-End of second week, a pond, and a detention-
Draco woke up later in the morning. It was probably 11:00, Draco thought. He stretched his arms and yawned. He was a bout to get up and open his window curtain when he felt breathing on his chest. Draco looked down and saw Pansy Parkinson. Her head was lying on his chest. He could feel her slow breath tickle the tiny hairs of his well-toned chest. She looked beautiful with her eyes closed a slight frown on her pasty white skin, and her raven black hair flowing over his arm, and the bed beside him. She stirred and Draco hoped that she wouldn't wake he just wanted to lay there in silence. Draco loved having sex with her, as he recalled the night's previous activities. He'd admit, she was a bit of a slut, and she acted kind of like his mistress. Draco didn't mind. He wasn't too fond of her personality or how she was a follower but she doesn't have to talk when they are having sex, and he didn't have to be around her when they talked. Draco found this situation wonderful as long as he didn't ask her out. Pansy stirred again and lifted her head. She smiled at Draco, he merely smirked.
" How was it last night?" Pansy asked sheepishly.
"Same as always, so again tonight?" Draco asked, she smiled widely. Draco pushed her off him and rose from his four-poster bed. He wrapped one of his many blankets around his waste and got dressed. Pansy merely growled in frustration, but she too got dressed.
"Draco, when are we ever going to have a conversation, every time I wake up and see you already awake, you leave bed to get dressed. Can we ever just lay in bed together and talk?" Pansy wined. This got on Draco's nerve, he was very glad that he didn't have to share a dorm, head boy and girl get their own rooms. He could not deal with all the humiliation that would come if people ever heard about this. He pretended that he hadn't heard a word he said and instead turned around fully dressed.
"Well how do I look?" Draco drawled.
"You didn't answer my question." Pansy retorted, she wouldn't let him off this easily.
"You didn't answer mine, but I haven't got time right now, I'll see you tonight and then well…eh…talk." Draco chocked out as he rushed out the door before she could stop him. Pansy sighed and then finished getting dressed.
Mean while Draco was rushing down the hall to find his two cronies. He knew that they would probably be finished breakfast now and they would be heading to their secret hall, this was where Draco met them every Saturday so they could plan, or rather Crabbe and Goyle would listen to Draco's plan about the rest of the days events. Draco turned around a corridor and bumped into a person, he hadn't realized what had happened until he heard a scream. Draco looked up from the floor, which was where his face had conveniently landed. He saw red hair and flailing arms in a…swamp…in the middle of the corridor. He hadn't seen a swamp since his 5th year when the Weasley twins placed one there to bug Professor Umbridge. Draco felt compelled to help her out, after all if he hadn't come barreling around the corner than she wouldn't be drowning in that pond, but if she hadn't been making it in the first place than he wouldn't have knocked her into this stupid pond. Any ways she is a Weasley and they have too many of them already so they shouldn't miss this one. Draco turned around to walk away but something stopped him, he turned back and dove into the stinky pond. Draco swam towards the flailing hands, as he neared the girl she lunged at him. Draco kicked her in the chest, she was caught off guard and he grabbed her waist. Draco held Ginny high out of water and swam back to the floor. He hoisted her out of the pond and onto the stone floor. She lay unconscious from his kick; he knocked the wind out of her. Grumbling Draco attempted to breathe air into her lungs, Draco did rescue breathing about six times before she coughed up water and opened her eyes. Ginny was about to thank her rescuer when she saw silvery blond hair and steel gray eyes to match. Ginny thought she should feel like gagging but the look in his eyes, panic?, remorse? Caring? She couldn't tell but it made her heart melt. Draco on the other hand was glad she was awake but he wanted to throw up, he never ever wants to come that close to any Weasley again. That was purely disgusting. Draco pretended to make gagging noises, which was how he really felt, so she wouldn't get any ideas.
"Thanks." Ginny said with her head bent.
"You know Weasley, if you hadn't made that stupid pond you would have fallen in, I am giving you a detention." Draco drawled to show he meant business.
"And you will not mention this to anyone, or I will personally make sure you never whished you were born." Draco sneered.
"I…I'm sorry." Ginny stuttered. She hated how she couldn't stand up for herself. She is now 16 and she can't even look Malfoy straight in the face. Well she can but she is afraid now, because of what she felt earlier. Ginny dismissed it as feeling thankful of him for rescuing her.
"Now look at what you've done to my hair and my robes, if you weren't so poor I'd make you pay for these." Draco drawled as he started back to his dorm, to change. Ginny just sat on the cold stone floor, feeling miserable all over again. She was hoping to prank some one but the only one she pranked was her self. Ginny got up and started off towards Griffindor common room. She was soaked and full of slime. Why did Malfoy be the to have to save her, why couldn't it be her knight in shining armour. Malfoy is such a prat Ginny thought.
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Ginny entered the common room to find that only Hermione was there. She slowly creped past the head girl, she didn't really feel like giving an explanation for her appearance at the moment, she just wanted to go sulk in her room.
Where are you going?" Hermione called too Ginny's retreating back. Hermione didn't even need to take her eyes from her book to know that someone was about.
"To my room, to get changed." Ginny responded. Truthfully.
"Ah, ha, and why do you need to get changed?" Hermione inquired looking at Ginny and taking in her full appearance. Ginny was a mess, she had slime all through her hair, sludge on her nose and her hair and robes were drenched. This was clearly something Ron was not allowed to see or Ginny wouldn't have been trying to sneak into her room.
"Well I had…an accident." Ginny answered.
"Come with me into the prefects bathroom and tell me all about it, or I'll hex it out of you." Hermione said as she pushed Ginny back out the door and down the hall. Once Ginny and Hermione made it to the bathroom, Ginny started drawing herself a bath. Hermione wasted no time she started asking questions. Ginny bade Hermione a 'turn around please' before she started on her story. Ginny was in the tub and sloshing around when she told Hermione all about the events previous to her entering the tub.
"He rescued you, and kissed you? Malfoy? Ginny are you sure?" Hermione answered when all of this sunk in.
"Yes, but you can't tell any one, besides it wasn't a kiss, he just gave me air, that's all." Ginny replied.
"You do realize that you owe Malfoy your life, he saved it and you have a wizards debt to fill. Hopefully he doesn't know that, but you do realize that he is going to be even harder on you this time in detention, you will have to do more that clear caldron bottoms for 3 hours with no magic." Hermione giggled. Ginny got out of the water and dried off she got dressed in her pajamas, she was begging to feel ill and all she wanted was to go to bed.
Once in her own bed Ginny fell right asleep, it was only 6:oo pm but she was tired. Ginny spent the whole night dreaming about what Malfoy was going to make her do for a detention and how she would have to pay him back.
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Back in Slytherin common room Pansy was trying to make out with Draco but he felt sick, all he could think about was kissing that weasel girl and he felt that he would barf every time. Draco went to bed early but he didn't fall asleep, he was too busy trying to think up a good enough detention to give that stupid red-haired weasel brat, so she wished that she never made that stupid pond.
