Ginny stripped herself of her clothes and stepped into the steaming shower. As she washed her body she thought of all that had happened. She wondered if she was really pregnant. It did seem that the Weasley fertility had taken its toll again. She touched her bare stomach and felt a strange tingle run through her arm. She was really happy at the idea of being pregnant, having someone to love, someone to love you. Draco was going to love a baby.
Draco… That was the first time since Candy had brought her to this strange paradise yesterday. How would he react to having a child? Would he love it? Would he reject her for it? No Draco would never… maybe.
Ginny stepped from the shower and started to dry her hair. Ginny had been a virgin when she had slept with Draco. That had been her first and only time, it had hurt but it had felt good to. Just the thought of Draco's hands caressing her most intimate parts with his loving hands caused a shiver to run down her back and return. She walked to her bureau and put on a shirt and jeans. Candy walked in and watched as she brushed her hair. Ginny watched the blonde from her vanity; she had a pained expression on her face and seemed to be fidgeting.
"What is it?" Ginny asked "Did something go wrong with the tests?"
"Tests?" Candy asked looking befuddled but still quite anxious
"When I first came here they took a bunch of hair straight from my head everyday, said it was for tests" Ginny answered still looking at the platinum haired woman through the mirror.
"Oh no they all came back good" Candy said "Come sit by me Gin, this is personal" Ginny walked and sat next to Candy where she sat on the plush bed. "I was told to give this to you. I'm not sure what is inside," she handed Ginny an unopened letter. The wax seal was of the Malfoy clan. This is what it read:
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Dear Weasley,
I can't believe you actually fell for it all!! What a fool you have been!!
You actually thought I cared about your pathetic life!!!!
What a laugh! This was all a sweet plan devised by my Lord!
Delightfully Not Yours,
Draco Malfoy
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Ginny sat quietly staring at the cold unfeeling letter. She held it firmly in her two hands and ripped it in half, then in quarters, followed by eighths. She then walked and threw the pieces of the short, cold letter out through the bars of her window. Hot tears of malice ran down from her chocolate eyes to her pale cheeks. The tears stung like smoke attacking her face. Her chest felt like a thousand stones were piled on top of it and her entire body was shaking with rage and grief. Her throat stuck but she still managed to say in as cold a voice as she could muster.
"You can leave now, Candace" Candy did as she was told, stopping only once to grab a handful of hair from Ginny's hairbrush. Ginny stared out the window at the dark forest that surrounded the building. It seemed like night all the time in the forest despite the many lights in the room and Ginny knew that that was how she felt, that darkness would always surround her. She wanted to break something, hurt someone, anything to take her mind off the pain. She grabbed her silver hair brush looking lightly at the shining metal in the candlelight.
She saw her reflection and the reflection of her pain in her face. She screamed and threw the brush across the room and felt a small amount of satisfaction as she heard the mirror of the vanity smash to pieces. She fell into a heap on the floor. She thought back to a day muddled in her memories. Her family had gone to the lake and she had tried to swim as far out as she could, but soon she was too far out and the water was much too deep. She couldn't find her footing and slipped beneath the water. There had been nothing around her but murky, dark water, but someone's hand had pulled her from the darkness. But now she was drowning and there was no one left to save her from the fatal, dark water.
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Draco was worried. Ginny had completely forgotten to meet him in the Great Hall. He wondered what had happened. Had she been caught up with detention and forgot to tell him? It was the morning after they were supposed to meet and he was looking for Ginny for some explanation. He soon saw two Gryffindor 7th year girls walking down the hall.
"Did you hear about Ginny?" the taller one asked
"No, what happened?" the other asked. Draco overhearing the conversation ducked behind an alcove.
"Well, word has it she was seen heading towards the prefect boy's bathroom last night and we all know Ron gives the password to Harry." The taller said with a pause for dramatic affect "She wasn't seen all night"
"They went all the way?" the short girl asked "But they have been together for barely a week!"
"I always told you she was only sleeping with Harry to get popular" the tall girl said. Draco felt a sting of jealous at the thought of Harry on top of Ginny.
"What a slut!!" the shorter one said. At this Draco's jealousy turned purely to anger. He quickly muttered a spell and jumped into the view of the two Gryffindors.
"You don't want to go that way girls, some first years set off some Dungbombs, you can smell them from here" Draco said a smirk adorning his face.
"I don't smell anything, Malfoy" the taller one said brushing past him
"Yeah, go annoy someone else" the shorter one said following the other.
"You're funeral!" Draco said smiling in anticipation. The girls walked on down the corridor and soon were covering there mouths and sputtering. Draco laughed at his spell, they would smell that terrible odor (a mixture of curdled milk, feet, and urine) until someone did the counter spell. Draco wasn't exactly rushing to perform the counter.
Draco walked away from the girls and down another corridor. So he hadn't been the only one to notice Ginny was gone last night. Draco was so lost in his thoughts that he bumped into someone and fell to the ground.
"Watch where you're going, you bloody brat!" Draco said rubbing the arm he had fallen on.
"Now that is no way to talk to your lovely redheaded girlfriend!" Draco looked up to see Ginny's chocolate eyes staring at him. But they were different cold, almost dead.
"Hey, Gin." Draco greeted her he was a bit put off by her eyes but he didn't let it show. "Help me up, okay?" Ginny obliged. Draco looked around and then walked into an empty room and bade Ginny to follow. Ginny wrapped her arms around his hips and leaned into his body.
"I'm sorry I couldn't make it last night, I had detention with Snape" Ginny said
"I wish you would have notified me" Draco said not entirely returning the embrace.
"I can make it up to you, if you know what I mean" Ginny said with a raised eyebrow and a lick of her lips.
"Gin, not here, not now," Draco said, the stoic eyes were starting to scare him
"Oh come live a little" Ginny said and pushed him onto the floor and then straddled him. She looked down at him, hair cradling her face, and Draco couldn't figure what had happened last night to make her so strange. Ginny leaned down and kissed him her tongue licking at his lips. Draco pushed the girl off himself. This wasn't Ginny.
"Who are and what have you done with Ginny?" Draco yelled standing up quickly and staring into the imposter's dead eyes.
"What are talking about?" the imposter exclaimed
"If you're not going to tell me what you did to her get the fuck out of here!!" Draco bellowed pointing to the exit.
"Draco, it is me!" the imposter screamed at him
"Get the fuck out!" shouted Draco to the redheaded imposter.
"That's it Draco! I have had enough of your crap! We're through!" with that she left the room and slammed the door.
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Draco knew that Potter took this corridor to get to Trelawney's class, the question was would he be with Weasley? Potter walked down the hallway, Weasley was right at his side.
"Shit!" thought Draco from where he was hiding, right behind the oak door of an empty classroom. He could see the two walking side by side, discussing the last loss of the Chudely Cannons.
"Oh, Bloody hell!" exclaimed Ron as he started to search through his shoulder bag.
"What?" asked Harry looking to his friend who was shuffling through his papers.
"I left my divination book in the common room" said Ron slapping his forehead.
"Maybe we won't need it" Harry said
"I doubt that, she needs it to tell you the new way you are going to die this week" Ron said slapping his friend on the back "I'm just going to go back and get it"
"You want me to come with?" Harry asked
"No that is okay, I don't want you to be late for your impaling" said Ron and quickly turned tail and ran
"You'd better hurry" Harry yelled to his back to be answered by a wave of Ron's hand. Harry started to trek down the hallway again.
"Now or never" thought Draco and he swiftly flung himself towards Harry and used his hand to cover Harry's mouth to avoid the scream that would most likely ensue. It was great struggle, Harry tried to wrangle himself free of Draco's clutches by elbowing him in the ribs. Draco gave a hiss of pain and grabbed at Harry's hair with his free hand in retaliation. After a few minutes of hard muscle on hard muscle Draco managed to get Harry into the spare classroom which he had previously charmed with a sound proofing charm as well as a locking spell.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked from where he was sitting panting.
"You're a good fight, Potter" Draco said as he to caught his breath.
"That's not really an answer" Potter said, there was purity to the loathing in his emerald eyes.
"I brought you here to talk about Ginny" Draco said having finally caught hold of his lost breath.
"What did you do to her?!" Harry asked his eyes now in tight slits of hatred.
"I didn't do anything to her" Draco said "But something has happened, she's different, haven't you noticed?"
"No, she seems exactly the same" Harry said
"Please, what you know about Ginny anyway" Draco said laying his head in his hands "This was stupid, I shouldn't have taken you here"
"Yeah, you shouldn't have," Harry said standing up to meet the eyes of the blonde "Now what is your full reason for taking me?"
"Because, Ginny is off" Draco said not exactly knowing how to say it "It's like she is someone different"
"How do you even know what Ginny is like, Malfoy?" Harry asked
"Because" Draco said
"Because?" Harry implored
"Because, she's been my girlfriend for about two months" Draco said "Give or take"
"You bastard!!" Harry shouted launching himself on Draco, pushing him to the ground and giving him a strong punch in the jaw. "How dare you touch my sister!" Harry stopped short at his own words giving Draco time to push the raven haired boy off him.
"You see!" Draco said cradling his aching jaw. "She is not you girlfriend, she's more of a sister"
"I guess your right" Harry said making a realization that probably taken him a lot longer with out the help of Draco the human punching bag.
"Anyway, back to the point, Ginny…" Draco said "It's like she is someone completely different"
"How?" Harry asked
"Well it was her eyes, they were cold, like looking into an ice cavern" Draco said shivering at the thought
"Hmm" Harry said thinking "You said it was like she was a different person … like it was just Ginny's body that you recognized"
"Yeah" Draco said "that's it exactly"
"Sounds like a Polyjuice Potion" Harry said "I used one in second year to… never mind what I did"
"So what do you think we should do?" Draco asked
"I think we should go to Dumbledore and explain the situation" Harry said
"So he can what? Tell us that he thinks we are wrong and even if we are right that there is nothing that we can do" Draco said, he didn't have a lot of respect for the professor.
"Got any better ideas?" Harry asked
"No" Draco said
"Then we go to Dumbledore." Harry said
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