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Claimer: plot line and original characters.

I had a few questions in the last chapter asked by reviewers so um, here are some answers. Someone said that why is everyone speaking English? ^^ well personally I wouldn't mind adding in a lot of Japanese phrases, but that would have everyone searching for a Japanese dictionary, so for everyone's convince I am going to make it all English. Also someone asked who is Hoshi? Hoshi is actually myself ;) (note: but I am not Japanese in reply to Angie's question) I am just like her, slightly forgetful and usually late to everything, but I am also a great friend. In the story Hoshi is a witch, but right now magic is not a big part of this story, until ___ arrives ^^ haa! In suspense I'm afraid, sorry. If you have questions just leave it in the review and I'll try to answer as many as I can.

Oh and one other concern was brought to my attention, someone said that they are falling in love to fast. Maybe they are but right now it's all about Draco wanting another night. For Virginia it's about trying to bond with the father of her daughter. So that one day when Cecilia asks Virginia to tell her about her father, Virginia will have something other then stuck-up, snotty, ignorant bastard, to say.

Previously in Chapter 3:

'She looks unbelievable; Draco you have seriously try hard to keep your hands off,' Draco thought devilishly as he offered her his hand and they walked out.

Opening the Door, To Your Heart
Chapter 4: With One Dance

Draco and Virginia arrived at the ball, slightly late, but there nevertheless.

"Draco! How nice to see you here; I'm glad you made it," an old man stepped forward to shake Draco's hand. Draco grimaced inside but his face didn't betray his real emotions, "Hello Fei, I'm glad we sorted out the deal earlier." The old man was actually one of the two men that he was negotiating with, his father's clients. 'Stupid, old man,' Draco squeezed the man's hand tightly, a little, too tightly.

Suddenly the sound of someone clearing their throat was heard behind Fei, and a young man in his early 20's reveled himself, "Hello father, who might this be?"

"Kyou, you surprised me. This is Lucius's son, Draco Malfoy," the old man spoke the Malfoy name in sarcasm. 'I knew that bastard had something against the Malfoys,' Draco's right hand was absolutely dieing to just curse this man, but Malfoys –never- show their true emotions.

"Actually father, I was referring to the stunning red-head behind Mr. Malfoy," Kyou's words were dripping in sweet. Kyou apparently sucked up major to his father.

Draco then realized that Virginia was with him and brought her up to his side, "Virginia, this is Fei, one of my father's clients, and his son, Kyou. Fei, Kyou, this is Miss Virginia." He had purposely dropped the last name, after all, what would his father think if he found out? He didn't know this at the time, but Virginia was also glad that he hadn't mentioned her last name; none of her family knew where she was, she didn't need them finding out about Cecilia right now,

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet the both of you." Fei smiled at her and Virginia found herself smiling back. Kyou, on the other, went up Virginia and took her hand, bringing it to his lips, "A pleasure." Virginia blushed lightly at the sudden attention she was receiving, Draco…was most unpleased. He didn't like his date being stolen right in front of his eyes,

"Come, Virginia. Let's get ourselves a drink," Draco looped his arm around Virginia and turned to the two men, "If you'll kindly excuse us." And with that he swayed Virginia and himself in the direction of the man holding a tray of wine. In a brief second before turning, Draco had sent the suck-up-stuck-up son a glare that clearly read, 'Hands off.' The 'suck-up-stuck-up' son merely grinned and engaged in a conversation with his father.

{A/n: quick thought: you're probably thinking that Draco is a lot like Kyou, in that they both suck up and are good with the ladies but remember this: lately Draco HAS been rebelling against his father so things are not all 'suck-up-stuck-up' But I admit Draco is slightly stuck-up.}

"They seemed nice," Virginia commented as she picked up a glass of German wine from a tray. Draco looked at her oddly, "Fei is an asshole, and Kyou is a suck up. What's to like?" Virginia flared up, "What is with your attitude?" Draco grumbled and they both made their way to a table and sat down. To Draco's immense displeasure, Fei and Kyou joined them.

Dinner went on, with scheduled grumbling and right-hand twitches on Draco's behalf. Fei was talking business with Draco, so that left Virginia and Kyou to talk to each other,

"...I have a large family actually, my oldest-…" Virginia was interrupted by a pleasant comment by Kyou, "Did I mention you look stunning?" Virginia blushed as Kyou seemed to make her feel…well-pretty. She was never noticed in all her years, and now this handsome guy was complimenting her, "Actually, I do believe you mentioned it when we met." Kyou smiled and offered a hand,

"Would you honor me with one dance?" Virginia looked shocked and slowly extended her hand to his. Draco who was half-heartedly listening to Fei's ideas on the topic, when he saw Kyou and Virginia get up and walk to the dance floor. He was calm for exactly one minute before he had had enough. He sneered at Fei and said, "If you would excuse me…" Draco got up abruptly and walked to the duo. He tapped harshly on Kyou's shoulder,

"May I interrupt…?" Without even waiting for an answer he whisked Virginia off to the opposite side of the ball room and started dancing with her. Virginia who had been torn off from a rather good dancing partner looked up at Draco in rage,

"Just what the hell did you do that for?! You just left him standing there!" Draco looked calm and replied simply, "I've heard stuff about that guy. He's not what he seems."

"Malfoy, do not interrupt in my life! I can take care of myself!" Virginia's outburst, though not understandable by others nearby, had certainly succeeded in attracting unwanted attention. Draco glared at all the lookers and brought Virginia closer to him, which did make her shut up effectively. "Don't draw unwanted attention to yourself. People will recognize you," Draco's words, brushing against her ear, made Virginia understand and she nodded lightly in his chest.

'Draco's dancing is enviable, nothing compared to Kyou,' Virginia mentally noted as she felt his strong arms sway her across the dance floor. The way Draco made her feel when they danced was different than what she had felt with Kyou. With Kyou it hadn't been special, but with Draco… With Draco she felt calm, secure, and—dare she think--comfort? 'In the hands of a Malfoy,' Virginia almost laughed lightly at the thought.

They danced silently for a decent amount of time, before Virginia noticed the time, "its 11:30, Draco. I have to be at work in a half an hour; can we leave?" Virginia broke off the warm embrace and glanced into his silver-gray eyes. He merely nodded, and directed her in the direction of Fei, "Fei, I'm afraid we have to leave. Goodnight." Fei, who was in the middle of a heated argument with a co-worker, didn't even notice as Draco and Virginia slipped off into the night. Only one eye caught their departure. That person called into a cell phone, "They're coming. Don't mess up. Oh yes and bring me the red-head untouched." "Yes Kyou," another voice was heard before tone signal replaced it.



Draco and Virginia had decided to walk on foot to her apartment, since the cabs were so busy that by the time they would get one, they would be already there on foot. They walked in a comfortable silence before, suddenly, they were shoved into an alley.

Draco gathered himself immediately and helped Virginia up. He then proceeded to glare at his attackers, who were armed with wands and ready to curse, "Tomo, grab the guy's money!"

"But weren't we ordered to just attack and take the red-head," Tomo was rather dull in this situation and one would wonder why he had joined with the ranks of evil-doers.

"I know that, but why not get the money too?" the two attackers got into an argument, which bought Draco the perfect amount of time to arm himself. He pointed in the direction of the two arguing attackers and muttered the body binding spell. The two dropped to the floor like pieces of wood. What Draco didn't know was that, while he was attacking those two, the other two attackers were approaching Virginia; eying her appreciatively, "Doesn't she look tasty?"

Virginia looked up at the two in fear; she had forgotten her wand at home, thinking that it would be unneeded. She stood up and planted on her face and in her mind, the Weasely temper. The two men jumped towards her, but were intercepted by Draco's fists.

"Hands OFF!" Draco yelled clearly for them and anyone in a 50 ft. radius. Draco snaked his arm around Virginia's waist and started bringing her in the direction of the alley's exit. The two men readied their wands and one of them uttered something under their breath.

Suddenly a red fiery dragon came out from the tip of the wand and made its way to Draco and Virginia. Draco brought Virginia tightly to his chest as the dragon's hot fiery breath aimed towards him. He lifted his cloak and brought it around himself and Virginia.

Draco had received a special cloak from his father not just a month ago. It repels fire and water. The fire dissimulated and Draco brought is wand to face the two men, who had already fled. Draco grumbled and glanced at Virginia,

"You ok." Draco's husky voice brought Virginia crashing back to reality. She released herself from Draco's warm embrace and murmured, "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Good," Draco's voice suddenly strained and he swayed back and forth, as if ready to faint. You see, there was one tiny detail that his father had left out when he was describing the abilities of the cloak. In order for the cloak to defend high powered attacks, say such as Dragon's Breath, the cloak taps into the energy of the owner of the cloak. So in simple words, the cloak absorbed some of Draco's energy, that's why he is tired.

Virginia unconsciously brought her hand up to his forehead, "God, your head is burning up!" Virginia then helped Draco support himself by slipping her hand around his muscular waist. To any that didn't know the real story, they looked like a couple.

Draco and Virginia walked for a mere 2 minutes before arriving at Draco's apartment, which Draco had helped give directions to. Virginia nodded politely as the manager of the hotel smiled at her while walking through the lobby. Little did she know this would later be very very important.

Virginia slipped her hand into Draco's jacket pocket, and retrieved a silver key. Placing it into the key hole and turning, Virginia brought Draco inside and laid him on the bed in his room. Virginia sighed as she remembered how she had met Draco again in the first place. Glancing slowly, fearfully, at the clock she grimaced as the hour hand laid on 12 and the minute hand on 5.

She glanced at, the now unconscious (one again), Draco and picked up the phone in his room. She dialed the number slowly and carefully as if stalling on time to find an excuse, "Hello?"

"Yes, Rei speaking."

God, Rei, the last person Virginia wanted to talk to this very moment; but had to, "Rei, it is Virginia. There was an emergency, and that's why I'm going to be late. But I'll be there in a matter of 5 minutes."

"Don't bother…" Rei's voice trailed off as Virginia tried to understand what she was saying, "…I'm sorry, but this isn't working…" All words after that were like a blur to Virginia. She had lost her job, the job that kept Cecilia and hers' life going.

She hung up the phone and looked dumbly at the rain that had suddenly started falling outside Draco's bedroom window. Virginia let a slow tear run down her face before she heard a groan behind her. She cleared her eyes of emotion and her cheeks of sadness, before turning and facing Draco.

In one word he looked: horrible. His hear was untidy and all over the place. His face was actually paler, if that was at all possible. Virginia took his wand, which he was still holding in his hand, and conjured up a bowl of cold water and a small white towel.

She dropped the towel into the water and let it soak before picking it up, squeezing it slightly; and placing it on Draco's head. If Draco felt cold, he certainly didn't show it. She did that silently about 5 times over the duration of 20 minutes. 'I'm so tired,' Virginia thought silently to herself before replacing the wet towel on Draco's head.

'I'll just close my eyes for a minute,' was Virginia's last conscious thought before she slipped beside Draco on the bed, into dream land…



At 9 o'clock a red-head stirred in the bed, "Where am I!? And what time is it?!" Those were two immediate questions that were in her mind before another question presented itself. She tried to get up only to be stopped by a force. She cleared her eyes and surveyed about. It only took her 10 seconds to register that she was in Draco Malfoy's bed and with him for that matter; also on him,

"What the hell!!!" Virginia's voice interrupted the rather interesting dream Draco was in the middle of. He woke up to find a face no farther than an inch from his. He blinked twice before understanding that the two eyes that were glaring at him were certainly not welcoming.

"What happened," he croaked out, receiving a glare from Virginia.

"How the hell am I supposed to know? YOU were the one who had the fever," Virginia spoke as if it was the solution to everything.

"Ah, but correct me if I'm wrong in saying that YOU were the one who was attending me?" Draco evenly countered. He smirked as his comments had received a light blush on her cheeks.

"Get your hands off!" Virginia now started struggling. Draco only pulled her closer to him so that their lips were a mere centimeter apart. "No, no, no. Now tell me Vir-gin-ia..," Draco purposely brought out each syllable as he spoke her name, "Did you enjoy last night?" The way he spoke it was to imply dirty thoughts, but that didn't stop him, "I know I certainly did." He lightly brushed her lips with his.

That only got him a well deserved slap on the face, "Get your head OUT of the gutter!" Virginia struggled again after her outburst and successfully succeeded in breaking loose of his enclosure. Virginia brought herself off the bed and she walked to the bathroom in clear defiance. She locked the door behind her and stripped herself; stepping into the shower she shivered slightly.


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That's all for this chapter ppl. Sorry about the delay, I, myself, was attending a party last night, so I had no time to type this chapter. I want to thank all reviewers for your support which has helped and encouraged me to keep chapters coming out swiftly, SO KEEP THAT UP ?

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Preview for chapter 5: With One Offer

Virginia is now jobless, what is she going to do? Can she get a certain blond head to help her out?
"…You need a job...?"
Also things get interesting between Cecilia and Draco,
"…who are you…?"