A/N: wOOt! I'm on a roll today! I think I updated two fics and I posted the prologue to one of my sequels AND I posted a new fic! Wow, I feel so incredibly productive! This is great…Anyway, oh yeah! My new fic is a Draco/Ginny one so check it out! I think it'll be really funny. It's called Just a Theory.
Disclaimer: Last time I checked, I was not J.K. Rowling. *Looks around her and then looks into the mirror* Nope, still not J.K. Rowling, which means I own nothing except this laptop I'm typing on and an intimidating pair of pliers. *Evil grin*
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Simple Things and Lemon Drops
Chapter IV
"Since we're stuck with each other," Draco drawled, scowling in obvious distaste, "we should find something to do until we turn in for the night."
"Well…I guess we can wander until we head to our Common Rooms," Ginny said brightly.
"Don't do that again Weasley. I hate seeing myself like that. I look and sound gay."
Ginny immediately changed her grin to a scowl. "Better?"
Malfoy nodded, smirking. "Much."
"And don't do that. Seeing me smirk like you is creepy and disturbing."
Malfoy scowled. "And what, pray tell, would you have me do, Weasley? Grin like an idiot?"
Ginny nodded but he was reluctant to obey. Noticing this, Ginny waved to Crabbe and Goyle, smiling brightly. "Hey Crabbe, Goyle, have I ever told you both how important you are to-" she began to call but Draco cut her off.
"All right, all right!" he said, hastily pasting a smile on his face. "Is that better?" he asked through his smile.
Ginny smirked and nodded. "Much."
"Gods you learn fast," Draco commented, seeing her sneer.
"I'm just hoping you can learn just as quickly, Malfoy."
"Don't be stupid, Weasley, quit calling me 'Malfoy,'" Draco said, glancing around to make sure no one heard. "People could hear it."
Ginny frowned. "But calling you Ginny when I know you're Draco is just weird."
"Fine, don't use names. I'll call you…"
"Well when I was myself," Ginny drawled, smirking, "I just called you arrogant prat."
"Fine, arrogant prat it is then." Then he grinned, "But just remember that you'll be the arrogant prat."
Ginny scowled. She had meant for that to insult him, not herself. Then she said, "We should go to the library to find out how to reverse whatever this potion or hex is."
"More of a bloody curse if you ask me," Draco muttered.
Once in the library, Ginny lounged on one of the squishy chairs towards the back languidly while Draco flipped through various books he had brought back to the table.
"Aren't you going to help?" Draco asked sharply.
Ginny mockingly sighed heavily. "Now how would it look for Draco Malfoy to actually be doing something productive?" She laughed when Draco glared at her. "Just kidding, I'll certainly help."
"I look good when I laugh," Draco mused absently and Ginny snorted.
"I see that you're taking advantage of our situation to find expressions that make you look good," Ginny muttered. Then she smiled. "See? Doesn't smiling look much better than the smirk you always have plastered on your face?"
Draco chuckled, looking back down at his book and shaking his head. "You're a strange one, Weasley."
"Err…thanks?" Then she grabbed a book and began flipping through it. "So what kind of a spell do you think this is anyway?" Ginny asked, flipping a book around to look at the strange diagrams, and Draco shrugged.
"We haven't learned anything like it yet and I'm a seventh year, so it most likely wasn't a student that put us in our current situation," Draco reasoned and Ginny nodded.
Then she paused in her scanning of the book and glanced at Draco. "Hey Dra-Malfoy?"
"What?" he asked, not looking up from his book and deciding to overlook the fact that she had called him 'Malfoy' for now.
"Well…do you think this has anything to do with that…you know, that conversation, or rather argument, we had right before it happened?" Ginny asked thoughtfully.
Now Draco glanced up. "You're sharp, Weasley. I didn't even think about that. Well I did think about what you said but I didn't think it could have any connection with this but now that you mention it-"
Ginny leaned forward earnestly. "You did think about what I said then?"
"A little," Draco answered reluctantly, looking back down at his book.
"Well? What answer did you come up with?"
"I'm not missing anything, Weasley. That was my answer. Now sod off so I can concentrate."
Ginny's shoulders slumped and she frowned. Why should she care if he figured out that he needed love and friends? Why was she trying so hard to make him understand? Finally Ginny shrugged and said, "Whatever, not my problem then." She looked back down at her book only to freeze again. "Hey Malfoy?"
Draco sighed in irritation. "What now?"
"Christmas vacation is coming up soon; next week to be exact. What do we do if we haven't fixed this by then?"
"One thing's for sure, we're staying here over the vacation," Draco said firmly.
"But my family was going to go visit Bill!"
"They'll just have to go without you, or rather me," Draco said tartly.
"But I haven't seen Bill in a year! Even if I don't get to see him, I still want him to see me!" Ginny said.
"Absolutely not. I'm not about to go on some Weasley family vacation!"
"But…but I'll go to your house for you! Then we're even right? I don't want to be at your house any more than you want to be at mine so wouldn't we be even?"
Draco visibly flinched and then paled. "No!" he said, almost too hurriedly. Then he calmed and said coolly, "I don't want you in my house, Weasley."
Ginny decided to ignore that odd behavior and continued to plead. "Oh but please! You need to tell me how Bill is doing and everything! Please?"
"Gods Weasley, quit that! It's humiliating to see me begging like that!" Malfoy hissed, looking around to make sure no one was watching, which luckily, no one was.
"So will you do it? Please? I'll love you forever if you do! And-" Ginny snapped her mouth shut, realizing what she had said and hoped that Draco had missed it, but she saw his nose wrinkle in distaste and she flushed.
"I'll do it if you don't love me at all," he drawled.
Ginny no longer cared that what she had said was rather embarrassing, she just heard the words 'I'll do it' and grinned. "Oh yes! Thank you!"
"But you stay here over the Christmas vacation all right?" Draco commanded.
Ginny nodded eagerly. "Whatever you say of course!"
"All right, then I'll go visit your brother with your family if we haven't fixed this before the vacation."
"Wah! I knew you had a heart in there somewhere!" Ginny said, clapping her hands together happily.
"Don't get used to it, Weasley. I'm only going along with it because everyone thinks you're me right now and if I don't do it, you're a nasty little vixen with fangs on the inside, and wouldn't hesitate to wreak havoc on my reputation."
"I'm not a vixen with fangs on the inside!" Ginny protested.
"No one else would believe me if I told them either but I've seen it first-hand," Draco said seriously, leaning forward and pointing a finger at her. "Just like a tricky little vixen you look nice and harmless and innocent but the minute someone pisses you off, you bear your fangs."
Ginny laughed. "That's not true!" she protested, still laughing. "You're just exaggerating now."
"I'm just the only one who's had the fortune, or rather misfortune, to see the fangs bared though," Draco admitted, the corners of his lips twitching up in a smile.
"That's only because you piss me off all the time!" Ginny snapped angrily.
Draco spread his hands helplessly. "There it is again!"
Ginny grinned. "Well fine but-" Then her eyes drifted towards the clock to see that it was already eight thirty. "Damn, half an hour until curfew. We better get going or the prefects will all track us down and drag us to our Common Rooms."
Draco nodded, straightening the books on the table before following her out of the library.
Once in front of the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room, Ginny yawned. "I'm going to go in and shower and then go to sle-" she began but then froze.
"What's wrong with you now, Weasley?"
"Shower!"
"I agree. I'm starting to smell b-"
"No! Shower! Drac-Malfoy, I can't shower!" Ginny hissed.
"What? Allergic to water now, Weasley?" he sneered.
"No! Are you daft? I'm…I mean, if I did…I mean…well look!" she said, gesturing to herself. "I'm…you…"
Draco sighed in exasperation and began to explain slowly, "Weasley, I thought we already established that you are, indeed, me, and that I am, indeed, you. How many times do we need to go through this before…" he trailed off as his lips curled up in a smirk, seeing her red face and her self-consciousness. He chuckled. "So never seen a naked fellow before, eh Weasley?"
Ginny's head shot up to glare at him.
"Well you're unbelievably lucky that your first is with my body because-"
Without any warning, Ginny lifted her hand up and slapped him, the loud smack echoing off the stone dungeon walls. Draco stood there stunned for a moment before grabbing her shoulders and pressing her up against the walls of the corridor. Any surprised gasp she was about to give was stifled by his lips pressed firmly against hers. It was a good thing he was pressing her up against the wall or she would've collapsed when her knees buckled; she'd never been kissed so passionately before.
All too soon, he pulled away and looked at her and she looked at him and they both let go of each other quickly, both a bit disgusted that they had been practically kissing themselves.
"Ugh! That looked like I just kissed myself," Ginny said. It hadn't really seemed like she was kissing herself when her eyes were closed but when they opened she was just looking at herself and it was disturbing, if not a bit gross. 'But you know,' Ginny thought, 'if we did that more often and kept our eyes closed, it wouldn't be so-Oh geez, this is Malfoy you're talking about! But…but he…what the hell happened there?! I thought he was pissed off!'
Draco was equally disturbed but he was also bewildered. 'What made me do that,' he wondered. It was the Weasley girl and she had just slapped him for gods' sakes! 'Let's see,' he thought, working his way through the chain of events to see where it had taken such a turn, 'first I said that thing about naked guys and then she slapped me and then I was bloody furious but before I knew it, I was kissing her. And then I was kissing myself. Gods, I never want to see my face after I get done kissing someone ever again; that was just wrong. Forget the kissing myself part! I thought I was kissing the Weasley girl. Where did the chain events take that sort of a turn?! I could've sworn I was pissed as hell. And what-'
"Uhm, Draco? What about the shower thing?" Ginny asked him tentatively, seeing that he was thinking about something.
Draco's eyes snapped back into focus, but not because of the question. He had distinctly heard his name, not Malfoy, but his actual name. "What?"
"I said what about the shower thing?" Ginny repeated.
Draco waved a hand towards her dismissively, avoiding looking at her. He didn't want her to see that he was embarrassed by the fact that he had kissed her and the fact that they were standing in the corridor discussing Ginny looking at him naked. "So take a shower. You'll have to take one sooner or later since I don't want me smelling bad. Besides, you'll have to use the bathroom sooner or later anyway."
Ginny visibly paled, although since she was in Draco Malfoy's body, her face was already pretty pale to begin with. 'Bathroom?! That means I'll actually have to touch…' she thought in panic. 'No way, no way, no way! I'm not going to touch Malfoy like that! No way, no how! No, no, no, no!'
"Come on Weasley, you would have seen it all sooner or later anyway," Draco pointed out, and Ginny's eyes widened so he hurriedly added, "You wouldn't have seen me, of course, but someone I guess." In order to regain his composure, he sneered. "Besides, what are you now? Eight? Nine? You're a big girl now. You should be able to handle me."
Ginny glared furiously, her cheeks on fire. Oh how she wanted to slap him again! But, remembering the last time she slapped him, she just drew herself up and lifted her head determinedly. He was right she supposed, she was sixteen now so it shouldn't be such a big deal…but it was Malfoy! "Fine, I'm just going to go shower and go to bed then," she sniffed, turning towards the stone dungeon wall. Then she remembered something and turned back around. "Hey wait! Are you going to take a shower too?" she called to Draco, who was already heading down the corridor.
He turned and smirked. "Well, I don't want you to smell bad, now do I?"
Ginny's mouth opened and closed as she tried to find something to say, something sharp and witty and biting. "I don't want you to see me naked!" she blurted out instead of something sharp and witty and biting.
Draco smirked. "You're no fun, Weasley. You get to see me naked, it's only fair for me to see you naked as well, don't you think? Besides," he said, looking down, "you're body isn't so bad."
Ginny's eyes widened and her cheeks burned and she really wanted to slap him for that look he had just given her, or rather her body. As Draco turned to leave, he called over his shoulder, "If you storm into the dormitories pretending to be in a foul temper, the other Slytherins will leave you well alone if you wanted to…you know…take your shower in private. Password's flobberworm mucus by the way." He snickered and then turned the corner before Ginny could find anything to say.
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A/N: Gods, that would be weird wouldn't it? I mean, after you kissed someone, wouldn't it be really weird to see yourself when you open your eyes? That'd be so disturbing. And then going to take a shower but then looking down to find that your body isn't your body. O.o That would be creepy. I have pity for Draco and Ginny. *Grins evilly* But this is so much fun ^.^ Now click the review button and leave a review for me to read ^.^
Review Responses:
Sarah: Lol, I'm not going to go as far as explaining the bathroom. I'll explain the shower and that's as far as I'll go only because I can't imagine what Ginny'd do if she needed to use the loo. O.o
BabyBuddha: Hehehe, thanks! I'm glad you think it's funny seeing as how I tried to make it funny and the fact that someone thinks it's funny makes my effort to make it funny worthwhile. Yes, I do babble a lot.
Sabra: I actually caught that hint there! Usually I don't catch hints but you were so great and you actually put the word 'hint' in parenthesis next to the hint! I was like, "Wow, that means that that's a hint!" and I was very proud for having caught that, yes I was. And I'm babbling again. Someone hit me when I start to do that! I should put that 'Designator Hitter' idea into action sometime. A designated hitter to hit me when I do something stupid or start to babble…like now…
Tani Gesakusha: ^.^;; I know, I have a twisted, semi-perverted sense of humor. But I do have a regular sense of humor occasionally.
Sabra: Thanks for reviewing! Glad you liked the story. I'll try to update real soon, I promise ^.^
Rockelle: Wow O.O Thanks! ^.^ And make sure that when you shake the computer, you don't make it fall down. That's a no-no. I would know…
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