Chapter 9
Caught in Actions....
*Hey everyone.....I'm gonna try making some chapters longer, see how it works out....thanks for the feedback!*
11:46 pm
Harry stood, pacing in the Gryffindor common room, nervous about midnight. Should he bring his invisibility cloak?
Then Pansy would see it, and he didn't know whether that was a good idea or not.
No, he decided, Not this time. Maybe after tonight I can show her some of my secrets...
He grinned despite himself, then glanced around the empty common room, just to double check that nobody would see him leaving.
Then he promptly crawled through the portrait hole, and began on his way to the Quidditch pitch.
Pansy stood in the darkest part of the Quidditch field, making sure not to be seen by anybody looking through their windows before they fell asleep.
As she stood there, she ran her fingers through her hair.
He would be here any moment, she thought.
What would she say to him?
Why had she asked him here, at midnight, in a deserted place?
To talk.....or not.....?
Oh well, she thought, What happens, happens, and there's nothing I can do about it until it does.
Her heart leaped.
She saw a figure, lean, tall, coming towards her.
She began to smile.
This would be an interesting night...
As Draco walked out onto the pitch, he sighed in relief.
She was already here.
He recognized the female outline, but she looked different....maybe her posture....or her hair?
He looked closer.
Was that Ginny?
Oh well, Draco thought, Let's see then...
Ginny nearly ran out onto the pitch, for she knew she was late...she had somehow fallen asleep on her books in her dormitory, and had woken up at eleven fifty-nine!
Luckily she was already in her robes, and she had raced down the stairs to get outside.
As she came from the Gryffindor exit, she saw a figure, right ahead of her, walking in the same direction.
"Draco!" she half screamed, half whispered.
He stopped, and turned around.
But it wasn't Draco
It was Harry.
Hermione, always on time, got to the pitch early, for she couldn't wait to see Ron.
What a great kisser he was!
Not that I have much to compare him to..., she thought wryly.
Only Viktor, she thought, and he was stiff, and formal.
Besides that, she hadn't seen him for about seven months, since her parents refused to let her go to Bulgaria alone, let alone to be with a boy.
Oh well, she thought, all's well that ends well...
She glanced at her watch, which read 12:07.
Where is he? She thought, just when she felt a pair of arms circle her waist.
"Hey Herm..."
Hermione smiled.
"Hi, Ron..."
She turned around, gave him a smile, and moved her head to one side when he leaned down to kiss her.
This was going to be hard to let go of when they had to go back to bed...she thought.
But then her thoughts vanished in an instant as Ron deepened the kiss...
What was going on?
Why was Ginny out here, and why did she call him Draco?
"Ginny?" Harry called quietly.
Ginny stood on the spot, like a deer in headlights.
Then she blinked, and walked slowly over to him.
"Hey! Harry! What are you doing out here.....at this time of night....?"
"I could ask you the same thing!"
"Well, I had a matter that I had to discuss with someone...and this is where we decided to meet....and.....and....why are you here?"
Harry thought for a moment.
"Same reason..."
"Oh."
"Well..."
Harry was just about to say goodnight when he heard a surprised yell from across the field.
Pansy couldn't believe what had just happened.
Maybe choosing the darkest place wasn't the best idea...
She had just screamed because, the person she had just greeted with a sweet, would-have-been-long kiss, pulled back, she saw the silvery-white hair shine in the moonlight.
Draco.
Draco scolded himself immensely.
How could you have thought that Pansy was Ginny, you git? He asked himself as he backed away from the surprised Pansy.
Wait...why was Pansy out here in the first place?
"Draco! Why did you...didn't you recognize...why are you out here...?" Pansy said, with distress in her voice.
"Well, I..."
He would have answered if he hadn't heard feet coming across the pitch from behind him.
He turned around to see Ginny, and ...Potter?
"Draco!?" Ginny breathed.
"Ginny! There you are! I thought that Pansy was you...it's really dark, don't you think?" Draco went a shade of pink that he was happy nobody could see.
"Harry! Ooh, I'm glad you're here...Hey! Draco, why were you looking for....Ginny?" Pansy asked cautiously, edging towards Harry.
"Well, why were you looking for Potter?"
"Uh......"
"Oh for goodness sakes!" Harry pulled out his wand and muttered, "Lumos."
Suddenly, everyone could see.
Draco looked at Ginny, who was looking confused and worried.
Potter just looked confused.
As always, he thought nastily.
Pansy just looked disgusted.
"Look, none of this is anyone else's business, so why don't we just move along...?" Ginny said loudly, then gasped.
Emerging from the shadows, stood Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, joined at the lip, and didn't notice that four other people were there.
"Ron!" Harry and Ginny gaped, and Ron's and Hermione's eyes fluttered open.
They pulled apart, noticed the crowd, then both went bright red.
Draco began to laugh, then Ginny, Harry, Pansy, and eventually Ron and Hermione joined them, all the while all wheezing things like:
"What the hell?"
"What were you guys doing?"
"Where did you come from...?"
It could have been because they were all so tired, or because the situation was too laughable, but they just laughed and laughed until they decided that it was time to go back to bed. The next day was a different situation, though...