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A/N: I thank my Beta reader, Keita, for this. Without her a lot of things wouldn't make much sense. I would also like to dedicate this chapter to a certain Character from Order of the Phoenix who perished, and will no longer be with us. I shall always love you, and I will try to avenge your death. Now, without further ado, here is the chapter many people have been waiting for. Oh, and I don't mean to sound selfish, what with the bolding of this line and everything, but please review! I feel jealous of all of those other Draco/Ginny fic writers who have tons of reviews! *tear*
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Chapter 4: Upon Realizing
"So, when's the wedding?" Ginny asked Hermione as they sat down in front of Florentine Fortesque's shop and grabbed some ice cream.
"We –er– haven't chosen a date yet, Gin," was Hermione's reply. Ginny crossed her arms in front of her chest and smiled innocently at her.
"You break my brother's heart and you can rest assured that you'll never work in the Wizarding World again," she threatened in a cheerful voice. Hermione began to laugh at this. "I wasn't joking, Hermione," she added icily.
"Oh, so the famous Weasley over-protection gene flows through the youngest of them all, does it?" Hermione asked as she looked at her watch. "Oh, gee Gin, I've got to go! See you again sometime," Hermione added before disapparating.
"Hope I didn't scare her off," she said to herself sarcastically as she paid for their ice cream and disapparated.
"Why Ginny, darling! It's so nice to see you! Ron'll be glad to know you're here!" Mrs. Weasley greeted her daughter with a hug and a kiss.
"Oh? He's here? –Er– Hermione wouldn't happen to be with him, would she?" Ginny asked as she bit into her lower lip rather guiltily.
"She just left, dear. Why do you ask?" her mother prodded. Ginny was sure that her mother had already known, judging by the look in her eyes.
"It's nothing, mother. Where is Ron? His old room?"she asked as she made her way up the stairs towards her brother's room. Opening the door, she was greeted by a rather angry looking Ron. "Hullo, sunshine," she smiled uncertainly.
"You threatened Hermione?" was all that Ron managed to choke out. It was obvious that he was frustrated with her.
"I– I did it out of my love and concern for you! I mean it's not like she's ever going to give me a reason to follow through with my threat, especially now," she added, balling her fists as she thought about how Hermione could treat her brother wrong.
"Gin! I can look out for myself, thanks! I don't need you threatening my bride-to-be into staying with me! Bloody hell!" he shouted at her.
"Fine, okay, but if she does ever break your heart, I'm going to ruin her life," and, without staying to hear what her brother had to say about that, she turned on her heal and walked back down the stairs.
"So, I hear you've been seeing a certain Boy-Who-Lived," her mother teased, causing Ginny to blush crimson.
"Er, you could say that. We had two dates last weekend...Haven't really had time to talk to him since. Work, you know?" she replied casually to her mother.
"Well, I hope you keep your clutches on that one. Good boy, he is," her mother lectured. Ginny inched to the kitchen in search of food.
"Mum, can you make me some..."
"Make it yourself! You're nineteen and living on your own now, Ginny," her mother ordered her. She sighed.
"Fine. I guess I might as well go home, then. Bye mum, love you! Give Dad my love! And the boys!" she called right before she disapparated.
"Ginny, you'll never guess what article I've been asked to work on!" Mattie swore as she sat down at the chair in front of Ginny's desk.
"What? What is it? Another party at the Malfoy Manor?" Ginny asked as she rolled her eyes. Mattie scoffed and shook her head violently.
"NO, idiot! I've been elected to write the article about your brother's wedding to Hermione! Isn't it wonderful?" Mattie asked her, as if Ginny would be so proud. Ginny, however, was not.
"YOU?!? Get to write the story on MY brother's wedding? What the bloody hell is this?" Ginny yelled at her friend, causing heads to turn in her direction as usual.
"Calm down, Gin. I thought you'd be happy for me," Mattie added, shocked at her friend's reaction.
"Excited for you? EXCITED FOR YOU? Why would I be? I should think it would be clear that I would have wanted to do the story on my own family member's marriage!" she huffed, throwing down her quill.
"I – I'm sorry, Gin. I'm sure I can have the article switched over to you. Would you like to switch projects?" Mattie suggested helpfully, trying to curb Ginny's fit.
"Yea, but, I'm working with the article about bubotober puss. You sure that's a fair trade?" Ginny asked, suddenly feeling selfless.
"Of course it's fair, Gin! He's your brother! I'm sure you want the article to be perfect!" Mattie assured her as she took the information Ginny had dug up on bubotober puss and headed back over to her desk.
"You're awesome, Mattie," she thanked as she turned to her desk and looked down at her notepad. Grinning mischievously, she began to write.
"You've finished already?" Mattie asked Ginny that night as their office was just shutting down to allow everyone to go home. Ginny grinned one of her half grins to Mattie and enchanted the article to fly itself to the inbox for the morning's paper. "What'd you do?" Mattie asked her suspiciously.
"You'll just have to read it in the morning with everyone else!" she said, disapparating before Mattie could get in another word.
Putting the key into its lock, she opened her front door and entered her house. It had been an exhausting day at the office, what with the writing of her brother's wedding announcment, the covering up of the mistakes that Dobbs, one of her fellow workers, had made in the important article on the reason Fudge was fired, and answering all of the mail in regards to her taxes article. After thumbing through the letters Pig had brought her (Ron gave him to her when he left Hogwarts), she headed into her bedroom to get ready for bed.
She giggled suddenly, then, feeling foolish, her cheeks turned pink. She wandered down towards the dungeons as she had done so many times before in her dreams.
"Draco? Where are you, Malfoy?" she asked in an almost inviting sort of way. She felt someone's hands slide around her waist. "There you are...Harry? I'm only sixteen, what are you doing touching me?" she asked him, becoming confused.
"Shhh." was all that came out of his mouth as he turned her around. A shy blush filled onto his cheeks, almost replacing the one that had crept across Ginny's face earlier. She looked up at him hungrily. She pushed herself up onto her toes and pressed her lips hard against Harry's as his hands moved to her back.
"How many times am I gonna interrupt you two?" Draco asked himself as he watched the two began their innocent exploring, a smirk spreading onto his lips. Ginny pulled away from Harry and looked at Draco.
"Must you interrupt my dreams?" she asked him angrily as she kept her hand in Harry's. Draco eyed her needily.
"You're the one interrupting my dreams, and since when has pretty boy awakened in them?" Draco asked the two of them. This thought struck Ginny. Harry had never even made a sign that he had heard her in her dreams before, why had he noticed her now?
"This is getting confusing," she groaned, taking a seat on the table that sat behind her in Snape's classroom.
"Tell me about it. First Malfoy ruins dinner and now he's ruining my dreams, too? I might as well just wake up," Ginny heard Harry mutter to himself. It was only seconds later that Harry seemed to ignore the two of them, and run off to chase the sudden appearance of a figure who was supposed to resemble Cho.
"Figures," Ginny muttered under her breath, looking at her feet on the ground. She watched as a finger came into view and pressed underneath her chin, pushing her face up to look into his own. She barely had time to draw another breath before Draco Malfoy pressed his lips against her own, igniting the burning sensation that it so often had in her dreams. She thrust her tongue roughly into his mouth and searched for his tongue, hungry for a war. He leaned her back onto the table that she was leaning against, knocking all of the potions' ingredients off of it in the process. She moved her fingers up to his shirt, unbuttoning it slowly, as his hands moved into her hair, and slid it off of him. She opened her eyes to gaze at his strong, masculine chest plate and gasped in awe. He smirked as he lowered his mouth back on top of hers and moved his hand down to squeeze her thigh, moving it up higher, slowly, as he pulled his mouth away from hers and licked his lips seductively.
"Wait. I want you to have this, first," he remembered suddenly, reaching a hand down into the pockets of his pants. Ginny made a mental note to remove them quickly. He turned to her and grabbed her wrist. Placing a kiss there, he took out the silver chain and fastened it around the area he had just placed a kiss and smirked at her. She looked at it, and saw the M charm that was dangling off of it.
"One guess what that's supposed to stand for," she mocked him, her face winking up at him through tousled hair. He moved himself back into position above her once again.
"Wake up, Gin.." he whispered into her ear.
"Huh?" she groaned, not allowing her eyes to slid open in hopes of falling back to sleep quickly to finish her dream. She opened her eyes, her cheeks turning scarlet as she remember the thought she had just allowed herself to have.
"About time! I've been trying to wake you up through all of that moaning for the past ten minutes!" Mattie teased her as she took a seat at the foot of Ginny's bed, who's face appeared the color of a turnip.
"I was not moaning!" she yelled, then, with a groan, she looked up at her friend, "Was I?" she asked innocently. When Mattie nodded she brought a pillow up to her face to scream in it as she leaned back against the headboard on her bed.
"It's true, dear! Oh! I'm sorry, but I was just too excited to wait to tell you! I got a letter from Malfoy last night! He's invited me to go with him to France for the weekend! Isn't it amazing?!" her friend cooed as she threw herself back onto Ginny's bed like a love-stricken teenage girl who had just found out that her crush liked her back.
"Oh. Yeah! Wicked! Right on, you!" Ginny encouraged half heartedly, feeling her spirit tainted with guilt.
"I know! I think I really, really like him, Gin! He's nothing like Colin, that's for sure," she added dreamily, doubling the amount of Ginny's guilt. "Oh, what's this?" Mattie asked her suddenly, looking down at Ginny's arm.
"What's what?" Ginny asked, allowing her gaze to follow Mattie's. Her jaw fell suddenly as she realized what had averted Mattie's attention. Resting delicately against her wrist was a silver chain, a dangling M hanging carelessly off of it.
"Oh? Did Harry give this to you, Gin? What's the M stand for?" Mattie asked, becoming overrun with questions. Ginny forced a smile.
"Oh! No! Fred and George. They got it for me for my birthday a while back, I just never put it on until now. It stands for –er– magic, because that's what they believe I am!" she lied, smiling more.
"Well, it's beautiful! I've never seen anything like it! Must be a one of a kind!" she added smartly, before turning to face Ginny once again. "Well, I'd better go. I don't want Draco to think I don't want to accompany him to France! Bye Gin!"she added excitedly before apparating.
Ginny stared down at her wrist and touched the chain, trying to make sure that it was actually real.
"It was real. My dreams are real," she said suddenly, then laughed, "My dreams are real! Oh god, my dreams are real!" she screamed, feeling as though she had to vomit. Running to the bathroom she pulled out her toothbrush and began to scrub ruthlessly at her mouth.
A/N: Well, I hope you liked it! If you didn't, flame!!!!! I accept those also, hehe. Now here is the thanks I promised my reviewers!!
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