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Chapter 10: Hunted
All through the night, the trio and Dumbledore followed Athena as she flew through the night skies above them. The moon and the stars shone down hard and cold upon them as they walked.
"Where is this bloody owl taking us?" Ron demanded sourly.
Hermione shot him a glare.
"I believe that I know where she is taking us," Dumbledore spoke. There was no indication in the old wizard's voice that Ron's tone bothered him in the slightest.
"Well… where then?" Ron was clearly annoyed.
"There is a cave hidden behind a small clump of trees… only a few more miles from here."
Harry sighed, "A few more miles?"
Ron just scowled.
***
Blaise Zabini could not sleep no matter how hard he tried. He walked over to his window and stared out upon the horizon as the sun slowly began to rise. He frowned in disgust… time was being wasted and he was anxiously waiting for a reply from Draco's father. In the meantime, he had forced all of his dorm-mates out of his room so that he could be alone when Draco's father contacted him… he was hoping that it would be at any minute.
Suddenly, the fireplace in his dorm room erupted into orange flames and the head of none other than Lucius Malfoy appeared. Blaise felt a wave of relief come over him and his body relaxed a little. Slowly and casually, he walked over to the fireplace.
"Mr. Zabini, are you quite sure that my son is missing? And the girl?" even through the fire, it was apparent that Lucius Malfoy shuddered with disgust at the mere thought of Ginny Weasley.
Blaise nodded reluctantly, "Yes sir, I'm afraid so. I have reason to believe that he is…" his voice trailed suddenly and he cleared his throat. "That he is protecting her, sir."
Lucius's lips curled into a sneer, "You must be mistaken, Mr. Zabini."
"No sir… I wish that I was. You see, I had a plan to help speed up the process of handing the girl over to you and the other loyal followers. I was hoping that it would gain me favor with The Dark Lord so that I could join next term rather than over the summer. Your son learned of my plans and thwarted me. At first, I thought it might be because he was thinking the same thing as I was… he wanted to join sooner… but then, I saw the mark…" There was a hint of jealousy in the boy's words as he spoke.
Lucius nodded; expressions of utter disappointment and rage spread across his face.
Blaise continued, "Well, we had a slight row and I learned that he had a sort of… well, affection really… towards the girl. Soon after that, they both had gone missing."
Lucius remained calm, but on the inside he was absolutely infuriated, "Well now… I thank you Mr. Zabini for your concern and for your devotion to The Dark Lord. I will see that you are rewarded for your actions. Perhaps you will be allowed to join earlier than you expected after all." Lucius's lips turned upward into an evil grin, "In fact, I'll give you your first assignment. If you are successful, you will be marked over your winter break."
Blaise smiled broadly at the elder Malfoy's words, "And what is my task, sir?"
"You are to find my son and the girl and bring them before me. I will give you a spell which will aid you in tracking my son. When you do find them, I do not care in what condition you bring them before me, so long as you bring them to me alive. I will then bring the girl before The Dark Lord… and if Draco wishes to live, he will be the one to end her life. If he fails, then he will learn what it means to defy me and The Dark Lord…"
Blaise bowed before Lucius's head in the fire, "As you wish, sir."
***
Draco sat near the little fire just gazing at Ginny's sleeping form. She looked like an angel… so innocent, so beautiful. She began to stir and slowly opened her eyes. As she turned over, she looked up at Draco and smiled.
"I was debating as to whether I ought to wake you. The sun is beginning to rise… my father will have people hunting us for sure."
Ginny frowned, but immediately got up and dressed herself anyway.
Finally, once they were both ready, Draco put out the fire and handed Ginny his invisibility cloak to wear. The two cautiously made their way towards the cave entrance. The rising sun was causing luscious orange streaks to form low across the horizon… however most of the sky was still rather dark.
Draco stopped abruptly, "Hold on!" he whispered.
Ginny stood as still as she possibly could; beads of sweat were forming on her forehead while standing underneath the precious invisibility cloak. She felt as though she would faint.
Draco peered out of the cave. He had heard something move outside and wanted to be sure that it was safe for them to leave. When he finally felt that all was clear, he gave Ginny the 'go ahead' signal. She grasped his hand tightly as she began to walk forward and out of the cave.
Draco's mind was racing with thoughts as to where they should go. He really had no idea of where to go next. 'We cannot stay at Hogwarts… that's a given… can't go home… can't go back to the cave… Where to go? The Forbidden Forest? I don't like that place… werewolves… centaurs… Where to go?'
Suddenly, the thought struck him. Of course! He remembered that there was a secret crypt hidden within an old cemetery about three miles past Hogsmeade. It was not the most pleasant place to hide, but no one knew about it except for him. It was the only place they could go that was secret and safe.
Abruptly, Draco changed directions, dragging Ginny along with him.
***
Blaise Zabini got off his broom and stalked towards the hidden cave entrance. Carefully and quietly, he walked inside.
"Lumos," he stated causing his wand to light at its tip.
He only saw the remains of a fire that had been extinguished a short while ago. Damn!! At this sight he scowled and thought to himself, 'He should be here. The spell indicated that he'd be here. Where could he have gone now? And I can't even work the spell again for another three hours! Stupid spell!'
At that, the black-haired boy stalked back out of the cave, mounted his broom and made his way back towards the castle.
***
Dumbledore and the trio walked onwards. Suddenly, Ron ran ahead towards a clump of trees.
"Ron! Be careful!" Hermione shouted.
"Ginny!! Malfoy, you git, where's my sister!!"
Hermione rolled her eyes.
Harry just walked forward, no expression on his face.
Ron, Harry and Hermione stood there, open-mouthed, at the cave entrance. Dumbledore walked up behind them.
"It's as I feared," Dumbledore began. "We're too late… they've moved on to another location. Perhaps Draco's owl knows where he's gone?" The old wizard's eyes twinkled merrily.
Athena hooted and flapped her wings wildly. It appeared that she did not have any idea as to where Draco and Ginny had gone.
Dumbledore frowned, "Dear Athena, you have no idea?" He paused for a moment, "Well, we must go back to the castle. There is something that we can do… though I do not like this idea one bit… But it seems that it's our only chance of finding them."
Ron whispered so that only Harry could hear, "Does he always have to talk in riddles?"
***
After walking for about an hour or so, Draco and Ginny came upon a rough and wild cemetery. Draco led the way towards an ornate looking statue. On it's base read, In Memory of the Wilson Family… May Their Memory Live On Forever. Draco did not like the idea of bringing Ginny into a crypt, but it was the only place he knew where they would be safe… at least for a time.
"We're here… there's a hidden entrance at the back of the statue." He tapped his wand on the statue's back five times. Suddenly, a doorway appeared and the two entered. Once inside, the doorway immediately disappeared as if it never existed at all.
Ginny took off the invisibility cloak as they made their way down the spiraling steps leading deeper under the ground. Ginny looked around and felt a chill sweep over her body. She shivered.
"You okay?" Draco asked.
Ginny nodded, "I'm fine… it's just… well, this place…"
Draco sighed, "I know… figures that I'd know about a place like this, right?"
"I wasn't thinking that… it's just that this place reminds me of the Chamber."
Draco nodded understandingly, "I see. I didn't want to bring you to a place like this, but at least it's safe… for now."
Ginny smiled sweetly, "It's brave of you to go to all this trouble to protect me."
Draco turned towards the girl and pulled her close, "I'd risk everything for you… even my life."
Ginny was moved by his words and she nuzzled against his chest. Draco let out a contented sigh at her touch and held her close.
After a few moments, Ginny was pulled out of her reverie, "Draco, how'd you find this place? I mean… it's so far out of the way and all."
"I have made it a mission of mine to learn about as many secret passages, secret places and such around Hogwarts as possible ever since my 1st year here. After my 5th year, like I said, my eyes were opened. I guess I wanted to prepare myself. Funny though how initially I tried learning these secrets because of my hopes to become prefect and catch Gryffindors… especially Potter and pals… and get them into trouble."
Ginny slapped his arm lovingly. He feigned as if she had really hurt him and she laughed, "Well, it's a good thing that you learned them. They've been proving quite useful." She paused for a moment, "And… it's a good thing, however, that you never needed to punish anyone… especially Gryffindors… for using them while you were prefect!"
Draco smiled a real smile… and Ginny thought that she actually saw a touch of blue glimmer in his silvery eyes.
"So, how long to you think we can stay here before we have to move again?" Ginny asked.
Draco shook his head, "Not sure… something tells me that we shouldn't stay put anywhere for any length of time… that being on the move is best. And it's weird, because I know that no one but me knows of this place… but I can't help but have this feeling that someone somewhere knows we're here. I really can't explain it any better than that."
Ginny frowned. Her Draco, who was usually so cool and so collected, seemed slightly off his guard and quite fluttered. He seemed distracted and unsure.
"Well, I suppose we'd better make the best of it while we're here."
Draco's expression was suddenly that of his traditional smirk. He raised his eyebrows in a sexy manner and walked closer to the red-head, "Thought you'd never say that."
Ginny smiled teasingly, "Oh really…"
"But I knew you would… how can you resist me?"
Ginny mimicked Draco's smirk, "And why is that, might I ask?"
"Because I'm a Malfoy… rich, powerful… plus, take a look at the package!" he teased.
"Oh my dear Mr. Malfoy… I think that it is you who cannot resist me."
Draco arched an eyebrow. He was thoroughly enjoying this little game of hers, "Want to make a bet?"
"Gladly…"
"You're on."
At that, Ginny smiled and walked to the other side of the crypt room. Draco stood there just watching her. She carefully bent over as if looking for something in her bag, making sure that her curves were being shown off in the most enticing way. Draco did not move.
"It's getting a bit hot in here, don't you think?" Ginny asked. First, she kicked off her black boots and black socks. Then she slowly took off her black shirt revealing her black lacey bra. Finally, she slipped out of her black jeans revealing a black lacey thong. Draco stood there, heart beating madly. He could now feel himself getting very aroused by her game.
Finally, he just could not stand it anymore. He flung himself on to her covering her with kisses, "You tease… you evil little tease…" he said between kisses.
Ginny smiled partially due to the delight of his kisses, "Looks like I won," she panted.
Draco looked at her and grinned sheepishly, "Yeah yeah yeah…"
Ginny could not help but laugh at him. Draco laughed too, but continued to shower her body with kisses. When Ginny was good and aroused, she frantically helped Draco undress.
Draco thrust himself inside her. She moaned with want and desire and her nails dug into his back as his hips moved rhythmically with her own. He groaned with pleasure at her actions and gave her small vampire-like kisses along her neck, leaving small red marks on her milky white skin.
He kissed her passionately and deeply. Each searched the others' mouth with their tongues. Ginny bit down on Draco's lower lip causing it to bleed ever so slightly. His life-giving serum was so sweet on her tongue. At that, he began thrusting faster, deeper… moaning all the while.
Ginny grabbed his buttocks pushing him deeper still into her as she moved her hips against his. Draco could feel an overwhelming sense of passion building inside of him and he could see that the same was happening to Ginny as well based on her facial expressions.
"Oh Draco!" she screamed.
"Ginny," he panted.
The two finally let out screams of pure ecstasy as they shook with the pleasure that they instilled in each other. Ginny could feel Draco's fluids rushing inside her… Draco could feel Ginny contracting around him. They looked into each others' eyes. Their expressions saying so much more than words ever could… and they hugged each other tightly.
"I love you, Virginia Weasley."
"And I love you, Draco Malfoy."
Draco smiled down at her, "Will you be with me forever?"
Ginny's eyes widened at his question. This was not like Draco… to allow himself to be so vulnerable. His actions moved her and made her feel so special because it was only she who could cause him to act in such a way and she alone.
"Draco, I'll never leave your side ever."
The blond boy smiled, "Then Miss Virginia Weasley… once we're out of school… will you find it in your heart to marry me?"
Tears welled in Ginny's eyes, "Yes!" she exclaimed.
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