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Especially since I saw this on a couple of people's fav list. Thank you.
Did anyone know this has more reviews than my NINE chapter story! Wow.
Thanks to all those people who gave me detention ideas. I can definitely
tell you that I have enough to last about TWO months probably; including
the one's that I already had thought of. I will TRY to keep Draco in
character but it'll be VERY hard for me to do.. seeing as though this is
supposed to be a small D/G fic..
Chapter Three: All the More Sweeter
Draco slouched down to the Slytherin common room. His face hurt like shit but he was to tired to go to the Hospital Wing. It would have been the second time he had gone within the last two days and he didn't want to seem like Potter.
It must've been around 11 o'clock when he entered the Slytherin dungeons. At first it didn't seem like anyone was in there. A few ashes were left in the fireplace and were still aglow. Draco felt as though someone was watching him. In a few seconds his suspicion was confirmed.
"Where were you?" It was Pansy.
"Did you stay up this late to wait for me?" he asked, a little shocked. She looked at him.
"Of course...I thought we had a date tonight? You didn't show up," she said, crossing her arms. He frowned.
"I told you I had to cancel it. I had..." she interrupted him.
"You had a date with the Weasley?" she got up, looking very angry.
"What?!" Draco asked, aghast. "Why would I date HER? I..."
"I saw you two out walking the grounds tonight...would you like to explain yourself?"
"If you had GIVEN me long enough to explain," Draco said, getting irritated. "I would have been able to tell you that I had detention,"
Pansy raised a penciled eyebrow. Draco sighed.
"Do I lie?" he asked. She smiled slightly.
"No, I suppose not," she walked over to him and kissed his cheek. Noticing his rough skin she looked up, "What happened to you?"
"Skrewt," he replied flatly. She raised her eyebrows even further.
"I'm going to bed," she said, instead of asking him what happened.
"Fine,"
"Oh, and you got an owl. It's over there," she pointed at the table on the other side of the room before heading up the stairs. He grabbed the letter and sat down in a large, green lounge chair to read it.
'Mr. Malfoy,
I would like to inform you that your next detention will be tomorrow at the same time as your last one. You and Miss Weasley will be working in the dungeons on a potion Mrs. Pomfrey needs for healing. You shall come on time and be prepared.
-Professor Severus Snape'
Draco leaned back in the chair and looked around the room. Only one thing kept running through his head...
"God, my face hurts," and it was true.
Why had she made him kiss it anyways? And exactly why had he LISTENED to her? She's odd, Draco admitted to himself. He remembered her mumbling to herself as she took off for the Gryffindor tower, 'Good, that's one less day I have to spend with that git,' she had said. Spending the night alone with him would have caused most girls to swoon and get weak at the knees whenever they saw him. Not Ginny though. She seemed to still hate him. Maybe she wasn't like all the other girls. But was still enough alike them to be one. Maybe that's what happened when you grew up in a house full of guys. Perhaps she had become immune to guy's charms, being able to see how their minds worked.
Draco never knew what it was like to have siblings. He was an only child. And at times, his large mansion would get boring with no one to do anything with.
And so, Draco fell asleep, thinking about redheads, skrewts, and mansions.
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The next day was pretty uneventful. Several people pointed out and commented on Draco's new "look". This, he did not find very amusing. Every time Draco had passed Ron in the halls the redhead boy would burst out with laughter and start making kissing noises. Obviously, Ginny had told him what had happened.
That woman! Draco found himself thinking. He was going to make her pay. Draco still wasn't looking forward to tonight's detention. But, perhaps Snape would have something for his face. Draco still refused to go to the Hospital Wing and he didn't know many healing spells himself so he was in much pain.
That night Draco sat in the common room, a half an hour before he had to be down to the dungeons. He thought it would be best to be leaving soon, even though it wouldn't take him long to get there. He didn't want something to happen and him ending up late. That wouldn't be good and might cause him to get ANOTHER detention. And he really didn't want that. He got up from his chair and started making his way out. Someone's hand came to rest on his arm. He turned around.
"Where are you going?" Pansy again. She always seemed to show up right when he didn't want her to.
"I have another detention," he said slowly. She looked a little shocked.
"Again?" she asked.
"Yes, and for the rest of the month too. Now if you excuse me, I have to go. I'm going to be late," he continued walking and heard her sigh.
"She is SO in love with me," he laughed once he was outside. It was true. They had been going out since the beginning of the school year and he could tell she was madly in love with him. Though, he felt quite different. He wasn't sure he felt anything at all. But, being with someone was better than being with no one at all. Not like he couldn't get someone, because he could. Draco could probably have ANY girl he wanted in the school. All he had to do was talk to her and she was hooked. Well, maybe not Virginia. He found himself thinking. And, at this he felt slightly...challenged. He had almost never in his life felt challenged.
His thoughts were interrupted my soft scuffling coming from behind him. He noticed he was already at the dungeons. Ginny showed up at his side.
"Well, here we are...again," she said. She brought her hand up and rapped on the door in front of them. Draco heard something inside and the creaked open revealing their professor.
"Ah, yes. Here for your detention. You're both on time...that's good," he said evenly. Draco saw Ginny nod. The entered the classroom. There were two cauldrons out on the desk and an assortment of ingredients laid about.
"Your instructions are out on the desk. I hope it won't be too hard for you. Although, it IS a very simple potion," he said, settling in his desk to grade papers.
"Um, professor Snape?" The professor looked at him.
"What would you like Mr. Malfoy?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I wanted to know if you have any formulas or something for my face," he asked. Draco heard Ginny trying to stifle a laugh. He looked over at her and frowned...yes, she was a challenge.
"Well, I did have some but I ran out and haven't had the need to make any more. I suggest that you stick with the healing potion for Pomfrey and Miss Weasley can make you "face potion" since it is more advanced," he said. Ginny laughed slightly once more.
"Wait a minute, I'm older and more experienced...don't you think that I should be making the ADVANCED potion," he asked, slightly confused.
"Mr. Malfoy, do you really want me to say why that is. I think YOU should best not ask me," he said smoothly. He obviously didn't think that Draco wanted him saying exactly how much better Ginny was at potions.
"Fine," he said scowling and crossed his arms.
Draco started getting to work on the healing potion while Ginny did his "face potion", as Snape had deemed it. He wasn't about to trust her with anything that had to do with his looks. He looked over at her as he dropped some powdered beetles into his cauldron. She was measuring some sort of liquid into a vial and looked greatly interested. Some of her hair was falling from her loose ponytail and framing her face. She had some extra ingredients that Draco didn't have, which were probably for her potion. The corners of her lips were turned up into a slight smile. As Draco observed her he noticed that she didn't seem to find this as a punishment. But more like a...hobby almost. He kept his gaze steady on her for the next minute.
Eventually, she felt his eyes on her and she looked up form her work.
"What are you staring at?" she hissed, narrowing her eyes evilly. Draco quickly turned away.
"Nothing..." he mumbled. Dumping even more contents into the now boiling concoction. She glared at him before turning back to her potion.
The next half hour passed in silence as the first half had. Draco carefully made sure not to peel his eyes away from his cauldron, not wanting Ginny to catch him looking at her. Though, WHY he would be looking at her, he wasn't sure.
Draco heard Ginny give out a triumphant cry. "I'm done!" she said. Staring down at the bubbling liquid. She grabbed a goblet that was on the table and scooped it into it. Turning to Draco she said, "Here, you have to take the whole thing before it works,"
He took the goblet and stared down at it in disgust.
"Why should I trust you?" he asked. She grinned.
"Because I'm more advanced remember?" he grumbled and brought it up to his lips, taking just a tiny sip to see how it tasted. He spit it out.
"Arg! This stuff is disgusting! I can't drink this!"
She grabbed to cup from him. "Fine, you spoiled brat," she said. She turned and grabbed some kind of white powdery stuff from her pile of ingredients.
"What's that?"
"Sugar. We can add it for taste and it won't cancel out any off the effects of the potions."
"Virginia, I don't think ANYTHING can make this crap taste better," he said, crossing his arms. She looked at him and frowned.
"A touch of sugar can make something all the more sweeter,"
Draco stared at her. He didn't really believe her but for some reason what she just said stuck with him.
"All right, Weasley. But if this potion goes wrong and I die or something, you're the first one I'm haunting," he said, as she added the sugar.
"You're not going to die you great prat...although, I wish you would,"
"Show's how much you care for me," he muttered, downing the rest of the potion. She had been right. The sugar seemed to canceled out everything bad and he was left with a tasteless heap of sticky substance slithering down his throat. It still wasn't good. But better at least.
"I don't think anyone cares for you, Malfoy,"
"Yes they do. Everyone cares for me, everyone loves me," at this Ginny snorted. Draco found that she did that A LOT. He looked up and tried to think of someone as an example. "What about Pansy, eh? I KNOW she'd care if I died,"
"You little girlfriend doesn't count," she looked at him and suddenly noticed the aftermath of the potion. Her mouth dropped.
"What? Is my face better?"
"Well...your precious little face if fine," Draco scowled at this. "But your..." she looked at the top of his head. His eyes widened and his hands flew to his hair.
"There's nothing wrong with it. It's all there, Weasley," he said. He tugged at some of it and looked up. He could only see the tips but it was enough for him. He gave out as girlish squeak which Ginny found VERY unDraco-like
"It's red! I'm...I'm turning into one of you!" he said, pointing at her. "This isn't very fair. Why is everything happening to me lately? First, I get my nose broken by a GIRL. THEN I have to kiss a blast-ended-skrewt and it blows up in my face. And now that I'm all better I turn into a Weasley!"
"You're not turning into a Weasley. It's just your hair that's all. Probably a side effect,"
Draco turned to professor Snape who was sitting at his desk with an amused expression playing on his face.
"Professor, is there and way to reverse it?" he asked desperately. Snape looked up at him, obviously hiding laughter.
"It will fade in a few days," he said. "Oh, by the way, your detention is now over. I suggest you leave and go up to bed I will inform you of tomorrow's detention soon,"
Draco started cleaning up his things.
"This is so stupid," he mumbled under his breath.
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A/N!: HEY! Would anyone like to go read another new fic of mine? I think I uploaded it at like the wrong time or something because like 5 seconds after I loaded it, it was already to the second page of HP fics. AND IT HAS NO REVIEWS!!!! So, someone go read it. It's called Uncertain Relinquish. Oh yeah. And the last line of the summary is 'Will her and Severus be able to forget the past and do something good for a change?' or something like that. Cuz it didn't show up. ANYWAYZ. Hope people review this!!!!
-Love, Dracaena
P.S. Sorry if this Chapter was a little stupid (and short) I didn't want them kissing in the third chapter. Would anyone mind about the fourth one??? I already have it ALL planned out so just keep patient my little children. And it WILL be happening in the next chapter..along with another tiny surprise of mine.hehehe. Review and you'll get to find out! (you will even if you don't but still..)
Chapter Three: All the More Sweeter
Draco slouched down to the Slytherin common room. His face hurt like shit but he was to tired to go to the Hospital Wing. It would have been the second time he had gone within the last two days and he didn't want to seem like Potter.
It must've been around 11 o'clock when he entered the Slytherin dungeons. At first it didn't seem like anyone was in there. A few ashes were left in the fireplace and were still aglow. Draco felt as though someone was watching him. In a few seconds his suspicion was confirmed.
"Where were you?" It was Pansy.
"Did you stay up this late to wait for me?" he asked, a little shocked. She looked at him.
"Of course...I thought we had a date tonight? You didn't show up," she said, crossing her arms. He frowned.
"I told you I had to cancel it. I had..." she interrupted him.
"You had a date with the Weasley?" she got up, looking very angry.
"What?!" Draco asked, aghast. "Why would I date HER? I..."
"I saw you two out walking the grounds tonight...would you like to explain yourself?"
"If you had GIVEN me long enough to explain," Draco said, getting irritated. "I would have been able to tell you that I had detention,"
Pansy raised a penciled eyebrow. Draco sighed.
"Do I lie?" he asked. She smiled slightly.
"No, I suppose not," she walked over to him and kissed his cheek. Noticing his rough skin she looked up, "What happened to you?"
"Skrewt," he replied flatly. She raised her eyebrows even further.
"I'm going to bed," she said, instead of asking him what happened.
"Fine,"
"Oh, and you got an owl. It's over there," she pointed at the table on the other side of the room before heading up the stairs. He grabbed the letter and sat down in a large, green lounge chair to read it.
'Mr. Malfoy,
I would like to inform you that your next detention will be tomorrow at the same time as your last one. You and Miss Weasley will be working in the dungeons on a potion Mrs. Pomfrey needs for healing. You shall come on time and be prepared.
-Professor Severus Snape'
Draco leaned back in the chair and looked around the room. Only one thing kept running through his head...
"God, my face hurts," and it was true.
Why had she made him kiss it anyways? And exactly why had he LISTENED to her? She's odd, Draco admitted to himself. He remembered her mumbling to herself as she took off for the Gryffindor tower, 'Good, that's one less day I have to spend with that git,' she had said. Spending the night alone with him would have caused most girls to swoon and get weak at the knees whenever they saw him. Not Ginny though. She seemed to still hate him. Maybe she wasn't like all the other girls. But was still enough alike them to be one. Maybe that's what happened when you grew up in a house full of guys. Perhaps she had become immune to guy's charms, being able to see how their minds worked.
Draco never knew what it was like to have siblings. He was an only child. And at times, his large mansion would get boring with no one to do anything with.
And so, Draco fell asleep, thinking about redheads, skrewts, and mansions.
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The next day was pretty uneventful. Several people pointed out and commented on Draco's new "look". This, he did not find very amusing. Every time Draco had passed Ron in the halls the redhead boy would burst out with laughter and start making kissing noises. Obviously, Ginny had told him what had happened.
That woman! Draco found himself thinking. He was going to make her pay. Draco still wasn't looking forward to tonight's detention. But, perhaps Snape would have something for his face. Draco still refused to go to the Hospital Wing and he didn't know many healing spells himself so he was in much pain.
That night Draco sat in the common room, a half an hour before he had to be down to the dungeons. He thought it would be best to be leaving soon, even though it wouldn't take him long to get there. He didn't want something to happen and him ending up late. That wouldn't be good and might cause him to get ANOTHER detention. And he really didn't want that. He got up from his chair and started making his way out. Someone's hand came to rest on his arm. He turned around.
"Where are you going?" Pansy again. She always seemed to show up right when he didn't want her to.
"I have another detention," he said slowly. She looked a little shocked.
"Again?" she asked.
"Yes, and for the rest of the month too. Now if you excuse me, I have to go. I'm going to be late," he continued walking and heard her sigh.
"She is SO in love with me," he laughed once he was outside. It was true. They had been going out since the beginning of the school year and he could tell she was madly in love with him. Though, he felt quite different. He wasn't sure he felt anything at all. But, being with someone was better than being with no one at all. Not like he couldn't get someone, because he could. Draco could probably have ANY girl he wanted in the school. All he had to do was talk to her and she was hooked. Well, maybe not Virginia. He found himself thinking. And, at this he felt slightly...challenged. He had almost never in his life felt challenged.
His thoughts were interrupted my soft scuffling coming from behind him. He noticed he was already at the dungeons. Ginny showed up at his side.
"Well, here we are...again," she said. She brought her hand up and rapped on the door in front of them. Draco heard something inside and the creaked open revealing their professor.
"Ah, yes. Here for your detention. You're both on time...that's good," he said evenly. Draco saw Ginny nod. The entered the classroom. There were two cauldrons out on the desk and an assortment of ingredients laid about.
"Your instructions are out on the desk. I hope it won't be too hard for you. Although, it IS a very simple potion," he said, settling in his desk to grade papers.
"Um, professor Snape?" The professor looked at him.
"What would you like Mr. Malfoy?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I wanted to know if you have any formulas or something for my face," he asked. Draco heard Ginny trying to stifle a laugh. He looked over at her and frowned...yes, she was a challenge.
"Well, I did have some but I ran out and haven't had the need to make any more. I suggest that you stick with the healing potion for Pomfrey and Miss Weasley can make you "face potion" since it is more advanced," he said. Ginny laughed slightly once more.
"Wait a minute, I'm older and more experienced...don't you think that I should be making the ADVANCED potion," he asked, slightly confused.
"Mr. Malfoy, do you really want me to say why that is. I think YOU should best not ask me," he said smoothly. He obviously didn't think that Draco wanted him saying exactly how much better Ginny was at potions.
"Fine," he said scowling and crossed his arms.
Draco started getting to work on the healing potion while Ginny did his "face potion", as Snape had deemed it. He wasn't about to trust her with anything that had to do with his looks. He looked over at her as he dropped some powdered beetles into his cauldron. She was measuring some sort of liquid into a vial and looked greatly interested. Some of her hair was falling from her loose ponytail and framing her face. She had some extra ingredients that Draco didn't have, which were probably for her potion. The corners of her lips were turned up into a slight smile. As Draco observed her he noticed that she didn't seem to find this as a punishment. But more like a...hobby almost. He kept his gaze steady on her for the next minute.
Eventually, she felt his eyes on her and she looked up form her work.
"What are you staring at?" she hissed, narrowing her eyes evilly. Draco quickly turned away.
"Nothing..." he mumbled. Dumping even more contents into the now boiling concoction. She glared at him before turning back to her potion.
The next half hour passed in silence as the first half had. Draco carefully made sure not to peel his eyes away from his cauldron, not wanting Ginny to catch him looking at her. Though, WHY he would be looking at her, he wasn't sure.
Draco heard Ginny give out a triumphant cry. "I'm done!" she said. Staring down at the bubbling liquid. She grabbed a goblet that was on the table and scooped it into it. Turning to Draco she said, "Here, you have to take the whole thing before it works,"
He took the goblet and stared down at it in disgust.
"Why should I trust you?" he asked. She grinned.
"Because I'm more advanced remember?" he grumbled and brought it up to his lips, taking just a tiny sip to see how it tasted. He spit it out.
"Arg! This stuff is disgusting! I can't drink this!"
She grabbed to cup from him. "Fine, you spoiled brat," she said. She turned and grabbed some kind of white powdery stuff from her pile of ingredients.
"What's that?"
"Sugar. We can add it for taste and it won't cancel out any off the effects of the potions."
"Virginia, I don't think ANYTHING can make this crap taste better," he said, crossing his arms. She looked at him and frowned.
"A touch of sugar can make something all the more sweeter,"
Draco stared at her. He didn't really believe her but for some reason what she just said stuck with him.
"All right, Weasley. But if this potion goes wrong and I die or something, you're the first one I'm haunting," he said, as she added the sugar.
"You're not going to die you great prat...although, I wish you would,"
"Show's how much you care for me," he muttered, downing the rest of the potion. She had been right. The sugar seemed to canceled out everything bad and he was left with a tasteless heap of sticky substance slithering down his throat. It still wasn't good. But better at least.
"I don't think anyone cares for you, Malfoy,"
"Yes they do. Everyone cares for me, everyone loves me," at this Ginny snorted. Draco found that she did that A LOT. He looked up and tried to think of someone as an example. "What about Pansy, eh? I KNOW she'd care if I died,"
"You little girlfriend doesn't count," she looked at him and suddenly noticed the aftermath of the potion. Her mouth dropped.
"What? Is my face better?"
"Well...your precious little face if fine," Draco scowled at this. "But your..." she looked at the top of his head. His eyes widened and his hands flew to his hair.
"There's nothing wrong with it. It's all there, Weasley," he said. He tugged at some of it and looked up. He could only see the tips but it was enough for him. He gave out as girlish squeak which Ginny found VERY unDraco-like
"It's red! I'm...I'm turning into one of you!" he said, pointing at her. "This isn't very fair. Why is everything happening to me lately? First, I get my nose broken by a GIRL. THEN I have to kiss a blast-ended-skrewt and it blows up in my face. And now that I'm all better I turn into a Weasley!"
"You're not turning into a Weasley. It's just your hair that's all. Probably a side effect,"
Draco turned to professor Snape who was sitting at his desk with an amused expression playing on his face.
"Professor, is there and way to reverse it?" he asked desperately. Snape looked up at him, obviously hiding laughter.
"It will fade in a few days," he said. "Oh, by the way, your detention is now over. I suggest you leave and go up to bed I will inform you of tomorrow's detention soon,"
Draco started cleaning up his things.
"This is so stupid," he mumbled under his breath.
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A/N!: HEY! Would anyone like to go read another new fic of mine? I think I uploaded it at like the wrong time or something because like 5 seconds after I loaded it, it was already to the second page of HP fics. AND IT HAS NO REVIEWS!!!! So, someone go read it. It's called Uncertain Relinquish. Oh yeah. And the last line of the summary is 'Will her and Severus be able to forget the past and do something good for a change?' or something like that. Cuz it didn't show up. ANYWAYZ. Hope people review this!!!!
-Love, Dracaena
P.S. Sorry if this Chapter was a little stupid (and short) I didn't want them kissing in the third chapter. Would anyone mind about the fourth one??? I already have it ALL planned out so just keep patient my little children. And it WILL be happening in the next chapter..along with another tiny surprise of mine.hehehe. Review and you'll get to find out! (you will even if you don't but still..)