Title: Need to know.

Author: Ginny

Date: 7/31/03

Summary: Draco, Harry, Hermione, Lavender, Ron, and Ginny are playing Truth or Dare, but it comes out more of a story telling game. Will they become friends? Will Draco be part of the "dream team"? And what's that on Draco's arm? It's not the Death Eater mark, maybe it is, but maybe it's something totally different.

Author's note: Okay, I know there are like a million of these out there. Okay, well last time I checked there were 75. But anyways, there are a lot out there, so this is my make of Truth or Dare.

Author's second note: Look at end of story.

Disclaimer: As always, this never changes, not mine, getting no money.

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Ginny and Draco quietly walked into the Griffendor common room and no one noticed them. Draco put a finger up to his lips and motioned her to be quiet. He walked up to the sitting area where Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Lavender were all sitting and said, "Hey there Weasley," he paused very quickly and said, "Potter."

Without raising their heads the two boys answered, "Hey Malfoy." After a few seconds the two boys' heads popped up and said, "Malfoy!?"

Ron ran up to him and said, "What the bloody hell are you doing here?"

"Calm down, Ronald, I invited him," Ginny said.

This is when they two girls came up behind their boyfriend's to make sure that they wouldn't do anything too stupid.

"You brought him... you... him... here... together?!" Ron stuttered.

"Oh dear," Draco said in a fake nice-worded-like voice, "If he's acting like this just seeing us together what is he going to do when he finds out that we eloped last weekend?"

"ELOPED!?" Ron screamed.

"Shhh!" Ginny slapped his arm, "I wasn't going to tell him just yet!" Ginny played along.

"My sister married a Malfoy!" Ron turned to the others, "My baby sister married a MALFOY!"

Ginny could barely hold a straight face and added, "Ron, you have to learn to love him. He's going to be the father of your new nieces." Ron's mouth fell opened and Ginny turned to Draco, "Madam Promfrey says that they're twin girls."

"Oh, honey, I couldn't be happier," he grabbed Ginny and swung her into a dipping position ready to kiss her when they heard something fall to the ground. The two stood back up and noticed Ron lying on the floor, "I think we killed your brother."

Ron shot back up, "How could you! I'm going to tell mum! And then I'm going to kill you!!" He pointed at Draco. "Wait, first I'll kill you and then tell mum!!"

"Oh, Ron, relax! We were only kidding! It's nice to know that you got some faith in your sister though."

"You mean you aren't married! You aren't pregnant? This is only some kind of weird dream where my sister is friends with a Malfoy."

"Well, only half of that is right," he paused and before Ron was able to think of anything Draco said, "We are friends."

"What?" everyone said together.

"What's wrong with that?" Ginny asked.

"Nothing," Hermione said.

"Yes, hun, nothing," Lavender added in with a smile.

"So, tell me, what do we do on one of these slumber party nights?" Draco asked in wonderment.

"Oh God," Ginny said, "We play a horrid game called 'Truth or Dare'. Hermione taught it to us."

"Sounds like fun, how do you play?"

"Well," Hermione said getting overly excited about having another person in on their game, "we sit in a circle on the floor and pick one person. They either pick truth or dare. If truth they have to answer a question, if dare they have to do something. The person may decline the question or the task, but has to do the other."

"Sounds like fun, let's start!" Draco said rubbing his hands together.

Ron looked at Harry for some help, but Harry only shrugged and joined his girlfriend on the floor.

~*~The Game~*~

All six of them where sitting on the floor when Hermione said, "Draco, considering that you are the new one, you can ask anyone to 'truth or dare'."

"Wonderful," he looks at everyone and then he looks at the beauty besides him, "Virginia!"

Ginny sighed disgusted, "What?"

"Truth or Dare." He smiled wickedly.

"Truth."

"Okay, so do you have a Tattoo?"

Ginny saw Ron glaring at her, but she told him the truth nonetheless, "Yes I do."

"Wait a moment," Harry said, "You two are friends, but you don't know if she has a Tattoo or not?"

"Well, she said she was going to get it done last weekend at Hogsmeade and we really didn't have enough 'alone'" he said adding the finger quotes in, "for me to actually see it!" he turned to Ginny, "Come on, Gin. Let's see it!"

Ginny turned around and lifted her shirt up. On the small of her back was a medium sized fairy.

"Ooo!" Hermione and Lavender said and crawled up to her to get a better look. "Did it hurt?" the two girls asked at the same time.

"A bit at first, but then the pain just dulled away."

"Ginny, does mum know about this!?" Ron asked stunned.

"No and she won't!"

"She's right, Ron," Lavender stated, "We made a pact that no matter what we say does not leave the circle."

"Yes, I had to place my hand over my heart and repeat something really stupid, so don't be breaking this oath thing, Weasley!" Draco said to him sternly.

"Well, what about you? Did you get yours done?" Ginny question him.

"It's not my turn, Ginny."

"Oh! So, you didn't get it done, did you? What big baby couldn't take the pain?"

"I didn't say that."

"Then show us!" Hermione, Lavender, and Ginny said.

"Now you guys are getting tattoos together?" Ron said.

Draco decided to just ignore him and stood up. He turned his back to them, unbuckled his belt, and unzipped his pants.

"Whoa! If this is anywhere inappropriate, I don't want to see it!" Ron said. "Right Lavender?" He turned to his girlfriend who was just starring at Draco's backside sitting waiting to see this tattoo of his, "LAVENDER?!"

"Oh relax there, Weasley. There's nothing in the "Dating Rule Book" that she can't look, just as long as she doesn't touch."

"And she better not!" both Ron and Ginny said at the same time.

Everyone, including Draco looked at her, and Ginny finally realized her mistake, "I mean for Ron's sake, of course."

"Of course," he pulled one side of his pants down, showing off his hip, which had a sword with a snake crawling up it.

Ginny leaned a little closer to get a better look, "Very nice choice, Draco." She said and smiled up at him.

Draco smiled back down at her, zipped himself back up, sat back down, and said, "So, what about you four? Any tattoos?" Everyone looked a little nervous. "Oh my God, and they call you Gryffindors the brave ones."

Harry sighed and lifted his sleeve of his shirt up. On his shoulder was a small tattoo of a golden snitch and Lavender pulled her sock off and reveled a rose on her ankle.

"Hermione, you don't have one?" Ginny asked.

"I think it's wrong and degrading to have to ruin your skin with such poison."

"Weasley, what about you?" Draco asked.

"Uh... I think the same thing as Hermione does."

Ginny leaned over to Draco and whispered in his ear, "He can't stand the pain."

"I heard that!" Ron cried out.

"Yeah, I said it loud enough."

"So, who's next?" Draco said trying to change the subject.

"I am!" Ginny said and went to the next person. "Ronnie!" she looked over at her brother, "Truth or Dare?"

"Dare me!" Ron said in a stern voice.

"I dare you to sit still with a rather large spider on you, for 15 seconds." Ginny said without thinking.

"Give me truth!" Ron said changing his mind.

"Okay, two weeks ago, I seemed to have passed your room and heard some strange noises coming out of there. Not the normal strange noises that everyone usually hears, but other ones. What we're you doing?" Everyone looked at him, all except Lavender; she was looking at the ground with her cheeks all red.

"Someone get me a spider."

~*~

Those were the 15 longest seconds that Ron has ever encountered. Ginny conjured up a scary, nonpoisonous spider, and placed it on top of Ron's head. It squirmed all over him, getting one leg in his ear, one up his nose, and one in his mouth. Everyone could swear that he was about to lose it, but the 15 seconds were up.

"Thank God! Finally! My turn!!" He turned to the next victim. "Malfoy! Truth or Dare?"

"Truth."

"Do you have the Dark Mark?"

Everyone's eyes went straight to Draco. Apparently everyone wanted to know this. "No," he said point blankly.

"I don't believe you," Harry spoke out.

"Of course you wouldn't, Potter. Let me prove it to you," he rolled his sleeves off and true to his word there was no dark mark, but underneath the sleeve, up towards his shoulder there was something poking out from under his sleeve.

"What's that then!?" Ron pointed and accused.

"It's nothing!" Draco said pulling his sleeves back down.

"Ah-ha! So you do have the Dark Mark!"

Draco sighed and hoped to God that no one would know what it was. He raised his sleeve and on his shoulder was the letter 'M' with a line going through it.

"Holy Crap! I've seen one of those before!" Hermione said. "Never imagine that I would see it on you, Malfoy."

"And if you're smart, you'll keep your mouth shut about it, Granger."

Hermione was in such awe and everyone was demanding to know what it was that she didn't even hear Draco's threat, "That's a disownment mark!"

"Disownment?" Harry and Ron looked at him and starred.

"Yeah, do you two idiots know what that is? It means that my father decided to disown me. Meaning that he threw me out of my house, striped me of my title, and the mark is to show all of my family members that they are not allowed to take me in." He turned to Hermione and sneered, "Thank you so much for embarking everyone on something that isn't their business. You may be the smartest person in the school, but you never do know when to keep your mouth shut!" Harry got a little upset with the way that Draco was treating his girlfriend and he stood up, "What, Potter, got something to say?"

"Yeah, there's no reason to be acting like that towards my girlfriend!"

Hermione stood up and tried to stop him, "Harry, it's okay."

"No, it's not okay. Malfoy, I know what you're going through, I mean try living with the Dursley's for the past 11 years! Try being a slave in your own house!"

"You have no clue what I'm going through." He said through clenched teeth and pushing Harry as thought trying to start a fight, "Sure you lived through hell for, what, 11 years? But you've been loved and accepted, by not only your parents, but by the Weasley's. Try living in a household where you were brought up to hate muggles, or, no offense Hermione, mud-bloods." She let out a little, 'None taken' and he continued, "To be brought up that just because you have money that you're better than people like the Weasley's, when actually you're not. I've never experienced the love that you have been given; I haven't even had a real friend until Ginny, that is. So don't you dare say that you know what I'm going through because you don't! And excuse me if I got a little upset at your girlfriend for saying something that I really didn't want anyone to know, because it's none of their bloody damn business!"

By the time that Draco finished talking no one could look at anyone and they all waited for someone else to say something.

"Well, this was fun!" Draco said sarcastically, but not at all upset, "Well, I am off to get some snacks from the kitchens. Anyone have any requests?"

"Uh... could you grab us some butter beers?" Lavender squeaked out.

"Sure," Draco said, and before he left he said, "Oh and don't start without me. Before this night is over, I vow that we are going to dig out some ugly skeletons from everyone's closets!" and with that he left.

Ginny got up and ran after Draco.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Bet you guys weren't expecting that, now were you? So, what's Draco's story? What are these ugly skeletons? All this and more next time on, "Need to know" The adventures of other people rather than Harry Potter.

Author's second note: Oh my God! Thank you guys! Thank you! I can't believe I have received so many reviews! Thank you. Oh dear, I just hope that I can keep you all liking and enjoying this.

Okay and I know that Harry said 11 years, but if you think about it, after he started going to school he wasn't at "home" for much. You know? So he's just going to say 11. Just to clear that up.