,"
"I DO know him, he's been picking on ME the last year," she said annoyed. "And who said I WAS going to trust him?"
Ron looked a tad bit taken aback.
"Well, I was just saying..."
"No, you weren't just saying, you were jumping to conclusions again,"
Ron sighed. "All right Gin, just be careful,"
She smiled. "I will," looking down at her watch she added, "I have to go, it's already 8. I'll see you guys later,"
She left the Great hall and went up to her dorm to retrieve an extra cloak. As she was walking through one of the halls she heard footsteps behind her and sped up, not wanting to encounter anyone.
"I see you're in a hurry to get out to the grounds, Virginia," a voice said. She turned around and saw Draco walking up to her. He had also brought and extra cloak and had it slung over his arm.
"If you're going to at least TRY to be civil, please call me Ginny," she said, as he reached her.
"All right...Ginny" he said slowly, as if itching to call her Virginia once again. They continued to walk down the hall. "So, you got my letter?"
Ginny snorted, "How could I not? You practically shoved it in my face. There wasn't an easier way to get it to me?"
"I would've sent it by owl but I wanted to annoy your brother. And you for that matter,"
"Well, it's sure working. Oh, and by the way, I'll make sure you get your little kiss," she said, trying to copy his signature smirk. He looked at her bewildered and then remembered.
"How?" he asked, his eyebrows raising on his forehead.
"Oh, you'll see," she paused and her mind went back to the latter. "So what does the 'T' in your name stand for?"
He looked down at her. "I said we were going to be 'civil' not 'friendly'. It doesn't matter to you,"
"Fine, be that way you stuck up prat," she said without thinking. Sometimes living with six brothers and speaking your mind all the time wasn't very good when it came to school.
"Tempest," he said, almost at the exact same time she started talking. "And if that's what you really think of me than I don't see the point of being civil,"
"Oh, well..." Ginny noticed what he had just said. "Tempest? What kind of name is Tempest?" she asked, laughing. Draco glared at her.
"It's Greek. Means 'stormy'" he said calmly. Ginny snorted again. She really needed to quite doing that..
"Who would ever use THAT in a sentence? It's very 'tempest' outside today..."
She heard something come from Draco and was sure he laughed slightly but thought better of it.
"Ah! 'ere you two are. I been waitin'," Ginny looked up. She hadn't even noticed that they were outside yet. Hagrid was waving over to them from his hut. Draco let out a puff of breath.
"Arg! I not only have to spend the night with you but they had to throw in that oversized baby too," he said with dislike. Ginny glanced at him angrily.
"Shut up, Malfoy," he held up a hand to stop her.
"If I have to call you by your name...you have to call me by mine,"
"Fine...Tempest," she said grinning. Draco glared at her and was about to say something when Hagrid interrupted him
"Today, I'm haven' yer 'elp me with catchin one of 'em blast-ended-skrewts that got loose. It's been wanderin' the grounds and is gonna become a danger to students. All yer have to do is go out an find 'im, bring 'im back in one piece, an yer done. Got that?"
Ginny looked over at Draco. His face had fallen the second Hagrid 'blast'. She was SO going to make him pay for always being so cruel to her and Ron.
"Got it, Hagrid! We'll have him back asap! When do you want us to leave?" Ginny asked. Hagrid scratched his bushy beard.
"Hmm.. I guess ya could leave now if ya like," he said.
"Okay. Come on Tempest," she started headed off to search the ground. Draco didn't fallow at first but soon she heard his hurried footsteps to catch up with her.
"Listen VIRGINIA, quite calling me Tempest. And why are you so nice to the guy?" he asked. She frowned at him.
"Because he's my friend you prick,"
They roamed the grounds for a bit. It had started to get dark so both Ginny and Draco pulled out their wands at the same time muttering 'Lumus'. The whole time Ginny was fighting the urge to punch him. But that wouldn't have done any good for it had got them here in the first place. What took her by some surprise was that Draco was sticking to his word of being civil most of the time. He even started talking to her a bit. And not to tease her or get on her nerves. To just talk. Though, he was getting on her nerves anyway because all he seemed to talk about was his money, his looks (Ginny found out that once he had a girl run up to him wanted to get a picture of her kissing him), and how much he hated the school. But, he had accidentally strayed to the topics of books and that's what they were talking about at the moment.
"My personal favorite was J.R.R. Tolkien. He was just so brilliant," she put in. He looked at her.
"Who's that?" he asked. Her mouth dropped slightly.
"You don't know who that was?!" he shook his head. "Wow. Well, he was this Muggle author who wrote a trilogy called Lord of the Rings. It has a lot to do with magic and fantasy and, well, lots of stuff. And some of his ideas about magic and different creatures were so close to the truth it was scary,"
"Oh...well, I don't read Muggle fiction. So I wouldn't know... what was that?" he asked suddenly. Ginny was just about to ask that herself. The bush they were passing started shacking. They both backed away from it.
"What is it?"
"I dunno. Stay here," he said, slowly walking forwarded. He got to the bush and peered through the leaves then motioned for her to join him.
"It's the skrewt," he did something with his wand and the skrewt scuttle out of the bush. Ginny looked down at it.
"What do you think we should do? Stun it?" Draco asked, holding out his wand. Ginny shook her head.
"No. You can't, you have something to do first," he put his hands on his hips.
"And what would that be?"
"Kiss it," she confirmed. His jaw dropped.
"What?! There is no way in hell, Weasley...Ginny, that you're going to get me to kiss that!"
She looked at him. Well, he was acting like a baby, it was just a kiss.
"You said you'd, and I quote, "rather kiss a blast-ended skrewt than spend time alone with me". Now you have to prove it," she said.
"That's not very fair. You know I was just joking,"
"It didn't seem like it. And besides, if you don't, I'm going to tell my brother you touched me again..." she added, and was happy with the tiny look of fear that came to his face.
"No! Don't do that!" he pause and looked down at the skrewt in disgust. "Fine. But only to show you that a Malfoy is no coward. We'd do anything,"
He took a deep breath and bent down to retrieve the animal. He winced as he picked it up. It was fairly big. Probably about 5 feet or so. It started to wiggle. He glanced over at Ginny who nodded her head for him to continue. He gulped and leaned in to kiss it. And, as luck would have it, the second his lips touched it, its rear-end exploded with a load 'pop'. Leaving Draco furious and charred. Ginny burst out with laughter. Draco's eyebrows met each other in the middle of his black forehead.
"What did it do? What do I look like?" he asked frantically. Ginny turned her eyes to him. His hair was sticking up a little and it wasn't blond and more but a dirty shade of brown. And almost his whole face was black from the small explosion. But, Ginny couldn't say any of this for she was still laughing. Laughing so loud in fact that Hagrid, who was on the other side of the grounds AND castle, could hear her.
A/N!: HA! Did I trick any of you with the chapter title! Did any one think that they would kiss? Jeeze, I'm not going to make them kiss in the SECOND chapter. Anywayz.. Okay, okay! The whole 'Tempest' thing was just me experimenting with different middle names for him. I went looking at baby name sites and thought this one sounded a little cool. I was trying to find a Latin one but I found this one first. I was going to try Braeu, which means 'handsome' (lol) in I think Greek or something. But Draco B. Malfoy didn't seem to fit. If anyone thinks it's dumb just tell me and I MIGHT change it. Give me a suggestion if you like.
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Chapter Two: Kissing
"But professor, I don't want to! You can't make me spend a whole MONTH with that thing!" Draco practically yelled at the man standing in front of him.
"Mr. Malfoy, I'm sorry. I tried to get you out of it but professor McGonagall already talked to the Headmaster,"
"But this isn't fair. She's the one that hurt ME," he said, pointing at the large white thing that covered almost half of his face. Draco knew he was exaggerating but still, NO one hit a Malfoy and got away with it. Especially not female Weasley's.
"Draco, I don't think you're completely innocent. No matter how much I don't like saying this, Miss Weasley is a fairly good student and DOESN'T go around hitting people. You must have done SOMETHING,"
"Yes...but I'm not telling you what it was," Draco replied, almost feeling instead of remembering her freeze under his hands.
Snape raised an eyebrow. "All right, back to the subject of your detention tonight," Draco sighed at this. "You're going to go out on the grounds at 8:00, Hagrid has something you can help him with,"
"Oh, come on. Please don't tell me I have to go into the forest again," he said, remembering all to well that time in his first year. He had been as scared as hell and he certainly didn't want to go through that again.
"I don't know what you're going to do. Now I think that you should get off to your next class,"
"All right,"
Potions had just finished and Snape had held Draco back. But, if he wasn't careful he was going to be late for Transfiguration. He made his way to the classroom and took his seat.
Draco tried desperately to concentrate on turning his slug into a ferret (he scowled at this) then to a fish, and back to a slug again. But something or rather someone kept straying into his thoughts. A certain red headed someone. He managed to finish and stared down at the slug on his desk triumphantly.
That night he walked into dinner early. It was 1 and a half hours until his detention. He saw Ron and his friends come in. But, instead of going over to the Gryffindor table, they headed in his direction.
When they reached him he looked up and smirked.
"Ah, what can I do for the loser trio today?" he said.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Ron had his hands on his waist and was staring down at him.
"Well, I was TOLD I was Draco Malfoy, but I could be wrong. But I'm sure I'm not a Weasley. For one, I'm not poor. Two, I'm not p..."
"Don't give me your crap. You're lucky my sister isn't here. The only reason I didn't kick your ass yesterday was because she stopped me,"
Draco raised and eyebrow. "She stopped you did she? Well, I knew she had to give into the Malfoy charm eventually. Besides, what are you so worked up about?"
"You TOUCHED her!"
"I've touched lots of girls Weasley," he leaned over and pointed Ron hard in the ribs. "And you're now being added to the list,"
Ron's eyes flared and he stepped forward. Hermione reached out a hand and held him back.
"Come on, Ron. Don't start something," she said. Ron looked back at her and then to Draco.
"I'm not finished with you Malfoy," he said as he turned around and started heading off with Hermione and Harry. Draco called after them.
"It looks like you are Weasel!"
Ron scowled and stomped off. Draco slowly started to eat. He noticed Ginny walk in. He put his hand in his pocket to make sure the folded piece of parchment was still inside. When he was finished he got up and headed towards her. Making sure to catch Ron's eye. He held it for a second and stepped up next to Ginny, stopping briefly to drop and note in her lap and left.
*****
Ginny stared down at the piece of paper Draco had dropped. She looked up to see him leaving the Great Hall. Being as curious as she was, she ignored Ron's protest, picked up the letter and opened it. She could almost hear Draco's voice as she read.
Dear (it looked like he had crossed out 'Virginia' and 'Ginny') Weasley,
You don't know how hard it is for to say this but I'm sorry. I crossed the lines last night and, seeing as I have to spend the next month with you and don't want to get punched again, I apologize. But only for the sake of my face. I think we should at least try to be civil with each other until this is over and then I can go back to annoying you in peace. Though, I do think this is the ultimate payback to your brother, I don't want to do this. I'd rather kiss a blast-ended-skrewt then to spend time alone with you.
-Draco T. Malfoy
Well, what a pleasant letter, Ginny thought. It did sound like Malfoy though. She was just surprised that he had apologized, even if it didn't sound like he meant it.
The second she finished reading and was just refolding it, Ron jumped.
"What is it? What did he write?" he asked, grabbing the letter. He skimmed the first sentence, paused, and looked up.
"Did he just say he was sorry?" he asked, shocked. Ginny took back the parchment, not wanting him to read the rest.
"Yes he did," Ron still looked at her with his mouth slightly open.
"Ginny, don't trust Malfoy. You don't know him,"
"I DO know him, he's been picking on ME the last year," she said annoyed. "And who said I WAS going to trust him?"
Ron looked a tad bit taken aback.
"Well, I was just saying..."
"No, you weren't just saying, you were jumping to conclusions again,"
Ron sighed. "All right Gin, just be careful,"
She smiled. "I will," looking down at her watch she added, "I have to go, it's already 8. I'll see you guys later,"
She left the Great hall and went up to her dorm to retrieve an extra cloak. As she was walking through one of the halls she heard footsteps behind her and sped up, not wanting to encounter anyone.
"I see you're in a hurry to get out to the grounds, Virginia," a voice said. She turned around and saw Draco walking up to her. He had also brought and extra cloak and had it slung over his arm.
"If you're going to at least TRY to be civil, please call me Ginny," she said, as he reached her.
"All right...Ginny" he said slowly, as if itching to call her Virginia once again. They continued to walk down the hall. "So, you got my letter?"
Ginny snorted, "How could I not? You practically shoved it in my face. There wasn't an easier way to get it to me?"
"I would've sent it by owl but I wanted to annoy your brother. And you for that matter,"
"Well, it's sure working. Oh, and by the way, I'll make sure you get your little kiss," she said, trying to copy his signature smirk. He looked at her bewildered and then remembered.
"How?" he asked, his eyebrows raising on his forehead.
"Oh, you'll see," she paused and her mind went back to the latter. "So what does the 'T' in your name stand for?"
He looked down at her. "I said we were going to be 'civil' not 'friendly'. It doesn't matter to you,"
"Fine, be that way you stuck up prat," she said without thinking. Sometimes living with six brothers and speaking your mind all the time wasn't very good when it came to school.
"Tempest," he said, almost at the exact same time she started talking. "And if that's what you really think of me than I don't see the point of being civil,"
"Oh, well..." Ginny noticed what he had just said. "Tempest? What kind of name is Tempest?" she asked, laughing. Draco glared at her.
"It's Greek. Means 'stormy'" he said calmly. Ginny snorted again. She really needed to quite doing that..
"Who would ever use THAT in a sentence? It's very 'tempest' outside today..."
She heard something come from Draco and was sure he laughed slightly but thought better of it.
"Ah! 'ere you two are. I been waitin'," Ginny looked up. She hadn't even noticed that they were outside yet. Hagrid was waving over to them from his hut. Draco let out a puff of breath.
"Arg! I not only have to spend the night with you but they had to throw in that oversized baby too," he said with dislike. Ginny glanced at him angrily.
"Shut up, Malfoy," he held up a hand to stop her.
"If I have to call you by your name...you have to call me by mine,"
"Fine...Tempest," she said grinning. Draco glared at her and was about to say something when Hagrid interrupted him
"Today, I'm haven' yer 'elp me with catchin one of 'em blast-ended-skrewts that got loose. It's been wanderin' the grounds and is gonna become a danger to students. All yer have to do is go out an find 'im, bring 'im back in one piece, an yer done. Got that?"
Ginny looked over at Draco. His face had fallen the second Hagrid 'blast'. She was SO going to make him pay for always being so cruel to her and Ron.
"Got it, Hagrid! We'll have him back asap! When do you want us to leave?" Ginny asked. Hagrid scratched his bushy beard.
"Hmm.. I guess ya could leave now if ya like," he said.
"Okay. Come on Tempest," she started headed off to search the ground. Draco didn't fallow at first but soon she heard his hurried footsteps to catch up with her.
"Listen VIRGINIA, quite calling me Tempest. And why are you so nice to the guy?" he asked. She frowned at him.
"Because he's my friend you prick,"
They roamed the grounds for a bit. It had started to get dark so both Ginny and Draco pulled out their wands at the same time muttering 'Lumus'. The whole time Ginny was fighting the urge to punch him. But that wouldn't have done any good for it had got them here in the first place. What took her by some surprise was that Draco was sticking to his word of being civil most of the time. He even started talking to her a bit. And not to tease her or get on her nerves. To just talk. Though, he was getting on her nerves anyway because all he seemed to talk about was his money, his looks (Ginny found out that once he had a girl run up to him wanted to get a picture of her kissing him), and how much he hated the school. But, he had accidentally strayed to the topics of books and that's what they were talking about at the moment.
"My personal favorite was J.R.R. Tolkien. He was just so brilliant," she put in. He looked at her.
"Who's that?" he asked. Her mouth dropped slightly.
"You don't know who that was?!" he shook his head. "Wow. Well, he was this Muggle author who wrote a trilogy called Lord of the Rings. It has a lot to do with magic and fantasy and, well, lots of stuff. And some of his ideas about magic and different creatures were so close to the truth it was scary,"
"Oh...well, I don't read Muggle fiction. So I wouldn't know... what was that?" he asked suddenly. Ginny was just about to ask that herself. The bush they were passing started shacking. They both backed away from it.
"What is it?"
"I dunno. Stay here," he said, slowly walking forwarded. He got to the bush and peered through the leaves then motioned for her to join him.
"It's the skrewt," he did something with his wand and the skrewt scuttle out of the bush. Ginny looked down at it.
"What do you think we should do? Stun it?" Draco asked, holding out his wand. Ginny shook her head.
"No. You can't, you have something to do first," he put his hands on his hips.
"And what would that be?"
"Kiss it," she confirmed. His jaw dropped.
"What?! There is no way in hell, Weasley...Ginny, that you're going to get me to kiss that!"
She looked at him. Well, he was acting like a baby, it was just a kiss.
"You said you'd, and I quote, "rather kiss a blast-ended skrewt than spend time alone with me". Now you have to prove it," she said.
"That's not very fair. You know I was just joking,"
"It didn't seem like it. And besides, if you don't, I'm going to tell my brother you touched me again..." she added, and was happy with the tiny look of fear that came to his face.
"No! Don't do that!" he pause and looked down at the skrewt in disgust. "Fine. But only to show you that a Malfoy is no coward. We'd do anything,"
He took a deep breath and bent down to retrieve the animal. He winced as he picked it up. It was fairly big. Probably about 5 feet or so. It started to wiggle. He glanced over at Ginny who nodded her head for him to continue. He gulped and leaned in to kiss it. And, as luck would have it, the second his lips touched it, its rear-end exploded with a load 'pop'. Leaving Draco furious and charred. Ginny burst out with laughter. Draco's eyebrows met each other in the middle of his black forehead.
"What did it do? What do I look like?" he asked frantically. Ginny turned her eyes to him. His hair was sticking up a little and it wasn't blond and more but a dirty shade of brown. And almost his whole face was black from the small explosion. But, Ginny couldn't say any of this for she was still laughing. Laughing so loud in fact that Hagrid, who was on the other side of the grounds AND castle, could hear her.
A/N!: HA! Did I trick any of you with the chapter title! Did any one think that they would kiss? Jeeze, I'm not going to make them kiss in the SECOND chapter. Anywayz.. Okay, okay! The whole 'Tempest' thing was just me experimenting with different middle names for him. I went looking at baby name sites and thought this one sounded a little cool. I was trying to find a Latin one but I found this one first. I was going to try Braeu, which means 'handsome' (lol) in I think Greek or something. But Draco B. Malfoy didn't seem to fit. If anyone thinks it's dumb just tell me and I MIGHT change it. Give me a suggestion if you like.
!!!!!!!P.S!!!!!!!! IF ANYONE HAS DETENTION IDEA'S FOR PLEASE TELL ME VIA E- MAIL OR REVIEW. I ALREADY HAVE A SOME BUT IF YOU WANT THE STORY TO BE LONDER GIVE ME MORE. IF SO PLEASE SEND E-MAIL TO:
serpant@iamwasted.com THANK YOU!!!!
AND REMEMBER... REVIEW!!!!!!! OR MY TINY MINONS WILL COME AFTER YOU AND EAT YOU!